Chapter 135: A Shadow in Memory
Early the next morning, Lin Jiaming drove Lu Haowan to Z County.
"I haven't slept all night, okay, fatigue driving!" Seeing Lin Jiaming yawning, Lu Haowan quipped.
"I'm a little excited, I haven't been back for almost a year, and I don't know what happened to my grandmother now?" Lin Jiaming smiled.
Since he left home in the first month, Lin Jiaming has never returned.
"Haha, isn't it time to see grandma later. Brother Ming, do you have a very heavy hometown plot?" Lu Haowan didn't know where she heard this word, so she suddenly asked Lin Jiaming.
Hearing Lu Haowan ask, Lin Jiaming was stunned for a moment, he probably has a "hometown plot"! I still remember reading a sentence in college, he was deeply touched at that time, and he remembered this sentence deeply, and the original sentence was like this:
When I grew up, I didn't know the moment I stepped on the train, and from then on there was only winter in my hometown, and there was no spring, summer and autumn!
"Brother Ming?" Seeing that Lin Jiaming hadn't spoken for a long time, Lu Haowan called him.
"Ah...... Uh-huh!" Lin Jiaming glanced ahead, and after confirming that it was safe, he turned his head and glanced at Lu Haowan, but he was immediately told by Lu Haowan.
"Drive well, see what I'm doing? I see you've just been a little distracted, ask you what you're thinking!"
"Oh, I'm thinking, my grandmother's family lives halfway up the mountain, and you have to walk up the mountain road for a while, can you afford it?" Lin Jiaming hurriedly looked at the front of the car and said.
"It's okay, it's time to climb the mountain. I deliberately wore a pair of hiking boots, no problem at all, don't worry!" Lu added.
"Brother Ming, do you think it's appropriate for me to wear this dress today?" Lu Haowan wore a set of casual sportswear, and her whole figure was perfectly presented. And compared to putting down the popular clothes, this outfit is much more conservative.
"If I say it's not appropriate, what will you do?" Lin Jiaming replied with a wicked smile.
"Oh, I can't go back and change my clothes now. Then you must not complain that I am dressed too casually when I go to see my grandmother, hum!" Lu Haowan pouted and turned her face to the side.
"Hey, it's all yours. My grandmother came through hardship, and her thinking was a little conservative. For her, as long as you don't dress too revealingly, she can accept it......" Lin Jiaming suddenly stopped, the word "exposed" is a little sensitive for him now. After all, he had seen it that night
Lu Haowan looked like she was when she was not wearing clothes, and she had nosebleeds for several days.
Lu Haowan was not so sensitive to this, she looked out the window like a person who had nothing to do, and after a while, she looked at her seat and fell asleep.
Lin Jiaming saw that Lu Haowan was asleep, so he slowed down the car a little and drove more smoothly.
It takes much less time to drive than to take a passenger car, and at least you don't have to wait for a bus to change. So, at noon, the two went to their grandmother's house.
"Grandma, I'm back!" Before entering the door, Lin Jiaming shouted loudly.
"Ah......" Grandma heard someone shouting, and hurriedly trotted out all the way, and when she saw Lin Jiaming and Lu Haowan, her wrinkled face was radiant.
"yes~ The distant guest has arrived!Come, come, come into the house!" Before Lin Jiaming could speak, her grandmother pulled Lu Haowan into the house. At the moment when she missed Lin Jiaming, Lu Haowan also turned her head and made a grimace at Lin Jiaming. It seems to say, "Your position has been taken by the nest!"
Lin Jiaming smiled helplessly, put the purchased apples and the like on the table, and ran to the room coquettishly to "vent" his dissatisfaction to his grandmother!
"Oh, you're my grandson, she's my granddaughter, what do you care? If you do this again, I won't give you food for a while!" Grandma also pretended to be angry and counted Lin Jiaming.
Grandma counted him down, but the key was that Lu Haowan, the girl, also "rebelled" at this time, and began to count Lin Jiaming with her grandmother.
"That is, boys should be generous, look at you, compete with a girl for favor, are you embarrassed? Yes, grandma ......" Lu Haowan said as she got into a relationship with her grandmother.
Lin Jiaming can understand that Lu Haowan, this girl, has "ulterior motives", just to win over everyone around him, so that if there is a conflict in the future, she will have everyone's support, and he, Lin Jiaming, hehe...... It's just a lonely person. Does he dare to be presumptuous?
Having said that, looking at how much her grandmother likes her, she doesn't need to win over. She only came for a minute, and she took the place of his grandson, who had been with his grandmother for more than 20 years.
"I ......" Lin Jiaming wanted to make another time, but when he saw that his grandmother and Lu Haowan were chatting hotly, he "forbeared".
"Grandma, Nier, I'll go out and come back soon!" While the two of them were chatting happily, Lin Jiaming was going to a place, which was not suitable for taking Lu Haowan there, after all, there was no one here now, and the original road was "occupied" by the thorn bushes.
"Where are you going?" Hearing Lin Jiaming say this, Lu Haowan stood up and asked.
"You let him go, you stay and talk to grandma for a while!" Grandma also knew where Lin Jiaming was going, and she didn't stop her, but that place was really not suitable for Lu Haowan to go.
"Then come back quickly!" Lu Haowan said to Lin Jiaming reluctantly.
"Don't worry!I'll be back soon!" After speaking, Lin Jiaming flew out of the door.
Along the way, there was no thorn bush that Lin Jiaming was worried about, and the road was shaved brightly. The hatchet he brought with him was completely useless.
It was a good fit to get to the place he wanted to go.
"I haven't been back for a long, long time, and I don't know how you're doing over there, why don't you come to see me in your dreams?" Facing the mound of earth built up of stones, Lin Jiaming told his inner thoughts and grievances.
"I know, you take good care of her at home, and I came back to you this time to take her out to play. After all, she is old, and there are not many opportunities to go out to play, so I can't take you there, don't be jealous Ha......" Lin Jiaming took out a box of cigarettes from his pocket, lit one, and took two puffs, choking him to tears. After making sure that the smoke was ignited, Lin Jiaming put the cigarette in the crack of the stone.
"I don't know what's so good about this thing, just keep smoking it while you're there, and choke me ...... Don't dislike this cigarette, I really haven't found your dry tobacco, and even if I do, I don't dare to light it, the smell is too ......strong."
Lin Jiaming sat in front of the mound, telling the mound of soil and the grass on the reeds about everything that happened to him this year, and bringing Lu Haowan back, and his grandmother fell to Lu Haowan's "dissatisfaction".
Lin Jiaming was still unsatisfied, and Lu Haowan at home called him to eat.
Your future granddaughter-in-law asked me to go back to dinner. Do you also remember how your grandmother used to ask you to eat? No, you don't grow crops, you and the lazy old man! I'm leaving, and I'll come back to see you during the New Year!"
After speaking, Lin Jiaming lit another cigarette and put it in the crack of the stone, and walked home.
After walking a short distance, he looked back, and for a moment, he seemed to go back to the scene when he was young, when he stood at the intersection and watched him go to school. Lin Jiaming waved his hand at the illusory figure, and turned around with a smile!