Chapter 4 third act

Two days before and after the time, Sunday morning. Location Police station, director's office. figure Ping Haiyan Brother Tang Aunt Tang Wang Xiuzhu Director Wang Xinying Ding Hong Shen Weiyi Liu Chaoyun Wang Renli Wang Rende Li Tianxiang Li Zhengui Grandma Jing's Sansao Lin [curtain opening: Ping Haiyan is reading documents.The phone rang and she answered it. Hi Ping Haiyan! ……Yes!Are you Yu Zhuang? ...Oh, Wang Rende is coming to us?great!Thanks!goodbye! (knocking on the door) Come in, please! Brother Tang (enter with Mrs. Tang) Comrade, we are here to thank you! Thank you Mrs. Tang, comrade!

Ping Haiyan What is this?Let's all sit down! Brother Tang is not sitting down anymore, you are busy! Has Mrs. Tang's sister-in-law Comrade Liu gone out?Please tell me when he comes back!Thank you, Director, for me too!Thank you traffic police on the street!That's great, those who wear red clothes do good things everywhere! Is sister-in-law Ping Haiyan going back?How many days do you want to stay? Don't worry about Mrs. Tang, I'm busy with work in the country, so I can't be at ease here!Goodbye!Let's go see Aunt Li! [Ping shakes hands with them, sends them out, and they get off.

Wang Xiuzhu (pulls his younger brother and enters happily) Comrade Haiyan! Comrade Wang Xinying Haiyan! Is Ping Haiyan your sister?I really like it for you guys!Look, Xiuzhu's brows are no longer wrinkled, and Xinying's face is also brightened! Wang Xiuzhu Yes, what could be happier than a sister finding a little brother? Wang Xinying sees my eldest sister, who is both a worker and educated, how happy she is!We don't know how to thank the party and Chairman Mao! Directors (up) are here?Xiuzhu!Xinying! Director Wang Xiuzhu, we are here to thank you! Director Wang Xinying, I have to come to thank you every Sunday!

All directors welcome you to come anytime, but don’t keep saying thank you!Besides, we haven't finished this job yet! Is there any news about Wang Xiuzhu's mother? All directors are a little bit! Where is Wang Xinying's mother?Where?I wish I could hold my sister's hand and go all over the street to call my mother! There are still some details that the directors have not worked out, so hurry up!Also fast!Xiuzhu, is there anything special about mother's face? Wang Xiuzhu's face was sparsely pockmarked. Directors!Do you remember what your dad looked like? Wang Xiuzhu also remembered a little bit!

Wang Xinying, tell me, tell me what your father is like!Is it a square face or a round face?Do you have a beard? Wang Xiuzhu Oh!Xinying, we don't know where his father is buried!How miserable!How miserable!Like a gust of wind, the whole family died and scattered! 〔knocking. Ping Haiyan, please come in! [Enter Ding Hong and Shen Weiyi, Shen is carrying a small camera. Director Ding Hong, Comrade Haiyan!Have they both thanked you? Don't hesitate to say thank you to the directors, it makes me feel uncomfortable! Ding Hong, even I have to thank you all!You see, there is a smile on Xiuzhu's face!If she laughs once, I will laugh ten times!

Sister Wang Xinying also strives to become a model worker! We all have to thank Shen Weiyi!Look, this guy (referring to Xinying) decided to try to join the League!Director, you don’t know how great a good thing you have done! Director Ding Hong, as soon as we find Xiuzhu's mother, Xiuzhu and I will get married. Please invite the director to attend the wedding!Will you come?Ken? Directors, what am I not willing to do? Does Ping Haiyan have nothing to do with me? Of course Ding Hong treats you to sweets!I said, let's leave after we all thank you! Ping Haiyan, where are you going?

Shen Weiyi, let's find a good place to take some photos, maybe have a meal together. Wang Xiuzhu But, mother hasn't found it yet?Just take pictures? Ding Hongxiuzhu, you are too stubborn!Isn't it a great joy to find a younger brother? Miss Wang Xinying!Believe in the director, since he can find us, he will also be able to find our mother for us!Director, in the future, if you have anything you can’t copy, you still need to compile some hygienic publicity allegro. Give me a call, and I will promise to help, and I will do it very well! Director Shen Weiyi, this little guy's writing skills are amazing!His composition is old and scored five points!

All the directors, let's go and have fun!Check back later, there may be good news! Everyone thank the director!Thank you Comrade Haiyan!goodbye! (Down) Director Ping Haiyan, Yu Zhuang called and said that Wang Rende would come! That's great, directors!Just now Wang Xiuzhu said that her mother had several pockmarks on her face, this must be Aunt Li!But why is Aunt Li still unwilling to talk about it? Ping Haiyan Yes, I don’t understand either!I talked to Grandma Jing and Tianxiang again, and they also thought the same as us. Since Aunt Li is unwilling to say it, don't force it too much!Tianxiang was in a hurry, he had to go to a new job soon, and if he didn't find out this matter quickly, he wouldn't calm down!

Director Liu Chaoyun (on), I invited Wang Renli here! Directors, he is here? Liu Chaoyun is right!I've already talked to him twice, but he's evasive and doesn't talk brightly, so talk to him! Directors, why don't you call first?I should go to see him first. Wouldn't that be more friendly, and maybe it would be easier for him to speak his heart out? Liu Chaoyun is the one who asked to come to see you, director!He said, what he said had to be told to the director! Hello directors, please come in! Liu Chaoyun (to the door) Uncle, come in! (Wang Ru) This is our director, this is—(referring to Haiyan)

Wang Renli - I know it!Hello, director?This lesbian, thank you for taking care of me the other day! Ping Haiyan, are you all right?Uncle! Hello Wang Renli!all right!That is the root cause of the old disease left by the enemy and the puppet period!At that time, I was often hungry and full... Forget it, let’s not talk about it! All directors, please sit down, uncle!Chaoyun, pour water! (Liu goes to pour water) Uncle Wang, are you okay as a transport worker?Can it be nailed? Wang Renli (sit) OK! (Liu Dishui) Thank you! All directors, Chaoyun, go and see Tianxiang! Liu Chaoyun is!Uncle, you sit down, I have something else to do! (Down)

Wang Renli (to Liu) Goodbye! (To all) OK!My strength is not small!But, the organization takes care of me and only asks me to take care of the liaison work!Call me moved ah!Stomach, old love trouble, this good girl saw that day... Directors, I advise you to go to the hospital to check it out! Oh, Wang Renli!I am both a living person and a dead person, what kind of illness is this? Directors can't say that, uncle!Good health and good work ability, we are all doing things for the country!isn't it? Wang Renli is right!right!I don't study enough, often so positive for a while, and then negative for a while! Directors, you should have a home so that someone can take care of you! Wang Renli, I used to have a family, but, but... Directors today is Sunday, let's just sit in a teahouse and talk about family affairs, please tell me everything!I have no intention other than to help you! I know Wang Renli!I know!Otherwise, I wouldn't ask to come to see you! So let's talk about it, directors! Oh, Wang Renli!well! (hesitant to speak) Does Uncle Ping Haiyan smoke? Wang Renli draws!smoke!I have it here! (takes out a pipe) Ping Haiyan is right!Smoking a cigarette, talking to the director affectionately!If you don't like me listening, I can... If Wang Renli doesn't have it, what am I afraid of you doing? Ping Haiyan Yes, I am one year younger than your daughter! Wang Renli, my daughter?my daughter?where is sheHow do you know I have a daughter? I also know Ping Haiyan and your son!The two sisters are doing well! Wang Renli, my son Xiao Maer? Uncle Wang, the directors, we found your daughter and son, don't you like it? Wang Renli's daughter, son?How can I not like it?Is not my heart made of flesh?But, I, I, I... Director, what face do I have to see them? Uncles of all the directors, let's talk freely!We know you have concerns! What's on Wang Renli's mind?I know there are no sons or daughters anymore. I am sorry for the ancestors.Mind, not mind or what? Uncles!Take it easy, let's start from the beginning! Wang Renli (bows his head and thinks for a while), Director, when the Japanese soldiers occupied Beijing..." Ping Haiyan, you told me a little bit.You fought a Japanese soldier! Wang Renli is right!Beat him half to death!After the beating was over, I ran to Zhangjiakou, where an acquaintance of mine found me some physical work.Collect, collect, after two or three months, I only collected ten yuan and asked a railway policeman to bring it back.Director, in that era, one person could destroy his conscience for ten yuan! The directors cheated you of the ten yuan you gave him? If Wang Renli was just like that, he wouldn't be hateful! Ping Haiyan told your family, you died in Zhangjiakou! Wang Renli, yes!He came back and told me that my wife ran away with her younger brother and remarried, leaving only the old lady and the pony in the family!He knew I would believe it because I told him that their mother-in-law and daughter-in-law were at odds.He also knew that I would not come back to Beijing to take a look. I had beaten Japanese soldiers and dared not come back.The old lady died soon, but he still tried to bring money for me!Just like this, he ate me ten or eight yuan after a while, and I was always bored in the gourd!I hate my wife for remarrying before I come back!We won, and when I returned to Beijing, the old lady was long gone, and my son was gone too!I'm looking for my wife everywhere, I really want to kill her!I saw my brother, Wang Rende, and he was so scared that he wanted to run away!He said: "Brother, didn't you die a long time ago?" Then I realized that I was a living person, but a dead person again! Directors, you don't hate the children's mother anymore?She remarried after hearing that you were dead! Wang Renli, I can't untie this button!Please understand: it's not that I don't hate myself!If I was promising, why would I go out to make a living and lose my whole family? Directors, you work hard to eat, there is nothing wrong with it!It was the old society that separated your wife and children!You should forgive your wife, she heard that you died outside, no one to rely on, can she not find a way to work? Wang Renli, I can't forgive her. Although she has reasons to remarry, why did she lose her children so cruelly? Your daughter said that it was your old lady who kicked their mother and daughter out! Wang Renli is... Hey, why did all these things happen in my house? What kind of society and family do the directors have.Your family is not the only one that has suffered such a tragedy!We often find relatives and friends for the people, and we know many such things! Wang Renli, you are right!You make my heart brighter!Director, where are my son and daughter? Directors, of course you want to meet them? Wang Renli has been around for more than ten years, and I often want to see them even in my dreams!Walking on the street, I was like a hungry eagle looking for something to eat, staring at every little girl and kid!I miss them, miss them!However, I am a little afraid, afraid of meeting them!how to say?You see, what if they follow their mother and express their willingness to follow their mother?Besides, if they are willing to follow me, how can I support them?Let me tell you the truth, after victory and before liberation, I drank all the little money I earned.If Beijing had not been liberated, I would have died long ago! Directors, are you quit drinking now? Wang Renli quit!Only drink two cups when you are really sad! Directors should drink less, uncle!Let me ask you, have you never seen the children's mother? Wang Renli did not!If you meet her, you will be in trouble!Even if I don't fight her hard, I can't open my mouth to talk to her?I can't understand, I can't understand, she is such a good woman, honest and upright, my mother is so ruthless and unreasonable to her, she always endures and never provokes disputes.Why, why, she will marry someone else? (knocking outside) Directors, please come in! Wang Rende (top) Are you the director? (sees brother) I... brother!elder brother! Wang Renli (stopped for a moment) You?Second child! Wang Rende is me, brother! Wang Renli hum!You didn't expect me to be here, did you?You heartless thing! All directors, Uncle Wang, don't get angry, speak slowly if you have something to say.Today we're going to clear things up! Ping Haiyan (holding a chair for Rende) Sit down, second uncle! Wang Rende Thank you, comrade!Thanks!Brother, look, I am now the most capable cook in the commune! Stop bragging, Wang Renli!When your sister-in-law asked you to go, why didn't you help her, instead, you found someone for her and told her to remarry?Don't call me brother anymore, I don't have a brother like you! Wang Rende (bows his head and is speechless for a while): Brother, in front of the director, let me speak out all the words I have been holding back for more than ten years! Wang Renli's stomach is full of illness! Wang Rende is really sick. The director, a person like me, will do shameful things when he meets that man-eating era! Wang Renli, you will complain about that year, not that you are worthless! All the chief uncles, listen to what the second uncle says! Director Wang Rende, at that time, I only had a few acres of hillside land!Go to the mountains and join the guerrillas, I hate that little land.Let's plant the land, just Baojiachang's domineering will kill me half to death!Me, there is nothing I can do!Later, my sister-in-law came to me and said that my brother died outside! Wang Renli, why don't you inquire about whether I am dead or alive? Wang Rende, what you said is nonsense!I can't afford three meals, where can I get the money to find you?You say! Wang Renli hum! Wang Rende's sister-in-law is here, asking me for advice on how to survive.What can I do?The best idea is: sister-in-law, come on, I will support you!I have a hybrid noodle pancake and I'll give you half of it!But, I don't even have half a pancake!Can I persuade her to go back to her mother-in-law?The old lady is such an unreasonable person!Me, crying in anxiety, I can't think of a way! Wang Renli, why don't you persuade her to remarry? Brother Wang Rende, remarrying is better than starving to death!It was like that in those days, his arms couldn't twist his thighs. It just so happened that a man with some savings, surnamed Li, fell ill and was afraid that he would die, leaving a twelve-year-old boy Tianxiang alone. Wang Renli, you have become a great matchmaker! Wang Rende is right!He promised that the matter would be settled, and he would give me twenty yuan! Twenty yuan for Wang Renli! Wang Rende, let me ask you, brother, if you picked up twenty yuan for nothing at that time, what would you do, would you stretch out your hand, or shake your head? Wang Renli (laughs wryly)... But Wang Rende, my sister-in-law refused! Wang Renli, she refuses? Brother Wang Rende, don't just look at yourself as good, everyone else is bad!Don't just think about yourself being wronged, others have no heart!After my sister-in-law left, I felt pain in my heart for several days! All directors, especially women, we men should be extra careful, don't draw conclusions hastily! After Wang Renli, why did she still move forward? When Wang Rende came back to the city, her younger brother was lost! Is Wang Renli lost? Wang Rende's sister-in-law entrusted recruiting her younger brother to a man surnamed Song, who was not a good person.When the sister-in-law returned to the city, she went to see Zhaodier first before returning home, but even the one surnamed Song was gone!In this way, my sister-in-law knows that you are dead, her mother-in-law can't go back, her brother-in-law is lost again, and I am too poor to help, what can she do?you say! Wang Renli, I... I have nothing to say! Wang Rende, I told my sister-in-law, your own flesh and blood are gone, so why not be good, and take care of the child of the Li family. My sister-in-law first looked at Tianxiang, she likes this child. Wang Renli, wouldn't she agree to just take care of that child and not marry that sick ghost? If Wang Rende and the others don't become a couple, how can Li inherit the little money after his death? The person surnamed Li has relatives!That's it, the sister-in-law nodded helplessly.Soon, the one surnamed Li died, and my sister-in-law brought Tianxiang to move into the city, avoiding those relatives of the Li family, lest they all open their eyes as big as buns, and try to steal the money in different ways!Since then, I haven't come to see my sister-in-law again, I feel ashamed!Ashamed!After the liberation of Beijing, I was alive again, but the knot in my heart has not been solved!I have the courage to overcome all difficulties at work, but when I think of my sister-in-law, I just... The second uncle of the directors, didn't you say all of this?The knot in my heart can be untied!Two uncles, what is going on? Wang Rende reunite the family, isn't that the best thing? What do you say, directors?Uncle! Wang Renli, I, I, I miss my wife!Miss children!But, who knows what the children think, what the children's mother thinks? Is it not easy to handle, directors?They are all flesh and blood! Li Tianxiang (on) director!Yo!Uncle! Wang Rende is me!Meet, this is my big brother!Brother, this is Li Tianxiang, who was brought up by his sister-in-law! Li Tianxiang, you are... Wang Rende, my brother is not dead! It's not like Wang Renli, a damned person like me, can't die! Uncle Li Tianxiang, ah—— Let the directors call you Uncle first, and decide what to call later. Uncle Li Tianxiang, my mother is the best person, she brought me up, and now I am a demobilized soldier, so I go to work in industry.If you say that you are willing to merge into one family, I fully support it. I cannot spoil the reunion of your family just because of me!No matter how wrong things were in the past, today we all have to be happy!What do you say? Brother Wang Rende, I received 20 yuan from Tianxiang's father back then, and now I—(takes out a bag of money) It's a little thing...I want to lighten the burden in my heart! (See if Renli doesn’t pick it up, put it on the table) Wang Renli Tianxiang, you, what did you tell me to say?What's your mother's opinion? Comrade Li Tianxiang Xiaoliu, Grandma Jing, Mrs. Lin San, and I have all persuaded my mother. They all felt that the worse things were in the past, the more motivated they should be now, and the family will move forward happily! Director Liu Chaoyun (on), Aunt Li is here! (Down) Li Tianxiang (goes up to meet her) Mom!mom!Come in, don't be shy! Wang Rende (goes up to meet her) Sister-in-law, here I come! Li Zhengui (unable to speak, facing Renli)... Wang Renli (lowers his head, then stands up and walks towards Li Zhengui) Calling my brother's mother! (cry) Li Zhengui recruits his younger brother's father! (also crying) Mother Li Tianxiang!mom!don't cry!Talk about the grievances in your heart!With me, you don't have to be afraid of anything! Oh, Li Zhengui!Dad who recruited his younger brother, tell me, what do you want me to say? Brother Wang Rende, why our mother is not good, and what is not good about ourselves, we should talk about it first!Sister-in-law, at that time, if I had a bowl of porridge to drink, I wouldn't... I, I, I don't have that bone, breaking the old saying "people are poor and short-sighted"! Second Uncle Li Tianxiang, don't say that, if you didn't make it happen, where would I be now?It sounds a bit selfish, but my mother didn't just want the money, she really brought me up! Wang Renli raised you up, but she has the heart to lose her own child! Li Zhengui, wait a minute, your mother threw me and Zhaodier out, and Xiao Maer followed your mother all the time.It's not my fault! How about Wang Renli recruiting younger brothers? Li Zhengui, I admit that I entrusted the wrong person.However, after thinking about it afterwards, I realized that she was sold by others.I just go there every three days, every two days, to a place where women shouldn't go, to see, to ask, to find her!But, can't see, can't ask!I can only call Zhaodier when Tianxiang is asleep, and cry to Zhaodier, I dare not let Tianxiang hear or see me!I read it to myself every night: Let me die of a sudden illness!This torture is not something a woman can bear!I'm an innocent person, and I don't know why it's not clear, even my daughter will enter... I can't find my younger brother, so I'll go find Xiaomaer!Your mother is dead, I don't care about the descendants of your Wang family!The pony is the meat that fell off me!I found the orphanage, even the smelly place where the garbage was piled up at that time, nothing!He is so small, hungry, easy to starve to death; cold, easy to freeze to death!There is always a knife in my heart! Ping Haiyan (with tears in her eyes, brings water and helps Li Zhengui to sit down) Aunt!Don't be too sad! Li Zhengui has been liberated in Beijing, and Tianxiang is becoming more and more promising, I like it; but when I think of recruiting younger brothers and little horses, I feel extremely sad! Aunt Li, director of the various institutes, why didn't you tell us earlier? Li Zhengui's children are dead or alive, I don't know!Besides, what face do I have to tell you?Remarried living wives looking for former children?If it gets out, how can I do street work again? Sister Wang Rende, you said a living wife, do you know that your brother is not dead? Before Li Zhengui was liberated, I knew he was dead; after Liberation, I knew he was not dead! What about Wang Rende? Li Zhengui, I've seen him before! Ping Haiyan was under the big tree that time... Li Zhengui didn't stop there just once, I've seen him a long time ago, but he didn't see me!I hide fast!If I confess to each other, he will definitely scold me!He must recruit my brother and pony with me, me, what should I do?That day, under the big tree, I thought he had discovered me and came to settle accounts with me!I'm confident that I'm a clean and good person, but I don't even dare to cry in front of people!I love our new society, and I treat the things on the street as my own home, but the knife in my heart is always stuck there!Me, I can't go on!Renli, you can do whatever you want! [There is a moment of silence. Brother Wang Rende, it's your turn to speak! Wang Renli (sighs) Oh! Li Tianxiang, I am absolutely willing to add a few more relatives!Mom, in our two rooms, you old couple live in one room and ask your younger brother to sleep in my bed, don't I have to leave right away? Director Liu Chaoyun (on), they are back!I invite Grandma Jing to go! (Down) Wang Xinying (runs in first, followed by Wang Xiuzhu): Director, have you found your mother? Mommy Wang Xiuzhu! (Pounces over) Mom!I am Zhaodier! Wang Renli is recruiting younger brothers!Pony! Wang Xiuzhu's father!Xinying, this is Dad! (Xiuzhu is still hugging her mother, Xinying rushes to her father) Wang Renli children, isn't this a dream? Wang Xinying is not a dream!It is a good thing done by the people's police! Li Zhengui, children, this is your second uncle! Wang Xiuzhu Uncle Wang Xinying!Uncle! Children of Wang Rende, (picking up the small bag) Take this! (Hands it to Xinying) I will hurry back to the commune, you can come and see me when you are free, and I will come and see you when you are free!Director, we are all grateful! The second uncle of the directors, don't you become a family? Good director Wang Rende, please listen to my good news!We have a widow in the kitchen, and we're on good terms lately! Wang Renli is a pony! (pointing)... Wang Xinying (hands the money back) Second Uncle, save it for your wedding! Wang Rende that... Li Zhengui's second child, take it!Recruit younger brother, little horse, meet your big brother Tianxiang! Wang Xiuzhu, I am the boss, where did I come from? See you first, Li Zhengui, I'll talk about it later! Li Tianxiang, no matter what happens to you two, I am willing to add a younger sister and a younger brother! (the three embrace each other) Liu Chaoyun (goes up with Grandma Jing, and Sansao Lin enters later) Grandma, take a look, this is a family reunion! Grandma Jing is good!OK!Let me just say, the years of crying are over!Am I right? Mrs. Lin Sansao, please tell Comrade Xiao Liu that he grabbed the bucket again today and didn’t ask me to carry water for the old lady. Isn’t this disrespectful to women? All directors, Xiao Liu, don't carry water anymore, let me do it! [Everyone laughs. Ding Hong (runs in) How is it? Wang Xiuzhu solved it all!Mom, this is Ding Hong, my friend! Mrs. Ding Hong, this is great, I can find you old man! Hello Li Zhengui!it is good!I'll get Zhaodier a new suit right away!Director, Xiaoping, Xiao Liu, I want to say some kind words to thank you, it’s not quite right!I want to be worthy of you at work! Director Wang Renli, so do I!Mom who recruits my younger brother, shall I go to your place? Shen Weiyi (runs in) Wait, (picks up the camera) Please stand still! Does Lin Sansao have me too? Shen Weiyi has it all!Take a full body photo, and then take a family portrait for them! (Chapter · End of the whole play)