Chapter 9: Returning Home
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Chu Qing finally got his salary, two thousand yuan.
This is also the most money he has ever earned at one time in his two lives combined.
Jia Zhangke and his entourage packed up and prepared to return to the capital, Chu Qing didn't plan to go with them, he wanted to go back to the Northeast.
Maybe his original idea was to return to the capital, but after filming "Xiao Wu", there was a change.
He had been feeling a sense of insecurity since he was reborn, for which he had not known the cause before, but now it had suddenly appeared, and this insecurity came from his rootlessness.
It's a very pretentious word.
Chu Qing once called the family in the later generations, but it was actually a stranger who answered, he snapped and hung up, and tears suddenly fell down like beads.
This phone number has not been changed at home until I am reborn.
Mom and Dad, and Grandpa, I'm afraid I'll never see them again......
The home in the previous life is gone, and there is still one in this life, so he must go back to the Northeast, even if he doesn't do anything, just take a look.
When parting, Jia Zhangke took Wang Hongwei and Gu Zheng to his room, drunk himself, and then was carried back.
Yu Liwei gave him a backpack, the most popular style in Hong Kong, to replace his broken snakeskin bag.
Early the next morning, Chu Qing stepped on the train to the northeast alone.
He took the train for two days, then the bus, then the ox cart, and finally on foot, to a mountain village.
Maybe the original owner didn't want to remember, he didn't have too many pictures of his hometown in his mind, but when he walked on the wet and narrow path, watching the road stretch crookedly to the hillside in front of him, his eyes were 3o degrees upward, and there were extremely irregular houses scattered on both sides, like grains scattered on the ground at will.
The memory was clear.
Chu Qing followed his memory and walked towards the old house, breathing in the unusually fresh air, with mixed feelings in his heart.
There are only a dozen families in the small village, and most of them are in the fields at this time, and only after walking for a while will someone come to meet them.
It was rare for him to carry a backpack, and the man couldn't help but look at it a few more times.
Suddenly, his footsteps stopped, and he hesitated: "Little Qingzi? ”
Chu Qing also looked at him, he was not very old, but his head was half white, and he remembered someone in his mind, and said, "Brother Liang? ”
"Hey, little Qingzi, it's really you! You're back! ”
The man became excited, he and Chu Qing were neighbors, and they were also friends who played bare-ass together.
"yes, I'm back, I haven't seen you in years, how are you?" Chu Qing couldn't reconcile the feelings of seeing his childhood friend, so he could only say politely as much as possible.
"What else can I do, farming, by the way, I married a daughter-in-law, and you kid didn't give a gift!" Brother Liang said.
"Make up for it!" Chu Qing snorted and said, "What's wrong with my second uncle, it's okay?" ”
Speaking of his only remaining relative in the world, Brother Liang's face suddenly became strange and said, "Ah! It's good, I still have to go to the field, let's go first! ”
Then hurried down the trail.
Chu Qinghu looked at him suspiciously, didn't think much about it, walked for a while, and came to the location of the old house.
"Huh?"
He looked at the three big houses with bright windows in front of him, is this his own home? Where is the dilapidated adobe house from the past?
Tentatively knocking on the door.
"Who?"
A young woman with a messy head opened the door, dressed in a plaid pajama that didn't fit in with this mountain village, and asked, "Who are you looking for?" ”
"Is this the Chu family?"
"This is not surnamed Chu, I found the wrong one!"
The woman slammed the door shut, and the footsteps became softer and softer.
Chu Qing couldn't figure out the situation, didn't act rashly, summed it up, or asked the second uncle first.
wiped his body and came to his second uncle's house, this is his father's only younger brother, he has a wife and children, and his life is quite passable. When Chu Qing went to the capital, he asked him to take care of the old house.
"Second uncle! Second uncle! ”
Chu Qing entered the small courtyard and began to shout.
A girl ran out, saw that it was a living person, was a little scared, and shouted "Mom! Mother! He ran in again.
After a while, a woman came out, and when she saw that it was Chu Qing, her face suddenly stiffened, and then she smiled as if she was squeezing it out, and said, "Ah! Aoko is back! Why don't you say it beforehand! The whole hand is in a hurry, come and sit in the house. ”
Chu Qing called "Second Auntie", and was not polite, and followed into the house.
The big house is very bright, and there are a lot of things added compared to when he was there, a large red lacquered wardrobe stands on the side of the kang, and even a color TV is available.
The woman made him a bowl of sugar water and said with a smile: "Qingzi, you have been gone for four or five years, oh, your second uncle is worried about you, just talk about it if you have nothing to do, what's going on over there, it's okay." ”
"It's okay, what about the second uncle?" Chu Qing has never been familiar with her, and she doesn't want to talk more.
"He's gone down to the ground, Nizi, go and call your dad back, say Aoko is back!"
The little girl answered and ran out.
The woman sat on the edge of the kang, and the two were silent for a while.
After a while, I heard the sound of footsteps in the courtyard, the door curtain was lifted, and a middle-aged man came in.
"Qingzi, you miss the second uncle! Also know to come back! ”
As soon as the man entered the door, he had the posture of knocking down Chu Qing, and he couldn't wait to touch him from head to toe to see if there were any missing parts.
"Second uncle, aren't I coming back? How have you been in the past few years? Chu Qing said with a smile.
"That's it, what else can it be." The man said.
"Isn't it humble, you are obviously rich, and you even have a color TV!" Chu Qing quipped.
When the man heard this, he became unnatural, and said with a dry smile: "It's okay, it's okay!" He also instructed his daughter-in-law: "Go and fry two more dishes, Qingzi will eat here at night!" ”
"Oh, you're so tall, you were still half a boy when I sent you to the train station!" The man sighed.
Chu Qing also smiled: "Uncle, you are also much older!" ”
The man laughed, pulled the little girl, and said, "This is your sister, the age is a little different, Nizi is called the eldest brother." ”
The girl called timidly: "Big brother." ”
Chu Qing took out a few pieces of candy from her bag and handed them to her, and the girl ran out again happily.
His second uncle got married late, and he was worried about giving birth to a child, and his daughter-in-law's stomach didn't move for more than ten years of marriage, but he didn't expect to give birth to a daughter when he was almost forty.
"The second year you're gone, you've got her! You didn't catch up. The man smiled, "Your second aunt is not happy to see that it is a girl, and she still wants to give birth to a son." I said pull it down, it took ten years to give birth to such a son, and it may not be possible to give birth to another son until the day he dies. What's more, the country has already had a policy, and it is the same for boys and girls, let's not engage in patriarchy, what is born is what it is! ”
The two chatted, and the woman's hands and feet were also nimble, and she served a table of food after a while.
There is only one stir-fried pork slice in the meat dish, and the rest is cabbage and tofu and the like, but the raw materials are naturally clean and have a faint earthy aroma.
Chu Qing hadn't eaten this kind of home-cooked meal for a few years, and he couldn't be greedy, so he ate two big bowls of dry rice in one go, and then slowed down.
"It's good to be young, but I can't do it now, I can't eat anymore." After eating a bowl of rice, the man laughed on the side with a cigarette stick.
"It's delicious to be made by the second aunt." Chu Qingdao.
At this moment, he asked about the matter, "Uncle, what's going on with our house?" ”
The man put down the cigarette stick and said, "Uh...... That's the case, last year the village chief and his son got married, and they didn't have land to build a new house, so they fell in love with your family. Tell me, don't ask for it in vain, people give money, don't give ......"
Just as he was about to say the number, his mother-in-law kicked him under the table.
"Uh...... gave 2,000 yuan, and when my uncle heard it, the people were very sincere, and it was used as a new house, so we couldn't do bad things, so I decided to transfer your homestead to the village chief. ”
The man smiled: "Don't worry, the two thousand yuan uncle hasn't touched a penny, and I'll keep it for you." Who's going to get Aoko's money! ”
The woman gave him a blank look, opened the wardrobe, and pulled out a cloth bag from the bottom, which was opened layer by layer, and there was a small stack of brand-new renminbi inside.
Chu Qing looked at the stack of money, and didn't know what it was like.
He's not stupid, if he doesn't have a cat in this, he won't believe it.
In the past four years in the capital, I have experienced more things than in this mountain village for more than ten years, not to mention the experience and experience of my previous life.
What kind of human affection is warm and cold, Chu Qing feels that he has already seen it. But he was really born in himself, and he is still uncomfortable in his heart.
How much benefit his second uncle made from it, he didn't want to know. Seeing that he still had a clear conscience and left 2,000 yuan for himself, he didn't know whether he wanted to cry or laugh for a while.
Chu Qing didn't speak for a while, and the uncle and aunt didn't move, they all pretended to look left and right calmly, but their eyes didn't leave him.
I don't know how long it took, Chu Qing rubbed his face and said with a smile: "This thing is very good, anyway, I have been outside, and I can't come back often in the future, the house is also idle, it's good, thank you, uncle." ”
picked up the two thousand yuan again, didn't order it, stuffed it directly into the backpack, and said, "Uncle, when you say that, I think of something again." ”
"Huh? Oh, you say, what's the matter? ”
The man hadn't reacted from Chu Qing's indifference, and said busily.
"The two acres of land in our family have been planted with my uncle's help in the past few years, and I can't take care of it outside, so I want to simply transfer it to your family."
"Qingzi, that's what your father left for you, we croppers don't have anything and can't have land, think about it again......"
The man was anxious, but before he finished speaking, his daughter-in-law grabbed the conversation.
The woman smiled: "What Qingzi said is also reasonable, and it is also kind, so don't be ignorant." Qingzi, we can't ask for this land for nothing, you name it. ”
Chu Qing smiled: "I don't understand it either, uncle, just give a price, I believe you." ”
The man frowned, smoked half a bag of cigarettes, and then said, "Ten thousand!" ”
"Her father!" The woman exclaimed.
The man glared at her, full of anger, and the woman suddenly didn't dare to squeak.
"Aoko, what do you think?"
"Okay, listen to Uncle." Chu Qing was also quite surprised, and said happily.
"Qingzi, you don't have a place to go, so stay here tonight."
"No, it's not convenient for me to be here, it's not too late, I'll go to the town to live." Chu Qingdao.
"When are you going to leave?" The man asked.
"I'll leave after completing the formalities here." Chu Qingdao.
"Then I'll go with you, and I just happen to have to go through the formalities in the town, so I don't have to run back." The man thought for a moment.
"Okay!"
That night, the two rushed to the town and found a small inn to deal with it for the night.
The next day, the second uncle found an acquaintance and completed the formalities.
Chu Qing was carrying a huge sum of 14,000 yuan, and he was worried in his heart, feeling that he would lose it at any time, and he deposited 13,000 yuan in the bank. I only brought a thousand pieces with me before I breathed a sigh of relief.
14,000, and in more than ten years, you will be able to buy a very beautiful toilet.
He laughed at himself, and his heart felt relieved, as if he had unloaded a big burden.
There is no home and no land, but my heart is a lot smoother.