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1
The crowd at the station was bustling, Xue Yan was holding her baby in line, and she was sweating from the heat.
The phone rang for a long time, she struggled to pull it out, the screen shows "husband" two big words.
Her husband had called several times between the transfer and the purchase of the ticket.
Xue Yan muted her cell phone, thought about it, and then poked and prodded with difficulty, pulling her cell phone number.
She looked at the waif who was sleeping soundly on her shoulder, and sighed with relief, fortunately, there was no disturbance.
Waiting to get on the bus, it took half a day of squeezing in the narrow aisle to finally find her seat. Being poor and having bought it too late, she had to settle for a three-person seat.
Well unluckily, she was right in the center.
Leaning against the window was a young girl dressed in a trendy outfit, raising her eyelids and glancing at her, then closing her eyes again to listen to her own song.
Xue Yan stool has not yet warmed up, the right seat came up a backpack carrying a large bag of large women, skin dark and tanned, self-concerned about putting luggage.
The woman's belongings were too much, and the small bag she put under her seat had crossed the line and was next to Xue Yan's calf.
She was thin-skinned and hesitated for a long time, not knowing what to say.
The train moved slowly, accompanied by the melodious sound of the radio. Everyone seemed to settle down, staring blankly, paralyzed in their seats.
2
Wa suddenly woke up.
Xue Yan looked at the closed eyes regardless of the more and more ferocious crying of the wa, a hot wave of heat on the back.
She sweated too easily.
Luckily it was breast milk, convenient and swift. Quickly, she fed the baby.
The world was suddenly quiet again, and the only sound around her was the sound of wa swallowing, small and clear, and she was a little embarrassed.
Ten minutes later, the child was full, and looked at the world with wide, round eyes.
"This Sae's eyes are really watery, how old is he?"
The woman on her right suddenly spoke up, and Xue Yan smiled perfunctorily and said she was just a year old.
"Oh! Can you walk?"
"No."
She felt the heat from behind her back had invaded her cheeks, burning frighteningly hot, and the roots behind her ears were red hot.
Xue Yan pulled the doll out of her small bag and gave it to the bored baby to play with.
While the baby played with it seriously, she stared out of the window, her eyes lax and in deep thought.
Would it be better, to make a phone call?
At this time, the older woman next to her handed over a small plastic box filled with plump sweet potato clusters, and asked with a smile, "Older sister, give it to Saeki to eat, right?"
She shook her head in embarrassment, "The baby is too small to eat."
Feeling for her cell phone, Xue Yan decided to make a call.
However, the baby suddenly cried again, it turned out that the doll fell to the ground. She sighed and picked it up for her, who expected that the baby simply do not play, continue to cry, crying cut through the silence of the carriage.
3
The car was stuffy, Xue Yan panicked and looked around, someone had already passed a glance over.
As if covered in a stuffy window display for viewing.
She could only sway from side to side with her child in her arms, yet it had little effect, and in turn caused the girl with the headphones to sway and sweep in a knife to the eye.
A dense sweat seeped out of her body as if she had come out of a bath.
Laboring on the aunt to make way, Xue Yan got up and went to the aisle, to the side of the toilet, and even in the toilet, still could not cover the baby's cry.
When the baby meets an environment he doesn't like, he will stubbornly cry without stopping, without opening his eyes, without taking a breath.
Xue Yan panicked, accidentally knocked over someone else's luggage, "Sorry, sorry..."
She returned to her seat and tried to feed the baby, but the baby turned her head away and wouldn't eat at all.
The older woman next to her stood up, her eyes wide open, staring at the two of them. On the other side, the girl with the headset seemed to be chatting on the voice, said, "Well? What voice? It's not that I'm sitting next to a mother with a child, that child cried a hysterical ah, the ears are going to be deaf..."
Xue Yan's face hot, at this time, hate to find a crack to drill in, breathing also gradually rapid up.
4
Suddenly a series of urgent cell phone rings.
The caller ID read "Mom" and the baby's attention was drawn to it. She was as if she had been pardoned, and rushed to answer the phone.
"Swallow, I heard from Jun that you've come home. Where are you now? Why haven't you arrived yet?"
Her eyes suddenly reddened, desperately trying to stop the urge to choke, "Mom, I'm still on the moving train."
"How long will it take to get there? Why did you and Joon have a fight?"
"There's about an hour left."
She avoided that latter question and hung up quickly.
After receiving the call, Xue Yan's mood instantly improved, her mother's house wasn't some place she couldn't go back to, there was always someone else who remembered her.
Before the heart was completely put down, the baby began to grunt and whine, and was about to cry again.
Then a dark hand handed over a rabbit-shaped hand crank that had been switched on and off, emitting soft music and a soft light. The baby quieted and took it curiously.
Xue Yan took a look and realized that it was the older woman on her right.
The woman smiled kindly, "My grandson loved playing with this when he was little, and it seems you like it too."
Originally, she just stood up to get the hand crank that was placed in the luggage above her.
Xue Yan's family also has the same model, just this time out of the rush, forget to bring.
She was grateful, "Thank you."
"Don't worry about it, as long as Saeki is happy." Auntie said, while quietly stuffing paper towels into her hand, signaling her to wipe her sweat.
Xue Yan wanted to cry again, even strangers can be so considerate, how can her father not do the same.
The girl with the headset on her left, who was still chatting, sighed tersely, "Yes, it's not easy to be a mom...I really admire you..."
Xue Yan's face flushed red, ashamed of her own twisted mind.
5
When Auntie saw that the baby had stopped, she and Xue Yan had a chat. After asking out that she was a far-married woman preparing to go home for the New Year, her face opened up with a smile, "The old sister and I were so much alike when we were young, just as beautiful, just as strong."
Xue Yan was amused.
"When I was married, it was a heartbreaking time. My parents-in-law didn't care about me, so I hid in the countryside. I had to take care of Saeki by myself, and when his father went to work overseas, I often carried him on my back in order to subsidize my family's expenses, so I would put him on the trolley and couldn't take my eyes off of him.
They were also the ones who sent less and less money and didn't call me at home. I'm not sure if you're going to be able to do that, but I'm sure you'll be able to do it," he said.
Her father's feet looked a bit limp and his speech was sloppy. I found relatives and workers to inquire again, only to know that her father was rebar smashed legs, hospitalized for three months, did not tell the family. He was so shy that he didn't even dare to ask for more compensation, so the contractor paid his medical bills and guaranteed wages. The contractor paid the medical bills and the guaranteed salary, and that was it. Sae's father had no one to take care of him, and he had to eat every day, and he had to squeeze out money for his family, and it was a very hard life..."
Saying this, the older woman's voice lowered considerably.
Xue Yan didn't know how to comfort her, so she could only echo softly, "Well...it's really hard.
The mother went on to say: "I was young and fiery, and thought I couldn't let people bully us like that, so I went to the construction site and made a scene, and some people came to persuade me, and I smashed the heat preservation bowl. In fact, it is to scare them, the bones in the soup has long been out to her father's house. But her father came out again to stop me, face ugly. I can only huff and puff and go home.
Then Saeki's father came back less and less often, and he didn't even send a letter on New Year's Day. In the end, he fell in love with the woman who cooked at the construction site, and came back to divorce me. I couldn't accept it for a while, and he just dropped a sentence, saying that I'm a heartless person who doesn't know how to feel sorry for people..."
The carriage was quiet, with only the rattles in the hands of the child making gentle music. Eva giggled as she danced around happily, which brought the atmosphere back to a somewhat warmer temperature.
"Old Sister, did your husband misunderstand something?"
The girl on the left spoke out abruptly, her face full of incomprehension, and it turned out that she had already taken off her headphones and had been listening silently for a long time.
"It's not a husband, it's an ex-husband now!" Big mom smiled brightly, sweeping away the last trace of shade, said: "young and unintelligent, think can pass, can not pass, but not. When I met my current husband later, I also went through a lot of trials and tribulations. Only then did I comprehend a truth."
The older woman didn't continue, apparently waiting for someone to pick up on the question.
Xue Yan asked very cooperatively, "What truth?"
"Put your heart in the right place and think differently."
6
As the argument was going on, Guo Jun received an urgent notice from his unit that a meeting was needed. He works as a sales executive in a private company and is busy every day.
But Xue Yan is not sympathetic at all, believing that his mind is no longer on his family, and that he doesn't even have time to accompany his daughter on her birthday.
She has been a housewife for two years, and her mother-in-law has had a little friction with her on weekdays.
She hadn't been back home for two years.
So, as soon as Guo Junfu left the house, she took her baby with her on the back foot and left. She took a taxi, changed trains and drove around in circles before getting on the bus home.
As a woman who has been out of society for two years, Xue Yan's heart is terrified to be among the crowd.
But she had no choice.
Thankfully, she meets a lovely neighbor, which alleviates a lot of embarrassment. And, the aunt's story seemed to exhort her to learn to think differently.
Xue Yan had mixed feelings, recalling the little moments with Guo Jun, imagining his situation, and then looking at the already sleeping baby. Suddenly some regret, he pulled his cell phone number black, is not too stubborn point.
"Ladies and gentlemen! The train has arrived at Chuzhou station, please take your..."
The radio tone had just sounded, and the big mom nimbly picked up her big bag again, ready to go. She suddenly remembered something, felt out the small traveling bag next to Xue Yan's calf, and pulled out two boxes of sweet potato dumplings, handing one box each to Xue Yan and the little girl.
"Homemade, eat them hot or cold!"
Then, without waiting for them to return it, he hurriedly got off the bus.
Xue Yan and the girl looked at each other and smiled, a smile with a few points of helplessness, a few points of joy.
It's good to be able to harvest this unfamiliar warmth on such a cold winter's day.
Xue Yan arrived at the station, teaching the child to wave and say goodbye.
Wa's hand waved like a cat's beck and call, but his mouth was rare and clear: "Bye-bye!"
The girl responded with a smile while she put her headphones back on and continued her journey.
Out of the station, Xue Yan's pace was unusually brisk. The air was filled with the familiar smell of the countryside, making people feel more grounded. It's been a long time, hometown.
When she reached the lobby, she hadn't taken more than a few steps when a hand came to rest on her shoulder, and took the baby steadily.
She looked at the visitor, her tongue tied in knots, unable to speak.
Guo Jun said accusingly, "Wife, I was wrong, I shouldn't have left you and the baby out in the cold."
Xue Yan was silent for several seconds.
Suddenly, she pulled out the box of sweet potato dumplings from her small bag, and asked in a twisted voice:
"Do you want to eat the dumplings together?"