On August 25, I returned to Yangjiang County, the place that haunted my dreams, after a lapse of 10 years. Who would have thought that I was still a yellow-haired girl when I left, but I was already a big girl when I came back.

I believe that even if my village still exists, few of them can recognize this big girl as Hao Junqi when I walk into the village.

From this point of view, the father's concerns were unnecessary. But how could my father not be worried? When my father heard that I had returned to Yangjiang County to work, he was worried that I would be recognized, so that he would be the murderer. Living in fear all day long, my father is tormented enough.

It was already dusk when the shuttle bus arrived at Yangjiang County Station.

Eleven years ago in the morning, my father took me on the first shuttle bus from the station, which was the first time I took the shuttle bus, the first time I went to Yangjiang County Station, and the first time I went to Yangjiang County.

Neither the station nor the county seat left any impression on me, but I just felt that the houses in the county town were beautiful and tall.

Therefore, when Qi Zhengzhe and I were standing at the exit of Yangjiang County Station panting with six or seven large bags and small bags (in fact, Qi Zhengzhe ran several times to get all the buns and steamers for steamed buns outside the station), the small restaurants where I could see the oil smoke on the walls at a glance, the five-story "Educated Youth Hostel" opposite, and two or three rickshaws driving towards us all gave me an extremely strange feeling.

It seems that I did not come from my hometown, but I was far from my hometown.

What seems to me to be my hometown is actually a strange place. It's a foreign country. Qijiatun has become my hometown.

Sadness starts from the heart again. Ten years is enough to change everything. The hometown becomes another country, and the other country becomes the hometown. Then, it is reasonable that the vow of "never leaving and never abandoning, and always being united" has been changed.

"Look, we've become bag sellers." Qi Zhengzhe interrupted my train of thought.

"Then I started screaming. Sell - "I'll get back to normal in no time.

"You're really screaming."

"Just kidding. You've figured out where to go, Brother Jeongcheol? I asked.

"Huh? You're having fun. This is Yangjiang, your hometown, where do you ask me to go? ”

My face was red, it was a habit, it was a habit of Qi Zhengzhe's arrangement, so I asked this question.

"It's normal, because this place is as foreign to me as you are. Except for that time when my father took me to escape and I took a train at this station, how much better am I than you? ”

"Have you never been in the city or gone shopping until you were twelve?" Qi Zhengzhe became more and more surprised.

I shook my head, "Are you disappointed in me?" ”

"It's a little."

The rickshaws that came around saw that we had no intention of taking the car, and left one after another. It's not that we don't want to take rickshaws, it's that we don't know where to go for a while.

We discussed for five minutes before deciding to check in at the "Educated Youth Hostel" opposite.

Less than 200 meters away, Qi Zhengzhe still called a rickshaw. Not for carrying people, but for carrying bags and steamers.

"You two are here to do the steamed bun business in the county, right?" The rickshaw driver is very talkative.

"We're not ......," I said. Everyone thinks we are a small couple.

"Or not? Who can't see the steamer of this steamed bun? ”

"It's still the master's sharp eyes. May I ask the master, how many steamed buns are made in Yangjiang County? Qi Zhengzhe said.

"It's still the lad who is honest. There are more than a dozen, and I don't know if it's more or less. However, it is difficult to do business in our county. ”

"What's wrong?"

"Poor."

"Oh, which one does the master think is the best?" Qi Zhengzhe is worthy of being in business, and he first understands the market as soon as he comes.

"Everyone's buns are delicious, hehe." The rickshaw driver smiled heartily.

"That's that, that's."

We stayed at the hostel for one night. We looked like a small couple but opened two rooms, and the little girl who billed us was puzzled, and she took the key to take us to the room and stopped talking several times when she opened the door.

Because we were quite tired after taking the shuttle bus for six or seven hours, we had a bite to eat at a small stall near the hostel and went back to the hostel early to rest.

I thought I could fall asleep upside down, but I still "tossed" for a long time. And the two people who tossed me were naturally Qi Zhengzhe and his brother.

Qi Zhengzhe accompanied me to live in Yangjiang County. Regardless of his parents' opposition, he handed over the Zhengzhe Department Store, which he had painstakingly run, to his younger brother to manage, leaving behind his parents and the home where he had lived for twenty-four years, to come to this foreign place for him, and he made this decision not because of anything else, but because of me.

He even became a celebrity on Qijiatun Street because of this.

It's impossible for my heart not to be shocked, but that's it, I still just call him Zhengzhe, and I don't call him like I call him, in other words, I still haven't accepted his love for me.

Because I'm still looking forward to it. I chose to work in Yangjiang because I was still looking forward to it.

And he's still waiting, no, he's always waiting.

Later, after Qi Zhengzhe left me, after he left this world that he was obsessed with, I remembered everything he had done for me, and my heart always felt broken. I can't tell what kind of suffering it is. I really regretted it.

Actually, we're all already adults. Emotionally, we are past the age of secrecy. He knew my heart wasn't settled. He is waiting for my heart to be settled. He just didn't want me to have a trace of regret, he didn't want to make a ripple in his marriage.

And the deadline I gave to my aunt was two years - the essence of it was to give Qi Zhengzhe a two-year deadline. Can it be said that the essence is to give my brother a two-year period?

I think that if I haven't been able to meet my brother after working in Yangjiang County for two years, or if I can't receive any news from my brother, then the fate that seems to be determined by God can only become illusory, or it means that this fate has long been cut off.

Then, I want to transfer my heart to this young man, which means that this young man was sent by God to renew this relationship with me, after all, he has been with me for eleven years, after all, he has been waiting for me for eleven years.

However, how I still wish that my brother would appear in my life during these two years.

The next day, Qi Zhengzhe woke me up. He washed his hair, changed into a new set of clothes he had brought with him from Qijiatun - short sleeves, trousers, and replaced his sneakers with leather shoes.

"Wow, what's this? Blind date? ”

"Send you to report, of course, you have to dress up spiritually," Qi Zhengzhe ignored my teasing.

"Hmph, I don't think that's what I meant." When I woke up in the morning, I was in a much better mood.

"I can't hide anything from you, I show up at your job with you like this, and your identity is fixed."

"What identity?"

"Let the boys in your unit lose their thoughts."

"Stinky beauty, you."

We took the rickshaw early to the Civil Affairs Bureau. We thought that the Civil Affairs Bureau was far away from where we lived, and we didn't want to take a rickshaw for a few minutes.

The Civil Affairs Bureau is on Yangjiang West Road, and a wooden sign hanging on the outer wall can be seen in the distance - the Civil Affairs Bureau Guest House. You must know that the unit has a guest house, so we didn't have to stay in the "Educated Youth Hostel" last night. But I'm not sure if I have to pay for the guest house in my unit.

We were greeted by the Chief of Staff. A young man who looked no more than thirty years old.

"You were introduced by Director Zhu of the Provincial Department to work in our unit?" The chief of staff looked at the letter of introduction and then at me.

"Director Zhu? Ah, yes, "Director Zhu of the Provincial Department is naturally Zhu Lizhen's father." "I'm Director Zhu's relative Hao Junqi."

Qi Zhengzhe was extremely puzzled.

"Oh, hello, I'm the office king. Our director told me a long time ago that a relative of a provincial department leader came to work in our bureau, but unfortunately our director went to the countryside. The young man looked flattering.

"I'm sorry for the trouble Director Wang." I say.

"Call me Wang Changsheng. How can you say that it is troublesome? It has already been discussed in your work bureau, so I will arrange for you to go to the Social Affairs Division first. ”

"Thank you, thank you."

We sat down and chatted with Wang Changsheng for a while. He made us tea in porcelain cups, and at that time there were no so-called disposable cups. I introduced Qi Zhengzhe to Wang Changsheng, and they greeted him politely.

I relied on the fact that I was "a relative of Director Zhu" and had the courage to make a request to Wang Changsheng, hoping that the unit would solve my accommodation problem. Director Wang hesitated for a moment but agreed.

Qi Zhengzhe wanted to say something, but he swallowed the words in his stomach.

At the end of the conversation, Wang Changsheng took me to the social affairs department to meet with the head and deputy director of the department and two staff members, and then took me to the fourth floor to see the room that was to be vacated for me to stay in—an office stacked with a few old desks.

"That's the only condition. We've never done that before. All those who come to report have to find their own house. But they're all local, and you're from a foreign place and you're not familiar with the place, so it's reasonable. Wang Changsheng said. He spoke modestly, but in fact let me know that this was his concern for me.

"Thank you, Director Wang."

Leaving the Civil Affairs Bureau, Qi Zhengzhe finally couldn't hold it back, first, because I was a relative of Director Zhu of the Provincial Department, and second, because I lived in the unit.

Regarding Director Zhu's relatives, I did a little to conceal it, only saying that Director Zhu was the father of my classmate, and I was able to transfer to Yangjiang to work because of the help of my classmate's father.

"They thought I was a relative of Director Zhu, so I went down this staircase. lest they be deceived. ”

"I can't see it, Kiki also has a cunning side. Hiding me so deeply, don't blame you, I thought you were a Yangjiang hukou, so you were assigned to work in Yangjiang. ”

"Where am I Yangjiang Hukou? Have you forgotten that you went to the Public Security Bureau to register for us? My father and I are both registered in Qijiatun. I said.

"Oh, look at my memory, I used my brain to get you on my household register. So you came to work in Yangjiang, but you have been planning for a long time. ”

"It's not a nice word to have been planning for a long time," I pouted deliberately, "but it just so happened that my classmate's father had this kind of relationship, so I asked my classmate for a favor." ”

"Kiki, don't be angry, I have a low level of education and use inappropriate words. However, I don't agree that you live in the Civil Affairs Bureau. ”

"Why? I won it with great difficulty, didn't you listen to what Wang Changsheng said? "I didn't expect Qi Zhengzhe to object to me living in the Civil Affairs Bureau.

"I listened, and I also went to you as a relative of Director Zhu. But you really can't live in the Civil Affairs Bureau, you should live near my bun shop. ”

"Why?"

"You can help me. The bun shop is difficult to take care of by one person. ”

"I'm not going to work, am I?"

"Your eight-hour shift, you'll be fine after work, can't you help me? Don't worry, I'll pay the rent. Even if you help me with the salary. ”

"I care about the rent, what salary do I want you to pay? It's just that...... I managed to get it. I said.

"If it's inconvenient for you to say, then I'll go find that Director Wang. Anyway, you'll have to rent near me. ”

"You're too domineering, aren't you?"

"It's not that I'm domineering, it's that the bun shop can't do without you, it's that I need your help. Just for the sake of me coming to Yangjiang thousands of miles away to give face? ”

When Qi Zhengzhe said this, I didn't have any ruts at all. The next day, I found an opportunity to explain to Wang Changsheng that he didn't care about my backtracking, and maybe letting me live in the Civil Affairs Bureau would really put pressure on him.

However, I was still aggrieved for several days.