Chapter 2： Afraid that I would run away

Chapter 2 Still afraid that I will run away

"Silly girl, how old is your brother? How can he still starve himself? Hurry up and eat and go to bed. Tomorrow morning, tomorrow morning we will leave and never come back to this house again!" He touched the girl's head without disgust at all. , pursed his lips and pulled out a smile, "I don't believe it. We are both missing arms and legs. How can we live without this place? Instead of suffering from that woman's cowardice, it's better to stay far away and be at ease. ”

Deceiving himself and others, An Zhixia looked at his unsteady eyes and cursed, but also nodded vigorously in support: "Where my brother is, I will be there!"

The two pills went into the supermarket under the watchful eye of her little brother. She drank most of the water, took a long breath and said with a smile: "Brother, I'm ready!"

Make peace with what you have come, this is a classic sentence in too many time travel scripts. Apart from recognizing the reality and biting the bullet and becoming An Zhixia in 1972, in an era when it was difficult to move forward without an introduction, she had no other option. The brother who holds it in the palm of his hand.

"Little girl, you are always good at coaxing me. I haven't taken any medicine before, and it started to take effect as soon as I took it?" He gently flicked her head and tucked her into a quilt. An Zhiqiu was wrapped in a worn-out The men in military coats slept on a "bed" made up of two wide stools. It was quite distressing for the 1.8-meter-tall man to huddle together.

"She's so bad! I heard it all," she said after sleeping for a long time in the afternoon. She was so nervous that when she saw her brother moving in the darkness, she couldn't help but fight against the original owner. "She didn't hesitate to let us go to a more difficult place for money. She asked you to take over her job. If she gives up now, my brother won't have to go to the countryside."

"I don't have to go to the countryside, what about you?" An Zhiqiu replied funny: "Brother is not willing to let you endure hardship alone."

“That’s mother…”

"Zhi Xia," he said calmly, interrupting his sister's angry words: "From now on, we are two Ans. Mother's job is to treat us as repaying his kindness. When we go to the countryside, our household registration will also be If we follow them, we will no longer be constrained by them. Our lives may be poorer than now, but as long as we work hard, we will get better day by day!"

An Zhixia blinked her eyes and said dryly: "I just can't get angry."

An Zhiqiu adjusted himself to a comfortable position and said very quietly: "Who is not? When we get to the station tomorrow, you can help me drag them both."

Without asking any further questions, she nodded in agreement and said a few more words. Amid the itching and pain of frostbite, she fell asleep at some point.

It seemed that he hadn't slept for long when there was a loud knock on the door outside.

"Hurry up and eat, the train is waiting for you," a hoarse voice pulled the two of them back from Duke Zhou.

An Zhiqiu The carp stood up and the room was dark. He didn't know what time it was, so he responded lightly.

An Zhixia also sat up. When she saw her brother going out, she wiped her body with a towel with warm water, changed into clean underwear, found a fashionable German velvet double-sided velvet autumn coat set from the supermarket, and put it on to slim down her body. After wearing velvet to keep warm, I put on the original owner’s clumped cotton-padded clothes and patched blouse.

Her hair was also dry-cleaned, braided into two braids and hung on her chest. After briefly rinsing her mouth and cleansing her face, she carefully applied frostbite treatment ointment and unscented skin care products suitable for pregnant women on her face, hands, neck and ears.

Her whole body seemed clear and comfortable. She quickly relied on her memory to pack the original owner's textbooks into her bag, and packed two more coats and trousers before carrying her things out.

Perhaps it was the last meal that the brother and sister had in Anjia, but Kang Xiaohua was more generous, giving each person a bowl of thick and fragrant millet porridge, a hard-boiled egg, two steamed buns with three-way noodles, and a plate of pickled cucumbers.

After dinner, it was still dark outside, and there was only one dim light far away in the alley.

An’s father pushed the bicycle that was about to fall apart and walked in front. There were two packages hanging on the handlebars and two thin quilts on the back seat.

Kang Xiaohua was also carrying a bag and wearing patched cotton shoes, walking with the two brothers and sisters. When he met someone going to the toilet, he reluctantly smiled and said, "Aren't we sending the brothers and sisters to the countryside? This year our family I don’t want to buy new year’s goods anymore. I just ask them to make arrangements there so that we, as adults, can feel at ease.”

"It's good to go to the countryside. At least you can eat freely. Nowhere like here, you can't buy food even if you have money." A tightly wrapped woman nodded in agreement.

"You and your wife are really caring about their brother and sister. There are so many children at home, and you still gritted your teeth and asked them to read it out. When we have the enrollment quota here, it will be easy for the two high school students to come back and take the exam. "It's good to avoid the limelight," another aunt also said.

"Yes, there is a good chance that they will return to the city, otherwise we would not be willing to let them leave home at a young age," Kang Xiaohua said without any flaws on her face, as if the two brothers and sisters who left were really born from her belly.

The An family and his wife were afraid that the brother and sister would escape during the battle, so they personally sent them to the station.

Seeing the only bright four-character Kyoto Station in the gray, An Zhiqiu said with an ugly expression, holding his stomach and saying in pain: "I've eaten too much this morning, so I have to squat in the toilet. Dad, Zhixia, wait for me at the entrance to the station." , otherwise I won’t be able to find you when I come back.”

"I'll accompany you," An's father said as he was about to hand the car over to Kang Xiaohua.

“No need, Zhixia is here, are you still afraid that I will run away?” He sneered, carrying a big bag of cotton clothes behind him, holding his stomach and rushing into the crowd.

The couple exchanged looks. Yes, An Zhiqiu loves his sister the most. Even if he is hungry or cold, he must make her feel better. It can be said that An Zhixia is An Zhiqiu's only weakness.

The station in the twelfth lunar month was as lively as ever, with people carrying large and small bags and squeezing in. Although everything was dusty, An Zhixia could still smell the smell of the new year. It was the smell from 2019 that was imprinted on her childhood. , everyone’s face is filled with happiness, satisfaction and joy.

It's just that all this has nothing to do with the An family brother and sister who left home to go to the countryside. They waited in the cold wind for nearly an hour and saw that all the educated youths on the roster had arrived. An's father and Kang Xiaohua's faces were as ugly as black.

An Zhiqiu ran back sweating profusely, breathing heavily, took the two bags and asked intermittently: "Have you reported it? Have you got your ticket?"

“Well, the director of the Educated Youth Office and his people have already gone in,” An Zhixia unpacked her uneven but clean military green bag, with a sweet smile on her pale face.

“Lao Kang, keep an eye on the car, I’ll see them off at the station,” An’s father, holding his bag in both hands, shouted to the two brothers and sisters as they squeezed into the station.

An Zhixia took a deep breath, hugged her things tightly with one hand, and grabbed her brother's clothes with the other, following him with some novelty and inexplicable excitement.

Today's trains are all green cars with windows that can be opened. People hand their luggage in before they get on. She also climbed in with the help of people inside. The sense of the era of the 1970s was completely opened in front of her. Closed the curtain!

(End of this chapter)