On the eve of the Chinese New Year in 2001, I was granted family leave. I haven't been home for a whole year, and my daughter-in-law didn't come to the army because the child was too young, so I was really homesick at that time!
I packed my bags and took the train to ...... home non-stop
At that time, I was working in an artillery regiment in Inner Mongolia, and my daughter-in-law was working in a township in Hebei, which was more than 1,300 miles apart, and it took an hour to take the train
After a night on the train, the next morning, I finally approached my hometown.
Everything in my hometown seemed so cordial, I looked through the window glass of the car to the fields on both sides, only to see the white expanse all around, it turned out that it had just snowed heavily in my hometown last night.
As soon as I walked out of the station, a cold wind blew in my face, accompanied by the familiar local sounds in the square, I deeply felt the breath of hometown, and my emotions suddenly rose!
Because my daughter-in-law's township is still more than 40 miles away from the station, I didn't let my daughter-in-law come to pick her up, but took a car to their unit to find her.
I took a minibus to my daughter-in-law's unit, and when I appeared in front of my daughter-in-law all of a sudden, my daughter-in-law seemed very excited!
My daughter-in-law was working in the township finance office at the time, and she was also very busy, she talked to me for a while, telling me that she still had some urgent things to deal with, and that she could not accompany me for the time being, and asked me to take a break in her dormitory and go home to see the children together after work in the afternoon
The daughter-in-law's dormitory is a bungalow in the township, with two beds and a table, which is very simple!
The other bed belonged to her colleague, who heard that I was back, and consciously hid somewhere else and did not return to the dormitory!
At that time, the child was just over a year old, and he was taken care of by his mother-in-law, and he was more than 30 miles away from the daughter-in-law's unit
Usually the daughter-in-law commutes to work, which is to ride the 80 she bought when she got married"Red Rabbit Horse"Brand motorcycle, summer is good to say, to winter if you ride more than 30 miles, hands and feet will be frozen numb, very sinful!
But there was really no way, the child was too young at that time, and the daughter-in-law needed to go back to see the child every day, and the pain on the road could only be endured!
The day I remember happened to be Friday, and when my daughter-in-law finished her work in the afternoon, we rode our motorcycles back together!
It is a national highway from the township, because it has just snowed heavily, the road is slippery, we rode a motorcycle, and walked carefully!
When you get close to your mother-in-law's house, you need to turn off the national highway onto the country road.
It is more than 3 miles away from my mother-in-law's house, and due to the thick snow on the road, the motorcycle can no longer be ridden, so we have to get off the motorcycle and push the motorcycle forward!
At this time, in the field, as far as the eye can see, the trees and the ground are white, and there are scattered snowflakes falling from time to time in the sky.
Due to the freezing weather, there are few pedestrians on the road, and the birds seem to have lost their traces, and everything seems so quiet!
On this empty and vast snowy field, only my daughter-in-law and I are trudging hard, as if this piece of heaven and earth belongs to the two of us!
Since I haven't seen my daughter-in-law for a year, that deep longing is self-evident. We walked slowly through the snow, looking at each other and whispering, without anyone disturbing us or worrying about anyone overhearing us!
is like a sentence in Zhu Ziqing's "Moonlight on the Lotus Pond":"…This is the beauty of being alone, and I can take advantage of this boundless lotus moonlight. "
The two of us were walking, talking, and laughing, and the emotions that we hadn't seen for a year were released at this time, as if we were lovers who had just been talking about, enjoying the joy of being alone!
At that time, we seemed to have forgotten the coldness of the world, and we no longer complained about the difficulty of the road, and sometimes even wished that the path would be longer, longer...
This is a scene I experienced with my daughter-in-law more than 20 years ago when I came home from visiting relatives in the army, and it is also a vivid portrayal of my life in two places
Now I have already changed jobs and come back, and I ended the life of the Cowherd and Weaver Girl with my daughter-in-law, but every time I think of the experience of separation between the two places, I always feel emotional, and I miss it infinitely!