My dad and I pretended to be nothing,
Sitting on the edge of the flower bed on the corner of the street and chatting,
When the younger brother and the others came closer,
I stood up all at once,
grabbed him by the arm,
shouted in a low voice: "Ying Song, go quickly!"
1
The first time I heard that I was carrying a child was when I was 15 years old. At that time, the uncles were separated, and everyone had a stiff quarrel over the house.
The words came out of my mother's mouth. My father and brother are three, my uncle and uncle's family are two girls, and only my family is two boys. My grandparents were really partial and gave a building to our family. The uncle and uncle each had two brick houses. The eldest lady was angry and quarreled with her grandmother.
Grandma has a gentle but stubborn personality, no matter how much the eldest mother scolds her, she doesn't speak. Neither scolded her nor changed his original intention. The eldest lady scolded to the end and began to say nothing, "What's wrong with me giving birth to two girls? At least they are all your Xu family's species, and the boss of the second family still doesn't know where he got it!"
Grandma went up and gave the eldest mother a slap. The eldest lady was stunned, as if she had woken up from a dream, closed her mouth, and said no more.
That's how the home is divided. My family lived in a building, my uncles lived in a brick house, and no one said a word.
Children from poor families mature early, and if it weren't for my grandmother's slap, I would definitely not take my mother's words seriously, but as soon as my grandmother slapped me, I knew that what my mother said was true.
I pressed it for a long time, but I still couldn't help it, and asked my parents. Because I can't figure out why they are raising me, I'm the eldest in the family, and I have a younger brother below.
At first, my mother refused to say anything, and she told me not to listen to my mother's nonsense. But they finally fell under my suspicious eyes and told the truth:
My parents didn't conceive a child for five years after they got married, and at that time, they were backward in their thinking, and they didn't think about going for a check-up, so they believed in home remedies. They have heard that if they are infertility, as long as they hold a child, that child will bring a child to the family.
So they took me in and named me Yinsong. Coincidentally, when I was three years old, my mother unexpectedly became pregnant and gave birth to my younger brother, and in order to echo, my brother's name was Ying Song.
2
Our village is only ten miles away from the county seat. My grandfather was the principal of the village primary school, and my parents, parents, and uncles both worked in the brewery in the county, and our family's conditions were good in the countryside. My parents were very strict with me and my brother, and we worked hard to get into university one after another.
I was the first in my village to be admitted to a prestigious university, and after graduation, I was admitted to the civil service. Although I am only a grassroots civil servant, the work is actually very hard, and the salary is not high, but in the eyes of the villagers, I am an official. In those years, I was a role model for the people in the village to educate their children. Mom and Dad also felt that there was light on their faces.
Admitted to the civil service, my parents' faces lit up
I'm honest and hardworking, and An An looked for a job in a split manner. The younger brother is eccentric, and after graduating from college, he is unwilling to work in a regular manner and runs away to Shanghai. Although his goal is not clear, he vows to do something big.
My parents and I understood that it was not easy for him to make a name for himself in a big city, but at that time, his family was well-off and he didn't expect him to make money immediately, so we all wanted to let him break through, even if he couldn't become famous, he could accumulate some social experience. I really regret it now, and if we had intervened earlier, maybe it wouldn't have happened.
His brother's accident happened half a year after he arrived in Shanghai. The phone was connected, but no one answered, and the text messages were never returned. Just when we were in a hurry to call the police, my brother called, didn't say anything, and asked for 5,000 yuan. I called him right away. But then it reverted back to a state of not answering calls and text messages. A few days later, I called back again and asked for money, 10,000 yuan. Then move on to play missing.
Dad was so angry that he slapped the table and wanted to go to Shanghai to find him. However, Shanghai is so big, where can we find him? He has always been floating everywhere in Shanghai, and we can't find it......
If you can't find it, you have to find it, and there is obviously something wrong with my brother's state. I took a leave of absence and went to Shanghai with my dad. That was our first trip to Shanghai. Although we are all good people in our hometown, when we arrived in Shanghai, our father and son were a pair of dumplings, and we didn't know how to find them.
We thought of going to the police, but the police inquired and learned that my brother would contact us from time to time, saying that it could not be defined as missing and that a case would not be filed. We went to the place my brother had mentioned to us and looked forward to him calling again.
A week passed quickly, we didn't make any progress, I had to go back to work, and Dad insisted on staying and continuing the search.
On the streets of Shanghai, there was no trace of his younger brother
My father stayed in Shanghai for two years, and I went back and forth every six months, but we still didn't hear anything from my brother, and he never called again.
We all knew that something must have happened to my brother, but we were convinced that he was still alive. Take 10,000 steps back, even if he is gone, we have to find a clear result.
In those two years, my father was based in Shanghai, eating and sleeping in the open, except that he did not beg, he was no different from a beggar. The grandmother at home was sick in bed, unable to swallow porridge, and could only rely on nasal feeding. As soon as she came to her senses, she would ask, "Shall I be loose?"
The Public Security Bureau also opened a case, but to no avail.
In September 2004, Xiao Huang, a colleague who had returned to his hometown to visit relatives, called me and said that he had seen a person who looked like my brother somewhere in Yiwu, Zhejiang. Less than ten minutes after hanging up the phone, he called again, and he said that he was eighty or ninety percent sure that the man was my brother!
I immediately contacted my dad and rushed to Yiwu. When my uncle and uncle heard that we had found my brother's traces, they immediately rushed to Yiwu. Xiao Huang was righteous, staying at the place where he found my brother.
When the four of us arrived, Xiao Huang had been squatting for two days. He judged that his younger brother might have entered a pyramid scheme. He told us that his brother showed up at 9:30 a.m. for two days in a row. The three of them crossed the street, walked around the road, and then returned to their quarters, arm in arm.
The five of us squatted for another night, and at 9:30 the next morning, as Xiao Huang said, they went out for a walk. I immediately recognized the person on the left of the first row as my younger brother Ying Song!
Old neighbourhood downstairs
They live in an old neighborhood, but they don't know what floors they are on. There are 33 people who come out once a day. They walk with numb expressions and do not communicate with each other. The atmosphere was eerie, and there was an indescribable sense of oppression. Although they walked through the street and walked down the street for a while, they seemed to be different from the people around them......
We decided to act now. When they walked around a street corner, my father and I pretended to be nothing, and sat on the edge of the corner flower bed chatting, and when my brother and they approached, I stood up at once, grabbed his arm, and whispered, "Ying Song, go quickly!"
However, to our surprise, my brother looked at me for a few seconds, with no waves in his eyes, as if he didn't know me. He shook off my hand with a flick of his arm and continued walking with his companion.
I ran two steps to try to pull him again, but out of nowhere, several people pushed me so hard that I fell to the edge of the flower bed, and my legs were broken......
We dare not act rashly. Xiao Huang and I began to inquire with the people around us to understand the situation. Dad, uncle, and uncle took turns squatting.
What I didn't expect was that the surrounding residents were secretive, either saying that they didn't know or persuading us not to meddle in our affairs and not get any specific information.
They didn't go out for a walk for the next few days, and we didn't have any chances. At that time, I didn't dare to call the police because the situation was unknown, mainly because I was afraid that my brother would go to jail after being caught by the police.
After much deliberation, I felt that there was only one way: I mixed in!
It's not so easy to get in, it's still the help of the Yellow Gang. He found a small man who opened a mahjong parlor, and that person was very well-connected, saying that I had gambled and was bankrupt and wanted to make a lot of money as soon as possible, so he introduced me to it.
3
When I went inside, I realized that it was very disciplined.
As soon as I entered, I was pushed into a large room with bright colors painted on the walls, floor, and ceiling, and the lights in the room were so dazzling and flickering that I couldn't open my eyes and wanted to vomit.
I didn't know that I was taken out immediately after being in it for a few minutes. I threw up when I came out. Immediately after spitting up, someone asked. Ask me about my age, where I come from, where I work, why I want to join them. After asking, I was taken to class.
It wasn't until I sat down to listen to the lecture that I recovered from my dizziness, and when I felt in my pocket, I found that my wallet, phone, and even facial tissues were gone, and I didn't even know when they were taken.
MLM scene
For a whole week, I studyed, ate and slept every day in addition to lectures.
The class is very inspirational, and it is all about who gets rich overnight, and who goes from a poor dick to a monthly income of millions. The lecture is full of emotion, especially incendiary, which makes your blood boil, and you feel that as long as you follow him, you can immediately counterattack. There are many ways to join, and those who pay membership fees from a few thousand yuan to tens of thousands of yuan have membership fees, and the more you pay, the more commissions you will get.
If you are willing to pay money, someone will take you to the bank to withdraw money, and if you don't have money, you can take your mobile phone to you for a moment and ask you to call someone to ask for money.
After class, it's almost time to eat. Ten people sat around a table, and someone brought up a bucket of food and a bucket of rice and put it in the middle of the table. Meals can't be served by ourselves, and there is a special person to divide the meals into our bowls, one bowl per person. After eating, everyone looked at each other, and no one dared to add their own food.
Whether to add food or not to add food is completely decided by the person who divides the meal, and they call this "no rules and no circle", "to achieve great things, you must suffer hardship", "without patience, where can it break out"......
Sleeping at night sometimes in bed, sometimes on the floor, it all depends on how the manager rules.
I paid 10,000 yuan in dues and was trained for a week before I was allowed to work. I was given the task of making a phone call. The person in charge of me gave me a stack of materials, phone numbers and details from many people. I'm in charge of calling one by one and swindling money.
There are also quite a few people who will be arranged out, I don't know what their tasks are, I guess some old members.
I don't know about my brother's mission, and I can only see him every day when I eat. Not a word was allowed at the dinner table, so it was hard for me to even talk to him. He didn't mean to talk to me.
It was a month before I got the right to go out for a walk! I don't know when the time of the walk was changed, but it was changed to 2:30 p.m.
I saw my dad at a glance, he seemed to be in the old place we had agreed upon, and he seemed to have not moved.
Every day when I was walking, I tried my best to talk to the people next to me, but they never paid much attention to me. I couldn't change places with anyone, and I lost hope of being next to my brother.
I couldn't find a chance to get in touch with my brother, we didn't have a common mission, we didn't live in the same room. Don't talk while eating, and stay away when walking.
The point is, my brother didn't pay attention to me!
After another month or so, I quietly gave my dad a thumbs up while walking one day. That's the code I agreed with him before I got in: the little thumb means I can run away with my brother, and the thumb means I can't escape, we have to be ready to do it.
On the third day of my walk, I saw my father, my uncle, my uncle, my uncle, and a strange young man, and my father patted him on the shoulder as an introduction.
On the fourth day of walking, my dad gave me a thumbs up, which meant: Do it tomorrow!
At 2:30 p.m. on the fifth day, we walked out of the den in a row of three people arm-in-arm, walked out of the hallway, and walked out onto the opposite street......
Uncles, uncles, uncles, and fathers rushed up to snatch my brother, and I rushed into the people next to me desperately and squeezed in. Maybe it was a surprise, but it went unusually well, and we snatched my brother. They were about to get their brother into a car on the side of the road, but an accident happened!
My brother didn't want to get into the car, and he held on to the car with both hands, and we couldn't stuff it in. The uncle broke one of his brother's arms with a "click", and the uncle kicked him into the car.
The car roared out, and it wasn't until I ran out of the city that I let go of my heart, after all, it was an illegal organization, and it was estimated that they would not dare to blatantly chase after it.
"I'm afraid someone will call the police! We still changed cars as planned. "That's when I noticed that the person driving in front of me was the stranger I had seen that day. It seems that they are ready, someone will come to pick us up when they leave Yiwu, and my father and brother and I changed cars, and they continue to take the original car.
In the middle of the night, we arrived home.
The next day, my grandmother died.
4
When my brother came home, he didn't talk, he didn't eat with everyone, he didn't sleep in bed at night, and he wanted to run. Someone was watching him 24 hours a day, and he even attacked us several times trying to escape. I can't take him to the doctor in that state, and he may break free from us in a few minutes and run away!
Later, there was really no way out, so my father and I worked together to lock him in the room with an iron chain.
The problem of escaping after locking up has been solved, but the problem of seeking medical treatment has not been solved...... A few days later, the young man who drove us out of the den came back and brought the doctor, saying that he was a good friend.
There were so many things going on during that time that I didn't bother to ask who he was. It wasn't until that day that my father officially introduced him to me: my eldest brother Zhao Lang......
In those years, it was no secret that our family was looking for my younger brother, and my biological father and mother asked Zhao Lang to come over to help after knowing about it. Zhao Lang likes to play with cars, and he has a group of driver friends, which helped a lot that time.
But that doesn't mean I'll recognize them, but I don't hate them either. In fact, I didn't have time to think about whether I recognized them or not. Because in the process of his brother's recovery, his father fell ill again.
Stomach cancer, fortunately, was not too late to be discovered.
I'm still very confident that I can cure my father's illness. Because we have an uncle in the same village, he suffered from stomach cancer more than ten years ago, and his health has been fine after treatment.
However, there is one big problem in front of me: money!
My brother has improved significantly, and the treatment must not be stopped, and money is needed. Dad urgently needs surgery to remove the lesion, and the follow-up treatment fee is not a small amount.
At that time, the family had no savings at all, and I had an idle job in the unit for two years because of my younger brother's affairs, and my salary was meager. At that time, there was no crowdfunding, no serious illness assistance, no NCMS insurance, and even my father's unit did not buy medical insurance for employees. We can only pay for it!
The first thing that comes to mind is to borrow it from friends and family. Borrowing money has always been the most direct and effective way to break down family and friendship, and my relatives are all authentic farmers, and each family does have their own difficulties, and I borrowed less than 10,000 yuan in a circle.
The timing of stomach cancer surgery is very important, if it is delayed, Dad may miss the best time for surgery, and may even have no surgical value and can only continue his life with radiotherapy and chemotherapy.
When I was desperate, I overheard my colleagues talking about someone selling a "hybrid car" (a modified tractor, we call it a "hybrid car" in the vernacular), and I was struck by the wrong idea......
"Hybrid car"
After I thought about it, I paid attention to the market, and I quickly understood that it costs about 25,000 yuan to buy a car through normal channels, and only 15,000 yuan for a black car. The so-called black car is a car that has been stolen and sold.
I never took chances, I knew that if I took that step, I would one day be ruined, but I couldn't help it, I didn't even hesitate to do it.
I spend my weekends committing crimes. Because I had been looking for my younger brother in Shanghai for a long time, I chose Shanghai Xiaoshan. After stealing the car, I didn't dare to find a buyer myself, so I sold it to others for 10,000 yuan a piece.
A month later, Dad's surgery went smoothly and it was a success. My dad asked me where I got the money, and I lied to him and said I borrowed it from a colleague.
As soon as I had raised enough money, I quit, but it was too late. Soon, I was taken away from the unit directly by the police, because the crime was in Xiaoshan, so I was taken directly to Xiaoshan.
When the police routinely asked me if I wanted to notify my family during the interrogation, I suddenly realized that I didn't know who I could not...... Dad is still in the hospital bed, Mom is old, and my brother is like a psychopath...... I told the police that there was no need to inform the family for the time being.
I didn't make any quibbles and confessed to the crime. I was sentenced to nine years in prison in the first instance, and I did not appeal. He spent five months in the detention center and was transferred to prison to formally serve his sentence.
Caught stealing a car and imprisoned
It's not okay to be in prison without notifying your family, at least you have to pay the fee, and I don't know who to talk to, when Zhao Lang came...... He brought me money and clothes, told me that he would help me take care of the house, and told me to renovate.
I behaved well in prison and had my sentence commuted twice, eventually serving a total of 5 years and 10 months.
I was calm in prison, I did my best for my parents and brother, and I couldn't do anything but bless them in my absence. I have done sinful deeds, and serving my sentence is a necessary form of atonement for my sins, which I have known for a long time, and I have nothing to be at peace with.
However, after I got out of prison, things went out more than I could control. There are two college students in our family, and I was even admitted to the civil service, which was the envy of everyone. But later, my younger brother entered a pyramid scheme and almost went insane, and I was imprisoned and became a labor prisoner...... Our family has become a joke in the village, and we have become a topic of conversation after dinner!
My brother and I couldn't find jobs and marry a daughter-in-law. Mom and Dad go out with their heads down. The truth is that no matter what kind of belief I had in the first place, a crime is a crime, and this is the price I have to pay. It's just that I pity my parents, who have raised me for many years, and I am still affected by me when I am old.
The only consolation is that with Zhao Lang's rescue, my father's health is very good, and my younger brother has basically recovered. I invited him to a drink, and neither of us mentioned the topic of whether we knew each other or not, but we drank and cried, and it was a friendship between men.
I was released from prison in May 2016 and stayed in my hometown for a year, but I was so drowning in rumors that I couldn't breathe, so I finally came out and chose to work in Zhejiang. Later, I took my parents and younger brother over.
The younger brother has fully recovered and got married at the end of last year. He also took the initiative to go to the police station to report the pyramid scheme den. Unfortunately, due to the long delay, the den has been transferred, but the younger brother has provided a lot of useful clues.
No one in Hangzhou knows about our past, no one uses us as an example, and no one uses us as a talking point. I hope that our family can live like this forever.
(Text / Ni Xiaoqi, this article is the exclusive first release of "Human Story Shop", enjoying exclusive copyright authorization, no third party may reprint without authorization, and offenders will be held accountable in accordance with the law.) ）