Chapter 60: The Beginning of an Ordinary Life
Zhou Xin bent down and picked up the broom and continued to sweep the snow left and right, until he cleared the road in front of his house, then put the broom into the hut next to him, patted the snowflakes on his body, pushed open the door and entered the house.
Li Suhua was making lunch at this time, holding the lid of the pot with one hand, and stirring the corn paste in the pot with a spoon with the other hand, when he heard the movement at the door, he turned his head and saw Zhou Xin enter the house and said:
"Bingkun, just wait a little bit."
Zhou Xin just nodded, and walked to the back room, took off the general's coat and put it on the kang, moved a small stool and sat next to the stove to roast the fire, while thinking about whether to say hello if he saw Zheng Juan in the afternoon, after all, for this era, this will not be regarded as a hooligan.
"Bingkun, hurry up and come out to eat."
Li Suhua's shout interrupted Zhou Xin's thoughts, Zhou Xin answered, then got up and walked out, and when he opened the door, he saw two bowls of corn paste, 3 corn flour tortillas, and a small plate of pickles on the dining table.
Zhou Xin came out and washed his hands, sat down at the table, picked up a corn tortilla with one hand, picked up a small pickle with chopsticks and ate it, and felt a little strained when he swallowed it.
Zhou Xin hurriedly picked up the bowl and drank a mouthful of corn paste to help swallow it, and when Li Suhua saw it, he thought that his son was choking on it because he was in a hurry to go out after eating, so he opened his mouth and said:
"Bingkun, do you eat slowly? Even if you are in a hurry to go out, it is not bad for this time. ”
"Mom, I see."
Next, Zhou Xin didn't say anything, listening to Li Suhua say that he missed his brothers and sisters, and after eating a piece of corn cake in one bite, he said:
"I'm full, I have to go to catch up with them in the afternoon, I'll go first."
"Why are you eating so little today, not eating two more bites."
Li Suhua saw his son enter the house with his coat, and walked out while putting it on his body.
Zhou Xin rode the bicycle that Zhou Zhigang had bought before and left the house, and rode to Taiping Hutong according to the information in his mind, and when he arrived at Taiping Hutong, Zhou Xin was a little dazed.
The previous light word piece was okay, after all, most of the people who lived were working class, although the buildings were built messily, but the road was relatively good, but the Taiping Hutong was a little different, the buildings were all very messy in this area, resulting in the road was also a variety of twisting alleys, Zhou Xin rode around and did not find the telephone pole with the 015 mark.
Zhou Xin had no choice but to ask someone for a while, and casually found a distant relative of the Zheng family to let him come to see the mother and daughter as an excuse, and asked an aunt before getting the address of Zheng Juan's house.
After Zhou Xin thanked his aunt, he rode a bicycle along the route given by his aunt to find it, and in less than 5 minutes, Zhou Xin saw a telephone pole printed with 015 after passing through a small alley, and the scene in front of him was also relatively familiar, so he knew that he had found it.
Since the purpose of this visit has been achieved, Zhou Xin has no intention of stopping, riding by in front of Zheng Juan's house, he can't help but look sideways through the window, and he didn't find anyone there.
Zhou Xin didn't care, after all, Zheng Juan didn't obey the arrangement to go to the mountains and countryside in order to take care of her blind brother, and now she either went to the cinema to sell rock sugar gourds or found a way to work to make money.
All the way home, Zhou Xin parked the bicycle in the yard, pushed the door and went in, Li Suhua heard the movement, looked out through the small window of the inner and outer rooms, and saw that it was Zhou Xin, so he asked loudly:
"Bingkun, why did you come back so soon, usually you don't come back until dark when you go out to play."
Zhou Xin didn't say anything, and when he entered the back room, he saw Li Suhua sitting cross-legged on the kang with a red sweater knitting in his hand, and after Li Suhua didn't get a response from his son, he stopped knitting his sweater and raised his head to look at Zhou Xin.
At this time, she found that her son's eyes stayed on the red sweater in her hand, and her tears couldn't help but start falling again, and she was still muttering:
"Bingkun, do you say that your sister will suffer in the mountains now, and will a girl be bullied. Why did you say she was so ruthless to leave me and leave? ”
Looking at Li Suhua with tears streaming down his face, affected by Zhou Bingkun's memory, Zhou Xin couldn't help but go up and hug and persuade:
"Mom, why are you crying again, it's not good for your eyes if you go on like this, if you have a good eye, my dad will complain that I didn't take care of you.
Besides, didn't my sister write to her a few days ago, she is fine over there now, if you are still not at ease, I will write a letter to her in a while, and ask her to write back and tell her about the situation over there. ”
"Hmm~"
Li Suhua slowly calmed down under Zhou Xin's comfort, and began to push Zhou Xin, asking him to hurry up to prepare pen and paper to write a letter, and only when Zhou Xin took the letter paper and spread it on the small table on the kang was about to write, his handwriting was different from Zhou Bingkun's.
But there is no way to change the handwriting in a short time, so I can only listen to Li Suhua's words, imitate the writing habits in my mind and start writing stroke by stroke, I can only pin my trust on Zhou Rong Don't care too much about why the handwriting has changed.
After the letter was written, Zhou Xin folded the letter paper and stuffed it into the envelope, pasted the stamps and went out to put it into the mailbox under Li Suhua's chatter, and when Zhou Xin came back, he sat on the stool and watched Li Suhua wearing a sweater and was stunned.
For Zhou Xin, a person from the 21st century, life without a mobile phone and computer is really uncomfortable, just like now I really don't know what to do except sit in a daze.
Boredom, he could only rummage through Zhou Bingkun's memory, and then remembered that he still had 61 books hidden in his house, Zhou Xin stood up and went to the door to rummage through the big box, and pulled out a work called "What to Do" from Da Xiong's house.
How could Zhou Xin read this kind of book in the past, but now it is really boring and can only pass the time, as for the resumption of the college entrance examination, there are still 7 years before now, during this time, Zhou Xin plans to be a worker in An Ansheng.
In this way, Zhou Xin looked at the book, Li Suhua wore a sweater, and the two passed quietly in the afternoon, and after dinner in the evening, Zhou Xin went to rest early.
Early the next morning, Zhou Xin rode out after breakfast, and met two people who were also workers of the Red Star Processing Factory at the mouth of the alley, and the three of them talked and laughed and rushed to the Red Star Wood Processing Factory together.
After arriving at the factory, Zhou Xin found Tu Zhiqiang according to the work group and said hello:
"Morning, Brother Qiang."
But Tu Zhiqiang didn't speak, but stared at Zhou Xin up and down, Tu Zhiqiang felt that Zhou Bingkun seemed to look a lot better today, and obviously the two hadn't seen each other for a day.
Zhou Xin looked at Tu Zhiqiang's eyes and felt furious, and suddenly remembered that Tu Zhiqiang was not a pair with Artesian Water, shuddered fiercely, and said:
"Brother Qiang, why are you looking at me like this, it's time for us to work."
Tu Zhiqiang was awakened by Zhou Xin's words, knowing that he was a little out of shape today, and secretly warned himself in his heart to pay attention next time, in case someone knows his sexual orientation, it will be over, and this kind of thing will not be understood in this era.
"It's nothing, I just remembered something, let's go to work."
After speaking, Tu Zhiqiang walked towards the place where the tree trunks were piled up, and Zhou Xin followed behind.
"Bingkun, I haven't seen you for a day, how do you feel that your strength has increased a lot."
Tu Zhiqiang, who had been carrying wood for a while, suddenly asked suspiciously, in the face of Tu Zhiqiang's doubts, Zhou Xin had already thought of an excuse and said:
"Recently, I seem to have started to grow my body again, and I have eaten more in the morning, so I may have more strength."
Tu Zhiqiang was a little unconvinced, how could someone change so much in one day, he couldn't think of any other reason, and he could only believe it in the face of such an explanation.
In the midst of a busy job, the day passes quickly.