Chapter 449: The Wanderer Returns Home
In the midst of the busyness, after the safe birthday, the days passed even faster, and in the blink of an eye, it was the end of the year, and the semester had basically ended.
The Year of the Tiger is ushered in in the wind and snow, and people look forward to the vitality of the tiger and the tiger, and hope that the new year will turn things around.
The people's desire is nothing more than to live and work in peace and contentment. According to the students who bought train tickets, the situation is not optimistic. Tickets for northbound trains at the ticket office at the train station are almost hard to find.
After Zhang Guoqing learned about it, he deliberately picked a time to contact Liu Ming on the platform. I went twice in a row, and finally got the other party's train.
The two didn't have time to say a few words, so Liu Ming suggested that the family should not return to their hometown before the year. First, the children are small, and the weather this year is particularly cold compared to previous years; Second, there are many people who have fled the famine with the old and the young. There are too many health and safety hazards caused, and it is better to wait for the spring of next year to leave.
Before Zhang Guoqing could make a decision, Zhang's father sent two letters in a row, asking them not to go back, and the old couple immediately went to Beijing after the beginning of spring.
The two letters written by Zhang Lao Er made Zhang Guoqing anxious. If he didn't write so intensively, he could still comfort himself, but as soon as the anomaly appeared, he couldn't sit still.
Why don't they let their family go back? I haven't seen him for half a year, his father and mother don't want to miss his old son, and he can't get through it, is there an accident at home, or is someone being a demon again? What the hell is going on?
Zhang Laoer's letter was not clearly expressed, which made him almost scold his mother. The inconvenience of communication once again made Zhang Guoqing annoyed.
It was hard to get through it, and as soon as the school was over, he immediately took the food stamps and planned to travel. His wife and children are safe in Beijing, and he is a big man who can't travel far.
Parents who are far away in the Northeast, the pair of parents who report good news but not bad news, always trust his father, and favor his mother who went to the sky, how can he be willing to let go, how can he let go of his heart.
Zhang Guoqing entrusted his wife and children to his father-in-law, didn't care about resting, took the ticket, picked up his luggage and rushed to the station. But I didn't find that there was such a person who always smiled and didn't stop or interject.
Watching his son-in-law leave quickly, Zhou Xiaozheng glared at his daughter helplessly. I want to scold but I am reluctant, and it is even more unsafe to want to stay and worry that my child will sneak away. In the face of his daughter's stubbornness, he was helpless. If it was a son, he would have kicked it over a long time ago, but the delicate baby, forget it.
Zhou Xiaozheng instructed the guards, took his daughter to sneak on the train, and personally sent her to the station. Along the way, he tried his best, repeatedly telling her to be careful, pulling her hairy son-in-law, don't let that stupid boy get hot.
Speaking from the inside, he is not worried about his daughter, but the soft-hearted Zhang Guoqing makes him worried. People with a strong sense of justice tend to die the fastest.
In the sleeper car, Zhang Guoqing was stunned when he saw their father and daughter. Isn't it an appointment? He went for three or five days and came back. His daughter-in-law passed, what should his son do?
Zhou Xiaozheng looked at this stupid boy with disdain. Fools have foolish blessings, what kind of life did the old Zhang family accumulate virtue and let this stupid boy marry his baby Jiaojiao. Glancing at the outsiders in the carriage, he moved his itchy right leg. Forget it, let's save some face for this stupid boy.
"Dad, I will definitely protect Jiaojiao. We'll be back in a few days. ”
Zhou Xiaozheng nodded with a cold face. I wondered who would protect whom. If his Jiaojiao didn't have the hole card of drugs, would he agree to let her go to the Northeast? How stupid!
The train was about to start, and Zhou Xiaozheng dropped a sentence, "Listen to Jiaojiao's words outside." Don't be afraid if something happens, Dad will stand in the way for you. ”
Zhang Guoqing watched him cry and laugh and threw down a sentence and left in style. I don't bring a daughter-in-law, and I'm not afraid that my father-in-law will worry. It's not easy, I was willing to let go and leave.
Zhou Xiaozheng watched the train leave in disappointment. It's really bad for the child to grow up, and he always wants to run out to play, so it's better to be safe. But his own Jiaojiao is really with him, tired of Sijiu City.
Driving the car, Zhou Xiaozheng kept thinking about whether there was a chance for the child to go abroad for a walk. Let the child have a long experience, he still has this ability.
Zhou Jiao reluctantly looked at her father outside, and she let out a long sigh as the train started. Why the plane doesn't turn on civil aviation, she doesn't like this long journey at all.
All the way over, it was cold and snowy, and many companions in the carriage had to get off every time they stood up, and the car drove up with baked biscuit food, which stunned the couple.
Soon Zhou Jiao realized that a certain amount of dry food staple food could be purchased without food stamps at each station with a ticket. These shrewd people have already calculated this step, one person and one station two nests or steamed buns, which add up to a lot, and after a journey, to the terminal station is not to save food stamps and more rations.
As soon as the second stop stopped, the couple ran after them, lining up to buy them according to the gourd paintings. It's not so much the pleasure of buying dry food as the excitement of the activity on the boring journey.
What increases emotional communication the most? Complicity! In this way, the atmosphere in the upper, middle and lower berths of several sleeper cars reached a high C, and everyone excitedly discussed their own experiences.
Zhou Jiao saw that the lesbians in her opposite bunk left a bunch of luggage alone, and ran faster than anyone else every time. I can't help but sigh that people are really down-to-earth at this time, and they don't worry about losing their belongings at all.
Soon, she slapped herself in the mouth. One night later, in the early hours of the morning at a small platform, she witnessed someone accidentally falling, and the poured biscuits were snatched up by the surrounding crowd in an instant.
In fact, it is not the reality of people, but the different environment.
In the rows of hard-seat carriages in the back, many people dragged their families and mouths, so that the corridors in the originally full carriages were even more inseparable and crowded together, thus opening up a new front for people to get on and off the car - entering and exiting through the windows.
In the cold season, I don't know how they opened the glass windows that were always closed. Just the thought of the long night, the dawn breaking, and the biting north wind burrowing into the carriage can't help but make people shiver.
After that day, she was grounded by Zhang Guoqing and not allowed to leave the carriage for half a step, so Zhou Jiao could no longer observe the movement inside and outside the car window.
As the train stopped and moved at small stations along the way, she soon found that the vendors who used to sell all the way were almost gone.
Fortunately, the meals on the train were still available, otherwise it would be inconvenient to use the space along the way, and the couple would really have to nibble on dry food to get home.
No matter how long the journey is, there will be a final destination. Along the way, I was terrified, and finally arrived safely in the provincial capital.
Zhang Guoqing and his wife said goodbye to their newly made friends, old and young, and with an anxious and uneasy mood, as soon as they arrived in the provincial capital, they no longer bothered to visit Zhao Chuanguang and them first, and rushed back to the county seat all the way.
The hometown is still the hometown that haunts the soul. A familiar dialect, a familiar long pipe, a familiar loud voice. Less of the hustle and bustle of the past, more solemn.
A few months later, they set foot on familiar land again, and they have already returned home.
Standing in front of the gate, Zhang Guoqing took a deep breath and shouted, "Dad, mother, I'm back." ”
yes, back, my parents, my parents.