Xu Jianguo was awakened by a rush of urine.

ran to the toilet and put water, and washed his face in the washbasin with the warm water on the train, and then Xu Jianguo, who had woken up, raised his hand and looked at the time.

It's already half past five.

The sky outside the car window was still a little dark.

The lights in the dining car were also on, and the staff were busy preparing breakfast.

Probably awakened by the sudden onset of the car lights, a child who looked no more than two or three years old began to cry loudly.

The child's mother was also awakened by the crying.

Perhaps because she was too tired from the journey, she didn't open her eyes, but just hugged the child and shook it softly. "Don't be noisy. ”

It's a pity that the little girl doesn't eat this set, and the cry is still loud.

This is what a two- or three-year-old child should look like.

Xu Jianguo shook his head, ran to the kitchen of the dining car and asked the staff for a bowl of noodles, and by the way, asked the time when the train arrived in Yangcheng.

"It's past one o'clock in the afternoon, and there are still more than seven and a half hours. The staff collected the money, raised his arm and looked at his watch and replied, and motioned for Xu Jianguo to go back to his seat and wait, the kitchen should not be for outsiders to stay for a long time.

More and more people are being woken up by the sound of crying.

Maybe it's because it's not easy to go out, and no one is upset because they are woken up by the little girl's crying, and some people just change their positions and go to sleep, and another wave of people simply get up and wash.

"Good boy, don't cry, sister, please eat candy. A little girl who looked no more than in her early twenties took out a few white rabbit toffees from her bag and shook them in front of the little girl.

The crying suddenly stopped.

The little girl's mother couldn't help but open her eyes when she heard the sound, and saw that her daughter's eyes were full of longing for sugar. I had to sigh secretly and say to my daughter, "Quick, thank you, sister." ”

"Thank you, sister. "The little girl's voice was milky.

"That's good. The girl touched the little girl's head and smiled and shoved the candy into the child's hand.

"Girl, let's eat a tea egg, I cooked it myself, it's fragrant. The little girl's mother, a peasant woman in her thirties, rummaged through the baggage she was carrying for a while, took out a thinly wrapped cloth bag, opened it, took two tea eggs and handed them to the girl opposite.

The countrymen are simple, and they have the benefits of others, and they always want to give something back. Although those two tea eggs may be a lunch for the two of them.

"Thank you," the girl didn't say much politely, took a tea egg from the woman's hand, peeled it, and pushed the rest back, "You eat it too." ”

"Hey, okay. The country woman peeled the tea eggs, and with a slight pinch of her hand, she stuffed the yolk into the little girl's mouth, and fed the little girl saliva to prevent her from choking, and then slowly gnawed the remaining egg whites.

"Be careful to burn the noodles. The voice of the dining car staff drew Xu Jianguo's attention back from there.

The food on the train is really a bit expensive, a bowl of green vegetable noodles with shredded meat, and a poached egg, you will be charged ten yuan.

"Huh~" Xu Jianguo picked up a chopstick and took a bite of noodles, while paying attention to the two women of similar age who were chatting while eating tea eggs over there.

Xu Jianguo finished eating a bowl of noodles, and the two people chatting over there also chatted about their respective information.

Rural women in the countryside are bringing their children to find their husbands who work in Yangcheng, I heard that the family is building a house and almost money, so the husband plans not to go home for the New Year to earn more money, so she took her children to Yangcheng to find her husband for the New Year, by the way, at the end of the year, she can still find something to do, but also to help her husband.

And the girl went to college in Shencheng and took leave to go back to her home in Yangcheng to rest and spend Christmas and New Year's Day by the way.

It's not that Xu Jianguo has to eavesdrop on the conversation between the two, but the girl who went to college in Shencheng reminded him of someone.

One was also met on the train, the same girl in her twenties, but she didn't go to college but graduated from secondary school and went to teach in Y province.

He remembered that she liked to call herself "uncle" by the slightly odd title.

He remembered her solemnly saying that she was not young, she was already twenty.

He remembered her stubbornly saying that she didn't care that he was older than her, fourteen years older than her.

He remembered the little girl pleading to herself with a pale face, "You wait for me, wait for me to grow up." ”

He remembered the parting time in front of the train station, when the little girl choked up and hugged him, saying that she would be obedient.

He still remembers her name, Han so-young.

Is it really not exciting? Xu Jianguo knew that he was actually moved.

However, no, you cannot.

It's not just that he's fourteen years older than her.

More importantly, Xu Jianguo knew deeply that he did not have a future that he could promise to others at that time.

At that time, he was poor and white, although he could follow He Shao's life, but he couldn't give him enough courage to let her wait for him.

Why?

Why do you delay the youth of a little girl?

Why should a little girl wait for a future that she is not sure about?

Perhaps, it would be a better choice to let An Ansheng stay there for the rest of his life.

The conversation between the two continued, but Xu Jianguo's thoughts had already flown away.

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Trains in the nineties were always prone to delays. When the train entered Yangcheng, it was almost three o'clock in the afternoon.

Xu Jianguo got out of the car with his bags, exhaled in the warm winter sun, stretched his limbs and planned to leave the station.

"Uncle!" the voice behind him seemed familiar.

Xu Jianguo stopped and turned around.

"Uncle, it's really you. A young and beautiful figure came to Xu Jianguo with a familiar voice, "What a coincidence, I almost thought I recognized the wrong person." ”

Really, where do you not meet in life?

Xu Jianguo sighed in his heart, he still remembered people when he was on the train just now, and in a blink of an eye, he was standing in front of him.

"It's a coincidence. Xu Jianguo replied softly, without a trace of emotion, and did not dare to bring a trace of emotion, "Why are you here?"

"Ah, we're on vacation, go home for the New Year. Han Xiuying took it for granted, "The children have to go home to help with the work before the year, so the winter vacation is very early." I thought it would be okay to stay there all the time, so I planned to go home early. Just come to Yangcheng to transfer here, and then take the bus back to Star City from here. ”

"Oh, me, I'm going to Port City on a business trip. Xu Jianguo was speechless at first, and he didn't dare to ask if you were okay.

"Wow, I haven't been to Gangcheng yet! Uncle, can you take me to see it?" Han Xiuying's eyes flashed, she hadn't seen her for more than half a year, and the little girl didn't let it go.

"This ...... Aren't you going home?" Xu Jianguo didn't dare to agree.

"Isn't this still early? February 19th is only the New Year, and there are still more than two months left, so I'm not in a hurry. The little girl pretended not to hear what Xu Jianguo meant, and explained seriously.

"Forget it, I'm going to have something to do this time, and time is tight. Xu Jianguo shook his head, trying to find an excuse. "Besides, you don't have a border pass, so you can't pass the border. ”

"Xiuying, you're here, but I'll find it easily. I asked someone, we don't have to leave the station, we just go to platform 3 and wait for half an hour to get on the train directly. A young man in his early twenties ran over in a hurry, he looked at Xu Jianguo, and his eyes were a little surprised, "What a coincidence." ”

"It's a coincidence. Xu Jianguo recognized him, he was a boy who went to Y Province to teach with Han Xiuying, her classmate, fellow villager, Liu Ming. This time, I guess I will accompany her home.

"I'll go first, time is tight, and I still have something to do. Xu Jianguo said hello, but didn't give the little girl a chance to stay, and hurriedly turned around and left.

It's not that he doesn't understand what she means, he is indeed moved, but he can't.

The reasons why it was not possible half a year ago have not changed in any way until now.

He wasn't enough to promise her a future.

Compared with himself, this boy named Liu Ming may be more suitable.

December 13, 1995, fine.

On this day, the vicissitudes of life once again pushed away the delicate little girl who was running towards him. It's just that neither of them knows that this push is more than ten years.