On the hard sleeper car of an express train bound for western Guangxi, Chen Mingxuan sat on the seat of the aisle and looked at the retreating mountains, Mo Dongsheng already understood that he had now entered the boundary of western Guangxi.

The morning sun shines on the land of China, illuminating the mountains with vitality - this is the south, there is no such scene as the late spring in the north, but there is already a temperature of more than 20 degrees, everything is so pleasant, so comfortable.

But Chen Mingxuan was not very comfortable, he went home this time, he really left the magic capital, the first city in the Far East that he had lived in for ten years!

A fast-paced, modern city that left that university for four years and worked for six years!

"I'm home."

This is the latest information that Chen Mingxuan wrote in the WeChat circle of friends before getting in the car, without any pictures and expressions, just four simple words and a full stop, which seems bland and thin.

Chen Mingxuan opened the WeChat circle of friends, and in one night, many friends updated the circle of friends, and he found that his message had a reply message, and he clicked in to see that there were six or seven likes, and two left messages.

[Yo, Xiao Ming is home? What are you going back for? This is a message from his college roommate Wang Tao, whose home is a city near Yanjing, and he has returned to Yanjing to work five years ago in order to facilitate his return home and take care of his family.

[Hey, is my cousin on vacation? This is cousin Wei Xiaoqi.

Chen Mingxuan usually has very few friends to talk to, and he is usually more homely, so there are few chats on WeChat on weekdays.

He silently deleted this status information in the circle of friends, then opened the chat interface, went to the college roommate group to Aite Wang Tao, and then sent a message.

[Go home and escape from the magic capital.] 】

Wang Tao: [What's the situation?] Want to go home and develop? It's not that I'm talking about you, you really should go back, go back to eastern Guangdong to find a job, and be closer to home. 】

[Hmm.] However, this time I went home, in my hometown, and I didn't go out. 】

Wang Tao made a wicked smile: [Farming? 】

[Hmm.] 】

[It's strange to believe you. Go back and find a wife, find a job, or you have some savings in the past few years, and you should have no problem opening a small shop in your hometown. 】

[Let's think about opening a store, I want to take a break for a while. 】

[Yes, it's up to you. Anyway, I got off the subway. 】

[Okay, I have time to go to Yanjing to see my sister-in-law and little niece. 】

【OK。 】

The other roommates didn't come out, and there was no movement, so Chen Mingxuan clicked on the chat interface with his cousin Wei Xiaoqi.

[Well, it's a vacation, a long vacation, it's incredible, it's so long that it scares you. 】

How long is it?] 】

[Guess what.] 】

[Don't guess.] 】

【Permanently.】 】

[Are you resigning? Are you back home? In the future, I will go to the magic capital to play, where will I live!! Cousin Wei Xiaoqi reissued N crazy expressions.

Chen Mingxuan smiled: [Your cousin rents a high-priced house in the magic capital, just so that you can have a free place to live when you come to the magic capital to play? Please, you've been to the magic capital once! 】

[After coming here, I found out the prosperity of the magic capital, and I found that the magic capital is fun, and I originally planned to go again. You see, there is no place to live, and I can't go, crying and crying......]

Chen Mingxuan smiled bitterly and replied with a few embarrassed expressions, and then chatted with his cousin Wei Xiaoqi for more than ten minutes.

At noon, the train finally entered the Dragon City Railway Station.

My sister Chen Mingli was already waiting outside the station, and when she saw Chen Mingxuan leaving the station, she smiled and said, "Brother, the car is over there." ”

"Hmm."

The car is a women's motorcycle, and the place where the feet are placed in front can put Chen Mingxuan's suitcase.

Longcheng Railway Station is five kilometers from the city center and twenty kilometers from Chen's home. This railway station was opened six years ago, because it is a small station, and the location is relatively remote, so the surrounding supporting facilities and shops are relatively scarce, and there are even many small shed shops.

When the car drove out of the station, my sister asked, "Brother, aren't you going to go to the magic capital?" ”

"Well, I'll be at home from now on, and I won't go out to work."

"Have you figured out what to do?"

"Not yet—when I get to the town in a while, go in and buy some food, and let the second sister and the third sister come over for dinner tonight."

"Where are you free? The second sister is at work and it is difficult to ask for leave; The third sister has two children by herself, and it is troublesome to come once. Aren't you at home, and there will be time to eat together in the future. ”

"That'll do. Uncle's night shift tonight? ”

"Seems like so."

"Then buy some food, make it early, and let Uncle eat it before going."

"Okay."

Uncle is Chen Mingxuan's father, Chen Zhao, because he has asked the Taoist priest to calculate since he was a child, saying that he can't let his children call him "Dad", so he is called "Uncle". On the other hand, you can't call your mother Moran "mother", but "aunt".

Therefore, for so many years, it has been called like this, so even if people are not superstitious now, if they change their words, they will be hypocritical.

I went to the town to buy meat and a few vegetables, continued to walk three kilometers along the secondary road, got off the fork, crossed the Chenjia Bridge, and rode the cement road for a few minutes before arriving at Chenjiazhuang.

In the Qing Dynasty, the Chen family was still a very cohesive family in Chenjia Village, but the times changed, business flourished, young people did not work at home, most of them went out to work, and they did not see each other a few times a year.

It is now the end of March, and although there are 100 households in the entire Chenjiazhuang, they are all a little deserted at this time.

"Auntie isn't at home?"

Chen Mingxuan looked at the old man sitting quietly under his two-story small building, it was Grandma, an old man in his last years, Chen Mingxuan still remembered that Grandma favored him in elementary school, and only added eggs to his bowl, which his sisters did not have.

"In the field, I'm ready to throw the seedlings, she's in the seedling field."

"Oh, my brother isn't coming home?"

Since high school, Chen Mingxuan has not participated in farming for more than ten years, and he no longer knows anything about farming, and some of them are just childhood memories. He still remembers that at that time, Longcheng had not yet entered the era of throwing seedlings, and during the rice planting season, the whole family was dispatched, the old and the young were responsible for pulling seedlings in the seedling field, and his father and mother and unmarried aunt were responsible for planting seedlings. Every year in the spring, it is too busy to be broken, and it is also a nightmare when I was a teenager.

Later, there was throwing seedlings, the seedlings are in the seedling tray, pick the seedling tray to the mature field, pick up the seedling tray and put it in the left arm bend, pull out the seedlings from the seedling tray with the right hand and throw them into the seedling field, and a field can be planted soon.

The kind that is broadcast on TV, holding a rice tray, pulling it out, and then throwing it out vigorously, is all for filming and publicity needs. In fact, the seedlings grow up in the seedling tray, and a small cup of soil rarely spills out, and the roots of those seedlings will also grow randomly and become entangled with other seedlings. Therefore, if it is not plucked down one by one and thrown out, a large handful of it will be sprinkled, it will definitely fall into the ripe field and not separate, and the result will still be a large handful!

"He just went out and won't come back, and he's lazy and doesn't want to throw seedlings."

"Okay."

Uncle may be sleeping on the second floor because he is on the night shift and is now on break.

"Ah Gong is estimated to have gone to the town again, and he doesn't get tired of going every day."

Chen Mingxuan smiled slightly, his grandfather is indeed a man who always likes to go shopping in the town, and he doesn't buy anything, just to go shopping and join in the fun. However, because of this, I broke my leg last year, and I don't need crutches this year. If you were an eighty-year-old man, she would have been in a wheelchair for a long time.

When Grandma saw her two grandchildren coming back, when she recognized it as Chen Mingxuan, she immediately stood up and was about to come over and take his hand.

"Grandma." Chen Mingxuan stretched out his hand and let Grandma hold his hand.

"You're back again?"

"Well, I'm back."

"Have you talked about it?" Grandma's face was full of old age spots, although it was thin and thin, but there was still some flesh, and her cloudy eyes were full of inquiries and expectations.

"Not yet, people don't want to."

Chen Mingxuan's heart ached, grandma loved him the most, but the three younger sisters were all married and had children, and as the eldest himself, he was still single.

Therefore, Chen Mingxuan's singleness has always been something that grandma is concerned about.

When I was video chatting with my mother, my mother said that when my grandmother went out, she would ask if she had introduced a girl to my family Mingxuan......

Every time I go home, Grandma always takes the trouble to ask if she has talked about it, when to bring it home, and so on.

"Grandma, I'll bring my luggage up." Chen Mingxuan said, "Riding the train, my body is dirty." ”

"Which one?"

"I didn't talk about it, people didn't want to."

"When will you bring it home?" Grandma's ears are a little back.

"It's not about it, people don't look down on your grandson."

"Why don't you look at it, there is a job, the big magic capital, there is a job, and you look ...... well"

"People are too far away."

I finally broke free from Grandma's hand and carried my luggage upstairs before I could take a deep breath.

Chen Mingxuan didn't want to deceive his grandmother, because even if this deception was well-intentioned, if no girl came back to register, he would have to go through it sooner or later.

My sister's family is in the door and window installation business, and she still has things to do, so she just came to pick up her brother today, so she sent Chen Mingxuan home, went into the kitchen to drink a bowl of porridge, and rode away immediately.

Looking at his room, there was not even a quilt, only a bare mattress and a dusty computer desk, Chen Mingxuan had to clean up by himself.

The mat and quilt must have been drying on the roof of the building, because the day before yesterday I told my mother that I was coming back. And because he is not at home all year round, he usually comes to occupy his room on weekends with his sister's children, so in addition to the bed, there is only one computer desk left in the whole room.

Fortunately, it's relatively simple, and it doesn't take long to get it done.

Chen Mingxuan stood in front of the window, looking at the ripe fields outside, thousands of acres of ripe fields, there are several agricultural machines constantly ripening the paddy fields, and there are many peasant women or farmers taking care of them, making the final preparations for throwing seedlings.

Chen Mingxuan's vision is very broad, there is a road in front of the door, across the river is a large piece of farmland, and then go out is the Yichang River. In the middle of the farmland, there is a long and tall ridge, paved with cement road, from the cement road to the riverside, cross the Chenjia Bridge, it is the Longcheng secondary road, dozens of kilometers to the east of the border of Guangdong, three kilometers to the west is the town, then 12 kilometers to the west is the urban area, and then five kilometers to the west is the Longcheng Railway Station.

Just now, my sister went all the way east from Longcheng Railway Station, crossed the Chenjia Bridge and returned home, and when he was on the cement road of Gaotian Ridge, he saw the farmer tidying up the paddy fields and preparing for spring planting, but because he had no contact with farming for a long time, he did not pay attention.

His eagle-like eyes stared at the rice field in his memory, and sure enough, he found that there was a person who looked like a peasant woman working, and it should be his mother.

He listened to his father's room, and sure enough, he heard a faint snoring sound, and his father was sleeping.

I took a change of clothes from the suitcase, washed them carefully, changed my clothes, and went downstairs to find my grandmother sitting quietly in the hall, a little lonely.

He walked into the kitchen and found a disposable paper cup, and a line of water suddenly appeared between the fingers of his right index finger, and a faint sweetness poured into the paper cup.

"Grandma, you drink a glass of water." Chen Mingxuan sat next to his grandmother.

Grandma turned her head and looked at the paper cup: "I don't drink water, I drink porridge...... Not hungry. ”

"Drink the water, this water is delicious." Chen Mingxuan motioned for Grandma to hold it herself.

"I drink porridge." Grandma said that she drank porridge, but still took the water cup.

"Hey, it's delicious."

"yes, it's delicious. You've drunk it all. ”