Chapter 12 Returning to the City Hukou The Reality of the Situation

"We're liberated, we're back in the city,..., haha, haha!" A letter of return to the city with countless official seals was read by them countless times. The seven of them were all so excited that they hugged each other and burst into tears, jumping, laughing, and crying in the hotel room where they were staying in Kunming. After six years of side life, the longing to return home day and night is now in his own hands.

Xie Lei walked out of the room with mixed feelings. Thinking about the 'home' he was about to go to, he felt panicked, and among the people who held the migration hukou, only Xie Lei would think so.

"Go downstairs and drink, if you don't get drunk today!" Everyone was excited enough, tired of dancing, thought of drinking, and thought of the only way to celebrate this extraordinary moment and vent the happiness in their hearts in this indulgent way!

"What are you thinking?" By the window of the sleeper berth of the northbound train, Xiao Gufen saw that Xie Lei was not so happy, and was very melancholy, sat next to him, and asked out loud.

"Now it's time to return to the city, what do we have to do in the future, to be worthy of our lives!"

"We will live as others do, do you have any plans?"

"Life is very short, youth is even shorter, if you don't work hard in the past few years, your life will be over,..."

"Well, you're right, I can see it, and I think it clearly, you are a person who does great things, in the future, as long as you don't dislike it, I want to follow you forever, to break through, even if I touch a nose of ashes, in the end there is nothing, I am willing!" After listening to Xie Lei's words, she really felt his extraordinary, and quietly expressed her attitude to him that she was willing to follow him.

"It's back, we're finally back to the city in triumph, haha, haha!" Out of the Qingyuan Railway Station, which was still very simple, everyone was carrying a large bag of belongings, Hong Xiaobo said loudly in a loud voice. When he was in Kunming, Xie Lei asked Ding Lan to give each of them 300 yuan, and each of them bought gifts and daily necessities back home, and no one brought clothes, bedding, etc.

"Xiaobo, please do one thing, accompany me home first!" On the train, Xie Lei quietly asked him for help.

"Haha, haha, I've never seen someone like you, and I even have to be accompanied when I go home, our two families are separated by a street, of course we went back together!" All seven of them are classmates from the same middle school, and their homes are not far apart.

With a longing for home and longing for their loved ones, they can't wait to return home immediately and see their long-lost relatives. Xie Lei's mood at the moment is completely different, very complicated and uneasy.

The 'home' he was going back to was a completely unfamiliar place to him. Except for the 'mother' Chen Yunfeng, he knows him, his father, grandmother, and Yuyu Ruolan don't know what they look like, and they are in a hurry to go back and 'reunite' with them. If the 'mother' happens to be absent, and even the 'relative' is wrong, then it is really embarrassing, how to explain it?

"Xie Lei, what are you thinking, why do you look uneasy?" Ding Lan asked quietly.

"What are the conditions at home?"

"It's not like you didn't go, so why did you ask about this?" Ding Lan felt very strange and blamed, and suddenly remembered that after he fell and injured himself, he forgot many things, and hurriedly added: "Our family is very small, more than ten square meters. My father died early, and my mother worked as a worker in an elementary school, working as a janitor, sending and receiving newspapers, and shaking the bell for classes at the same time! Speaking of family affairs, Ding Lan's mood also became a little heavy, and the joy of returning to the city was diluted a lot.

"Xiao Gufen's family is very poor, her father delivers honeycomb coal in the coal store, her mother works in the production team, and she has a little sister and younger brother. Xiaobo's family is even poorer, his father works alone, her mother was hit by a car many years ago and lost a leg, and he also has a younger brother and Yuyu,..." She told Xie Lei about the situation at home of several classmates.

Entering the city, Xie Lei suddenly found that he was very familiar with the city, although it was very different from the city in his impression, and it was extremely backward. But the names of the streets, some of the buildings, can still be recognized from the memories of previous lives. Ask yourself again, "Who am I, who are my relatives, and where do they live?" ”

"Leiwa, what are you doing, your house has arrived!" Carrying large bags of belongings, he walked to the gate of No. 305 Courtyard of 'Kuan Alley', Xie Lei was thinking about his previous life, this is a famous tourist street in Qingyuan City, but he was interrupted by Hong Xiaobo's words.

"Oh..., it's really here!" Xie Lei took a long breath, but his heart was even more uneasy, "The ugly daughter-in-law is finally going to see her in-laws, oh, no, it's an imposter who is about to enter the 'home' door!" ”

"Brother, you're back! Mom, grandma, brother is back! A fourteen-year-old girl in a patched, faded shirt exclaimed in surprise. When she shouted like this, she looked a bit like 'Xie Lei'.

"If... Ruolan, brother... Brother is back! Xie Lei said in a somewhat stiff voice, some were very tight, his voice was a little out of tune, and his forced smile felt more ugly than crying.

"Mom, milk... Milk, you're alright, I'm back! Seeing the familiar 'mother', Xie Lei's worries suddenly went away

For the most part, I finally have someone I know at home.

"Chen's mother, grandma, someone brought you back, I'll go back, Leiwa, see you tomorrow!"

"Xiaobo, let's just eat at home before leaving!" Mother, said with a smile.

"No, Mother Chen, I haven't gone home yet!"

"Xiao Lei, let grandma come to see your injuries, okay?" Grandma, who is in her sixties, looks very good because of malnutrition

He was old, his hair was all white, he was sparse, he didn't put dentures after his teeth fell out, and his lips were deflated.

"Grandma, the injuries are all healed, and there are no scars!"

The yard is not big, but there are seven or eight families living in it, and the house is very old, and there are a lot of tattered things in the yard. Three generations of four members of the family lived together, separated into two rooms with bamboo chips and newspapers. Four beds occupy a large area of forty or fifty square meters, and the room is crammed with messy and worthless things. It was very crowded, and it was full of pasted matchboxes and the raw materials for pasted matchboxes, so it was difficult to turn around.

"Xiao Lei, why would you come back now, do you still have a problem with your brain, come back for an examination?" Mother Chen Yunfeng, after seeing him, asked anxiously.

"No, it's the hukou that has migrated back, and I won't go back to the farm!"

"Brother, really, if you don't go back to be an educated youth, it's great, grandma, my brother has been transferred back!"

"I heard that it is not easy to transfer back, I have to send a lot of money to the leader ,..., Amitabha, just come back, the family will be round now, life on the farm is too hard,..." Chen Yunfeng took his son's hand, very excited.

"Wow, brother, you bought a lot of things, all food, new clothes, where is your luggage?" As soon as her brother came back, she naturally rummaged through things in her bag unceremoniously, looking for gifts.

"I don't want it all, I will buy new ones in the future. Grandma, this is the candy I bought for you, it's very soft and you can taste it, Mom, I bought a few clothes for you and Dad, Ruolan, they all bought big, when Dad got off work, it was past five o'clock! ”

"Wow, brother, the clothes you bought me are so beautiful, how many are they,..."

"Ruolan, you have grown a lot taller, and you look more like a beautiful big girl!" Xie Lei smiled and said against his will, "I haven't seen it once, I only talk nonsense!" ”

"It's coming, Dad gets off work at five o'clock, and he'll be home soon on his bicycle!" Ruolan was happily trying on new clothes while talking to her brother constantly. "Brother comes back and has a job, the matchbox won't be pasty anymore!"

"I didn't know you were going to come back, the family didn't prepare, I went to buy some food, and the family is finally reunited!"

"Mom, don't cook, wait for Dad to come back, let's go to the restaurant to eat!"

"When you go home, you don't need to go out to eat, don't waste money!" Grandma discouraged.

"Grandma, my brother has finally been transferred back, of course you have to celebrate, Mom, you don't want to do it!" When Ruolan heard that she was going to eat at a restaurant, she suddenly became energetic.

"Okay, okay, I don't have anything to eat at home, so I'll go to the restaurant to have a meal, celebrate your brother's homecoming, and give you a tooth sacrifice, Mom is happy!"

"Dad, my brother is back, it's been transferred!" There was the sound of a bicycle at the door, and Ruolan ran to the door wearing new clothes that had not yet cut off the tag, and reported loudly, not to mention how happy she was.

"Dad, you're back!" Xie Lei greeted with a smile on his face.

"Well, it's really been transferred back, and the hukou migration certificate has been returned?" 'Father' was thin, wearing a round-necked sweatshirt full of holes, and his beard was even more old, and he shouldered the burden of the whole family's life alone, and he already looked like he was not old and decrepit.

"Get it back!"

"Have you scheduled a job?"

"No, it's a place to return to the city, and it's settled through the office!"

"There are hundreds of educated youths lined up in the office, when will it be your turn, alas..."

Father Xie Huaiyuan is most concerned about his son's work, and having a job will reduce a person's burden, and he can also help make up for it. Well, now that people are back, there is no work, and the burden is even more burdened. The face that was still a little excited suddenly sank.

"Dad, a few of our classmates have made a plan and want to open their own noodle shop, so that they don't have to wait in line and wait!" Xie Lei said his plans after returning to the city, firstly, he wanted to ask for his opinion, and secondly, to avoid the embarrassment of having nothing to say.

"It's so easy to say, opening a noodle shop, which is as simple as you think, industrial and commercial licenses, health permits, and what is the "Grain and Oil Purchase Permit", etc., it doesn't matter where to get it? It's better to find an office and find a way to get a temporary job, no matter how bad it is, there is always a job to do! ”

"His father, Xiao Lei came home and didn't prepare any dishes, so we went to the restaurant to have a meal and celebrate him!" Chen Yunfeng, ask for his opinion.

"It's better to save some money, there are hundreds of unemployed young people in the office, and coming back is equivalent to being unemployed, and you have to bear one more person's life!" Xie Huaiyuan said impatiently.

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