Chapter 5: Going Home

It was not far from the town to our village, and the motorcycle soon entered the village, which was still that quiet mountain village, and there was not much change.

I was a little apprehensive that I hadn't been home for so many years, I was 11 years old when I went, and now I'm 18 years old when I come back. I don't know if my parents still recognize me. It is said that the mother of the child is worried, not to mention that I am still the only son in the family, so I think they miss me very much.

When I went up the mountain with the old man, I often made noise to go home, and I would think about home every day, thinking about my parents and my playmates in the village, and I heard the old man say that at that time, I would call my parents when I went to bed at night. Later, I also thought about coming back to see it, but the old man wouldn't let me.

I learned a lot from the old man, and I know that the old man didn't scare me.

When I was twelve years old, my father asked people to bring a letter to me, saying that he wanted to go to the Tao to see me, but he was stopped by the old man, and asked the person who brought the message to bring me back with this sentence: "If you want your father and son to be separated from each other, then you can come." From then on, my father also gave up his thoughts.

When he arrived at the door, he found that the door was closed and no one was at home. I didn't come back with a letter in advance to tell my family that I was going home and wanted to surprise them.

In the countryside, the gate is very locked, and my house has nothing valuable, I directly open the door and go in, after putting down the bag, there is nothing to do, so I go out to the door and sit on the bamboo stool and wait for them to come back.

A fat man with dyed red hair came over from the opposite side of my house, looking a little familiar, and I tentatively shouted, "Huang Xing?"

Huang Xing raised his head: "Who are you, what are you asking me to do?"

I smiled and said, "Why haven't you seen me for a few years and don't know me, I'm Chengzhi." “

He was stunned and said, "You are Huang Chengzhi, why have you changed so much, it looks like you have completely changed a person a few years ago, I can't even recognize it, you followed the Taoist priest after you got well that time and never came back, it's been many years." ”

I said: "Yes, it's been 7 years, is it that I have become a jade tree in the wind, suave and suave, and now I can't recognize it." It wasn't you who let the kid hurt me in the first place, and I almost lost my life. ”

Huang Xing smiled awkwardly and said, "It's not that you pretended to provoke yourself." Don't mention these old things, by the way, when did you come back, I didn't hear my uncle and aunt talk about it, otherwise I would have come to look for you earlier. “

I said, "They don't know yet, I just came home for a while, by the way, do you know where they went, there's no one at home." ”

"I should have gone to your aunt's house, I heard that something was going on, so I might have gone over there. You just came back and haven't eaten yet, I'll invite you to dinner, I haven't seen you for so many years, we have to have a good chat. After saying that, he put his arm around my shoulders and walked to the small restaurant in the village.

Talking with Huang Fatzi while walking, only to know that he didn't read in junior high school, a few years ago he made some money by doing a little business at home, and after graduating from junior high school, his father funded an Internet café for him in the town, and he usually had nothing to do, and today he just went home to get something and met me.

And my parents have passed because of something in my aunt's house, to be honest, I don't want to see my uncle, because his family is relatively wealthy, he has always looked down on my parents, and he speaks in a weird way, and I have been very unhappy with him since I was a child.

But my aunt is kind to us, and if there are any good things at home, she will secretly bring some to my parents, they have a daughter, who should be sixteen or seventeen years old now, and she has had a good relationship with me since she was a child.

I sat with the fat man for three or four hours, and it was evening in the blink of an eye, and I made an appointment with him to go to the town to find him in a few days, and I got up and went home.

After crossing the corner of the small bridge, I saw a man holding my schoolbag at the door of the house and looking at me with a smile, he knew that I must be back, I should have been waiting at the door of the house, looking at his temples and silver frost, I had a rush that wanted to cry "The young man left home and the boss returned, and the hometown voice has not changed and the sideburns have declined", the artistic conception in He Zhizhang's poems is so appropriate to now!

My dad didn't say anything superfluous, but he held out a hand and hugged me and said, "It's good to be back." After saying that, he pulled me into the house.

When I got in, I asked, "What about my mother, why didn't she come home with you?" ”

"Your mother is at your aunt's house, your uncle has something wrong, he hit an evil spirit, and invited a Taoist priest to come over to exorcise the evil spirit, I just happened to come back to get something and planned to go over, but I didn't expect you to come back, so I have been waiting for you at home. ”

I thought for a moment and said, "Well, I'll go with you and see if I can help." ”

"It's okay, I just picked up your mother and came back later, by the way, have you learned anything from the old fairy?"

"Well, the old man's skills have been taught to me, I still understand a little, I'll go over with you to take a look at it in a while, I haven't seen my aunt for several years, cousin" After speaking, I was also a little worried about my aunt, if it wasn't for my aunt, I would have to take care of his affairs.

I didn't realize that my dad was still a chatterbox, and on the way, he hated to ask me all the things I had been doing in the mountains all these years. Later, I asked why the old man didn't have a family with me, worried that he was alone in the mountains and had no one to take care of him. My dad is such a solid-eyed man, always thinking about others. I told him that the old man was still very strong, like a cow, and he didn't want to go down the mountain, so he didn't nag anymore. After saying that, I couldn't help but think of the old man going to peek at Widow Zhang's sneaky appearance when she took a bath, and her mouth twitched.

My dad rode his old 125 motorcycle and took me to my aunt's house, their family lives in the town, and the family conditions are very good, and on the way, I also learned from my dad that my uncle came back the night before yesterday and was a little abnormal.

I don't sleep during the day, I sit stupidly with my eyes open, I don't reflect when I scold him, I don't feel it when I beat him, and I sit in the living room at night singing and dancing like a psychopath.

Needless to say, a situation like him must have hit an evil spirit, and it is estimated that he got into trouble somewhere and went home with something unclean.

Pushing open the door of my aunt's house and entering, I looked confused at the scene in front of my eyes.

Two Taoist priests in Taoist robes were jumping around, the peachwood sword in their hands was flying, and there were words in their mouths, I had studied Taoism with the old man for so many years, I didn't know what they were reading, it was exactly like watching juggling.

My dad dragged me upstairs, and when I got to the second floor, I saw my mom sitting in the living room with my aunt.

I happily shouted, "Mom, I'm back." ”

My mother is also old, and a few crow's feet that are already faintly visible make me feel very glaring.

My mom hugged me and cried, snot and tears were all wiped on my body, I don't dislike it, I feel very happy anyway, yes really happy, this is the hug I have longed for for years.

"Kid, when did you come back, why didn't you bring a letter back in advance. You don't know how worried your dad and I have been about you all these years," my mom said with a happy face.

"Don't you want to give you a surprise, I arrived at home at two o'clock in the afternoon, but you were not at home, I met Huang Xing just now, and I knew that you came to my aunt's place. ”

I also knew that now was not the time to catch up, so I turned my head to look at my aunt who still had tears on her face, but was looking at me with a smile.