Chapter 5 The Disappearing Past
Chen Qiaoshan felt a little satisfied.
Unexpectedly, I just came into contact with this world and got the favor of a girl. I was still such an outstanding girl.
Yan Xiaoqin's conditions in all aspects are undoubtedly extremely outstanding. Not only is she beautiful, but her studies are also excellent. At least she will be fine. Judging from her dress and behavior, her family environment should be very good.
According to the standards of later generations, girls like her should also be extremely scarce in society.
Needless to think about it, I don’t know how many Yan Xiaoqin’s admirers exist on campus, but she just fell in love with Chen Qiaoshan.
Chen Qiaoshan looked around himself. A half-old light blue jacket with black pants and a pair of power shoes. This made him feel a bit rustic no matter how you look at it.
The love between young men and women may be so pure, without a trace of secular atmosphere.
Chen Qiaoshan looked at himself now and thought of Chen Weiguo back then. The love story between Chen Weiguo and Zhang Ziyu may also be simple and beautiful.
Unfortunately, they were in that chaotic era, and their love naturally carried too many shackles of the times, so they were unable to resist the baptism of the difficult years in the end.
Zhang Ziyu may have really loved the young and handsome Chen Weiguo, but with the great changes of the times, watching his brothers leave and his parents leave, love has been smoothed out by the difficult years.
When Zhang Ziyu has seen the prosperity of her hometown in her memory again, it is probably difficult for her to have the courage to return to the remote countryside and face her former lover.
Thinking of Zhang Ziyu, Chen Qiaoshan couldn't help but think of his girlfriend who had been by his side in his previous life.
Once upon a time, she followed Tang Dashan, who had nothing, and was under the pressure of her family and was silently accompanied by him for nine years. A woman's youth can go through several nine years of wasted time.
Chen Qiaoshan suddenly realized that he was a bastard. After only a few days of coming, he left behind his former lover and his parents who raised him behind him.
He felt a little sad again, and he didn't know if he could go back to the past. I think this was just a luxury.
Thinking of this, Chen Qiaoshan stood up and walked out, Sun Guangming asked curiously: "What are you doing?"
“Go out and have a walk.”
"In the evening self-study in recent days, you will be caught by the class teacher every day."
Chen Qiaoshan ignored it and left alone.
Yan Xiaoqin looked at Chen Qiaoshan who was walking out of the classroom alone, and her doubts deepened a little further.
Chen Qiaoshan walked on the quiet campus, and it was almost 9 o'clock.
He is the only one in the huge campus. The first high school is under great pressure and there are basically no students wandering around in the evening study. Chen Qiaoshan feels very lonely. He is indeed a lonely existence in this world.
Chen Qiaoshan walked into the school's small supermarket, where the boss's wife was alone. She stood behind the cashier and held a copy of "Zhiyin" in her hand.
When the boss saw Chen Qiaoshan coming in, he did not greet him, but just pushed the public telephone placed inside the counter to the outside.
"Long-distance 500 yuan, 20 yuan,"
After the boss said that, he still felt sorry for running over to call every night, but he still didn't get through.
Chen Qiaoshan grabbed the phone and carefully dialed the number from his hometown in Hubei Province. After waiting for a few seconds, no surprise came from the opposite side of the earpiece, "Hello, the phone number you are dialing is an empty number. Please check it before dialing..."
Chen Qiaoshan hung up the phone and dialed it again, but the same result was still the same.
He called his girlfriend's house twice, and waited for a while, but the ending was still the same.
Chen Qiaoshan clearly remembered that the phone number in his hometown was installed in 1998. He remembered clearly that the river in his hometown that year had a flood that once-in-a-century. The phone number in his girlfriend's house was installed earlier than his house, but why can't it be reached in the past few days?
Since the first day he came here, Chen Qiaoshan has tried to call home, but it ended like this every time. He also tried to call other relatives' homes, but none of them could get through.
He searched in his memory unwillingly, and suddenly remembered that he might try to contact his neighbors in his hometown.
Chen Qiaoshan found the phone number from Aunt Wang's house, who had lived in the opposite door of his house for decades, from his memory. Aunt Wang was his elementary school teacher and his mother was a colleague who had worked with him for many years.
Chen Qiaoshan dialed in according to the number in his memory and waited for a few seconds. "Beep, beep..." The microphone sounded the phone call, and Chen Qiaoshan's breathing couldn't help but stagnate, and he felt his heart tightening.
"Hey, who are you? Which one do you look for?" The familiar dialect in my hometown was heard from the receiver, but the voice was a strange woman. Chen Qiaoshan was a little confused. The woman opposite asked again, and Chen Qiaoshan said, "Hello, please, I want to find Tang Xianqing. Can you ask Tang Xianqing who lives opposite your house?"
"Tang Xianqing?" Repeat the other side, "I don't know him. I don't have to call him Tang Xianqing from the opposite door of my house. Where are you? Did you dial the wrong number?"
Hearing the answer from the opposite side, Chen Qiaoshan was stunned. Tang Xianqing was his father, so why didn't he not? Listening to the question of the woman opposite the receiver, Chen Qiaoshan asked unwillingly, "Do you know Liu Quanxiu? Then is there a woman named Liu Quanxiu near your home? She is under forty years old and is a primary school teacher."
"We don't have this person here, who are you?"
Chen Qiaoshan was completely confused. Why didn’t his parents have disappeared? Then is he still there? Thinking of this, he asked again: “You are the Dujiadian Neighborhood Committee of Shuanghe, Sui County? Is there a Tang Dashan? Is there a child named Tang Dashan near your house? The one who is fifteen or sixteen years old is a boy.”
"This is a good restaurant here, but I have never heard of anyone with the surname Tang. There are many people with the surname Liu, but there is no teacher named Liu Quanxiu. We are a small place, and there are locals nearby. Every household is very familiar with each other. I have never heard of the people you mentioned. If you don't look for it anymore, may you have found the wrong person..."
When Chen Qiaoshan heard the words from the receiver, he felt completely relieved and was not in the mood to continue asking, and hung up the phone in a daze.
Why did they disappear? Why did their parents disappear from their hometown? They disappeared, and they were gone, so where would they go?
Could it be that this is all an illusion, there is no thirty-year-old Tang Dashan at all, everything is just his own delusion?
That's not right. Chen Qiaoshan immediately denied this idea. He just called, and he opened his mouth and didn't stutter at all. As he thought about it, he was a little confused.
The supermarket owner looked at Chen Qiaoshan who was standing outside the scattered place after the phone call and asked, "You guy is from another place, why do you go to school in this school?"
Chen Qiaoshan recovered a little, ignored the boss's wife's problem, turned around and walked out.
The boss's wife quickly shouted, "You haven't paid yet, I'm a small business."
Chen Qiaoshan turned around and asked, "How much?"
"One 5, you're a long distance across provinces, it's expensive."
Chen Qiaoshan took out the money from his pocket and put it down, and walked out.
The boss lady saw it and shouted, "Wait, you gave me ten yuan, and you haven't asked you for money yet. Are you crazy?"
Hearing the boss's wife's words, Chen Qiaoshan became even more depressed. He took the change she handed over depressedly, turned around and walked out of the deserted small supermarket.
Walking in the empty campus, Chen Qiaoshan looked up at the night sky, but unfortunately the street lights on the campus were too bright and he could only see the sky was gray.
My hometown is still there, but my family is gone.
Is the hometown without relatives still a hometown? All the relatives here are there, but is this really your hometown?
Chen Qiaoshan remembered the song "The Strange Man" by Li Jian in his previous life, and tears suddenly burst out from his eyes.
Unconsciously take a foreign land
Treated as a hometown
...
The former home accent
Hide quietly
Unspeakable promise
Always feel at ease
...
Chapter completed!