Chapter 015: Really Home

It has been said that the luckiest thing in the world is not to meet, but to reunite. The person who said this must have had many unfinished obsessions after a certain encounter.

When I first went back to the old days, I had a lot of discomfort and some escape, but as time went by, I found that God still attached to me, and it gave me the possibility to correct my regrets.

The relationship with Xu Zhekai is like this, and the same is true with his parents.

After I left home, I became more and more aware of my parents' aging. When I was a child, my parents were gods in my heart, omnipotent, and although I knew that people would grow old, you would not be particularly aware that aging is something that does happen every minute.

It's okay to go home during the winter and summer vacations of college, but my parents were not too old at that time, and I was intoxicated with my youth, and I naively thought that everyone was in a thriving bloom like myself, and this illusion was like one day when you had a holiday to rest, you had the illusion that everyone was on vacation that day. In addition, young children pay too much attention to their own joys and sorrows, and spend more time on sorrows and sorrows than on their parents.

After going to work, my identity changed from a student to a teacher, and I had younger children around me, so I could really feel the passage of time from this reference. I paid more attention to the old state that my parents couldn't hide. Although my parents have always been in good health and look younger than their peers, when they reach a certain age, the sense of vicissitudes cannot be hidden.

My parents are also more and more dependent on me, but I still don't have more time to watch over them due to my busy work, after my parents moved to my city, this separation has improved, but in the end it is not as day and night as when I was a child, as an only child, I still feel guilty about my parents.

Now, I have the opportunity to go back to when my parents were still young, and I want to spend time with them.

After a night's journey, I woke up from a few dreams and swayed to the next morning, glanced at my watch, and there was still more than an hour before I arrived at the station.

There were several missed text messages on the phone, from Xu Zhekai, Dad, and Xiaoru.

Xiaoru naturally showed affection, saying that her mother liked Jiang An very much, as if they were the mother and son, and she picked it up. I replied to her, "If you do it again, you will break up." She didn't dare to reply, haha! I can't cure you, little one.

Xu Zhekai reminded me to check my luggage and pay attention to safety before getting off the bus, and said that I missed it as soon as I left. I replied to him, "The winter vacation is long, and there is a chance to miss it, not bad for this night." "I can imagine him on the other end of the phone trying to tickle me with hatred.

My dad told me that he would leave home in a while and wait for me at the exit.

After washing up and packing my luggage, I sat on the bunk and waited for the bus to arrive. The others also got up one after another, and the bustle of the car last night was restored.

At some point, the girl on the opposite side began to hide in the boy's arms and wipe her tears. Needless to say, one of them must be getting off the bus, and the little couple in love really can't stand the slightest difference.

I used to cry because of the separation, but now my real age has made me quit the habit. I don't know when I started to see the separation of people as the norm, and getting together is even more rare.

"Passengers, arriving at Harbin Station ahead, please prepare to get off the train......

Finally, the arrival prompt came on the train radio, and I was finally going home.

Zipping up my down jacket and wrapping myself tightly in my scarf, gloves and hat, I carried my backpack and pushed my trolley suitcase to the door of the carriage. Only then did I know that the boy in the couple in the opposite bunk was about to get out of the car, the girl sat in place and wiped her tears, and the boy turned back three times in one step, which was really a very Qiong Yao drama.

The moment I stepped out of the car, the cold air-conditioning pavement from the north hit. I haven't been back for a long time, the cold in Harbin is completely different from Beijing, the cold in Beijing is a little hesitant, and occasionally there is some warmth like I'm embarrassed to be too cold, the cold in Harbin is direct, pure, and the cold face is relentless.

I wrapped my scarf a little tighter and walked towards the exit. Smelling the unique cold smell in the air and listening to the noisy and crisp Northeast dialect in my ears, I felt that I was really back.

Out of the exit of the station, many taxi drivers were picking up work, one by one: "Old girl, can you take a taxi?" "Old girl, where are you going?" The full Northeast accent makes me feel more intimate.

I looked around expectantly and apprehensively, what my ten-year-old dad would look like.

I was looking around when someone walked up behind me and pulled my suitcase, and I hurriedly looked back and was stunned.

It's Dad!

If I hadn't seen the man in front of me, I wouldn't have remembered what my dad looked like ten years ago. It's just imagining it in my youth as I imagined it in my mind when I traveled through the time and space before, but there was no specific reference.

When I saw my father in front of me, I suddenly felt very sad, because, seeing his state ten years ago, I realized more clearly that my parents had indeed aged in the past ten years, which was a change like a late passage of time, which was really cruel.

"Haha! Baby girl, you don't know your dad after half a year? Dad looked at me in a daze and asked with a laugh.

"yes, I don't know, I thought it was my brother!" I responded exaggeratedly, trying to make my tone as light-hearted as possible.

"The little mouth is still so sweet! It's really my daughter! "Dad, Meizizi, laughing, dragged his luggage, and walked towards the parking lot with my shoulders. If memory serves, there should have been the first car my family bought that year, the Roewe 750, parked there.

Sure enough, my memory is pretty good. Dad put the luggage in the trunk and I sat in the passenger seat. When I got in the car, I almost got to the driver's side. It's really kind, I used my father's car to practice when I first learned to drive, and it's also an old thing with feelings.

The train station is about half an hour's drive from my house, and along the way, my dad asked me about my final exams, roommates, my usual schedule, etc., and I looked at his side face, and I was in a trance.

In another time and space, the last time we saw each other, it should be me driving him to the airport, and he was going to fly to Changsha to attend the wedding of an old classmate's son. That son also studied in Beijing, and my father's old classmate once wanted me to develop with his son, but it was not the type that we liked each other, and at that time, I already had Xu Zhekai, but I didn't tell them.

I looked at my dad in front of me and compared his face with what I remembered, and he was indeed much younger. Needless to say, the state of the skin is still very different between the middle-aged and the elderly.

While chatting, I looked out the car window at the city, which didn't seem to have changed much over the years, and compared to ten years later, there seemed to be fewer tall residential buildings, and the city streets were much emptyer.

As we got closer to home, the scenery in front of us became more familiar, and we passed by my elementary, junior and senior high schools along the way, and I looked at the flashing school gates, the flashing fences, and my nose was sour. In front of my eyes, there seemed to be a figure of a little girl with a ponytail and a sportswear, running on the road with a schoolbag on her back, running from elementary school to junior high school and flashing into the high school campus, the figure became taller and thinner little by little, and finally became me in the car. Time has always been gentle on these buildings, and even if it also urges them to age, it is much slower than urging people to grow old.

From elementary school to high school graduation, more than a dozen winter and summer vacations have completed my growth and transformation. After becoming a teacher, I felt more deeply the passage of time, the class bell alternated between the class bell and the class bell, and the time slipped away, and I was caught off guard and could not be prevented.

I was feeling sad when my phone rang, and I glanced at the screen, which showed "Little Poplar". I glanced at my dad, hesitated, and picked up the phone.

I told Xu Zhekai before that my father would come to the station to pick me up, so his voice on the phone was very low, and his tone was more serious, mainly asking me what time I arrived at the station, whether I was tired or not. Listening to his old cadre's report-like tone, I held back a smile and wanted to scold him, but because my father was by his side, it was not easy to have a seizure, so I hung up the phone in a hurry.

Dad asked casually, "Classmates?" ”

"Yes. The debate team asked me if I was home. I replied half-truthfully.

Dad didn't ask anything else.

After the last light post, I turned a corner, and the family building that witnessed my growing years, carried the happy life of the whole family, and appeared in my memories countless times finally appeared in front of me.

Dad parked the car in the parking space on the side of the building, took out the luggage in the trunk, locked the car, and walked with me towards the unit door.

As soon as I arrived at the door of the unit, a pair of mother-and-child figures walked out of front of me. The aunt greeted her father, "Lao Shen is back?" As he was talking, he saw me behind my father again, and his voice immediately raised excitedly: "Yo! Is it a holiday? Ah! Going to college in a big city is different, it's beautiful! ”

I looked at the woman in front of me, and then at the tall and thin boy next to her, and suddenly remembered that this was my old neighbor Aunt Hu and his son Sun Hechen for more than ten years! It's the Sun Hechen who can't go home and play around every day! If I am a sophomore now, then Sun Hechen is two years younger than me, and he should be a senior in high school at this time.

"Hello Aunt Hu!" I hurriedly called someone, but I was afraid that I would recognize the wrong person, but fortunately I didn't remember it wrong.

"Sister Yiyi, are you back? I'll come back to you when I make up for it! Sun Hechen was also quite happy to greet me on the side. I remember that after I went to high school, Sun Hechen's studies got better and better, and he always went to my house to ask me English questions, and his personality was much calmer than when he was a child.

"Okay, I'm here for you!" I readily agreed.

After a few words of greeting, Aunt Hu continued to send Sun Hechen to the make-up class. My dad and I walked up the stairs.

While panting, I climbed the stairs, and finally came to the top floor, room 602, my home, ten years of time and space travel, and I finally stood in front of the familiar and unfamiliar home again.