Mortal realm

1980.8.25

Li Qin leaned against the window and looked at the pitch-black reference outside. With the light of the street lamps every fifty meters, he felt that he was some distance closer to home. I've been working for a month, and although I'm working in the field, it's not very far from home. It takes about fifteen or sixteen hours by long-distance bus. After all, he only went from the edge of his own province to the edge of a neighboring province.

At this time, the car was very boring, there were only two people, him and the driver. The last passenger had already disembarked about an hour earlier.

Li Qin glanced at the old-fashioned watch on his wrist, and there was a small rust spot on the dial. The watch was old, and it was left to him by his grandfather. It is not an exaggeration to count it as a family heirloom, but of course, when he passes it on to his children, he can proudly tell his children: "This is from your great-grandfather." Then he made up nonsense to the child, and the legendary experience of shaping this watch that his grandfather picked up on the road is legendary. After all, it is about his future children, Li Qin feels that such nonsense will not have any impact, anyway, his children may not be able to see his grandfather at that time.

The time shown on the dial was already 10 a.m. The train departed at 8 o'clock in the evening, and when it arrived at the terminal, it was about ten hours away from Li Qin's hometown of Bolan County. Li Qin rubbed his eyes, and sleepiness skipped his eyelids like a cunning enemy soldier and hit his brain straight. Li Qin let out a long yawn.

"Sleepy, young man?"

The driver's hoarse voice came from the front of the car.

Li Qin rubbed his eyes and yawned, "Yes, Brother Qin." When I got on the bus at that time, the passenger sitting next to Li Qin and Li Qin briefly introduced the driver of the car. The driver's surname is Qin, his name is Qin Wuzhan, and he is a little bookish when he listens to it, but many old passengers call him Lao Qin. Lao Qin has been a driver for more than 20 years and is an experienced old driver. The overnight train was like eating and drinking for him, something that was no longer routine.

"Sleep, young man. There was no one else in the car at this time. You can go to the last row and lie down to sleep, no problem, with your Brother Qin's driving skills, you can't fall off. Lao Qin glanced at the rearview mirror, and a sincere smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

Hearing the driver's concerned words, Li Qin also smiled and said, "Brother Qin, aren't you sleepy?"

"I've been running night trains for a long time. You can rest assured, when you get into our old Qin's car, no matter how dark it is outside, we can send you to the place safely, no matter how long it takes. ”

Li Qin smiled, got up and moved slightly, walked to the last row, sat down in a row of several seats, and closed his eyes.

"It's time to get up, young man. It's time to stop. ”

"Hey, boy, get up"

Lao Qin's voice echoed in Li Qin's ears, Li Qin frowned and slowly opened his eyes. The sleepiness had not yet dissipated, and the eyelids felt as if a layer of glue had been glued. After struggling to open his eyes, Li Qin sat up. The sun was already high outside the car window. The scorching sun shone through the car window on Li Qin's thighs.

Li Qin glanced at his watch, and it was already one o'clock in the afternoon. Li Qin got up and took his briefcase and walked to the front, at this time, Lao Qin was already sitting in the driver's seat, holding a thermos cup in his hand, and said without raising his head, "There was a traffic jam on the road last night, I said, I will send you, no matter how long." Okay, get off. ”

Lao Qin's tone was a little cold, and the mechanical voice made Li Qin shiver. However, Li Qin could understand, and Li Qin thought that he might be tired. Driving for more than ten hours is tiring.

"It's really troublesome Brother Qin. I'll go first, goodbye. ”

After Li Qin finished speaking, he got out of the car, and the dazzling sun shone on his eyes. Li Qin simply closed his eyes, stretched, and took a big breath of the air of his hometown after half a year's absence. The dry air from the northwest entered his lungs and gave him indescribable sensations.

"Tick!Tick!Tick!" Three shrill horns sounded from behind Li Qin.

Li Qin immediately ran two steps to the right, and a silver-white car with a strange shape ran past Li Qin's position just now. As he was speeding by, Li Qin heard a vicious man's voice shouting in the half-open window: "You are sick!

Li Qin wanted to theorize, but he couldn't help it. He realized that where he had just stood, he was indeed standing on the road, not on the sidewalk where he had just gotten out of the car.

Li Qin thought of Lao Qin's car that had just stopped, but Li Qin glanced around, there was no car, Lao Qin's car disappeared!

Li Qin was very flustered in his heart, he felt that this was his hometown, but he didn't feel it. There weren't so many tall buildings in my hometown, there weren't so many oddly shaped cars, and there weren't the colorful costumes worn by pedestrians.

Drops of cold sweat broke out on Li Qin's forehead, and he didn't know what to do.

After a long time, Li Qin took a deep breath and calmed down. He saw a young man walking towards him, and he stepped forward and asked, "I'm sorry, may I ask, how to get to the honor community?"

"What? honor?"

"Aang, it's an honor, you know?"

The young man shook his head, saying that he was unaware of the existence of this community.

Li Qin felt very strange, the county where his family lived was not big, and the honor community should be known to the locals.

Li Qin was in a hurry, so he didn't think much about it and asked, "You're not a local, are you?"

"Well, you're not a local, are you? You're dressed like this, you don't know you're from that remote mountain village. I've lived here for more than 20 years. I was born here. You still say I'm not a local, are you sick!" The young man said as he staggered away with some anger, and Li Qin walked forward.

Li Qin stopped the young man again, "Hey, brother, I'm sorry." That one... Tianxin Community, do you know?"

The young man nodded, "You just go down this road, go to the intersection and go left, and you are there." ”

"Thank you, thank you. Li Qin thanked him twice, and hurriedly walked in the direction guided by the young man.

The young man didn't lie to him, he found the Tianxin community. However, the Tianxin community in front of him is not at all like the one that had just been built for three months when he left a year ago. It's more like an old house from many years ago. The walls of the house have been washed away by the rain, and the sun has long since peeled off.

Li Qin crossed the door of the community and walked to the familiar unit door according to the route in his memory. Walking into the door of the unit, Li Qin was a little surprised by the dilapidated walls around him, it had only been half a year, and the originally beautiful house had become like this.

Li Qin walked to the third floor, he took a deep breath and knocked on the door facing the security door on the right.

"Here, wait a minute. ”

A crisp girl's voice came from inside the room. When Li Qin heard that voice, he was very excited. Here lives his childhood sweetheart, and it is also the home of his fiancée Lin Xiaojing, who he also married.

"Squeak"

The inner door opened, and it was opened by a girl who looked to be in her early twenties. Li Qin looked at the girl and was stunned, the girl looked very much like Lin Xiaoyan, but it was not her.

The girl looked at the strange man staring at her through the security door, stepped back a little timidly, and asked in a trembling voice, "You, who are you?"

Li Qin frowned and looked at the girl, "Who are you?

The girl looked a little flustered, glanced left and right, hid the inner door in front of her, and whispered, "I don't know you, you have found the wrong person!"

Li Qin knocked on the door again and shouted, "Hey, who are you? Why do you live in Lin Xiaojing's house? What about Lin Xiaojing?"

But there was no sound inside the door.

Li Qin sat on the ground a little depressed, looking at the iron door on the side, he decided to wait for the girl inside to come out and then delay and ask for clarification.

Maybe it's because I haven't eaten since last night's car, and my stomach is rumbling. Li Qin curled up his body, thinking that he could fight hunger in this way.

"Squeak"

Li Qin hurriedly got up when he heard that the door was opened again, but the moment he got up, the door was slammed shut again.

With a loud crash between the lock and the latch, a "neurotic" slipped out of the door. Li Qin sat back in place with some disappointment.

About half an hour later, Li Qin heard several sirens coming from downstairs. A bad premonition emanated from Li Qin's head and spread all over his body. Li Qin heard footsteps, and the footsteps were getting closer and closer. Li Qin's heart also began to beat with the sound of footsteps "bang, bang, bang".

About a minute later, two strangely dressed policemen walked up to Li Qin, and the two of them didn't say anything but looked at Li Qin indifferently.

After looking at it for a while, a policeman rang the doorbell and shouted at the security door: "Ms. Chu, we are police officers in Tianjie District." You can open the door. ”

The policeman's words were very useful, and as soon as the policeman's voice fell, the inner door opened again. The girl poked her head out again and looked at the police and asked, "The weirdo?"

"I, I'm here!" Li Qin stood up and grabbed the door rail of the security door with both hands, and then said: "You know Lin Xiaojing, right? Can you tell me where she is? I am her fiancé." I didn't mean to disturb you, could you please tell me where she is?"

The girl took two steps back, and the two policemen immediately pulled Li Qin and "pulled" him off the security door.

A policeman looked at the girl inside the security door and asked, "Ms. Chu, do you know him?"

The girl shook her head, and the policeman then asked, "Do you know Lin Xiaojing he said?"

The girl nodded and said, "That's my grandmother's name, and this is my grandmother's house." My grandmother passed away a few years ago, and I got a job here after graduating from college, so I stayed at my grandmother's house. But, Mr. Policeman, I really don't know this person, and my grandmother should... I don't know him either. ”

"You woman, how can you casually tarnish other people's reputations? Lin Xiaojing is only 21 this year, and you actually say that she is your grandmother? You must have a problem! Mr. Policeman, she must have a problem!" Li Qin shook his head and glared at the girl inside the door and roared.

"Sir, please calm down! Let's go back to the bureau first, and then explain the situation in detail. ”

As he spoke, the policeman pulled Li Qin downstairs. Before leaving, tell the girl that she may come back to her during this time, hoping to cooperate.

After watching the policeman go downstairs, the girl closed the door and let out a long sigh of relief.

The girl went back to the innermost bedroom, which was her grandmother's bedroom, and the room she loved to spend most of her childhood. The girl's name is Chu Xiaoxiao, and she has just graduated from college and has found a job here. She felt that she had too many childhood memories here, and her grandmother's old house had not been vibrant for a long time. The house has been empty since my grandmother left.

Thinking of her grandmother, Chu Xiaoxiao walked to the large wooden wardrobe in her grandmother's bedroom, opened the middle drawer, and took out a photo album clip. Each of the photos in it has a story about my grandmother. When she took out the album, a red cloth bag fell. Chu Xiaoxiao opened the cloth bag, and there was a key and a photo inside.

The photo was already a little yellowed, and it was a group photo. Although the photo is a little old, the young woman on the left, Chu Xiaoxiao, recognized it at a glance. It was his grandmother, but the young man next to his grandmother and the young man holding his grandmother's hand, Chu Xiaoxiao felt a little familiar.

Chu Xiaoxiao thought about it carefully, and suddenly, her hands shook. Isn't the man in the photo the man who looked two or three years older than him who had just squatted in front of his house to find his grandmother!

Chu Xiaoxiao looked at the photo carefully. On the back of the photo, Chu Xiaoxiao saw the time when the photo was taken: 1980.1.1

Chu Xiaoxiao was stupid, she didn't dare to imagine. The photo was taken on New Year's Day forty years ago, and the person next to my grandmother appeared in front of her forty years later but showed no signs of aging at all.

Chu Xiaoxiao immediately took out his mobile phone and dialed a call

"Duh... Duh..."

"Hey, what's wrong with Xiaoxiao?"

"Momo, I think, I want to trouble you with something......