When it was dark, Li Zhen was already sitting on the bus. From here to Binh Duong, it is said that it takes eight hours to travel on a high speed. However, the earthquake in the summer damaged the highway section, and long-distance buses had to detour. In this way, it will take twelve hours.

It was the first time he had been in a car for such a long time since he was born.

The ticket cost six yuan, and another dollar was spent on a boxed lunch on the long-distance train — some hard rice, served with fried bean sprouts, chili fried ham, and scrambled eggs. Although the taste was not good, Li Zhen almost shed tears after eating...... This is the first decent meal he has eaten in more than half a year.

The young man sitting next to him who seemed to be out to work was a little dazed when he looked at him gobbling up. Seeing that he licked every grain of rice left in the lunch box very carefully, he didn't know what to say. I've seen something that can be eaten—but I've never seen a box of lunch eaten in six bites.

He fiddled with his phone for a while, and couldn't help but look at Li Zhen's unkempt hair and abnormally delicate face, and guessed the details of this companion by the window.

Li Zhen noticed that someone was secretly looking at him, and turned his head to take a look. The person next to him didn't look much older than him - a Chinese face, a square chin, two thick eyebrows, and red cheeks, looking like a young man from the countryside, with a loyal face. He was about to smile at the other party and say hello when his stomach rumbled again.

Immediately blushed.

After two and a half years of studying biology in high school, he certainly knew that wound healing had to consume the energy stored in his body, so he became extremely edible. However, after returning to Pingyang, I don't know if Lu Dao can find a home, and there are still forty-three yuan left in his pocket......

He looked at the small food cart with a boxed lunch in front of the aisle, and resisted the urge to ask for another one.

The young man next to him saw his demeanor and movements. He pursed his lips and thought for a while, touched his pocket, and then shouted: "Eh, bring me two box lunches!" ”

After a while, the conductor, who was also a waiter, came over with a small cart and handed him two boxes with his hands and feet, and by the way, two pairs of chopsticks. The boy opened a box, broke open his chopsticks, and rested on the baffle in front of his seat and ate a few bites. Then he frowned: "Hmm...... Stomach pain. ”

After taking another bite, he put down his chopsticks with a sad face, put another box of lunch next to him, and pushed Li Zhen with his elbow: "Hey." ”

Li Zhen turned his head: "Huh? What's wrong? ”

"I have a stomach ache and bought too much." He pointed to his stomach, "You can help me eat a box, or it won't be wasted." I can't retreat. ”

After thinking about it, he added: "I can't eat it when it's cold." ”

Li Zhen looked at him in a daze, and his throat moved. In fact, when the boy opened the first box of lunch, the aroma attracted all his attention. It wasn't just hunger, it was the feeling of last winter's night — the urgency to "eat, eat, eat." He had to force himself to look out the window at the mountains to make his saliva less urgent.

Seeing the god on his face next to him - Li Zhen certainly knew that he was not really a "stomach ache".

For a moment, his eyes almost moistened. Whether it was the clothes on his body, the Jin Yuan in his pocket, or the young man in front of him, he felt the long-lost warmth.

But he still smiled reluctantly: "No, I'm not too hungry." ”

However, the young man couldn't help but put down the baffle in front of his seat for him, and put the unopened box on it: "Eat as much as you want, don't waste it." ”

Li Zhen shook his hand, and finally said "um" from his nose, and reluctantly said "Xie Lu, thank you", and opened the lunch box, covering his face with the lid of the box that stood up.

When the young man saw that he had finally eaten, he laughed in his heart and continued to eat his own food.

This time, Li Zhen ate very slowly—on the one hand, he wanted to taste this long-lost taste carefully, and on the other hand, because his throat was always choked, and he really couldn't eat so fast. It was only when the rice was at the bottom that he controlled his emotions, but he was no longer embarrassed to lick the rice grains clean.

When he looked up, he had already finished eating, was looking at him, and grinned: "It's not a waste now." Hey. ”

Li Zhen took a breath and smiled: "My name is Li Zhen, thank you." ”

"You're welcome, everyone has times of difficulty." The young man's words sounded quite old-fashioned, but his slightly immature face seemed a little out of tune with them. "My name is Qi Yuanshan."

"Hmm......" Li Zhen responded, but he didn't know what to say. I just ate a box of lunch...... You're embarrassed to turn your head again, right?

Fortunately, Qi Yuanshan asked again: "Where are you going?" Is the end of the sun? ”

"Well, I'm going to Binh Duong. What about you? ”

"I also went to Pingyang to find my aunt." Qi Yuanshan patted his leg, "I won't finish the college entrance examination, so I'll go to my aunt's barbecue restaurant to help." What about you? Are you going to work or what? ”

"I'm ......" Li Zhen opened his mouth and sighed slightly, "I...... Go find someone. He looked at Qi Yuanshan again, "If you can't find it...... I'll look for it while I work. ”

"Oh. Are you going to find your fellow countryman? Qi Yuanshan obviously regarded Li Zhen as a rural child like him, who came out of high school to find a job. After all, whether it is from Li Zhen's hairstyle or from the way he dresses, he doesn't look like a city person. "If you can't find it, come to my aunt, she's a young person, I'll tell you."

In the face of such enthusiasm, Li Zhen had no choice but to whisper. Qi Yuanshan only thought that he was embarrassed to beg someone, so he reported his mobile phone number again, asking Li Zhen to call him if he had something.

Li Zhen read the number after him, and then found that he had clearly written it down. It wasn't the usual, vague memory, but when he thought about the number, it seemed as if there were numbers clearly formed in his head—he even felt that he could see the faces of those numbers!

But such a small surprise did not make him lose his temper - when a man can be resurrected from the grave, there are very few things that can really surprise him.

For the next twelve hours of the journey, the two of them kept chatting with each other. But Li Zhen has his own thoughts, and his interest is not high. He only said to Qi Yuanshan that his hometown was a small village further north, and he lost his ID card on the way here. As for who he was looking for when he went to Pingyang, Yuanshan had already helped him fulfill his lie.

During the conversation, it was learned that Li Zhen was seven months younger than Qi Yuanshan, so Qi Yuanshan showed more and stronger sympathy for this younger brother who came from a more remote mountain village, whose family was unable to survive after the earthquake, and who was reluctant to even eat a full meal. This rustic rural teenager has already come to see him as his own brother - and even plans to get out of the car and accompany him to the public security bureau to reapply for an ID card first.

Of course, Li Zhen politely declined his kindness.

Leaning on the back of a chair and sleeping through a bumpy night, Binh Duong Bus Station arrived.

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