On New Year's Eve this year, Lin Yutong and Fourth Master took their children back to town.
Celebrating the New Year in town this year.
The New Year atmosphere in the village is still very strong. Firecrackers can burst out anytime and anywhere.
This house has not been inhabited for a long time, but recently Yingzi has kept the fire burning, so it is still warm.
On New Year's Eve, we make dumplings. This is a meal for a family of four.
Qingning and Qingyuan rushed to eat the dumplings on the plate. They usually put coins in the dumplings, but this year Lin Yutong put a small, peanut-shaped silver dumpling inside.
Then the siblings scrambled away.
The two of them grabbed a large plate of dumplings, but no one could eat them.
Then the fourth master calmly picked up the one on the edge of the plate in front of him, and then calmly picked out the silver nugget with chopsticks and put it on the plate.
"Mom!" Qingyuan was furious, "Mom, you are partial."
Why am I biased?
"I must have secretly put it on the plate for my dad." I just favor my sister, but I also favor my dad. The one I love in the end is me.
Lin Yutong laughed, "What a silly boy!" She said, "You brought it out from the kitchen. I told you that one plate was for your father, and the other plate was shared between you and your sister. But you were understanding and gave it to your father.
That portion is less..."
"Aren't I afraid that I won't have enough to eat?" I'm not full.
Then the silly child saw her mother coming in with a big tray and seven or eight plates of various snacks.
His father coaxed him: "Tomorrow morning, ask your mother to give you a gold nugget..."
"Hmph..." It feels good to be pampered.
The Spring Festival Gala is a must-see.
Eating melon seeds, peeling peanuts, eating oranges and apples, sitting on the kang and smiling at the TV, it felt like all the fatigue of the year was gone.
On the first day of the Lunar New Year, I got up at around four o'clock. Then I went door to door to pay New Year greetings.
Qingning is so old, unless my family gives me lucky money, others will not give me any more.
Qingyuan, on the other hand, can get away with it for 1, 2, 3, 5 yuan.
Lin Yutong and Fourth Master exchanged a wad of money for five yuan. As long as the children came to the door, no matter whose family they belonged to, they would be given money.
We are very close to each other, so I came with the adults, and I gave two for five yuan, and four for five yuan.
Then Qingyuan was surprised to find that many children had paid New Year's greetings to his family several times just to ask for the five yuan.
There is also the one who keeps pushing the child back if he doesn't come. He bows once to his mother and once to his father. Anyway, it's just an extra charge.
It quite refreshes people’s outlook on life.
Is it okay to teach your children to be so greedy for petty gains since childhood?
My family is eating here this year, and Yingzi came over early to help. In fact, it has been prepared long ago, just heat it up. Except for the soup, it needs to be made fresh.
After breakfast, everyone came.
The third child had two children, but He Xiaowan didn't come. Years ago, he called Tongtong and told her that the old man's family over there was celebrating the New Year, and his son and daughter-in-law were working overtime, so he asked her to take care of his grandson for a few days, so he couldn't go back.
Now the third child is really at ease.
The fourth master also asked the third son: "Are you saying you don't have a family?"
The third child said, "If I dare to remarry, my son will hate me to death."
So I would rather stay alone.
There's nothing anyone else can say.
The couple from the Lao Wu family came with Ma Xiaoting. Ma Xiaoting is also a god. Tongtong said that if she was not asked to come to the door, she would just sit on the doorstep and bask in the sun without entering.
The boss came with his two sons.
Qingfeng hasn't grown much in height, he is still less than 1.6 meters tall. He is thin and small.
I have gained a lot of experience after going out. When I come back, I mostly talk to Qingning about things outside.
"...The security guard is not good." Qingfeng said, "I went to deliver water just two months after I started working. It was hard to deliver water... I didn't do much work. A buddy who works with me said he was going there after the Spring Festival.
I heard that you can make a lot of money if you go to work in the capital, even on a construction site. Let's see if it works, I'll go with him."
Qingning felt bad, "Learn something. You can also learn to drive. If that doesn't work, just get a taxi...even if it's a contractor's car..." It's better than carrying bricks on the construction site, "Many farmers now
After working for a year, you won’t get any wages at the end. So, it’s easier to earn money in front of the door, at least no one dares to cheat us.”
Qingfeng disagreed: "How much money can you earn by working at the door? Look at Wu Da, how much salary does he get in a month?"
You see, the salary they get is low, so why don’t you include half a year’s salary without counting the bonus?
Many units consider that the salary is not high, and they add bonuses to the salary to avoid taxes.
I can't explain these things to him.
He thinks he understands things outside, but in fact, what does he understand? He understands nothing.
Can't tell.
After hesitating for a moment, he finally said: "Then remember to call me when you go."
Qingfeng smiled shyly: "No... I don't have to go yet..." I have to go. What my parents meant was to live with my fourth uncle and ask him to help him find a job. In fact, he was asking for work.
What! You have to work and eat by yourself wherever you go, and you are looked down upon by others for nothing. Of course the second sister means well when she says this, and she does not dislike herself as a part-time worker. But please don’t bother others.
Qinghui glanced at Qingfeng and asked Qingning: "How much does a house in Beijing cost?"
This kid is awesome!
Qingning said: "Your dad didn't pay much. He bought it in installments. He took out a loan for thirty years... Now he has to pay more than a thousand dollars every month."
Qinghui's expression changed, "You borrowed it from the bank?"
"Yes." That's all she could say.
But she really didn't know whether it was a mortgage or a full purchase. She knew that this kid was keeping an eye on his father's property.
Qinghui frowned: "So my dad..." is unreliable.
The factory also has a lot of unpaid debts.
All of them are not big, but they always regard themselves as adults. They don’t understand anything, but they feel that they understand everything.
That's what they said.
Looking back, Qingning thought again, did she really understand everything? In fact, it was still the same. In the eyes of adults, she didn't understand anything.
There were only three people in the kitchen, Li Xian'er, Yingzi and Tongtong. Li Xian'er said: "There are five sisters-in-law, and now we are the only three left." Then he pointed outside, "The one at the door is a dead man."
Said Ma Xiaoting.
Then he asked Yingzi in a low voice: "Have you gone to your place?"
Yingzi shook his head: "No!"
Then he asked Tongtong: "What did I get for you?" You can't go empty-handed during the New Year. This has nothing to do with wealth or poverty, it's just etiquette.
Tongtong shook his head, and the couple came with their children and nothing else.
Li Xian'er said: "I won't give his children any lucky money."
During the Chinese New Year, I didn’t bring any gifts, and I didn’t even come to visit my brother and sister-in-law to pay New Year greetings. Let alone give New Year’s money to my children.
During the years when Zhao Aihua was here, he was very polite and courteous, but what about now?
My family doesn’t have any spare money to give to his family.
The abacus is really good.
Her voice was lowered: "Do you remember what happened when you gave birth to a child and got married?"
On the wedding day, his adoptive father disappeared and he was possessed by someone who was said to be his biological mother.
Lin Yutong said gloomily: "You want to wait for my mother to come to you again."
Deng Chunhua trembled. Lin Jiacheng had brought back the soul of the person in front of her. She no longer dared to say that there was nothing wrong with this matter.
Lin Jiacheng's face turned pale. He didn't know whether he was scared or angry.
I originally planned to give him a thousand yuan as alimony. Forget it now!
Give a shit!
Even if you throw it to a beggar, you won’t give it to him.
How could his heart be so evil, selfish, and always only thinking about what would be beneficial to him? It was for himself that he abandoned the child, but now it is for his own sake that he wants to take that child back.
Lin Yutong stood up and said, "Let's go. We can't stay here anymore..."
Yingzi was so angry that he was trembling all over, and he dragged him out while holding his second half in his arms.
Lin Yuqi either knew about it or heard the message inside, so he ran to find Lin Yukang and his wife next door.
The children here all got in the car. The fourth master started the car and stepped on the accelerator to leave.
Lin Yukang hurriedly said: "You two are the same, he is old and confused, why do you still care about it? If I can't cause trouble for you, no one's say will count. I have the final say in this family. People who have children live a good life, so why bother?
?Don’t cause trouble to others.”
Lin Yutong was much more polite when speaking to Lin Laoer. She pointed to Yingzi sitting behind her, "I'm so angry... I have high blood pressure... Go to the hospital and have a look..."
Yingzi was half angry and half dizzy from motion sickness.
I asked her to tell her that she would rather ride on her old second-hand motorcycle than ride on this thing. It was too uncomfortable. She just got off the car and still didn't recover, so she turned around and walked back.
My gosh.
When Lin Yukang saw Yingzi's sallow face behind him, he was startled: "Hurry up... hurry up... don't delay..."
As soon as the car started moving, Yingzi breathed out a sigh of relief: "Why did Mom find such a ruthless person back then..."
It's so shameless to be able to say this.
Shengzi was close to Yingzi, but how about Lin Yutong? She was probably afraid that Lin Yutong would misunderstand and trouble her. So the courtesy was there, but they just didn't look like biological siblings. They were too polite, but not close enough.
The second child said, "I'll remind you later, because I'm afraid the Lin family will leave it to someone else."
"If you really dare to do this..." Lin Yutong said: "Tell Shengzi to call me."
When it comes to the Lin family, Lin Yukang is in charge of the affairs of his peers, and these brothers and sisters all give him face. But in charge of the previous generation, Lin Yujian has to be the one in charge.
Don't mention it since I'm going back to my parents' house today.
On the third day of junior high school, I drove around to visit old and new relatives one by one, and then rushed back to the county town in the evening. I also brought Qingping and Qing'an back with me.
On the fourth day of the Lunar New Year, Lin Yutong and Fourth Master went to the county town to pay New Year greetings.
A few children were playing at home.
With Qingping here, I don’t have to worry about anyone being hungry at home.
Yan Yan and Xu Qiang went over after breakfast and rented a DVD. A few of them were watching the DVD at home. It was almost eight o'clock in the evening when Lin Yutong and Fourth Master came back and were still watching.
The two of them didn't bother, just smiled and let the child go.
As soon as the two of them changed their clothes, the doorbell rang.
It was Shi Ke who opened the door.
Lin Yutong smiled and said, "Come in quickly."
Shi Ke glanced outside, pulled Lin Yutong, and then asked: "Have these children not been out all day?"
probably.
Lin Yutong pointed to the living room: "Go and ask, I haven't been here all day."
Several children turned off the CD and stood up to say hello.
Shi Ke smiled at the children and said, "Let me ask you, are you not going out today?"
"No!" Yan Yan didn't know what the hell he was going to do, so he pointed outside, "Listen to the wind, what are you doing out there?"
It's windy and cold outside.
Shi Ke breathed a sigh of relief, "Then I'll be relieved."
Then he said to Lin Yutong: "There is a girl named Gao Jie, who probably knows Yan Yan..."
Lin Yutong knew this child and nodded.
"Her mother came to my house and said that the child came to see Yan Yan." Shi Ke sighed, "I know the child is at your home, but I thought their child was also there. But it turns out he didn't come."
She knew all these children, but none of them were noble.
"I've been at home." Shi Ke said, "There's no way I didn't know that child was looking for Strict. What do you mean? She's still waiting at my house." After saying that, he walked out, "I'll call someone and ask her to come in person."
Take a look. Otherwise, you’d think I’ve done something to someone else’s daughter.”
Watching Yan Yan's mother go out, Qingping tugged on Xu Qiang's sleeve, "Han Chao..."
"Who?" Xu Qiang asked again without hearing clearly.
"Han Chao and Gao Jie are getting along." Qingping said again.
The others turned their faces and looked at Qingping, none of whom had ever heard of this person.
Who is Han Chao?
Qingping couldn't say that Han Chao was the little gangster who used to pester me. Xu Qiang said quickly: "He is just a gangster who likes to hang around the middle school and pester girls. He is quite famous. These students have probably heard of his name..."
When he said this, Qing Ning and Yan Yan remembered who it was.
We even had a fight at the skating rink.
"How come it's so easy?" Qing Ning asked.
Qingping himself was embarrassed: "Han Chao was pestering a girl in our class, and then Gao Jie stood up for that girl. Then I don't know what happened, maybe because they had more contact. Gao Jie became close to Han Chao..."
We met many times, hugging and kissing each other in the corner of the school playground.
Fortunately, the girl Gao Jie was fighting against was not him. Otherwise, it would have been a problem for other parents to get entangled with her now.
Thanks to Xu Qiang...
She thought so in her heart.
When the door on the opposite side rang, it was Shi Ke who came out with someone. The door here was not closed, so people came in directly.
Gao Jie's mother is very beautiful, and she seems to be very intellectual. She looked anxious now: "Didn't Gao Jie look for you?" She asked Yan Yan directly, with a look of disbelief on her face, "You are back, there is no way she won't look for you."
"I have never been in contact with her, Auntie." Strictly glanced at Qing Ning and said quickly, "We haven't been in contact in the past few years."
"No!" Gao Jie's mother said, "Why don't you tell the truth? Our family, Gao Jie, goes out to call you every night without asking us to listen. How can you say that you haven't contacted each other?"
"Then I don't know." Strictly said with a serious look on his face, "Since we were not in the same class in elementary school, we have really not known each other very well. There is no way she would want to play with me. She still calls me every day? I am a military cadet.
It’s a completely closed management. There are time limits for when you can call and answer the phone. The instructor will help answer and handle anything. It’s really impossible for me to have time to talk to her every day.”
Gao Jie's mother's face changed: "You mean Gao Jie hasn't contacted you?"
Strictly shook his head, "Really not. We have been together today and we haven't seen Gao Jie."
"Then where did this child go?" Gao Jie's mother felt weak and asked Lin Yutong, "Can you borrow a phone? I'll call the police."
Xu Qiang pressed down the phone, held Qingping who was about to speak with one hand and said: "I have a friend. I heard that he has a girlfriend. She is a freshman in high school, also named Gao Jie. I don't know if they are the same person."
girlfriend?
Gao Jie's mother shook her head: "No! Our children will not fall in love prematurely."
Shi Ke's face is so shameless. You don't have puppy love. Your daughter said she was calling my son, but why didn't you stop her? You even allowed your daughter to go out every night. This is not a sign of puppy love. It was originally a good impression.
Now that I think about her words carefully, I feel that this woman has impure intentions.
She asked Xu Qiang: "Auntie knows you. You kid never lies. Tell me more..."
"A man named Han Chao lives at No. 7, Dongwu Lane." Xu Qiang smiled, "How about I go and ask first?"
"No need!" Gao Jie's mother said quickly, "I'll go look for it... I know the general location..."
Shi Kepi smiled and said, "I'll drive you there." Don't blame my son.
So without giving Gao Jie's mother time to refuse, she just grabbed the person and left.
When the others left, Xu Qiang said: "It's getting late, I'll leave too."
Qingping said: "By the way, I'll go back and forget it."
Qing'an didn't go back, "I'll sleep with my third brother."
Qingyuan is the third oldest boy in the Jin family.
Qingning said: "I'm going to deliver it. I'll see if there's anyone selling sugar-roasted chestnuts outside."
Strictly follows.
Lin Yutong watched a group of people go out without stopping them.
Qingyuan said: "They are all here to watch the excitement."
That's right, a few people got into Xu Qiang's car when they got out and took a small road directly to Han Chao's house.
"It's right here." Shi Ke stepped on the brakes and pointed outward.
This is a bungalow, which can be regarded as the most fringe shanty town.
Shi Ke got out of the car first, found No. 7, and then knocked on the door.
The answering voice inside was very young and a little impatient, "Who is it?"
Shi Ke said: "I have something to do with Han Chao. Is it Han Chao's family?"
Han Chao asked Gao Jie in bed: "Is that your mother's voice?"
Gao Jie blushed and shrank back, "No! Send them away quickly, I can't even get up. I really have to go back, otherwise my mother will be anxious."
Han Chao lowered his head and kissed her, "I know, I know."
Wrapped in a coat and wearing summer slippers, I went out. When I opened the door, I saw two unfamiliar faces.
Gao Jie's mother pushed the disheveled young man away and rushed into the room with the light on.
As a result, he saw his daughter's face emerging from the quilt, her head sticking out to reveal her smooth shoulders.
Her brain coaxed, and she fell straight back.
Shi Ke was startled: "Mother Gao Jie."
The four people who had followed me secretly were startled when they heard the sound outside and quickly got out of the car.
It was so messy inside that Shi Ke couldn't support Gao Jie's mother at all, and Gao Jie was so scared that she shrank into the bed and didn't dare to come out. Han Chao was stunned. What did you say? The mother-in-law came to find her?
Xu Qiang came in and pulled Han Chao aside: "What's going on?"
When Han Chao saw it was this guy, he felt relieved: "That's what happened? My girlfriend and I... then they came in... and then you saw it."
Xu Qiang kicked him: "Hurry up and put your clothes on. You are really in trouble this time!"
The person there pinched Gao Jie's mother awake, and this person got up and threw herself on the bed, beating the child hard with the bag in her hand, "Why are you so stupid!"
Shi Ke said: "What does it look like when you ask a child to put on clothes?"
The strict couple went out and stood outside the door with Han Chao and Xu Qiang.
Intermittent yelling came from inside, followed by a scream, with a trembling cry, but also hysterical, "Why do you care about me? Why do you call me stupid?"
"I'm your mother! I don't care about you, who cares about you! You and your gangsters...you...who is stupid if you are not stupid..."
"Who said he is a gangster? He will get better! I will tell him to get better. He hasn't been outside for a long time! He found a job to support his family... He has changed for the better..."
"I raised you so big just to ask you to find someone who won't act like a fool outside? Even a serious person won't act like a fool outside! Tell me, did he lie to you? Let's go! Let's sue him! You are not an adult yet...
"
"No! I volunteered! I love him and he loves me. We love each other, why can't we be together?"
"Fuck you! You know what love is!"
"You don't understand love! If you knew love, how could you live like that with dad..."
"You bastard! Shut up and go to the public security bureau immediately so we can report the case..."
"No! If you want to sue him, I will die for you!"
Han Chao's face was complicated and anxious, and he walked in quickly without saying anything, "Auntie! It's all my fault! I will be responsible. I will treat her well, and I will marry her..."
Gao Jie's mother was beaten: "You are a rapist, abducting young girls... Just wait, otherwise my life will be in vain..."
Gao Jie said to her mother: "If you want to let everyone know that your daughter fell in love early and slept with someone else, you will scream and sue. Everyone who sues will know. If you sue, I will never be able to live as a human being for the rest of my life. If you sue, everyone will know."
When you go out on the street and people are everywhere pointing fingers, you go and sue him. I also tell you that if he goes to jail, I will wait for him to come out for ten or twenty years. I also tell you that I have slept with him a long time ago.
She is also pregnant. If he goes to jail, I will live here and I will give birth to the child and wait for him to come back..."
Gao Jie's mother covered her chest, her lips slowly turning purple.
Shi Ke was startled, "Hurry, hospital!"
"Mom——" Gao Jie cried loudly.
It was a mess. After sending her to the hospital and completing the formalities, Lin Yutong waited for her daughter to come back. It was almost twelve o'clock.
Qingning told her mother and sighed: "... Gao Jie is a very smart girl... why did she take such a detour?"
Lin Yutong said: "...In this matter, the girl's family always suffers."
Qingning knew what her mother meant, "I won't be stupid."
Children who are stupid never feel that they are stupid.
Just like Gao Jie now, covering her face after being slapped by her father, she asked: "Why? Didn't you tell my mother that you can't help yourself when you feel in love? I thought you would understand."
Her father raised his hand and slapped himself again, "It's not love, it's just obsession." What he didn't admit in front of his wife, he admitted in front of his daughter.
Yes! It's his fault! Because of his fault, the child went down this wrong path.
Gao Jie pursed her lips: "Dad, there is really love."
Yes! There really is love.
"But child... one cannot only have love in this life..."
Gao Jie didn't quite understand what he said. She only knew: "We are in love. I just want to see him and be with him. No matter what his family does, whether he has money or not, no matter how big his future is...
It doesn't matter...I love him...Isn't this okay? Dad!"
The father and daughter were talking at the end of the hospital corridor. In the stairwell on one side, Han Chao, who was leaning against the wall, slapped himself hard.
Xu Qiang glanced outside, pulled him two steps down, and the two of them sat on the stairs.
Han Chao laughed: "...I used to be as arrogant as a little peacock, and I could tell at a glance that she was very difficult to pick up. I didn't really want to talk to her. I went to find the girl at the entrance of our alley, either to pester her or to pester her.
Her mother asked me to pick her up and drop her off, saying that she had to pass by the construction site to go back to our area, and the girl's house was not safe. That's it, I helped pick up and drop off her every day. But what about her? She was quite enthusiastic...she scolded me when she saw her, and so did I.
She has a mean tongue and likes to flirt with nothing... As time goes by, she can't get rid of this girl. She is very clingy. Every girl who talks to me is given a lesson by her. Including the neighbor's girl who is in the same class as her.
My sister also always tells me, stop hanging around all day, even if it’s for me, you have to find a job. Otherwise, who will support me in the future? She is nagging me, it happens that my brother has a job, temporarily
Yes, I went to help deliver the goods. It was also a bit like getting rid of her entanglement. I just said that I had a job and was very busy or something... But you think this girl is stupid or not... she came directly to my house in the evening, and
She cleaned the house for me and bought me food... When she left... she said something about rewards, she closed her eyes and said she was allowed to kiss her..."
Xu Qiang sighed.
Yes! A pampered little girl, fair and beautiful, just put it in her mouth, there is no reason not to eat it. She is not a good person in the first place.
It's better if you go back and forth like this.
No one can tell what the love of a gangster is like.
Maybe you like it.
But hearing Gao Jie's love talk, Han Chao still felt guilty.
"What will happen in the future?" Han Chao regretted his fooling around for the first time, "If she doesn't live well, I won't be able to feel at ease in my life! Really! She's like a sinner."
Xu Qiang said: "Don't think about the future first, think about what to do now?"
yes!
what to do?
No one participated in the follow-up.
Shi Ke said strictly: "Even if we make ordinary friends, we still want to find people like Qing Ning and Qing Ping. The little girls are very well-behaved and well-educated. Girls like Gao Jie, please stay away from me. Do you hear me?"
"
While I was talking, the phone rang.
Shi Ke frowned and whispered: "Your grandma."
I thought I was talking about going back to celebrate the New Year. Shi Ke answered the phone and said, "Mom, I was talking about going back..."
But Grandma Yan over there said: "That's not what you're talking about. It's Xiao Li and his wife..."
Who is Xiao Li?
Strict lip-sync reminder: Gao Jie’s parents.
Shi Ke knew that what annoyed her mother-in-law the most, her enthusiasm immediately disappeared, "Why are you mentioning them again?"
"Strictly speaking, his dad is also the county magistrate, so there's nothing wrong with helping friends." Grandma Yan said, "Xiao Li called me and told me to tell your dad to find a school in the capital. They want to come back.
Even in middle school. I wonder if I had a hard time with you..."
Shi Ke rolled his eyes and spoke in detail, with a bit of complaint: "...You always say that girl Gao Jie is good and good. She got together with a gangster and even gave birth to a child. This
Just applaud! What’s even more disgusting is that she has been telling her mother for so long that she calls Yan Yan every night when she goes out. What do you think their mother and daughter had planned before? If this basin of dirty water is poured on Yan Yan,
, does he still have a future?" As he said that, he became excited. He remembered that his mother-in-law always used heart disease to make things difficult for them. Usually, if they wanted to talk to their children, they had to get her permission. Even if they could say a few private words, she would sit on her breast.
I just listened on the side, afraid that I, the mother, would secretly say bad things about her, the grandmother, to my child. I never cared about it because I was considering her body. It would be scary to get sick. But if she is still so confused,
Pointing fingers at the child, for a moment she even thought darkly: She might as well get angry to death.
So he spoke in a somewhat arrogant tone, "...I tell you, if anyone harms my son, then she is my enemy...I am not done with her..."
Grandma Yan panted heavily, hung up the phone with a bang, and then sat on the sofa and cried.
Grandpa Yan frowned: "Don't cry either. I don't have that many connections left. I want to leave today and come back tomorrow. How can there be so many positions waiting for them? Don't get involved. If you want to find connections, go find them..."
Grandma Yan said: "Is that why I am... I am so angry... I almost hurt our grandson with my anger..." She scolded Gao Jie again, "I thought she was just a little bit pretty, but I didn't expect that she is such a shameless little girl...
..." Then he felt sad again, "My son has been away from home all year round, and we have become estranged from each other. Listen to what his wife said? I didn't do this intentionally."
"You live your life in peace." Grandpa Yan said: "If no one can satisfy you, then let's live alone, and you don't have to call your children and grandchildren all the time. If you can't volunteer for education in the plateau area, I will sign up.
…”
That would cost you your life.
"No!" Grandma Yan stood up directly, muttering something to herself.
Qingning looked at Yan Yan in astonishment: "You said your grandma has a heart disease...and has symptoms of Alzheimer's..."
Strictly nodded: "So my dad is also eager to find connections and wants to return to the capital as soon as possible..."