Chapter 12 11

They found an empty place by the river and sat down.Her feet were particularly swollen in the evening, and her toes couldn't hold the slippers. When she stretched her legs when she sat down, one of the slippers fell off, and she slipped down the river slope into the river.He hurried a few steps, grabbed the slippers, walked back to her, and wanted to put them on for her.She kept saying, "No, no, what are you doing sitting here with your shoes on?" She shrank her feet under her skirt. He looked at her suspiciously and asked, "Why don't you let me touch your feet?"

She covered her feet with her skirt and talked to him.He squatted in front of her, lifted his skirt unexpectedly, and grabbed her ankle.She struggled twice, but couldn't break free.He gently pressed her instep with his hand, and there was a small dimple when he pressed it.Then he saw the holes in the soles of her feet. He held her feet and called in a low voice: "Jingqiu, Jingqiu, don't you---do this job, you---let me---help you Come on, if you do this again--I'm afraid I--really going--crazy--" "It doesn't matter, I have rubber shoes now, and nothing will happen."

He put the slippers on her feet, pulled her up, and said, "Come on, let's go to the hospital." She refused to go: "What are you going to the hospital for? No one else is off work yet?" "You can always go to the emergency room, right? Your feet are so swollen, you must have been poisoned, or your legs will rot—" "No, it's not just me, several people are like this----" He pulled her stubbornly: "I don't care if others are like this, I just care about you. You can follow me to the hospital." "When I arrived at the hospital, I had to ask the name of the unit, and I didn't bring the 'triple-sheet' for medical treatment, so I didn't go--"

He let her go suddenly and took out the dagger from the bag. She was startled and didn't know what he was going to do.Before she could figure it out, he had already cut a knife on the back of his left hand, and blood flowed out all at once.Jingqiu jumped up in fright, hurriedly took out a handkerchief to help him bandage, and stammered, "Are you -- are you -- crazy?" She tied the handkerchief tightly, but the blood was still oozing out.She was so frightened that her hands and feet went limp, and she shouted, "Let's go to the hospital! You're still bleeding—"

He didn't say a word until he heard her say he was going to the hospital, "Ken went to the hospital? Let's go." She said: "Let me take you by bike, your hands are not convenient." "You can't ride a bicycle, your feet are inconvenient, you sit on the front bridle, and I will ride." He asked her to sit on the bicycle crossbar to support the front of the bicycle, and he held the handlebar with one hand, and led her to come soon. to a hospital. He mentioned someone's name to the doctor on duty, and one doctor came to see Jing Qiu's feet, and another doctor in a white coat took the third child to a consulting room.Jingqiu saw the doctor's white coat with a red collar, and thought that this might be a military hospital, as she had never been here before.

The doctor kept calling her Xiao Liu, probably because the third child helped make up a pseudonym when she saw that she didn't want others to ask her name and unit.The doctor checked her feet, prescribed some topical medicines and alcohol cotton pads, and said, "Xiao Sun said that you are in a hurry to go home, so we won't deal with it for you here. Wash your feet, pick out the cinders in the small holes, and apply those ointments, and don’t let your feet get wet during this time, let alone let the cinders get into the small holes on your feet.” The doctor saw that she was wearing slippers and the soles of her feet were dirty, so she wrote another note, telling her to go to the opposite side and ask the nurse there to wash her feet and wrap them first, so as not to be inconvenient when walking home.The nurse wrapped Jingqiu's feet and tied her slippers to the soles of her feet.After wrapping up, the nurse told her to sit on the long chair in the corridor and wait for Xiaosun.

After waiting for a while, the third child also came out, with his left hand hanging in front of his chest with a bandage, Jingqiu asked worriedly, "Is it serious?" "No serious, how are you?" "I'm fine. The doctor prescribed some medicine--" He took the doctor's prescription and told her to sit there and wait. After a while, he came back and patted the hanging bag: "The medicine is taken, and everything is ready. Let's go back quickly so that we can wash our feet and apply the medicine." As soon as he got out of the hospital, the third child took off the bandage, stuffed it into the bag, and said, "With my arm hanging, people who don't know will think I'm playing <<Shajiabang>>."

Jing Qiu said, "Is the injury on your hand okay? What did the doctor say?" "The doctor said that my blood clotting mechanism is not good, so I sewed two needles. How can I have a bad blood clotting mechanism? I am in good health, and I have been tested by the Air Force before. My father is afraid that a war will kill me. , it didn’t work out.” When Jingqiu heard about the word "Air Force", she was extremely envious, and asked him, "Then you're so regretful?" "What are you sorry about?" He glanced at her, "I can still know you after being in the Air Force?"

The third child refused to sit and play by the river that day, so he must send Jingqiu back to wash her feet and apply medicine as soon as possible.Jingqiu couldn't hold him back, so she had to let him take her in a car and drive home.When he got to the ferry, he refused to break up there, saying that it's only one past eight o'clock, and your mother hasn't come back yet, let me take you to the school gate by car, how can you walk with your feet so swollen? He took off the short-sleeved shirt and asked her to cover her head, saying that no one would recognize you that way. After crossing the river, she really put his shirt on her head, covering her face, leaving only a pair of eyes outside.He hugged her onto the crossbar in front of the car, still asked her to hold the front of the car with both hands, and he only gently carried her with one hand.At the school gate, he said, "Let me push you in without getting your feet dirty--

Jingqiu took off the shirt that was draped over her head, looked towards the school gate, and found that there was no one there. She was thinking whether to satisfy his request and let him push in. When she turned her head, she saw her mother coming from the direction of the ferry. Walking towards them, maybe they passed her mother on the road just now and didn't know it.Jingqiu regretted it a lot. If she had known this, she would have stayed outside for a while, so she wouldn't have run into her mother. She whispered: "Oops, my mother is here, you --- hurry up and run." He didn't move, and she remembered that she was still sitting in his car, and jumped out of the car so that he could escape.He stopped her and whispered, "It's too late to run now."

Jingqiu's mother walked up to her and asked, "Where did you----go?" Jingqiu said: "I--we went to the hospital to see the foot, this is--this is the one--the exploration team I said--" The third child introduced himself and said, "My name is Sun Jianxin. You just came back?" Mom said: "Jingqiu, you go back first, I'll have a few words with---Xiao Sun---" The third child hurriedly said: "Then let me push her back first, her feet are swollen and rotten, and it is difficult to walk——" Jingqiu wanted to jump off the ground and walk by herself, but the third child refused. Seeing the bandages on Jingqiu's feet, mother said to Jingqiu, "Let him push you in so that I can have a few words with him. I'll go in first, so don't stand here all the time, and let people see the effect." Not good." After finishing her mother's words, she went to the school first. 35 Jingqiu said to the third child: "You -- let me come down, I will walk back by myself, you run quickly, my mother will send you to the defense." "Don't be afraid, I'll push you in. Mom told me to go in and talk." Jingqiu was in a hurry: "Why are you so stupid? She told me not to associate with you long ago, saying that you are a bad person who lied to little girls. Now that she has caught us personally, why hasn't she handed you over to the joint defense? You Let me down, you run." He pushed her to the school: "You let me go, mother won't scold you? Let me go, as Yamin said, we didn't do anything, who can do anything to us?" Jingqiu had no choice but to ask the third child to push her to the school. When they reached the door, the third child set up the car stand and helped her out of the car. She walked into the house first, and he locked the car and followed. Mother asked Jingqiu to close the door, and asked the third child to go into the back room and let him sit on a chair.The room was hot and stuffy, and the third child had already put on and buttoned up his shirt at some point, and was covered in sweat.His mother handed him the fan, but he didn't dare to fan it too hard. He just shook it gently on his chest like a fan, and he couldn't stop sweating profusely. The younger sister ran out obediently, and came back with a basin of cold water. Seeing that the third child's left hand was wrapped in gauze, she twisted a towel for him to wash his face.The third child didn't dare to pick it up, and looked at his mother as if waiting for an imperial edict. Mom said: "It's too hot, you wash your face, maybe it will be cooler." The third child was so grateful that he washed his face according to the order, poured water on it with one hand, took the towel handed by his sister and wiped it, and it seemed to be a little cooler.He sat back in the appointed chair, looked at his mother devoutly, and waited for her to start the trial. Jing Qiu was so nervous that she just stood there and watched the other three perform.She had only one thought, she had never slept with the third child, she had never slept with the third child, so she must have passed the medical examination.She was going to be like Yamin, and when she saw that the momentum was wrong, she asked her mother to take her to the hospital for a physical examination, so that the third child could be washed and rescued. She didn't know if her mother called the defense department in the reception room just now, probably not, because they followed her into the school gate and didn't see her calling there.But she still opened her ears to listen outside the door, and if there was any noise, she would immediately ask the third child to ride away on a bicycle. Seeing Jingqiu standing there, the third child quickly gave up his chair: "Sit down, your feet hurt, it's not good to stand up. It doesn't matter if I stand up." Mom said: "Jingqiu, you go to your room and let me talk to Xiaosun." Jingqiu returned to the half room where she lived. She didn't know what her mother meant by sending her away. The two rooms were actually one room, with a total area of ​​just over fourteen square meters. Sound insulation, if there is something she can't hear, she should be driven outside the house.Sitting on the side of her bed near the door, she could see the third child, but she couldn't see the mother sitting opposite the third child. The younger sister was kicked out too, making faces at Jingqiu, but Jingqiu ignored her and listened to the trial next door.The younger sister stood by the wall next to the door, looking into the room as if watching a big drama. Jingqiu heard her mother say: "Little Sun, I can see that you are a very meticulous person, and you are also very patient with Jingqiu. You take her to see a doctor today, and I- -Thank you very much, I heard that you have given her a lot of help, I --- thank you very much." Jingqiu heard the third child whisper: "It should be, it should be." She felt that he seemed a little servile. Mom said again: "It can be said that you and I have the same goal and the same mood when it comes to Jingqiu. At least I think so, because I --- from today's things, you --- -I'm still very——sincere to Jingqiu." Jingqiu saw that the third child glanced at her, as if to see if she heard this sentence, so she smiled at him.Mom's opening remarks don't seem to be developing in the direction of the defense, I'm afraid that Mom is feinting, and as soon as the opening remarks are over, there will be a "but". She heard the youngest confession and said: "I am sincere to Jingqiu, please believe this---" My mother said: "Everyone calls me Teacher Zhang, so you should call me Teacher Zhang too." The third child quickly corrected: "Mr. Zhang believes this." The younger sister saw the frightened and submissive look of the third child, she wanted to laugh but didn't dare to laugh, her face was blushing, and she finally couldn't help but ran out the door, not knowing where she went to laugh. Jingqiu didn't dare to laugh, but listened nervously to her mother's next words.Mom said, "I believe in that, and that's why I feel the need to talk to you, because otherwise -----, we wouldn't have anything to talk about." The third child nodded repeatedly and said, "That is, that is." It seemed that he was very grateful to his mother for treating him as a comrade in the same trench. My mother said: "We care about Jingqiu and love Jingqiu. We must take a long-term perspective and not just focus on the short-term. People have no long-term considerations, and there must be near-term worries. Jingqiu's top job, many people are jealous, poking trouble behind the scenes .Now that she has not done a good job in her appointment, if these people see the two of you together, it will be very detrimental to Jingqiu's appointment----" The third child nodded again and again: "That is, that is." After being silent for a while, the third child probably sensed that his mother was waiting for him to take the initiative to express his opinion, so he cleared his throat and said, "Mr. Zhang, don't worry, I won't come to her again when I go back this time, and wait until she takes over." Come find her when you're done." Jingqiu saw that the youngest was smug, looking at his mother, probably waiting for his mother to praise him.But she heard her mother say: "The top job is done well, and the job is not over yet. Before becoming a regular, the school can abandon Jingqiu at any time---" The third child was silent for a while, and said boldly: "Then I will come to her after she becomes a full-time employee. The probationary period is one year, right? Then I will come to her after one year----" Then he did the math, The correction said, "about a year and a month, because she hasn't taken up her job yet--" I don't know whether my mother was moved by his active cooperation or by his precise calculation. She said very gently: "You know this sentence, right? 'If the relationship between two people lasts for a long time, how can they be in the same day and night'. If you If you really have --- this kind of love for Jingqiu, you won't care if you haven't seen each other for more than a year, right?" The third child had a tragic expression on his face, and said repeatedly: "Yes, yes, you are right." Then he played on himself, not knowing who he was convincing, "It's only been more than a year, we--we still You are young, and there are still many -- one year -- more." Mother praised and said: "I can see that you are a reasonable person. You don't need to beat the drum heavily, and I don't need to say anything else. I am not the kind of feudal mother. I feel the same way about you young people. It is still very understandable, but the reality is like this, people's words are terrible, we have to be more cautious." The third child said: "I understand, I understand, you are doing this for our own good----" Probably her mother had already stood up and issued a silent eviction order. Seeing that the third child also stood up, Jingqiu begged, "I'll go get some water and help Jingqiu wash her feet. There are many small holes on the soles of her feet, and there are holes in them. Cinder, she can’t see the soles of her feet, it’s inconvenient, I’ll help her clean up the cinders, apply the medicine, and leave right away---, in the next year and a month, just--- please take care of her ----" Mom said: "It's not good for you to hang around here, let me fetch a basin of water." The younger sister turned back at some point, and when she heard this, she jumped up and said, "I'll go, I'll go." After a while, the younger sister brought back a basin of water and put it beside her bed. Like those who are in confinement, they lie on the bed and let others serve them.She wanted to get out of bed, but the three of them refused to let her get off. The third child opened the gauze on Jingqiu's feet, and the mother held Jingqiu's feet and looked at them for a while, she was about to cry, she walked to the side, and said to the third child: "Then I will trouble you, I will go out with Jing Si to enjoy the shade gone." The mother took the younger sister away, leaving only Jingqiu and the third child in the house.She didn't let him wash her feet for fear of getting the bandage on his left hand wet.She washed her feet by herself, he dried her, turned on the light cord, lowered the light bulb, asked her for a needle, and used the needle's buttocks to dig out the cinders in those small holes: "Does it hurt? I dig it out." Let me know if it gets too deep." Jingqiu remembered the scene just now, and laughed at him: "Why did you act like the traitor Fu Zhigao just now? You bowed your knees, nodded all the way, and said 'that is, that is'." He also laughed along with her: "I'm so scared, I only know how to say those few words." "Are you afraid that my mother will hand you over to the defense?" "I'm not afraid of that, I'm afraid she won't let me wait for you, and I'm afraid she will scold you." He joked, "Fortunately, I was not born in Fu Zhigao's time, otherwise I must be a traitor. If the enemy Threatening me by taking you as a hostage, I’m sure I’ll betray you immediately. Didn’t Fu Zhigao betray you because he was afraid of being separated from his wife? In fact, it’s very pitiful—” Jingqiu asked: "Do you---do you hate my mother?" He said in surprise, "Why do I hate your mother?" Then he boasted, "She said it all, I and her goals are the same. Don't you think, she actually likes me very much, she promised me for a year- ---Come to see you one month later--I also said that you and I are 'if the relationship lasts forever'." "You're—quite revolutionary optimism—" "Chairman Mao said, 'When our comrades are in trouble, we must see our achievements, we must see the light, and we must increase our courage'." He concentrated on digging out those small holes, and she just looked at him without blinking, thinking that it would be a year and a month before she saw him, she felt very depressed, and she didn't know how to survive this year.She asked, "Are you really going to wait until a year and a month to come—see me?" He nodded: "I promised your mother ---, if what I say doesn't count, she won't believe me in the future." Seeing that she was silent, he stopped what he was doing and glanced at her, only to see that she was looking at him eagerly.He looked at her for a while and guessed, "You——want me to come and see you? You don't want to wait so long?" She nodded. "Then I won't wait that long. I'll visit you secretly, okay? Anyway, I'm a traitor, and my determination to the party is no match for a word from you." She was happy and said, "A traitor is a traitor, as long as we don't get discovered." He cleaned out those holes, applied medicine to her feet, took the water out of the washbasin and poured it out, walked back and sat by her bed, and said, "Give me a picture of you, I ---When I miss you, take it out and have a look." She felt that her photos were not well taken, and she seldom took pictures. After searching for a while, she finally found a photo when she was six years old.In the photo, she has a small cut, a row of neat bangs on her forehead, and she is wearing a water-green dress.The photo was originally in black and white, but her father dyed it into color by himself. Some places were not painted well, and the green color was painted on the outside of the skirt.She gave him that photo, promising to give him another one after taking a photo. He once gave her two portraits of him, which were given to her in a book or letter.Now he took out another photo from his bag, it was a landscape photo, he was wearing a white shirt, a pair of very light-colored trousers, holding something like a scroll in his hand, standing under a tree, she recognized it as That hawthorn tree.In the photo, he looks very young, very handsome, with a slight smile.She loves that photo, and now that her mom knows about them, she's not afraid to keep it at home. He asked, "Do you like this one?" Seeing her nodding, he expressed his merit and said, "I specially ran to that tree to take pictures." Then he promised, "When you take up the post and become a regular, I will take you there Looking at the hawthorn flowers, we took pictures under that tree. I have a camera, and I can also develop my own pictures. I will take many pictures for you, in various poses and angles. The dormitory is full of--" He took out some money, put it on the table next to her bed, and said, "I'll leave this money here. If you don't want me to cut off my hand again, you can accept it. Don't go to work under Wan Tuozi again." , if there is a job in the corrugated factory, you can do it. If you don’t listen to me and go back to Wan Tuozi to work, or do those dangerous jobs, I will be angry when I find out, and I won’t ignore you, but I Will cut my hand with a knife. Do you believe it or not?" She nodded and promised, "I won't go back to work with Wan Tuozi again." "That's good. Now that your mother knows about us, she basically agrees. It's just a matter of not seeing each other temporarily. So if you tell her that I left the money, she will definitely not scold you." He looked at his watch and said, "It's getting late, I have to go, so as not to drive your mother and sister out and not be able to come back." He squatted down beside her bed, hugged her who was sitting on the bed, and confessed: "You I remember to apply the medicine every day. If the medicine is not cured after applying the medicine, I remember to go to the hospital to see a doctor. " The two lingered for a while, then he stood up resolutely and said, "I'm leaving, you just sit there, don't get up, your feet just got medicine, don't get dirty." She just sat there blankly, listening to him go out, lock the car, push the car, get in the car, and then everything returned to silence. 36 As soon as the third child left for a while, his mother and younger sister came home.Mom said they were outside to enjoy the shade, and when they saw Xiao Sun leave, they came back.Mom looked at the clock, it was almost eleven o'clock, she said worriedly: "Xiao Sun didn't say where he lives today?" Jing Qiu said disconsolately: "Every time he has no place to live, he just sits in a pavilion by the river for one night ---, the crossing must have been sealed off today, so he might just sit on the riverside for one night ---" She I felt a lump in my throat and didn't want to say anything more. Mom sat down beside her bed and said, "I---know you---can't bear him, and he doesn't look---not a bad person, but what can I do? You're so young and you're twenty People of many years talk about friends and people talk about it. You are so early—and the work has not been done yet—. I ask you not to meet for a while, and you can test him. If he really has This heart will not run away just because we haven't seen each other for a year, if it's someone who can't stand the test--" Jingqiu said: "Mom, you don't need to explain, I know you are doing it for my own good, you should go to bed early, you have to go to work tomorrow." Mom said: "Are you still going to work tomorrow? Your feet are so rotten and you don't tell me..." "Let me tell you, what's the use of being anxious again? Don't worry, I promised him that I won't go to work tomorrow." My sister said, "If you don't go to work tomorrow, then your rubber shoes will be useless?" Jingqiu knew that her younger sister liked tall and tall rubber shoes, and the pair she bought for her last time was only half-height and not as high as this pair, so she immediately said, "Why are they useless? You can wear them when it rains. " Before my sister could cheer up, my mother asked, "What rubber shoes?" The younger sister rushed to say: "The little grandson bought the rubber shoes for my sister. When he delivered the shoes in the morning, he saw that my sister's feet were swollen, and he cried—" Mom sighed: "Just like your father, he is also a person who cries easily---. Men shed tears, some because they are sympathetic, and some because they are weak and incompetent. Xiao Sun is probably a very sympathetic person--- -.Who else is there in his family?" Jingqiu said: "I don't know too well, I only know that there is a younger brother and father, and his mother --- committed suicide ---" My mother asked about the situation of the third mother. She was sympathetic and worried at the same time: "I heard that such things as suicide can be hereditary, and children born to unhappy people are also prone to unhappy. I don't know what the character of this little grandson is." Like? Is there any performance that you are easy to be fooled about in normal times?" "I did not think." "I think he's a bit pedantic. You see, he's a bit pedantic when he calculates the time for you to become a full-time employee." Mom smiled. So you have to figure it out clearly. Maybe you are a person who keeps what you say, so you have to figure it out first, and then you can swear if you can do it. As long as it’s not too roundabout, it’s still very cute. If you’re afraid that you won’t be able to get out of one thing, then It's dangerous." Jingqiu thought of the way the third child counted the time, and thought he was very cute. Mom asked some more about the third child, how old he was, whether he smoked, whether he drank alcohol, whether he scolded others, whether he fought or not, where he graduated, what hobbies he had, where his hometown was, etc.Jing Qiu asked curiously: "He was here just now, why didn't you ask him?" My mother said: "When I asked him this, he thought I was looking for a son-in-law. I can't easily give him such an impression. The purpose of my conversation with him today is to tell him not to come to you." Jingqiu remembered that the third child still said complacently that her mother had agreed to their matter, and felt a little sad for the third child. Mom asked, "What does his father do?" "I heard that his father is the commander of the military region---" Mother was silent for a while, then said: "I think he is not like a child of ordinary people. It is difficult for people from a family like his to understand people from a family like ours. What does the People's Liberation Army liberate? The workers and peasants oppressed by the capitalists, his father and your father are two irreconcilable classes. His family probably doesn’t know about you——” Jingqiu didn't think so far, but when her mother mentioned it, she also felt very serious. She said hopefully: "But his mother is a capitalist lady, and his father didn't dislike her." "To be honest, the CCP's attitude towards capitalists and landlords is very different. Under the circumstances at the time, capitalists still represented emerging and progressive productive forces, while landlords represented declining forces. The Communist Party's revolution must first The revolution is the fate of the landlord class. Anyway, don’t put too much hope in your matter. His family will not be able to pass this test. Maybe he doesn’t need to worry so much, because he waited for a year, and he- ---I lost interest in waiting." Jing Qiu refused to accept it, and argued: "He said he could wait all his life----" "Who wouldn't say this kind of thing? Who hasn't said it? It's unrealistic to speak like him so without thinking. It's unrealistic in itself. Words like 'a lifetime' can't be said easily. Who can say it so early?" Did you predict your whole life?" Seeing Jingqiu's unconvinced expression, her mother said, "You are still young and have never met anyone, so you will believe what he said. When you grow up, contact If you have more people, you will find that when every man pursues you, he always says that, that he can wait for you for a lifetime. But if you ignore him for a year, do you think he will wait? You, have already run away." Jingqiu thought, since mother knew that the boy would wait less than a year, why did she call him the third child?Definitely want to take this opportunity to test the third child.She really wanted to tell the third child her mother's intentions, so that he could stand the test, but she thought again, what's the test after telling it? Are all men really so boastful and talkative?Perhaps the third child should be tested to see how long he can wait.The problem is that "waiting" is not a graduation exam. It cannot be said that if you pass the exam, you will be issued a graduation certificate, and you can sit back and relax afterwards.Even if he waited for a year, it doesn't prove that he can wait for two years; if he waits for two years, it doesn't prove that he can wait for a lifetime.In this way, I am afraid that only by letting him wait for a lifetime can he prove that he can wait for a lifetime. She didn't know what this "waiting" meant. She told him to "wait" for her, which meant asking him to "love" her.She asked him: "Can you wait for me forever?" She meant "Can you love me forever?" It's just that she was not used to saying the word "love", so she used the word "love" which is often used by local people. The word "wait". But it seems that "waiting" and "love" are still a bit different. Using this "waiting" makes it feel like the two are not together.So "waiting" should mean "love even if we can't see each other".The third child can't see her face, will he still love her? She was thinking about her own thoughts, wondering if her mother had said anything else, she only heard her sister say: "Sister, I'm asking you, what happened to his hand? It was fine when he came in the morning." "He——told me to go to the hospital, but I refused to go, so he—cut himself—and bled a lot, so I followed him to the hospital—" Mom frowned: "He looks quite stable, how could he do such a fanatical thing? Fanaticism is an immature expression, fanatics are very dangerous, and things tend to go to extremes. When you like you, you can When you like to the extreme, when you hate you, you can also hate to the extreme, and you can do anything. Therefore, it is best to keep a respectful distance from such people. These are people who can only be touched along the hair. If Mao touches it, it will annoy him, and when he hates it so much, he can do everything he can." Jing Qiu originally thought that her mother would be moved by this matter, but she didn't know that her mother said it so dangerously.She heard from her mother that her father also had some extreme behaviors when he was young. Sometimes when his mother ignored him or didn't believe him, he would pull his hair in a hurry and pull it a lot.But Jingqiu felt that her father didn't hate anyone very much, and he didn't do anything to hurt her mother. She knew that her father and mother's love path was also very tortuous. Her father used to have a marriage arranged by his parents in his hometown in the countryside, and there were more than one marriages, because his father was "one son and two families". Be a son to grandpa's younger brother, because grandpa's younger brother has no son.In this way, both parties arranged a marriage for her father.Her father escaped from marriage and went to study outside, but when her grandfather was dying, her father was taken back and married two daughters-in-law. Later, her father met her mother, and after a lot of hardships, he separated the two daughters-in-law in the countryside and married her mother.My mother waited for him for a long time, and didn't get married until he was almost thirty. At that time, it could be said that he was almost the age of being a mother-in-law. Her father and mother have been working in different cities, and her father comes back every one or two weeks. Even if he comes back often, he and her mother still have to write letters.During the Cultural Revolution, when her mother was criticized in the No. 8 Middle School, the matter of writing the letter was criticized, saying that her parents had a bourgeois way of life. The fact that her parents often wrote letters was told by her grandma. Her grandma was her father's mother and lived with her mother and several children all the time. Her father was the only one who was out of town.Her grandma was of the old way of thinking, always thinking that her mother had seduced her father's soul away, which made her father divorce the two country wives. In her grandma's mind, only the original spouse is a reasonable and legal couple, and it is illegal to remarry after divorce.That's why her grandma hated her son and his daughter-in-law the most, and always told people that Jingqiu's parents were wasting money, and the money was spent on the railway and the post office. After her father was driven back to his hometown to control labor, he also filed for divorce, mainly because he was afraid of affecting the children.But her mother thought that her husband is now poor and lonely, and if he divorced, he might really not be able to survive, so she came to ask the opinions of a few children, saying whether the divorce will affect you or not, if you are afraid of I will divorce your father, if you are not afraid, I will not leave. Let's say that the children can't leave, anyway, this is how it is, if you are divorced, you are still his child, and others may not treat you as innocent.My mother never divorced my father, but I usually dare not communicate with each other openly, for fear that others will say that the boundaries are not clear, which will affect the future of several children. But her parents wrote letters frequently, and her father's letters were sent to an uncle and aunt in Jingqiu. That aunt worked in a health school and married a husband with a good status, so the Cultural Revolution did not suffer much impact.Mom went to that aunt every once in a while to get Dad's letter, but Mom didn't let the children get the letter, for fear that others would find out that they couldn't draw a clear line. She was thinking about it, when she heard her mother ask: "Has Xiao Sun ever had a girlfriend before?" This time, Jingqiu was dumbfounded. She knew that if she said that the third child had a fiancée before, her mother would definitely have a bad impression of the third child, so she said vaguely, "I didn't hear that there was one." My mother said: "Men hide these things as much as they can. If you don't ask, he will definitely not tell it by himself. But at his age, and he is a child of a cadre, it is the first time for him. I don't quite believe it. You see, when I asked him questions, he answered them fluently, which means that he has also had the experience of meeting his girlfriend's parents before." Mom hesitated for a moment, then asked, "Did he ask you to go to his bedroom alone?" "No, there are several people living in his dormitory." "He's usually with you--is it--the rules, right? No--everywhere--touching and pinching, right?" Jingqiu almost spit out a "touch, pinch, pinch", why did mother use such ugly words to the third child?However, she also thought about it seriously, to see if the third child could be regarded as the "rule" that her mother said. She felt that except for the time when he was too courageous on the mountain, he was still very well-behaved at other times, and there was nothing that could be called "touching". Touch and pinch" action.He hugged her and rubbed his head against her breasts, but he never put his hands on her breasts or anything else. She said with certainty: "No." My mother breathed a sigh of relief and confessed: "A girl must have a backbone. There are some things that can only be done after marriage, and resolutely don't do them before marriage. No matter how good he treats you or what he promises, you can't do it." Do it. Men are like this. When he coaxes you to do these things, he can say anything nice and he can make any wish, but when you do it, he looks down on you and thinks you are cheap. At that time , The initiative is in his hands, if he wants you, he will you, if he doesn't want you, he will dump you, if you want to find another boyfriend, it will be very difficult." Jingqiu really wanted her mother to clarify what things could only be done after marriage, but she couldn't ask, so she could only pretend to be uninterested. Mom sighed: "Hey, I always thought you were a very sensible child, but I didn't expect you to think about these issues so early. Late marriage and late love are advocated now, but you are only eighteen years old. Even if you get married at twenty-three, you still have four, Five years. He's so entangled, you two can--easily--make things happen. If things go wrong, you're ruined." My mother followed up with several examples of "faint and ruined reputation". She said that Xiao Wang, who ran a factory at the No. 8 Middle School, used to belong to the city art troupe. He was talking about a girlfriend who was also in the same troupe. The two of them got pregnant before they got married. ，结果被团里知道，男的被贬到八中校办工厂来了，女的被贬到三中校办工厂去了，现在大家都知道他们有作风问题，搞得在人前抬不起头来。 还有八中附小的赵老师，结婚七个月，就生下一个小孩，虽说没受处分，也是很被人瞧不起的。and also. . . 妈妈讲的这些个“身败名裂”的例子，都是静秋认识的人，全都因为未婚先孕或者其它生活作风问题，受了不同的处分，人们讲起这些人，都是把嘴一撇，很瞧不起。 妈妈说：“幸好我发现得早，不然---还不知道会出什么事，你以后不要跟他来往了。他这种公子哥儿，都是玩弄女孩子---感情的---高手，他现在是还没----得手，所以他拼命追，真的等他得手了，过一阵就厌倦了。就算他不厌倦，他家里也不会同意。就算他家同意了，你还这么小，而他已经---这么成熟了，我看他很难熬过这四、五年，迟早会搞出事来。” 静秋第二天到纸厂去了一下，把工辞了。万驼子很客气，说：“我马上就把你的工时开出来，你自己送到李主任那里去，免得你不放心。” 这也正是静秋关心的东西，如果不是怕万驼子不给她报工时，她就懒得亲自跑来辞工了。她拿着万驼子为她开的工时表，说声“谢谢”，就离开了他的办公室。 静秋本来还想跟张一说声谢谢的，但他那天上白班，正在车间里，她就跟他同寝室的人讲了一下。路上碰到刘科长，静秋也谢谢了他，又特别提了一下哥哥招工的事，刘科长许诺说不会忘记的。