That night, He Xin rested at Huang's house.

The layout of the Huang family is the same as that of his own house upstairs, and He Xin sleeps in the bed of Huang Damao, who has not been home for two years. Aunt Huang specially laid out a new cotton blanket made this year, a thick quilt, and the heating in the house was very sufficient, He Xin slept very fragrantly.

Early the next morning, He Xin added a pair of woolen pants and an extra sweater on his upper body, and borrowed the Huang family's bicycle to go to the cemetery in Houshan to pay respects to his dead parents while the office had not yet opened.

After the car accident that year, although the driver of the hit-and-run was quickly caught, the driver was a bachelor, the truck was bought with a loan, and he still owed a lot of debts, and the compensation was not paid at all.

He Xin, who had just turned 16 at the time, took out all the savings of his family and bought a cemetery for his parents to be buried together, and then went south to the capital to work alone.

The wind and rain were blowing, and the words on the tombstone had gradually blurred, He Xin found a brush and paint to retrace it, then knelt down and kowtowed three times in front of the grave.

He Xin's original idea was very good, and when he applied for a passport, he begged the staff to intercede, but if he couldn't do it, he would do it urgently, and he must get the passport done before the New Year. Then the visa is simple, although the Spring Festival holiday, but the foreigner's embassy is still working, and all the procedures for going abroad can be completed before the end of the month.

But the ideal is plump, and the reality is skinny.

"Comrade, help, I'm going to leave in February, and this passport must be issued before the Spring Festival anyway. I'll do it urgently, and I'll do it urgently, right?" He Xin bent down and pleaded bitterly at the middle-aged policeman aunt in the window.

"No, not in a hurry. Didn't I tell you, the Spring Festival is going to be a holiday, and your passport will not be until February 15 at the earliest. The policeman's aunt said impatiently, and muttered to him when she was about to leave: "Since you are in such a hurry, why did you go earlier?"

"No, I just received the notice, otherwise I wouldn't have come back in such a hurry. Comrade, help ......"

He Xin is really in a hurry, he really wants to get his passport after February 15, isn't it that the daylilies are cold, let alone going abroad at that time, even the Berlin Film Festival will close.

"Hey, buddy, are you in a hurry to go abroad?" At this moment, a yellow hairer wrapped in a military coat came over and patted him on the shoulder.

"yes!"

He Xin glanced back at him, and wanted to continue to plead with the police inside.

Huang Mao patted him again and whispered: "It's useless for you to ask for this, there are regulations here, and it will take thirty working days to apply for a passport." ”

"Then I'll do it urgently!" He Xintou didn't reply, very annoyed by Huang Mao's inexplicable accosting.

"There's no rush here. ”

"What?"

He Xin suddenly turned his head, only to see Huang Mao smiling vaguely at him, and whispered: "I have a way to help you expedite, and you can come down before the New Year's holiday." ”

He Xin looked at him vigilantly, and finally understood in his heart that he had met a scalper.

Huang Mao pursed his lips and motioned for him to come to the side to talk.

"How much can you do?" He Xin asked straight to the point.

Huang Mao stretched out a finger and said with a smile: "One thousand, I'll help you do it all in one go." ”

The handling fee for a passport is 200, the cost of production is 20, plus the courier fee, which adds up to about 250, and Huang Mao actually costs 1,000.

He didn't hesitate to bargain: "It's too expensive, cheaper." ”

Huang Mao still smiled and said: "My price is definitely not expensive, I don't believe you go out to inquire, if you want to do it urgently, you can get your passport within two weeks, you don't have to think about it if you don't have one thousand five." ”

He Xinhu looked at it suspiciously, and said, "I gave you the money, how can you guarantee that you can help me do it?"

"Receipt!"

Huang Mao said: "When you apply for a passport, you have a receipt of the passport, which has the date of collection, which has legal effect." ”

"Really?"

"Of course it's true!" Huang Mao said chiseledly, looked at He Xin, and said, "You are He Xin, I know you." ”

"Huh, you know me?" He Xin looked at him carefully, but he really didn't have any impression.

Huang Mao smiled: "When we were in junior high school, we were in the same grade, but we were in different classes. At that time, you were famous, and no one in the school knew you. ”

said, and introduced himself: "My name is He Dazhu, and I am from the third class. If you are still not sure, you can ask someone you know. ”

He Xin looked at this He Dazhu with a sworn look, not quite like he was trying to fool himself, thinking that there was really no good way now, he pretended to be surprised: "Speaking of which, we are also classmates." ”

As he spoke, he took a cigarette out of his pocket and handed him one.

"That's right!"

He Dazhu hurriedly took out a lighter to help light it, and said with a smile: "He Xin, I haven't seen you for many years, it seems that now it's mixed up, and it's all mixed abroad." ”

"Nope. He Xin said modestly, "It is mainly necessary for work." ”

Then he said with a bitter face: "This is also my first time going abroad, I just received a notice a few days ago, I have to leave at the beginning of next month, I have no choice but to come back to apply for a passport, but I didn't expect it to be so troublesome here." ”

"So you've got to find me!"

He Dazhu glanced at the window for the permit, and pretended to be mysterious: "I'm just eating a bowl of rice now, as long as you look for me, I don't want to delay you going abroad, we have something to do with it." ”

Although He Dazhu's words were vague, He Xin still understood what kind of collusion was to make profits together.

He Xin thought about it for a while, and immediately gritted his teeth and nodded: "That's okay, I'll leave this matter to you." ”

He Dazhu was really reliable, and when He Xin finished filling out the form, reviewed his ID card and household registration book, took a photo, and then handed him all the materials and a thousand yuan, he saw him swinging upstairs, and without much effort, he took a receipt with a certificate collection date of January 20.

He Xin got on the train back to the capital that night, and the twists and turns of applying for a passport made his last good impression of this small city disappear.

When he went to Huang's house to say goodbye, he deliberately left a key for Aunt Huang, asking her to help clean the house when the weather warmed up, and usually go upstairs to open the window for ventilation when he was free. Of course, if the Huang family is in need, the house can be used, but it is empty anyway, and it is only regarded as a return.

Although he made up his mind not to come back in the future, he still subconsciously regarded this place as the last retreat in the future, but he hoped that he would not be depressed to come to this point in the future.

......

"Wow!"

Li Mengnan poured the whole plate of mutton into the pot, and the soup splashed on the smoke column of the copper hot pot, emitting a wisp of white smoke, which was mixed with the rising heat in a blink of an eye.

"Hey, why are you so old! Put less of it, or the meat will be old." Seeing this, Hao Rong on the side immediately said dissatisfied.

"That's because you're eating slowly. Li Mengnan cross-examined.

He Xin ignored their bickering, stirred the chopsticks in the pot a few times, waited for the meat to change color, picked up a chopstick, dipped it in the dipping sauce and chili oil mixture, and stuffed it directly into his mouth with a large mouthful, which was called a cool.

Li Mengnan is the same, the chopsticks are bigger than him, and he said with a satisfied face: "I've been thinking about this for a long time." ”

As he spoke, he nodded his chopsticks and turned to He Xindao: "I think when I was in school, what my brothers wanted most was to come to this house to eat mutton, but they were all poor, each person made up eight or ten yuan, and they could only order two plates of mutton to coax their mouths, and a few chopsticks were gone." ”

"It's eight or ten yuan, which time have you taken out the money? Hao Rong said with a look of disdain.

He eats very elegantly, picks up one or two pieces of meat from the hot pot, dips them evenly, and then eats them until he chews them slowly in his mouth.

"At that time, aren't you all richer than me? Hey, the waiter has two more plates of lamb. Li Mengnan said with a big face.

When Hao Rong heard this, he was happy, picked up his wine glass and said with a smile: "Yo, it's rare to be able to eat a meal from your Li Lao, Xiaohe, come, let's toast Li Lao and thank him for this meal." ”

"Good, good!"

He Xin hurriedly stuffed a piece of chopsticks into his mouth, grinned hotly, picked up the cup, and said vaguely: "Brother, Teacher Hao and I respect you." ”

"Huh! Dare you two teachers and students join forces to deal with me today, right? Xiaohe, you are crossing the river and demolishing the bridge! Let me tell you, I haven't settled accounts with you about the last time!"

"Brother, I was wrong, will I make amends to you for your crimes?" He Xin hurriedly begged for mercy.

Last time, when Li Mengnan performed the drama as the second male lead, he specially reserved a seat to invite He Xin to watch it, but at that time he was competing with the role of Lan Yu, so he couldn't find time at all, and when the movie was finished, the performance over there was over.

It is said that Li Mengnan's performance was particularly brilliant that time, and today's gathering of the three of them is actually to congratulate him on the success of his performance.