Born to Run

Chapter 4: Years of Innocence

   "Heehui, are your things packed?"

   In a room in a two-story building, Huang Hongying pulled up the suitcase with a "stab", looked around again, and shouted toward the other room.

   "Okay, Mom, don’t you leave tomorrow? I’ll just clean up at night."

   A crisp voice came from the opposite room, and Chen Zixi walked out of the room, looking at the busy Huang Hongying, a little helpless.

"You kid, what's the matter with you?" Huang Hongying looked at her daughter's nonchalant expression, seemed a little angry, put down the suitcase in her hand, walked to Chen Zixi and tapped her finger gently. Followed his forehead into his daughter's room, began to rummaged through the cabinets, and hurriedly packed up.

The sound of the rustling folded clothes turning over the cabinets and sorting out was mixed with a few complaints: "Girls are at home, do things more swiftly, don’t delay. Also, what do you want to bring with you? Yes, don't forget."

   "Mom——" Chen Zixi stretched his tone, grabbed Huang Hongying's arm, and shook it gently, "We really won't come back in the future?"

   "It depends on your dad and your uncle. They will definitely not be back this year. The last time you went to Linzhou, didn't you keep talking about the city."

   "But..."

"But what?" Huang Hongying turned her head and stared at her daughter. "You don't want to go anymore. I can tell you that your dad can complete the transfer procedures for you. That school is pretty good, it's a provincial point, you see. Looking at Xiushui, it is the best one, which is the second-level school?"

   "I am not..." Chen Zixi hesitated a little, suddenly turned his eyes bright, and said with a smile, "I can't bear my grandparents..."

   "You, you... Your grandparents will also go to Linzhou in a few months. If his two elders can stay outside, they will live. It saves us from running both ways."

   Huang Hongying shook her head, too lazy to pierce her daughter's thoughts.

   Seven or eight years ago, she and her husband went to Linzhou to work hard with his uncle. The two brothers and sisters were in the same boat, and finally there was some situation.

   Bought a house, got a car, and settled on a registered permanent residence. Compared with many of the people who go out to work or do business or the low-level little troubles, their family is already in the forefront.

   It’s just that although the family situation is quite different, her eldest daughter, after Huang Hongying and her husband went to Linzhou, stayed at home and was looked after by the second elder because she couldn’t take care of it.

   Unknowingly, their family stabilized their heels in the city, and the eldest daughter grew up day by day. She was already a fifteen or sixteen-year-old girl. I haven't taken care of my eldest daughter much in these years. I feel ashamed. It is really inappropriate to keep a place like the village of Xiushui County.

   And I went back to my hometown to celebrate the New Year in previous years, and occasionally heard the two elders say that the eldest daughter Chen Zixi liked to follow Ye Qin's buttocks since she was a child, turning her head and going down again... She couldn't accept it even more.

   Huang Hongying has seen the world a few years ago, not to mention her utilitarianism, but she always hopes that her daughter will be able to live more easily in the future.

   Ye Qin...Huang Hongying can't say that she looks down on her. Her parents-in-law and her mother-in-law like it in her hometown, but after all, it's hard to tell at this age.

   When Huang Hongying was young, it didn’t matter, but as the age came up, she was really worried about what her daughter and that **** would do. After all, they are also here at this age.

   Besides, the rest is his family... Guan Di Bo and Auntie are not worth mentioning, it's on the floor... Huang Hongying doesn't want anyone in her family to get involved.

   Chen Zixi listened to her mother explaining that she was leaving Xiushui County, Xiaoli, and Shangyun. His expression was a bit complicated for a while.

   Some look forward to it, but also some disappointment.

   It's not that she has never been to Linzhou. The summer and winter vacation the year before last year, she and her grandparents had a small stay in Linzhou. The feeling of the city and the town is completely different. Although it is still a bit uncomfortable to go to his new home or the uncle's house, young people adapt quickly.

   Linzhou’s new home is very good. After all, it is in the city. At this time, many people go out with a lot of yearning, but again, she is also very reluctant to be here.

Country roads, **** blossoms in spring, red azaleas in Qingming season, catching fireflies, fishing for frogs, plucking plates, burning reeds, wandering barefoot on the pebble beach... Big buddy...

   Thinking about it, Chen Zixi suddenly felt a little stunned. A teenager at this age may not have too much emotion, but the girl is somewhat sentimental.

   "Mom, I'll go out for a while." Chen Zixi suddenly shouted to his mother in the room, turned his head and ran out directly.

   "You come back, this will be very hot outside..."

   "The sun is about to set, it's okay..."

   When the voice came back again, the person was already outside.

  ……

   The sun sets.

   On a long country road, Ye Qin was wearing a short shirt stained with mud, and carrying a plastic bucket was walking back all the way.

   The sunlight that has fallen into the col does not see the heat in the daytime, and it is as gentle as a spring breeze, sprinkling on his black face, like a martial artist with heavy makeup in a big show.

   This is already the third day after returning from town. Ye Qin has no time to blame himself. Life is like this. No matter how difficult it is, you have to bite the bullet and move forward as long as you are on the road.

   There is still almost a month before the start of school in September. Regardless of the tuition and living expenses when the time comes, just live as you should in your daily life. Work hard and find more things within your ability, but you can’t be idle.

   Yesterday, he heard that the brick factory in the next village was hiring people recently. He wondered if he should go and check it out. In this hot weather, there should not be too many people who are really willing to work.

   "Ye Qin, Ye Qin...what did you catch today?" The silver bell-like voice came from a distance.

   Ye Qin raised the plastic bucket in the direction of the sound and shook it slightly. The black face in the sun showed white teeth, as if showing off what he had gained today.

   "Wow, there are loach and rice eel."

   As soon as the girl ran over, she leaned in front of Yeqin's bucket, her eyes widened, she did not dislike the dots of muddy water at all, and she touched her finger lightly.

"Don't touch it, the clothes are covered in mud." Ye Qin patted Chen Zixi's arm lightly, and put the bucket on the ground. "I will fill some for you later. You can go back and float in clean water tomorrow. Your grandma will make you a loach pot."

   Xiushui County's special dish-style loach pot is popular in almost every household. The method is simple and the taste is excellent. In summer, whenever there is time, Yeqin has almost no empty hands in the fields in the canals and ponds.

   Chen Zixi gently shook the water from his fingertips, seeming to be a little excited, then shook his head again, seemingly silent for a moment, then said: "Ye Qin, I am going to Linzhou."

   Chen Zixi's mood was slightly depressed. She wanted to talk about this a few days earlier, but she hadn't said anything. Now she is leaving tomorrow, and it will be too late if she doesn't talk about it.

   "It's good to go to Lin'an, I haven't been to Xiushui. When you go to Lin'an, remember to take more beautiful photos and come back. Well...just like those you took last year."

Ye Qin smiled. He still remembers the photos Chen Zixi showed him when he came back from Linzhou last summer. All kinds of beautiful scenery and clean windows are some of the pictures he only watched on the black and white TV at home. .

   Among the buildings and landscapes of various backgrounds, teenage girls already have some smiles and a light dance.

   "No..." The girl shook her head slightly, "I want to transfer to Linzhou to study."

   "Transfer?!"

   Ye Qin was stunned, and then laughed, with a white tooth showing under his black face, "That's pretty good, I remember you told me, didn't you?"

   Ye Qin smiled and did not wait for Chen Zixi to answer, and continued, "The school in Linzhou is definitely better than ours. It is a big city. When you come back for the New Year, you can tell me about the fun in Linzhou."

   "Hmm!" Chen Zixi let out a nasal sound and nodded seriously. Seeing Ye Qin's smiling face, her eyes flickered a little. This time she went to Linzhou, but she actually didn't know if she would return to her hometown in the future.

   probably will!

   "Then when will you leave tomorrow?"

   seemed to be silent for a while before Ye Qin suddenly spoke.

   "In the morning, UU reading www.uukanshu.com waits for my dad to take care of things in the county, and then he will come to pick me and my mother." The girl lowered her head and looked at the white sandals under her feet.

   "Okay, I see!"

   Ye Qin smiled and picked up the bucket on the ground, "It’s going to have dinner, let’s go back!"

"Ok!"

   The girl nodded lightly, followed the boy silently, and suddenly jumped up again.

   "Ye Qin, let me tell you that Bai Suzhen is not closed at Leifeng Pagoda, and it doesn't look good to see it!"

   "That's a TV show."

   "I went to see the West Lake too...it doesn't seem to look good, but the custard fish in West Lake is quite delicious."

   "Sweet and sour fish, I don't like sweet ones, I don't even know the sweet and sour pork ribs..."

   "That...there are also called Huaji and Dongpo meat."

   "Then you remember to find the recipe, come back and I will make it myself, my craftsmanship is so good!"

   "Huh, bragging!"

   "Wow, you haven't eaten it... By the way, you remember to help me see Broken Bridge."

   "What's so good about that!"

   "Meet on the broken bridge, the snow on the broken bridge... I really don't know what it is like!"

   "Okay, my uncle has a camera, and I will show it to you... and Qiantang Chao, oh, I should be able to catch up..."

   "Then don't you fall down, there are sharks..."

   "Hee hee...Are you stupid..."

   The setting sun has fallen over the mountain col, and the afterglow has rendered the sky on the west side, the clouds steaming and the rosy clouds are burning red. Occasionally, the evening breeze blows, and large green and lush rice fields undulate, forming green waves.

  The boy walked in front, worrying about his invisible future, while echoing the girl's twitter.

   The girl walked behind, her eyes mixed with dark and bright, her smile gave birth to flowers.

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