Rebirth of Rural Literary Life

Chapter 455
Hong Qi rushed back to his hometown in Yingcheng on the 29th of the year. It took three days on the road from Baoan to Yangzhou, Yangzhou to Fengcheng, and Fengcheng to Yingcheng.

The flight from Yangzhou to Fengcheng was by plane. This was the first time in his life that he took a plane, and he asked Cheng Jingshan for help.

The moment he stepped off the train, he felt unprecedented kindness and excitement, and finally returned after two years away from home.

He was carrying all the things he bought for his family, and he took a bus near the station. After getting off the bus, he found a cart puller.

The part of their house is in the countryside, but there are no buses.

"Where did you come from, young man?" the cart driver asked.

"Come back from Nanshan."

The puller was a little surprised, "Oh, it's so far away, it's thousands of miles away?"

"Isn't it? It took several days on the road."

"Work in Nanshan? Or go to school?" Hong Qi had just worked for a few years, looking tender.

"Have been working for several years."

"Okay, at first glance, you are a scholar. What kind of work do you do in Nanshan? You earn a lot in a month, right?"

When he was away from home, Hong Qi was still a little vigilant, "They are all part-time workers. We are a chicken farm, and the salary is a little higher than that in a state-owned factory. Why don't we travel so far to work?"

"It's true. Traveling thousands of miles is only for money, and you can't have money if you don't have anything!"

While chatting with the puller, Hong Qi looked at the scenery on both sides of the road. Compared with the ever-changing Nanshan, Yingcheng is like a photo hung on the wall, which has remained unchanged for ten years.

It used to look like nothing, but now with the contrast of Nanshan, the camp city in front of me seems to have suddenly become old.

After wandering around for an hour, the car finally arrived at the village entrance of Hong Qi's house.

The third younger sister of the family happened to be at the entrance of the village, and she saw Hong Qi getting off the car at a glance. She ran over and shouted: "Brother!"

Hong Qi hugged the younger sister who rushed over, with a smile on his face, "Why such a coincidence?"

The third sister said: "After you called the village a few days ago, Mom sent us to wait for you at the entrance of the village every day."

Before Hong Qi set off from Bao'an, he called his family and told them that he would go home for the New Year this year.

Hong Qi looked at Sanmei's flushed face, and his nose was sore.

"Brother is back, let's go, let's go home."

The third sister sensiblely helped Hong Qi lift the things, and the two brothers and sisters walked home.

They met villagers on the road and were surprised to see Hong Qi.

"Yo! Hong Qi is back?"

"Yes, third uncle, you're back."

"Have you been out for two years now? I almost didn't recognize you in a blink of an eye. You have changed so much. You are dressed so neatly."

"Let's go home, let's go." Hong Qi joked.

More than two years of experience abroad has made Hong Qi mature in handling things, and he is no longer a child who would blush just because of a compliment or derogation from others.

When the brothers and sisters were about to reach the door of the house, the third sister ran into the yard in a hurry and shouted: "Dad! Mom! Big brother is back."

It was still the old house at home, and the parents hurried out of the house when they heard the voice, followed by several younger brothers and sisters.

Hong Qi's eyes turned red when he saw his parents' old, anxious faces, "Dad! Mom! I'm back."

"It's good to be back, it's good to be back!" Hong Qi's parents looked at the mature and stable eldest son in front of them, and repeated these words in their mouths.

"Hurry up and get in the house, it's cold outside!" His mother took Hong Qi's hand and let him into the house, and the brothers and sisters picked up the packages on Hong Qi's body.

After entering the house and putting down all the things, my mother looked at Hong Qi carefully for a while, and the more she looked, the happier she said, "Fat, grown up."

Father worked on the stove for a while, and took out a freshly roasted sweet potato, "Is it cold outside? Eat a piece of sweet potato, freshly roasted."

Hong Qi took the sweet potato, feeling a warm current in his heart, this is home.

The parents happily looked at the eldest son who had not seen him for two years, and the child had grown up.

The younger brothers and sisters also looked curiously at this elder brother whom they had not seen for a long time. Two years was too long for children, and even the younger ones had begun to forget their memories of Hong Qi.

After talking about his experience working in Nanshan, Hong Qi took a look at his family's house.

"Didn't I send you money back to let you build a house? Why do you still live in this old house?"

Mother said: "What kind of house do you build? Isn't this old house very good to live in? It's been like this for decades. Besides, your younger siblings all have to go to school, and you have to spend money everywhere. Save as much as you can."

Hong Qi complained: "Send back so much money, it's still not enough for them to go to school. This house is terribly cold in winter, so there is nothing to live in. I thought I could live in a new house when I came back this time."

His mother patted him, "It's only been a long time since I went out, and I started to think that the house at home is broken."

"Mom, that's not what I meant. You have to use the money I sent back to you!"

"Money is saved, can you spend it carelessly if you have money?"

"I earn thousands of dollars a year, why is it not enough for you to spend?"

One of the mother and son said to spend, and the other said to save, neither of them could convince the other.

In the end, the father came out to be a peacemaker, "The child just came back, why are you choking on these things with him, hurry up and cook, the child is hungry."

Only then did my mother remember that Hong Qi had been driving for several days, and the couple hurriedly made arrangements for cooking.

Hong Qi wanted to help, but was stopped by his parents, "Look at them."

Seeing that there was no one around the eldest brother, several younger brothers and sisters gathered around and looked at him with a smile.

Hong Qi looked at these little things, laughed happily, and touched their heads one by one, "They've all grown up."

"Brother, did you come back by train?" The youngest brother in the family was already seven years old, and when it was time for school, he asked Hong Qi curiously.

"Yes, not only took the train, but also took the plane."

"Really? Are the trains and planes as pictured in the book?"

"Of course, in the future, big brother will also take you by train and plane, okay?"

When the younger brothers and sisters heard that Hong Qi was going to take them by train or plane, they shouted excitedly: "Really, brother? Can we also take the train or plane?"

"Well, I will take you to sit with my brother when he has time."

Hong Qi's two words made him disappear for two years, and the younger brothers and sisters who were a little strange to him fell in love with him again as the big brother.

He started digging through the parcel again, which was full of things for his parents and younger brothers and sisters.

"These are clothes brought back from Nanshan for you. I don't know how tall you all are. I bought them all in large sizes."

"This is called an electronic watch, and each of you has one piece."

"The second child is also in high school. This Walkman is for you to learn English."

Like a Doraemon, Hong Qi kept taking things out of the package that they had never seen before. The brothers and sisters were like the audience in the theater, wowing constantly.

The mother who was cooking in the outhouse took a look at the door, and several children surrounded Hong Qi with happy smiles on their faces.

There was a smile on her face.

(End of this chapter)