Why didn't Liu 13 return to Yunbian Town after work?
The explanation given by the movie is that Liu Shisan's ability is not good, but he works very hard. For the sake of work, in order to get out as soon as possible, he did not go home during the Spring Festival.
In fact, he should have run away from home.
Extrapolate the distance from my grandmother's house to the rental house.
In the movie, my grandmother decided to use a tractor to take Liu Shisan back to Yunbian Town, and she needed to go through the following processes:
(1) Drive a tractor to the big city where Liu 13 is located, and may be specific to a certain street and a certain road in a certain district, but my grandmother did not navigate, and she had to stop and ask for directions from time to time.
(2) After arriving at the general location, ask for directions and find Liu Shisan's rental house.
(3) Pack Liu Shisan's luggage and belongings and carry Liu Shisan to the car.
(4) Drive back to Yunbian Town overnight. Arrived home early the next morning.
In the meantime, what happened to Liu Shisan's side?
(1) I was dissed by my boss during the day, and I was late for dinner at night, so I swept my boss's interest, and then hid in the toilet and waited for money to pay.
(2) After paying the bill, I returned to the rental house, saw the note and liquor left by my roommate, and killed a bottle of liquor by myself, and got drunk.
(3) I woke up the next day and went home, and I drank rice wine with my grandmother that day.
(4) On the third day, he regrouped and began to sell insurance to the residents of Yunbian Town.
To sum up, we can draw a conclusion: my grandmother set out during the day on the first day and returned the next morning.
Let's make up the story of this day: my grandmother went to the doctor in the morning, determined that her life was short, went home to tidy up, set off to her grandson's city at noon or afternoon, arrived at the place late at night, took her grandson to the tractor, returned, and came back the next morning.
It takes 18 hours to leave at 2 p.m. and return at 8 a.m.
Asking for directions, taking the wrong way, waiting for a red light, removing 3 hours, finding the grandson, packing the luggage, carrying the person to the car, counts as 2 hours. The actual time spent on the road is about 13 hours. 6.5 hours one way.
The tractor in the movie runs at full speed at 30-40km/h.
So in fact, Liu Shisan's rental house may only be 200km away from his grandmother's Yingying store.
So, what is the difficulty of Liu Shisan's failure to go home?
Is it far away?
The movie clearly gives a time node like April 2017, when transportation is already very developed.
Even in the beginning of the cartoon, around 2001, Cheng Shuang was able to come to Yunbian Town from the big city to borrow for a while. This tells us that Yunbian Town is definitely not a very remote and backward place.
Back in 2017, after Liu Shisan returned home, Cheng Shuang also crossed the ocean and rushed from Singapore to Yunbian Town. The ex-girlfriend came to see Liu Shisan, and she did not show the difficulties of the long distance.
A year after Cheng Shuang left, in 2018, Liu Shisan went to Singapore alone to find Cheng Shuang...... Liu 13 is not afraid of long distances.
Don't have time?
There is no such possibility at all.
Liu 13 was picked up by his grandmother back to Yunbian Town in April 2017, who passed away on Chinese New Year's Eve (February 15) in 2018, and Cheng Shuang returned to Singapore for treatment on the spring equinox (March 21, 2018) - after which Liu 13 returned to work.
So Liu Shisan spent almost a whole year in Yunbian Town.
You don't have to go to the company to punch in, and you can complete the performance, and the boss and the company are also recognized.
So the possibility that Liu Shisan will not go home for two Spring Festivals.
One possibility is that the money earned is not enough for the travel expenses. So he ran away from going home, his work was very poor, he couldn't earn money, and he was afraid that he wouldn't be able to explain to his grandmother when he came back.
The second possibility is that the girlfriend for some reason resolutely opposes Liu Shisan's return to the countryside to do a farewell to the countryside.
Most likely the former.