Chapter 3

For a moment Lu Deping thought again, it’s impossible for anyone to know, in his last life he only found out later, and only told his own mother, it’s impossible for a mother to harm her son

So it was impossible for Lin Minjun to know about this

Then her sudden flip-flopping, mentioning divorce and breaking up, is probably a temper tantrum

Lu Deping turned a few corners in his head and started thinking about how to coax Lin Minjun back

For the things he was thinking in his head, Lin Minjun didn’t have the heart to think about it right now, and was looking for Zhao Ning when she left the train

“I’m here, come over quickly” Zhao Ning was tall and greeted the crowd with a wave of his hand

Lin Minjun smiled and walked over, and the two of them, shoulder to shoulder, started walking out

“I was thinking of taking the bus home, but thinking about it, it’s not far from my house, you’re new to the capital, and I haven’t been back in years, the look has long since changed, and the streets are much more lively, so why don’t we just walk back, and stroll around and look around” Zhao Ning suggested

Lin Minjun felt like she was locked into an invisible cage when she entered Lu Deping’s house in her last life, and at this moment, she stared at both sides of the road, unable to take her eyes off the road

“Good, a walk will also give us a long view” She nodded

Zhao Ning’s home lived in the hutongs of the east city, so the two of them walked that way together, and along the way Lin Minjun could count on her eyes being opened, everything here was different to her from her previous life

Passing through the big fence, from afar, they heard the sound of hawking, and the voices of two families were especially obvious

“Ice~sugar gourds~” the vendor stretched his voice

The other one also said, “Baked sweet potatoes”

It was like singing a play, you were singing and I was on stage, competing with each other, Lin Minjun saw a lot of red ice candy gourds sticking out of the straw, and couldn’t help but walk over to them

The seller of sugarplums was an uncle, who saw her staring at the sugarplums with her head tilted up and came over with a smile, “Girl, would you like to have a bunch?”

At this exact moment, Zhao Ning also followed her over, Lin Minjun excitedly paid out money, “Zhao Ning, let’s both have a bunch each, I’ll treat you to one?”

When she said this, her eyes shone brightly, just like a child seeing a treasure, and the corners of her mouth were all smiling

Zhao Ning puffed and laughed, wanting to tease her, “I don’t eat, this is in our old rules, only children can eat it, adults eat it, to give people a joke”

She said while giving the uncle a wink, so that he does not break it down, a small joke

“Only children can eat ah ” Lin Minjun was a little disappointed, pulling a long tone, she wanted to taste the flavor of this ice candy gourd, but also felt that it was not good to give people a joke

A time and some childish thinking, I even do not get married, do not give birth to children this kind of things against the ancestors have done, to the people laughed at it is nothing

Clenching her fists, she summoned up enough courage to say to the uncle, “I’m not married yet, and I’m not too old, so I don’t have much to eat, uncle, give me two skewers!”

Seeing her seriously convince herself, Zhao Ning really laughed out, “Little Ajun, you’ve been fooled! I lied to you, adults and children can eat it, what flavor do you want to eat?”

“Ice candy gourds aren’t made of hawthorn, are there any other flavors?” She opened her eyes round

This was a pair of extremely moist almond eyes, with particularly clear, child-like curiosity On the contrary, she wasn’t completely naive, and she knew to protect herself

This point made Zhao Ning particularly favorable, the two of them laughed and fooled around a bit, not really familiar with each other before, but now they were all close

She pointed to the straw pallet of sugar gourds and said, “There are a lot of them, look here is hawthorn, and orange, grape, strawberry flavored, and here there are sugar gourds sprinkled with melon kernels, which one do you want to eat?”

I didn’t expect a candy cane to make a flower, Lin Minjun quickly made a decision, “I want the orange flavor and the hawthorn flavor with melon seeds sprinkled on top, do you want to eat it, Zhao Ning?”

“I don’t eat, don’t have that good tooth” Zhao Ning shook his head

Lin Minjun pulled out a cloth bag from her clothes pocket, which contained the money she had saved with great difficulty, took out the money and gave it to the uncle, held up the iced tangerine and took a bite

First click, the sugar coating crispy popping, sweet and melting in the mouth, into honey water, first tasted this sweet taste, in order to eat ice cold, and refreshing oranges

Walking and eating, and so Lin Minjun ate two bunches of ice candy gourds in one breath, also followed Zhao Ning, walked to her family’s hutong

Going in from the hutong, someone was scrubbing his bicycle by the wellhead, humming a song as he washed it, “Though the green hills are full of obstacles, the wind is also sharp and strong ”

Humming is a young man, wearing a half old cotton dress, see someone from the hutong in will raise his head, see the two people first stunned, “is Zhao Ning it, you came back from Yunnan?”

“It’s me” Zhao Ning stopped walking and said

Lin Minjun curiously twisted her head around and realized that when Zhao Ning said this, although his tone was flat, his eyes were looking that way one after another, and he kept swallowing his saliva, looking a bit nervous

Zhao Ning adjusted a bit, and said with a smile, “Xu Yi, after so many years of not seeing you, I heard that you’ve become a teacher, and you’ve also started a family, right, I can meet my sister-in-law and child”

“What family, far away” The young man lost his smile and said, “Hurry up and go home, your mom is looking forward to you at the entrance of the alley, her eyes are almost thin”

After saying this, the young man gave Lin Minjun a friendly smile

Lin Minjun also smiled and nodded her head, said hello, and followed Zhao Ning as she continued to walk in, and along the way, several neighbors came out, and the ones they met said, “I’m home! It’s good to be back”

“Quickly go see your parents, they are waiting for you”

Hearing this, Lin Minjun followed Zhao Ning to speed up her pace, walked to the door of a courtyard house at the very end of the hutong, pushed the door to go in, passed through the shadow wall, through the first courtyard, and then from the copious corridor to go inside

All the way to the third entry, from the side door in counting three rooms to arrive, the door is open, Zhao Ning took two deep breaths, pulling Lin Minjun into the door

Entering the door is a narrow living room, there is a middle-aged man sitting in the hoop coal stove, heard the movement and looked over, trembling lips, half a long time did not speak

“Dad!” Zhao Ning let out a cry, tears fell

Zhao’s father stood up with a cry and ran over, stretching out his hands to hug his daughter, but in the end he was unable to do so

When he sent her out, she was a little girl, but when she came back, she became a big girl, he opened his mouth, but he didn’t know what to say

He patted his daughter’s shoulder, turned his head and shouted, “Her mom, her daughter is back”

Just as the words fell, he heard a banging in the house, followed by a middle-aged woman coming out of it, stumbling and running to Zhao Ning

Without speaking, she first broke down and cried, “You’re finally back”

“Back! Mom, from now on, I won’t leave, I won’t leave you” Zhao Ning forcefully held back her tears and surveyed, “You’ve lost a lot of weight and your face looks bad, how come?”

“Mom is fine, it’s just that I haven’t been feeling very well lately, but once my daughter-in-law came back, I got better from everything” Zhao mother looked at her daughter with pity, naturally she saw Lin Minjun standing next to her again, “This is ” she asked with some hesitation

Zhao Ning pulled over Lin Minjun and introduced, “Dad, mom, this is my friend from Yunnan, she helped us a lot when she went to the countryside, she followed us to the capital and is temporarily living in our house”

Lin Minjun immediately revealed a smiling face and obediently called out, “Good uncle, good aunt, my name is Lin Minjun”

“Hey, good boy, you sit down first, I’ll pour you a glass of water” Zhao mother poured a cup of tea for both of them, and pulled them to sit down, greeting Lin Minjun with some mixed fruit

Still thinking of their daughter in their hearts, the couple kept pulling Zhao Ning to talk, the concern on their faces almost overflowing

“Thinner and darker, you must have suffered a lot”

“These clothes are also old, the child’s mother, some other day to take Ningning to the street to pull cloth to make a few clothes, or directly buy ready-made clothes, now the street girls do not all love to wear skirts, the child also dress up”

“My daughter is thin like this, she definitely didn’t eat properly there, every time when it comes to New Year’s festivals, your father and I are thinking, what do you eat there, what do you wear, and do you get enough to eat” As Zhao mother spoke, she began to wipe her tears again

Over there, the family of three sat together, Zhao Ning was surrounded by her parents in the center, left and right, concerned

Lin Minjun sipped her tea, and in her heart, it was a lie to say that she wasn’t envious

In her last life, in this life, in both lives combined, she had never had this experience, the youths who went back to the capital are now probably surrounded by the whole family and cared about, she is no home

In her last life, she married Lu Deping in a hurry because she was in a hurry to have a family, and that step proved to be a wrong one

It was good that everything started over, this life was different

Perhaps seeing Lin Minjun’s discomfort, Zhao Ning said, “Let’s talk about other things in the evening, let’s have dinner at home, we sat all the way on the train, our stomachs are hungry”

Zhao mother wiped her tears, “It’s a coincidence! I was just doing it when you guys came back, the food hasn’t been cooked yet, I’ll do it now”

Saying this, her eyes were still glued to her daughter, she was very reluctant to leave

“Auntie, I’ll go, your family must have a lot to talk about”

Lin Minjun found an opportunity and stood up