Chapter 1

I'm going home for the Chinese New Year. Yesterday I called my dad at home. My dad said to me on the other end of the phone: Your fifth cousin is back and should stay at our house for two days. I guess you're still there when you come back

I hung up the phone, and my heart couldn't help but feel ripples. Is my fifth cousin coming again?

Living at home?

A past story emerged in my mind

Aunt Wu was actually a student whose father used to teach in a rural middle school. His surname was Li. His family lived in a village far from our county town.

Since I was sensible, I knew that she had a very good relationship with our family.

But I haven't figured out why it's so good. I just remember that she has been to my house to play since she was a child. It's quite normal to eat. Sometimes when my father is on a business trip, she will come to be a companion for her mother.

Later she went to the pre-teaching class of primary school in our town. Because of her reasons, I went directly from kindergarten to pre-teaching class and became her student, so I called her Teacher Li from then on.

Of course she also calls my father Teacher Huang

But later, my father introduced Teacher Li to his cousin, my fifth uncle, and she became my fifth aunt.

Uncle Wu was in his 20s and did business in a coal-producing city in another place, so he basically settled his home in another place.

Teacher Li later followed Uncle Wu to another place, and it seemed that he was running a kindergarten in that city.

So around the fourth grade of elementary school, Teacher Li disappeared from my life

It was not until 2006 that I went home during the Chinese New Year, and almost 15 years later, that I saw her again

2008 is the fifth year after I started working. Since I was not married, I could take a longer family leave. I arrived at my hometown on the 20th day of the lunar calendar.

At noon the next day after I got home, I had just finished lunch and was about to take a nap. My father answered a phone call in the study and came out and said to me: Your fifth aunt is back tomorrow, may she live in my house temporarily?

Aunt Wu? I didn't remember who it was

Oh, it’s Teacher Li who taught you preschool class before. Didn’t he marry your fifth cousin? Dad responded

I remembered it, it turned out to be Teacher Li

I just started to search for the vague memory of Teacher Li in my mind. In fact, I can't remember the obvious characteristics of her appearance and image.

I just remember that I really liked playing with such a beautiful teacher at that time, especially her protruding breasts when wearing tight sweaters, which should have given me the most primitive enlightenment of women.

Of course, I was just a little brat at that time, I just thought Teacher Li was pretty, and apart from that, there would be nothing else

15 years later, I wonder what she will become?

I heard that she gave birth to two children for her third uncle

The mother of two children is probably old too

The next morning, I was still sleeping soundly in bed

My mother suddenly knocked on my bedroom door and shouted outside: Son, get up quickly, your father asked you to pick up Teacher Li

When I heard this, I replied lazily: Didn’t my dad go and pick me up? I haven’t woken up yet

Mom continued to shout: Get up quickly, lazy, your dad has something to do in the unit, and he wants to go over and deal with it. He asked you to drive to the county station to pick up Teacher Li's luggage.

I had no choice but to get up

After packing up, I drove to the county passenger transport center after a simple meal

It is actually only a ten-minute drive from home to the passenger transport center, and it is only a maximum of 20 minutes to walk.

But my hometown is a small county town, so it is not convenient to take a taxi. It rained a little more last night and the ground was covered with mud. I drove over to pick up Teacher Li. It was also my duty to drive over to pick up Teacher Li.

When I arrived at the passenger transport center, I parked the car and then went to the passenger to the exit to wait for Teacher Li to come out.

My mother said, Teacher Li called and said that she would arrive at 10:30, but now it is exactly around 10:25, but fortunately she is not late.

It’s the Chinese New Year, and there are so many people returning to my hometown from other places, and people are rushing towards me one by one.

I leaned my head and searched the crowd, but after 10:45, I didn't see her coming out yet

I took out my cell phone and dialed the phone number my mother had just given to me. After three calls, she answered it.

Hello, is it Teacher Li? I am Xiaohai, are you here? I am answering you at the station. Before I could speak on the other end of the phone, I started talking loudly to the phone because there are too many people here and it is too noisy

There was a response from the other end of the phone: Xiaohai, I guess I will arrive in 5 minutes, thank you

Oh, okay, I'm exiting here, it's too noisy, I hung up first, I hung up the phone and continued to look into the crowd