"Your work is not as good as it could be, but you and Mina are still living happily. But how did Mina die? Wu Dao said to Kan Wenyuan.

"Mina and I used contraception in our married lives, but the last Spring Festival I spent in the northwest, that is, more than half a year ago, Mina's menstruation did not come on time that month, so I was worried about whether she was unexpectedly pregnant.

I hurriedly went to the health center to buy two test strips and came back, and after Mina's test, both test strips showed that she was pregnant. In order to confirm, I took Mina to the health center for a check-up, and the results showed that Mina was indeed pregnant. Kan Wenyuan said.

"Aren't you and Mina going back to your hometown for the New Year?"

"Since Mina and I got married, we haven't been back to Qicheng for the New Year, and every Spring Festival is spent in Yingyuan County. I really wanted to go back to Qicheng for the Chinese New Year, but it was too expensive to make a round trip, and Mina didn't like life in the east.

If Mina and I go back to our hometown together, my whole family will have to change their eating habits, and we will both be very uncomfortable. If I leave Mina alone in Yingyuan County and go back to Qicheng by myself, it will be too cruel to Mina, and I will never be able to do it. ”

"Why don't you and Mina go back to her house?"

"The ideal way is that during the Chinese New Year, I will go back to Qicheng, Mina will go back to Gaochang, and each will go back to her parents' house, but Mina can't go back."

"Why?"

"Mina's family doesn't celebrate the Chinese New Year, but it doesn't matter. The main reason is that Mina's family won't let her in. The winter of the year Mina and I eloped to Yingyuan County, we went back to her home.

I vividly remember that day it snowed heavily and Mina and I braved the wind and snow to go back to her house, but her family turned us away and said they didn't want her anymore. Mina couldn't go back to her parents' house, which meant that I became Mina's only relative. ”

"Didn't you and Mina ever go to her house again?"

"I went there once, during the May Day holiday this year. Mina's parents finally accepted us when they saw that she was pregnant. ”

"Then you haven't been back to Qicheng in your four years in the northwest?"

"I went back once, it was my third year in Yingyuan County, and I was teaching the next semester of my second year of junior high school. The May Day holiday is approaching, and Mina and Wen Jing and I are planning to travel together. ”

"Who is Wen Jing, is it a colleague of yours?"

"Yes, she lives with me and Mina. I'll talk about her later. ”

"On April 29, my mother called me and told me that my grandmother was dying and that she wanted me to go back quickly, because if it was too late, I wouldn't be able to see her for the last time.

Hanging up, I still couldn't believe what I was hearing, the last time Mina and I went back to get married, my grandmother was still in good health and looked like she would live to be a hundred years old, but she was passing away less than two years later.

I regret why I didn't go back to Qicheng during the Spring Festival, maybe my grandmother had serious health problems at that time. However, regret is useless, and I must go back immediately, without delay. ”

"Did Mina go back with you?"

"It stands to reason that Mina is my wife, and she should also go back to mourn, but her status is special, and going back will not only not help, but will make my family more chaotic. Fortunately, Mina was no longer alone at that time, and with Wen Jing with her, I could rest assured that I would leave her in Yingyuan County.

I persuaded Mina to stay, called the school to ask for leave, and then hurried on the long journey back to Qicheng. From Yingyuan County to Qicheng County, there is no direct train, you need to take a car from Yingyuan County to Ningyuan City, take a train from Ningyuan City to Jeju, and then take a bus back to Qicheng.

Tickets from Ningyuan City to Jeju are already very difficult to buy, and the May Day holiday is approaching, and the ticket supply is even tighter. It takes six hours to travel from the school to Yingyuan County, and then from Yingyuan County to Ningyuan City. When I arrived at the Ningyuan City Railway Station, it was already evening, and I didn't have lunch or dinner.

When I was on the bus, I used my mobile phone to check the train from Ningyuan City to Jeju, and there was no ticket for the last three days, so I had to buy tickets one after another, first from Ningyuan City to Lanzhou, then from Lanzhou to Zhengzhou, and then from Zhengzhou to Jeju. ”

"It's been a long journey."

"Along the way, I thought back to the time I lived with my grandfather and grandmother. When I was a child, I lived with my grandfather and grandmother, and they gave me endless love. When I was in college at Fangzhou College, my grandfather passed away, and Fangzhou and Qicheng were only a little more than two hours away by car, so I rushed back to meet my grandfather for the last time.

When my grandmother died, I was thousands of kilometers away, and I wished I could grow wings and fly to my grandmother's side right away. I was worried that I would never see my grandmother again, but the train was still whining, as if crying.

If you take the direct train from Yongwon City to Jeju, it can be reached in 48 hours, I bought the ticket one after another, changed trains several times along the way, and finally took nearly 80 hours to reach Jeju.

When I finally returned to Qi Cheng's home, my grandmother had been cremated and was preparing to be buried. Seeing that scene, my heart collapsed, I hated myself for coming back a few days earlier, hating why I didn't pay more for a flight.

At that time, I regretted for the first time that I left my hometown and went to the northwest, and if I had been working in my hometown or the eastern region, I would have been by my grandmother's side in her last days, and I would not have left this irreparable regret in life. ”

"Life is full of regrets, and many regrets are for a lifetime."

"After my grandmother's burial, I stayed at home for another week, and at the urging of my parents, I left for the northwest. Looking at the ever-changing scenery outside the train, I have long lost the joy I had at the beginning, and I wanted to stay in Qicheng even more.

When the distance becomes home, the hometown also becomes a desirable distance, where there is no dream of youth, but there are childhood memories and inseparable family affection. ”

"This is the paradox of life."

"Now we can talk about quietness. In the autumn of the second year when Mina arrived in Yingyuan County, that is, when the grade I taught was promoted from the first to the second year of junior high school, one day I came down from the teaching building, walked outside, and saw a girl in her twenties walking in outside the school gate.

It was an unbelievable thing, and the first time I saw Wen Jing, I thought that she was a little similar to the girl I had been pursuing in college, and for a while the past came back to my mind. I wondered what this girl was here for, so I deliberately slowed down.

The girl came up to me and took the initiative to talk to me, asking me if I was a teacher at the school and what I was called, and asked me where the principal's office was.

I took her to the principal's office, and the principal arranged for her to teach Chinese in the first and fourth grades of junior high school, and asked me to be her instructor and pass on her teaching experience. Wen Jing's home was far away in another township, and she needed accommodation, and it was not convenient or safe to rent a house alone, so the principal asked her to live with me and Mina.

The courtyard where Mina and I lived was very large, and there were several empty rooms, so Wen Jing stayed there. ”

"Mina, is there no problem with Wen Jing living with you?"

"No comments. Mina is very hospitable and loves to be busy, and she often feels lonely when it was only the two of us who lived together. Wen Jing arrived, and she happened to have a companion.

After Wen Jing moved in, Mina saw that she was the same age as herself, her name was Wen Jing, and she was also very quiet, so she first added a little favor and took the initiative to chat with her. Wen Jing saw that Mina was so kind, so she quickly became intimate with Mina.

Mina and Wen Jing are the same age, but Mina's birthday is older, so Wen Jing calls Mina her sister. The two of them are like sisters. Since then, Mina's life as a couple has become a three-person world. ”

"It's also a good result, when you go out, you should take care of each other."

Wen Jing has no teaching experience, and after she officially went to work, she listened to several classes in a row, not only in Chinese, but also in history and ideology. I also attended the first two lessons she gave to her students and passed on her experience.

After Wen Jing knew that I was the person in charge of the school library, she took the initiative to go to the library to help me borrow and return books to students. Since I was in charge of the library, I have been working in the library every day, and I rarely go back to the grade office, so that I can borrow and return books, and I also have a separate space.

Wen Jing often asks me questions and helps me manage the library, so she often comes to the library to work. After getting along for a long time, I also found that Wen Jing, like me, is also a poetry lover, although she does not write poetry, she likes to read poetry very much, and she is very interested in the poems I write, and we often discuss poetry in the library.

Although Mina speaks Chinese very well, her reading skills are relatively poor, and none of her friends like poetry, so I often feel lonely, and the quiet appearance makes me feel like I have met a soulmate, and the dark corner of my heart is illuminated at once.

Every day when I commute to and from work, Wen Jing also walks with me and Mina, and later falsifies the school file, which I also did with Wen Jing. I see Wen Jing even more every day than I see Mina. ”

"I also had this kind of time, when I was in graduate school, I also met a very talented girl, like Lin Huiyin, a talented girl in the Republic of China. It's just that you and Mina are married, and it's very dangerous for you and Wen Jing to get so close. ”

"Definitely. On New Year's Day that year, Mina, and Wen Jing went shopping in the city and met a male colleague from the same high school. That male colleague had a good impression of Wen Jing and wanted to pursue her, so he asked me to ask Wen Jing what his impression of him was.

After Wen Jing heard this, she refused, and said that she didn't want to find a boyfriend. At that time, I vaguely felt that the reason why Wen Jing didn't want to find a boyfriend might be related to me.

When it was time for the winter vacation, the three of us went to the city to buy clothes again, Wen Jing intended to let me choose clothes for her, and when I went back to school after the winter vacation, she wore the clothes I chose for her. ”

"It seems that she does have a crush on you."

"Half a year later, in the summer, Wen Jing and I went back to high school to participate in training. One day, Wen Jing asked me what my ideal marriage was like, what her ideal girlfriend would look like, who was better between her and Mina, and asked me to write a poem for her. ”

"Did you write it?"

"I realized that my relationship with Wen Jing had to be broken. I wrote a poem to her, and at the end of the poem I said that she was Mina's sister, that is, my sister, and that we would be called brother and sister from now on. ”

"You're doing the right thing."

"Later, Wen Jing really called me brother."