In 1988, in a remote mountain village in Liaocheng, Shandong, China, the villagers gathered at the door of Lao Cai's house, and everyone's eyes were full of anticipation, because they were all waiting for today, Cai Guodong, the son of the Cai family, was finally going to set foot on the way home!
The villagers hugged Jin E and sighed with emotion: "Fifty years have passed, your Guodong has finally gone home, and you have finally waited for this day." Jin E's eyes were full of tears, and in her blurred vision, the figure gradually became clear, it was a familiar and slightly vicissitudes of life.
And behind that back, she saw a woman of her age following closely, and at this moment, she seemed to understand all the truth.
When they met again after two and a half centuries, they had mixed feelings when facing each other. The relatives gave them time to be alone, after all, for them, the time to get together was too little and too little.
They didn't know what to say for a moment, and her tears kept flowing, but they couldn't wash away the pain and longing she had over the years. "I'm sorry. ”
He hesitated for a long time before saying these three words, and perhaps at this moment, it no longer matters what he said except for the apologies he said. She didn't know how long she had been crying, and all the wind and rain of the past through the years had been bumpy all the way, but she finally stopped crying and said these words with her only remaining strength: "You go, I have nothing to say." ”
What kind of emotion did this woman willingly endure for two centuries of solitude? And what is the reason for a promising young man to escape this feeling and wander away for two centuries?
Let's dive into their stories! Second, the trick of fate made the two unwilling.
Cai Guodong and Liu Jin'e once met when they were children, and the two families were only separated by a wall, Cai Guodong's parents were very optimistic about Jin'e, thinking that she was three years older than Cai Guodong, and it was a good time for "female juniors, hugging gold bricks".
Although Jin E doesn't talk much and hasn't read books, she is honest and responsible, and Cai Guodong's parents believe that she will be a good wife. However, Liu Jin'e's conservative thinking troubled Cai Guodong.
In 1935, Cai Guodong was 15 years old, full of ideals and ambitions, so he wanted to leave his hometown, see the outside world, learn something, and serve the country. He believes that on the road of pursuing progress and ideals, he will definitely meet like-minded people, rather than being uneducated like Liu Jin'e.
Although Cai Guodong felt bitter about this rule of "the order of the parents, the words of the matchmaker", he still chose to accept it. He comforted himself that when he left his hometown in the future, this nominal relationship would naturally end.
Cai Guodong and Liu Jin'e got married in 1935, and on the wedding night, Cai Guodong deliberately got drunk until dawn, perhaps from that time, Liu Jin'e began to forbear and mourn.
After marriage, Cai Guodong always found an excuse to go out early and return late, and the two were in name only, but Liu Jin'e took care of the Cai family and the Cai family's little sister meticulously, and the relationship with the Cai family has always been very good.
Later, at the age of 18, Cai Guodong chose to abandon his pen and follow Rong, leaving the home he had long wanted to stay away from. With excellent results, he was admitted to Nanjing National ** University.
When Cai Guodong was young, he was admitted to a prestigious school that many promising young people could not climb. However, after the fall of Nanjing, his studies were interrupted, and the war in the country made him decide to abandon his pen and become a Kuomintang air force soldier.
In the years when he was away from home, he often wrote letters to his parents to report his safety, and in the dead of night, he would also think of that strange wife. He thought she must have started a new life, hopefully.
During his service in the Air Force, his military abilities and insights were recognized by the troops, and he rose from a soldier to a pilot instructor. However, because of the war, he lost contact with his family, and it was not until he returned to his hometown again that he was in his old age.
In 1948, his unit rested in Qingdao, where he met the girl he loved. At that moment, he realized that the love he had been pursuing turned out to be like this, and the heartbeat at that moment was destined for their lives.
They fell in love at first sight, fell in love with each other, and soon entered into marriage. However, when Cai Guodong got married again, his heart was full of contradictions and uneasiness, and after repeated thinking, he decided to hide his previous feelings from his wife.
Cai Guodong always imagines all kinds of possibilities, maybe Liu Jin'e has married someone else, maybe the war has made her forget herself, maybe ......In 1948, when the Kuomintang was losing ground in Chinese mainland, Cai Guodong's troops received orders to withdraw from the mainland.
In April 1949, the Chinese People's Liberation Army crossed the Yangtze River and liberated Nanjing. In December, Chiang Kai-shek fled to Taiwan in a hurry with the remnants of his forces.
This flight completely dispelled Cai Guodong's hope of returning to his hometown, and he did not know if he would be able to set foot on his homeland again and meet his parents in his hometown. Today, he is old, but he still hopes to return to his hometown.
Cai Guodong and his wife settled in Taiwan's Dapeng Village, a village home to many retired Kuomintang officers and soldiers and their families, who lived in extremely difficult living conditions in simple and dilapidated thatched huts.
Whenever a typhoon comes, the thatched hut leaks wind and rain everywhere, but their family encourages each other, warms each other, and lives a warm and comfortable life. Their daughter, Tsai Yi, later became a well-known Taiwanese female writer.
Although life is a bit hard, because there are people from all over the world, everyone has a nostalgia for their hometown engraved in their hearts, so they can find a way to relieve the pain of homesickness.
Sichuan families relieve homesickness in every red pepper, Guangzhou families are good at all kinds of exquisite pastries, and Shandong people like Cai Guodong can never forget the various noodles in their hometown.
Whenever the Chinese New Year comes, the whole family saves money in exchange for a steaming dumpling, which is Cai Guodong's greatest satisfaction and comfort after coming to Taiwan.
In 1988, Cai Guodong returned to the mainland with his wife and daughter, thinking that 50 years had passed, and his original wife Liu Jin'e should have already married a wife. never thought that Liu Jin'e had waited for him for 50 years, and she was still as good as a jade and never remarried.
The two met again and only said, "I'm sorry." "You go, there's nothing left between us to say about it. ”
The two of them had already burst into tears.