go together

Chapter 44

It takes more than two hours to drive from Lindong City to Qing Township, and the traffic jam is only on the expressway section, but this short section of the expressway was blocked for three or four hours, and it was already past twelve o'clock after getting off the expressway , take the provincial road to cross the town, both ends of the short street are filled with stalls selling New Year's goods, and it is difficult to move step by step, thankfully Zhou Yue brought some water and snacks.

It's just that Chen Han couldn't catch up with the car on the way back, so he searched the nearby routes with his mobile phone, he had to take a car to a larger town nearby, and then transfer back to the city, Zhou Yue looked at his phone, it was already past three o'clock .

"Don't look, you go back with me to stay for one night, and you may not be able to catch up with Linzhen now, and you will be stuck on the highway later, it will be too uncomfortable to be stuck at night."

Chen Han turned to look at her.

"It's okay." Zhou Yue said clearly, "My father and grandma are very kind. You separated from me and went back, saying that you are going to our village to beg for food. My father will definitely give you a bedroll."

Chen Han was annoyed, "Is your beggar so good-looking?"

Zhou Yue floated on his lips, "Isn't that my family's beggar?"

After she finished skinning, she called home. Chen Han turned his head and looked at the country road and trees passing by outside the window, and heard her say crisply to the other end, "Daddy, I'm back."

"You don't come to pick me up, I didn't come alone, the battery car can't fit, we two take the noodle by ourselves."

"I'm starving to death, can you save me some food?"

Grandpa Zhou said cheerfully, "Your grandma just lit the fire to cook fresh rice. The crust is so beautiful, and she even bought you a roast duck...Who are you with? Is it Lulu?"

Zhou Yue said, "The beggar, I think it's very pitiful to pick it up, you remember to prepare a big padded jacket for him, the child is so cold that it is very distressing."

"You're talking nonsense here again." Grandpa Zhou smiled at the other end, "Then wait for you to come back."

The speed on the country road was much faster, and soon I arrived at the station in Qingzhen. This is also a small town. There are two streets, east, west, north, and south. The station is at the intersection. Although it is cold, the street is very lively. Sitting in twos and threes chatting and wrangling, there is no winter bleakness at all.

After getting off the minibus, Zhou Yue went straight to look for the buns parked by the roadside. The driver saw her and smiled, "Zhou Yue is back."

Chen Han listened to her greet people in local dialect, and came to pull him after a while, "Let's go."

Those who got noodles had to walk into the village. Chen Han came to work as a laborer, and Zhou Yue pointed out to him leisurely along the way. Where was the river she touched fish, where was the forest she picked wild fruits, and left After ten minutes, I saw a slope in the distance. There were houses on the slope, and there was smoke between the trees.

Someone moved a chair and sat on the slope facing the road, looking up.

"That's my dad." Zhou Yue said, "Every time we come back, he just sits here and waits."

She beckoned, Grandpa Zhou got up and greeted him as soon as he saw it, "Finally back."

Grandpa wanted to reach out to pick up his granddaughter's schoolbag, but suddenly found that she was empty-handed, and asked a young man behind to carry everything, "This, this is?"

Zhou Yue said without changing his face, "This is a classmate of mine in high school. We took the same bus, and he had to transfer from our town to go home. He missed the traffic jam and stayed overnight at our house."

Chen Han said respectfully, "Grandpa is good."

"Hey, hello." Grandpa Zhou waved enthusiastically, "Come and eat soon, you must be hungry after being stuck all day."

Zhou Yue's house is an ordinary rural brick house, which looks quite new. Grandma Zhou has already prepared a meal, and Grandpa Zhou introduced Chen Han to her as it is.Chen Han answered the old man's words carefully, somewhat restrained, Zhou Yue had already sat down, holding a bowl and started eating, "I'm starving to death, I haven't eaten all day, stop talking, eat."

"That's right, I forgot to talk, sit down and eat." Grandpa Zhou and Grandma Zhou hurriedly pulled him to sit down.

Zhou Yue pointed at the steaming rice crust and said, "Look at this rice crust, it must be cooked in a big pot with firewood, it's delicious."

Grandpa Zhou and Grandma Zhou have been old farmers all their lives. They are very sincere. Now many people in the village have moved to the city. There are fewer people and fewer visitors. I heard that they are Zhou Yue’s classmates. .

He patronized the two of them for a meal, Lao Gao piled up in the rice bowl, Zhou Yue, as an old fried dough stick, held the bowl and did not let go, "No more, no more, I can't finish it, I will gain weight every time I come back !"

So Chen Han became the focus of care, and he received double care by himself, almost crushing him, "Young man needs to eat more, the boy consumes a lot."

He didn't want to stay, and he couldn't say anything, Zhou Yue stood on the dry shore, heartless and happy, seeing that he was really struggling, so he stopped him meaningfully.

After dinner, Zhou Yue helped grandma wash the dishes. Grandma was watching through the window in the kitchen. Grandpa Zhou pulled Chen Han to stand on the slope, pointing to rice fields, corn fields, big rivers, and chicken coops, and himself Planted flowers and fruit trees.

Now young people don't like to talk to old people, they can't go all the way, and Chen Han can't understand it, and he can't be interested in raising chickens and farming, but he is good at education. In other words, grandpa finally found a young man who was upright, and he dragged him to talk endlessly.

Grandma pulled Zhou Yue to point and asked, "Is it a classmate?"

Zhou Yue took the washed dishes and chopsticks through the clear water, looked up, "Really."

"Don't play sloppy with grandma."

Zhou Yue laughed twice, she told her grandma everything she had, and she didn't intend to hide it, "He came to see me off, and he couldn't catch up with the car back, so we can't throw him on the road. Just bring him back and show you .”

Grandma sighed and said, "Your children now...

.. It's just that you are young and you are in school, so you have to be clear about the importance. "

"His grades are very good. This year he will take the college entrance examination, and he ranks among the top in our school. Look at my final exam. Is he much better than before? He taught him."

"Then I have to thank you." Grandma glanced at her, and said after deliberation, "You are far away in Lindong, and grandma can only call you, but grandma told you that girls should know how to be themselves." Zhen Ziai, it’s okay to miss the car and stay overnight, but since I brought it back to show grandma, it shouldn’t be a joke, you know?”

Zhou Yue lowered his head and said, "I just think he is very good, otherwise he would be thrown on the street."

Grandma also knew her temperament, and it was too late for crooked people to kick her, and she would not go here, so she raised her head and squinted her eyes, "You look very energetic."

"That's right." Zhou Yue smiled.

"If my mother calls, don't say she's here." Zhou Yue suddenly remembered.

Grandma said, "Then you have to tell your father, or he will show off everywhere, and he has a loud voice."

While talking, Grandpa Zhou dragged Chen Han down the slope, and Grandma called him loudly in the kitchen, "Where are you taking people?"

Grandpa Zhou also talked loudly from a long distance away, "I'll take him to see my strawberry field."

"Your strawberry field can't even support it, it's so wilted, what's there to see in winter?"

"Didn't that kid watch it?" He said Chen Han seemed to have never seen the world, "go around and come back, boil the porridge, and come back for dinner."

In the countryside, they go to bed early at night. The two of them spent a whole day in the minibus, and they were already a little tired, especially when Chen Han was dragged by Grandpa Zhou from the east end of the village to the west end of the village. They all fell asleep.

The original room of Zhou Yue’s cousin where Chen Han lived, Zhou Yue sneaked in at night, Chen Han was making the bed, the colorful quilt cover and sheets in the countryside, the big and heavy quilt, an incandescent lamp above the head, next to the bed There is also a big wooden box, which is extremely inconsistent with his temperament.

The winter night is quiet, only the family dog ​​barks occasionally.

"Are you used to living there?"

"Good."

"I hid under the quilt when I heard something at night." Zhou Yue looked out of the window. There was a mountain behind his house. At first glance, there were dark branches mixed in, which was quite creepy, so she deliberately changed to a low voice. The tone of voice, deliberately said. "If someone is panting next to you, smashing your window, or opening your door, you just say silently, Om Mani Padme Hum, let me teach you, you have to say it like this..."

Chen Han squinted at her, listened to her nonsense, and came to pull her when she finished speaking, "Come and let me show you something good."

A piece of glass was laid on the old wooden box, and there were old photos under it. Chen Han bent down to look for it, and pointed to a yellowed photo. On it was an old sauna, and a bride stood next to her, her legs were still scratched. He picked up a black thing, and upon closer inspection, it was a child, wearing a dirty, unremarkable overcoat, with plateau reds on his face, and a snotty nose. He was a real-life village idiot.

"Is this you?" Chen Han couldn't help but smile, "It took me a long time to recognize it, and there is still a faint look in the eyebrows."

"And this." He pointed to a photo from recent years. The girl on it was fat into a ball, with a round and chubby face. She was wearing a rustic long down jacket with the zipper pulled to the top. Inside was a turtleneck sweater piled up to her neck. None, horrible.

He went to pinch her face to test the feel, "Are you actually undergoing plastic surgery? Will your face collapse in the future?"

"It will collapse, and it will collapse into an old witch." Zhou Yue brushed his hand away and lowered his head to look, "Don't say it, I didn't look particularly ugly when I looked at it now. Look at the eyebrows, there is a faint aura, Hold up this outfit."

"Yes." Chen Han said with a smile, "A spiritual energy from Erya, the head of the village deep in the mountains."

"You're done. I'll let my friends come to you at night. Just wait. I'll take you away at night." Zhou Yue raised his fist at him.

Chen Han sneered, and took two steps forward. As soon as he stretched out his hand, Zhou Yue reflexively took a step back. His feet were unsteady and sprained. He mouthed a hooligan silently, turned and ran away.

Chen Han woke up the next day in a series of shakings of "It's breakfast, it's time to get up and eat breakfast". He opened his eyes in a daze, and Grandpa Zhou stood at the head of the bed with a piece of cake, shaking towards him, "It's time to eat breakfast." .”

Chen Han suddenly woke up, he didn't react for a while, he lay on the spot with his arms propped up in a daze for a while, after thinking about where he was now, he suddenly gave birth to a new kind of daughter-in-law, the first day of marriage, I fell asleep until twelve o'clock in the noon and felt helpless, "Come right away."

After Grandpa Zhou left, he picked up his mobile phone, it was [-]:[-].

No wonder the non-blocking curtains didn't bother him much, is it daylight?

He got up and went out wrapped in his jacket. Zhou Yue, who claimed to not open his eyes before [-]:[-] o'clock on the holiday, was sitting on the small bench in the porch in high spirits. Grandma Zhou was braiding her ponytail, with one hanging down on one side.

"Good morning." She waved her hand, "My grandma asked you to have breakfast before leaving."

It was still early, and there was a mist on the Longshang in the village. The air was clear and cold, with a very clean smell mixed with the aroma of food.

A few chickens on the concrete floor in front of the house lowered their heads to eat, and occasionally looked up at him with disdain.

Zhou Yue's two braids were finished, and he was still wearing an old cotton-padded jacket and big cotton shoes. There were as many villages as there were villages, all supported by one face, "After washing, go to the kitchen to eat."

Grandpa Zhou took him to squat on the ground with the dog to wash. Seeing that he was wearing sneakers, he went into the room and brought out a pair of woolen old cotton shoes for him, "Here, new ones, your shoes look like bare feet. Look at us The more you know the warmth."

The dog followed the sound and gave him a look.

Chen Han squatted among the flowers and plants and looked at the dog, feeling a little dazed.

Grandma was cooking Baba in front of the stove, sticking them around the iron pot one by one, and eating them right away. When Chen Han entered the kitchen, he only heard Zhou Yue's voice and saw no one. Grandma said, "Get the bowl yourself."

Zhou Yue sat behind the stove to light a fire and add more firewood. Hearing the sound, he poked his head out, "Get the cake yourself."

Chen Han held the bowl and glanced behind the stove, Zhou Yue said, "Haven't you seen a firewood stove?"

"You still light a fire?"

Zhou Yue held firewood in his hand, "That's not it."

"The fire was made by her father, and she only adds firewood to it, and only adds firewood to extinguish the fire from time to time. How could she do this?"

"How to dismantle my table." Zhou Yue knocked on the stove.

Chen Han smiled lowly.

Fearing that he would be late and get stuck in traffic, Chen Han went to catch the first bus. The three grandparents of the Zhou family sent him to the entrance of the village to wait for the bus. To eat, after searching for a long time, I found him a slightly better bag to put the tribute wine in. At any rate, I didn't use plastic bags or snakeskin bags.

"I'll send him to the car later, you go back first." Zhou Yue pushed his grandparents back, but the old man had nothing to do with her, and walked away with three steps.

Zhou Yue and Chen Han stood side by side, looking at the backs of the two old men on the forest road, the surrounding fog was a bit wet, and against the dark sky, the backs of the people who were far away were not straight, and no matter how straight they were, they still showed a little Bent, there is no flesh on his body, he shrank into a ball, looking a little pale.

They themselves are tall and straight, in their prime, exuding a biting youthful air.

Chen Han saw that she was silent for a long time, and looked down, Zhou Yue's eyes were red, and the eye sockets were lingering with water vapor.

"Why are you... crying?" He asked in a low voice, "Who messed with you?"

Zhou Yue shook his head, and suddenly said with deep emotion, "It's not worth crying if someone treats you badly. If someone punches you, you can kick it back. But it's worth it if someone treats you well."

There was a sound of cars at the intersection, and the owner of the canteen at the entrance of the village yelled at them, "The car is coming."

Zhou Yue sent him to the car, stood at the entrance of the village and watched the car go away, while Chen Han watched from the window and took a picture with his mobile phone.

The person in the photo is wearing braids, wearing a big flower jacket and big padded shoes, standing next to the dilapidated canteen, as if he has traveled through decades in an instant.

Just this photo, I can still use it to make fun of it in the future.

The author has something to say: I got up at 01:30 in the morning to catch the plane, and I collapsed when I got home. I am old and my body is not good enough╭(╯^╰)╮

Next, I may start racing the timeline (⊙v⊙)