"When did you come back?"

The two hugged for a while before letting go, and the people around them were not surprised by this, relatives and friends who have been separated for some reasons over the years abound, and it is inevitable to be excited to reunite again.

"Just came back yesterday, what about you?" Song Yuanchao smiled brightly, looked Li Daqi up and down, and could see that Li Daqi was not much better than himself, the whole person was thin and black, and his clothes looked old, with patches on them.

"I came back two months before you, a year ago." Li Daqi said with a smile, glanced at the last two raw fried dishes that Song Yuanchao hadn't finished eating, and unceremoniously picked up one with his hand and stuffed it into his mouth, chewing and saying: "Let's go, go to my house to sit, I haven't seen you for so many years, I recognized you with sharp eyes just now, or I would have missed it today." ”

Song Yuanchao smiled and nodded, and like Li Daqi, he picked up the last raw fry and stuffed it into his mouth and chewed it, then took the egg skin soup and drank it all, and after drinking, he put the bowl on the table and wiped his mouth, and the two left the state-run hotel with their shoulders hooked up as when they were in school.

Li Daqi's new home is not far from the state-run hotel, and after walking through the street in front, the second path turns into a large rolling dragon (urban village) house.

While walking, Song Yuanchao curiously asked why Li Daqi's family moved here? I remember that his house was not here before.

"The house I used to live in was my grandfather's unit, and then my grandfather left, and the house was taken away by the unit, and this is my mother's relative's house, which moved here a few years ago." Li Daqi said lightly, but Song Yuanchao heard a trace of helplessness in his few words.

Li Daqi's family used to live in a very good place, in a small western-style building, and the whole building lived Li Daqi's grandfather, parents and his sister Li Xiaoyun's family of five.

But now, he moved directly from a small western-style building with an excellent environment to this kind of place, which made Song Yuanchao not expect it at all, no wonder he didn't find where Li Daqi lived in his previous life.

After going around in the rolling dragon for a while, he arrived at a very low bungalow, Li Daqi took out the key and opened the door to beckon Song Yuanchao to come in.

When you enter the door, the whole room inside is only about 20 square meters, the room is separated by the door with a small kitchen, and then there is no living room or bedroom or anything, with old furniture and a double bed.

In the innermost part of the room, the curtain was drawn, and inside was a three-foot single bed, and the sheets on the bed looked like they were used by girls, Li Daqi told Song Yuanchao that this was his sister Li Xiaoyun's bed.

Song Yuanchao curiously asked him where he slept, Li Daqi smiled and stretched out his hand to point up, Song Yuanchao noticed that there was an attic built out of the house, and the attic was where Li Daqi slept.

"Sit down, drink saliva first."

pulled two chairs and let Song Yuanchao sit, Li Daqi found a cup and poured a glass of water for him, then took out a cigarette from his pocket and handed it to Song Yuanchao first, picked up one and lit it with a match.

"I've been looking for you when I've come back." Li Daqi took a puff of cigarette and said, "But after asking your neighbors, they all said that there is no news of you, and your parents ...... I'm sorry for saying the wrong thing. ”

"It's all gone, it's all right." Song Yuanchao waved his hand and asked rhetorically: "How are you doing all these years?" ”

"Hehe, what good can be when you are a young person, we are not the same." Li Daqi flicked the cigarette ash and sighed: "I have been boiling day by day, and when I was in Liaodong, I felt that this hard life could not be seen at all, to be honest, I can't believe how I have survived all these years." ”

Song Yuanchao didn't say anything, his expression was silent. He looked at the cigarette butt in his hand, and watched the green smoke rise a little blankly.

Yes, for eight years, I didn't know how to get through it like Li Daqi, and many times I even felt that I couldn't survive anymore, only with the enthusiasm of young people and mutual encouragement, I finally persevered.

Looking back now, they are still lucky, because how many educated youths like them even left their lives in that land, and they will never be able to return to their hometown.

The two of them were speechless for a while, and the only thing left in the room was the sound of smoking.

After a long while, Li Daqi took the last puff hard, took out another cigarette, and directly continued the cigarette butt that had almost burned out on the cigarette and continued to smoke.

"Smoke less, I remember you didn't smoke before."

Song Yuanchao smoked less, and he didn't have any addiction to smoking, seeing that Li Daqi was so good at smoking now, he kindly persuaded him, and in later generations, Li Daqi died of advanced lung cancer before he was sixty, which may be related to his fierce smoking.

"Bad habits developed in Liaodong." Li Daqi picked up the cigarette and was about to continue to smoke, but put it down with a smile: "The ghost place in Liaodong is not cold in winter, and the locals have a cat winter for half a year, but we educated youth can't still work, and if you are tired of work, you can't take a puff at all, and sometimes you don't have the money to buy cigarettes and just get some hay to smoke, and the addiction to smoking is getting ......bigger and bigger." ”

Song Yuanchao expressed his understanding, in fact, the climate in the northwest is similar to that of Liaodong, and the same is true. In the places where they go to the countryside, there are almost no educated youths who do not smoke.

"By the way, why are you over there today? I remember that your house is not in the direction of the state-run hotel. Li Daqi suddenly thought of this and couldn't help asking.

"I'm going to school to do something, my dad's business." Song Yuanchao replied that although Li Daqi was his junior, he and Principal Zhou's request to enter the school and run a factory had not been fully implemented, so it was pointless to mention this at this time, so Song Yuanchao didn't say anything.

Li Daqi understood as soon as he heard it, nodded and said: "Uncle Song's matter really has to be done, now that the policy has changed, the school will definitely give an explanation, and the matter is going well, right?" ”

"It's okay, Principal Zhou said the same thing as me, saying that the materials have been handed in, let me wait patiently for the news."

"That's good." Li Daqi smiled, he had already heard from his neighbors about the Song family when he went to find Song Yuanchao before, and since things were going well, he was also happy for Song Yuanchao in his heart.

"Daqi, ...... you today?" Song Yuanchao didn't want to talk more about his father's affairs, so he asked Li Daqi instead.

Looking at Li Daqi's dress, as well as slobbing outside at noon, I'm afraid he hasn't worked until now.

"I've been squatting at home since I came back, and I'm bored at home in the morning and go out for a walk, who wants to run into you on this walk, do you think this is providence?"

Li Daqi replied with a smile, hearty laughter echoed in the room, and Song Yuanchao was also happy when he heard it, and laughed at the same time.

"It's been so many days since I've been back, and my hukou has been moved? What about work? What's the plan? Song Yuanchao asked.

Li Daqi took a puff of cigarette, shook his head and said, "The household registration will have to wait a few days, as for the work...... You can also see the current situation in my family, now my dad works in the workshop of the electronics factory, and my mom is the same, still in the textile factory. ”

"No, I remember Uncle Li wasn't an engineer before? Why did you go to the workshop now? Song Yuanchao frowned and asked.

"It's hard to put into words." Li Daqi sighed: "After my grandfather left, my father went to the workshop, and it is really not wrong for this world to go to tea and cool, if it weren't for my mother's relatives who have a suite here to help, maybe my family would have to sleep on the road."

Frowning, Song Yuanchao asked Li Daqi if he could solve this problem according to the policy, why didn't he go to the factory leaders to report the situation?

But Li Daqi smiled bitterly and told Song Yuanchao that the one who occupied their house was the current factory leader, so what if they found it? Can the other party vacate the place and give it to their home?

In addition, Li Daqi came back to work this time and did not find a job, Uncle Li also planned to ask the factory leader to give Li Daqi a job, if he offended people because of this at this time, then Li Daqi's work would have no hope.

"Isn't this bullying!" After listening to Li Daqi's explanation, Song Yuanchao suddenly felt angry in his heart, where is there such a bully in this world?

"It's okay to help North Korea, this kind of thing is not our family, just want to open it." In the face of Song Yuanchao's resentment, Li Daqi comforted him instead.