Chapter 3 third chapter

We have an hour of free time before evening rehearsals or class meetings.In just one hour of freedom, we have to spend nervously.Stealing a kiss in a dark corner, exchanging a page or two of love letters, flirting with a couple of red notes, going to the room of a lover you like but have not yet identified, rubbing your supposedly sprained waist or leg in the name of helping each other ... That one hour of freedom is really sweet and nourishing, so that after wandering around half of the world and enjoying the vast freedom, I often covet the one hour of freedom more than 30 years ago.That hour is of course available for us to add meals, that is, to eat snacks.The official food is not worth mentioning. Tofu is eaten every Thursday, noodles are eaten every Friday, and steamed buns are eaten every Saturday.This is where the importance of snacks is, and the gravity of the lack of them.Therefore, what Liu Feng brought to me was a sudden fortune.By the way, when Liu Feng handed over the big package from the Friendship Store to me, he also conveyed a sentence from his father: "Call the tassels and distribute them to the children." From childhood to old age, my father called all my friends children.I still remember the joy of turning over that night, the pride of being the owner.Liu Feng came all the way to bring me a big turnaround. In an instant, the poor became local tyrants and asked everyone to open my warehouse to share my food. Carnival suona was ringing in my head, and Yangko was all in my movements.I opened the plastic bag, and there were two kilograms of chocolate alone!In the 12-square-meter barracks, all kinds of neon-colored candy paper pave the floor. My vanity and dreams, my father understands them all, and they all fulfill me. Through Liu Feng, let me be a nouveau riche and a prodigal son. The high-end imported goods that cannot be bought in RMB from the Friendship Store let me distribute them to the "children" who usually give me alms.

During the blanket homework the next morning, Liu Feng stood by the blanket as usual.The work of copying somersaults is hard, and the pacesetters of the whole army continue to do this?This is our unanimous inner monologue.The heaviest of our group of female soldiers is over a hundred, and the lightest weighs eighty catties.Bad food makes people fat, and we knew it at that time.After one and a half hours of blanket homework, Liu Feng was equivalent to working as an extra dock porter, lifting us up one by one, dropping each of us in the air, and putting them on the ground. He still needed to handle fragile goods with care.The reason why he put up this mover at first was because no one wanted to move us.

The posture of the copy master is like this: the legs are crossed to the width of the shoulders, the knees are slightly bent, like a horse riding a crotch and stopped in the middle, and at the same time stretch out two crossed forearms, clenched fists, towards your back Putting down the mat, and throwing it into the air again, Dantian let out a muffled roar: "Go!" Why did Liu Feng roar this?Then you go and ask the dock porters why they shout.Those who copy meritorious deeds also have to rely on the run-up, fanning, and leap of the victim to complete a side flip or front flip together.Liu Feng's misfortune is that none of us are really fanciful, let alone prance, and our attitude is: the leader will let those who practice blanket skills, and the leader let those who do these troublesome somersaults, so let the leaders help.So what Liu Feng deals with every day is our human-shaped sack.Copying merit is not only tiring, but also affects oneself.Somersaulters like Liu Feng are most particular about lightness in the lower body, and their legs need to float, while somersaults are the opposite, and the weight of the center of gravity must be placed on the legs.Liu Feng also has a way to counteract this evil effect, at least he himself believes that it is a way, and that is to get a big top.It is said that holding the big top for one hour can offset ten hours of handling.Therefore, in the blanket exercise class, we all squatted down to rest, and he all rested with the big top.For every hour of carrying us, he takes fifteen minutes to hold the big top, so that he can turn his head upside down and his feet upside down, which seems to be able to reverse the weight sunk into his legs.While holding the big top, Liu Feng kept shaking his legs in the air. He seemed to regard himself as a bamboo tube for beans or a paper bag for cement. If he turned it upside down and shook it, the beans or cement would be poured into the go the other way.

At that time, if a male soldier gave a female soldier something to eat, whether he bought it or made it, it would be regarded as a show of love.During the Spring Festival of 1976, which was probably the second day of the Lunar New Year, I never expected that Liu Fengfeng would make dessert for me.I was stuck in the dormitory, looking at Liu Feng who was as warm as spring to my comrades, I felt dizzy.The male soldier who sold my love letter to the leader must be a piece of shit in my heart, but it doesn't mean that any other male soldier can fill his void.I smiled dizzily and blushed as I watched him take a kerosene stove out of a cardboard box, set it up on the desk shared by the three of us, and sit on a small black iron pot.The lid of the pot was lifted, and there was a mass of oily stuff inside.He told me it was his pre-reconciled oil noodles.He also explained that the dessert he was going to make was a New Year's product in his hometown, and he was reluctant to part with such big oil and sugar during the holidays.He smiled at me as he spoke.Liu Feng's smile is shy, humble, big, and a little sloppy, even...shameless.At that time, I would think of the meaning of shameless, sixteen-year-old intuition.Looking back now, there is a reason for his humility and shyness. It seems that he knows that the "pace soldier" is not a skill, can't settle down, and can't point it to eat.This is his wisdom, his foresight.He smiled again, pointing his chin at the dessert in his hand, it's a dirt guy, but it's delicious, even if you like it!My heart was empty, and every sentence of his full-bodied Mandarin echoed in it.Liu Feng does this too?Showing love with tricks? . . . In my chaotic and dark mind, the main feeling turned out to be flattery.Liu Feng is not only a league cadre, he is now a member of the party committee.He took out an oiled paper bag from his canvas satchel, opened it, and there was a black mass inside.A sweet and greasy aroma of sesame immediately penetrated into my chaotic and dark heart.He pulled the dough into small lumps, quickly flattened them in the palm of his hand, filled them with black sesame candy, quickly kneaded them into a big Lantern Festival, and flattened them gently again.I watched his skillful movements like opening a workshop, and I was even optimistic about his future after demobilization and job change: opening a dessert shop.The vegetable oil in the pot started to bubble and smoke rose, he said, call the whole house to eat.I was relieved, but also disappointed, and felt ashamed for a while for my self-indulgence.The three female soldiers in our room are not from Chengdu, one is solo actress Lin Dingding, who lives in Shanghai, and the other is the fragrant and sexy Hao Shuwen.Liu Feng also said that he had already greeted Lin Dingding. She was washing the sheets on the laundry table at noon, so he invited her. He didn't say clearly, but said that there was delicious food in the evening, and that the cafeteria opened at four o'clock to eat less.It turned out that Ding Ding was the first guest he invited.He went on to say that Xiao Hao was greedy and had already begged him for food.Oh, it seems that the first one to be invited is Hao Shuwen.Will Hao Shuwen come if she wants to eat with which male soldier?She grabs them all and welcomes them.

I saw the situation clearly, the three roommates, I was the one who ate.I asked, what about Xiao Hao?He said don't worry, she will arrive soon.He opened the window, and outside the window was a narrow alley where no one walked. The gutter was wide and deep, and occasionally a female soldier who got up at night secretly poured a bedpan into it.On the other side of the ditch is the wall of an elementary school. The sound of reading is never heard, and the gongs and drums are always beating to announce the newly issued "latest instructions".The fence is very old, and the bricks are powdered. In summer, moss looks like green velvet, and occasionally two or three clumps of wild carnations emerge.Liu Feng kept his hands and mouth, and the conversation had already passed to my father.He had never seen anyone like my father who dressed and acted differently than anyone he knew.It's a bit weird, hehe... Wearing that kind of dark gray wool with thin white streaks on it, the hair is long and curly, the row of hair at the back of the head is sticking up on the back collar, and the pomade is rubbed on it.Like a person from the old society.Isn't it seven or eight years of labor reform?What if it is not remodeled?Not more strange?I said: "It shouldn't be remodeled if it's strange, so why don't people blame it?" !

"That's right, so my uncle has been vindicated!" I was stupefied for a while before I realized that his "uncle" was my father.Liu Feng looked very satisfied and relieved, finally the justice was settled, he was satisfied for my dad. Here are his words again: "Don't take it to heart. Don't take it to heart when those people say this and that about you. Your father is a good man. Your father is really a good man. Who can't see this? Xiao Suizi, stand up and be a man, ah!" Still that boring tone.But after he finished speaking, he looked at me with deep eyes.

Even if I can't remember Liu Feng's appearance in the days to come, I don't want to forget his gaze. In an instant, I almost decided that Liu Feng was a New Year's gift specially prepared for me, allowing me to celebrate the New Year in private.He took the two self-satisfied female roommates, but let them be light bulbs.My case happened, and only a few people had words of sympathy for me.Liu Feng's sympathy is extraordinary, sympathizing with me on behalf of the highest virtue.Liu Feng and I are at the extremes of the crowd, he is at the top, and I am naturally at the bottom, perhaps even lower than He Xiaoman.No one thought He Xiaoman was dangerous, but I made them feel a sense of rivalry, a mysterious danger.Liu Feng's caring and sympathy for me is based on his recognition of my father, for which I can love him.That's a goddamn age, when you're full of love in your heart and body, it's all running around, it doesn't matter who it's for.Liu Feng said don't cry, here, wipe.He actually took out a mess of handkerchiefs for me. Normally, I would be disgusted, but at this moment, uncleanness symbolizes warmth and intimacy.I decided these rustic cookies were just for me.You've been isolated for so long, and seen as the other person, that any sense of ambiguity can be taken and turned into "that" kind of love and compassion you need.But the next moment I knew what real love or caring was.Lin Dingding and Hao Shuwen came in at the same time. Liu Feng was facing the wet winter night outside the window at the moment, and turned to them.Although Liu Feng's identity made him still cautious, his eyes were full of meat, and now it seems that they are full of hormones.His heart beat like a snare drum was in those eyes.

That's it.Liu Feng loves one of them.Don't even think about it, of course it's Hao Shuwen.The year before last, Hao Shuwen and Liu Feng had gone on a business trip together, to the Bangzi Troupe where Liu Feng used to be a hard-working kid, and came back after learning a Bangzi one-act play.Hao Shuwen can sing a few times, but her singing is not the best, but the singers don't have her dance foundation, and she can't dance well, but there is no one in the dance team who can sing like her, so this singer who sings and dances In Bangzi opera, she is the unique female number one.Liu Feng played a villain who was about to be knocked to the ground by the female number one in the end.That's a good time for two people to start a romantic relationship.Later, when the "touch" incident was exposed, I realized how wrong my judgment was.

Lin Dingding was a well-mannered girl, one year older than Hao Shuwen, she should have been twenty years old at the time.Ding Ding, with thin skin and tender flesh, has a kind of sweetness that Shanghai girls are born with. Her hands and feet are slightly uncoordinated, like a sequelae of polio, but this uncoordination gives her a kind of childishness. Watching her walk and run Fucking people will secretly have a little worry: don't fall.She doesn't talk much, and she always feels a little unwell every day.This kind of girl who often suffers from minor illnesses makes us the most envious: she persists in her work despite her illness, and she can't go to the front line with minor injuries. Such praises and awards belong to this kind of female soldier Baoyuaner.We all look forward to being sick then.A group of young and strong youths, after earning their lives, only help the cooking class to feed the pigs, cut up the shredded potatoes, sweep the yard a few more times, wipe the corridors a few more times, and flush the latrines a few more times, but after all, there are few latrines and people Many, hundreds of people want to learn from Lei Feng's performance, how many latrines and yards will it take?Therefore, people who suffer from minor illnesses every day have better natural conditions than us healthy people. They are born with "slight injuries", and it is heroic to do their job.Another thing about Ding Ding is that she is naive and ignorant. At such an age, you say that Albanians love to eat mountain eagles, so it is called the country of mountain eagles. She will stare with round eyes: "Really?" She is four years older than me , but when pulled on the road, all ordinary people will think she is smaller.The three of us share a desk, if the three drawers are opened at the same time, you will find that only Ding Ding is a girl, and Hao Shuwen and I are both authentic Qiu Ba.In fact, Ding Ding didn't have any good things, but after letting her tidy up all the rags carefully, they were all neat and soft.Ding Ding has a pair of small but very round eyes, with two circles of short but thick eyelashes. If people look at it now, they must mistakenly think that she has embroidered eyeliner.I was really stupid at the time, and I didn't know how many small favors Lin Dingding had secretly accepted from Liu Feng.Liu Feng helps everyone, openly, but no one knows that he secretly helps Lin Dingding more.

The three of us female soldiers took out the mats from under the bed, and the dining table was the cardboard box that Liu Feng put the kerosene stove in.Liu Feng squatted on the floor by himself, saying that people in his hometown are very good at squatting, squatting to eat and chatting, and squatting is more comfortable than sitting.We have no choice but to make Liu Feng comfortable.The desserts made by Liu Feng are so delicious, he only eats one, and watching the three of us eat, he is as satisfied as a father or a big brother.When Lin Dingding stretched out his hand to the fourth cake, Liu Feng said oh, Xiao Lin, this stuff is not easy to digest, it is full of oil, don't get a stomachache later.Ding Ding's hand hesitated in the air, and Hao Shuwen had already snatched it into his hand.Hao Shuwen was also misled at the time, thinking that Liu Feng made the cake for her as a matter of course, and the two of us in the same room just ate it.She didn't think too much about any male soldier's attention to her, she just laughed and accepted it first.She would not agree to owe her attention.The squad leader of the cooking team got Parkinson's disease as soon as he beat the meat and vegetables, and the horse spoon shook and shook. Once Xiao Hao shook and dropped two pieces of lean meat from the head of the spoon, Xiao Hao would grab the spoon and beat the squad leader Ma on the head.A winter training camp, marched 30 kilometers in the drizzle, and everyone at the campsite turned into cold mud balls.The cooking team boiled two large pots of water for washing feet at the same time.There is mud everywhere, and there is no place to sit. Most of us can only stand, put one foot in the basin to be ironed first, take it out to put on shoes and socks, and then iron the other foot. The hot feet in front of me were tired of standing again, and they were cold.Hao Shuwen found a rectangular wooden box and sat on it, soaking her feet in hot water was very beneficial.The principal viola came over with a basin of water and told her to move, and he wanted to sit down too.Xiao Hao said no, the two of them couldn't stand it in a box, how can a plywood box hold two buttocks?The viola player said it was too much, so he asked her to get up.She looked at him and smiled, meaning what are you thinking, I will give you my seat?The viola player asked her if she knew what was in the wooden box.Xiao Hao said he didn't know.The viola player told her that it contained a viola, and the official case was broken, this one was temporarily nailed by the stage art team with plywood.Xiao Hao still looked at him and smiled, but still refused to let him go.The viola player was in a hurry, and said that the box contained my violin, Xiao Hao, don’t eat shit and make your shit feel numb (you’ve been bullied)!Xiao Hao still laughed, imitating his Sichuan dialect, I will numb you.The male soldiers had nothing to do with Hao Shuwen, she would grab her if they didn't give her something sweet.

After eating the cookies that night, Hao Shuwen and I came back from watching an open-air movie on a Saturday, and at the same time we smelled a greasy sweet smell in the room.Xiao Hao asked Ding Ding: Are you eating cookies again?Ding Ding asked: What cookie?No!Xiao Hao stretched his neck, as if he wanted to lick the air with his tongue, to expose Ding Ding's lies.