The winter vacation has arrived, I bought a train ticket and got on the train back home. You said that as soon as spring is approaching, there are so many people taking the train. To be honest, if you don't have some special skills, having a ticket doesn't necessarily mean you can squeeze onto the train.

  It's hard to get a ticket, I'm already grateful to have gotten a standing ticket. My experience with taking the train is that if you can't buy a ticket, once you're on the train, head to the dining car and for 15 yuan, you can get a seat and also get dinner. Since I'm still young and strong, I'll just squeeze in, but after squeezing onto the train, I felt nauseous. It's packed with people, to the point where you can't even move. Even the bathroom has three people standing inside, let alone trying to make my way to the dining car. There's no hope. No choice but to endure it. Anyway, from Harbin back to Longjiang is only five or six hours.

  The train started, rumbling and rumbling. I stood in the smoking area, not afraid of falling over, because it was simply crowded with people. At this time, the train was like an iron can, and we ordinary people were like sardines packed tightly together in three layers on the left and right inside the can.

  However, I seem to have found two advantages of this state afterwards.

  A: It's relatively easy to sneak onto the train without a ticket. And I had a great opportunity once when I was taking the train with so many people, but I couldn't buy a ticket. However, I was anxious to get home, so I bought a platform ticket and followed the crowd onto the train. Because there were too many people, the ticket inspectors on the train couldn't even move. As a result, I spent just one yuan for the platform ticket and made it back to Longjiang.

  B: It's relatively easy to meet beautiful women. Think about it, on a crowded train where you can't move, it's like being stuck in place. If there happens to be a beautiful woman standing next to you, then you're in luck. In a more lewd tone, every time the train turns, the beautiful woman's body will tightly lean against yours. In a more innocent tone, if there is a beautiful woman standing next to you and you want to strike up a conversation with her, you can start by saying: "What a coincidence, you're also stuck here?"

  But after I got on the train that day, I was surrounded by a group of migrant worker brothers who were returning home for the new year. Not even the beautiful woman was spared, which made me feel very helpless. Fortunately, these migrant worker brothers were quite generous and didn't mind sharing their food with others. Before long, I started chatting with them to pass the boring time.

  It turned out that these old men were from the village of Liu, who had saved my grandparents, and they came to work in Longjiang from the next station, Boluo Mountain.

  So I asked them how Old Liu's family in the village was doing now and if they were living a good life.

  There was a migrant worker who saw me and also went to Nianzi Mountain, so he told me: "Lao Liu's family? Is it the Lao Liu's family that opened a health clinic at the west end of the village? Their family is okay, pretty good, but when I was preparing to go out for work at the beginning of this year, Lao Liu's father seemed to have gone missing."

  Liu Lao Da got lost? What's going on? I asked him anxiously. The migrant worker brother thought for a moment and told me that in Liu's generation, there were two brothers, but the older one had a bit of a problem with his brain, to put it bluntly, he was almost like someone with mental illness. He would always sit alone on the big stone at the village entrance, talking to himself as if he was chatting with someone. And even though he's over 40 years old, he still doesn't have a wife.

  Fortunately, the second child in his family is relatively normal. He opened a clinic in the village and also sold shroud flowers and other things. So he supported his foolish brother and a whole family, and they didn't lack money at all.

  It just so happens that at the beginning of this year, it seems that his second brother and eldest brother had a fight, and then Liu's eldest brother disappeared. When we came out to work, he still hadn't been found. Fortunately, his mother didn't know about it; if she knew, she would be crying all day long.

  After going through so much, I couldn't help but feel a pang in my heart when I heard about the recent situation of the Liu family. To think that it's the descendants of Mr. Liu, who saved three generations of the Cui family, is really...

  In my impression, the last time I went to visit relatives in Dianzi Mountain was in the first year after my grandfather's death, which was when I was in fourth grade. At that time, seeing Liu Dajie's family was like seeing a madman, he seemed to be muttering to himself all the time. But now that I think about it, I realize that things are probably not so simple, because after all, the Liu family has been doing yin-yang business for generations and passed down the "Sanqing Bu Suan" technique, and that somewhat mentally unclear Liu Dajie is probably one of the few people in the world who can communicate with ghosts.

  As for Liu Ershu, in my impression, he is a kind-hearted and gentle farmer. He has a square face and always wears a warm smile, giving people a very approachable feeling. He studied medicine, but it seems that he didn't master those external skills, yet he single-handedly supported his family. He has a daughter named Liu Tingting, who is two years younger than me. When we were young, she would often take me to play on the grinding mountain. However, after growing up, we lost contact with each other. Now that I think about it, she's probably almost in college already.

  At that time, I was secretly thinking that by the end of this year when my dad and them go to Tuozi Mountain to visit relatives, I must follow. No matter what, I'm now grown up and understand a lot more, there have been changes in the Liu family. Mr. Liu has saved my life, if not for that talisman, I would probably be dead by now, so no matter what, I want to go take a look.

  The train was late for half an hour, and finally arrived at Longjiang. When I got off the train, it was almost midnight. I breathed in the long-missed hometown air, with a mix of emotions in my heart. This semester, I've been through too many things, whether emotionally or physically. Even I can feel that I've matured a lot.

  As I walked out of the ticket gate, I saw my father waiting for me from afar. I hurriedly went up to him and hugged him tightly. My old dad was still the same, overjoyed to see me but unable to express it in words. He asked how I had been doing these past few months. I took out a cigarette and handed it to him, joking with a smile: "Just getting by, that's all."

  Back home, it was already twelve o'clock, and I found that my grandmother hadn't slept yet, waiting for me. It warmed my heart. My grandmother looked at me with tears in her eyes and said, "Xiao Fei has lost weight."

  It's really uncomfortable in my heart. The old lady is already at an advanced age and still worries about me.

  After chatting with my grandmother for a while, I let the old lady sleep first, and then came to my father's room. He had already set up a small table, with two plates on it, one was chicken wings and the other was pig trotters. It's still my dad who understands me, so late he got some cooked food ready. Then he took out four bottles of beer from the fridge.

  We just ate and drank like this. My old man is still so straightforward, his first sentence was: "Look what you've done, hurry up and dye your hair back tomorrow."

  I smiled and responded with a sentence, then we continued chatting. He asked me about school-related things, and I answered one by one.

  Suddenly I remembered what those migrant worker brothers said about Liu's family on the bus, so I told my father all about it.

  "My father sighed and said to me, 'As for Old Liu's family, they have indeed shown great kindness to our family. However, as for the matter of Big Brother Liu going missing, we brothers really haven't heard about it. Alright, I'll mention it to your grandfather tomorrow. Anyway, it's almost New Year's, so we'll go visit them in a day or two and also sweep your great-grandfather's grave."

  The third day, my paternal grandfather, my second paternal grandfather, my father's sister, my father and I took the New Year's goods to the grinding mountain.

  After two or three hours of driving, we arrived at the small village. Because I had called Liu's family beforehand, they knew we were coming and Uncle Liu and his wife were already standing at the entrance of the village waiting for us.

  To be honest, I prefer rural areas over big cities because people in the countryside are more down-to-earth and not as deceitful as those in this metropolis.

  Because Old Liu's family has ancestral property, the house now is still four large tile-roofed rooms, and the yard is even bigger. It's like a small playground. The chickens, ducks, and geese in the yard are full and strolling leisurely, two big cows are also lazily sunbathing.

  After entering the house, we first went to see Old Lady Liu, who is Liu Shuqing's wife. The old lady was still in good health, except that her hearing was a bit poor. When she saw us arrive, she warmly invited us to sit on the kang (heated bed), and then asked Liu Ershu to bring out cigarettes and tea. Old Lady Liu asked my grandfather how my grandmother was doing, whether her body was well or not. My grandfather replied that my grandmother's body was also quite good, but she had been thinking of her all along.

  After chatting for a while, Liu Ershu's wife had cooked the meal and invited us to eat. At this time, Liu Tingting had also finished school, and when I saw her, I exclaimed that she had grown taller than me by half a head in just a few years. The little girl was sturdy and robust, with a short haircut that made her look very spirited.

  I greeted her and she recognized me, smiling at me. Without saying much, we sat down around the dinner table. Today, I had a taste of authentic Northeastern rural cuisine, which was really delicious. The steaming hot sour cabbage stewed with blood sausage, the oily braised pork belly with five-flower meat already had a plate of prepared garlic paste on the side. The small chicken was stewed with wild mushrooms, having a unique flavor. We people who usually eat food made from chemical fertilizers and artificially fed materials naturally felt our taste buds bursting in joy. Of course, I don't eat chicken.

  When they had drunk half of the wine, Old Lady Liu ate her fill first and went back to her bedroom to lie down, after all, she was old and her body wasn't what it used to be.

  At this time, my father also opened his mouth and asked Liu Ershu about Liu Dashi's affairs.

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