
The City is Close but Home is Far Away
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My father sent his family members away and left me alone. He asked me to help him get 10,000 yuan to pay off his debt. My father said he was going to die. He said he had heard out-of-body sounds for many nights. When it came to the out-of-body experience, my father coughed violently. The sound of my father's cough was dull and depressing, as if he was coughing up the breath of death. My father told me while coughing that he must repay this debt, otherwise he would die in shame. My father said that he had done something shameful. He originally thought that no one would know and he would just let the matter die quietly in his heart. However, when he was about to die, the matter came out of his heart. My father told me that twenty-five years ago, when my sister was admitted to college, he went to borrow my sister's tuition fees. He went to many villages and failed to get the loan. When he walked to the big well in despair, it was already dark. There was still a half-moon hanging in the sky that day. The half-moon was like a lamp, always hanging in front of my father. Every step my father took, the moon also took a step. When he walked to the slope behind the well, my father saw a cow in the light of the moon, a beautiful big yellow bull. My father said with certainty that it was a big yellow duck with strong muscles and no hair on the whole body. Huang Gu stood in the middle of the road, dragging a rope with a tree. When his father looked at it, it also looked at his father. The father called out "whose cow is from" several times, but no one answered, so the father walked around the cow and walked forward. Incredibly, the cow followed him. The cow kept moving even when his father stopped, and the cow stopped even when his father stopped. Later, his father grabbed the rope that tied the cow in his own hand. My father said, I led the cow and walked for a day and two nights to the Jiaba cattle and horse market. I sold the cow and got 1,200 yuan to send your sister to college.
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