Chapter 1; Homecoming(1/2)
The annual Spring Festival is approaching again, so those wanderers working outside buy high-priced train tickets and rush towards their hometowns.
Wang Zhen is one of them.
With more than ten days left before the Chinese New Year, Wang Zhen also took the train home with his small luggage and the train ticket he had finally bought.
Needless to say, I believe that everyone who has taken the train can experience it. Crowding is always the patent of the train, and overloading is common in normal times, not to mention the Chinese New Year. During the peak period of the Spring Festival travel rush, the train is like canned sardines.
In this way, it was crowded all the way, listening to the classic hawking sound of the conductors from time to time on the train. After about twenty hours of the train, Wang Zhen also returned from Shenzhen and Dongguan to the county town of their hometown - Nanhe
At Nanhe Old Bus Station, after getting off the bus from Wolong to Nanhe, Wang Zhen carried his luggage to the next bus station.
Due to the road construction in recent years, buses have also been opened to Wang Zhen’s hometown of Luojiawan.
Although it is a bit expensive, it is barely acceptable for people today.
After all, no one wants to walk a twenty or thirty miles.
However, if you have motorcycles at home and know how to ride them, most of them will drive motorcycles or small three-wheelers from the old bridge in Nanhe to go to the streets and markets.
But most people only dare to drive to the street and find a place to put it in the city. After all, although Nanhe County where they are located is small, traffic management is not a decoration.
When he approached the bus stop, Wang Zhen stood at the door and saw a bus air-car marked Nanhe - Luojiawan.
So he took the luggage in his hand and asked the driver while getting in the car, "Uncle, is this the car leading to Luojiawan? When will I drive?"
"Yes, it's almost done. The train is at half past eleven. It's fifteen now. You're waiting for a while!"
When he heard Wang Zhen’s question, the driver looked at his watch, looked at him again, and after answering, he smoked the cigarette in his hand.
After hearing this, Wang Zhen was silent for a moment. After he came to the car and sat down, he didn't know what to say, so he could only choose to play with his mobile phone.
Because he hadn't been home for many years, the surrounding environment made him feel strange.
In this way, after a few minutes, several more people got on board one after another. The car was not big, and the seats of seventeen people were full in a while.
I saw that the train was full and the departure time had already come. After the ticket collector inside received the ticket, the driver reminded everyone to sit firmly and drove the car out of the county town.
After about ten minutes of walking, the car left the county town, and a few more customers came up along the way, filling the small carriage.
Although this bus is a direct bus to Luojiawan, Luojiawan is not large and has a small population. In recent years, many people have gone out to work but never come back.
So, only four or five people were in the car who actually arrived at Luojiawan, while the rest were from other villages on the roadside.
Shortly after leaving the county town, I passed the best section of the road. The car arrived at the dirt road leading to various villages. At this time, the car began to bump, and the people in the car also shaking with the car.
Although the country has advocated the construction of new rural areas in recent years, allocating funds to rural road construction, and village heads of each village have also collected money several times, but every time they just go to the river to pull some sand and make some bricks and slags to cushion, and then it will be left alone.
As time goes by, it rains a little, and the car is pressing down again. The road that can still be taken immediately becomes a mud nest again.
So after so long, the road is still very bad.
After the car drove to the dirt road in the countryside, we could clearly see the green wheat and a few rapeseed in the roadside.
Because of the northern climate, once the harvest here is autumn, 90% of the land will be planted with wheat, and some families with more land will also plant some rapeseed. When it is ripe, take some oil and eat it.
You should know that people in rural areas have no idea of going out to buy oil. Most of them grow some peanuts, rapeseed or sesame at home. If there is no oil, they will cook it. It can definitely be called green and pure natural.
Looking at the familiar and unfamiliar scenery on the road, Wang Zhen sighed in his heart along the way.
In the city, there are tall buildings everywhere, and it is like in the countryside!
At first glance, it was full of green and comfortable.
"I don't know how my dad is?"
Wang Zhen looked at it for a while, turned around and saw the uncles and uncles in the car, and couldn't help but think of his father.
In order to save some money in the past two years, he hasn't been home for two years. It would be fake to say that he doesn't worry about his parents.
"I don't want to think about it anymore, I'll get home in a while! I'll see it when the time comes! Why do I think so much?"
The more I thought about it, the more worried he became. Wang Zhen continued to look at the scenery outside the window while thinking about it.
The car drove slowly, and when we arrived at a village, there were some people who got off and one or two people who got on.
In the blink of an eye, just when Wang Zhen was silent, the car walked out of the last village, and walked for a few minutes all the way, and finally arrived at Luojiawan.
Then the car stopped at the center of the village on the side of the old husband road in Luojiawan, opened the car door and asked the people in the car to get off.
In the center of the village road, there is a convenience store on the right, which is the supermarket in the city (the convenience store is called the countryside).
Because winter is slack farming and farmers love to be lively, many people gathered at the convenience store, including playing cards, chatting, and seeing the bus arrive, they all subconsciously looked at it.
At this time, Wang Zhen got out of the car.
Because he hadn't returned to the village for two years, many villagers didn't recognize him for a while.
"Hey, whose kid is this? I don't even know him so tall and so white?"
I don’t know who suddenly said something, which caused the topic of the convenience store.
"Yeah, yes! I don't know you either. Maybe it's a child from someone in the north who went out to work."
Another person came to chat.
"It's possible, it looks familiar."
Just like that, after you said something, you didn’t know Wang Zhen’s topic and a few idle villagers started chatting.
Because he was not far away, Wang Zhen could hear it clearly.
However, he didn't talk.
Because he hasn't come back for a long time, it's normal for the people in the village to not recognize him. He just smiled at them and walked along the road towards his home.
Wang Zhen’s family is in the last row to the north of the village, and is only one family away from the road.
If you follow the road, you can walk to your doorstep in less than ten minutes.
"Hey, isn't this Wang Zhen?"
Halfway through Wang Zhen's uncle's house, the eldest daughter who was having dinner at the door and was talking to the villagers in the village, looked up and saw Wang Zhen, and quickly put down the bowl of food in her hand and walked out.
"Wang Zhen, your baby hasn't been back for two years. Why is he back this year? Are you hungry? Should the eldest son make some food for you and go back after eating?"
As he said that, before Wang Zhen could respond, the eldest daughter took Wang Zhen's hand and pulled it home.
Wang Zhen’s uncle is the son of the eldest son of Grandpa Wang Zhen’s brother’s family. Because it is a family, it is based on the order of birth.
Wang Zhen’s grandfather ranks the third child according to the birth of his grandfather, and the younger generations in the family are usually called Uncle San or Master San.
Uncle Wang Zhen’s father is the elder brother of Grandpa Wang Zhen, the eldest son of Wang Zhen’s second master. Because he is the eldest of his uncle, he is also called Uncle, and his uncle’s wife is called Auntie in them.
"No, my grandma, I've eaten in the county town and haven't been home for several years. I'll go home and see you first. When I have time, I'll come to the grandma's house to see you!"
Looking at the enthusiastic grandma, Wang Zhen said embarrassedly.
Because Wang Zhen has never liked to talk since he was a child and was obedient, his aunts, uncles and uncles were all very kind to him, so he was very enthusiastic every time he saw him come back.
Wang Zhen was also helpless about this.
"Well, then okay! Then you must come over when you have time! The eldest son makes you delicious food."
When the eldest son heard Wang Zhen say this, he thought so and let go.
"Well, my grandma, then I'll go back first. I'll see you when I have time!"
After waving goodbye to the eldest son, Wang Zhen turned his head and continued to pull his luggage and walked towards home.
After walking less than three hundred meters, he arrived at the north end of the village. Wang Zhen turned left and walked into the last alley.
The family on the street is Wang Zhen’s neighbor, named Luo Ming. Wang Zhen usually calls him uncle, but he doesn’t know what his wife is called Wang Zhen. Anyway, he calls him aunt when he meets him.
Luo Ming's family also has a boy who is about three or four years younger than him. He has been playing together since he was a child, but he should still be in school now.
Therefore, Wang Zhen turned the alley from the road and saw a woman in her thirties sitting at the door having dinner.
The woman saw Wang Zhen coming from afar and kept staring at him. When Wang Zhen walked up to her, she couldn't believe it and asked, "Are you Wang Zhen?"
"Well, it's me, aunt, where is your Kerson?"
Wang Zhen stopped politely and asked casually with a smile.
"Kesong, your brother Wang Zhen called you there?"
When the woman heard Wang Zhen ask about Kesong, she turned around and called out into the room.
"Sit down, Kerson is watching TV in the house! Have you eaten? We have prepared it, so we should eat something before leaving!"
As he said that, Rockson's mother stood up and gave up the chair.
"No, Auntie, I'm at the door of my house, so let's go home! I'll come to play here when I have time."
When Wang Zhen saw it, he refused repeatedly.
"Damn, you are willing to come back!"
At this moment, a slightly thin handsome boy walked out of the room, walked out with a bowl in his hand and screamed in shock.
"Damn, no! I didn't expect you to grow so tall!" Wang Zhen also responded with a smile.
It is normal for rural acquaintances to speak dirty words.
"Go in and sit for a while? Where are you in Shenzhen and Dongguan? Is the salary high?"
To be continued...