Chapter VII Receipt of Letters
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Zhong Shulin and his wife received a letter from their son after lunch on the third day, and because it was delayed, Zhong Shan sent an air letter.
At noon that day, Zhong Shulin did not take a nap on time as usual, but put down his rice bowl and went downstairs, sitting on the cement steps to watch his old neighbor play chess, waiting for something in his heart, intentionally or unintentionally. At this time, I saw the postman riding a dark green bicycle from the entrance of the alley, to the entrance of the building, stopped the bicycle, took out the letter from the large canvas bag, and was about to put it into the mailbox, Zhong Shulin hurriedly said, 302 letter to me directly.
Holding the letter, Zhong Shulin climbed up to the third floor without stopping three steps and two steps, knocked on the door, and shouted: "Wife, my son has a letter!" ”
The old wife, who was washing dishes in the kitchen, ran out when she heard the sound, and her hands were still stained with water.
Zhong Shulin said: "Old wife, you sit on the sofa and listen to me read to you." ”
The old wife sat down obediently with her hands pricked.
Zhong Shulin stood in the middle of the living room, read aloud, "Parents are on top", raised his eyes from above the reading frames, smiled, "This kid, he was dragged with Lao Tzu", and continued to read:
"Parents, please forgive me for delaying writing to my family recently because I was busy with the registration of new students and the rehearsal of the program of the new student party, so that you can miss it.
I arrived at the school in the middle of the night the next day after leaving home, and the school had a pick-up bus, so everything went well. Everything is settled in the school, and classes have been in place for a week. At the time of writing to you, I had just performed guitar playing and singing at the opening ceremony, and the show was a great success, winning the applause of the teachers and classmates.
After more than a week, I gradually adapted to the pace of study and life in college. There are 25 students in our class, from nine provinces across the country, and everyone gets along very well. Money is enough, no need to send.
I have grown up, and I don't need you to worry about it anymore, I just hope that the two elders take care of each other and take care of their health. ”
Li Chunhua still wanted to continue to listen to her wife's reading, but the letter was over, and she couldn't help but feel a little unsatisfied. Zhong Shulin was too, holding a page of letter paper in his hand, the handwriting on the letter paper was large and sloppy, and there was a feeling of loss in his heart.
This is the first time that my son has gone far away, and the first time he has written a letter to his family, and the wording feels very strange to them, like a distance of more than a thousand kilometers.
After a while, Zhong Shulin sat on the sofa next to his wife, put down the letterhead, and said: "Wife, my son is right, the child has grown up, we don't have to worry about him all day long, arrange our own lives, take care of our own bodies, and don't cause trouble to our son in the future, this is the last word." ”
Li Chunhua looked at his wife, whose sideburns had turned gray and had lived with him for more than 30 years, and said apologetically: "I have really suffered you all these years." If I can give you a boy and a girl, our lives will not be so hard. ”
"Jing nonsense, Xiao Shanzi is not our child."
"Actually, you don't know, I've often thought over the years that you have a woman outside, and you should be, although it's a little sorry for me to do that. But if you only guard me, the other way around, I'm sorry for you. Li Chunhua said to herself.
Zhong Shulin stretched out his big hand to hold his wife's still wet little hand across the coffee table, "It's been a lifetime, what are you talking about!" ”
"I have to say it for the rest of my life, otherwise I will suddenly disappear one day, and I won't have a chance to say it."
"Nonsense again, how can people say that if they don't, they won't, I've been on the battlefield, and I've experienced the rain of bullets and bullets, haven't I come back with all my tails?"
"You're back, but I didn't renew the incense for you, so I feel indebted to you for the rest of my life."
"You're here again, don't talk about it in the future."
"Zou Jingzhi, the clerk of your Cultural Bureau, came to our house during the Chinese New Year last year, and I quietly asked, saying that she was no longer in the No. 3 Middle School, and it seems that she was transferred to the Municipal Education Bureau, and I don't know if she got married later."
"Why are you mentioning her when you're fine?"
Seeing that her husband was really angry, Li Chunhua stopped talking.