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Run away
The sky is getting dark, and the time has come to escape. The most important things are discussed in the afternoon. Escape bag: shoes, a set of clothes and pants, some socks and underwear, a water cup, two schoolbags; Escape time: wait for Teacher Cao’s family to fall asleep at night and act; Escape group: Huazi and Xiangzi brothers are rich in escape experience, Therefore, I decided to bring a “novice”, 15-year-old Huazi and 14-year-old Xinxin, a 12-year-old Xiangzi and 11-year-old Xiaohao; escape funds: 100 yuan for each group.
At seven or eight o’clock in the evening, the four acrobatics boys practiced as usual. Perhaps because of the imminent escape, they decided to only practice the simplest straw hat dance. Several people took turns to throw the straw hats out, and then the people next to them caught them, repeating the cycle. They paid close attention to the movement outside. At about 10:30 in the evening, Teacher Cao went out and his wife was sleeping in the house. Right now, they are wearing slippers, taking garbage bags, carrying school bags, closing the door of the house where they live, and telling Teacher Cao’s wife that they are going downstairs to take out the garbage.
Since April 20, they have lived in a small bedroom in Teacher Cao’s house, and the bunk beds for them to sleep are placed next to each other. The children come from a rural village in Dafang County, Bijie, Guizhou. They go to an acrobatics school in Hebei. They were drove to Chengdu by the person in charge to perform in less than a year after enrolling.
Nine days after the performance, they thought they had to escape. There was no breakfast—Xin Xin, who was found the first time later, said that the practice was hard, sometimes it was early in the morning after the performance, and he still had to practice when he came back. Do 200 push-ups a day, 500 push-ups for performances. “Let’s practice handstands at night,” Xiaohao said.
They performed at a funeral. There was a coffin, a mourning hall, and some people burned incense. The people underneath were still crying one second, and laughed the next second. “It’s so fast to change your face,” the children thought.
The performance is good, the people under the stage applaud, make a mistake, and people still applaud, “It’s very embarrassing, I feel like I am laughing at you,” Huazi said. Losing dignity is even more uncomfortable than doing exercises and performing at a funeral. The children said that as long as there is a slight mistake in the performance,The tall and strong Teacher Cao scolded them in a loud voice, while he was very gentle with his daughter. When the performance was successful, they had only received an Apple award. Hua Zi once saw Teacher Cao collecting money after the performance, which made him feel that he was just a tool for making money. In the last performance before escaping, the children made mistakes in the kicking action. Xin Xin recalled that Teacher Cao said, “The better the others, the worse you are.” This made Xin Xin feel unfair and humiliated. .
Fortunately, at this moment, on the night of May 1, no one is obstructing them. The elevator went down to the garage instead of the first floor—because they were only familiar with the underground roads when they took Teacher Cao’s car out to perform every day—the eldest Huazi suddenly remembered something and asked the last partner who went out, did the lights turn off? After getting a negative answer, he went back alone to turn off the lights. Later, he couldn’t tell why he did this. After gathering again, it took the children about 5 minutes to reach the gate of the community from the basement, and free air blew over their faces.
This is Chengdu in early summer. They are located in a quiet residential area between the second ring road and the third ring road in the northeast. Except for a few women walking dogs passing by occasionally, almost no one can see the street at a glance. Their plan for grouping is correct, and even if it is just two children walking side by side, it is very conspicuous.
The surveillance conducted by the police later showed that they immediately appeared in a park near Chengdu University of Technology. According to the map, it is likely to be the Shengdeng Park. The street lights beside the street emit dim lights, the camphor trees exude fragrance, the cries of crickets in the grass and the roar of trucks passing by at regular intervals constitute the night symphony.
Too late to feel the comfort of early summer, the children bid farewell to each other here, and ran away in pairs.
Children along the escape street ©Jing Xinyu (the same below, except for special labels)
Xiaohao and Xiangzi from the kids group ran for a while. Xiaohao is only 11 years old, about 1.2 meters, and his small eyes are narrowed with a smile. This is the first time he has come to the city. The tall buildings made him feel dizzy. Whenever he stopped, he always said to Xiangzi in a panic that they seemed to have been to this place, and they might have ran back to Teacher Cao’s house. Xiangzi comforted him, no. He is better thanXiaohao is one year older and taller, with a mole the size of a watermelon seed on the left side of his nose. He has followed his brother many times away from home to Bijie, which is the city. Therefore, Xiangzi thinks that he is very familiar with the city, “just a place with a lot of tall buildings.”
Xinxin and Huazi of the older kids group acted calmly, but that night, based on the principle of “the farther away from Teacher Cao, the better”, the two groups of teenagers did not sleep easily. Can’t resist drowsiness, Xinxin and Huazi slept in a park. Xiaohao and Xiangzi found a 23-story residential building, took the elevator to the top floor, and then climbed the ladder to the top of the building-this is Xiangzi before. The experience that Bi Jie found out. (Shouzi without a watch thinks it takes about 2 hours), Xiaohao pushes Xiangzi to wake up, “This is too close to Teacher Cao’s house. Up,” he said. Xiangzi was speechless, they got up and set off again. In just one night, they walked more than ten kilometers to the southwest, until they reached the intersection of Chunxi Road, Qingshiqiao, Renmin South Road and the First Ring Road.
When the sun rises, the world of adults is already in a mess. At 7 o’clock in the morning on May 2, Teacher Cao called the police. At 11 o’clock in the morning, Xinxin’s mother received a WeChat from the teacher of the acrobatics school, asking if Xinxin had contacted her. She was surprised and asked the teacher, Xinxin is Is it missing? The other party did not reply again. The children do not have mobile phones, and the school has not informed the parents of the Chengdu itinerary. At about 11 o’clock in the evening, Xinxin’s mother received a call from the Chengdu police, saying that Xinxin had disappeared with the other three boys.
The story gradually surfaced. Teacher Cao’s name is Cao Tao, the person in charge of Chengdu Wind Wings Culture Media Co., Ltd. Because “it’s approaching May Day, there will be more performances”, he spent money to invite four children from Hebei Wuqiao Vocational Education Center to perform in Chengdu. According to an official announcement issued by the People’s Government of Wuqiao County, Hebei Province, on April 20, the children were driven to Chengdu by Gao Wenjun, the head of the Variety Acrobatic Troupe. From April 23 to May 1, they participated in 10 performances, each 20 minutes.
On the evening of May 6, the two older children were found. At noon the next day, the children’s group also ended their escape trip. Their backpacks are long gone. They haven’t taken a shower for almost a week, and their clothes are so dirty that they don’t look like they are. Xiaohao’s two calves were swollen and the boss was swollen, and a small face was stung by mosquitoes in the park-even in their hometown in the countryside, they had never been so sloppy. Parents feel incredible, they ask, where are you going? The children answered, “Go back to Guizhou.”
Adventure and Heavy
The escape of the kids group is like an adventure, full of some plausible wordsA story that goes beyond expectations. For example, Xiangzi stared at him and recalled in earnest that when they were tired, an unlocked shared bicycle suddenly appeared on the side of the road. He rode and walked alone. After a while, “Xiaohao glanced over. I saw the second car again,” but it was still unlocked.
Is it cold to sleep at night? not cold. why? Xiaohao waved his arm and said that one day when he was walking on the road, a red cloth suddenly appeared in front of him. At night, when they slept under the red cloth, it would not be cold.
The only 200 yuan they have is pocket money left by Gao Wenjun, the head of the acrobatics school. The children evenly divided the savings, but they have not carefully calculated whether this money can support them to return to Guizhou. Calculating from the results, they wandered for a total of 5 days, so each person would spend 10 yuan a day to solve three meals, and the budget for each meal was more than 3 yuan.
On the first night, the kids group was afraid to go to the supermarket to buy food that was eye-catching. They stayed up until the morning to go to the supermarket and bought bread, water and sausages. (maybe There are also potato chips), I am still hungry after eating. The chicken drumsticks from the roadside stalls are a good choice, come with two, “delicious”. Xiaohao’s eyes glanced at the ice cream, the red panda style, milk tea flavor, it was sultry, he wanted to eat it, and bought another ice cream. The first meal was over budget.
Xiaohao took a bite of ice cream, it was cold, he asked Xiangzi, do you eat it? “He was too hot at the time,” Xiaohao recalled. Xiangzi shook his head. “If you don’t eat, I won’t go with you,” Xiaohao threatened. Xiangzi had to take a bite. Halfway through the meal, Xiaohao said that he couldn’t eat it anymore, and Xiangzi took another bite.
One morning after a heavy rain, they woke up in a pavilion in the park, and a grandfather appeared in front of them and asked: Why are you here? Xiangzi didn’t panic, saying that they lived next to him, came out to play, and rested here when it rained. “If you are clever, he won’t doubt it.” He smiled slyly at me, not forgetting Xiaohao, “He just stood there in a daze.”
They like the park and often stay in it. There are various slides and free sports equipment, and children with toy guns come to talk to them. The other’s parents asked them, what about your parents? Xiangzi thought of his father in the countryside. Of course he couldn’t tell the truth, “My parents are going to work.” He pointed to the tall building next to him again, “I live there.” The adult said that he can let the parents take you to another station in the future. Play in the big park, he said, good.
There is no story about the escape of the big-child group, only constant walking and heavy weight. Huazi and Xinxin have also encountered small shops selling ice cream, but the age difference of a few years has given them a measure of money.Three bucks of ice cream can buy a bottle of water”, they held back. Water and the kind of buns in the bag are their only expenses. They eat one when they are hungry, and then continue walking after eating. They don’t look at the scenery or Talking to strangers, I rarely stay in one place. I asked them “Is Chengdu fun?” and they all shook their heads.
Hua Zi remembered that they had stayed for a while in a very large scenic spot, where there were so many rides like roller coasters. During the holiday, the park was full of people, and the screams of tourists from time to time came from the roller coaster. They stood there, watching quietly, “I don’t want money,” he said, and then continued on the road.
The world has developed different styles before the eyes of several children. Xiangzi is lively and clever, Xiaohao is naive, and only when he talks to Teacher Cao, he unconsciously lowers his head and picks his hands. Xinxin kept his head down most of the time, and his biggest smile only moved the corners of his mouth. Huazi was very mature, but his words showed helplessness and reluctance.
Despite running away separately, the two groups of children shared a fear: being caught by Teacher Cao. In the community, they observe the direction of the camera and try their best to go where the camera cannot see. They all remembered the phone number of their family and the head of the acrobatic troupe, Gao Wenjun, but no one dialed it, “I’m afraid of being sent back.” The kid group lost the backpack. Xiangzi gave the reason “(Encountered on the road) Parents always ask them why they don’t go to school”, while Xiaohao said, “The teacher Bao Cao knows.” No matter how far he goes, he is always worried about returning To the starting point.
Acrobatics
What the children don’t know is that their families have come to Chengdu one after another. The police, the media, rescue teams, and volunteers are all looking for them. The missing person notice was posted on the streets of Chengdu. The photo above was taken before going to Chengdu. All four people gave thumbs up.
At the Hebei Wuqiao Vocational Education Center, they are the four students who performed well in the acrobatics class. Although they are all from Dafang County in Bijie, they did not know each other before. In the middle of last year, Gao Wenjun came to various rural areas to promote the benefits of the school to parents: free reading, including board and lodging, and a job with a monthly salary of 4,000 yuan after five years of schooling. The contract signed by the parents shows that this is a group of free students for poverty alleviation. Article 5 also states: Party B shall not withdraw or transfer to other groups during the study period. If there is a breach of contract, Party A shall pay Party A an economic compensation of 100,000. yuan. Huazi remembered that most of the classmates were from Guizhou, and a few were from Henan and Yunnan.
Enrolled since September last year(Huazi is October) In the second half of the year, they get up at 5:30 a.m. every day to practice exercises, sit-ups, somersaults, eat more breakfast at 7:00, and practice exercises at 8:00. By 11:30, handstand, kick, and ice ballet, the lunch break ends at 1:30, and then practice until 6 pm, after dinner, continue to practice until 8 pm. They spend one day a week in cultural classes, only Chinese, they have only experienced one test without published results.
Hua Zi remembered that on the second day of enrollment, he began to practice handstands. At that time, he could only hold on for more than 20 seconds. The teacher did not ask him. After the third or fourth day, “The teacher began to treat me. A little bit, a little bit,” at the end, “just yelled, saying that this is not right for me, and that is not right.” The daily practice ended with sweating, and sometimes the hands were really out of strength, and the strength was relieved all of a sudden, and people were lying on the ground.
Acrobatic training has left marks on them. The dark knuckles are covered with thick cocoons-they are made when you turn somersaults on the ground with your hands. If you want to practice that kind of head-turning and somersault skills, the top of your head will be worn like a Huazi. A large piece of hair is falling out. To learn to kick a person, you must first be pressed by a particularly heavy person and practice your leg strength. After a few months of hard training, the ultimate success depends on whether you and your partner can cooperate and trust each other. Xiangzi’s partner once broke his arm and rested for a week. After returning, he could no longer do this action. “He may have fallen out of the shadows.” There is an inverted movement that Xiangzi and Huazi think the most Tired, one minute makes people sweat, but they often have to persist for seven or eight minutes before being let go.
Acrobatic training makes their hands full of thick calluses
Xiangzi can turn a whole backflip-this is an action that his brother cannot complete. When I asked Xiangzi if he was proud, he shook his head, “You can’t be proud. If you are proud, you will retreat.” He said this is He realized it himself.
The teachers are very strict. Once laziness is discovered, they may be asked to double practice. People often cry because they practice too hard, they are scolded by teachers, or they feel homesick. The teacher told them that they would cry where no one saw them, so the sound of sobbing often came from the dormitory in the middle of the night. Whenever this time, the other boys will gather togetherComfort the crying boy.
Children don’t have cell phones. When they want to call their parents, they need to borrow the cell phone of the head teacher. The school stipulates that students cannot go home within five years. Parents can visit their children at the school once a year at the expense of the school. Xinxin’s mother, Wang Zhimin, went there once. She couldn’t help crying when she watched Xinxin practice kicking through the glass window. The mother and son had a meal together, and there was peace. No one said whether it was hard or not. On the last day, Wang Zhimin woke up from the hotel and wanted to see her son for the last time. The teacher persuaded her, “Don’t go to school, you will have to cry when you go, forget it, don’t go see it.” She was persuaded.
“Jump from one fire pit to another fire pit”
Fleeing into a period of exhaustion. From about May 4th and 5th, Xinxin and Huazi couldn’t walk anymore. They didn’t change places, but lived on the top floor of a tall building for two days. After the money was spent, they used the cups they brought with them to drink from the tap water in the public toilets. Huazi used his own experience of running away from home in Bijie. In the afternoon, he took Xinxin to the trash can of the community to look through other people’s leftover takeaways. On that day, they had a takeaway with a bad taste, with braised pork and green vegetables.
One night, it rained heavily in Chengdu, and the temperature at night dropped to more than ten degrees. Xinxin, who was only wearing a coat, slept in the pavilion. He was shivering from the cold and felt that he might be dying.
After accidentally breaking the water glass, they threw away the backpack with dirty clothes. Exhaustion overwhelmed them. They clearly know that it is impossible to go back to Guizhou. On the night of May 6, the police found them. At that moment, their hearts were filled with fear again, and they thought they would be sent back to Teacher Cao’s house or acrobatics school.
At this time, they had walked more than 40 kilometers in the opposite direction from Guizhou.
The innocence and happiness of the kids group gradually disappeared. The night before they were found, Xiangzi and Xiaohao had spent all their money. Hunger made them hide in a park and cried. On the morning of May 7th, they had a quarrel, and the reasons are unrememberable, anyway they separated. Xiangzi walked to a community, where the police found him and took him to a restaurant on the side of the road to eat a bowl of beef noodles. It was the best thing he had eaten in the past few days. After eating, he drove the police to find Xiaohao together. They saw Xiaohao standing on the side of the road and the car didn’t stop, so the police rushed down. After being taken to the car, Xiaohao still didn’t know what happened.
After learning that her son was missing, Xiaohao’s mother Zhou Qingqin once called Cao Tao, hoping to get all the performances of the children“He said I don’t know, that attitude is (bad) and doesn’t know anything.”
The Hua Zi Xiangzi brothers mentioned that in a performance, they found that the stage was slanted and there was no guardrail in front, which brought great risks to their performances of ice ballet. Once someone fails to lift, the person who fell is very likely to fall under the stage. At that time, all of them took every action extremely carefully, “Try to slow down as much as possible.” They mentioned this safety hazard to Cao Tao, “Boss Cao said that no matter where or what venue, you must make this show Finish it for me.”
In an interview with Red Star News, Cao Tao denied all allegations including “no breakfast,” “doing 500 push-ups,” and “practice until the early hours of the morning.” And we didn’t get through Cao Tao’s phone.
After receiving the children, several families did not stay in Chengdu too much, but drove back to Dafang County, Guizhou overnight, where they lived for generations. There, although living in different villages, their homes are quite similar: they have to walk a long way to reach the mountain, a two-story or three-story self-built house, the house is damp and dark, and there is almost no decent furniture. , The clothes are piled messily on the bed or stool.
Children’s hometown
Wang Zhimin has three children. The eldest daughter is married and has children. The remaining two children are supported by the monthly income of 3,000 yuan from driving the lift on the construction site. She and her husband divorced last month. Zhou Qingqin and her husband work odd jobs on the local construction site, earning four to five thousand a month, and they also have three children. Huazi and Xiangzi’s father Xiang Biyou raises four children by driving a van, and his ex-wife will give him 1,000 yuan a month in support.
Xiang Biyou and his ex-wife worked together in Hunan. When Huazi was 9 years old, Xiang Biyou’s mother fell ill and they returned to the village to take care of her. After the death of her mother, his ex-wife offered to go out to work and let him stay at home to take care of the children. He agreed. The ex-wife never came back.
When it comes to children’s reading, parents usually take a natural attitude.If you can continue to read, you must borrow money. They have only been to elementary school for a few years, and they have no ability or energy to guide their children in their studies.
Xinxin remembers that when he was in the fifth grade of elementary school, he suddenly felt that the math he liked became difficult. He couldn’t understand it in class and couldn’t find anyone to ask for help. My mother returned from the construction site at six o’clock every night. “She went to work every day and didn’t have time to care about me.” During the exam, his score dropped from eighty to ninety points to more than 50 points. He didn’t like math anymore.
Before going to learn acrobatics, Huazi had already dropped out of school. He followed a car repairer in the town to learn how to repair a car, and he would be able to take a job in one or two years. Before long, he ran away from home. He didn’t seem to be really interested in anything, he couldn’t do anything for long, he was tired of studying and repairing cars, and staying at home was boring. As a result, he ran away from home again and again, as if he was addicted. The longest time, he and Xiangzi ran away in Bijie for 4 months, lived on the roof, and lived by picking up rubbish every day. When I asked them why they had to run away from home, Xiangzi gave the answer “It’s too boring at home.” Huazi thought for a long time and didn’t give an answer. He kept his head down, rubbing his hands repeatedly, and finally , He said, “I feel that I lack communication with my father.”
Xiangzi and his father
Not long after Huazi went to repair the car, Gao Wenjun came to town to recruit students and told him that learning acrobatics is much easier than repairing a car. These children are the “perfect” objects Gao Wenjun is looking for, and they will be easily attracted by the conditions he offered: free learning acrobatics, and after five years of study, they can find a job with a monthly salary of 4,000 yuan. The children also mentioned that those dazzling acrobatics videos made them think that learning acrobatics would be a very interesting thing. In order to learn acrobatics, Xinxin almost quarreled with his mother, “you must go”, and finally the mother gave in. .
The child was picked up soon, and Zhou Qingqin didn’t even have time to think about it. Her husband told him that it was a state-run school and he must be trusted. They didn’t go to school very much, and they couldn’t recognize the words in the contract completely, so they slapped their fingerprints on the contract in a vague way.
For Huazi at that time, a new choice was in front of him. That night, he lay in bed and thought for a long time. Two sisters who needed to go to school, eachThe father who went out to borrow money before the beginning of school, the younger brother who had gone to the acrobatic school. In the end he decided to go too. He later described the decision as “jumping from one fire pit to another.”
The contract signed by parents and Gao Wenjun
dining table
The day I arrived at Xinxin’s house, he was taking a nap. Due to the exhaustion of running away, he fell asleep most of the time at home every day. The two-story building he lives in is at the entrance of the village, opposite to a few acres of corn fields. The corn has just sprouted, and the weeds are too late to be removed due to the continuous rain. The village is very quiet, most of the middle-aged people have gone out to work, only the elderly are sitting on the side of the road.
In the lonely village, Xinxin’s family became conspicuous due to the gathering of people. After receiving news of his loss, several female relatives in the family gave up their jobs temporarily and accompanied Wang Zhimin to Chengdu. After the children were picked up, although they were worried about work, they chose to stay for a few more days. They all watched Xinxin grow up, and the interviews talked about tears in the emotional place. “(child) used to walk in the wind. That mouth is really like, you want to scold him for being able to chirp and chirp with you. He is very lively. This time you asked him ten sentences, but he couldn’t say a word.” They pampered them patiently after returning home. Xinxin, took him to the hospital to see the rash on his body, and his sister bought him some new clothes. The kid who picked up trash a few days ago has become a treasure at home.
Xiaohao also wears new clothes. Their family is located in a Miao village hidden deep in the mountains. The house faces the green hillside. Sometimes mother and child communicate in Miao language. My mother did not go out to pick up work for the time being. Instead, she stayed with her son every day. She patiently put a plaster on the bag on his face and soaked his swollen calf with hot water. “The teacher is not here now, what can you say to me? , Say what you want, don’t say if you don’t want to say it.” The son asked his mother to sleep in a hug, and the mother agreed. At night, he told his mother that he was in jail in acrobatics school.
Children play in the village
On the fourth day home, Xiaohao finally stopped staying at home bored, but took out the toy car in the house and ran to his friends in the village. The children ran after the toy car. A child suggested that he wanted to see somersaults, Xiaohao immediately made a display, turning over a not smooth somersault, revealing half of his belly, arousing applause from his friends.
Only two brothers, Huazi and Xiangzi, are still wearing old clothes from Chengdu, which look like refugees. But the two dirty babies are the most relaxing of the children. For these two runaway veterans, the days and nights in Chengdu are not much. They just throw the problem back to Xiang. Biyou, what should the child do in the future?
In the yard, dozens of new chickens bought by Xiang Biyou are pecking everywhere, and the van on which he depends on his livelihood is parked at the door. The business is not good, and he earns two to three thousand yuan a month. Xinxin, Xiaohao and Xiangzi will all return to school, but Huazi has dropped out of school for many years and cannot return to school. Xiang Biyou once said that he would reapply for Huazi’s ID card and then take him out to work, but then he would not be able to accompany his two daughters who are studying. He still has no answer to this question.
The acrobatics school will definitely not go back, and the children shook their heads firmly. The 100,000 yuan compensation for breach of contract on the contract is an astronomical figure, so that parents have shown a kind of attitude of giving up. They pointed to the home behind them, “Where do you think I have one hundred thousand yuan?” They are most concerned about the moment. , Is to resume work that has been suspended for several days as soon as possible, so that the children will not be hungry next month. Their world is still closed, and they have not even seen the news of the establishment of an investigation team and the release of the investigation results in Wuqiao County, Hebei.
On May 16, the People’s Government of Wuqiao County, Cangzhou City, Hebei Province issued a notice on the investigation and handling of the “Acrobatic Youth Lost in Chengdu”. The notice pointed out that Gao Wenjun was not the head of the school but the head of Wuqiao Variety and Acrobatic Circus. The children are not going to the real school, but Gao Wenjun’s regiment, but the Wuqiao County Vocational Education Center provides them with school status, cultural lessons and teaching space.
The investigation decided to investigate the issue of Gao Wenjun, the person in charge of the variety show and acrobatics troupe, who was suspected of failing to perform safety supervision duties, private engraving, and the sale of seals. He was reprimanded and ordered to confess his repentance and seized the privately engraved seals; The Guangzhou Tourism Bureau temporarily detained the Variety Acrobatic Troupe’s Commercial Performance Permit and ordered it to stopIndustry rectification.
This is the result of all the ridicules brought about by an attempt to escape home: a fake school, a lot of hard work, and a lot of effort, walked more than 40 kilometers in the opposite direction from home, and finally Really, go home.
At around five o’clock in the evening, Xiaohao’s mother was ready to cook. The potatoes harvested last year were piled up in the corner, and the buds that grew were tangled together. The green vegetables are freshly picked from the ground, and the chicken is bought from the town. The three ingredients are boiled into a pot of soup and eaten with homemade hot sauce. The youngest daughter wants to sing a mum la mu la song to her mother, Xiao Hao just wants to go upstairs after dinner to play with his brother in a remote-controlled car. My father had eaten out at the banquet, but he still went to the table and poured a drink. He watched quietly when the children were making noise. When Xiaohao first went to Hebei, the couple sometimes put an empty bowl on the dinner table. Now, the owner of the empty bowl has returned. They don’t care about what is happening outside, and they can’t plan even the closest future. But at this moment, they feel happy at this dinner table.
(Wen Zhonghuazi, Xiangzi, Xinxin, Xiaohao are pseudonyms.)
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