Chapter 43 Hometown Cowardice
The next day, Meng Shu opened his eyes, just in time for Yi Zhan's bright eyes. There seems to be the sun, moon and stars in these eyes, which will always guard her.
She didn't know how long Yi Zhan had been staring at her, so she had to say good morning first, "Morning." ”
"Early."
There was still some milk in his voice, and he shouldn't have been awake for long.
"What do you want for breakfast?"
Yi Zhan was interested, and his sleepiness suddenly disappeared by half.
In the past, he always thought that it was not cost-effective to wake up early for breakfast. It's very comfortable to be greedy in the bed for a while. As for breakfast, make do with it or combine it with Chinese food to make a medium breakfast.
And now, in order to be the first to see his girl every morning, accompany her to wash, run, make breakfast, eat breakfast, and send her to work. Waking up early has become a habit for him.
"Sesame soy milk, egg rice crackers, bean stewed noodles."
"Okay, I'll do it."
"I'll be with you." After Meng Shu got up, Yi Zhan also bounced up quickly.
"What about you," Meng Shu blinked, "pack your bags." ”
Yi Zhan scratched the back of his head and smiled.
"By the way, help me put a pair of sneakers and a few pairs of socks in my suitcase."
"Okay."
Twenty minutes later, looking at the several breakfasts on the table, Yi Zhan was in a good mood, and pulled out a chair for Mengshu in high spirits and invited her to sit down.
"You eat more, you'll be tired from driving later."
Meng Shu smiled and put a big chopstick in Yi Zhan's bowl to stew noodles.
"Thank you, girl." Yi Zhan looked at her with a grin.
After a full meal, Yi Zhan drove the car out of the community, and both of them were deeply shocked by the scene in front of them.
Overnight, bright five-star red flags were hung on the streets of Seoul, and the faces of pedestrians were full of happiness and pride. This city is celebrating the birthday of the motherland with its greatest enthusiasm and love.
The wordless emotion and pride were magnified in his heart, and Meng Shu had an impulse to burst into tears, and said silently in his heart: Motherland, happy 70th birthday!
After passing through Changwu District and getting on the highway, Yi Zhan stopped chatting with Mengshu and drove seriously. Seeing Yi Zhan staring intently ahead and operating the steering wheel, the churning in Mengshu's stomach was no longer so violent.
For her, who has motion sickness, she only does one thing for a long time in the car, sleeping. After slowly closing her eyes, the past and old people also surfaced in her mind one by one.
Although her childhood was somewhat lonely, it was generally beautiful and happy. She has flown kites in the fields in the spring, heard cicadas chirping under the plane trees in the summer, sang to the river on a bridge in the fall, and built a snowman in her yard in the winter.
She met Yi Zhan in her youth, although she was accompanied by more endless test papers and reference books, but she also used the first ordinary secret in her life, that is, liking.
If life is only as first seen, if there is no eight-year separation between her and Yi Zhan, and they tell each other the secrets of their hearts after the college entrance examination, then how perfect the love between them should be!
She was born and raised in Lan County, and her father and mother were also born and raised in Lan County, but in the end, the family had to choose to leave. If it weren't for Yi Zhan and Su Bai Ningchuan, she might never have mustered the courage to return to Lan County.
"Girl, we're here."
Yi Zhan's voice of reminder came, Meng Shu immediately opened her eyes, and the two words on the right stop board, Lan County, suddenly caught her eye.
"Still not feeling well?"
Yi Zhan blamed himself a little, he thought that after Mengshu got his driver's license, his motion sickness would be alleviated a lot. However, he didn't take into account that although she got her driver's license, she rarely drove by herself, and she would still feel uncomfortable for such a long ride.
Hearing the distress in Yi Zhan's tone, Meng Shu wanted to pretend to be calm and not let him worry, but because the physiological reaction was so strong, it was difficult for her to squeeze out a smile that was hidden from the world, so she had to nod slightly.
"Then I'll open the window a little bit."
Thanks to the convection of the air, Mengshu finally breathed the first breath of air from his homeland. She declared to herself in her heart: Lan County, I'm back.
The car gradually drove into the downtown area, and the familiar local sound came from time to time in his ears, and Mengshu also wanted to say a few words to try.
"Ah Zhan, can we pass through Lanxian No. 1 Middle School? I'd like to take a look. ”
"No problem. Girl, you speak very slippery words in Lanxian County. Yi Zhan also responded to her with a smile and in Lanxian dialect.
Ten minutes later, the car drove to the gate of Lanxian No. 1 Middle School, and Yi Zhan specially slowed down. Meng Shu looked out of the window from afar, and it was really the same as it was back then. The teaching building is majestic, the playground is flat and wide, and the camphor trees are shady.
A few years ago, I went back to No. 1 Middle School to give a report, and the school installed high-power air conditioning in every classroom. And back then, how could we be a hot word? ”
Meng Shu was amused by Yi Zhan's exaggerated tone, and she couldn't help but think of the summer vacation make-up class in her sophomore year of high school. At that time, the temperature in Lan County reached the highest peak in nearly a decade, and the wind blowing from the electric fan was hot.
She sat by the window, and because she often wore short sleeves, her arms were as black as coal and the other as white. For a girl, this is not a good thing. And Yi Zhan, this guy, just wants to make fun of her about this.
During the lunch break, most of the students slept comfortably due to the hot weather and sweating. She was sleeping lightly and had to work on questions during the other people's lunch breaks. With the corner of his eye, he watched Yi Zhan fall asleep and be woken up by heat, and then continued to sleep after waking up, so repeatedly, it was not a bad taste.
"Do you regret that you didn't give birth a few years later?"
The red light in front of him turned on, and after Yi Zhan slowly stepped on the brakes, he gently scraped the tip of Meng Shu's nose, "No, if I was born a few years later, how could I have the opportunity to take you to meet my grandparents today?" ”
Meng Shu tilted her head and leaned out of the window, wanting the autumn wind to take away her red face and red ears.
"Is the road ahead repaired?"
Mengshu remembers that in front of Lanxian No. 1 Middle School is an industrial area, and the road surface is in extremely poor condition, and there are large and small potholes everywhere. Every time a taxi passed by, the driver charged her five dollars more.
"A few years ago, my second uncle paid for it, and my uncle invited a professional construction team from the city, which really made the road there look new. However, as you know, the concrete plant is right on the side of the road. Cars loaded with concrete often drove in and out, and it wasn't long before the road turned into potholes again. I came home from the National Day last year and one of my tires blew out. ”
Meng Shu turned his head and said with a smile: "The pressure is equal to the support force, and the support force is equal to the gravity plus the mass multiplied by the square of the speed divided by the radius of the pit, the greater the speed of the car, the greater the support force on the tires, the easier it is to burst." We'll just drive it slower later. ”
"Actually, I did this question too, and I didn't pay much attention to it at the time. But seriously, girl, it's a shame you didn't become a physics teacher. After listening to Meng Shu's force analysis, Yi Zhan said with a smile.
Passing through a dusty industrial area and passing a lively town, the rice fields after the harvest began to enter Mengshu's field of vision, and the air he breathed also carried the smell of harvest.
"How's the family's harvest going this year?"
"It's good. Most of the rice fields in Yijia Village are close to the Zhanghe River, and the water sources are abundant, and the rice grows well. The corners of Yi Zhan's mouth rose slightly, "My family is not very good this year, and I have harvested about 1,800 catties of millet per acre and four cents of land." ”
"That is, one acre of land is a little less than 1,300 catties." After finishing the calculation, Meng Shu suddenly realized something, opened his mouth wide and said in shock, "So much! ”
She clearly remembered that when she was a child, if the grain yield per mu of any family in Xiahe Village reached more than 1,000 catties, they would take today's new rice to the land temple to worship the land lord.
"It's okay. I heard my grandfather say that in the past, people in Yijia Village planted two crops of rice. When the first crop of rice is harvested, it is necessary to immediately rush to plant the seedlings of the second crop. ”
"Double grab." Meng Shu also heard from the elders.
Yi Zhan nodded, "Although they have worked so hard from the beginning of the year to the end of the year, because the output is less than one-third of the current one, they can only fill their stomachs. ”
"So we have to thank one person."
"Grandpa Yuan."
The two looked at each other and smiled.
"How far is Yijia Village from here?"
"It's just five minutes to get there after this Yokoyama road. My grandparents like to live in the village, and my house is on the outskirts of the village. We'll go to my grandparents' house later, they've wanted to see you for a long time. ”
"How am I today?" When he said this, Meng Shu was already rubbing the corner of his clothes with his left hand.
"Beautiful."
"Seriously."
Yi Zhan smiled, "I didn't tell a lie!" ”
Meng Shu breathed a sigh of relief and silently tidied up his clothes. If you have already volunteered to get on the thief ship, why should you be weak-minded?
When the car drove to a herringbone intersection, a towering willow tree covered with moss came into Mengshu's eyes, and the wicker swayed in the wind, as if to welcome her arrival. Looking down, a huge stone is engraved with seven eye-catching characters: Zen Tourism Town, Yijia Village.
Yijia Village is as Yi Zhan said, making people feel at home. Probably because of the scenic area, the houses here look almost all carved out of a mold. The house is brick-red as a whole, and the roof is paved with old-fashioned tiles of teal. The pavement is clean, the solar street lamps are antique, and the chrysanthemums in the flower beds are gorgeous.
"Ah Zhan, even if it is for the purpose of building a scenic area, you can also lay the same tile on the outside of the house, right?" Meng Shu was a little worried, this wind and sun, it is difficult for a house without a protective layer outside to have a long life.
Yi Zhan laughed, "After our house here was built, the outside was tiled. A few years ago, in order to build the Sizu Scenic Area, the houses in Yijia Village were painted with red waterproof paint, black lines were pulled, and the roofs were also renovated. As a result, it becomes what you see now as if it has not been renovated. ”
Meng Shu smiled embarrassedly, "I see." ”
"Hey, standing under the big locust tree in front of you are grandparents and Sister Lanxi!"
"Ahh
The two old men went out to greet him in person, Meng Shu felt that this was really deserved, and his left hand involuntarily stretched out to the corner of his clothes.
As soon as her hand touched the corner of her clothes, Yi Zhan's right hand covered it, "Don't be afraid, I'm here?" ”
Meng Shu's heartstrings were suddenly touched. The night before the college entrance examination, Yi Zhan had said this to the seventeen-year-old her. Time passes, and now she is twenty-five years old, and when she hears this sentence again, she still has the same emotion as she was at the beginning.
Meng Shu nodded and said softly, "Okay." ”