Chapter 9 The first part, 20, don't forget Zhang Dou's self-report

I, Zhang Dou, am twenty-two years old. The current recording location is Miaomiao's home in Huairou, Beijing. I am from Henan, and my parents are farmers. I have asthma since I was a child, but I am tall. At the age of 13, I am like someone who is 16 years old. I was kidnapped at the train station and went to a black brick kiln in Shanxi. I used to build houses for more than three years. The bricks used, almost died of several asthma attacks.I once tried to escape, but was rescued by others, sent to the local labor bureau, and then sold to another black brick kiln by the labor bureau.Six or seven years ago, the black kiln factories in that area were exposed by the national media. Many factories were closed, and many child laborers were rescued. They were about the same age as me, and they were all missing persons.I met many reporters, including Miaomiao from Guangzhou. We got along very well. She asked me to write an article about my experience. I thought it was not very good. Miaomiao said it was very good. He said he would publish it in the media for me.Afterwards I was sent back to my hometown, my mother died early, my father went to work in the south, and I went back to school and read the first grade of junior high school again.

More than a year later, I received a letter from Miaomiao, saying that the media had already said hello, and that they were not allowed to report on black brick kilns, so as not to affect the image of the country.My article can't be published either, so it can only be posted on Tianya.com. There are a lot of followers, and it will be harmonized after a week.Miaomiao gave me her email address, I went to the town, and the internet cafe sent an email to Miaomiao, saying that I don’t want to go to school anymore, there is no one at home, and I want to go out to work again.Miaomiao replied and asked me to go to Beijing to find her.She is a native of Beijing. She has quit her weekly newspaper job in Guangzhou and moved back to Beijing.She said the real world is too scary and stressful, and would rather be a freelance writer and work from home.

After my seventeenth birthday, I went to Huairou, Beijing to look for Miaomiao.It turns out that she is also living in the village now. She asked me to live with her, taught me how to have sex, taught me to play the acoustic guitar, and she could cook good meals, cakes, biscuits and so on.She has three cats and three dogs, all retrieved.She said that because of the Olympic Games, there were a lot of demolitions in Beijing, and many people left cats and dogs behind, so there were so many stray cats and dogs in Beijing, and even famous golden retrievers were turned into meat dogs. It was only seven yuan at the farmer’s market. a catty.

I was also picked up by her.I don't have to worry about asthma attacks anymore. She writes articles and TV scripts to earn royalties to support her family. I sometimes work in a nearby pet clinic, because I often take cats and dogs to treat diseases and get to know the people in the clinic well.Miaomiao's small courtyard is a small property right house bought from a farmer. It has three north rooms, a separate kitchen and a toilet with a shower.We lived happily with cats and dogs for one year and three months.Miaomiao was thirty-two years old that year. Then we heard that there was chaos all over the country, and that people in Beijing were in panic. Our first thought was to look for cat and dog food everywhere, fearing that we would run out of food.Later, people were about to run out of food.After the crackdown was announced, the situation stabilized, but Miao Miao was afraid that I would be arrested and would not let me go out.I stayed at home for a month.Food was still scarce at that time, and many people threw away their pets. Every time Miaomiao came back from outside, she brought back cats and dogs, some of which were still sick and disabled.So we still have dozens of cats and dogs in our family.I have learned to take care of them.

After that winter, the society suddenly prospered, and everyone was smiling.But for Miaomiao, something incomprehensible happened.She suddenly doesn't recognize me, nobody recognizes anyone, she nods and smiles when she sees anyone, but doesn't speak, every day, she just remembers to feed the cats and dogs, and every few days she makes a batch of unsweetened cookies , but she no longer writes, doesn't play the guitar, doesn't go out, and when she needs it, she makes love to me, but she doesn't talk to me anymore. I have always known that when I have been in Beijing for more than a year, she will take some kind of medicine when she thinks I can’t see it, so sometimes she will not recognize anyone as if she is out of her body, but usually it is less than half an hour will return to God.This time she didn't come back.

I knew it was time for me to take care of her.But I couldn't support my family with odd jobs alone.So I did one thing, and I hope Miu Miao will forgive me.I secretly sold the cats and dogs at home, especially the newborn kittens and puppies.I will not sell to meat dog traders.Because the economy is getting better, many people have started to adopt cats and dogs again. I am already very good at training and breeding, giving birth to a batch and selling a batch. There will always be many cats and dogs in the family. Fortunately, Miaomiao loves cats and dogs equally. Feed whoever you see. I also practice guitar three hours a day.Some evenings, I told Miaomiao that I was going to listen to music, but she didn't respond.I took a long-distance bus to Wudaokou, and went to some places that Miaomiao took me to to listen to live music. I felt a little uncomfortable not listening.Every time, I met a few half-familiar faces who played music and played a few songs together. They all liked my Spanish guitar and said that if they needed a guitarist in future performances, they would come to me.After I came back, I stepped up to practice, Miaomiao, I have mastered all the techniques you taught me, and I am waiting to go to Wudaokou to perform on stage.

Unexpectedly, something happened to me on the night of the performance. I received a call to go to the show, and I prepared dinner for you and the cat and dog at five o'clock that afternoon, told you, and went to Wudaokou.Like the previous few times I went to listen to music, it was too late after the show and I couldn't come back, so I would find a place to take a nap and then take the first bus back.This time when I arrived in the urban area, I first had something to eat in a small restaurant in Lanqiying. I was talking in such an accent, I couldn’t understand the content, and suddenly the auntie started talking, she was from Beijing, and I found that she was scolding the government.

Since the prosperity of the Chinese people officially began more than two years ago, I feel very strange. The people I meet are so happy, and I rarely hear people say unhappy things. I think everyone has become a bit weird, but I I can't tell why, and I pretend to be very happy.So when I heard that aunt scolding the government, I felt very special.Unexpectedly, that man with a Taiwanese accent taught that aunt a lesson, saying that your government is amazing and takes care of you. You mainlanders don’t know how to be grateful. Do you think it’s easy to feed 1.3 billion people? What qualifications do you have? Criticizing the government, what do you women know...Maybe he kept talking about you and us. I slammed into his chair, and he fell to the ground. I walked out of the restaurant without looking back, and I didn't see anyone chasing him out.

I went to a music venue called Wuwei, our band performed well that night, the atmosphere was very good, and I got 200 yuan.The other musicians took me to drink beer, saying that they were celebrating my first official performance, and they got it until after two o'clock. After we broke up, I wanted to stay up until dawn, but I felt a little sleepy after drinking, so I sat on the side of a building near the station, leaning against the wall, and planned to take a nap. As soon as I sat down and closed my eyes, five or six people beat my head and face with wooden sticks, and I didn't even have a chance to get up and fight back.Is it a man with a Taiwanese accent looking for someone to beat me?Although I am physically strong, I can't bear it if I continue fighting like this.Then all of a sudden those people left.I couldn't breathe, my left hand seemed to be broken, my right hand was under my body, and I couldn't take my asthma medicine in my trouser pocket.At this time, a person came to see me, but I couldn't make a sound. I tried to tell him that the medicine was in my trouser pocket with trembling hands, but the person didn't react.I know I'm going to die.

Miaomiao, I thought at that time, I am dead, who will take care of you?What about cats and dogs?Miaomiao, I'm sorry.I'm too capricious, I shouldn't bump into others, who will take care of you now that I'm dead?What about cats and dogs... Suddenly I got the medicine, and I could breathe again. At that moment, I knew that I would not die. I was strong, and I couldn't be beaten. When I woke up, I was already on the hospital bed, only to hear the nurse shouting: "Hey, the person you sent has woken up."An uncle came to the bed, I didn't know him, I raised my spirits and said, pants, my pants.He brought my trousers over, and I told him to take out more than five hundred yuan in the small pocket at the bottom of the trousers, and I told him to take a pen and paper and write down the address of Huairou Miaomiao, the brand of cat food and dog food, the amount of food, plus Flour, eggs, please buy them for me and deliver them.I don't know if that person will leave after taking my money, or if he is willing to run to Huairou. I don't even understand why he waited for me to wake up after taking me to the hospital.I can't take care of so much, I think what will you do if you run out of food?

The next morning the man came back and said that the things had been delivered, and a woman took it. He explained to her that I was in the hospital, but the woman only smiled and nodded, and offered him a non-sweet cookie.He also said that there are so many cats and dogs in my house.I am relieved after hearing this. In the afternoon he came to see me again.I asked him why he took care of me?He said, seeing me lying on the ground out of breath, with my hands trembling in my trouser pockets, I suddenly realized that I was an asthmatic, because he was also on steroids for a long time.He found my medicine in his pocket. He said that when he saw me using hormones, he suddenly wanted to know how another asthma patient who used hormones usually lives. I asked, "You know what you're here for?" He said, "See if you feel that everyone else is different from you?" I said, "Of course it's different. They don't have asthma". He said, "Are they happy?" This sentence gave me an electric shock.It's not that I'm unhappy.Since five years ago, Miaomiao and I have never been unhappy together, and now Miaomiao doesn’t talk to me, but the two of us are not unhappy, but in the past two years, I found that the people I met were a little different, I I can't say clearly, I can only say that they are very happy.On the contrary, I feel that I am different from them, and even happiness is not the same kind of happiness. He kept looking at me, waiting for my answer, and I nodded. He was as happy as if he had won the lottery, and then he looked around, as if he was afraid that someone was watching us. He approached me and said: "I finally found the answer, only those of us who take asthma hormones don't get high. It's our secret". I don't know what he's talking about. He asked: "Do people around you not remember that month?" "Which month?" "After the world economy has entered a period of ice and fire, the month before the Chinese prosperous age officially begins." I do not understand. He said: "The time between the world economy entering the period of ice and fire and the official start of the Chinese prosperous age is not as close as everyone is saying now, but one month apart. To be precise, it is the first time after the Spring Festival holiday. A total of twenty-eight days from the number of working days". Seemingly that I hadn’t realized it yet, he said, “Is it because you are telling people about the national turmoil, the rush to buy food, the army entering the city, the police crackdown, and the bird flu vaccination, and no one remembers it? What happened in that month, Everyone forgot?" I thought to myself, it's true that no one tells me about these things anymore, and it's true that it's kind of like it never happened, but I don't know if they forgot. He thought I had forgotten too, so he sat down dejectedly, and said softly: "So you forgot too, I made a mistake, it was too wishful thinking." I said: "Uncle, I remember." "you remember?" I said: "I remember that year." He still looked at me suspiciously. I said: "I remember going everywhere to buy cat food and dog food, and I remember the crackdown on hiding at home and not daring to go out...". He said, "It's great, it's great, thank God I've found it. What's your name, little brother?" "My name is Zhang Dou." "Brother Zhang Dou, you call me Lao Fang. From now on, you will be my good brother, a brother who is closer than my own brother, because you are the only person I know who remembers that month. Don't forget what you remember now, we We must get that month back." He saved me, Miaomiao and the cats and dogs, so let me listen to what he says.I also told myself, don't forget: I was picked up by Miao Miao, and Miao Miao is the best for me.