Take the green train home for the New Year: 300 days away from home, 34 hours to go home, long and happy
Author: Kutani Kansei
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In 2023 Chinese New Year's Eve is just around the corner, and the hard-working workers of a year have embarked on the journey home, after all, "home" is the harbor and the most secure place.
For Wu Xiaolong, 365 days a year, he works outside for 300 days, even if he is just an ordinary worker, no matter how much he earns, when it is close to the New Year, it is his happiest time, because when he returns home, he has parents, a beautiful wife, and lovely children, these are what he wants to see the most.
Even though he earned a year's money, for thousands of kilometers, Wu Xiaolong was still reluctant to take a sleeper car, let alone expect high-speed trains and planes, but chose to be the slowest green train, not only to enjoy the scenery along the way, but also to save a large amount of money, the money saved is earned, you can buy a dress for your wife, you can also buy something delicious or toys for your children, and you can also buy some nutritional products for your parents.
Two nylon bags, full of gifts, a backpack, with a brand new computer inside, because his wife said that she wanted to learn knowledge online, and she could earn some living expenses in her spare time to take care of her children in the future, Wu Xiaolong did not slack, and at the moment of agreeing, he decided to fulfill his wife's wish years ago.
Home is Wu Xiaolong's everything, and the meaning of his own efforts is to make his family happy and happy.
The following is a narration from Wu Xiaolong:
I am Wu Xiaolong, a native of Liaoning, graduated from high school at the age of 18, came to Guangzhou at the age of 19 to work hard, worked in the factory assembly line, also set up a stall, talked about his first relationship at the age of 21, in order to live a rich life in the future, did business, the result can be imagined, the loss was a mess, and my girlfriend left me because of this.
Life is like a glass of water, you need to keep heating to maintain the temperature, unless you are born in a rich family, you don't have to do anything, the wealth left to you by your parents is enough for you to squander all your life, but unfortunately, I am just an ordinary peasant child.
22-year-old age, 50,000 debts, this for me, like a piece of sky above my head, overwhelmed, in order to live, in order to pay off debts, do two jobs a day, run business during the day, work as a barbecue master at a barbecue restaurant at night, a month, can also earn more than 10,000, but this kind of life, did not last long, a year later, tired, helpless around, the kind of loneliness and despair in a foreign land, I think no one wants to experience.
But at this time, I met a beautiful girl, she is from Sichuan, working in Guangzhou, we met at a barbecue restaurant, she wanted to eat roast lamb shank, said she hadn't eaten, but was rejected by her boyfriend, saying that the thing was too expensive, just eat some barbecue, at that time I felt that this girl was so pitiful, roast lamb shank is not eaten every day, there is no need to be so stingy.
Seeing her lost eyes, my heart was touched, and I decided to send her to eat, even though she was rejected by her boyfriend, but she was grateful.
The saddest thing is that this roast leg of lamb has never been eaten, and in order not to waste it, I digested it myself, after all, it needs to be deducted from my salary.
A few days later, the girl came to me and only asked, "Do you have a girlfriend?" "I shook my head and said no, because it really didn't, I was dumped because of the failure of entrepreneurship, and I didn't dare to communicate for the past two years because I was still in debt.
She said she wanted to be my girlfriend, I don't know why, I could feel that her heart was "revenge", but she still did not refuse, that night she accompanied me until three o'clock in the morning to leave work, and then followed me back to the rental house.
Maybe many people think this kind of thing is very abrupt, but I think it's fate.
After that, we began to get to know each other, she is a very simple girl, 15 years old followed her sister to Guangzhou to work, and then her sister had a girlfriend, so she didn't have time to take care of her, in order to live with her boyfriend, she left her own sister, and then she didn't want to lag behind and dated a boyfriend, just to have personal care, by the way, you can share the rent.
However, the reality is always unacceptable, the boy I like is very critical, but it is precisely this that gives us the opportunity to be together. Since being with me, my life has become regular, in addition to commuting, I also look forward to her being able to accompany me in the restaurant, eat barbecue if I want to eat barbecue, eat lamb shank if I want to eat, and earn not much money, but these most basic requirements, I can still meet.
In 2015, my girlfriend and I got married, faced with a bride price of 150,000, gritted my teeth and agreed, at this time my girlfriend and I saved almost 200,000 yuan, and gave 150,000 bride price happily, because it was not easy for my parents-in-law to raise their daughter, this little money is a gratitude to my parents.
A southern girl, married to the northeast, very unsuitable in diet and climate, but she still tried hard to adapt, and then had children, my wife lived with my parents in her hometown, and I continued to work in the south, I gave up working two jobs, because my body did not allow, after all, it is now the pillar of a family, can not fall, even if life is more difficult.
In this era, there are only lazy people, there are no hungry people, as long as they are healthy and want to eat, wear and warm, it is not a big problem.
My friends and I opened a barbecue restaurant in Guangzhou, and we only worked for 10 months a year, and the rest of the two months were basically spent at home with our families. Once a man is given responsibilities and obligations, he has to follow the rules of life, although he earns a lot of money, but he can spend more in ordinary times.
My friend is single, there is no pressure, and I have to think about caring for my mother-in-law and children, and I have to pay the mortgage, and I usually dare not eat and drink, even if I open a barbecue restaurant.
In the past few years, every time I go home for the New Year, I never take a plane, nor a high-speed train, but take the slowest green train, I also want to quickly return to my wife and children, live the wife and children hot kang head of the fire, but this comes and goes, it costs thousands more, so each time it is a few days in advance, will bring large bags of luggage, full of gifts for the family.
The journey home is far away, it takes more than thirty hours, although some boats and cars are laborious, but the road is full of happiness, every time I pass a stop, I feel closer to home, killing time in anticipation, five buckets of instant noodles, is my food for a day and two nights, not to pity myself, just to save a little money.
In this era, it is not easy to marry a daughter-in-law, I don't want to lose my family, I only hope that the woman who marries me is happy, even if I can't have a lot of money, but I have to live in a high-rise building, wear new clothes, let the child feel the father's love, and let the parents understand that the son is working hard.