Dongcheng is very close to Liangcheng, less than forty minutes by train. When I came out of the station carrying two suitcases, the cold wind blowing in my face carried the smell of my hometown.
Outside the station entrance, there were many drivers holding cigarettes in their mouths and stamping their feet in the cold. When they saw the passengers coming out, they kept asking: "Where are you going, sister, where are you going, old girl?"
Listening to these familiar accents, I felt like laughing inexplicably.
A young male driver walked up to me, his brows furrowed from the cold, and asked aloud: "Where are you going, little girl? Can I take a taxi?"
I said: "Century Garden."
He immediately said: "Ten dollars."
I rolled my eyes faster than him, and replied in Northeastern dialect: "You are bullying me because I am not a local. I tell you, there are not many places in Liangcheng that cost ten yuan. How dare you tell me to go to Century Garden?" ten bucks"
When he heard this, he smiled and replied: "Emma, looking at the old girl's appearance, I thought she was not a local."
I glanced at it and said, "It's only five yuan, do you want to go or not?"
The man threw the cigarette butt on the ground and took the initiative to help me carry my suitcase. He smiled as he walked: "Okay, okay, for the sake of my old girl, I'll leave with five yuan."
Liangcheng is really small. I remember I asked my dad how many people there were in Liangcheng. He said that not counting the towns below, the total population of the urban area was only four to five million.
After getting into the taxi, I sat in the passenger seat and looked out the window. I haven't been back for more than a year, and the shopping malls and buildings near the station have changed and look somewhat strange.
The man sitting on my left asked loudly: "Where did the old girl come back from?"
I said: "Lanzhou."
He immediately said: "Lianzhou is so far away, are you from Liangcheng?"
I hummed, and he added: "Are you going there to study or to work?"
"visit friend."
"Ha, this little life is pleasant. As soon as you came out of the station entrance, I saw you right away."
I asked: "Really?"
He said, "That's right. The way you dress doesn't look like you live in the north. I thought you were from the south."
I answered casually: "So you want to rip off customers and ask me for ten yuan."
The man laughed and replied loudly: "We are waiting here in the cold weather, five yuan more is not much."
He was the first person I talked to after returning to my hometown. We chatted all the way. In less than ten minutes, the car stopped downstairs at Century Garden. He got out of the car and helped me pick up my luggage. I gave him ten dollars and when he asked for change, I said, "No need."
He glanced at me with slight surprise in his eyes.
I smiled lightly and replied: "We are all fellow countrymen. Thank you for helping me carry my luggage."
He was very happy and asked me if he could take me upstairs. I shook my head, said goodbye to him and dragged my suitcase upstairs.
We live on the third floor, with a large platform in the middle. I dragged my luggage onto the platform, and then climbed up one level to reach the third floor.
After struggling all the way to the door of my house, I took out the key and opened the door. I thought that today was not the weekend, and my parents should be away from home to go to work, but I didn't expect that as soon as I opened the door of the aa room, I saw my mother walking out of the bedroom. .
When she saw me, she was stunned until I shouted: "Mom."
My mother came back to her senses, walked quickly to the door, and asked in a surprised voice: "Zijin, why are you back? I thought you were your dad."
I carried the two suitcases into the hallway and closed the door behind me.
My mother stood in front of me. I hugged her and said, "Mom, I miss you so much."
It started out with enthusiasm, but as soon as the words came out, a strong sourness and grievance surged up in my heart, and I burst into tears.
My mother didn't feel anything for the first few seconds, and she hugged me tightly and said she missed me. But when she heard my suppressed crying, she immediately distanced herself, stared at my face nervously, and asked aloud: "Zijin, what's wrong?"
I shook my head, tried my best to raise the corners of my lips, and whispered back: "It's okay, I just miss you."
My mother didn't believe it at all. His face was full of worry and he looked at me from top to bottom. Then he asked in a panic: "Zijin, don't scare me. Why did you come back suddenly? What happened?"
I thought of what Yin Ning said to me, and because I couldn't bear the sadness, I simply replied: "Mom, I'm lovelorn."
Standing in the entrance hall, without taking off my clothes or changing my shoes, I cried out in grievance.
My mother hugged me, patted my back, and said loudly: "It's okay, it's okay. Mom is here, don't cry."
I cried for a while, and when the grievance and sourness passed, I changed my shoes and walked into the living room with my mother.
I first asked in a low voice: "Mom, why didn't you go to work today?"
My mother replied: "I had low blood pressure when I checked a while ago. It happened to be snowing and it was too cold. Your dad asked me to take leave and stay at home for a few days."
I quickly asked: "Is hypotension serious?"
My mother replied nonchalantly: "It's all a trivial matter. I used to have low blood pressure. I guess it was because I stayed up late playing cards two days ago."
As soon as I heard this, I breathed a sigh of relief.
I took off my coat and sat on the sofa in the living room. My mother asked me politely if I wanted this or that. I said, "Mom, please sit down and stop being busy."
My mother sat down, and after sitting down, she started asking me about my broken love.
I told her half-seriously: "Mom, I have two pieces of news here, one good and one bad. Which one do you listen to first?"
My mother sat cross-legged in front of me, really thought about it, and then said, "Let's talk about the bad things first."
With red eyes, I replied aloud: "The bad news is that I am broken up in love and have resigned. So I can no longer give you hundreds of thousands as pocket money every month."
My mother looked calm and said immediately: "Money is a trivial matter, and our family is not short of money." After a pause, she added: "The key is that you fell out of love. I don't even know when you fell in love again. Who talked about it?”
Luo Xiangdong's name was already on my lips, but after thinking about it, I still didn't say it.
"Someone you don't know, a colleague from the work unit."
My mother broke the casserole and asked: "What's your name? Why have I never heard you say it?"
I said, "You don't know me even if I tell you, I'm from Yecheng. Anyway, I'll resign if we have a falling out."
Seeing the thoughtful look on my mother's face, I asked aloud: "Don't you want to know what the good news is?"
My mother asked cooperatively: "What's the good news?"
I deliberately slapped my thigh and replied excitedly: "I have thought about it. From now on, I will spend time with you and my dad, so that you will always say that I am far away from the mountains. I will look for a job in Winter City when I come back. You can see me anytime." I can do it.”
The reason why I didn't mention looking for a job in Liangcheng is because Liangcheng is too small and I can't find any suitable job for me.
My mom wasn't happy about it, or distracted by me. She was still obsessed with my broken love. She hesitated and asked tentatively: "Zijin, nothing happened between you and that person, right?"
Our family has always been very open-minded, and I always talk to my mother directly. Knowing what she meant, I immediately raised my eyebrows and replied, "Of course not. Who am I to have a relationship with someone else if I'm not married?"
My mother was slightly relieved, but I could tell from the subtle expression on her face that she didn't completely believe it.
Suddenly I raised three fingers of my right hand, looked at my mother and said, "I swear I have nothing to do with other men. If I lie, I will never be able to make a fortune in this life."
I have loved money since I was a child, so I would only say this curse when I am extremely committed to it.
My mother really believed it this time. She looked at me, nodded and said, "Okay, the pressure in Yecheng is too great. It's okay to come back. We can earn more or less. Mom doesn't expect you every month." How much money you can get back, as long as you are happy."
My mother doesn't usually say such sour words unless she is very emotional.
I know in my heart that this matter is in the past.
In the afternoon, my mother made me some food, and then I went back to the room and took a nap. In the evening, I made a hotel reservation with my mother, and then called my father. I didn't tell him that I was back, but just asked him to come over.
When my dad opened the door and entered the private room, I hid behind the door. He turned his back to me, looked at my mom and asked, "Why did you suddenly ask me to come to the restaurant?"
My mother was sitting on the chair, smiling silently, but her smile was obviously suppressed.
Maybe my dad felt something strange, and just when he was about to look back, I suddenly ran onto his back and shouted loudly.
My dad was so frightened that he tilted his body and threw me down.
"Zijin, when did you come back?"
My dad was even more surprised when he saw me than when my mom saw me in the afternoon, mixed with surprise and excitement.
They say that my daughter was my father’s lover in his previous life. My father has been his lover for eight lifetimes to me. It’s so good. When I was a child, I didn't dare to ask my mother for pocket money or toys, which were all given to me by my father. Before he went on a business trip, he would leave a few hundred yuan for me, for fear that he would not be around and I would not dare to ask for money from my mother, which would suffocate me to death. Baidu sister-in-law asks for love and time
I gave my dad a warm hug, and I smiled and replied, "I missed you, so I came back."
Men are more cruel than women. My dad really thought I was just here to visit, so he didn’t ask me any touching topics during the entire meal.
After dinner in the evening, I carried my father on my left arm and my mother on my right arm, and the family of three went downstairs and walked out of the restaurant. When the boss saw this, he smiled and said to my dad, "Hey, Director Liang's daughter is back."
I smiled and nodded in greeting.
The man added: "I heard that your daughter is very promising. She works in a big company in Night City and earns hundreds of thousands of dollars a month. We can't even imagine it."
My dad smiled and replied: "It's not bad, she has been very competitive since she was a child."
The kind of praise parents give to their children can make the people around them shiver when they hear it. I was afraid that the boss would ask me about work, so I quickly found an opportunity to drag my parents out of the store.