Chapter 23 Chapter Twenty-Three

The past has stories. The story of the past is not known by too many people. Although people are all legends and speculations, the legends and speculations are too far from the truth. Lu Bo spent his whole life concealing the truth and wrapping it up.The years have only left some fragments, and those sharp fragments have pierced the hearts of countless people. Now, let the truth come out. The old woman Lu Bo called his mother was not Lu Bo's mother, her name was Bai Ni.More than 80 years ago, Bai Ni was born in a small town in Henan. His ancestors were considered wealthy and well-to-do.Later, Bai Ni was admitted to a women's normal school in Shanghai, and later, she met and fell in love with Cheng Nanyan, a teacher from another college, and the two hearts were romantically combined in that long time ago.Every time she thinks about that time, Bai Ni's eyes will glow with the spring tide of a girl. She told Lu Bo more than once that it was so peaceful and rich, and he painted while I studied.When Bai Ni was in the normal school, she studied French, and later she learned English, and later, because of the needs of the revolution, Bai Ni taught herself Russian.For a woman of that era, it was amazing to be able to learn three foreign languages ​​in one go.So in the eyes of neighbors and family members, Bai Ni is considered a talented woman.But Bai Ni never felt that, she said, in terms of talent, I am not even half as good as Nanyan, and I can only be his shadow in this life, but I am happy. The word "Happy" came out of Bai Ni's mouth, and it had a special taste. When she said it, her face must have been flushed, and there were light blue tides in her two beautiful eyes, which is another kind of happiness. color.The handsome face is burning with expectations for future life, for better days.Yes, at that time Bai Ni was happy, with a strong and passionate love, caring about her loving husband and her beloved career.Later, they had a daughter, and their days were so full that they couldn't be fuller.

Their daughter is Cheng Xueyi. When Lu Bo met Bai Ni and his wife, Xue Yi was over eighteen years old, graduated from high school, tall and curly, with a long braid behind her, she first smiled when she saw people, and then took the initiative to meet them, opening her pretty mouth, revealing her snow-white His teeth said: "My name is Cheng Xueyi. I'm from Shanghai. I won't leave in the future. I will work in your Longshan County. Are you welcome?" Lu Bo was in his early twenties at the time, and he had been working for three years. He was usually not talkative, but in front of Cheng Xueyi, he unexpectedly talked a lot, and later he became a chatterbox.

"Welcome, welcome," he said, smiling. "Okay, tell me what's your name?" Cheng Xueyi tilted her head, pretending to be mischievous.Lu Bo saw Cheng Xueyi's snow-white nape, which was so beautiful, and there was a mole there. "My name is Lu Bo, the road of the socialist road, the rolling waves." Lu Bo replied very seriously. "It's too long-winded. You are not a person who doesn't know how to be thrifty. Let me correct you. You should answer like this. My name is Lu Bo, the road of the road, the wave of the waves." Cheng Xueyi giggled while speaking. laugh it out.Her smile smelled like a mountain spring.Lu Bo was infected, and immediately said: "Yes, yes, it's still as concise as you said."

"Well, we'll be friends from now on. By the way, I'm a dancer, and I'm going to dance with your opera troupe tomorrow. What about you, what job do you do?" Cheng Xueyi generously stretched out her hand to shake Lu Bo, Lu Bo didn't dare, he already stretched out his hand, and retracted it cautiously. "I'm on the well drilling team, worker." "The working class is good, with a high level of awareness." Just as he was about to get excited, he frowned and asked, "What does the drilling team do?" "It's just drilling a mechanical well and pumping water." Lu Bo compared for a long time, Cheng Xueyi still didn't understand, her eyes were full of curiosity, "Why don't you take me to see it another day, I have never seen a well before?"

Lu Bo didn't dare to agree to it this time. The work of digging a well is not something that people can watch. Besides, it's really nothing to watch. Besides, they have a taboo. When they really want to dig a well, female compatriots are not allowed to go to the well. before. "Why, aren't you happy?" Cheng Xueyi, who met for the first time, was very generous, and her tone was even more aggressive.Seeing Lu Bo muttering and not daring to speak, she actually laughed out loud, which startled the people in the courtyard.People from big cities are always moving in these days, so everyone should take a look at the novelty. This time, seeing the kid from the Lu family chatting loudly with a Shanghai girl in a pretty Western style wearing a denim shirt, and making the girl laugh, some people sighed, the Lu family This kid, who usually pretends to be polite, turned out to be a bold guy.

Lu Bo was actually very nervous. This nervousness was born that day, and then he followed him, making him sweat when he saw a strange girl.However, Lu Bo also felt that day that outsiders are outsiders, completely different from the people in Longshan Town, not only foreign, but also generous to death.Lu Bo wiped off his sweat and was about to answer Cheng Xueyi when a door creaked open in the courtyard, revealing a beautiful face: "Xueyi, it's time to eat." That face is Bai Ni.At that time, Lu Bo felt that he saw two angels.And it never occurred to them that they would be mother and daughter, almost like two sisters.

"My mother called me, Lu Bo, and I'll ask you another day." Lu Bo finally knew that the new family's surname was Cheng, the male owner was Cheng Nanyan, a calligrapher and painter, and the female owner was Bai Ni, a middle school teacher. They had a beautiful daughter who knew music, danced, and acted.Recently, a lot of outsiders have moved into the yard, either experts or teachers, and even a musician.At first, Lu Bo didn't care about them. Apart from digging wells, he cared little about what happened outside, but on this day, Lu Bo remembered a name——Cheng Xueyi. Lu Bo's father is an engineer and technician at the County Water Conservancy Bureau, and his mother is a teacher at No. 1 Middle School.In the county, parents are regarded as intellectuals, but compared with these outsiders, they are far behind.His father told him that these people came to Longshan from Shanghai, Beijing and other big cities in response to the call of the country, or more remote places. They have a common goal and task, which is to support the Northwest.

"The Northwest is about to develop, and the national policy is really good." My father said excitedly. "Two couples also came to our school. One is from Shanghai and the other is from Dalian. Tell me, would they be willing to do such a good place?" My mother also seemed very excited, but she seemed to not understand these people. Come on, these big cities are heaven. How can people skip heaven and go to hell? Of course, my mother doesn't understand. "This is the call of the country. You don't understand it with your little peasant consciousness. In the future, our Northwest will get better and better, catch up with or even surpass them." Father is an idealist. He has two characteristics. One is He listens to the party's words very much, and listens to the words of his superiors even more.The second is that my father is full of confidence in the vigorous socialist construction movement, and believes that tomorrow will be better.

When his parents were talking, Lu Bo stood at the door stupidly, staring at the other side with bewildered eyes.No one knew what was going on in his mind, anyway, he didn't listen to a word his parents said.The parents talked for a long time, when suddenly seeing their son ignoring them, the father pouted at his mother and asked her to look at his son.The mother tiptoed and quietly came behind Lu Bo, looked in the direction her son was looking at, and finally found a shadow in the opposite window.Mother asked in a loud voice: "Why, have you taken a fancy to him?" Lu Bo was taken aback and turned around sharply.

"Mom—" he pretended to be angry and shouted, trying to escape, but his face turned red. This year is 1964, Cheng Nanyan and Bai Ni, the talented men and handsome women of that year, have entered middle age.This pair of middle-aged people opened up a whole new world to Lu Bo, making the world in front of Lu Bo's eyes suddenly wider and larger, the sky is no longer the original sky, and the earth is no longer the original land.Of course, the heart doesn't seem to be the original heart.Only then did the young Lu Bo realize that people change and everything changes. Lu Bo became a frequent visitor to the Cheng family. The couple from Shanghai did not dislike the young man who grew up in this small city, let alone the fact that he was a worker.Whether it's Cheng Nanyan or Bai Ni, they seem to have a natural closeness with Lu Bo. Whenever Lu Bo goes to his house, Bai Ni always smiles. Within a few days, she calls Lu Bo "Little Bo" affectionately. ".Cheng Nanyan was even worse, after several meetings, he decided that Lu Bo was a talented person.

"It's a pity that this child will go on like this. We have to find a way to teach him so that he has a head of knowledge." "Okay, I agree. Why don't you, a great painter, accept him as an apprentice." Bai Ni also felt that Lu Bo couldn't stay in the present, he had to learn something and have some strengths.After a while of agitation, Cheng Nanyan first wanted to teach Lu Bo how to paint, so he bought a pen and inkstone for Lu Bo in a serious manner, and even set up a writing and drawing table for Lu Bo in his own home.Later, seeing Lu Bo's lack of talent in this area, he was afraid of delays, so he came up with a whim and asked Lu Bo to learn foreign languages ​​from Bai Ni. He found a bunch of books and forced Lu Bo to get up at five in the morning every day to stand in the courtyard and recite vocabulary.After tossing and tossing, Lu Bo was still in the same place, and he didn't see any aspect of the long-term strength they expected. The couple were not discouraged. After discussing, they said: "Stop tossing, you should learn water conservancy honestly. Find you the best teacher." People always have a direction, and half of this direction comes from innateness, which is the talent that Cheng Nanyan particularly emphasizes.The other half comes from acquired discoveries. This is how Lubo's relationship with water began.Time flies, and two years later, Lu Bo changed from a well-drilling worker to a cadre of the Water Conservancy Bureau, thanks to Cheng Nanyan. The teacher he found for Lu Bo was a water conservancy expert from Shanghai named Wang Zhiyi. It is at the branch of the agricultural water department in the Gushui area.The weight of this person in those days was completely more than that of a prefectural committee secretary. It can be said that Wang Zhiyi's words back then were enough to change the fate of a small person.It was precisely because of his appreciation that Lu Bo quickly grew from a worker holding a drill bit in the well drilling team to an engineering technician who knew surveying and drawing and could talk about water conservancy projects. The good times didn't last long, and the "Cultural Revolution" began. The winter of 1966 was not the coldest winter in Yongsan. Although the movement was in full swing and the flames of revolution swept across the country, people in remote Yongsan remained quiet and did not immediately plunge into the storm of revolution.This year, Lu Bo was transferred to the regional agriculture and water department, and followed Wang Zhiyi to complete a water conservancy design.This was also intentionally arranged by Wang Zhiyi. He wanted Lu Bo to be by his side, one to solve his many blind spots in knowledge, and the other to enhance his actual combat experience.This year, Cheng Xueyi also went to the regional art troupe to rehearse programs. In order to welcome the big movement, the regional art troupe worked overtime to stage a big play "Youth in the Fire".At this time, Cheng Xueyi was already well-known in Gushui, and her two performances in "Red Rock" and "Red Rock" have already won people's praise.The people of Longshan gave a very high evaluation to this fresh and refined woman, and they were full of praise for her correct words, plump singing skills and weak and powerful dancing posture on stage. He also praised her as "Xiaoxuexian".This little phoenix was favored by the higher-level art troupe and played an important role in the big drama, which also enabled Lu Bo to take on the task of picking her up and sending her back to her residence in such a special winter.The two were finally able to walk the streets in Gushui City, which was out of sight of their parents. Love may have sprouted at that time, but no one knows, it is love.By the time you realize it, disaster has arrived. It was Lu Bo's father who was caught first.This person who has always listened to the party's words said something extremely reactionary at a study meeting one day in 1967.He said, isn't it necessary to carry out socialist construction? Why does it seem a bit chaotic now, with struggles everywhere, but no one is focusing on construction?This random word was caught by someone, who dared to say "chaos" at that time, Lu Bo's father just said, and questioned that struggle, it was not surprising that he was caught out.At that time, Longshan County was not so peaceful. First, the students of Longshan No. 1 Middle School went out to connect with each other, and then students from other places also came to Longshan together, and there was a whirlwind.Immediately afterwards, the troops stationed in Longshan took action. The troops established a workers' propaganda team. This workers' propaganda team was very famous.Suddenly one day, the labor propaganda team rushed into the No. 1 County Middle School, which was the school where Lu Bo's mother was, and pulled out the respected history teacher who was about to retire. This was the first high hat in Longshan's movement.With this high hat, it will not be so easy for Longshan to think about peace. Lu Bo hurried back to Longshan from Gushui, and he didn't have time to say hello to Cheng Xueyi who was still in Gushui.His father had an accident, and his father was brought in because of protecting the Director of Water Conservancy.At that time, the slogan of overhauling water conservancy had already been put forward, but the head of the water conservancy bureau opposed it. He stated in several meetings that water conservancy should not be carried out in a rush, but should be adapted to local conditions and the overall situation should be taken into account.Once these remarks are put on the line, they are enough to kill people.When Lu Bo rushed back from Gushui, his father had already been taken away by the rebels. From this day on, Lu Bo's life entered another stage.By the time of the Longfengxia Reservoir Battle, Lu Bo had already replaced his father as the largest capitalist roader in the Longshan Water Conservancy System. Deng Jiaying and Qin Jizhou at that time only knew that Lu Bo was sent to the reservoir for labor reform. He had committed many crimes, and he was labeled as a rightist and a royalist.The emperor he protects is Wang Zhiyi who gave him knowledge and taught him the principles of life.The rebels wanted to fight Wang Zhiyi, but Lu Bo actually rushed into the crowd, shielding his teacher with his body, holding a pipe wrench in his hand, and said to the rebels who were already red-eyed: "Whoever dares to touch my teacher, I'll kill you!" Smash his dog's head first!" He compared the rebel's head to a dog's head, and now, even Liu Zhenshan couldn't keep him.Earlier, Liu Zhenshan had just saved his parents, released them from the cowshed, and secretly sent them to a village called Liushutun, which was Liu Zhenshan's hometown, to be reformed.This is good, he has an accident again.Back then, in the eyes of Deng Jiaying and others, Lu Bo was such a person, but they didn't see the more complicated Lu Bo. The complexity comes from love, from Cheng Xueyi's fear. Before going to the reservoir, Lu Bo basically fought regularly. He would go out during the day, put on a tall hat, and hang cards around his neck to accompany the fight.Whether it is a region or a county, new capitalist roaders and reactionaries are pulled out every day. Wandering was the most popular form back then. Lu Bo, the five types of elements who have been found out and have not been locked up in the bullpen , is dedicated to accompany the fight.At night, the rebels wanted to hold a meeting to share the fruits of the revolution, so Lu Bo and the others were sent home, where they honestly wrote a "statement of guilt".That night, at about ten o'clock, Lu Bo finished writing the "confession" and was about to use water to scrub his damaged body when the door was suddenly pushed open.Lu Bo thought it was the rebels who came to the door at night, so he was so frightened that he tore up the written "confession letter" and threw it away.Lu Bo has two kinds of "confessions", one is the real confession, which was written and handed over to the rebel organization, and the other is his understanding and thinking about this movement, which must not be read by outsiders.Unexpectedly, it wasn't the rebels who came that day, and his familiar voice quickly rang out in the dark night: "Brother Lubo, save my dad, my dad is dying." Who would have imagined that a group of intellectuals who came to the branch would all be branded as rightists that year, some would be charged with reactionary academic authorities, and some would be branded as stinky old nine.Cheng Nanyan was naturally unavoidable, he was the biggest poisonous weed in the Longshan cultural system, and later it was said that he was a spy sent by Taiwan.Anyway, hats were flying all over the sky in those days, and crimes could come easily.The hat put on Bai Ni's head was even more ridiculous, saying that her life was corrupt, because someone in the courtyard revealed that this woman from Shanghai took a bath every night and painted her lips red during the day.It was Chen Huaifa, a 40-year-old bachelor in the courtyard who exposed her, and a well-drilling team worker who was almost imprisoned for raping a woman.Not long after the movement started, the old bachelor who was the most hated in the drilling team transformed himself into the commander-in-chief of the Second Artillery Command, the second rebel force in Longshan.These are not important, the important thing is that Cheng Nanyan was beaten to death by the rebels.According to Cheng Xueyi, Chen Huaifa kicked her father's crotch hard with his feet, and hit Cheng Nanyan's head hard with a pipe wrench.Cheng Nanyan was dying. This was the real scene that Lu Bo saw after he ran to Cheng Nanyan's house that night. Cheng Nanyan covered his crotch with his hands and rolled hard on the bed. Living in sweat answered Lu Bo.There were several bumps on his head, and the left forehead was still bleeding.Bai Ni was not beaten lightly, she even fell under the bed, she didn't have the strength to bandage her husband's wound... Lu Bo did not send Cheng Nanyan to the hospital that night. The hospital did not accept counter-revolutionaries or gangsters that year. He did an earth-shattering thing. After going down, Chen Huaifa couldn't make a sound.The strange thing is that this incident did not aggravate Lu Bo's crimes. Chen Huaifa, who had already proclaimed himself the commander-in-chief of the "Second Artillery Command", dared not speak up about Lu Bo's "murder" and swallowed the pain in his stomach.It wasn't until several years later that people knew that when Lu Bo attacked Chen Huaifa that night, he said a word: "If you dare to do evil again, I will expose all the bad things you did when you were digging the well. Don't forget the little widow of Wangshui Village How did you die!" That night Lu Bo also did a remarkable thing. After bandaging Cheng Nanyan's wound with simple methods, he took care of the couple who came to Zhibian to sleep. He held Cheng Xueyi in his arms and kept talking. Said: "Don't be afraid, with me, as long as I, Lu Bo, have breath in my life, I won't let them bully your family." Lubo didn't make it. The reason why Lu Bo kept his face gloomy and silent all day long on the reservoir construction site was because he failed.Deng Jiaying thought that Lu Bo was overwhelmed by his own situation that year, but no, what was his own situation? What really crushed him was the situation of this Shanghai native... Later, Cheng Nanyan and Bai Ni disappeared.Rumor has it that the couple was deported back to Shanghai.There are also rumors that they were taken over by another rebel faction because they refused to accept the reform.Lubo didn't know where the couple had gone at the time.Cheng Xueyi, the only one who kept in touch with him, was also arrested by the rebels after a certain night.It wasn't Chen Huaifa's Second Artillery that arrested her, but another one. Behind this rebel group was Ma Yongqian, director of the County Revolutionary Committee.They also convicted Cheng Xueyi.