As he spoke, Lao Zhang rummaged through his office, and after a while, he wrote down a slip of address for us. Gu Chen looked at the note in his hand, and then said to Uncle Chen and me: "Let's go, this village is more than an hour's drive away from us, and when we arrive at that place, it may not be too early when we come back." .”
Lao Zhang said, "Well, that's true. It hasn't been too long. It's been close to three months. She must still be in that village."
We got into the car one by one, and Gu Chen drove us to the village. Along the way, I was thinking and looking at the dark clouds in the sky. It didn't rain today, but I could tell from the dark clouds all over the sky that it would definitely rain soon.
And the road in this village is much better than that in Zhili Village. Although there are some potholes, it is at least asphalt. When we got out of the car, the sky was already dark, and the clouds in the sky were gray, making people breathless. Gu Chen randomly parked the car in an open space, pointed to the family in front and said, "The address is written here. I saw the woman's name is Wei Shufen."
I nodded and followed Gu Chen to the front.
There is a low wall outside the house, which is surrounded by adobe walls, about 1.5 meters high, and the inside of the house can be seen directly from the outside. This is an ordinary farmer's house. There are a few small houses on one side of the fence, and a lot of straw on the other side.
In the yard, you can see that a large piece of ground has been opened up, and various things are planted, including cucumbers, beans, Chinese cabbage, tomatoes and grapes. On the tomato shelf, you can see a lot of red and green tomatoes on it, and some of them are already ripe and fall to the ground, it seems that they have not been taken care of for a long time.
However, it has been raining recently, so there is no need for watering.
Gu Chen gently opened the door and walked inside. We looked, and the door of the main house in the yard was tightly closed without the slightest sound. Just as Gu Chen was about to call out to his family, he heard a few dogs barking inside, and then saw the door of the main room being opened, and a man pushed the door and walked away.
This is a thin man with dark skin and shirtless. He looks to be in his thirties. He held the door with one hand, and folded his other hand on his chest. This was a protective posture. He asked, "Who are you?"
Uncle Chen took out his ID and said to this person, "I'm from the town, and I'm here to inquire about the case of Wei Shufen more than two months ago."
Hearing Uncle Chen's words, the man nodded slightly, looked at us, opened the door, and said with a sigh: "Then you come in, come in."
The man's breath was unstable when he spoke, and he felt a little weak. He didn't greet us either, but returned to the house first by himself. We looked at each other, and I said to the two of them, "It hasn't been long since this happened, and I think these two are still grieving over the loss of their own child."
The two also nodded.
We walked into the room, and as soon as we entered the room, we saw a person lying on the big bed facing the door. This person was a woman. Judging from her appearance, she had disheveled hair and was wearing a dirty dress. The body was wrapped in a quilt, and a dog's head was exposed in the quilt.
The weather is still quite hot now. The dog was wrapped in the quilt, with its tongue sticking out and panting "hey". When it saw us, the dog barked a few more times. When the woman heard the dog barking, she immediately said in a very gentle tone while stroking the dog's head: "Don't be afraid, don't be afraid, don't be afraid, mom is here."
The few of us looked at each other and each other, and we all saw doubts in each other's eyes.
It seems that this woman should be Wei Shufen, this Wei Shufen looks a little sick.
I looked at the man sitting by the bed. The man didn't speak, sat beside him with his head down, and didn't look up at us, as if he was waiting for us to ask. There was no light in the room, so we could only look at it with the dim light from outside. The whole room gave us a feeling of oppression and awkwardness, a lifeless, lifeless feeling.
Even the dog, now lying on the bed, stuck out its tongue but stopped barking.
Gu Chen shook his head slightly, turned back and turned on the light. With a "pop", the light came on, and the dark room immediately brightened.
Uncle Chen coughed lightly, and said to the man, "What's the situation with your wife?"
The man is a bit dull, it can be seen that this person is usually the kind of very honest person, the kind who is not very good at communicating with people.
Hearing this, the man said slowly: "After my child was gone, my wife became like this a few days after she came back. I found someone to see a doctor and said that there was a mental problem. My family has no money and can't afford to see a doctor. The doctor said that it’s okay to go home and keep it. This kind of thing doesn’t necessarily mean that it can be cured after treatment, maybe it will be fine after a while, just wait for that time to pass.”
The man spoke slowly and softly, his left hand touched his right hand, and his right hand touched his left hand. It can be seen that he doesn't want to talk about these things in front of us.
It seemed that this man didn't know how to greet us anymore, and we didn't care, so we just sat down casually.
I asked, "You mean your wife has been doing this for a long time?"
The man said: "It's been like this for a few days after I came back."
I continued to ask: "After your wife dropped the child, can you tell me about the situation at that time?"
The man looked at me, his face was a little impatient, he seemed unwilling to talk too much about this matter, but looking at me, this honest man still took out a cigarette and lit it, took a few puffs, he He still opened his mouth and said to us: "At that time, I was farming in the village, and a doctor called me."
While smoking a cigarette, he said: "I didn't know what happened at the time. I received a call saying that my daughter-in-law was going to have an operation, so I was told to go to the hospital immediately. The doctor had already started emergency treatment. I took all the Money, let someone in the village who has a car take me to the city immediately."
"Then I went to the hospital at that time." The man smoked violently, his hands trembling a little: "After I went to the hospital, I hurriedly found the doctor in charge, and the doctor told me that the child must not be able to keep the child in the current situation. Sign for the operation, if it is later, adults may not be able to keep it."
In TV dramas, we can always hear doctors tell the families of pregnant women that only one of the children and adults can be kept, so what do you want to keep. But in fact, during the operation, such a question would never come out of the mouth of a doctor who is performing the operation. For this matter, doctors have their own considerations in such matters, and they also consider the judgment of risks. Under basic circumstances, they must protect adults.
The man continued: "The operation lasted four hours, and my wife saved it, but my child did die."
"What happened later?" I asked again, "Didn't you contact me for compensation after that?"
The man threw the cigarette butt on the ground, crushed it with his feet, and said: "I found it, at that time, I found the surveillance camera, and soon found the child. My wife recognized the child at a glance. The child who kicked her at that time The child. We found their parents and told them about it at the time.”
"How did you solve it after that?" I asked again.
The man smiled bitterly, and said slowly: "How did you solve it? After paying the medical expenses, I finally paid 30,000 yuan."
Hearing the price, Gu Chen frowned and said, "Thirty thousand, a human life is worth thirty thousand?"
The man looked at Gu Chen and said, "How much more can we have? The medical expenses are not expensive, and the self-expenses are 10,000 to 20,000 yuan, and then the child's family accompanied us for 30,000 yuan. They said there is still some nutrition expenses or something of."
"Is it like this after that?" Gu Chen frowned and stood up.
The man said: "That's it, what else can I do."
"This is murder, this is intentional homicide." Gu Chen said with slow anger in his tone, "Intentional homicide ends up with 30,000 yuan and it's fine?"
The man said slowly: "Yes, what else can I do? The child is only eight years old, and his family has money. If we hold on to it and file a lawsuit, it will take time and may not get it. What a good result, it's better to just accept it like this."
"Your child is dead and you are like this? Cowardly! Is that your child!" Gu Chen was very angry.
I quickly pulled Gu Chen, and Gu Chen stopped.
Hearing Gu Chen's words, the man's face was a little annoyed, but he immediately covered it up. Seeing this expression, I shook my head helplessly. The man is just an ordinary farmer in the countryside, and the number of times he has come to the town may be one of the few. I can know what he is thinking.
As an honest farmer with no money, no rights, and no background, he would naturally be afraid when facing a rich and powerful family. How can an honest farmer stand up in front of these people
Perhaps what he thinks in his whole life is very simple. Farming and raising a family by himself, raising a child, sending him to college, and living this life in peace and stability, life and death may be their most simple wish. But at this crucial juncture, this kind of thing happened.
Thirty thousand yuan per life is certainly not worth it, but if you fight to the end, you may not get the thirty thousand yuan. This is a question that is very close to me. To take it or not to take it is not just a word, it is a decision made after really struggling in my heart. It is 30,000 yuan with the blood of my own child.
"you know… "
Before I finished my words, at this moment, the dog on the bed seemed to be overheated. It suddenly jumped off the bed and ran around on the ground. But at this time, Wei Shufen who was on the bed was yelling, her voice was sharp, the voice tore our eardrums, and also tore through the night...