Chapter 5: Mei Qianjing first entered Anxi City
After a long journey of nearly ten hours, the father and son finally arrived at their destination - Anxi City. As soon as you enter the urban area, all kinds of novel buildings on both sides of the road, the endless stream of cars and pedestrians, it attracts all the attention of Xiao Qianjing, when night falls, the lights are on, the street lamps on both sides of the road, and the colored lights hanging on the buildings are as bright as day, is that what my father said about electric lights? It's much brighter than the kerosene lamp in my grandmother's house. It's really different in the city! Unlike in their village, as long as the sun goes down, it is dark everywhere, and people prefer to stay at home and rarely go out, for Xiao Qianjing, everything here is so new and full of mystery, just like the feeling of Grandma Liu entering the Grand View Garden in the dream of Red Mansions. Xiao Qianjing leaned on the car window, and asked his father from time to time, "Dad, is that the light on?" "Dad, is that a car?" "Daddy, daddy, is that tall house the building you said?" His father rubbed his hair dotingly, and then pointed to the novelties that appeared along the road and told him one by one.
The bus went around the city for several streets before finally coming to the bus station, the father and son took their luggage and got off the bus and walked out of the station quickly, the father took him with one hand and the other hand to go out with something out towards the road behind the station, they walked along the road, farther and farther away from the station, and there were fewer and fewer houses around, and occasionally a few pedestrians on the road also hurried by on bicycles, and they didn't know how long they walked, and there were dots of light in the village in front of them after they turned two more streets, Finally stopped at the door of a compound, and the father said, "Baby, this is it, this is your new home from now on, let's go in!" Your mother has been looking forward to you for a long time! Xiao Qianjing timidly looked inside, but didn't dare to go in.
The father laughed and took his hand and walked into the yard, which was surrounded by houses with lights on, only in the middle was an open space, and the open space under the eaves was planted with trumpet flowers, and the rope hanging from the eaves climbed high! Some people were sitting outside enjoying the cool and saw them come in! I was very happy to greet my father,
"This is just coming back from my hometown? Yo! Who's this? Your son? The tiger's head and tiger brain are really strong! A tall, thin man next to him said.
"Yes, this is my baby, come, doll, call uncle." His father patted him on the top of his head happily, as if he was proud of the praise he had been made.
"Uncle" Mei Qianjing called obediently.
"Hey! This baby is so good! ”
The mother may have heard their voices in the house, lifted the curtain and walked out, walked quickly to Xiao Qianjing, squatted down and looked at him, touched his face, and said with pity: "Baby, you are tired on the road!" Come into the house, my mother has made you something to eat! He stood up and pulled him and went home.
"Then let's go in first, you guys talk first!" The father saw his wife pulling his son into the house, said hello to the people in the yard and went to the house, and when he entered the house, he saw that his wife had already served the food on the kang!
"I'm tired from a day's ride, so let's wash my hands and come over for dinner." Seeing my father walk in, my mother wiped her hands, walked over, took the things from my father's hand, and put them aside.
After packing up her things, her mother sat next to Xiao Qianjing, watching him gobble up food, smiling happily.
"Is it delicious?"
"Uh-huh... It's delicious, and my mother's cooking is the best. Xiao Qianjing nodded.
"Then eat more, come, don't just eat, eat more." His mother picked up chopsticks and put a lot of vegetables in the bowl for him.
After the meal, the mother went to wash the dishes and chopsticks, and the father and son were paralyzed on the kang motionless, and they didn't know if they were tired from a day's car ride or if they were really eating. Xiao Qianjing turned his head to look at the room, there was nothing except two cabinets and a table, it was not bigger than the house in the countryside, the only thing better than the countryside was the electric light overhead, emitting a yellowish light to illuminate the house brightly, bright, he squinted his eyes and looked at the light bulb for a long time, this is much better than the kerosene lamp in his grandmother's house, he was a little dizzy when he shook it. When the mother finished packing up her things and entered the house, the father and son were both slumped on the kang and slapped each of them on the leg in a funny way.
"I'm tired today, so go to bed early and go to the construction site tomorrow?"
"Go, I've taken a few days off, and if you don't go to the foreman, you can take your children to the city tomorrow to wander around, buy a few clothes and clothes, and school will start in a few days."
"Okay, then you go to bed quickly, don't you have to get up early tomorrow." After speaking, he turned his head and looked at Xiao Qianjing, who had fallen asleep for some time. "The children are asleep." The father got up quickly, laid the mat, and gave it to him
I took off my clothes and gently put them into the quilt, and I couldn't get sleepy, so I took off my clothes and got into the quilt, and after a while, the snoring sounded.
The next morning, the weather was exceptionally sunny, the scorching summer sun shone into the house through the glass, and the whole room was brightened up, Xiao Qianjing woke up and opened his eyes, turned over and sat up, and looked around There was no one in the room, "Who am I?" Where am I? Xiao Qianjing patted his head, "Yes, this is in the city, where did the father and mother go, they are all gone, what should I do?" Why don't I sleep a little more? Wait for them to come back? Thinking about it, he was going to lie down again, and at this moment the door creaked open, "Baby, you wake up, see what your mother has sold you, get up quickly and wash your face, after dinner, your mother will take you to the city for a walk, so that you can see what the city is like." ”
Xiao Qianjing sighed when he saw his mother coming back, quickly got dressed and went to the ground to wash his face, and when he came back, he saw a basket on the table, and there were a few fried golden things in the basket, he poked his finger and said hard, "Mother, what is this?" The mother turned her head and said with a smile, "People here call it fried dough sticks, which are fried in oil from white flour, which is similar to the oil cake you eat at grandma's house. ”。 Mei Qianjing picked one up with her hand and put it in her mouth and took a bite, it was crispy on the outside and soft on the inside, um...! It's so delicious, it's even better than grandma's fried oil cakes, a few bites of a fritter in Kazkaz went down in a blink of an eye, and then picked up another one and put it in his mouth, until he ate the fifth, he didn't stop, he licked the oil on his fingers, and looked at the rest of the fritters in the basket but his stomach couldn't hold it. His mother looked at him funny, "Little gluttonous cat, I want to eat it and buy it for you tomorrow, come, drink saliva quickly." Xiao Qianjing nodded violently with the bowl, looking at his appearance, his mother suddenly felt very sad, these seem to be very common breakfasts in the city, but they are indeed rare and delicious in the eyes of children in the countryside. Thanks to bringing my son to the city! "When you're full, go wash your oily hands, and my mother will take you to the city in a while." Xiao Qianjing heard that his mother was going to take him into the city, cheered, and ran to wash his hands.
Because I came back at night yesterday, I didn't take a closer look at the black hole, and today Xiao Qianjing went out of the gate to look around. They were all the same bungalows as in the countryside, but there were many more brick houses than the country houses, and the earthen houses they lived in in the countryside were very low and low. His mother took him by the hand and walked along the same road he had come from last night, and when he got off the bus last night, he turned onto a big road and stopped until he reached an iron sign in front of him.
"It's too far, let's take a bus to the city in a while." Mother bowed her head to him.
"What's the bus, mother?" Xiao Qianjing asked suspiciously.
"Huh! It's a car where a lot of people can sit together, similar to the car you took when you came. The people next to him laughed kindly when they heard their mother's explanation, and after waiting for a short time, "the car is coming" The mother saw the car coming from a distance. There are red stripes on the two white bodies, and there seems to be a piece of rubber connected together in the middle, which looks like a caterpillar! When the car stopped, his mother took him by the hand and got into the car, and there were not many people in the car, and they quickly found a seat and sat down.
The car started slowly, getting faster and faster, and everything around seemed to be reversing rapidly, Xiao Qianjing stared intently at the rubber at the link of the carriage, the rubber squirming up and down and left and right was very interesting, the bus drove on the road for an unknown amount of time after the bungalow gradually disappeared, and more and more high-rise buildings came into view.
After they got off the bus when the bus arrived, Xiao Qianjing was shocked by the scene in front of him again, surrounded by all kinds of high-rise buildings that he had never seen before, all kinds of cars running on the street that he had never seen before, and the pedestrians passing by him were wearing strange clothes, all of which were breaking his previous perception in the countryside and showing a new world in front of his eyes.
"Let's go, my mother will take you to buy clothes and go shopping by the way" Mother pulled a stunned little Qianjing, this day they went to a lot of places, in the morning to buy clothes saw a shopping mall a hundred times larger than the town, which was full of all kinds of clothes, in the afternoon I went to the zoo, I saw the animals that I had only seen in books before, and I also went to the tall ancient city wall, and ate a lot of delicious food that I had never even seen before, and he seemed to spend the day in extreme shock, By the time he came to his senses, he was already on his way home. Everything he saw in the city was subverting his life in the past ten years, and what an impact it was on a child who had just arrived in the city from the countryside, as if it was a dream.
"Is this really where I'm going to live in the future! It's just wonderful. Lying on the warm bed, thinking about everything he had seen today, it felt a little unreal, and he pinched his face hard, and the pain that followed let her know that it was true. When I go back to my grandmother's house, I must tell my grandparents about it, so that they can also know that the night is deeper, and he quickly fell asleep, with a faint smile on the corner of his mouth, I don't know what happy things he was thinking about in his dreams, and today's events may be fresh in his memory when he grows up.