Chapter 4: The Year of Innocence

"Hee-hee, have you packed your things?"

In the room of a two-story building, Huang Hongying pulled up the suitcase in her hand with a "stab", looked around again, and shouted towards the other room.

"Okay, Mom, aren't you leaving tomorrow? I'll clean up again in the evening. ”

A crisp voice came from the opposite room, Chen Zixi walked out of the room, looked at Huang Hongying, who was busy, and said helplessly.

"You kid, what the hell is going on with you?" Huang Hongying looked at her daughter's indifferent appearance, seemed to be a little angry, put down the suitcase in her hand, walked up to Chen Zixi, lightly tapped her forehead with her fingers, followed into her daughter's room, began to rummage through the cabinets, and was busy cleaning up.

The sound of squirming and folding clothes and turning over the cabinet to tidy up was mixed with a few complaints: "Girls, do things quickly, don't procrastinate." Also, if there's anything you want to take with you, don't forget. ”

"Mom-" Chen Zixi stretched his voice, grabbed Huang Hongying's arm, and shook it gently, "We really won't come back in the future?" ”

"It's up to your dad and your uncle, and they definitely won't be back this year. The last time you went to Linzhou, didn't you keep talking about how good you were in the city? ”

"But ......"

"But what?" Huang Hongying turned her head and stared at her daughter, "You don't want to leave again, I can tell you, your father can give you all the transfer procedures, then the school is very good, it is the provincial key, you look at Xiushui, it is the best No. 1 middle school, is it the second-level standard school?" ”

"I'm not ......" Chen Zixi was a little hesitant, suddenly his eyes turned bright, and he said with a smile, "I'm not reluctant to let my grandparents ......"

"You, you...... Your grandparents will also go to Linzhou in a few months, and if he can stay outside, he will stay. It also saves us from always having to run at both ends. ”

Huang Hongying shook her head, and she didn't bother to expose her daughter's little thoughts.

Seven or eight years ago, she and her husband went to Linzhou to work hard with his uncle, and the two brothers and sisters worked together to finally have some situation.

Buying a house, having a car, and settling down on the hukou can be regarded as a foothold. Compared with many people who go out to work or do business or are still at the bottom of the petty fights, their family is already at the forefront.

It's just that although the family situation is very different, her eldest daughter, after Huang Hongying and her husband went to Linzhou, because she couldn't take care of it, she stayed at home and was taken care of by the second elder.

Unconsciously, the family has stabilized their foothold in the city, and the eldest daughter has grown up day by day, and she is already a fifteen or sixteen-year-old girl. I haven't taken care of my eldest daughter much over the years, and I feel ashamed that it is really inappropriate to keep a place like the countryside of Xiushui County.

And in previous years, when I went back to my hometown for the New Year, I occasionally heard the second elder say that the eldest daughter Chen Zixi has loved to follow Ye Qin's ass since she was a child, and then turn her head and go down...... She couldn't accept it even more.

Huang Hongying has seen some of the world over the years, not to mention that she is utilitarian, but she always hopes that her daughter will be able to live an easier life in the future.

Ye Chin...... Huang Hongying can't say that she can't look at it, her parents-in-law like it in her hometown, but after all, everything is difficult to say at this age.

When she was young, Huang Hongying didn't care, but at this age, she was really worried about what her daughter would do with that bastard boy. After all, they also came here at this age.

Moreover, the others aside, it is his family...... I don't have to say that Uncle Guandi and his aunt are people, it's that layer...... Huang Hongying didn't want anyone in her family to get involved.

Chen Zixi listened to his mother say that he was going to leave Xiushui County, leave Xiaoli, and leave Shangyun tomorrow, and his expression was a little complicated for a while.

Some anticipation, some disappointment.

It's not that she hasn't been to Linzhou, last year, the summer vacation and winter vacation of the year before last, and her grandparents have been to Linzhou to live, and the feeling of the city and township is completely different. Although it was a little uncomfortable to start to go to their new home or uncle's house, young people adapted quickly.

Linzhou's new home is very good, after all, it is in the city, at this time, many people go out and still have a lot of yearnings, but in the same way, she is also very reluctant to be here.

Country roads, rape flowers in spring, red rhododendrons in Qingming season, catching fireflies, fishing frogs, picking plates, burning reeds, and wandering barefoot on the river beach full of pebbles...... There are also friends who grew up together......

Thinking about it, Chen Zixi was suddenly a little stunned, a teenager of this age may not have too many emotions, but girls are somewhat sentimental.

"Mom, I'll go out for a while." Chen Zixi suddenly shouted at his mother who was in the room, turned his head and ran out directly.

"When you come back, it's still very hot outside......

"The sun is about to set, it's okay......"

When the voice came back again, the man was already outside the door.

……

Sunset.

On the long country road, Ye Qin was wearing a short shirt stained with a lot of mud and carrying a plastic bucket all the way back.

The sun that had fallen to the col did not see the heat of the day, and it was as warm as a spring breeze, sprinkled on his dark face, like a martial artist with a layer of heavy makeup in a big opera.

This is the third day since he came back from the town, Ye Qin has no time to feel sorry for himself, life is like this, no matter how difficult it is ahead, as long as you are on the road, you have to move forward.

Now there is almost a month before the start of school in September, regardless of the tuition and living expenses at that time, how to live a normal life, just work hard, find more things to do, just can't be idle.

Yesterday, he heard that the brick factory in the next village was recruiting people recently, and wondered if he should go over to see if there should be too many people who were really willing to work on this hot day.

"Yechin, Yechin...... What did you catch today? The voice of the silver bell came again in the distance.

Ye Qin raised the plastic bucket in his hand and shook it slightly in the direction where the voice came from, and his swarthy face in the sun showed a mouthful of white teeth, as if he was showing off his harvest today.

"Wow, there's loaches, and yellow eels."

As soon as the girl ran over, she came to Ye Qin's bucket, her eyes were wide open, she didn't dislike the muddy water at all, and her fingers touched it gently.

"Don't touch it, it's covered in mud." Ye Qin patted Chen Zixi's arm lightly and put the bucket on the ground, "I'll fill some for you later, you go back and float water overnight, and tomorrow you can ask your grandmother to make you a loach pot." ”

Xiushui County's special dish loach pot, almost every household will be, the method is simple, the taste is excellent, in the summer, but whenever there is time, the canal pond field Ye Qin is almost empty-handed.

Chen Zixi gently shook the water from his fingertips, as if he was a little moved, and then shook his head again, and seemed to be silent for a moment before he spoke: "Ye Qin, I'm going to Linzhou." ”

Chen Zixi's mood was slightly low, she wanted to talk about it a few days ago, but she kept dragging it out and didn't speak, now she has to leave tomorrow, and it will be too late if she doesn't say it.

"It's good to go to Lin'an, I haven't been out of Xiushui yet. When you go to Lin'an, remember to take more beautiful photos and come back. Well...... Just like the ones you took last year. ”

Ye Qin smiled, he still remembered the photos that Chen Zixi showed him when he came back from Linzhou last summer, all kinds of beautiful scenery and high-rise buildings with bright and clean windows, which were some of the pictures he had only seen on the black and white TV at home.

In the buildings and landscapes of various backgrounds, teenage girls already have some smiling and dancing like flowers.

"No......" The girl shook her head slightly, "I'm going to transfer to Linzhou to study." ”

"Transfer?!"

Ye Qin was stunned for a moment, and then laughed, revealing a mouthful of white teeth under his dark face, "That's good, I remember you seem to have told me, didn't you?" ”

Ye Qin smiled and didn't wait for Chen Zixi to answer, and continued, "The school in Linzhou is definitely better than ours, it's a big city, when you come back for the New Year, you can tell me what is interesting in Linzhou." ”

"Hmm!" Chen Zixi made a nasal voice lightly and nodded seriously. Looking at Ye Qin's smiling face, her eyes flickered a little, this time she went to Linzhou, in fact, she didn't know if she would return to her hometown in the future.

Probably yes!

"And when are you leaving tomorrow?"

It seemed that they were silent for a while before Ye Qin suddenly spoke.

"In the morning, when my dad finishes handling things in the county, he will come to pick me up and my mom." The girl lowered her head and looked at the white sandals at her feet.

"Okay, got it!"

Ye Qin smiled and picked up the bucket on the ground, "It's time for dinner, let's go back!" ”

"Hmm!"

The girl nodded slightly, silently followed behind the boy, and suddenly jumped up again.

"Ye Qin, let me tell you, Bai Suzhen is not locked up in Leifeng Tower at all, and it doesn't look good when you go to see it!"

"It's a TV series."

"I also went to see West Lake...... It doesn't seem to be good-looking, but the vinegar fish in West Lake is very delicious. ”

"Sweet and sour fish, I don't like sweet, I don't know ...... you see sweet and sour pork ribs"

"That'...... There are also called flower chicken and Dongpo meat. ”

"Then you remember to find the recipe, come back and make it myself, I am so good at it!"

"Hmph, bragging!"

"Wow, you haven't eaten yet...... By the way, you remember to help me see the broken bridge. ”

"What's so nice about that!"

"The broken bridge meets, the broken bridge is remnant...... I don't know what it's like! ”

"Okay, my uncle has a video camera, I'll show you when the time comes...... And Qiantang tide, oops, I should be able to catch up with ......"

"Then don't fall down, there's a shark ......"

"Hee-hee...... Are you stupid......"

The sun had already set over the col, and the afterglow rendered the western sky, the clouds steaming and blue, red and bright like fire. Occasionally, the evening breeze blows, and the vast expanses of verdant rice paddies rise and fall, forming green waves.

The boy walked ahead, worried about his unclear future, and echoed the girl's chatter.

The girl walked behind, her eyes mixed with light and dark, and she smiled.