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Chapter 122 Leaves fall back to their roots

It's another midsummer.Ye Congxin was sitting in the waiting hall waiting for her flight, listening to English with various accents that she was already familiar with as if it was part of her life.Her flight will take off in four or 10 minutes, and she is about to return to her hometown, and she is not excited.It was afternoon in California and late at night in Beijing. A few hours ago, she sent a WeChat message to Cheng Cheng and Tian Tian, ​​announcing her landing time and flight number. Cheng Cheng expressed her expectation, but Tian Tian did not reply.

Maybe it's because Tiantian is too busy. She has been busy with work after graduating from undergraduate.

Ye Congxin was very bored at this time, thinking about what he had learned about the society of this country during his four years in the United States, but he was ashamed to find that his understanding was very shallow.She spends almost all of her time in the lab, not even taking a decent vacation.Her purpose is very clear, purpose brings focus, and focus brings professionalism.

Two years ago, the scientific research team she was part of won the international scientific and technological progress award with high value. At that time, some domestic universities wanted to hire her to teach in China, but she did not respond.Until a month ago, she received appointment letters from Caltech and her alma mater at the same time. Looking at the word "associate professor" on the letter of appointment from Tsinghua University, she had mixed feelings.

In her first year in the United States, she was not yet working at Caltech.At that time, she was in a laboratory at the University of Pennsylvania and joined a project that brought her important scientific research honors. The project leader was an Asian professor.It is said that the Asian professor is very pushy, and she has a deep understanding. The atmosphere of the whole laboratory is pushed very seriously by him, and colleagues often complain about it.But Ye Congxin knew that he was a good person. When she first arrived, she bought a second-hand car and rented a house, all of which were arranged by the professor for her.

When the professor was away, everyone in the laboratory often went out to parties. Ye Congxin went there once, but never again.A friendly Caucasian brother said that she was the most Chinese person he had ever seen in terms of appearance and personality.Ye Congxin smiled, "How should I put it, I am often criticized in China as a person who has no Chinese flavor."

Brother said youmustbekidding.

Ye Congxin: "I guess the impression of China you are talking about is that you are weak and don't like sports, talk less but have a bad stomach? I think you can take time to travel to China. In my country, I am always commented as too I have been 'Westernized'. Also, I don't have any water in my stomach, but there are things I want to do more than socialize when I come to the United States." She thinks that her younger brother must think that she "want to do more" is academics, otherwise he would not It will show an expression of looking at antiques.

To be honest, the younger brother said that she looks like a Chinese. She was very happy, but also a little offended. She felt that the younger brother was implying that the Chinese people's physical fitness and overall quality are not good, and she was very dissatisfied.She told Tian Tian about it.

Yiye Zhiqiu: The 21st century is approaching the 30s, and Westerners still seem to have stereotypes about China.

Qiu: Has he taken a fancy to you?Want to persuade you to hang out with him?

Yiye Zhiqiu: ...he is six years younger than me

Qiu: It’s okay, the gap is only half of yours.

One Leaf Zhiqiu: ...

Yiye Zhiqiu: Are you sour?

Qiu: ...Anyway, old lady, don't go out with him.

Ye Congxin laughed: his favorability has been cleared for that sentence, so I don't bother to talk to him.

Chen Qiutang, a kind little guy, felt inappropriate again: Actually, he didn't mean anything malicious...Maybe you are too sensitive.You see, you will love your hometown more when you leave your hometown, everyone is like this.

After Ye Congxin laughed, recalling that year, he often showed Tiantian his contempt for Cangtou and even the entire Northeast, and he deeply regretted it for the first time.

When she came to the United States for more than two months, she watched the wedding of Cheng Cheng and Yang Zhenglin through a WeChat video with Tiantian.Cheng Cheng was pregnant at this time, how romantic it was for the 30-year-old couple to swear their determination to be together in this way.It was the morning in Beijing and the night in America. Ye Congxin ate butter bread for supper, closed the door of the room firmly, trying to block the singing from the roommate next door.

Tiantian came back from the Northeast specially to be a bridesmaid. She wore a lavender dress with flowers on her hair.To be honest, the dress didn't suit her complexion very well, making her appear more "healthy".But she's so pretty, Ye Cong thought, a pretty face is enough, not to mention she's tall, tall and has long legs.Tiantian held her mobile phone and pointed it at the stage. When throwing the bouquet, Ye Congxin saw Cheng Cheng wink at her, and then a bouquet fell from the sky and just hit Tiantian's arms and all her vision.Taking advantage of the flower ball covering the screen, Ye Congxin wiped away tears well.

She used to think that she enjoyed loneliness the most, but now she realizes that she was never lonely at that time.She wanted to go home quickly.

Later, she didn't have much time to communicate with her relatives and friends in China. After all, the time difference was awkward, and she often sent a message and saw the reply the next morning.Cheng Cheng is very busy. While pregnant, he is devoting himself to the company. He can't stop making money. It is said that Yang Zhenglin is similarly busy. A small leader in the career climbing period has heavy responsibilities.In the first year of going abroad, she remembered that she still communicated with Tiantian the most.

When the two of them are videoing, the background on Ye Congxin's side is often a boring laboratory and computer screens full of working conditions, while Chen Qiutang's side is the office where she works in the middle school.It was a teacher's office transformed from a classroom, with more than a dozen teachers together, some old and some young.People who can come here to work, no matter what their motives are, must not be bad.Chen Qiutang Ziyun, although the quality of life is not high, and the internet speed is slow, but he has a sense of accomplishment.

Sometimes they have fun.Chen Qiutang used WeChat to go to class, and Ye Congxin heard her explaining linear equations in two variables in an unconfident tone, and felt that she was cute and clumsy.So when he wanted to shame her again, he would call her "Teacher Chen", or even "Teacher Sweet", and Chen Qiutang would usually turn red from being suppressed.

However, such opportunities are rare after all.Most of the time, it is not convenient for Chen Qiutang to chat on video.Ye Congxin had a feeling that the child seemed to be gradually refusing to communicate with more realistic video and voice methods, but he couldn't be sure, after all, the Internet speed in Cangtou was indeed not good, and Chen Qiutang spent most of his time in Enter the little girl who educated Uncle Wang's sponsorship.Ye Congxin got busy and ignored her for several days, but she didn't take the initiative to contact her.

One day, after disappearing for a week, Chen Qiutang suddenly took the initiative to make a video call with her. Ye Congxin saw that the child had actually gone up the mountain. It was snowing heavily in Cangtou, and the white snow all over the mountains was dazzling.

"I'm going to find a student!" Chen Qiutang said pantingly, "Her family didn't want her to go to school, but this time the road was blocked by heavy snow, and I haven't contacted her for two days!"

After finishing speaking, she hung the phone around her neck, and Ye Congxin looked at the complex white and white woodland in her vision, very worried, "Is no one coming with you?!"

"They are not familiar with the mountains. Either they are old people, and their health is not good enough. It's okay, old lady, have I walked this kind of place less often since I was a child? It's just too boring, can you accompany me?"

Ye Congxin knew that she was also afraid, so he let out an "um" forcefully.

Along the way, Chen Qiutang had a lot of conversations with her.I really miss her, but I don't want to video with her often, for fear of going the same way as she and Dingxiang.She also said that she really wanted the old aunt to come back now, but she also hoped that the old aunt could stay abroad for a few more years, publish more articles and win some awards.Wouldn't that be better for the future?She doesn't understand either.

She doesn't want to contact so much, otherwise every time she says a word, she wants to say "I miss you".In fact, she was almost there. She stopped and said that she missed her, but Ye Congxin smiled lightly and didn't answer.Chen Qiutang said that she was a little scared.

Ye Congxin asked, "What are you afraid of?"

Chen Qiutang stopped and gasped for a long time.During her silence, Ye Congxin's heart was beating wildly. She seemed to feel the same fear as Chen Qiutang, but she couldn't tell what it was.Till Chengcheng you laughed twice, pointed to the steep hillside behind you and said, "Afraid of falling. Are you afraid?"

When Chen Qiutang was about to arrive at the student's home, the phone ran out of battery, and Ye Congxin was so anxious that he went crazy.She was afraid that Chen Qiutang would slide down the hillside, that she would encounter wild animals in the mountains, and that she would be beaten to death by frenzied villagers after she found the student's home.All the weird news I saw on TV and online flooded my mind, and I couldn't do anything for a whole day.Until the evening, Chen Qiutang told her that he took the students back to the county, and the university cut off the power in the mountains, so he stayed at the students' home for one night, and only now went back to school to recharge the electricity.

A big stone fell to the ground in an instant.Ye Congxin spread out on the chair, and the professor who was working with her gave her a stern and kind look, and said to her: "Ye, you have been tense all day like a salmon in the spawning season, do you want to go to the reclining chair?" take a break?"

Ye Congxin suddenly felt that the whole world was full of good people and warmth.

She closed her eyes on the recliner, thinking of the last night before leaving China.Thinking of the first time she saw Chen Qiutang as a sexy woman that night, she was fascinated by that body, whether it was due to hormones or not, she believed that she fell in love with Chen Qiutang that night.It was only now that she realized that if love for Chen Qiutang was considered love, it was different from love for Clove.

She knows they won't get bored no matter how many times they video, they can have no conversation, after all, they have no conversation from the beginning, and their relationship will not be knocked down by any of the difficulties that plague couples.

Because Chen Qiutang can never be a pure lover.She is the incomparable work of her research life, her accident, her guilt-ridden consolation, her child.If it is love, this love must be full of impurities, but it doesn't matter, as long as it is firm.

The professor's glasses shone brightly under the light of the computer screen, and he said to Ye Congxin: "Ye, I always knew that you were different from others. You were not young when you came here, so of course you will be more down-to-earth than others. Mature. But you don't hang out at all, and you always squeeze your head too much. You are not a person who strives for fame and wealth, and you don't talk much. You have a firm goal, but I never knew what it was. "

"I'm just homesick, Professor, since my first day in America. Please trust me to do my best work, otherwise I won't be able to go home and see my family."

At the turn of spring and summer of the second year abroad, Cheng Cheng's son was born and named Yang Meng.When the baby was just born, it looked like a wrinkled monkey. When Ye Congxin saw him appear in the video for the second time, when he was a hundred days old, he suddenly opened up, showing the outline of a handsome boy.

Cheng Cheng is still a little fat, maybe with a bit of edema from fatigue - even in confinement, she is monitoring the company's affairs remotely.She has already seen her own future. The child does not want to leave it to the parents, and the company cannot let it go.Yang Zhenglin was even more powerless. When major news broke out, he had to be stationed at the scene or in the station and could not go home.

It turns out that this is married life.Ye Cong thought to himself that even a romantic person like Cheng Cheng would not be spared, the things Xu Xiaorong chanted at night seemed to be happening again.But Cheng Cheng is still lively and optimistic. Ye Congxin saw in the video that she imitated Lin Chiling's sister in the movie "Red Cliff" decades ago, and said to the child in a Hong Kong and Taiwan accent: "Mengmeng, stand up~" and then Grabbing Mengmeng's arm and hoisting him into the air, Mengmeng looked like she was about to cry.Ye Congxin suffocated from laughing at the US Emperor.

The past few years have been too busy, so time flies too fast.Some things in the first two years are more memorable, but in the next two years when she transferred to Caltech, everything was even more lacklustre.She only remembered that the last time she had a video with Tiantian was after the laboratory celebration party after she won the Science and Technology Progress Award.

On a dark day, she didn't want to go home too late, so she left early alone.Before driving, I found that the rear of the car had been hit by something, and the rear light had been broken.Not far away, she saw a burly figure dangling with a wine bottle in her hand, her heart froze, and she quickly got into the car.It was a black man, and when she tried to start the car with shaking hands, that man had already come over and knocked on the window by the door.

Ye Congxin heard the man call "Asian" again, and then found out that he had other companions.The companion asked loudly if he was Korean, and the black man said that he might be Chinese.A few questions and answers mixed with a persuasive smile, like picking pork on the morning market.Ye Congxin stepped on the gas pedal, and the car rushed out. She didn't know if there was any personal accident, so she ran away without looking back.

After driving a block, she parked the car on the side of the road, only to realize that she was too scared.She took a pill, and then asked to have a video with Chen Qiutang.At that time, they had not had this kind of contact for a long time, and Chen Qiutang did not expect that they would connect soon.

Chen Qiutang was actually on the train.Ye Congxin asked her, "Where are you going?"

"Uh... on a business trip." Two men walked behind her, speaking Northeast dialect, behind her was a tall sleeper, not a bullet train. "Go and shoot a film, with Uncle Wang and the others."

Ye Congxin was still in shock and didn't notice that her speech was obviously intermittent and unnatural. "Would you like to accompany me all the way? You don't need to talk, just connect."

They didn't really talk that way.The lively sounds from the mobile phone, those loud, vulgar dialects that Ye Congxin once disliked very much, have become the most solid force at this time, as if there is a hometown tied to him, people always will be much braver.

When she got home, Ye Congxin took a deep breath in the car. She shed a few tears and wiped them off quickly, for fear that Chen Qiutang would feel them.After her emotions stabilized, she said for the first time in two years: "Sweet," she clutched the steering wheel, as if she wanted to express her whole heart, "I, very, want, you."

no respond.

He lowered his head, only to realize that the video call had been disconnected long ago, and Chen Qiutang sent a text saying that he had entered a tunnel.That night, Chen Qiutang sent her a text:

Auntie, I miss you very much.Congratulations on winning the grand prize, I know you are the best no matter where you are.After I graduated, I stopped going to graduate school and went to work directly. Experience in my field is more important than academic qualifications, and Uncle Wang just happened to need me very much.I'm starting to get really busy, so I can't keep in touch with you very often.I will work hard so that when you return to China, I may be more worthy of you.Don't rush back home, give me more time to catch up with you.I love you, just like we love our motherland.

Ye Congxin was in a mess for a long time, not knowing if the kid was joking or just kidding.Especially the front is so serious, and the funny is so caught off guard.So she didn't reply, but later asked for video or voice calls, Chen Qiutang really never answered.

……

The moving female voice on the airport radio was announcing the flight information, and Ye Congxin could board the plane.

Just yesterday, she had a farewell meal with a professor at Caltech, and the professor expressed regret to her.Ye Congxin also regretted: "My personality is really not suitable for interpersonal relationships in China. I like it here very much. The air here is very good for my body. In the past few years, I feel a lot healthier."

"But there is an idiom in China called 'Ye Luo Gui Gen'. I didn't like this word when I was young. My mother, my ex-girlfriend, they chose to leave me because of this word. I used to resent them. Now, I come out After entering the country, I can somewhat understand it."

It was also at this moment that she suddenly remembered Chen Qiutang's funny joke: I love you, just like we love our motherland.

God, she thought.She suddenly choked up and couldn't speak.

As of the moment before the plane took off and her phone was turned off, Chen Qiutang still hadn't responded to her WeChat message about her return to China.

……

Walking out of the pick-up gate of the Capital Airport, Ye Congxin saw Cheng Cheng at a glance.This beautiful middle-aged woman succeeded in losing weight due to too much work. When she saw the real person again, she was almost the same figure as before giving birth.No, there is one thing that has changed a lot, and that is more chest swells.

Cheng Cheng waved at her excitedly, and the stroller in front of him also kept shaking.Ye Congxin smiled and glared at her, and the first thing he did was to squat down in front of Mengmeng, "You're a man over three years old, why are you still riding in a stroller?"

Mengmeng pursed her lips, her white and tender lips, red teeth and white teeth were very pretty.

"Call godmother."

Mengmeng didn't cry, after all, she had just been teased by this woman, and she still hadn't calmed down.

Cheng Cheng was already protesting, "Hey, why are you doing this? Just ignore him and ignore me? Who do you love?"

Ye Congxin glared at her, "A middle-aged woman who is almost 40 years old is still acting like a baby, disgusting."

According to Cheng Cheng, the dead man Yang Zhenglin is living in Taiwan again, and he will not be able to return until the APEC meeting is over and the leaders of all countries are gone.Mokang was suffering from arthritis, so he stayed at home to prepare meals.

"Where's Tiantian?" Ye Congxin pretended to ask casually.Maybe it was too inadvertent, Cheng Cheng didn't hear and didn't answer.

The car drove on the Fourth Ring Road. In the past four years, the background has changed too much. If it weren't for the planning of the ring road, Ye Congxin might not have recognized it.When she was stuck on the road, Ye Congxin read Chen Qiutang's message page no less than five times. The last time, she pressed the voice chat request, but the voice came from Cheng Cheng's bag.

Ye Congxin was taken aback, hung up the voice call, and the voice in the bag disappeared.

"Is Tiantian's phone with you?"

Cheng Cheng laughed a little stiffly.Ye Congxin looked back at the back seat. The clever Mengmeng had already opened her mother's purse, took out her phone, and shook it in the air.

Cheng Cheng said: "Sooner or later, I will tell you. I didn't expect you to contact her in such a hurry."

Ye Congxin laughed, "Why am I not in a hurry? She is mine... She is sweet."

The four rings are blocked, and people are hot and dry.When Cheng Cheng asked her to keep calm first, she knew that maybe she couldn't keep anything in the face of the coming facts.

The author has something to say: ① Changed the setting of Ye Zi’s overseas PhD study to postdoctoral, I didn’t understand it well before, sorry.

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