An hour later, Chaoying returned to the army's family home. I took a change of clothes, quickly went to the bathhouse to take a bath, lived in the store for more than 20 days, got up early and went to bed late, sometimes I didn't even bother to wash my face, and I was already uncomfortable. When I got home, I cooked a handful of somen noodles and fell asleep after eating.

Gu Weidong went home and saw his daughter-in-law on the bed, he hadn't seen him for more than 20 days, let alone missed it, but recently the training of the army has been intensified, and the family is urging him to go back for the New Year, and a lot of work needs to be completed in advance, and he didn't bother to go to the county seat to see his daughter-in-law. Now that the daughter-in-law has finally gone home, but looking at the dark circles under Chaoying's eyes and the sharpened chin, she is very distressed, and she blames herself for not having the ability to make her daughter-in-law work so hard. Gu Weidong thought silently.

Gu Weidong is a very traditional man. discussed the issue of having children with Chaoying before, Gu Weidong thought that the two were in a stable relationship now and it was time to have a child, but Chaoying thought that it was not the time to have children if the two did not have a certain economic foundation, so Gu Weidong had to agree to let Chaoying and his sister-in-law go into business.

But if he had known that it would be so hard, Gu Weidong would never have agreed to Chaoying.

Lin Ningning also rushed back to the provincial capital on the same day, Gu Weiguo went to the station to pick up the little wife who had not seen him for more than 20 days, looked at the baby's fat little face and lost half a circle, and regretted that he had connived at the little woman to do business.

However, seeing Lin Ningning's big smiling face, Gu Weiguo was still satisfied, no matter what he did, as long as his little wife was happy, Gu Weiguo was supportive, and after returning home, Gu Weiguo was bath water and massage, and Lin Ningning was served, and finally ate the love dinner made by Gu Weiguo, and fell asleep with satisfaction.

Gu Weidong and Gu Weiguo agreed to go home on the 27th of the lunar month, and the train tickets had already been bought.

On the twenty-sixth day of the lunar month, Gu Weidong asked for leave, packed his luggage and took Chaoying to the big brother's house in the provincial capital.

After taking the train to the provincial capital at noon, the four of them ate hot pot outside, and went to the department store to buy New Year's gifts for their parents-in-law and sister-in-law. After returning home, I prepared some tea eggs on the train, chicken feet with sauce and steamed cakes. Packing the luggage and food together, the four large bags barely fitted. The four of them were busy until more than eight o'clock in the evening, and the Gu brothers introduced some family members' personalities and hobbies to Chaoying and Lin Ningning, as well as some interesting stories about the two when they were young, and they talked about Chaoying until more than eleven o'clock, when they couldn't open their eyes.

Early the next morning, the four of them rushed to the train station with four large bags, and the Gu family lived in Yucheng, the county seat of Province C, which is adjacent to Province D. It took more than nine hours to arrive by train from City D, but fortunately, Gu Weiguo asked someone to buy a sleeper ticket in advance.

Years ago, the flow of people at the railway station was very large, just in time for the Spring Festival holiday, many people who are out all the year round want to go home before the New Year, at this time, whether it is in the station or on the train is crowded with people, even if you stand still, you can be pushed to the ticket gate by the crowd of people. The Gu family brothers took two big bags, protected Chaoying and Lin Ningning in front of them, and got on the train with the crowded flow of people.

Although on the car, but want to go to their own seat is also very difficult, the carriage interface, the aisle are people and luggage, walking is difficult, on the train more than ten minutes later, only barely come to their seat, it stands to reason that the sleeper car is single, but because there are too many people on the car, many people who bought a station ticket have come to the sleeper car crowded. Chaoying still understands the mood of people who are about to go home and return to their hearts.

Gu Weiguo bought two upper bunks and two lower bunks, just in a box, the four of them took care of each other, and the things were easy to look at, which was quite convenient.

I found a seat, took out the bag of food, and put the rest of the bag under the bed. Just getting in the car was not too tired, Lin Ningning took out the poker prepared in advance and played poker with Chaoying and the Gu family brothers.

The train swayed for more than half an hour, and Gu Weidong picked up the cup and went to pick up two cups of boiling water. I am afraid that there will be no hot water in the evening, and at this time, many people are reluctant to bring food when taking the train, so they rely on boiling water to satisfy their hunger.

Chaoying knows that in a few years, with the development of the economy and the improvement of people's living standards, the situation will be improved, but he still sympathizes with the hard life of the people now.

After playing poker for a while, I heard the cry of a child in the aisle, Lin Ningning is a character who loves to join in the fun, and went to take a look, only to know that it was a pair of young couples who took their children back to their in-laws' house for the New Year, but because the family conditions were not good, and there was no money to buy anything to eat, they could only bring a few boiled sweet potatoes from home before leaving. But because the people were too crowded when I got on the bus, the bag of sweet potatoes was squeezed out. After more than ten hours of train, adults can endure it without eating, but the child is too young, only three or four years old, and can only cry when he is hungry. The child's father went to fetch hot water, probably because there were too many people and still in line.

The child's mother is very young, in her twenties. At this time, the child was crying, and the young mother was also sweating profusely, with a little self-blame and guilt in her eyes.

When Lin Ningning saw such a situation, she was naturally enthusiastic about the eldest sister.

"Sister, I have food here, you can bring the child over!"

"Thank you, big sister," the young mother blushed slightly, full of gratitude. There was no doubt at all that the baby-faced woman in front of her was reasonable to call herself a girl.

When he came to Chaoying's box, Lin Ningning briefly told Chaoying about the situation, and then went to get the steamed cake and the dough cake for the mother and son.

The little boy in his mother's arms blinked his watery eyes and swallowed his saliva constantly, but without his mother's permission, he never stretched out his little hand to take the food. What Chaoying and Lin Ningning saw in the child's eyes was an extremely forbearant desire.

It can be seen that the child's education is excellent, but no matter what age the poor people are, they will make people short-minded, let alone the mother of a hungry child.

"Thank you, Xiaobao, eat. The young mother took a piece of steamed cake and put it in the child's hand, and then tried her best to refuse the dough cake handed to her by Chaoying and Lin Ningning.

After a while, the woman's husband came back with half a cup of hot water. I was very grateful to see someone bring food to the child. With a slightly embarrassed face, he whispered thank you.

Xiaobao is eating steamed cakes, and he should like it very much, so his eyes are crooked, and the corners of his mouth are satisfied. But when he saw that his parents were still hungry, he handed the steamed cake in his hand to his parents. The young parents shook their heads and said they were not hungry, and the child continued to eat. After the child finished eating, the young mother said goodbye to Chaoying Lin Ningning and prepared to leave. But at this time, Chaoying saw that the still crowded aisle had no place for a family of three to stay.

"You family of three squeeze in this bunk, anyway, we will get off in a few hours, and we can't sleep now, it's a waste to be empty" said and gave up his lower bunk and sat down on Lin Ningning's side.

The family of three thanked them repeatedly. No politeness, full of sincerity.

The young father saw that there were several women in the lower bunk of the box, and it was still a little inconvenient for him to be there, so he politely stood in the aisle outside the box.

In the next few hours, Chaoying and Lin Ningning talked with the young woman while Xiaobao was asleep, only to learn that the woman's name is Chen Jiabi, her husband's name is Zhao Yun, and the child Xiaobao is three years old this year, and the family of three is helping people grow ginseng in Province D, which is also one of the few migrant workers in this era. After a year of hard work, the boss has not paid the salary, and the parents at home look forward to the early return of their children who have been working for a whole year every day, so they borrowed money to buy train tickets and go home in time for the New Year.

Chao Ying is still a little angry when he sees this situation, but the rights and interests of migrant workers in this era cannot be guaranteed. Thinking that there is not much that can help them, I can only leave the rest of the food to Xiaobao when I get off the bus.

At four o'clock in the afternoon, the train arrived in Yucheng, and Chen Jiabi's family of three had to sit for more than an hour to get home, which is a remote town under the jurisdiction of Yucheng. Chaoying left the food for the family of three, and the two of them thanked them again.

Because there were many elderly people in the car, the Gu brothers had already given up their bunks early, and they didn't come back to get their luggage until they got off the bus.

Because Yucheng has a higher latitude, it is much colder than D City. Chaoying shivered after getting out of the car, it seems that the winter of this era is indeed different, the global warming in the 21st century, the urban heat island effect has been difficult to experience this kind of original winter.