Compared with intercity buses, the buses from Xinhong County to Humiao Town are particularly dilapidated.

The car was filled with the dull smell peculiar to automobiles, which made people twist their noses.

The interior is cramped, the leather seats are worn, and the windows often make a crumbling moaning sound as if they are ready to disintegrate at any moment.

There were not many passengers, Xue Yuantong and Jiang Ning sat in the penultimate row.

The seat in front of him collapsed a little and leaned back a lot, but Xue Yuantong was petite and unaffected.

For a distance of 30 kilometers, the bus fare is 6 yuan.

Xue Yuantong whispered: "The bus is contracted by a boss, and there are many of them, which are specially responsible for traveling to and from the county and the town. ”

"When I went home in the first year of junior high school, the bus was only charged 5 yuan, and then the price increased, to 7 yuan, but many people in the town resisted, so the boss dropped it to 6 yuan."

Jiang Ning didn't speak, they also have this kind of bus in Guyang County, which is also very shabby, and the color and model of the vehicle seem to be the same type.

He remembers that in 2019, in Yuzhou City, private buses to various towns and villages were banned, and later buses were uniformly used.

The bus drove outside the county, and every time it passed a bus stop on the way, the conductor stood at the door and shouted.

However, even if it was about to leave the county, the car was still not full of passengers, so the strange operation came, and before leaving the county, the bus turned into the county again, and went around along the road just now......

Thanks to the hard work of the conductor, all the seats are full of passengers, and not only that, but there are also many people standing in the car.

The bus was finally sent to Humiao Town.

I just got out of the county seat, and I heard the conductor shouting:

"All the passengers standing, all crouch, all crouch, there are cameras in front of them!"

"Squat, squat!" Her tone was hurried, as if she were directing someone to fight.

In the chaos, although the passengers complained, they also knew the seriousness of the matter, and they squatted down one after another.

It wasn't until they passed through the surveillance area that they got back on their feet.

Forty minutes later.

The bus arrived at Humiao Town North Station, and the conductor stood on the bus and shouted:

"The North Station has arrived, everyone gets off!"

At this time, there were only seven or eight passengers in the car, and the others were lost in the village halfway.

Xue Yuantong and Jiang Ning were the last two people to get off.

The station in Humiao Town is an open station, i.e., there is no station.

After getting out of the car, the two stood on the side of the road.

Xue Yuantong looked at the familiar environment, and the sparkle in his eyes suddenly returned.

There are no high-rise buildings in Humiao Town, and the tallest building is only three floors around 100 meters.

The roads are mostly filled with bicycles and motorcycles.

There were several electric tricycles with passengers parked on the side of the road, and the aunt stood beside the car and shouted:

"Where to go, take a tricycle or not!"

Xue Yuantong waved her hand to refuse, she pulled Jiang Ning forward, dozens of meters away, a straight river stood horizontally, and the river was fifteen or sixteen meters wide.

Xue Yuantong boarded the arch bridge, held on to the stone railing, and took a breath of fresh air.

There are a few anglers on the east bank of the river, and a large area of verdant farmland to the east.

Xue Yuantong pointed to the river and said: "When I was a child, there were many people swimming in this river, and at that time, my mother and I stood on the bridge and watched, and they plunged into the water and came up in half a minute. ’

Jiang Ning looked at the gray river and asked, "What now?" ”

Xue Yuantong sighed: "Now that the river is dirty, I haven't seen anyone swim again." ”

Jiang Ning deeply believes that the countryside is not as beautiful as many people imagine, especially in the central townships, garbage management is not in place, and the education level is generally not high, and the phenomenon of garbage being thrown everywhere is quite serious.

It will not be improved until a few years later, when the roadside green trash cans are widespread.

"Is your neighbor far away?" Jiang Ning asked.

"It's not far, it's going to be there in ten minutes."

"That's good."

Xue Yuantong looked at the roadside tobacco and alcohol store: "I want to go buy something." ”

This time, she came to her hometown to visit the patient on behalf of her mother, and her mother told her that she could not be empty-handed, and that she could buy some milk and fruit gifts, which looked much better.

Xue Yuantong bought a carton of walnut milk, a carton of pure milk, a bunch of bananas, and a pack of big apples, which cost her a total of 160 yuan.

After buying things, Xue Yuantong looked at a pile of things on the ground, and subconsciously worried, how to mention it?

She didn't have much strength, and she was very tired carrying a box of milk, not to mention that the village was more than a kilometer away from the town.

She looked at the passenger tricycle on the side of the road and was about to call for one.

Jiang Ning didn't let her worry about it, he bent over, lifted a carton of milk with both hands, and picked up the fruit with his hands, this weight was not a problem for Jiang Ning at all.

"What are you doing in a daze, lead the way." Jiang Ning looked at Xue Yuantong.

"Oh, oh." Xue Yuantong reacted and led him forward until he crossed the road.

Her mind is quite complicated, and there are many things that she can't do, but Jiang Ning can easily solve them.

In the past, she could only rely on herself and her mother.

"Jiang Ning, I'll carry the fruit." She volunteered.

Jiang Ning skimmed her, the fruit weighed several pounds, and she must have worked hard to carry it.

He said, "I don't need your help. ”

Xue Yuantong rarely didn't talk back.

After crossing the arch bridge, the east side suddenly opened up, and a long asphalt road stretched out, and the large fields on both sides jumped into view.

Within 500 meters ahead, there is only one power station building.

"That's the only power station in our town." Xue Yuantong introduced.

The power supply covers a large area, and Jiang Ning's quenching thunder trick emitted a faint tremble.

There is an open concrete floor in front of the power station.

The head of a tractor stopped there, making a powerful roar, and a crowd of adults and children surrounded it.

The woman picked up the bag and poured the corn kernels into the hole in the tractor.

Everyone was in unison, staring at the machine in front of the tractor.

The children, who were supposed to be chirping, were unusually quiet, and for a while there was only the roar of the machine.

Soon, the 'burnt rice sticks' were squeezed out of the machine, and a slight aroma came out.

The gluttonous children let out a cry of joy.

The women skillfully wrapped the scorched rice sticks around them into bundles and handed them out to the children.

The children held the coke rice sticks, bit into their mouths, and made a clicking sound, forming a beautiful picture of the market.

Xue Yuantong beside him muttered: "It's so good! ”

She was like that when she was a child.

Xue Yuantong didn't hesitate to surround her, and she and Jiang passed by quietly.

……

A hundred meters ahead, Xue Yuantong got off the asphalt road.

In front of him is a dirt road leading to the south, with no end in sight.

To the west is a field, to the east is a field, and to the east is a village.

Xue Yuantong walked for a while, she suddenly stopped, raised her face, and smiled with a small face:

"Jiang Ning, it's not me who blows, I've walked this road many times, even if I close my eyes, I can get home."

Jiang Ning: "Really? ”

"Hmph, of course it's true." Xue Yuantong was full of confidence, "My elementary school is there, look at you!" ”

She turned back and pointed to a three-story building in the distance to the north.

"I've been gone for six years!"

Jiang Ning observed the terrain, to the east of the village, there was a road into the village, and that road was a cement road.

If you take the cement road to school, it is obviously closer.

"Why didn't you go that way before?" Jiang Ning asked.

Xue Yuantong's smile did not decrease: "I like to be quiet. ”

said so, but in Xue Yuantong's heart, he couldn't stop feeling melancholy.

Her father died very young, and her mother never remarried, pulling her to grow up.

Children from such families are susceptible to strange stares in the village.

Sometimes Xue Yuantong was on her way to and from school, and people in the village often stopped her and asked her about her family.

Some aunts pulled her to talk, and they talked for a long time, saying that they were orphans and widows, and that their lives were sad, and the aunts talked and talked, perhaps thinking of their own suffering, or coming from their hearts, and the aunts themselves said that they cried......

She stood on the side, neither walking, nor walking, standing stiffly.

Xue Yuantong knew their kindness, but she didn't like it.

Later, in order to avoid encountering people in the village, she always carried her schoolbag on her back and went home from this remote dirt road.

At this moment, Xue Yuantong also carried his schoolbag and returned to the village along this dirt road.

Just like a few years ago.

Xue Yuantong never passed on her bad mood to Jiang Ning, so she didn't let Jiang Ning know that she would always be a cool little girl.

In the fields of the countryside, there are raised mounds of earth everywhere, and if you pass this dirt road in the middle of the night, the average timid person is afraid that they will be frightened.

Xue Yuantong asked Jiang Ning if he was tired after a while, and if he was tired, he would carry milk for her, but the answer he got every time was that he was not tired.

Country roads, birds singing and flowers, Xue Yuantong walking and jumping:

"Jiang Ning Jiang Ning, look, this telephone pole is crooked, it's so funny."

Jiang Ning raised his eyes and saw that at the junction of the dirt road and the field, an electric pole stood at an angle of 60 degrees.

Xue Yuantong ran to the telephone pole, she stretched out her shoes, gestured twice, and said arrogantly:

"Jiang Ning, believe it or not, I stepped down, the whole village ran out of electricity today!"

Jiang Ning: "You just repay the people in your village like this?" ”

Xue Yuantong ran to the middle of the road again, continued to move forward, turned a corner, and walked towards the east.

In this way, Xue Yuantong led Jiang Ning into the village.

The name of their village is 'Xue Xiaozhuang', just listening to the name is easy to remind, why is it called 'Xiaozhuang'?

In fact, to the east of Xue Xiaozhuang, there is also a village of 'Xue Dazhuang'.

After entering the village and going a little further, Jiang Ning's divine sense was released and he observed a family.

He said, "I'll help you drop off your things at your neighbor's door, and then I'll wait for you in town." ”

Hearing this, Xue Yuantong suddenly remembered that she went back to the village to visit her neighbors, not to her own house, and it didn't seem reasonable to take Jiang Ning to someone else's house like this.

When the neighbor asked, how should she introduce Jiang Ning?

Xue Yuantong made a decision: "You go with me, I won't stay for dinner at noon, let's go to the town to eat, there is a spicy tang at the gate of the middle school that is delicious, I invite you to eat." ”

Jiang Ning: "Are you sure you won't stay?" ”

Xue Yuantong said categorically: "No! ”

Jiang Ning carried milk and fruit and stopped at the door of her old house.

"Let's get here."

Xue Yuantong struggled to move the gifts, and before entering the neighbor's house, she repeatedly told Jiang Ning:

"Don't run away, you must wait for me to come back~"

Jiang Ning said: "Ang, go quickly." ”

Xue Yuantong turned around in three steps and reluctantly entered the neighbor's house.

Jiang Ning's consciousness opened, haunting Xue Yuantong.

He did not wait where he was, but went around the village, and sometimes when the people in the village saw him as a stranger, they often looked twice, but did not come up to talk.

Jiang Ning turned to the vicinity of the ditch, which was oval-shaped, about 20 meters long and wide, and the water in the ditch was almost dry.

Two small children, a boy and a little girl, fishing barefoot at the bottom of a ditch.

He watched with relish.

The little girl touched it for a while, touched an ugly toad, and threw it out in fright.

There is not much water in the ditch, and the little girl always touches the fish, and says angrily:

"We get the water out, and we can't touch it if we don't believe it."

With that, the two children began to splash water with a basin of water.

At first, the two of them splashed very carefully, afraid that the water would get on their clothes, Jiang Ning couldn't enjoy it, he shouted:

"Hurry up, haven't you eaten?"

When the two children heard this, they immediately came to their senses.

Although they are children, once they are seriously splashed with water, their momentum is quite amazing, and the splashing sky is full of muddy water, which is like a Songkran Festival.

Children seem to have endless energy, and when they splash it later, they even compare themselves with each other and compare who splashes farther.

Especially the little girl, splashing water extremely hard.

She splashed half a basin of muddy water, first glanced at the little boy fiercely, and then cast a smug gaze on Jiang Ning.

Jiang Ning looked at this scene, he raised his hands and slowly applauded them.

When the two children saw that someone was cheering, they splashed water harder as if they had won a reward.

In the end, the two children were covered in muddy water and became mud monkeys.

Jiang Ning was very satisfied.

At this moment, a woman walked briskly in the distance, she stood on the edge of the ditch, looked at the two mud monkeys, and screamed:

"Xiaoyou, what are you doing!"

The little boy was okay, he didn't react much, and the little girl trembled with fright, as if she had met a big horror.

"Come up to me!" The woman shouted with a glare.

The girl named Xiaoyou turned around, looked directly at her mother, and said confidently:

"You recognize the wrong person, I'm not your little friend!"

The woman picked up a branch and chased after it, and the little one ran away from her.

Jiang Ning saw this scene and silently turned to leave.

After a while, Xue Yuantong came back.

She had an empty hand and gave away all the gifts she had brought.

"Jiang Ning, I'm hungry."

Now at eleven o'clock in the morning, I start to run around from more than six o'clock in the morning, change trains all the way, consume a lot, and it is normal to be hungry.

"Let's go to town first."

When the two of them left the village, they happened to bump into the woman who came back with the little girl.

Xue Yuantong was dumbfounded: "Aunt Hua, is she Xiaoyou?" ”

Aunt Hua was so angry that she didn't even pay attention to Jiang Ning: "This girl is angry with me!" ”

"Look at me when I go home and don't cure her!"

After saying a few words, Aunt Hua said again: "Why did you leave and not stay to eat?" ”

Xue Yuantong said: "Wait until I go back to the city." ”

The two chatted for a few words, during which Xiao You, whose face was full of muddy water, stared at Jiang Ning with a pair of resentful eyes, if it weren't for this big brother, she would still be splashing water happily.

Saying goodbye to Aunt Hua, Xue Yuantong and Jiang Ning went to the gate of the town middle school and ate a bowl of spicy tang for 7 yuan.

After eating, the time is twelve o'clock at noon.

The bus sent to Xinhong County departed at 1:20, and the time was still early.

Xue Yuantong proposed: "There is a peach orchard in the south of the town, let's look at the peach blossoms!" ”

April is the season when the peach blossoms are in full bloom.

The two went to the peach orchard, and among the gorgeous flowers, Xue Yuantong shuttled happily, and the pink and white skin and peach blossoms reflected each other.

Jiang Ning took out his mobile phone and took a photo of her to record this moment.

Xue Yuantong exercised a lot more today than usual, Jiang Ning didn't feed her the elixir, and after the excitement, she was tired and listless.

Xue Yuantong dragged his heavy steps and walked out of the peach orchard with difficulty.

She looked at the North Station in the distance, thought about the distant way home, and sighed:

"Jiang Ning, I'm so tired!"

Jiang Ning found a bench: "Stop and rest when you're tired, don't force yourself." ”

He and Xue Yuantong sat on the bench.

Xue Yuantong put his head against Jiang Ning, stayed for half a minute, and a wave of sleepiness hit.

"Jiang Ning, I want to sleep." She informed.

"Sleep."

"Then are you sleeping?"

"I'm not sleepy."

"Jiang Ning, you say, if I wake up, how good would it be to lie on the bed at home?" Xue Yuantong held his chin and imagined.

"No need to catch a car."

Jiang Ning smiled: "Go to sleep, maybe it will be realized when you wake up." ”

"Oh, then I'll sleep, you remember to call me!"

Xue Yuantong hugged Jiang Ning's arm, leaned on him, sniffed Jiang Ning's fresh breath, calmed down, and closed his eyes.

After a while, Xue Yuantong fell asleep, and his warm breath tickled Jiang Ning's neck.

Jiang Ning first let her sleep for a while, and then, he looked at the nearby peach orchard and suddenly opened his hand.

A formation shrouded silently, and the figures of him and Xue Yuantong disappeared into everyone's senses.

Jiang Ning flicked his fingers, and the spirit boat popped out of the storage ring, floating in the air, and then swelled in the wind.

He leaned over and picked up Xue Yuantong, feeling her soft body, Jiang Ning was like stepping on an invisible staircase, stepping onto the spirit boat step by step.

The light mask that comes with the spirit boat is activated, and Jiang Ning drives the spiritual power.

A blue light streaked towards the sky.