Chapter 5: The Vanishing Past
Chen Qiaoshan felt a little satisfied in his heart.
I didn't expect that not long after I came into contact with this world, I won the favor of girls, and I was such an outstanding girl.
Yan Xiaoqin's conditions in all aspects are undoubtedly extremely outstanding, not only is she beautiful, but her studies are good enough, at least it is no problem to crush him, looking at her dress and manners, the family environment should be very good.
By the standards of future generations, a girl like her should be an extremely scarce existence in society.
You don't have to think about it to know that there are many Yan Xiaoqin's admirers on campus, but she just fell in love with Chen Qiaoshan.
Chen Qiaoshan looked himself up and down, a half-worn light blue jacket with a pair of black pants and a pair of pull-back shoes, how to look at this and feel a little rustic.
The love of young men and women may be so pure, without a trace of worldliness.
Chen Qiaoshan looked at his current self and thought of Chen Weiguo back then, and the love story between Chen Weiguo and Zhang Ziyu may also be simple and beautiful.
It's a pity that in that chaotic era, their love naturally carried too many shackles of the times, so in the end they couldn't resist the baptism of the hard years.
Zhang Ziyu may have really loved the young and handsome Chen Weiguo, but with the great changes of the times, watching his brother leave and his parents leaving, love has been wiped out by the difficult years.
When Zhang Ziyu re-sees the prosperity of her hometown in her memory, it will probably be difficult for her to have the courage to return to the remote countryside and face her former lover.
Thinking of Zhang Ziyu, Chen Qiaoshan couldn't help but think of his girlfriend who had been by his side in his previous life.
In the past, she followed Tang Dashan, who had nothing, under the pressure of her family, and silently accompanied him for nine years.
Chen Qiaoshan suddenly realized that he was a bastard, and after only a few days, he left his former lover and the parents who raised him behind.
He felt a little gloomy in his heart, and he didn't know if he could go back to the past, thinking that this could only be a luxury.
Thinking of this, Chen Qiaoshan stood up and walked out, Sun Guangming asked curiously, "Why are you going?"
"Go out and walk around. ”
"In the last few days, you have slipped away every day in the evening self-study, and you were careful of being caught by the head teacher. ”
Chen Qiaoshan ignored it and walked away.
Yan Xiaoqin looked at Chen Qiaoshan, who walked out of the classroom alone, and the doubts in his eyes deepened a little.
Chen Qiaoshan walked on the quiet campus, estimating that the time was almost 9 o'clock.
He is alone on the huge campus, he has a lot of study pressure in high school, and there are basically no students wandering around in the evening self-study, Chen Qiaoshan feels very lonely, and he is indeed a lonely existence in this world.
Chen Qiaoshan walked into the school's small supermarket, and the proprietress was alone, standing behind the cash register with a copy of "Bosom Friend" in her hand.
When the proprietress saw Chen Qiaoshan coming in, she didn't greet him, but just pushed the public phone placed in the counter outside.
"Long-distance 5 cents, local calls 2 cents. ”
After the proprietress finished speaking, she still complained in her heart that she ran over to call every night, but she didn't see the call pass.
Chen Qiaoshan grabbed the phone, carefully dialed the number of his hometown in Hubei Province, and waited for a few seconds, and the other side of the receiver came out without accident, "Hello, the phone you dialed is empty, please check and then dial ......"
Chen Qiaoshan hung up the phone and dialed again, but the result was still the same.
He dialed his girlfriend's house twice, waited for a while, and the ending was still the same.
Chen Qiaoshan clearly remembers that the telephone in his hometown was installed in 98, and he remembers clearly that the big river in his hometown broke out in a flood once in a century that year. My girlfriend's phone was installed earlier than his, but why can't I get through these days?
Since the first day he came here, Chen Qiaoshan has tried to call his home phone in the past, and the result is this kind of ending every time. He also tried to call other relatives' homes, but none of them could get through.
He reluctantly searched through his memory, and suddenly remembered that maybe he could try to contact the neighbors of his hometown.
Chen Qiaoshan found the phone number of Aunt Wang's house, who had lived across the street from his house for decades, was his primary school teacher and his mother had worked with him for many years.
Chen Qiaoshan dialed again according to the number in his memory, and after waiting for a few seconds, the microphone of "beep, beep......" rang the sound of the phone being connected, Chen Qiaoshan's breathing couldn't help but stagnate, and he felt that his heart was tightened.
"Hey, which one are you, which one are you looking for?" came out of the earpiece a familiar dialect from his hometown, but the voice was a strange woman, Chen Qiaoshan was a little confused, the woman on the other side asked again, and Chen Qiaoshan said: "Hello, trouble, I want to find Tang Xianqing, may I ask Tang Xianqing is living in the opposite door of your house?"
"Tang Xianqing?" repeated on the other side, "I don't know him, I don't have to call Tang Xianqing on the other side of my house, where are you? You dialed the wrong phone number, right?"
Hearing the answer from the other side, Chen Qiaoshan was stunned, Tang Xianqing was his father, how could there be not, listening to the question of the woman on the other side of the earpiece, Chen Qiaoshan asked again without giving up, "Do you know Liu Quanxiu, then there is a woman named Liu Quanxiu near your house?" ”
"We don't have this person here, who the hell are you?"
Chen Qiaoshan was completely stunned, why didn't his parents have left, so was he still there, thinking of this, he asked again: "You are the Shuanghe Dujiadian Neighborhood Committee of Sui County, right? Tang Dashan, is there a child named Tang Dashan near your house? Fifteen or sixteen years old, a male baby." ”
"This is Dujiadian is good, but I haven't heard of a surname Tang, there are a lot of people surnamed Liu, but there is no teacher named Liu Quanxiu, we are a small place, there are some natives nearby, every family is very familiar, I haven't heard of these people you said, you don't want to look for it anymore, it's not the wrong person......
Hearing the babbling words coming from the earpiece, Chen Qiaoshan's heart sank, and he was in no mood to continue asking, so he hung up the phone in despair.
Why are they gone, why did their parents disappear from their hometown, their parents are gone, they are gone, so where will they go?
Could it be that this is all an illusion, there is no thirty-year-old Tang Dashan at all, everything is just his own delusion.
That's not right, Chen Qiaoshan immediately denied this idea. When he called just now, he opened his mouth in the Hubei provincial dialect without a trace of stumbling, and he was a little confused thinking about it.
The supermarket proprietress looked at Chen Qiaoshan, who was standing outside the magic object after making the call, and asked, "Your baby is from another place to listen to the accent, why do you go to school in this school?"
Chen Qiaoshan recovered a little, ignored the boss's question, turned his head and walked out.
The proprietress hurriedly shouted: "You haven't paid yet, I'm a small business." ”
Chen Qiaoshan turned around and asked, "How much?"
"A piece of five, you are a long-distance inter-provincial journey, it is expensive. ”
Chen Qiaoshan took out the money from his pocket and put it down, and walked out again.
The proprietress looked at it and shouted: "Wait, you gave ten yuan, and I haven't asked you for money yet, are you a fool?"
Hearing the words of the proprietress, Chen Qiaoshan was even more gloomy, took the change she handed over, and turned around and walked out of the deserted small supermarket.
Walking in the empty campus, Chen Qiaoshan looked up at the night sky, but unfortunately the street lights on the campus were too bright, and he could only see the sky gray.
The hometown is still there, but the family is gone.
Is a hometown where there are no relatives still a hometown? Relatives here are there, but is this really your hometown?
Chen Qiaoshan remembered Li Jian's song "Stranger" in his previous life, and tears suddenly burst out of his eyes.
Unconsciously other places
It was a hometown
……
The former native sound
Quietly hidden
Unspeakable promises
Always rest assured
……
A strange foreign land has become a hometown, and a hometown that you can't go back to has become a foreign country.