26 years ago, I was a 9-year-old boy from Chongming. Since I moved to the city with my parents, I will stay at my grandmother's house in Chongming only during the winter and summer vacations.
On the night of July 31, 1998, I opened the refrigerator several times to peek at what the cake my mother had bought for me looked like. Because the next day, my father, who runs a taxi in the city, is going to come to Chongming to celebrate my 10th birthday.
Probably thinking about what kind of gift my dad would buy me, I was so excited that I barely slept all night.
But at noon the next day, my mother said that I had an urgent need to go back to the city, and my father never came back. It wasn't until the afternoon that my grandmother suddenly took me on the ferry, and when I was almost home, she told me that my father had been killed in business the previous night.
Mom cried that two young men stopped Dad's car and drove it to a very remote suburb, robbed him of his money, drove away his car, and abandoned him in a rice field.
On that day, I never saw my dad again, and I never had a birthday again.
During that time, the police uncle often came to the house to investigate, but the two murderers of my father were never found.
After a few months, because I lost my source of income from renting, my mother took me back to Chongming to study.
Everything was so strange at the new school, but in order not to worry my mother, I never told her what I thought. Because I knew that my mother from a rural household registration did not have a regular job, she worked as a seamstress to support me in college.
Because of the hard work of life and the excessive use of her eyes, my mother suffered from eye disease, and 7 years ago, her eyes were almost invisible.
Many of my uncles, who went to open a rental with my father, moved to the city. I sometimes wonder what my life would be like if there was a parallel time and space and my dad hadn't left?
Until New Year's Day 2024, the police of the Criminal Investigation Corps 803 came to Chongming to inform us that the murderer of my father had been found, I didn't expect that after so many years, they were still insisting.
I never told my wife about it until this evening, when I went back and told my children the story about his grandfather......
Editor on duty: Liu Xianglin
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