Chapter 028.
After being scolded by Li Shuang, 渚嶆樊閾� froze in place for a while.
Yesterday was indeed his birthday, he hadn’t had a birthday in years and had long forgotten about it.
Zhen Zhen deliberately said nothing, not a word of explanation.
She not only did not explain, but also deliberately said that she went out to play the past few days, spent all the time in the hair buy cheongsam buy high heels these unusual things.
Thinking back for a moment, Shi Huai Ming quickly turned to push the bicycle in front of the house.
He pushed the bike out of the school, and rode as fast as he could on the road, heading straight for the train station.
When he arrived at the train station, he stopped the bike in the carport and hurriedly ran into the train station to look for someone.
He searched every corner of the station and shouted “Zhen Zhen” many times, but found no one.
Then he asked the staff on the platform.
One of the staff told him that he had seen a girl with red eyes, who had gotten on the train and left a long time ago.
Shi Huai Ming stood on the platform, looking at the railroad tracks stretching out and couldn’t help but inhale deeply.
There was a train entering the station with its whistle blowing white smoke, and many people came down from the train, making the platform bustle with activity.
Shi Huai Ming was lost in the crowd for a while.
He suddenly remembered the scene when he saw Zhen Zhen on the platform when she came to town.
She was wearing a red scarf, standing in the crowd, looking from side to side, her face full of anticipation and nervousness.
His heart was so clogged that he couldn’t breathe.
Gritting his teeth, he wanted to punch himself twice.
***
In the afternoon half day, Servant Huai Ming was even more distracted and absent-minded.
He didn’t even know what classes he had attended in the afternoon, and when he returned home after class in the evening, he opened the door to an empty house with no one left behind, and his heart was even more stifled.
He went to his room and sat down, not in the mood to do anything, but leaning against the back of the chair and staring.
On the writing table were the books that Zhen Zhen had read, the used workbooks and pencils, and every time he accidentally swept over them, the boredom in his heart unconsciously added one more layer.
I was so irritated that I wanted to explode, and even gasping for air was much more difficult than usual.
Inside my head are all Jen’s face, and countless regrets and apologies, and I can’t get rid of them.
Fuming for a while, his eyes dropped down unconsciously, and suddenly he saw a paper bag sitting on the corner of the table.
That is not his things, he reached out and took the paper bag to open, only to see that inside is a pair of brand new black cloth shoes.
Li Shuang also said at noon that Zhen Zhen stayed up until midnight every night in order to make shoes for him.
Then this pair of cloth shoes is naturally the pair that Zhen Zhen made for him.
He took the shoes and looked at them for a while, then wrapped them up and put them in the drawer.
Unable to stay in this house, he took a deep breath and got up, went out and made a trip to the training ground.
He had sweated all night on the training ground.
He came back with wet clothes and went into the restroom to take a shower.
Just after taking a shower and leaving the restroom, there was a knock on the door.
Serving Huai Ming went to the door and opened it, seeing He Shuo standing outside, he asked, “What’s the matter?”
He Shuo said, “Come out and have a smoke with me.”
Shi Huaiming came out and joined He Shuo outside.
The two of them each held a cigarette in their hands and lit it up, lighting up the sparks in the moonlight.
He Shuo said to Shi Huaiming, “Li Shuang was grumpy during her pregnancy, don’t take it personally.”
Shi Huai Ming flicked the cigarette in his hand, “It’s fine, she’s right to scold her.”
It sounds like this is a complete and thorough introspection.
He Shuo looked at the service Huai Ming, a change in tone and asked, “No, I’m confused, what’s wrong with you in the end ah?”
Serving Huai Ming tilted his head to look at the moon in the sky and spoke, “Boredom.”
He Shuo brought the cigarette to his mouth and took a drag, squinting his eyes and exhaling the smoke, “Smack of Little Cotton’s annoyance?”
“No.” Serving Huai Ming lowered his head, “She’s good and understanding, her temper is good too, what’s so annoying.”
He Shuo gritted his teeth and spoke vaguely, “Then what the hell are you annoyed about? Little Cotton’s temper is so good that she can be pissed off by you, you’re really capable.”
Serving Huai Ming then replied, “Bothering myself.”
Boring those uncontrolled moments, boring the intense desire that flared up when facing Zhen Zhen.
He Shuo couldn’t understand what the hell he was saying.
He said, “I think you’re just being blindly melodramatic, looking for nothing to fuss over.”
Servant Huai Ming was silent for a moment and then said, “I don’t want me to be with her because I have physical needs, I’ve always felt that if that’s the case, it’s not fair to her and it’s also an insult to the word feelings.”
He Shuo turned his head to look at him, “You and her have been together for so long, every day, three meals a day, night and day, is a cold wood have produced feelings, you have not produced feelings for her? If you don’t have feelings you were in such a hurry at noon today, you didn’t know what you were doing all day long, are you pretending to us?”
Servant Huai Ming looked at He Shuo, his throat blocked and he didn’t say anything else.
He Shuo finished the last puff of his cigarette, “Think about it, Little Cotton is your wife, not your student your sister, much less a soldier under you. A wife is not for training, it’s for pain.”
After finishing his cigarette, He Shuo didn’t intend to keep standing.
He pinched the cigarette and said his last words to Servant Huai Ming, “I have to go home to accompany my wife, think about it.”
After saying this, he went home, leaving Shi Huai Ming standing outside alone.
The cigarette in Shi Huai Ming’s hand burned out in the wind.
With a flick of his finger, the long ashes of the cigarette instantly fell apart, the broken light flickering out into the wind.
***
The summer sunshine is long, but at four o’clock in the morning, the sky began to light up.
Jen sat on the train clutching her package, leaning her head sideways against the windowpane, looking wooden as a doll.
When she heard the train arrive at the station, she came back to her senses and got up to get off the train with the package on her back.
Train into the station stopped, she carried the package carefully off the train, landing feet to stand on the platform, took a deep breath.
Summer morning air, fresh and refreshing lungs.
Zhen Zhen did not stay on the platform, after inhaling a breath of fresh air on the back of the package out of the train station, directly back to home.
She walked forward on foot, and when she met a donkey cart on the way, she rode on it for a while.
When she arrived home from the train station, it was already midday.
Walking on the pothole village road, far away from the familiar village, Zhen Zhen heart mixed feelings.
Her eyes couldn’t help but become moist again, she raised her hand to wipe it off and continued to the village.
Just walking to the head of the village, she met an acquaintance, Hongmei.
Hongmei stared at her for a while before she dared to speak out in greeting: “Yo, this is Zhen Zhen, right?”
Zhen Zhen barely smiled at her, “Uh, it’s me.”
Hongmei’s face was full of surprise, “Aiya, I wouldn’t dare to recognize you if you didn’t say yes, you’ve changed too much.”
Zhen Zhen smiled and continued to the village, “It’s not much of a change, it’s just a little whiter.”
Hongmei said, “More than white, can’t say which has changed, anyway, is changed.”
Hongmei followed Zhen Zhen to the village.
As she spoke, she thought of something and stared at Zhen Zhen and asked, “How did you get back? Did you come back by yourself?”
Zhen Zhen let out a hmm, “Third brother is busy, the army does not allow to come back.”
Hongmei looked at Zhen Zhen with eyes like skin, “Then why did you come back?”
Zhen Zhen said, “I was homesick, so I came back to take a look.”
Hongmei didn’t believe it and asked with a smile, “Is that so?”
Zhen Zhen did not answer again.
Hongmei followed next to Zhen Zhen and changed her words and asked, “What’s the big city like? Is it fun?”
Zhen Zhen’s steps quickened a bit, “Well, there are big shopping malls and western restaurants, there are a lot of things, it’s quite fun.”
Hongmei’s steps also accelerated, “Zhen Zhen your life is really good, we are afraid that this life can not go to the big city once, can not see these things.”
Zhen Zhen walked to the door of the house, and did not say these words to Hong Mei.
She stopped walking and looked at Hongmei, “Sister-in-law, I’m home, I’ll go in first.”
Zhen Zhen didn’t politely ask her to come in and sit with her, so Hong Mei smiled and said, “Go ahead, I’m home too.”
She watched Zhen Zhen enter the courtyard, and then stretched her head to look into the courtyard for a while before turning around to go home.
Zhong Minfen Serving Huai Zhong Chen Qingmei and Serving Danling Serving Xingguo were sitting in the house eating.
Zhong Minfen just put a chopstick of vegetables into her mouth, suddenly heard a “mother” from outside the stove room.
She looked out and saw Zhen Zhen, froze for a moment and put down her chopsticks to get up and said, “Is it Zhen Zhen?”
Zhen Zhen carried a parcel into the kitchen and answered with wet eyes, “Mother, it’s me who’s back.”
Seeing Zhen Zhen, Servant Huai Zhong Chen Qing Mei also stood up.
Servant Danling moved even faster, getting up and coming over to hug Zhen Zhen, saying in surprise: “Third aunt, why are you back?”
Zhen Zhen tried to swallow back her tears but it was no use.
She touched Shui Danling’s head and smiled with wet eyes and said, “I missed you all and came back to see you.”
Shui Xingguo stretched his head to look out, “Is Third Uncle back too?”
Zhen Zhen shook her head, “Your third uncle is busy.”
When I first saw Zhen Zhen, I was quite surprised and happy, but this felt wrong.
Chen Qingmei and Serving Huai Zhong exchanged glances, Chen Qingmei looked at Zhen Zhen again and asked, “You came back alone?”
Zhen Zhen looked at Chen Qingmei and nodded, still curving the corners of her mouth, “Well, sister-in-law, I came back by myself.”
How could Zhong Minfen not see that.
But she didn’t ask anything, and busily went to the stove to get a bowl to serve rice, and said to Zhen Zhen, “Don’t stand around and talk first, put the package down to wash your hands, and eat first.”
Zhen Zhen answered and went to the room to put down the parcel.
When she went to the room to put down the parcel, she wiped her eyes and gently sniffled, adjusted before coming out.
Go outside to wash her hands and sit down to eat, and did not say anything unhappy.
Shui Danling and Shui Xingguo were curious about what the big city was like and chattered endlessly, but they were happy.
Zhen Zhen told them a lot of things about the big city, and then told them, “You have to study hard, so you can go to school in the big city in the future.”
Shi Danling and Shi Xingguo’s eyes widened, “Really?”
Zhen Zhen nodded, “Really.”
At the dinner table, Shui Danling and Shui Xingguo talked to Zhen Zhen the most, while Zhong Minfen, Chen Qingmei and Shui Huaizhong didn’t have much to say.
After finishing the meal and cleaning up the pots and bowls, Zhong Minfen pulled Zhen Zhen to her room.
When Chen Qingmei saw this, she also followed along to Zhong Minfen’s room.
When she sat down in her room, Zhong Minfen didn’t beat around the bush, pulling Zhen Zhen directly and asking, “Tell me, what’s wrong?”
Hearing Zhong Minfen ask this question, Zhen Zhen couldn’t control herself and her tears came down in a flash.
Chen Qingmei was busy wiping her tears with her handkerchief.
Seeing Zhen Zhen like this, Chen Qingmei also softened her voice and asked, “Did Huai Ming bully you?”
Zhen Zhen wiped her tears and shook her head, sniffling a little and saying in a nasal voice, “He didn’t bully me, he gave me good food and clothes, and didn’t let me work.”
Zhong Minfen looked at Zhen Zhen, “Then what’s wrong?”
Zhen Zhen lowered her eyebrows and slowed down for a while, then added, “Third brother he doesn’t like me, no matter how hard I try, I can’t change into what he likes. I can’t stand it anymore, I really can’t live with him anymore.”
It’s not like liking or disliking can be a meal, Zhong Minfen didn’t think there was anything wrong with this.
The village outside the village which couple is not the parents of the order of the matchmaker’s words set, what like not like, married that are not the same as the birth of a child to live, who rely on the day to day like to live.
She looked at Chen Qingmei, and then looked at Zhen Zhen.
Her eyes fell on Zhen Zhen’s stomach, she was silent for a while, looked at Zhen Zhen and asked: “You honestly tell my mother, you go to the city for such a long time, he is not with you in the same room?”
Before Zhen Zhen wrote back and said that Servant Huai Ming’s health was not good enough to have a child, she felt strange.
Zhen Zhen lowered her head and nodded twice for a moment.
Chen Qingmei felt incredible, did not hold back staring in surprise out loud, “Ah?”
Zhong Minfen instead felt that this made sense, that bastard, could really do something like this.
She was so angry that she sank her face, and a moment later blackened her face and said to Chen Qingmei, “Go get Ling Ling for me, I want to write a letter.”
Zhen Zhen reached out and grabbed Zhong Min Fen’s arm, uttering, “Mother, don’t write.”
Zhong Minfen said vehemently, “If I don’t write a letter to scold this bastard, I won’t be able to sleep tonight!”
Zhen Zhen still grabbed her arm and said, “For this kind of thing, don’t ask Ling Ling to write.”
Zhong Minfen couldn’t swallow this breath and insisted that Chen Qingmei call Squire Danling over.
Then she grunted and dictated for Servant Danling to write, “Servant Xiaosan, I am your mother! I’m not your mother anymore! You’ve become an official and you’re capable, you’re capable, you have no one in your eyes now! ……”
Throughout the text were words that scolded Servant Huai Ming.
Zhong Minfen was very angry, and Servant Danling also wrote very carefully.
When she finished writing, she folded up the paper and looked at Zhong Minfen and asked carefully, “Grandma, what did Uncle Sam do?”
Zhong Minfen exasperated: “You do not care, you do not go out and talk nonsense.”
Serving Danling carefully and whispered, “Oh ……”
Zhong Minfen did things quickly, after writing the letter, he took it to Shui Huai Zhong, let him go to the town to send it out.
The letter was written by Zhong Minfen, and she gave it to him to send it to the town, and asked him to send it to the town.
When he returned from mailing the letter, he was just in time to go to the production team to work.
Chen Qingmei went with him and asked Zhen Zhen to stay home and rest.
Although she has become white and clean, it is obvious that she has not had a good rest and her mental state is very poor.
After going out to the construction site, Shui Huai Zhong asked Chen Qingmei what was going on between Zhen Zhen and Shui Huai Ming.
Chen Qingmei suppressed her voice and said what Zhen Zhen said to Shui Huai Zhong.
Shi Huaizhong also furrowed his brows and said, “Ah?”
Chen Qingmei nodded at him, “That’s it.”
Shui Huizhong couldn’t understand, “This kid doesn’t have some kind of brain problem, right?”
Suddenly, he thought of something, “Or is he really incapable?”
Chen Qingmei cleared her throat, “I don’t know, or you can write to him and ask him.”
As the two were talking, they suddenly heard a cry, “Brother Shui, sister-in-law Shui.”
Serving Huai Zhong and Chen Qingmei looked back together, only to see Hongmei following over with her stretcher.
When they arrived, Hongmei smiled and asked, “Why has your family Zhen Zhen come back?”
Chen Qingmei replied with a smile, “This child is homesick, homesick.”
Hongmei smiled and said, “I thought she had a falling out with Serving Huai Ming, and this suddenly came back alone.”
Chen Qingmei: “What conflict can a young couple have together, is homesickness.”
Seeing Chen Qingmei say this, Hongmei smiled and didn’t ask any more questions.
To the production team to work.
Listening to the whistle to the shade of the rest, Hongmei again pulled Cuilan and Xiuzhu gossip together.
She whispered to Cuilan and Xiuzhu: “Lin Zhenzhen is back, do you know?” They really do not know.
They really didn’t know, Cuilan’s eyes lit up and said, “Huai Ming is back?”
Hong Mei smiled, “No, she came back alone.”
What is this situation?
Cuilan and Xiuzhu looked at each other.
Hongmei suppressed her voice and added, “I told you all along, with the condition of Shi Huaiming now, she can’t even look at her, she may not be able to stay in the city even if she goes there, you see, she came back in disgrace.”
Cuilan looked at Hongmei and said in a loose voice, “Maybe she’s just homesick.”
Hongmei squinted and grunted, “She went to the city for almost half a year, and her stomach is still deflated, and what it was when she went is what it is now. If this were a normal couple, she would have gotten pregnant long ago.”
Xiuzhu took the water bottle and poured cold white water to drink, pouring a bowl for Cuilan and Hongmei.
Drinking half of the bowl of water, Hongmei added: “I’ve said before, it’s not good when people are overly happy.”
Xiuzhu: “Don’t be so sure, maybe people are good.”
Hong Mei hummed and laughed again, “Then wait and see.”
***
Zhen Zhen spent half a day with Zhong Minfen and her mood became much better.
The atmosphere at home made her feel at ease and relaxed and down to earth, and there were people who loved her and backed her up, unlike the need to be taut around Servant Huai Ming, so her mood got better relatively quickly.
After dinner in the evening, Chen Qingmei comforted her again, “When you come back, just relax at home, don’t think so much.”
Zhen Zhen nodded at her, “I’ll go with you and big brother to work in the production team tomorrow.”
Chen Qingmei sniffed and looked at her, “Don’t go, don’t go into the crowd.”
Zhen Zhen looked at Chen Qingmei and froze slightly, quickly understanding what she meant by this.
She hadn’t even said hello to her family, she suddenly ran back from the city, and came back in a bad state, especially after running into Hong Mei, there must be rumors about her outside now.
Looking at Zhen Zhen did not speak, Chen Qingmei added: “You go to the market in the morning half day to sell buy and sell bean sprouts, and in the afternoon half day to stay at home to find something to do, and talk to mother is also good.”
Zhen Zhen looked at Chen Qingmei and nodded, answering, “Okay.”
The two sat in the courtyard doing needlework and talking, when they suddenly heard Shui Xingguo ask in the house, “Sister, how do you do this question?”
Servant Danling ignored him and said directly, “I haven’t finished my homework yet, so I’ll wait for a while.”
Zhen Zhen was curious and stretched her head to look inside the house.
She could not hold back, put down her needle and thread and got up to go into the house, sat down at the table and asked Shi Xingguo: “Can I see it?”
Shi Xingguo handed his summer vacation homework directly to Zhen Zhen and pointed it out to her: “This one.”
Zhen Zhen took his homework and looked at it, picked up a pencil and said, “This is very simple.”
Then in the corner of the book, she wrote the solution process for him, while giving him the idea of solving the problem.
Servant Xingguo understands and looks at Zhen Zhen with wide eyes, “Wow, Third Auntie you’ve become so good.”
Zhen Zhen smiled a little, “It’s all because your third uncle taught me ……”
Just after finishing this half-sentence, Zhen Zhen paused, put away her smile and didn’t say anything further.
Serving Danling raised her head to look at Zhen Zhen and asked her, “Is Uncle San fierce as a teacher? Would he take a ruler and beat his palms?”
Zhen Zhen nodded her head a little, “Fierce.”
Then adds, “But won’t hit the palm of his hand.”
Servant Danling commented, “That’s okay, our Teacher Xue likes to hit the palm of his hand.”
Zhen Zhen didn’t go out immediately after teaching Shui Xingguo to solve the problem.
As she watched Servant Danling and Servant Xingguo write their homework, she couldn’t help but feel a little itchy in her heart, so she asked Servant Danling, “Lingling, do you have any books that I can read?”
Books?
Servant Danling raised her head again to look at Zhen Zhen.
She said, “Only the textbook, there are texts in it, do you read them?”
The texts Zhen Zhen had read them all, many of them she had even memorized, she shook her head, “I’ve read them all.”
Servant Danling looked at her and blinked, “Then I don’t have any.”
A moment later, she thought of something, “Mr. Xue should have it, you can borrow it from Mr. Xue.”
This is indeed a solution.
Zhen Zhen thought for a moment and got up, “One way or the other, then I’ll go find Mr. Xue to borrow it.”
When Zhen Zhen went out of the courtyard door, Zhong Minfen happened to come back from a walk outside.
Zhong Minfen saw her go out alone, so she asked, “Where are you going?”
Zhen Zhen replied back to her, “Mother, I’m going to find Mr. Xue to borrow some books to read.”
Seeing her walk away, Zhong Minfen came into the courtyard.
She sat down next to Chen Qingmei and reached into the colander to pick out needlework to do.
Chen Qingmei smiled and said, “After a trip to the city, you like reading books.”
Zhong Minfen said: “I’m afraid it’s all because of Xiao Sanzi, I don’t want Zhen Zhen to go to the city anymore, I’ll just see when he comes back. When he comes back, I won’t be able to spare him. So what if he’s an official, I’m his mother!”
Chen Qingmei sighed, “With Zhen Zhen’s nature, he must have suffered a lot of grievances and couldn’t hold it in before he came back.”
Zhong Minfen agreed in a heavy voice, “Definitely! When he comes back, let Huai Zhong teach him a lesson.”
Chen Qingmei couldn’t hold back her laughter, “He’s been a soldier for so many years, how could Huai Zhong beat him.”
Zhong Minfen coldly hummed, “Do you see him dare to fight back?”
***
Zhen Zhen went out and went directly to Mr. Xue’s Xue Fan’s house.
Knocking on the courtyard door of Xue Fan’s house, she first greeted the rest of Xue Fan’s family.
They nevertheless all greeted warmly, “Ouch, Zhen Zhen is back?”
Zhen Zhen responded, and inevitably was pulled to talk about some things in the city, everyone was curious about what life in the big city was like.
Zhen Zhen sat and chatted with them for a while, then explained why she was here: “Is Mr. Xue home? I’d like to borrow some books from him.”
Xue’s mother said, “He’s out, he’ll be back in a while.”
Then just as the words fell, Xue Fan pushed open the courtyard door and came back from outside.
Seeing him come back, Zhen Zhen was busy getting up to say hello to him.
Seeing Zhen Zhen, Xue Fan also smiled and greeted him, “Third Sister-in-law, you’re back.”
Zhen Zhen responded, “Yes, I want to borrow some books from you, do you have any here?”
As a teacher, books are naturally available.
Xue Fan led Zhen Zhen into the house and told her, “Come in and see what books you want to read. Two days ago I even went to the county library to borrow a few books, so take them if you like.”
Zhen Zhen actually didn’t know what books she could read.
There were quite a few books on Xue Fan’s desk, but they were much less compared to Servant Huai Ming.
Zhen Zhen looked at it for a while and said, “Can you recommend a book for me, I just learned to read not long ago.”
Xue Fan thought for a moment and scanned the books on the table.
Then he pulled out two books from the pile and sent them to Zhen Zhen and said, “These two should both be fine.”
Zhen Zhen took the books and looked at them, one was called How Steel is Made and the other was called Bitter Cabbage Flowers.
Xue Fan told her, “How Steel is Made is a book written by a foreign writer, and Bitter Cauliflower is a book written by a Chinese writer, both are about revolution.” And of course there is love, affection, and friendship in all of them.
Zhen Zhen hesitated and took Bitter Cauliflower, “I’ll read this one first, I’ll come back and change it when I’m done.”
Xue Fan smiled at her, “Okay, third sister-in-law you take it and read it.”
Zhen Zhen took the book and asked again, “Can I come and ask you if I don’t understand something?”
Xue Fan is happy to do this as a teacher, “Of course.”
Zhen Zhen took the book and went out, greeting the other people in the courtyard and walking away.
Xue Fan escorted her to the courtyard gate and asked her again, “Third brother is doing well in the city, right?”
Zhen Zhen nodded, “Well, he’s in military school now, belonging to the advanced literacy now, just like college students.”
Xue Fan said enviously, “That’s great, it’s still Third Brother who’s great.”
After saying this, he asked Zhen Zhen, “Third brother taught you to read and write, right?”
Zhen Zhen nodded at him again, but didn’t follow the conversation further.
After chatting with Zhen Zhen for a few sentences, Xue Fan let her go.
As soon as Zhen Zhen left, there were immediately murmurs in the courtyard of Xue Fan’s house, “Why did she suddenly come back by herself? Not normal.”
***
Zhen Zhen borrowed a book and went home, washing up and flipping through it under the lamp to read a few pages.
Serving Danling sleepy early to sleep early, early in the side lying asleep.
Zhen Zhen read the book with devotion and seriousness.
When she looked at her eyelids, she let out a long yawn, blew out the light, and then lay down to fall asleep.
Under the same night sky at Xicheng Military School.
Serving Huai Ming leaned against the bed, hands folded up under his head, blinking in the bright light of the electric lamp.
This day he was still distracted and very irritable.
Especially when he came home from class, he couldn’t hear familiar voices when he entered the house, couldn’t see familiar figures when he raised his eyes, and yet no matter where he went, he could think of Zhen Zhen’s appearance in that place.
Everywhere in this house was her shadow.
She was cooking in the kitchen with her apron tied around his waist, tying it for him.
She sat across from him and ate with him, a bright smile in her eyes as she talked.
She sat next to him writing and reading, cocking her head when she didn’t understand and listening intently to his explanations.
The way she tilted her head under the moonlight to talk to him.
The way she drunkenly called him Third Brother.
The way she wore a dress for the first time.
The way she kissed the knot in his throat and red-facedly helped him straighten his collar.
The way she permed her curly hair and wore a cheongsam.
……
The mind was full of these.
Too annoyed to sleep, Squire Huai Ming got up and sat on the edge of the bed, lowered his head and pressed his eyebrows to slow down for a while.
A few moments later he got up and went to the playground to run in the deep night color.
After running back a little tired, barely fell asleep for a while.
The next day after getting up and morning training class, once the class period arrived, he went to the principal’s office.
Knocking on the door of the principal’s office, he went to the principal’s desk and said, “Principal, I’d like to apply for family leave with you.”
They weren’t ordinary students, they were military personnel, and the family leave had its own arrangements from above, and they would be allowed to go home to visit their families at the right time.
He also didn’t know if the principal would agree to him going back, but he had to come and apply now to try it out.
Servant Huai Ming waited for the principal to ask him the reason for his leave.
But the principal tilted his head and looked at him for a moment and said, “I heard that you pissed off your daughter-in-law?”
Squire Huai Ming was a bit embarrassed, but still responded, “Yes, so I urgently need to go back now, so please ask the principal for approval.”
The principal tilted his head to look at him for a moment more, then took out the leave slip from the drawer and gave him a pen, “Fill it out.”
Squire Huai Ming sighed in relief and took the pen, “Thank you, Principal.”
Servant Huai Ming filled out all the relevant information needed, and the principal let him go after approving it.
As he left, the principal smiled and said, “The task for you this time is to bring back your daughter-in-law.”
Servant Huai Ming cooperatively responded, “Roger that!”
***
Zhen Zhen had been back in the village for a day and a half, and gossips about her had risen.
Of course she didn’t want to listen to those rumors, so she didn’t go to the people, and went to the market to sell bean sprouts for half a day in the morning, and in the afternoon she stayed at home with Zhong Minfen or read a book, or went to the field to pick wild vegetables to feed the pigs.
This morning there is no market to catch, so she went out with a book and a basket to pick wild vegetables.
She didn’t come back immediately after picking the wild vegetables, but directly found a shady place to sit down and read a book.
Emotionally immersed in the plot, she was reading with emotion when she suddenly heard a voice: “Third sister-in-law, are you reading a book here?”
Zhen Zhen turned around at the sound, only to see Xue Fan standing next to her.
She smiled a little and stood up, saying to Xue Fan, “Well, it’s very nice, thank you for the book.”
Xue Fan could see that she really liked it, it’s rare for someone in the village to love reading, he couldn’t help but want to talk to Zhen Zhen more, so he asked her again, “Third sister-in-law is there anything you don’t understand, I can tell you about it.”
That was indeed there.
Zhen Zhen flipped the book forward and started asking Xue Fan questions from the first page.
Xue Fan listened attentively to her questions, patiently and in detail explaining to her every single thing she didn’t understand.
Zhen Zhen nodded her head while listening, and when it became clear, her expression would light up along with it, especially her eyes.
***
Servant Huai Ming applied for his family leave at the principal’s place and went straight back home.
He simply packed a little luggage and went to the train station.
Sitting on the train and watching the scenery change outside the window, the emotions in his heart were a little bit complicated.
The emotions of homesickness, the emotions of wanting to loved ones, and the emotions of being able to see Zhen Zhen, all tangled up in his head.
Train situation and situation and go very slowly, he sank his heart to see the scenery outside the window.
From the day into the darkness of the night, the darkness of the night there is a slight light, slowly bright again.
When the train came into the station and stopped, the emotions in his heart swelled even more.
The feeling in his heart when he set foot on the land he had left for more than five years could not be accurately expressed in words.
And the closer he got to his small village, the more inexpressible this feeling became.
When he stood at the head of the village and saw the small village that had not changed much, his eyes instantly became wet.
At this time of year, everyone was working in the production team, and there were not many people in the village.
Serving Huai Ming walked all the way home and stopped in front of the courtyard gate, brewing for a while before taking a step to enter.
When he entered the courtyard and looked inside, he saw Zhong Minfen sitting in the house doing needlework.
Zhong Minfen naturally also saw him, stretched her head to look into the yard, narrowed her eyes and asked him: “Who are you? Who are you looking for?”
Servant Huai Ming held back his emotions and smiled, “Mother, I’m Huai Ming.”
Hearing these words, Zhong Minfen’s hand shook as she held the needle and thread, and the half-knotted sole in her hand fell to the ground.
She looked at Servant Huai Ming and narrowed her eyes even further, her voice rising, “Who did you say you were?”
Serving Huai Ming walked directly to the house, went to her front, bent his legs and stooped down to pick up the soles from the floor, dusted them off, put them in a colander and said, “Mother, I’m Huai Ming.”
Zhong Minfen now recognized him.
Tears surged, her tears fell with a brush, and at the same time she reached out her hand and pounded on Shui Huai Ming’s shoulder, while pounding and crying while saying, “I thought you were dead, I thought you were dead.”
The man let her pound, his own eyes are also full of tears.
When Zhong Minfen stopped pounding, he held Zhong Minfen’s hand and said, “Mother, I’m back.”
Zhong Minfen cried so hard that she couldn’t speak, and hugged him and howled directly, as if she wanted to cry out all the suffering she had endured in the past five years.
Shi Huai Ming hugged her and stroked her back and let her cry.
After she finished crying and calmed down, he put the luggage down and sat down next to Zhong Minfen.
Zhong Minfen’s eyes were so red from crying that she spoke in a nasal voice.
She calmed down a bit and looked at Shi Huai Ming and asked, “Why did you come back?”
Shi Huai Ming also spoke with a distinct nasal tone, “I went to the principal and applied for family leave.”
Zhong Minfen sniffled, “You’ve changed, you don’t look like you used to, I almost didn’t recognize you.”
Servant Huai Ming smiled and said, “Not much has changed, just a little tougher.”
Zhong Minfen let out a hmm, “A lot tougher.”
Mother and son met again after a long time and sat and talked a lot.
Because many of the words had been said in the letter, what they said were actually repetitive words.
When they were almost done talking, Serving Huai Ming asked Zhong Min Fen, “Mother, where’s Zhen Zhen? And big brother and sister-in-law they ……”
Mentioning Zhen Zhen, Zhong Min Fen quickly changed her face and looked at him in a bad mood, “You still remember Zhen Zhen ah?”
But he took the initiative to ask, Zhong Minfen heart and more comfortable, think he is not so bastard, so look at him and said: “Your big brother and sister-in-law went to work in the production team, Zhen Zhen went to beat the hog grass, I do not know how has not come back, or you look for go.”
Servant Huai Ming glanced at the sun overhead, stood up and said, “Okay, then I’ll go look for it.”
Zhong Minfen followed him and instructed him, “Be a man and coax Zhen Zhen.”
Servant Huai Ming answered, “Mother, I know.”
Zhong Minfen looked at him and said, “You don’t know shit! Knowing that you’re still pissing off Zhen Zhen back!
***
Servant Huai Ming left the door and went around to the area near the village where he could hunt pigweed.
This was the place where he had lived for more than twenty years, and even though he hadn’t been back for more than five years, he still knew every place well.
Bai Yun Village was not big, so he went to the outside of the village to take a turn.
As he did so, his eyes scanned everywhere, and then he smoothly saw Zhen Zhen in a sheltered place.
And he not only saw Zhen Zhen, but also saw the man standing next to Zhen Zhen.
He looked at Zhen Zhen and the man stopped his steps, did not go further.
The man looked very familiar, thinking for a while he remembered, it was his little follower when he was a child – Xue Fan.
Zhen Zhen was standing with Xue Fan with a book in her hand.
It looked like Xue Fan was telling her something, while she was listening very attentively with her head cocked.
After listening for a while, her eyes slowly went from clueless to open-minded, and then her eyes lit up with her entire face.
The eyes locked onto Zhen Zhen’s face.
Servant Huai Ming unconsciously inhaled gently.
The light of his eyes darkened slightly.