Chapter 5 from the prairie

During the three years of studying together with Bu He, I saw him almost every day in the corridors of the dormitory and in the cafeteria. He was a slender Mongolian boy with a dark red face, taciturn, and a gentle and kind gaze. Infantry uniforms or yellow-green cotton overcoats, with a figure-of-sight gait when walking.His shoulders are slightly tilted to the left. I know he is from the Xilin Gol grassland in the north. When school starts in autumn, he always carries a heavy cardboard box in a large mesh bag and returns to school from his grassland hometown.Anecdotes about Buhe used to be widely circulated among classmates, so Buhe's popularity is often higher than that of the president of the student union, beautiful girls, and sports stars.Buhe can't go forward. This shortcoming was exposed in physical education class.The physical education teacher suddenly dragged Bu He out of the queue during the queue training. How did you get away?The physical education teacher said with a half smile, you go and show everyone.Bu He looked very dazed. He said, I can walk, why can't I walk?Then Bu He walked up following the whistle of the physical education teacher. When he stepped out with his left foot, he swung his left hand vigorously, and the same with his right foot and right hand. The others laughed almost at the same time.Bu He turned his head suddenly, his eyes became very angry, what are you laughing at?Some people say, you go wrong, some people say, like a duck.Buhe just looked down at his feet and stood there for a long time without moving.Fool.The physical education teacher scolded softly, and he looked at Bu He with disdain and said, "If you can't walk, then can you run?"Run fifty meters and show me.Yes, I run fast and I can run a long way.After Bu He finished speaking, he ran towards the basketball court. The strange thing is that his running was natural and fast, comparable to that of the antelope. The teacher shouted at him from behind to stop.

The idiot.The physical education teacher suddenly laughed, and he asked the monitor, what's his name?Cloth and.The squad leader replied, weaving cloth, peace and peace.How can it be called this name?said the physical education teacher. He is Mongolian.The squad leader said that he was a minority. The physical education teacher was stunned for a moment, and said nothing. I remember that it was a day in the early autumn of September. Bu He walked towards the collective queue with his head down, his thick, short-shaved hair was covered with bright autumn sunshine. Buhe slept naked at first, and the people in his dormitory thought it was a habit he had developed since he was a child, and they didn't make a fuss about it.Bu He crawled up and down naked on the bunk bed, and used a beer bottle to relieve himself.Xiao Jiang, a native of Zhejiang who was sleeping on the lower bunk, thought it was a temporary measure by Bu He at first, but he didn’t expect Bu He to be like this every day, so Xiao Jiang protested. Xiao Jiang suspected that Bu He was deliberately provoking him. It was about to drip on it, and it all leaked onto my bed.Others also couldn't understand Buhe's laziness, and joined Xiao Jiang in accusing Buhe of destroying the environment.Bu He was very embarrassed that day. He blushed and argued that the leak did not leak into his bed, and I knew it did not leak into his bed.Xiao Jiang, who was in the lower bunk, patted the bed board and said sharply, "Slacker, idiot, do you think this is your grassland?"Poop anywhere!Who are you scolding?Bu He's expression finally changed. He climbed down naked, grabbed the beer bottle with one hand, and grabbed Xiao Jiang's quilt with the other. Everyone in the dormitory went up to try to persuade them to fight, and Bu He violently shook off the persuaders. Messy arms, he said, I don't hit him, I Eji asked me not to hit my classmates, I just want to ask him, why scold me?I didn't pee on his bed, why scold me?Everyone in the dormitory tried their best to explain the truth to Bu He, but Bu He didn't seem to hear the messy language composed of various local accents. He just stared at Xiao Jiang with gloomy eyes and repeated a sentence without leaking it to your bed , why did you say that it leaked on your bed?From the next day, Buhe made a compromise with others, and he began to get rid of the habit of using bottles to relieve his hands at night.On the second night, he climbed down from the upper bunk to go to the bathroom, still naked, and when he walked to the corner of the corridor, he ran into a few girls who were visiting the boys’ dormitory. The girls all screamed and ran around like frightened cats. But Buhe was taken aback by the girls' reactions. He hurried back to the dormitory and put on his trousers, muttering as he put them on, a bunch of crazy girls, it's dark and they're sleeping, why are they still running into the men?Of course, this is the first story of Buhe’s college career. Later, Buhe became the same as ordinary college students, just like a transplanted tree, growing in the same way in the sunshine and soil of a foreign land a natural thing.can you ride a horseYan Li asked Buhe.

Of course it would, but unfortunately there are no horses here.Buhe said, otherwise I can show you how to ride a horse. I was able to ride a horse when I was seven years old. I like horses, and I like grasslands even more.Yan Li said again. Everyone says that to me.Bu He was very shy when he was alone with the girl, he observed Yan Li's expression with a dubious look.But I can't tell whether I like Beijing, Buhe shook his head and said, everyone asks me that, but I really can't tell.Yan Li is a lively and eye-catching girl. She is a typical beautiful and pure girl praised in some poems. No matter where she goes, she will bring crisp laughter and moving singing.It is said that Yan Li and Buhe became close after the conversation about the horse. The girls talked behind their backs that it was the result of Yan Li's initiative, and they revealed a news that Yan Li was going to spend the summer vacation with Buhe on the Xilin Gol Grassland. Yan Li announced it herself in the dormitory.

There is usually a symbol of men and women who are in love in the university. The lunch boxes and spoons they store in the cafeteria are locked in the same box. together.Yan Li also changed her fixed position in the lecture theater to next to Bu He, so that they became a real couple.I noticed Bu He's fresh and sweet mood in that spring, and his long and narrow eyes were full of happiness from morning to night.Buhe sang loudly in the toilet, and covered the walls of the dormitory with poems written in both Mongolian and Chinese. The subtitle of each poem was addressed to Y·L, and everyone knew that Y·L was Yan Li, Some people praised Buhe's poems for their sincerity, enthusiasm and unrestrained, which resembled the great Russian poet Pushkin.Buhe said that he copied Pushkin's poems, and his poems are better than mine, do you know?Pushkin spoke my mind.Someone saw Bu He and Yan Li hiding in the woods outside the school and making friends, and found some too many details that should not be disclosed.The incident was quickly reported to the counselor, who called Bu He and Yan Li to an empty classroom to talk.The conversation was also overheard.It is said that Yan Li burst into tears under all kinds of threats from the counselor, but Bu He's attitude was like a lump of elm. There is nothing wrong with love.Buhe doesn't care about the public opinion from around. He still can't do without Yan Li like a driver can't do without a horse. Sometimes he doesn't want to leave in Yan Li's dormitory, singing Mongolian folk songs on the grassland to Yan Li , although her voice is hoarse, she sings very emotionally. The other girls in the dormitory are either out of jealousy or out of boredom. The language they use towards Bu He gradually becomes very simple and rude.

Buhe, are you here again?Buhe, why don't you leave? When the summer vacation was approaching, the love between Bu He and Yan Li suddenly had a problem.According to good amateur observers, the problem lies with Yan Li.Yan Li and Bu He had a big quarrel about whom to wash the lunch box for one day. Yan Li usually does the dishes, but that day Yan Li insisted that Bu He do the washing, but Bu He resolutely refused to do it. He emphasized that on the grassland Women wash men's jobs, Yan Li screamed in front of everyone, who is your woman?After speaking, he pushed Buhe's bowl in front of him.After Yan Li washed her own dishes, she transferred them to another box.This was the first step for the two to separate. When Yan Li sat in the last empty seat in class the next day, she never looked at Bu He again.

At first, Bu He didn't take Yan Li's behavior seriously. He told others that women will play petty temper, and men must not bow their heads at this time, you know?Men in the Xilin Gol Grassland never bow to women.Buhe said that she loves me and she will come back to me. She said that she will give birth to a yurt full of children for me in the future.But the news from the girls' dormitory is puzzling. The girls say that the dishwashing dispute between Yan Li and Buhe is just a scam designed by Yan Li. In fact, Yan Li doesn't like Buhe anymore. Yan Li has actually accepted it. The courtship of a boy in the foreign language department, and many girls have confirmed that Yan Li has begun to regret her relationship with Bu He. Yan Li said many bad things about Bu He to her girlfriend, saying that Bu He is too dirty, that Bu He lacks education, Said that Buhe is stupid and stupid, in short, he is not the image of a man in her mind.The girlfriend said, in this case, why did you chase Buhe in the first place?Yan Li categorically denied this, and she asked back, who said I chased Buhe first?It's not easy for others to say anything. It's hard to explain this kind of thing.

Others have seen through the tragic trend of Bu He's first love, but Bu He himself is not as clear-headed as a bystander.He stubbornly thought that Yan Li was angry with him. When he was listening to lectures in the lecture hall, Bu He often turned his head and peeped at Yan Li behind him with a blank and sad look. Take out the small mirror, but not to look at the cloth, but to look at the freckles that constitute the only defect on her beautiful face, and see whether the annoying freckles have been covered by powder cream.Yan Li is a beautiful girl who is even more beautiful. But Buhe is a boy who doesn't understand love and wants to pursue love.Buhe was washing clothes in the water room one day, and saw that the broken soap Yan Li had used last time was still on the water pipe, and suddenly Buhe burst into tears, and he put a basin of dirty clothes in the swimming pool, while Wiping tears while running to the girls' dormitory.Bu He was wearing a vest and trousers, and the guard guarding the girls' dormitory would not let him enter the building. Bu He pushed the old woman away. He said, I'm going to be suffocated, my heart is going to be suffocated.Don't stop me, I must find her.

At the top of the stairs, Buhe saw Yan Li and the boy from the foreign language department going downstairs together. Buhe stood on the stairs and blocked their way with his arms outstretched. Yan Li wanted to go around, but Buhe kept moving and blocked them. Yan Li, Yan Li cried out angrily, Bu He, what are you doing?are you crazy?Buhe pointed to the boy from the foreign language department and asked, who are you?That boy just wanted to have a fit, Yan Li sneered and said, he is my cousin, do you care who he is? Bu He stood on the stairs, motionless, but his outstretched arms slowly drooped like a wounded bird's wings.Bu He stared blankly at Yan Li's white skirt, he found that there were some wrinkles on the skirt, Bu He stretched out his hand to smooth it out, but Yan Li swiftly knocked his hand back, with a snap, very quickly It was crisp and loud, and then Yan Li said in an extremely disgusted tone, don't touch me, I broke up with you a long time ago.Bu He's mood was so bad that Bu He resumed his bad habit of not brushing his teeth, not washing his face, and relieving his hands in a bottle.Because the people in the dormitory sympathized with Bu He's situation, they gritted their teeth and endured the unpleasant beeping sound and the unpleasant smell. The long roar scared others out of their sleep for no reason.

You goddamn.Xiao Jiang, a native of Zhejiang, knocked on the board of the upper bunk with a book. He said, "You are too shameful, don't think that you are a minority and you can do anything wrong."I'm suffocated, I call mine, you leave me alone. How can you tell others to sleep by shouting like a ghost?Xiao Jiang from Zhejiang said.Leave me alone.Bu He turned over restlessly on the upper bunk, and after a moment of silence, he suddenly said, I will never bow to her. Bu He's various behaviors after breaking up in love were reflected by the class cadres.One day the counselor brought Yan Li to Buhe.Yan Li seemed to have just been reprimanded, her eyes were obviously red from crying.She looked aggrieved when she sat in front of Buhe and said those words.I shouldn't ignore you, you are a minority, we should do a good job in national unity.Yan Li said.This sentence was obviously asked by the counselor Yan Li to say it.

Let the past be the past, we will still be good classmates in the future.Yan Li said again.Someone saw Bu He's performance through the transom of the dormitory. Bu He jumped down from the upper bunk and yelled at Yan Li and the counselor, shit, what you are talking about is all shit.Yan Li was caught off guard by Bu He's rude answer, her face paled from the humiliation.Yan Li turned around and ran away from the door, but Bu He quickly chased after him. Bu He still adopted the previous method and stood on the stairs with open arms to block Yan Li's way.Bu He looked directly into Yan Li's eyes, his lips kept moving, but he couldn't say anything.I'm going to swim.Yan Li turned her head sullenly and said, you can say what you want to say quickly.You said you would go back to Xilin Gol Grassland with me, and you said you would go back to Xilin Gol Grassland with me after the holiday.Buhe finally said.

Just saying it casually, you don't have to take it seriously. It's not just talking casually, you have to go after you say it.Buhe's expression became very serious, and he said, I have written to Eji, you can lie to me, but you can't lie to me, Eji, you can't lie to people casually on the grassland.It's funny, Yan Li was silent for a while and suddenly laughed, she looked at Buhe, and said in a gentle tone, well, let me think about it, maybe I will go to the prairie with you. It happened on the first day of the third summer vacation of our college career. People were busy packing their luggage for home in the dormitory building. I saw Buhe suddenly come out from nowhere and quickly ran across the corridor. Buhe’s feet Along the way, many people's luggage and packages were strewn across the corridor.Buhe, what are you doing?Someone shouted from behind, but Bu and the thin figure disappeared in the blink of an eye. Bu He stopped a girl in the same class in front of the girl's building to ask Yan Li's whereabouts. The girl said that Yan Li had just left for the train station with her cousin.Buhe said, where is she going?The girl said that she probably went to Beidaihe Beach.Bu He yelled at the girl. He didn't believe it, and ran up to the girl's building to see that Yan Li's dormitory was locked, and a note was stuffed in the door frame. The note was left by Yan Li. Fabric and.I don't want to go to the grassland. Compared with the sea, I like the sea more.Afterwards, Buhe ran holding the note until he reached the bus stop outside the school.Buhe huddled with a group of classmates who were going to the train station. Some people said, are you going home with Buhe?Buhe didn't speak.Someone asked again, why did Bu and you go home without luggage?Bu He still didn't speak, he looked down at the note in his hand, with a little crystal tear in his eyes.So the people in the same car stared at Bu He curiously and said, Why are you crying, Bu He?Bu He shook his head and looked at the city and streets outside the window. His only answer was stuck in his throat, which sounded vague and meaningless.I will never bow my head, Buhe said. Later, a sensational event occurred in the waiting room of the train station. Bu He snatched a fruit knife from a woman who was peeling an apple. He stabbed Yan Li’s cousin twice with the fruit knife. Knife, three knives, a total of three knives.When Buhe was taken away by the police from the noisy waiting room, he kept turning his head to look at the stunned Yan Li. His shouting almost burst people's eardrums. Going to the Xilin Gol Grassland, Buhe shouted as he walked. The grassland is better, you will know when you go there, there is no place better than the grassland!After returning to school in the fall, I never saw Buhe again.Although the boy from the foreign language department who was stabbed three times by Bu He did not die, Bu He was still expelled from the school.Even Yan Li, a beautiful girl, never saw Bu He again. Buhe never went back to school, and his quilt and those yellow-green clothes were later taken away by an older Mongolian man. When someone asked about Buhe's recent situation, the Mongolian man smiled and said in blunt Chinese that Buhe is an old man. Good young man, he is the teacher of Mabei Primary School, he teaches children to read and write. The male dormitory in the university is usually messy and unclean. Once it coincided with the Patriotic Hygiene Month, the counselor came to urge the lazy boys to clean the dormitory.We found two glass bottles under the bunk bed where Buhe had slept before. The boys suddenly thought of Buhe who had been expelled and the purpose of the glass bottles, but they couldn't laugh when they wanted to.I threw two glass bottles out of the window, and vaguely smelled the smell of cattle, sheep and green grass from the Xilin Gol grassland.