The Road Home

Chapter 4: People on the Way (1)

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This is one of the unique skills of their squadron.

At first, everyone wanted to learn Mongolian and Russian, but later they found that optics could not speak enough, and they had to be like their mother tongue. For the task, everyone began to consciously explore more advanced imitations, control the muscles and breath of the vocal cords, and after a few years of hard work, they also figured out a few imitation masters. .

He used to be the number one player in the squadron, and if he wanted to imitate anyone, he could learn the same way as being possessed by the opponent, not to mention Lu Yanchen, who faced each other every day. However, in the entire squadron, only Gao Hai was brave enough to imitate him blatantly.

So Lu Yanchen could easily guess what happened.

In the past two years, he taught Qin Xiaonan to draw portraits. The child is very talented, and he was quite good in less than two years. Originally, he was quite surprised, but he didn't expect to pit himself. After seeing Gui Xiao that day, Qin Xiaonan drew Gui Xiao carefully and told everyone that this was the first love of the road team and came to Erlianhot. So, everyone has been working hard for the past few days to meet the people who can stop the road team tonight.

Lu Yanchen ignored it.

But this bunch of bachelor soldiers will be hard to see in this life in two days, and the woman is so lucky to be in Erlianhot, no man can miss this opportunity. So, the purpose of putting together such a farce is very simple, just to meet the first love of the team.

They think first love is beautiful, or at least it sounds beautiful.

But for Gui Xiao and Lu Yanchen, it was a disaster.

Gui Xiao's heart fell straight down: "It doesn't matter."

What can you say to a stranger

"Miss Gui Xiao," Gao Hai Rumeng amnesty, grabbing Gui Xiao's right hand and holding it excitedly, "On behalf of my second hometown, Inner Mongolia, on behalf of our squadron to welcome you. You will love Inner Mongolia as much as your hometown! It's me... ah, no, it's the road team's favorite place!"

The water mist in Gui Xiao's eyes has not dissipated, and he forced an unnatural smile.

The young man continued to say that Sunite's mutton was delicious, and the Lu team was also idle now, so the Lu team must take Gui Xiao to eat. Fortunately, Lu Chen raised his eyelids and gave Gao Hai a "go away" look. "Gao Hai knew each other this time, and he swallowed the welcome draft: "Then, then you continue! I don't bother! "

Abandoning this sentence, the young man slipped back into the crowd.

The people on the stage were so happy that they sang the song again, and were howling like this: "Forget it, if you can... What is there to cherish in a lifetime, the homeless don't have extravagant love."

Lively, but can not hide the sadness.

It's just tonight, or any other day, he won't be so angry.

"They are used to messing around, and they have no sense of proportion." Lu Yanchen went to fetch a small plate on the table, looking for a piece of beef jerky to eat. The other pointed to the empty chair, meaning: sit.

Gui Xiao pursed his lips and asked in a low voice, "Shouldn't you apologize first? Captain Lu?"

Still the same, always seize the opportunity to convince him.

Lu Yanchen laughed at himself and confessed: "Forgive me, I just had a bad attitude."

Gui Xiao nodded: "I heard on the phone just now that you are drunk and no one can move, talking nonsense about our past, and hearing you call my name, I came here because I was afraid of an accident. Since it was a misunderstanding, I will I'm leaving."

Lu Yanchen's right hand was on the plate, poking around aimlessly.

At the age of less than 20 years old, he swallowed snake gallbladder and peeled frogs in an empty stomach, and carried a weight of 40 kilograms through deep mountains and old forests without getting down. But after the end, as soon as I drank the wine, I thought of her. The big man of about 1.8 meters was lying on the grass half-height and drinking like a fool, who knows

Lu Yanchen responded calmly: "Sit down for a while, I'll take you back."

Gui Xiao became more and more polite: "I've been here for several days, so I don't need to send it. Anyway, there is no next time."

Lu Yanchen stopped.

Years ago, she cried and shouted on the phone: "Lu Chen, if you dare to hang up my phone again, there will be no next time! You don't want to see me again in your life!" He was also a teenager at that time. , cut off the line without hesitation, and later learned that she and her mother were "ejected" from the house that night...

The person in front of him left, leaving only the wet soles on the concrete floor.

He sat alone, with both arms propped on the table, his eyes lowered, and he continued to fiddle with the beef jerky on the plate. After a long while, he threw a piece into his mouth and chewed it slowly. Every joint of his body was filled with sourness that made him unable to move.

Gui Xiao was in a hurry and returned to the gate, where Qin Mingyu was still chatting with Xiao Cai.

She pulled Xiao Cai's wrist to push the glass door that was covered with ice balls, pushed it open, and the wind poured in from her neck and collar.

"So fast?" Xiao Cai was almost dragged down by her, "It's only been ten minutes since I entered the door!"

"Headache, not very comfortable." Gui Xiao's voice was a little rough.

Xiao Cai was silent. Based on her friendship with Gui Xiao for many years, this is really exciting.

Gui Xiao took out the car key from Xiao Cai's coat pocket, unlocked it, and jumped into the driver's seat.

Xiao Cai got into the car obediently and smiled apologetically to Qin Mingyu who chased after him: "See you again if you have a chance."

Throw the car key in the storage compartment and start it.

The air conditioner began to blow out a small cold wind that had not warmed up, one second, two seconds... It was as if the hourglass of life slipped down every second, silently flowing away from the eyes, and every second was further away than that in the past.

***

In the beginning, she knew that there was a big and handsome guy in the high school department who was about to graduate, but she only remembered the name and had never met anyone. Then one day, I met Huang Ting, a first-year junior high school girl, in the open-air playground, standing next to him. The first-year junior high school girl introduced that this was my cousin Lu Chen. She pretended she had never heard of it, and was embarrassed to say hello.

In fact, my heart has been scratching my heart with claws, oh my god, the real person is so beautiful—

"Lu Yanchen." He, who was wearing the blue and white uniform of high school, corrected him aloud after being looked at by her eyes under the shade of a tree.

Huang Ting said "Ah": "Yes, I changed my name when I came to school, but my family still called him Lu Chen."

Gui Xiao stared at him, feeling for the first time in his life: The high school uniform is so beautiful.

After school, Gui Xiao and Huang Ting rode their bicycles along the main road all the way back to the courtyard, passing by the small gate, the two got off one after another, and pushed the bicycles past the sentry post. Huang Ting stepped on the bicycle, and Gui Xiao suddenly asked, "Your cousin is also in the courtyard?"

"No, my mother's brother," Huang Ting was precocious, and immediately sensed something was wrong, "Did you like him?"

Gui Xiao thought about it and told the truth: "He looks too handsome."

"You can go up if you think you're handsome."

"… "

Huang Ting is only three months younger than her, but she goes to school a year later.

Her father is a soldier and her mother is a doctor. It is the girl that Gui Xiao met after he came here to study in junior high school.

Gui Xiao did not study in the primary school attached here at first, but was with his parents. At that time, after graduating from elementary school, the ten classmates had two choices. One was to go to the affiliated middle school with weak teachers, and the other was to be thrown by the parents to the relatives' house and go to the local junior high school. Ji Yi, who was well-behaved and introverted in the elementary school class at that time, Zhao Xiaoying, who was unqualified at home, and Ji Nuannuan, whose parents were strictly controlled, were all directly selected for direct admission to the affiliated middle school.

And Gui Xiaotai wanted to seek fresh excitement, so she was thrown by her parents to her aunt's house, a military compound in a suburb of Beijing, in a small town at the foot of the Yanshan Mountains. Although it is in Beijing city, it is in the outer suburbs.

There are several unnamed army compounds, and the rest are all connected villages.

It is said that the middle school teachers here are good.

It's actually pure bullshit.

There are eight classes in a grade, with more than 50 students in each class, and there will be no more than 30 students in the final grade of high school. The rest are vocational high school, secondary school, or drop out of school directly.

The teachers are good, but they can't control the students.

Fights and fights are common, and young couples are flying all over the sky. So much so that in order to prevent former students who drop out and become hooligans from picking up quarrels and provoking trouble, the entire campus is completely closed with iron sheets and fences with grids. Every day she goes to school is like going to a fixed-point prison. Gui Xiao had never seen the school door really open. Of course, Gui Xiao's parents don't know these details, they are too busy.

Gui Xiao was put into a "magical" world like this.

At that time, besides Huang Ting, the best person Gui Xiao played with was Meng Xiaoshan, a first-year high school senior who lived on the street behind the school. A few days after meeting Lu Chen, the college entrance examination began, and Guixiao School, as one of the test centers, gave all junior and senior high school students a holiday.

Gui Xiao was bored at home and was called by Meng Xiaoshan to the biggest billiard hall in town.

The billiard hall is opposite the only three-story small shopping mall in the town, facing the beef noodle shop, and there is an aunt who sells mutton skewers all the year round on the right side of the door. One hair and one string, the old man is not deceived.

Gui Xiao parked his 22-inch wheeled bicycle towards the door, and a few boys who were squatting outside the door smoking a cigarette looked over. One of them was Gui Xiao's tablemate, and the repeater Hai Jianfeng said, "Sister Xiao, are you here?"

He was two years older than Gui Xiao, and he was still a repeater, but he had to rely on Gui Xiao to hand in his homework every time, so he consciously called her sister without blush. Besides, Hai Dong, the boyfriend of Gui Xiao's best sister Meng Xiaoshan, is Hai Jianfeng's cousin, so he has to show his face.

Gui Xiao covered the sun with his hands and was not used to being targeted by a bunch of punks, so he walked in quickly.

The fan in the hall kept blowing, and there were people around several pool tables.

Inside, turn right, there is a small room.

Every time I leave it to Meng Xiaoshan's boyfriend Haidong.

When Gui Xiao entered, there were two billiard tables in the small room, one was Haidong playing with a man, and there were only black and white and red balls left on the billiard table, and it looked like it was about to end.

Haidong tapped her head with a pole: "How about it, I don't think I can take it all in this game."

Gui Xiao pouted and smiled: "I see Xuan."

Gui Xiao glanced at her, and there were several boys and girls she didn't know who were also looking at her. The figure sitting on the small stool by the window in the far corner caught Gui Xiao's attention.

It's Lu Chen.

He didn't wear a school uniform. In the dog days, he was wearing a black long-sleeved pullover sweatshirt, shorts, and sneakers that were so commonplace that they didn't even have any patterns. With his back against the wall, his arms on the windowsill, he leaned there to smoke.

"Brother Chen," Haidong called out, "my wife's sister, my sister-in-law, Gui Xiao."

Lu Chen looked at her as if he had never seen her before, nodded, and said nothing.

At this time, someone teased Gui Xiao: "The girl looks like it should be well cut?"

It was really right.

Meng Xiaoshan's house has a room dedicated to a pool table. She can teach Gui Xiao to play when she has nothing to do. She is very savvy and even plays with Haidong occasionally.

Meng Xiaoshan looked at her eager to try, afraid that she would be kidnapped by these gangsters, so she nibbled on melon seeds and said, "People are not high enough yet, just watch."

Haidong smiled, didn't reveal it, and put the pole on the pool table: "You let her play, it's been an afternoon anyway."

Meng Xiaoshan gave Haidong a blank look. She had told Haidong a long time ago that if Gui Xiao was spoiled by these dropouts at a young age, or took advantage of her, she would definitely turn against Haidong.

"I'll start a game with you."

Lu Chen moved his chair and stood up, pulled the ashtray closer to the windowsill, and pressed out the cigarette butts in the pile of cigarette butts.

It was so sudden that even Meng Xiaoshan was stunned. This afternoon, Lu Chen sat on that chair and smoked, and he never stopped smoking. No one could touch him. Everyone knew that he was in a bad mood, and he didn't dare to talk to him...

"I can't beat you." Gui Xiao felt a little guilty.

"I'm one-handed." He picked out a handy pool cue from the shelf against the east wall.

Gui Xiao was stunned by him.

The club was handed over: "One-handed, left-handed."