In 2009, Old Man Cheng came to the door of a real estate property with a heavy package: "Just buy the house I saw yesterday!" The salesman next to
couldn't help but widen his eyes. He remembered the old man over fifty years old.
After all, he dresses simply and his behavior shows vicissitudes and pathological conditions. He doesn't look like a person who is anxious to buy a house.
But when he took out his ID card to register, everyone realized that he bought it for his son Mr. Cheng.
1. The big house in the heart of Mr. Cheng
- Promise to his wife
More than a year ago, Mr. Cheng promised his wife when he got married: "I will definitely buy you a big house in the future."
His wife smiled with relief.
But she knew that this was impossible at all, but she was still moved by Lao Cheng's solemn promise.
However, what she didn't know was that Lao Cheng always put this wish in his heart.
This is in a rural area in Liaocheng, Shandong. Like most people, Lao Cheng is also a farmer who digs fields diligently.
But compared with others, he has an unwilling heart to be ordinary.
- Work hard
Although there are not too many fields at home, Lao Cheng often only chooses heavy work because he doesn't want his wife to overwork.
So after a few years, his cheeks looked old.
In the village, he has always been famous for his hard work and hard work.
So everyone gave him the title of "Old Man Cheng".
Every holiday, it was already a rare time to rest, and he always asked people to find a job for himself.
Because of that sentence - God rewards hard work, he has already understood all the factories in the city one by one in a few years and has known more connections.
- Xiao Cheng was born
Under his leadership, many farmers in the same village also often started small workers.
So everyone's life is far less hard than before, and old man Cheng also earned some extra income by introducing small workers. When
was constantly making money in his wallet, he also received good news, that is, his wife was pregnant.
In order to take good care of her, Lao Cheng no longer goes out early and returns late.
But the villagers around often come to him for help.
One day, just as he was busy, a neighbor shouted in front of his window: "Old man Cheng, if I don't open the door, I will break in by myself."
Hearing this, he hurried out to find out what happened. It turned out that there was another farm work in the neighbor's house.
"Can you go twice the salary?"
Old man Cheng shook his head and waved his hand, "I don't have time."
Neighbor immediately gave a look of contempt. In his impression, Lao Cheng was a person who was jealous of money, and now he is so "integrity".
Seeing that the neighbors really need help, Old Man Cheng took out a small booklet from his old clothes: "You call this person and he is doing farm work. He can help your family clean the wheat in two days."
It turned out that the old man of the neighbor was in the hospital, and no one took care of his land for a long time.
Nowadays, if you don’t cut the wheat, you will soon suffer heavy losses if you pass by a stranger.
The neighbor said and left gratefully.
, and Lao Cheng continued to return to the kitchen to stew the chicken soup that his wife loved.
Time froze, and his wife was already in hospital for delivery.
The neighbor also came to congratulate him - carrying a basket of clean eggs.
In the village, Lao Cheng has always been respected by everyone for his good reputation and hard work and ability.
Although he loves money, he takes every pen and every corner well, so everyone admires his business mind very much.
That day, Xiao Cheng was born.
Old man Cheng hugged his child and cried with joy, but he did not forget to look back and thank his wife for her efforts to the entire family.
In this way, the couple had another small member in the small house, and the family of three became the happiest family in the village.
2. The wish to buy a house suddenly failed
- The cost of children going to school
years have passed, and Xiao Cheng has reached the age of studying. One day, Old Man Cheng took out all his savings and said to his wife with emotion: "We should be able to buy a house. If we don't want to leave tomorrow. Even if we can only buy a 30-square-meter-meter-meter-meter-meter-meter-meter-meter-meter-meter-meter-meter-meter-meter-meter-meter-meter-meter-meter-meter-meter-meter-meter-meter-meter-meter-meter-meter-meter-meter-meter-meter-meter-meter-meter-meter-meter-meter-meter-meter-meter-meter-meter-meter-level wife was in a dilemma when she looked at the new schoolbag she had just bought for her son.
"Although our house is small, it has complete furniture. It does not leak or collapse normally, so let's live there. After all, the child will still have high expenses in a few years."
Seeing his wife making such a joke, Lao Cheng fell into deep thought.
That night, when his wife fell asleep, he turned on the faint light and continued to count the deposit he had just withdrawn.
But he also made a major decision, which was to save the money back.
- Xiao Cheng graduated
From preschool to elementary school, from elementary school to junior high school, Xiao Cheng grew up like this under the care of the two elders.
But he is gentle and looks very much like his mother.
Villagers often joked with him and Lao Cheng: "One lives like a rough man, covered in dust; the other is weak and literary, I am afraid that he will be a great scholar in the future."
Although Lao Cheng's family doesn't care at all, Xiao Cheng is silent, as if he is thinking about something.
A few days later, Old Man Cheng's wife pulled Old Man Cheng to continue discussing a big thing, that is, where Xiao Cheng should go to develop after graduating from high school.
But Lao Cheng was not interested in this topic at all: "Let him develop, he can do whatever he wants."
Three years passed in a flash, and Xiao Cheng was still docile and well-behaved.
Because the conditions at home are not bad, He did not have to come into contact with too much farm work since he was a child, so he looked like a child of a wealthy family.
The hands are not covered with dark cracks like his father, but they do not have the qualities of hard work and ability as his father.
Because my father has been working hard outside for many years, his mother often takes care of him at home.
Over time, Xiao Cheng was infected by her mother and lived like her.
But this is actually harmful to him without any benefit.
3. Xiao Cheng disappeared mysteriously shortly after his marriage
One day, Old Man Cheng told his wife: "I don't know what the current housing prices are. Let's take a look when we have time."
"No hurry, it's useless to buy it now. Wait until when my son gets married, let's go and see it again. "
Looking at his wife's hardworking appearance, Lao Cheng sighed:
"My ancestors have worked hard for most of their lives before they moved from the mountains to their current private houses; I didn't expect that I had worked hard for most of my life to make my children live in the city."
In his heart, it seems that I have never lived for myself since I got married.
But her wife continued to comfort him: "It is the hard environment that shapes such a person you, and now you have everything you want."
But she didn't expect that the couple suddenly lost their son soon after.
- Xiao Cheng got married
One day, Old Man Cheng called the child to his bed:
"The current market is not easy, Dad can't find any good job for you, but there are many factories in the city or are you willing to go?"
Xiao Cheng frowned when he heard this.
He thought to himself, if my former classmates either found a job with a strong job or worked hard, who would have squeezed into the factory?
After communicating for a long time, Lao Cheng did not fall asleep overnight.
Although he has worked hard for so many years and has known many people, he finally understands that as a farmer, the biggest space to fight to this point.
He also knew clearly that originally could not be crossed, or it would take the efforts of countless generations to cross.
Not long ago, Xiao Cheng, who had no job, could not farm or help much, so he wandered around the village all day long.
And his mother also ran to other villagers' homes every now and then.
But unlike Xiao Cheng's purposelessness, she is organizing a marriage for her son.
When the villagers heard that it was Mr. Cheng's son who was going to "take marriage", they quickly introduced many suitable people. But if they either graduated from junior high school or students who had just finished high school like Xiao Cheng.
For this reason, Xiao Cheng can only try to find someone with similar experience to his resume.
and his father did other things silently, that is to withdraw the money stored in the bank card.
Finally, Xiaocheng chose a satisfactory partner.
When the marriage has been negotiated, the parents of both parties witnessed the happy life of the children with great satisfaction.
At this time, Lao Cheng finally fulfilled his wish to get married, but he still had another wish he wanted to fulfill it as soon as possible, that is, to finalize the matter of the house.
In 2009, he and his wife finally went to the real estate company.
Seeing the crowds of people queuing up, Old Man Cheng was anxious and always worried that he would make a trip in vain.
But the staff were busy all the time, so they could only find a corner to wait quietly.
When they learned that the house prices here are so expensive, the two sighed. The staff of couldn't help but feel a decisive when they saw this.
Later, it was not until the time was about to get off work that the two saw a satisfied house.
, and Lao Cheng also sent stacks of cash the next day, and the behavior of inevitably shocked the sales staff.
But what they didn’t know was that part of the stack of money was Old Man Cheng’s hard-earned money, and part of it was borrowed by him running around last night.
At present, although they have reached the point of "breaking up everything", they have finally had a more comfortable life.
Since the daughter-in-law became pregnant, the two elders have also moved to the city to live.
But when you are not busy, you will also go back and forth to continue picking up the work of digging fields.
Xiao Cheng was very happy about his wife's pregnancy. He didn't expect that he would have his own child shortly after getting married.
But he was also anxious. Now that his family has no savings, and his parents are getting older, how should he go in the future?
On an ordinary day, he knocked on his father's door and the two talked for another three hours.
But what Mr. Cheng didn't expect was that his son actually had such great ambitions and wanted to develop in Beijing. The day when
left, everyone saw him farewell at the station.
, Xiao Cheng kept holding the bracelet that his mother had just given to him last night and was tightly held.
In Beijing, a huge and prosperous city, Xiao Cheng was dazzled.
But when he is looking for a job here, he will also call to tell his family about his situation.
During the day, he dressed cleanly, just like a successful person. But at night, he had to live in his humid and dim basement.
Although the life here is hugely different from what he thinks, he still believes that he will make a comeback one day.
Unexpectedly, several months have passed. Not only has not found the job, but even his wallet is empty.
But this is not the most embarrassing. One day, the landlord came to collect the debt again.
It turns out that he has owed the room fee for several weeks.
Finally, the two of them were arguing, and Xiao Cheng finally took out his mother's bracelet.
can cost extremely high in Beijing, and such deductions are not a solution after all. Not long after , he was completely driven out.
Walking on the street, he no longer cared about whether his appearance was neat, but instead tried to recall the scene when he was talking to his family.
Every time, when everyone greeted him about his situation, he repeatedly said that he was doing well. Now he has fallen to what he is now. After
was completely hopeless in Beijing, he reselled his phone.
He would rather disappear from now on than tell his family that he had fallen on the streets.
4. After 11 years, Xiao Cheng finally returned home
In the past 11 years, Old Man Cheng and his wife have been running to the police station many times, but Xiao Cheng is like the world has evaporated.
In October 2020, the police from Chaoyang District Police Station sent him to the rescue station of Hengshui No. 7 People's Hospital (family searching point). Under everyone's care, he finally informed the other party of his identity.
Immediately, the search and rescue station contacted the search and charity project team of Toutiao. After verification, Xiao Cheng's search and hiring notice was released.
On October 15, Officer Wang found other information about Xiao Cheng through facial recognition. After Toutiao's project team informed the rescue station, the rescue station contacted the old man Cheng's family.
Seeing that the family was finally reunited 11 years later, has received bad news, that is, Xiao Cheng is suspected of being mentally ill at this time.
On the same day, Lao Cheng and Xiao Cheng, who were still separated from each other, had a video call. The two old men shed tears of excitement and could not let go for a long time.
Although they want to take the child back immediately, Xiao Cheng still needs to receive treatment, so the two sides discussed making arrangements for the marriage picking up on October 26th.
I didn’t expect that in the early morning of the 26th, Old Man Cheng and his family rushed over - from the far-reaching Liaocheng in Shandong to Hengshui .
Seeing that his child finally appeared, Lao Cheng hugged his son with his trembling hands, crying in a daze. He couldn't help but reach out and hit his son a few times: "Your wife is gone."
Xiao Cheng then realized that there was one missing figure in the crowd, that was Xiao Cheng's former wife.
It turned out that shortly after she gave birth to the child, Xiao Cheng gradually had no news. In the process of raising children alone, she felt unprecedented difficulties.
Until the child was over one year old, she took him to remarry a man surnamed Liu. In the later stage of
, the two also gave birth to a pair of children. The man surnamed Liu also brought a child with his ex-wife. In 2019, due to the great financial pressure, she brought back the previous child to Old Man Cheng.
It is worth noting that shortly after Xiao Cheng disappeared, Old Man Cheng had been to Beijing and posted countless missing person notices.
But things didn't go as expected. He could not receive the news for a long time and had to return to his hometown in Shandong.
After the house and son got married, the wish he hoped for his relatives to reunite was also realized, but things have changed.
Old Man Cheng’s struggle has infected many people. I wish his family will get better and better.
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text|Ancient oasis
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