By mid-June, my mother had negotiated cooperation with Dongguan hardware and building materials manufacturers by fax and telephone, but she still felt the need to go over and see it in person. My mother asked me if I wanted to go south with her or send me to my grandfather's house in the countryside. Grandpa has a strange temperament, and I decisively chose to be with my mother. Although my mother felt that it was inconvenient to take me out of the house, she thought about it, and it was a good thing that I could see more at my age. Mom and Dad often say that it is better to travel thousands of miles than to read 10,000 books. I thought, is that as long as I travel thousands of miles, I don't have to study in the future? Of course, I didn't dare to ask such a stupid question.

The last time my mother went out was probably back to the time of the educated youth, and there were very few holidays in the trading company over the years, although she did reception work, she had a lot of contact with foreign businessmen, but the farthest was to go to the provincial capital for a meeting.

In order to go out this time, my father plans to take my mother to a high-end clothing store to buy a set of clothes. Mom didn't want to buy it, and Dad coaxed Mom to go. In the end, I bought a dark red suit that was expensive for my family's economic strength. As for the money to buy clothes, I think it should be my father's private money or something. My mother's 'iron rooster' asked her to pay for such expensive clothes, which is absolutely impossible.

In order to match my mother's high-end goods, my father decided to buy me a set as well. It's just that the place where he took me to buy clothes was a hypermarket next to the vegetable market. Probably because my mother's dress was too expensive to buy, and my father didn't have much money left in his pocket, he picked and chose for a long time, and finally chose a set of imitation British college bib pants for me that couldn't be lower. There was no fitting room in the hypermarket, so my dad picked up my clothes in public and put on my favorite clothes. The dress was obviously too big, and it was worn straight on the trouser legs.

Dad asked the shopping guide aunt who was chatting on the side, "Excuse me, is there any one smaller?" ”

The shopping guide replied impatiently: "No, the last set." ”

Originally, I didn't like this outfit either, so don't buy it since it doesn't fit. I counted the money I saved and asked my dad to buy me something delicious. My father tightened the strap for me, rolled up his trouser leg on the ground a few times, and comforted me by saying, "Children grow up fast, and it won't take a few months for the clothes to fit." ”

Of course, sooner or later, this dress will fit, but my father seems to have forgotten that the purpose of buying the clothes is to wear them for me to wear the next day. As a result, when the clothes were bought home, my mother took a look at them and locked them in the closet. The price of her set was too expensive, and no matter how much her father persuaded her, she was reluctant to wear it, and she was still locked in the closet.

I remember about half a year or a year later, I wore this set of bib pants that my father bought. On the same day, the crotch of my pants was fried, and I was so angry that I went home and permanently put it in the cold palace. And my mother's dark red suit, every time there is an important occasion, she can only be seen carefully taking it out and wearing it. The dress seemed to be made by a tailor for my mother, and every time I put it on, my mother was the most beautiful mother in the crowd.

That night, the child who went out for the first time was too excited. I woke up several times during the night and had several strange dreams. One of them was a dream in which I dreamed that I was swimming in a big dark river. Because my mother told me that the place we were going to this time was called Dongguan, so in my dream I kept silently reciting this place name and tried my best to splash in the water, but I couldn't get to the shore. Sadly, when I woke up from the dream, I was wet the bed. In the middle of the night, in order not to disturb my parents, I changed into a pair of underwear, and then found a few dirty clothes to cover the wet area on the sheets, and still fell asleep peacefully.

The next day, my mother came to lift my bed, and I was smoked by the smell of urine. However, when I went out, she was too busy to wash my sheets, and only explained to my father how we would do after we left. After a busy time, as I did when I went out in the past, my parents walked on both sides and I walked in the middle. The neighbors of the old street greeted each other as usual.

"Lao Zhou, Xiaofeng, go out to work!"

"Miao Miao has grown taller again, study hard, and go to Tsinghua University and Peking University in the future."

They had no idea what was quietly changing in my house, and the old street had been the same for several years, and every family had been living their own little life behind closed doors.

My mother didn't think it was convenient to go out and bring things, so I only dragged a small trolley suitcase, which was mostly the documents that my mother had sorted out in recent days, and brought a few changes of clothes. Dad took us to the bus station, looked at our watches, was late for work, and took a taxi to leave.

We took a bus to the provincial capital and then took a bus to the train station. Stepping on the platform, looking at the people in a hurry, reluctant to say goodbye; Those who are in a hurry; There are also those who are dazed and in a daze. I suddenly looked up stupidly and asked my mother, "Mom, are we going back?" ”

My mother was anxious to find the carriage, glanced at me, and replied, "Nonsense, what should your father do if you don't come back?" ”

I groaned.

The ticket my mother bought was a soft sleeper on the twelfth carriage. The lower bunk is a fat aunt who runs out to sell all the year round, and as soon as she opens her mouth, she has the taste of Uncle Benshan, with a loud voice, but she is very polite. The fat aunt saw that my mother was taking me as a child, and took the initiative to give us the wider lower bunk. The opposite shop is a couple who are doing clothing business in the provincial capital, and this time they went to Guangzhou to participate in the fair, thinking that their mother is also in the clothing business, and there is no language barrier, so they took the initiative to talk to their mother. Of course, my mother also knows a lot about the clothing market, even if the other party is engaged in the clothing industry chat, she will not fall behind, and the other party will be bluffed again and again.

I only drank a glass of milk and ate a steamed bun before going out in the morning, and I also ate something casually at the station at noon to deal with it. The train was bumpy all the way, and I now felt like my stomach was empty, and I was swallowing my saliva. And my mother only cares about chic when she goes out, and she doesn't prepare anything for food and drink. In an unfamiliar environment, I was afraid to ask my mother when the meal would open. It was until the afternoon meal time, and the fat aunt and the couple in the same box each went to the junction of the carriage with instant noodles to line up to receive water.

At this time, the conductor pushed the dining car past the door of the box and asked if he wanted to order. My mother asked for the price and bargained with the conductor, but the other party refused to bargain and choked my mother with nothing to say. When the conductor was about to push away the dining car, my mother still bought two fried rice with shredded pork with green peppers for ten yuan, and a bottle of mineral water for two yuan.

When I opened the foam lunch box, I saw that the green peppers were black, and the amount of shredded meat was very small. I hurriedly lifted the mineral water bottle and poured it violently, swallowed the rice grains in my mouth with cold water, and asked, "Mom, why is such an expensive thing still so unpalatable." ”

My mother also struggled to eat, and said with a straight face: "Don't talk, you have to eat if it's unpalatable, do you want to be hungry for four days?" ”

It took four days for the train to arrive in Guangzhou, and the thought of having to eat such food all these days made me collapse and fall to the table in an instant.

At this time, the fat aunt came back with instant noodles, saw the expressions of our mother and wife like eating soil, and hurriedly said, "Big sister, how long have you not taken the train?" This thing is expensive, no one buys it at all, and the price will drop after half an hour. To tell you the truth, even if these things are given for nothing, they are too cold. I spend 365 days a year, 100 days on the train. What kind of way do they have to clear my door, and the overnight rice is heated up and then taken out to fool people, these grandsons can't do anything. Don't eat it! Don't be a tiger, I bought expensive ones and ate bad stomachs. ”

How did my mother know that there are these things to do on the train now, and after hearing the fat aunt say this, she realized that the rice was indeed reheated overnight, and the green peppers and shredded meat in it had a faint rancid taste, so I was busy not eating it again.

The fat aunt took out two buckets of instant noodles from her snakeskin bag under the bed and handed them to her mother, saying, "Big sister, I don't have much with me, the next train will enter the station, you get off the train and buy some dry food to prepare." Although the platform is not cheap, it is better than spending money on it. ”

The most delicious food in the world is the food that people eat when they are hungry. I have eaten countless brands of instant noodles, but I have never eaten such fragrant, and a bucket of instant noodles makes me feel like I have eaten the delicacies of the mountains and the sea. The fat aunt took out a lunch box of cut green onions and a bottle of yellow mud-like sauce from the snakeskin bag, dipped the green onion white in the sauce and ate it directly. The fat aunt across the table munched on it with relish, and I couldn't take my eyes off it. The fat aunt pushed the sauce bottle in front of me and said, "Baby, no, it's a bargain!" ”

I sniffed it, the smell was really indescribable, the smell went down my nose and penetrated into the heavenly spirit cover, and it smoked so much that people were going out of their bodies. I instinctively tilted my head back, and the fat aunt asked my mother if she wanted it. Eating people with soft mouths, short hands, and people's good intentions, although my mother resisted as much as I did, she still took a green onion and dipped it in the sauce and took a bite. In an instant, my mother covered her mouth and nose with her hands, and swallowed it hard without chewing, obviously her face was green, but she barely ate the remaining green onions, but she didn't dare to dip the sauce again.

The fat aunt looked at her mother's painful expression, laughed heartily and said, "We have a good mouthful, what's the matter?" Domineering no? ”

My mother drank a few sips of mineral water and said with a wry smile: "You northerners are really amazing, this taste is strong." It's just that we southerners are squeamish and can't get used to this. ”

After the meal, four adults sat on the edge of the bed and chatted in a private room, and I couldn't get into their conversation, so I sat on the seat outside the box and looked at the scenery outside the window. At this point, I don't have the excitement I had before I went out, and it seems to be the same in the distance.

With the clattering sound of movement, the train crossed the river through the forest and drilled one cave after another. I was still young, and I didn't feel much about the vast world outside the window, but I suddenly remembered the little angel with white wings. Dad's promise was that there was no follow-up as usual, and although there was a lively family on my birthday, I always hoped that the girl would be there. As for what is good and why it is good, I can't say. It's good enough to have my father, my mother, my godfather, my godmother, and Yiqing's dead girl to spend my birthday with me, if there is one more person, just that person, it should be considered perfect.

The last of the afterglow vanished on the other side of the mountains, and the twilight shrouded in the sky with stars. Gazing at the twinkling stars, I couldn't help but wonder what the person I missed was doing at this time, and whether she would hold a grudge for my broken promise. The sorrow of a seven-year-old child is rubbed into the deep night sky.

Just when I was thinking about it, the fat aunt and the couple in the opposite shop quarreled, because they both felt that their hometown was better than each other. At first, they just didn't give in to each other, and then they turned into attacking each other. The fat aunt said that the southerners were hypocritical, and the couple said that the northerners were vulgar, and there was a lot of quarrel in the box for a while. In the face of this 'Civil War', my mother mediated for a while and then left the box. Mom is not a timid person, but the train is about to enter the station at this moment, and if she doesn't get off the train to buy some food, I'm afraid I'll have to go hungry tomorrow.

Turning around a mountain beam train into the station. I saw that the incandescent lights of the station were pale and weak, the women selling peanuts and tea eggs on the platform gathered together in a listless daze, and the men selling cigarettes sat on the cement pier with their boxes on their shoulders and lowered their heads to smoke. Our train roared into the station, breaking the frozen silence for a moment.

In the gray background, the figure of the mother is the only color. My mother first asked the station staff a few words, and then trotted in the direction of the exit. Passengers walked back to the carriage one by one, and the conductor whistled to remind passengers who were still haggling to get on the train. I was anxious and got up to get out of the car to find my mother. At this time, a familiar figure appeared, and the mother ran back with instant noodles in one hand and mineral water in the other, and finally caught up before the conductor was about to close the door.

When the mother returned to the carriage, the fat aunt and the husband and wife in the opposite bunk had already reconciled. My mother chatted with them casually again, and when they all felt sleepy, they turned off the lights and went to bed. My mother spread out the bed, put her clothes around me and fell asleep, I slept inside, and my mother slept outside. Probably because of the tiring journey, the fat aunt on the top bunk snored like thunder every now and then, and the sound of the wheels of the train rubbing against the rails was incessant, and I could not sleep. I whispered to my mother, "It's too noisy, I can't sleep." ”

My mother covered my ears with both hands, and the noise suddenly decreased a lot. I rested on my mother's arm and fell asleep.

In the early morning of the fourth day, the train finally entered Guangzhou Station. The fat aunt got off the bus as early as Zhaoqing. Before getting off the bus, the couple in the opposite shop and the mother left each other's contact information. They told their mother that their daughter was the same age as me, and that if she had time to visit their house, maybe she would be able to become in-laws in the future, and then they were reluctant to say goodbye. I thought that my mother had set up a relationship for me, so I was so anxious that I dragged my mother and said, "I don't want to marry other girls, I, I ......" and I was embarrassed to say it halfway through.

Mom watched the couple walk away, patted me on the head and smiled without saying a word. In fact, adults know that such politeness is just etiquette, and no one will take it seriously, only me, a little brat, really thinks so.

As soon as I got off the train, the crowd was crowded out like a frightened ant colony, and I was so squeezed that my feet were almost empty. My mother was holding my hand so tightly that even her fingers were numb. I had never encountered such a crowded environment, I just felt that I was about to suffocate, my consciousness gradually dissipated, and I was involuntarily outwards by the crowd, and the uneaten instant noodle bag in my hand had already been rubbed off. It wasn't until I squeezed out of the square outside the station that the crowd dispersed that I heard a familiar voice calling out to me.

"Miao Miao! Miao Miao! ”

I was shaken so that my bones were about to fall apart, and I came back to my senses, only to see that my mother was so anxious that tears were about to slide out of the corners of her eyes.

I don't know if it's because of this experience, or if I was born with a phobia of crowding, and I will deliberately avoid it every time I encounter a crowded environment after that.

After confirming that I was fine, my mother took out her mobile phone, and yes, for convenience, my mother bought the phone. As soon as my mother dialed the number, I saw Miss Shi waving to us not far away. Miss Shi is a thin and yellow-skinned woman, probably born with a bad complexion, so she wears heavy makeup.

Miss Shi came to our Lushui City a year ago to promote their hardware and building materials products, I don't know what the chance, Miss Shi found my mother. After talking, they hit it off at first sight, and their mother brought Miss Shi home to live. Miss Shi originally planned to open a store in Lushui City, but after a week of inspection, she finally gave up. First, my mother didn't want to resign at that time, and second, Miss Shi's factory was mainly responsible for production, and she lacked sales experience, so she was afraid that the gains would outweigh the losses if she opened a store rashly. Now my mother wants to start a hardware store building materials business, mostly because of Miss Shi.

After a few greetings with Miss Shi, my mother patted me on the back and said, "Call Auntie." ”

Miss Shi said coquettishly: "Sister Liu, what is your name, Auntie, I am not married yet, am I that old?" Miao Miao, call sister. ”

Now I'm in a dilemma, whether to call my sister or aunt. I had an idea and said, "Sister and aunt." ”

My voice made my mother and Miss Shi giggle. Miss Shi corrected: "There is only a sister, no aunt, just call my sister." Then he took his mother's wrist and spoke and behaved generously and naturally.