Father's Land Mother's River

Chapter 96 see or not see
You can't see the end, you can't see the end, the long queue of bicycles is walking opposite each other on both sides of the road, and the bells of the bicycles are ringing loudly.People are moving, the wheels are spinning, but the rolling traffic seems to be stationary.

The provincial capital is a heavy industrial city. During commuting time every day, there will be such a spectacular scene on the road, which lasts for an hour or two.Liu Xiaonan either stood upstairs in the guest house of the movie studio, or stood by the side of the road, admiring the flow of people and cars.

The prosperity of the world is all for profit; the world is full of hustle and bustle, all for profit.People are busy with their lives, and they will see their true shadows in others.

What you meet today is by no means what you met yesterday, how can you meet what you meet tomorrow today?Passing by each other, meeting without knowing each other, you are just a part of this long stream of people; knowing each other but not seeing each other, where can I find you in the vast sea of ​​people?
Inexplicable thoughts often surged in Liu Xiaonan's heart.

Liu Xiaonan lived in the provincial capital for a week, revising the script day and night according to the director's request, and finally finalized the script together with the director.He declined all kinds of persuasion, and decided to return to Bincheng that day. The first priority of the students is to study, and there are too many courses left behind.

He rushed to the train station and bought a sleeper ticket for the night train.Sleep on the train, arrive at Bencheng at dawn, and go to school non-stop.

He found a post office and made a long-distance call to the school.Yue Xuelian had told him in advance that if anything unexpected happened, she would call him anytime.There is nothing important at school, she will always sit in the office.

When the phone was connected, Yue Xuelian picked up the phone immediately, with a nervous voice.Liu Xiaonan shouted into the microphone: "Mr. Xiaoyue, the script is finalized. I will return to school tomorrow."

There were other teachers in the office, and Yue Xuelian suppressed her joy: "Why are you so loud? It seems that I have to organize my classmates to hold a celebration meeting and a celebration banquet for you."

Liu Xiaonan said, "That's fine too, I won't refuse anyone who comes."

Yue Xuelian glanced at her colleague who was staring at her, and said in a teacher's tone: "Put your excitement and joy aside, come back safely, and calm down to make up the previous lessons."

Liu Xiaonan asked, "Do you need me to bring you something?"

Yue Xuelian said: "Bring some special snacks to the teachers and classmates. Bring more, don't be stingy."

Putting down the phone, Liu Xiaonan walked to the bustling commercial street next to the train station, and found a state-owned handicraft store as he wished. The store displayed calligraphy, painting, porcelain, antiques and other handicrafts.

He wanted to buy a piece of handicraft for Yue Xuelian, to add a little bit of art and life to her cold home.

The script was successfully completed, thanks to Yue Xuelian's contribution. Talking about money hurts her feelings, she would not accept it at all, but she seemed like a layman.A small gift that is not too expensive can not only make her not owe it, but also allow her to accept it with peace of mind.

Liu Xiaonan didn't have the relevant knowledge of art appreciation and antique appraisal, so he went around the store twice, but he was still not sure what to buy.

Most of the clerks were old men. A thin old man noticed the name of the film studio on Liu Xiaonan's backpack, and saw that this young man had a good temperament, so he took the initiative to ask.Liu Xiaonan told the truth, I don't know what to choose as a gift for a well-educated girl, so I asked the old man to help recommend it.

The old man took out a small brocade box from behind the counter, opened it, and inside was a pure white jade Guanyin.It is equipped with a thin red silk ribbon, which should be an ornament worn around the neck.

Liu Xiaonan's heart moved when he saw it. Jade Guanyin was lifelike, with a dignified and kind face, which made people fascinated.

The old man said that this is an old Hetian jade, the jade is warm and delicate without impurities, and the carving is from the hands of famous masters.An old state-owned store, there are no fakes, please go back without worry, it can be collected, and can be given to the girl you like, it is worth the money.

The price is expensive, but it is acceptable, Yue Xuelian will definitely like it.It is very troublesome to give such an expensive gift on what occasion and under what name.

Liu Xiaonan held Jade Guanyin in her hand, looked at it for a long time, thought over and over in her heart, but was unwilling to let go of her hand.The old man said that eye relationship is very important, and Guanyin Bodhisattva protects those who are destined.Liu Xiaonan didn't hesitate anymore, and bought it first.

Walking out of the handicraft store and coming to the square in front of the train station, Liu Xiaonan stood under the bus stop sign, staring at the two stops.

From afternoon to night, he has seven or eight hours of free time, and he has two places to go, he hesitates for a while.At the halfway stop, get off the car and cross a road to reach his second aunt's house; the final stop is directly to the school gate of the Provincial Youth Cadre Academy.

So what?So what?There seem to be good reasons for seeing or not seeing.Liu Xiaonan got on the bus and looked out the window. The conductor reported the name of the station one by one, but he seemed to turn a deaf ear to it.But he never sat at the station. When the conductor reported the familiar name of the station on the way, he stood up and walked to the back door of the car.

The bus came to a stop, the door opened, but her legs were tied tightly by something, Liu Xiaonan did not get off the bus.He leaned over and looked out, giving the impression that this person had misremembered the name of the station and had not reached his destination.

The seat was taken by someone, he stood by the car door and didn't look for an empty seat, thinking about Gu Yu's letter in his heart.Can you smile calmly when you meet each other?
The bus arrived at the terminal, turned a big bend, turned the front of the car and stopped, and Liu Xiaonan was the first to jump off the bus and walk towards the Youth Cadre Academy.The Youth Cadres Academy is a closed management, with a solid and imposing iron gate locked, and only a small door on the side is open, and you can only enter after registering with the gate guard with a letter of introduction from your unit.

Liu Xiaonan stood outside the iron gate, Yue Xuelian's letter of introduction for him was still in his coat pocket, but he didn't want the guard to register.

Everything is predestined. When Gu Yu came to Liuzi Street with his parents, he happened to live in the wing room opposite his house; when the textile factory went to the countryside to recruit workers, he could have been admitted to the rural credit cooperatives, but he gave up in a strange way. Stable formal job, went to a textile factory to work as a farmer rotation worker, and Gu Yu happened to be working in the textile factory
Liu Xiaonan stood outside the gate of the Youth Cadre Academy, watching everyone walking on the campus.He saw her, or she saw him, he and she might see each other, but what else to talk about was not so important.

He set a time limit of one hour for himself, even if there was a class, it must include the time when the get out of class was over.An hour and a half passed, and there were people coming and going on the campus. He hadn't seen the familiar figure yet, but the guard looked at him with vigilance.

Liu Xiaonan walked into the guard room and showed her letter of introduction.He took out the letter paper from his backpack, tore off a piece of paper and wrote "I've been here, send my sincere blessings!" without signature.Put it in an envelope, seal it, and write the words "Gu Yu Shou", also without a signature.

He put the letter delivered directly on a prominent place in the window of the guard room, and without wasting any time, he turned and left the Youth Cadre Academy.

You see or don't see me
I'm there

neither sad nor happy
you miss me or don't miss me
love is there

not coming or going
you love or don't love me
love is there

no increase or decrease
With a little sentimentality, Liu Xiaonan got on the return bus and got off halfway to go to the second aunt's house.

Among the three aunts, the second aunt's speech and behavior are most similar to his grandmother's. He can find some of the appearance and behavior characteristics of the grandmother in the second aunt, so he feels very close to the second aunt.

The marriage between the second aunt and the second uncle is a typical matchmaker's words ordered by parents.In the early years, my uncle was sent to the provincial capital to study. After finishing his studies, he returned to his hometown to marry his second aunt, and then brought his second aunt back to the provincial capital to settle down and start a business.

After graduating from high school, Liu Xiaonan visited the second aunt's house.The cousin of the second aunt's family is two years older than him. When she graduated from high school, the first clothing model training class was established in the province. The cousin with a more outstanding figure, appearance and temperament was selected.

The cousin was moved, but the second aunt firmly disagreed.A girl, with her arms and legs bare, twisted around on the stage, what did she look like.In order to completely dispel her cousin's thoughts, the second aunt retired early and let her cousin take over and enter the state-owned store.

The second aunt and uncle are both at home, and the uncle retreats to the second line, and his working hours are more flexible.Liu Xiaonan took out four bottles of wine, two cigarettes, and a box of tea from his backpack and gave them to his uncle. His uncle blamed him for spending so much money on famous cigarettes and wine.

Liu Xiaonan said that it was given to him by someone else, and it was very heavy to carry, so he asked his uncle to keep it for himself and not give it away to others.

Speaking of the purpose of this trip, the second aunt held Liu Xiaonan's hand and shed tears: "If your grandma is still alive, I don't know how happy I would be to see you so promising."

Grandpa's early death is the pain of the whole family, and it is rarely mentioned, and grandma is always used to summarize grandpa.The second aunt hadn't returned to her hometown for many years, she was afraid of seeing things and thinking about others, and she was very sad.

Liu Xiaonan comforted the second aunt: "The past is over, and everyone has to look forward. Next year, the old house in my hometown will be demolished, and a new house will be erected. Uncle is also planning to build a new house next to it. Then you and uncle will go back Stay for a while and see the changes in my hometown."

The second aunt happily agreed, and the uncle said from the side: "Your father wrote to me, never once did he not praise you, saying that you alone supported the Liu family's sky."

Liu Xiaonan said: "My dad didn't tell you, how did he scold me for being worthless? In front of so many people in the village, he scolded me for not knowing how to grow the land just because I dropped two corn seedlings. What big things can I do in the future. I was so angry that I ran to the river and cried a lot, and almost ran away from home."

The second aunt didn't believe it: "Is there such a thing? Can my brother say something like that?"

Liu Xiaonan said to the second aunt: "When you go back to your hometown, ask your brother face to face. I will write those words that my father scolded me into the script, and let the people of the whole country know."

Uncle laughed and said, "This is the best way for my son to take revenge on Lao Tzu."

After the cousin came home from get off work, the second aunt and uncle went to the kitchen to cook, and the siblings talked about their relationship.

My cousin sells clothes in a shopping mall, and a few hooligans often go to harass her, and even block her on the way home from get off work.The cousin was not afraid, and confronted the gangster with a brick in each hand.

In the store, a young man who had a crush on his cousin, in order to save his cousin from being harassed, did not hesitate to use a knife with a gangster, stabbed someone, and was sentenced to three years in prison.My cousin visits him once a month at the labor reform farm, brings him food, drink and smoke, and gives him spiritual encouragement and comfort.

The cousin said: "I usually look down on him. He is not outstanding, and his work is not outstanding, but I am willing to wait for him to be released after serving his sentence."

Liu Xiaonan wanted to persuade her cousin that gratitude does not equal love.Thinking of the girl who took care of Ji Feng in the hospital, he felt that such words were feeble, and love has no fixed pattern.

Speaking of himself, the cousin poked his forehead: "You, you think you are noble, don't you? Do you think girls think like you? In her eyes, you are weak-willed, and you are not worthy of her desperation. It’s not worthy of her to entrust her for life. From the very beginning, you know that the threshold for others is high, and you either refuse to accept that love, or you will never give up when the sky falls. You are doing it yourself, and you are eating the bitter fruit.”

The cousin's words were sharp and merciless, pointing directly to the depths of her heart.Liu Xiaonan was sweating profusely, feeling ashamed.From the perspective of a woman, the cousin gave him a vivid lesson in speaking from her own experience.

The cousin changed the subject: "There will be many women around you. Those sisters standing at the counter with me, when I talk about you, they want me to introduce you to them. In the future, you have to see for yourself, and you can't go Waste other people's feelings, also waste your own feelings."

The second aunt heard it, and went into the room and said to her cousin: "Your own business is all about gourds messing with eggplants, and eggplants messing with gourds, and you still have the nerve to talk about my nephew."

The cousin smiled at Liu Xiaonan and ran into the kitchen.

Liu Xiaonan got comfort and satisfaction from her relatives, took the train at night, arrived in Bincheng at dawn, and showed up in the morning self-study class on time.He brought the special snacks of the provincial capital to the students, and the classroom was full of joy.

Meng Xiangxiang asked him for the bicycle key. She was afraid that if she hadn't ridden a bicycle for a month, she might have to learn it from scratch again, which caused bursts of laughter from her classmates.

A female classmate boldly asked Liu Xiaonan: "Brother, you live in the provincial capital, has that female celebrity ever approached you?"

Liu Xiaonan replied with a straight face: "Is this kind of thing you kids should ask about?"

This remark caused the girls to boo and scream: "You are only a few years older than us. Calling you big brother is flattering you, and you are still relying on your old age to show off your old age. You have a guilty conscience, and you are afraid to let your goddess know."

Liu Xiaonan quickly covered her ears and ran out.He went to Yue Xuelian's office, and in addition to several boxes of snacks, he also gave each teacher a can of tea.After briefly introducing the results of the trip to the provincial capital, Yue Xuelian asked him to go back to class.

During lunch, taking advantage of the fact that there was no one in the classroom, Meng Xiangxiang handed some notebooks to Liu Xiaonan.It was the class notes she had copied for him for a month, neatly.

Liu Xiaonan took out 300 yuan and gave it to Meng Xiangxiang. It was almost the New Year, so he bought a down jacket to wear.In the whole class, only Meng Xiangxiang didn't have a cotton coat.

"I still have money in my hand, I don't need these." Meng Xiangxiang lifted up the corner of his jacket and showed it to Liu Xiaonan: "I'm wearing a padded jacket underneath, which was made by my mother with new cotton. It's not cold at all."

"Whether it's cold or not is one thing, but whether it's cold or not is another matter." Liu Xiaonan forced the money into Meng Xiangxiang's pocket: "You copy the class notes for me, and we are helping each other. Eldest brother This time, I get another royalty, and you can take it if you give it to you, as long as your account records are accurate, and you don’t default on the payment at that time."

"I'm sure I won't renege on my debt." Meng Xiangxiang said longingly, "It would be great if I could be like the big brother, and I can help others."

Liu Xiaonan said: "You don't have to learn from me. Everyone has their own strengths. If you use your strengths, you will be full of peaches and plums in the future, and you will also realize your life value. I help you today to indirectly reflect my strength. The value of life. Let me share with you a little bit of my personal experience. I was once poor and dreamed that I could do many things with money. I didn’t realize until I had money that money is just a by-product of life, and the true meaning of life will never be Shown in money."

Meng Xiangxiang chewed Liu Xiaonan's words carefully, but she still couldn't understand it.

(End of this chapter)