The little boy, with shyness, smiled and shouted "Grandma" to Sheng Meijuan.
Her heart softened instantly.
Sheng Meijuan, who has never been far away, is very unfamiliar with Africa.
She did not expect that her son Sheng Xiaoyang brought back a small black man, which really surprised her.
But to see the child's big eyes, and to hear the cry.
She accepted the child from the bottom of her heart.
What is the reason for the unrelated generations that make them have a fate?
What kind of difficulties will this boy face in his later life?
Little Black Babi
01
The little black man was named Babi, and his biological father was named Ali.
Ali is from the African Republic of Togo.
In his early years, he did business in Guangzhou and met Babi's mother.
The two of you are unmarried and I am married, and I gradually have a relationship.
The love and honey broke through the barriers of national borders and skin color, formed a connection, and gave birth to a Mixed-Race Child of Central Africa.
Although the baby boy has dark skin, he has small curly hair and beautiful eyes, living like a black Barbie doll.
As the name suggests, his parents named him "Babi".
But this Sino-African love did not last long.
When Babi was less than a year old, his parents had problems with their feelings.
The mother walked away and disappeared into Babi's life.
Soon, Ali took Babi to Yiwu, Zhejiang Province, to start a medicinal materials business.
As soon as the region turned, Ali incarnated like a lucky god, and the business became more and more prosperous, becoming a famous local small boss.
The quality of life has risen.
Busy socializing, he often stayed late into the night and didn't have time to take care of Babil.
He specifically hired three nannies to take care of his son.
Barbie's life became more prosperous.
Wear designer clothes and eat expensive milk powder and snacks.
The nannies took good care of them, letting the babi clothes reach out and the food open their mouths, like a pampered little prince.
Ali, a black man, Babi's biological father
In order to facilitate access, Ali had to hire a private driver.
Sheng Xiaoyang, who was looking for a job, just happened to meet.
Sheng Xiaoyang's honest and honest friends, work seriously and responsibly, and are always on call, which makes Ali very at ease and appreciates.
In front of Sheng Xiaoyang, he never put up a shelf, warm and generous, like a brother.
Seeing the boss who was so important to himself, Sheng Xiaoyang made a confession in his heart: he was willing to mix with this good boss for a lifetime.
But happiness is always short-lived.
There are some things that only you can't think of, but no one can't do.
02
In 2008, Babi was four years old.
One day, Ali told Sheng Xiaoyang that he had to personally escort a batch of medicinal herbs back to China.
But the road is long, the work is cumbersome, and Babi is young, and it is inconvenient to take his son to the boat.
He gave Sheng Xiaoyang an important task: to help him take care of Babi.
Sheng Xiaoyang, who regarded the boss as a buddy, agreed without even thinking about it.
He decided that this was his responsibility as an employee, and that he was originally a private driver who mainly handled the personal affairs of his boss.
Therefore, the care of Babi cannot be refused, and there is no reason to refuse.
He took Babi home and ate and lived with his son.
In the month after Ali left, he would often call Sheng Xiaoyang to inquire about his son's situation, and would also regularly remit living expenses.
Babi was extremely excited every time he heard Ali's voice, and his father left this for a long time at once, and Babi looked forward to Ali's early return.
However, the stronger the hope, the greater the disappointment.
Ali's phone calls are getting fewer and fewer.
Drivers Sheng Xiaoyang and Babi
Two months later, Sheng Xiaoyang did not receive the salary and living expenses paid to him by his boss.
Ali, who has always kept his promises, has never lost faith.
Sheng Xiaoyang was worried about what had happened to Ali.
In addition, Babi Jr. would often ask him:
Why didn't Dad call me?
When will Dad come back?
The uneasy mood made Sheng Xiaoyang take the initiative to dial Ali's number.
The other end of the phone was unusually outgoing:
The number you are making is not in the service area.
No matter how many times you repeat the dial, the mechanical answer is the same.
Sheng Xiaoyang felt that things were not good, he turned to send an email to Ali, and still no one responded.
Ali suddenly evaporated in the human world, completely missing contact.
Strangely enough, Ali could not be found by phone and mail, but all of Ali's business in China was quickly and methodically withdrawn.
This is not clearly a premeditated plan:
Ali wants to abandon his son, but he wants to find a kind and honest person for Babi, and Sheng Xiaoyang is his "bag".
03
The abandonment of the child storm not only made Sheng Xiaoyang lose his job and no living expenses, but also had an extra black child to take care of.
Sheng Xiaoyang's family of three is just an ordinary family, relying on the small couple to work to earn money, in order to avoid forced livelihood for their son to study.
Now to raise one more child, the little two are really not enough.
After consulting with their wives, they decided to send Babi to a welfare home, hoping that there, Babi would receive social attention and a family with good conditions could adopt him.
However, the reply of the welfare institute made Sheng Xiaoyang sad again:
Babi is not an orphan, nor is he an abandoned baby, and does not meet the conditions for acceptance in the welfare home.
One word wiped out all hope.
Sheng Xiaoyang had to take Babi home.
Barbie is at Sheng Xiaoyang's house
04
In a blink of an eye, two years have passed, and Ali is still no news.
The presence of Barbie made this little family even worse.
Living expenses can not make ends meet, the wife often angry about the money, the small two two days a small quarrel, three days a big quarrel, the peaceful life has become a chicken feather.
Looking at Babi's big shining eyes, Sheng Xiaoyang, who has become a father, feels that Babi is a poor child, he has been abandoned by his parents twice, he can no longer be like his parents, the third time to abandon him, he feels that this is the behavior of pigs and dogs.
Similarly, he can't get worse and worse because of Babi, and his relationship with his wife.
At the moment of sorrow, he suddenly remembered his parents in his rural hometown.
If Babi were to be put next to his parents, he might save a lot of money.
He couldn't wait to call his parents and tell them they would bring gifts back to their hometown on the weekend.
Sheng Xiaoyang
05
At the first sight of their son, the old couple was ecstatic.
But when Babi poked his head out from behind Sheng Xiaoyang, his parents' eyes widened wider than the brass bell.
This is the first time they have confronted a Mestizo-African child.
Seeing the kind eyes of Sheng Meijuan (Sheng Xiaoyang's mother), Little Babi shyly shouted "Grandma".
Sheng Meijuan's heart was instantly melted.
Although knowing the ins and outs of the matter, the wife complained that her son had taken over this brainless move, which can only be described in one word: stupid.
Sheng Meijuan immediately said good things for Sheng Xiaoyang:
Xiaoyang is thick and honest, and he doesn't know that the boss abandoned his son and fled, and the most pitiful thing is Babi!
Sheng Meijuan's words speak to the point.
Most valuablely, he accepted the child from the bottom of his heart and decided to let Babi stay with him.
It was 2010 and Babi was 6 years old.
06
The arrival of Babi has made this small village full of traditional ideas boil.
The three sisters and six wives discussed in tongues, usurping the origin of this black child.
Some people say that Barbie is Sheng Xiaoyang's illegitimate son;
Some people say that Babi fled to China...
Gossip swept across Sheng Xiaoyang's hometown.
Sheng Meijuan was like practicing a thousand years of meditation, deaf.
She just wants to take care of Babi and let him adapt to rural life as soon as possible.
Babi, who had just arrived in the countryside, was not accustomed to eating, and his affluent life from an early age developed him with serious picky eating problems.
Fresh greens, porridge can not get into his eyes, but like to eat outside the instant noodles and other fragrant junk food.
Sheng Meijuan considered that these retails not only had no nutritional value, but also had to spend a lot of silver.
She tried to change the fancy style, combining The Taste of Barbie to make him a fresh and delicious dish.
After some days, Babi fell in love with the meals made by Sheng Meijuan, and ate three meals a day with relish.
It was just that the water and soil were not satisfied, and Babi often had diarrhea day and night and had a high fever.
Several times, Sheng Meijuan ran to the village hospital on her back overnight, guarding the bed day and night like her own son.
Later, Sheng Meijuan found that every time Babi grew small curls, she would make a fuss.
She simply unwinded Babi's hair and immediately gave him a look.
After several attempts, the phenomenon of Babi diarrhea disappeared.
Although there is no scientific basis for this statement, Sheng Meijuan's observation and careful care of Babi did make Babi's body gradually recover and adapt to rural life.
Babi does the housework
A Chinese proverb says it best: The human heart grows on flesh.
Babi saw that Sheng Meijuan cared for herself and won over everyone, and the little heart grew the seed of gratitude.
He learned to take the initiative to fetch water and help his grandmother sweep the floor to do housework.
When Grandma had back pain, she gave her a pat on the back.
Sheng Meijuan was happy in her heart and loved Babi even more.
The depth of this love, even his own grandson was envious and jealous, and he said to Sheng Meijuan:
"Grandma, you don't hurt me, you only hurt Babi alone!"
Sheng Meijuan reassures her grandson:
"Babi is a child without a father and mother, he is younger than you, you are an older brother, you should love him." 」
Sheng Meijuan's words came from the heart, and she wanted to give him a real home besides pity Babi.
07
7-year-old Babi is of school age.
I saw my friends carrying school bags, holding hands, happily walking on the country roads, singing "school songs".
He ran home and cried and said to Sheng Meijuan:
"Grandma, I want to go to school."
Barbie wanted to go to school
Sheng Meijuan's heart instantly tensed up in pain, and he didn't know the importance of reading.
Only for a period of time, I asked several nearby schools, but they all refused on the grounds that Babi was "of unknown origin" and "no hukou".
Sheng Meijuan was very distressed, at this time she did not know how to answer the words of the black grandson, only to hug him into her arms to show comfort, the inner torment, no one can feel.
Just when the whole family was anxious about Babi going to school.
A Lower Chen Central Primary School, more than ten kilometers from home, threw an olive branch to Babi.
After understanding the situation, the principal believes that:
Even if they have no nationality and no household registration, when they reach school age, they must provide children with the opportunity to learn.
Babi knew that he could go to school and read, and he danced happily, and Sheng Meijuan finally breathed a sigh of relief.
But next, she had to prepare for Barbie's tuition.
The school is far from home, And Babi must live on campus and prepare a fee of 1800 yuan.
At the age of 58, she did not want to cause trouble for her son, and came to work as a seamstress in a quilt processing factory.
The salary is piece-rate settlement, and Sheng Meijuan is busy until two or three times late at night.
She thought about doing more to keep Babi going to school and make him feel comfortable and happy.
When Babi was not in school, he always wanted to study with his children, but after living in school, he always missed his grandmother.
Living independently let him know how much Grandma had done for him and how much he had.
He always looked forward to the arrival of every Friday, and after class, he rushed to his grandmother's house at a speed of 100 meters.
Every time he came home, he could see his grandmother preparing his favorite meat dishes and dumplings for him.
After he put down his school bag, he immediately gave his grandmother a hand, and joyfully followed Sheng Meijuan's gestures, steps, and dried up.
Knowing that his reading opportunity was not easy to come by, he also followed his grandmother to the factory on Saturday and Sunday to cut the thread head and help his grandmother complete the work quickly.
Barbie helps Grandma cut the thread
Slowly, the workers and villagers changed their views on the combination of grandchildren who were not related by blood, more envious and praised, after all, their sons and grandchildren did not have such intimate warmth as Barbi.
A sense of pride poured out from the bottom of Sheng Meijuan's heart, and what she wanted was such warmth and serenity.
She was also pleasantly surprised to find that Babi enjoyed sharing her life at school with herself, telling her every interesting thing that happened with her younger classmates.
He would take the initiative to take out his homework for Sheng Meijuan to check and invite her to read it together.
Every time I saw Babi's full score on the test, the teacher praised Babi for being diligent and studious, leading readers in Chinese class, leading questions in math class, and winning the championship in running all grades in physical education class.
Sheng Meijuan's heart was beautiful.
Babi's happy campus life at Xia Chen Primary School is Sheng Meijuan's greatest comfort.
08
Time passed unconsciously for five years.
Barbie is about to take his first exam and faces a big problem:
Babi, who does not have a hukou, cannot take the Primary Entrance Examination.
In order to let Babi settle down, Sheng Xiaoyang's family did not run errands.
But all that was given was a negative answer:
To settle down, Babi's biological parents must be found.
Let them decide Babi's household registration and waive custody.
If Babi's parents could be found, Babi would not have become an abandoned baby at all.
Obviously, this is a problem that is more difficult to solve than landing on the sky and taking the moon.
Every time Sheng Xiaoyang asked the relevant departments, he was holding out hope and going away, and finally returned with disappointment.
Until 2016, Zhejiang Province issued a relevant policy on the settlement of people without hukou, and Babi's hukou was once again on the agenda.
After the lanxi city police station police repeatedly traveled to Andiwu Jinhua, visited the work and temporary residence of Babi's parents to investigate and verify, combined with the specific situation, finally completed the settlement in the half year before the Babi middle school entrance examination.
On that day, Babi, who was in the sixth grade, received the household registration book handed over by the policeman's sister in his hand, and his excitement could not be described in words.
Barbie and Grandpa
He had his own Chinese name, Sheng Tianyi, which was given to him by his grandfather.
Seeing his own household registration information in black and white, impressively printed on it, in front of which there are also the information of grandfather and grandmother, endless joy overflows on the face.
When the reporter asked him:
Now that I finally have a hukou, how does it feel?
Babi proudly says to the camera:
It's a pleasure because I already have a home.
China is my motherland!
The child's heart is very simple, from beginning to end, home is Barbie's first dream and pursuit.
When this moment came, happiness was revealed between his lips and teeth, just like the moment he first met Grandma Sheng, shy and surprised, and with a beautiful yearning for the future.
09
In 2018, Babi was admitted to Lanxi Baixiang Middle School with excellent results.
Worked hard as always to keep his grades in the top three in the class.
But the unfamiliar environment and the unexplained dissent of his classmates about his skin color made Babi, who was in adolescence, extremely sensitive and psychologically depressed.
He didn't want to have a complete home, with the love of his mother, the care of his father, and he only had grandpa and grandma.
This love that spans the color of his skin makes him cherish it from elementary school, but from time to time he thinks about why his parents are so determined.
Babi suddenly became taciturn, did not like to interact with people, often stayed alone and quiet, and the former lively Babi disappeared.
Sheng Meijuan saw the strangeness of Barbie and knew the fragility of the child's heart.
After thinking about it, he decided to enroll him in a "hip-hop" interest class near the school.
This wave of operations allows Baba to ignite his enthusiasm for life and the future, while stimulating Babi's motor cells.
The African gene that can sing and dance makes him fall in love with street dance, and his brain is flexible and easy to understand.
Among the many students, they stood out and made rapid progress.
He brought hip-hop dance to campus, which was greatly appreciated by his classmates and met many new friends.
Every time he came home, he would show his grandmother his newly learned dance style.
That moment was the happy moment for the grandchildren.
Babi jumped happily with self-confidence, while Sheng Meijuan felt the healthy growth of her grandson and smiled with relief.
In order to thank Grandma for all these years of hard work, on Mother's Day on the eve of the middle school entrance examination, Babi made a creative greeting card for Sheng Meijuan, which prominently wrote: Thank you Grandma.
For him, Grandma's love transcended his parents' affection for procreation.
Babi, 17, said in another interview with the media:
I was a lucky person, and I was happy with my grandmother on the days I lived.
When I make money in the future, I will definitely repay my grandmother well.
Sheng Meijuan admits that she does not need to reciprocate, and That Babi's healthy growth is her only wish.
Barbie seemed to understand the meaning of Sheng Meijuan's words, and he immediately added to the camera:
If Grandma doesn't need me to reciprocate, I'll always be with her in the future!
A seemingly simple sentence weighs like a thousand pounds in Sheng Meijuan's heart, but in Barbie's thoughts, it is a lifelong commitment.
Now Babi, a first-year high school student, confirmed his first life goal:
My wish is to be admitted to Zhejiang University, which is the closest university to home, and I can go home every week to take care of my grandmother.
The tacit understanding between the two grandchildren is born of love.
This period of different blood relations, different skin colors, the original eight rods can not hit together, but because of the son's work, let the cross-generation people continue to have a family relationship.
Grandma's love is better than her parents.
Sheng Meijuan used her weak shoulders to hold up Babi's big dream.
In her idea of fraternity, there are no impurities of international, racial, skin color, etc., and some are just the maternal love of women deep in their bones, tulip-like richness.
Hopefully, Barbie will always remember his promise, and even if he can go further in life, don't forget: go home often and see, there is a grandmother who loves you the most!
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