Chapter 0028 – Give me some pork stew with sauerkraut (2 / 2)

“Dad, it’s me, I’m Xiang Yu,” Xiang Yu choked out.

“Huh?” The man who walked out with his coat on froze in place without moving, seemingly not quite reacting to what Xiang Yu had just called out.

Xiang Yu once again shouted, “Dad, I’m back, I’m Xiang Yu.”

“Ah, ah, ah,” the man arose several times in a row, before he threw off his coat and flew to the door, pressing his whole face against the large, cold, bone-chilling iron door, and staring with glaring eyes at the young man outside.

Xiang Yu came closer so that his dad could take a closer look at himself, then said softly, “Dad, dad, how come you still can’t even recognize me?”

Xiang Yu’s father looked at him for a full minute, and tears seeped out of his eyes as he nodded his head and said, “It’s my son, it’s my son who has come back, come, come, come, it’s cold outside hurry up and come inside.”

Xiang father’s hands and feet took out the key and opened the door, after opening the door, he pulled Xiang Yu’s hand and yanked it into his arms, wrapping his arms around him and couldn’t say a word.

Xiang Yu was held for a while before he spoke out, “Dad, where’s my mom? Let’s go back to the house first.”

“Hey, good, go back to the house, go back to the house, your mom is inside watching TV” pulling Xiang Yu, Xiang father hurriedly went to the house.

The house is very warm, the rural areas in the northeast are equipped with heaters and fire walls, once inside it feels like it’s ice and fire with the outside, very comfortable.

“Old Xiang, who’s calling the door,” came a woman’s greeting from the inner room.

Xiang father didn’t wait to open his mouth, Xiang Yu pushed open the door of the room and looked at the middle-aged woman who was leaning on the bed and was watching TV and called out, “Mom, it’s me.”

The woman who was leaning on the kang sat up in a flash, her eyes looked straight at Xiang Yu, she cried with a wow sound, almost crawling down the kang, then all of a sudden she piled up and sat on the ground and hugged Xiang Yu’s thighs and cried out, “It’s my eldest son, my eldest son has come back, I’m not dreaming, are I right, you’re finally back.”

Xiang Yu squatted down and patted his mother and said, “Mom, you’re all wrapped up in my arms you say you’re dreaming or not? It’s really me, I’m back.”

Xiang father hurriedly helped his wife up, “Get up, get up, what are you doing sitting on the ground when your son is back, quickly get up and sit on the bed, it’s cold, Xiang Yu just came back and must be freezing outside.”

A family of three sat on the hot kang, Xiang Yu’s mother rubbed his face and said, “Son, you’re still the same as when you were a child, you haven’t changed at all, mom recognized you at a glance.”

Xiang Yu was happy and said, “Then I just came back outside and my dad still looked at me for half a day, as if he didn’t dare to recognize me.”

To the father na na said, “I’m not not believe it, you kid is also, who knows you suddenly came back ah, I just feel a little less real.”

Xiang Yu said, “I don’t know our home phone number, after I got off the mountain, I got on the bus back to the village, after I got off the bus, I didn’t know where to go, luckily, I ran into an old uncle in the village who brought me back.”

“You see, you see, take you to go that old road also did not say leave a contact information, which is more dangerous, more hanging did not go off the road ah” to the mother complained.

Xiang Yu said, “It’s fine, it’s not like I didn’t remember when I left, I’m in my teens and remember where my home is, I can find it.”

Looking at his parents face and brake like a smile, Xiang Yu suddenly feel much more comfortable, a long sigh of relief, twelve years of his parents think of him, and how can he not think of home.

“Huh? My big sister, where is my second sister” Xiang Yu tilted his head to see that the two houses were dark with lights, and no one asked where the two sisters were.

Xiang father laughed: “Both of them are married, both married out of the village …… I will call them here, so that both of them hurry back.”

Xiang father just got up, Xiang Yu pulled him down and said, “Dad, look how dark it is outside, the road is slippery, it’s too dangerous to come back at this time, tomorrow morning right you call my sister to let them come back, I’m not leaving tonight again.”

“Uh, yeah, yeah, we’ll hit it tomorrow.”

Xiang mother then went on to ask, “Eldest son you just came back is not did not eat it.”

“A bowl of noodles after a long day on the bus.”

“You sit down, I’ll go cook for you, it just so happens that there’s still quite a bit of meat left from the pig that was killed on New Year’s Day, I’ll get you some sauerkraut to stew.”

Xiang Yu was not calm, gulped and said, “There are blood sausage and big bones yet, there are also stewed, I’m in the mountains on the hunt for sauerkraut stewed bones, I’m forgetting what flavor.”

“Yes, there’s all of it, I’ve stewed it all up for you, eat all you want.”