I remember that Xu Mo and I were married on the National Day of that year. The reason for getting married on National Day is because Xu Mo wants to extend the wedding holiday. We both have units, and we only have one week's vacation when we get married, and if we have a National Day holiday, we will have almost half a month's vacation.

But I disapprove of it. From my point of view, I would like to have only one day of marriage leave.

It's not that I'm unaware of this kind of marriage, the longer the marriage, the more pain there is. But my objections were useless, and both men and women were in favor of Xu Mo's decision, so I had to compromise.

Everything is moving in an orderly manner.

The day before my wedding leave, I made a special trip to the East Gate.

Dongmen Village no longer exists.

Sitting on the top of the hill next to the Dongmen Reservoir, I had a lot of thoughts. The vast waters submerged Dongmen Village and submerged my childhood. Everything stays in the impression, and the impression is getting fading away.

Where did Hao Junqi, who wore a garland of saffron flowers, go? Where is Hao Junqi, who followed me to steal the bamboo cage with me on a moonlit night? Why is Hao Junqi, who bought fried fruits with me in the open-air movie theater and eats them, so silent?

Fifteen years, fifteen years! If Hao Junqi is still in this world, she will already be a twenty-five or sixteen-year-old girl, if she is not married.

"Junqi, you know what? Brother came here today to tell you that my brother is getting married. I couldn't help but say in the direction of Dongmen Village.

A gust of wind blew, and the bushes rattled.

"No, brother, we can't wait any longer. It's Teacher Zheng, Teacher Yan can't wait. You might not think that they are old and have white temples. They broke their hearts about my marriage. In particular, Mr. Zheng, my father, suffered from a serious heart attack, which forced me to get married. I can't be too unfilial. ”

The sun burrows into the clouds. The surrounding light suddenly dimmed a lot.

"Junqi, where have you been? Brother is looking forward to meeting you in my dreams. You're not going to avoid me all the time, are you? Is it just because I didn't come to see you as scheduled that summer? I think I've explained to you a hundred times in my dreams, I've been punishing my parents for this, and you've been punishing me, haven't you? ”

The sun came out of the clouds again.

"I have been working in Yangjiang Hospital for four years. I've been keeping an eye on you every day for the past few days, and every day I'm looking forward to meeting you unexpectedly, because I'm sure you'll come back as long as you're alive; As long as you come back, we will definitely meet each other. Haven't you been back to Yangjiang for so many years? Sometimes I even stubbornly believe that you live in Yangjiang, maybe you live around me, but you don't see me. You must not have forgiven me yet, have you? ”

There is a constant wind blowing from the water.

"Junqi, do you know why I insist on coming to work in Yangjiang Hospital? Do you know why my brother worked so hard to make his reputation so prosperous? It's all for you. Because my brother believes that as long as I work in Yangjiang Hospital, there must be a possibility of seeing you, because people will always get sick, and if they are sick, they will come to the hospital, and if my reputation is very strong, then you will definitely know about me. However, four years have passed, and I have become a little famous, but you still haven't appeared. I've been putting off my parents, and now, I can't do it anymore. ”

Fish sprang out of the water.

"Hao Junqi, when you hear the news of my brother's marriage, are you in the same complicated mood as me? Do you bless your brother, or do you hide to the side and cry? I'd rather you go out and cry. But maybe this is my brother's wishful thinking. My brother wanted to appear in front of you as unmarried, but in just a few days, my brother's identity will change, and my brother will become a married person. ”

I faced the direction of Dongmen Village and said loudly: "But, Junqi, please believe my brother, even if my brother is married, he is waiting for you." When we meet again, I'll tell you all about it. ”

After the call, I immediately descended the mountain. I have to go to Wangwu to catch the shuttle back to Yangjiang County. When I passed through Yongtai, I went to visit Zhu Jinshan and told him that if there was no news of Hao Junqi before October 1, I would be married, and I hoped that he would notify me as soon as he had news of Hao Junqi. Zhu Jinshan agreed.

Zhu Jinshan was very sympathetic to my situation and understood my feelings. As I said earlier, in the countryside there is no man who is not married at the age of 28, unless he decides to be single.

That year, Zhu Jinshan, who was three years older than me, was already a father of three children.

Back in Hua'an, Xu Mo and I were busy taking wedding photos, sending invitations, and contacting the wedding car, and we were tired and exhausted. Especially like me, a person who is extremely reluctant to enter the marriage hall, a person who feels very guilty from the beginning, is even more tired, because, in addition to being physically tired, the heart is also tired.

Our wedding day, October 3rd, was still here, everything was ready, and we were waiting for the wedding ceremony, but Yangjiang Hospital made a phone call.

"Hey, is it Zheng Qihang? I'm Zhu Jinshan. Zhu Jinshan's voice on the phone was weird.

"What's the matter?" I asked.

"I seem to have seen Hao Junqi."

"Oh? Are you sure? Are you sure?! "My heart was pounding.

"Really. I brought my wife to the county to play today. Isn't the county doing a lottery event? Let's touch the prize. Just as I was squeezing into the crowd to claim the prize (not a big prize, just a bag of laundry detergent), a woman in front of me had just finished claiming the prize, and she said 'thank you' to the staff. Looking at the back of the woman leaving the crowd, oh, just from behind, I realized, Mom, it was Hao Junqi's voice just now. Zhu Jinshan was excited and nervous, and with a low level of education, he didn't know how to describe it to me on the phone.

"Junqi's voice, are you sure it's Junqi's voice?" I walked out of the lobby of the Hua'an Hotel, where I had set up my wedding feast.

"Really. Are Hao Junqi's voices still unfamiliar? It must be Hao Junqi's voice! Zhu Jinshan said with great certainty.

"So, Hao Junqi came to touch the award?" I'm ecstatic.

"And I won the prize."

"Then why don't you keep up?" I grumbled.

"How can I keep up? Don't you know how many people are involved in the prize? As soon as I turned my back, it was gone. Besides, my first thought was to go to Yangjiang Hospital to find you, didn't you want me to tell you as soon as I had news about Hao Junqi? yes, why didn't I think to chase her first. Still, she'll show up. ”

"You're saying she'll be in the crowd of people touching the prize?" I asked.

"Quite possibly. Anyone who wins the prize will be too superstitious about their luck and will touch the prize again. Zhu Jinshan said.

"Okay, you wait for me, I'll be back right away."

"Hey, aren't you going back to Hua'an? How to get back? ”

"I'll take the shuttle back right away. You wait for me for three hours. ”

"Then we'll see you in the afternoon. The draw starts at 2 p.m. ”

I didn't say hello to anyone, hurried downstairs and took a taxi to the bus station. In the taxi, I called and told Xu Mo that I had to go back to Yangjiang immediately because there was an urgent matter in the hospital.

"I guess I'll be home late. Our wedding ceremony takes place in the evening, is it okay? ”

"But it's on my side at noon, and I'm going to your house at night." Xu Mo was anxious.

"Then the two sides will be done in the evening, please explain it to your parents and the guests." I say.

"Do you have to go?"

"Definitely. This matter is very urgent. I was already on the shuttle bus from Hua'an to Yangjiang. "I had to lie.

As soon as I got to work, my father's phone rang. My father thundered on the phone, his voice bursting and hurting my eardrums.

"Come back to me right away! I'll be right back, you know?! "Father ordered me.

"I'm sorry, Dad, I'm already on the shuttle to Yangjiang."

"Even if you arrive in Yangjiang, you have to come back immediately!" My father couldn't tell how eager he was.

"I can't. I really have something very important. "I patiently explained to my father.

"What's more important than getting married? As soon as you leave like this, how can Xu Mo face everyone? How do we parents deal with everyone? Have you thought about it? ”

"You tell everyone that I'm a doctor, and I will be fine if I go back to the hospital to deal with things temporarily?"

"Are you really so stubborn?" The father asked rhetorically.

"I'm not stubborn, I really want to go back to Yangjiang to deal with things." I hung up.

I don't know how messy the wedding scene was. I don't know how embarrassing the bride will be if the groom is missing at the wedding reception, and I don't know how the bride's parents will explain it to the guests. They pretended to smile in the face of the guests, and they must have cursed in every way behind their backs. In the face of the guests, the bride looked so calm, and she must have tears in her heart.

Parents, of course, became scapegoats.

How can my father not roar?

But I didn't have time to think about these at the time, what I prayed for was that I could find Hao Junqi in the crowd. As long as you can find Hao Junqi. Really, as long as you can find Hao Junqi. If you find Hao Junqi, what are these gains?

The shuttle arrives at Yangjiang at 1:40. As soon as I got off the bus, I took a tricycle to Yangjiang Bridge. The location of the prize is located in the Hexi District of Yangjiang Bridge. At that time, the road along the river had not yet been built, the embankment had not been piled up, and there was a sandy beach by the river.

It's autumn season, the sun is bright and soft, the river is dry, and a large amount of the riverbed is exposed to the sun. The grass growing from the cracks in the rocks on the beach has also dried up, making it the perfect place to draw prizes.

That's a lot of people. As if coming out of the ground, a large number of people flocked to several points set up by the organizers. The beach is littered with discarded tickets. Everyone was excited. Even if he is scolding his mother, even if he is being fooled, he is obviously excited. From the radio, you can hear that there is another jackpot, so-and-so won a color TV, and so-and-so won a 6,006 motorcycle. This kind of information has set off a wave of prizes*.

I was worried that I wouldn't be able to find Zhu Jinshan, and at a glance I saw Zhu Jinshan standing at the entrance point of the prize area and waving to me.