Chapter 12: Homesickness

Huang Guofan was woken up by the phone at half past five in the morning, "Aren't you going to catch a car in the morning?" Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

"It's only half past five, so early? You don't need to get up so early, and then wake me up! I thought you were joking? But you really called, you will have dark circles under your eyes if you don't rest!" Huang Guofan answered the phone and got dressed.

"Hehe, I'm going to audition early this morning, not to mention that it's already bright outside, okay, it's a cool summer crew, they all get up early and take a break at noon, who sleeps like you, hurry up and catch the car." Do you remember calling me when you get home?"

Zhao Yuxin's level of concern obviously exceeds that of ordinary friends.

Sitting in the car, the people on the bus all communicated in the local dialect, which made Huang Guofan very kind, but suddenly found that he had forgotten how to speak these hometown dialects for too long. The car does not go directly to the home but to the county seat, and then take the car home from the county seat, after pouring the county seat, looking at the county seat where I stayed for three years when I was in high school, I couldn't find a trace of the shadow of the year, the suburbs of the year have now become a bustling business district, and the station to go home has also changed to a new place.

The only car to his house was at half past two in the afternoon, and after three and a half hours on the mountain road, he could get home at about six o'clock, and now it was only ten o'clock, and he still had several hours to play in the county. Located in the southwest of the Qinling Mountains, this county lacks all kinds of resources for development, but there are countless mountains where tourism is the mainstay of the economy, and hotels and restaurants can be found everywhere. Touching the fifty yuan in his pocket, the only thing Huang Guofan could do was swallow his saliva.

The change in the county town is really big, looking at the school where he used to go to school, Huang Guofan sighed a lot, and suddenly someone patted him on the shoulder, and he turned around and saw a young woman with a seven or eight-year-old child staring at him. "What's the matter?"

"Are you Huang Guofan?" the woman called out his name directly.

"Are you?" Huang Guofan couldn't recognize who the person in front of him was.

"You're really Huang Guofan! I don't recognize you at all, how did you shave your hair? Didn't you wear eyes before? Why did you take them off? A person who used to be quite fat is now so slim?"

Listening to the tone of the woman's voice and knowing her situation so well, Huang Guofan knew, "This woman must know me, but I don't have any impression at all? Who is this person? I don't know what their names are when people know me, it's embarrassing!"

Seeing the embarrassment on Huang Guofan's face, the young woman smiled, "Haha, you don't recognize me, I'm your former tablemate, Feng Lina, have you forgotten? I had some minor surgery, so it's normal that you can't remember it for a while." Come and call my daughter uncle!"

"Oh! It turned out to be you, I didn't recognize it at all! Really, I was born beautiful before, how did I think of having surgery?" In Huang Guofan's impression, Feng Lina is not ugly at all.

"Hey, which woman nowadays doesn't love beauty, that doesn't want to be more beautiful, it just so happens that my husband has a little spare money and nothing to do. I just picked up my daughter from school and saw your back very familiarly, so come up and say goodbye, we haven't seen each other for almost fifteen years. ”

"Yes, it's been almost fifteen years, fifteen years, time flies, your daughter is so old, how old are you, little girl?"

"Bald head, I'm nine years old now!" the innocent little girl couldn't help but cry out when she looked at Huang Guofan's bald head.

Feng Lina hurriedly stopped, "Remember to call uncle! How many times have I told you, you should be polite when you see your elders." You kid is really, hey Guofan, did you just come back from outside? What kind of business are you doing now? I remember that you were not engaged in the cultivation of Chinese medicinal materials before? How about making money, the Chinese herbal medicine market is so good now. ”

Huang Guofan touched his bare head embarrassedly and said, "Hey, don't hide it, I just got out of prison, I came back from prison, I committed something six years ago, and I didn't just come out." ”

"No, you were the best tempered in our class, and you never relieved your worries with others, so why did you just go in?"

"It's a long story, because love is easy to get carried away, I killed the boyfriend of the girl I used to like, according to the situation at the time, I was overly defensive, so I was sentenced to six and a half years and now I have just been released from prison, and I am ready to go home to see. Huang Guofan didn't hide that he was a murderer at all, and he felt that if he couldn't even take this step, there would be no way to start living again.

"Oh, I see, it's not a matter of standing here and chatting on this hot day, let's go to my house, there is an air conditioner at home. ”

"No, no, I'm going to catch the train in a while, there are more people at the station, I'll come over to take a look, the meeting is in the past, I'll have to take the bus home later." When I have the chance, I will visit you at home. To Huang Guofan's surprise, they didn't really care that they were a murderer.

"Okay, since you have to go in a while, don't force it, my house is in the community over there, not very far, I have to go back to make lunch, otherwise my husband will come back from work and have no food to eat. ”

Huang Guofan looked at the time, "Well, it's almost twelve o'clock, and I really have to make lunch, so hurry up and get busy." ”

At this time, a car came quickly, but the car driving by the object was turning across the lane, the fast coming car, a dozen steering wheels straight to the three people standing on the sidewalk, the speed was extremely fast, and it was about to collide, just at the last moment, Huang Guofan waved out his palms violently, and the strong internal force directly made the car stop instantly, but the huge inertia made it turn over directly, and the car flew over the heads of the three people. And at the moment when the car flew past, Huang Guofan smashed the car door with a punch and pulled out the woman who was not wearing a seat belt in the passenger seat.

"Bang!" After the car slammed on the ground and rolled several times in a row, the whole car had almost become a pile of scrap metal, and the fuel tank on the car also randomly burst, and the fire engulfed the whole car in an instant.

After standing for three seconds, Feng Lina and her daughter ran away screaming loudly, and Huang Guofan hurriedly pretended to be frightened and left. For a moment now, no one saw what Huang Guofan did. Looking at the woman wailing and crawling on the ground, Huang Guofan silently mourned, "Time is too late, the only thing I can do is to save you, as for the person in the car, I can't do anything, I hope you can survive." ”

Huang Guofan roared to the traffic police car as soon as he left the scene, and after investigating the scene of the car accident, he came to the conclusion that the car hit the curb of the road at a very fast speed, causing the car to flip in the air. As a result, the three people standing in front of the car were avoided, and the woman in the passenger seat was thrown out of the car because she was not wearing a seat belt during the flip and survived. In the whole accident, only the driver who drove recklessly died. No one thought that this was actually man-made.

Seeing that the traffic police have almost dealt with it, the car going home is about to leave. Huang Guofan, who had not been in a car for a long time on the long and winding mountain road, felt extremely uncomfortable and vomited at any time, so he had to use internal force to suppress it, and through pranayama to make his dizzy head.

Finally, three and a half hours later, at sunset, the car slowly stopped in front of a building on the side of the road, and at this moment there were many people gathered in front of the building, all of whom were his relatives. His parents and sisters are ten, his mother and sisters are five, each of these uncles and aunts has two children, his cousins and cousins are all married and have children, looking at the fifty or sixty people in front of him, the moment the car door slowly opened, the strong Huang Guofan still couldn't help shedding tears. Looking at the old father with gray temples, he choked up and called Dad, and he couldn't cry.

The kind old father threw away half of the cigarette in his hand and rushed up to hug him, this was the first time that the two fathers and sons hugged him in more than 30 years, and the old father's tears flowed involuntarily. "It's good to come back! It's good to come back! Go, go, go, don't stand at the door, let's all go inside, the food is ready, let's eat!"

Hearing the lively sound at the door, the old mother in the apron in the kitchen rushed up with tears in her eyes, hugged Huang Guofan and cried bitterly, "Finally back, finally back! Hungry, go and sit at the table, the old man is serving the food!" wiped her tears and began to beckon everyone to eat.

There are six full tables, and there will be such a grand occasion during the Chinese New Year on weekdays, but today it is staged again, looking at the mountains of dishes in the bowl, Huang Guofan always feels that there is something in his throat blocked, and he can't eat it at all. But you have to eat, after all, this is the love of the elders. After a few bites, the familiar taste whetted his appetite.

After eating a bowl of rice to cushion their stomachs, the family began to raise a glass to celebrate, Huang Guofan picked up the wine glass and said, "Uncles and aunts, I, Huang Guofan, am here today to toast you with a glass of wine." In the past six years, I have not been with my parents, and it is difficult for my brother to go home when he goes to Guangdong. "Huang Guofan's old father is 72 years old this year, and his elder brother is also 45 years old.

Huang Guofan's fifth uncle said: "Xiao Fan, look at what you said, your father is my second brother and my own brother, he and we don't take care of anyone, besides, we all live together, even if we are just ordinary neighbors, I think we will take care of each other." You're welcome, this time you're back, hurry up and find a way to marry a daughter-in-law, look at these brothers and sisters of yours, the youngest sister is about to get married, and your nephews can't sit down at a big table, you have to hurry!"

Huang Guofan scratched his bald head and said, "Fifth uncle, I just came back, it doesn't seem good that you put so much pressure on me, besides, I'm so old now, and I've been in prison, who would want to marry!"

At this time, Huang Guofan's sixth uncle said: "You know the problem of our family's two begging children, they have found a daughter-in-law like that, what are you afraid of? As long as you have money, your daughter-in-law will definitely be able to say it." Now we have a very profitable Chinese herbal medicine cultivation here, you see that your brothers have gone home, and they can earn 1.8 million yuan a year by planting at home. You don't say that you are going out to look for a job now, you are doing a good job of planting Chinese medicinal materials with us at home, haven't you studied with that master in the mountains for two years? You have expertise in this area, I believe that in two years you will definitely earn millions a year, and it will not be a lot to find a daughter-in-law when the time comes?"