The sleeper compartment was crowded with people, and there were a lot of suitcases piled up in the aisle, and the passengers were busy looking for their bunks. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

The luggage rack was already full of things, Shi Liangchen wanted to put the two bags in his hand under the bunk, and saw an aunt sitting on his bunk, leaning over and whispering to an uncle lying on the lower bunk opposite, so he politely asked: "Auntie, are you ------?"

When the aunt saw Shi Liangchen talking to her with something, she immediately understood what was going on, pointed to the middle bunk opposite, and said apologetically: "Oh, I'm sorry, I'm sitting in your place, my place is in the middle of the opposite side." After she finished speaking, she hurriedly moved her body and sat down next to the uncle, who was also sitting next to a young man, it seemed that this was a family of three, an old couple and their son.

Shi Liangchen stuffed the two bags under the bunk, sat down at the small table, and breathed a long sigh of relief. He thought to himself that this visit was still in a hurry to come and go, and he didn't bother to meet with his past teachers and classmates. I have been in the army for more than 20 years, and I sometimes receive letters or phone calls from them in the army, and they all hope that when they visit their homes, they will say hello, and everyone will meet together and catch up on the old days. Knowing that they came back quietly this time, they went back quietly, and I don't know what kind of complaint they should have.

The uncle on the opposite side let out a few slight moans, his face was sallow, his eyes seemed to be closed and open, and there were cloudy tears flowing down the corners of his eyes from time to time. The aunt leaned over the uncle's chest, comforted him softly, and kept wiping his eyes with a handkerchief.

Shi Liangchen saw the kind eyes in front of him, and the silver hair was combed in the slightest, and suddenly remembered his mother who died early, if his mother was alive, no matter how busy he was with work, he would not only go back to his hometown once in five or six years.

When the young man heard the uncle's moaning, he also stood behind the aunt and asked with concern, "Dad, where are you uncomfortable?" The uncle opened his eyes, raised his arm with great effort, waved it at the young man, and said weakly: "It's nothing, the car is about to go, you get out of the car!" The young man said, "Don't worry, there is no broadcast yet!" He sat down next to his aunt again.

Shi Liangchen heard from their conversation that the old couple went out together, and his son saw him off, so he said to his aunt: "When I rest at night, I sleep in your middle bunk, and you sleep in my lower bunk, so that I can take care of my uncle." ”

Both the aunt and the young man thanked each other gratefully.

"I'm sorry, let me go!" A young man shouted and squeezed through the aisle. He put the small suitcase in his hand on the middle bunk on Shi Liangchen's side, wiped the sweat on his head, looked at his watch, and said to himself: "Hao Xuan, I will miss the car if I am a little later." ”

The announcer reminded the relatives who sent the guests to get off the bus, and the young man opposite hurriedly stood up and said to the aunt: "Mom, I'm leaving, don't forget to ask my sister to call me when I get to Beijing." ”

The train started.

Auntie's son, who had been standing outside the window, followed the train for a few steps, beckoning to his mother, still shouting something, he was not at ease with the two old men. The aunt withdrew her gaze from the car window, took out a medical record bag in her handbag, put on reading glasses, and looked at the medical records page by page.

Later, the young man who got into the car looked at Shi Liangchen, who was sitting at the small table and looking out of the car window, felt a little familiar, and asked softly: "Excuse me, who are you?" ”

Shi Liangchen turned his face, and before he could speak, the young man grabbed his hand and said excitedly: "Hello, Mr. Shi, I didn't expect to meet you here!" ”

Shi Liangchen looked dazed, and said with some embarrassment: "Look at my memory, which unit are you from?" ”

"My surname is Fang, an officer of the Political Department of the Beijing Military Region, and you came to us to give lectures twice last year."

"Oh, by the way, I went to your place twice last year, and there were so many people attending the lecture that I can't remember ------"

"I know that!" Xiao Fang nodded understandingly.

"Are you on vacation?" Shi Liangchen asked him.

"No, it's a business trip, the matter is done, go back to Beijing." Officer Fang replied, and he asked Shi Liangchen again, "Teacher Shi, who are you?" ”

Shi Liangchen told him that there was something going on in his hometown, and he asked for leave to come back to deal with housework. Then, he said to Xiao Fang embarrassedly: "You can just call me Lao Shi, I am just an ordinary cadre of the headquarters organ, and I do political work like you, don't call me teacher." ”

Xiao Fang said seriously: "Hey, that's not good, look at some people nowadays, they call people who are older than you and who debuted earlier are teachers, not to mention that you have indeed taught us a few times!" ”

Shi Liangchen smiled and said: "Now the term 'teacher' is called vulgar, a very solemn word, and it has become a common title as 'sir' and 'miss'." When I was in school, the relationship between teachers and students was so sincere, and the word 'teacher' was so sacred in our hearts. I remember when I was in high school in the county seat, my homeroom teacher's surname was Xu, and he treated us students as if they were his own children------"

Shi Liangchen was sitting and talking with Xiao Fang, when he suddenly found something, and suddenly stood up and asked the old aunt opposite eagerly: "Auntie, ------ you are going-----

The aunt took off her reading glasses, looked at Shi Liangchen's gaffe, and said puzzledly: "We went to the daughter's house who worked in Beijing, and treated the old man there, do you have anything to do?" ”

"It's nothing, I mean------" Shi Liangchen pointed to the uncle lying on the sleeper, and said incoherently, "He is ------"

"He's my wife, a retired teacher."

Shi Liangchen took the medical record bag next to his aunt, looked at the name "Xu Wenjin" on it, carefully looked at the uncle's face for a while, held his hand at once, and said in a trembling voice: "Teacher Xu, I am your student, Shi Liangchen!" ”

Teacher Xu, who was lying on the bunk, opened his eyes wide and shook his head gently. For more than 20 years, Shi Liangchen sent him two letters when he was a soldier, but he never contacted him again, let alone met, and he no longer remembered this student.

Shi Liangchen saw that Mr. Xu's thin face was wrinkled, the annual rings of the tree of life were out of order, and the sparse gray hair on his head was like dead grass swaying in the autumn wind on the trembling train. He felt a little sour in his heart and a little remorseful, clasped Mr. Xu's hand with tears, and muttered, "Mr. Xu, I'm sorry for you!" ”

Xiao Fang stood behind Shi Liangchen and said to his aunt enthusiastically: "Teacher Xu is Teacher Shi's teacher and my teacher, there are comrades and classmates I am more familiar with in several larger military hospitals in Beijing, if you need examination, treatment or hospitalization, just look for me, I will leave my mobile phone number to you later." ”

The aunt was worried that she would not be able to take care of her wife on the road alone, and suddenly met two enthusiastic people who were walking all the way, and one of them was a student of her wife in her early years, and she was very happy.

In the past few days in Shi Liangchen's hometown, there is no rule in his life, and he can only go to bed at one or two o'clock in the middle of the night, so he originally wanted to have a good rest on the train. But now, no matter how his aunt persuaded him, he didn't want to lie down and sleep, so he insisted on sitting next to Teacher Xu in his coat and taking good care of the teacher for a night.

The aunt may have been tired for a long time, or she may be more relieved of Shi Liangchen, or she may have both, and she actually lay on Shi Liangchen's lower bunk for a while and snored slightly.

The speeding train pulled Shi Liangchen's body forward, and also pulled his thoughts back, and the student life twenty years ago seemed to happen yesterday, scene by scene in his mind. He suddenly felt that the flow of time not only could not wash away the memories engraved in his heart, but sometimes only made it clearer.

Mr. Xu was relatively quiet all night, drank water twice and urinated once. If someone helped him, he could walk slowly, but Shi Liangchen still insisted on carrying him to the bathroom.

The light of dawn poured into the carriages through the gaps in the unclosed curtains, and the train slowly rolled into the Beijing station.

The aunt put her face on the window glass, and saw her daughter and son-in-law waiting on the platform from afar, she knocked on the window, and the daughter also saw her, and followed the train that gradually slowed down, and the mother and daughter opened the mute through the window glass. Shi Liangchen on this side was explaining to Xiao Fang, asking him to take a few people's things, and he wanted to get out of the car with Teacher Xu on his back.

"I'm young, I'll carry Teacher Xu." Xiao Fang did not agree with Shi Liangchen's division of labor.

"Don't fight, Mr. Xu must be carried by me. One Sunday more than 20 years ago, I did not go back to my home in the countryside because I was not feeling well, and I developed a high fever in the school dormitory at night. At that time, I lay on Mr. Xu's back and thought, one day I must also carry Mr. Xu, now that I have this opportunity, can I give it to others? Shi Liangchen said as he prepared to get off the car with the teacher on his back.

Xiao Fang didn't argue anymore and was busy packing his things.

The aunt turned around and saw the frame here, and was in a hurry, and said to Shi Liangchen: "When the people in the car are finished, the daughter and son-in-law will get in the car to pick up the old man and let my son-in-law carry him, you haven't rested well all night, you can't carry him anymore." ”

Xiao Fang helped Shi Liangchen convince his aunt.

The passengers on the car were about to get off, Shi Liangchen carried Teacher Xu on his back, feeling that his back was very light, and the strong teacher at that time poured all his efforts into making the students successful, leaving only a shriveled torso. He also felt that his back was very heavy, and the affection of teachers and students made him realize the weight he should bear.

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