Chapter 96 third quarter

Time can change everything, and it can also confirm everything.During the years of living in Shahu Village, Luo Yang, like Liu Xu, has grown up and become an indispensable labor force in Shahu Village. Labor in the countryside is simple and tedious. In addition to the normal spring planting and autumn harvesting, they also have to do another thing: land reclamation - many villagers gathered together, they cut the sea buckthorn on the wasteland, and harvested the red willow and sandy dates on the sand. The tree is cut down, then planted with wheat or potatoes, and then waits for the desired harvest.However, none of them thought that after more than 20 years of this incident, they would pay the price and carry out a reverse operation - returning farmland to forest.In fact, human beings always repeat such ridiculous mistakes, then correct them, and then slide down another wrong road, and then correct them again.Just as time continues for more than ten years, when the plantation forests after returning farmland to forests grow to a certain scale, people start from the perspective of regional economic development and cut down forests in patches to make disposable sanitary chopsticks or paper; Some people have researched a new achievement, replacing coal with unproductive trees to generate electricity, which is called the development of ecological energy.However, trees are fast to cut and slow to grow. I don’t know when this new thing with beautiful ideals will truly benefit mankind.In short, the trees were cut down one by one, large and small processing factories and paper mills appeared one after another along the banks of the Shiyang River, and the brown foamy water caused the sparse crops along the banks to wither little by little.So, many years later, people had to face up to and correct their mistakes again-closing the paper mill.However, the mighty Tengger Desert has gradually surrounded and encroached on the village, and the space for people's activities is getting smaller and smaller. No one knows whether their correction of countless mistakes will still be effective.

We now know that when Luo Yang and Liu Xu grew from youth to youth, there were no factories along the Shiyang River, and the river water was pure and clear.However, due to the needs of the times, they have to reform the river course just like reforming their own thoughts, that is, during three to five months every year, Luo Yang and other young people in the village are sent by the village chief to Shiyang Construction of water conservancy projects in the river basin.Of course, at this time Luo Yang has already participated in labor as a member of the commune, and he can get the same salary as other villagers, which is what he has been looking forward to for a long time when he came to Shahu Village.

Luo Yang did not expect that the turning point of his life would start from this moment.At the reservoir construction site, he met a researcher who was sent from the provincial capital to the countryside for reconstruction, and they formed an initial friendship. The researcher came from the judicial department of the provincial capital. In that chaotic era, the department he belonged to was closed and "going out of business", and people no longer needed justice. Of course, the field he had studied was in a frozen period.The researcher was in his forties, slender and frail, and wore a pair of high myopia glasses. However, he was assigned by the supervisory cadres to do work like lifting stones, and each stone weighs several hundred kilograms.Researchers often collapsed on the construction site from exhaustion.Even so, once he regained his energy, he still insisted on reading, secretly reading in the dead of night.Those tomes were brought out from the provincial capital by him.The reason why he has a good impression of Luo Yang may be simply because Luo Yang admires his endurance to endure suffering and his indescribable spirit as a scholar.Luo Yang, who formed an initial friendship with the researcher, would bring him a little flax oil every time he came out of the house.The researcher made a small oil lamp with an ink bottle, which is convenient for reading at night.Sometimes his oil lamp ran out of oil, and Aiwujiwu's catkins would sneak out some clear oil from the cafeteria to fill up the small oil lamp.At that time, Liu Xu was doing odd jobs for the master in the cafeteria, which was the lightest job assigned to her by the village head. Like male laborers, she got 12 points of work points every day.The village head is also surnamed Liu, and Liu Xu calls him Uncle according to his seniority, so his care of Liu Xu seems to be taken for granted.

Then times changed.One day, the tweeter in the village sang high-pitched: "Down with the 'Gang of Four', the people are overjoyed..." The singing stopped the last water conservancy project on the Shiyang River.All the commune members returned to their villages, and the researcher who was released from labor returned to the provincial capital to do what he should do.Before leaving, the researcher gave those tomes to Luo Yang. From then on, Luo Yang, like that researcher, began to study day and night.Of course, those tome books did not have many substantial benefits to Luo Yang's real life, but they undoubtedly opened another window for his inner world.He became serious and stern while reading.

Soon Luo Yang received a letter and other books mailed to him by the researcher from the provincial capital, most of which were high school textbooks.Liu Xu didn't know what the researcher's letter said, but after reading the letter, Luo Yang seemed to be insane, and he didn't even want to do farm work in the field, so many things fell on Luo's mother and Liu Xu.In fact, Luo's mother has not been good at farming during the years she lived in Shahu Village, and the work in the field is mainly done by catkins. Every day, when Liu Xu finished work, Luo Yang also suggested that she study, but how could she have the energy after working all day?Moreover, she has deep prejudices against intellectual women like her mother, and she really has no interest in reading.Instead of becoming a woman like her mother in the future, she would rather choose to be ignorant.At this point, Luo Yang couldn't force her.Due to the influence of rural life for many years, Liu Xu began to follow the teaching of the old grandmother before her death that "a woman who has no talent is a virtue".Although she will accommodate this boy named her sister in many ways, she doesn't want to make a fundamental change in herself - she hates that she has become like her mother back then, because of the theories she believes in and the so-called noble family background and All family ties were annihilated because of political future.Although this is not the fault of reading, Liu Xu still refuses to read any books.

After Luo Yang finished reading the last high school textbook, he said firmly, "I want to leave here." Liu Xu finally understood that he and she were completely different people, and he didn't want to put his roots in Shahu Village.In other words, he didn't think about spending time with her in the quiet countryside.Everything is her own imagination and wishful thinking about love.But she still hopes to keep him, and never return to the bustling city full of fame and fortune. So Liu Xu said, "How can you leave? Back in the city, you are a black household like me."

Luo Yang said: "I went to the village chief. Now that the college entrance examination has resumed, I want to go to school. In addition, I want to go back to the county to solve the problem of my grandfather and father. They are innocent." "It's useless. The village chief won't give you a certificate, and he won't give you rations. Moreover, your father's problem has become a historical conclusion. He did hurt someone when he fled for the first time—the famous man in the county. celebrity." "I went to the provincial capital to find a researcher. He understands the law and should know what to do."

... Then silence. "If you leave, what will your mother do?" Liu Xu asked again. ... Still silent. Liu Xu sighed, she knew that Luo Yang had made up her mind to go, and secretly thought of how to help him. Until now, Liu Xu still thinks that she wanted to help a group of Luo Yang at that time, which was actually silly and naive.She really shouldn't have gone to the village chief on her own; even if she had gone to the village chief, she should have told Luo Yang frankly what happened afterwards.My own fault was that I didn't clearly realize that there are some things that a young woman can't bear.

It was Liu Xu's own decision to go to the village head in person.Although she is unwilling to repeat her mother's life as a perverted intellectual woman, Luo Yang is a man, he will not be satisfied with the plainness and paleness of the village, he should have higher ambitions and pursuits; in addition, he calls her sister, In order to realize his wish, how can the older sister stand by and do nothing?So the young Liu Xu went to the village chief's house.According to seniority, Liu Xu calls the village chief uncle, so it is also a family.Moreover, the village chief usually takes good care of her, and she believes that the village chief will agree to her request.However, this was the first time for her to ask for help, and she felt very sad for herself on the way to the village chief's house.

Liu Xu appeared in that strange courtyard with a solemn and solemn expression.She met the village chief, who she should call uncle.She explained her intentions to him, and hoped that the village head would stamp a seal representing power and give Luo Yang a way out. The village head talked about other things, and he said to Liu Xu: "Your aunt wants to see Luo's mother's bracelets. She has been thinking about a pair of bracelets for half her life." Liu Xu had no choice but to go back and tell Mother Luo about it.Luo's mother knew her son's intentions, and of course she hoped that her son would leave the country, so she took off the bracelet and handed it to Liu Xu, asking her to say something nice to the village chief.

According to the agreement with the village chief, Liu Xu came to the village chief's house one evening.Her dinner was relatively early that day. When she packed up the dishes and walked on the village street, the street was very quiet. Everyone was still busy preparing dinner in their own yards. There were faint old corn stalks or wheat stalks floating on the village street. Cooking smoke after the shell burns through.Therefore, no one saw the catkins walking through the village street. Only the village head and his wife live in the village head's house.Liu Xu pushed open the courtyard door of their house and called for auntie, but no one answered.She walked into the yard, only to find that the sick wife of the village chief who had been unable to get off the ground for many years was not at home.At this time, the village chief was sitting on a wooden horse in the yard smoking a cigarette he rolled himself.It was a cigarette rolled from a strong shredded Mohe tobacco, and the paper was cut from newspaper.In the entire village, newspapers can only be found at the village head's home, which was brought home by the village head after studying politics in the commune. The village head glanced at Liu Xu standing in the yard, stood up and walked towards her. As the village head approached, a choking smoke of Mo Heyan poured towards Liu Xu, and soon surrounded her and wrapped her tightly. Liu Xu couldn't get rid of the oppression of the strong smell of mohe smoke from the very beginning.When the village chief returned Mother Luo's jade bracelet to her, saying that her wife didn't want to buy the bracelet, and told her to leave, it was already a bright moon. On a moonlit night, Liu Xu was walking on the village street in a trance, and the cool wind hit her neck, and she realized that a button on the collar of her jacket had been torn off.This discovery made her realize with horror that everything was planned by the village chief since he said that his wife wanted to see the bracelet. When she got home, Liu Xu soaked herself in the tub and scrubbed herself for half the night.But she felt that she couldn't wash the dirt on her body and the humiliation in her heart no matter what. The only thing that made Liu Xu feel gratified was that the village head did not break his promise, and he issued a certificate to Luo Yang to take the college entrance examination in the county.Two months later, Luo Yang received the admission notice, and he was about to leave Shahu Village to go to school in the provincial capital. One morning, just after dawn, Luo Yang came back with a load of water from the well.He was about to report to school and wanted to fill the water tank at home before leaving. Pushing open the poplar door of the communal kitchen, a white body squatted in the tub to take a bath.It's catkins.Luo Yang was stunned, and the bucket fell to the ground with a bang, splashing the ground in front of him and his shoes.He seemed to be glued together, he didn't move forward, he didn't retreat, and the water in the bucket flowed all over the room.He didn't know why she had to take a shower early in the morning.He never knew she would take a shower early in the morning. Liu Xu was also stunned.She squatted in the tub, looking at him motionless.It took her a long time to react, she turned her back, and quickly put on the plain light green short-sleeved shirt.Luo Yang also seemed to wake up with a start, retreated to cover the door, turned around and walked out of the village with an empty bucket. He squatted down by the well, a little dazed. After a while, Liu Xu, dressed neatly, stood in front of him. She said: "I'm sorry. I didn't know you would get up and carry water. You should be leaving today and you want to carry water for us." She said, "You've seen everything, I'm yours. You've got to marry me." She said, "I know I'm not good enough for you, but you must marry me." She said: "If you promise to marry me, I will stay in the village to take care of your mother after you leave. When your mother passes away, I can sell our courtyard house and buy her a good birthday cake..." Luo Yang never thought that the person he always called sister would have such an idea, and he couldn't answer her for a while. "My mother is fine, why do you curse her!" In the end, Luo Yang had no choice but to drop such a sentence, and also dropped a pair of empty buckets and catkins stuck there like tree stumps, turned his head and walked away with his neck stuck. Liu Xu stood there, thinking about the half night she had just spent at the village chief's house and the filth and humiliation she had suffered because of him, her tears flowed like a broken embankment.