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My name is Tan Tianquan, in the 90s, I finished high school, and I was going to take the college entrance examination, but because of a serious illness, I couldn't catch the exam, and the school also issued me a high school diploma.
I don't want to repeat my studies anymore, I just want to find a job near home.
At that time, graduating from high school was considered a high degree of education, and I was an intellectual.
However, the two jobs I had in the town were unstable, so I had to return to the village, and through the connections of the family, I joined the village committee, and eventually became a village committee cadre.
When I became a member of the Kamimura branch, I was already 23 years old.
At this age, it is time to find a partner to marry in the countryside, and once you pass the age of twenty-five, you will be regarded as an older young man, and it is difficult to find.
However, because I am enthusiastic about the work of the village committee, I will also help them solve the problems or trivial matters that do not belong to me, for example, if there are any difficulties or troubles among the villagers.
Therefore, every day I was very busy, so I neglected to find a partner, and I really dragged it out until I was twenty-five years old, and I didn't have a partner.
At that time, I was already in a hurry.
But among the opposite sex I know, there are very few unmarried, such as the women's director in the village committee and some female comrades, all of whom are married and have children.
Therefore, I can only look for it outside, but because there are not many girls in a village, and many of them work outside, the suitable object for me has not appeared.
I also told myself that I couldn't force this to come, and my parents were worried about my marriage all day long, afraid that I would beat a bachelor, and I had no choice but to persuade them not to worry, maybe marriage would be the end of it.
Every day, I pedal my bicycle from my home to the village committee to work, and then I was busy until 7 o'clock in the evening.
It can be said that when I go home with the stars and the moon, I am always very tired, I fall asleep, and when I sleep until ten o'clock, I wake up again, read a book, and officially go to sleep.
This kind of life and work state is very fulfilling, but I know that if this continues, I estimate that I will really be a bachelor at the age of thirty.
When I was twenty-six years old, something happened.
Originally, this matter really didn't need to be handled or helped by our village committee.
But I only think that in my own name, I am enthusiastic about helping the villagers in need.
This is an old lady who married far away to the Northeast, she is 58 years old, and she was born in our village since she was a child.
And our village is located in the southwest, so she married to the northeast, which really spanned a large area, and I don't know why she married so far and what she was trying to do.
This time, she returned to our village alone, without any relatives or entourage.
She said that she was looking for relatives, looking for a daughter she gave birth to that year, and the father of this daughter, the first man she had ever loved.
She gave birth to this daughter out of wedlock with this man.
I asked her, why didn't she marry this man in the first place, and had to give birth out of wedlock?
She looked sad and burst into tears, and talked about her past.
She was born and raised in our village a few decades ago, and fell in love with a young man from a neighboring village.
But because of the poverty of her family, she wanted to marry this young man, but her family objected, but she was pregnant at that time and finally gave birth to a baby girl, but at that time, her family imprisoned her.
And the young man she loved fled with the baby girl.
She eventually escaped, but she didn't dare to stay in the area where her family lived, and suddenly ran far away.
Later, she searched everywhere for the whereabouts of the young man and the baby girl, and heard that the young man took the baby girl she gave birth to go to the northeast, and she also ran to the northeast, but she searched and searched, but she still couldn't find it.
She was thirty years old at the time, had no money on her, and in order to survive, she ended up marrying a local who was ten years older than her, and had children, with a son and a daughter by her side.
And the husband she married in the Northeast died of illness a year ago.
For decades, she has not given up looking for the youth she loved, as well as the baby girl she gave birth to.
Later, in recent days, she heard some news that the baby girl she gave birth to was actually in the village where she was born and raised, and the young man who fell in love with her back then actually never married a wife, and raised the baby girl, and the father and daughter depended on each other.
Therefore, she just wants to go back to her hometown to find out if she can find the whereabouts of the father and daughter.
After talking about all these past experiences, she is almost sixty years old, and she has tears in her eyes and can't stop crying.
I comforted her and said, "Auntie! Don't worry, as a cadre of the village committee, although I don't have this responsibility, I will try my best to help you with this! ”
This old lady, she couldn't stop whining, saying that I am a good person, if I can help her, then I am her benefactor for eight lifetimes, and she can't repay this kindness.
I finally asked the old lady what the name of the young man she had loved, and whether the baby girl she gave birth to was named.
She told me that this young man was named Zhao Sheng, and the baby girl she gave birth to really hadn't taken a name, and I didn't know if Zhao Sheng had given the baby girl the surname Zhao after raising the baby girl.
When I heard this, I thought to myself that there was no one surnamed Zhao in our village, so Zhao Sheng was probably from another village, this village was called Guiping Village, that is, a neighboring village.
So, I have to help my aunt go there and visit.
Early the next morning, I rode my bicycle alone and went to Guiping Village, just to find out the people in the village committee there, so as to check whether there was such a villager as Zhao Sheng in their village history and genealogy.
In fact, most of the village cadres in several of our villages know each other.
As a member of the village branch committee, I often participate in meetings and activities held in the town, so I go to other villages to do something, and everyone is negotiable, and it is easy to get it done.
When I went to the office of Guiping Village, I happened to meet the deputy director of the village committee, Zhao Yayan, who was quite surprised by my appearance.
"Hey, is it Comrade Xiao Tan? How did you come to our side? She asked me with a smile.
Zhao Yayan is very beautiful, just like her name, both elegant and beautiful, she is twenty-eight years old, unmarried, two years older than me, so in fact, I am the same generation as her.
However, every time, she always called me Comrade Xiao Tan, which made me feel that she regarded me as if I was a generation younger than her.
But I thought to myself, she's the deputy director after all.
And although I have a love for her, and I also know that she has been busy with work, she has not talked to anyone, let alone married, but after all, she and I are in different villages, and we usually don't have many opportunities to intersect, and it can be said that we can't get to know each other for any reason.
And I belong to the kind of man who does not take the initiative, so although Zhao Yayan and I are both unmarried, of the same age, and are village cadres in different villages, I have never been able to develop a relationship with her.
And this time, it seems that God gave me such an opportunity to come to this village to meet Zhao Yayan, and I don't know if she will grasp such an opportunity, so as to have a good talk with me to see if they can spark love with each other.
I smiled at her awkwardly and said, "Yes, Director Zhao, it's really a coincidence, I came to your village committee this time because I have something to do." ”
Immediately afterwards, I told the sad experience of the old lady, and said that I was going to help the old lady find the young man who had fallen in love with her, Zhao Sheng, counting it, if Zhao Sheng was alive now, he would already be fifty or sixty years old.
When Zhao Yayan heard me say all this, layers of light appeared in her eyes, and she immediately said that she would definitely try her best to help me, that is, to help the old lady find Zhao Sheng and the daughter she gave birth to that year.
In the end, I was welcomed by Zhao Yayan into the office area of the village committee, there were many female comrades, some unmarried, some married, as soon as they saw my appearance, and walked out with Zhao Yayan, they all looked at me and Zhao Yayan with a smile in surprise.
One of the women's deputy directors teased me: "Huh? It's a handsome guy from the branch committee of the neighboring village, what are you here to talk to our Director Zhao? Is it about business or private? ”
Everyone present laughed, and Zhao Yayan was also very shy, and slapped the shoulder of the woman's deputy director with a powder fist.
I said quite seriously that I came here to do a serious business, and Zhao Yayan, as the deputy director of the village committee, was so enthusiastic to help me, which really made me feel very lucky, and I only hope that I can really do it.
In the end, Zhao Yayan checked the village history register and found that there was indeed a villager named Zhao Sheng.
However, now Zhao Sheng is no longer the permanent resident of the village, that is, there is no such person as Zhao Sheng now.
But Zhao Sheng has a brother named Zhao Wang, but he is a family of several people who live in this village, so if you want to find Zhao Sheng, you may be able to start from Zhao Wang to see if Zhao Wang knows Zhao Sheng's whereabouts.
By the next day.
I came to the village committee of Guiping Village again, this time I drove a motorcycle, brought the eldest lady with me, and found that Zhao Yayan was already waiting for me, so we went into Guiping Village together, so as to find Zhao Wang and see if Zhao Wang was at home.
As a result, we found Zhao Wang and found that he was already an old man in his sixties.
But Zhao Wang was silent about this brother, saying that he had no impression at all, and he had no brotherhood with this brother, because his brother had violated the family rules and had been removed from the family tree, and he didn't want to be implicated.
As far as he knew, Zhao Sheng had been away from the village for many years with a baby girl and had never returned.
When Zhao Yayan and I learned of such a result, we looked at the old lady.
We see that the old lady's face is full of disappointment and sadness, she said that she has been looking for thirty or forty years, no matter what, she will continue to look for it, until she grows old.
In the end, we went door-to-door in this village, just hoping to find out some about Zhao Sheng and the baby girl's whereabouts from a certain villager in this village.
As a result, we were pleasantly surprised that there was an elderly villager who knew Zhao Sheng, and Zhao Sheng's hair was young, and he knew that Zhao Sheng fled with a baby girl and went to the county seat, and it was another county, Jincheng County.
When the old lady learned of such news, she was so excited that she kept asking, just wanting to ask more about Zhao Sheng's whereabouts, but the old villager said that he knew so much and nothing else.
Zhao Yayan and I finally decided that we would take a car with my eldest lady to the Civil Affairs Bureau of Jincheng County to check whether there was any information on Zhao Sheng's household registration and residence by early morning the next day.
But in the process of walking out of the village, the old lady may have been too excited, she sprained her leg, and the injury was not light, she walked with a limp, and the pain was incomparable.
Zhao Yayan and I had no choice but to send the eldest lady to the village health center, where the doctor bandaged her and said that she could not walk for the time being and would have to lie in bed for a day or two.
The eldest lady was immediately distressed, she just wanted to go to Jincheng County impatiently, looking for Zhao Sheng and the daughter she gave birth to that year, even if her leg was injured, she had to crutches her legs.
Zhao Yayan and I comforted her and said that this matter would be completed by our two young people, as long as Zhao Sheng was found, Zhao Sheng must come to meet her, and let her see the daughter she gave birth to back then.
In the end, the old lady had no choice but to agree and thank us, only to feel that our enthusiasm really touched her.
Early the next morning, Zhao Yayan and I took a bus to Jincheng County, and in order to complete this matter, she and I asked for leave from the leaders of our respective village committees.
Although it is not our business, she and I both have a burning heart, and we just feel that the eldest lady is too pitiful, so I help her with such a wish.
Sitting side by side with Zhao Yayan on this bus, I was very excited in my heart, just thinking that God seemed to really arrange a fate for me to be so close to her.
And we can understand and communicate with each other on this journey, and we can also feel the great love in each other's hearts by doing such a good deed.
In the past, I always wanted to have a good conversation with Zhao Yayan, but now that I am so close, I finally have such an opportunity, and she keeps talking.
During the chat with her, I only felt that she was very interesting and talkative, and she was also a very gentle woman, anyway, her voice could make me feel that there was a magnetic force in it, which deeply attracted me.
Eventually, after more than two hours of driving, she and I finally arrived in Jincheng County and found the county's Civil Affairs Bureau's Household Registration Office.
She and I frankly told the staff that we were village cadres from two villages in another county, and we just wanted to come to help an old lady find out the whereabouts of her lost lover and daughter.
After checking the results, we were very disappointed that there were more than 1,000 people in the county with the name Zhao Sheng, and there were more than 10 of them who met the age, that is, in the age group of about fifty or sixty years old, but none of them migrated from other counties, that is, none of these people could be the lover of the old lady.
But Zhao Yayan suddenly thought of something, she asked the staff to check the registration of temporary residents in the past, and see if there was a population from our county, Zhishan County, and the name of Zhao Sheng was registered.
The staff said that they were willing to help us check, and after the results came out, Zhao Yayan and I were quite surprised, sure enough, there was a person named Zhao Sheng, and the age also matched.
What makes us feel even more consistent is that there is a girl's name named Zhao Yuping who registered at the same time as Zhao Sheng, and the time of registration was more than 20 years ago, and the registered temporary residence was an old residential area in the county.
Zhao Yayan and I both immediately thought that at that time, Zhao Sheng did come to this county with his daughter, and then rented a house.
Therefore, if you go to this old residential area, and according to that address, you may be able to find out the whereabouts of Zhao Sheng and his daughter.
But after all, after so many years, Zhao Yayan and I actually didn't have much hope for it, so we could only try our best to inquire, and what the final result was, we could only let the eldest lady accept it.
As a result, Zhao Yayan and I went all the way to the old residential area and found the address.
Found that the address was still a rental house, and the owner and landlord were already seventy or eighty years old, and he told us that over the years, there have been countless outsiders who have rented houses to him, so he has no impression of which one is Zhao Sheng and a father and daughter.
Zhao Yayan and I were both quite helpless and disappointed, however, while we were talking to the landlord, a neighbor in his sixties and seventies came up to us and asked us, are we looking for a father and daughter from many years ago, from out of town?
We nodded, and the elderly female neighbor said that she had an impression and had also been in contact with Zhao Sheng, and she felt that the father and daughter were very pitiful, because Zhao Sheng had no money to buy milk for the baby girl, and she also helped, and then the baby girl grew up very healthy and could walk more than a year old.
Zhao Yayan and I immediately couldn't wait to ask this elderly woman, did she know where Zhao Sheng took this daughter of his later?
The elderly woman replied that she had heard Zhao Sheng say when she was leaving that Zhao Sheng was going to join one of his cousins in the provincial capital and was going to take his daughter to work there.
When Zhao Yayan and I heard this, we were speechless and looked at each other silently.
The provincial capital in the mouth of the elderly women is the provincial capital, which is a long, long distance from this county, and it takes seven or eight hours to reach it by car.
By this time it was already evening, and it was getting dark.
Zhao Yayan and I originally planned to complete such a thing in one day, and then return to the village committee and devote ourselves to our own work, because there are many things waiting for us.
In the end, I thought about it again and again, and said to Zhao Yayan in disappointment and loss:
"Director Zhao! Thank you for being so enthusiastic this time and doing such a meaningful thing with me, but now it seems to me that finding Zhao Sheng and his daughter is really looking for a needle in a haystack, it is unlikely, let's give up! ”
I really thought I was going to give up.
Just thinking about it, Zhao Yayan and I have done our best, and in the final analysis, this is not our scope of responsibility, we are just out of love and kindness in our hearts to help this old lady, in the end, it is such a result, it is estimated that the old lady can also accept it, and will be grateful for our efforts, at least we have worked hard for her.
But at this moment, Zhao Yayan's eyes contained a heavy light, and there was also a sense of perseverance and perseverance in this light.
She said to me, "No! We shouldn't give up! Even if there is a glimmer of hope, it must be fought for, shouldn't we reunite their lovers, and let their mother and daughter see each other again? If we can do it, what a meaningful thing it is, and the old lady will be grateful to us for the rest of her life! ”
I felt a burst of surprise, just thinking that she, the deputy director of the village committee, was two years older than me, but she didn't seem to be mature enough in her thinking, and she was still stubborn and stupid like a girl, doing something that was completely impossible to achieve.
Eventually, I said to her, "Director Zhao! Do you think we will have a result if we continue to search? Don't you think we're just wasting our time, and will end up with a disappointment? If you waste time looking for it, how many days of leave do you have to take? It will make you in the position of deputy director of the village committee, which may be affected, and you will not be able to keep this job, have you ever thought about it? ”
I also had a light in my eyes, looking at her excitedly, and I really didn't want her to be greatly affected by this.
After all, I found her and asked her to join, and I don't want to bother her.
If she, as the deputy director of the village committee, spends too much time on this matter, causing her to not be able to complete her own work well, then it is really possible that she will not be able to keep her job position and eventually will not be able to be the deputy director again.
But Zhao Yayan said that she still thinks that there is hope to find it, so if she works hard for two more days, she can call back to ask for leave, and it is estimated that the leaders of the village committee can still understand her.
And she said, if I don't want to accompany her to find it, then I'll take the car back first, even if she goes to the provincial capital alone, it's okay, she will go alone to help the old lady find Zhao Sheng, and Zhao Sheng's daughter.
When I heard this, I thought to myself, how can this be done?
I told her that I would be worried about her safety, after all, although she was twenty-eight years old, two years older than me, she was a woman after all, and it would be dangerous to run to the provincial capital.
Therefore, since she insists on going, then I will accompany her as well.
In the end, she and I both decided to call back to our respective village committees tomorrow and take at least two days off work to continue our efforts, regardless of the final outcome.
This night, we had to stay in the county and find a cheap hotel to stay overnight.
Since this place was completely unfamiliar to us, I was extra vigilant and asked Zhao Yayan to live in the room next to me, and if she encountered any emergency, she would shout loudly.
However, I only thought that after all, she and I were not in a relationship, and I was not in a relationship, so if she screamed, I really didn't know whether I should rush into her room.
At this time, it was the early winter, although it was not particularly cold weather, but the small quilt that this hotel equipped each room with, or only three catties of cotton, I couldn't sleep at all, I only felt so cold that I shivered.
What I thought in my heart was that Zhao Yayan, who was next door to me, was also facing such a situation, and it was estimated that she couldn't close her eyes now, extremely uncomfortable, and was facing the cold of the long cold night.
Eventually, I whispered, "Director Zhao, do you hear that?" ”
Originally, I was just trying to say anything to her if she was already asleep, but what I didn't expect was that she immediately replied and told me that she could hear her.
I asked her, "Can't you sleep?" Isn't it too cold, then I'll give you this quilt of mine so you can fall asleep! ”
As I spoke, I knocked on the door of her room, and when she opened it, I slipped the quilt into her, intending to spend the night reading like this, and take a nap in the car tomorrow.
However, when I really sat on the hard bed board and wanted to pass the next few hours like this, I shivered and squirted cold, but Zhao Yayan called me to her room, she said, everyone is wearing such thick clothes, so it doesn't matter if you sleep with two quilts at the same time.
And she trusts me, and only thinks that I am an absolute gentleman.
I was in two quilts with her, and after a night, nothing happened, and when I woke up, I smelled the fragrance of Zhilan, and immediately rolled out of bed shyly, just thinking that I was so close to Zhao Yayan last night, it really surprised me.
Early the next morning, she and I both went to the commissary with a toll phone, and each called back to ask for leave, and she also did one thing, that is, to call the staff of her village committee to help her immediately ask Zhao Sheng's brother Zhao Wang, whether their family has a cousin, who is in the provincial capital, what he does, and what kind of name he has.
When I listened to her call, I was blown away.
Just thought that if she could get this information, then the probability that we could find Zhao Sheng would indeed increase greatly, and it would no longer be like looking for a needle in a haystack.
As a result, Zhao Yayan really asked, and she finally waited for a call from the staff of the village committee, telling her that the information provided by Zhao Wang was that he and Zhao Sheng did have a cousin, who was in the provincial capital city and did clerical work at the wharf of the provincial import and export company, named Liang Jurong.
When Zhao Yayan learned of this information, she immediately recorded it with a pen and asked every word clearly to avoid mistakes.
Eventually, I went to the bus station with her, took a bus, and rushed to the provincial capital.
As a result, we sat in the car for more than seven hours, and after arriving at the provincial capital, we went straight to the wharf of the Provincial Import and Export Company and asked the staff of this unit if they knew Liang Jurong.
After some inquiry, we finally learned that Liang Jurong used to be a manager at this terminal, but retired a few years ago, and later died of a stroke.
Zhao Yayan and I immediately asked, does anyone know if Liang Jurong has a cousin named Zhao Sheng?
At the beginning, many staff members shook their heads, saying that they didn't know at all, because Liang Jurong belonged to the older generation of unit leaders and had retired, so how did they know if he had any cousins.
Zhao Yayan and I also rushed to the dormitory, and finally asked many old retirees, and finally there was an uncle, who said that he knew Zhao Sheng, and Zhao Sheng was his former worker.
"Uncle, can you tell us where Zhao Sheng is now?" Zhao Yayan couldn't wait to ask.
The old man told us that Zhao Sheng was in the Municipal People's Hospital and had been hospitalized for more than a year, and it was estimated that he and his daughter were penniless and in debt.
Because Zhao Sheng had a heart attack, he couldn't be cured.
Zhao Yayan and I immediately hurried to the Municipal People's Hospital, and finally after some inquiry, we finally figured out which ward Zhao Sheng was in.
When we met Zhao Sheng, we found that he was already full of gray hair, his face was yellow, and his expression was haggard, while his daughter, an old woman who was almost forty years old, looked quite confused in the face of our appearance.
Zhao Yayan told their father and daughter that it was an old lady who wanted to find them, and this old lady was the biological mother of Zhao Sheng's daughter.
Zhao Sheng was originally quite weak, lying motionless on the bed, but when he heard it, he was immediately quite excited, with a distressed expression, he pinched the quilt on the corner of the bed, and shouted like a neurotic attack:
"Is it true? Ah Zhen, Ah Zhen is still alive now? Is she looking for me, for our father and daughter? ”
Immediately afterward, tears continued to welled up in his eyes, and finally he burst into tears.
Zhao Yayan and I were moved to tears.
Zhao Yayan said to him: "Yes, Mr. Zhao Sheng, your past lover, the lover who gave birth to your daughter in the past, she is really looking for you, and looking for your daughter, and she has been looking for you, she has been looking for your father and daughter, and she has been looking for decades!" ”
Zhao Sheng and his daughter Zhao Yuping actually hugged their heads and cried.
Moreover, Zhao Sheng looked in pain, he said that he couldn't cure his heart disease now, and if Ah Zhen found him, he would only feel bad for him, so he still didn't let Ah Zhen know that he was here, and he didn't want Ah Zhen to feel heartache because of her.
At this moment, I looked at Zhao Yayan, and Zhao Yayan also looked at me, she and I only felt extremely entangled and uncomfortable, and we didn't know how to make a decision.
We finally found Zhao Sheng after so many twists and turns.
But now Zhao Sheng is suffering from heart disease and suffering, and he even proposed that he didn't want his past lover Ah Zhen, that is, the old lady, to see him again and know that he was here.
Eventually, we walked out into the hallway outside the ward, just to have a good discussion.
But at this time, Zhao Yuping came out, she proposed, she just wanted to listen to her biological mother's voice, and asked if she could talk to her biological mother on the phone to fulfill her wish.
She was determined to face everything that was going to happen to her father, so her father didn't want to see her biological mother, so she had to be like her father, after all, if her biological mother recognized her, she would only bear such a burden.
Zhao Yayan and I both felt heartache for the situation in front of us, and finally thought about it again and again, and decided to tell the old lady and let the old lady know that the lover Zhao Sheng she had been looking for and her daughter were in the people's hospital in this provincial capital.
About ten hours passed.
What we didn't expect was that there was a group of people in the corridor, and at the front was an elderly woman, who walked limping, but quite quickly, constantly trying to move forward, and her face was full of tears, and the sadness was moving.
This is exactly what the old lady said, that is, Ah Zhen in Zhao Sheng's mouth.
When she walked into the ward and saw Zhao Yuping and Zhao Sheng, she cried bitterly and said to Zhao Sheng, why is he so stupid and refuses to see her?
She told Zhao Sheng that even if she spent all the money, she would save Zhao Sheng's life.
After her husband died of illness in the northeast, she actually left an inheritance to her, and her two children also had stable jobs and could lend her money.
At that moment, Zhao Sheng and Zhao Yuping were so moved that they couldn't stop crying, and they hugged Ah Zhen tightly, and after crying for a long time, they decided to fight the disease with one heart, just wanting Zhao Sheng to undergo surgery as soon as possible, so that Zhao Sheng's heart disease could be cured.
As a result, a month later, Zhao Sheng underwent heart bypass surgery, his heart returned to normal, he could walk like a healthy normal person and live independently, and he and Ah Zhen, as well as his daughter, were finally reunited as a family.
Zhao Yayan and I were very relieved to learn that Zhao Sheng had been cured.
And in that month, I went to the mountains to pick a bunch of Shanyueji, rode a bicycle to find Zhao Yayan, sent Shanyueji flowers to her, and proposed to her.
Zhao Yayan was pleasantly surprised.
She said that if I didn't propose to her, she would run to my side and stay on until I knew what was in her heart and proposed to her.
She had fallen in love with me in the process of searching for Zhao Sheng and Zhao Yuping, and I had fallen in love with her, so when she came back, she had already made up her mind to marry me.
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