Chapter 34 14

Tsui Hark finished eating noodles in a small restaurant, paid the money and was waiting for change when he suddenly saw a woman from the window. Although he hadn't seen her for a long time, he still recognized her as Zhang Meng.The waiter came over and said to him, "I'm looking for your money." He wanted to take the money, but he was afraid that Zhang Meng would go away, so he waved his hand and said, "Forget it!" Hastily chased outside. He ran on the sidewalk and shouted: "Zhang Meng! Zhang Meng!" Zhang Meng stopped: "Tsu Hark?" Tsui Hark walked up to Zhang Meng and said out of breath, "Okay, you can still call me by my name. Where are you going?"

Zhang Meng said, "Go home." Tsui Hark said generously, "I'll walk with you for a while." Zhang Meng didn't seem very happy: "This, won't it delay your business?" Tsui Hark acted as if he didn't hear it: "I'm fine. I just ate a bowl of noodles in the small restaurant in front. It happened that you passed by the window, and I recognized you at a glance." Zhang Meng said somewhat reluctantly: "Then... alright. But I can walk fast. I just got off work and went home for dinner. After dinner, I have to go to night university."

"Yo!" Tsui Hark stood in awe, "Admitted to Yeda University? Good job." Zhang Meng sighed lightly: "The age is over, why not go to some night university." She looked at her watch and raised her head, "Let's stop talking standing there, let's go." She was indeed walking very fast, and Tsui Hark really couldn't keep up with her: "It seems that your time is very precious." Zhang Meng said as he walked, "It's not precious, it's just urgent." "Back then, since you left the company, I haven't seen you again." After Xu Hark finished speaking, seeing that Zhang Meng didn't respond, he continued, "You haven't changed at all..."

Zhang Meng said: "How is this possible? I was only eighteen years old, and now I am over thirty." Tsui Hark said flatteringly, "I mean, you're not like our other female comrades-in-arms. They don't even have any vitality..." Zhang Meng turned back: "Do I have any more?" Tsui Hark said: "You still have, of course you still have, quite a lot." "Thank you!" Zhang Meng seemed to appreciate it. "Where do you work?" Tsui Hark asked. "Evening News." Tsui Hark was even more respectful: "Huh? You still have to have a good father!"

"It has nothing to do with my dad directly. They openly recruited. I applied and got accepted." Tsui Hark suddenly said sourly: "Many officials died during the Cultural Revolution. The country is short of cadres now. Has your father been promoted again?" Zhang Meng said coldly: "My father also died during the Cultural Revolution." Tsui Hark gasped: "I'm sorry...I don't know...really..." Zhang Meng still refused people thousands of miles: "It's nothing, everyone will die. Which unit are you in?" "I... don't have a formal job yet... do a small business of making clothes... Anyway, I'm serving the people, right?"

"Yes." Zhang Meng obviously didn't want to talk about anything anymore. Tsui Hark seemed a little entangled: "You don't want to ask me any other questions?" "What else do I ask you?" "For example, the recent situation of Wu Zhenqing, Wang Xiaosong, Han Debao..." Zhang Meng said simply: "I don't want to." Tsui Hark got angry, and he stopped; however, Zhang Meng didn't seem to notice that he stopped at all, and continued to walk forward in a hurry. Tsui Hark chased after her and walked to a new building with her. Zhang Meng stopped and said, "I'm home."

"You... live here?" Tsui Hark's tone was a bit puzzled, which clearly meant: How come you are so lucky to live here! Zhang Meng looked up and said, "Live here." Looking at Tsui Hark, she said, "Do you want to say that you still need to have a good father?" "No." "If you want to tell me, just say it. It's right at this time. The house was given to me in the name of my father's implementation of the policy—even though he is dead." Seeing that Tsui Hark was at a loss for words, Zhang Meng stretched out a hand to Tsui Hark: "If you have nothing to say, it's time for me to say goodbye to you."

Tsui Hark didn't shake her hand: "Zhang Meng, I... want to go to your home to talk with you..." "This……" Tsui Hark hastily added: "I'll just take a few minutes of your time...is that okay?" Zhang Meng had no choice but to say: "It's okay, but I must not delay my going to Yeda." Tsui Hark quickly agreed: "Of course." When he reached the stairs, Tsui Hark called out: "Zhang Meng..." Zhang Meng turned to look at him, Tsui Hark asked, "Are you... married?" Zhang Meng asked back: "What you want to talk to me has something to do with this?"

Tsui Hark immediately apologized with a smile: "It's nothing to do! But I'm afraid you are already married, I don't know your lover, he doesn't welcome him, it seems that I'm presumptuous..." Zhang Meng also smiled: "My wife and I don't know each other, so I don't know where he is and what he does!" Tsui Hark said, "That's good..." Zhang Meng stopped: "That's good, how about it?" Tsui Hark immediately explained: "I mean... In this way, I won't feel any inconvenience..." Arriving at the door of Zhang Meng's house, Zhang Meng took out the key, hesitated and did not open the door immediately, and asked, "What do you want to talk to me about?"

Tsui Hark said: "Isn't it okay to say it after entering the house? Look at you, can I still have ill intentions towards you? If I were like this, wouldn't I just..." Zhang Meng smiled: "I don't think so, I'm just a little curious. Your appearance makes me think that you may have encountered a bad thing, and now I hardly have any ability to help others." She opened the door and let Tsui Hark in. This is a two-bedroom house. The concrete floor has not been oiled. In the living room, there are only old sofas, old bookshelves, old tables, and old wooden coffee tables, all of which are old furniture from Zhang Meng’s family.There was nothing on the table except a lamp.There are only a few books on mathematics, physics and chemistry on the bookshelf.

"Sit casually..." Zhang Meng turned around and entered the kitchen. The door of the bedroom was ajar, and only a single bed could be seen, with a suitcase beside the bed, Zhang Meng took it to the countryside.Tsui Hark was obviously no stranger to it, he looked at it seriously and earnestly. Zhang Meng came in with a steamed bun, a pair of chopsticks and a bowl of vegetables. She sat on the sofa opposite Tsui Hark and said while eating, "Let's talk..." Tsui Hark cut to the chase: "You won't forget who Wu Zhenqing is, will you?" Zhang Meng ate silently without any reaction. "He has entered the Public Security Bureau." Tsui Hark said. Zhang Meng was taken aback, "He... what did he do illegally?" Tsui Hark made sense: "He fights for others." After pondering for a while, Zhang Meng said, "You just want to tell me this?" Tsui Hark said quietly: "Some of our comrades-in-arms from the Corps back then wanted to join forces to bail him out..." Without waiting for him to finish, Zhang Meng said, "Please go to the kitchen and bring the thermos for me..." Tsui Hark stood up, brought a thermos bottle from the kitchen, and poured the water into the bowl Zhang Meng held up. Tsui Hark said, "He entered the Public Security Bureau for me..." Zhang Meng suddenly asked: "He...couldn't be related to the incident at the train station?" Tsui Hark said: "It's related to the incident at the train station. I ran into you by chance today, and I hope you can sign this piece of paper. Those who signed are all people from Lower Liba, and there is a shortage of people like you... ..." As he spoke, he took out two pages of paper from his pocket and showed them to Zhang Meng. Zhang Meng took the paper and read it again, then returned it to Tsui Hark: "I can't sign it." "why?" Zhang Meng said, "I wrote the article in the evening paper." Tsui Hark was shocked: "You... so you wrote it! Do you know that without your article, he might have released it! Your article is like adding fuel to the fire, the heads of the Public Security Bureau read it Now, we must strictly punish their comrades in the Corps..." Zhang Meng was in a hurry: "But how could I have thought that it was the educated youths who returned to the city from several corps? I didn't even know that he was among them..." Tsui Hark said: "Anyway, you should sign it!" Zhang Meng didn't take the paper that Tsui Hark handed over, and said softly: "I can't sign it. I wrote the article, and I will participate in signing to protect him. What is going on with me? Will I be a reporter from now on? Do you still want people to pay attention to what I report?" Tsui Hark stared at her, slowly folded the two pieces of paper, stood up and walked towards the door, Zhang Meng lowered her head and ate silently. Tsui Hark walked to the door and called out, "Zhang Meng..." Zhang Meng looked up at him.Tsui Hark gritted his teeth, and said a few words in and out of his mouth: "I have long understood that the sons and daughters of you high officials and minor officials are just fucking different from the sons and daughters of ordinary people!"