Chapter 30 thirty

During dinner in the evening, Ou Qingchun assigned a task to his father and Xiao Tong: he was going to invite Li Chunqiang to his home for his birthday. They immediately researched and determined the menu for that big dinner.Originally, my father always enjoyed doing this kind of work by himself.Now that he has such a helper as Xiao Tong, he also started yelling and talking instead of doing anything.He plans aloud what to buy.Including seasonings such as onion and garlic, Xiao Tong was asked to record them on paper one by one, and Xiao Tong was also asked to express his opinion. With a stern face, Xiao Tong wrote down the odds and ends of the items he wanted to buy on the paper as required.Not a word about the overall planning.When his father went to the toilet, he suppressed his voice.Ask Qingchun:

"Why did you insist on inviting him to your house?" Qingchun was a little disgusted with Xiao Tong's aggressive interference, "Why can't you invite me? He also invited me for my birthday." Xiao Tong frowned and said, "You can ask a few colleagues to go out to eat with him, if necessary, please come home!" Qingchun sneered: "I also went to eat at his house for my birthday, so it's a good deal. I didn't invite him to your house!" In the last sentence, Qingchun intentionally or unintentionally hurt Xiao Tong.When she saw Xiao Tong's face suddenly turned red and then turned pale, she felt a little regretful, and felt that she shouldn't have said something that hurt him during his detoxification period.She put down her rice bowl and eased her tone.

"Do you think I'm upset that I didn't discuss it with you first? I know that you are also a member of this family now. I should discuss it with you first. I didn't think you would have any objections." She thought she said this very cleverly, and she did it with utmost intimacy, but Xiao Tong didn't get rid of the blow just now.He left the table and said: "I have no opinion, this is your home, I have no right to have an opinion." She was a bit embarrassed, didn't know what to say, and was not in the mood to finish the rest of the meal. In order to save the situation, thinking that the next day would be Saturday, she decided to give her father a day off and go to an old friend's house to play mahjong.She said Xiao Tong will be with me tomorrow.

When watching TV at night, she saw that Xiao Tong was still in a low mood, so she took the initiative to open her photo album and showed him a taxidermy rose on the first page.This is the flower she brought from Xiao Tong's house on the night of her birthday.Seeing that the birthday present he gave her was preserved so meticulously, Xiao Tong immediately became happy.Seeing that his mood had improved, Qingchun suggested, "Tomorrow, my father has something to do, so can I go out with you?" This is the first time after Xiao Tong came out of the drug rehabilitation center, Qingchun expressed that he would go out with him.Of course Xiao Tong was very excited, and the quarrel during dinner was completely forgotten.He said: "Okay, wherever you want to go, I will accompany you."

Qingchun put on a straight face on purpose: "It's obvious that I am with you, why do you want to grab this favor? If you want to accompany me, then you can get rid of it. I might as well go to the unit to work overtime tomorrow." Xiao Tong quickly changed his words: "Okay, okay, it's you who accompany me, you are selfless, save lives and heal the wounded, send warmth and love, where do you say tomorrow?" Qingchun said: "I run outside every day, it doesn't matter where I go. The right to replay this time is up to you, you have the final say." "Is it true that I said it?" Xiao Tong smiled ambiguously: "Then we will not go anywhere tomorrow. Isn't your father going out, and we will rest at home, chat, cook, and watch TV, okay?"

Qingchun said: "It's better to go out for a walk, your body also needs regular outdoor activities." Xiao Tong said: "Then go a little farther, let's climb the Great Wall, are you interested?" Qingchun said: "On Saturdays and Sundays, there are probably a lot of people on the Great Wall." Xiao Tong said: "Let's not go to Badaling Mutianyu, there are too many people going there, it's too vulgar. Let's go farther, now climb the Great Wall, pay attention to Jinshanling." They immediately looked for the travel guidebook that their father had just obtained.Jinshanling is 130 kilometers away from the capital, so it seems that we have to get up early tomorrow.So they turned off the TV before ten o'clock that night, and after getting ready, they went back to their houses, turned off the lights, and went to bed.

Beijing's late autumn morning is surrounded by an extremely clear cold air. The gray mist is matched with the golden color of the leaves, and it is as dignified and confused as an oil painting.They went out with simple bags on their backs, and there were no pedestrians or vehicles on the street.When they took the morning train to Gubeikou at the junction of Miyun and Luan County, the sun had just lit up Simatai and Tiger Ridge.They came too early, and there was no sign of people up and down the mountain.The Simatai Great Wall undulates along the line of high peaks and low hills, and the movement is infinite.And the tranquility in the mountains makes people feel nostalgic for the past.The fire-like rising sun shines on the autumn yellow all over the mountain, which makes people feel that Jinshanling is named for autumn and rising sun.

They are apparently the first passengers on the cableway today, which is exciting.After getting off the cableway halfway up the mountain, they climbed up the stairs again, and they climbed up first, and began to climb to the peak.They knew from the travel guidebook that this was the most heavily fortified section of the entire Great Wall. More than 140 watchtowers covered every peak and dangerous point in the 20-kilometer-long length, and it seemed that every step of the way could be regarded as a camp.Compared with Badaling and Mutianyu, the mountains and cliffs here are more dangerous.In some sections of the city, the elevation angle of the steps is at least 70 degrees, shaped like a ladder without handrails.To climb this big ladder, you have to go through a road about several feet long.The "overpass" is only half a meter wide.Seeing the "overpass" flying across the abyss, Qingchun was a little terrified, so let's stop here, don't climb up, because no one will save you if you fall to your death.Seeing her flinching, Xiao Tong quickly grabbed her hand and shouted loudly: Hehehe!We have all come to this point, and no one is allowed to give up halfway.You hold my hand, stay with me, there is no barrier that cannot be passed!He constantly encouraged Qingchun with rhetoric.This allowed Qingchun not only to see a touching masculinity, but also an innocence and vigor that neither Hu Xinmin nor Li Chunqiang had ever had. This kind of innocence and vigor is sometimes almost a kind of simplicity.She looked at his healthy face, which was blown by the strong sunlight and the strong wind of the frontier fortress, and she couldn't imagine the Xiaotong she saw on her birthday night, who was swallowed by drug addiction and became ill, and The big boy at this moment was actually alone.

His strong hands and his loud shouts were full of temptations for Qingchun, she made up her mind to follow him and walked forward, those dozens of heart-stopping steps gave her a thrill and novelty that she would never forget. She didn't dare to think, could this be the person she loved? After crossing the Tianti Tianqiao and the Fairy Tower, we climbed to the peak of Simatai——Wangjing Tower.They were all sweating, panting heavily while standing on this ancient enemy building.As far as the eye can see, to the west is Tianxian Gubeikou, and to the west, you can see the highest peak of the Yanshan Mountains——the surging Wuling Mountain.A little to the south, the misty Miyun Reservoir is blue and not yet frozen.Further south, the city of Beijing is looming.From this point of view, thousands of high-rise buildings are just a patch of indeterminate colors...

Qingchun looked at Beijing, and it was the first time she looked at her own Beijing in this way.She wanted to know where her home was, east or west.At this time, Xiao Tong hugged her gently with two ape-like arms from behind her.She was caught off guard and her whole body warmed up, but she shivered coldly.She knew there was no one here.It was still early, and this was the highest point of Simatai, almost isolated from the world, but every cell of her was trembling subconsciously.She didn't move, her limbs were stiff as if she couldn't move anymore. Xiao Tong leaned his face lightly on her shoulder, and he surrounded her with his whole arms.He said it was beautiful here.

After trembling, she gradually became a little intoxicated.It's his embrace, it's his voice, he said it's so beautiful here.Yes it is beautiful here!She felt him kissing her, those young, soft, moist lips.This feeling is different from Xinmin's. Xinmin's kiss is so solid, calm and rigid, but at this moment, it is erratic, gentle, timid, and panicked with a sense of guilt. She finally took a step forward and left his embrace.She didn't look back, as if saying to the oncoming wind, don't be like Xiao Tong, I love you but I am your sister. Xiao Tong hugged her tightly again, more persistent and stronger than before.He said Qingchun, I love you, I only have you in my heart, as long as you are happy, I can jump from here. She broke free again, free from his strong arms and whispers full of love words.She said, Xiao Tong, don't force me, okay, you should act like an adult in everything you do! Xiao Tong stood there in embarrassment, the sun shining brightly on his whole body.He said, "Are you angry?" Qingchun said: "No, I just, I just don't want you to act like this." Xiao Tong's mood fluctuated, and he said with a sad expression: "I will never understand you, and I don't know what the real you is. I always guess that you love me, and you have done a lot of things to show that you love me. Could it be that this is actually a game ?” Qingchun said: "We know too little about it. We shouldn't be so anxious to talk about the word 'love'. Love is a lifetime commitment, how can we seize the day and night." Xiao Tong calmed down and said, "Well, I'm not in a hurry. If I hurt you with too much force just now, please don't get angry." Qingchun smiled, she reached out her hand, took his hand, and said, "Go, let's go down!" They brought a camera that day, he took pictures for her, and she took pictures for him, leaving a memory at every dangerous place.It's a pity that there was no one on the mountain to help, so there was no photo of the two of them in the end.Years later, Qingchun has been lamenting this regret, because Jinshanling is indeed an unforgettable romantic trip for her. After returning home that day, at the dinner table, her father asked them how they felt about Jinshanling Simatai, and both she and Xiao Tong hesitated in a low-key way.But as soon as his father left the dinner table, Xiao Tong would wantonly touch her hand.He said: "To be honest, I have been to so many places over the years, including Germany, and Simatai is my favorite. The first time I went there, I fell in love with it immediately, and felt that it was my blessed land." Qingchun pushed his hand away, said: "Eat well." Then asked: "Why?" "It's so precipitous, so majestic, and quiet, with aura. Besides, the most important and unforgettable thing about being there today is..." Qingchun knew what he was going to say, so she stopped her and said, "Hey, don't be too sentimental, okay?" Xiao Tong said with a smile: "Then don't talk about it, just let me pretend to be passionate." Sure enough, he was thinking while eating.Qingchun looked at him, there was no trace of drug use on that model-like face.She thought, this is the hard work of her father and also her own influence, he must be doing it for her so fast and the effect is so good!She was secretly proud of herself. After two years, it was Li Chunqiang's birthday.Qingchun came back from work early that night to check on the implementation of the preparations for the birthday dinner.To her relief, although Xiao Tong was dissatisfied with inviting Li Chunqiang to celebrate his birthday, he still worked hard on various tasks.The father's role has been relegated from the hands-on front line to the second line of directing, and almost all the hands-on operations are done by Xiao Tong alone. Li Chunqiang came at 6:30 in plain clothes.Qingchun and his father sat with him in the living room, where the dining table was set. Since Xiao Tong had been busy in the kitchen of his father's unit, he didn't come to meet Li Chunqiang until the food and drinks were served. Both sides were quite flat, just nodded. Father said, today is your birthday, and I'll take advantage of it to drink some wine, how about drinking Gujing tribute? Li Chunqiang said, the guest does as the host does.You drink with me. After the wine was served and the dishes were served, Xiao Tong went to the kitchen to tidy up.Qingchun couldn't wait to come, and saw that Li Chunqiang was showing displeasure, so he let them eat first, and ran to the kitchen here to call Xiao Tong.Xiao Tong said that you eat first and I will go there after I clean up.Qingchun ordered him to put it down, saying why are you so ignorant, knowing that everyone is waiting for you, isn't it on purpose? She forcefully dragged Xiao Tong over to the table, and poured some wine into his glass.Everyone raised their glasses and wished Li Chunqiang a long life.The four cups clinked together indiscriminately, and Li Chunqiang and his father drank them all in one gulp. Li Chunqiang said: "Uncle, you are an elder, it's a bit inappropriate to ask you to celebrate my birthday." My father said: "What's the matter, whoever celebrates his birthday is the birthday guy. In the future, when Xiaotong celebrates his birthday, I have to wish him a long life." Li Chunqiang glanced at Qingchun, and said with ulterior motives: "Xiao Tong is a generation later." Xiao Tong looked at Li Chunqiang, his eyes were not friendly.Qingchun hurriedly set things right half-jokingly, "Chun Qiang, don't pretend to be a senior, take advantage of others." Li Chunqiang said without hesitation: "Originally, we have been working for many years, and he hasn't graduated yet." Qingchun's heart skipped a beat, and Li Chunqiang was scolded to death in her heart!You know that Xiao Tong has dropped out of school and is at home, but what is the limit of the word graduation!Turning to look pretty at Xiao Tong, he seems to be unknowingly pouring wine for his father. Father and Li Chunqiang had another drink.Li Chunqiang wished his father good health. Less than a minute after the banquet started, two glasses of wine had already been drunk, obviously a little too much, Li Chunqiang blushed, filled another glass, faced Qingchun, and said: "Come, I wish you forever young, always so beautiful .Also, keep your guns on target." Qingchun said: "Thanks to the praise, but also to the criticism." She took a sip, and Li Chunqiang said again. Qingchun said to Xiao Tong: "You have a toast to Brother Li alone." Xiao Tong picked up the wine glass obediently, and said, "I wish Brother Li a prosperous career and a prosperous official career." After wishing himself a sip, Li Chunqiang said, "Hey, finish it." Xiao Tong also obediently drank up the glass . Li Chunqiang raised his glass: "Then I wish you too, what do you wish you?" He turned his head and asked his father, "How far has his illness been cured now? Is it going well?" Father also didn't expect that he would ask this in front of Xiao Tong on such an occasion, with food stuffed in his mouth, he was so anxious that he swallowed first and said first. "Uh, uh, okay, okay, okay..." Li Chunqiang turned to raise his glass to Xiao Tong: "I wish you good health and completely cut off the root cause of the disease!" He drank it down again.But Xiao Tong's face was even redder than his. Father swallowed what was in his mouth, and he obviously noticed Xiao Tong's embarrassment.Had to post a few positive comments. "Xiao Tong is really a good kid, smart and good-natured, I like it, I like it..." Li Chunqiang echoed and said: "Well, people are smart and young, so I said just now, we must stop that addiction, otherwise it will be ruined. I also know that it is difficult, and I have to make up my mind. I have to make this determination in eight years!" Father talked about it from left to right, and changed the subject: "Come, come, drink again. It's okay, this is low-alcohol alcohol." Both Qingchun and his father tried their best to persuade him to drink, choosing topics that Li Chunqiang was interested in.My father said, I heard that you have been on a business trip recently and you have chosen Kunming.If you go to a place with beautiful mountains and rivers like Guilin, did you go to handle cases or go on a trip? Are the police getting more and more slick now?Li Chunqiang said, no matter how chic we are, we can’t compare to Uncle. You are in geology. The famous mountains and rivers are the offices where you work, and traveling in mountains and rivers is your job.My father said that was true. I have visited almost all the good places in China for so many years, but I have never been abroad once.Li Chunqiang said that it is very convenient to buy travel tickets to go out now.My father said that it is also very expensive, and it is not good to play without tens of thousands of dollars.Li Chunqiang said that if you go out, where do you want to go most?My father said that I really want to go to Hong Kong, China's own place, and it's a pity that I haven't been there.Li Chunqiang smiled and said, uncle, you are too small.He also asked Qingchun where he would like to go most if he wanted to travel. Qingchun said he wanted to go to the United States to see how capitalism has developed and how it has decayed.Seeing that Xiao Tong was somewhat neglected, Qingchun asked him what he likes the most.Xiao Tong said that he liked Simatai Jinshanling the most. Qingchun didn't answer his words, and she and her father boasted about Li Chunqiang's marksmanship, which really meant where to hit and where to shoot.My father asked, how about your marksmanship?Qingchun resignedly said, "I mean where I hit."Shooting, fighting, driving, etc. are all gay men's strengths, and women can't do it anyway.Li Chunqiang said, that's not necessarily the case. Before the liberation, the old woman with two guns, the commander of the Huaying Mountain guerrilla, could shoot both sides of the bow, say to hit your eyeballs, but not your eye sockets.Qingchun told his father that there are differences in the physiological conditions of men and women.You see, Li Chunqiang is thirty today, and he looks a few years older than me, but I can't see it when we stand together again in twenty years.Women are physically weaker than men and age faster.Li Chunqiang said, that's not necessarily the case, the famous old birthday stars in history are all women, and Yu Taijun, a general in the Yang family, is still in command at the age of one hundred.I've never heard of a man so energetic... Xiao Tong, who had been eating with his head down, unexpectedly participated in their uproar. He interrupted and said that Yu Taijun is a legendary figure and a folk story, and he cannot really be regarded as such a female birthday star.Li Chunqiang hates people who refute him face to face, especially his subordinates or juniors.He frowned and said, "You're exaggerating. I'm just giving you an example to show that even when you're old, you can grow old and strong."Xiao Tong was really arguing, saying why don't you use the example of Monkey King, he is five hundred years old and still on the Long March. Father laughed, and Qingchun laughed too.Li Chunqiang had no way to get angry, and said bitterly that all college students these days are so aggressive, so self-righteous, unreasonable and unreasonable.He drank another glass as he spoke. Seeing his appearance, his father covered the wine bottle.Said that you are almost done, and you should not go back if you drink again.It's a pity that my father was too late. Li Chunqiang was already half drunk at this time, and his half drunk performance was that he talked too much.He opened the wine bottle again, saying that it is low alcohol anyway, low alcohol is not intoxicating, but it tastes like alcohol mixed with water and it is boring, if you want to really drink it, you should drink high alcohol to enjoy yourself.Speaking of enjoyment, he asked Xiao Tong again, is the taste of drinking low-alcohol alcohol as boring as smoking heroin mixed with flour?Otherwise, how could the diluted heroin be so worthless. After he finished speaking, the audience fell silent.Qingchun and his father looked at each other, at a loss.Xiao Tong's hand holding the vegetables was in the air, trembling slightly, but he still put the vegetables on his father's plate and said, Uncle, you should eat more vegetables. After speaking, he stood up, put away the clean dishes, and took them to the kitchen.Once he left, he never came back.Qingchun resolutely refused to let Li Chunqiang drink, and served him a meal.Then I went to the kitchen of my father's unit and called Xiao Tong.Xiao Tong was washing the dishes, and he said that he would not go there when he was full. Qingchun still persuaded him: "It's not good to go, it seems impolite." Xiao Tong said: "He always runs on me, you can see it. If I want to go outside, I have to beat him." Looking at his expression, Qingchun knew that he was on fire, and forcing him to go there might not be effective, so she said a few words of comfort: "It's fine if you don't want to go there, but you are too narrow-minded. You don't have to take things so seriously when you drink. .You used Sun Wukong to run on him just now." Xiao Tong didn't speak, just lowered his head and vigorously brushed an iron pan. When Qingchun returned to the dinner table, his father asked, where is Xiaotong?Invite him to come over for dinner, and he can't do without the staple food.Qingchun concealed that he was full and I told him to wash the dishes. Until Li Chunqiang finished eating, eating fruit, eating birthday cake, drinking tea, and chatting endlessly with his father, when he was about to leave, Xiao Tong did not show up again, nor did he come out to say goodbye. As soon as Li Chunqiang left, his father immediately went to see Xiao Tong.He even worried that the results of his work these days would go to waste because of Li Chunqiang's unscrupulous words.Fortunately, as soon as Li Chunqiang left, Xiao Tong's face immediately turned from cloudy to sunny, talking and laughing with his father, and they talked until late in bed. Even so, Ou Qingchun directly expressed his dissatisfaction to Li Chunqiang when he went to work the next day.Unexpectedly, Li Chunqiang didn't feel that he had contributed to his performance last night. He said, I treated your little brother very well yesterday. I toasted him and encouraged him to make up his mind to quit drugs. Can't even accept this?This kind of drug addict needs someone to constantly remind him and educate him. I am doing work for you. Qingchun said, working is not the occasion like yesterday, and you also asked him if the diluted and adulterated heroin is not as addictive and worthless as drinking low-alcohol alcohol. what effect? From his expression, Li Chunqiang admitted that he was in the wrong, but he was silent for a while and then said: "I can't even accept such a joke, and my self-esteem is too strong!" Qingchun said: "For a drug addict, nothing is more important than building their self-esteem!" Li Chunqiang said: "Okay, I apologize to you and to your father." Qingchun wanted to say: "You should apologize to Xiao Tong." But think about it. She thought, never have such foolish thoughts again, and never wishful thinking to create such opportunities for them to connect with each other. After arguing for a long time, men are not all big-hearted, nor are they all gentlemanly in their personal emotions. She felt that this meal was purely a stone she shot herself in the foot. Li Chunqiang also looked frustrated. He said: "Qingchun, I didn't have a happy birthday. I have a lot to say, and it's inconvenient to say it in front of them. Let's have a one-time gathering outside, and I'll treat you." .”