Chapter 125: Homecoming
In the week that Fang Wenke left, we kept the habit of calling once every two days.
Fang Wenke told me that he is not used to living in the United States, he has to worry about what to eat almost every day, he is not used to eating foreign food and drinking foreign water. Especially when he walks on the streets of the United States, he has to hold a map in his hand, for fear that he will get lost.
Fang Wenke's spoken English is not very fluent, and when communicating with foreigners, others always look at him with abstract eyes, which makes him feel very uncomfortable.
He also told me that once he managed to find a Chinese restaurant, but the Chinese food there was not authentic, and he said that the food there was not at home.
I told Fang Wenke that in fact, he was just homesick, and maybe in a week or two, he would get used to it.
However, compared with Fang Wenke, Wang Ying seems to be much more in tune with the locals, and on the third day she arrived in the United States, she hooked up with a purebred American senior.
Wang Ying told me that the senior's figure and appearance were superb, and she saw it once and completely fell.
After several exchanges, I deeply felt that the life of Fang Wenke and Wang Ying was mixed with bitterness and joy, although they often hit a wall, but they gained experience of growth.
However, the cross-border phone call was really exhausting, because the time difference between the United States and China was too large, and Fang Wenke and I seemed very uncomfortable with each call.
Sometimes I answer the phone in the middle of the night, sometimes he answers the phone in the middle of the night, and we reverse our time differences, just for that short twenty or thirty minutes of listening.
We're all persevering, even if the jet lag is hard to endure and the distance is unfamiliar.
It is not the temperature that we are afraid of when time is cold, but the feelings.
Today is the first day of the summer vacation, early in the morning, only Liang Xue and I are packing our luggage in the dormitory, Wang Yanfen and Lin Yishui have already taken the bus home last night.
Summer clothes are lightweight, not as heavy as in winter, and I only have very few things in my suitcase.
However, it reminds me of Fang Wenke last year, when he always told me to take more things, and he would pick me up anyway.
Thinking of this, my heart can't help but sour, even though there is Zhao Jun by my side to help me now.
"Do you have a lot of stuff? Why is my suitcase so heavy? Liang Xue complained while digging out the cabinet.
"I don't have much, and I don't have anything to take."
"Zhao Jun's infatuated species, did he send you?" Liang Xue's tone was somewhat displeased.
"Well, downstairs!" I nodded.
"Alas! Sometimes I really envy you, and you have all the high-quality peach blossom luck! Liang Xue picked up the Coke on the table and began to pour it violently.
"Don't be envious, if you have more, you will lose more in the end."
"Don't talk to me about Buddhist scriptures! It's heaven to praise you a few words! Liang Xue put down the Coke bottle and pouted at me.
"Cut! No kidding you! That's right! Does Chubby take you to the station? ”
"Well, he said he was going to my house for a few days and wanted to meet my parents!"
"What? Coming to see your parents so soon? I looked at Liang Xue in surprise.
"I said no, but he had to see it! It's really cheap! ”
"Don't be content! If you meet a chubby like this, you should cherish it! These days, there are not many people who are really rushing to get married. ”
"Married? I didn't think that far, if Chubby really wanted to marry me, he would have to shave his fat flesh off me! Liang Xue waved her palm viciously.
"You're ruthless! You wait for the day when you get fat, and you see how I bury you! ”
"Am I fat? It's simply impossible! You hurry up and clean up, I'll go to the toilet, and we'll go downstairs when we come back. ”
"Yes, okay."
Liang Xue pushed open the bedroom door and walked out of the hallway.
I opened the cabinet and picked up some bits and pieces of makeup bottles and perfumes, which Fang Wenke had bought for me.
Everywhere in my life is the shadow of Fang Wenke.
His picture, his scarf, his charger, the key to his door, and the ring on my hand.
Slowly, even I myself became the shadow of Fang Wenke, intermittent cleanliness, not washing my hair and not going out, clothes are biased towards light colors, and eating bread must be accompanied by salad, these are his habits, and now they have become my habits.
We are two people, but we are one heart.
After closing the cabinet door, Liang Xue returned.
"You haven't finished cleaning up yet, are you? What are you in a daze? Liang Xue shook the water droplets on her hand vigorously.
"Well, when I saw something related to Fang Wenke, I was distracted."
"I understand, see things and think about people! It's okay, it's not like you can't see him anymore, as long as you survive these three years, everything will be fine! ”
"I hope so!"
"Your phone vibrates! Did Zhao Jun urge you to go downstairs! Liang Xue pointed to the mobile phone on the table.
I walked to the bed and saw a call from Zhao Jun.
I hung up the phone and hurriedly went downstairs with my suitcase with Liang Xue.
When he got downstairs, Xiaopang stood beside Zhao Jun, looking like he had been waiting for a long time.
"Li Weiming, she is too slow, I waited for her for a long time just now!" Liang Xue complained to Chubby.
"Don't talk about others, how much ink you have, I still don't know?" The little fat looked at Liang Xue with disdain, and her expression was like that of an old husband and wife who had known each other for many years.
"You!" Liang Xue stared at Xiaopang deadly, and Xiaopang didn't squeak.
Zhao Junhan smiled, then walked up to me and took the box in my hand.
"No, I'll take it myself! Unsinkable! "I pulled the suitcase.
"I'll do it! You go to the door to get a taxi, and the four of us have to get to the station by 12 o'clock. ”
"Yes."
When I got the taxi, it took me half an hour to arrive at the train station.
Because Liang Xue and Xiaopang were going to take the train to Dalian, Zhao Jun and I parted ways with them.
Seeing off Xiaopang and Liang Xue, Zhao Jun and I walked to the bus station and bought tickets for half past 12, and there were exactly two left, which were the last row of the bus.
"We're lucky today, we just have two tickets left." Zhao Jun looked at me with a smile.
"That's right! I'm almost going to take the bus at half past two! ”
"If only I had a car, I could drive you home, so I don't have to come to the station so much." Zhao Jun said ashamedly.
"You are so young, how can you have the money to buy a car, we have to endure more hardships when we are young!"
"Actually, my mother gave me a car, but I didn't ask for it, I always felt that I, my mother and Fang Wenke were not from the same world."
"You grew up in different environments, so your values are also different, and when you have time in the future, you should communicate more with your mother, she actually wants to communicate with you too."
"She's busy! By the way, is our car going straight to the countryside? ”
"No, the car is to the town, and then we will buy a ticket from the town to the countryside."
"Oh! Is your father still in town? Zhao Jun's tone was very careful.
"He's supposed to be in prison." I said indifferently.
"Won't you go back and see him this time?"
"No, I don't want to see him, even if I do, he will only call me a white-eyed wolf."
"Well, let's not talk about this topic. What do you want to drink? I'll buy it for you. ”
"Mineral water!"
"Good!"
Zhao Jun turned around and went to the commissary, and I sat in the rest area, patrolling the crowd of people who came and went, some of them left their hometowns, and some returned to their hometowns.
I was one of them, going back and forth between the two cities.
Now that I don't have Fang Wenke's company, I don't have a yearning for a city, but there are too many bad memories of my upcoming hometown that make people want to escape.
The future is a mystery and a capricious circle.
Where do I go from here?