Liu Gen glanced around at the people waiting for the bus and saw the parents sending their children to school. He thought: 'Is my mother working in the fields under the scorching sun at this time? Is Liu Zhi holding the remaining dozen sheep?
Drive out to graze? It's time for Dad to get up from bed and prepare dinner for Mom and Willow Branch in the kitchen?'.
Not hearing what Liu Gen was going on, Xia Yang couldn't wait to ask, "What happened next?"
Hearing Xia Yang's question, Liu Gen breathed a long sigh of relief and continued:
"What I didn't know was that my father and mother were silently preparing for me to go to college. In fact, they were secretly collecting tuition for me. One day, while I was in the fields, a man selling cattle and sheep arrived.
At home, I bought my only cattle and ten sheep. When I came home from the field, I saw that the cattle were gone and there were fewer sheep. I knew what was going on, and my heart hurt like an awl stabbing me in the chest.
Heart, the plowing cow is gone. In the future, we will have to rely on my mother's hands to grow crops... For the first time, I yelled at my father who was lying on the hospital bed. My mother and my sister Liuzhi were squatting at the entrance of the cave.
Crying...but my father kept smiling and looking at me kindly. When I finished my anger, he waved me to sit next to him on the kang, and grabbed my hands with his hands that were swollen due to liver and ascites.
He said earnestly and sincerely, "Gen'er, if we, a kid from a poor mountain valley, want to live a good life like the people in the city, there is no other shortcut except going to school. You can go to college with peace of mind, and dad still hopes to wait."
After you finish your studies, you will treat your father's illness! Your mother has been with me for twenty years, and your father cannot let her live a comfortable life for a day. He hopes that you will become successful in the future and let your mother live a good life!'... Just
So, I listened to my father and brought the money from selling the cattle and sheep..." Liu Gen choked with sobs and couldn't say any more. He thought about the money from selling the cattle and sheep. He hadn't even reported to school yet, and there wasn't much left.
Xia Yang's heart was sore from Liu Gen's story. She listened silently and shed tears silently.
Although Liu Gen's eyes were moist, he never shed a tear. He felt that he should not shed tears in front of a girl who lost her mother since childhood.
"Brother Liu Gen, cry if you want to." Xia Yang saw that Liu Gen was holding back the tears: "It will feel better if you cry. Every time I miss my mother, I cry." In her opinion, crying is the best way.
way of venting.
As if a girl had peeked into his fragile heart, Liu Gen smiled sheepishly and glanced at the clock in the waiting room: "Xia Yang, it's time for you to go back. It's almost time to get on the bus."
As soon as he finished speaking, he heard the buzzing sound of someone speaking with a loudspeaker from the ticket gate of the station: "Passengers arriving in Nanhai, take your tickets and line up..."
The already noisy waiting hall suddenly became agitated. It seemed that everyone wanted to be at the front, stood up from their seats, picked up or pulled up their carry-on luggage, and greeted their relatives.
The hum of the small speaker continued: "Don't crowd! Line up in order..."
Xia Yang wiped away the unfinished tears from his eyes and picked up the plastic bag on the stool: "Brother Liu Gen, let's go."
"How can you get in without a ticket?" Liu Gen didn't know that he could get in with a platform ticket.
Xia Yang reached out and took out the platform ticket from his jeans, shook it and said, "I have a platform ticket."
Liu Gen carried his woven bag, and together with Xia Yang, stood at the back of the queue waiting to enter the station, slowly moving forward with the flow of people.
Beautiful flowers attract bees and butterflies, and a beautiful woman, like a beautiful flower, can attract the attention of men wherever she goes.
Xia Yang was like a bright flower blooming on the withered yellow grass that lacked nectar. She looked extremely delicate and beautiful. When she stood up, she attracted the attention of several wretched men.
These men were originally walking in front of Liu Gen and Xia Yang, but they deliberately moved back, hoping to take advantage of the crowd to satisfy their ugly evil thoughts. Whether it was with their elbows, hips or buttocks, they seemed to be able to rub against Xia Yang's body.
, can make them feel extremely happy.
Liu Gen thought that these men were like Jia Hekai and wanted to rob Xia Yang again. He stretched out his hand and pulled Xia Yang's arm to make her walk in front of him. He glanced at the men who were leaning towards Xia Yang and added to his face.
The wound with a Band-Aid on it looked so scary that it frightened some men with obscene mentality into fear.
Xia Yang seemed unaware that Liu Gen was guarding her from behind, and followed the people in front of her as she walked forward slowly.
Liu Gen never left Xia Yang's back, but his eyes vigilantly scanned the men around Xia Yang.
The person in front stopped, and Xia Yang stood up. Liu Gen was not paying attention, and the front of her body just touched Xia Yang's buttocks. Her elastic buttocks were stretched out by tight three-quarter jeans, and she felt Liu Gen's front again.
There was something there, but it wasn't as full as when the two collided in the pharmacy.
Xia Yang turned his head and smiled at Liu Gen with a blushing face.
Liu Gen seemed very magnanimous, as if nothing had happened, and indeed he felt nothing. His attention was entirely focused on the few wretched men around Xia Yang.
People who passed the ticket gate were running towards the train platform like a race, as if they were going slowly and would not get the benefits that were due to them. Liu Gen thought these people were strange. Everyone has a seat anyway, so why are they scrambling so much? He actually thought
He looked very calm, carrying the woven bag and looking around with curious eyes. He had never really seen a train before, so he was curious about the train lying like a long snake in front of him. Looking at both ends of the train, it seemed that he could not see the end.
I thought: How did the train turn around?
Xia Yang was different. She had taken a train before. She knew she was late to get on the train, so she had no place to put her luggage. She urged Liu Gen: "Brother Liu Gen, what's the car number? Get in quickly, otherwise there will be no place to put your luggage."
Liu Gen looked at the ticket in his hand and replied: "Car No. 13, eighty-six seats."
Xia Yang glanced at the place marked with the car number on the train car where the conductor stood. Car No. 13 was still far behind: "In the back." After Xia Yang finished speaking, he walked quickly towards the back.
Liu Gen followed Xia Yang, always turning his head towards the train car. He felt so excited. When he thought that he was about to take the long train in front of him to Nanhai to go to college, he thought of what his sister Liu Zhi said to him before leaving.
He said: "Brother, remember to write to me about taking the train. In the future, I will also be admitted to Nanhai University. That way, brother can take me on the train with him every semester."
"Brother Liu Gen, hurry up!" Xia Yang was almost jogging in front, turning back to urge Liu Gen.
"Hey..." Liu Gen agreed and spread his legs to catch up with Xia Yang.
"That's it." Xia Yang saw Car No. 13. Everyone who was supposed to get on the car got on. She gave the platform ticket to the steward guarding the entrance and exit of the car and said, "I'll send him up."
The flight attendant looked at the ticket in Liu Gen's hand and said to Xia Yang: "Get off quickly, the train is about to leave."
Sure enough, as Xia Yang said, the luggage rack in the carriage was filled with all kinds of suitcases and bags, large and small, and there was no room to put Liu Gen's woven bag.
"Brother Liu Gen, you can only stuff your luggage under the seat." Xia Yang said frustrated.
The people around, mainly the men, looked at Liu Gen and Xia Yang with strange eyes. They looked at Liu Gen because of the injury on his face, and looked at Xia Yang because she looked like a beautiful flower. Perhaps these men were thinking:
How come such flowers are stuck on cow dung?
Liu Gen stuffed the woven bag under the seat, and Xia Yang handed the plastic bag in his hand to Liu Gen.
"Brother Liu Gen, remember not to get water on the wound on your face, and remember to take anti-inflammatory medicine on time. There is an infirmary on the train. If you need to change the dressing, go to the infirmary to find help..." Xia Yang warned Liu Gen like a grandma.
"Xia Yang, get off quickly, the train is about to leave." Liu Gen put the plastic bag handed to him by Xia Yang on the seat and urged her before she finished speaking.
"Then...I'm leaving, please be careful on the road." Xia Yang said, walking toward the upper and lower doors of the carriage.
Liu Gen watched Xia Yang walking further and further away, and an indescribable warmth surged into his heart. He couldn't help but shout: "Xia Yang..."
Xia Yang heard Liu Gen shouting from behind, turned around, looked at Liu Gen with a smile and asked: "Brother Liu Gen, what's the matter?"
"Thank you." Liu Gen turned around in Xia Yang and said only these three words.
"When I arrive in Nanhai, I will go to school to find you." Xia Yang waved his hand and smiled brightly.
Liu Gen lifted the plastic bag on the seat, sat on it, and put the bag under the small fixed table in the middle of the seat. He raised his head and looked out the window, and saw Xia Yang standing on the platform outside the window, her graceful figure
, attracted countless people on the train to look out of the window, making Liu Gen feel a sense of vanity and satisfaction for the first time in his heart. The beautiful girl outside the window came to see him off. This was something he never dared to think about when he came out of the house.
A beautiful thing.
The conversation with Xia Yang in the waiting hall brought Liu Gen closer to her. Xia Yang lost his mother when he was young. It was such a heartbreaking thing. Liu Gen even thought that if what happened to Xia Yang were left to him,
Can anyone be as strong as her? So Liu Gen told Xia Yang about his family situation, in order to tell Xia Yang that there are people in this world who live a harder life than her.
The train started moving slowly. Xia Yang followed the train forward and waved to the willow roots in the window.
The train was gradually accelerating, and Liu Gen saw Xia Yang trotting on the platform outside the window, as if he wanted to keep running with the train until the end.
"Brother, is this girl your girlfriend?" an aunt sitting next to Liu Gen asked with a smile.
The train was getting faster and faster, so fast that Xia Yang could no longer be seen outside the window. Liu Gen then turned his head towards the aunt sitting next to him and replied: "No, she is my sister."
"What a good girl." The aunt praised her.
Liu Gen responded with a slight smile on his face and thought to himself: From now on, I will have another sister.