The old man has been waiting for too long, half of his body bones have long been buried in the loess, and how much hope he has to wait for his children to return in the year of rebirth.

The three of them helped each other back home, and after dinner, the old man talked about the events of these years, like a few family treasures.

Although my grandmother is old, her head is unusually clear, and the trading of the commissary has never been interrupted.

Ah Fei looked at everything in the house, as if it hadn't changed much from five years ago, just lightly covered with a layer of dust.

The old man cleaned up the house very well, and all the sheets and quilt covers in the back room were replaced with new ones. After talking for a long time, the old man got up and walked to the back room, opened the lid and took out a folded passbook from the depths of the wooden box, she said that it was the accounts of all these years, and they were entrusted to others to deposit them in the town bank, so that Ah Fei's mother could rest assured that she could take a look.

The mother didn't speak, took the passbook and turned two pages, and the long-lost parting finally broke in Ah Fei's opinion.

The mother and the child howled and cried, as if they had washed away the grievances and sadness of five years outside.

It was the first time Ah Fei saw his mother like this, and in his heart his mother was very strong. This time, she really couldn't hold it anymore against her own mother.

That night, Ah Fei slept soundly on the side, and he covered himself with a thin layer of sheets. Mother and grandmother slept together, and Ah Fei could hear her whispering conversation in her sleep, and it didn't seem to be quiet until morning.

The hometown is in a small town, the front and back are military industrial manufacturing bases, and there is a long railway behind this town, and on both sides of the railway are the fields on which they depend, and the railway instills the transportation of military industrial products at both ends.

One is to manufacture parts, and the other is to assemble and use. For this town, they have brought little income, and only provide some convenience in terms of location.

The manufacturing factories at both ends are state-owned enterprises, and the workers inside are working from 9 to 5, although there will be buses specially transported by enterprises at the intersection every day, but no workers get off the bus to stop and watch, and people living in small towns cast some yearning eyes on the workers in those factories.

The same water gives birth to a hundred kinds of people. After so many years, the days have not changed for a long time. The morning in the town is extraordinarily quiet, there is no noise of cars, there is no noise of factories, and when you push open the door panels, there is green smoke from the cooking fire in the chimney of other houses, and the morning cards and drinks have not yet arrived.

At that time, there were no buildings in the town, and the whole street was a peasant house from the last century, with black bricks and yellow mud walls.

A potholed concrete road along the streets that go around the town. On the other side of the street is the intersection of the main station, where buses carry workers by in the morning and evening.

There were many people in the street carrying baskets on flat poles, they had come from the railway, selling some crops, changing some aluminum pots, chatting with other masters, and some were nibbling on the benches in front of the tavern with their own buns.

All this is too familiar to Ah Fei, who spent his entire childhood in this town.

In the place where we are haunted by our hometown, everything is a long-lost reunion. From morning to dusk, Ah Fei was with his mother all the time.

A lot of hygiene has been done in the house. By the way, I went to my grandmother's original house and moved some things over.

My mother began to plan to tear down the house on the plot and build a four-story house. From Ah Fei's relatives, he found the contractor to discuss and begin.

Before demolishing the house, my grandmother went to the fortune teller on the street and asked for an auspicious day for the zodiac. Everything was suitable that day, and many family members and neighbors came to help, but after the land was demolished, it was pitiful, and there were only two small façade rooms at most.

Throughout the summer, in addition to going to find his partner Ah Dan, who was a child before, he was on the house with his mother, watching inside and out.

Grandma cooked for the small workers every day, and although the price of meat at that time rose sharply, Ah Fei's mother never treated anyone badly.

In a blink of an eye, when Ah Fei was going to school, he still had to trouble his uncle to go to the school to find the principal.

With the transfer certificate and student status certificate, Ah Fei went to school with his mother. This school had a great influence on Ah Fei later, although the time was only a few years, but what happened in these years was very absurd.

The school stands on the main road, which divides the school into two campuses, the teachers' office building and the girls' dormitory.

Opposite is the teaching building, from the outside looks very magnificent, outside the door at a glance, the front wall is written on the four big words of honesty and studiousness.

There are many street vendors on both sides of the road, and they have everything to eat, drink, and wear.

Ah Fei vaguely remembers that when he was a child, he and his grandfather also set up a stall here, selling kitchen knives, shovels, tongs, hammers and other things.

Grandpa is a blacksmith, he has been dealing with iron all his life, and later passed on the craft to Ah Fei's father, who took over the mantle and had Ah Fei, for the life of his wife and children, he went to Guangzhou at the beginning, and Ah Fei can't remember it for too long.

There are five teaching buildings, each with three floors on each side of the gate, and each of the three at the back is a two-story building. Further on the other side is the playground, where there are toilets and kiosks, and on the other side is the men's dormitory and canteen with a boiler room.

The school also has a yard where students can park their bicycles, most of which are for children from afar. Ah Fei had never been there, his home was too close to the school.

Every winter, when Ah Fei doesn't want to get up in the morning, he can hear the school radio in the bed.

The new semester is coming, and on Ah Fei's student certificate, every homework is placed here with excellent grades.

He was placed in the second class, the head teacher was not tall, had short hair and wore glasses. Ah Fei's father and the head teacher's brother are good brothers and have been in contact all year round.

They are all the same surname, as if they are also creation. There are more than 1,500 people in the six grades of the school, which is one of the best in the surrounding area.

When Ah Fei went to the classroom on the first day, there was still a big gap from his previous imagination, and the seats were all long wood, the kind shared by the two.

The classrooms are also old, and the white light tubes on the top are also full of dust, which does not fit with the white tiles at the school gate.

Ah Fei is taller now, so the head teacher arranged for him to sit in the last row. Looking at the crowd in the classroom, he didn't know anyone, but he was used to it, it has been like this for the past few years, and it doesn't matter to him that he changes from place to place.

The good thing is that the teacher does not have the previous dialect in class, which is the smoothest for Ah Fei.