After leaving the detention center, her mother-in-law and Cao Lan felt very uncomfortable, and He Beitao became mute. The mother-in-law looked at He Hao and said: My dear grandson, your father can't speak anymore. I hope you can speak soon. He Hao, who is just learning to walk, doesn't understand anything, and Cao Lan also hopes that he will learn to speak early.
In Cao Lan's impression, some children over one year old can pronounce the word "Mom" or pronounce it overlappingly. Cao Lan tried to teach him several times, but he couldn't. When he was one and a half, two, or even three years old, He Hao couldn't speak. Sometimes he would say "ah" but he couldn't say anything or he couldn't pronounce the words clearly. Cao Lan and her mother-in-law were very anxious. A question hung in their hearts. The child might be mute.
After a while, He Hao still couldn't speak, and they were convinced that he was mute. Can muteness be cured? Cao Lan asked this. Of course, an experienced mother-in-law knew that mutes could not be cured, especially mutes born in the womb, but she would rather not believe her own rational judgment and take He Hao to see a doctor. The main reason was to ask a question. Ask the doctor, now that medicine is advanced, can mutes be cured?
When they arrived at a hospital, the doctor in a white coat pulled He Hao in front of him and asked him to open his mouth, but he kept closing his mouth even tighter and urged him to cry timidly. The doctor took the opportunity to use a piece of medical wood to pry open his slightly open mouth and check, and found that his tongue was shorter than ordinary people. He sighed and said: He was born mute and cannot be cured.
The family gave up treatment for He Hao. The mother-in-law hopes that her son will go home and have another child with his wife after serving his sentence. She thinks that it is impossible for her daughter-in-law to be mute every time she gives birth to a child. But her wish came to nothing. Before her son was released from prison, Cao Lan left the house. In the jealous words of her mother-in-law, she ran away with a wild man outside. People in the village said that Cao Lan also had her own difficulties. Her husband was serving a sentence in the cell, and the family was lost. It was very difficult financially. Cao Lan couldn't bear it. Her mother-in-law was old and had no steel in her feet and no iron in her hands. She had to rely on herself for everything. She had no choice but to go out to work and couldn't resist the temptation outside. It was only natural that she ran away with a wild man. Who said that her man couldn't carry her in his fortune?
This is so painful. After his mother left, he was not yet 5 years old. Although his grandma could take care of him, he also needed his mother very much. In his impression, his mother often wore a yellow-bottomed floral spring dress, with a shawl of black hair, which would float over from time to time, covering half of her face. There were always dots of tears on her face. How could he know that his mother had cried? But I don’t understand why my mother is crying?
After his mother left, although he couldn't say "uh", he kept making gestures. Grandma knew that he wanted his mother, but there was nothing she could do. After the coaxing failed, grandma asked passers-by where she saw Cao Lan. If you see her, I'll trouble you to send a message asking Cao Lan to come back and see her child, who needs her.
Whenever grandma asks passers-by like this, He Hao just listens quietly. I don't know if he can hear her. Anyway, he doesn't make any noise at all. It's a pity that no passerby could send a message to the He family. In the first period, He Hao's desire for his mother continued unabated. That time when he walked out of the house, he saw a woman with black hair and a shawl on the village road far away. Much like my mother, why not stand in the field for a long time, watching intently, until the back figure goes further and further away, and then disappears.
He Hao was disappointed again. As time went by, his memory of his mother gradually became blurred. My father came back from prison after serving his sentence. He was restless and couldn't get along with his grandma. She often complained that he shouldn't do things that were harmful to nature. He got angry and left. He didn't care about his son. He didn't have any feelings for him at all. He left. Never came back.
Grandma is old and mute. There is no school for the deaf and mute nearby. Even if there is one, grandma cannot afford to send him to study. As a result, he has no chance to go to school and becomes an out-and-out illiterate. However, He Hao was not foolhardy. As his grandma was getting older, he did not hesitate to do whatever she asked him to do, as long as he could do it. When he was in his teens, his grandmother often sent him to the mountains to cut firewood. In the mountains and forests, because neither outsiders nor teenagers of the same age understood the mute language, he lost the opportunity to communicate with others.
Coincidentally, there was a mute female Long Duoyun who was about the same age as him in the mountain forest. She was also collecting firewood and was very lonely. However, she met him and became very close to him. They talked in mute language and naturally became friends.
Four years later, the grandmother who lived on village relief together with the underage He Hao unfortunately died of illness. When the villagers took over the funeral, Long Duoyun also came to pay his respects with his sleeves wrapped in black gauze.
Soon, Long Duoyun became He Hao's wife. Before this, Long Duoyun's father was very opposed, saying how should two mutes live together? But Long Duoyun wanted to live or die with her. Her father considered that it was impossible for normal people to look down on a mute girl, so he had no choice but to agree.
A few years later, the mute couple gave birth to a baby boy. The family was very happy, but after raising the baby for three years, he still could not speak like a normal child. They knew that the baby was also mute, and they were very disappointed.
Due to a difficult life, the mute child often catches colds, and his parents, who are also mute, have no money to treat him. That time the child coughed violently and cried violently. Long Duoyun asked He Hao in sign language if he had any money, and He Hao answered in sign language. He also opened his wallet and saw that it was empty.
Long Duoyun's hand accidentally raised and touched a shiny silver hairpin on her head, which was given to her by her mother as a dowry when she got married.
At this time, she pursed her lips and smiled, knowing that she had no money to treat her child, so she could just give this silver hairpin to the doctor as compensation. She thought so, so she did it. Carrying the child into a hospital in the city, she didn't know that she needed to register, so she went directly to a department. The doctor in a white coat was checking the patient's pulse. He came in order and had no time to pay attention to anything else.
Long Duoyun put down the child on his back, and then brought the silver hairpin that he had taken off his head to the doctor. The doctor looked at her and pointed inexplicably and asked her what she wanted to do. Of course she couldn't speak. She could only express her meaning in sign language. The doctor didn't understand sign language, but he saw that she was mute. He also saw her shaking a silver hairpin with one hand and holding the coughing child with the other, so he understood half of the meaning. Then he said: Do you want me to treat this child? She nodded and waved the silver hairpin in front of the doctor.
The doctor said I don’t want this thing, but a prescription. You go and register. After registration, I will use your prescription to treat your child, and then write a prescription. You go to the pharmacy window to pay for the medicine.
Long Duoyun had no money to pay for medical expenses, so she wanted to use this silver hairpin as compensation. The doctor didn't understand this, so she was very anxious, so she pushed the child with a cold and runny nose in front of the doctor, and the doctor took out He showed her a written prescription and said: Go to the window to register, get the prescription form and give it to me, and then I will treat your child.
Seeing that she was mute, she could not hear or speak clearly. The doctor had no choice but to get up and leave his seat to take her out. He pointed to the window on the left side of the hospital hall where a line of people were lining up and said: Go there and line up to register.
