In the studio, Fatty Sun stared at Chen Qiaoshan and asked with a bright look: "What, are you going to Xinhua?"

Chen Qiaoshan said: "Yes, I'll leave in the afternoon. Don't forget what you told me!"

The ticket is in the afternoon and it is still early.

Although it is the May Day holiday, only a few people can take vacations in the studio. As a professional coder, it is definitely a delusion to have a complete seven-day vacation. Overtime is the norm, and normal vacation is a low-probability event.

"Why did you suddenly think about going to Xinhua? I haven't heard you mention it?" Fatty Sun had some questions. He wanted to go home, but Chen Qiaoshan didn't go back, so he stayed. Now, this guy is going to leave alone again.

"The paper I prepared is a research group of typing and copying for 200,000 people in Xinhua. If you don't go to the spot, no one will believe it if you write it." After explaining, Chen Qiaoshan reminded him: "Don't forget, there are 56 undergraduate colleges on the list, and each of them has to arrange people to do questionnaires, don't miss it."

Fatty Sun shook the list in his hand and couldn't help but mutter: "Yanjing is not big, why are there so many universities?"

"It depends on who you compare with in size." Chen Qiaoshan smiled and said, "Why, do you have any objections?"

"How can you have no objection?" Fatty Sun was a little depressed, "We don't have 985 colleges in Henan Province, and there are only Zhengda's family in 211. There are so few books in one. Who can I argue with?"

Chen Qiaoshan did not waste his time explaining it. This is a sociological problem. In the final analysis, it is an economic problem. "Okay, don't think about it, that's not something we can change."

Fatty Sun was no longer confused. Looking at the list in his hand, he was a little curious: "Dashan, just do a sample survey, why bother to conduct a census? Isn't it a waste of money?"

Chen Qiaoshan smiled and said, "You didn't want to spend money if you didn't bury me a few days ago? Why, now you've discovered your conscience again?"

Fatty Sun rolled his eyes, "It's not your way to spend money. You can hire people to run away and you will have to spend one or two thousand. As for it, you can do a sample survey and you won't even need a fraction of it. If you really want to do a census, you won't be able to delay things. This money is not worth it. Why are you doing this?"

"Forget it, just follow what I said." Chen Qiaoshan insisted on conducting the census.

Doing scientific research is a serious matter. It can be solved by spending money. He doesn't mind doing it more carefully. Maybe he will gain unexpected results. At least, the detailed data is more convincing.

Fatty Sun looked helpless, "Okay, I'll listen to you. I'm sorry for my 200 pounds. Sooner or later, I'll make you suffer."

"Go to die." Chen Qiaoshan's face turned green. He was a serious person. After Fatty Sun said this, it seemed like he had some bad habits. "Don't you just find more people? What a big deal? By the way, keep an eye on it and don't be fooled."

Fatty Sun didn't care at all, "Don't worry, I asked students from Renmin University for help. Forty or fifty a day, which is more than earning outside. No one will be foolish."

Chen Qiaoshan was not saying anything. Although Fatty Sun was a man with little care, he was pretty good at doing serious business and could not find any problems.

...

In the afternoon, Chen Qiaoshan boarded the train to Hankou, which took 16 hours to complete the whole journey. The tickets were at least much more comfortable than the tickets.

It was already two o'clock in the evening when the car arrived in Zhengzhou. Chen Qiaoshan also reached the limit of patience. There were too many people. Although it could not be completed during the Spring Festival travel rush, the situation was not much better.

The train changed its front and stopped for half an hour.

Chen Qiaoshan took the opportunity to move on the platform. No matter what, Yu Province is also his hometown for the rest of his life. Listening to the familiar and affectionate hawking around, his fatigue suddenly relieved a lot. However, thinking that he would enter Hubei Province in a few hours, he felt a little more nervous.

What should be come can't be avoided. Chen Qiaoshan curled up in the aisle all night, half asleep and half awake, and the train entered Hubei Province. Except for receiving a text message from Hubei Province, everything else was silent.

When we arrived in Hankou, we took the train to northwest Hubei and went around in circles. It was not until three o'clock in the afternoon that Chen Qiaoshan arrived at the town where his hometown was.

There is not much difference between my hometown and my memory. Since I went out to study, I have been back from now on. When I started working, I have been in a hurry.

Chen Qiaoshan felt that things changed for the first time. He searched for memories and wandered around the old house for a long time. Everything in front of him was very familiar, but he could not find a familiar face.

Mixed between familiarity and strangeness, Chen Qiaoshan felt a pain of being pulled away, and he didn't even have the courage to ask someone for familiar relatives, friends and old friends.

He knew in his heart that he could not go back to anything.

After finding a ridge to sit down, Chen Qiaoshan fell into a trunk. Even now, he still used to thinking that this was the whole of his childhood.

He once organized a small group here to steal melons on Hougang, and then was chased by the old Shaanxi who was watching the melons. When he came home, he was beaten by his father.

In the river not far away, he started with a dog digging and developed a lot of water skills. Thanks to this, he dared to save Zhou Rui's life from the sinking Santanar.

...

Everything has nothing to do with Chen Qiaoshan.

He remembered the old friends of mountains and rivers. What a similar situation. The mountains are still mountains, but the river is no longer river. He has never left, but he can never go back.

"Where is the sky, it's dark, so I won't go back to cut the meal."

Suddenly, Chen Qiaoshan was awakened from his memories. Looking up, there was an old man with a slightly hunchbacked man standing not far away. The sky was already dim and he couldn't see his face clearly. From the pipes with slightly sparks, the breath of time was reflected.

"Uncle, I'm from the Tang family, are you having a midnight snack?"

"No, I'm on the tour, Sun Wazi, and I don't know which country I've gone to. Have you seen it?"

"I don't know either." As he said that, Chen Qiaoshan stood up, responded, and turned around and left.

He knew that this place had no connection with him when he went there.

"Old Tang's family?" The old man holding a cigarette pipe looked at the extinguished cigarette mouth, knocked on the shoe board, shook the ashes cleaned, and filled them with tobacco threads again, but he had a question in his heart. There was no one named Tang within a few miles of the garden above the town.

He heard the accent, but he was indeed a local child. He looked at him but looked at him again. Thinking about it, the old man shook his head, and it was important to find his naughty grandson first.

Chen Qiaoshan was naturally unaware of the old man's doubts. He just wanted to leave here as soon as possible and didn't want to stay for a minute.

There are no shortages of earth, river, steep cliff, and hilly landforms here.

It was still a distance from the town. Although the sky was dark, it was impossible for Chen Qiaoshan to walk up the town in the dark, using the starlight or the scattered lights in the distance.

Halfway through, Chen Qiaoshan's cell phone rang.

"Hello."

"Second brother, have you eaten?" Xiao Wu's crisp voice came through the microphone, and his cheerful tone suddenly shocked Chen Qiaoshan's spirit.

"No, I'm almost starving to death."

"Tsk, you are lying to me again. Yan Yaojing said, you take her to eat delicious food all day long." The little girl was straightforward, and this was what she got from Chen Ma's true teachings.

Listening to Xiaowu's nagging, Chen Qiaoshan felt much better, "Is that so, why don't I know? Tell me what do you two usually talk about?"

"I won't tell you." Xiao Wu said with a complaining moment: "Second brother, why haven't you come back this holiday? I haven't seen you for a long time. My third and fourth sisters are back. By the way, my mother specially stewed an old hen, but it's a pity that you can't eat it."

As he spoke, Xiao Wu laughed again. With a few words, joy, sorrow and resentment turned several times in a row. It is definitely not possible for ordinary people. It can only be Xiao Wu, who has changed his emotions so skillfully and freely.

"We have a lot of delicious food today, and we made dumplings. I'll help you. Second brother, let me tell you that I secretly made a milk candy in a dumpling..."

Xiao Wu said a lot, but it was all fragmentary and had no point in mind.

Chen Qiaoshan listened very seriously. The two discussed the issue of the distribution of chicken legs, and even had a dispute over this. In the end, Xiao Wu's distribution plan won.

After chatting with the brother and sister, Chen Qiaoshan was surprised to find that the little girl actually knew the delicious food in Yanjing. Not only did she have several major domestic cuisines, but also Western desserts, and she also talked about Japanese dishes such as sukiyaki. These were clearly the food he and Yan Xiaoqin experienced.

"I said Xiaowu, why do you know everything? Could it be that you can take a book and remember it?"

Xiaowu said proudly: "It's not there, I will remember everything Yan Yaojing said it once."

After a pause, she reminded her softly: "Second brother, don't forget, you will take me and my third and fourth sisters to Yanjing for fun during the summer vacation. Then I will eat all the delicious food in Yanjing."

Chen Qiaoshan shook his head and smiled bitterly. He was definitely a foodie again, but unfortunately he used the wrong place to think about it. If it was put on study, the whole family would not know how much worry they would have to save.

He chatted with the third and fourth brothers again. Perhaps because of his age, compared with Xiaowu, Chen Qiaoshan was much more square and restrained in front of them.

The phone call finally reached Chen Ma's hands.

"Hey, second brother, have you eaten?"

"Not yet, mom, I'll go later."

"It's all the time. Don't you have dinner at five or six in the city? Have you gone to the wilderness outside again..."

Chen's mother always nagged and reminded her for a while before she ended the phone call.

After hanging up the phone, Chen Qiaoshan's originally depressed mood was relieved. He finally looked back at the hazy mountains and rivers in the distance and left without looking back.
Chapter completed!