Chapter Twenty-Three: Back to the Northeast
On the nineteenth day of the lunar month, Lin Chengzhi took his family to bid farewell to his two elder brothers and embarked on the return journey home.
Lin Chengzhi gave the things he brought to Lin Xianzhi, Lin Wenzhi and Lin Chun divided it, and the orange candy he bought was given to relatives with children. Lin Yue gave the soda bought on the train to her aunt Lin Chun and asked her to bring it to her sister Cheng Yujuan.
Lin Chengzhi carried his luggage, stood outside the courtyard of his grandfather's house, pounced, knelt on the ground and kowtowed three times, then stood up, and walked towards the station with his family without looking back.
Lin Yue knew what his father was thinking, and he wanted to go back to Shandong to settle down. But Lin Yue looked at Liu Li and sighed, knowing that the time had not come.
On the day I went back, there were more people on the train, and I couldn't even squeeze in the door.
Lin Chengzhi asked Liu Li to put his hand on the car window, and he pushed her foot in behind him. Liu Li finally climbed in after a lot of effort, and then Lin Chengzhi lifted Lin Yue's three brothers and sisters up, Liu Li followed in the carriage, and then Lin Chengzhi himself jumped in.
The train started slowly.
At the end of the year, people who work outside are rushing home at this time, and it is difficult to get a ticket. Lin Chengyi's family still had a standing ticket to grab it with great difficulty.
The aisles of the train are so crowded that if you move your foot slightly, you will hear a "whoa, who's stepping on my foot".
Lin Yue's face was tightly pressed against Lin Chengzhi's thighs, and his small body stood awkwardly in the crowded aisle, swaying with the flow of people from time to time. Her eyes were full of legs, and she wished she could grow taller right away.
Lin Chengzhi protected Lin Yue, and when he saw someone squeezing over, he would shout loudly, "Be careful of the child." ”
After dangling on the train for several hours, Lin Yue was a little unable to stand. Lin Chengzhi looked at his shaking daughter, distressed.
"Come, old girl, you get under your seat and rest for a while." Lin Chengzhi pointed to the seat next to him and said to Lin Yue. Lin Yue looked down at the place Lin Chengzhi was pointing, the corners of his mouth twitched, and he thought, you are really my father, didn't you see a pair of smelly feet dangling under the seat. Moreover, in the carriage, the further down she goes, the stronger the smell, and if she lies under the seat, it is estimated that she will faint after a while.
Lin Yue shook his head at Lin Chengzhi, meaning that I won't go. Lin Chengzhi also saw the feet, so he touched his nose and smiled awkwardly.
At night, Lin Yue couldn't stay up anymore, sleepy and tired. Lin Chengzhi picked up Lin Yue and walked forward, passed several carriages, and finally found an empty corner. This is where passengers use to smoke.
Lin Chengzhi put the luggage on the ground, then sat on the luggage, held Lin Yue in his arms, leaned on the corner of the carriage, and coaxed his daughter to sleep. As for Lin Yongtian and Lin Yongfeng, Lin Yue could only hehe, they didn't dislike the smell, they lay under the seat at Liu Li's feet, and went to Zhou Gong. Liu Li reluctantly sat on the duffel bag and rested against the seat.
The morning sun shone on Lin Yue's face through the car window, Lin Yue squinted her eyes, looked at the sky outside the window, and thought that she should be at Meihekou soon. At this time, Lin Chengzhi had not woken up yet, and Lin Yue lay in his father's arms and did not dare to move, for fear of waking him up.
Suddenly, Lin Yue heard the door of the carriage clang, and saw an old man staggering in front of Lin Yue, he glanced nervously behind him, holding the handle on the door.
The old man sensed that someone was watching him, and then he turned around to see a little girl staring at him. The old man's eyes suddenly lit up, as if he saw hope, and he immediately took out a small cloth bag from his arms, stuffed it under Lin Yue's armpit at once, and then opened the car door on the other side and ran forward.
Lin Yueleng, what's the situation in her heart?
She was about to pull out the cloth bag under her armpit to see what was inside, when she heard a jumble of footsteps coming from the carriage.
Bang, there was another sound, Lin Yue seemed to feel the danger, quickly closed his eyes, buried himself in Lin Chengzhi's arms and pretended to sleep.
At this time, Lin Chengzhi was woken up, and looked at the few black-clothed people running in front of him, with a puzzled expression on his face
"What's wrong, what's wrong?" After waiting for a while, Lin Chengzhi found that nothing had happened, so he put his mind at ease.
He looked down and saw that his daughter was still sleeping, and he breathed a sigh of relief and ignored the things around him.
Lin Chengzhi shook Lin Yue, who was pretending to be asleep, "Yue'er, wake up, do you want to go to the toilet?" We're almost at the mouth of the Meihe River, get up and move, let's go meet your mother, and get ready to get off."
Lin Yue opened his eyes, pretended to rub his eyes, and said hello.
Lin Yue took advantage of Lin Chengzhi's efforts to bend down to take the duffel bag, and quickly put the small cloth bag into his clothes pocket, thinking that when no one was there, he would see what was in the cloth bag.
Actually, Lin Yue was a little excited, she had a hunch that she should have encountered something good, maybe it was the storage space mentioned in the rebirth novel, maybe it was a panacea that could wash the essence, maybe it was a token of some gang.
The more Lin Yue thought about it, the more excited she became, and happily followed Lin Chengzhi to meet her family.
When the family got out of the train station, Lin Chengzhi saw Guan Linghui waiting for them on the tractor on the side of the road, he quickly led his family forward, said hello to his brother-in-law, and then let Lin Yue and them get on the tractor.
When Lin Yue arrived home, it was just in time for lunch. Liu Li made lunch simply, and everyone simply ate two bites because of the fatigue of the boat, and each went back to the house to rest on the kang to rest.
In the afternoon, only the hens were left cooing and cooing, and the four-eyed dogs were lying comfortably under the windowsill, basking in the sun, squinting and falling asleep.