The clanking old-fashioned green train travels in the wilderness.

Luo Yang sat by the window, looking out at the scenery passing by. This reminded him of the time when he took the same train to the Great Northern Wilderness many years ago. Back then, he was an energetic young man, full of longing for going to the mountains and countryside.

and expectations,

Along the train, there were friends who were going to the countryside together. Everyone was laughing and singing loudly in the carriage. But time has passed so many years. Now, when you look around in the carriage, you can see that everything and everyone in the carriage has changed. They are just ordinary passengers.

It has been nearly a week since he came out of Yanjing. During this week, Luo Yang traveled to many places, almost all the provinces near Yanjing. It can be said that he spent almost all of this week on trains, cars and even oxcarts.

of.

As we get closer and closer to the Great Northern Wilderness, Luo Yang's thoughts can't help but go back to many years ago, back to those lush days...

The train started and stopped. A day later, in the morning, it arrived at a small northern station. Luo Yang, carrying his luggage, got off the train and glanced around. The dilapidated platform and rusty iron doors all looked so familiar, so familiar.

kind.

This is a small station, so small that it cannot be found on ordinary maps. After exiting the station, there is a small county town. This county town only has a permanent population of 70,000 to 80,000 people. Compared with the county towns in the pass, it is at best a town.

scale.

In this season, even Yanjing is a little hot in Guan, but the weather here is still like spring. In addition, the temperature varies greatly between day and night. At night, the lowest temperature can drop to five or six degrees. In addition, the wind is as strong as a knife from time to time.

, There is no way to go out without wearing enough clothes.

Luo Yang specially changed his clothes when he came out this time. He was wearing ordinary blue clothes and trousers, with an old military coat wrapped around it, and a hat on his head. If someone didn't know him, it would be difficult to imagine that this was the case.

Luo Yang.

After leaving the station, there was a bus station not far from the train station. Luo Yang was very familiar with this area, so he walked over and asked about the departure time and bought a ticket.

There was still more than an hour before departure time, so Luo Yang simply found a place to sit down in the dilapidated station waiting room, took out the dry food he brought with him from his bag and ate it with water from the kettle.

After just a few bites, Luo Yang felt a pair of eyes looking at him from the side. Looking along the eyes, he saw a baby about three or four years old wearing a gray cloth coat. The baby's face was dirty and dirty.

No one could see the man or woman, but his two big round eyes couldn't help but look at the steamed buns in Luo Yang's hand.

"Baby, are you hungry? Do you want to eat?" Luo Yang laughed when he saw the baby. He walked over and squatted in front of the child and asked. Seeing that the child took a step back slightly, he still looked at the steamed bun in Luo Yang's hand reluctantly, although he did not speak.

, but the answer appeared in his eyes.

Luo Yang broke off half of it and handed it over: "Here, eat it!"

The child hesitated for a moment, but couldn't resist the temptation of the white-faced steamed buns. He stretched out his little hand to take half of the steamed buns, then put it to his mouth and took a small bite. After taking this bite, the child's eyes suddenly lit up, and then he ran away.

Run, ran directly to the side.

"Dad! Dad!"

"Where did it come from?" A middle-aged man was dozing off. When he was woken up by the child, he was startled when he saw that the child actually had half a white flour bun in his hand.

"Over there, my uncle gave it to me." The baby stretched out his hand and pointed in the direction of Luo Yang. The man looked towards Luo Yang and saw Luo Yang smiling and nodding at him.

Seeing Luo Yang, the man hesitated for a moment, then picked up the child, stood up, and walked straight towards Luo Yang.

"I'm sorry, the child was not sensible just now..."

"It's nothing, I already said it's a child. It's lunch time, so giving the child half a steamed bun is nothing." Luo Yang said with a smile.

"Thank you..." The man grinned, touched the child's head, and then looked at Luo Yang carefully, with a strange expression on his face.

"You...are you Luo Yang?" Luo Yang never expected that this strange man would actually call out his name, and Luo Yang was stunned for a moment.

"You...?" Luo Yang looked at the other person carefully in confusion, and suddenly felt that the other person looked familiar, but for a while he couldn't think of where he had seen him before.

"It's really Luo Yang! I'm Wang Hu! Your Brother Huzi! Do you still recognize me?" Wang Hu took off his hat and looked very excited. When he looked at the other person carefully, Luo Yang finally recognized who the other person was.

"Wang Hu? Brother Hu Zi? Brother Hu Zi!" Luo Yang suddenly became excited and grabbed the other person's shoulders with both hands and asked urgently.

"It's me, it's me!"

"Brother Huzi, you, why have you become like this? How come you...?" After not seeing each other for several years, why did you...?" Tears couldn't help falling from Luo Yang's eyes. If the other party hadn't recognized him first and told him who he was, Luo Yang would still have

He really couldn't recognize that the person standing in front of him was Wang Hu.

In his memory, Wang Hu had always been a handsome young man wearing a leather jacket and holding a shotgun in his hand. He walked vigorously, laughed loudly, was full of energy, and had a handsome face. But now, standing

The face of Wang Hu in front of him was etched with the marks of wind and frost.

I recall that I was wearing a patched gray cotton-padded jacket no different from ordinary people, and a military cap without a badge on my head. I didn’t hold a shotgun in my hand, and my waist was not as straight as before. My back was slightly hunched.

He looks ten years older than his original age.

"People in the mountains age quickly. It's like this every day when the wind comes and the rain comes..." Wang Hu said with a smile, and then said to the child in his arms: "Gou boy, this is your Uncle Luo Yang

, call someone quickly!”

"Uncle Luo Yang..." Gouwa was eating half of the steamed bun given by Luo Yang. He stopped and shouted at Luo Yang, then gave Luo Yang a bright smile.

"Brother Huzi, is this your son?" Luo Yang asked.

"Yes! My son! His nickname is Gou Wa, and his elder name is Wang Zhenlin. He is three and a half years old this year." Wang Hu said proudly, touching the child's head.

"Wang Zhenlin? What a great name! It's grand!"

"Haha, you agreed, right? I asked the old party secretary to help me come up with this name. My name is Wang Hu. I originally wanted to name him Wang Xiaohu, but the old party secretary said that Wang Xiaohu was not good, so I simply called him Zhen Lin.

Tiger Roaring Mountain Forest, Zhenlin Zhenlin, that’s what it means." Wang Hu said cheerfully.

Wang Hu is a son of the Orion family. Orion is a very ancient profession. It can be said that the profession of Orion existed when humans appeared.

Wang Hu's father, Old Man Wang, is the best hunter within a hundred miles in the countryside of Luoyang. Wang Hu's grandfather, great-grandfather, and great-grandfather are also hunters. His family has lived in this place for who knows how many years.

They all make a living by hunting.

Wang Hu is older than Luo Yang. If Luo Yang remembers correctly, Wang Hu should be twenty-eight this year. When Luo Yang first went to the countryside and came to this place, Wang Hu was still a young man in his early twenties. Now in a blink of an eye, Wang Hu is older than Luo Yang.

The young man who lived in Kung Fu has gone through many hardships.

"Luo Yang, didn't you go back to the city? Why are you back this time?" Wang Hu was very happy to see a familiar person. Wang Hu and Luo Yang had a very good relationship back then, and they were also quite fond of educated youths like them.

With care, Luo Yang's parents were rehabilitated in 1976, and Luo Yang had the opportunity to go back. He had not seen each other for more than four years. Other educated youths also returned to the city and their hometowns one after another around 1978. The originally bustling educated youth

The spot has long since become deserted.

"I've been back for several years, and I've always thought about this place. Why don't I take the time to come and have a look?" Luo Yang said with a smile.

"Yes, it has been several years in a flash. The days go by so fast." Wang Hu nodded and said with emotion: "In the past few years, the educated youths left one by one, and the number of people was getting smaller and smaller day by day, let alone the old party secretary.

Even I feel uncomfortable in my heart, and I often think about how lively it was when you were there!"

"How is the old party secretary doing?"

When Luo Yang asked about the old party secretary, Wang Hu sighed and shook his head: "I didn't get through last winter. You also know that his body and bones have always been weak. Every winter, he can't get angry. This time... ugh."

Luo Yang's heart suddenly sank. The old party secretary has gone? This old man with a bad temper, a stubborn temper, a scolding but a hot heart has actually gone? This made Luo Yang's heart feel empty for an instant.

"A lot of people have gone there in the past few years. My father also passed away the year before last, but fortunately I saw my grandson born, so it's not a pity." Wang Hu said with emotion.

Old man Wang also left? Luo Yang's eyes couldn't help but become moist. He didn't expect that these two elders whom he respected had already passed away. If they and Wang Hu hadn't sacrificed their lives to save each other, he might have died long ago.

When he thought of the freshly remembered faces of the old party secretary and old man Wang, their loud laughter seemed to still be heard in his ears, but now he would never have the chance to see them again. For a moment, Luo Yang regretted that he had come too late.

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While waiting for the bus, Wang Hu talked a lot with Luo Yang, and also let Luo Yang know something about what happened after he left.

With the return of educated youth to the city, the original educated youth spots have now been abandoned. In addition to part of the farmland that they, the educated youth, reclaimed with their own hands, have been returned to the communes, many of them have also been abandoned due to lack of manpower.

Some old people passed away one after another. Although time has changed, the lives of local young people have also changed, just like Wang Hu. As a hunter, Wang Hu originally lived in the woods and hunted for a living. Before the death of Old Man Wang, the policy was adjusted.

, the country had other regulations on hunting, so the old branch secretary took an opportunity to help Wang Hu get a forest ranger establishment, and he was barely able to eat the royal food.

Wang Hu got married not long after Luo Yang left. The wife he married was a woman from a nearby commune, whom Luo Yang didn't know. However, from Wang Hu's story, it can be seen that Wang Hu was very affectionate towards his wife, and the couple

We have a very good relationship with him. He came to the county this time because his wife is pregnant and expecting to give birth.

Wang Hu works as a forest ranger and still lives in the woods on weekdays. Giving birth is a big deal for a woman. For safety reasons, he sent his wife to the county hospital in advance and let her family take care of her for a few days. Not only did Wang Hu and Gouwa have just settled down,
Chapter completed!