The clanging old green train travels through the wilderness.

Luo Yang sat by the window, looking at the scenery passing by the window. This reminded him of the past when he took the same train to the Great Northern Wilderness many years ago, when he was still a teenager and energetic, full of longing and expectations for going to the countryside and going to the countryside, there were partners who went to the countryside together on the train all the way, everyone laughed and sang in the carriage, but so many years have passed in a flash, and now the carriage looks at things and people, just those ordinary passengers.

It has been nearly a week since he came out of Yanjing, and Luo Yang has traveled to many places during this week, almost all of the provinces near Yanjing, and it can be said that he has spent almost all of his time on trains, cars and even ox carts this week.

Getting closer and closer to the Great Northern Wilderness, Luo Yang's thoughts couldn't help but return to many years ago, back to the ...... of his youthful years.

The train started and stopped, and arrived at a small northern station in the morning a day later, Luo Yang, who was carrying his luggage, got off the train, and his eyes swept around, the dilapidated platform, the rusty iron gate, all this looked so familiar, so kind.

This is a small station, so small that it cannot be found on the ordinary map, after leaving the station is a small county town, this county has only 70,000 or 80,000 permanent residents, compared to the county seat in the Guannai, at best the size of a town.

This season, even if it is a little hot in Tsubame Kyoto, the weather here is still like spring, and the temperature difference between day and night is very large, and the minimum temperature can drop to five or six degrees at night, plus the wind like a knife from time to time, there is no way to go out if you wear less.

This time Luo Yang deliberately changed his outfit, he was wearing ordinary blue clothes and pants, wrapped in an old army coat, and wearing a hat on his head, if it wasn't for someone who knew him, it would be difficult to imagine that this was Luo Yang.

Out of the station, not far from the train station is the bus station, Luo Yang is very familiar with this area, walked over and asked the time to get off the train and bought a ticket.

No anti-theft

There was still more than an hour before the departure time, Luo Yang simply found a place to sit down in the tattered station waiting room, took out the dry food he was carrying from his bag and ate it with the water in the kettle.

Just after eating a few bites, Luo Yang felt that a pair of eyes seemed to be looking at him from the side, and when he looked at it, he saw a doll about three or four years old wearing a gray cloth jacket, this doll had a dirty face, and he couldn't tell the men and women, and the two big round eyes couldn't help but look at the steamed bun in Luo Yang's hand.

"Doll, hungry? Want to eat? Seeing this doll, Luo Yang laughed, he walked over and squatted in front of the child and asked, seeing that the child took a step back, but still reluctantly looked at the steamed bun in Luo Yang's hand, although he didn't speak, his eyes showed an answer.

Luo Yang directly broke half of it and stretched out his hand to hand it over: "Give, eat!" ”

The child hesitated, but could not resist the temptation of the white-flour steamed buns, stretched out his little hand to take half of the steamed buns, and then put it to his mouth and ate a small bite, the child's eyes suddenly lit up after this mouthful, and then he ran away and ran directly to the side.

"Daddy! Father! ”

"Where did it come from?" A middle-aged man was dozing, and after being shaken awake by the child, he was stunned when he saw that the child actually held half a white-flour steamed bun in his hand.

"Over there, Uncle gave it." The doll stretched out his hand and pointed in Luo Yang's direction, and the man looked at Luo Yang, only to see Luo Yang smiling and nodding at him.

Seeing Luo Yang, the man hesitated, then picked up the child and stood up, walking straight towards Luo Yang.

"I'm sorry, the kid was ignorant just now......."

"It's nothing, it's all said it's a child, it's just lunchtime, and it's nothing to give the child half a steamed bun." Luo Yang said with a smile.

"Thank you......." The man grinned, touched the child's head, and then looked at Luo Yang carefully, with a strange expression on his face.

"You...... You're Luoyang, right? Luo Yang didn't expect this strange man to actually call out his name, and Luo Yang was stunned for a while.

"...... you?" Luo Yang looked at the other party carefully in confusion, and suddenly felt that the other party had a familiar face, but for a while, he couldn't think of where he had seen it.

"It's really Luoyang! I'm Wang Hu! You Brother Huzi! Do you still know me? Wang Hu took off his hat and looked very excited, and when he looked at the other party carefully, Luo Yang finally recognized who the other party was.

"Wang Hu? Brother Huzi? Brother Huzi! Luo Yang's mood suddenly became excited, and he grabbed the other party's shoulders with both hands and asked urgently.

"It's me, it's me!"

"Brother Huzi, you, why are you old like this? How can you ...... if you haven't seen it in the past few years? Tears couldn't help falling from Luo Yang's eyes, if it wasn't for the other party who recognized him first and told him who it was, Luo Yang really couldn't recognize the person standing in front of him as Wang Hu.

In his memory, Wang Hu has always been the young man wearing a leather jacket, holding a shotgun in his hand, walking with a tiger, loud laughter, full of energy, and a handsome face. But now, Wang Hu, who was standing in front of him, had a frosty memory on his face, wearing a gray cloth cotton jacket with patches that was no different from ordinary people, wearing a military hat without a cockade on his head, and he didn't hold a shotgun in his hand, his waist was not as straight as before, his back was slightly hunched, and the whole person looked ten years older than his original age.

"People in the mountains age fast, isn't it like this when the wind comes and goes in the rain every day......." Wang Hu said with a smile, and then said to the child in his arms: "Dog baby, this is your Uncle Luoyang, call someone quickly!" ”

"Uncle Luoyang......." The dog baby was eating half of the steamed bun given by Luo Yang, stopped and looked up at Luo Yang and shouted, and then gave Luo Yang a bright smile.

"Brother Huzi, is this your son?" Luo Yang asked.

"That's right! My son! The little name is Gouwa, and the big name is Wang Zhenlin, who is three and a half years old this year. Touching the child's head, Wang Hu said proudly.

"Wang Zhenlin? It's a good name, atmospheric! ”

"Hehe, you also said yes, this name was specially given to the old branch secretary. My name is Wang Hu, and I originally named him Wang Xiaohu, but the old branch secretary said that Wang Xiaohu was not good, so he simply called Zhenlin, Tiger Roaring Mountain Forest, Zhenlin Zhenlin, that's what it means. Wang Hule said happily.

Wang Hu is a son of the Orion family, Orion is a very ancient profession, it can be said that when humans appeared, there was a profession of Orion.

Wang Hu's father, Wang Laohan, is the best hunter in Luoyang's countryside, Wang Hu's grandfather, grandfather, and grandfather are also hunters, and his family doesn't know how many years they have lived in this place, and their ancestors have lived by hunting for generations.

Wang Hu's age is older than Luo Yang, if Luo Yang is not mistaken, Wang Hu should be twenty-eight this year, when Luo Yang just went to the countryside and came to this place, Wang Hu was still a young man in his early twenties, but now in a blink of an eye, the young man of the year has been through the wind and frost.

"Luo Yang, didn't you go back to the city? Why is it back this time? Seeing familiar people, Wang Hu was very happy, Wang Hu and Luo Yang had a very good relationship back then, and they also took care of these educated youths, and Luo Yang's parents were rehabilitated in 76 years, and Luo Yang had a chance to go back. I haven't seen each other for more than four years. Other educated youths also returned to the city and their hometowns around 78 years, and the originally lively educated youth spot has long since become a barren.

"I've been back for several years, and I've been thinking about it all the time, so I don't take the time to come and have a look." Luo Yang smiled and said.

"yes, it's been a few years, and these days are really fast." Wang Hu nodded and sighed: "A few years ago, the educated youths walked one by one, seeing that there were fewer and fewer people day by day, not to mention the old branch secretary, even I was embarrassed in my heart, and many times I thought about the time when you were there, how lively it was!" ”

"Is the old branch secretary okay?"

Luo Yang asked about the old branch secretary, Wang Hu sighed and shook his head: "I didn't survive last winter, and you also know that his body and bones have always been bad, and he can't get up every winter, this time...... Ay. ”

Luo Yang's heart sank suddenly, and the old branch secretary went? This old man with a stinky and stubborn temper, who loves to scold his mother but has a fiery heart, actually went? This made Luo Yang's heart empty instantly.

"There have been a lot of people in the past few years, and my father also left the year before last, but it's not a pity to see his grandson born." Wang Hu said with emotion.

Wang Laohan is also gone? Luo Yang's eyes couldn't help but moisten, he didn't expect that these two elders who made him respect had already gone one after another, if it wasn't for them and Wang Hu sacrificing their lives to save each other, maybe he would have been dead a long time ago.

Thinking of the freshly remembered faces of the old branch secretary and Wang Laohan, there seemed to be their loud laughter in his ears, but now he never had the opportunity to see them again, Luo Yang regretted it for a while, regretting that he was late.

While waiting for the car, Wang Hu talked a lot to Luo Yang, and also let Luo Yang know some about the situation after he left.

With the return of the educated youths to the city, the original educated youth point is now abandoned, and in addition to some of the farmland that they have cultivated with their hands, many of them have also been abandoned due to lack of manpower.

Some old people have passed away one after another, although the life of the local young people has also changed, just like Wang Hu, as a hunter, Wang Hu originally lived in the forest to hunt for a living, before Wang Laohan died, the policy was adjusted, and the state had other regulations for hunting, so the old branch secretary took an opportunity to help Wang Hu get a forest ranger, barely ate the imperial grain.

Wang Hu got married shortly after Luo Yang left, and his wife was a woman from a nearby commune, and Luo Yang didn't know him. However, from Wang Hu's narration, it can be seen that Wang Hu is very affectionate to his wife, the relationship between the husband and wife is very good, this time he came to the county because his wife is pregnant and waiting to give birth, because Wang Hu is a forest ranger, he still lives in the forest on weekdays, and it is a big deal for a woman to give birth to a child, for the sake of safety, he sent his wife to the county hospital in advance to be taken care of by his mother's family for a few days.