"Brother, you guys go ahead. I'll go to the Jicheng Expressway service area ahead and pick up this bastard Zejiang." Xia Zekai called his cousin.
The cousin Xia Yunfei said: "It's okay, let's go to the service area together. I just happened to go to the toilet."
After setting off from Qicheng, more than an hour later, three cars with Qicheng license plates entered the Jicheng Expressway Service Area.
Compared with the service area of Jicheng Expressway in front of us, they are no different.
From the front, you can see the weather and torture it has suffered. There are mottled marks everywhere. It is too shabby.
At this time, the expressway service area had a special ticket window, and there were many people waiting here to get on buses to all parts of the country. This resulted in not so many cars in the service area, but not many people at all.
"elder brother…"
After getting out of the car, Xia Zekai took out his mobile phone and was about to call his brother Xia Zejiang to ask where he was.
Before the call was made, he heard shouting. He turned around and looked towards the sound. There was a 185-year-old man waving in his direction. His thin and tall figure was so eye-catching.
"Zekai, where is Zejiang?" Luo Xiyun also pointed to that place and said.
"Brother, sister-in-law!"
Xia Zejiang ran over carrying a black backpack and immediately shouted obediently.
Luo Xiyun asked him with a smile: "Zejiang, how are you doing in school? Have you dated a girlfriend? Let my sister-in-law check it for you."
"..." Xia Zekai was speechless, woman, haha!
The focus is always different.
Xia Zejiang was a little shy when talking about this issue, but he soon adjusted. He said calmly and generously: "Sister-in-law, I haven't found one yet. I'm just waiting for my sister-in-law to introduce me to a better one in the future."
This is also a talker.
"Zejiang, you are making things difficult for your sister-in-law. You said there are so many good girls in your university, and if you can't find a more suitable one, then what kind of girl can I introduce to you?" Luo Xiyun teased him.
The two cousins also came over to talk for a while, and the two sisters-in-law took the children to the bathroom.
Luo Xiyun asked Yatou and Tongtong. Children have a herd mentality and they also wanted to go to the toilet.
After about ten minutes, they gathered together again. Instead of continuing to chat, they got in the car and left the Jicheng Expressway Service Area.
Xia Zejiang was sitting in the passenger seat. Perhaps because his sister-in-law was there, he couldn't speak freely.
"Zejiang, what do you plan to do after graduation next year?" Xia Zekai asked him.
Xia Zejiang thought for a while, and finally shook his head honestly: "Brother, it's too far. I haven't thought about it yet. I'm now considering whether to continue the postgraduate entrance examination."
When Luo Xiyun heard that he wanted to take the postgraduate entrance examination, he was very supportive: "Zejiang, you can take the exam if you want. Don't worry about money. When the time comes, if you really pass the exam, my sister-in-law will pay for the tuition."
"Thank you, sister-in-law!" Xia Zejiang quickly turned around and expressed his gratitude.
He said: "Sister-in-law, I can make money on my own. I have also saved some. I usually work as a tutor. I will wait until the winter and summer vacations to find a job. I can earn the tuition myself..."
After slowly talking about it, Xia Zejiang became an old man. Along the way, I only listened to him talking about short-term plans for the "future", but he was still doing that. Xia Zekai didn't find a way to quarrel with him.
Chance.
Before I knew it, another two hours had passed. The Jiqing Expressway with a speed limit of 80 was really nonsense, and the car couldn't drive at all.
Xia Zekai misses the new expressway with a speed limit of 120 in 10 years, with eight lanes in both directions. He can drive however he wants. He can even exceed the speed limit on the expressway.
What a pity now!
After the car got off the expressway in Ping County, Jicheng, it passed through a rugged mountain road. Finally, it crossed the floating bridge over the Yellow River, got on the road across the Yellow River, and entered the village not long after driving.
At this time, Xia Zekai suddenly felt uncontrollable. He looked at the small village in front of him, which seemed a bit backward. He was timid and eager to see his parents and grandfather as soon as possible.
The village where Xia Zekai's hometown is located is called Xiazhuang. From this name, we can see that more than 90% of the people in the village have the surname Xia.
Walking from the north end of Xiazhuang to the middle of the village, three cars stopped and stopped, and the light disappeared.
Later, Xia Zekai simply left the car to his wife to drive, and the two cousins also gave up the steering wheel.
Xia Zekai did not forget to lift his brother out of the passenger seat, and the four brothers walked home.
When you meet an old man, you have to call him uncle. When you meet an older man, you call him grandpa again and hand him a cigarette.
There were also people of about the same age who all worked outside. They just came back from the holidays and chatted for a while.
In comparison, the news of Xia Zejiang's return to the village spread immediately.
He is the pride of the entire village, and the university he was admitted to is the best among all the college students in Xiazhuang. In the past few years, Xia Zejiang has been regarded as someone else's child by his parents.
Many children younger than him wanted to beat him up and vent their anger.
There were also people shouting in a corner of Xiazhuang: "How dare this bastard come back..."
Luo Xiyun drove the car to the door of her house with her elder sister-in-law and second sister-in-law. Her mother-in-law Zhou Yinghong had already heard the noise and trotted out.
"Mom, I'm back." Luo Xiyun smiled at her mother-in-law.
Yatou and Tongtong looked at grandma in shock for a while, then broke free from their mother's hand and rushed over.
"Grandma, I'm hungry. Have you prepared something delicious?"
"Grandma, I'm hungry too!"
Neither Yatou nor Tongtong were worried.
Xia Yuxi, the niece of the eldest brother's family next to her, shouted like a mosquito, "Second Grandma!" at her mother Li Aijuan's repeated requests.
"Hey, Yuxi, you all go to the house quickly." Zhou Yinghong said.
She looked back and didn't see her son or two nephews, so she asked: "Xiyun, where are Zekai and your brother?"
"I met an acquaintance in Beitou and was busy talking." Luo Xiyun responded.
Zhou Yinghong understood what was going on.
That's how it is in the countryside. You can build some connections from house to house, and your friendship will naturally become closer.
It’s completely different from a reinforced concrete house where you may live there for several years without even knowing the name of your neighbor across the door.
Every time I meet someone when I go out, I might raise my hand and say hello with a smile: "Hi, good morning!"
Then there was nothing more to say, everyone went about their own lives behind closed doors.
It’s not like living in the country, where you can just casually say which ‘grandma’ this is and whose ‘grandpa’ that is.
"Yunfei, you four brothers should go home first and see your grandpa. Let's talk later when we have time." The speaker was also from the Xia family, so they had to call him uncle.
When he mentioned it, the brothers became more anxious and quickly headed south.
