Chapter 1 The Way Home
Because of the reason for the sauce brewing (you know ~~~), this article is purely overhead, parallel eras, the universe has shifted, and you can make up which one you can make up, the specific background of the year cannot be said, it cannot be said ~~~
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Eighty-four, April.
Tractors jolted down dirt roads, kicking up dust.
After the New Year, there was no rain, and the crops were all formed into mud slabs, hard and thick, and every household was anxious about the spring planting.
The sky is clear, and the tiles are blue, but they make people feel particularly anxious for no reason.
Ye Hui and a group of middle-aged women were huddled in the back of the car, with two thick arms, one left and one right, sticking to half of her body, and her face was sweaty from the scorching sun in the sky.
Indeed, Liang's white shirt was covered with sweat, and it was wet and sticking to his body, reflecting the white vest inside very clearly.
"Big sister, look at your eyes, you're not from Xujiabao, right?"
The aunt on the left side pulled her neck and yelled with the people in the car for a long time, which would smoke in her throat, and when she turned her head, she saw Ye Hui.
His gaze turned to her fair face and the undulating lines in front of her, and he suppressed his voice and prepared to talk to her.
The scene is exactly the same as in her previous life, the same heat, the same noisy aunt, and there is no difference in the sight that rolls over her.
How did she react then? Too much time has passed, and she is a little happy to encounter such a scrutiny again.
"No, auntie, I'm from Xujiabao, and I haven't been back for a long time."
She was taken to Rongcheng by Lu Jianjun at the age of five and grew up in the army headquarters.
In her previous life, she always thought that she had nothing to do with Xujiabao.
It wasn't until she was taken by the half-siblings after her death that she realized that she had never been able to integrate into the military compound in Banyan City.
She's in that place, it's just a joke.
When the aunt saw her smiling on her face, she was interested again, and there was still half an hour left to reach the village, and she was idle.
"The eldest sister looks white and clean, she really doesn't look like a person in the village, she looks exactly like those educated youths back then."
Ye Hui pursed his lips and chuckled, without saying more.
The tractor drove forward abruptly, turned a corner, and the dirt was swept by the wind and poured into the mouths of several people.
The aunts in the car didn't care about chattering, and they all shut up.
The car stopped at the fork in the village, Ye Hui got out of the car behind a few people, and went to find Xu Guihua's home.
Seriously, Ye Hui is not a child of educated youth, and the Xujiabao that Ye Qingshan fled to back then is considered an outsider in the village, so he has always been particularly excluded.
But he was honest and capable, and he was always able to finish the farm work early in the morning.
In the era of large collectives, women can hold up half the sky, work in the field to earn work, and have to do the same work.
Xu Guihua is short and has little strength, so she always asks Ye Qingshan for help, and the two of them who come and go see each other right, so they set up a banquet as if they were married.
In the second year of Ye Hui's life, he fought in the army, and Ye Qingshan took the initiative to join the army in order to give their mother a good life, and he left for two years.
As a result, the good days did not come, but they waited for the news that Ye Qingshan died in battle.
Xu Guihua's father accepted the bride price without saying a word, and gave her to a cripple in the village.
When Ye Hui was five years old, Lu Jianjun came to Xujiabao and said that he had received Ye Qingshan's life-saving grace on the battlefield and wanted to repay their mother and daughter.
At this time, Xu Guihua had already given birth to Xu Chunni, and there was another one in her belly.
Xu Cripple couldn't tolerate Ye Hui, so Xu Guihua begged Lu Jianjun to take Ye Hui away.
has been gone for many years, and she has not been back a few times in her previous life.
I only vaguely remember that Xu Guihua's home is in the east of the village, the most broken family.
"Mom, didn't there be a telegram saying that my eldest sister would be back today, why haven't she arrived home yet?"
The boy's voice in the voice change period was hoarse like the saw of Xu Sanjia at the entrance of the village, stabbing and stabbing, but he was looking forward to it at this time, and his voice became even more unpleasant as soon as he raised it.
"Why are you pulling your neck here, the eldest sister hasn't come back once in many years, and even if she comes back, she can't look down on us."
Xu Chunni said so, but her hands were still pulling at the patched placket.
Xu Guihua was sick at the beginning of the year, there was no man in their family, and Xu Chunhai was still a hairy boy and was not an adult.
The three of them can't plant the land at home, so they can only contract two acres to Xu Guihua's second brother and collect a little rent every year.
But in the past two years, Xu Jianye has asked for the land, but the rent has not been paid, and Xu Guihua has no money to see a doctor when she is sick.
The sister and brother were worried for several months, and seeing that Xu Guihua's health was getting worse and worse, they finally received the news that Ye Hui was coming back.
The eldest sister should come back with money when she comes back.
Xu Chunhai stood on the dirt road, pulling his neck and looking in the direction where the tractor would appear.
I saw a figure slowly turning around, tall and thin, and a white shirt was cleanly washed.
"You are the eldest sister, I am Chunhai, the Chunhai of Xu Guihua's family in the east of the village."
In his previous life, Xu Chunhai was also like this, waiting for her here with a little shyness and expectation.
She just glanced at him coldly, telling him to get away and not touch his white shirt.
She closed her eyes, looked at the slightly darkened teenager in front of her, and pulled out a smile from the bottom of her heart.
"I'm the eldest sister, let's wait a long time, let's go back quickly."
"Okay, okay, let's go back, our mother has been looking forward to it since the morning."
Xu Chunhai wanted to step forward and take Ye Hui's backpack, but he was afraid that she would not be willing, so he didn't know what to do when his arms were extended.
Ye Hui smiled and handed over the backpack in his hand, the contents were all prepared by Cao Yanhua for Xu Guihua and the three of them.
It's just that when she came back to visit her family, she hadn't been reborn yet, with awkwardness and reluctance in her heart.
I don't know what's in the backpack.
Xu Chunhai excitedly took it and led Ye Hui home.
Their house was a one-and-a-half-piece adobe house, and the heavy rain in the previous two years had washed away a lot of adobe and depressed it a lot.
As soon as I entered the door, I felt that the room was very dark, and it was difficult for the sunlight to shine in.
Xu Guihua was half leaning on the kang, the quilt on her body was worn and old, and the head of the quilt was patched, but it was very clean.
"The leaves are back."
Xu Guihua wanted to get up when she saw her enter the door, and was greeted by Ye Hui with an arrow step, pressing the person on the kang.
"I'm back, and I'm ...... Don't go. ”
"Eldest sister, you are talking nonsense, you are stupid, you have a good stay in the city, why do you come back."
Xu Chunni shouted strangely, what's good in this village.
Xu Guihua glared at Xu Chunni, but she wanted to say something, but she coughed for a long time before stopping.
"It's good to come back, it's right to come back, no matter how good it is in the city, it's not a home, Qi Da is not a coincidence, we can't afford to climb like that."
In Xu Guihua's previous life, whether it was on the phone or in the letter, she kept chanting the words Qi Dafei.
It's not okay to make Ye Hui irritable, she grew up in the Lu family, and she should always stay in the Lu family in the future, how can she be so big!
She didn't understand it in her previous life, but she lived a lifetime, and now she finally understands.