Volume 4 The Storm Chapter 2 Coming Home
Standing outside the waiting hall of Shuangliu Airport, looking at the huge billboards outside, Tang En pouted.
Even though it's a cloudy day, he still took out his sunglasses from his pocket and put them on.
Taxis outside Shuangliu Airport have a special passage, and they line up one after another to wait for passengers to come. Stopping without anyone waving, Don pulled his suitcase and walked straight to the car where no one was around.
βhe11oοΌβ The taxi driver greeted Donn warmly.
Listening to the other party's Sichuan accent in English, Don wanted to laugh, but he held back with a straight face.
Tang came with the suitcase, and the driver was very kind to help put their luggage into the trunk.
After getting into the car, the driver moved the car, turned his head and asked, "Where to go?" β
"Uh......" Tang En opened his mouth and now that he didn't know where to go first, he turned his head and asked Tang in Sichuanese, "Where are we going?" β
The driver sitting in front of him suddenly jumped. He was scared.
Seeing the driver's reaction, Don didn't bother to ask Don anymore, and laughed out loud on the chair behind him.
Tang glanced at him helplessly, turned his head to the driver and said, "Go to Liangjia Lane."
"Not in Chengdu for two days?" Don has made up his mind to speak Sichuanese. When I was in England, I spoke English all the time, and when I came back to China, I still spoke English.
"No, I called my parents before I came back, and they told me to go back directly."
Don listened and nodded. Tang came to Nottingham from Sichuan two years ago in addition to regular phone calls. I don't have much contact with my parents. Now, after two years of not seeing the land, my son is coming back. Parents are naturally eager to see him.
He understood the feeling of wishing for his son to fly to his side.
Because in fact, he is also in a hurry......
The two didn't even eat lunch, so they made the long-distance bus at noon and left Chengdu.
Unlike the last time he came back, Don didn't miss the city, and without Shania by his side, he didn't have to think about eating, drinking, and having fun.
The purpose of his return this time is very clear, that is, to meet the "parents" who have not seen him for three years.
From Chengdu to Tang. Or when it comes to Tang's hometown, there is a three-hour drive, and it takes nearly an hour to get home, and it only takes half an hour to take a taxi directly from the long-distance station.
"Infernal Affairs" was playing on the long-distance bus, and the passengers watched it with relish, and Tang and Tang were not interested. They all have things on their minds.
Don didn't know if Don would be embarrassed, his current parents used to be Don Won's parents, and now he was going to take his real son to meet them...... Can this difference in identity be accepted psychologically? In the past, they were all in the UK, and they only had to care about the identity of the two people. This is easy to solve. They are all young people and can be very open-minded. Calm down and think about it to accept this reality. They don't have to think about their parents, they don't have to face a very embarrassing scene.
Don knew why he suddenly said that he would accompany Don back to China to visit his parents. Don must also know what Don is thinking. After all, they are Tang Endi's biological parents, and they are the parents who gave birth to him and raised him for him...... This love can't be abandoned just because of a change of body and identity.
That's right, Don is now in the form of a ghost. But the center of his earth will always be China. There can't be any change in this, China, Sichuan, hometown, parents...... Those people and those things left a very deep impression on him in the course of his twenty-six years of life, and he could not forget them.
Why was he so excited to meet Yang Yan in Nottingham? In addition to the fact that it was the object of his initial crush, I am afraid that there is also a trace of affection - Yang Yan is a projection representing that past time, and she makes Tang En unable to forget his original identity. As soon as I saw her. You will remember a lot of things in the past, whether they were good or bad, and now they feel very precious when they are lost.
When he and Shania came back two years ago, it was because he was taking Shania to China as an excuse. At the same time, at that time, he didn't know what identity to use to meet the second elder. So I just looked at it from afar and left. This time, he and Tang Di planned to stay at home for a while. Every day, I meet and contact my parents...... Will it be embarrassing?
He looked sideways and stared at the scenery outside the window. What was he thinking? For Di Tang three years ago, the road outside the window was a strange place, and this country was also a strange place, and he never thought that he would come to China. He doesn't even know anything about China as a country.
And now, it's the one he knows best, more so than the M1 from Nottingham to London.
There was only one reason that could make him feel identified with the land - his current parents. In his life without fatherly and maternal love, the appearance of his parents now seems to be a gift from God, everything to him, because they are Chinese. So he recognizes his new identity Chinese the land, he recognizes the land, the country, the people here......
It's because of this that he can easily abandon his former identity.
Anyway, that "home" in England is nothing for him to be nostalgic for.
Before he met Donne, he could enjoy this happiness with peace of mind.
When he agreed to go to England to resume his old job, he knew very well in his heart: he had to face another self, he had to face his parents' real son.
Of course, he was afraid of losing his current life, but as a place that occupied other people's bodies and families, he felt a little guilty about Don in his heart. Don wouldn't know about his previous background, he knew it. He had nothing to be nostalgic about in his previous life. If it's a business, he's a profit...... No, the empty glove white wolf is right.
Because I have this thought in my heart, I always feel that I have taken advantage. If he hadn't met Donn, he could have continued like this. But once encountered, that kind of guilt slowly surfaced and occupied his heart. He thought that maybe he should go to England to meet him on the ground, explain everything clearly, and then see the results......
So he went, and Don was more aganous than he thought, a very outgoing and cheerful man, and instead he felt a little guilty...... Why? Just because he has achieved a little bit as a head coach now, he feels that he has been disadvantaged to Don.
Don thought it was funny to think about it. Some people regard their career as more important than anything else, while others feel that no matter how good their career is, the ultimate goal is to have a happy family. Don found his purpose and he belonged to the post.
Don was not an ambitious man, his biggest wish in the past was to be the head coach of the forest youth team, and training young players was his ambition. He and Donn are fundamentally different. Don longs for victory, for championships, for glory, money, fame...... Don felt that it didn't matter, Don needed to help him, so help.
So later Don said that he wanted to come back to see his parents together, and he agreed. He knew that Don wasn't going to take away his current life, and he didn't have anything to worry about.
As for the embarrassment of their parents seeing their real son...... He didn't feel embarrassed, because he was already the "third", and if he was embarrassed, he would have been embarrassed a long time ago.
Don En's true identity, as long as he and Don don't tell him, who knows? Just think it's a little secret forever.
He doesn't know if there are people in this world who have switched bodies with people like himself. Even if they did, they wouldn't tell the truth...... Because compared to the general public, he is a very small and very rare exception.
After three and a half hours from Chengdu, Tang and Tang finally arrived in this small city in southern Sichuan. When they got out of the station, they didn't take a taxi because they brought a foreigner and were easily slaughtered by those bullying drivers. Although neither of them cared about the money, being fooled like a fool was the last thing Don could accept.
No matter how many enthusiastic drivers outside the station take the initiative to invite them to get on the train, follow them and ask where to go. The two of them didn't say a word, pulled their suitcases and went straight to the bus stop.
"Do you remember which way you sit?" Seeing Don standing in front of the stop sign and searching carefully, Don asked.
Don glanced back at him, then pointed to the second layer of the stop sign: "Of course, 75 stations."
"You remember it so well."
"No way, twenty-six years, I can't forget it." Don shook his head slightly. At that time, I was in middle school in the city, and I had to go back and forth every week, and this bus happened to pass near our school." Donn said, pointing to the name of one of the stops.
After getting on the bus, the two sat in the crowded carriage and stopped chatting, after all, a foreigner said that Sichuan dialect was too eye-catching, and Tang En didn't want to make a fuss.
After more than an hour of bumps. At six o'clock in the afternoon, the two of them stood at the entrance of the town. It's a small town. The national highway passes through the middle of the town and divides one into two. The humble bus stop is right in front of a grocery store, and an iron sign stands on the side of the gravelly road.
Tang En stood under the stop sign and looked at the scene in front of him.
The sun was setting at the end of the road, west of the town, and they were facing the ground. You have to squint your eyes to see what is happening in front of you. As the bus drove along the road, it was as if it was gradually blending into the red sun, and the shadow was stretched very long.
After school, a group of elementary school students walked past him under the escort of the teacher, and the curious children looked excitedly at the foreigner who appeared here, Tony Ta, and said his familiar local accent.
It's dinner time, and the smell of stir-fried vegetables wafts from the shops on the street.
Don stood in front and turned to look at Don Un who didn't move. Scared? β
Answered: The sound of the earth coming from Donn alone.
"No, I'm hungry."
Tang laughed silently, turned and walked away. Then let's go. I told them I was going to have dinner at home."
"Hey. Did you introduce me to your parents? Don pulled up his suitcase and chased after him.
"Hmm. on the phone."
"Uh...... Did they react in any way? β
"I'm glad I was able to bring a friend home."
Don looked up at the twilight sky, "Is it because I used to have few friends come back to play at home?" β
Don said in front of him, "I don't know, that's your business."
Don looked at the townspeople, the town was so big. Then point to the population. Looking up all day long, he didn't look down to see the ground, and after Tang came back, he didn't say that he could stop and say hello to anyone he met on the road...... In the past, my popularity was really bad......
Walking in front, Don didn't hear the footsteps and the rolling wheels of his suitcase, he turned his head back strangely, and now Don was still standing again.
"Hey. Aren't you hungry? β
"Oh, here we are."
Seeing that Don was a little distracted, Don said, "I know that the stories after you replaced me are not quite the same as yours. After I became you, I tried very hard to live your way because I was worried about being discovered. But in addition to being unpopular. Nothing else."
"That's fine...... I'm not a showy person......" Donn muttered and cocked his collar.
Two men turned up a flight of stairs from the side of the street, and the "Z" shaped steps ran through the middle of the low, gray-tiled houses. Southern Sichuan is mountainous. Donn's old house was built on a hillside, and the road was split out of the middle of the mountain, and all the families lived on the slopes on both sides.
This part of the road is also familiar to Donne, who used to jump up and down this step when he was a child. You won't fall with your eyes closed. On the back of the hillside is a paddy field. There was also threshing grain, holding conventions, and showing movies on the land dam, and of course he used to play football there.
When he and Shania came to the land two years ago, they just passed by on the road below and took a few quick glances.
Today, standing on this bluestone slab step, looking at the eaves of the surrounding houses to his chest, a complex feeling of both familiarity and unfamiliarity arises.
He used to think that these houses were very high......
"It's here." Walking in front, Tang suddenly quickened his pace, jumped up in three steps and two steps.
Don stood behind, looking at the familiar blue brick and black tile house, and at the two old men standing in the doorway. Familiar faces...... When they saw Don, a smile bloomed on their faces, and the father turned around and went back to the house to continue to be busy, while the mother pulled her son, who had not seen her for two years, to ask for warmth.
Don stood below, looking up stunned at this long-lost scene. When he came home from college for the Spring Festival, his parents were waiting for him at the door of his home, it was a cold winter, not summer.
Tang Xian, who was chatting with his mother, didn't follow, he turned his head and pointed at Tang En, and said a few words to his mother. Tang Enxian and the two of them set their eyes on him, and he walked up, but he didn't know what to call the woman in front of him......
Aunt?
Mom?
Don knows what's going on in Don's mind, but he should still remind Don not to goo. So he shouted, "Tony? β
The voice brought Donn back from his state of distraction.
"Ah, how is my aunt...... I'm a friend of Tang Di, my name is ...... Tony
"Hello hello...... I've heard you talk about you, and he said you can speak Sichuanese. At first I didn't believe it. Now I believe it...... Come in, come in, come in! β
Don En carried the suitcase into the house, and said hello to the old father who took the time to come out of the kitchen, and then took out the gift he brought from England, although the second old man excused himself and said no, he finally accepted it.
They came back just in time, dinner was ready, and they only needed to heat up the soup again to start the meal. Don was already hungry and could eat authentic home-cooked food, which was a great blessing for him, a man who spent his days in England eating fried fish and baked potatoes.
Tangdi's parents were both frightened by the amount of food eaten by this foreign friend, and they looked at their son inquiringly. And Tang looked at Tang En, who was just burying his head in his mouth and pulling food into his mouth, and smiled embarrassedly at the second elder: "He...... I loved the Sichuan food ......"
The two suddenly realized: "Oh...... Slow to eat. Slow to eat. Don't panic, there's still ......"
When Tang En heard this, he buried his head in the vegetables and spent time faster.
He didn't dare to look up, just because he was afraid that his red eyes would frighten his parents sitting on the ground opposite.