Jean Love

I went down to the first floor, the sky was drizzling and gray everywhere, my sister-in-law was in the kitchen, wearing an apron, Lian Yu was in the living room, holding a raincoat, a maroon raincoat, and a motorcycle was waiting outside the gate.

The two little ones were still sleeping soundly. I wrapped two red envelopes and gently placed them next to their pillows. Standing in front of the bed, I stared at them for a long time. The big one has a tiger head and tiger head, while the small one has a thin skin and tender flesh. Each has its own characteristics. , the facial features are very neat, and he is playing games with Duke Zhou.

When I came to the living room, Lian Yu asked me, "Is it packed? Can I go?"

"Okay, eh? What about your father?" I asked him.

"Let's go out and graze the cows."

"Well, I didn't buy anything specially for the elderly. If I gave red envelopes, I guess they would not want them. I'm embarrassed to push and push. You should help me buy something for them when you are at home. Do you know what is more suitable? , or just add a la carte to them." I took two hundred yuan and stuffed it into Lian Yu's pocket.

"No, no." Lian Yu pushed my hand away and firmly refused.

"Wen Tsai, I don't have anything for you. Bring some Yuanmi back." At this moment, Lian Yu's eldest brother came in through the gate, took a black bag, filled it with something, and hugged it to his chest. I couldn't hear whether he was talking about warm rice or yuan rice, anyway, I don't know what it is.

The sister-in-law came from the kitchen when she heard the sound, wiped her hands on the apron a few times, lowered her head to open the TV cabinet, and took out a few long rice dumplings wrapped in thin white thread, and packed them in a red plastic bag. , looked at Lianyu, looked at me, and said, "Wen Tsai, take some zongzi back to eat."

"No, I also came empty-handed." I tried to refuse, put my backpack on my shoulders, and turned towards the door.

"Bring some, huh?" Lian Yu enthusiastically brought it, packed it tightly, stuffed it into my backpack, and carried the backpack on my shoulders, it was heavy, just as much as they gave it.

"Get in the car." Lian Yu was wearing a raincoat, stepped on the motorcycle, spread his feet on the ground, and looked at me.I straightened the straps of my backpack, looked back at the whitewashed house, at the spacious yard, at the few osmanthus flowers by the yard wall, and at the upstairs rooms.Smiling, he waved goodbye to his brother and his sister-in-law: "Take care of yourself at home, if you have a chance, come out to play in Houjie."

"Hey, yes, everyone, take care of your health and make a lot of money. Come back to play with Lian Yu during the Mid-Autumn Festival." The sister-in-law said.

"Wen Tsai, come over to play when you are free. If you have any job introductions, call me." His brother said, repeated several times, and I understood, because I was already very familiar with that look.

I lifted the hem of the raincoat, stepped on it, and huddled on Lianyu's back. The car started steadily and moved forward, going down the mountain road. "Wen, is it cold?" Lian Yu drove more slowly this time, leaving the village.

"Maybe after the Lantern Festival." He replied, also loudly.

It was raining heavily outside, and the raindrops slapped on the raincoat, crackling, like standing on a high place and dumping beans, the wind lifted the hem of the raincoat, I hugged it a little tighter, didn't make a sound, didn't want to be separated, how I wish I could be connected as one, put Last night's dream turned into reality.

When we arrived in the town, he took me to a house. The owner of this house was not there, only the hostess, with a child on her back, saw us coming in, and greeted us warmly. He was toasting the trousers that had just been wet, and the hostess poured tea and brought fruit candies.

"This is my wife's sister." "This is my friend in Dongguan." Lian Yu introduced us to each other, then stood up and said, "Wen, it's raining outside, you sit here for a while, I'll go to the station See when the car is available."

"Extra bus, bound for Shenzhen, drive at [-] noon, arrive at [-] or [-] in the evening, and get off at the intersection of Dingshan Expressway." When Lian Yu came back, his hair was covered with fine drops of water, his face was pale, and his nostrils were full of tears. Exhaling the frost mist, he raised a square piece of thin paper with black writing on his right hand, and stuffed it into the front jacket pocket in an instant, with a happy expression.

We were happily sitting around the charcoal fire. My sister-in-law's younger sister was still busy with the child on her back, doing laundry in the outhouse, lighting a fire in the kitchen, and occasionally coming into the living room to say hello.

"There is no difference between celebrating the new year and not celebrating the new year here?" I sometimes held Lian Yu's big hand, interlocking my fingers, sometimes leaning on his shoulder, and sometimes rubbing into his chest.

"Then what else? Just eat and drink." Lian Yu let me be mischievous, with a secret smile on his face.

"That's right, hey, you will also go to visit relatives, right? For example, go to the house of your father-in-law and mother-in-law."

"Yes, of course, the rules are the same everywhere, right?"

"When?"

"Anytime is fine, before the Lantern Festival."

"Most of our places are on the second day of the new year, old couples and old wives can postpone it, the fourth day of the new year, and the sixth day of the new year."

"So do we. We usually go on the second day of the Lunar New Year."

"Oh." I clenched Lian Yu's hand again and squeezed it a few times.

"Sorry, it's raining, I didn't take you anywhere to play." Lian Yu looked at me and said apologetically.

"I'm sorry, my arrival has delayed your going to the old man's house with your wife and children." I also looked at him and said happily.

The station is not the bus station when we came here. On a road, there are many tall buildings on both sides, the downstairs is shaded by trees, and the asphalt road has some potholes. This is a relatively old urban area.The rain was pattering, and pedestrians were passing by on the road, some were holding umbrellas, some were wearing raincoats, and some were wearing Liu Sanjie's bamboo hat.A glass window with two ticket gates open, crowds of people standing on tiptoes, raising the tickets in their hands, asking and answering the name of the city they want to reach.A sky-blue Xiamen Golden Dragon soft-seat bus was parked on the side of the fairly spacious road.

"Wen, the door is open, get in the car." Lian Yu took out his mobile phone to check the time, patted me on the shoulder, and pointed to the blue bus.

"How much is the ticket?" I asked Lian Yu, but Lian Yu didn't tell me, so I turned to ask the driver.

"The one in Houjie? It's more than 200, just go to the ticket gate and ask." The driver didn't know.

I reached out and fumbled in my pocket, and found the red envelope I was supposed to give to his parents in the morning. I approached Lianyu from behind, stuffed my hands into the pockets on both sides of Lianyu's jacket, leaned forward, and made a gesture of intimacy. Pull out, turn around.

Without escaping his attention, Lian Yu grabbed my left arm, took out the red envelope from his pocket, and stuffed it into my trouser pocket.I grabbed his hand and pulled it out hard, hard, but I couldn't pull it out. His strength was too great.There is no way, I change the direction, I hold his hand, press it hard, hard, the palm of my hand sticks to the outside of my thigh, separated by the fabric, each other is warm and passionate. "Get in the car, we're leaving soon." The car horn sounded, Lian Yu gently pushed me, pushed me into the car door, and then explained to the driver and passengers: "He is getting off at the intersection of Houjie Dingshan Expressway, please Take care." Pointing at me.Shouted to me: "Wen, the bus ticket is in your trouser pocket, take it well, have a good trip, and call when you get to Houjie."

I was standing in the aisle of the car, and the people who got on the car squeezed me aside. I couldn't go down, so I could only shout loudly: "When you go back, see if my sister-in-law has put away the child's red envelope." There was no need to explain, but I was worried. The little one tore it up, and the big one took it to buy snacks.The car door was closed, and the car opened slowly. Lian Yu stood in the aisle, wearing black trousers, a black jacket with a red collar, against the background of a red and black face with Chinese characters.

I looked at the distant figure, at the retreating woods, at the oncoming raindrops hitting the windshield, being wiped clean by the wipers up and down.Outside the car window, beside the national road, shelves are set up with bamboo poles or wooden sticks, and woven bags or colored strips are drawn to form temporary simple houses, like the simplest yurt, with the lintel facing the roadside, and a string of Grapefruits are placed in bunches, piles, and bags, like peppers hanging on the walls of northerners, and corn cobs connected in series under the eaves.The roof of the house flutters with the wind, and the peddler shouts loudly. This is life, a real life living in the wind and rain.The details of our lives are composed of many small things, which seem insignificant, but are actually very memorable.

Arriving at 08:30 in the evening, I was not the only one who got off the bus. I went back to the gas station and called Lian Yu to report that I was safe.I opened my backpack and tidied up my luggage. In addition to rice dumplings, there was also a bag of glutinous rice. It turned out to be glutinous rice. You can see glutinous rice everywhere in the market. , and later shared it with my mother, and my mother also thought it was quite new, and didn't know what the rules were.

That mountain, that village, and the appearance of those people often come to mind, playing back the simplicity and loveliness.