Chapter 123: Home
My parents knew that I was coming back, and they had been waiting at the exit of the train station for a long time.
Before we reached the door, my parents couldn't help but burst into tears when they saw our figures, and our daughter ran out of the gate directly, jumped directly into the arms of her grandmother, hugged their necks, and shouted like honey, "Grandma, grandpa, I want to kill you", while putting her little mouth on their cheeks, kissing and kissing fiercely. My parents' faces were soon covered with saliva, but their hearts were full of joy and they couldn't stop smiling. My father's eldest daughter sat up high, hunched on her shoulders, and said excitedly, "Let's go, ride a big horse, go home." ”
The daughter really pretended to be riding a horse, grabbing a handful of her father's hair with two small hands, kicking her two legs his chest, and shouting: "Drive!"
"Chenchen, you're so unreasonable! Hurry down, grandpa is too old to stand the toss. "I felt sorry for my father, and I couldn't stand it, so I stopped my daughter seriously. Then he said to his father, "Dad, don't get used to her all the time, this will spoil her." ”
But the old and the young did not listen to me at all, and paid no attention to me.
Dad said that I am such a niece, of course I have to spoil her, she is only a few years old, don't worry. Your dad and I are old and strong, I can still bear these dozens of catties, a bag of wheat has more than 100 catties, I haven't carried it for decades. And when you were a child, like Chenchen, you liked to sit on my shoulders and ride a big horse, not only that, but you also liked to let me lie on the ground, sit directly on my entire back, and then let me pretend to be all kinds of animals on the ground, how old are you and you still like this kind of game, and you have to play for a long time at a time, every time I am tired, I am already sweating, and you are not willing to come down. In order to coax you to play, no matter how tired your father and I are, we can only endure it silently.
Later, when you grew up, you had your own thoughts and the world, and you became more and more alienated from me, and then you, you were admitted to university, left your hometown, and you could only come back once a semester during the holidays, and once it was just such a short period of time, and then later, you went to work, got married, gave birth to children, and completely walked out of Dad's field of vision, and Dad just wanted to hump you and had no chance. So, now that I have Chenchen, I can be this big horse like before, not to mention how happy I am, and I'm not tired at all.
As I walked to the bus stop, I saw that my father's waist had bent slightly because of some physical exhaustion, and my daughter's butt had slid down his shoulder. The father paused slightly, grabbed his daughter's legs, pushed her ass up with the strength of his back, straightened his back again, and continued to walk forward.
"Lao Shen, can you do it? If you can't, let the child come down, after all, the years are not forgiving, don't be reckless, don't accidentally drop Chenchen." Mom muttered worriedly beside her.
Dad was unhappy when he heard this, and he looked unconvinced, and said angrily: "What's wrong with my age, I don't believe that you will definitely not be able to wrestle me if we break our wrists, and it will be a matter of minutes to knock you down." I thought you were worried about me, but you were afraid that I would drop your precious niece. ”
"Originally, you didn't fall tightly, you fell Chenchen, that's a big deal, I'm sure I'll settle accounts with you. The old mother was very polite, and after speaking, she pulled Chenchen's little hand again, and said very gently: "Chenchen, let's come down, wait for grandma to buy you something delicious." Your grandfather is old and has no sense of proportion. ”
Where is the daughter willing to come down, pouting and sprinkling a delicate milk and saying, "No, I'm going to sit." ”
My father was a little unhappy, his face darkened, his steps were bigger, and he walked faster, leaving me and my mother far behind.
The bus stop is just one road away from the train station square, and the two of us trotted all the way behind before finally catching them up on the platform. Most of the buses here are green minibuses, and there are many direct buses that take you directly to the city. In addition, the time between the arrival of the train in front and the departure of the train behind is only a short five minutes, so there are not many people staying on the platform. I saw a crowd of people dragging luggage back and forth, quickly appeared on the platform, and quickly disappeared on the platform. Thinking of the situation that it used to take dozens of minutes to wait for a car, I couldn't help but feel something, and once again admired the rapid development of the economy now, people's basic material life has been greatly improved, and the services of various related supporting facilities have also been greatly improved, and the overall happiness of life has also increased.
Looking at the sunset that has set in the west and beginning to glow red, looking at the harmonious back of my father and daughter, an old man and a young man, and looking at my mother's chattering appearance, my heart is suddenly full of happiness, a kind of happiness full of a sense of steadfastness, so I can't help but think: This is what life should be. An urge to return to my hometown crept in my mind.
Walking to the platform, although my mother was out of breath, she began to count again: "Seeing that you are still such a stubborn temper, I just said two words to you, and you started to stumble again, when can you change it?"
"I'm stubborn, you don't think you're verbose, how happy your daughter is to come back today. What's wrong with my granddaughter? I'm willing! I'm happy if I have money, it's hard to buy it!"
"Look, it's okay if I don't say it, but when I say it's okay, you're still energetic. My mother didn't give up, and then turned her head to me and said, "It's really easy to change, and it's hard to change." You see he's like this, he hasn't changed in decades. ”
"What's the matter? I'm like this, why should I change? I didn't ask you, why do you ask me? You talk every day, I don't seem to ask you what you become, right?"
"I'm all for your own good, you see you're busy and forget to eat, don't I remind you that you can do it? If I don't remind you, your clothes can be peeled off a layer of dust. Also, I always don't want to sleep at night, lie on the sofa and watch TV, and fall asleep while watching, I don't remind you, can it work? It's okay in summer, but if it's winter, you don't know how many times he has caught a cold. And ......"
"Who rarely reminds you, I'm not a child, I'm hungry and don't know how to eat. I don't know if the clothes I wear are clean or not, I watch TV and sleep because I feel comfortable lying on the sofa, and I can say that I have a cold when I am so old. It's still vigorous, I think you treat me like a child. ”
"I think I treat you like a child, you think I'm willing. I talk about you every day, and I feel tired. The dog also bites Lu Dongbin, I don't know the good people and I am verbose, wait a few days, Xiaolan will go back and I will go with her, so that you can be quiet at home alone. At that time, no one will talk to you, and you can do whatever you want. ”
"Hey, you old woman, you're still talking and talking. You just take care of yourself, why do you keep worrying about me so much. ”
"Wasn't that worried about you?"
"Okay, if you don't let me worry, I'll burn high incense. ”
Father and mother are like two children, you say a word to me, and they quarrel with each other while waiting for the car. I've become accustomed to this way of life of theirs, and although they don't give in, quarrels are quarrels, and soon they will be fine. I deeply know that in fact, they are just a way of caring for each other, which is different from other people's sweet words or respectful guests, and is full of a lot of fun. And they go back and forth like this every day, even though there are only two of them at home, it is also lively.
Looking at their appearance, I couldn't help but cover my mouth next to me and laugh "poof", and then said: "Okay, okay, okay, you don't have to fight, both of them are so old, and they are still like children." ”
When my daughter heard what I said, she also echoed and quipped, "Grandma and grandpa are like children, they always like to quarrel and be ashamed!"
"What do you little girl know!?" Hearing her daughter's words, her parents said in unison. After speaking, they found that their reactions to each other were so consistent, and they couldn't help but laugh "haha" when they looked at each other, so only the four of us stood on the platform, and turned on the laughter mode again, attracting many passers-by who passed by curiously and kept looking back.
A green minibus stopped in front of us, and I dropped my daughter off my father's shoulder, and then got on the bus after my father and mother.
On the bus, my parents patiently and actively introduced me to the many changes in the city in the past few years, where a high-rise building has been built, where the road has been re-widened and repaired, where a new school has been built, where a new supermarket has opened, etc., etc., etc., I am fascinated by it, and I want to run to see it immediately.
I felt that time flew by while chatting like this, and I was about to get out of the car before I had seen enough of the scenery on the road. When I got out of the car, I saw the country road that I was particularly familiar with again, and found that it had also changed, and the original gravel road had become a smooth asphalt road. After all, the large poplar trees on both sides are very thick, stretching and crossing each other on the road, which has blocked most of the sunlight. Sunlight shines through the gaps in the leaves, casting dappled shadows on the ground.
We walked along this road all the way, and soon came to the door of the house, the red gate is still pasted with the Guan Gong posted during the New Year, the courtyard wall made of red bricks is covered by the dense leaves of the creeper, like a green curtain is very eye-catching, the little bees are buzzing around on it, constantly looking for a place to stay, occasionally a white *** flies by, dotted in the meantime, very beautiful. I couldn't help but shout happily, "It's home!"