Chapter 3 There is nothing wrong with coming back for retirement
Xu Qingzhi made up his mind to go home to retire, and immediately contacted an agent to sell the house.
The 250 yuan deposit in hand is still not enough. Although she is still a small transparent eighteen-striper, she has a lot of clothes, shoes and bags, and many of the tags have not been removed.
So she took all the photos and posted them on Xianyu, selling them at a 50% discount.
The discounts are huge and many items are sold out as soon as they go online.
The courier came to pick up the package the next day, and then she waited for the buyer to receive the goods, and the money arrived.
In less than half a month, she had an extra 68,000 yuan in savings just from selling second-hand goods.
In the past half month, she went to bed early and got up early every day, cooking and stewing soup with Lingquan water, which finally made her body look like a human being after staying up all night.
Three days later, someone finally came to see the house. The other person readily asked for the full payment. Xu Qingzhi simply paid a fraction of tens of thousands to a million, having agreed in advance that he would need two days to move.
After finishing the contract process that day, Xu Qingzhi packed up all the unimportant things and sent them back to his hometown by express delivery.
The next day, I packed up the remaining things and started on my way home.
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From the high-speed rail to the bus and then to the passenger car, the total journey takes seven hours.
After others got off the car first, she got out of the car carrying the suitcase in the front seat.
"Qingzhi, you're back." Xu Fuqiang, who had come to the car door early, reached for the suitcase and muttered: "Your mother was cooking dinner at home. She knew you were coming back, so today my father specially killed one."
Chicken, kill a duck, and your favorite water spinach."
Xu Qingzhi looked at the tanned middle-aged man in front of him. Most of his black hair had turned white at some point.
For Xu Fuqiang, the separation from his daughter lasted less than half a year.
But for Xu Qingzhi, it had been 550 years since they met.
She hugged him and said, "Dad, I miss you so much, and I miss my mom too."
Xu Fuqiang stiffened for a moment, and the next second he pushed her away quickly, put the suitcase on the old tricycle, turned his back to Xu Qingzhi, and muttered: "You little girl, you better be more reserved, then
Many people see it and want to gossip."
"You are my dad, who is gossiping!" Xu Qingzhi said firmly.
Xu Fuqiang didn't argue with her. He swept away the dust on the wooden bench behind the tricycle with the back of his hand, wiped it with the palm of his hand, wiped it clean, and patted it twice.
"When I came out, your mother said it was time to eat. The food won't taste good when it's cold. Sit on it quickly and hold on tight."
Xu Qingzhi climbed up and sat on the bench.
She also knew that her father was embarrassed, so she didn't pursue him any further.
Children of their generation who grew up in rural areas seem to be inexplicably shy about expressing feelings to their parents, and their parents also feel embarrassed.
From here, drive another five kilometers to Xu Qingzhi’s hometown.
A small village in the south of the motherland, Taoshui Village.
The tricycle was bumping forward on the road, and a black car passed by.
Xu Fuqiang said: "In ten years, my father will also buy a car to drive. Then he will drive a car to pick you up instead of driving this three-wheeler."
Xu Qingzhi heard this ten years ago.
Every year when my father drives a tricycle and takes the family to his grandma's house to celebrate the New Year, he will say this when he looks at the oncoming car.
Xu Qingzhi had made up her mind to come back to retire, so she had to buy a car, but she had just come back and it was not appropriate to mention it yet.
When you want to buy it, just tell it in advance.
The summer wind in the evening blows across my face. It is different from the hot and smelly city. It has a cool feeling and fills my breath with the pure smell of trees and grass.
An unknown insect was barking, and someone's dog barked twice.
The camphor trees on both sides of the road have grown luxuriantly. In 2006, the government built a cement road leading to the village. From then on, everyone’s travel became more convenient. A year after the road was completed, the government planted trees on both sides of the road.
Rows of camphor trees were still bare trees at that time.
At that time, Xu Qingzhi had to look at the tree at the door every day. Within a few years, there were still birds making nests. Unfortunately, they were stabbed by a few stinky children. She was so angry that no birds had nests anymore.
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The old man said that birds look down on trees that have had their nests poked through them.
Many memories from my childhood came flooding back, and just this familiar feeling of intimacy made me feel comfortable.
Xu Qingzhi felt more and more that the decision to come back for retirement was right!