When Andina woke up in the morning, she didn't see Jialinna. She guessed that the other party must have been waiting at the only rail train station near the block again.
The woman came here with her mother half a year ago and said Hayes' name. Andina was shocked at that time. Before, her "brother" who had been dependent on each other since childhood was arrested for joining the army, she cried for several days, and kept going to the church where she had hardly been to pray that he would not have anything to do. Unexpectedly, a woman who claimed to be his wife appeared a few years later.
But no matter how unexpected it was, when he knew that Hayes was still alive, Andina's heart could finally land.
Since the other party could tell Hayes's physical characteristics, it was basically not fake, so Andina let the other party live at home - saying that it was home, it was actually just a metal shack in the nest, but it was cleaned up.
Andina usually earns meager ration money by cleaning and hygiene of nearby warehouses and factories. Although Jialinna brought a lot of "money" here, it was someone else's after all. Although the other party kept asking her to use it, she was embarrassed to use it. She still did her own job every day, but occasionally she would complain in her heart that Hayes suddenly found a wife for some reason. What did she do?
Didn't he take good care of him?
Andina herself couldn't tell why the discomfort feeling came from.
Jialinna was concentrating on taking care of her mother during this period, but the poor woman left the world a month ago due to her physical weakness and incurable stubborn disease. Andina still remembered the contemptuous look of those bullshit doctors when treating Jialinna's mother. She even secretly heard someone calling the poor woman a slut and a prostitute, which was so angry that she almost beat those people's pretty things.
Jialinna just silently held her, and then told her mother the truth about her illness and the past of her experience.
In fact, these diseases are not incurable, but they require very expensive medicines. Not to mention whether they can buy them, all the money they have in their hands is probably not enough.
However, Jialinna's mother was not in pain when she left. They took her to a garden in the middle nest, which happened to be a once-in-a-century dome repair day. The area opened up a patio leading to the sky, allowing her to enjoy the rare sunshine in the end.
At least, she left with a smile.
After burying her mother, what Jialinna does every day is to go to the rail station and wait.
Three months ago, news of the end of the expedition had spread throughout the streets and alleys. As one of the original conscription sites of the expeditionary army, soldiers began to retire and return to their hometowns one after another. Whether it was the upper nest, the middle nest, the lower nest, or even the bottom nest, at least two trains carrying soldiers from the front line drove out of the airport every day, and a group of soldiers were placed at various stations.
It just turned into one shift a day a month ago, and two weeks ago, it turned into one shift a week a week.
Some people say that it may be the last shift recently.
If the person waiting can't get off this train, he will never come back.
In fact, Andina was already a little desperate because she heard the veterans returning in the neighborhood say that the cruelty of this war was beyond everyone's imagination. She even saw with her own eyes that many veterans returning were a little nervous and even had a disorder. The extreme cases of overreacting and killing their family members by mistake when they heard movements while sleeping.
Although many of them received a kind of pension called military tickets, which was very valuable at the beginning, but for some reason, these days, it suddenly seemed like it had become waste paper. Many veterans went to the stations of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Ministry of Military Affairs to protest every day, but they could not get anything except the shock sticks of the law enforcement officers.
Many people are forced to use their fighting skills to join gangs and criminal organizations.
The gang frenzy has become more frequent recently. Andina has been worried that Jialina will go out alone, but she is always in a daze again.
But in a sense, Jalinna's waiting was not without cause, because she heard that the soldiers who died would have notices and pensions, and Hayes had never received notices and pensions from the deaths, and in a sense, she might be still alive.
However, well-informed Andina knew that many people were not dead, but were considered "missed".
This is a very cunning statement, but the officials of the Ministry of Military Affairs explained this way. They could not determine whether they were killed or not, but could only be judged as missing, and the missing person had no pensions-
But no matter what, Andina would go to find Jalinna every day.
Actually, I'm waiting with her.
The last hope.
The last bus-
Every day, she would pass by the platform. Every day, she would stare at the busy people on the platform and the trains like mechanical beasts.
The 12 or 13-year-old boys were pushing carts and selling all kinds of food, tobacco and water, running around every day.
Was Hayes the same when he was a child?
Half a year later, the war finally showed signs of ending. She even remembered the appearance of those trains and the number of each train.
Time passes, just like her, it seems that the train is also changing.
She has become whiter and thinner, while the train has become shorter and heavier.
When she first saw this kind of machine, the train was like a work of a god for her who had not been exposed to many new things.
As brave as a beast, as sophisticated as a clock.
But as the war continued and time passed, she felt used to it and even numb.
Life day after day will gradually make people numb. She learned a lot from Andina about Hayes’s past, the lives of others, and the lives of others, which had nothing to do with her and were far from her.
It should be another world.
But Hays saved her from hell and allowed her mother to see the sun for the last time.
I came to the platform almost for a day, so many staff members at the station knew her. Everyone was actually very friendly and knew that she might be waiting for someone.
A person who may never enter the station again.
When the war was finally over, everyone threw their hats, cheered, hugged, and shed tears.
She just stood there blankly, feeling fearful. The voices were so far away that she wanted to escape but couldn't move.
She still stayed by letting others gather around her to hug, cheer, and raise her glasses.
The station was dimly lit, and people were laughing and celebrating, and it was very lively.
Every day, the train enters the station on time, as if the sun rises on time.
The crowds poured in and intertwined, some were fierce hugging and kissing, some were loud shouting, laughing, some were crying in a low voice, and more were looking at each other speechlessly.
Then, return to daily life and continue to work.
People are used to war, to gain and lose.
What is numb and numb is fear.
Fear is like a deadly poison, injecting into the skin, numbing the muscles and making people unable to move.
Its essence is to make people scare, fear that hope is ultimately just a nightmare, making people unable to help but want to turn around and run away, but their legs seem to have been lost, stiff, numb, and not moving.
The trains kept coming, taking people returning from the front line, one after another.
Chapter completed!