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Chapter 2 Chapter two

Fanghua 严歌苓 4519Words 2018-03-18
Liu Feng squatted on the side holding the extra-large tea mug, stuffing sweet potato rice into his mouth, and when everyone finished speaking, he spoke, saying that the advanced and the backward are not all ordinary people?Should old Zeng be given ten rings if the common people are backward?Besides, there are no ordinary people who are not behind. You go to the countryside and try to be ordinary people, starve you all winter, and see if you are behind or not, steal sweet potatoes from the public house? I leaned over to him, wanting to say thank you or something, but felt that the one who should thank him was that backward commoner.Liu Feng turned to the big teapot and said, the sweet potatoes here are really different, they chew like chestnuts.You little Suizi, just because you are playful, such a good lady of red sweet potato almost won't be able to eat tonight.

After that, wherever there is something that needs to be tapped, repaired and improved, there will be Liu Feng.Even if the hanger in the female soldier's bathhouse was crooked, Liu Feng would be invited in to beat it.He is dexterous, a carpenter is a carpenter, a blacksmith is a blacksmith, and an electrician can be two-handed.This is a person who knows that he is unimportant, and he has to use countless unimportant things to make it important.He quickly became important among us. We really got to know Liu Feng well after he became our teacher of blanket kung fu.The most painful time for us every day is not running in the morning, studying politics at night, or listening to documents in the afternoon, but the blanket homework at 7:00 every morning.In our group of female soldiers, seventeen were the largest and twelve were the youngest. They were lined up in a line with a length of 678 meters. The blanket work took an hour and a half. soft flip), "rear bridge" (back flip), "barbarian" (side somersault), springboard barbarian.Especially the springboard barbarian, he had to catch us in the air and put us on the ground.We hate the Blanket Kungfu, firstly because we think it is useless, secondly because we are timid, bounce a few meters high on the springboard and then do a somersault, the whole person goes through a moment of horror shock, and we don’t know how to fall to the ground.Therefore, as long as Liu Feng reminds: "Strength in the waist, ah." We will give him a supercilious look, and let him carry it even less.

We stopped rolling our eyes at Liu Feng, it was when he was elected as a pacesetter in the whole army to learn from Lei Feng.Being a model does not attract people's envy, but its consequences are too good, such as joining the party and being promoted, and the consequences are even better if you are promoted.So everyone is fighting openly and secretly to be a pacesetter.Joining the party is not the most important thing for us teenage soldiers. What is important is political treatment and the sense of superiority generated by that treatment. Some documents can only be listened to by party members.It is not important to listen to the documents. What is important is that when these party members are carrying horse stands, marching in unison to the small rehearsal room, all of them have important national affairs, and regard the progressive young people like us who are watching them as empty, then It makes us jealous and jealous.

Hao Shuwen among us was the last one to roll her eyes at Liu Feng.Hao Shuwen is the plump female soldier who has increased our collective average weight. She is 1.69 meters, and she can feel the shock wave of her youthful body temperature before touching her.She was the daughter of an Air Force chief who was an anti-aircraft artillery division in his father's division.Hao Shuwen needed someone to help her every day she was alive. She couldn’t get off the bike when she was riding on the street, so she temporarily stopped a passerby to help her hold the rear frame of the bike: “Hey, fellow! Help me!” Go up and help this beautiful female soldier.After helping, I still feel unsatisfied, wishing to help twice or three times.Ever since Liu Feng came to help everyone, Hao Shuwen kept saying "Liu Feng" every day.Sometimes Hao Shuwen's help is difficult: she lost the needle in the cotton cover while sewing the quilt, and asked Liu Feng to help her find the needle in the cotton wool.

Liu Feng was elected as the representative of our military region, and went to Beijing to participate in the army's learning from Lei Feng pacesetter meeting. Only then did we realize that the people who are troubled by us every day are already the stars of the entire army.On the day he came back from Beijing, both teams of our female dance team were sitting in the winter sun studying documents, and for some reason they all stood up against the pacesetters returning to camp.Then something more interesting happened, and everyone clapped their hands. Liu Feng blushed immediately, as if he was about to turn around and flee to the gate.But he immediately confirmed that the female soldiers who were messing around all day were not messing around at all at the moment, as evidenced by the sincere admiration in their eyes.We have always been ignored by us, so He Xiaoman, who tried to overcome us with indifference and rigidity, also became moving, and opened two big ink-like eyes towards Liu Feng.He Xiaoman's whole person can be ignored, but those eyes are right, they are as dark as the secret itself.

"Where to study?" Liu Feng said. Or honestly, just greet us like this.It seems that we are a group of girls and daughters-in-law he met at the entrance of the village. When he came into the village, he said, "Do you want to do work?" There is a third-class military medal pinned to the pocket of Liu Feng's military uniform, like real gold, adding brightness and warmth to us in the weak winter sun.A certain 250 took the lead, and we shook hands with Liu Feng one by one.This Liu Feng was carrying a heavy and dirty luggage in one hand, and the other hand was held by so many people, and the supply exceeded demand.He finally threw the luggage bag on the ground, and with a bang, the big tea mug inside hurt.Wherever Liu Feng went, he took his multi-purpose large tea mug with him. He used it for eating, drinking and washing. The male soldiers joked that he could also use it to scoop water and put out fires.

Hao Shuwen shook Liu Feng's hand and said that the "Liberation Army Daily" published a photo of their meeting, and she had looked for him there. The female soldiers whose families are in Beijing, and those whose parents are doing well, all added weight to Liu Feng's luggage.So he said to the Beijing female soldiers while shaking hands, your family brought you something. I was the only one who didn't go up to shake hands.First, I myself got a demerit for talking about a romantic relationship on paper, and I have a positive and negative relationship with a big pacesetter like Liu Feng.The second is that I am a little anxious about Liu Feng, who is seriously lacking in weaknesses.I seem to be anxiously waiting for a proof: the proof that Liu Feng is a real person.Such a good person, I can't produce the sense of identity that I'm talking about now.One has to be a little bit human; one has to be a little bit human.For example, find a weak person like He Xiaoman to play tricks on, and talk bad things about a strong person like Hao Shuwen behind his back; even taking advantage of people's unpreparedness, he quietly and quickly poured some sesame oil from the cooking class; what's more, he resolutely refused to buy it. Toothpaste, take turns sneaking other people's toothpaste.Liu Feng is too good to be human.His kindness made me darken my mind, and I wanted to see him make some mistakes, show off some tricks and so on.Although I was only fifteen years old at the time, I occasionally had moments of mental distress.Later, the "touch" event really happened, and my anxious waiting was the answer.

But that warm winter afternoon was still years away from the outbreak of the incident.He saw me outside the welcome crowd, walked over and said, "Xiao Suizi, your father has brought you something too." His authentic taste was fully revealed from the words "bring something". The so-called things are nothing more than snacks and small items, a tube of high-grade toothpaste, a pair of nylon socks, and two mercerized towels, all of which are good things.If the delivery is a bottle of lemon skin care honey equivalent to Guerlain night cream in the 21st century, or a fine wool sweater equivalent to the status of "Chanel" today, it will arouse envy and heated discussions among female soldiers.Everyone expects their parents to "bring something", and all the female soldiers secretly compare who has the best and most things.The high-end, plentiful, and high-frequency items brought over naturally reflect the superiority of the family and the degree of pride of the parents in society.Like me and He Xiaoman, our parents are frustrated and our family is in a shabby state, so we can only watch others frantically consume the things they bring.We watched helplessly as they stuffed whole spoonfuls of malted milk into their mouths and crunched, and candied fruit was mixed into gruel in place of the sour pickles for breakfast.As for how the chocolate is enjoyed by them, we never see it, we only deserve to glance at the colorful tin foil candy wrappers that are gradually proliferating in the garbage basket behind the door.What else do we deserve?One day after practice, I walked through the corridor tiredly, a door opened, a head stuck out, and it swayed its chin at you secretly.This is a grand invitation.When you enter the door, you will find that a secret feast is in progress, and there are piles of delicacies brought by your parents on the table.There are three reasons for this situation. One is that the host is really generous; the other is that the food brought in is fresh, such as the fresh meat mooncakes from Shanghai Laodafang or the pine nut belly from Beijing Tianfu, which will be ruined if they are not eaten in time; A female soldier who is both superior and loved by her parents sometimes needs more people to witness her superior family background and parents' favor, and He Xiaoman and I were invited to witness.

Before Liu Feng went to Beijing for a meeting, I received a letter from my father saying that he was directly seconded to the Beijing Film Factory from the reservoir of labor reform.I wrote a letter to my father and handed it to Liu Feng.What I mean is that if Liu Feng really has no place to visit in Beijing, and if he is free, he can visit my father who has been away for several years for me.The letter is naturally a pretext, and I will not write the truth.At that time, my truth was not written anywhere.Not to mention in the diary.The lies in the diary must be well edited, and the words and sentences must be beautifully written. If someone peeks at it, it will also make people look at it.I gradually discovered that it is not uncomfortable at all to lose the truth.Both my father and I read the truth in each other's words that have been transformed into each other.

I foolishly asked Liu Feng, what did my dad bring me? Liu Feng said he didn't read it, but the package my dad handed over was the heaviest.I took a sneak peek at everyone, hoping they would hear that my dad was no longer a reactionary literati, no longer a civilized beggar whose salary was frozen and received 12 yuan a month for living expenses, but was working in a film studio in Beijing and giving money to his daughter. A father who can afford to carry things!But no one paid attention to the change of my composition and my liberation, and they were all still in awe of Liu Feng.Liu Feng picked up a greyhound-like duffel bag on the ground and said that he would deliver the things to the female soldiers later.It means that he will finish sorting in the dormitory.Not every parent is careful to write their names clearly on the parcels, and if they don’t sort them clearly, what if Zhang San is mistakenly loved by Li Si’s parents.

Before we ended the meeting, Liu Feng came back with that luggage bag.He had sorted out his personal belongings, but the duffel bag was by no means small.Liu Feng is a person with very few personal possessions, and he will be streamlined and streamlined when he goes out.There are four Beijingers in the second team of our female dance team. Liu Feng first took out four packages from the ugly and tired luggage bag.The last one, the fifth one, was brought to me by my father.It was one of the most sizable parcels.At that time, plastic bags were not regarded as environmentally friendly garbage, but a good thing worth cherishing and reusing.My father must have specially obtained this large double-material plastic bag with the logo of the Beijing Friendship Store printed on it. It is so gorgeous that it can hold everything gorgeously. The following is the original words of Liu Feng: "I called your father's film factory guest house and told him I'm sorry, the meeting schedule is too tight, the film factory is far away from the city, and we don't know each other well, so I won't visit you this time. I also said, uncle Do you think I put Xiao Suizi’s letter in the postbox and sent it to you? Your father asked me which guest house I stayed in, and I said I really couldn’t tell. It was the first time I came back to Beijing. The next day Early in the morning, he came to my door, and I wondered how he found my place to live. He said, it is not easy to inquire about a guest house, and your father insists on treating me to dinner. I said that the meeting meal is good, four dishes and one soup. He said that four dishes and one soup are good, and he wants to treat me to Beijing roast duck! I told him that the delegates can’t leave the meeting casually, and that they have to discuss in groups after lunch, so that’s all for your dad. In the evening, he came again Come on, send me such a package. Why don’t you give me a pack of cigarettes, I said I don’t know how to smoke. Your father said that he would carry such a heavy thing, three thousand miles away, I’m sorry, and asked me if I don’t smoke or drink alcohol. I said That’s even worse. He said again, tell me, what else do you know? I’ll see if I can find something you can give it to you. I said you don’t have to be polite, and if you don’t, just take it Give Xiao Suizi something? That's what I should do." Liu Feng described a father's eagerness to love his daughter and his eagerness to make a report.The tone of his enlightenment was similar to that of my love on paper that lasted half a year, and all the love letters were seized. Liu Feng found me on the arcade between the walls of the two courtyards.I was holding a backpack strap in my hand, and there was a strong beam on top of my head. I did not know how many girls and girls were hanging from the warlords many years ago.He grabbed the backpack strap and said Xiao Suizi, you are so confused.The organization sent him to rescue me, and it came at just the right time, and it would be too late if it was too late. "...Xiao Suizi, you must not be pessimistic. Carrying the burden of thinking, you will get up wherever you fall. If you work hard to reform yourself, everyone will welcome you back to the team. The prodigal son will not change his money when he returns. Let me show you one No change for gold! How about it?" As a novelist, generally I don’t write the dialogues of the characters in my novels, but only write their dialogues that I relayed, because I’m afraid of making up my own, and putting the fabricated words or partially fabricated words in quotation marks, in case the real people who are the prototype of the characters in my novels Take your seat and protest with me: "That's not what I said!" Their protest should be valid. It is obvious that I made up the words, and they will be responsible for putting quotation marks.So when I am writing this paragraph now, I recall Liu Feng's words and then recall them, and put them between a pair of quotation marks as much as possible without making up. Although the tone of Liu Feng's description of my father was boring, it still made my nose sore. I could imagine how a father who had been a class enemy for many years would awkwardly learn vulgar social skills.Dad wanted to give Liu Feng a gift, which seemed to be a reward for Liu Feng's hard work as a caravan transporting goods for three thousand miles, but it was actually to win Liu Feng over for his unhappy daughter.Liu Feng is a pacesetter in the whole army who learned from Lei Feng, so the political halo can cover me a little bit.Adversity makes people like my father learn to be vulgar and gossip, and it is this that makes me sad. By dinner time, the Beijing Friendship Store had already become famous among all our female soldiers and some of our male soldiers.Originally, it was also a famous place. According to well-informed Beijing soldiers, those who entered that store were special people, foreign experts, diplomats, overseas Chinese, and members of Chinese delegations visiting foreign countries.Renminbi is not in circulation there, but foreign exchange certificates are in circulation. It is a small world with its own special currency!Everyone can imagine the identity of my father at this moment.Father has no such rights.Later; it was very later, after Liu Feng was injured at the front line, and after He Xiaoman made meritorious service for walking more than ten kilometers with a wounded person on his back, I realized that my father was in the honor of a great director and rubbed against him. passport into the Friendship Store.In 1976, many people surrounded this director to write scripts for him. The name of this group of people was called "Collective Creation". My father didn't have his own name at that time. "Collective Creation".
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