1987 My Era

Chapter 123, Arriving in Lancheng, a Speechless Family (Subscribe!)

July 7st, 21:7 am.

Beijing Railway Station.

As the station staff started shouting through a small loudspeaker to line up for ticket checking and boarding, Chen Zijin, who had been relatively stable before, suddenly broke down a little. Regardless of the looks from the people around him, he grabbed Li Heng's hand and said reluctantly:

"Be safe on the road and remember to think of me."

"it is good."

Li Heng was also reluctant to leave and took the initiative to hug her: "I'll call you when we get there."

"Yeah." After finally getting together, they had to separate again. At this moment, Chen Zijin's eyes were a little moist.

After the two of them said goodbye, Chen Xiaomi handed him some letters of introduction from work units:
"I know you should have made some preparations, but these might be useful in Gansu, so you can keep them as a backup."

The English teacher was indeed prepared, but under the gaze of Chen Zijin, Li Heng still took it. Then, after saying thank you, he went to the ticket gate with the English teacher and Zhang Zhiyong.

After passing the ticket gate, Li Heng turned around and looked at Chen Zijin in the crowd for a while, then waved vigorously. After Chen Zijin waved back, he turned around and got on the train.

I thought there were a lot of people at Shaoxing Railway Station, but when I compared it with the people at Beijing Railway Station, wow! My goodness, that's nothing, nothing at all, it's just a drop in the bucket, right?
After struggling to find his own sleeper, Zhang Zhiyong sat down and asked, "Uncle Heng, how long does it take to get from Beijing to Gansu?"

Li Heng replied: "The distance between Tongshao City and Beijing is not much different. It will take about 20 hours."

After hearing this, Zhang Zhiyong lay down on the bunk listlessly. He was a lively person and could not sit still. The thought of staying in a small, enclosed space for such a long time was almost fatal.

The English teacher was different. Maybe because her parents were divorced, she was used to being alone and was relaxed and contented. She looked at the scenery along the way and only took a short break when it got dark.

At midnight, Li Heng was woken up by his English teacher. She sat on the edge of Li Heng's bed, shook him awake and whispered, "Wake up."

Li Heng was not asleep to begin with, but was awakened by something outside. "Teacher, what's wrong?"

The English teacher looked outside and lowered his voice again: "There were a few people swaying back and forth in this carriage just now. I felt something was wrong."

Hearing this, Li Heng got out of bed calmly. After watching for a while in the small corridor, he really saw three people pickpocketing, two men and one woman. The woman was reaching into an old lady's bag to take something out.

Seeing Li Heng suddenly appear in the middle of the night, the three of them looked over together. After a few seconds of stalemate, they saw Li Heng standing there motionless. The woman retracted her outstretched hand and left the car with her accomplice.

The English teacher's heart was pounding as she watched from the side. She even called out to the simple-minded boy, "Aren't you afraid that they will cause trouble for you if you do this?"

Li Heng shook his head: "Normally not. Even if they find me, I'm not afraid."

Zhang Zhiyong rubbed his head and chimed in, "That's right! We fought all the way here since the first day of the new year. We're not afraid of anything!"

Awakened by the noise, Zhang Zhiyong volunteered to keep watch. He sat on a small stool outside with a bag in his hand, his eyes flickering around.

Wang Runwen couldn't sleep either. He lifted his hair with his right hand and asked him, "I didn't understand why you said you wanted to go to Zhongda University if you didn't get into Peking University. Now I understand a little bit. Are you afraid of being restricted by Chen Zijin? Or do you have other girls you like besides Song Yu?"

Damn, it's amazing!

One guess and one focus!
But Li Heng certainly couldn't admit it, he just vaguely said: "Actually, for me, it doesn't matter where I go to college, it doesn't affect my writing.

The reason why I don’t want you to help me is because I don’t want you to owe my best friend a favor because of me.”

The English teacher said disdainfully: "It's no big deal. You are a coward if you don't want to go to Peking University.

Besides, I am alone, so it would be better for me to owe someone a favor, so that I can have a closer connection with Shuheng."

After hearing her mention Yu Shuheng several times, Li Heng couldn't help but ask curiously, "Where is your bestie now?"

The English teacher asked mercilessly: "Why are you asking this?"

Li Heng was speechless: "I'm just curious."

The English teacher crossed her arms over her chest and said, "Stop being curious! Stop asking questions! She is 8 years older than you."

Li Heng felt dizzy and retorted: "Look at what you are saying. What's the point? With Song Yu and Zi Jin here, why would I want other women?"

I silently added in my heart: Okay, Comrade Xiaohan, I'm sorry to have to put you through this first.

Seeing that he mentioned two girls' names without blushing, the English teacher looked disdainful and said, "Haha, if I were Song Yu, I wouldn't give you any chance at all."

Li Heng stretched and said, "I don't know who came to Beijing with me. Not only Beijing, but also Gansu."

The English teacher was so angry that he narrowed his eyes for a long while before saying, "Don't flatter yourself. The teacher is afraid that you won't have the opportunity to travel far in the future, so you should go out and travel more while you are young and have time."

The two chatted all the way, occasionally bickering with each other, and time passed quickly. When the clock turned to noon of the next day, they finally arrived at the provincial capital, Lancheng.

Zhang Zhiyong kept jumping up and down in the crowd, "Uncle Heng, you said someone would come to pick you up. You haven't even met him. Do you recognize that person?"

The English teacher also had this doubt, but didn't ask.

Li Heng said: "It's okay. They said they would wait for me at the exit. The woman was wearing red and the man was wearing a grey suit. They both wore glasses."

Hearing this, Zhang Zhiyong jumped up and down even more frequently, muttering and complaining:
"Damn! What do northerners eat to grow taller than me? The men are fine, but I've seen many women who are taller than me."

Although Quxinyan is not short in the south, he is really not tall enough in the north.

Li Heng is 178cm tall in the south, but in the north, he is just average. There are many people shorter than him, and there are also many taller than him.

"Hey, Li Heng, are they those two?"

While Li Heng and Zhang Zhiyong were talking, the sharp-eyed Wang Runwen saw a girl in red holding up a sign. The sign read: Li Heng! Li Heng!
The name was written in large, thick black brush calligraphy.

The woman in red is quite tall, about 170cm tall, with an above-average appearance, but she has an unruly and wild aura about her. Her surname is also Li, and her name is Li Ran.

Li Heng had wondered more than once whether Aunt Zhao Jing chose a man with the surname Li as her husband because she could not forget Comrade Li Jianguo?

In his previous life, he and Li Ran were very familiar with each other.

They were so familiar with each other that after a dinner one time, she did not hand over a bottle of water as usual, but replaced the water with condoms.

Li Heng was confused at the time and looked up and asked, "What's going on? Did you take the wrong thing?"

Li Ran said without hesitation: "No, I broke up with my ex, and now I can't find a bed partner for a while, and I need one, how about I trouble you?"

Li Heng's face twitched, "How many boyfriends have you had?"

Li Ran said shamelessly: "I haven't counted them carefully, maybe seven or eight. Don't look at me like that. My desire for men is like news and current events. I pursue novelty, and I change when I get tired of it."

By the way, her essential job is a journalist, and she also loves archaeology.

Li Heng was so scared that he ran away. They didn't meet for several years until she sent him an invitation saying she was getting married. Then he went to attend the wedding.

That time, he took Xiao Han with him.

After meeting Xiao Han, Li Ran joked openly, "I understand a little bit now. No wonder you don't want to touch me."

Anyway, this girl is not a good person. I estimate that she has been with 10 men before and after. Her husband later became like her father, frail and sickly, and became a real sickly woman.

"Li Heng?"

Looking at Li Heng who was walking towards him, Li Ran shook the sign in his hand and asked with his big eyes.

"It's me." Li Heng nodded, then told the other party what happened on the phone, which was a code word, and then introduced the English teacher and Zhang Zhiyong.

After greeting the English teacher and the heartless man, Li Ran pulled the man with glasses next to him and said, "My college senior, now my fiancé, Sun Aimin."

Sun Aimin greeted the three people warmly and cheerfully.

When Li Heng shook hands with the other party, he felt a little sympathy for him. He recognized Sun Aimin. Li later got married, but the other party was not married. It was said that he often led teams to conduct archaeological excavations in the mountains and forests, and was not very keen on marriage.

Li Ran's home is on the outskirts of the city, or even in the countryside. When Li Heng arrived, it was almost dark.

"You, are you Li Heng?" Zhao Jing met them at the intersection and asked Li Heng who was very conspicuous in the crowd.

Li Heng smiled and said, "Hey, it's me, Auntie, you have good eyesight."

Zhao Jing circled around her and said, "I don't think I have good eyesight. You look a bit like your mother when she was young. Of course I can recognize you."

Then the two sides introduced themselves to each other. When they returned to the house, Zhao Jing said:

"I have prepared the meal. You must be hungry after such a long journey. Come and sit at the table."

There were 9 bowls on the table, 6 Hunan dishes and Gansu local dishes, both meat and vegetarian, and very hard.

We also eat rice.

During the meal, Zhao Jing took Li Heng to ask about his health. When she learned that Tian Run'e had concealed Li Jianguo's illness from her, she was silent for a long time and finally sighed:

"Yun'e is still the same as always, reporting good news but not bad news. If I had known that Jianguo was not in good health, I would have gone back to see him no matter what."

Li Heng secretly complained after hearing this and said, "Forget it. My mother is afraid that you will go to visit our father."

Later, they caught up with Li Jianguo and asked him a lot about the frame-up. Li Heng did not answer truthfully, but only said what he could.

After dinner, Li Heng and the other two went to the inner room to visit Li Li, Zhao Jing's husband, who was bedridden.

Seeing a stranger coming to see him, Li Li, who was originally drowsy, slowly opened his eyes, stared at Li Heng for a long time and said, "You are Li Jianguo's son, right?"

Li Heng nodded and said yes.

Li Li looked at him again, then said weakly, "He came at the right time. His son can come to see me. I have no regrets. No regrets."

This made no sense and Li Heng's mind was completely confused.

It was not until half an hour later, after they left the inner bedroom, that Li Ran helped him solve the puzzle: "My mother has never forgotten your father. She often used him as a backup, including in bed, so he always felt that he died in vain."

This he refers to Li Li.

At this point, Li Ran was afraid that Li Heng was not used to it, so he added: "Don't be so polite, I speak like this, straight to the point, I don't like to hide anything.

He has been ill for several years. We have experienced life and death, and now we are indifferent to it. There is no sadness. Don't feel weird."

As the saying goes, a long-term illness will make a son unfilial. Li Heng could naturally understand the detachment and open-mindedness of this family.

Zhao Jing arranged a room for the three of them. Instead of sleeping at Zhao's house, they followed Li Ran to a building next door. No one explained why, and the three of them were too lazy to ask. As long as they had a clean place to rest, it was enough.

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