Chapter 28 Episode twenty-eight

prison compound dawn Its daybreak. The prison square and the cell building area were all reddened by the sun. No. 4 supervisor during the day Liu Chuan packed his luggage with the help of Sun Peng.In addition to the quilt he had made in the detention center before being imprisoned, his luggage included his worn out underwear and sweaters. Li Jing persuaded from the side: "The clothes are so old, if you go out and don't change into new ones, why do you need them?" Liu Chuan replied: "I can still wear it." Chen Youcheng said: "Don't wear the clothes you wear in prison when you go out. You don't think it's unlucky, and your family members also think it's unlucky. Let's start a new life. Li Jing is right, you have to change into new clothes from the inside to the outside!" "

Liu Chuan smiled, and carefully folded the old clothes and put them into the bedding. Sun Peng said: "Liu Chuan's girlfriend sent these to Liu Chuan one by one in the past few years. They are warm on the body and warm in the heart. How can I throw them away? I guess Liu Chuan will keep them for the rest of his life." Seeing that Liu Chuan was packing those correspondence textbooks, Sun Peng said, "Books are heavy. Can you carry such a big luggage? Is there someone outside to pick you up?" Liu Chuan: "I still have a few courses that I haven't taken, and I must bring these with me."

Li Jing saw that Liu Chuan had picked up the unused soap and toothpaste, and said with a smile, "Really, you're not so rich, are you? Why don't you take it back?" Chen Youcheng said: "This is a practical thing, of course you have to take it with you. The little money in Liu Chuan's account has to be used for him to go out to live. Before finding a job, you don't need money for food, clothing, housing and transportation. Liu Chuan is not like you. , You still have a lot of passbooks at home." Class leader Liang Dong came and said, "If the children of the poor are in charge of the family early, Liu Chuan will definitely have a bright future."

Liang Dong handed the two pairs of newly bought socks to Liu Chuan, and said, "Liu Chuan, I bought these for you from the supermarket, and I don't know what to give you, so let's keep them as a souvenir." Liu Chuan took the socks and said, "Thank you monitor." Seeing this, the prisoners in the fourth class gave Liu Chuan things they didn't need one after another: "...If you need it, take it." "Liu Chuan, do you want this?" Li Jing said with a smile: "Are you delivering things or taking out garbage? Isn't this bullying? Liu Chuan's life is difficult and he doesn't want everything."

Liu Chuan hugged those things, including soap, old clothes, insoles, etc. He smiled and said, "Thank you everyone, I need all of these." Li Jing also took a bag of laundry detergent to Liu Chuan, and said, "I haven't opened the bag, it's new. Hey, I know you have a history of drinking laundry detergent, so I'll do what I like." Liu Chuan smiled and said, "Just don't learn from me." After packing his luggage, Feng Ruilong came to the cell and said, "Liu Chuan, are you ready? I'll take you out of prison." Liu Chuan said, "It's ready."

Feng Ruilong: "Let's go." Liu Chuan shook hands with the prisoners in Class 4 to say goodbye, and even hugged Sun Peng.Liang Dong put Liu Chuan's "glass" into the plastic cup with a lid, put the asparagus in a handbag, and handed it to Liu Chuan. Liu Chuan once again paid tribute to the monitor and the inmates: "Thank you monitor, thank you everyone." Liu Chuan picked up the luggage. Tube during the day Liu Chuan followed Feng Ruilong through the tunnel, smiling and saying goodbye to the familiar inmates along the way. Liu Chuan walked towards the exit of the tunnel step by step, and Zhong Tianshui's voice rang in his ears. The voice was like a distant sound of heaven, deep and ethereal.

Zhong Tianshui's voice-over: "Prisoning in prison is actually a rare life experience. It allows you to see many rare human landscapes, see many rare people's attitudes, and can force you to learn contentment and peace in the shortest possible time. Cherish. Contentment and cherishing are also an essential survival instinct and life cultivation. It can help you survive in the worst environment." prison square daytime Liu Chuan and Feng Ruilong stood together in front of the statue of the phoenix Nirvana in Tianhe Prison, and stood silently for a long time. On the ground was the luggage he was going to take away when he left the prison.

daytime outside the prison On the wall of the prison, slogans against "SARS" were written. Accompanied by Feng Ruilong, Liu Chuan walked alone through the isolation zone surrounded by iron nets, and walked out of the rumbling prison gate alone. Feng Ruilong watched Liu Chuan's steady and peaceful back, followed by the slowly closing gray iron gate, disappearing beyond the high wall grid. The sky outside was really big and blue, and the air was fresh and full.Liu Chuan carried his own luggage, with glass in the bag on his shoulder and asparagus in the bag in his hand.He was wearing a brand-new blue cloth shirt and trousers, and walked towards the road in front of the prison that he knew so well.

on the road during the day The bus drove out of the expressway from Liuliqiao and entered the crowded West Third Ring Road. After three years and one month, Liu Chuan finally came back and saw the bustling Beijing city again. Police station during the day Liu Chuan was lying on the reception counter of the police station, filling out a household application form. He asked a policeman for advice, "Comrade, how do you fill in the address field?" Police: "Where is your home, or where you often live now, just fill in there." Liu Chuan: "Our family used to live in Wancheng Garden, No. 6 Beiyu Street, but now that house is no longer ours. I haven't found a place to live yet."

The policeman seemed to have seen the luggage under Liu Chuan's feet and said, "Then do you have a receiving unit? You can also fill in the address of the receiving unit first." Liu Chuan: "Not yet, I haven't found a job yet." Police: "Then do you have any relatives or friends, who do you plan to live in, you can ask your relatives and friends or the unit that recruits you to issue a housing certificate for you. You should solve this problem first, and then see which police station is nearest to handle it." Go through the account formalities." Liu Chuan: "My original household registration belongs to our police station."

Policeman: "Hasn't it already been cancelled? Although it is now stipulated that the household registration of inmates is no longer cancelled, those who have been cancelled, still have to apply for registration again. Where do you register? You must have a place to live, right?" Liu Chuan was dumbfounded. Outside the police station during the day Liu Chuan walked out of the police station, stood on the street, looked around, at a loss as to where to go. daytime on the bus The bus stopped and went, drifting in the sea of ​​people and traffic. When the car passed the Hangtian Bridge, he saw the alley in his memory. The small shop at the alley was scribbled across in his sight. Liu Chuan immediately picked up his dilapidated car. Luggage, decided to get off here. Aerospace bridge alley during daytime Ten minutes later, he stood at the entrance of the alley, knowing that there was no need to go in. Ji Wenzhu moved from here to Jiuxianqiao four years ago, and then moved from Jiuxianqiao to other places... Liu Chuan's eyes swept over the corners and eaves of the alleys one by one, feeling a little sad and nostalgic.There used to be a canteen at the entrance of the alley, so Liu Chuan used the public phone here to call Ji Wenzhu's cell phone. Unexpectedly, the phone went through. As soon as Liu Chuan heard Ji Wenzhu's familiar voice, beads of nervous sweat immediately covered his forehead. He couldn't believe his luck was so lucky.His voice couldn't help being panicked, even somewhat respectful. It didn't feel like facing a long-lost lover, but rather like facing a new captain. He said: "Asparagus, it's me, I'm Liu Chuan." "Liu Chuan?" On the other side of the phone, a little confused, a little dazed: "Which Liu Chuan?" "It's Liu Chuan, can't you hear my voice?" "You are Liu Chuan, you, how do you know my phone number, are you calling from inside, are you calling from the prison?" "I'm out. I've served my sentence. I'm making a public phone call in front of your house. It's the Hangtian Bridge where you used to live." "Are you out?" The voice on the other side of the phone raised in surprise, and Ji Wenzhu's face could be seen with a beautiful smile, "Have you come out already? Are you completely fine? Are you! That's great! Great! It's gone!" Ji Wenzhu really laughed out loud.Her laughter comforted Liu Chuan's mood like never before, and he couldn't help crying with excitement. He suppressed his voice, not wanting to show any choking, he said: "Wenzhu, I, I want to see you..." street daytime A Jetta sedan drove to the side of the road and picked up Liu Chuan and his luggage who were waiting here. car during the day The driver of the Jetta car was a crew member, and he started talking with Liu Chuan on the way. Drama Manager: "Ji Wenzhu has an opening ceremony at the Asia Hotel today. She asked you to go over and have a meal there at noon. You are from Ji Wenzhu's hometown, just got off the train? Are you her classmate or relative? " Liu Chuan didn't know how to answer, and his face was a little embarrassed: "I, I am..." Hotel during the day Liu Chuan carried his luggage and followed the stage manager into the hotel.The splendor of the hotel lobby made him feel a little daunted like a countryman.The stage manager helped him store his luggage, "asparagus bamboo" and "glass" in the luggage department of the hotel, and then led him to the banquet hall on the second floor.The thick carpet outside the banquet hall made Liu Chuan walk cautiously as if he had stepped on cotton.More than three years of prison life made him feel unfamiliar with this kind of place, and he was not used to the politeness of the waiters.When he walked into the banquet hall, the start-up celebration had already begun. On the background board of the rostrum, there were huge computer-generated color photos spread out, and in the center was Ji Wenzhu's beautiful smile, which seemed to be overwhelming. It seemed that she had really become a star.Liu Chuan looked up at the still photo, and the title of the play on it was indeed three large characters in vermilion: Red Dancer!Ji Wenzhu has learned dance in the past, and this TV series may be tailor-made for her.Liu Chuan moved his eyes to the stage, and he saw Ji Wenzhu sitting in the front row with a happy face.Around her, big names gathered, celebrities gathered, so many well-known faces came in costumes, everyone wore an admirable "cover smile", reporters from all over the stage flocked to the stage, and I don't know how many cameras, cameras, Leica lights and flashes captured the stars. Surrounded.Liu Chuan didn't step forward. Although the blue cloth clothes and military rubber shoes on his body were new, they seemed out of place in this kind of place.He stood in a corner at the back, his heart filled with both the joy of reunion and the fear of reunion. After a crowded photo and video, the reporters retreated one after another and began to ask questions and speak.The first question made Liu Chuan's heart beat like a drum.At first he thought he heard it wrong, but the smiles on Ji Wenzhu and the director turned out to be unmistakable. Reporter: "Excuse me, Ji Wenzhu, you just got married and you took on a big movie, and you are working with your husband. When you direct and act, do you feel that there is a tacit understanding in and out of the movie?" Liu Chuan was startled in the stands, he couldn't believe that Ji Wenzhu and the middle-aged director next to him looked at each other looking forward to each other, and the freshness in those eyes could be real.He couldn't believe that Ji Wenzhu no longer took the promise he made to her seriously. Perhaps Liu Chuan began to understand at this time that although he has only been in prison for three years, it has been a thousand years in the human world.He could no longer calmly listen to the "newcomers" use all kinds of happy and sweet words to whitewash their "life". He walked out of this gorgeous hall like a lost soul. Liu Chuan knew that he had already shed tears on his front. Liu Chuan bowed his head and walked quickly out of the hotel gate. street green space during daytime Liu Chuan sat on a wooden bench in the green space in the middle of the street, with tears still on his face.Several children were flying kites on the edge of the grass, and the kites made him relive the dream that had anesthetized him. It was full of Ji Wenzhu's laughter... Ji Wenzhu's new home at night A Jetta drove into a brand new apartment in Dongzhimen. The theater manager who was driving drove Liu Chuan to the door of Ji Wenzhu's house in that apartment building, and knocked on the door for him. Ji Wenzhu's house at night The living room of Ji Wenzhu's house is decorated in half Chinese and half Western style. In front of the large and soft American-style sofa, there is an old Ming-style cigarette table. On the side of the Western oil paintings on the wall, there are Jin-style slatted windows. Everywhere is full of artistic atmosphere and interest in seeking roots. Compared with Ji Wenzhu's temporary residence in Hepingli, Jiuxianqiao, Hangtianqiao a few years ago, it is a day and a place.On the wall above the American-style sofa is a group photo of Ji Wenzhu and the groom, a perfect match between man and woman.The director in the photo is no longer the director who celebrated Ji Wenzhu's birthday at Shunfeng Restaurant, he seems to be more handsome than the "Shunfeng" director from the outside, and also seems to be obviously younger than that one in terms of age. Ji Wenzhu has no show tonight, so he is at home alone.Liu Chuan was still wearing the crumpled blue cloth clothes, sitting uncoordinatedly on the white sofa in the living room.Ji Wenzhu opened a can of Coke for him, but he didn't drink it. He put the pot of asparagus that he brought with him in front of Ji Wenzhu's blank eyes. "Is this for me?" she asked. "Ah," Liu Chuan nodded, "I raised a pot in prison, but unfortunately died. This is the second pot, raised for you." Ji Wenzhu approached the flowerpot to admire it, smiled, and said: "It's pretty, but I really don't know how to grow flowers. You see, all the flowers in our house are fake. Fake ones are worth more than real ones now. If you really want to raise it for me, you must raise it to death. You raise it so well, so you should raise it yourself." Liu Chuan also smiled faintly, with a forced smile, and said, "You raise it, it's what it should be when it dies." Ji Wenzhu still wanted to decline: "The flowers you raise with such care, if I die from raising them, I can't..." Liu Chuan immediately interrupted her: "You just throw it away when you die. You don't have to be sorry, even if it never existed, never." Ji Wenzhu may have heard the grievance and self-abandonment in Liu Chuan's words, she tolerantly changed the topic, and asked about what she had seen and heard in prison and Liu Chuan's body: "You are in prison, your body is not damaged, right?" Liu Chuan answered briefly: "No." Ji Wenzhu: "A friend of mine said that prisons are dark now. Prisoners stay there for a few years, and they only get worse and worse. You haven't gotten worse, have you?" Liu Chuan: "No. The prison I stayed in is really not black." Compared with the past, Ji Wenzhu has seen a lot of the world, and her speech is much more mature, she said: "I'm really happy, we broke up for so long, you haven't forgotten me, call me first when you come out Call, I didn’t forget my old friend, and gave me such a good flower. I heard that you left without eating at noon today. I really didn’t know that you just came out today. If I knew, I wouldn’t call You are here. You must have a lot of things to do when you just came out, have you gone home, do you want to go back earlier? " Looking at Ji Wenzhu and her mature but beautiful face, Liu Chuan softly uttered the last word between him and her in a farewell tone: "Okay." He stood up.Ji Wenzhu also stood up, sent him to the door, watched him bend over to put on his rubber shoes in the hall, when Liu Chuan straightened up, Ji Wenzhu unexpectedly hugged him. This is the moment Liu Chuan has been looking forward to for a long time. In those days when he was most helpless and hopeless, how much he yearned for such a hug.Now, he finally got this long overdue hug. Although this hug was completely different from Ji Wenzhu's frankness and passion when he hugged him for the first time, Liu Chuan was still immediately captured by this hug.He restrained his crying in his dantian, and didn't let the tears flow out of his eye sockets.He also wanted to hug her, but his arms were trembling and he finally didn't lift them up.He sobbed quietly in his heart, while tightening his body like iron, he didn't want Ji Wenzhu, who was hugging him, to touch his deep sorrow. Ji Wenzhu leaned on his shoulder, perhaps feeling his abnormal stiffness, she whispered in his ear, trying to soften his "reservedness" with her unique charm. "Come and see me when you're free, okay?" Liu Chuan did not answer.While enjoying the hallucinations, he would not fail to understand that this is someone else's home and this is someone else's wife. Night outside Ji Wenzhu's house Coming out of Ji Wenzhu's house, looking back at the rising new building, I realized how majestic and majestic it is. In each huge floor-to-ceiling window, the luxurious lights are half hidden and half exposed.The lights outline this vast community more gracefully than in the daytime, so Dongzhimen is not what it used to be, and the rice fields are confused.Liu Chuan stood at the corner of the street, looking left and right. He used to go to Jiuxian Bridge to pick up Ji Wenzhu, and the only road he had to pass to go to Meili House for the night shift had probably been swallowed up by the vast mansion behind him. Outside the residential building where Ji Wenzhu used to live in Jiuxianqiao at night Liu Chuan walked alone on the street. He accidentally passed the familiar street and saw the old red building where Ji Wenzhu once lived. Although the upstairs was also lit up, it looked shabby compared to Ji Wenzhu's new home.It's just that the light is very kind to Liu Chuan, although he can't tell which window with the light has once taken in his lingering love. Beautiful house nightclub exterior at night Liu Chuan didn't stop, his eyes no longer lingered, he continued to walk forward in a daze, and unexpectedly saw the "beautiful house" with gaudy lights. The face of "Beautiful House" remains the same, but the name has been changed, and the changed name is a bit sad - returning home on a snowy night, it seems a bit out of place with this carnival place that sings and sings every night.The security guards standing at the door have also changed, and they are all unfamiliar faces.Probably just after SARS and the business was not yet booming, Liu Chuan walked by the door, but no one knew him. small hotel at night Liu Chuan was really tired.At the entrance of an alley, he found a hotel, which was simpler and more dilapidated than the small shop he had lived with Shan Chenggong in Fengtai.His luggage was still stored in the Asia Hotel, and there was nowhere to put it.At this time tomorrow, even if there is no wind or snow, where else can he return to at night other than this dirty and damp hotel. suburban road daytime Early the next morning, Liu Chuan went to see his grandma. The nursing home is far away from the city. Liu Chuan took a long-distance bus to Jingchangfu Road and walked for two hours before finding the simple courtyard. Nursing home during the day These days, the "SARS" ban has been lifted, and various intersections in the outer suburbs have been unblocked. Visits by relatives in nursing homes have long since returned to normal, but the temperature must be measured when entering and leaving the hospital.When Liu Chuan walked into the room where grandma lived, grandma was the only one in the room, leaning on the window sill and looking at the light blue sky outside.Grandma didn't notice when Liu Chuan walked into the house. He stood behind grandma and called out: "Grandma." Grandma slowly turned her head, her eyes lingering on Liu Chuan for a long time, and she seemed to recognize that this was her grandson. Grandma is much older, and even the cry is so weak that it is strange.Seeing his grandma crying, Liu Chuan completely opened up everything and released all the grievances in his heart. He hugged his grandma and burst into tears, not at all like a man who has suffered. Grandma finally burst into tears. Liu Chuan knew from grandma's crying that grandma had stayed in this simple nursing home all these years. She had felt a great grievance and sorrow in her heart, and she was persisting in waiting for him to come back. . Several elderly people in the same room as grandma entered the house from the outside, and stood blankly by the bed at the door, watching their grandparents and grandchildren meet.A senior nurse in the nursing home heard the crying and came in to see the grandson who the old lady had been talking about for three years finally arrived, and happily congratulated her: "Hey, is it the old lady's grandson?" Are you back? Old lady, this is a happy event. You have been looking forward to this grandson for three years. Didn’t you see you coming! Oh, look at how beautiful your little grandson is, isn’t your luck just coming, your grandson I'm here to pick you up this time, right? Old lady, you can enjoy yourself from now on!" Nursing home during the day Liu Chuan pushed grandma's wheelchair and walked outside into the sunlight. The corner of grandma's mouth opened into a smile, but her voice was still sad. Grandma: "Grandma, I've been a strong person all my life. I haven't shed tears a few times in my life. Even when your father passed away, I didn't cry so embarrassingly when I sent a white-haired man to a black-haired man." Liu Chuan pushed grandma to the side of a quiet corridor, and he sat on the railing of the corridor, looking at grandma. Grandma asked: "Is grandma old?" Liu Chuan smiled: "Ah." Grandma said: "After grandma lived here, she had a serious illness once. That illness made me lose confidence. At that time, I didn't know why, but I had a premonition... I have a premonition that I may not be able to survive your return, and I cannot survive you to pick me up and go home.What I was most afraid of at that time was that when I died, you would not be by my side, and when I died, there would be no relatives by my side. "Grandma's eye circles were red again, and she choked up and said: "Since then, my hair has started to fall out, and it will be a lot... If Xiao Ke and you, Section Chief Zhong, have not come to visit often in the past few years Me, Xiao Ke even picked me up during the holidays, maybe I really can't wait until today. " Liu Chuan's eye circles were also red, and he said, "I'm back today. From now on, I will always be by your side." Grandma smiled, but tears fell out of her eye sockets. Liu Chuan pushed his grandma and walked towards the green land in the distance. The grandparents and grandchildren are as tender as lovers, and they are inseparable. Nursing home during the day At noon, Liu Chuan went outside to buy some steamed buns for grandma. When he came back, he saw a middle-aged woman in grandma's room, who looked like she had just arrived from the city.The middle-aged woman called "Liu Chuan", and Liu Chuan called her "Auntie", and he recognized the unexpected woman as Xiao Ke's mother. on the road during the day A taxi is speeding on the road in the suburbs of Beijing.In the car, Xiao Ke's mother sitting in the front seat was happily talking to Liu Chuan's grandparents in the back seat. Xiaoke's apartment at night Xiao Ke's mother brought the hot dumplings to the table, Xiao Ke's father opened the beer, and Liu Chuan and grandma's faces were filled with happy smiles. Two families and three generations toasted to each other.Xiaoke's father said: "Drink it hard, and you will be home!" Xiaoke's mother said: "The SARS incident caused Xiaoke to work in a closed office for a month. She couldn't pick Liu Chuan and grandma home in person, and she didn't let me pick them up at the prison gate. She was afraid that her colleagues in the prison would find out. The day you came out, she called home and told me to go to the nursing home the next day, and she said that I would definitely find Liu Chuan there!" Xiao Ke's father: "Didn't you find this?" Grandma: "Liu Chuan, you came out, you should kowtow to Xiaoke's parents for grandma. In the past few years when you were away, grandma relied on them to think. Section chief, grandma knows she has to live no matter what, so that she can wait for you to come back, and you have to kowtow to your uncles and aunts!" Although Liu Chuan didn't seem to be used to kowtowing, and even though Xiaoke's parents politely stopped him, Liu Chuan got up and walked in front of them, knelt down, and couldn't afford to bow.The four arms of Xiao Ke's parents came up to pull him.Grandma had tears in her eyes, but there were smile lines on her face. Xiaoke's unit room night Liu Chuan took care of grandma to sleep in her bedroom. Grandma said, "Chuan, you put that dress under my feet, because my feet are afraid of cold." Liu Chuan agreed: "Yes." Grandma: "Turn off the lights, and go to bed early." Liu Chuan: "Yes." Liu Chuan helped grandma tuck the quilt, and saw grandma closed her eyes before returning to her room. Liu Chuan lay on the bed and turned off the light.After a while, he turned on the light again, then closed his eyes and fell asleep peacefully. Xiaoke's apartment in the morning It was not yet full light, and there was some half-red and half-green morning light outside the window. Liu Chuan got up in a daze, staggered to the door, and fumbled for the button by the door sleepily. He didn't know what he felt. The protruding object yelled at the door: "Report, Liu Chuan from the fourth class is begging Mao." Suddenly, he woke up and realized that he was no longer a prisoner, and this room was not the prison he was used to living in.Looking around the four walls, what he saw was a warm bedroom, which was carefully arranged by Xiao Ke for him.There are beautiful paintings on the wall, and a pot of beautiful flowers on the small cabinet in the corner.It was a pot of asparagus bamboo with green branches and tender branches, which was as confusing as smoke and mist in the morning light. Zhong Tianshui's home during the day Liu Chuan came to Zhong Tianshui's house, and he knocked on Zhong Tianshui's door. After Liu Chuan entered the house, he could faintly hear Zhong Tianshui's wife crying sadly through the closed door. shopping mall during the day Liu Chuan pushed grandma to go shopping. He bought a gorgeous silk scarf for grandma and wrapped it around her head. Grandma said, "This is worn by a little girl. I can't make a fool of myself at such an old age." Liu Chuan insisted on getting his grandma to surround him, saying, "It's beautiful! It's beautiful! It's really beautiful." Liu Chuan pushed her grandma in the shopping mall, and grandma played with the silk scarf around her neck. She seemed to have gradually gotten used to the color of the silk scarf, and she seemed to gradually fall in love with this youthful beauty. Daytime by the moat of the Forbidden City Liu Chuan pushed his grandma to wander outside the Forbidden City, with red walls and green water. Grandma said, "Liu Chuan, have you slept well these days?" Liu Chuan replied: "For the first day or two, I couldn't sleep when the lights were turned off." Grandma: "Not used to it?" Liu Chuan: "Ah." Grandma: "No, you'd better turn on the light and go to sleep." Liu Chuan: "It's okay, I've been sleeping with the lights off these days, and I'm almost used to it." Grandma: "I couldn't sleep at first, I slept alone, and I felt a little lonely." Liu Chuan: "Do you want me to sleep in your room?" Grandma: "No, I'm used to it now. We all have to get used to the new life. People have said that we are used to the good life, but we will not get used to the bad life all at once. Now we are changing the bad life into a good life, and we are afraid Not used to it." Liu Chuan smiled: "Yes." Grandma: "Liu Chuan, I haven't been to Zhongshan Park for a long time. Do you have any money? Buy two tickets and let's go in and have a look." Liu Chuan: "Yes." Daytime outside Zhongshan Park Liu Chuan bought a ticket and pushed his grandma into Zhongshan Park. Xiao Ke's house at night Liu Chuan helped Xiao Ke's father paste envelopes at Xiao Ke's house. His hands and feet were nimble, and he did it well and quickly.Xiao Ke's father was dumbfounded, and said with a smile: "Hey, it's different for young people. I've been doing this for so many years, and I'm considered good enough. As soon as Liu Chuan got started, he could do it faster than me." He took the envelope that Liu Chuan had pasted, looked left and right, and said, "It's fast and good." Xiaoke's mother was cooking, and said, "Liu Chuan is so skillful and smart, he can compare with you." Liu Chuan smiled and said, "I'm inside, doing this all the time. I'm still the folder champion in our prison area." Xiaoke's father: "I'll tell you." He smiled at Xiaoke's mother, "It's a professional after a long time of trouble." Xiao Ke's mother: "Hey, Liu Chuan, the Uncle Miao I introduced to you, have you gone to see him? What did he say about your work?" Liu Chuan: "Ah, I went, he said no problem, let me try the car tomorrow." Xiao Ke's mother: "Their transportation company mainly runs long distances, and they earn more money by running long distances, but they are tired." Liu Chuan: "As long as I earn a lot of money, I don't care if I'm tired or not. My grandma said, let me find a job to earn money. If I earn money, I will pay you the rent of the house we live in." Xiao Ke's father: "Hey, don't make the family distinction so clear, let your grandma never worry about this in the future." Xiaoke's mother: "Your grandma is also Xiaoke's grandma. No matter what happens to you and Xiaoke in the future, in my eyes, you are her little brother and she is your little sister. Auntie said so, You are not angry, are you?" Liu Chuan: "No." Xiao Ke's mother: "If the job is too tiring, or if you think it's not decent, you don't have to go. Don't just think about making money. It's troublesome to be rich, and fun to be poor. If you don't think the job is bad go." Liu Chuan: "It's a good job. I really want to go. Moreover, this company is a private enterprise and does not check files. People like me who have been in prison and have a criminal record are not so taboo." Xiao Ke's parents looked at each other, and Xiao Ke's mother said, "Okay, go if you like." Liu Chuan lowered his head and said, "I have to go to Shaanxi to earn money to support my grandma. After earning money, I have to return the 1,500 yuan that a friend of mine sent me in the past two years as soon as possible. , I shouldn't owe her any more favors." Xiaoke's parents looked at each other again, but didn't answer. transportation company during the day Liu Chuan drove a huge van out of the parking lot, and an old driver sitting beside him asked him loudly, "Is it okay?" Liu Chuan replied loudly, "Okay." Liu Chuan reluctantly drove the car out of the company's courtyard gate. Many drivers in the company looked at the ten-wheeler with worry, watching it almost brush the doorpost, and roared out of the gate bit by bit. The old driver in the car asked loudly again with lingering fear: "It's dangerous enough! You haven't driven such a big car before, have you?" Liu Chuan answered truthfully in a loud voice: "I took the exam on a big car, but I only drove it once, and once drove a big truck that pulled coal." Liu Chuan finally drove the ten-wheel truck onto the road tremblingly, and stepped on the accelerator without confidence... Xiaoke's apartment at night Xiao Ke's mother sent the dinner to Grandma Liu Chuan's room, and praised Liu Chuan while taking care of grandma for dinner. Xiaoke's mother: "...Liu Chuan happened to be handy. The day before yesterday, he helped Xiaoke's father paste envelopes, and her father pasted one for him." Grandma also said: "I didn't expect that Liu Chuan really grew up after being in prison this time! He is more polite than before, cares about people, loves to work, and knows how to save money. Stop talking back, ask him to do something, he will immediately answer yes, and then do it immediately, which was not the case in the past.” Xiaoke's mother: "That's right, now that Liu Chuan is free, he goes to help me with the work, cooking, tidying up the house and changing the gas. If only I had such a son. Where can I find such an obedient young man now! " road daytime The ten-wheel truck was driving fast on the highway, and the old driver was no longer in the cockpit. Liu Chuan was driving the vehicle alone, and his movements were obviously proficient. transportation company during the day Liu Chuan drove the car into the company compound.From entering the door to dumping the extended van into the gap between the two trucks, the action is standard.The drivers who watched him reversing in the courtyard were all worried at first, and all stared at the big truck intently. Liu Chuan's impeccable reversing made everyone finally heave a sigh of relief and applauded in unison. Xiao Ke's house during the day When not in the car, Liu Chuan still helped Xiaoke's mother with work. This day, he helped Xiaoke's mother rummage through the boxes and clean up the junk in the house. Liu Chuan said while cleaning up: "These things can be sorted and sent to the waste recycling station later. Sell." Xiao Ke's mother doubted: "Is there anyone who wants this? These rags can only be thrown away as garbage." Liu Chuan said: "Of course someone wants it. You can see that it can be used. Even old newspapers and magazines are collected, let alone this." Xiaoke's mother said, "I can't sell it for much, and it's not enough for a trip to the shoes..." The two argued while tidying up, fighting over Liu Chuan's silence. Xiaoke's mother looked up and saw Liu Chuan pull out a stack of post office remittance receipts from a drawer on the floor.He lowered his head and flipped through the receipts one by one. In each receipt, the detailed address of Tianhe Prison was written in the column of the payee's address, and in the column of the payee's name, it was written "Liu Sichuan" word.The remitter's address is Xiaoke's home address, and the remitter wrote the name "Ji Wenzhu".Together with the date and amount of each remittance on these receipts, all the handwriting was typed out by a computer, recording a secret that was almost missed with incomparable clarity. Xiao Ke's mother reached out to take away the pile of receipts and said, "It's useless." Liu Chuan raised his hand and avoided it.He lowered his head, not daring to look at Xiao Ke's mother's face, and asked to himself, "Is this for me?" Xiao Ke's mother hesitated for a while, trying to avoid the topic: "Who knows, this is Xiao Ke's stuff, it's useless long ago, give me a pile and throw it away." Liu Chuan avoided Xiaoke's mother's hand again, and said, "This is mine, I want to keep it." After he finished speaking, he put the stack of remittance receipts into his pocket, then stood up without a word, and walked out the door. Xiao Ke's house during the day Liu Chuan strode in the deserted alley outside Xiao Ke's house with tears in his eyes. transportation company during the day The company dispatcher put a dispatch slip on the table and said to Liu Chuan: "Liu Chuan, several of our masters here have asked for leave to return to their hometowns during the Mid-Autumn Festival. Can you work overtime? The fare can be increased by 1 holiday allowance." Liu Chuan: "Where are you going?" Dispatch: "There is a truckload of goods, which must be taken to Xiangyuan as soon as possible." Liu Chuan's eyes froze: "Xiangyuan?" Zhong Tianshui's house at night Liu Chuan was sitting in the small living room of Zhong Tianshui's house. On the coffee table in the living room, there were piles of mid-autumn gifts such as fruit mooncakes he bought for Lao Zhong's wife and daughter. Lao Zhong's daughter put a cup of hot tea in front of Liu Chuan, and sat opposite Liu Chuan with her mother. Liu Chuan: "Just like you, Zhong Da is also my relative. He is like my father, who loves me very much and treats me very well." Zhong Tianshui's wife: "Old Zhong has been gone for so many days, I was already fine, but when I saw you and the people in Lao Zhong's work unit, I still couldn't stand it. Xiao Ke also called yesterday , she said that if she ends her closed duty during the Mid-Autumn Festival, she will accompany me to Babaoshan to see Lao Zhong. Lao Zhong has nothing else, and I have made some good friends over the years." Liu Chuan: "I'm going to Xiangyuan on the Mid-Autumn Festival, and I'll be back the next day. I've made up my mind. When I come back, I'll take the old road and cross Yangqu Mountain. I think I can find Zhong Da to save me." that place." The face of Zhong Tianshui's wife showed the same kindness as that of Old Zhong.She nodded to Liu Chuan and said, "Thank you, Liu Chuan." Xiangyuan during the day Liu Chuan's truck was unloading at a freight yard. After finishing the delivery with the cargo owner, Liu Chuan jumped onto the high cockpit and drove the truck out of the cargo yard. interprovincial highway daytime The truck left Xiangyuan and drove downwind on the expressway. Yangqu Mountain during the day Liu Chuan drove this large container truck, still left the main road from the intersection a few months ago, and drove towards the depths of Yangqu Mountain. It was a bright autumn day, but Yangqu Mountain was as deserted as the night after the rain.It was not difficult to find the valley. Liu Chuan got off the high driving seat of the truck, holding a bunch of bright flowers in his hand. The bouquet of flowers followed him down the road and onto the soft soil in front of the valley.The vegetation in the valley seemed to have been nourished by the blood, so it became extremely verdant.刘川在老钟离去的地方席地而坐，将手中的花束恭敬祭放。地上的阳光向山凹的—侧无声倾斜，他自己的身影也随之拉长。他朝身影移去的方向举目眺望，看到公路上有辆出租汽车自远而近。在出租车停下来的那个地方，太阳正是刺眼炫目，一个女孩亭亭玉立的剪影，雕塑般地立于视线的中心。她的双手，也同样捧着一簇凭吊的鲜花，她手捧鲜花走向山凹，走向刘川端坐的地方。 两捧鲜花并排安放，两个年轻的男女一左一右，坐于花的两旁，同样的姿势，同样的沉默，脸上同样布满沧桑。刘川的沧桑是因为苦难的历练，小珂的沧桑是由于苦难的分享。她分享苦难的方法就是从未停息的怜悯和牵挂，以及默默无声的有效支援。 太阳西斜，草木金晖。刘川和小珂并肩走出山凹，向山路上默然停泊的那辆庞然大物的货车走去。他们彼此依然无话，却走得如影随形。刘川未经任何征询，突然伸出自己的右手，拉住了小珂的左手。他们手拉手走在山路的中央，在这秋色将熟的崇山峻岭之中，犹如一道春天的即景。