Chapter 39 Going into the city to find my man
I suddenly turned around and checked, and sure enough, Ma Qijun's jeep was not outside the door.
Hasn't he come back yet?
Ye Xiaomei looked at the loaches and eels in the basket. Even if Ma Qijun hadn't come back, her aunt should be at home.
Ye Xiaomei knocked on the door of the old house carefully: "Auntie?"
With a creak, the door was neither locked nor locked from the inside. Ye Xiaomei looked around inside along the open gap.
No one?
"Auntie, I'm Xiaomei, are you home?"
Ye Xiaomei was too embarrassed to go in without permission. She looked around and saw the window of the new house behind her. It seemed that Ma Qijun was sitting under the window frame looking at her.
Ye Xiaomei suddenly realized that he was not there at all.
"Ye Xiaomei, right?"
A woman with a basket on her shoulder called out to her from outside the low wall: "You are here to look for someone. Qijun went to the city early yesterday morning."
Ye Xiaomei was unfamiliar with this person, so she hurried out of the yard to ask, "Where is Aunt Wang?"
"Your Aunt Wang received a call from the village branch at about 1:00 this afternoon. She answered the call and then hurried to the city. She even left on the village head's tractor."
Ye Xiaomei had a bad feeling and smiled: "Thank you, Auntie."
"You're welcome. Hey..." The woman turned around and walked away with the basket, sighing, "I'm afraid this is a serious condition and requires a signature from the family."
Ye Xiaomei's heart skipped a beat when she heard her talking to herself.
That's impossible. There was a reaction yesterday, unless... unless Ma Qijun lied to her.
But if an amputation occurs, there is really no possibility of recovery.
Ye Xiaomei walked home in a daze, with noisy voices coming into her mind in a mixed state.
Li Chengquan - Alas, what a pity, Brother Ma is the first soldier in Qingyang County to become a regiment commander.
Captain, that's a huge amount of power. It doesn't match his usual gentle and refined appearance at all.
Heizi - Sister-in-law, you know how powerful the boss used to be. In fact, he didn't sleep a wink last night.
When Ye Xiaomei thought of this, her heart ached. She had the illusion that she could empathize with Brother Ma, but she didn't know whether it was true or not.
"Ah!" Zhao Mei was startled when she opened the door: "Why are you standing here?"
Ye Xiaomei came back to her senses: "Mom, I'm going to catch loaches."
Zhao Meiming looked at her daughter's pale face and said, "Didn't you go to Huihui to borrow a dictionary?"
Yes, that was just an excuse Ye Xiaomei made up. She had completely forgotten it. In fact, when she got the medical book that Ma Qijun found for her, she had borrowed the dictionary from Huihui.
"Huihui is not at home." Ye Xiaomei said hurriedly as she walked in carrying a bamboo basket.
Zhao Mei said without thinking, "I saw her in the evening. She went to Luweidang with her mother."
"Oh, maybe she just happened to be out so I didn't meet her."
Ye Xiaomei placed the bamboo basket in the pond and the water pump creaked as it pumped water into the basket. The loaches and eels inside jumped around as if they wanted to jump out of the basket.
In the evening, we had loach soup. I didn’t have time to buy tofu, so I just stewed a pot of it.
Ye Xiaolin is not at home tonight either.
Li Cuilan asked, and Wang Minzhi looked like she had been crying, with swollen bags under her eyes:
"Who knows what she did? I don't care."
Ye Xiaomei ate a quick meal and went back to her room.
The next day, Ye Xiaomei went to the Ma family as usual, just like before.
Two days passed in a blink of an eye, and it was still the same.
Ye Xiaomei became more and more uneasy. If he really had to undergo amputation, he would be in the hospital now, and Aunt Wang would be taking care of him.
For the first time, Ye Xiaomei had the urge to go into the city, and it was a very strong urge.
But she had never even left the county town and had no idea how to get to the city.
On the evening of August 4th, the family had been discussing their marriage. Ye Xiaomei felt even more heavy-hearted as she listened. If he had his limb amputated, he would not be able to be discharged from the hospital on August 8th to marry her.
"Aunt Mei." A familiar voice came from the yard.
"I'm coming."
Zhao Mei opened the door and said, "Huihui, my daughter has been unhappy these past two days, starting from the day she came to see you. Go and have a chat with her."
Liang Huihui nodded with a smile on her face, muttering to herself: "She still has unhappy times. She is so busy all day long."
Ye Xiaomei opened the door in advance when she heard this: "Huihui, don't listen to my mother's nonsense. I came to you to deliver a dictionary that day."
Liang Huihui is Ye Xiaomei's red flag in her heart, because she has been studying since she was young and is now in the first year of high school. Fortunately, the college entrance examination was resumed the year before last, and Liang Huihui seized the opportunity to return to school.
It is intellectuals like this who know a lot and are the ones Ye Xiaomei admires.
"Come on, forget it. I told you I would give it to you when you borrowed it. I don't need it now. I used it when I was in primary school."
Liang Huihui is one year older than Ye Xiaomei, and they live not far from each other. However, since she went to the city to attend high school, they rarely have the chance to meet.
As it’s almost August 15th, she took a few days off in advance to come back and visit her relatives.
Ye Xiaomei lowered her head and bit her lip and said, "I want to go to the city, but I've never been there. Can you teach me how to get there?"
Liang Huihui's face was full of knowledge, as if every drop of blood in her bones contained wisdom that was beyond the reach of others:
"It's not that easy. From our county station, we can take a minibus to Liu County, which costs about three yuan and takes about two and a half hours. Then we can transfer from Liu County to Chaocheng, which costs about five yuan. When we get off at the station, we will be in Chaocheng. The most important thing is that there is only one bus from the county at five in the morning. If you can't catch it, you can't catch the bus to Liu County either."
Ye Xiaomei fiddled with her fingers and calculated carefully: "First from the county to Liu County, to... Chaocheng, I think I should write it down."
Ye Xiaomei quickly took the pen and put it down. She remembered the fare and time clearly. She looked extremely serious and it was obvious that she was determined to go into the city.
"No, I haven't asked you yet, what are you doing in the city?"
"Two and a half hours... um..." Ye Xiaomei was calculating while holding a pen: "How about from Liu County to Chaocheng? How long does it take?"
"About four hours. If there are not many people temporarily blocking the car, it will be about three hours and forty minutes." Liang Huihui felt something was wrong.
"Tell me, what are you going to do in the city?"
"Go find Ma Qijun." Ye Xiaomei didn't think much about it and wrote down four hours in her notebook.
"Ah? I thought it was fake. I heard from the villagers that you were really going to marry Ma Qijun?" Liang Huihui's reaction was particularly big.
"Well, you haven't been home for so long, so of course you don't know." Ye Xiaomei carefully put away the notebook. She was going to take it with her on the bus to the city.
"But he... I heard he's disabled. Are you crazy?" Liang Huihui blurted out.
Ye Xiaomei didn't say anything else: "I like him." When she said this, Ye Xiaomei had already packed the notebook into her cloth bag.
That crossbody bag is made of a lot of unused fabrics, so it looks flowery.
"..." Liang Huihui had nothing more to say.
Thinking back to how Ye Xiaomei always came to her for questions, Liang Huihui also knew that she wanted to go to school. For a moment, she inadvertently noticed her desk, which was filled with many books.
There were even those picture books with pinyin that she had exchanged for Wo Wo Tou:
"Wow... Ye Xiaomei, you are really good. You are even reading medical books. Oh, don't you want to go to school? I have a way."
Ye Xiaomei packed her backpack and stuffed it under her pillow, waiting to leave tomorrow: "Well, I really want to go to school, but my family conditions don't allow it. I just read books and learn a few more words on weekdays."
"You can definitely do it, you know. There's a literacy class in the county. There are lots of books there, and you can take the exam after studying on your own."
"Really?" Ye Xiaomei turned around and looked at Liang Huihui: "So I can take the exam even if I don't study in school?"
"No, you have never been out of the village, so you don't know these things."
Liang Huihui's words were like poison, and Ye Xiaomei was poisoned on the spot: "So someone like me also has a chance to take the exam?"
"able."
Ye Xiaomei turned her back excitedly, almost twisting her fingers to the point of breaking them, and paced back and forth restlessly.
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