Chapter 16: Hometown
"Lin Yu?" Lin Qingjia spoke weakly, in case it was embarrassing.
"Well, why did you come here" Lin Yu said lightly, since he asked, it was inevitable that he would be a little embarrassed if he didn't speak.
"How tall are you for an evening event?" Lin Qingjia remembered that she didn't even know that Lin Yu was actually admitted to her high school.
When Lin Yu was admitted, his father Lin Hao also proudly told him everywhere. It's just that she has a wonderful and fulfilling university, so she doesn't pay attention to it.
"I just went to the first year of high school, and by the way, I still have to make papers, so I'll go first" In front of people, he also felt that they had nothing to talk about, so he excused himself for something.
"Who is that little sister" The classmates next to Lin Yu asked curiously, "My first sister" Lin Yu didn't explain much. He is not much different in age from Lin Qingjia, he is a boy, and he is not very close to Lin Qingjia.
"Who, there are such handsome students in No. 1 Middle School" As soon as the person left, Qin Hanmin spoke, and Lin Qingjia had already felt that she was pulling her sleeves. It's really gossip, no matter how you look at it, they can't be a couple.
"My cousin is my cousin's own brother" Qin Hanmin didn't know this, she always knew that Lin Qingjia had a cousin, but she hadn't seen it.
"Introduced to you?" Lin Qingjia laughed and said, "Hey, no, no, such a young little brother." I'm a principled mother, and I don't accept sibling love. After listening to her, Qin Hanmin looked disgusted.
Lin Qingjia thought of his junior brother Xiang Yi, and was immediately shocked by his own thoughts.
"Let's go, the time is almost up" Qin Hanmin pulled her towards the activity room.
When they arrived, they saw that other people were adjusting the projector to avoid a glitch when playing the PPT. Among the people who came this time, there was no one she knew, except for Qin Hanmin.
Half an hour before the start of the activity, the students arrived. Some people still have review materials on their mobile phones, some people hold notebooks, and some people come empty-handed.
Lin Qingjia stood on the side and saw a girl looking at her several times. So she stepped forward to talk to the girl, and at first she was a senior sister. Who knew that while chatting, she couldn't control it and let herself go.
When Qin Hanmin asked her to draw lots, she walked away. "Senior sister, you are a good person, at first I thought you were the one who was cold and difficult to get along with" This is what the senior sister said to her at the end.
Lin Qingjia smiled and walked away, very happy in her heart. Since she went to college, even though she has met so many people, no one will say to her, "You are a good person."
They drew lots to decide the order of speeches on stage, and Lin Qingjia drew the tenth place. A total of 13 people came today, and she was tenth, already very far behind.
The further back you go, the more difficult it is to grasp the situation, and the students' interest is not very easy to bring up. Lin Qingjia was a little gloomy, after all, from PPT to speech, he had carefully prepared.
When others came on stage, Lin Qingjia paid attention to the reaction of the audience. For her, it's already a habit.
Over the past few years, she has participated in many activities because of her work. Most of these kinds of stories need to capture effective audience reaction shots.
Among the people who came this time, there were only a few students from prestigious schools. Most of the rest are like Lin Qingjia, who are ordinary college students. Therefore, there is no great difference in the students' viewing reactions during the lecture.
Some of these students often have a mentality that they think that they have not yet taken the college entrance examination and everything is not a certainty. And these college students who came to give speeches are all decided. Some people's universities, they don't look down on, so they don't want to listen to them.
Lin Qingjia is also a person from the past, and she has also experienced the psychology of some of them. So it's very understandable, and I don't show loss and surprise.
Lin Qingjia came to the stage and behaved generously when he spoke. In college, she can be regarded as having seen "big scenes". In the face of these high school students, she is naturally not nervous.
There are people from various majors who came this time, and some of them have the right appetite. This part of the people was more actively involved in the interaction, dared to ask questions, and the whole event was successfully completed.
At the end, the schoolgirl also asked for her contact information. also said that he was very envious of Lin Qingjia's ability to be calm in front of people.
Lin Qingjia listened to her with a smile, and finally wrote down the contact information in her notebook. Lin Qingjia thought to herself, she was not born with it, and she was also boiled out little by little.
Time passed quietly, and everyone returned home from all directions. Lu Qianqian, who was far away in the northeast, also returned. At the station, when Lin Qingjia saw Lu Qianqian with a tired face for the first time, his eyes immediately turned red.
Lu Qianqian felt sorry for her parents that it was not easy to make money, and because of the long distance. So every time she goes home, she chooses to take the cheapest regular train.
It's dozens of hours by car, and she also goes to school in other places, and every time she goes home, she silently complains about the choice she made to go out of the province.
The scariest thing is when you ask for directions and find a car in a completely unfamiliar city for the first time, when you drag a heavy suitcase up and down the stairs, when you get off the subway and are pushed hard from behind......
At that time, I was overwhelmed, helpless, exhausted, and remembered a handful of bitter tears. Fortunately, I gradually adapted to it and was able to deal with it calmly.
Before the Spring Festival, Lin Qingjia helped in the store. Many parents prepare "gift bags" for their children before the holidays. Therefore, the store will be very busy during this time.
In addition to homework, Lin Qingjia noticed that there were also many students who bought magazines. The youth digest, readers, and Yilin in my memory, the story philosophy and famous sentences in it add a lot of content to the composition.
And Lin Qingjia's favorite is still those jokes and god sentences, which he often enjoys when he is controlled on his mobile phone. It's just that after I went to college, I lost interest.
Time always has to go, and even if it is a repetitive monotonous day, it passes quickly. If no one mentions it, Lin Qingjia won't realize that he has grown so big.
When the neighbors saw her, they stopped saying "fat", "thin" or "taller". Instead, "Are you in love?", "Where are you studying?", "Don't marry far away".
On the morning of the Chinese New Year's Eve, Father Lin drove the whole family back to his hometown for the New Year. From her home to her hometown, it takes more than ten hours to go back and forth, which is not close.
It's not too far, but it's rarely back. Lin Qingjia's time at home is only two holidays. The number of times I go back in a year can be counted with a single slap.
Lin Qingjia has wondered since she was a child why they have so few families. In the village, other people's families are all relatives on the left and relatives on the right. In comparison, her family always has a kind of depression embarrassment. Later listen to Dad
Speaking of the past things of his grandparents, Lin Qingjia knew that the original story did not necessarily exist from afar.
Lin Qingjia's grandfather was originally an orphan and wandered near his current hometown. Lin Qingjia's grandmother met her grandfather by chance and saw that he was good-looking and down-to-earth and diligent, so she married him despite the opposition of the family. In Lin Qingjia's impression, he only remembered that his grandfather's eyebrow bones and nose bridge were very high, and he could see that he was a beautiful man when he was young.
In the early years, my grandmother suffered a lot with my grandfather. It wasn't until Lin Qingjia's father and uncle grew up that life slowly got better.
However, there are also advantages of fewer people, that is, there is harmony in the family, there are not so many disputes, and the relationship is also close. Although Lin Qingjia almost didn't recognize Lin Yu that day, the main reason was that he had changed a lot. Grandpa's high-value genes, only Lin Yu has inherited them in the whole family.
When she was a child, Lin Shan went to school, but she Lin Qingjia brought Lin Yu. Lin Yu has been called Lin Qingjia and Lin Qingjia since she was a child, and in her memory, she has never heard him call her sister.
Lin Qingjia's uncle learned a little carpenter's trade when he was young, and he has been relying on this to eat later. After years of hard work, he opened a home furnishing store in the town, which is also considered to be a bit of a family. Because of their proximity, they still live in the village, mainly to facilitate the care of the two elderly people.
Lin Qingjia's aunt was married from nearby. is a person with a powerful mouth and generous, so he can help his uncle in business. She is also very good to Lin Qingjia, and Lin Qingjia also likes her.
And the mother's family is not far away, so the Lin family is also a relative. When he was a child, Lin Qingjia especially liked to take Lin Yu to his grandmother's house. Because she thought she had no relatives at a young age, the adults didn't let the children play with her.
At that time, she thought that it was all because of her aunt that she finally had a relative. Therefore, she has respected her relatives over there since she was a child. I'm afraid that people will think that she is not well-behaved, and it is not good to have such relatives.
When Lin Qingjia was a child, what he was most afraid of was that he woke up and had no relatives. As she grew up, she saw the wider world and understood more things. For her relatives over there, she still retains basic respect, but she will no longer have that kind of humble mentality.
Bacon also said that the real terrible is not the kind of thought that everyone cannot avoid. It's the kind of fallacies and prejudices that go deep into customs and are entrenched in the hearts of people.
A person's growth environment is very important to the development of his character. In the case of Lin Qingjia when she was young, it is assumed that she still grew up in such an environment. I'm afraid that now she is also an ordinary woman who can only be short-lived. She believes that character determines destiny.
As soon as I arrived at the entrance of the village, before I arrived at my grandmother's house, I saw my grandmother standing on the side of the road from a distance. With Lin Qingjia's "eyesight", he can never see the appearance of people from a distance.
But for grandma, Lin Qingjia can always recognize it. Because in her memory, the deepest impression of her grandmother is the rickety back.
Grandma seemed to recognize the car and called out the grandfather in the house. The two old people, like lecture gatekeepers, give people a sense of warmth and security when they stand there.
As the car drew closer, the windows framed the old man in a picture of them waving and laughing. Before I got out of the car, I saw my grandmother's blank face stuck to the car window.
Even if she is close at hand, but she can't see or touch it, grandma is like a stranger who is lost, and like a child who "covets" toys outside the window. Because from the outside of the car window, you can't see the inside side.
Lin Qingjia was a little distressed and a little funny, distressed by her grandmother's distress, I don't know how long I waited for them. It's funny that the older grandma gets, the more she looks like a child.
"Oops, baby" Grandma's first thought was her, and Lin Qingjia felt very uncomfortable. Grandma came up and "hugged" her, as if she were a baby in her arms.
However, grandma can only wrap her hands around Lin Qingjia's waist. It looks like a koala hugging a tree, and it's inexplicably a little cute.
The child is no longer a child, and she is no longer the grandmother who walks like a fly.
Grandpa didn't speak behind grandma, looking at them with a smile. Some, like the English butler at Conton Manor, stood faithfully behind his master.
Lin Qingjia called grandpa with a smile, and he also smiled and stepped forward to touch her head to show his happiness and intimacy.