The early spring in the Northeast is still relatively cold, and there are still snow and ice ballasts on the ground that have not yet melted, and the cold wind blows on the face like a knife, and it hurts to the bone.
Xiang Que hugged his shoulders and wanted to warm up, the cold in the Northeast is very different from the cold of Zhongnan Mountain, in the winter of Zhongnan Mountain, when the snow is falling, there are still hermits who only wear thin clothes and sit in the snow to meditate, these hermits in addition to penance, they also feel not too cold, but in the Northeast, if anyone sits on the ground, it will not take long to have cold cramps.
After getting off the train at Shenyang North Railway Station, Xiang Que walked out of the station with a canvas bag on his back, found a nearby long-distance bus station and waited for nearly an hour before getting on a bus leading to a remote mountain village more than 200 kilometers away from Shenyang.
At this time, it was already more than one o'clock in the afternoon, and it would take more than three hours to get home. got on the bus, and Xiang Que, who had been tossing for most of the day, shrank behind and took a nap, which made him a little tossed in the past few days.
Xiang Que's home is a village surrounded by mountains, the village is not big and there are more than 100 families, mostly with Xiang surname, basically all of them are related to the deceased, the ancestors have lived here for more than 100 years, Xiang Que's parents are alive, grandparents also live in the village, he also has two sisters, one is four years older than him and one is two years older, both of them got married a few years ago.
The eldest sister married a small boss in Shenyang who opened auto parts repair, and the second sister married a small civil servant in a nearby prefecture-level city.
Of course, except for one point, the whole family has not seen Xiang Qian who has left home since childhood for 12 years.
The two married daughters are very filial, although they are married, but they are not far from home, two or three hours by car, so during the New Year's holidays, the eldest sister and the second sister's family will come back with their children to see, every time they go home to the lack of parents are very happy, but happy will also show a bleak look in their eyes, and I don't know what the son who hasn't seen for more than ten years is doing now.
At five o'clock in the evening, it was dark, the bus stopped, and the conductor told the people in the car that they had reached the end of the line.
The scene around him was different from when he left home, and he didn't know where he was going, and there was no light in sight on all sides of snow-covered fields.
Where the hell are you going, don't you have to lose yourself when you go out?
Xiang Que hurriedly grabbed a man next to him and asked, "Big brother, inquire about the next road, how are you going to Xiangjiatun?"
” The man looked at him a few times and asked in surprise, "Go to Xiangjiatun?"
What are you doing?
” "Go home, I'm from Jiatun."
The man frowned and leaned in front of Xiang Que's face, looked at it for a long time before saying, "Go home?"
Why don't I know you, I'm from Xiangjiatun, I know everyone in the village, which child are you. ” "Hey, I'll go, relative" Xiang Que suddenly became excited, grabbed the man's hand and said: "Big brother, I am the third son of Xiang Lao's family in the east of the village, and I also have two sisters, the eldest sister is called Xiang Yulian, and the second sister is called Xiang Yuping." ” "Huh?
What do you say?
The man was a little confused, and after thinking for a long time, he asked a little uncertainly: "The third son of the Xiang honest family?"
Don't you say it, there was indeed a kid in his family more than ten years ago, but then the kid left the village and never came back, it's you?
” Xiang Honest is the nickname of Xiang Lack's father, because he is too responsible, has no heart, and is very practical in doing things, so the people in the village call him Xiang Honest.
Xiang Que nodded hurriedly and said, "Well, big brother, I am Xiang Honest's son, and I only came back after I went out to work." ” "Little cub, you are so bad, call me uncle" The man slapped Xiang Que on the head and said: "I am cousins with your father in terms of seniority, we are a grandfather, what do you call me big brother, do you have to call me uncle?"
” "Hey, I understand, I understand, uncle" Although his head was a little numb from the cold, he was slapped in the face, but Xiang Que felt that his heart was hot.
The two stepped on the snow and walked for four or five miles, climbed over a small hill, and light began to appear in front of them, and the outline of a village loomed, which was Xiangjiatun.
After entering the village, the man pointed ahead and said, "I haven't been home for a long time, go home first, and then go to your house tomorrow. ” "Well, thank you, uncle, I'll come over and drink when I have time."
Xiang Que said hello and hurriedly trotted towards the east end of the village, and after twelve years away from home, he returned like an arrow.
After running for three or two minutes, Xiang Que stopped, there was a three-room brick house on the left side of the road in front, with a courtyard wall outside, and one of the houses was lit up to block the curtains, as if he heard movement, and there was a dog barking in the yard.
Xiang Que slowed down, walked to the door and looked carefully, the place is still the old place, when he left home, the house was still a thatched house, but he didn't expect it to become a brick house after more than ten years of not coming back, it seems that his parents have been doing well over the years, and Xiang Que is suddenly not so uncomfortable.
"That bad old man didn't lack a master, said that after leaving with me, the family would get better and better, and the days were definitely getting better and better day by day, even if he spoke well, if he lied to me, he must repair him well when he goes back."
Xiang Que craned his neck and looked at it for a long time but didn't find a doorbell, so he shouted at the top of his voice: "Open the door, is there someone inside?"
” After shouting a few times, the door opened, and a man in his coat walked out slowly and asked, "Who?"
” "Dad, it's me, I'm Xiang Que" Xiang Que said in a choked voice.
"Huh?"
The man who came out in his coat was stunned and didn't move, as if he didn't react too much to what Xiang Que was calling just now.
Xiang Que shouted loudly again: "Dad, I'm back, I'm Xiang Que." ” "Ahh Xiang Que leaned over so that his father could see himself more carefully, and then said softly: "Dad, Dad, why can't you even recognize me?"
” Xiang Quan's father looked at him for a minute, tears oozed from his eyes, and he nodded again and again and said, "It's my son, it's my son who is back, come, come, come, come outside and hurry up and enter the house." ” Xiang Father hurriedly took out the key to open the door, and after opening the door, he grabbed Xiang Que's hand and dragged him into his arms, holding him and not saying a word.
Xiang Que was held for a while before he said out loud: "Dad, where is my mother?"
Let's go back to the house first. ” "Hey, okay, go back to the house, go back to the house, your mother is watching TV inside" pulled Xiang Que, and Xiang Father hurriedly walked into the house.
The home is very warm, and the rural areas in the Northeast are equipped with heating and fire walls, and as soon as you enter the inside, you feel that it is ice and fire outside, which is very comfortable.
"Lao Xiang, who called the door" In the back room, a woman's greeting came.
Xiang Father didn't wait to speak, Xiang Que pushed open the door, looked at the middle-aged woman who was leaning on the kang and watching TV, and shouted, "Mom, it's me." ” The woman leaning on the kang sat up suddenly, looking at Xiang Que with her eyes, she cried as soon as she wowed, almost crawled down the kang, and then sat on the ground and hugged Xiang Que's thighs and shouted: "It's my eldest son, my eldest son is back, I didn't dream, you can be regarded as back." ” Xiang Que squatted down, patted his mother and said, "Mom, you are all hugging me, do you say you are dreaming?"
It's really me, I'm back. ” Xiang's father hurriedly helped his wife up: "Get up, get up, what are you doing sitting on the ground when your son is back, hurry up and sit on the kang, it's strangely cold, Xiang Que must be cold enough outside when he comes back." ” The family of three sat on the hot kang and rubbed his face against his mother and said, "Son, you are still the same as when you were a child, you haven't changed at all, and your mother will recognize you at a glance." ” Xiang Qile said, "Then my dad looked at it for a long time when I came back and was outside, and he didn't seem to dare to admit it." ” Xiang Father said: "I don't believe it, you kid too, who knew that you would come back suddenly, I feel a little unreal." ” Xiang Que said: "I don't know our phone number, after going down the mountain, I got on the car back to Tunzi, and I didn't know where to go after getting off the car, but fortunately I met an old man in Tunli who brought me back." ” "Look at it, look at it, take you down that old road and don't say leave a contact information, how dangerous it is, how much you have no way to go to the fork in the road" Xiang Mu said complainingly.
Xiang Que said: "It's okay, it's not that I don't remember when I left, I'm in my teens and remember where my home is, I can find it." ” Looking at the smile on his parents' faces like he couldn't stop the car, Xiang Que suddenly felt much more comfortable, and breathed a long sigh of relief, his parents have been thinking about him for twelve years, so why don't he worry about his family.
"Huh?
My eldest sister, what about the second sister" Xiang Que tilted his head and saw that the lights were dark in the two rooms, and no one asked where the two sisters were.
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Xiang Father smiled: "They are both married, and they are both married out of the village......
I'm going to call them and tell them to come back quickly. ” As soon as Xiang's father got up, Xiang Que grabbed him and said, "Dad, you see how dark it is outside, the road is slippery, it's too dangerous to come back at this time, you call my sister tomorrow morning and ask them to come back, I won't leave tonight." ” "Well, yes, yes, I'll fight tomorrow."
Xiang's mother then asked, "Eldest son, did you come back without food?"
” "After a day in the car, I ate a bowl of instant noodles."
"You sit, I'll cook for you, there is still a lot of meat left from the pig killed during the Chinese New Year, I'll get you some sauerkraut to stew."
Xiang Que was not calm for a moment, swallowed his saliva and said: "There are blood sausages and big bones, and if there are stewed bones, I thought about eating sauerkraut stewed bones on the mountain, I almost forgot what it tasted like." ” "Yes, yes, I've stewed it for you, you can eat it."