Chapter 45: Tears
The snow on the highway has basically melted away, but the farmland is still snowy, and in some places where the sun shines better, a small patch of yellow-green wheat seedlings is exposed, and it is becoming more and more vibrant in the endless white snowfield.
Today's weather is also sunny and very good, facing the stinging sun, several people are riding the bicycle quickly, the buttocks are off the saddle, and the legs full of youthful vitality will rush forward for a long distance every time they pedal the bicycle hard. There were very few cars on the road, and occasionally a tractor pulling a red brick suddenly drove by, and Gao Qi held the back of the tractor with his hand, and was pulled forward by the tractor.
Li Jun and Yang Xinli also wanted to keep up with the tractor and save some effort, but they saw the driver with a big thick cotton hat standing up with one hand on the steering wheel, waving to them behind them and shouting loudly to let them leave the tractor.
Gao Qi laughed and let go of his hand, and the driver quickly sat back in the driver's seat, twisted the steering wheel and abruptly drove the tractor away. The three of them laughed and continued to pedal the bicycle hard.
The three of them talked and laughed and felt that the road was also going very fast, and after a while, they arrived at the fork in the road between the two villages of Li Jun and Gao Qi, Gao Qi did not turn to their village, but followed Li Jun into their village. First passing by Yang Xinli's door, he went home to put his things and then went to Xiaojian's house, and Gao Qi followed Li Jun to his house for a few minutes.
Li Jun pushed open the half-covered door and pushed the car into the courtyard with Gao Qi.
"Xiao Jun is back!" As soon as the two of them entered the courtyard door, Grandma's voice came from the easternmost room where she lived, and then the door of the house opened inside, and Grandma lifted the cotton curtain and walked out of the house.
"Xiaoqi is also here, you haven't been back for two weeks, grandma misses you, yesterday I was talking to your dad, your dad said that you should come back today after New Year's Day off, I have been looking at you through the window. Come into my house, yesterday your second aunt and they came to buy me a cake, Xiaoqi, you also come, eat a piece of cake first. Grandma's face was full of smiles, since she was a child, grandma has liked Li Jun's grandson the most, and Li Jun also knows that she loves grandma.
"Grandma, my second aunt bought it for you, you can eat it, I'm not a child now, I won't give you food." Li Jun put the car up, smiled and walked over to grandma, grandma stretched out her arm and touched Li Jun's head, since she was a child, grandma has used this way to express her love for Li Jun, it used to be down, and now Li Jun is much taller than grandma, but grandma still uses this way to express her love for her grandson.
"Is it cold on the road? Why don't you wait for the weather to be warmer at noon and come back, and run back in the morning. "Grandma's face is caring.
"Grandma, we're not cold, we're riding fast, we'll be warm in a while, and we'll not go home for two weeks, and I miss grandma too." A charming smile appeared on Li Jun's face.
"You're really going to make grandma happy, put your backpack in the house, and then pour some hot water for Xiaoqi to drink, don't stand outside." Grandma was still happier by Li Jun, helped him take off the backpack behind him, and beckoned Gao Qi to let him enter the house as well.
"Grandma, I won't go into the house, Xiao Jun put down his things, and we'll go to Xiao Jian to play, we haven't seen each other for half a year." Gao Qi still stood in place, smiling at his grandmother.
"But no, after you went to high school, Xiao Jianzi heard that he went to Tianjin to work, and he came to the house yesterday to find Xiao Jun, you used to be good classmates, you should go more, grandma doesn't care about you." Li Jun's grandmother also knew that they had a good relationship before, so she walked back to her house after speaking.
Li Jun opened the door of the house to the west of his grandmother, threw the bag directly on the washing machine at the door, and went out of the house, pushed the car, and walked out of his house with Gao Qi.
When the two of them rode to Xiaojianjia Hutong, they saw the figure standing at the door of his house from afar, but he became thinner than before, and his long hair had become a short hairy inch.
A few minutes later, the three of them let go of their arms that were clasped together, but they still walked into the courtyard of Xiao Jian's house, "Jian'er has lost weight and is dark." Gao Qi looked at Li Hongjian, who had become much more masculine than before, and his face was full of emotion.
"Haha, this is life, working outside, exposed to the wind and sun every day, can't compare with you sitting in the classroom every day." Li Hongjian's face was very indifferent, and there was no longer the loss and pain when they couldn't go to high school together.
"Jian'er, when did you come back? As soon as I got home, my grandmother said that you went to our house yesterday to look for me. Li Jun looked at him and felt less melancholy, his brother still grew up and learned to face life.
"I also came back yesterday, thinking that you could come back yesterday afternoon, so I went to look for you." Li Hongjian also hopes to meet his brothers earlier.
"Isn't this the New Year's Day party held by the school yesterday to unify all classes? Otherwise, I would have come back yesterday, and my brothers would have rushed back early this morning, and our buddies have been separated for half a year, so I really miss it. Li Jun smiled and patted Li Hongjian's shoulder.
"I heard that you have been tossing a lot in the past six months, Xiao Qi wrote to me and said, Xiao Feng also said, but you didn't tell me yourself, I heard that Fang Ning was still angry with you in the end?" Li Hongjian's face was full of concern, maybe he still remembered the experience of accompanying Li Jun to Fang Ning's house several times.
"Don't talk about her, the past has passed, but it did make the school stormy, and we never thought that we could make such a big move in a school at one time in junior high school." Li Jun's face was still flat, but his heart was still a little up and down.
"I'm not in you and Xiaoqi two people are more able to toss, I have been on the construction site for half a year, and I have been thinking about the time we spent together, at the beginning, I was tired and sore every day, I was lying in the plank shed with tears, relying on memories of the happy days we went through together." The smiles on the faces of the three of them froze when they said this, and they could all think of what kind of pain it was.
"Jian'er, when did you come back?" Yang Xinli's voice came from the door.
"Xinli, I came back yesterday, let's go into the house, I got up early to prepare a few dishes, and I also prepared wine, our brother must not get drunk today." Saying that, the four of them walked into Li Hongjian's house together.
There were four dishes on the small square table in his bedroom, and sure enough, they were all ready as Li Hongjian said, and there were four bottles of wine packaged in cartons on the ground next to the small square table.
"Don't drink Shijiazhuang Daqu anymore?" Li Jun said with a grin.
"Okay, brother, I also earn a salary, and now I also open a 6 or 700 yuan a month, let's change to a slightly higher grade." Li Hongjian picked up the wine box from a small square stool on the ground, opened a bottle of wine, and poured wine into several wine glasses on the table, and the aroma of wine instantly filled the entire room.
"Is this the whole thing? It's not even 11 o'clock, isn't it a bit early? Yang Xinli looked at the three people holding wine glasses in front of him.
"Brother drinks with feelings, not time, since everyone has arrived, the wine can start drinking!" Li Jun raised his wine glass to the middle of the table, "Cheers, brothers!" ”
Four glasses filled with wine gently collided together, the hearts of the four young people also collided together, time said fast and quickly passed half a year, the experience of the four people changed, the heart also slowly changed, but it was the same excitement and pleasure to get together again.
The transparent liquid was poured into his mouth, and after one sip, two or three sips, the first glass of wine was drunk, and the enthusiasm of several people was ignited again.
"Brothers, there is another thing for me to come back this time." After the second glass of wine was full, the speed of drinking began to slow down, Li Hongjian picked up the wine glass and said: "When this matter is said, you have to congratulate me." ”
Li Jun found that there was no joy on his face that needed to be congratulated, but a sense of helplessness and loss slowly rose, making people feel that the thing to congratulate was boring.
"What's the matter, tell me quickly, your happy event is the happy event of our brothers." Gauge also picked up his glass.
"I may be engaged when I come back this time." Li Hongjian's tone did not hear a trace of joy.
"Engagement, who are you engaged to, what should you do with Song Jiamin? Did you just give up? Li Jun's surprise was indeed irrepressible.
"Jun'er, we are not the same anymore, you and Fang Ning are together, what is the final result? You used to be so obsessed, on such a hot day, the two of us rode for three hours to find her under the scorching sun, and in the end you still flew separately, what am I now, I am a small worker, a small worker working on the construction site, what qualifications do I have to say love. Li Hongjian's face was full of pain.
"You always tell me about class, haven't you seen through it? There will always be an insurmountable invisible chasm in our lives, and we have to accept our fate on the other side of the eternal gap that does not belong to us. Xiao Qi also told me about you and Yuan Yamin, as well as Xiao Ting's affairs, this one by one, let me know very clearly, I have lived in the society for half a year, and everything in the society is not something that we can understand when we come out to play in school for a few days. Li Hongjian raised the wine glass to his mouth and drank half a glass of wine in a big gulp, but he was choked, coughed constantly, and the tears of coughing also flowed out of his eyes and all over his face.
"What is love, why is it so tormenting, everyone who wants to get close to her will be scarred by her wounds, and there is no whole skin, can there only be loveless love in the world?" Li Jun also raised the wine glass to his mouth, and at the same time, Gao Qi and Yang Xinli also drank the wine in the cup into their mouths.
Tears flashed in Li Jun's eyes unconsciously, thinking about the experience of half a year and the helplessness of love, he couldn't help but feel sad from his heart, and burst into tears.