Chapter 14 Luolonggou Refuge First acquaintance with Chen Jialin
The next day, the van driver hummed a little song leisurely and continued to drive on the highway, Zhang Tianyi sat in the passenger cab, with a cigarette in his mouth, with a sluggish expression, looking into the distance blankly.
Last night, the two of them went to a nearby hotel, drank a few bottles of beer and went to bed early, in their sleep, Tianyi dreamed of his parents, woke up sadly several times, and the whole person was lonely at the foot of the bed, burning a cigarette sullenly.
Early this morning, the man in the van hurriedly knocked on the door, made a fuss to leave early, and went back to hug his wife when he was done, and then set off on the road.
The van driver said to Tianyi while driving: "Little brother, more than 200 kilometers ahead is the boundary of Qingchuan, I haven't asked you yet, where are you going to Qingchuan, what are you going to do? I have a cousin who does business in Gyeongcheon County, so let's see if I can help you. Zhang Tianyi smoked lightly and didn't want to talk at all, but the van driver helped him a lot, at least avoiding some of the risks of going into the city to take a car again, so he reluctantly replied: "Thank you big brother for help, I don't need help for the time being, there is a distant relative of mine in Luolonggou, I'll go see her." The driver said magnificently: "It's okay, my cousin is in the county, doing freight, the family has money, often transporting timber out of the mountains, the money can earn much more than me, this is his business card, you have something to call and report my name, he will definitely help, last year the New Year also came to my house to give me New Year's greetings." As he spoke, he put one hand into the pocket of his clothes, took out an old yellowed business card, and his mouth was full of joy, showing off that his relatives were rich, and he had earned some face for himself.
Zhang Tianyi took the business card with sophistication, and saw that it was written, Qingchuan Maoli Freight Company, General Manager Bai Mingqing.
Zhang Tianyi hurriedly put the business card in his pocket, and was about to see if he could take a ride back to Shucheng through this person.
So he said: "The eldest brother has a heart, and I don't know what the eldest brother's name is, so I ask the eldest brother to lend me the phone, and I will contact my relatives by phone, and I will wait until I can find a specific place to go." The man in the van touched his pocket, took out his mobile phone and handed it to him, "Your eldest brother and I are called Bai Yongshou, and my cousin is also surnamed Bai, called Bai Mingqing, holding the mobile phone, just use it, what are you polite to me?"
More than 10 minutes later, the phone in Tianyi's hand rang, and a hoarse woman's voice came from the other end of the phone: "May I ask who was looking for me just now?" Tianyi paused for a sad thought and said, "Hello, I'm looking for Chen Jiaxing's sister Chen Jialin." โ
"I just, may I ask you for something about me?" The voice on the other end of the phone was a little choked, it seemed that this sister had already known about her sister's death and was heartbroken.
Zhang Tianyi didn't know how to answer at this time, so he stubbornly said his thoughts: "Hello Jialin, my name is Zhang Tianyi, before your sister died, she introduced you to me, told me that I must come to you, and brought a letter from home to you, now I am on the way over, there are about three hours left, I don't know where to meet you?" Jialin cried on the other end of the phone, and said after a while:" Brother Tianyi, my sister and I talked on the phone the night before yesterday, saying that my brother-in-law and niece were saved, saying that it was your help, but the phone call was more urgent, so I didn't tell me some specific things, in the early hours of last night, I received a call from my brother-in-law to know that something was wrong, today I took a few days off from my boss, and I was thinking about packing my luggage to go to Daocheng to see, since you are here, it is better to wait for you to arrive and I will set off again! I will wait for you next to the water tower at the edge of the village in Luolonggou three hours later. After listening to this, Tianyi implicitly comforted a few words, and then hung up the phone.
Tianyi turned his head and handed the phone back to Bai Yongshou, and told him softly: "Brother Bai, get off the water tower at the entrance of Luolonggou Village." โ
"Haole!" Bai Yongshou received the specific address, the purpose was clearer, and as soon as he stepped on the accelerator, the speed of the car became faster, and the mountains, rivers, and trees on the side of the road gradually increased.
A few hours later, Zhang Tianyi got out of the van and stood at the entrance of Luolonggou Village, a poor mountain village full of trees and forests.
A white-haired old man slowly closed his eyes on a bench outside the store. Tianyi observed left and right, and found that there was indeed an old water tower dozens of meters away from the commissary, and the skin of the water pipes on the water tower was rusty, and even there were some slight cracks on the top of the water tower.
Beneath the water tower appears to be a young girl, in her early 20s, wearing a light blue T-shirt, a pair of worn-out jeans, and a pair of blue low-top canvas shoes.
With straight hair hanging down on his shoulders, his whole figure is slender and moving, simple and generous. There is a comforting feeling of freshness between the eyebrows, and the snow-white skin and this green place are set off to form a beautiful scenery.
Tian Yi calmed down, walked a few steps closer, and was about to greet this girl and confirm whether it was Chen Jialin, when his face suddenly changed.
It was after Tianyi approached that he found that the girl's face was almost exactly the same as Chen Jiaxing's appearance, as if she was a person, and suddenly a flash of lightning flashed in her mind, Zhang Tianyi's heart suddenly began to want to shout Chen Jiaxing's name, as if the woman he hugged two days ago was now in front of him, and his heart began to collapse, emotion is a thing that can sometimes be a human beast, it can control you to do something that you think is impossible.
Tianyi's thoughts have begun to be confused, Chen Jiaxing and him have been together for a short time, but all this seems to have just happened, and it comes back to his heart, and suddenly tears began to flow outward, Tianyi is crazy, striding towards Chen Jialin under the water tower, and shouting loudly: "Chen Jiaxing, you are still alive, don't leave me again." "A big man, crying like a tearful man, ran like a madman from a distance.
Chen Jialin, who was standing under the water tower, was suddenly dumbfounded, the girl who had just gone to college and came out to work under the sponsorship of her sister, where had she seen this kind of scene, standing in place and not knowing how to put her hands and feet.
Tianyi hugged her desperately, shouting her sister's name vigorously, Jialin was stunned on the spot, and his mind was in a mess, so the two hugged each other like this for a while, Jialin came to his senses, pushed Zhang Tianyi away, and said with a slightly angry look: "My name is Chen Jialin, my sister is Chen Jiaxing, don't call people around, okay?" Tianyi listened carefully to the voice and found that this girl was not Jiaxing, her face flushed, and she was suddenly embarrassed and didn't know how to answer, and said hesitantly: " I, I'm sorry, I recognized the wrong person, I ...... I'm sorry" Chen Jialin couldn't help but burst out laughing when he saw Zhang Tianyi's flustered appearance, this smile was beautiful and couldn't be described in words.
Zhang Tianyi came to his senses, and immediately took out Chen Jiaxing's handwritten letter from his arms and handed it over.
Chen Jialin took the letter, did not open it immediately, but put it in his jacket pocket, and said eagerly: " My sister mentioned you on the phone, you are the benefactor of our family, since she asked you to come to me, something must have happened, but I have to go to Daocheng today no matter what, before my sister's body is cremated, to see my sister for the last time, so I don't have much time now, go, I will take you to my house first, the room that was hurriedly cleaned up before, so that you can settle down better, there are some vegetables and fruits in the refrigerator, and your big man's family will make do with it for two days. As he spoke, he led the way in front, walked into the village with Tianyi, made a few detours, and came to a rural cottage at the back, and saw Jialin push open the courtyard door and go straight to the inner room.
It is a two-story wooden building, which is twenty or thirty years old, and it should have been repaired by the parents of the two sisters.
The chic courtyard in front of the house is very clean, and when you enter the house, all kinds of furnishings are displayed in an orderly manner, although the space in the house is not spacious, but you can see that this girl is very diligent.
After entering the house, I have been walking in, to the inner room, I have a look at the door, a TV set in the nineties is placed on the top of the storage cabinet, the sofa next to it is slightly new, it should be a fabric sofa that I bought, the left hand side of the room is a small room, an empty toilet, the back door of the toilet is a mountain, the hill climbs all the way up, a slender PVC pipe comes down from the mountain, to a small pool next to the toilet, the water surface is clean and thorough, this should be the water pipe from the next mountain, there is a very small bathroom next to the toilet, you can only stand in it to flush the showerใ
Next to the toilet is an empty room, although the room is clean, but there are two black and white photo frames, Tianyi knows at a glance that it is the parents of the two sisters, it seems that Chen Jiaxing went to Daocheng to work, and it is not easy to sponsor his sister to go to school.
Next to it is the kitchen, facing the outhouse, the kitchen stove is in the open air between the outhouse and the inner house, covered by a few transparent tiles, both ventilated and sheltered from the rain.
On the right hand side is three rooms, facing the outhouse direction is Jialin's room, although the furniture is old, but she cleaned up in an orderly manner, the most important thing is the door of this room, it is a piece of blue and white linen hanging from top to bottom, although you can't see the situation inside, but it is really unsafe.
The middle room is empty, the door is closed, according to Jialin, this room since Jialin remembers, the parents never let the sisters enter, saying that a Taoist priest passed by here before, asked them for a bowl of water to drink, after drinking a little rest and ready to leave, pointed to this room and warned the couple, saying that their future biological children can not enter this room, as long as they go in, they will be killed.
Now Jialin has cleaned up all of them, and temporarily made the bed with the clean bedding that my sister used before, and took Tianyi to the kitchen to look at some of the food in the refrigerator, and handed over the key to the door, and hurried to the village entrance to take a car.
Looking at Jialin's distant back, Zhang Tianyi entered into contemplation, the previous loss of control, let himself clearly discover Chen Jiaxing's position in his mind, this woman and his own story is only two days, but it is enough for him to tell for a lifetime.