Chapter 16: Returning Home

When I got off the train, I smelled a strong smell of firecrackers, yes, today is Chinese New Year's Eve, here will be from Chinese New Year's Eve, firecrackers will be set off every day, until February 2 Dragon raised its head. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info

I carried my big suitcase and my big backpack to the exit. At this time, there were a lot of people at the train station, and when I was still blocking the door and queuing up to go out, I saw my father not far away, the weather-beaten middle-aged man, who was standing there in a black down jacket, his cheeks were slightly red from the cold, and his eyes were sweeping around.

Out of the station, I walked towards him quickly, I didn't see him for half a year, I only felt that the wrinkles at the corners of his eyes were deeper, and the hair on his sideburns was slightly white, as if to remind me that my father was no longer young.

When he saw me, he didn't say anything about missing me, but just gave me a big hug, and a thousand words seemed to be full of this hug, and he took the suitcase in my hand and asked me how everything was going for the past few months. I smiled and nodded, and inadvertently touched his hand, it was very cold, I must have been waiting for me here for a long time, my throat seemed to be blocked by something, and I couldn't speak.

My dad told me that my mom and grandma had already prepared a table of food at home and were just waiting for me to go back and have a meal!

My dad and I came home, as soon as I entered the house, I felt the warmth of the family that I had not seen for a long time, my mother hurriedly turned my big backpack, holding me left and right to look, grandma saw me, smiled and couldn't close her mouth, and said vigorously: "Oh, my eldest grandson must have worked very hard to go to school outside, he has lost weight, take off his cotton jacket, let go of the cooling, let your dad set off the firecrackers, let's hurry up and eat!" ”

I glanced at the dining table, a large table of chicken, duck and fish meat was bubbling with aroma, and I was preparing to visit my five internal organs, I silently thought in my heart: chicken, duck and fish, don't be surprised, you are a dish in the world, and you will be a good family in the next life, and you will come back after cultivating good fortune...... These are the words my mother would say every time she killed chickens and fishes when I was a child.

My dad went out with a big chain of firecrackers, this is our custom here, to set off firecrackers before eating, I don't know why, but every family is like this, every year.

While my dad was out setting off firecrackers, I took out the contents of my suitcase, dozens of pieces large and small. My grandmother was talking about me breaking the bill and spending money indiscriminately, but I could see that she was still very happy.

I told her that I went out to work during the holidays and made some money, and I took out the 5,000 yuan I had prepared in advance from my bag, handed it to my mother, and told her that this was the money for my scholarship, in fact, my scholarship was only 200, and I told her this because I was afraid that even if I told her that I earned it, she would not be able to believe it, and she would have to explain, so there would be too many stories to tell, and I didn't want them to know that I worked in a shroud shop, in their opinion, this was not a decent job after all.

My mother took 5,000 yuan and didn't say anything for a long time, and then the whole family got together to praise me for being promising, and I got the tuition for the next year by myself, so it would be better if I could bring a daughter-in-law back at that time! I immediately remembered Huang Mengying, when our relationship is more stable, I will definitely bring her back, and my grandma will be even happier at that time!

After a lively dinner, I couldn't help but sigh that it was the most fragrant family to eat together! My dad took out a set of tea sets that he had treasured for a long time, made a pot of tea I bought, and said to me with a smile: "Son, if you buy this Tieguanyin, you will know that it is good tea when you smell it!" I leaned over and smelled it, and it was really good, it was fragrant, and it was even more fragrant in my mouth.

At this time, the gate of the yard rang, and my mother went to open the door to welcome the guests, and when she opened the door, she saw that it was my neighbor, my childhood playmate, Da Hei, who heard that I was back, and specially brought his five-year-old son to come and see, when he was young, he was the head of our group of children, he was a few years older than us, and he was black and strong, we all called him Da Hei, and at that time he often took a group of us children to play, and he asked us to do a lot of naughty things.

At that time, I was the same age as his son now. More than ten years have passed in a blink of an eye, and the big black of the year is nearly a head taller than me, and now I am one meter eight, and he doesn't seem to be very long, although he is not long, his body is growing by the time, and the waist circumference looks like I may not be able to hug it.

I remember when I was a child, when the corn was ripe, Da Hei took me and two other boys to steal corn, and he appointed me as the chairman of the corn stealing committee, and we both thought that the chairman was the biggest official, and said that because I was the youngest, it was not easy to find it when I drilled into the corn field, and even if I was found, no one would say anything, and they were the chairman of the wind and the vice chairman of the wind, who were responsible for showing me the adults, and told me that as long as they found that an adult was coming, they would shout, and I would run. I nodded and agreed, and then I stupidly got into the cornfield that was taller than me, I laboriously stole four corns, held them in my arms, and walked out of the cornfield very happily, and found that I didn't know when they were gone, I thought it might be the family calling them home for dinner, so I sent them corn door to door, because I knew that I had promised others that things must be done, and I said that one person would do it. Later I found out that they had found an adult passing by that day, and in order to avoid suspicion, they all ran away, completely forgetting that I existed, and left me alone in the cornfield, but I didn't get angry when I knew the reason for the incident, because I thought that if I had happened to something like that, I might have done the same......

Da Hei's son is a very clever and cute little boy, his round little face is like a copy of Da Hei, his big eyes are full of aura, and after seeing me, he does not have the shyness and shyness unique to rural children, and he hugged my thighs and said in a milky voice: "Uncle Dachuan has a good New Year!" My dad often mentions you, and often tells me about when you were young, when you can take me to catch sparrows! ”

I smiled and nodded in agreement, and carried him to the kang to sit down, it was the first time I heard someone call me uncle, and I was really a little uncomfortable for a while, I took out a toy airplane that I bought with Liu Yu from my bag and gave it to him, and took a red envelope containing two hundred yuan to him. But children are children, only their own little world in their eyes, he saw the toy airplane seemed very happy and excited, but he was not very interested in the New Year's red envelope.

Da Hei took the red envelope and said to his son, "Xiaobao, thank you Uncle Da Chuan!" Daddy will collect the money for you first! ”

That was the first time I gave someone New Year's money, and then I gave others New Year's money countless times, basically like this, parents first collect it for you, but everyone knows that from the moment the New Year's money is put into the parents' pockets, the child who receives the New Year's money has never seen his own New Year's money, but then I saw a person with a different way of dealing with it......

As far as I know, Da Hei seems to have stayed in this remote Zhaojiabao all the time, never left, and his son seems to have never seen such a good toy plane, the moment I saw his happy smile, I also laughed, for a child, happiness is often so simple......

Old friends inevitably meet to catch up, and we recall many interesting and strange things when we were children, one of which is the legend of a monster in the river in the village.

Later, I found out that some legends can be legends, and some legends may just happen because something strange happened.

It seems that it was from that time that there was a story in that river about a monster who ate children's pants......

I remember one time a group of our children were stabbing in the river, yes, it was the river where the lame man was wronged to peek at the woman bathing, when we were young, there were no adults to bathe here, only groups of children were there or frolicking or fishing.

In order to show his strength and courage, Da Hei climbed to a big tree next to the river, stood on the branch and raised his arms, and shouted to us children who were soaked in the river: "Look! I! Gotta jump from here! As he spoke, he jumped headfirst into the river, and his posture was very graceful, and it was clean, but the splash was not very high.

Everyone began to cheer, and someone shouted, "Dahei, you are amazing!" Then people began to shout, "Do it again!" ”

But Da Hei only showed a small head from the water, just smiled, and for us children with stinky feet, it was completely as if he hadn't heard it, why didn't he perform a second time, and told us that his skills were exhausted! It's time to perform next time.

A group of children saw that he really refused to perform and gave up, when I plunged my head into the water and tried to practice holding my breath, I found that he was naked, I think maybe he jumped down too fast, and his pants didn't keep up!

Later, by the river, there were children constantly challenging the big tree, and after a while, there were no more children from such a high place, I guess it was because I felt bored, but I still prefer to believe in the other idea, that is, all the children who come down from that line, the pants will be gone......

I chatted with Da Hei for a long time, and I also told him some interesting things that happened in Harbin, and he said with a lonely face: "In my life, I am destined to die here, go to the big city, have no skills, and cannot live a good life." ”

We talked late that day, and it wasn't until his son fell asleep on the kang that Da Hei carried him back.

One summer after that, the weather was hot and humid, I went to see the river again, there were no more children frolicking in the river, the river was so muddy that there were no fish to be seen, and the big tree we all challenged did not seem to be as tall as we saw when we were children, it turned out that everything was quietly changing, including me......