street people

Lang Song's parents are both from other provinces, and they came to Jiangcheng more than ten years ago.

His father, Lang Shiyong, was a construction worker, and his mother, Yu Qin, was congenitally deaf and had a hard time finding a job, so they sold breakfast at a stall near Jiangcheng No. [-] Middle School.Lang Song lived with them in Jiangcheng since he was a child, and the family rented a small house, which was quite enjoyable.

One autumn five years ago, before dawn, Yu Qin pushed the breakfast cart to grab a booth at the gate of No. [-] Middle School.When passing People's Park, she saw a cardboard box at the door, and something seemed to be moving inside.She thought it was a discarded kitten and puppy, but when she took a closer look, she found that the cardboard box contained a baby girl who was only about three months old.

The autumn morning was cold and damp, the baby's lips were blue from the cold, and he could not even cry, and a pair of small hands were flapping with the instinct of survival.Yu Qin immediately took the baby into her arms to keep her warm, then called Lang Shiyong, the couple sent the baby to the hospital and called the police.

The police investigated the monitoring of the park and found that at three o'clock in the morning that day, a woman appeared at the gate of the park carrying a cardboard box. After staying for more than ten minutes, the woman dropped the cardboard box and left the park, disappearing under the surveillance.

Langyue was contained in the cardboard box, and she lay helplessly for two hours in the early morning of late autumn before being discovered by Yu Qin who was passing by at five o'clock.

In the surveillance video, the woman who abandoned Langyue wrapped herself tightly, covered her face with a mask, and wore a huge sun hat.She not only fully armed herself, but also deliberately avoided the surveillance cameras around the park, and soon disappeared into the surveillance.

This woman left a letter in Langyue's baby, telling her difficulties.She gave birth to a child out of wedlock, and her daughter was congenitally deaf. Her boyfriend abandoned their mother and daughter after learning that her daughter had a congenital defect.She was alone and unable to raise her daughter or heal her, so she had to abandon her daughter at the gate of the park, hoping that someone with good intentions could adopt her.

From the day they picked up the abandoned baby, Lang Song's parents have been taking care of the baby with all their heart and soul, and also expressed their willingness to apply for adoption if the child's biological parents cannot be found.

Although the husband and wife are not rich, they still have the ability to raise another daughter, and because Yu Qin is a disabled person, she has a special affection for this abandoned baby with congenital deafness.

After several days of investigation, the police failed to find the woman who abandoned the baby girl. It took 60 days to find the biological parents or guardians, and the announcement was published in the newspaper, and no one came to claim Lang Yue.After it was confirmed that no one claimed it, the couple finally adopted the baby girl as they wished and named them Langyue.

"Since there are photos, it shouldn't be difficult to find the biological father of the abandoned baby. Didn't the police who investigated the abandonment case investigate in this direction?" Huang Chao expressed his doubts while recording hard in his notebook. .

Sun Yanshi and Hua Qiang also thought of this, and cast their eyes on Lang Song at the same time.

"I didn't know there was this thing at the time." Lang Song shook his head and looked down at Langyue, "When Yueyue was abandoned, there were a lot of things around her, including clothes, milk powder, toys, etc. This pendant was sewn on the back of a plush doll. In the belly, the doll was a little broken because it was played for too long half a year ago, and the pendant fell out, but half a year ago..."

Lang Song didn't lower his head and didn't continue talking.

Hua Qiang didn't pursue the question either, but instead asked Sun Yanshi: "Do you have any impression of this photo?"

In fact, you can be sure without asking him, the photo is Sun Yanshi, exactly the same as the ignorant brat in my memory.

Sun Yanshi nodded: "I took a one-inch bareheaded photo when I was a sophomore in high school."

The two looked at each other tacitly, and both understood the meaning in each other's eyes.Apart from other things, if Langyue is really Sun Yanshi's daughter, why would Langyue's mother post photos of Sun Yanshi in high school instead of recent years?And why put the photos in such a hidden place?

"But……"

Huang Chao also thought of this, and just as he opened his mouth, he was pushed back by Hua Qiang's sharp eyes.

Lang Song looked at the well-behaved Lang Yue with a complicated expression, and reached out to stroke her head.

Hua Qiang said with a kind smile: "It's simple, just take Yueyue and Xiaosun's hair and do a DNA paternity test, and the results will be available in a week. What do you think, Xiaosong?"

This is the most convincing approach, and Lang Song naturally has no objection.

Huang Chao put away his notebook, went to the police car and took an envelope bag to get the two people's hair.

Lang Yue was still young and couldn't understand many things. Lang Song tried his best to explain the current situation to her in sign language. She half understood but was still very happy, as if she had confirmed that she would have a father.Lang Song also laughed, but the smile floated on the surface and couldn't enter his heart.

The matter came to a conclusion, Lang Song wanted to take Lang Yue away, but Hua Qiang stopped them: "You two are blowing on the air conditioner in the store, and uncle goes out to smoke a cigarette, and the police car will take you back later, just take whatever you want, Uncle checks out."

After speaking, he lost his eyes and made Huang Chao stare at the siblings, then smoked a cigarette from Sun Yanshi's cigarette case on the counter, opened the curtain and left the shop.

Sun Yanshi received the signal, took his cigarette case and followed him out.

Huaqiang walked for a while before standing still against a telephone pole beside the alleyway. He looked at Sun Yanshi who was following with a cigarette in his mouth, and asked angrily, "Is that your daughter?"

Sun Yanshi smiled bitterly: "Uncle Qiang, do you think it's possible?"

Hua Qiang gave him a sideways look in distaste: "Who knows if you made a girl's belly bigger by having sex after drinking, and you didn't want to take responsibility in the end."

Sun Yanshi laughed, "I do."

After laughing, bitterness welled up in his mouth again. Hua Qiang knew that he was gay before his parents. He had no sexual desire for women at all, so how could he have a daughter.

Huaqiang sighed heavily, and thousands of words were wrapped in this sigh.

Sun Yanshi exhaled a cloud of smoke, elbowed Hua Qiang: "What's the matter with those two children?"

Hua Qiang sighed heavily again: "Lang Song's mother got liver cancer two years ago, and she couldn't be cured, so she went to the hospital. More than half a year ago, his father rescued a young girl who committed suicide on the way home from get off work, but he drowned himself."

Sun Yanshi's hand holding the cigarette stopped, and he couldn't react for a long time. He didn't let go of his hand in a hurry until the cigarette butt burned his fingers.

"Then... how do the brothers and sisters live?" Sun Yanshi asked.

"I'm sorry. Lang Song's mother owed a lot of money for medical treatment. She was already struggling. After his father died, the family completely lost their source of income. In addition, his sister had no one to take care of him, so he dropped out of school and took Lang Yue to run around. Odd jobs." Hua Qiang spit out a puff of white smoke, "Xiao Song should be in the third year of high school this year, if his father is still here, he has already taken the college entrance examination, and he should report to the university next month."

Words are feeble and unable to accurately describe how heavy the burden of life is on a young boy who is still in development. Sun Yanshi just imagined a little bit, if he lost his parents in high school to support a home and take care of a deaf child Sister, he already felt out of breath.

He crushed the cigarette butts on the ground with his toes, and asked again: "Listen to your tone just now, you haven't seen them for a long time?"

"I used to visit them every three days and bring them something to eat."

Sun Yanshi replied: "In the end, that kid was stubborn and arrogant, so he ran away secretly."

Hua Qiang snorted and was guessed right.

Two months ago, he was very busy for a period of time, and it took more than a week to find time to see the siblings. As a result, the house they rented was already vacant, and the phone could not be reached. If it weren't for today's report, I don't know that it can only be found in the year of the monkey and the month of the horse.

"Then you met the two children when they were dealing with their father?" Sun Yanshi asked again.

Mentioning this, Hua Qiang laughed muffledly: "No, he was just like you back then, fighting with others, and I caught him right away."

"Oh——" Sun Yanshi dragged his voice, and it was not difficult to explain the scar on Lang Song's face and the trace of banditry on his body.

Hua Qiang seemed to read minds, and saw through Sun Yanshi at a glance: "The other child is different from you. You are reckless, and he has no choice."

"How to say?"

"He is an outsider and has been bullied. If he doesn't beat him back, he will only be bullied even harder."

"That's right..." Sun Yanzhi nodded thoughtfully. It's not like he didn't encounter this kind of thing when he was studying.In the second year of high school, Banhua in his class was often bullied by local classmates because he was a foreigner. He helped him several times.

It was really hot today, and the two of them were sweating outside after only a few minutes of standing outside.

Hua Qiang wiped the sweat off his head, looked towards the end of the alley, and sighed, "This alley is still the same."

Sun Yanshi replied: "It can still conjure flowers, but it can't be done."

The village where Lanying Lane is located is called Lanying Village. It is said that it got its name because there are several beautiful Jacaranda trees in the village.

Sun Yanshi had never seen any jacarandas. Before he was born, this area had already become an urban village outside the urban management system.Due to the lack of unified planning and management, Lanying Village is full of self-built houses with two or three floors high, regardless of the type of apartment, and there is no distance between buildings. They are densely gathered together, becoming the "scar" of the city.

Lanying Lane is the longest and widest lane in the village. Over time, it has formed the traffic artery of this urban village.Lanying Lane is about [-] meters long, and Sun Yanshi's house is in the middle, with a total of two floors.The front hall on the first floor was turned into a pavement by his parents, and there was a small courtyard and kitchen at the back. From the hanging ladder in the small courtyard, there were two rooms on the second floor.

Hua Qiang asked him with a look of resentment: "You are so young and huddled in this narrow alley, you are not a coward."

Sun Yanshi spread his arms, took a deep breath of the hot air in August, and replied with a smile, "I'm not a coward, this is a pure land in a busy city."

With the development of the city, the center of Jiangcheng moved to the north, and the urban village centered on Lanying Lane lost its value for renovation. The aborigines with better conditions have all moved out and rented their houses to migrant workers. I am waiting for the day when this place will be demolished to get a sum of money for the demolition.The rest are old people who have no conditions to buy a new house, or who have a strong sense of geography and are reluctant to move out of their old nest.There are indeed very few local young people like Sun Yanshi who are still living in Lanying Lane, but it is not impossible.

In fact, the location of Lanying Lane is good. When you get out of the alley, you will find Renmin Road, and there is a Grade II hospital diagonally opposite.Even if his store opened in such a narrow alley, the business is still good, and it is enough to fill his stomach anyway.

Hua Qiang snorted, then glared at Sun Yanshi again: "Your father still refuses to go home?"

Sun Yanshi smiled helplessly: "Yes."

Thinking back to the tit-for-tat confrontation between father and son over the past few years, Hua Qiang shook his head helplessly and didn't ask any more questions.Seeing that the time was almost up, he took out his wallet and took 200 yuan and patted it on Sun Yanshi's chest, and said seriously: "Although the possibility is very small, a paternity test is still required. If these two children come back within two days You are here, help me take care of them, don't let them be hot and hungry."

Sun Yanshi pushed Hua Qiang's arm away: "No need."

Hua Qiang: "If I tell you to hold it, then take it."

Sun Yanshi stretched his waist and walked away on his own, saying as he walked, "You are allowed to be warm-hearted, but I am not allowed to respect the old and love the young."

Hua Qiang snorted and didn't force it anymore.

Brother and sister Lang Song left Lanying Lane, followed Hua Qiang into the police car, Huang Chao drove, and Hua Qiang sat in the back row with them.

Lang Song was not a talkative character, Lang Yue wanted to say nothing, the car was very quiet.

Hua Qiang patted Lang Yue's head affectionately, but turned his eyes to Lang Song. He asked cautiously, "Xiao Song, why didn't you tell uncle about the photo?"

Lang Song didn't answer, he looked up at Huaqiang.

The eyes of the two met, and Hua Qiang could see through the struggle, stubbornness and hesitation in the child's eyes at a glance.He couldn't bear to tell Lang Song the truth now, so he patted him on the shoulder and asked, "Did Yueyue know that she was adopted?"

Lang Song pursed his lips and nodded: "She should know."

Not long after his father died, he discovered the pendant hidden in the plush doll, so he intermittently told Lang Yue her real life experience, but he never made up his mind to help Lang Yue find her biological parents.On the one hand, he felt that since they abandoned Langyue back then, even if they found her, they might not be willing to adopt her back;

But Langyue is already five years old, and a cochlear implant must be implanted as soon as possible to ensure her language ability and her normal life in the future.Originally, his parents planned to operate on Lang Yue two years ago, but his mother suddenly became seriously ill and spent all the money. Now with his own strength, I don't know when he will be able to raise enough money for the operation.So recently he has been in contradictions and struggles. If he hadn't happened to meet Sun Yanshi in the photo today, he might have continued to struggle before he could make a decision.

In fact, he regretted that he called the police impulsively just now. Sun Yanshi seemed like a fool and did not seem like a reliable person. If it was Lang Yue's father, he didn't want to entrust Lang Yue to such a person to take care of him.But now that he was riding a tiger, he could only wait for the results of the appraisal before making further plans.

Hua Qiang lovingly rubbed Lang Yue's head: "She is so big and small, what can she understand, and when she really wants to separate from you, will she be willing?"

Lang Song looked softly at Lang Yue, who was gnawing on a biscuit, and gently stroked the broken hair on her forehead, and replied, "Just before she understands."

Huaqiang sent the brothers and sisters to their residence, and they felt very uncomfortable standing in the cramped and dilapidated rental room.But the help he can provide is very limited. Even if he allocates a part of his salary to support the brothers and sisters every month, it is difficult to fundamentally solve the plight of the brothers and sisters. Besides, Lang Song has a strong personality and refuses to accept him at all. s help.

Hua Qiang was afraid that his excessive care would scare people away again, so he patted Lang Song on the shoulder and said earnestly: "Uncle knows you are sensible and independent, the reason why you moved is not to burden me, but you don't want to run around in the future Well, I just wanted to make sure you guys are doing okay."

Lang Song nodded respectfully.