When the last scaffolding on the construction site was removed, Xiao Zhang knew that the days of working outside the wandering were about to end.
Xiao Zhang, in his early thirties, medium stature, strong physique, black and red face, thick eyebrows and big eyes, high nose bridge, thick lips, and a youthful breath under his body.
It's been three years, and it's been a lie to say you don't want to go home. There are elderly parents who are worried about their stomachs; loving wives and precious children who are expected to wear at home; and there are fragrant radish pork dumplings and strong handmade egg noodles. That familiar hometown of cooking smoke and soul-related dreams, how can you not think of it!
The beautiful scenery of the foreign country can not linger on his footsteps like an arrow, and the soft subtropical warm wind cannot blow away his mood of returning home to reunite. Really couldn't wait any longer!
As soon as the company's dinner was over, he hurriedly checked into the hotel designated by the airline for quarantine observation before returning home. After two serum and nucleic acid tests on the first and sixth days, all of which were normal, they were reported to the Embassy for review and approval. Two days later, he flew home.
Three years ago, he signed up behind his parents' wife's back at an intermediary company, saying that he was going to Indonesia to work on an infrastructure project for two years and earn 10,000 yuan a month.
He wanted to make a lot of money too much. Seeing his peers buying cars and buying houses in the city, he touched his dry pockets and secretly scolded himself for being too incompetent. Although his wife did not say anything, he read her expectations from her envious eyes. He could not blame his parents, the two elders were all croppers who were facing the loess with their backs to the sky and picking up gold from the soil, and it was not easy to raise his brothers and sisters with hard work, and it was not easy to build a house and marry a wife. He could no longer burden them with heavy burdens, and the rest of the task should be done by himself. He wanted to work hard while he was young and create his own family business. Let the parents live a happy old age, let the wives and children live the life they envision.
Going out is definitely bitter, going out is definitely tired, going out is definitely not at home. Especially in a foreign country, where people are not familiar with the land and do not understand the language, the sins of ordinary people who suffer must be unbearable. But if you don't go out and stay at home, what do you buy a house and a car? When will the status quo at home change? He couldn't leave away his elderly parents, his delicate wife and a pair of young children. But if you don't go out and run around, can happiness fall from the sky? He couldn't look any further, and he decided to go out!
He could not forget the thousands of instructions of his parents when he left; he could not forget the tearful reluctance of his wife holding her son who was not yet one year old; and he could not forget the screaming and crying of his five-year-old daughter who hugged him tightly. It's been three years, and he misses them so much that his heart hurts!
It was enough for two years in December 2020, but because the company had to rush the construction schedule, he temporarily added another month's shift. By the time he packed his bags and prepared to go home, the new coronavirus was already raging around the world, blocking his way home. Reluctantly, he renewed his contract with the company for another year.
He was tanned and thinner, but more energetic. Three years later, he still hasn't fully integrated into the rhythm of life in a foreign country. Hot climates, drastic diets, heavy work. Let him miss his hometown and his relatives all the time. Fortunately, now it's all over. He touched the bank card in his jacket pocket, which contained half a million yuan in savings he had earned in three years, enough for him to pay a down payment on a suite. He had an imperceptible smile on his face.
As he got closer, with the sweet and gentle voice of the flight attendant that "the plane has flown into the territorial airspace of the motherland", he burst into tears with excitement. Through the porthole of the plane, he greedily overlooked the blue sky, like the white clouds of snow, the sun shining brightly, the sea of clouds vast, and boundless. It was like a dream, and he felt very refreshed.
After several hours of flight, the plane finally landed at Guangzhou Baiyun Airport, and according to China's epidemic prevention policy, all those who returned from abroad were quarantined for fourteen days in a hotel near the airport. He was placed at the Holiday Inn Guangzhou Airport.
He first reported peace to his family. Then, the staff of the isolation point asked him to fill in the basic personal information and sent him a medical observation and isolation notice. Subsequently, medical staff performed serum and nucleic acid tests on him. Since then, his fourteen-day medical observation isolation has officially begun.
The isolation point is heavily guarded, and there are security guards at the door 24 hours a day, and it is strictly forbidden for all unrelated personnel to enter and exit. An ambulance is parked at the isolation point, which is used to pick up and drop off returnees from abroad at any time. There is also a killing car parked, and the disinfection and epidemic prevention in the isolation point is carried out uninterruptedly every day. The isolation point has exquisite box lunches specially prepared for quarantined personnel, which are distributed by staff wearing protective clothing.
The days of isolation are leisurely, no work, nothing to do, and you can enjoy it. There are TV, computers, and hot baths in the hotel, three meals a day have been sent by special people, garbage has been collected by special people, although eating and living a few hundred yuan a day, you have to pay your own expenses, but Xiao Zhang has no complaints. He can understand the country's hardships and feel the severity of the epidemic prevention and control situation. With so many people in China, if they don't take tough precautions, it won't be a pot of porridge!
Fourteen days are hard. After all, things are clustered in groups, and people are grouped. A person who is detached from social organization and outside the crowd is doomed to not be a normal person's life. In the first few days, due to the fatigue outside all day, the tired wanted to sleep, and after waking up, playing mobile phones, playing games, watching TV, the little life was quite boring. But a week later, the syndrome of being under house arrest came out. Lonely, lonely, drowsy and weak, eyes astringent, dizzy, without a little appetite. Tired of being in the bucket room all day, boring and boring, really like the walking dead. Within a few days, he was on fire, his throat was inflamed, his mouth was festering, his gums were swollen and painful, and he was in pain when he ate and swallowed. There was no way, so he had to entrust the staff of the isolation point to buy him some medicine to relieve his symptoms. Alas, the life of natural suffering really can't be idle, you see, I haven't enjoyed a few days of happiness, why do I still have a sickness?
The happiest thing he does every day is video chatting with his family. Greet your parents and listen to their clanging and hearty laughter, and he'll be relieved. Of course, the most chatted is the wife, seeing his wife's haggard appearance, he really wants to come to her side immediately, share the burden for her, and share her worries. These three years, inside and out, old and young, it is really hard for her. He swore that he must be good to her in this life. A pair of innocent and lively and lovely children, who have long been intimate with him through video, is the happiest and happiest moment of his day. He touched the toy he bought for the children in his bag, imagining the children's happiness when they got the toys, and he couldn't help but smile first.
The fourteen days of the isolation observation period soon arrived, and his serum and nucleic acid tests were all negative several times, which could end the isolation life in Guangzhou.
When the flight from Guangzhou to Zhengzhou Xinzheng Airport landed at Xinzheng Airport on time. The epidemic prevention and control vehicle from the small town of my hometown has been quietly waiting here for a long time. Xiao Zhang just opened his mobile phone and received a call from the medical staff accompanying the car. When Xiao Zhang was "escorted" to the car by "heavily armed" medical personnel. Xiao Zhang's eyes were suddenly wet, and he knew that the wanderer who had been working outside for three years was finally going home!
More than two hours later, the epidemic prevention and control car was parked at the isolation point of his hometown, and according to the requirements of the epidemic prevention and control of the small town, he had to isolate here for seven days before he could return home.
It was already more than nine o'clock in the evening, and the gate of the isolation point was surrounded by a long cordon, and no one was allowed to go near. On the street, there are few people, and the cold winter of minus ten degrees makes people reluctant to stay outside for a moment. Xiao Zhang pulled the trolley box at the door and scanned the "health code" and "itinerary code", and was about to follow the staff inside, when suddenly, a little girl's voice came over: "Isn't that Daddy?" Dad, I'm Lingling. Xiao Zhang immediately turned his face, and outside the police cordon, in the biting cold wind, his wife and a pair of children were waving to him. Xiao Zhang's eyes blurred instantly. Three years later, my relatives are close at hand, but I can't be reunited!
"Look after your child." With a roar from the isolation point staff, Xiao Zhang saw his mischievous son suddenly break free of his wife's hand and run to his side, if his wife had not grabbed him with her eyes and quickly grabbed him, he might have really run in. Xiao Zhang's tears flowed out at once. Before he went abroad to work, his son could not walk, and now he is almost four years old, he has not seen once, what an incompetent father!
"Son, obedient, Daddy will be able to go home in another week, Daddy will bring you toys you like, and..." Xiao Zhang choked and said no more.
"Dad, we'll wait for you." The sensible eight-year-old girl carried a lunch box in her hand and snuggled tightly next to her wife.
"Father, my mother wrapped you at home with dumplings that you like to eat, and I fried you beef balls that you liked to eat, fried peanuts from our Qinhe Beach for you, and bought you roast chicken and hemp candy." I bought you another fire of Dongling tea and three yellow slices, and bought you a new cotton coat, and I let them all carry it for you, this big cold day, but you are bitter..." The wife said, and she sobbed a little incoherently.
"It's all right, didn't I come back?" You see, the kids are all in front of you, pay attention to the impact. Across the cordon, Xiao Zhang stared at his wife far and deeply, comforting her. Look at the pile of stuff that your wife brought. He scoffed, "If you don't go to prison, why do you bring such things?"
"Make a good transformation inside, we are waiting for you at home." The wife burst into tears and laughed. The staff wearing protective clothing next to them also laughed.
It's nice to feel like home! Xiao Zhang swept away the depression and irritability of the past, and his uneasy heart finally let go.
He took a comfortable hot bath and stood comfortably in front of the window, admiring the long-lost night view of the town. I haven't come back for three years, and my hometown has changed so much! He sighed heartily. It's better to go home! But the way home, why is it so difficult! I've been walking for nearly twenty days, and I'm still on the road, this damn disease, when is it a head!
About author:Guo Hongwen, a native of Jiyuan, Henan, is a member of the Ning'an Writers Association, and works for the People's Government of Wulongkou Town, Jiyuan. Some articles have appeared in Jiyuan Daily, Jiyuan Literature, Dahe Literature, Jinshi Literature, Ninguta Writers Network, Contemporary Elite Literature, Zhongzhou Writers and other media. Among them, "Love for the Yellow River Beach" won the first prize of the first "Yellow River Love" Essay Contest in Jiyuan City; "Writing the True Colors of Soldiers with Loyalty" won the first prize in the National Essay Documentary Category celebrating the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China in Ning'an City, Heilongjiang Province. In his spare time, he likes to read, likes to think about life with words, likes to use the pen in his hand to wake up everyone's dawn and warm everyone's heart.
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