Chapter 32 Returning Home
But as the fashionable saying said ten years later, what you watch is not TV, what you watch is your mood.
Zhuo Qun's eyes saw this, but his heart was thinking of something else.
In his mind, he couldn't help but think of the summers he had spent in his hometown.
The smell is still fresh in his memory, like the bubbling Carlsberg beer in his hand.
Refreshing, translucent, and has a taste that I don't know whether it's beautiful or bitter.
He still remembers that at the end of the third grade, he won the first certificate of merit in his life.
When I got home, I immediately put it on the wall.
His parents were happy for a long time, and his mother specially made dumplings for him and bought a fried chicken thigh.
Dad had a rare drink for this......
In the summer when he graduated from the sixth grade of elementary school, he wrote an essay that read, "I went with a good friend to catch dragonflies, and later learned that dragonflies are beneficial insects, so I was so ashamed that I released them."
Later, this essay won the second prize in the city's competition and was also published in the "Youth Daily".
His father bought him a copy of "One Hundred Excellent Essays" and a set of "Pipiru and Luxisi" as encouragement.
And the mother's expression was more affordable, and the opening made him eat the Huanggu ice cream for a summer......
In the first year of junior high school, he was a member of the study committee, and in the second year of junior high school, he also served as the class president.
But in the third year of junior high school, the competition for academic performance became more intense, and he felt a little struggling.
So in order for him to maintain the advantage of being at the top.
His parents gritted their teeth to find a famous teacher for him, and saved money to make up the tuition fee.
And he finally lived up to his parents' expectations, and was admitted to a key high school in the city after graduating from junior high school.
His parents were very proud of him, so they spent a special time and took him to the summer palace in the south of the city to play once with a person's half-monthly salary.
The big slide there is still the most fun water slide he has ever considered......
After graduating from high school, too, when he successfully got the admission letter of the National University of China.
The parents set off 10,000 firecrackers in the simple downstairs where they lived, and they didn't call anymore.
The next day, he also held a banquet at the time-honored "Baofa Garden" to entertain relatives and friends.
But he later learned that he went to the capital to report and took away 1,000 yuan.
Among them, there were 500 yuan, which my mother made up for by selling the gold earrings left by my grandmother.
And in order to provide for him to go to university, he studied in the capital for a few years, and his parents only ate steamed buns, pies and noodles all year round.
Because you can eat noodles without dishes, just mix some miso with it.
And the piles of vegetables that can't be served on the table can be hidden in the bun skin, and the pie can be served to the table in a grand manner......
Thinking of this, Zhuo Qun suddenly felt a piercing sense of guilt in his heart.
Because he suddenly realized that the violent meal between himself and Boss Xu could withstand the food expenses of his parents for several years.
He seems to have forgotten a lot of things that should not have been forgotten, and he really should have gone home sooner.
At 11:05, the plane stopped at its destination on time.
To Zhuoqun's satisfaction, as a business class guest, he has the right to be the first to get off the plane.
He wanted to get out of the airport as soon as possible.
So in the kind eyes of many crew members, in the envy of many passengers who were blocked in economy class.
In a desperate mood, he became the first person to step out of the cockpit.
Even in the passage leading to the departure hall, Zhuoqun, who was striding forward, felt a kind of comfort that he had never felt before.
Because this was the first time he got off the plane, there was no one in front of him.
After pulling two large suitcases, I came to the outside of the Taoxian Airport building.
Without his beckoning, his conspicuous imported trolley suitcase easily beckoned a red crown car in front of him.
In a city with only 16,000 taxis, taxi drivers make money by their eyes.
Sure enough, Zhuo Qun doesn't look young, but he doesn't dislike the high price of the crown car at one yuan per kilometer like most guests.
Instead, he reported the location of the TX zone from his mouth and handed the taxi driver a 100-yuan bill directly from the window.
And tell the driver that there is no need to look for more.
The only additional condition was to ask the driver to do the work for him and put his suitcase in the back of the car.
This kind of magnanimity can make the driver happy, so he quickly got out of the car and did it.
So much so that after Zhuo Qun then got into the car and told the detailed address of his home, the taxi driver couldn't believe his ears.
As a rule of thumb, customers like this are usually staying in high-end hotels or restaurants in the city center.
There is absolutely no connection with the old factory building that has declined.
Until Zhuo Qun was sure again and again, they all spoke the local language.
The taxi driver really gave up his doubts and finally started the car.
But to be honest, Zhuo Qun was quite apprehensive when he walked into the house that day.
Especially as soon as he entered the door, he saw the fourteen-inch Golden Phoenix brand black and white TV at home, and his legs were weak.
This is an old object that definitely has a history.
He still remembers that his family bought it back in 1984.
At that time, the sky-high price of 800 yuan made my father carry this thing back from the department store as if he were inviting a fairy.
It took several days for the mother to sew a cloth cover for the iron fellow.
It is said that at that time, it cost more than two yuan to buy a TV case.
But for this TV, his family is worth it.
It was repaired five times and was still able to make do with it, and it was not until 2002 that it was actually "retired".
Zhuo Qun has the impression that with the support of his wife Wei Li, he remitted the year-end bonus of the first year after marriage to his parents, and the family finally saw the color TV.
Because of this, whenever he has conflicts with his wife in the future, his mother will always stand firmly in the position of her daughter-in-law.
At this time, this old TV magically reappeared in his home and placed it in front of him.
As always, the image that has to be distorted from time to time is played, and it makes a "stinging, stinging" noise like a dying old man who is panting.
In the same way, his mother did become younger, her hair was not gray, and her face was smooth.
He was smacking his lips and falling asleep on the sofa with a calm expression......
Maybe Zhuo Qun was a little big when he came in just now.
While he was quietly distracted, his mother probably sensed someone coming in and said in a daze.
"Why did you come back so early today? ”
As soon as Zhuo Qun heard it, he knew that his mother regarded him as his father.
He remembers that during his summer vacation, his father would often rent a neighbor's tricycle to earn some extra money outside the train station.
So he went into the kitchen to investigate.
Unexpectedly, I found two plates of steamed buns, and they were still vegan stuffing when they were broken.
This made him finally couldn't help but sigh, his voice bitter.
"Mom, Mom, you're too good to make do. How many steamed buns is this?"
That's it.
The mother jumped out of bed as if she had pressed a spring.
looked at Zhuo Qun with wide eyes and disbelief.
"Little white-eyed wolf. Is that you?"
Born as a worker, she really doesn't care about scolding.
But in just a second, her eyes turned red, and she pounced on Zhuo Qun and grabbed Zhuo Qun, as if he was afraid to run away.
"Do you still know how to go home? Why don't you die outside? What a filial piety! If you don't come back for the Spring Festival, you still know that you have a father and a mother?"