Chapter 20: A Journey of a Thousand Miles
Just doing it is one of Ye Han's advantages, since she has decided to take her mother-in-law to Yun Province tomorrow, she will act immediately.
First asked her mother-in-law for her ID card, and then asked the man to help her mother-in-law sort out some things to bring when she went out, and she herself walked directly back to the town and drove home.
I used the security mobile phone given by the system to buy two high-speed rail tickets from Zhejiang Province to Yunnan Province tomorrow afternoon, as she expected, used up nearly 2,000 wealth values, and then sorted out the luggage, and prepared enough food for Lao Huang to eat for a week, and the next morning with a stone to the hospital door to facilitate Lao Huang's entry and exit, she drove to pick up her mother-in-law.
After coming to the mother-in-law's house, although the mother-in-law and the man had already prepared, they still had a dream-like expression. It was Ye Han's series of resolute actions that confused them.
Yesterday, I was still mourning that the house might be occupied, lamenting that I couldn't save up the money to visit my son, and I was about to embark on a journey to visit my son in a blink of an eye, so it's no wonder that both of them looked dazed.
After asking the man—he should be called Uncle Li—to take care of his mother-in-law's house, Ye Han helped his mother-in-law get into the car and drove all the way to the provincial capital, which is the starting point of the high-speed rail.
All the way without waves, I got on the high-speed train very smoothly, Ye Han wrapped himself tightly like an Eskimo, but it was cold, such a dress can be seen everywhere, but it didn't cause any trouble, but Ye Han took an old man and got a lot of help, whether it was going through the security check or queuing up to get on the train, there were people who were polite, and there were conductors on the seat to ask for warmth, so that Ye Han really sighed, the quality of the Chinese people is really getting higher and higher.
When she arrived in Kuncheng, Yun Province, it was already four o'clock in the morning, Ye Han found an express hotel near the station to stay, and she felt a little tired with her 11 o'clock physique, not to mention her mother-in-law who was nearly ninety years old?
However, the mother-in-law was uncharacteristically full of spirit, she held a small wooden box, she didn't want to fall asleep, from time to time she took out the iron card in the box to look at it, and then stroked the name on it very gently, the iron card looked very new, but the name originally engraved on it was already very vague, Ye Han barely saw it: Shi Gensheng three words, this is the name of the mother-in-law's son, and the only three words that the mother-in-law knows.
Ye Han has already seen that there is something wrong with her mother-in-law, so many years of torment and torture have long made her body run out of oil, but her obsession with her son has made her miraculously persist until now, but after all, the human body has a limit, the old man is already approaching this extreme, once it arrives, no matter how strong her willpower is, she can't hold on.
Therefore, Ye Han did not hesitate to take her to Yun Province, so that she and her son could see this last meeting, for the old man, as long as he could see his son, everything else didn't matter, including life!
After a day of repair, they set off again for the destination of their trip, a small border town.
This is a small city called Li, just like countless unknown small cities in the motherland, without the slightest popularity, no one knows about it when it comes out of the local area. On a hillside in the southwest corner of the city, there stood a small martyr's cemetery, really small, so small that there was only a square minaret more than two meters high, and nothing else. The body of the tower is made of white marble, under the erosion of wind and rain over the years, it has been flushed yellow, the front of the tower is inscribed with six big characters of bright red "the tomb of the martyrs of the Red Army", at the top of the tower, a red star is standing there quietly, announcing the solemnity of this tower to the people.
The other three sides of the tower were densely engraved with the names of the martyrs, and at this time, Ye Han was helping her mother-in-law to carefully look for her son's name.
Suddenly, the mother-in-law froze, she trembled all over, as if she had used all her strength, she reached out and touched one of the names, which was also the only three words she knew in her life: Shi Gensheng.
The moment the fingertips touch the name, time seems to stop, this touch is decades of silent waiting, this touch is the expectation of countless souls and dreams after thousands of miles, this touch is the reunion of the mother and son after tens of thousands of days and nights apart.
The mother-in-law gently pressed her face to the stepping monument and rubbed it gently, as if she was holding her son when she was young and coaxing him to sleep. Silent tears slipped down her wrinkled face, drop by drop, string after string, soaking the tower surface and sliding to the ground, tears she had held all her life.
I don't know when, it started to drizzle, and the cold raindrops hit the tower, hit the mother-in-law's body, and her tears gathered together, and slowly flowed down from the tower surface. The mother-in-law still put her face on her son's name, her hands open, holding the martyr's tower in her arms, her face was serene, tears had been mixed with the rain, and she couldn't tell the difference.
Ye Han didn't stop her mother-in-law, just stood quietly to the side, shielding her mother-in-law from the growing wind and rain with an umbrella, she didn't want anyone, including herself, to disturb the reunion of the mother and son.
Gradually, gradually, the rain was lighter, Ye Han was also soaked, and when the wind and rain completely stopped, the mother-in-law raised her head, with a satisfied smile, and her originally cloudy eyes seemed to have completely regained their clarity, just like the blue sky that had been washed by the rain.
She turned around, looked at Ye Han with a smile, and then bent her legs and knelt down! Ye Han threw away the umbrella, immediately knelt down and supported his mother-in-law, and then gently hugged her in his arms.
After the rain, the sun shines on the earth, the cemetery, the tower, and the people embracing each other, and everything is crossed with a layer of gold, and it is continuous, and this moment is eternity.
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Two days later, Ye Han and her mother-in-law returned to their hometown.
At night, the stars were shining, and in the dilapidated room, the mother-in-law lay peacefully on the low bed, her head resting on Ye Han's thigh, holding Ye Han's hand with one hand and pressing the other hand on her chest.
Her eyes were closed, her brows were stretched, her toothless mouth was open, humming an unknown song, slowly, slowly, her voice was lowered, and finally she couldn't hear it, and the hand holding Ye Han also let go and slipped down, revealing an iron plaque left in Ye Han's palm.
After a lifetime of tiredness, struggle, pain, and waiting, she was finally able to fall asleep contentedly.
Ye Han suddenly wanted to sing, singing a song that her grandmother often sang when she was a child when she put her to sleep, and the melodious singing began to echo in the hut, with sweetness, sadness, longing, and hope:
Shake and shake, shake and shake, the boat rocks to Grandma's Bridge.
Grandma is good, grandma is good, grandma is giggling at me.
Shake and shake, shake and shake, the boat rocks to Grandma's Bridge.
Grandma said, good baby, grandma gave me a piece of cake.
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