Lincheng
This was a train bound for Lincheng. Originally, Xu's father wanted to take her there, but the commune held a meeting and announced that they would start distributing land to households. As the head of the family, he simply couldn't leave for such an important matter.
Especially men need to measure the land, and those whose household records are unclear have to go through the registration procedures again. After discussion, it was decided to let Xu Fengjian give Xu Nian a ride. The two sisters-in-law at home also had some opinions about Xu Nian. Although Xu Nian still studied step by step, it was shameful that the sister-in-law failed the college entrance examination twice. However, because of the authority of the parents-in-law at home, they did not dare to say anything.
But when my sister-in-law was about to leave home, I felt reluctant to let her go. I wouldn’t say my eyes were red, but I felt very uncomfortable. It really proves the saying that fragrance comes from the close proximity but stench comes from the far distance!
It took the brother and sister about four hours to get out of the town. Xu Fengjian personally handed his sister over to relatives and gave them a bunch of instructions before leaving.
The idea of going to find Xu Qingli was thought up by Mr. Xu. As for how to go there, he asked a distant relative for help. This relative was a conductor on the train, and it was no big deal to help look after her.
Her family told her not to be afraid, that there were relatives to look after her on the way, and that her aunt would come to pick her up when she got off the train. She just needed to be careful along the way.
Xu Nian was not afraid. If she had been worried a few years after the reform and opening up when things were more chaotic, she would have been worried now. But now, she is still very relieved.
But I never expected to see Qi Meiyue as soon as I got on the car. What was she going to do?
Xu Nian didn't speak on her own initiative. She sat on the train with her eyes closed to rest. Mainly because she was in a low mood at the moment. She felt reluctant to leave her parents and worried about the future, which made her feel empty inside. She felt very uncomfortable every time she parted with people close to her. Fortunately, she was a relatively open-minded person and thought that everything would be fine after this period of time.
The train arrived in Lincheng, and she had to stay on the train for two days and two nights. Xu Nian was sitting with her back aching when she heard crying. She glanced at Qi Meiyue and saw her wiping her tears with a small handkerchief.
No one knew what sad thing had happened to her. Since Xu Hongqi left, she had not paid attention to Qi Meiyue's updates. She only vaguely heard that her husband Jiang Fan passed the college entrance examination on his first try last year and took her away from their hometown.
She had thought at that time that this was the best possible ending. Qi Meiyue was living a good life and was away from Xu Hongqi, so everyone was happy.
While Xu Nian was still lost in his own thoughts, Qi Meiyue held back her tears and asked Xu Nian, who was sitting opposite her, cautiously.
"Xu Nian, are you going to look for Hongqi too?"
What the hell? Xu Nian frowned and asked, "Are you in contact with Xu Hongqi?"
Qi Meiyue nodded cautiously, obviously much more timid than when she met her before.
"I contacted him at the beginning of the year. I had something to do this time, so I went to see him." Without waiting for Xu Nian to ask anything else, he continued to talk: "Hongqi is like my brother, someone closer to me than my family. Whenever I have difficulties, Hongqi will basically help me solve them. I..."
I don’t know what she was thinking about, but tears started to flow, as if she had suffered a lot of injustice.
Xu Nian didn't care much about this, but asked again: "How did you get in touch?"
Qi Meiyue raised her head with swollen eyes and said happily, "He came to me before he left and talked to me a lot, gave me a lot of advice, and said he wanted to leave our hometown temporarily. I was afraid of losing contact, so I gave him the specific location of my hometown and... the contact information of Jiang Fan's family."
"Luckily I gave him his contact information. He sent me a letter during the Chinese New Year, and I learned that he was in Lincheng."
One can imagine how Xu Nian felt after hearing this. She was speechless for a moment. She was really sad. Was she such a failure? He hadn't contacted her for so long, but contacted someone else. It really was fate that could not be defied.
Xu Nian said to Qi Meiyue, "That's right. You two have known each other for many years." His words were sour, but after a pause, he continued, "I'm not looking for Xu Hongqi. I'm going to a relative's house."
Qi Meiyue's eyes flashed and she uttered a low "Oh".
It was almost time since they set out. Xu Nian's relative was an uncle in his forties, surnamed Lin, and Xu Nian called him Uncle Lin.
Uncle Lin came to find Xu Nian after finishing his work, "Niannian, come with me to eat."
Xu Nian obediently responded with "OK". Even though he had no appetite, he knew that he couldn't refuse the other person's kindness.
Xu Nian followed the group to the train restaurant. Qi Meiyue tightened her grip on the bag, and she felt even more depressed. People are really different. She thought she had flown to the top of a tree and become a phoenix, but she didn't know that it was not an easy place to stand.
She thought that Jiang Fan's admission to university and taking her away would mark the beginning of her happiness. However, after she went there, she found out that Jiang Fan's family was not ordinary. He had a father who was the political director of the Ministry of Public Security, a mother who was a leader of the Revolutionary Committee, and an older sister and a younger brother.
Jiang Fan's home is close to the capital. With the disintegration of the Digital Gang, the Revolutionary Committee also fell apart. His mother's political identity is temporarily unknown, and the family is unusually low-key. She was originally very dissatisfied with her daughter-in-law from the countryside, but she felt it was pretty good during the special period. So at the beginning she really felt that she was very happy. Even though Jiang Fan went to college and lived on campus, and came back one day a week, she was happy and was happy to clean and serve the family.
But things changed in just three months. Jiang Fan's father's work was not affected, but his mother lost her job and was idle at home. Jiang Fan's sister used to work with her mother-in-law and was very capable, but after both of them lost their jobs, her elder sister-in-law, who seldom went home before, often came back to stay for a while when she was upset at her in-laws' house, and even caused trouble for her.
Although she could tolerate these temporarily, there was one thing she really couldn't tolerate. She never knew Jiang Fan was so kind to women. Even if he stayed at home one day a week, there would always be women of one kind or another coming to see him. If he said she was noisy, it meant she was unreasonable and ignorant.
What's more, there is a childhood friend who is two-faced and always disgusts her. She is living a miserable life in the house she lives in now. No one at home cares about her or welcomes her. She is more like a nanny. The key point is that other nannies have holidays and money, but she has given up her youth and everything just to live like this?
The more she thought about it, the more unbearable it became, and the more unwilling she became!
Xu Hongqi wrote to her during the New Year because he actually wanted to buy his uncle's job for her family. His words and deeds seemed to be a repayment for the care he had shown her when they were young, but this did her no good at all.
She thought she was wrong from the beginning. Others didn't know how good Xu Hongqi was, and she was actually blind to it. Why should her stepfather's family accept this favor? She was the one who had always been good to Xu Hongqi.
Last month she wrote to Xu Hongqi, saying that she would go crazy if she stayed at Jiang Fan's house any longer and she wanted to come find him, but Xu Hongqi did not agree. At that time, she accidentally overheard her mother-in-law and father-in-law talking privately about asking Jiang Fan to divorce her and find a decent man. Only then did she make up her mind to go to Xu Hongqi.
So it became like this now. She came here secretly without telling anyone. She thought of Di'er. She told Xu Hongqi about it. He would not just stand by and watch her die.
Qi Meiyue took a steamed bun from her bag and swallowed it bite by bite. She remembered that in order to marry Jiang Fan, she had reported her age at the household registration office two years older. Now, she was three years older than Hongqi. She also wondered if what Xu Nian said was true or not. Hongqi seemed to treat her very differently. Would she encounter any other unexpected events?
Xu Nian ate potatoes stewed with vermicelli, but didn't eat much. When going out, the most difficult thing is hygiene. She really didn't want to use the toilet if she could avoid it. She thanked Uncle Lin sweetly, said she would not disturb him at work, and returned to her seat.
It was already September, and the university students who were supposed to start school had already left, so there weren't many people on the train. At least it wasn't as crowded as Xu Nian had imagined. She came back and saw Qi Meiyue eating steamed buns. When she saw her coming, she smiled and said, "Xu Nian, can you help me watch my luggage? I'll go get some water. I'm choking."
It was such a small matter that Xu Nian would never refuse, so she nodded.
It may be that this action was misinterpreted, which made Qi Meiyue feel that Xu Nian was easy to approach. She chatted with her in various ways afterwards, naturally incorporating praise and enthusiasm into her conversation, which made Xu Nian feel embarrassed to refuse the conversation.
At dinner time, Xu Nian was also called to eat, and then came back to sleep. Her luggage was in Uncle Lin's lounge, so she didn't have to worry about anything and slept without any pressure.
Qi Meiyue, however, was carrying a lot of bags and was too stubborn to fall asleep. Fortunately, nothing happened that night. The next day, when the train stopped at a station, Xu Nian got off the train for a short while to get some fresh air. All the buildings outside were waiting to be rebuilt. Actually, there was nothing much to see, but the fresh air was really refreshing.
Lincheng will arrive at around seven o'clock tomorrow, and she will be liberated if she holds on for another day. She encouraged herself, felt great, changed her mood, and got on the train.
Maybe she didn't sleep well last night, Qi Meiyue talked to Xu Nian and asked her to help look after the luggage. She took a short nap, and Xu Nian took a notebook in her hand and said okay.
She had almost finished reading in the afternoon, so she lent the book to Qi Meiyue and took a newspaper to kill time. Otherwise, the whole journey would be too boring. She missed home very much now and regretted agreeing to go to her aunt's house. After thinking about it, a golden nest or a doghouse is not as good as her own pigsty, and she didn't know what the situation would be like there.
She didn't know why she had such a crazy thought at that time that maybe she could meet Xu Hongqi, who she hadn't heard from for a long time, and she actually agreed. She felt really ashamed of her parents. She glanced at Qi Meiyue who was reading a book seriously across from her, and silently advised herself.
Men are not good!
Men are dying!
I read all day, and at night the light was dim and my eyes were sore. I thought that tomorrow would come early, so I tried to fall asleep as soon as possible.
Although Qi Meiyue had rested a little during the day, she felt that Xu Nian was not very enthusiastic about her, so she did not dare to sleep too long. Now seeing her sleeping soundly, she could not help but close her eyes...
Xu Nian had something on her mind and woke up before six o'clock. Many people were still sleeping. She quickly went to the toilet and then quietly went to the conductor's lounge. She observed yesterday that the conductors usually started working around 5:30. She greeted Uncle Lin.
She began to check her luggage. She had quite a lot of things, and she had even mailed some of them in advance. A mother worries about her son when he is away from home, and Xu's father and mother were afraid that Xu Qingli would worry and cause too much trouble for them, so they packed up everything they could for their daughter.
It took Xu Nian a long time to gather her thoughts. Finally, she asked Uncle Lin about the time. It was already past six o'clock, so she didn't go out and waited for the station to arrive. After Uncle Lin finished his work, he took the luggage with her and left.
Uncle Lin was quite willing to take care of Xu Nian this time. Not to mention that they were from the same hometown or relatives, Xu Nian was very sensible along the way. His water cup was never empty. Moreover, he knew that the husband of Xu's youngest daughter was very capable and had become the head of a regiment. During the Chinese New Year two years ago, one word from him was more effective than his own ten years of work. It was true that the friendship between fellow townsmen could not be broken.
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"We have arrived at Lincheng. Please take your luggage and get off the train in an orderly manner. Lincheng welcomes you!"
When Xu Nian heard that it was their stop, he asked Uncle Lin to work first. After waiting for less than ten minutes, Uncle Lin came over and helped Xu Nian get off the bus with his luggage.
Xu Nian stepped on the land of Lincheng, feeling dizzy and his heart pounding. When he was about to leave the station, he suddenly heard Qi Meiyue's voice.
"Comrade, they can't leave the station. I lost my money. Please help me!"
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