First volume of imprisonment Chapter 16 Returning Home (Part 2)
When he got home, he didn't see anyone. He probably thought the old man had gone up the mountain to look for pig grass. Where was his daughter? The gun captain searched around the house and had to move his things into the main room. It was the same as when he left, but the house looked even more old. The gun captain looked at the bare walls on all sides and felt a little sad. He became more determined to be rich and become a wealthy man. Although he had no feelings for his father and looked down on him for not being able to control his wife, he was almost the same back then.
Then he ran down the mountain and brought back the rest of the things at once. Seeing the surprised look on Old Lady Yu's face, the Gun Chief was very proud. Even rural laborers would have to move the things four times at least, but the Gun Chief was able to do it in two trips. How could it not surprise people? Old Lady Yu's voice chased after the Gun Chief and shouted loudly: "Brother Siqing, please notify me when the TV is ready..." The Gun Chief laughed and agreed. He was very excited and installed the TV as soon as he got back. As soon as he walked to the door of his house, he saw a dark and thin girl of about eleven or twelve years old. Her eyebrows and eyes vaguely resembled the Gun Chief, but her facial bones were not as prominent as his, and they were much more delicate and soft. The Gun Chief stared blankly at the little girl in front of him. She looked at people with a particularly frightened look. Her timid expression made the Gun Chief's eyes tighten and hot tears rolled out. This is my daughter, this is my daughter!
"Girl, I'm your father. Do you... recognize me?" The gun chief's voice was choked with difficulty. He hurriedly put the things into the main room and took his daughter's hand, which was almost to his ear. The gun chief stared blankly at the girl in front of him. Her expression was a little dazed, as if she had never recognized the words father and mother since she was born. Since she was a child, she had only the master, who snored, sniffed, and coughed up phlegm, and always gave her delicious food.
The gun captain hurriedly opened the box, took out a large bag of candy and handed it to the girl: "Girl, I'm your father, this candy is for you." The girl looked at the candy, her eyes lit up with excitement, but she didn't dare to reach out to take it. "Take it, girl, take it, this is what Dad bought for you." The girl tried to reach out to take it, feeling very nervous, afraid that the man would ask her to call him dad, but she was embarrassed to call him, she felt very embarrassed, because dad was the man who gave birth to her, but if someone only gave her two cents a piece of candy, she would rather not eat it, even though she didn't even have two cents. When the gun captain saw his daughter's expression, tears welled up in his eyes like water gushing out of sand, and he cried, "You don't have to call me Dad... Dad... This candy is from me. If you don't want to call me, don't call me. Ah... Don't, be good!" The girl saw the man in front of her crying like a child, and her heart was filled with grief. She also burst into tears, holding the candy in one hand and wiping the tears from her face with the other hand. There were four or five patches on her clothes, and the cloth of the patches was very strange. Her long black hair was neatly combed up and tied with a rubber band.
The gun captain opened the box, took out all the newly bought clothes, shoes and stationery, and piled them in front of the girl: "Girl, these are the new clothes dad bought you, as well as pens, notebooks, school bags, and look, there are also shoes, aren't they beautiful?" Seeing his daughter attracted by these beautiful things, the gun captain felt happy from the bottom of his heart. At this time, the familiar panting sound, long and short, hey, hey, hey, came from outside the door. The gun captain rushed out and stood in front of the father, scaring the old man. He squinted and looked carefully for a while, then stammered and asked: "Four Cleanups? Four... Cleanups... you you you... are back? Back!" The gun captain nodded and took the backpack off his father. The old man shouted to the girl who was still standing there stupidly: "Girl, hurry up, this is your dad, your dad is home, shout quickly, he is your dad, your dad is back!"
The girl hesitated for a long time before she called out with some difficulty: "Dad..." The gun chief burst into tears again, and was as happy as a child, laughing and jumping, saying: "Dad, girl, I'm back, I bought a lot of things, look, come on, come on, look, I bought a TV, VCD, and a receiver, you can watch CCTV, and, Dad, these are clothes for you, you take them! Take them quickly..." The family of three was so happy that they couldn't think straight. The gun chief divided the things and rushed back to his room. The stolen wires and plug boards, as well as some electrical tools, were all there. His father hadn't touched them at all. Thinking about the old man who took care of his daughter alone, dragging his sick body, and managed to survive for so many years, the gun chief had never been so grateful to his father as he was now. He felt that his father was kind and weak. He had this kind of shadow of his father in the past, but in the future... Humph, in the future, I can't let others ride on my head and shit on me.
Clearing a table, the gun captain connected the power supply first. He knew that the price of electricity in rural areas was ridiculously expensive, but why would he care about this now that he was back? He turned on the light to see that the voltage was relatively stable. For the next two or three hours, the gun captain was busy installing and debugging. When the advertisements on the TV flashed everywhere, the whole family smiled happily. The gun captain put the VCD disc in, and a series of festive songs floated out of the house and spread all around in an instant, startling several dogs to howl.
The gun captain took out four cartons of high-quality cigarettes and four boxes of Qujiu, and placed them in front of Chen Cangshu, saying calmly: "I have said a lot of bold words before. I am the first prisoner in the Chen family. This is a fact. It is a disgrace to the Chen family! I don't expect others to be tolerant and kind to me. Uncle, you have been good to me since I was a child, and I have no way to repay you. This little thing is just a token of my gratitude. I hope you can live a long and healthy life and everything goes well."
Chen Cangshu sighed deeply. He could tell that the gun captain's words were very sophisticated. It seemed that his imprisonment for the past few years was not in vain. The facts were already there, and any further blame would be redundant. "Siqing, it has already happened. There is no point in saying more. Tell me what you think."
The gun master thought carefully for a while before saying, "To be honest, I have learned a lot of skills in there, and it is not difficult to make a living. I have made a few good friends in there, and they look up to me. An old man gave me some money. I will take care of the family affairs and then go out. It's just that I am worried about the old and the child at home."
Chen Cangshu nodded and said, "I understand what you mean. Your father and I are brothers, so it's no problem for me to take care of them. I have a telephone installed at home, so if you have any problems outside, you can just call me. You... aren't you going to find a wife?"
The spearman laughed and said, "Haha, there's no rush. For me, the most important thing right now is to make money. I want to wait a year or two, settle down outside, and take my father and daughter out. I don't want them to suffer."
Chen Cangshu was a little unsure when he heard the gun captain's confident statement, and asked doubtfully: "I have something to tell you: you only need to go to jail once, money is endless and it is not omnipotent. You understand what I mean."
The gun master said proudly: "Don't worry, sir. I know the law very well now. As the saying goes, a gentleman has his own way of doing things and his own way of not doing things. Even a thief has his own code of conduct. I understand these principles."
Chen Cangshu nodded and said, "That's good, that's good! By the way, your girl hasn't started school yet. I asked Sixth Sister to take her there two years ago, but... Alas, your family's situation is like this, and your father can't afford it alone. Now that you're back, you have to hurry and send her to school. Oh, Sixth Sister is a substitute teacher now, and she can help you with the admission procedures."
The gun chief felt extremely guilty towards his daughter and was very happy about Chen Cangshu's suggestion. His father had also mentioned these things before, "The girl doesn't have a school name yet. According to our rules, girls who haven't gone to school can't have a full name. Uncle, now that the girl is going to school, can you help her pick a name?" Chen Cangshu pondered for a moment, sorted out his thoughts and said, "Girls don't have generation names, I think we should give her a character called chrysanthemum, Chen Ju, proud ju Ying Qiu, and a nickname of Juhua." The gun chief thought about it and thought the name was good, so he nodded in agreement. At this time, the familiar voice of the third sister was heard outside the house: "Si Qing! Are you really back?" The gun chief quickly stood up. His father said that the third sister had been taking care of the house a lot over the years, and she didn't think of this when purchasing items this time. After a lively time with Chen Cangshu's family, the gun chief called the third sister outside, feeling very heavy in his heart. Looking at the third sister's face full of joy, the gun captain took out five thousand yuan from his arms and handed it to the third sister very carefully: "Third sister, you took care of the girl when I was away. I am grateful to you. You are my real sister! Keep this money. I dare not give it to my father. Just consider it as their living expenses and the girl's tuition. I will come to pick them up when I get established outside. Brother, please trouble you, third sister!" The third sister's fat face had a complicated expression and tears rolled in her eyes. She thought about how much this brother had suffered: "Siqing, I can't speak, but I can hear that you have changed and become capable. I am happy for you, and I don't expect you to make a lot of money in the future. Just live a peaceful life. Listen to me, don't do stupid things, and think more about the old and the young." The gun captain nodded, her throat was blocked. The third sister took the money and put it in her arms very carefully.
Just as he was about to leave Chen Cangshu's house, he saw Liu Mei'er's slightly pockmarked face appear in front of him. The two stared at each other like fighting cocks for a long time, and then Liu Mei'er shook her head and said with a smile: "Brother Siqing, I thought you were back from college. I didn't recognize you just now. Judging from your temperament, you look like an intellectual. Come on, sit inside."
The gun chief laughed and said, "Sixth sister, don't hit me. A prisoner is a prisoner, not an intellectual. But you are a teacher now. I haven't asked you which in-law you have found yet?" He felt very pleased. It seemed that this little girl was quite knowledgeable and worthy of the extra two days of education.
The third sister interrupted, "It was that butcher Hu Laodao. I don't know what she was thinking. She insisted on getting Hu Laodao to divorce her. Did our family fight for this for a long time?"
The gun captain was shocked. The wild man and woman he eavesdropped on back then really became a couple?! He also thought of Hu Laodao's door-like body and the sentence he would never forget, "Sixth sister, take it off!" Thinking about it now, that sentence was really full of manly dignity and domineering. He didn't expect that a pig butcher could have such manliness, but he could only be rampant in front of women.
He kept talking: "Congratulations, Sixth Sister, lovers finally get married ! Young people have the right to pursue free love. Happiness is in their own hands. I support Sixth Sister."
The sixth sister put on a lovely smile and said to the spear chief, "It's too late! We have already done what we wanted. They can't disagree with it, haha."
After rejecting the two sisters' requests to stay, the spearman went home, called Ya'er to him, and said seriously, "Ya'er, you have a name now. Remember, you will always use this name when you go to school. Chen Ju! Ju in chrysanthemum, your nickname will be Juhua. Do you like it?"
Yaer nodded very sensibly. Changing her name didn't mean anything to her. She could be called anything. These days with the gun leader, she began to like this father slowly. He told her many stories she had never heard before, as well as the outside world. Her father said that he would take her to the city in the future, and teach her to speak foreign languages and study with the children in the city. But she was a little scared, afraid that she would suffer with this father. It was already very hard at home. She had to do a lot of things every day.
The gun captain saw that Juhua had no reaction. He knew that she did not understand the meaning of her name yet, and the concept of male superiority and female inferiority was still very strong here. But the gun captain was now very sure that he had fallen in love with this daughter, and for the first time in his life he experienced the happiness of a father. Vermilion had become a distant past, but the cornfield was still preserved deep in his mind without any sign of fading.
Calculating the time, I have been home for almost a week. I should be released after staying for a few more days. I will go to help my friends in prison fulfill their wishes, go to see Wang Daming's sister, and go to Chen Fanglan's grave to kowtow, then go to Long Chengjiang and help Mr. Ouyang write a paper for publication. These days with Juhua, the gun chief tried his best to help with the housework, and then hired a few plasterers to repair the house, bought rice , and invited an honest farmer from a poor family living in the mountains to help at home. During this period, he took time to go to the police station to complete the formalities. It was inevitable that he would receive another political education of "be a good person, reform yourself..." Thinking of the confession of the year, the gun chief smiled bitterly, especially when he saw the old policeman. The old man looked at him with a particularly ambiguous look. Alas, some of it was recorded.
The ID card is valid for 20 years, so it can be used as a makeshift, but it will definitely be inconvenient to do things in the future. I decided to stay in the county town for a while and get familiar with computer operation. The gun chief has never been to Zhang San's house, nor to Zhang Chun's house. I heard that Zhang Chun was going to get married before the New Year, with a migrant worker from another place. Since the gun chief went to jail, the mother and daughter followed Zhang San to work. A year later, Zhang Chun's mother also married the contractor who scolded the gun chief that year. "Two sets of old things, a new family." Hehe, they are a perfect match. It's just a pity for that delicate old woman. Thinking of Zhang Chun and the erotic excitement of playing a water ghost in the pond, the gun chief couldn't help but miss it. He really wanted to run to see Zhang Chun after he had sex with her. I guess she is more beautiful now. Hehe, maybe after his early operation, she has developed very plump?
Chen Cangshu felt that the gun chief had changed. He was no longer the dirty and cowardly man he used to be. His expression and behavior revealed a steady and deep feeling. He quoted extensively from ancient and modern times, both at home and abroad, and his knowledge was also broad. It seemed that the eight years in prison had turned out to be a good thing. He had changed his appearance and was reborn! Whenever Chen Cangshu was free, he wanted to chat with the gun chief. He always felt like a confidant from the gun chief's mouth. The relationship between them didn't seem to be that of an elder and a junior, but just like old friends who had known each other for many years. Chen Cangshu knew that the gun chief was no longer a nobody, and he was quite confident about it.
