Chapter 16 Oh!hometown, hometown

Student Xu Shenxing: A reunion for alumni is scheduled to be held at our alma mater on the morning of the 20th of this month. Please take time to attend.hereby salute crash course August 12, 1980 My hands trembled, tears blurred my eyes, I wiped them, and they flowed out again.Crash Class 2... Crash Class 2... My Crash Class 2!Like a sudden flash of lightning, it blew up my dusty brain and shook my heart. What a distant and dear memory - crash course two!Crash Class Two - What a warm and free world!As soon as this name flashed in my mind, I could hardly bear the fresh and warm spring breeze it brought into my moldy heart, and I was about to faint.

Tian Fang, when I think of the crash course two, Tian Fang is the first person to jump in front of me, that white-haired girl, that Tian Fang who took off the blue robe and top hat from me, she will definitely attend this old classmate’s reunion .What a disappointment it would be without her.There will be no shortage of her, I reassured myself, even guessing that she had come up with the idea of ​​this fancy party. August 20th is an extremely ordinary day of the year. It is not a New Year’s Day, nor is it a commemorative festival. I am looking forward to the arrival of this day, and I am more anxious than I was looking forward to the New Year when I was a child.

In the twilight, the cool morning breeze blows across the small town of Niuwangbian.I took the first bus into the county seat, then changed to the bus to Shanmen Town, and finally stood at the gate of the normal school. The normal school with a long history has been changed into a teacher training college, which belongs to the junior college system.The brick-arched wooden-roofed gatehouse has been transformed into a steel gate with square concrete columns, and the narrow brick-paved corridor leading from the gate to the teaching area and dormitory building has been replaced with a concrete pavement.Facing it is a three-story teaching building with a very beautiful appearance. Most of the original rows of bungalows have been demolished.In the twenty-five years, after all, I have felt amazing changes.

A piece of cardboard was hung on the right of the tree, with an arrow drawn on it, pointing the meeting place to the back playground.There were no students during the summer vacation, and there was a layer of leaves falling on the road and in the flower beds. It was a bit desolate and empty, but my heart still couldn't stop being excited. At the base of the fence of the playground, tall acacia trees form a barrier, casting dense shade on the grass. We planted this with our own hands. When we planted it, it was only as thin as a wine glass, but now it is as thick as a barrel.On the grass, a bunch of people are standing or sitting, chatting.When I came to the front, I heard someone calling my name, and a few people ran up, shook hands, hugged shoulders... God, they all turned into old men's wives!

I couldn't stop my tears from rolling down, and I held tightly the hands stretched out in front of me. Looking at the wrinkled faces, I couldn't connect with the youthful faces in my impression. The huge difference in time cannot be bridged; they also feel the quarter-century time difference in their hearts like this?I can see it from the surprised eyes they looked at me one by one: why are you so old?Ha!Look at you, how bald you are! I held a pair of hands, my heart was shocked, and those soft hands were also holding mine vigorously.I believe that if I close my eyes, I will also accurately judge Tian Fang's hands. There are a few fine lines at the corners of her eyes, and a few silvery whites at the temples, and those eyes seem to be from twenty-five years ago. those eyes.The moment our eyes met, my heart seemed to sink, and all thinking stopped in my mind.I didn't say hello to her.She didn't say hello to me either.We were relatively speechless, standing silently, but our hands were stuck together.

I sat down on the grass with her.Several classmates surrounded me and asked if I had been rehabilitated?Ask about my children's placement status, I am also concerned about their work and family.Tian Fang sat next to me, she didn't ask any questions.I also didn't ask her where my husband worked, how many children, work or school.I don't ask because I understand. In fact, I don't know anything, and I don't want to know anything. "You... body... okay?" I finally asked. "It's okay." She smiled, "You too... okay?" I nodded and wept again.

The tape recorder was playing elegant dance music. He Changhai, the basketball captain, had already started dancing with an old woman who played the role of the second aunt, and three or five other couples also danced together.Tian Fang said to me: "Let's dance?" I was a little flustered, and quickly shook my head and waved my hands. Several classmates were yelling, urging me and Tian Fang to come on stage. They more or less knew what happened to me and Tian Fang. The meaning of the urging was obvious. I blushed and said to Tian Fang: "You dance with them!" Well, I can't play anymore!"

Tian Fang jumped up, and another classmate jumped up.I sat on the grass, lit a cigarette, and watched Tian Fang dance. Someone came up with a new idea, asking everyone to produce a program, whether singing or talking, or acting or doing magic tricks, and no one could escape. Someone suggested that Tian Fang should sing the white-haired girl, but she was not polite, she jumped up without coddling, and said with a little regret: "Just me singing?" It just occurred to me that Liu Jianguo, who played Dachun, did not come.He didn't come, no one mentioned it, and I don't want to mention this person on this occasion.This person who plays a positive role has been a positive role in life for decades, and now everyone wants to ask why he doesn't come.The person playing Yang Bailao has entered another world, and it is said that he suffered from lung cancer seven or eight years ago.People don't want to mention him, because it's too traumatic.So, someone suggested that Tian Fang and I should sing the section "Tie the Red Rope".I was terrified again, shaking my hands again and again. For many years, I can't even speak smoothly, how can I sing?

"Sing?" Tian Fang looked at me and said, "You are too restrained." I shook my head and waved my hands again. Tian Fang got impatient and didn't force herself, so she sang a section.After singing, she came back, sat next to me, and said, "You're so stiff! So stiff...it reminds me of 'Mr. Blue Robe' again!" My heart skipped a beat.The blue robe on my body has already been taken off, and my heart is tightly covered by the blue robe again.I smiled bitterly, speechless. Some people continued to sing, and some improvised poems and recited.Some people tell humorous jokes.Some people do little magic tricks.Shouting and laughing, the atmosphere was very warm.When it was my turn, I couldn't get anything out.Someone made a bad move: "If you don't know anything, then just roll on the ground like a panda!"

I was in a state of embarrassment.Tian Fang also smiled, and said casually, "Tell me a joke! You really can't even tell a joke?" She reminded me. In a hurry, I first thought of the joke story of "The Old Monk and the Young Monk". That's what I heard in the dormitory on the first night when I first came to the normal school... I just finished speaking, and someone shouted amidst the laughter: "Let the old monk die forever!" "Little monks, go hug the 'devil'!" A few students have not yet arrived, and we have to wait for a while for the picnic lunch.I have learned that lunch is canned food, bread, snacks, drinks and various fruits brought by everyone at will.I came empty-handed, thinking of going to Shanmen Town to buy some gifts, Tian Fang went for a walk with me.

She and I walked into the campus, and we walked to the classroom of Crash Class 2 at the same time. Although the one-story house there had not been demolished, it had been divided into three rooms and turned into a dormitory for teachers.The door was piled with briquettes, and a small pot was squatting on the stove, which creaked. I silently looked at the windows of this house, and wanted to cry again.My nerves became so fragile it was almost irrepressible. Tian Fang knocked on the door of a house. The door opened, and a young, fair-looking guy stood at the door. "This...is our classroom." Tian Fang said, "We want to go in and have a look... sorry to bother you." The young man was a little surprised when he heard it for the first time, then he nodded and smiled, and readily invited us into the room. I followed the owner through the door.There is a double bed in the room, a double sofa, and a table against the wall. On the table are clocks, vases, and a TV.A woman with long hair stood up from the sofa and politely asked us to sit down. "The desk for the two of us is probably in this position!" Tian Fang stood by the desk and asked me back. "Well...it's there!" I responded. "Come here... have a seat..." Tian Fang said, moving a chair and sitting on the wall by herself, "Let's revisit...the student life back then..." I went to the table and sat down on the chair.I sat upright and raised my head, but I couldn't see the blackboard. There were a few banners with bad handwriting hanging on the wall.When my arm touched Tian Fang's arm.I turned my head involuntarily, and saw her eyes filled with tears, and a soul-stirring voice came from the distant sky—— ...why don't you talk to me? ... How well your handwriting is! We sat quietly for a while, stood up, smiled apologetically to the hostess and hostess, and walked out of the room. "It's never going to go back to...the old days!" I said. "Dream... twenty-five years..." Tian Fang shook her head. She and I stepped on the fallen leaves on the aisle, walked out of the school gate, and entered the streets of Shanmen Town. The streets were still narrow, and some dilapidated wooden houses along the street were demolished, and a tall building was erected, standing out from the crowd.When we walked to the door of a clothing store, she and I stopped.Now, in any case, it is much more imposing than the small tailor shop with a facade, a master tailor and a sewing machine at that time. Tian Fang took me to this small shop, took off the blue robe, and changed it into a Lenin suit by a tailor.I put on new Lenin-style clothes and an octagonal hat, and I couldn't go on the road, and my figure-of-sight steps were all messed up.Tian Fang walked with me, looking at me and smiling.She said: "Jump up! Jump up! Do you dare?" I jumped up, jumped up, and the passers-by in the streets and alleys regarded me as a madman, but I didn't care, I just felt that I was relaxed and free, I can no longer walk according to the figure-of-eight step, and I am bouncing up... "Now you're getting reserved again." Tian Fang looked at me and said, "It reminds me of you when you were wearing the blue robe..." I sighed sadly, speechless. "Do you still dare to jump up now?" She asked with a smile. I hurriedly shook my head in panic. She made no trouble for me, and walked down Front Street. When Tian Fang and I returned to the playground grass, the host of the party announced the start of lunch. Various cans were opened, cakes and buns were untied, and the lids of the wine bottles were bitten off.All the bottle caps and water glasses that could be temporarily used as wine containers were filled with wine, and they were all lifted up: Long live the second class of crash! The host announced a number to everyone: Teachers' crash class two: forty-one students, four of them died, one of them died of the "Cultural Revolution" fighting, and three of them died of disease.Now there are 30 people working in this area, and the other seven people are transferred to other provinces or other places with their families and husbands.Thirty people were notified about the meeting, but twenty-nine people actually attended, three of whom came sick. The only absentee: Liu Jianguo. No one asked why Liu Jianguo didn't come. The host proposed in the silence of everyone: offering wine to the four dead classmates. The clear wine was splashed on the grass, exuding a fragrance. The presiding officer moved on to the next motion; he proposed an opinion to the county party committee, asking the leader to transfer Liu Jianguo from the Education Bureau to any department under the county party committee, as long as he was not in the education system.He is still serving as the deputy director of the Education Bureau. With him in that position, we will feel uncomfortable.That's the requirement.As for how many well-equipped primary and secondary school teachers have been punished by him, there is no need to count, and we should look forward and not blame the past.But please turn him away so that the teachers don't hear his annoying voice again... applaud.call.Everyone signed their names. My hand holding the pen was trembling, and I finally wrote my name.For the first time in twenty-five years, I expressed my anger at this old classmate...