Chapter 308 Don’t dare to ask the person
In the ringtone of "Insects Fly", the setting sun that is about to sink into the horizon is like a salted duck egg yolk, and the entire sky is like the egg white surrounding this egg yolk.
When he was very young, Lin Shuang's family's financial conditions were very tight, so tight that salted duck eggs were rare items.
He once saw an advertisement for a sizzling and greasy salted duck egg on Wan Wan's big-butt rear-projection TV.
The little Lin Shuang stood in front of the TV, more entranced than watching the underwear catwalk show or Digimon. He swallowed hard at the picture and asked his sister Xiaohan next to him loudly enough to hear what he saw. Delicious.
"It's a duck egg that looks particularly delicious, Xiaohan, and it's still leaking oil."
"Aren't the two brothers really watching the beautiful sister walking the catwalk?"
"Beautiful sister can't eat it."
"Sister Wan said that you often secretly watch your beautiful sister walking the catwalk."
"Don't listen to her nonsense! I didn't!"
——Now that things have happened, Lin Shuang is actually a little confused. Did he dream about the salted duck egg, or did he really see it on TV?
There is a saying that the things you regret not getting in childhood can easily become obsessions later in life.
After her family's conditions improved, Lin Shuang often begged her parents to bring back various salted duck eggs, and she also bought many of them herself.
But until he finally got tired of eating it and lost all interest in salted duck eggs, he didn't taste the delicious food that could satisfy his imagination.
"So salty..."
Lin Shuang ate the salted duck eggs he bought from the canteen at the entrance of the elementary school along with the stinky tofu.
As expected, this thing cannot be eaten in vain.
Yan Han shared half of the burden for him in a funny way, "Brother Shuang, are you reminiscing about your childhood? You loved eating this kind of salted duck eggs when you were a kid, and you fed me a lot~"
Lin Shuang tried to ask, "Xiaohan, do you still remember the advertisement for salted duck eggs on TV when you were a child..."
Xiaohan raised her face and recalled for a while, "I have some impressions, well, it seems like an advertisement during the break of a lingerie catwalk show."
"...It's better to forget about this kind of thing!"
"Sister Wan is still angry and asked me to help beat you so you can't watch."
“I remember it so clearly!”
"Hmph~"
Yan Han swayed around with a little pride, "I remember everything about my twin brothers very clearly."
She looked at him without blinking, "So, have you found salted duck eggs that are as delicious as those in that advertisement?"
On the primary school campus, "Chong Er Fei", which had been played on a loop for countless times, finally stopped, and the salted egg yolk on the horizon was finally eaten by the dazzling night.
Lin Shuang wiped the corners of Xiaohan's mouth with a tissue and laughed softly.
"I found it..."
……
"Ah~ I forgot to take a photo of the stinky tofu, I'm craving for my sister Wan."
"When you go back tomorrow, pack some dough for her. You can't pack the stinky tofu."
Lin Shuang was a little troubled, "Speaking of which, what are Jiangdu's specialties? I want to bring some specialties to everyone but I don't know what to bring."
Yan Han smiled and formed his hands into the shape of a flower, holding Lin Shuang's chin.
"When it comes to Jiangdu's specialties, it really has to be my most handsome and favorite twin brothers~"
She came over and said "Boo~" to him, "But I just accept this specialty Xiaohan, I can't give it to them."
On the way home, Yan Han and Lin Shuang were in high spirits. They combined everything they saw, brick by brick, shop by shop, with the memories in their minds to update their impressions of their hometown.
Next time I come back, there will be a big difference. Maybe a long, long time later, time has passed and things have changed, and neither the person nor the person has changed... But the memory in my heart will always be treasured there, and will not fade or be forgotten.
As they got closer and closer to the courtyard where they grew up and played when they were children, their voices became quieter and quieter.
Yan Han even hid behind Lin Shuang again, putting his two small hands on his shoulders and pushing him forward.
She stood on tiptoes, revealing a pair of beautiful peach blossom eyes from his shoulders, "I always feel that if I meet someone I know, I will feel very embarrassed..."
"Actually, I feel the same way...I feel inexplicably scared!"
I feel even more timid when I'm close to my hometown and don't dare to ask anyone.
It's been so long since I've been back, and the compound has changed a lot. A new fence has been installed at the entrance, the rows of red brick houses have been painted, and the gravel roads have been hardened with cement.
The only thing that hasn't changed much is probably the big poplar tree in the middle of the yard.
It was dinner time, but there were no old people sitting and chatting under the tree. There was moonlight leaking from the lush branches and falling on the stone table, reflecting the Chu River and Han boundary carved on the stone.
When he was a child, he and his father often played chess on this stone-carved chessboard.
Lin Shuang stroked the fallen leaves on the chessboard, stood still in front of the chessboard for a while, then opened his hands and tried to hug the thick trunk of the big poplar tree.
"At that time... I always felt that I would be able to hug this tree when I grow up, but now it is still far from enough."
"Xiaohan is here, Brother Shuang."
Yan Han joined him, and they hugged the big poplar tree together.
"When I was young, I couldn't hold my sister Wan alone... We have all grown up well, twin brothers."
A gust of evening wind blew, and the branches and leaves swayed and made a "rustle" sound, as if they were whispering something.
After sitting under the tree for a while, until the music of the square dance started playing, Lin Shuang finally took Xiaohan upstairs and used the key to open the long-dusted door to the past.
The old security door, which was full of rust marks, made a "squeaking" sound, which was a bit harsh in the corridor.
Lin Shuang and Yan Han looked at each other and spoke softly to the empty house.
"I'm back."
When I was a kid, I would always say this when I came home from school or after playing wildly outside.
It is often followed by, "Mom and Dad, what delicious food did you cook today?"
But now...the only thing that responded to them was dust blowing into their faces.
This is a house of only fifty or sixty square meters, but it has three bedrooms and one living room.
It's cramped, but also very cozy.
There are two old sofas in the living room, as well as a stove for burning briquettes, with an iron chimney connected to the outside.
There was a pendulum clock with a phoenix carved on it on the wooden cabinet. It had stopped swinging now.
Yan Han stretched out his hand and flicked the pendulum, and a "click, click, click" sound that both of them were familiar with immediately came out.
It seems that the stagnant time has resumed its flow.
Lin Shuang put down his suitcase, "Then let's start cleaning now."
Yan Han opened the bedroom door and took a look, "There isn't much dust in the bedroom."
Lin Shuang pulled up the bed board, and there were neatly stacked beddings underneath, smelling like mothballs.
"These sheets and quilts should not be used if they are not dried in the sun, right?"
Yan Han patted the suitcase and looked like he had planned it for a long time and had everything under control, "So I brought it all~"
"...I asked why the suitcase is so heavy!"
(End of chapter)