Chapter 22: Returning Home
Lin Muchen, who had packed up his things, hadn't come to say goodbye to Tian Tian, and he couldn't find any trace of Tian Tian, maybe Tian Tian was waiting to go home, right?
Lin Muchen returned to the dormitory and packed up the bedding, thinking that there should be no car home tonight, so let's wait until tomorrow morning, and spend the night in the dormitory tonight.
If the person in the same house is not from the county, or someone will come to pick him up, anyway, Lin Muchen is the only one who goes alone.
After a night of devastation, Lin Muchen struggled and rubbed his eyes, glanced at the hour hand on the table, and was startled, it was already eight o'clock, and the car home was at nine o'clock, it was only an hour, if he couldn't catch up, he couldn't go back, and he had to wait another day.
Thinking of this, Lin Muchen immediately got up and cleaned himself up, and ran in the direction of the car with the things he had sorted out last night.
Fortunately, the two calves kept switching, so he caught up with the bus that was about to go home, and after putting away his luggage, Lin Muchen quickly sat in the seat, which was a seat by the window, from where he could see everything that was happening outside, and of course, he could also see himself embarrassed on the window glass!
That day, Lin Muchen sat in the car home alone, listening to the people in the car talking about the climate at home, the winter at home seemed to be getting warmer and warmer year by year, and the winter was getting shorter and shorter year by year, almost so short that there was no winter.
"I remember when I was a child, the winter at home was very long, and I curled up in the quilt at night, and I could always hear the whining north wind rolling the ground, and the window paper was like a ghost screaming, whistling all night long." An old man was talking to the people in the car.
"I remember when I went to school with my companions that year, I got up early that day, took my school bag, braved the wind and walked forward, the snow in the dirt road was crushed by the wheels, pressed into a small ravine, accidentally stepped on it, even the small cotton shoes were stuck in the mud, unable to pull out the ......, at that time there were always a few people crouching in the doorways on both sides of the alley leading to the school, begging for food, picking up tattered ............, frozen purple faces, trembling limbs, clothes like dead leaves, hanging on their bodies one by one, intermittent moans came out of our mouths, and seeing these painful images, our feet unconsciously went faster, and just when we were "panicking", our little cotton shoes were stuck in the mud. ”
Those people are on the long and boring bus where you and I talk about the past and talk about it one by one, and since they have their stories, they don't seem so lonely anymore.
Lin Muchen felt that it was not interesting after listening for a while, so he fell asleep against the window, and when he woke up, everything in front of him began to become familiar.
After six hours in the car, Lin Muchen arrived safely, and as soon as he got out of the car, he saw that everything in the house was covered with snow.
"Hey, what's the snow? It wasn't snowing when I came back! Obviously, Lin Muchen was quite surprised after seeing his parents' snow.
After walking through the dirt slope, walk a few hundred steps ahead to Mr. Sun's private school, Lin Muchen walked there and found that Mr. Sun was still teaching the dolls inside, as if Mr. Sun was teaching himself a lesson last year.
Lin Muchen looked at it from a distance and didn't want to say hello to Mr. Sun, but he was stopped by Mr. Sun just after walking a few steps.
Mr. Sun: "Paw baby, are you on holiday today?" ”
Lin Muchen looked at Mr. Sun's face with joy and responded: "Yes, I just came back after the exam, and I will go to the county again when I will go to the spring next year." ”
Mr. Sun was happy, waved his hand at Lin Muchen, and asked him to hurry home.
"It's such a cold day, let's go back quickly!"
Lin Muchen took three steps back, turned his head and ran in the direction of home. As he walked past the only small river in the village, he saw the loudspeaker he was most familiar with, and of course the big white red paper on the wall of the village branch.
Before the fish in the creek could bubble up, the neat Lin Muchen had already run away from there.
As soon as he got home, the door of the house was hidden, so Lin Muchen pushed them open and walked inside.
Lifted the curtain and looked up, and saw that my mother was sewing something next to the boiler, the room was very hot, and Lin Muchen, who was trotting back all the way, felt a panic in his body, put down his small schoolbag and the woven bag in his hand, and made some noises, which attracted his mother's attention.
Mother Lin: "Ah, baby, why did you run back at this time?" What's going on? Mother put aside the work in her hand and asked Lin Muchen anxiously.
Lin Muchen's face did not change, and he stammered a little and said: "No, it's okay, it's just that the school exam is over and on vacation, and I just went home, nothing happened!" ”
The claw baby went to school in the county, and the family was worried all day long, for fear that the claw baby would suffer a loss in the county school, and he was afraid that his stubborn temper would not get along with the children in the county, and there would be more trouble.
Lin Muchen put down the things in his hand, went to the back room, stopped for a while and came out again. He asked, "My dad?" On such a cold day, he still went to work in the county? ”
Mother hurriedly waved her hand: "No, no, your father went to the village party secretary's house as a guest, I heard that an elderly teacher came from the county, so I have to let your father go." ”
Lin Muchen: "Then can I go to my father?" ”
Mother Lin: "You baby, just come back and run around again, their adult affairs, your little baby had better go and get involved, just live at home, the home is warm." ”
Lin Muchen had no choice but to agree.
The mother seemed to think of something: "Baby, have you eaten, why don't I give you another hot meal for our lunch?" Ate rice and cabbage at noon, do you eat it? ”
Lin Muchen: "Don't eat, I'm not hungry, let's eat it in the evening!" ”
Mother Lin: "You baby, how can you not be hungry after sitting in the car for such a long time?" Hurry up, I'll give you a hot one, eat less! ”
Lin Muchen: "Mom." I'm really not hungry, you don't have to get it for me, wait until the evening to do it. ”
Mother Lin: "That, I'll cook early that night." ”
Lin Muchen: "Well, you get busy first, I'll go put my own things." ”
Lin Muchen walked to the back room with his things, cleaned up his bed, put out the things he brought back from the county school, and took out the candy that Tian Tian had given him in the past few days from his pocket.
Lin Muchen: "Mom, this is the candy that my classmates gave me at school, bring one back for you, it's delicious for you to taste!" ”
Mother looked at the piece of candy in Lin Muchen's hand, stared at it for a while, shook her head and said no, Lin Muchen immediately took off the candy paper and stuffed it into her mother's mouth.
Mother Lin: "Well, it's delicious, my baby is really filial, and she still wants to bring me candy to eat, have you eaten it?" ”
Lin Muchen: "Of course, I have eaten it, and I brought it back to my mother if I thought it was delicious, but if it was not delicious, I wouldn't bring it back." ”
Mother smiled and touched Lin Muchen's little head.
"My baby is awesome! Have you been studying hard lately? Did you come back from the exam this time? ”
Lin Muchen: "Yes, I just finished the exam yesterday, because there was no car at night, I stayed in the school for another night, but the exam was over, and the school has not issued the results yet!" ”
The mother was shocked: "Baby, was you alone in the dormitory last night?" Is it cold or not? ”
Lin Muchen: "It's not cold, they're close to home, I'm far away from home, it's not too late to come back today!" ”
After saying a few words, Lin Muchen's father came back.
"Who's here? Greeted the sound and walked to the back room, opened the curtain and took a look, yo, it's a baby, when did you come back? ”
Lin Muchen: "Just now! Just came back. ”
Dad Lin: "No wonder I see a row of footprints in the yard at the door!" It's good to be back. ”
"Ai, baby, are you hungry? Shall I cook for you? You haven't eaten anything along the way, so you must be hungry, right? Wait, I'll get you something to eat!" ”
Lin Muchen: "No, I'm not hungry, let's get it together in the evening!" ”
Dad Lin: "Look at your baby, why are you so disobedient?" Get you something to eat, you have to eat! ”
Mother Lin: "Ai, what's that, if we don't eat it, we won't eat it, you have to let him eat, I told the baby, make dinner early, wait for dinner!" Don't you toss, okay? ”
After hearing Mama Lin's words, Dad Lin stopped what he was doing: "Okay, let's do it, then make dinner early, it's not too late, I'll cook later." ”
Lin Muchen: "Zhong, Dad, take a break!" ”
Mother Lin: "I went to the village party secretary's house just now, what did the village party secretary say?" As soon as our baby came back, I was going to look for you, and I didn't let him go. ”
Dad Lin looked surprised and smiled at Lin Muchen.
Dad Lin: "I went to the village party secretary's house just now, and there was an old man in his family, who said that he lived in our area when he was young, and he used to let go of my eldest brother's teacher, and also said that our baby has excellent academic performance in school, and he is the first place in return, saying that our baby is very competitive." ”
Mother Lin: "That person really said that?" Our family is busy, and we don't bother to go to the county to see our baby, I didn't expect our baby to be so good! When my mother heard the news, she smiled as if she had won some kind of jackpot.
Mother Lin: "Zhong, let's eat fried buns tonight, I'll go get them now, maybe just in time for that point in the evening, I can eat a hot fried bun!" ”
The mother tapped the thread on her body and went to the door, paused for a while, took a bucket of noodles and came back, poured it into the basin and began this afternoon's work.
Lin Muchen and his father chatted around the stove about what happened to him at school.
Lin Muchen: "Who is that old man?" He shouldn't be from our school, I remember we don't have an older teacher in school, right? ”
Dad Lin: "Oh, that teacher is from another school and doesn't teach in your school, saying that he went to your school during a mock exam and heard about your results. ”
Lin Muchen: "That teacher also taught me uncle?" ”
Dad Lin: "Yes, I haven't met that teacher, but now I do." ”
Lin Muchen: "Then, what does the uncle look like?" There is no photo of him at home, you can tell me about the uncle's ................ ”