Chapter III

In the autumn of 2010, Zhang Haifei and Huang Siyao returned to Huidong. This is not contradictory, many local Shenzhen people in Longgang have a hometown of Huizhou, but their ancestors came up sooner or later.

Zhang Haini actually had a trace of indescribable chagrin because of her brother's marriage, and after her brother and sister-in-law moved back to Huidong, she also moved to Shenzhen and rented a house by herself.

There is a small three-story western-style building in Shangwuwei Farm, which can be seen all over the country. It sits next to a small stream and is surrounded by more than a thousand acres of land.

At this time, the countryside was already extremely desolate, and most of the young people went to the cities. Not far away, Shenzhen is known as a pioneer city in China, and Huizhou is also very developed, but this place is still so backward. Perhaps that's why. Ten years ago, Zhang Haifei's father obtained the right to contract the land for 30 years from the village collective at a very low price.

Huang Siyao also lived in the countryside when she was very young. Therefore, she accepted the lifeless countryside at a glance and let it be.

In the window of the small bungalow, in those rather gloomy rooms, she rarely heard any kind of sound. But smell is absolutely indispensable. You can smell manure, pesticides, and sometimes the smell of the sea breeze in the distance, mixed with the smell of dead fish.

Okay, that's the way it is. It's fate, like everything else. It's pretty scary, but why rebel? You can't really kick it away, it's still going on. This is life, like everything else!

In the night sky, where the clouds are low, everything seems so silent, and when you look up at the sky, you can still see the stars. At first, they haunted Huang Siyao with a terrifying feeling, and she felt isolated from the world, even living in hell. After that, she gradually got used to it.

Zhang Haifei claimed that he preferred Huidong to Shenzhen. This country has a harsh will of its own.

The workers here are both local and mainland, and there are more people from the mainland who come here to work as new farmers. Huang Siyao wanted to know what kind of people it was. Undoubtedly, they are optimistic, but at the same time blind and mindless. At least, that's what Huang Siyao thought at this time.

But when they came home from work in droves, in their deep, loud and indistinct dialects, in the clatter of their loess-stained boots and shuffling along the asphalt road, there was something terrible and slightly mysterious.

When they returned to the farm from Shenzhen, the person in charge of the farm did not organize a celebration, nor did the village chief or anything like that come to greet them.

This farm has nothing to do with this village called Sai Chung, not at all. When the villagers saw them, they neither smiled nor prepared to say a few words to them.

The farmworkers just watched with their eyes wide open. Occasionally, the businessmen who passed by waved their hands like acquaintances when they saw Huang Siyao, and to Zhang Haifei, they nodded embarrassedly, that's all.

At first, Huang Siyao was distressed by the drizzle-like estrangement in the village. But then she made herself cold, which became a kind of strengthening, a hedgehog's spike.

It's not because she and Zhang Haifei are unpopular, but because they are two completely different people from farmworkers.

Theoretically speaking, whether it is a farm worker or a villager, they are sympathetic to Zhang Haifei and Huang Siyao after all. But the reality is - I don't need your sympathy.

Of course, you must not think that you are higher than me, and I need you to sympathize with me, and I don't need your sympathy.

"Even if you're the owner here, we think we're as good as you!" That's the attitude of the farmman, you're my boss, I'm a little afraid of you, but I'm not bad.

Huang Siyao was very frustrated and uneasy about this attitude at first. When she took the initiative to greet the wives of the hire-holders, their curious, suspicious, hypocritical affection could not be tolerated.

Zhang Haifei doesn't care about them, and Huang Siyao also learns to do so. She didn't squint as she passed through the village, and the villagers stared at her as if she were a walking wax figure.

When Zhang Haifei wanted to deal with them, his attitude was quite serious and arrogant, and people could no longer express their friendliness. He stood on his own ground and did not have the slightest intention of compromising with others. He is neither liked nor disliked by people, he is just a part of everything, just like the farm and Sai Chung Village itself.

But now that he is half disabled, Zhang Haifei is really shy and sensitive. He didn't want to see anyone but his personal nanny.

Because he had to be in a wheelchair all the time. Despite this, he is still the same as always, he will still go to Hong Kong to buy the most expensive clothes and dress himself up very well. From the top of the body, he is as chic and moving as before. He was never the kind of sissy modern youth: with his ruddy face and broad shoulders, he even resembled a sturdy farmer. But his quiet and hesitant voice, his eyes that were both brave and fearful, decisive and doubtful, revealed his nature. His attitude is often arrogant and unpleasant, but at the same time he is very modest, inferior, and almost timid.

Huang Siyao and he are attached to each other in a way that keeps their distance from each other. He was too hurt by the huge blow of lifelong cripple to be too much for himself to be natural and light. He was an injured man, so Huang Siyao took pity on him passionately.

However, Huang Siyao always felt that he had too little contact with people in reality. The hire-rolls are, in a sense, his own people; But he sees them more as tools than as people; Think of them more as part of the farm than as part of life. He was a little scared of them, and he couldn't bear to let them look crippled. And the rough way of life of the hired workers gave him a sense of superiority.

Zhang Haifei was interested in them from afar, but it was like a person looking into a microscope or a telescope.

He has no contact with anyone except for his limited contact with the farm at work and with his sister Zhang Haini in order to maintain his kinship. Other than that, nothing really touched him.

Huang Siyao felt that she hadn't really touched Zhang Haifei; Maybe you won't be able to figure out what's going on in the end; It's just a reluctance to make contact with people.

However, Zhang Haifei is completely dependent on Huang Siyao, and he needs her all the time. He was mighty and strong, but he could not be left without help. He can move around in his wheelchair. He could go around the yard slowly and in circles. But when he's alone, it's like a lost thing. He needs Huang Siyao, with her, so that he can fully feel his existence.