In the early morning, everything is silent.

Tick Tick! Tick Tick!

An electronic synthesis sound like the name of a cricket on a summer day sounded in the room.

Ye Qin poked his head out of the bed and reached for the electronic watch on the bedside table that sounded the alarm clock. The eyes haven't opened yet, and the head is a little confused, but the fingers have completely subconsciously stopped the ticking of the electronic watch, casually tied the electronic watch to the wrist, lifted the quilt and got up.

There was no heated fire pit in the southern room, and the winter morning was still very cold, Ye Qin was stabbed by the cold after lifting the quilt, and the person seemed to be a little more energetic, and hurriedly put his clothes and shoes on his body.

After getting dressed, Ye Qin looked at the sky outside the window. The alarm clock is set at 6 o'clock in the morning, and it is already bright at this time of summer, and it is almost time for sunrise. But in winter, it is still gray outside, and only the outline of the woody trees in the nearby yard can be seen.

When I opened the door of the room, I faintly heard the sound of squirming in the room of my grandparents next door. The old man woke up early, but it was still dark and he hadn't gotten up yet. Ye Chin did not bother them, but crept out of the house.

When I went out and went out on the path, the morning chill was a little deeper than at home. Under the dark sky, the white air that Ye Qin breathed lightly was also faintly visible.

Rubbing his hands slightly, twisting his waist from side to side, and shaking his wrists and ankles on the spot, Ye Qin began to jog along the path.

The cold wind was bitter, and there was a kind of scratching pain on the face and hair, and the back of the hand after being clenched into a fist seemed to have a layer of frost on it, and with every breath, the white rain and mist drifted in the wind and slowly dispersed.

It seems that because of the sound of footsteps, occasionally when passing the path outside the door of some people's houses, a few dog barks will suddenly sound, and it will spread far in the dark sky of the early morning.

Ye Qin jogged along the path all the way, his body was still a little stiff at the beginning of a few hundred meters, his hands and face were very cold, and he gradually ran for a while, his blood and qi were running, and his body was also warm.

The trail was still very muddy for a few days after returning home, but fortunately, the weather began to clear again before Chinese New Year's Eve, and although there was occasionally some moisture on the road, it was not always full of mud under one foot. On some sections, red scraps of paper are scattered everywhere, which is the remnants of many families after setting off firecrackers on Chinese New Year's Eve and the first month, and the picture is red and festive, and it will not be cleaned until the fifteenth day of the first month.

Ye Qin is also quite busy in the past few days of winter vacation, time is filled, cleaning before Chinese New Year's Eve, making Chinese New Year's Eve dinner for the family, greeting his aunt in the first month, helping grandparents entertain some guests who come to the house, but no matter how busy, there is always time to get up in the morning to run, and there is always time to read books in the evening.

Yan Ning didn't explain how Ye Qin was going to train when he went home for the Spring Festival, it didn't take long, only ten days, but recently Ye Qin had adapted to the rhythm of training, and he felt a little uncomfortable if he didn't run. Although he doesn't know much about professional terms such as proper training to keep the body in shape, he also understands the principle of practicing one day, practicing one day, and not practicing ten days of emptiness.

Ye Qin started running from his home, all the way along the path of Shangyun Village, through the streets and alleys, and then into the path of the rice fields far from the village. Shangyun Village is not big, but the buildings in the village are quite scattered, and they all live according to the area divided by the previous production team.

Ye Qin jogged all the way, and occasionally encountered a suitable section of the road will suddenly accelerate, and do some speed sprint exercises on some uphill sections.

Among the many sports, the basic training of track events has always been the simplest, and with the help of advanced equipment, targeted exercises can be used to improve the subtle parts of the hip extensor and hip flexor muscles, which are important for running ability. There are no conditions, slope sprints, frog jumps, standing long jumps, single leg jumps, hip swings, kicks, planks, sit-ups and so on have their own training effects. The rise of many talented athletes in the small Caribbean countries has not necessarily been as good as their teenage years.

After running around the various paths of Shangyun Village for thirty or forty minutes, the lights in some houses have been turned off, and the gray sky is much brighter, and occasionally there are early pedestrians on the road, looking at Ye Qin to say hello, watching him run on this cold day with a look of surprise.

Ye Qin's footsteps gradually stopped, and he began to walk slowly at the intersection a few hundred meters away from home, calming his breathing. The cold wind in the morning struck his muscles and bones, but his body was completely warm, and he didn't feel cold at all, and the cold wind blew on his face, and he only felt comfortable and happy.

By the time Ye Chin got home, his grandparents had already gotten up, his grandfather was picking up some miscellaneous items, and his grandmother was cooking in the kitchen. Ye Qin first helped his grandfather to do it, and then went to the kitchen to squat under the stove to light the fire for his grandmother.

There are not many tricks in breakfast, and three meals a day are a specialty. Stir-fry a few dishes with boiled rice, there is also rice soup, but there is no porridge, that thing is not hungry, and it is generally too hot to eat in summer before it will be cooked in the morning and evening.

The dish is stewed carrot slices with pork belly, a plate of scrambled eggs, half a salted fish and a plate of sauerkraut, plus condiments such as fermented bean curd and tempeh. The meat and fish were bought by my uncle, and I didn't finish eating them for the New Year, and my grandparents knew that he was going back to school today, so they took them out and made dishes.

"Eat more, you've lost a lot of weight in high school for half a semester." Grandma Liu Lanzhi stopped her chopsticks after eating half a bowl of rice, looked at Ye Qin and said softly.

"Uh-huh." Ye Qin pulled the food in the bowl and snorted twice indistinctly. After running for a while in the morning, he did feel hungry by now.

"Ye Qin, I don't dare to save food, I don't need to buy other clothes and shoes, I must be full of food." Grandpa Ye Guandi had already finished eating, smoking dry cigarettes on the small bench outside the kitchen door, and when he heard the words inside, he immediately followed the instructions with a serious voice.

"Got it, grandpa." After eating a bowl of rice, Ye Qin got up and filled another bowl and replied to the door.

"It's good to know. This person relies on eating, your uncle used to be able to eat more than you at your age, three meals a day and two catties of rice, and he still had nothing in his stomach. ”

Ye Guandi smashed his mouth and took a sip of dry tobacco, Ye Qin didn't dare to say that he practiced sports, and he didn't know the situation, but Ye Qin loved to run and jump since he was a child, and he studied hard, and he lost a lot of weight after he came back, and he still saw it in his eyes. After saying this, Ye Guandi thought about it, and then turned his head and shouted into the kitchen: "Laneige, help kill the rooster that hasn't started to crow at night, and make up for Ye Qin's body." ”

"Grandpa, don't worry, I'm in good health." When Ye Qin heard this, he hurriedly stopped him.

"Eat your meal." Liu Lanzhi glared at Ye Qin, and shouted outside the door again, "If you want to talk more, I am going to kill tomorrow, my grandson I don't know, you want to kill you today and you will boil water that night." ”

One morning, Ye Qin ate five bowls of rice in a row under his grandmother's gaze before putting down the bowl, he used to have a large amount of food, and he came to practice physical training in the past six months, and the amount of food was even better. Although he was strapped for money and had little living money, in this era, he had his own land, and Ye Qin would not go hungry no matter how much he could eat.

Time passed unconsciously.

During the Spring Festival of 2003, Ye Qin only felt that the time for the family to reunite was very short. On the fifth day of the first month, Uncle Ye Mingcheng left home to go out to work with his companions, and on the tenth day of the first month, Ye Qin was ready to go back to school.

Before leaving, the uncle secretly stuffed him with 2,500 yuan, saying that no matter whether his tuition fee was reduced or not, he would keep it, and when it was his living expenses, he would send it to him if he needed it later. Counting this money, plus the tuition fees and part of the living expenses for the first year of high school last year, as well as some New Year's goods and living expenses for his grandparents, Ye Qin knew that this was almost all the savings of his uncle, and it was not an exaggeration to say that he was saving his own wife.

Before going to high school last year, neither he nor his grandparents didn't want his uncle to pay at first, and people in their early thirties had to think about saving money to get married and start a family or something, but then there was no way for grandpa to call his uncle, and when he found out, he immediately called home, and then made up with a few other aunts.

Holding the more than 2,000 yuan given by his uncle in his hand again, Ye Qin only felt heavy.