Chapter 74 True freedom
The train was bumpy for two days and two nights, and the two finally arrived at their destination. Nicole seemed to be having fun, and before getting off the train, he left contact information for several migrant workers. It seemed that the Americans had no sense of superiority.
After getting off the train, Nicole and the others took a car for more than three hours, got off the car for more than one hour, and took a three-wheeler for more than one hour. Nicole didn't feel tired at all. She said that the motorcycle master was so handsome that she was racing on the mountain road.
Shi Jin did not go home and went directly to the hospital. As soon as she arrived at the hospital, she felt something was wrong. Sure enough, as soon as she entered the ward, several people from the third department had already sat around her mother, and seemed to be very familiar.
As soon as they met, Hou Jingming spoke sarcasticly: "Shi Jin, why are you so late? Don't you say that the company will reimburse the travel expenses? You really can't figure it out. Our Jianghai is not short of this little money."
Nicole answered silly: "Well, you don't understand, the high-speed train is boring, and the ordinary train is fun."
In fact, before Shi Jin left Nicole's house, her grandfather called Chen Man. Chen Man and the others learned about Shi Jin's mother's illness. After a few people discussed that it would be the same wherever they went, they simply chose the destination of the tour in Shi Jin's hometown.
The train that several people took was a day earlier than Shi Jin and the others. Fu Jiaming paid the hospitalization fee that he owed and bought a lot of nutritional supplements for Shi Jin's parents. This is a bit of the wish of the three.
The old couple liked the three movies very much, especially Chen Sisi, who made the old couple laugh out loud in just a few words. The old lady chatted with Chen Sisi, like a mother and daughter.
Shi Jin's mother was not a serious illness, but her family had always relied on Shi Jin. As soon as her mother entered the hospital, her family immediately panicked. Her father, who had no backbone, hurriedly contacted Shi Jin.
When he was fine, Shi Jin's mood also relaxed. Seeing that his father had already returned home early, he knew what his father meant, which was to go home to prepare to entertain guests.
The old lady was out of the yard that day, and the group followed Shi back to the village.
On the way, Chen Sisi kept giggling. Nicole couldn't help asking what had happened. Chen Sisi quietly told Nicole that Shi Jin's mother scolded his father in the past two days when they had not arrived. Shi Jin's father didn't dare to retaliate, like a child.
Nicole also smirked and approached Shi Jin and asked him, "Shi Jin, is your dad a rake?"
Shi Jin was surprised: "Do you know how to rake your ears?"
Nicole looked proud: "I know a lot, don't forget that I am half a Chinese, and... I will soon become a real Chinese."
Nicole's green card has made progress, and she didn't expect that the process was so complicated, but in the end, the problem was solved as soon as her grandfather came forward.
As soon as he arrived at the village, Nicole was so excited that he couldn't speak.
She saw the Miao architectural style in a design magazine some time ago and was always surprised how there were such wonderful buildings in the world. Now these wonderful buildings are in front of her.
Nicole was shocked. She even felt that her soul was touched for the first time since she grew up. Those quaint and wonderful buildings actually made her, a person who had just arrived in China less than a month ago, feel the strong Chinese culture.
A few people played happily in the village for five days and five nights, and the person who touched the most was Nicole.
That night, a pregnant woman in the village suddenly broke the amniotic fluid, and the whole village was busy in the middle of the night. Nicole was also in the team, and she could feel that the worries and joy on everyone's face were real.
People from the east end of the village drove a tractor, and the midwife at the south end of the village kept guarding the side. The elderly village chief looked like a "chief" who was in charge of the overall situation. Although his voice was strange, he seemed to have a majesty that others could not touch.
On the third day, the pregnant woman brought her children back to the village, and the whole village sent gifts. Looking at the strange "gifts" filled with the room, Nicole even found it ridiculous, but she was inexplicably immersed in that joyful atmosphere and couldn't extricate herself.
On the fourth day, the child can bring hope to a village. Nicole has never felt that feeling.
On the fifth day, Nicole had already started working with the people in the village. She put on Miao village clothes and brought Miao village silverware, and she looked like a very real Miao girl.
During those days, Nicole felt great freedom, and true freedom, unlike the "boundless freedom" she enjoyed in life in the United States, but it was purer and more intense than that freedom.
During those days, Nicole even forgot to contact her boyfriend whom she was in love, and even forgot that her purpose in coming to Shijin's hometown this time was to fight for the two million investment with her grandfather.
Even when he returned to Miao Village, Shi Jin was still keen on eating noodles. In the past, Nicole didn't understand. He thought Shi Jin just liked eating noodles, but now Nicole seems to understand something.
"You eat noodles every day just to save money and send them to your home?" Nicole asked Shi Jin.
Shi Jin smiled and said, "This is our Chinese tradition."
Nicole wondered: "Don't people live for themselves? You are already an adult and have to take care of your family and your younger brother. Will you be dragged down all the time?"
Shi Jin took a bite of noodles and thought about it before saying, "You may think this is a drag, but we will say it in another way, it is called responsibility. People should live for themselves, but... people cannot live for themselves."
Nicole had a very strong feeling. Although she could not understand what this sentence meant, she could clearly feel that the American thinking that had accumulated in her body for more than ten years seemed to have been leveraged.
Nicole suddenly felt that she had found a sense of belonging, an inexplicable but very powerful force.
Good times are always short, and soon the "holiday" ends.
On the day the employees of the three departments left, each received a gift from Shi Jin's parents, and Nicole even received a traditional Miao costume, which was the clothes that Shi Jin's married sister once wore, and Shi Jin's mother gave it to Nicole.
On the way back, Nicole suddenly remembered that she had only been playing around these days and had not charged her phone. When she charged, dozens of messages and dozens of missed phone calls immediately popped up from her phone.
Nicole did not call her boyfriend, but just sent a text message: "I'll go to Shanghai today and go back and say it."
When he returned to Shanghai, Nicole and Shi Jin went to see his grandfather. Grandpa was very happy and gave Nicole a bank card with two million in it.
Nicole knew about her boyfriend's affairs and happily went to give her money. But grandpa had a problem again and insisted that Shi Jin accompany Nicole.
Shi Jin saw that Nicole was unhappy and said with a human touch: "I'll send you to the place, don't go up."
Nicole's boyfriend rented a house in the suburbs. The terrain of the bungalow is very low. Shi Jin parked his car on the road and could overlook the entire layout of the house. Nicole got off to see his boyfriend, and Shi Jin simply waited in the car.
Chapter completed!