After driving twenty or thirty kilometers and encountering the first service area, Ling Li hurriedly parked the car in the service area to catch his breath. After getting out of the car and going to the bathroom, Ling Li leaned on the car and waited for Nan Dashen to come back.

Nan Zhiyi, who stayed up all night, was not tired at all, wearing an eye-catching orange short down jacket, a pair of jeans underneath, and a pair of black rectangular glasses.

He took Mi Li Guli around the service area, let the dog mark the electric pile at the bottom of the tree and other places, and when he came back, he leisurely held up a roast sausage in his hand and raised his eyebrows at her: "Do you want to eat it?" ”

Ling Li shook her head.

Even if she didn't look in the mirror, she knew that her face might not look good. The black laborer who was coaxed and deceived got on the thief ship, and this time he worked as a cleaner, a nanny and a driver, looking at the unobtrusive employer leisurely and looking like a vacation, so he was naturally angry.

Nan Zhiyi opened his mouth to say a few words, when suddenly the phone rang.

He threw the dog leash and roast sausage to Ling Li, held up his blue-screen mobile phone, which was still stuck in the twenty-fourth chord ten years ago, and listened to it for only a second, and then hung up the phone in a hurry.

Ling Li saw that his face was full of unhappiness, and he was a little curious who would dare to give him anger, and asked, "What's wrong?" ”

Nan Zhiyi flattened his mouth, frowned and muttered: "Liar call, saying what is the court, I have been sued, etc., a routine that has not been changed for hundreds of years." ”

As soon as he finished speaking, the phone rang again, and the old-fashioned ringtone was particularly harsh, and several pedestrians looked up, looking at Nan Zhiyi, who seemed to be quite young, holding an antique machine that was more outrageous than the old man's machine, with a ghostly expression on his face.

Nan Zhiyi didn't cut off the ringtone, to see that it was the number again, impatiently pressed the power and turned off the phone, and threw the phone into the back seat of the car, and urged Ling Li to drive on the road quickly after eating the roast sausage.

Leaving the service area and driving onto the highway again, Ling Li adjusted her breathing slightly, and her mood was a little soothed.

Because it has not yet reached the peak period of returning home, there are not many cars along the way, the road conditions are very smooth, and gradually Ling Li dares to drive at a speed of 100 yards.

After stopping at two more service areas, Nanzhiyi bought snacks such as roast goose and roast chicken legs, but they only took two bites and frowned critically, and threw the food directly to Mi Li and Guli in the back seat.

Ling Li looked at the two Wang Xingren eating with oil in the rearview mirror, and imagined the miserable appearance of the seemingly noble leather seat in the back seat, and the corners of her eyes twitched.

More than three hours later, the car got off the highway from the Nanxi exit and entered the downtown area of Nanxi. Nan Zhiyi had already slept crookedly, Mi Li seemed to be a little motion sick, and his spirit was as groggy as his master, Gu Li's spirit was good, and he kept looking at the scenery outside the window, which was very funny.

Coming down from the highway and following the newly built ring road, Ling Li lowered her speed, looking out the window and looking at the scenery that had completely changed from the memory outside, and felt a little emotional.

The last time I returned to my hometown was before Qingming, and in less than a year, Nanxi has undergone great changes.

Last year, there were still some deserted suburbs, but now there are high-rise buildings along the road, and on the dusty construction site, large tower cranes and various engineering vehicles are busy and noisy, and they have not stopped work because the Spring Festival is coming soon.

The Jialing River, which crosses the city, seems to have just been built by the winding river, with brand-new railings and floor tiles, which look like no one has walked by, spacious and tidy.

There are also large green spaces and gardens along the river, filled with freshly planted saplings and turf. Although the little tree with branches was wrapped in hay, it still shivered in the cold wind, and it was indescribably pitiful.

Nan Zhiyi didn't know when he woke up, squinted slightly and shook his head, his voice was full of pity: "Which batch of trees that don't have a brain to procure?" Not to mention the time of year, the tree species are not suitable for the climate of Nanxi, and I am afraid that most of them will die. ”

After that, Nanzhiyi, who had slept enough, was in good spirits and told her that she was going to the breeding center of the Academy of Agricultural Sciences in Nanxi. However, the car circled around the city several times, and did not know which direction to go.

In the end, it was difficult to find the police, and finally set up navigation under the guidance of the traffic police, and under the guidance of the mechanical and rigid female voice of the navigation machine, Ling Li finally found the right way.

Walking through a forest with sparse leaves, and driving more than ten kilometers along the winding tributaries of the Jialing River, Ling Li was a little stunned when she looked at the golden riverbank under the sunset.

Although Nanxi has changed a lot, although she has not come in this direction for many years for fear of being touched, although the road she walked is completely inconsistent with any of the ones in her memory, but the winding ditch that appeared in front of her, Ling Li only glanced at it, and understood that she had returned to this place that she would never forget.

Her home is downstream of this ditch, and this clear and shallow river carries too many memories of her childhood.

In spring, the pear blossoms swaying in the wind by the river, and the petals that are like snowflakes fall into the water and float down the shallow river into the distance.

Before Qingming, my sister would take her and Xiaomin to pinch wolfberry sprouts by the river, sometimes only a small handful could be found in an afternoon, and take it home or stir-fry or blanch it and then mix it cold, the slightly bitter and fragrant wild vegetables, after she left Nanxi, she has not eaten it for many years.

Summer is the most beautiful season, the little iris born with the water by the river continues to emerge one after another, the small blue-purple petals are not so eye-catching, but like an endless sea of stars, occasionally gladiolus blooms, the pink petals are as delicate and soft as the bride to be married, and they are so beautiful that they will bubble in the eyes of the summer drunken wind.

She and Xiao Min like to pick the clumps of dandelions by the river the most, and when they have accumulated enough more than a dozen flowers, they blow them off in one go, and watch the fluffy little umbrella drift away with the wind and fall on the river or in the water, which is also one of the most interesting games in those years.

When it doesn't rain for a few days and the river is shallow and not so turbulent, she climbs over the stones on the shallows to catch crabs, and the days when she catches small shrimp and small fish with a fish basket are the deepest memories of summer vacation in childhood alongside watermelons.

Autumn is the season of abundant reeds, the pieces of narrow leaves wrapped in the water surface, a series of fluffy ears, flying flocculent swaying with the wind gradually fly away, but to add to the "reed flower" this scenery. Even if she didn't know that this was the famous "Pu Jia" at that time, it didn't prevent her from naturally liking good-looking things.

Even if the hair of the reed would itch into her neck, she couldn't help but drill in it with Xiaomin again and again, and was dragged out by her sister by the neck one by one, scolding them severely, but she helped them clean up the flying flotsam all over their bodies before their parents came home.

As for the bleak winter, the river begins to be bare and there is nothing, but in the cold days, when you can freeze in the morning, look for a thin layer of ice at the bend of the river, and break it with a light touch of your toes, or sink to the bottom of the water or go down the river, and disappear without a trace in a moment.

She and Xiao Min are always happy to repeat this boring and somewhat dangerous game that adults look at, and once they were too anxious to be the first, she also pushed the seven-year-old Xiao Min into the ditch, and froze out of a severe cold, which made her beat up by her mother.

Immersed in the past years, Ling Li was a little trance-like, and suddenly a sign on the side of the road that said "Lingjiapo" flashed, and when she came back to her senses and looked sideways, it was already a flat land.

She had a premonition in her heart, but seeing it become a reality, she was still a little disappointed. In my memory, the location of the yard is a flat concrete, and the former home has long since disappeared, leaving nothing.

Ling Li sighed slightly, cleaned up her mood and drove less than a hundred meters along the road, and then drove on a path that only allowed two cars to pass side by side according to Nan Zhiyi's guidance.

A few minutes later, when she saw the big "Eco-Industrial Park" signboard in front of her, all the memories of this place that had been silent for a long time finally came out.

After disposing of the family's house at a low price to a black-hearted company to repay the debts that year, Ling Li was so timid that she didn't dare to come back.

At that time, I did vaguely hear that the house was turned around several times, and finally a certain company bought a large piece of land in the surrounding area, and the whole was opened up into a large farmhouse.

I don't know if there was a deviation in her memory, or it changed hands later, judging from the current situation, it turned out that this land was bought by the Academy of Agricultural Sciences, and the outside is the signboard of the ecological park, in addition to the vegetable orchard, there is also a breeding center where Nanzhiyi often works.

The uncle in the duty room at the door saw a car approaching, so he first came over vigilantly, and when he saw Nan Zhiyi on the co-pilot, he hurriedly opened the door, his wrinkled face smiled, and his mouth was Mandarin with a thick Nanxi accent: "Xiao Yi, you are here." There is a good hemp mutton for you to keep, when will Lao Xun roast to eat, okay? ”

Nan Zhiyi nodded to him with a smile, and after a few simple greetings, he pointed to Ling Li in the direction of the northeast and said, "The dormitory building is over there, drive over and park." ”

A few minutes later, Ling Li parked the car outside a simple three-story building.

Nan Zhiyi got out of the car first, first moved the long hands and feet that had not been stretched out well for several hours, and then put the two dogs down to untie the ropes, and let them run around the yard to make holes.

After turning off the fire and getting out of the car, Ling Li raised her eyes to look at the row of buildings with simple lines, and then looked at the corner downstairs that seemed to be a garden, and opened her mouth blankly, a little unable to believe her eyes.

In the garden of dozens of square meters, the most are the moon season, osmanthus trees and gardenias, although they are not in the flowering season, but the branches are neat and tidy at a glance and have been carefully cared for.

On the large dirt floor near the corner of the wall, there is a large area of plants shrouded in plastic sheeting, and the shape of the branches and leaves stretching and spreading at will seems to be very familiar from a distance.

Ling Li walked over slowly, as the distance got closer, she held her breath and slowed down, but her heart beat faster and faster uncontrollably.

When it was time to see clearly what the clumps of green were, Ling Li's eyes suddenly turned red, his memory was surging, and he choked on something, and he couldn't say a word.