Homo sapiens

Mandalay.

In the production base of Aoba Aviation Branch.

Wang Haoran, Mu Ziying and others, who had just completed their three-month internship period, finally reached the time to make a decision.

Compared to Wang Haoran's worries, Mu Ziying submitted a naturalization application that day and took leave to return to her hometown, planning to pick up her mother and sister in person.

In the lobby of Mandalay Airport.

Wang Haoran looked at Mu Ziying: "Have you really decided?"

"What's there to be hesitant about?" Mu Ziying replied calmly, but added in her heart: 'I have no other choice. ’

Wang Haoran changed the subject: "I've never heard you talk about the situation at home. Is your family really that difficult?"

"You don't understand even if you tell me, so I won't tell you anymore. My plane has arrived."

"Okay then! Have a nice trip." Wang Haoran patted him on the shoulder.

After the two said goodbye, half an hour later, the plane flew to the far north.

In that far north.

Jizhou Province.

A small county town with no reputation.

At this time, the snow was falling for thousands of miles, and on the snow-covered street, a white-haired old woman was pushing a trolley with steaming hot spicy soup and donkey meat on fire.

"Aunt Li, let's have a bowl of spicy soup and two donkey meats on fire." A taxi driver said, puffing away his breath.

"It's Xiaomin!" Li Suqin recognized the face under the mask at a glance, then quickly made a bowl of spicy soup and took two donkey meats to burn.

Taxi driver Zhang Weimin found a shop door that could be sheltered from the wind, and began to feast.

Li Suqin continued to do business.

Until it was getting dark, she sold out all the spicy soup and had three pieces of donkey meat left to burn, which she planned to take back for dinner.

Zhang Weimin, who had been driving for a long time, appeared at the door of Li Suqin's rental house again. A skinny little girl about sixteen or seventeen years old was helping to move things.

"Brother Min."

"Xiaoyu, have everything been packed?" Zhang Weimin asked with a smile.

"Okay, I don't know when brother will come back?" Mu Ziyu asked with some nostalgia.

Zhang Weimin shook his head: "He may not be able to make it. I will take you and Aunt Li to Peking to meet him tomorrow!"

"Uh oh..." Mu Ziyu felt a little depressed.

"The south is better than the north. It won't be too cold in winter, and you can make many new friends." Zhang Weimin consoled him.

Zhang Weimin, who came over to help pack things, asked the mother and daughter to bring only some clothes and valuables, but not other things. After all, many things were not allowed to be carried on the plane.

After a hasty dinner, Zhang Weimin went back.

Li Suqin sat in the small outdoor kitchen with air leakage, boiling bath water and looking at the flames of the briquette stove.

Tears suddenly fell uncontrollably.

She took out a small book from her old woolen sweater. There were layers of notes on the small book. She opened it with trembling hands:

"Jia Ming! The child has grown up, has become promising, and the debt has been paid off..."

"This is 6,000 owed to Zhang Laowu..."

After speaking, Li Suqin, who had tears in her eyes, put the IOU into the briquettes, and the flames burned the yellowed IOU into ashes.

"This is the 20,000 owed to Ma Datou..."

"This is……"

One by one IOUs were put into the stove, and the big stone in her heart was gradually removed.

It’s been 13 years, exactly 13 years.

She finally paid off the 270,000 loan her husband owed when he bought a large truck.

As the last IOU burned away, she covered her mouth and burst into tears, not daring to let her cry be heard by her daughter.

It's late at night and the north wind is blowing.

The next day, early in the morning.

Zhang Weimin drove over in a taxi.

Li Suqin put the photo frame and urn into a special suitcase.

"Xiaomin, I'm troubling you again."

"Auntie, you're welcome. Ziying and I are good buddies, we are both our own people." Zhang Weimin helped stuff several suitcases into the trunk.

Before getting in the car, Li Suqin looked back at the rental house. It was an ordinary farmhouse in the suburbs, but it had sheltered her family for 13 years.

Putting away the reluctance in her eyes, she handed over everything in the rental house to the landlord.

A puff of white smoke spewed out from the taxi's exhaust pipe and then sped away.

Except for a few neighbors who came to see her off, there was no one else at the scene.

Zhang Weimin, who was driving, consoled him: "Ziying has made a lot of money, and her life will definitely get better and better in the future. I heard that the south is like spring all year round."

"Really? Doesn't it snow over there in winter?" Muzi also asked curiously.

"yes!"

Zhang Weimin and Mu Ziyu chatted wordlessly.

Li Suqin, on the other hand, looked quietly out of the car window.

It wasn't until she passed by a village intersection that a hint of complexity flashed in her eyes.

Seemingly aware of Li Suqin's change, Zhang Weimin slowed down: "Want to go in and take a look?"

Looking at the village in front of her, which was her husband's hometown and the sad place for their orphans and widowed mothers, she shook her head: "No, everything is over."

Zhang Weimin didn't say anything and sped away directly.

After some twists and turns.

In the end, the Hongshawadi embassy came forward, and Muzi Yingcai reunited with his mother Li Suqin and sister Muziyu.

However, he still held back the excitement of the reunion and made arrangements with his good buddy Zhang Weimin first.

"Weimin, thank you! This is a little thought." Mu Ziying gave the other party 10,000 yuan.

Seeing the stack of money, Zhang Weimin refused without thinking: "Ziying, I can't accept it!"

"No, you still have to stay in Peiping for half a month, and you have to rest for another half month when you go back. My sister-in-law has to take care of the child again. You must accept it!" Mu Ziying's expression was very determined.

The two argued for more than half an hour, and finally Zhang Weimin accepted 10,000 yuan. After all, he was just a taxi driver and had to support his family.

In a hotel specially arranged by the embassy.

Mu Ziying's eyes suddenly turned red when she looked at her gray-haired mother. Her mother, who was only 47 years old, looked as haggard as an old man in her sixties or seventies.

"mom!"

"Xiaoying, are you going well at work?" Li Suqin didn't seem to want to make her son sad, so she deliberately changed the subject.

Mu Ziying, who had thousands of words stuck in her heart, calmed down a little, and a smile appeared on her face: "The job is okay. I rented a house there and will arrange a school for Xiaoyu."

"Brother, I can already work..." Mu Ziyu said with a pout.

But Mu Ziying immediately straightened her face: "No! You're only 16, it's too early to start a job now. Only by studying can you find a good job."

Li Suqin didn't want her daughter to have regrets for the rest of her life. She took out the bankbook and said, "Xiaoyu, don't worry, your mother can still work. With your brother's money, we can still support your education at home."

Then she gave the bankbook to her son: "Xiaoying, please keep this money with you!"

Mu Ziying took the passbook, which showed the 200,000 yuan deposit given by Qingye Group before. At this time, there were still more than 130,000 yuan. Except for more than 60,000 yuan that was used to repay debts, the other mothers did not touch it at all.

According to the agreement, if the internship period ends and the family is determined to immigrate, the company will not take back the money, but will give it to the skilled immigrant employees as settlement expenses.

If the whole family does not immigrate or continue to work at Qingye Group, the money must be returned intact.

It was obvious that Mu Ziying had already made up her mind at that time, without any hesitation at all.

The three of them, mother and son, chatted about their family problems, and finally fell asleep peacefully with a beautiful vision for the future.

Especially Li Suqin, after more than ten years of ups and downs, her heart finally found a trace of peace at this moment.

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