In 2019, a terminally ill old lady in Changzhou, Jiangsu Province, asked the media for help, hoping to give her young son, who had been missing for 20 years, one last time when she was dying.
Wang Yongqiang, who was 30 years old at the time, was a postdoctoral fellow at Peking University, and his work required two years of exchange and study in Japan. The whole family rejoiced and gave him a trip, who knows, he will not be long gone like a mud cow into the sea, no news, let alone return to China.
Over the years, the old lady's whole family has inquired about the whereabouts of her son, harassing Wang Yongqiang's former classmates, colleagues, and even his ex-wife's family, and no one knows his whereabouts.
They even reported the case, but the reply they got was that as early as the year Wang Yongqiang went to Japan, his personal account was cancelled, and no one has been found since.
Why did Wang Yongqiang disappear from here? Was there an accident, or was there something hard to say?
Now, the old lady was lying on the hospital bed breathless, and she was repeating over and over again: "Strong, come back, mother misses you." The bird will die, and its song will mourn; and the man will die, and his words will be good.
This scene deeply touched the nerves of the majority of netizens. With everyone's enthusiastic help in the search, Wang Yongqiang was soon found. It turned out that he was in the distant United States atLanta, and he was living well.
However, what is surprising is that his attitude is very cold, and as soon as the phone is connected and he hears the voice of his family, he immediately hangs up and shuts down. Through the middleman, he told his family not to look for him again, he would not go back, and whether his mother was sick or dead had nothing to do with him.
What kind of vendetta caused this highly educated wanderer to go away, even after twenty years, when his mother was dying, he still could not let go? The brother-in-law, who helped to seek help from the media, admitted that there was another hidden plot in the matter.
In 1969, a peasant family in Changzhou, Jiangsu Province, a baby boy fell to the ground, bringing new hope to this poor family.
Before him, the family had raised two children, a man and a woman. Unfortunately, boys suffer from encephalitis and sinusitis from an early age and are unable to live and work normally. And girls, grow up to marry.
They desperately need a healthy boy who will be able to take over his father's class, work to earn money, and support this poor family. Now, the first step of the wish has come true.
They solemnly named the child: Wang Yongqiang. I hope he is healthy and healthy, and always strong.
Although he is the youngest son in the family and the pillar of the future family, Wang Yongqiang has not received the care that his family deserves. Parents pour all their attention into their eldest son with a disability.
In contrast, the youngest Wang Yongqiang is more like a tool person who does housework and lays hands.
Fortunately, he was talented from an early age, studied hard, achieved excellent results, and always ranked among the best in the door examinations.
This clever, strong child witnessed his father walking the streets and alleys selling rat poison, and witnessed his mother and sister getting up early and working on the farm. However, their hard-earned income is only enough for the whole family to make ends meet.
Wang Yongqiang realized early on that reading is the only way to change the fate of poverty and destitution in his family, and only knowledge can change his destiny.
He went crazy and studied harder. Without money to buy a pen, he would rummage through the discarded pencil heads of others in the trash and tie them to a wooden stick to write; without a book, he would pick up the old books written by his classmates, erase them and reuse them.
In order to save the fare to and from the school, he carried a bag of rice on his shoulder, carried dried pickles and turnips, and walked more than 50 kilometers of mountain roads alone.
In short, he tried everything to overcome the difficulties and won a certificate representing excellent performance.
But after graduating from junior high school, his family did not allow him to continue his studies. Many of his peers in the same village have quit school to help their families work before they finish primary school, and he has been eating white rice for 15 years.
The 15-year-old boy is a good hand at work. The parents are old, the sister is married, the brother is physically crippled and can't do any work, and now, the whole family is pointing to Wang Yongqiang to earn money to support the family.
Wang Yongqiang also wanted to continue his studies, so he bargained with his parents several times. In the end, his parents compromised, and Wang Yongqiang started his high school career with half work and half study.
At the age of 18, Wang Yongqiang graduated from high school and was successfully admitted to Soochow University, and a similar scene appeared again.
His parents hoped that he would work early to earn money, and they had endured for another three years. For three years, the son of the old Zhang family of the same age has been making bricks in the brick factory and mud, taking money from his family every month and envying others. A peasant child, why do you read so many books?
Wang Yongqiang knew that he could not convince his parents, so he had to promise that he would not delay sending money to his family when he went to college. Universities in the 1980s didn't require tuition fees, and there was a subsidy of 4 yuan a month. Wang Yongqiang sent the 4 yuan home, and he had to paste an extra dime of remittance fees.
As for what he eats at school and what he uses, it is not in the family's consideration.
Wang Yongqiang felt cold, he studied harder, saved money, and worked holidays to maintain his most basic living expenses.
Later, he was successfully admitted to graduate school, and the monthly subsidy rose to 72 yuan. This time, Wang Yongqiang left a heart eye and did not confess to his family.
After all, he is also old, has his own social needs, and there are too many places to spend money. Graduate school was busier, and he had no time to do odd jobs anymore.
However, he did not expect that his mother did not know where to find the money. She went crazy, ran to the school and cried and made trouble, pointing at her son and calling him "hardened" and "no conscience", making him lose face in front of his teachers and classmates. And this scolding is exactly three years.
This became a turning point.
Previously, Wang Yongqiang worked hard to study to improve his family conditions. However, he did not expect that his efforts not only did not get the understanding of his family, but in exchange for their intensified demands.
In addition to money, the family also asked him to find a job for his brother who was more troublesome and less close to home, and arranged for the children of relatives to enter schools in Suzhou, so as to establish prestige and face in front of relatives.
There was a graduate student in the family, and they walked unconsciously sideways in the village. But I didn't know that Wang Yongqiang was only a graduate student, and he had no power or power. He couldn't do it, couldn't explain it, and could only endure his parents' repeated "unfilial piety."
Wang Yongqiang gradually became tired of coping. He was admitted to the Chinese Academy of Sciences for a doctorate, and finally fled Suzhou, away from the entanglement of his family. Then, he went to the postdoctoral station of Peking University and fell in love with the professor's daughter.
His love affair was unanimously opposed by his family, who were afraid that he would not have money to send it home when he fell in love and got married. The whole family pointed out that he worked to earn money and get rid of poverty.
Wang Yongqiang had to save money, he sent the subsidies issued by the school to his home, and used the money to show that he did not forget the original, and he was able to marry his girlfriend smoothly.
To reduce the trouble, he refused his family to attend his wedding on the grounds of trouble. Soon after their marriage, he and his wife will go to Japan to exchange and study for two years.
The family strongly opposed, after all, the Emperor of Heaven was far away, and if he went to Japan, he would be out of reach. They unanimously demanded that Wang Yongqiang be able to go to Japan, but he had to bring his parents and brother.
Wang Yongqiang already had countermeasures. He patiently enlightened: going to Japan has an annual salary of 180,000 yuan, and everyone can't save up this money. He repeatedly promised to come back two years later with the money to buy a house for his parents and brother. He has already inquired about it, 160,000 can buy a beautiful big house of 100 square meters in his hometown.
For the sake of the house, the family agreed. They rejoiced, fed him, drank wine, took a group photo, and then took him to the airport.
But he did not expect that from now on, Wang Yongqiang would never come back.
Mother Guo clearly remembers that the trigger was the second month of Wang Yongqiang's trip to Japan, and she called him as usual to ask him to call back for some money. But the son, who had always been docile, suddenly hardened that day, saying that he had no money, saying that he would not ask him for money in the future, and then hung up the phone.
After that, Wang Yongqiang disappeared.
This can make the family anxious, a living cash cow, watching the growing bigger and bigger, the more money falls, but suddenly disappeared overnight, who can sit still?
The Wang family searched everywhere for the whereabouts of their son. They suspected that their son had been provoked by his daughter-in-law and ran to Beijing to make a big fuss about his son's yue family. Who knew that the Yue family had a cold attitude, saying that their daughter had already divorced Wang Yongqiang, and did not know where he went after the divorce.
How could the Wang family accept this statement? After several big fights, the family was overwhelmed and quietly moved away late one night.
So where did Wang Yongqiang go? Why the sudden divorce?
It turned out that after marriage, his wife could not stand the long-term blood sucking and harassment of his original family, and after an argument, the two divorced. Frustrated, Wang Yongqiang severed all ties with the country and left Japan for the United States.
He started his life again in Atlanta, USA, with a new family and children of his own.
Just when he was almost about to forget everything in the past, a transoceanic phone call came over, and he heard a familiar and unfamiliar voice inside, and everything from the past came to mind again.
After breathing free air, how can you turn back? So he hung up the phone decisively, and only faintly told the middleman, "It is difficult for the clean officials to break the family affairs."
Takako Hanmen, Peking University, postdoctoral fellow, missing for 20 years, refused to return to China to visit her terminally ill mother. The news of this series of keywords strung together is really eye-catching, and it instantly bursts the network.
Many people scold ungrateful, read so many books, but lose their conscience, sighing "negative hearts are readers." Including his little uncle who knew the secret. Uncle thinks that after all, your parents are the people who gave birth to you and raised you, how can you do such a desperate thing? There are no parents in the world.
But there is also some understanding.
They believe that not all people are worthy of parenthood. There is no unprovoked love in this world, and there is no unprovoked hatred. Asking for something in return for the grace of birth and nurture is the stupidest parent-child relationship. Guo Degang said that the persuasion of people was struck by lightning.
Removing the title of postdoctoral fellow at Peking University, Wang Yongqiang is actually just one of all sentient beings, and he has the love and hatred of ordinary people.
However, Fitzgerald once said that a mature person is a person who has two diametrically opposed views at the same time and can do things normally.
Is Wang Yongqiang's move too desperate? Should he come back at least to see his mother for the last time? His parents and brother have been living on food and still live in thatched huts. His family's thatched huts are particularly eye-catching in the rows of small buildings in the village.
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【Text| Sima Open Door 】
Edit | Daniel Lee]
【Typography | Drizzle】
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