After arguing with Lao Pang for a while, we got on the train home. Bickering with Lao Pang has always been one of my hobbies with him, but since we entered the train station, the two of us have been chatting and arguing endlessly, as if there is endless talk. However, since we sat on the bullet train, the bullet train began to move faster and faster towards the front, our mouths began to speak less and less, not tired, nor thinking about what image to take into account, not affecting the surrounding passengers or anything, but, we are very aware that the distance between us and our hometown is shrinking at the speed of the bullet train, and when the bullet train has not had time to stop, we have already smelled the taste of hometown.

In the explanation of the word, hometown refers to the place or ancestral home where I grew up when I was a child, and is also called "hometown", "hometown", "hometown", etc. Hometown can also be a place where there is a sense of belonging and security.

Whether it is a native of his hometown, a foreigner living in the local area, or a Chinese living overseas, who does not have a feeling for his hometown, everyone loves his hometown, and there are more than a hundred reasons for love. Hometown is the cradle of life, recording the trajectory of one's life, thinking of one's hometown, will think of one's relatives in one's hometown, remembering the happy childhood and passionate youth that brought oneself, in addition to her inherent loveliness, hometown has been injected with emotional connotation, this sentiment has been integrated into our lives.

As will be written in many articles, hometown has always been an eternal topic of conversation among literati and scholars throughout the ages. The tree is thousands of feet high, the fallen leaves return to the roots, and the thoughts of the hometown are always the sincere expression of the wanderer. In their view, hometown is the support of their soul and the sustenance of their feelings. Hometown is a ray of sunshine, and you can find warmth when it is cold and lonely; My hometown is a harbor where I can anchor when I am lonely. They use poetry to express their nostalgia for their hometown. However, such feelings, in the eyes of Lao Pang and me, are more worried and afraid, and may really respond to that verse, "Nostalgia is more timid." ”

Finally, in the silence between me and Lao Pang, we saw the landmark buildings in our hometown, we didn't sleep all the way, especially when we saw these landmark buildings, we were like children who had never seen the world, looking out of the car window, but, after looking for a while, we sat back in our seats with a long sigh, and the two of us looked at each other, "Okay, Lao Pang, I'm going to be home soon, let's think about what to do after we get home for a while." ”

I smiled and said to Lao Pang, although I was telling him, but, in fact, this has always been a question I was thinking about. Neither of us told our families the news of our return, nor did we wear military uniforms, but we were just wanderers who had left our hometowns to visit us.

The train stopped, and the voice broadcast in the carriage repeatedly reminded us that we had returned to our hometown. After leaving the station, Lao Pang and I fought with each other for a while, and then each hitchhiked towards our own home.

In the car, I reported the location of my home to the driver in standard Mandarin, and when the driver heard it, he said to me in Mandarin with the local dialect of Nanjing: "Come to Nanjing to play?" ”

The kind of Mandarin with the flavor of Nanjing dialect suddenly made me feel a trace of warmth, "No, no, go home." ”

"You're a local?" The driver turned to look at me, then asked me again.

"Yes, native-born." I smiled and said to the driver.

"Oops - I thought you came from out of town to play, Nanjing, we speak Nanjing dialect is Lai, people speak my Mandarin weirdly, I still feel comfortable speaking Nanjing dialect." As soon as the driver heard me say that I was a local, he suddenly came out with an authentic Nanjing dialect, and I listened to it, really, almost a little, I was about to cry, it was really a kind of power from my hometown, a kind of moving from my hometown.

Along the way, in the conversation with the driver's master, I re-studied the authentic Nanjing dialect, and all of a sudden, I seemed to have found the kind before I joined the army, hmm...... It's like knowing friends you've known for thousands of days and 800 days, maybe that's the power of your hometown dialect.

I returned to my hometown without warning, and during the time I left, many people were already familiar with my life, so that when I first walked into the village, several people didn't recognize me, or a few elderly aunts and uncles saw me at a glance, "Yo! The soldier is back! Come home to visit relatives! "When the aunts and uncles saw me walking towards the village, they all gathered around me and asked me this and that.

I said hello one by one, and walked in the direction of my house, but every time I got closer, my heart became a little nervous, and when I reached the door of my house, my heart seemed to be entangled. Because in the countryside, the gate of the yard is basically closed during the day, so I walked directly in, and then tremblingly picked up the key to open the door of the room. However, after I inserted the key in, I twisted it several times, and the door still did not move, which caused the people in the yard to be aroused.

"Who!" A shout suddenly made me burst into tears, and the tears suddenly seemed to be unstoppable, dripping down one by one. That shout was none other than my grandmother. No one in my hometown knew I was coming back, let alone my grandmother.

I saw my grandmother holding a few vegetables in her hand, and glanced in the direction of the door from the other side of the yard, that is, at this glance, my grandmother suddenly rushed towards me as if she had returned to her youth, and just like me, tears rushed out of her eyes at once.

"You little guy, I didn't know to talk about it in advance when I came back, I didn't even go grocery shopping!" After my grandmother looked at me, she wiped a handful of tears from her eyes, and then complained to me.

"Grandma, what kind of vegetables to buy, I like to eat our own home-grown vegetables!" I looked at it, and my grandmother's feet were still covered with mud, and there was a vegetable basket in front of a small bench in the yard, and it was obvious that my grandmother had just returned from the field.

"Okay, okay, hurry in, put your things away, I'll call your dad and ask him to come back for dinner in the evening!" Grandma said to me as she fumbled for the key from her body.

It turned out that because of the time, the lock on the door of the house was also changed for various reasons, no wonder I couldn't open it before.

In the evening, the whole family gathers together. "Come, let's have a drink today" My dad opened a rare bottle of wine, poured a glass for me and him, and drank it beautifully, and the whole family was asking me what was hard to be a soldier, whether I was tired, how was I eating, and so on.

However, just when my heart began to speed up and my head became a little drowsy under the stimulation of alcohol, a thought suddenly broke into my mind.

I came back and saw what my hometown was like, I saw my family, and there was one person I wanted to meet too.

The next morning, the biological clock had already been maintained because of the life of the army, a little more than six o'clock in the morning, no alarm clock, no whistle, but I still couldn't continue to sleep, got up in the morning, cleaned up the room, and found that my grandmother was already making breakfast.

After breakfast, I explained and started to take the car towards the city, along the way, I bought a little fruit gift or something, and then my mind kept flashing the scene when I first enlisted in the army, the girl saw me off at the train station.

In this way, my mind was like playing a slideshow, scene after scene, which made the corners of my mouth show a smile from time to time, but soon, it was covered by a wry smile. I know, the girl who sent me away at the beginning, is no longer the original girl, and now she should be someone else's baby, and I, in fact, don't have any other ideas, just say, come back, I want to see her, at least, at that time, that's what I told myself.

The route to her house has not changed, according to the previous memory, I quickly found her home, after hesitating in front of her house for a long time, I finally knocked on the door of her house, but knocked for a long time and no one answered, just when I was disappointed and ready to leave, an elderly aunt came over, stared at me for a while, and said to me as if surprised: "You are Xiao Chen, hahahaha, aren't you a soldier?" Now I'm back. ”

I took a look, this person was none other than Beibei's mother, so I also replied with a smile: "That, Auntie, the army is on holiday, I'll come back to visit my relatives, and by the way, I'll take a look at Beibei." Isn't Babe at home? ”

Hearing me say this, Beibei's mother suddenly seemed a little embarrassed, she knew about me and Beibei being together, although she said that Beibei was older than me at the time, she didn't approve of me being with Beibei, but she didn't object very much.

When I saw Beibei's mother reacting like this, I had actually guessed one or two in my heart, so I said to her: "That, Auntie, it's okay, hahaha, I brought you something, you don't want me to bring it back, you open the door, I'll put it in for you." ”

Beibei's mother didn't want it at first, but finally opened the door under my repeated persuasion, just when I put the gifts and fruits I brought into the room, I saw a photo of Beibei and another boy on the TV cabinet in the living room, Beibei is very beautiful, beautiful to the extreme, because, wearing a wedding dress.

Beibei's mother also seemed to notice that I saw their photo, so she smiled awkwardly. After a brief chat with Beibei's mother, I left.

Out of the community, I habitually lit a cigarette and took a hard puff, but, to be honest, I was just a little disappointed, but there was not much heartache, because, such a result, I have not dreamed of it once.

When I went to the army, not only me, but many people were the same, I got a camouflage and a mission, but I was really forced to lose a lot of things.

When I come back, goodbye is the past.