don't make a fuss, bend

At the end of July, a hot summer.Bai Qi left Chongqing, where he had lived for three years, and returned to his hometown in Fujian.After 3 hours of tumbling, the train finally stopped and arrived at the small county town of Jianzhou, but there was only [-] minutes to stop.Bai Qi carried a big suitcase and a heavy backpack, walked down the narrow aisle and steps, and walked down the train with difficulty.Most of the time, Bai Qi yearns for a vast space, but sometimes he has to imprison himself in crowded public vehicles and closed rental rooms.After lying on the "checkered bunk" for a day and a night, the only way to move is to sway with the train. Now this stiff body is finally free from restraints and can be stretched freely.With both feet on the ground, an inexplicable sense of solidity arises spontaneously.As written in the novel "Wolf Totem", once the wolf's feet leave the ground, it seems to lose its wolf nature.This is probably what it feels like.

After the passengers who get off get off the bus, the passengers who are waiting to get on the bus get on the bus.One ends one journey and another begins one, or more properly, the end of one journey for anyone is the beginning of another.The beginning and the end were all completed in this short period of 3 minutes, as if this minute and second could be infinitely magnified.When the stream of people on one side is flowing towards the exit of the station, they can't wait to escape from the tired journey, and when the train on the other side is slowly moving towards the endless front, heading for the next destination, Bai Qi stands on the platform and looks up. Looking at the sky of my hometown.The blue sky and white clouds set off against each other, making them look very intimate. It's been a long time since I last saw you.Thinking about it, Bai Qi has not been back to Jianzhou for a long time. The last time he came back was last year's Spring Festival. He didn't come back for this year's Spring Festival. After all, it has been [-] months.Even if I came back during the Spring Festival before, I just stayed in the country for eight or nine days.There is a sense of familiarity and strangeness to this county.This kind of strangeness should be traced back to seven years ago. After graduating from high school, I went to Changsha to study in university and began to accumulate.

The county seat is not big, so the railway station will not be that big.The upper and lower floors are the building, the upper floor is the waiting room and the entrance, and the lower floor is the ticket office and the exit.Pass the exit and come to the front of the station, which is a small square. After going down the steps of the square, you will find the bus station in the city.

This time, Bai Qi did not call his mother. Before that, Bai Qi told her that he would be home for lunch after twelve o'clock.So, Bai Qi walked out of the station and got on the bus to the East Bus Station.The car door is very narrow, and there is a coin box at the front door. On the box mouth is written: In summer, one-ticket system is 1 yuan.Turn on the air conditioner and increase the price.If there is no air-conditioning season, the one-ticket system is one yuan.The seats in the car are all in a single row, and the total number of seats does not exceed fifteen.Perhaps such a small county only needs such a small bus.But the train station is full of people after all, if you get on the train late, you still have to stand.Bai Qi sat on the seat, leaned the suitcase beside him, and put the backpack on his lap.As the bus leaves the train station, Bai Qi stares out the window intently. The unfamiliar new street flashes by before Bai Qi's eyes, but the familiar old picture resurfaces in Bai Qi's mind for a long time.

This area is a new area, located in the west of Shui, because it is on the west side of a stream called Jianxi.In addition to the train station and bus station in this area, the place Bai Qi is more familiar with is the school that a friend once attended, called Zhihua Middle School.But Bai Qi only went there to play a few times in high school, and now if Bai Qi wants to tell its exact location, Bai Qi really can't answer it for a while.

When passing Shuixi Bridge, Bai Qi deliberately looked down the bridge.Now is not the flood season, and the Jianxi River flows long and thin, which looks very cute.Han Han has a book called "The Lovely Flood Beast", but Bai Qi thinks that the beast-like flood is not cute at all.On June 4000 seven years ago, a raging flood attacked Jianzhou like a beast. As one of more than 4000 candidates, Bai Qi witnessed a historic postponement of the college entrance examination.Now every time I think about it, not only do I not have a trace of sadness and color, but I feel that it is precisely because of such a catastrophe that the college entrance examination, which has a special meaning in life, has been covered with a veil of mystery. The college entrance examination of many candidates is more special than others.

After crossing the Shuixi Bridge, we arrived at the center of the county.The cross road centered on Nanjie Street forms the most prosperous commercial circle in the county.At the same time, this is also the area with the oldest sense of age in the county.The Drum Tower, a landmark building in Jianzhou, stands on Nanjie Street. More than 1000 years ago, there was a short-lived Yin state here, and the small county town of Jianzhou became the imperial capital.As a result, the Wufeng Tower and the Hall of Supreme Harmony rose from the ground.This period of history is very short, but they cannot call it a flash in the pan. The realization of individual desire for power is always based on the suffering of the people.

The bus passed through the city center in a straight line and headed for the East Station. Bai Qi suddenly regretted not taking another bus and took a detour to the vicinity of his alma mater.Bai Qi's alma mater is Jianzhou No. [-] Middle School, located at the foot of Huanghua Mountain.After graduating from high school, Bai Qi seldom went there. His classmates rarely got together, and his teachers never saw each other again.In Bai Qi's heart, it seems to belong to another world, a world that Bai Qi can never go back to.The Bai Qi who used to study there is another Bai Qi, the Bai Qi that the teacher and classmates knew is another Bai Qi, and now Bai Qi is a stranger because everything there is a stranger.The funny thing is, this seems to be the whole meaning of Bai Qi's departure all these years.

On the bus, I heard that the East Station had been relocated.Sure enough, the original site of the East Station was being demolished, surrounded by high-end real estate.The bus went straight east, near the desolate highway.Bai Qi got off the bus and was dumbfounded. What kind of bus station is this?Can't help complaining and dissatisfied, the car heading for Dongtun Town has already started suddenly, Bai Qi hurriedly picked up the suitcase and prepared to get on the car.The aisle of the carriage was full of luggage, and finally Bai Qi squeezed into the car, leaning the suitcase against the door.At this time, the conductor got on the bus, pointed at all kinds of luggage, and yelled for them to put them in the trunk.The driver opened the rear compartment, and all the luggage on the car was transferred to the trunk.The aisle of the carriage was emptied, and the space vacated was not wasted.The conductor took out three cotton-padded boards from under the seats and placed them on the sides of the seats on both sides of the aisle, creating six extra seats.This is the integration and utilization of resources. Passengers all have seats, which is not considered overloading, but only overloading.This saving strategy has been implemented for several years, and Bai Qi, who rarely goes home, has long been used to it.

The car drove out of the East Station and walked along a small stream.This stream is called Dongxi, and it flows into Jianzhou City from the east and merges into Jianxi.On both sides of Dongxi, mountains rise and fall one after another.The highway and the East Stream wind in a rough curve between the mountains.After driving for about 15 minutes, we arrived at Baiqi's hometown - a beautiful village.

Bai Qi got out of the car and took out the suitcase from the trunk. Perhaps because it was squeezed by a heavy object, the roller on one side of the suitcase was cracked, showing a lot of looseness, and there was a loud noise when rolling. The crashing sound.Accompanied by this strange crashing sound, Bai Qi walked towards home step by step.It was a two-story house, which was completed when Bai Qi was about seven years old. After nearly 20 years, it is still very fortunate to maintain its original appearance.

Or maybe it was the friction sound of the suitcase rolling over the ground, which conveyed the message of return for Bai Qi.When Bai Qi hadn't gone downstairs, he heard the sound of his mother walking down the stairs. It was a rush of knocking between the plastic soles and the wooden planks of the stairs.Immediately afterwards, the mother called Bai Qi's name, full of excitement and expectation, but Bai Qi couldn't arouse any excitement, and responded in a low voice.Seeing his mother smiling and reaching out to ask Bai Qi for the suitcase, Bai Qi suddenly had mixed feelings in his heart, and he didn't know how to deal with it, so he could only obediently hand over the suitcase in his hand to her.She must never have imagined that her son, who was once so excellent, returned to this small village in such a low-key way with Fei Teng's household registration. She must have never expected such a scene. She was so excited and joyful, as if she had been looking forward to this moment for a long time, but Bai Qi would think so, she must be extremely disappointed in Bai Qi.

His mother guided Baiqi to the downstairs room, talking about the coolness of the room. She knew that Chongqing was a famous furnace city.In the past, when Bai Qi was still in middle school, they would move the bedroom on the second floor to the first floor when they returned home every summer vacation.It is said to be moving the bedroom, but it is actually two beds and a square table.At that time, when Su Hao and Bai Qi were both in middle school, there would be a few more children in the family every summer vacation, all of which were Bai Qi's cousins.By the way, I forgot to tell you that Su Hao is Bai Qi's biological elder brother, but in fact he is not much older, only 20 months older than Bai Qi, and he is one grade older than Bai Qi in school.Ever since Bai Qi and Su Hao went to college one after another, Bai Qi's mother spent the whole long summer alone, not to mention the bedroom, I'm afraid she didn't even bother to move a bed, but slept directly in the bedroom with a paper fan. on the second floor planks.Now, because of Bai Qi's return, she moved the bedroom down again.Bai Qi stood at the door of the room, poked his head in and took a look, oh my god, this is not a bedroom!This is a bedroom converted from a classroom.classroom?That's right!In a kindergarten classroom, my mother has been a kindergarten teacher for [-] years.In the early days, students were enrolled in village centers or primary schools, and in recent years they have been running schools in their own homes.Now it's summer vacation, the desks and chairs in the classroom are piled up in one corner, a bed is placed in the other corner, there is also a square table and an armchair, this is the bedroom in front of Bai Qi.

What should Bai Qi do in the next month?Writing, postgraduate entrance examination review, or preparing for a teacher qualification certificate?Bai Qi doesn't know, but Bai Qi feels that one thing is certain, Bai Qi will never want to go back to the manufacturing industry.