Chapter 25 Reunion after a long absence, sincere love
It is also a Jiangnan meeting, and it is a dream to turn over doubts. ——[Tang] Dai Shulun "Jiangxiang Old Puppet Collection Guest House"
There are fewer and fewer cars on the road, the last time I walked on this road, I was a rural boy, looking up at the street lights flashing in the sky, I was overwhelmed, naturally I didn't pay much attention to other cars on the road. And now, I have no interest in the street lights, not to mention the street lights in the daytime, only to find that the driver is getting faster, the route is simple, all the way straight, there is no need to turn around, quite a feeling of driving on the highway.
In less than an hour, the four titanium characters of "QTH Station" were clearly visible. There is probably still a period of time before the Spring Festival, and there are not too many people at the station. The aunt and grandmother, who were sitting on the steps in front of the station and munching on sticky bud rice (1), couldn't help but feel a little sour in their hearts, whether it was right or wrong to throw them down and come to the city to enjoy the blessings? Didn't let the driver drive into the parking lot, pulled over and put me down, thanked the driver, walked into the public telephone hall alone to report to my mother a safety, my mother told me to pay attention to safety, listen to adults, before hanging up the phone, I told me that in the morning in my schoolbag on the small compartment put 100 yuan, let me keep to buy food, I heard the sound of mahjong on the other end of the phone, and did not bother much, promised to hang up the phone.
At that time, most of the telephone booths were run by supermarket owners, because they were just answering a call in front of their own windows, which was not a trouble, and books, newspapers, and audio tapes were placed next to them in front of the station. I went into the store and bought some bread, sausages, and snacks that I wanted to eat, and I bought two kinds of drinks, carbonated and non-carbonated, and I was afraid that they would not get used to drinking them, and I took two bottles of water. I don't know how much more expensive the price here is than the supermarket next to my house, it's basically more than doubled, but I don't care, the 100 yuan in my hand at that time is a huge amount of money. I calculated in my heart, and there were only about two dozen pieces full of plastic bags.
The shopkeeper took the hundred-yuan bill in my hand with a slightly hesitant expression, took the money and touched it, looked at it again and again according to the sun, obviously not believing that adults would give such a big amount of money to a child. I didn't say much, my mind was full of aunts and grandmothers, I hadn't seen them for more than a year, not to mention the feelings of missing, but more of the deep guilt and guilt after seeing them like that. I always feel like buying them something and carrying it over will make me feel better.
I put the change back in my bag and walked to the station with my things, but for seven-year-old me, the things in my hands were a bit heavy, the plastic bag was deeply sunk in my fingers, and my hands were red and white. But I didn't slow down a bit, and walked through the parking lot, shouting to the two on the steps as I went.
When my aunt heard my shout, she looked up and saw that it was really me, so she quickly stuffed the bud in her hand into her grandmother's hand, got up and patted the soil on her buttocks, and ran over to pick me up. "Oh, Peng Peng, why did you come by yourself? Where's your mom and your godfather? My aunt looked behind me, and there was naturally no one behind me, "They still have something to do, and after seeing you, they will leave the store for me." "I don't want to have any suspicion between them, so I just let them panic. At this time, we had already walked to my grandmother, and my grandmother didn't eat anymore, so she came over and touched her head and touched it, and she screamed and cried again. Crying and crying, I remembered to ask my aunt the same question, and before I could answer, my aunt complained: "Oh, the two of them are busy making a lot of money." Don't cry, let's go, let's buy a ticket. "I put my bag of food in my cloth pocket, slung it over my shoulder, and walked towards the ticket office first, and my grandmother led me behind me.
Our station is small, the ticket gate is in the waiting hall, I wanted to rush in front of my aunt and wanted to buy a ticket, but my aunt insisted that I couldn't spend my money, let me keep it for myself, I had no choice but to accompany my grandmother to sit back on the chair in the waiting hall. There weren't many people in line, and after a while, my aunt came back with two pink tickets in her hand and told us to leave. Although I was seven years old at the time, I was short, just over a meter, and the average child was five years old, so I didn't need to buy a ticket. Our train is also a train with fewer people, no need to wait, just get on the train and wait for the train to depart.
The first time I saw the train, I couldn't help but take a few more looks, the green iron carriages, for me at that time was like a long dragon of steel. I sat down with my grandmother, my aunt sat opposite us, put the cloth bag on the small table between us, stood up and went to open the window of the train, this window is also unusual, the window of my father's car has a buckle on the left, after breaking it and pushing it back, it can be opened, but the window of the train looks like it is open up and down.
My aunt noticed my curious gaze and turned to explain to me: "My aunt is motion sick, and it should be disgusting if you don't open the window to smell some fresh air for a while." There was a thick frost on the window, and my aunt tried several times, but she still couldn't open it, and finally had to sit down. Grandma was concerned on the side: "You finish the bud rice first, you can't eat it after a while, and you don't eat anything in the morning on the big customer." As he spoke, he handed over half a stick of corn in his hand. My aunt nodded and took it, and I went to my cloth pocket to find the red sausage I had just bought for her, and asked as I looked, "Where is my father?" The old lady was holding her mouth, so the grandmother replied, "He didn't come, and he took care of the house." Anyway, he doesn't care about his big girl. After saying that, I rolled my eyes, as if my grandfather was sitting opposite her and annoying her, I took out the red sausage and opened it for my aunt, and then went to get water.
My aunt swallowed the food in her mouth and asked me, "Peng Peng, what are your mothers and godfathers doing to you over there?" I took out the Coke and twisted it for a long time and couldn't unscrew it: "Well, it's good, my mother has always taken care of me, but when she taught me the rules, she was always beaten and scolded, and it was usually okay, my godfather didn't talk much, but it didn't treat me badly, he bought me whatever I wanted." Listening to her repeated "godfather, godfather", I naturally know that I can't be called dad at my grandmother's house, otherwise they will think that I have forgotten my roots, and this is still without them knowing that I changed my name, and I don't know how rebellious they will think I am if they know that I am no longer "Wei Zhenpeng".
The Coke that my aunt took from my hand helped me unscrew it, and nodded: "That's okay, Jiang Hongyan is not a conscience, I left you away at the time, and now I can let you enjoy it, it's quite expensive for you to go to that closed school, Xiao Liu is really okay to throw money at you like this, huh...... Mom, try this soda. "My aunt took a sip of the Coke I pushed over and recommended it to my grandmother.
"What's this? It's like a Chinese herbal soup. Grandma tasted a bite and frowned, it seems that the old man can't accept this novel taste, seeing that she doesn't like to drink, I gave her the black tea to taste, her expression is softened, chewing the red sausage I gave her, and asked me: "Hey, old grandson, don't you eat?" I replied truthfully, "I came here after eating in the morning, so you can eat." ”
The chatter was interrupted by a "woo" sound, and with a "boom, boom, boom" sound, the train began to slowly move forward .......
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