Chapter 45: See Bamboo Horse in My Hometown
"How do you ......"
"It's okay, I'll accompany you out of town!" Zhan Haoyang shouted in the cold wind, and when he turned an intersection, he had to drive into the non-motorized lane, side by side with the car Simeng was sitting on across the guardrail.
His nose was even redder, his cheeks were also red by the wind, Simeng was very distressed, he had a feeling that his heart was like a knife, and he shouted to him with a crying voice: "Don't send Haoyang, it's too cold, I'll be back in a few days, I swear I'll definitely come back!" ”
Zhan Haoyang looked at Simeng and ignored it, and continued to follow, through the crowd of traffic, as close to her as possible on the other side of the guardrail, Simeng kept lying on the window and looking at him, tears blurred her eyes, and the gaze he cast every time he confirmed that it was safe made her feel warm and regretful.
The car went out of the city, and Zhan Haoyang drove to Simeng's window, and the hot breath exhaled from his nose was clearly visible.
Simeng lowered the whole window, and the cold air poured straight into his chest, but he could not cool the boiling temperature inside, she hoped that at this time he could say that he would not let her go, then she would definitely stay, and get into his car and go back.
And after waiting for a long time, he just said, "Remember to message me." ”
"Hmm." She was a little disappointed.
"I'll wait for you!"
Zhan Haoyang's speed slowed down, and gradually stopped in place, Simeng leaned out of the window, kept looking back at him, and beckoned to him, but Zhan Haoyang stood in place and did not respond, his shadow became smaller and smaller until it disappeared.
A strong sour breath welled up in her nose, Simeng almost cried, she desperately wanted to leave here, but she didn't want to leave him, she really wanted to take him with her, the farther away from here, the better.
The father who drove the car was also full of emotion, and when he drove out of the community, he saw his daughter lying in front of the boy crying, and he stopped the car and watched them.
At that moment, he seemed to suddenly understand his daughter's words, because as a father, he had never been relied on by her like this, and he had never cried in front of him since she was sensible.
She never told him how much she had been wronged, maybe the boy understood his daughter's suffering better than him, seeing the boy's brows tightened and sad, he knew that he really liked his daughter, at least now, so at the moment of leaving, he said goodbye to his daughter in a silent and stubborn way, as a father, how could he have done this?
He remembered the first time father and daughter were separated, the little girl of more than five years old followed the car and cried for her father, and ran a long way before stopping, and since he had a new family, she had never been like that, just secretly hiding in one place to watch him, how could he ever give her a parting hug, and said to her: "If you want to be a father, just make a call." ”
It turns out that I have always been so incompetent!
Seeing his daughter crying and crying in the rearview mirror, the guilt and distress in his heart made him cry old tears.
There was a long silence in the car, and the father repeatedly looked at his daughter in the rearview mirror, and she had become expressionless looking out the window.
"Simeng." He finally spoke with difficulty, before things developed to the point of no return, he should apologize to her, "Today we did something wrong, you are right, we don't understand you too much." ”
"It doesn't matter anymore, there aren't many people who understand me!" Simeng's faint tone choked his father, she had always been polite and respectful to him, it was the first time that such an unceremonious tone was the case, this was the situation he was most worried about, as if she was dead to her father.
"I want to live outside next semester, can you rent me a house near the school?" She finally looked at her father.
"Rent a house?" Dad's heart thought that it was scratched by a thin piece of glass, and his daughter was really going to leave him and no longer give him a chance to make amends? "But how can you rest assured that a girl lives outside?"
"I've grown up, and I've been riding home alone from the county seat fifteen kilometers away since junior high school, so you don't have to worry."
Dad was choked again, his daughter has always grown up independently outside of her own care, since she was more than four years old, she has lived without her parents by her side, she can grow into such an ordinary girl, without too much rebellion, it is already thanks to her strong consciousness and independence, he really can't know how she has come over for more than ten years.
"The next semester will be very tight, and renting a place near the school will also make it easier for me to concentrate on my studies." Feeling his father's embarrassment, Simeng couldn't bear to add.
"Okay, I'll look for you when I get back." Dad agreed gloomily.
At three o'clock in the afternoon, I finally returned to the familiar village, looking out of the window with sadness and joy, every household was pasted with brand-new door flowers, and firecracker crumbs were scattered all over the yard or at the door, and the air was still filled with * smell.
Due to the cold weather, most of the people who celebrate the New Year are hiding at home playing cards and mahjong, and there are not many people on the streets.
Stopped in front of the courtyard of a big red iron gate, the door was not closed tightly, Simeng sorted out his thoughts, got out of the car and ran in and shouted loudly: "Boning, Zhang Boning, come out to meet the car!" ”
The sound of joy in the room can almost be called piercing the sky, and when Simeng shouted through his throat, someone opened the door and came out to see that it was a woman in her forties, who was Zhang Boning's mother, Aunt Qiang, who saw Simeng's eyes light up, and happily responded: "Mengmeng? Why are you back? ”
"During the winter vacation, I want to come back to see my grandma and mother." Simeng threw herself into Aunt Qiang's arms, she watched her grow up, and she used to have a good relationship with her mother, so she has always been very close to Simeng, "Aunt Qiang wants to kill you!" ”
"Why don't you die, say this unlucky thing during the New Year." Despite that, Aunt Qiang was still very happy to see Simeng's father come in and hurriedly introduced her into the house.
"Since your phone was cut off, Boning's dead boy cried and shouted all day to find Mengmeng, if it wasn't for the fact that he didn't know what to do, maybe he wouldn't have stayed at home this winter vacation, and now he is messing with his classmates in the house, I'll call him!"
"Don't, Aunt Qiang, I'll go over!" Simeng smiled playfully, and went over to open the door by herself, she was as familiar with the structure of this home as her own.
When I opened the door, the noise of the boys in the room immediately came to my ears, and a room full of seven or eight boys gathered around a table to play cards, and they were barely able to sit together in pairs.
A boy with a dark and slightly ruddy face, was rolling up his sleeves to show his strong muscles and shouting to throw the cards in his hand, but when he saw Simeng standing at the door, he immediately froze, and after a long time, Hula threw the cards in his hand, looking like he was going to cry, and he stepped on the messy melon seed shell on the ground without even wearing shoes, and pounced on Simeng.
"Mengmeng, Mengmeng is really you?" Zhang Boning held Simeng's shoulder and looked at it again and again, this was the first time they had parted for so long since they were born, so Zhang Boning was so excited that tears were shining, and the classmates behind him had long known that he was a lover boy, and they whistled and coaxed one by one.
Then the ending was that Zhang Boning blew away all the boys, and dragged Simeng to whisper in his dirty and messy little bedroom, telling his thoughts and grievances in the past half a year, completely looking like a bullied little daughter-in-law, which was incompatible with his tough appearance.
Dad drove back after not too late in order to get home, and before leaving, he told Simeng to call him if he wanted to go back early, which meant that he hoped that Simon could go home early.
Simeng, who has regarded Zhang Boning's family as his second home since he was a child, feels as if he has returned to his real home, Uncle Qiang and Aunt Qiang have always treated her like their own daughter because they only have one son.
Simeng was born only one month later than Zhang Boning, so whenever Zhang Boning called himself "brother", she was very disdainful and never called him brother.
At dinner in the evening, looking at Simeng's gobbling up, Aunt Qiang asked worriedly if she was not having a good time in the city.
Simeng shook his head and said with a smile: "It's been too long since I have eaten the food cooked by Aunt Qiang, it's too gluttonous." ”
In fact, she didn't eat in the morning and at noon, she was hungry, she didn't want them to worry about her, but the eyes of adults are often polished over the years, they are very bright, you are thin and fat, haggard or refreshed, you can't escape their eyes, but they didn't say it, silently give her more care.
When Simeng introduced her mobile phone to Zhang Boning at night, she was very envious of Zhang Boning, and checked it over and over again, when Zhan Haoyang called.
"Why don't you reply to me on QQ?" Zhan Haoyang asked.
"The signal from my hometown is not good, and I didn't receive it."
"Oh, how's it going at home?"
"Very good, what are you doing?"
"Play games."
"Well, then you can play, I'm fine."
"You...... Don't have anything else to say to me? Zhan Haoyang hesitated, and didn't seem to want to hang up the phone.
"That...... There are people next to it, which is not very convenient. I don't know why, I didn't say anything, but Simeng blushed.
"Idiot ......" Zhan Haoyang didn't know whether he was helpless or understanding, paused, and said, "Then I'll text you in a moment." ”
Zhang Boning had been lying beside Simeng and watched her call, and when he saw her hang up, he asked, "Who is it?" ”
"I ...... A classmate. Simeng said with a red face.
Zhang Boning, who was nervous, didn't notice anything wrong, and said with a smile: "Mengmeng tell me about where you are, isn't it fun?" ”
Simeng told Zhang Boning all the fun and beautiful things he saw, of course, to avoid the fact that she was bullied and established a relationship with Zhan Haoyang.
Zhang Boning is like a child listening to his parents' stories, sometimes serious, sometimes excited, like a person nested in a mountain village listening to the outside world.
"Bo Ning, you can also go there to find me when you have time, I'll take you to have a good time, or when you are admitted to college, you will naturally see it, it's not too special."
"No, I'm just curious about the environment in which my family dreams are, as long as you live well, I'm relieved."
Simeng smiled gratefully, her heart was warm, she not only had a sunshine in Zhan Haoyang, she had a patron saint by her side since she was a child, and it was this childhood sweetheart who could interpret "simple-minded and well-developed limbs" as a standard.