Transmigration: Flirted with My Childhood Sweetheart-Chapter 689 - 688: Carry, Embrace, Deliver

"Seeing others off usually takes just one try, but when it’s your turn, one’s not enough, and you have to do it all over again."

At Li Dahe’s house, Uncle Team Leader stared at the two strands of hair in the palm of his hand, his eyebrows knitted in worry.

Lin Nianhe, without any psychological pressure, ate the noodles cooked by Aunt Li and said, "There’s nothing I can do about it if the snow is so heavy that the trains are stopped. It’s not like I’m trying to cause trouble."

She was certainly not to blame; she only learned about the train cancellation due to heavy snow upon arriving at the station.

She definitely couldn’t shoulder the train and run back to Beijing.

There was no need to, nor was it possible.

Aunt Li placed peeled eggs into their bowls and said with a smile, "It seems even God can’t bear to part with you. By the way, why hasn’t Shumei come back?"

"Sister Shumei said it’s more convenient to wait for news at her brother’s place. If the train service resumes, she’ll call us."

"Well, that’s good," Aunt Li still felt somewhat uneasy and turned to Li Dahe, "Let the railway know to call us too if there’s any news."

"I already did."

Li Dahe, legs crossed and smoking, saw them finishing their meal and waved his hand, "Don’t go back to the Educated Youth Corps. You two stay with your aunt, and Xiao Su will stay with me."

"Okay."

The road had been blocked for two days, and Lin Nianhe and Wen Lan had spent two days enjoying meals from various homes.

On the third day, at five o’clock in the morning, the phone at the brigade’s office rang.

"Uncle Team Leader, tell them to hurry over, the train’s running again! I managed to buy them sleeper tickets, but the station is really crowded right now. Having tickets doesn’t guarantee they’ll be able to board, so you all better come quick, or who knows when they’ll be able to leave!"

Wang Shumei’s voice was very urgent.

It was still before working hours; after getting the sleeper tickets through someone’s help, she managed to borrow a phone to make the call.

"Got it, I know."

Li Dahe phoned the match factory to send a vehicle to pick them up. Then he hurried home and told the three who were still eating breakfast, "Stop eating, hurry to the train station!"

By the time the vehicle arrived, they had packed their luggage.

Aunt Li cooked a bag of eggs and packed up all the dry food they could take from home.

The commotion they caused was somewhat big, and when the neighbors heard it, they also brought their own things over.

"Xiao He and Xiao Lan, these pine nuts were freshly shelled by your uncle last night, take them with you."

"Take some wood ear mushrooms; you can eat them soaked in water, and here are a few frozen pears, take them all."

"Xiao Su likes perilla leaves, and just so happens we have some at home... Eh, we can’t skimp on this stuff. Xiao Su, you’re strong, you carry it..."

Bag after bag, they desperately stuffed them into their arms.

"Uncles, aunts, we’re off again."

Lin Nianhe waved to everyone with a smile, "Don’t miss me too much, who knows, I might just..."

"Hey, shut your mouth! Don’t jinx things! If something happens again, you might as well take a delivery truck home!"

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Lin Nianhe’s eyes were somewhat hot.

Turning back, she saw that Wen Lan’s tears were dripping again.

She skillfully pushed a handkerchief into her hand and bade farewell repeatedly, "Uncles and aunts, take care of your health, we’ll come back during the summer holidays!"

"Sure, come back anytime."

"That’s right, come back whenever you want."

"When you come back, I’ll stew a hen for you!"

Li Xiaohai arrived driving a freight truck.

Su Yuncheng got on first, then turned back to pull up Wen Lan and Lin Nianhe.

Standing on the truck, Lin Nianhe turned and looked at the tear-stained faces of the villagers; she, who was usually so eloquent, was at a loss for words at this moment.

She could only do her best to smile at everyone, to avoid remembering each other in tears in the future.

Li Dahe also boarded the truck, saying, "Alright, everyone go back. I’ll see them onto the train, and if..." If the train can’t leave or they can’t get on, he would directly bring them back.

The truck started moving.

Unconsciously, the villagers took a few steps forward.

Lin Nianhe and Wen Lan leaned on the edge of the truck, their cheeks wet.

"Alright, cut out the drama," Li Dahe lightly kicked Lin Nianhe’s boots, "it’s not like we won’t see each other again."

After he said that, he turned his head away, looking outside the carriage.

It was still dark outside, but there were quite a few people on the streets.

When they arrived at the train station and got the train tickets from Wang Shumei, they sadly discovered... there were even more people.

People had been gathering for two or three days, and now they were all desperately trying to squeeze into the crowd.

Some were even climbing through the train windows, from a distance the train looked like it was covered in clusters of human fruit.

At this point, no one cared whether it was a sleeper carriage or not, the priority was to get on board first!

Seeing that the platform was full of young people, Li Dahe knew at a glance that his platform ticket was bought in vain.

He was too old to be squeezing with the youngsters, it wasn’t worth it.

He pulled Wang Shumei aside: "I can’t help now, once you squeeze in there’s no getting off."

Wang Shumei nodded repeatedly: "Yes, I know."

Lin Nianhe had never seen such a scene before, she also wanted to retreat, but Su Yuncheng said, it would only get more crowded later—family visit leaves were about to be granted soon, and there would be more educated youths who did not make it into university. If they didn’t go back now, they wouldn’t have the chance later.

Lin Nianhe clenched her teeth and followed Wen Lan and Su Yuncheng into the tide of people.

"Hezi, hold on to me, Hezi? Hezi?"

In the blink of an eye, as Wen Lan turned her head, Lin Nianhe was lost in the sea of people.

"Su Yuncheng!" she shouted at the top of her lungs, "Hezi is gone!"

Not far away, Su Yuncheng replied: "Nianhe is with me, come over here, to me."

Wen Lan turned back, just in time to see Su Yuncheng lifting Lin Nianhe onto his shoulders.

Wen Lan: "..."

Well, that really seemed like a good idea.

Wen Lan wanted to go through the door, but Su Yuncheng apparently thought otherwise. He stood outside the window of the sleeper carriage, gesturing for Wen Lan to come over.

She hesitated for a moment but then decided to stick with them, abandoning the effort to squeeze through the door and fought her way to their side through the crowd.

Lin Nianhe lay obediently on Su Yuncheng’s back, and even found a moment to wave at Li Dahe, not far away.

Uncle Team Leader rolled his eyes at her in a gesture of affection and reluctance to part.

Su Yuncheng seized an opportunity, put down the luggage in his left hand, and lifted Lin Nianhe, who was on his shoulder, across into the sleeper carriage’s window like passing luggage.

Lin Nianhe felt as though she closed and opened her eyes in an instant, and then she was sitting on a small table inside the carriage.

"Nianhe, get down."

Su Yuncheng’s voice came from outside the window, and at the same time, Wen Lan stepped on Su Yuncheng’s hand to squeeze through the window, bumping shoulders with Lin Nianhe.

"Silly girl, get out of the way!"

Wen Lan winced in pain but didn’t dare to let go and rub her head.

Lin Nianhe quickly jumped down from the table and reached out her hand to pull Wen Lan.

Wen Lan didn’t need her help; she swiftly climbed in, and turned around to take their suitcases and food given by the villagers from Su Yuncheng’s hand.

After the last suitcase was passed in, the train whistled.

Amidst the chaotic cries of "wait a moment," the train mercilessly began to move.

Lin Nianhe didn’t even have time to urge Su Yuncheng, he leaped gracefully like a nimble cheetah with hands on the window sill, easily entering the carriage as if stepping over a threshold.

Afterwards, Lin Nianhe commented on Su Yuncheng’s jump: "It was even easier than hopscotch."

The train started, and many people who hadn’t managed to get on tried to jump in from the windows but ended up sprawling all over. Thankfully, because of the thick winter clothes, they didn’t get seriously hurt.

Li Dahe wanted to get closer but was separated by the crowd, so he could only follow the train from a distance.

He raised his hand, waved once, then again.

He followed it to the end of the platform.

He watched as the train turned into a small dot.

He had to face reality—

The kids really had left.

The winter in the Northeast seemed to bring rain, soaking his face.

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