Chapter 9 Section IX

The mysterious and soul-stirring first love ended in such a hurry.It happened suddenly when people were not mentally prepared, and it suddenly stopped when people were not mentally prepared. It really happened unexpectedly, and it came and went in a hurry! How cold it is on the river beach at dawn!Over the peaks of the Qinling East Mountains, there was a ray of light.The field was dark, and the willow forest belt with all its leaves on the river embankment lined up on the river bank like a majestic city wall, exposing the jagged treetops of tall and short.Xiaoliuzi Beifeng slid over in the darkness, as if wrapped in countless steel needles, piercing people's cheeks.He got into his neck and cuffs, and his fingers were so numb that he couldn't hold the wooden handle of the shovel.

There was no one on the beach, and the river made an incoherent trembling sound as if frozen. The beach, which was bustling during the day, now seemed empty and vast.The moment before dawn is getting darker and darker, and even the most industrious peasants have to wait for this moment to pass and the land and villages to reveal the dawn, before they come down to the river beach with their shovels and baskets. When the 18-year-old brother Cao Runsheng crowed three times, he set up a net on the beach.He didn't close his eyes all night last night, tossing and turning, there seemed to be stones and sticks in the bed, which made him unable to sleep.He and Xiaolan broke up like this!It just got hot: suddenly it's cold again!Alas... how to deal with this kind of thing?The teacher only taught him composition and calculation in class, and never talked about how to fall in love.Once, the teacher severely criticized two classmates who secretly fell in love, ruthlessly, until the two unlucky guys couldn't lift their heads, the teacher simply announced: Middle school students are not allowed to fall in love... But he said in his heart, late Yes, the teacher did the reboot too late!He and Xiaolan had already kissed by the river!I can't erase this kind of memory... If the teacher could tell them how to fall in love and what to do if they lose love, it would be a great reference for him now, but the teacher just blindly warned not to talk about it .His parents only taught him to study hard, provided him with food and clothing, taught him to respect his husband, be friendly to his classmates, and be cautious when going abroad to study. What should he do when he sings?No, never, because the government advocates late marriage, which has become a law. Although the peasants are not satisfied, they gradually postpone the age of engagement for their children. Generally, they only make arrangements after the age of twenty, and the engagement is too early to prevent marriage. It caused a lot of trouble.He was only nineteen years old, and he hadn't seen any enthusiastic aunt or sister-in-law come to propose marriage as a matchmaker, and his parents had no chance to mention this matter. He was even more embarrassed to tell his father and mother what happened to him and a female classmate.

No one can help him, what now?He and Xiaolan broke up in the wheat field next to Sanchakou, and left without looking back. He rejected the suit of clothes she wanted to give him, and walked back to Cao Village.Now he can't say whether his attitude towards her is appropriate or not, and whether it is good to end his relationship with her in this way, but... he bid farewell just like that with an irreversible heart.When he is now lying under the quilt in the small building, quietly recalling the conversation with her in the wheat field just now, he does not feel that he is at fault.Since she was going to be with the county cadre's son...why would she give him a suit of clothes?What would it be like for him to wear this outfit?What is the purpose of maintaining such an ambiguous relationship?Either it's good, it's too good to hide, just like the scene when they crossed the river that night; or it's broken, it's broken, and everyone goes to their own future, and she can find another college student to manage If the accountant at the station is the son-in-law, he will never be a bachelor for the rest of his life!He has a simple mind, he likes to be dry and crisp, tofu mixed with shallots is green and white, and there is no room for the tangled threads in his mind... Even so, he still can't fall asleep.

What makes people laugh and cry is that the folks quietly sent so many pastries, tobacco and alcohol, hoping to beg him to sell the stone through her, but he doesn't know that he is planning to stop dating her now!Since he couldn't sleep, and it was very uncomfortable to lie down, his father's heavy and pleasant snoring sound from the upper room made people feel oppressed even more. He got up quietly, picked up the shovel, picked up the iron cage, and went out of the street... The corn stalks were burning, crackling, and the fire opened up a small warm and bright space on the beach. He grabbed a bunch of dry corn stalks and threw them on the fire, and the space shrunk by the night opened up again. It expanded with the bursting flames.He shoveled a shovel of gravel and threw it onto the net, and as soon as it fell to the ground, another shovel of gravel was thrown up.He was doing it crazily, as if he was angry with someone, and he didn't let his hands stop for a moment.The sudden burst of flames illuminated his flushed face, his eyebrows were screwed into the dimple above the bridge of his nose, and he was panting lightly.

If Xiaolan were now sitting in the light of the blazing corn stalks, giggling around the fire, tilting her head and singing "Ninety-Nine Sunny Days", then he would... ah!Thinking about where he went, he pulled his hair, and his brows were tightly knit together again, digging gravel hard! Dig hard, throw hard, try to increase your income by half a day, save enough money early to count, buy the ten boxes of Italian honey bees in Dongyang Village, leave this boring river beach in Cao Village early, and drive the flowers to bloom all over the world to raise bees .Completely sever the relationship between Xiaolan and him, completely erase her shadow in his heart, relax and carefree, and go shopping all over the world!

He will escort his own beehives, take a train, and gallop across plains and mountains, villages and rivers, go to the south in spring, and return to the north in summer, wherever the flowers bloom, he will rush to a certain place on the plain. Next to an unfamiliar town, or in a small village in the mountains, set up a beehive, put up a small green canvas tent, put on a mask, caress the buzzing golden bees, and put those already Useless male bees are pinched to death in time, and they are useless after mating with the queen bee. They do not make honey, but just sit back and enjoy it.The artificial cultivation of royal bee can not only control the reproduction and grouping of bees, but also produce royal jelly, which is a high-grade tonic. I heard that the leaders of capitalist countries eat it as food, so everyone grows big and fat , Put the honey-filled bee skin into the honey shaker, turn the handle, and the thick juice will be thrown out... what about at night?It is best to bring a TV to watch football games, but the problem is money!Money, he wants to make money, he is desperately digging sand and gravel, desperately to make money!

When did Nanyuan's knife-cut flat roof show a clear outline, separated from the dark night smock, and the tops of the willow forest belt also emerged from the night, showing blue branches and smoldering corn stalks. The fires dimmed, and dawn came. There were noises in the village, someone was coughing loudly on the river beach, a figure was shaking on the poplar path, and the wheels of a car slammed against the frozen ground...Finally, someone walked onto the beach. Today, he is the first to greet the dawn.In the past, he always fell asleep and couldn't wake up. Even if he was awakened by urine occasionally, he was still reluctant to leave the warm bed.Now, standing in front of the net on the beach, he watched how the shadows of the night were driven away layer by layer by the light of dawn, and saw the farmers coming one by one from the road leading to the river beach in Cao Village, and suddenly a thought came to him. A sense of pride, I'm the first one to get up early!

"Oh! Runwa! Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!" The long-term uncle came first, hissing and sighing loudly, "What a hardworking doll, how early he got up! How heartless..." Runwa leaned on the handle of the shovel and didn't make a sound, watching Uncle Changcai hurrying over on the beach. His bandy legs were wrapped in heavy cotton trousers, and he walked clumsily on the sandy ground. Like an old hen flapping its wings. "When did you come back last night? Let me keep waiting!" Uncle Changcai walked up to him, panting, "I went to look for you just now, and the quilt was cold when I touched it! You probably haven't been exposed to the kang all night... "

"Is there anything urgent?" Runsheng asked. He had just sold him the stones he had accumulated for several months, so what's the urgent matter of looking for him every day? "It's an urgent matter, of course it's an urgent matter, and it's not a small matter!" The old man's words were repeated and chaotic, which is his consistent characteristic, but his tone sounded cheerful, "Why are you so late?" After I left, some folks came to interrogate me, asking what kind of acquaintances you have with the sand and gravel management station. I said, one of your female classmates is there to issue tickets. Look, I can’t say no! Someone has already swept the wind... ..."

"What kind of urgent matter is this?" Runsheng smiled. "Don't worry. Sit down and warm up the fire for a while, you should take a break!" Uncle Changcai sat down by the fire, picked up a spark from the fire with two fingers, gently pressed it on the smoke pot, and put it on the cotton He wiped his burned fingers on his trousers and said, "Listen to me." Runsheng squatted next to the fire, put his hands on the fire and roasted, with his head on his side, listening to what Uncle Changcai said about urgent matters.He expected that nothing serious would happen to him. Uncle Changcai always spoke in a high-pitched voice with a bit of bluff, and everyone called him the nickname "Big Wind" behind his back.

"Run baby, do you often read newspapers?" Uncle Changcai asked. "All the newspapers in the brigade wiped the captain's wife's ass, who will get it!" Runsheng said with a smile. "You should have a radio, right?" Uncle Changcai still asked seriously, "Students like to read newspapers and listen to the radio." "What on earth are you going to say? You said it was urgent. If it was really urgent, you would have been delayed so long that you would have been cold." "If you often listen to the radio, let me ask you—have you ever heard that in some village in the north of Xi'an, the farmers themselves set up a 'chicken raising association'?" "I've heard of it. It's a professional chicken farming village. I've heard it on the 'Agricultural Radio' program. I can't remember the name of the village. I've heard it." "Look and see!" Uncle Changcai was knocking on the cigarette pot, "After yesterday, you were not here. Many people said they heard it on the radio. When they heard it, they wanted to imitate that and set up the 'Stone Fishing Cooperative Association' in our Cao Village. 'Mil!" "Then let it be established!" Runsheng said coldly.His heart is not settled on this sandy beach, but he has only worked temporarily for a few months, and when he has earned enough money to buy back ten boxes of bees, he is about to quit.He never thought of giving his life to this beach, not even for two years.As for whether to set up a cooperative association or not, it has little to do with him.He would be very interested in forming a beekeepers' association.He said, "Let's do it!" "'Then it will be established', you seem to be not sticky." Uncle Changcai said very dissatisfied, "Everyone looks at you...as the president!" "Then what's the point!" Runsheng was in a hurry, never expecting that he was going to be the president of some kind, "I won't do it!" "Everyone saw the relationship between you and the management station!" Uncle Changcai said, "Of course...the main thing is that everyone thinks you are fair, honest, and willing to help a fool like me..." "I won't do it..." Runsheng said, unequivocally, "I will work until the Spring Festival, and after the new year, I won't go to the river beach again..." At this moment, at the intersection leading from the beach to the river bank, a bunch of people were crowded, laughing and talking loudly, as interesting as watching a monkey game. "What kind of western scenery are those people watching around there?" the uncle Changcai asked. "Go and have a look!" Runsheng said with a smile. Uncle Changcai stood up, pinched another spark to the smoke pot, sprayed blue smoke, twisted his ugly bow legs, and rushed to watch the fun, walked five or six steps away, turned around again, and said: "Everyone asked me to let you know first, so don't just refuse! Think about it, don't disobey everyone..."