The white tubes lit up one after another, and a slightly mechanical female voice came out of the carriage announcement: "Passengers, the train is about to arrive at Puzhou West Railway Station." Please check your belongings so that you do not miss them. "Puzhou is a big station, and the eastbound railway is divided into two here, one to the north and the other to the southeast. On the huge platform, there were seven or eight trains full of passengers, all of them soaking wet, and it seemed that the rain in the south was worse than here.

"Old Wei, Xiaolian." Qin Tianwu didn't know when he appeared behind the two of them, on his back, it was a bulging backpack, and he didn't know how many things were stuffed, the fat on his face was all squeezed together, revealing the row of white teeth, he waved his thick palm, "Let's go." ”

"Bye-bye."

"Bye-bye."

The two of them waved at him respectively, watching Qin Tianwu disappear into the crowded crowd on the platform.

Bai Yunlian used the temporarily lit incandescent light to play with her mobile phone, but her brows furrowed from time to time, as if she was in trouble.

"Is there something wrong?"

Bai Yunlian raised her head when she heard the sound, her eyes moved back and forth on Wei Yilin's face and the mobile phone screen, and after a while, the light suddenly brightened a lot, only to see her turn the mobile phone and hand it to Wei Yilin's eyes: "Which of these basketballs do you think is better?" ”

Wei Yilin glanced at Bai Yunlian with disdain, took her mobile phone, although he was very suspicious that this guy had taken the wrong medicine, he still looked at the profile on the web page one by one: "Hmm...... If you've just learned, there's no need to buy such an expensive one, right? ”

"Who said I want to learn?" Bai Yunlian glanced at Wei Yilin, frowned, and then smiled slyly, "Hey, is there a cheaper one?" ”

Wei Yilin's heart was like pressing a big stone, Bai Yunlian didn't like basketball, he knew, so why did she suddenly want to buy basketball? It's obviously a gift, to whom? He shook his head in annoyance: Whatever! Also, a girl as good as her deserves a boyfriend who is much better than me.

"Hmm...... I have a recommendation! Originally, he wanted to retreat to the home page and search directly by entering the brand name, but he didn't expect that this webpage was opened from the link, and as soon as he exited, it was the chat page of "Chat at any time", and the nickname of the person who was chatting with Bai Yunlian was "Xiao Zhenzhen".

This...... So affectionate? Although he had long warned himself not to think too much, when he really "learned" the conclusion, Wei Yilin was still like a deflated balloon, and his whole person drooped.

"What's wrong?" Wei Yilin's obvious mood swings, Bai Yunlian naturally saw it in her eyes, took back the phone and looked at it, but didn't find anything suspicious, only to see her slender fingers knock on the screen a few times, and then handed the phone back to Wei Yilin, "Okay." ”

Wei Yilin looked at the platform page with many patterns, and his right hand seemed to be immobilized, and he couldn't move.

"How old is he?" After a long time, Wei Yilin muttered, it was obvious that he was not really willing, and even subconsciously wanted to collect intelligence and then "fight back".

"Does it matter?" Bai Yunlian asked suspiciously, "Aren't all basketballs the same?" ”

Wei Yilin shook his head slightly: "Of course not, children are different from adults, novices are different from veterans, and professions and amateurs are also different." There's a lot to learn. ”

"Oh." Bai Yunlian nodded thoughtfully, "Hmm...... I think he's eight, nine, or ten years old......"

"Eighty or ninety years old!" Wei Yilin almost didn't bounce up, hit the roof of the car and flew out, "This ...... So big? ”

"Oh, no, no, no......" Bai Yunlian waved her hand vigorously and shook her head, blushing embarrassedly, "I forgot how old he was, huh...... You should be nine years old......

"Nine? This...... How is this possible? Wei Yilin looked incredulous: What are you doing! Got on with a nine-year-old?

Bai Yunlian smiled bitterly, gently knocked on the dining table between the two with her right index finger, and covered her face with her left hand: "I'm also annoyed...... People have one more playmate, and I have one more son. ”

"He's your brother?" Wei Yilin's mouth was wide enough to fit into a standard basketball.

"Well, scared, right? I thought it was incredible. ”

Wei Yilin couldn't wait to slap himself twice: What do you think! What do you think!

"It's 29 years old today, and it is estimated that it will not be available until the end of the year." Wei Yilin clicked on the link again and wrote down the brand name, "It's better like this, I'll go to the mall with you tomorrow to have a look, buy it now, Zhenzhen will be very happy to see it." ”

"Okay." Bai Yunlian turned off the link, slid the chat history up little by little, Zhen Zhen, this guy is really a shopaholic, he is allowed to throw three or five links to her a month, "This month's snack money is gone again~"

"It's good, you're just losing weight!"

"Hmph, what's that!" Bai Yunlian rolled her eyes.

"He's always looking for you to buy things?"

Bai Yunlian puffed out her cheeks and nodded: "Hmph, when he goes to junior high school, I will eat steamed buns every day and buy him a box of "Daily Practice for the Real Questions of the High School Entrance Examination", and brush this rabbit cub to death!" ”

"Hahahaha!" Wei Yilin laughed so hard that his stomach hurt, "You're too much, not kind, not kind at all!" ”

"Hmph, give it to you, and so will you."

"Hey, being an only child is at ease." Although Wei Yilin also wanted a sister or sister, he preferred to sing against Bai Yunlian, and not only that, but he also added action modifications.

At dawn the next day, the tired train finally roared into the platform of Yuanzhou Station, and although the crowds here were not as strong as the earlier days, they were enough to provoke a dense phobia. Fortunately, neither of them had such symptoms.

"This smell is kind." Wei Yilin sniffed hard, and the air was full of fresh moisture, mixed with a faint fragrance of flowers.

"You haven't been back in a long time, right?"

"I left at the beginning of the year, exactly one year." Wei Yilin flicked his fingers, "It's okay, it's not much change." ”

Yuanzhou is a city where the old and the new are very differentiated, here, you can see the skyscrapers full of science and technology, you can also see the simple and natural mud brick houses, old arcades, between the old and the new, or the boundaries are clear, or intertwined, Yuanzhou Railway Station, is embedded in an old house, it is surrounded by the same age as it is the bus passenger station, the exhibition center, the old park of Xiumei Mountain.

In front of the train station, there are twenty or thirty iron horses of all sizes, each of which is crowded with people holding large bags and small bags, standing or sitting, lying or lying, and the faces under the masks are immature, or vicissitudes, or young, or aging, but without exception, the faces are full of joy - the joy of going home.

"That's a lot of people." Bai Yunlian is like a child who has seen the world for the first time, with a look of surprise.

The two of them almost became VIPs - on the spacious exit passage, there were only three or two passengers, walking on the high-end marble pavement, like the inspectors, who were warmly welcomed by the people outside the railing, that is, about thirty taxi and pheasant car drivers, hotel solicitors. They swarmed up, surrounded the guests who left the station, handed over a pair of rough hands, and kept asking, "Where is the boss?" "Carpooling, half of the road fare, go?" "Accommodation? Fifty-one nights. ”

Of course, most of their enthusiasm was exchanged for disappointment, because most of the people who came out of the station at this time were indigenous. A few are not, and most of them are welcomed by relatives and friends.

"Boss, the price is negotiable, can you go? My car is new and very comfortable! ”

"Boss, the price is good, can you go?" Seeing that several people were getting farther and farther away, the two drivers reluctantly made one last effort, and they seemed to have been standing here for a whole year.

Outside the station, there was a train of four Ivico parked in pitch black, with an iron fence in front of the windshield, and next to the police car, twenty or thirty heavily armed riot policemen were sitting in a circle in twos and threes, holding a plastic round shield in their left hand and a telescopic electric baton in their right hand.

"That's what you said, twenty people, stop a large area?" Bai Yunlian suddenly remembered that Wei Yilin seemed to have said this sentence somewhere.

Wei Yilin looked at the surging crowd and seemed to be quite touched: "Back then, I was there." One end and one tail, adding up to only a hundred. The place he pointed to was the gate at the entrance to the station.

"Did your family come to pick you up?" Before leaving the station, Wei Yilin suddenly asked.

"I want to surprise them." Bai Yunlian smiled sheepishly.

The bus station is isolated at the train station, only separated by a wall in the middle, next to the entrance of the station, there is a newsstand, the most conspicuous place of the newsstand, there are today's new newspapers, about seven or eight copies, from different publishing houses, but their headlines are surprisingly unified, a big "sacrifice" word.

After the word "sacrifice", there is a line of black lead characters: deep mourning for President Chen Xianyuan.

Wei Yilin's eyes fell on this title, this person Jia Zhongquan had mentioned it, but who he was, he couldn't remember, he originally wanted to check it after the meeting, but he forgot.

"Buy a newspaper." The stall owner was a balding old man with a round face, red and moist face, always with an unconscious smile, which made him very enthusiastic.

"Is there anything special?" Bai Yunlian curiously leaned over, in this era, there are not many people who buy paper newspapers.

"It turned out to be him." Wei Yilin didn't seem to hear it, and muttered while holding the newspaper in both hands.

Bai Yunlian "drilled" in to see, the front page of the newspaper, printed a soldier in a big dress, he had a pair of deep and firm eyes, but the skin on his cheeks had been sagging, and the old age spots all over also greatly reduced his majesty, only the row of medals on his chest was still telling the old man's outstanding exploits.

In the next edition, there are two lines of introduction: Chen Xianyuan, with clear words, chief of staff headquarters, army general. At 4 p.m. on January 30, during the operation of the blockade of the epidemic area in Fuzhou, he suddenly suffered cardiogenic shock due to months of fatigue, and died in the early morning of yesterday (February 2) at the age of 59.

"Fortunately, the epidemic has been controlled." Wei Yilin didn't know if it was lucky or unlucky, if Chen Ci fell a month in the morning, the situation might become out of control.

"By the way, has Mingjun gone home?" Bai Yunlian suddenly muttered, "Qiuxue, what about you?" ”

Wei Yilin was stunned, he glanced lightly at the girl next to him, the corners of the latter's eyes were slowly turning red, becoming as moist as the air after the rain.

"I've heard people say that no matter where you die, your soul always finds its way home." Wei Yilin now said, "It's been so long, maybe they've been reunited with their families." ”

"Really?" Bai Yunlian touched the corner of her eye.

"Really, come and wipe away the tears. New Year's is unlucky. Wei Yilin said, and wanted to buy a pack of tissues from the newsstand owner.

"I have it myself." Bai Yunlian grabbed him, and while gently wiping the crystal from the corner of her eyes, she muttered, "It's good to be home...... It's good to be home. ”