Celestial Master Cultivation Diary

Chapter 246 245. Hometown
During the last half day in the city, Li Zhe just shrank in Lin Youyou's boudoir and did not come out.

If it wasn't for the fear of disturbing her rest, he even wanted to stay until early morning.

After dinner, Li Lei and Han Mei took a shower early, went to bed and rested, and set off on time at one or two o'clock in the middle of the night after recharging their energy.

It's cold in winter, and I don't want to stop as soon as I take a shower, and I don't want to come out as soon as I get under the covers.

Especially for someone like Li Zhe who had trouble getting up, getting him dressed and getting up in the cold winter night was worse than death, so he didn't go to sleep at all, and pressed the keyboard until 01:30.

After hearing the sound of his parents getting up, he put the computer in his bag, rubbed his eyes and went downstairs with them.

There is no snow this year, only a little frost at night, and the white light is reflected under the street lamps.

As soon as Li Zhe put down his bag, he heard the sound of an elevator in the corridor, followed by the sound of kicking footsteps.

Wrapped in a down jacket and stepping on slippers, Xiao Nizi rushed over at a trot, breathing white.

"are not you asleep yet?"

Helping her put on the furry hat, Li Zhe pinched his little face and checked the time by the way.

"I got up when I heard movement."

Xiao Nizi's face was flushed, and she was still holding her cute pink thermos: "I poured hot water for you, and I'll give you this too."

"what is this?"

"Polaroid." Carrying a small bag, Lin Youyou tucked his hands into his sleeves, revealing only a little bit of it: "The photo paper is also in it, you can take some photos for your grandparents."

Li Zhe was stunned for a moment, and solemnly accepted it: "Thank you."

The little girl squinted her eyes, like two little crescent moons under the street lamp: "Remember to give them New Year greetings for me."

"When the time comes, I'll make a video call to you, and you can talk to them yourself."

Hearing this, Lin Youyou blushed, a little shy, and did not make a sound.

The temperature in the car was gradually turned up by the air conditioner. The couple sat in the driver's and co-driver's seats, watching the two children hug each other gently through the glass window, and sighed non-stop.

"This kid, it's like a life and death, and it's not like he won't come back."

"What do you know? I think these young people are pretty good now. If you like them, you have to act out. What's the good of being coy?" Han Mei peeled the oranges and kept her eyes on the side: "Hurry up and find time to organize their weddings." ...and your dilapidated storefront, what are you doing with it?"

Li Lei couldn't help muttering: "As long as your son's money is money, my money is not money, right?"

"Put it down, what's the use of giving you money? I bought a front shop, and I haven't even been able to run through the inflation... Ouch! What are you doing?"

"..."

Under the street lamp, the young couple chatted with each other for a few words, Lin Youyou suddenly stood on tiptoe, cupped Li Zhe's face in her cold hands, and said with a smack on her back: "Be careful on the road, remember to tell me you're safe when you arrive. "

"Got it, go back to sleep."

"like you……"

Her lips moved twice, Lin Youyou ran back under the moonlight, leaving Li Zhe alone in a daze, and then walked back into the car step by step.

Smiling while walking.

This girl... finally called her husband?

"Xiao Lizi, what were you two talking about just now? Why did you bring you so many things?"

"It's nothing, just let me drink more hot water."

Li Zhe held a tender pink thermos cup, raised his head and took two sips, warmly dispelling the cold.

Han Mei looked at it and shook her head, then handed him two oranges: "Tsk tsk, when I asked you to drink hot water, I didn't see you hear it."

"It's all good for everyone."

"Oh, I have to give it to you, right?"

"..."

As the description became darker and darker, Li Zhe simply shut up, took out his phone and clicked: "What did you shout at the end?"

Lin Youyou huddled under the blanket, just finished changing the note, saw him send a message, so she simply made a voice call, and decided to let this guy listen to her snoring.

Li Zhe turned the volume to the softest, lay down in the back of the car, squinted his eyes and began to catch up on sleep.

……

Running at high speed is a very boring thing.

There is no sense of speed and no driving pleasure. If it is a straight road all the time and no other vehicles are encountered, it is really possible to drive people to sleep.

So for the sake of safety, almost every year the father and son alternate driving.

Although Han Mei also has a driver's license, she belongs to the slow car group and doesn't dare to drive at high speeds, let alone at night. The only thing she can do is to sit in the passenger seat and say a few words occasionally to prevent the father and son from falling asleep.

Driving all night, dawn breaks.

Halfway through the hundreds of kilometers, I can already smell a little taste of my hometown.

After getting off the highway, the smell became more intense. Li Zhe sat in the back row and looked left and right. Although he hadn't lived here much, his feelings for his hometown always seemed to be different from other places.

Perhaps this is the so-called local sentiment.

Stopping at a breakfast stand that has been open for an unknown number of years, Li Lei went down and bought some breakfasts with his hometown's specialties, and sat on the side of the road to eat.

Han Mei ordered a bowl of white porridge, and drank it in mouthfuls.

Li Zhe was lying in the car eating a sandwich, chatting with Lin Youyou who just woke up and was still a little confused.

"Are you home yet?"

"No, I guess there is still an hour left, I just got off the expressway."

"Oh..." Xiao Nizi yawned, and then turned over in a rustle: "I'll squint for a while."

"Go to sleep, I will sleep for a while when I get home."

"..."

He muttered a few words on the other end of the phone, but he couldn't make out what he was saying.

The couple had a good breakfast, took a steamed stuffed bun into the car, started the accelerator and continued to drive forward.

The melody and Li Lei's crappy singing sounded from the speaker: "I have crossed mountains, rivers and seas, and I have also crossed mountains and seas of people..."

Every year when I go home, Li Zhe is calm, and Han Mei feels tired. Only Lao Li is really keen to come back for the New Year.

According to his own words, it is a deep love for this land.

The car was speeding on the narrow dirt road, with the shadows of trees dancing on both sides, from the county town to the small town, and from the small town to the countryside.

In a sense, Han Mei should be regarded as a married woman - their family lived on the edge of a market town, while Lao Li's family was further away, living in a small village a few miles away.

When passing through the market town, the family first went to pay their respects to their grandparents.

After the meeting, they pushed and shoved to accept a red envelope, and Li Zhe kept the red envelope he had prepared, but the two old people objected unanimously: "How can I accept your money, grandson."

"Just take it, it's Chinese New Year."

On the side, Han Mei also chimed in: "It's rare for him to have such a heart, you just keep it... the word "Fu" on the red envelope was written by himself."

"Oh? Let me see...then I want to put away the red envelope, you should take the money back yourself."

In view of the tough attitude of the two old people, Li Zhe had no choice but to take the money back, and then secretly stuffed it under their pillows before leaving.

"Grandma doesn't have a dog anymore?"

"No more... Your grandfather thinks it's too troublesome."

"I also have a dog at home now, let me show you the photos."

"Okay, let me see...Hey, this dog looks beautiful."

The old lady nodded kindly and kindly. Li Zhe looked at the old photo on the wall that had been hanging for many years, and took out the Polaroid from the car, and took several photos for them.

The two old people who were abandoned by the times were amazed at this kind of machine that can produce photos just after the front foot is taken, and the back foot can be flicked.

Although they couldn't see such small photos clearly at their current age and with their slightly dim eyes, they still held them in their hands excitedly, their faces glowing red.

Han Mei stood aside, silently looking at the two generations, and suddenly sighed inexplicably.

After a polite chat, Han Mei came down with two changes of clothes, and planned to stay at her home for one night, and let the father and son go back first, and pick them up tomorrow.

Li Lei was still humming while stepping on the gas pedal, while Li Zhe leaned back in his chair and looked out the window quietly.

My mother can only go home for one day a year, and Xiao You is such a homesick person, I don't know what will happen in the future.

In fact, he is not a person who likes to think about others, but if it is Lin Youyou, he can't help but think too much.

After all, he is an idiot who always likes to digest by himself after being wronged.

After driving for more than ten minutes, Li Lei drove into Lijia Village—although it was a different village, the tranquility was exactly the same.

The economy of every place is developing, just at a certain speed and at a slower pace.For a better life, basically all the young people in the village who could go out have gone out, leaving only a few widowed old people staying in the old house.

They are survivors of the old age, and they cannot see the colors of the new century, nor are they willing to see them.

Li Zhe felt that the village was boring, and they also felt that the city was noisy.

After saying hello to his grandparents, Li Zhe followed his father to carry the luggage.

Seeing them come back, the two old people were also very happy. They killed a chicken on the spot to add to the fun, and planned to make soup for their grandson at night.

After Li Zhe packed his luggage and reported Lin Youyou's safety, he went back to his room and lay down to catch up on sleep. When he woke up, that girl seemed to have woken up not long ago.

"You've been sleeping all day?"

On the other side of the screen, Xiao Nizi was still yawning and shrugged her nose: "No, I got up and had dinner."

Li Zhe thinks about it too. With his uncle and aunt's temperament, although he is not as tough as the breakfast bishop, he will not let her lie in bed for a whole day.

"I told you to sleep well at night, and even ran down at night."

Lin Youyou snorted, stuck out her tongue at the camera, hung up the video after a few clicks, and went to do her own business.

Li Zhe stretched out from the room, and there was smoke in the kitchen in the backyard.

This kind of rural earthen house built decades ago still uses an old stove with firewood.

Compared with all kinds of pots and utensils nowadays, this kind of earthen stove is much rougher to use. Whether it is cooking or cooking, it is all the two big iron pots, which can be called omnipotent.

Grandpa was sitting on a small bench and was adding weeds with tongs, his face glowing red.

Li Zhe remembered that the weather was cold when he was a child, and his favorite thing was to sit next to the stove, throwing a sweet potato into it to roast while warming the fire.

Now that I have grown up, I don't have this kind of interest anymore. I only worry about whether I will stain my clothes if I move over.

"Is the grandson awake?"

"Ah."

"Hey." The old man rubbed his hands and smiled innocently: "Wait a minute, grandpa will stew an old hen for you."

Li Zhe nodded, chatted casually for a few words and went out.

It was still early outside, a few uncles were chatting at the gate of the courtyard, when they saw him, they greeted him twice from afar.

Young Master Li went up to give them early New Year greetings, and when he saw another person walking out of the room, he immediately greeted them, happily saying, "Brother Zhuzi!"

Brother Zhuzi is his childhood playmate, his full name is Li Dazhu, and he is the son of his little grandfather's family.

Theoretically speaking, Li Dazhu should be of the same generation as his father Li Lei, but because of his old age, he is actually only half a year older than Li Zhe.

When I was young, I didn't know seniority, so I always called my brother and brother.Later, when he grew up, and asked him to call his half-year-old childhood playmate Uncle, Li Zhe really couldn't say it, so he simply continued to call him Brother Zhuzi.

Li Dazhu didn't care so much, he talked to him differently, calling him brother Li Lei and brother Li Zhe.

It made Li Lei's face dark for a while.

……

Brother Zhuzi was in the army for the past two years, and he hasn't been able to see others since the Chinese New Year. I heard that he wanted to stay in the army but failed, and was forced to leave the army and come back.

"Brother Zhuzi, let's go...go..."

Li Zhe thought for a while, obviously he had many things to do and many things to say, but he couldn't come up with it for a while. After "going" for a long time, he finally choked out the second half of the sentence: "Go buy spicy sticks?"

Go out of the village and turn left for about a mile. There is a canteen that has been open for an unknown number of years. When they were young, they went there to buy snacks and firecrackers every day.

Li Dazhu's complexion is dark, perhaps because he has been in the army for two years. He looks a lot more mature than before, but he is still so unkempt - he only wears a pair of slippers in winter, and he doesn't feel cold feet.

He was stunned when he saw Li Zhe, then nodded silently, and followed.

The two of them started on the road one after the other, but they didn't say a few words during the whole process.

Li Zhe was silent, thinking about it. When they were young, they set fire in the field together, fought chickens in the mud, fought, fished, caught dragonflies... They have done so many things together, but now they can't find a topic to chat about .

Tilting his head slightly, Brother Zhuzi was taking half a step steadily behind him, with a trace of alienation in his demeanor.

Or maybe that's not alienation, Li Zhe frowned, he knew what it was, and that thing called him respectful.

As the first person in the village to go out, Li Lei went out to work early.

As for exactly when he brought himself into the city, Li Zhe has forgotten, but at least before he went to elementary school, Brother Zhuzi will always be in his childhood memory.

If we say that they are just an ordinary family in the city, but in this old mountain village, Li Zhe's family is a real "successful family" - they have a house, a car, savings, and their child is a college student.

I heard it's a famous brand.

Especially in front of Li Dazhu, who has never left the village since childhood, this kind of success is particularly strong.

After chatting a few words casually, Li Zhe glanced out of the corner of his eye, his brother Zhuzi didn't seem to be chatting, but more like answering.

For some reason, he suddenly thought of Brother Xun and Runtu.

When he was a child, he couldn't understand the text. He didn't like the so-called hometown at all, let alone miss it.

He likes the city, the bright lights, the clean bed, the food in the cafeteria, and the wide roads.

What is hometown?It's the mud house, the dirt road, the mud in the rainy day, and the chilblain for three or nine days.

He couldn't understand the title of the text, let alone the content of the text, couldn't understand Brother Xun and Runtu, and couldn't understand his "Master!"

Now, like Brother Xun, he shivered.

It turns out that the thick wall barrier is really so sad, so sad that people can't speak.

(End of this chapter)