Although he prepared airsickness medicine in advance and tried to get close to the aisle when choosing a seat, Wang Chong was still very uncomfortable after the plane took off. The bumpy airflow and roar made Wang Chong's face pale. If it weren't for Ma Xiaoxiao, Wang Chong would rather take the train for more than ten hours. Ma Xiaoxiao knew that he had a fear of heights, so after taking off, he held Wang Chong's hand tightly.

Ma Xiaoxiao said: "You are so afraid of heights. It seems that changing light bulbs will still be my job in the future."

Wang Chong smiled and said, "I can wear a blindfold in the future. You can command me to change it."

Ma Xiaoxiao covered her mouth and giggled. Wang Chong asked what to laugh at. Ma Xiaoxiao said: "I suddenly remembered that when I used a rural autumn harvest, I used a roll (sound six-axis) to press soybeans, put an eye mask on the donkey, and then drove him to work with a whip. Huh!"

Wang Chong pretended to be angry and said, "You are saying that I am a donkey."

Ma Xiaoxiao blinked and said, "You are just a donkey, and you won't listen to anyone's words when you become stubborn." As soon as he finished speaking, he suddenly thought that if Wang Chong was a donkey, wouldn't he become a female donkey? Thinking of this, his cheeks flushed.

Wang Chong laughed.

Ma Xiaoxiao said annoyedly: "Why are you laughing at?"

Wang Chong said that he had nothing to laugh, but Ma Xiaoxiao blushed and swung his little fist and beat Wang Chong around. After this riot, Wang Chong's feeling of boredom gradually faded.

After nearly two hours of bumpy ride, the plane landed at the International Airport in Jianghan City, Hanjiang Province. The two boarded the airport bus again. When they were three hours, they turned into a urban and rural minibus in Jiangdong County.

The minibus drove out of the county town and drove on the urban and rural roads. Ma Xiaoxiao knew that Wang Chong's family was in the countryside, but she did not expect that it would be so remote. The urban and rural roads were desolate and covered with reeds. But every few days, she encountered a poplar tree or white willow, and a village of more than ten miles seemed quite deserted.

Ma Xiaoxiao was full of curiosity along the way. She caught Wang Chong and asked this and that. Wang Chong patiently told her. Although the urban and rural roads were roads, due to the rugged terrain and high salinity of the soil, they had already corroded. Not long after, they felt tired and fell asleep on Wang Chong's legs.

At the sound of the station, Ma Xiaoxiao was woken up by Wang Chong. Ma Xiaoxiao rubbed her eyes and asked, "We are here?" Wang Chong shook his head with a smile, "I've arrived at Caoqiao Township. I'll stay in the township guesthouse for one night tonight and will only arrive in our village tomorrow morning."

Ma Xiaoxiao said: "Your home is so remote?"

Wang Chong said, "Yes, why do you regret coming with you?"

Ma Xiaoxiao said, "As long as you are with you, no matter how difficult it is, I will accompany you." Wang Chong touched Ma Xiaoxiao's head and said, "Let's go, get out of the car first, I will move the gift down."

In order to go home this time, Ma Xiaoxiao bought a lot of things, which became a burden at this time. Wang Chong couldn't bear to smear his kindness and moved them all down, thinking that it seemed like he would hire a car tomorrow.

I opened two rooms at Caoqiao Guesthouse, each room costs 40 yuan a night, so the conditions are naturally not much better. Ma Xiaoxiao has lived in the city since she was a child and has a wealthy family. She has lived in such a room. At night, the soil was not heated enough, and she was trembling all over. However, she was sensible and did not complain to Wang Chong. After working hard for a day, she fell asleep quickly.

When she opened her eyes the next day, she saw Wang Chong get up early and went out to buy soy milk and fried dough sticks. She was so hungry that she started eating in big mouthfuls, "Eat quickly, it's time to go!"

When I went out, I found that Wang Chong had already moved the gift to a tricycle.

A tent was added to the back seat of the tricycle, and it was the small and medium-sized passenger bus in the village.

Wang Chong said, "I will feel wronged today. If it goes well, I will be able to catch up with lunch."

Next to the guesthouse is a newly built middle school. The school has been renovated and has a brand new teaching building, library, and football field. Since it is winter vacation, there are not many people in the school. Only two old men on duty in the door are playing chess at the door. Four big words are written at the entrance of the school: "Caoqiao Middle School". (Note)

Wang Chong pointed to the school and said, "This is where I studied when I was a child, but at that time there were only a dozen brick houses, and the conditions were much worse than now." Suddenly, Wang Chong stopped talking and looked at the roadside in the distance.

Ma Xiaoxiao followed Wang Chong's gaze and saw an old man wearing a military coat and a liberation hat pushing a car towards the inner street. The car was filled with children's toys, small painting books, homework books, stationery, etc. Wang Chong said a moment, ran over, and bowed deeply to the old man, "Hello, Teacher Liu!"

When Teacher Liu saw Wang Chong, he put down his cart, tidied up his clothes, straightened his chest, and said, "Hello. Are you?" Wang Chong said excitedly, "Teacher Liu, I am Wang Chong!"

Teacher Liu said oh, as if recalling, "You are Wang Chong of the 1994th class?" He shouted, "I remember it. Last time Genzi told me that you seem to have worked in a bank in Donghua City now? Looking at your outfit, I almost couldn't recognize you. You and Liu Dong had a bright future for the students I taught back then!"

Wang Chong said, "How can I compete with Senior Brother Liu? He is now a nationally renowned entrepreneur. I still work in a small bank." Teacher Liu said, "You are not bad either. Compared with him, you are still too stubborn and are very tempted to the old man!" Teacher Liu glanced at Ma Xiaoxiao and asked, "Is that your wife?"

Wang Chong said, "My partner, this is the first time I took it home for the New Year." Wang Chong waved his hand to Ma Xiaoxiao, and Ma Xiaoxiao trotted all the way and shouted sweetly: "Hello Teacher Liu!"

Teacher Liu laughed, "Okay, when will I get married? I'll go to your village to ask for a wedding wine!"

Wang Chong said: "I will definitely invite you when the time comes."

Teacher Liu glanced at the sun and said, "I won't tell you much, I'll go to the market. I'll sell more money during the Chinese New Year. If I go late, there will be no good place."

Wang Chong watched Teacher Liu leave, and Ma Xiaoxiao was puzzled and said, "Isn't he a teacher? Why do you still have to go to the market to sell things?"

Wang Chong sighed and said, "He was a private teacher back then, but later he was not transferred to public office for various reasons. In 1995, he was cleared out. I was his last student, hey!"

More than twenty years have passed in a flash, but I didn’t expect to meet my former teacher here, and my life is not very rich.

Wang Chong was willing to help him, but this teacher has always been stubborn. He offended a leader of the Education Commission and would rather not become a regular person than beg him in a low voice. How could he accept his gift?

On the way back, Wang Chong told Ma Xiaoxiao the story of Teacher Liu. Ma Xiaoxiao's eyes were wet when she heard it, and she said to Wang Chong: "Wang Chong, you are really amazing to be able to come out of such a small mountain village!"

Wang Chong sighed, "I just don't want to be tied to this yellow land by fate. I can live a life where I can see the end of my life at the age of thirty. The world is so big and the outside is so wonderful. If I don't know, that's fine, but since I have seen it, life is so short, how can we waste it? I don't want to get old,

Sitting in an easy chair will only complain and regret.”

Ma Xiaoxiao said, "Then if you meet a better woman in the future, will you not want me anymore? I am thirty years old and will gradually grow old. I am so worried."

Wang Chong smiled, "Then you have to give me a few more children."

Seeing that he was not serious, Ma Xiaoxiao said something, thinking beautifully, turned around and ignored him.

When Wang Chong got home, it was almost noon. His parents were already waiting at the entrance of the village. As soon as Wang Chong got out of the car, he said hello, but his mother pulled him to the side and looked into the car, "This is Xiaoxiao. It's cold outside, so it's almost warm in the house. His father, why don't he come over to help carry things quickly."

Ma Xiaoxiao was a little shy. Wang Chong helped her get out of the car and introduced her parents. Ma Xiaoxiao politely said, "Hello uncle, hello aunt." Wang Chong's mother said, "Okay, okay, okay," while staring at Ma Xiaoxiao, looking at his "prospective daughter-in-law". Wang Chong's father coughed, "Let's talk about it first."

In the second year of Wang Chong's work, he used 200,000 yuan to renovate his old house, built a two-story building, and installed it with warm soil. The conditions in the village were considered to be relatively good. Wang Chong's mother cleaned up a clean room, quilts and bed sheets for Ma Xiaoxiao. They were all ready to get married for Wang Chong a long time ago, and they took them out.

Lunch was ready, killing chickens and fish. Although there were not many ways to do it, Ma Xiaoxiao had never eaten this kind of country cooking, and she was happy to eat. She was a reporter and was naturally enthusiastic. Soon she chatted with Wang Chong's mother in front of her aunt and behind her, and eventually she found out a lot of embarrassing things about Wang Chong when she was young.

In the evening, the whole family made dumplings together and watched the Spring Festival Gala. It was fun and lively.

The next day was the Spring Festival. According to the customs of the village, Wang Chong, his father, a few uncles and cousins, went to the village to visit and greet New Year. Ma Xiaoxiao took him to watch TV at home. In the afternoon, there were more guests at home. Wang Chong came back to celebrate the New Year with a beautiful woman who looked like a movie star. It had already spread throughout the village. The aunts and aunts came to visit him one after another and praised Ma Xiaoxiao. After two days of habit, Ma Xiaoxiao was generous and treated with it quite appropriately.

In the blink of an eye, it was the fourth day of the lunar month. The two said goodbye to their parents and visited Ma Xiaoxiao's parents' home. On the sixth day of the lunar month, they returned to Donghua City. The Spring Festival was eight days, and half of the time was spent on the road.

As soon as he landed at Donghua Airport, Ma Xiaoxiao received a call saying that a package had arrived. Ma Xiaoxiao was surprised that she had not bought anything recently. The courier just told her that it was a courier in the same city, so she asked the other party to put it at the security guard at the door and forgot to pick it up.

After the two were having lunch outside, Wang Chong took Ma Xiaoxiao home and prepared to go back to Chengdong Branch first. According to Lin Tianhua's style, the first day after work on the holiday will be the whole bank meeting. He first prepared the development ideas and work priorities of Chengdong Branch this year, so as not to be blinded when asked. Before he could open the door of the community, he heard Ma Xiaoxiao call over.

"Wang Chong, come back soon!"

"What's wrong?"

Ma Xiaoxiao shouted across the phone, "My family has been thieves!"
Chapter completed!