Chapter 1: The Hometown at Your Doorstep
On the afternoon of October 1st, around 6 o'clock.
A Hongqi E-HS9 car from Haiyuda Community, the county seat, slowly drove out of the gate. At a speed of 20 kilometers per hour, turn right into the bustling Xingcheng Avenue and go straight. It crosses three traffic lights, makes a right-angle turn, enters an eight-lane provincial road, and suddenly accelerates. On the township road leading from the county seat to the Majiadang tourist area, at a speed of 80 yards per hour, it runs for 30 minutes and enters the four-lane township road.
Along the way, vehicles shuttle back and forth, and people are dazzled by what they watch. At the traffic light in the direction of Yongxing, the Hongqi sedan slowed down and entered the area of the left-turn arrow, just in time to meet the green light. With one direction in place, turn left into the eastbound right-hand lane. In front of me, I vaguely saw a dark green pagoda, standing majestically. From the top of the tower hang three big red letters made of plexiglass and composed of neon lights: hazy, hazy, tower!
The sunset reflects the western half of the sky, it is almost dusk, and there are still crowds of people here. I saw the Hongqi car hesitate and pause for a few seconds, and it can be seen that the driver tried to turn right into the parking lot of the scenic area. only to find that the parking lot was already crowded with rows of cars of various types. Including the sidewalks along the roadside green belt, there are also a series of parking cars.
On the side of the road, security guards are maintaining order at the scene. They used a stiff potato and radish tone to try their best to persuade the phenomenon of indiscriminate parking and indiscriminate parking. It can be seen that there is little effect. There is only one eleven a year, and the full scenic spot is not something that the manager can solve. As far as the local security guards are concerned, they can only walk away from formalism and come forward to advise when they see people parking indiscriminately. When asked by tourists where the car was parked, the security guard was also speechless.
So, it's more about the human understanding! It is a dereliction of duty for the security guard to stop the indiscriminate parking when he sees it. But the scenic spot can't provide more parking spaces, and it's no wonder that tourists park indiscriminately. In the end, everyone chose to take a step back and understand each other. No matter how large the parking lot is, it is usually a waste of land. After all, there is only one day of the National Day every year, endure it, and it will be over after a while. People choose to cherish their time more than they want to waste it on boring quarrels in a pleasant effective time.
Every holiday and holiday, the parking space in the hazy tower scenic spot is simply not enough to accommodate. People who come here to play have to park their cars nearby, resulting in serious blockages on the sidewalks. Fortunately, people came here to obey the arrangements of the on-site security as much as possible, and they barely managed to cope during the holidays. The Hongqi car was blocked by the security guard, and she rolled down the window, not knowing what to say to the security guard, so she slowly reversed and retreated to the road.
Continue east, at a large roundabout, make a U-turn and turn right into the westbound lane. Go back the way you came, enter the 8th lane, and keep right to go south. It is estimated that she should be passing by the hazy tower and wants to get out of the car by the way. Enjoy the scenic spot of my hometown, which has been open for many years, and foreign tour groups come in groups to play, and those of them who live in the local area are stuck in the factory at three points and one line, working all day long for firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and tea, and have no chance to come to play.
Occasionally, on Sundays when you don't work overtime, you have to visit the elderly, and you have to take care of your children's academic grades, alas! That's really called a busy leisure, how can you have the time to come to the tourist area to have a fun. It is rare to have 7 days of national leave, and the salary for working in the county is not much, and the remuneration for 12 hours of work is three or four thousand, which makes all the workers complain. Forced to live, tired, bitter, and willing to pay a little less. At the very least, you can enjoy the atmosphere with your children and have fun in the midst of suffering.
People's happiness comes from the satisfaction of the heart, although the township enterprises that are blooming everywhere, most of them are heavily polluting enterprises eliminated by big cities, heavy dust, heavy noise, and even some factory workshop workers, at the risk of leakage of chemical harmful gases, have to go back and forth between home and factory roads for a few taels of silver, in order to reunite with their families, in order to take care of children and the elderly. I am alone, but my whole family is happy.
There are always people running on the road of yearning for a happy life, working tirelessly, and being happy. I'd rather be bitter and have less reward, rather than leave my hometown, which seems to have become the operating model of migrant workers. Unlike people born in the 60s, 70s, and 80s, some drag their families with them, some live apart in different places, and some have separated their wives. has a house, but faces his parents across the sea; has a new home, but it has suffered the ...... of the children.
The Hongqi sedan crosses eight lanes, which should be the intersection between Yilin Town and Majiadang. The four-lane road that has entered the township kilometer has entered the territory of Yangji Town. The lights on the east side of the road are shining brightly, and the four big red words of Funing South Station are eye-catching. It turns out that this is the intersection of provincial highways and township roads, and there is a high-speed rail station running east-west. An elevated railway like a dragon, stretching from the top of your head to the east and west to infinity.
It can be seen that it is getting late, and the Hongqi car does not stop for a moment. Although entering the township road, some anxious car owners still reduced their speed slightly and continued to run wildly. "Please note, you have entered the speed test, please reduce your speed!" The timely reminder of navigation frightened the driver to quickly retreat and slow down, and enter the specified mode of 60 kilometers per hour. She subconsciously looked at the pedestrians on both sides of the road, the elderly people walking in twos and threes, standing and looking out from time to time, as if waiting for her to drive by.
The elderly have dinner in the evening and come out for a walk, and since the establishment of this road, people who walk on both sides of the road throughout the year have become a sight. Don't underestimate the country roads now, which are lush on both sides of the road. What orange trees, yellow peach trees, pear trees, orchards, greenhouses can be seen faintly. Under normal circumstances, it takes about 40 minutes to drive from Funing South Station to Majiadang. It's open, and the ground level in front of it is raised.
The Torrent Bridge in my impression, about three kilometers to the south, is the representative building of Maleang Temple in the very center of Majiadang. 500 meters south by car from Maleang Temple, you will find where your hometown lives. It is an almost grandson-surnamed family located on a large pile of east and west, facing three red brick and blue tile houses facing south, plus two kitchens facing east, also red bricks and green tiles. I'm about to get home, and I'm definitely a little excited.
Starting from the county seat, to the hometown of Majiadang, it is only more than 60 kilometers. In order for the children to study, I bought a house with three bedrooms and one living room in the county, and 120 square meters is more than 70 million yuan. Some people say that being so close to home is not just a matter of kicking the accelerator. It sounds like that's the case, it's not a thousand-mile frontier, thousands of miles away, it's hard to come and go. Do you know that as a mother of two children, she gets up at 5 o'clock in the morning to cook for the older children in junior high school.
After sending him to school, he went to the vegetable market to buy vegetables and came back, and cooked them for a five-year-old girl at noon.
Then, I sent her to the nursery school, and before 7 o'clock, I went to work at the school's dormitory to check the dormitory and clean up. I got off work at 11:20 a.m., and the driver was busy driving the battery for a while. Rushed to the house to light a fire, cook rice, stir-fry vegetables, and put the dishes to be eaten in the evening into the refrigerator, in case the eldest son came back from school and rushed to study in the evening after eating. Before 1 o'clock, you must rush to school to continue your work.
Check whether the dormitory is cleaned, and whether the beds, clothes, quilts, and personal daily necessities are neat and tidy. For some unqualified dormitories, help tidy up by yourself. And write a message to tell the children what is wrong and how to correct it. It is her job duty to do the same thing every day, draw inferences from one another, and never get tired of doing it. Dealing with the children at school, she can't help but be negligent.
I was busy until six o'clock in the afternoon, and I took my little daughter home from work. After tidying up dinner, I had to send my son to cram school at 7 o'clock. Pick him up at 9 o'clock on time. This stall, coming and going, busy, must take a five-year-old girl. Even if you go down the stairs to buy a packet of edible salt at the shop downstairs, you have to carry her on your back, which is faster than walking with her. She couldn't be idle on Sundays, because her 15-year-old son was in his third year of junior high school. The high school entrance examination is imminent, and it is the greatest wish of every parent to hope that his son will become a dragon and his daughter will become a phoenix.
Work overtime to make up for classes, even if you spend all your savings every month, at any cost. With big pocket money, small snacks, and year-round clothing for herself and her children, she is 3,500 yuan a month as a dormitory manager. You said that although it is easy to go home one hundred and twenty or eighty miles from home, it is too difficult to sit up. Even though you can drive yourself, you have to have extra time!
Many people don't understand, you lean at home and go back to your hometown to see the elderly, isn't it just for an hour or two? This is said to be a family, and you don't know that firewood and rice are expensive; Standing and talking does not hurt your back. Look at it, a 37-year-old woman like Li Feifeng, with two children, one big and one young, a boy and a girl, is not afraid that you are capable, and every day you open your eyes, you are busy. Close your eyes and sleep until five o'clock in the morning.
Li Feifeng was most afraid of the alarm clock that reminded her to wake up on time at five o'clock every day, and when the alarm clock rang, her body instinctively sat up from the bed. Rub the eyes, firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar tea. The pans march is accompanied by shouting when the big one gets up and dresses the small one. See if the big bed is folded and tidy; See if you have any dreams of wetting the bed at night. The five-year-old girl, because she slept too deeply, occasionally encountered bedwetting, and inevitably encountered it once or twice a month.
Although I am dozens of kilometers away from my hometown, every time I go home, I have to prepare for a few days. Grit your teeth and take a trip home, and you are not afraid of people's jokes. The neighbors were as ecstatic as the city people were to see an American guest who had just returned from San Francisco. Today, the mother and son bought milk and chicken cakes from the county supermarket, and brought some high-end fruits that the elderly were usually reluctant to spend money on. For example: durian, red grape, navel orange, red Fuji apple, etc.
Rushing to take a 7-day holiday on October 1st, go back to my parents' house to play for a day or two, and accompany my 84-year-old mother, which can be regarded as blocking the mouths of my sister-in-law and neighbors. Who let the family work in Shanghai, but he married a useless man, and only cared about himself working on the construction site outside. On the sixth day of the first month of each year, leave. You can't go home until after the twentieth day of the lunar month. Alas! Li Feifeng's marriage to Sun Daoliang can be regarded as eight lifetimes of blood mold.
Others heard that their family Sun Daoliang was working on a construction site outside, and he sent back at least three or five hundred thousand yuan to his family every year. Otherwise, why did their family buy a Hongqi E-HS9 car! It is also said that Sun Daoliang and Li Feifeng have been married for more than ten years, starting from scratch and relying on the husband and wife to work hard. One is outside, the other is inside, and he is dead. Not only did I buy a house in the county, but I also bought a Hongqi E-HS9 car with more than 1 million yuan, which was dazzling.
Although in the eyes of the neighbors, their family wants money and food. The 84-year-old mother still has more than one acre of land in the countryside. The rice grown is processed into rice that cannot be eaten by one person. Every time she went back to her hometown, her mother would always give her a few old hens, old ducks, plus rice, yams, turnips, and eggs laid by old hens. A mother's heart, if calculated according to the value of the gift she gave to her mother, is still far beyond the scope of her own value.
Of course, the relationship between mother and daughter can not be measured by value. The mother is worried, and the mother is not worried. The concern buried in the bottom of my heart has always been hidden in the hearts of both parties. No one can see it, only they sense and influence each other. Hurry home on the first day of the holiday, play with the old lady for a few more days, catch up with the old lady, and listen to her tell the story of Ma Liang. What a happy thing it is to be buried in my mother's arms and listen to her tell stories when I was a child.
After getting off work, I immediately told the good news to my 84-year-old mother, who was deaf and blind. "Mom, do you hear me?"
"I heard, I heard, oh, it's our little old man! Mom prepared grass eggs for you, as well as dozens of catties of wheat flour, when will you come home and get it! Come and get it by the way, don't delay going to work! "Listen, the old man is reluctant to stop working for a day and make less money. A day's shift of 80 yuan is an astronomical amount for the elderly. Every time I go home, my mother is afraid that she will delay her work time.
When I called him to ask how he was doing, the old man always said: I'm fine, don't delay going to work to make money because of worrying about me. "Mom, I didn't delay the time, it was released to the country on October 1 every year. Now I'm driving back to my hometown, my mother and wife are all going home, you can cook more stick head beard potato porridge! ”
"Oh, okay, cook more stick head beard potato porridge, uh-huh, uh-huh! I'm ready to go, I'm ready to go, I'm ready to cook and wait for you to come back, then mom will hang up first! I could hear the heartfelt happiness of the old mother, and Li Feifeng seemed to be chattering when she heard it. Hanging up the phone, Li Feifeng couldn't suppress the joy in her heart, and she began to pack her things. While shouting into Sun Ji's room: "Sun Ji, hurry up and take your sister Sun Mi, and prepare to go to grandma's house, quickly." ”