Chapter 13 Chapter Thirteen

In the sixth year after I was transferred to Beijing, one day, someone knocked lightly on the door of my bedroom, living room, dining room, and studio.Opening the door, the visitor was Lin Dingding.Ding Ding was wearing military trousers and a red plaid jacket. Her forehead was bare, and her thin ponytail seemed to be out of line with her age. The slight hair loss was caused by the ponytail that was pulled too tightly.Her appearance has changed a lot, but I still recognized her at a glance.She smiled and said bitterly, now that she is a great writer, she has forgotten about her little commoner.She walked in, looked at the bookcase, which was crooked due to too many books being silted up, and looked at the writing desk, there was only room for two elbows, and there were piles of papers on the left and right, and the large stacks of manuscripts were buried under a thin layer of dust. It seems to be forgotten by all the people.She browsed and said that she had heard that I had published two books and won some awards, and wanted to see if I could write her story as well.I thought to myself, she is such a capable person, does she still have a story?The most exciting story should be Liu Feng's part, but she just cut it off like that.I picked up the plates and bowls, and the canteen is downstairs, and the smell of lunch wafts upstairs.I asked her if she would like to go to the cafeteria with me, because if the good food arrives late, you will lose your share.Ding Ding was neither married to a photography officer nor a physician. In the end, she was a great matchmaker made by her aunt and married to Beijing.Ding Ding's husband is a graduate student of the Academy of Military Sciences, and his father-in-law is a former major general of the Kuomintang. He is currently the deputy commander of a certain army and has many overseas connections.On the eve of Ding Ding's marriage, overseas relations have added conditions for superior girls to choose a spouse.

In the cafeteria, I joked with Ding Ding, saying that she was used to Xiaozao, the chief officer, and she would find it hard to swallow the meals in our low-level officer canteen.she smiled.When we were in line, I pointed to the menu blackboard and asked her what she wanted to eat.She took a careless look and said anything spicy would do.Ding Ding, who would cry when he saw spicy food many years ago, has never eaten anything spicy since he left Sichuan.What is the change of Ding Ding, I suddenly discovered.What about her original childishness?She doesn't know if it's a naive attitude or not?In the past, whenever she moved, her hands and feet were uncoordinated, and she seemed to have a slight sequelae of polio, which made people look worried for her.What about those traits or flaws that make Tintin Tintin?Then there can only be one explanation, those features are her disguise.Or, some fatal event had happened that had brought her a new life.

She asked if she could get her a donut.The bagels just out of the frying pan are placed at the entrance of the cafeteria, with a layer of sugar noodles sprinkled on them.I gave her a meal ticket of 50 cents, and she bought a bagel and came back. We looked at each other and smiled, and we both understood what the other was laughing at.No matter how many cookies Liu Feng made for her, she still has a dessert craving in her belly. After sitting down and eating the bagels, and taking a few bites of our canteen’s famous steamed lion’s head and dried bean curd with pepper, she started to talk seriously, saying that I must make the decision for her.When asked what kind of master she would be, she didn't seem to have figured it out yet, and stuffed a mouthful of a lion's head with more crumbs than meat in her mouth.I don't urge her, she is not a person who can speak well, she often speaks one thing out of logic, and this aspect also gives people the illusion of childishness.When my spoon scraped to the bottom of the lunch box, she bit the handle of the spoon and tears fell down.It's a bit of a dick now.I said hey, don't be here, don't be here, you can cry when you go back.Originally, I brought her down for dinner, so I didn't intend to take her back.Not anymore, I can't leave a weeping Lin Ding Ding behind.She is generous, and she cried more and more happily at the big dining table shared with others.I looked straight to the side, and she was crying like I was guilty.After crying for a while, she said that Wang Jianghe wanted to divorce her.

Wang Jianghe is a graduate student of the Academy of Military Sciences.I asked him why he wanted to divorce her.She said it was because the daughters of the Wang family couldn't get along with her.If you ask again, the only answer you get is tears.But the people at the same table knew the interest, and quickly left with the rice bowl and lunch box.I think it's better to wait for her to cry for a while. I have patience and time. Anyway, I can't count on writing in the afternoon.Tired of crying, she took a breath and asked me to make decisions for her.As a deputy company level creator, how much can I be her master?Write an article!She said that exposing his family's status as a high-ranking official bullied her, a commoner daughter.Is she still a commoner daughter?Although he is a singer at the curtain call, after all, he has made many outstanding men "toads want to eat swan meat". Let alone Liu Feng, if you tell him, Lin Dingding is just a commoner daughter?He must not agree.

According to Ding Ding's topsy-turvy narration, I roughly sorted out her marriage and love story.Ding Ding was transferred to Beijing in the summer of 1981, after he formally discussed marriage with Wang Jianghe.Previously, Wang Jianghe went to Chengdu to spend a winter vacation, and Ding Ding, as his girlfriend, went to Beijing to accompany him to spend a May Day holiday.They got married in 1982. Since then, Lin Dingding has not only been the wife of a master of the Academy of Military Sciences, but more importantly, she has become the daughter-in-law of a general, the siblings and sister-in-law of Wang Jianghe's sister and sister, and also the sister-in-law of the eldest daughter-in-law of the Wang family.娌.The eldest daughter-in-law of the Wang family is the daughter of another military commander. She was escorted to the Military Medical University in the era when middle school students all over the country jumped into the queue to become educated youths.It was she who attacked Lin Dingding first.Ding Ding was a pillar in Chengdu, but when she arrived in Beijing, all the stages were supported by the most famous pillars in the country, and she could only make up the number in the female chorus.One weekend, the family had a routine dinner for members of the group. The eldest daughter-in-law of the Wang family asked Ding Ding, why did he eat snacks all day long?In the ashtray, in the wastebasket, there are always plum stones, sugar wrappers, and small walnut shells thrown around.Ding Ding was embarrassed, and said with a smile that all the female soldiers of the art troupe liked to eat snacks.People in the art troupe have a big problem, because they are all too idle, said Boss Wang.Ding Ding argued: Now there are fewer and fewer performances, and it's not her fault that she is idle, it's the fault of foreign movies. Everyone has gone to watch foreign movies!Mrs. Wang's daughter-in-law said: I don't care about you if I watch too many performances. Why don't you just sing a chorus?Ding Ding retorted: A small chorus!Anyway, it's a chorus, what's the difference in size?It doesn't matter if there is one more person or one less person.At this moment, Wang Laosi, the youngest daughter of the Wang family, interjected: "Singing for three minutes only takes a lot of trouble. Why bother with applying makeup, blowing hair and changing clothes?"Can you change to a serious job?Singing and dancing can't be done for a lifetime anyway, Wang Jianghe's sister Wang Laoer made a speech.Wang Laoer is a political cadre of the university.What else can Ding Ding do?Boss Wang’s wife said that the publicity department of our hospital doesn’t want the people eliminated by the art troupe, saying that they can’t read all the words and can’t sit still!

Ding Ding told me that it was only at this time that she realized that her husband Wang Laosan was the weakest member of the Wang family, and he didn't know how to fight back for his wife.In private, Ding Ding cried with him, saying that his sisters and sisters-in-law were all critical of him and squeezed her.Wang Jianghe said, they said you can't do anything else, why don't you show them something else?So Ding Ding decided to study in a correspondence university.The sister-in-law and sisters found that there were more plum stones and candy wrappers at home.This time Ding Ding's husband came to convey their complaints and asked her if she would die if she didn't eat snacks.Ding Ding said that it was like smoking when he was writing a thesis, and drinking strong tea when his father was approving documents. She had to eat snacks when she was studying, otherwise she would feel sleepy.After two months, Ding Ding gave up the correspondence university, because some actors organized travel, she also moved to many cities, earning thousands of dollars, and relived the life of a touring team, she found that this is her Life, and what they say to each other is a common language.A year later, the organizers of the acupoints eliminated Ding Ding.Ding Ding returned to Wang's house and was completely free. On the coffee table in front of the big color TV in the living room, people often saw orderlies pouring out the plum stones, walnut shells, and sugar wrappers in the big ashtray.At another weekend dinner, Boss Wang's daughter-in-law asked how Tintin's correspondence studies were going.Ding Ding hesitated, saying that he learned very well.Boss Wang asked, is it time for an exam soon?Ding Ding continued to hesitate, yes, it's time for the exam.Deputy Commander Wang interjected, Xiao Lin, what plans do you have for the future after finishing the correspondence course?Ding Ding smiled, not thinking about it yet.The deputy commander's wife said, don't you have any plans to transfer to work in the future?Ding Ding smiled and looked at her husband, Wang Laosan was more outsider than anyone else.Madam said again, besides singing, what do you think you can do, Ding Ding?Ding Ding began to think about how to answer her mother-in-law.When the attending doctor's sister-in-law spoke again, she said that Ding Ding couldn't be blamed, she let that era be misunderstood and ruined, wasn't that the way it was?If you don’t need cultural knowledge, you need propaganda. Isn’t that a big propaganda machine going around all day long?A cat or a dog, as long as you can growl and jump a few times, you can be a screw on a big machine, right Ding Ding?How about calling it Ding Ding?My sister said, everyone laughed.Madam said again at this moment, Xiao Lin, although we are also high-ranking officials, we are different from other high-ranking officials. Do you understand what I mean?Ding Ding nodded, but she didn't understand.The wife also said that if you are successful in correspondence studies, don’t think that you can find a job through the relationship of the head. Our head is different from other heads. First, he doesn’t ask for help, and second, he can’t ask for work.The wife always called the general's husband the chief.The sister-in-law said, Mom, don't worry about Ding Ding's job assignment after graduation from the correspondence course, because Ding Ding's correspondence course could not graduate, and the correspondence textbooks were sent home, but they were not opened, so they were moved out as waste paper.Boss Wang also said that there is still an exam, and the end-of-year correspondence exam is over early.They were prepared and premeditated to expose Ding Ding's old background.

Wang Laosan ran away from the dinner table in despair. Back in the world of two, Ding Ding cried with her husband, and he said, "Why are you crying? I still want to cry! Can't you do something that makes me hold my head up at home?" I confirmed it and asked Ding Ding, are these the original words of Wang Laosan?Ding Ding said word for word.She couldn't figure out how she had become such a woman that her husband couldn't hold his head up.I was also thinking that Lin Dingding, the jewel in our hearts back then, Liu Feng had loved for several years before he dared to touch her (with such big consequences), now her husband can't even lift his head.Before her husband Wang Jianghe went abroad to study for a Ph. D., he couldn't bear the pressure of his family and finally divorced Ding Ding.Because the family members said that Lin Dingding was not worthy of going to study with him, he couldn't speak a foreign language, he was deaf and dumb, who should study with whom?

After Ding Ding moved out of the small building of the Wang family, she came to my place for a few days, and then used the money she earned from walking around to rent a room in their military compound.She said nothing and went back to the dormitory of their Wen Gongtuan.Ding Ding understands the vanity unique to the female soldiers of the art troupe best, and how they will view the victims of vanity.I wrote the article she asked me to write and published it in a women's magazine specializing in marriage and love.At that time, the word "gossip" had not yet spread to the mainland of the motherland, and now I think back to it being the pioneer of gossip in the mainland.Soon I received a letter from a reader forwarded by the magazine.This reader is Hao Shuwen.Her letter was only a few lines long, saying that she had been following and reading my articles, and that she would call her if it was convenient.I called Chengdu that night.It was the very straightforward Xiao Hao who opened his mouth and said, "You wrote Lin Dingding, right? Do you think that if you use a letter and a contemporary name, others will not be able to see it? I saw it at the first glance!"

I think the members of General Wang's family must have seen it at the first glance.Isn't my intention to let them see it at the first glance? Hao Shuwen's opinion is this: If Ding Ding had followed Liu Feng at that time, Liu Feng would not have been dealt with, would not have been sent to the battlefield, and would not have been disabled. He received 280 yuan disability gold to his hometown in Shandong. The Clapper Troupe looks at the gate.Maybe now Liu Feng is the deputy chief of the cultural department Liu, at worst he is also the secretary Liu of the organization department, living a prosperous and warm life with Ding Ding, taking milk to pick up the children every day to make small stoves, Liu Feng is so capable, he can do everything Craftsmanship, great happiness cannot be created, small happiness happens every day, what's wrong?It was all because she called for help, called Liu Feng to the logging company, and ruined Liu Feng's hand. The current one-armed Liu Feng must be more skilled in hitting the sofa, but his hand is gone.

Hao Shuwen did not get rid of that "cousin" in the end, married him and gave birth to a son, or the process was reversed, and she was pregnant with a son before getting married.In 1983, he took off his military uniform, went to Shenzhen to do business, and became rich within a year.I think it's because the hero has no place to play, and the times are different, and the energy he accumulated at that time has been put into positive use.I used to think that wandering around between serious things means that people who do not do serious things are called bastards. Now I find that people’s wandering is the preparation period for doing serious things. It is a venture capital investment for my energy and time. The factor is the most valuable pioneering spirit.Or to be successful in business itself requires some quality of making a living, and it is more likely that the social values ​​are reversed, and those who can make money are directly respected as the boss.In short, Hao Shuwen's husband has a character of a pioneer. Like the Dutch, English, and Irish who pioneered the New World, their belief is "where there is bread, there is the motherland." You can't stay where you are, so go west" (his example was going south).Hao Shuwen's husband was the first batch of land reclamators from the inland to the coastal areas in the 1980s. By the time everyone was overwhelmed and invested in land reclamation, this husband had already become the owner of electronic products.There are one or two hundred employees in the branch of the head office.Hao Shuwen told me on the phone that time that she was going to the south with her boss. Do you know how advanced Shenzhen is?Toilets are called restrooms. After washing your hands, you don’t need to wipe them on the handkerchief or trousers. You just put them under the machine, and the machine will automatically dry you in a few seconds!

When Hao Shuwen wrote to me in the south, Lin Dingding married another person and went abroad with that person.Lin Dingding asked her aunt to come out of the mountain again, and gave her a list of conditions for the object, the first item being people going abroad.Her ex-husband abandoned her because she did not have the qualifications to go abroad as a family member, so she married overseas, which meant "stand up wherever you fall".Ding Ding's current husband immigrated to Australia with his family, and his brothers opened several Chinese fast food chains, and Ding Ding became a ready-made proprietress. When Lin Dingding went abroad, there were not many Chinese urbanites yearning to go abroad. The good sons and daughters all aspired to the south, and they all rushed to the south. All they had time to bring was their luggage, not even their family members. It was convenient for everyone to mine their first pot of gold. , but they were a big step behind Hao Shuwen's husband.