Chapter 2 Going home

Standing outside the waiting hall of Shuangliu Airport and looking at the huge billboards outside, Tang En curled his lips.

Although it is cloudy in Chengdu now, he still took out his sunglasses from his pocket and put them on.

The taxis outside Shuangliu Airport have a special passage, lined up one by one for passengers to come. They stopped without waving, and Tang En pulled his suitcase straight towards the uninhabited car.

"hello!" The taxi driver greeted Tang En enthusiastically.

Listening to the other party's Sichuan accent, Tang En wanted to laugh, but he held back with a stern face.

Tang pulled the box and the driver enthusiastically helped put their luggage into the trunk.

After getting on the bus, the driver started the car and turned around and asked, "Where are you going?"

"Uh..." Tang En opened his mouth and found that he didn't know where to go first. He turned his head and asked Tang in Sichuan dialect: "Where are we going?"

The driver sitting in front suddenly jumped and he was frightened.

Seeing the driver's reaction, Tang En didn't bother to ask Tang anymore and laughed in the chair behind him.

Tang glanced at him helplessly, turned his head to the driver and said, "Go to Liangjia Lane."

"Don't you play in Chengdu for two days?" Tang En made up his mind to speak Sichuan dialect. When he was in the UK, he spoke English all day long, but when he came back to China, he was very flirtatious.

"No, I called my parents before I came back, and they asked me to go back directly."

Tang En nodded after hearing this. Tang came to Nottingham from Sichuan two years ago. Apart from making regular calls, he had no contact with his parents. Now, his son, who has not seen him for two years, is coming back, so parents are naturally eager to see him.

He understood this feeling of wanting his son to fly to him.

Because he was actually very anxious...

The two of them didn't even have lunch, so they made the long-distance bus at noon and left Chengdu.

It was different from the last time I came back, and Tang En was not nostalgic for this city. Without Xianya by his side, he didn't have to consider eating, drinking and having fun.

His purpose for coming back this time is very clear, which is to meet his "parents" he hadn't seen in three years.

It is a three-hour drive from Chengdu to Tang, or Tang En's hometown. It takes nearly an hour to get home. It only takes half an hour to take a taxi directly from the long-distance bus station.

The long-distance bus was placed on the bus, and the passengers were interested in watching it, and neither Tang En nor Tang were interested. They both had their thoughts.

Tang En wondered if Tang would feel embarrassed. His current parents were once Tang En's parents, and now he wants to take his real son to see them... Can this difference in identity be accepted psychologically?

In the past, they were all in the UK and only needed to care about the identities of two people. This was easy to solve. They were both young people, and they could be very open in their minds. They could accept this reality by thinking calmly. They didn’t have to consider their parents’ relationship.

Don't have to face a very embarrassing scene.

Tang En knew why he suddenly said that he would go back to China with Tang and visit his parents. Tang must also know what Tang En was thinking.

After all, he was Tang En's biological parents, and he was the parents who gave birth to him and raised him to support him... This love cannot be abandoned just because he changed his body and identity.

That's right, Tang En is now in a ghost appearance. But his center of land will always be from China.

This cannot be changed, China, Sichuan, hometown, parents... those people and those things left a very deep impression on him in his twenty-six years of life, and he could not forget them.

Why was she so excited when she met Yang Yan in Nottingham? In addition to being the first crush on her, she probably also had a sense of intimacy - Yang Yan represents a projection of that past time. She made Tang En unable to forget her original identity.

When I see her, I will think of many things from the past. No matter how good or bad it is, I will remember them. Now I feel that they are particularly precious when I lose them.

When he and Xianya came back two years ago, because he was using the excuse to bring Xianya to China to play, he didn't know what identity he should use to meet the two elders, so he just took a look from afar and left.

This time, he and Tang Di planned to live at home for a while. I met and contacted his former parents every day... would it be embarrassing?

He turned his head and looked at Tang, who was staring at the scenery outside the window. What was he thinking?

For Tang three years ago, the road outside the window was unfamiliar, and this country was unfamiliar. He never thought he would come to China, and he knew nothing even about China.

Now, this is the most familiar highway he is, more familiar than the M1 highway from Nottingham to London.

There is only one reason for him to identify with this land - his current parents. In his life without fatherly love and maternal love, his current parents appear as if they were gifts from God. It is everything to him.

Because they are Chinese, he recognizes his new identity as Chinese. He recognizes this land, this country, and the people here...

He can easily abandon his previous identity because of this.

Anyway, the "home" in Britain has nothing to be left to nostalgic for him.

Before meeting Tang En, he could enjoy this happiness with peace of mind.

When he promised to go to England to resume his old career, he actually knew very well: he had to face another self and his parents' real son.

Of course, he was afraid of losing his current life, but as he occupied other people's bodies and families, he felt a little guilty about Tang En. Tang En would not know his previous life, but he knew very well that there was nothing to nostalgic for his previous life.

If this is a business, he will make a fortune... No, he will make money for nothing.

It is precisely because of this kind of thought in my heart that I always feel that I have taken advantage of it. If I hadn't met Tang En, he could continue like this, but once he met it, the guilt would slowly emerge and occupy his heart.

He felt that maybe he should have gone to the UK to meet him and explain everything clearly. Then look at the result...

So he went, and Tang En got along better than he thought. He was a very outgoing and cheerful person, and instead he felt a little guilty... Why? Because now he, the head coach, has achieved some achievements, he feels he has treated Tang unfairly.

Tang thought of such a thing. Some people regard career as more important than anything else, while others think that no matter how good the career is, the ultimate goal is just a happy family. After a physical change experience.

Tang found his goal, and he belonged to the latter.

Tang was not an ambitious person. His biggest wish in the past was to be the head coach of the Forest Youth Team. Training young players was his ambition.

He and Tang En are essentially different. Tang En longs for victory, champion, glory, money, fame and fortune... and longs for these things to represent "success". Tang felt it didn't matter, Tang En needed to help him himself. Then help.

So later Tang En said he would come back to see his parents together, and he agreed. He knew that Tang En would not take away his current life, and he had nothing to care about.

As for the embarrassment of his parents when they see their real son... he didn't feel any embarrassment, because he was originally a "third party", and it would have been embarrassing long ago.

Tang En’s true identity. As long as he and Tang En don’t tell him, who knows? Just treat it as a little secret forever.

He didn't know if there were people in this world who were like himself, who had their bodies in harmony with others. Even if there was, they wouldn't tell the truth... because compared with the general public, he was a very rare exception.

Three and a half hours after leaving Chengdu, Tang En and Tang finally arrived at this small town in southern Sichuan. After leaving the station, they did not take a taxi because they were carrying a foreigner and could easily be slaughtered by those drivers who bullied their lives.

Although neither of them cares about this little money, being fooled like a fool is the most unacceptable thing for Tang En to accept.

No matter how enthusiastic the driver was outside the station, he invited them to get on the bus and followed them to ask where they were going. The two of them did not say a word and pulled their suitcases straight to the bus station.

"Do you still remember which way to take?" Tang En stood in front of the stop sign and searched carefully. Tang asked.

Tang En looked back at him, then pointed to the second floor of the station sign: "Of course, Route 75. 11 stations."

"You remember it very clearly."

"There's no way, twenty-six years, I can't forget it even if I want to." Tang En shook his head gently. "At that time, I went to middle school in the city and had to travel back and forth every week. The bus happened to pass by near our school." Tang En pointed to one of the place names of the stops and said.

After getting on the bus, the two sat in the crowded carriage and stopped chatting. After all, a big foreigner was too eye-catching to speak Sichuan dialect, and Tang En didn't want to cause trouble.

After more than an hour of bumpyness, at six o'clock in the afternoon, the two of them stood at the entrance of the town. This is a small town, the national highway passes through the middle of the town and divides one into two.

The simple bus stop is right at the entrance of a grocery store, and an iron sign stands on the side of the road with flying sand and stones.

Tang En stood under the stop sign, looking at the scene in front of him.

The huge sunset hangs at the end of the road, to the west of the town, they have to squint their eyes to see clearly the situation in front of them. The bus drove along the road as if it was gradually integrated into the red sun, and the shadow was pulled very long.

After school, elementary school students walked past him in groups under the escort of the teacher. The curious child was excited to look at the foreigner who appeared here - Tony Tangen, chattering about him, talking about his familiar local accent.

It is supper time, and the aroma of cooking is wafting from the shops facing the street.

Tang stood in front and turned around to look at Tang En who was not moving. "Are you scared?"

The answer to him was the sound from Tang En alone.

"No, I'm hungry."

Tang laughed silently, turned around and walked. "Then let's go, I told them to have supper at home."

"Hey, have you introduced me to your parents?" Tang En pulled up his suitcase and chased after him.

"Yeah, on the phone."

"Uh...what did they react?"

"I'm glad I've brought a friend home."

Tang En looked up at the dusk and dark sky: "Is it because I rarely had friends back home to play?"

Tang said before: "I don't know, that's your business."

Tang En looked at the people in the town. The town was so big, with a small population that I looked up all day long and didn’t look down. After Tang came back, he didn’t say that he could stop and say hello when he met someone on the road... I used to be so popular...

Tang, who was walking in front, did not hear the sound of footsteps following closely behind and the friction of the rolling wheels of the suitcase. He turned his head strangely and found that Tang En had stopped again.

"Hey, aren't you hungry?"

"Oh, here we come."

Seeing Tang En, who was distracted, Tang said: "I know the stories after you replaced me are different from you. After I became you, I worked hard to live your way because I was worried about being discovered.

But except for being unpopular, I have never learned anything else to like.

"It's okay... I'm not a person who likes to show off..." Tang En muttered and raised his collar.

Two people turned up a step from the street. The "z"-shaped steps walked through the middle of the low gray tiled house.

There are many mountains in southern Sichuan. Tang En's house was built on a small hillside. The road was cut from the middle of the mountain. Every household lived on the hillside on both sides.
To be continued...