Chapter 72: The Journey Home (1)
A few hours before setting off for the countryside for the New Year, Hua Lin repeated an action in her small room:
She picked up the repeater and what was hidden under the repeater, put it down again, picked it up, put it down again, looked outside the house with her little eyes, looked inside, hesitated, obviously sneaky.
That thing was left to Cen Lin after the New Year's Day party. E's tape.
Thanks to her boldness, the scar forgot the pain.
Zhang Xin's new album was blamed at home back then, and she didn't remember it.
It's just that after singing, Yang Yi and a few female classmates coaxed her to say that she sang very well, and wanted to listen to her sing more songs in the future, and then Cen Lin pushed the favor and said that she wanted to lend her the tape, but she didn't stand too firm in her position, and half pushed back and half accepted it on the spot.
How could she forget that before high school, she was also a literary star of the school.
can confidently stand on the real municipal stage, represent their school, in the spotlight, and the children of the other two teachers, perform a "trio", or sing a song about Hong Kong's return to the motherland, and have the peak moment that has been broadcast by local TV stations.
She has lost her pride after being silent for a long time, and being "touted" again, even if it is just a polite word, is enough to intoxicate her.
The mother who was busy collecting things passed by her, and Hua Lone's reaction was too slow, and her mother found out about it before she had time to hide it.
Yuan Pingqing didn't forget the tragic scene before, she pretended to be angry and said, "How dare you take this back?" β
Hua Lonely hung her head and didn't make a sound.
Fortunately, she is not as stubborn and pedantic as Hua Pingjin, Yuan Pingqing occasionally has an enlightened side, more or less, thinking of the debt to her daughter, thinking of the ease that the holiday should have, and thinking of the peace and auspiciousness that should be there during the Spring Festival, her tone softened a lot:
"Okay, it's a few hours along the way, so you can listen to it and pass the time, you have a good time on the road."
After receiving such an amnesty, Hua Lin was very happy and happily packed her things.
And at this time, who is the most inkblot in their family can be seen.
Hua Lin and her mother have packed all their backpacks, and Hua Li's father doesn't know what he's busy with.
When it was time to set off, Hua Lone's father asked their mother and daughter to wait in the garage first, and he wanted to "buy something".
Hua Lin knew that his father was going to "buy bread".
It seems strange, it is impossible for her family to take the initiative to buy cakes and bread all year round, and Hua Pingjin is willing to spend this money.
But Hua Lin and Yuan Pingqing were not surprised.
Hua Pingjin is a person who is 100% filial piety, which is not an exaggeration.
Although the family is very poor, when they are short of money and want to borrow money, they refuse to ask their grandparents a point, and always position themselves as "daughters" who "pass" out and "spill out of the water".
However, as long as he had a trip back to the countryside, he remembered that his grandmother liked to eat soft bread and cakes, and his grandfather liked to eat peach cakes, so he must buy some.
After being laid off, Hua Pingjin, who had never bought snacks for Hua Lone, could only pull out every penny from places like tightening his belt and between his teeth to prepare things to go back to the countryside to honor his parents.
Hua Lin also knew that as long as his father went to the supermarket, he needed at least twice as much time as others.
He is shy in his pocket, and he is very calculating.
In this process, he will repeatedly compare the unit price of different brands, the place of origin, the production date, and how much one catty or two catties are approximately, and repeatedly confirm whether the weighing is according to the wrong unit price.
Every time you buy one, you think about it carefully, and time passes because of it.
After a long time, I finally saw my father's big bag and small bag brought back, it seemed that it was still very rich, Hua Lin looked at the plastic bag and swallowed some saliva, fantasizing about whether his grandfather's house would have a chance to eat a little.
"What did you buy?" Yuan Pingqing asked, which seemed to have exceeded her expectations.
Hua Pingjin put his things in the back of the pickup truck, climbed into the cab, and replied: "It's all my mother's favorite food in the house, and I bought everything." β
"Let's go, then."
"There's also a detour to pick up people."
"Who?" Yuan Pingqing was slightly displeased, why didn't she say it before.
Hua Lin also looked at her father, not knowing who else was going to squeeze this small truck with their family.
"Little taro."
Little taro is the nickname of Hua Lone's younger brother, and there is a word "reputation" in the name, which is homophonic to Little Taro, which is 4 years younger than Hua Lone.
Is it a cousin? Hua Lin doesn't understand this ethical relationship very well.
Grandpa Hua Lin has a younger brother, the second grandfather of Hua Lone, the second grandfather depends on his brother to help him study, and even the work after graduation is to use his connections, the second grandfather was transferred to the city, and chose a good job, at that time, the construction of the railway, engaged in railway-related matters, and later all kinds of obedience adjustments, and finally entered the Water Conservancy Bureau, until the grandfather himself drove high and low, and the second grandfather was relatively stable.
The second grandfather married a wife and had children, all in the city, gave birth to three brothers and two sisters, and left a daughter to marry and recruit a son-in-law to live in the countryside.
This daughter, Aunt Hua Lone, is Xiao Tao's mother.
Xiao Taro stayed in the city to study and study, and only returned to the countryside during the Chinese New Year.
Hua Lin and this younger brother usually don't have much contact, basically the second grandfather's house doesn't go to visit much, very rusty, except for Hua Pingjin and they have back-to-back contacts, they have never moved.
Yuan Pingqing was even more unhappy with them, starting with buying a small truck.
However, there is little stake between the children.
Little taro's "sister, sister" shouted flower loneliness, and there was no hypocrisy.
In childhood, in the short time in the countryside, they were sisters and brothers, up the mountain and down the water, inseparable, after eating, the little taro would appear in front of Hua Lone's eyes on time.
The sons of the second grandfather's family also have a time to go back to the countryside, so it is normal for Xiao Taro to go with them in a car.
This time, it is estimated that the little taro did not catch up.
Hearing that it was a little taro, Yuan Pingqing's hostility was a little less.
She really hates the Hua family very much, to be precise, this second grandfather's family, shirked before borrowing money, and after borrowing a little bit, she used the car unconditionally whenever there was a stir.
It's just that Xiao Taro is a child, and he goes back to the countryside together, and the road is more lively, so he doesn't care.
On the surface, she was still unhappy, because she knew that this was another private phone call to Hua Pingjin, so they didn't know how much behind their backs, Yuan Pingqing thought that they were deliberately stepping on her face.
Knowing the mother is Mo Ruonu, Hua Lin knows it in her heart.
When he arrived at the second grandfather's house, Yuan Pingqing didn't get out of the car, just symbolically said hello.
It's not like picking up the little taro and going straight away.
The second grandmother commanded her children to desperately load things into the back of Hua Lone's father's minivan, and they didn't know what to load, and they banged and threw so that the car vibrate.
Yuan Pingqing snorted coldly in the car, as if complaining to Hua Lone, "Everything is used, it is simply to load the goods, and pulling people is all incidental." β
Hua Lonely thought so.
It's almost over, Hua Lone's father got in the car, Xiao Taro said goodbye to the elders under the car, Yuan Pingqing asked, "What are they?" β
"The old bedboard, they dismantled a bed, a sofa, and sent it to my sister-in-law's house. My aunt and uncle got new furniture. β
"Hmph. Go round the sun to meet the moon. β
Hua Lin knew what her mother meant.
"What do we want this bed for?" Hua Pingjin also heard it.
"Laughing to death, if you really want you to have faith that people will give it to you?"
"I don't want it."
β Smack, little taro opens the car door.
Hua Pingjin's car is a double-row pickup truck, and the second row is just a horizontal seat.
The little taro can only be squeezed in the back.
After saying hello and saying goodbye one by one, I was ready to leave, and it was already half past twelve.
At the moment when the car started, the second grandmother suddenly shouted into the car in the middle of the family: "Pingjin, stay and eat lunch before leaving?" β
The horn of the car was mixed with the "No, no, no." β
Hua Lin couldn't hide the disgust in her heart, how to blame her mother for having opinions about them.
At this moment, he left for lunch, and he really couldn't eat a mouthful of food from their relatives.
When the pickup truck drove out of their yard, Hua Lonely's homecoming journey officially began.
Leaving those faces, Yuan Pingqing's mood was a little better.
She turned her head and said, "Little Taro, you're growing taller again." β
At the beginning, Xiao Taro was very happy when he saw Hua Lonely, they were all only children, no intimate sisters and brothers.
And the little taro lives at his grandparents' house, which also has a sour taste under the fence for him.
He called his uncle's relatives, although they have children, and they are much closer to Hua Lin according to the relationship, but when there is a conflict, he is always the one who suffers, and he feels that his grandparents are partial to them.
It's just that they can always be coquettish to their parents in front of themselves, stimulating themselves again and again, and evoking their mother's plot.
He didn't understand why he was thrown in the city, it was just a good education, and adults didn't understand that "companionship is the most important education for growth".
For Xiao Taro, his happiest time is to go back to the countryside, and most of the situations in the countryside, such as the summer vacation and winter vacation in childhood, the most appearing is Sister Huahua, Sister Huahua is good-looking and cheerful, not squeamish, much better than those younger brothers and sisters at home who only know how to cry their noses to find their mother.
Therefore, when I see Sister Huahua, the little taro can be cooked by itself, and it is not informal.
Hearing Hua Lone's mother say that she had grown taller again, she generously said, "I like to play basketball, and I exercise every day." β
"To exercise well is to exercise more."
"But my grandmother said that she ran every day, and she was sweating."
"What a good thing to play, you ignore her."
Hua Lin thinks that her mother is really, but she has to oppose anyone who is a second grandmother.
"Little taro, I'm sorry, you can only squeeze inside."
"It's comfortable, I can still lie down." As he spoke, the little taro fell down, "Look at how comfortable it is to sleep." β
Hua Pingjin also smiled, and he reminded again: "Little taro, there are things I bought for my grandparents at your feet, you should be careful not to kick it." β
Little Taro hurriedly raised his feet and looked at it carefully.
Hua Lin glanced at it, "You're so tall, your legs can't be stretched out, bring things in front of me." β
The little taro hurried to do it, and Yuan Pingqing took it over and put it aside in front.
Along the way, Yuan Pingqing chatted with Xiao Taro more than Hua Lone, but in general, they were all clichΓ©s, and the left and right were just through Xiao Taro's mouth to understand the sophistication of the second grandmother's family.
Hua Lin wore headphones and looked out the window.
Scene after scene, the picture kept flashing back.
Hua Lin only felt that he was sitting in the car, passively moving forward.
The melody in her ears, the song superstar, remembered the face of Bai Xingyi that she didn't see, and wondered if he had ever looked at herself;
Thinking of Liang Che, who had spoken a few more words to himself, I don't know if he still thought that the anonymous letter was written by her, so what did it mean for him to still talk to him.
From the city, to the suburbs, from the buildings, to the fields, from the mountains and forests, to the lakes.
The scenery in front of you is varied.
The mood of Hua Lonely, under the dual stimulation of sight and hearing, is unpredictable.
Mom is eating melon seeds, this is her only hobby, and if she doesn't eat some melon seeds, she is also too sick to get sick.
The little taro lay down sideways, and sure enough, he quickly fell asleep.
Hua Lin looked at the steering wheel in her father's hand and had a very realistic feeling.
Everything about her, like the lives of a carload of people now, is currently in her father's hands, especially the position where the little taro is lying without a seat belt.
Her father is stable, and they are naturally smooth.
Despite all the resentment, hatred, and fear, Hua Lin still silently made a wish, she hoped that Hua Pingjin's driving career would be safe.
Why is it silent