Rust II

Lin An still didn't answer, just continued to smile faintly, his downcast eyes fell on the leftover porridge bowl in front of him, making it impossible to tell what the real emotion behind that smile was for a moment.

"Okay, okay, let's stop here today, it's getting late, everyone will go back to the dormitory and get ready, wash up, get some rest early, and try to welcome the start of school in the most energetic state tomorrow." Fortunately, this The silence from Lin An didn't last long. In just a moment, Cui Qing changed the subject again. After finishing speaking, he patted his pants and stood up, casually confessing to Lin An: "Hey, Mr. Lin, Here, I ask you to tidy up with Mr. Wang and Mr. Cai, and I will take the two children to their dormitory and explain something. Thank you for your hard work."

Lin An raised his face and smiled back and forth, and replied softly, "Okay."

After a while, the desk that was used as a dining table gradually recovered from its original clutter. Teacher Cai and Teacher Yan thought that Lin An’s hometown was the farthest from Ganzhou, and he arrived at the latest, so they took the initiative to contract it. For the follow-up work of washing dishes and pots, let him stay in the office, just simply tidy up the tables and chairs, and then hurry back to the next dormitory to tidy up his own room.

Lin An and these senior colleagues in the school have been together for more than a year, and they are already familiar with each other, so they didn't make much pushback. After agreeing, they stayed alone in this not-so-spacious office inside.

After Cai and Yan talked and laughed and took the pots and bowls out, the room fell silent.

Lin An moved all the tables and chairs back to their original positions, and then stood by his desk by the window for a while.

A bright moon that is not yet round hangs in the night sky. The silvery white brilliance is clear and cold, pouring unreservedly on every inch of land, houses, mountains, rivers and rivers that are silently opposite to it. He stared silently at it with a pair of quiet and focused eyes.

In the quiet office, there is still a hint of the rice fragrance from the pot of clear porridge just now, floating in the air, hovering around the tip of the nose, coupled with such a quiet night, and such a bright moon, it hooks up for no reason. Some long-dormant, vague fragments of the past arose.

Such as a small kitchen, such as a slightly burning smell, or a bowl of soup, several dishes, and... two people sitting opposite each other, two sets of bowls and chopsticks placed head to head.

Lin An stared blankly at the sky supported by mountains not far away. Suddenly, that vague and distant memory was like fine dust blowing up in the wind one after another. Cover the atrium.

So, together with the throbbing faintly flowing in the blood of the whole body, and the shocking pain that could be easily aroused, it seemed to be suppressed and buried together.

Lin Jingjing stood in front of the window for a long time, her eyes moved slightly in ecstasy, and she stretched out her hand to open the closed window in front of her a crack, letting the smell of the whole room disperse in the vast night together with the sudden wind. go.

Then he turned around, took the coat that was hanging on the back of the chair and shook it, and walked slowly towards the door of the office.But as soon as his hand touched the doorknob, the coat pocket dangling from his arms and touching his waist and abdomen shook again very briefly.

Lin An noticed it, was stunned for a moment, stopped turning the doorknob, and found the source of the vibration out of his clothes, only to see two unread messages suddenly pop up on the switched-on screen.

He blinked lightly, then clicked in from the inbox, and saw the two senders hanging at the top of the screen, one was from Mother Lin, and the other was still from the person who had sent himself three messages in two days. The "Ding Hua" of SMS.

His eyes moved slightly, he hesitated for a moment, first opened the short message covering all kinds of instructions from his mother, quickly browsed through it, and replied to a large section of the content with the same care.Then I turned to another sender in the inbox, but within two seconds of clicking in, I found that there were two unread envelope signs hanging under the same number, and for some reason, one in front and one in back. There was an interval of 10 minutes.

One is two words with unclear meaning: Lin An.The time is displayed as 8:50.

The other message was sent 2 minutes ago, that is, when the phone vibrated just now, and it only had a very short four words:

Happy holiday.

Facing these two messages, Lin Anjing felt an inexplicable sense of strangeness flash through her heart again, and the steaming heat floating in the house before, which made people feel dizzy for a moment, also seemed to follow these two short messages. It attacked again from behind, silently clinging to the body with its back to the light, and following the breeze that came in through the window, it penetrated into the texture one by one.

As a result, he stood in a daze at the door for an unknown amount of time before suddenly recovering from Cui Qing's astonished eyes who pushed the door in.

Cui Qing looked at the other party who staggered and took a step back because he pushed the door suddenly, turned his head in surprise and glanced at the corridor behind him, and asked, "Hey, Teacher Lin, why are you still here? "As he spoke, he looked at Teacher Yan and Teacher Cai, who had almost cleaned the tableware by the sink downstairs and were talking and laughing while draining the water, and continued: "When we first came here, Teacher Yan said that they told you I want you to go back to your room early to rest, the few of us will count you as the farthest, you are exhausted, and you have to get up early tomorrow, hey, we are all exhausted for you." After speaking, he turned sideways and moved out of the way. Quickly waved one hand towards the direction of the door a few times, and said with a smile: "So hurry up, don't stand still, go back to the dormitory and pack up, and go to rest early."

Lin An put away the phone, lowered his eyelashes and quickly restrained the emotions he had shown just now. After answering with a smile, he walked out of the office.

It wasn't until the moment the door of the dormitory room closed behind him that he relaxed the expression on his face again, and opened the mailbox again in a daze, staring at the two messages for a few minutes, as well as the few messages from yesterday and this afternoon. They watched together for a while, then moved their fingers, and slowly typed a polite "Thank you, and I wish you a happy Lantern Festival." Send it out.

Then he put down his phone, breathed a sigh of relief, and began to organize the luggage that he hadn't finished packing in time.

The pins of the wall clock on the wall walked slowly by minute by minute. After the desks and bookcases in the room were all cleaned up, the bed was made, and the clothes were packed, the time was approaching ten o'clock unconsciously.

Lin An glanced at the clock, and sat on the stool beside him for a while, then raised his hand and pressed the swollen forehead, took the washing utensils to the public water area at the end of the corridor to wash briefly, and then returned to the dormitory , took a textbook from the cabinet, sat on the bed and quietly flipped through it.

But for some reason, watching and watching, my thoughts froze again for a moment.

So after waiting for more than ten seconds to react, Lin An realized that at some point, he had subconsciously held the palm-sized black body in his hand again.

It's just that what appeared in sight this time was no longer the recent greeting text messages from "Ding Hua" in succession, but those that had been deliberately kept for nearly 14 months, but were rarely left from City C. What my later self reviewed was the news about that person.

His eyes wandered among the words and sentences that had brought him countless emotions of panic or joy, bitterness or sweetness. After a long time, he silently stayed on the text that was sent out by him in the middle of a certain night, but was revisited more than a year ago. Also failed to hear back on two words.

"Brother Xu".

Lin An stared at the name motionlessly. After a long while, he slightly moved his thumb on the edge of the screen, and slowly stroked over the two words. Then his eyes flickered slightly, and he quietly backed out after a while. .

The bright moon and stars outside the window are still there, but when I raise my head again, my originally calm mood can hardly return to calm.

Perhaps it was touched by the topic about partners brought up at the dinner table just now, or it was because of the continuous contact with Ding Hua from the beginning of this year's Spring Festival to not long ago, coupled with the floating stars and blurred moon tonight. Color, all these tiny time and factors, make people inadvertently have the secret illusion of touching that person again.

Lin Anan sat quietly, and he didn't know how long it had been before he was awakened by the sound of a dog barking from a village not far away from outside the window. Then with a smile, he got up and walked slowly to the window and drew the curtains.

The last day of the holiday finally came to an end in this misty and chaotic night. When the darkness was diluted by the skylight with the loud crowing of cocks, the secretly surging emotions hidden in it seemed to hide again with the dawn of dawn.

Due to the decision to increase weekend sprint tutoring, the work intensity of the new semester is obviously higher than in the past. All the teachers in the school, including the two new members, are busy like spinning tops. Lin An's life is not only in class but also in class, and even after work, he rarely has time to rest. Either stay in the office to do homework and study the problem-solving ideas and methods that can be absorbed more quickly and effectively by the third class, or use On the half-day vacation on Sunday afternoon, I rushed to the bookstore in the city or a small shop that sells teaching supplementary materials to see if I could find some sets of materials suitable for the current level of the students in the class and take them back.

This high-speed working mode seems to vaguely bring people back to the busy time when they were in the third year of high school. While tiring, it also makes people feel abnormally fulfilled. When life and spirit are filled Naturally, there is no time to be distracted and pay attention to other things, such as the few books that I have not finished reading from my hometown X County to the south of Gansu, such as Chen Jialou, who has less contact with him than last year. , Another example... After the Spring Festival and Lantern Festival, when I received short messages from "Ding Hua" several times in a row, I would have that momentary illusion - a message about someone who has sunk in my heart for a long time, but has never been. The illusion of a person who can completely disappear from his tracks.

In the next few months, Ding Hua will still send some text messages similar to exhortations or greetings on some slightly special days, such as asking about the weather, work, and even such extremely daily and trivial things as diet and sleep. , Lin An would answer carefully sometimes, and sometimes he couldn't walk away, so he didn't see him or forgot to answer for a while.And the other party didn't seem to care about this phenomenon. If he replied, he would follow up with a few more messages and take the opportunity to chat for a while. If he didn't reply, he would completely quiet down.Until a few days later, another opportunity was found to send new news.

It's just that every time, it's a concise and short speech that is very different from the long and lively style of the past.

Like: "Have you eaten yet?"

"The weather has changed in Ganzhou these days, so we still have to be careful and keep warm."

"Sleep?"

"I heard from Chen Jialou that you are very busy at school recently, pay attention to rest, remember to eat, don't be busy too late."

Or: "Go back to County X in Qingming?"

"What's the plan for May Day?"

And "Happy Labor Day.", "Happy Dragon Boat Festival." Even at the end of July, a slightly inexplicable sentence "Happy Qixi Festival."

All these concise but gentle words made Lin An, who occasionally looked back at these words alone in the dead of night, suddenly feel dazed and dazed for a moment, as if these words did not come from a little girl who has always been carefree and has nothing to do with tenderness. Ding... It came from another person's mouth.But every time he saw the word "Ding Hua" hanging brightly in the column of the sender, he forced himself to suppress the waves in his heart, and then couldn't help showing a little helpless and bitter smile.

The days are so ordinary, but they are always accompanied by constant waves and surprises.

Plainness is the norm every day, preparing lessons for class, grading papers and lectures, step by step.

Waves and surprises are like the side dishes prepared for this normal state, which happened in this plainness respectively in the middle school entrance examination in late June, and the summer vacation that came shortly after the high school entrance examination——He and Cui Qing brought In this year's third class of junior high school, nine students successfully stood out and were admitted to Pugao in the city. Two of them also entered the well-ranked No. 6 Middle School and No. [-] Middle School respectively.The day after receiving the notice happened to be the weekend, and the parents of several children insisted on having a teacher appreciation banquet, and invited all the teachers in the school who had participated in the teaching of the graduating class to have a meal at the village chief's house.The principal was even more delighted. At the summary meeting before the holiday, tears welled up in his eyes, and he praised and thanked Lin Anhe time and time again for bringing out the best results in the history of their Hope School. Cui Qing expressed with pride that from now on, as long as conditions permit, activities like weekend tutoring can be considered and continued. After all, the resources here are really scarce, and the effective resources and opportunities available to children will become increasingly rare. Therefore, as long as one more can be sent out, it is the most gratifying and happy thing for the school.

Lin An has nothing to say. He has been teaching for two years in this extremely harsh environment compared to C or even X county. The sense of responsibility has also become heavier, but in the same way, when harvesting, the sense of satisfaction and joy obtained has also reached an unprecedented peak.

Especially when seeing those young faces filled with awe and longing for knowledge and the future and cautiousness, time is like a film that has faded in color, going back to 20 years ago. People suddenly saw the self who had the same mood in countless nights.

And as if he heard the school's aspirations, Lin An, who had just returned to his hometown in County X during the summer vacation and had just rested for more than half a month, suddenly received a call from Cui Qing to announce the good news, and the other party said excitedly on the other end: "Mr. Lin, I have some great news for you! Hasn't our province J always had a charitable donation project of 'Tree Museum' and 'One Book, One Tree'? Then, some time ago, there was an anonymous donor who suddenly Schools in poverty-stricken areas in several cities in our province have submitted applications for donating school libraries, including our school! Now it has been approved, and I just got a notice from the old principal, and said that it will start soon Build! I guess it will be almost finished after the start of school... at most one and a half months after the start of school, haha, hahaha, don’t you think it’s a coincidence? We just taught some results this year and got some results, ready If you continue to work hard, you will have such a great thing! Hahaha..."

Cui Qing was obviously overjoyed, he kept laughing on the phone, and finally added happily: "Oh, yes, it is said that this donor is from your province X, but where exactly is it?" I don't know, hey, he is such a good man, and now the children in our school are blessed."

Lin An was also happy, and turned around to tell his mother about it. Seeing his joyful expression, Lin's mother nodded and said yes, but when she turned around, she sighed quietly in her heart. .

She has seen Lin An's state in the past two years, and knows that although the other party went to Ganzhou with an extremely low heart at first, after almost two years, every time he comes back from winter and summer vacations, his state is getting better and better.She could see that the other party really liked the current job with a meager salary but seemed meaningless to him, and she didn't care about the harsh and difficult environment.When chatting with the neighbors in the town, they all said that they really don't understand what the kid is thinking. Originally, the conditions are so good, but they just leave it as a decoration and don't know how to use it. The good C City doesn't stay, so I have to go there Why go to the mountain valleys of J province to support education, not to mention the hard work far away from home, finding a partner to start a family is also a big problem, and even saying that there is nowhere to be found in such a good place like ours, let alone thinking about it when we get there, Seeing that this is too old, you don't care to try to persuade him.

Lin's mother just smiled and said that the child is so old, so let him go.But I know in my heart that this has nothing to do with age. Although Lin An has been gentle and introverted since he was a child, and he doesn't like to talk too much, but there is always a faint stubbornness in his heart, and once he decides something, he often goes silently. He did it silently, and no one could stop him.

Just like when he was forced to drop out of college more than ten years ago, he knew that the other party was not to be messed with, so no matter how distressed he was, he had no choice but to send his son to the iron and steel company he had found with great difficulty. Before working in the factory, I have been told that I will work hard in the factory from now on. Everything is based on health and safety. As long as I can earn a few money for food and live the future life well, that’s fine. , Don't think about other things, maybe our Lin family will not be killed, and more importantly, if you meet any powerful people in the factory again in the future, just avoid it and don't suffer any more.

But who would have thought that less than a year after the confession, the child would secretly use some method to persuade someone to change the file for him, and then went back to X University to study without saying a word.

Then after graduation, for some unknown reason, he rejected the school's chance to stay in school, and returned to County X without saying a word to become a humble ordinary teacher.

Until the year before last, he quit his job at a prestigious school in city C and went to province J without saying a word.

All these silences are like a big net woven invisibly, and the package outlines a certain silent stubbornness and stubbornness hidden behind the other party.

Although Mother Lin understood, she couldn't tell whether the consequences of this stubbornness were good or bad.But fortunately, Lin An's condition looks really good recently, especially this year, since she stepped into the house, the light in her eyes has not dimmed. Speaking of the results gained in S County this semester, she is also very proud , the joyful energy seems to be much higher than when it brought out outstanding graduates in County X before.So while she was secretly worried and helpless, she stopped showing any more, so as not to increase the psychological burden on the other party at that time, and therefore, when the summer vacation was nearing the end before sending the other party out, she changed her old frown , only gently and carefully exhorted a few words.

Sure enough, such a change made Lin An, who used to feel uneasy every time we parted, relaxed a little bit. In addition, he still had in his heart the matter of Cui Qingtong's donation to build the library. , and embarked on the road to Ganzhou with a rare eagerness.

When he hurried to County S, Cui Qing waited in the office early as a local. When he heard the sound of keys being unlocked from the dormitory next door, he put down the books and materials in his hand and walked to the door. It was Lin An, who couldn't help being surprised and said: "Ms. Lin? Why are you? I thought it was Mrs. Yan. She also said that she would come to school this afternoon." Yu Bi walked into the other party's room to help clean up together, and asked again : "Hey, there is still a week before the official start of school, why don't you stay at home for a while, your hometown is so far away, and you don't usually have a chance to go back."

Lin An only smiled, and after tidying up the clothes in the suitcase and putting them in the cupboard, he walked to the corridor outside the door, and looked at a new low building that was erected diagonally across the open space.

Cui Qing then followed up and glanced in that direction together, saying: "Here, that's the library that I told you about before. The ones have already been shipped over, and some are on the back of the building to dissipate the smell, isn’t it fast? Well, it’s good to have money, and everything is easy to do if you have money, hehe.” After saying this, he rushed to the person standing aside Lin An tilted his head and asked with a smile, "Come on, I'll take you down to have a look?"

Lin An smiled again, answered, and followed Cui Qing downstairs.

The school is not big, except for a simple small playground, there are only two buildings in total. One is a teaching building with three floors and twelve rooms, which contains all the classes from elementary school to junior high school. The other building is Lin An and the others. The office building I was in was actually called a grocery building. It had only two floors. The first floor was the cafeteria, and the second floor was the office plus a few dormitories for the teachers.

The donated library was built across the right angle formed by the two buildings.

The two quickly walked to the newly painted dark green door of the library, stood outside and listened to the sound of jingling bells and clangs from inside from time to time.Then, stepping on the wood chips and wall ash all over the floor, he walked in and turned around.

This library is small in size. Compared with the school library that Lin An had come into contact with in X Middle School or even X County No. [-] Middle School in the past, it can be described as inconspicuous without exaggeration.Its decoration is simple, without any redundant design, everything is for practical purposes only, in order to accommodate more books, the distance between the bookshelves is also arranged to be a little cramped, but Lin An has more than ten rows of shelves Walking back and forth, looking carefully, the joy in my heart has not diminished at all.

Cui Qing's house is not far away, even during the holidays, he can come over from time to time to take a look around, so it can be regarded as him watching the building of this small building, even with his eyes closed at this moment The environment is very familiar.At this time, seeing Lin An touching here and there with a smile on his face, he couldn't help jokingly asking: "Mr. Lin, how do you feel? Are you still in your eyes? Haha, it must be incomparable with yours in C City." oh."

Lin An shook his head with a smile, and replied softly, "It's not the same."

Cui Qing also smiled, turned his gaze back and said: "It's different, oh... the children here, let alone the books in this room, they will be excited for a long time to read one more extra-curricular book. After the school starts, let's They saw it, and they couldn’t be more happy.” As he spoke, he patted his trousers again and continued: “Hey, I almost forgot, speaking of books, the donor gave them to me a few days ago. A large truckload of books came, I dismantled them and put them in the sun to dry in the back of the building. They are all new. Tsk, there are all kinds of books, even teaching materials, walk around, I will show you to take a look, you have a look If there is any language and history that you can use, you can take it to the office first, or use it for class preparation in the past few days."

"Okay." Hearing this, Lin An followed Cui Qing, who had hurriedly walked towards the back door of the library just after finishing speaking, to the small open space behind the building.

I saw a few large pieces of cardboard scattered scattered on the ground shining brightly in the sun, and the cardboard was full of new books that had just been unpacked one after another, flipping them in the breeze from time to time The pages of the book faintly reveal the covers of different colors. At first glance, they look like white waves rolling under the sun.Turning his head, under the vacant bicycle shed on the side, there is a row of at least 20 half-person-high book boxes that have not been opened in time.

Lin An glanced quickly over these boxes, and couldn't help showing a smile on his face, then squatted down, and started to look through the books from the one in front of him, but after flipping through for a while, his eyes stopped on one of them. superior.

"Back View".

Cui Qing quickly came over and saw that he was suddenly looking at the book in his hand motionlessly, and also glanced at the opened catalog page with some curiosity, and asked casually: "Hey, you like Zhu Ziqing, how about Zhu Ziqing?" Exactly." He lowered his head and searched in other places, and handed over another one after a while, "Come on, next, there are two other collections of his essays here, which should be together, "Trace", "You and Me" , I guess there are still some in the unopened boxes, you can look for them later when you open them."

Lin An didn't seem to hear it, he just stared at the opened catalog in his hand, his eyes fixed on the title of a certain article in the middle of his eyes, and gradually appeared in his mind that in a certain afternoon, A scene where a collection of essays called "Back View" was specially folded with a corner on a certain page, and was silently handed to him.

"Hey! Are you stupid, Mr. Lin?" He fell into the memory without warning, until Cui Qing's voice suddenly sounded from the side, "I'm fascinated by it. I like it so much?" He said with a smile and shook his head. Shaking his head, he continued to ask: "Hehe, I'm not talking nonsense, so what, do you guys who teach liberal arts adore such masters of prose? Are there people like Ba Jin and Liu Baiyu? You had one who stayed here before. The surname Qin who has been there for three years, Mr. Qin, also Bishop’s history and Chinese, is also particularly fascinated by these.”

Lin An came back to his senses, stretched out his hand to take the other two anthologies from the opponent's hand, smiled, then lowered his eyes slightly, stared at the closed book in his hand for a moment, gave a soft "hmm", and then Raising his gaze slightly, he continued as if whispering: "I used to have a friend... who also liked it very much."

"Haha, let me just say it. Sure enough, you are elegant in literature, like me, and Lao Cai, but you can't do it. It hurts your head when you see this."

Lin An smiled again.

After Cui Qing finished speaking, he clapped his hands and stood up, stretched his legs and feet, and glanced in the direction of the dormitory's office, "Okay, you take a few books, let's go back, this place smells strong, and it's easy to get a headache if you stay for a long time."

Lin An nodded, picked some more from the pile of books drying on the ground, and walked back to the office building while chatting with Cui Qing.

In the next few days, other faculty and staff of the school came to work one after another, and in the blink of an eye, the new school year came again.

As expected, the children of the school were all excited when they saw another small building diagonally opposite the teaching building at the beginning of the term, and when the class was over, they ran to the door of the nearly completed library one after another. It was not enough to watch several times a day, and the performance was exactly the same as Cui Qing's previous guess of being crazy.

In a few days, the donated library will be completely completed, and Cui Qing will take out some books to dry when the sun is out or there is a breeze. If you don't stay for a long time, you can borrow a book and return it again. It's no problem.

With the addition of this "new member", there was an upsurge of extracurricular reading in the school.What's even more strange is that the hope school in County S, which has been troubled by the scarcity of resources for more than ten years, seems to have finally turned its luck. Starting with the arrival of a library, it has ushered in regular subsidies for teaching materials and books. The update even provided some medical donations, such as a large number of thermometers, medical supplies for small wounds, or dozens of common emergency medicines.These things, which are so insignificant to ordinary people, are like sending charcoal in the snow and a lamp in a dark room to this Hope School in S County.

"We finally experienced the feeling of being shrouded by the sky. It's really not easy..."

"Hey, I heard that these were also done by the anonymous donor last time, and not only for our school, but also for the impoverished places in several nearby cities, and they are all continuous , that is, you will make up for what you lack in the future, not the previous wave of flow."

"Really? That's really awesome, alas, but why do you hide your name for such a great deed, otherwise you can send a pennant to go."

Discussions about this mysterious benefactor would ring out in the office from time to time, and Lin Jingjing listened, although he didn't participate much, he was equally grateful in his heart.With the help of these resources, especially the teaching aids, the recent teaching process has become much smoother. Whether it is from the teacher's output or the child's reception, it is comparable to Xia Yuchunfeng.And because of the blessing of these resources, he has a little bit more confidence in sending more children from the third grade of junior high school here in the coming year.

The days passed slowly amidst this series of surprises of different sizes.

National Day, Mid-Autumn Festival, Double Ninth Festival, New Year's Day, Laba;

Cold Dew, Frost's Descent, Lidong, Winter Solstice, Minor Great Cold.Various festivals and solar terms come one after another, and at the same time, Ding Hua's text messages are always sent along with these festivals and solar terms from time to time.The content is still short, sometimes asking about the current situation, sometimes just some simple holiday greetings.

And Lin An still reacted the same way every time he received these messages before. When he was not too busy, he would immediately reply a few words when he saw it. Can be put aside for now.

Time flies by like a fleeting moment, and the illusions that come and go every time he receives the other party's message are gradually annihilated in this continuous alternation of day and night, and become commonplace, as if the Ding Hua he knew should be like this.

He should have been as reticent as that person, and he should have been as restrained and quiet as that person.

Soon, the new semester ushered in the long-awaited winter vacation after the handover of autumn and winter.

Lin An also packed up his luggage and set foot on the return journey to County X after the final examination papers were finished. When he was about to board the train, his phone vibrated as usual, and Ding Hua sent another message as usual.

——It’s vacation, are you going home?

Lin An, who was waiting for the ticket check, smiled slightly, and quickly snapped his fingers twice: Yes, yes.

--when?

- just today.

--Earlier?

——Well, it seems that the next week will enter the Spring Festival travel season, and tickets are not very easy to buy.

—Okay, be careful on the road and be safe.

The two sent a few messages back and forth naturally and familiarly. When the other party returned the last sentence, Lin An's team just started to check the tickets. He was caught in the crowd and slowly moved forward, feeling Hearing the vibration on his hand, he lowered his head to glance at the screen and smiled slightly.

The time of resting at home always runs fast, and in the blink of an eye, it will be New Year's Eve.

Since early in the morning in the town, there have been constant sound of firecrackers coming from every door, crackling, exaggerating the jubilant and festive atmosphere to the extreme.

Mother Lin was busy in the kitchen. Lin An went in to help a few times, and was pushed out a few times not long after, telling him to just stay in the living room and rest more. To take a breather, it happened that the weather was fine today, and the sun was shining brightly. Many children in the village who were working outside the same place as him also came back a few days ago. Many of them were his childhood playmates. Let's talk a few words.

Lin An could hear these words every year, and this year was no exception, so he was forced to take a book and sit under the eaves in front of his house.But after looking at it for a while, the mobile phone placed on the chair beside him suddenly vibrated one after another. He turned his eyes from the book, reached for the phone, and took a closer look, only to find that what was displayed on the lit screen was A string of unfamiliar numbers that have not been noted.

He squinted his eyes slightly, stared at the serial number for a while, hesitated for a while, pressed the answer button and put the receiver to his ear, and asked warmly, "Hi, hello, who is it?"

In the next second, a very familiar voice sounded from the opposite side along with a burst of noise after a year.

"Hello? Hello? Can you hear me? Hello? Damn, there are too many people here, wait a minute, I'll change the place!"

Lin An was slightly stunned.

A few seconds later, the other party seemed to have arrived in a relatively secluded area, and the voice came from the receiver more clearly: "Hello? Lin Zi, can you hear me now? Me, Brother Ding, Happy New Year hahaha, I have something to do tonight, and I have to fly to City B temporarily, so I wish you New Year's greetings in advance."

Lin An sat under the westward sun, his face seemed to freeze for a moment as the face was brushed by the flickering sunlight.

"Hello? Hello? Why don't you say anything, Lin Zi, can't you hear it?" He paused for a while, as if he lowered his head to confirm something, and then muttered again: "It's clear, is it a signal?" not good……"

Lin An just sat there blankly, and after a long while, he suddenly woke up, quickly moved away from the phone and glanced at the string of numbers on the call interface, and then replied softly with some hesitation and dryness: "Are you ...Brother Ding?"

"Yes." Ding Hua responded with a smile when he heard the response, and immediately asked again with a smile: "Hey, hey, my brother and I haven't contacted each other for another year, right? The last time I called you seemed to be during Chinese New Year last year? So what, how is it? How are you doing recently?"

Lin Anchu was silent again.

However, it has been confirmed that the call is connected