Chapter 35: Once You Were You
Zhao Jianguo doesn't have many things, after all, men still can't compare with women, a big package, it is estimated that there are two sets of clothes that have been changed in spring, summer, autumn and winter, and there is nothing else, and winter clothes are still worn on the body.
There was an oil lamp hanging on the ox cart, and with Niu Wang's whip, the old buffalo began to pull, and the night still could not block the sight of the animals, that is, there was no way to speed up.
The ox cart was moving slowly.
Even if it is a dark night, it can't stop the overall outline, looking at the gradually shrinking small mountain village, Zhang Ruolin exhaled slightly, originally thought that he would live here for at least half a year or more than a year, or even longer, but he didn't expect to leave so soon.
In this era, she has nothing to worry about, and the next time she comes, I don't know what year Ma Yue will wait, and if she doesn't do well, I'm afraid she will not come back to see it until the death of the original owner's parents.
Now Zhang Ruolin's only hope is that she can live a stable life after moving to the county seat, and if the county seat is not stable, she has to move to the capital.
"Reluctant?" Zhao Jianguo asked in a low voice.
Zhang Ruolin shook her head with a smile, "There is nothing to be reluctant to, and there is no concern, what is there to be reluctant to?"
"Your father's character, you don't know it, in our Ma Jiapen generation, the two of them are well-known good people. ”
"What the eyes see, what the ears hear, sometimes there are falsehoods, maybe in the eyes of others the two of them are indeed good people, but in my eyes, they are not. ”
Zhao Jianguo let out an "oh", "Why?"
"No reason. Zhang Ruolin replied lightly, for Zhang Laogen and his wife, she was completely disappointed, anyway, thirty yuan a Chinese New Year's Eve, she can be regarded as helping the original owner fulfill her obligations as a daughter, when the original owner was alive, she went back on the second day of the first lunar month every year, and brought back only a few eggs and two pounds of rice noodles, these things together did not have a dollar.
"Why don't you take my quilt and sleep for a while, and I'll call you when you get to the county seat." ”
Zhang Ruolin shook her head, "Don't be sleepy, if you're sleepy, you can sleep first!"
"Cover the quilt, our area is mountainous, the night is cold, my quilt is clean, I only washed it before I came back. ”
Zhang Ruolin said "oh", it's not good to refuse again, people will say to death, if you refuse again, it will be a little ugly, pick up the quilt placed on the ox cart, cover it, and glance at Zhao Jianguo, who was sitting on the side, "You can also cover a little!"
"It's fine. ”
Today's early spring is not at all the same as modern times, Zhang Ruolin can be regarded as having learned what the state of the environment is like without any pollution.
In modern times, when it is hot during the day, you can wear skirts, but now, when you sit on the ox cart covered with a quilt, you feel cold, and the slight night breeze blows on your body, piercing the cold of the bone marrow.
I didn't sleep well last night, I changed to an unfamiliar environment, I was scared, I got up before dawn and hurried to the scene, tossing for a day, tired and sleepy.
I was expecting to be able to sleep well tonight, but I didn't expect this kind of thing to happen, and it took almost an hour to make a fuss.
Until now, even on such a cold and biting night, Zhang Ruolin gradually couldn't resist the onset of sleepiness, leaned on Zhang Jianguo's backpack, and gradually closed her eyes.
Zhao Jianguo glanced at it, stretched out his hand to hold the quilt, and the corners of his mouth showed a slight smile, he didn't expect to see him for so many years, the one with pigtails back then, as soon as he saw him go to their village, he followed him around behind his ass and shouted "brother" The little girl kept shouting, and in a blink of an eye, she grew so big, and she didn't have the familiar appearance in her memory at all, or that life tortured her into something she didn't remember.
Zhao Jianguo smiled again, I'm afraid that the little girl has long forgotten what happened at the beginning, after all, she was only a little old at that time, and fifteen or six years have passed in a blink of an eye, it would be strange if she remembered what happened when she was a child.
Niu Wang turned his head and laughed twice, and asked, "Jianguo, are you interested in this girl Nier?"
Zhao Jianguo glanced at him.
"Back then, you saw how beautiful this girl was Nier, look at what it looked like to be tortured? The old Zhao family is not a thing, but this old Zhang family is even more not a thing, it doesn't matter, with a little help, this girl doesn't have to live so hard. After waiting for more than seven years, I finally waited for my man to come back, and I thought I was going to live a good life, but I didn't expect that Zhao Erzhu's guy would bring a woman back outside. Niu Wang sighed after speaking.
"I speak, did you hear me? ”
"I hear you. ”
"What should I do now? If this kind of thing happens, tomorrow we will be able to spread the word about this Ma family basin, this woman doesn't care about anything else, but this reputation is the most important thing. ”
"How can you have the same virtue as Chen Dabing?"
"Brother, I'm not worried about you, if I'm not mistaken, you're the same age as me, aren't you? ”
A moment or so passed.
Zhao Jianguo glanced at Niu Wang, yawned slightly, took out a pack of cigarettes from his pocket, handed one to Niu Wang, he lit one himself, and took a sharp breath, "Niu Wang, how have you been all these years?"
"If that's not it, what else can you do? You don't know what's going on in the countryside. Since the landlord fell, my family has divided 20 acres of land, mountainous, the soil is not very fertile, and the harvest is limited. When I go to the county in my spare time, I can sometimes find something to do, just like that, aren't our people living like this for generations!"
Zhao Jianguo nodded, "When did the uncle leave?"
"In 49, when I went into the mountains to collect medicine, it happened to rain heavily, and I rolled down the mountain, and when I found it, I was out of gas. ”
Zhao Jianguo let out an "oh", glanced at Zhang Ruolin who rolled into his arms, raised his eyebrows slightly, and then shrunk, his face was full of embarrassment, and he hurriedly reached out to the quilt and hurriedly took Zhang Ruolin's hand somewhere.
"By the way, Jianguo, have you found your parents all these years?"
Zhao Jianguo's eyes suddenly darkened when he heard this, "I found it." ”
"Did you really find it?"
Zhao Jianguo said "um".
"Then why are you coming back?"
"All sacrificed. ”