Father's Land Mother's River

Chapter 11 An Old Time
After eating the noodles, Lin Yidan brought Liu Zhixin a newspaper, and she went to clean the lunch box.

Liu Zhixin finished reading the newspaper without uttering a single word, her pale face was flushed with red light, and the relaxed smile from the corner of her mouth was like the tide flooding her body at high tide.I sighed again and again in my heart, the shackles on my body were finally lifted, but it came a little late.

Lin Yidan walked into the ward after brushing the lunch box. Liu Zhixin excitedly shook the newspaper and said to her, "Sister, I dare say that the era we live in will undergo fundamental changes."

Lin Yidan took a chair, sat across from Liu Zhixin, and said frankly: "From today onwards, you don't have to call me sister anymore, I'm only three months older than you. I don't have so many scruples in the future, just call me my sister." name."

Yang Zhixin is immersed in the memories of the past: "I have two older sisters. When I was young, I grew up in my sister's arms and care. My sister's concern for me is second only to my mother. Even now, I go to visit Elder sister, my elder sister will also lift my clothes and touch my stomach to see if I am fat or thin. I am used to calling you sister all these years, and I feel that there is another older sister taking care of me. How could I change my words all of a sudden? ?”

"You only feel that I care about you now?" Lin Yidan narrowed his eyes and said, "Do you remember the nicknames our classmates gave us back then?"

"A loyal heart." Of course Liu Zhixin will not forget it, and couldn't help but smile and said: "In the last semester of graduation, the classmates made a fuss and made a fuss, connecting the last word in our names and making the class The shortest and poorest boy was forced to be the best, tallest and most beautiful girl in the class. Actually, what did we know at that time? We didn’t know anything, it was just a child’s prank.”

"A heart full of loyalty! What an elegant and beautiful nickname, which can make people have infinite reverie." Lin Yidan's face showed a girlish expression of obsession: "Since I got this beautiful nickname, I have secretly paid attention to you. Every now and then With two rows of seats, I often stare at the back of your head curiously. I thought to myself, what is in that big backrest? I usually don’t see how to work hard, so why is my academic performance always closely behind me? ? I dare not relax a little bit, for fear of being overtaken by you."

"Girls from your Lin family, do you like to stare at the back of other people's heads? Back then, my mother was attracted by the little braid in Hengshan Academy, and immediately stared at that poor scholar."

"Don't be so sentimental. I am a study committee member and I saw your exam papers from the teacher. I am very surprised that you can do the difficult questions correctly, but you can't make mistakes in the easier ones. Although I am afraid that you will exceed Me, I still talk to you often, why don't you take notes in class, why don't you be more serious in exams. You said you are used to being careless, and you have forgotten all of these?"

Liu Zhixin proudly boasted: "I dare not say anything else, I am confident in my memory. I can memorize the content of the teacher's lecture without taking notes. I don't want to surpass you. I did that on purpose. I did it, lest you cry."

"seriously?"

"Actually, I didn't want others to notice me. My family background made me feel inferior. It was Mr. Guan who changed my name and let me understand it by myself. Otherwise, I wouldn't have the sincerity."

"With perfect scores in all subjects, you easily won No.1 in the graduating examination of high school. Only then did I realize that you have absolute strength. Usually, you deliberately don't show off your mountains and show off your water. That back-bending head is really not white. Yes. I was ignorantly looking forward to how great it would be if the loyalty could last until high school and university. Unexpectedly, the loyalty was interrupted for more than ten years, and they became sisters and brothers in this remote small mine."

"This is life. If you weren't by my side, I would be dead this time."

"After talking so much, do you feel flustered?" Lin Yidan stood up, carefully examined Liu Zhixin's chest with a stethoscope, and said to Liu Zhixin with relief, "It's lucky, there won't be any sequelae."

Liu Zhixin held Lin Yidan's hand tightly and said, "Yidan, thank you! Not only because you saved my life, but you have given me a lot of spiritual comfort and support over the years."

"Thank you too!" Lin Yidan held Liu Zhixin's head in his arms, gently stroked the back of his protruding head, and said tenderly: "You let me feel the warmth of home and the warmth of family. If you If I die, my heart will die with it."

Liu Zhixin lay quietly in Lin Yidan's arms, the female deodorant mixed with Lysol water made him dizzy.His body is still very weak, he has experienced death and came back to life, eager to grasp the most essential things in life, so as to fill up the frail and lacking life.

He stretched out his arms and embraced Lin Yidan's soft, straight and strong waist. With a little force, he hugged him tighter and tighter, and the fire of life burned more and more vigorously in his body.He forgot everything in the world, and just wanted to melt himself into the surging tide.

Lin Yidan suddenly lifted Liu Zhixin's head, and exclaimed: "Your back head is really big, it's different, it feels as hard as an apple."

Liu Zhixin let go of her arms, woke up from an illusory dream, touched her head with a little embarrassment and said, "I can't buy a suitable hat, even a size 60 extra-large hat can't fit in, and I have to cut a hole in the back." .”

Lin Yidan smiled happily, held Liu Zhixin's head and asked him to lie down, covered him with the quilt, bent down, kissed his forehead like a dragonfly, and said nonchalantly: "It's time to rest. Get a good night's sleep." Let’s get back to health as soon as possible.”

A week later, Liu Zhixin was able to get out of bed and walk around alone, and all physical signs recovered well.The leader of the mine came to the hospital to visit him, and adjusted his work: he could choose between accounting in the staff canteen and watching the wind well.

The old miners who have worked underground for 20 years should also enjoy the benefits of working in the mine.

Liu Zhixin chose to watch Fengjing without thinking.The air shaft is to use the blower equipment to send air to the underground mine to ensure the underground air circulation.The work is relatively relaxed, and it is a flexible working system. You can work for 36 hours and rest for [-] hours, and you can change shifts.

It was precisely because of this that he gave up the decent and affordable canteen accountant job.I also held my breath in my heart, and now I think of asking me to be an accountant, and I won't serve you anymore.

Lin Yidan didn't quite understand this.Liu Zhixin explained: "Kan Fengjing can go home a few more times a month, can stay for a few more days, and the salary is higher than that of an accountant."

After hearing this, Lin Yidan just smiled silently.

It was difficult for Liu Zhixin to explain his true inner thoughts to Lin Yidan.The husband and wife living apart from Jiang Changling for more than ten years, get together less and leave more, and the time together is not as long as the time with Lin Yidan in the past few years.

Every month at the end of the month, he goes home. Apart from giving Jiang Changling some living expenses, in fact he has not fulfilled the responsibilities of a husband, a father and a brother.

Every time he went home, with deep guilt, he tried his best to do more housework in a short period of time to share the pressure on Jiang Changling.

Jiang Changling occasionally complains, but he only regards it as an indispensable emotional bond between husband and wife after a long absence and reunion.As time passed, this feeling gradually became numb.

I was in a hurry when I went home, and I was also in a hurry when I left home and returned to the mine, even with a faint eager expectation.He ran back and forth in a contradictory state of mind. Going home is fulfilling his duty, and returning to the mine is the release of his soul and emotion.

Although there is a layer of insignificant and dispensable kinship on the surface, but he knows in his heart how thin and fragile that layer of relationship must be. binding.

When cooking with a partner, you have to be as fake as possible. If you can deceive others, you can't deceive yourself, so it's no wonder that others will be suspicious.

Liu Zhixin didn't want Lin Yidan's private space to be displayed in front of the bachelor-like hungry miners.He found old wooden squares and boards from the workshop, built a partition in Lin Yidan's dormitory, pasted newspapers, and opened a small door to divide the dormitory into two parts.

The inside is Lin Yidan's private space, and the outside is supposed to be the kitchen, with the door open for casual prying.Lin Yidan stood aside with a smile and looked at him busy.

After Liu Zhixin finished his busy work, Lin Yidan whispered to him: "Should I put such a couplet on the door? There is no silver 300 taels here, and the neighbor Wang Er never stole it."

Liu Zhixin slapped his forehead, this is a foolish thing done by smart people.He wanted to tear down the partition, but Lin Yidan refused.

Over time, everything will change qualitatively.Eating like a family facing each other, although the door is open and gossip is on the lips, but the intertwined eyes convey another meaning.

It's not that there is any ambiguity, it's the harmony of the soul, and it's a fire of mutual comfort and warmth in the face of an unfair fate.What can restrain them is only the external environment and a sense of responsibility, and it is precisely because responsibility is more important than emotion that it supports him to this day.

Now, the pressure of the external environment has been eliminated, and they embrace each other and have intimate contact that shouldn't be there.The unreliable relationship that maintains the pure friendship with each other finally broke through the taboo.

Even if it's just for a short while, it's enough to beat a mediocre life.Will a loyal heart become forever?Should it be forever?
Afterwards, Liu Zhixin felt a sense of fear deep in his heart. He didn't know what kind of consequences would be produced if he allowed the matter to continue.

He seemed to see Mr. Guan and his mother's stern reprimand eyes, as if facing Jiang Changling's mournful cry and the innocent and pitiful eyes of his children, as if he heard the contemptuous and mocking laughter of his younger brother Liu Zhitai.

I can even feel that Yue Zifan, who is still undergoing labor reform, is being scrutinized like a javelin from a distance.

He flinched.The momentary impulse was just a sudden explosion of the regained life, not what the real Liu Zhixin did.He chose to watch Fengjing's work, so as to send an important signal.

That night, Lin Yidan made dumplings and sent them to the hospital.The two of them had just finished their meal when "23gan" stood poking his head outside the door of the ward, and asked cautiously, "Doctor Lin, Liu Xiucai, can I go in?"

Lin Yidan glanced back and said contemptuously, "This is a hospital, a public place, anyone can come in and out."

Liu Zhixin greeted warmly: "Old Yan, come in and talk. You are so mean that you just thought of coming to the hospital to see me."

"I'm ashamed to see you." "23 Qian" walked in, put two canned fruits on the table, lowered his head and said, "As long as I can listen to a word from you, I won't end up where I am today."

Lin Yidan got up to give up his seat to "23 Gan", "23 Gan" waved his hand and said, "I won't sit anymore, just say a few words and leave."

Liu Zhixin glanced at the two cans and said, "Old Yan, what are you doing? I don't know about your family's situation yet? You take the cans away and bring them home for the children to eat."

"23 Gan" said guiltily: "You used to repair my bicycle all the time. You had such a big accident, shouldn't it be right to buy you two cans? Besides, think about the things you did to you two before, and I feel that I am not happy." I also regret it. Actually, what’s the matter? As a worker, I should be happy for you two.”

Lin Yidan stood up again, and said coldly: "Master Yan, I don't like to listen to you talking like this. It seems that there is really something shameful between us."

"No, no! I didn't mean that." "23gan" waved his hands again and again, stepped back in embarrassment, and said as he retreated, "I'm relieved to see that Liu Xiucai is fine. I'm leaving, what should you two do? .”

"23 Dry" is gone.Lin Yidan couldn't laugh or cry, Liu Zhixin laughed too: "He just can't talk."

It was quiet in the ward, staring around. If "23 doing" is out of tune, it undoubtedly touched the heartstrings of the two people again. What should I do and what can I do?

(End of this chapter)