Chapter 3 Chapter two

After getting up, Shuzhen went out without wiping her head and face.When I walked to the street, I saw people staring at me, and then I realized that it was shameful to be unkempt.I hurried back home to wash up, and then applied a thick layer of cream around my red and swollen eyelids in front of the mirror. She is a very face-saving person.Facing the mirror, I still regretted my gaffe just now in front of others. I waited for Dayong last night until midnight.After going to bed, I tossed and tossed, until the window glass was illuminated, and then I stared and closed my eyes.It's this hour in a blink of an eye, and it's too late to even make up a reason to ask for leave.

"Mom, where are you going?" A sleepy, lazy voice came from the back room.Yinping is free at home during the holidays, playing wildly at night, and rarely seeing each other in the morning. "Go to your grandma's house and look for your uncle!" Shuzhen didn't want her daughter to see her like this, so she went straight to the yard. A window facing the courtyard was pushed open, revealing half of the silver screen's head.She was only wearing trousers, and her short-sleeved shirt was buttoned carelessly. A pair of small breasts that sprouted like bamboo shoots were almost exposed.

"Mom, you are so foolish! It's almost ten o'clock, and my old uncle is still at home waiting for you to find him?" Shuzhen went to run a few times last night, she knew , "It's not that there is no phone at home, why are you running around all over the mountain!" Yinping finished muttering; without clothes, he walked over to the tape recorder with a pair of plastic slippers that looked like charcoal. Teresa Teng's voice of "Love Love Love" immediately occupied a large space inside and outside the house. well!Really mad!The switchboard was installed in the village three years ago, and the "telephoneization" of all offices and cadre dormitories above the middle level has long been realized!

Shuzhen went back to the room and picked up the phone.The operator's inquiry was overshadowed by "Love, Love", like a mosquito screaming. "Silver screen!" She yelled, but there was no result at all, so she went into the back room and turned down the volume switch of the radio. "My daughter responded with blank eyes. The phone at home was connected, and my mother told me that Dayong left early in the morning, and I didn't know where to eat breakfast.Take the finance department again.The female accountant who answered the phone went looking for it for five minutes, and replied: Their Section Chief Xu is receiving customers from the tax bureau, so he has no time to answer the phone.Shuzhen seemed to find a place to vent her anger, and shouted into the microphone: "Tell Xu Dayong, his sister drank dichlorvos, he came back late, and the dead body will never be seen!"

She feels dizzy.Not only did I feel dizzy, but the two blue veins on both sides of my temple throbbed with pain.Not only did it hurt, but it seemed that reinforced concrete had been cast in the pit of the heart, blocking the door so uncomfortable.She wanted to call Yinping, but felt bored, so she leaned on the bed, covered her forehead and closed her eyes. It's unimaginable!Really saw a ghost in broad daylight!He, Yue Pengcheng, actually did such an outrageous thing! How could he be worthy of the conscience of heaven and earth!How can I be sorry for her—give a heart to his wife! Coincidence, a sad coincidence! .

Just had dinner last night, and two guests came to the house.Visitors are very common.Ever since Da Sangyuan and Yue Pengcheng appeared in newspapers and TV; those who are familiar with those who are unfamiliar, those who are familiar with those who don’t know, those who are busy or not, those who are separated by a wall or an alley, and those who are thousands or hundreds of miles away. has never been broken.Most of the time, Shuzhen just replied "he's not at home" or "he's out", and the task was considered completed.But the one who came last night was Yue Pengcheng's comrade-in-arms from a company when he was a soldier, and now he is the section chief of a foreign trade company, and he is going back to Qingdao that night.

People just want to meet each other and connect the disconnected connections.Shuzhen didn't dare to neglect, and while serving tea and cigarettes, she asked the switchboard operator to help find Yue Pengcheng back. The two girls at the switchboard checked the shopping malls, hotels, and several factories, but they all said they hadn't seen Yue Pengcheng. "Did you go to the nursing home?" The sanatorium is a military establishment, and Yue Pengcheng has a room there, where he often spends the night. "I asked, but Secretary Yue didn't go." "Is Xiao Xie here? Has the car gone out?"

"Xiao Xie and the car are not here." "That's going out." Shuzhen was about to put the phone on, but the operator, who had a strong sense of responsibility and felt sorry, told her that the phone in Yue Pengcheng's office had been unable to go in because of a malfunction or some other reason. The car is out, what else can he do in the office?Shuzhen looked at the disappointed guests, and without much hope, walked towards the office yard with the huge sign of "Far East Industrial Corporation". The familiar window on the second floor is like a dark well.Shuzhen turned around and wanted to go back, when a gust of wind passed by, several bright beams of light escaped from the dark window.The light reflected on Shuzhen's face.Looking along the light beam, Shuzhen vaguely saw a man and a woman hugging each other.Needless to say, that man is her husband!

She couldn't believe it no matter what, and stared at the black well that had just been opened, hoping that Night Breeze would give her a chance to verify it.Night Breeze rejected her wish.The figure of a slender girl she was familiar with floated past her eyes after a while. She saw the stars dancing wildly in the sky; the dancing stars fell like rain; the falling rain hit her limbs, body and head... If she hadn't witnessed it with her own eyes, if she hadn't firmly believed in the reliability of her nerves and eyesight, if If someone else, including parents, brothers, and children, told her or described the scene that Night Breeze accidentally leaked to her, she, Xu Shuzhen, would never believe it.Yue Pengcheng, that's the one she gave up her family and life to pursue and love with all her heart!That is the person who once faced Shanhai Xingyue and swore to be worthy of her and make her happy for the rest of her life!

Tears filled Shuzhen's eyes like a flood, drawing two parallel lines on her cheeks without saying a word. The pain seemed to be inspired, and it immediately overflowed wantonly on her face and heart. Yue Pengcheng, you heartless man!Have you forgotten all the past years?Have you forgotten even that misty morning and dusk on the seashore? ...it was a misty morning.The embankment is lush and green, covered with a wonderful feather veil, and the water is flowing slowly, rolling a puddle of sweet and greasy milk.Shuzhen, with her youthful and charming demeanor, was about to go home after washing her clothes by the river, when Yue Pengcheng, nicknamed "Little Copper Hammer", suddenly appeared in front of her, blushing, with a The crumpled and extremely small note was stuffed into her hand.The sudden situation made Shuzhen flustered for a while.But she soon realized the seriousness of the matter. Regardless of Yue Pengcheng's stubborn and expectant eyes, she ran home in a hurry, hid in the wing room and opened the note.On the note were a few bold and heavy words: I’m leaving, can I write to you? pimples, and sprinkled with sand on the well platform to pick water together.She knew that his father was a big cadre who made mistakes, and he stayed in the village to take care of his grandfather since he was a child.Now that grandpa is dead, he is going to join the army.The deepest impression he gave her was boldness and strength. The reputation of "Little Steel Hammer" was earned when he smashed two blocks of adobe with one punch when he competed with senior students in the second grade.And she is famous for being smart and quiet, and her household registration is in the county seat. She is a rare golden phoenix in the village.She never dared to imagine that this young man who had never spoken to her before would be in her first love.The first to throw a sharp arrow of love at her.

The next day, it was still the same misty morning, and it was still the same riverside covered in feather veils and dripping milk.Shuzhen, whose face was covered with morning glow, threw a piece of paper that was also crumpled and too small, onto the dew-sprinkled grass.Yue Pengcheng, who was waiting far away, ran over like a pony, and picked up a few simpler words on the grass that hadn't been drawn before: "As you please" two pieces of paper lead two hearts, misty Early morning is the best matchmaker."Shuzhen still remembers the two "poems" that Yue Pengcheng wrote back from the barracks.But the person who wrote the "poetry" had already thrown that tender morning into the latrine pit. Shuzhen choked up and threw herself on the pillow, which was soaked immediately.She grabbed the pillowcase and tried to stop the outpouring of sorrow, which only intensified.A betrayed woman is always the first and recurring memory of past moments of happiness and devotion.And the memory of that moment is always accompanied and aggravated by unstoppable pain and sorrow.If we say that misty morning, it was just a kind of faint sweetness to Shuzhen.If there is a touch of pain and sorrow, the dusk with eyes will be so thicker.And that such an important evening has obviously been eliminated from Yue Pengcheng's mind long ago. Yue Pengcheng!You heartless man... It was a few years after leaving that misty morning, and Shuzhen became an accountant of the county cotton and linen company.Just when she was intoxicated with the longing for love, Yue Pengcheng, who had been in the army for several years and "studied Chairman Mao's works as a model", was about to be promoted to be a company commander. "'s father's letter of "extremely abnormal relationship", suddenly retired from the army and returned to the village.Aunt Xu Xiazi, Shuzhen’s mother, watched her father and two older sisters lose their lives due to poverty, asked relatives and friends, and finally jumped from the village called "Dasangyuan" (Dasangyuan). from.How could she look at her daughter and jump into that abyss full of bitter juice of fate! "Even if my daughter is thrown into the latrine pit for retting, she will never marry the golden bean from the 'big funeral home'!" On the first day, she unceremoniously drove Yue Pengcheng out of the house.But the daughter refused to bend her will.That night, Aunt Xu Xiazi made a last resort.She put in front of her daughter a bottle of dichlorvos and a marriage certificate that someone had managed to get back, and asked her to make a choice: either, marry the person on the marriage certificate (he is a high-ranking military officer, and his family is clean and tidy); Or, that bottle of dichlorvos was the last bit of love between the two of them.Shuzhen knew that her mother was a showy woman who could speak and act.She stared blankly at the name of the strange man, at the bloody seal, and tore up the marriage certificate once or twice; then, amidst Aunt Xu Xiazi's exclamation, she grabbed the bottle of dichlorvos and drank it in big gulps . On the third day, after Shuzhen was taken back from the gate of hell by the doctor, she immediately risked her life and fled back to the side of the person who was almost desperate because of the disillusionment of ideals and love. That is the beach at dusk.The night fell, and thousands of lanterns were lit above the sky.The warm wind blows the sweetness of the jointing grass and the fragrance of the dead branches and leaves buried in the new soil; the ocean plays a magnificent and deceptive music, and the mysterious distance flashes and flashes, white, red or green , the eyes of the fishing boat, the eyes of the night... Trembling with happiness, Yue Pengcheng hugged Shuzhen tightly, kissing her lips, cheeks, and the mysterious girl's high ground over and over again; Confidently poured out the vow in his heart: "I must, I must make you happy! I must, I must let you live a good life..." It was from that night that Shuzhen became the wife of an unlucky farmer in the village called "The Great Funeral Court".She sacrificed almost everything for that unfortunate farmer.And what did she get now? Huh... The bitter juice in Shuzhen's heart turned into surging waves. Dayong came back soon.An ambulance and two doctors from the company hospital also came together.Aunt Xu Xiazi twisted her half-grown feet and hurriedly followed behind. "Sister! Yinping! Who's sick?" Dayong entered the hospital and shouted before he saw anyone. Aunt Xu Xiazi stared at Yinping through the window: "Pingzi, is your mother really sick?" Yinping was stuffed with popular songs, and he didn't hear what was asked outside the window, but just nodded his head in random to the beat of the song. "Oh my god! How can this be done!" Aunt Xu Xiazi hurried into the back room.Dayong greeted the two doctors, and followed them in with first aid equipment. Aunt Xu Xiazi and Dayong came back to the village from the county seat three years ago.Her husband, who earns forty-five yuan and twenty cents a month, died. Relying on the extremely meager income of sticking matchboxes, it is really difficult to cope with the daily rising living expenses in the county.Dayong, who had just dropped out of school, became a temporary worker, and Aunt Xu Xiazi had to wipe her face and go to the garbage dump every day to find a way out.At that time, the big mulberry garden had undergone tremendous changes, and Yue Pengcheng had become a well-known "farmer entrepreneur" and "farmer reformer" in the city, even the province, and the whole country.Many people in the county town, including relatives of some state employees and leading cadres, rushed towards the big mulberry field like a tidal wave.But Aunt Xu Xiazi didn't dare to think about it.After Shuzhen got married, she took Yue Pengcheng home to apologize to her mother.Without saying a word, Aunt Xu Xiazi poured a basin of dirty water on the two of them.Shuzhen hugged her leg and begged bitterly, her forehead hit the stone and her face was bleeding. Aunt Xu Xiazi refused to even give her a pot to stop the bleeding, so she drove them out of the house.Because of this, Shuzhen almost didn't lose her life when she went back.Two years later, when their first child, Leiguan, celebrated his first birthday, Shuzhen asked someone to find Aunt Xu Xiazi, hoping to go back or move to her home to see her grandson.Aunt Xu Xiazi insisted that her daughter died, and she did not have a "big funeral home" Shady relatives, let alone grandchildren.She has no intelligent eyes on the top of her head, so naturally she can't imagine seeing the "Great Funeral Court" Will be at.Overnight, it becomes "Dafuyuan" and "Dafuyuan".But she really got it right.She knew that even if she threw herself into the river and hanged herself, Shuzhen and her husband would never step on her threshold again. In the twelfth lunar month of that year, she fell ill.I was ill for more than 20 days, and I couldn't find a penny for seeing a doctor and getting medicine. On New Year's Eve, I lay on the kang with my eyes wide open, waiting to die.About half an hour later, there seemed to be a car passing by outside the courtyard, and the glass on the window buzzed a few times.A sound of hurried footsteps came from the courtyard into the main room, and the dirty and blackened door curtain was suddenly lifted, and with a cry of "Oh my God", Shuzhen threw herself on her body with tears all over her face. Aunt Xu Xiazi only thought it was a dream, and in the dream, she couldn't help but hug Shuzhen, and shed old yellow tears on her daughter's chest. She was taken to hospital immediately. On the day he was discharged from the hospital, Yue Pengcheng also came, sitting in that very imposing red flag car. He had vowed to never see the face of this hateful old woman, but after all, he didn't want to hurt Shuzhen's heart, so he had to show up in person to take care of her. Xu Xiazi's aunt, mother and son moved back to Damulberry Garden and settled down. ... "Sadako, are you really sick?" Entering the back room, Aunt Xu Xiazi went up to the kang and touched Shuzhen's forehead.Following Dayong's instructions, the two doctors also put out the blood pressure monitor and stethoscope. Shuzhen sat up straight, pushed Aunt Xu Xiazi's hand away, and spat at Dayong: "I told you to come back, who told you to bring the hospital here?" Dayong showed a bitter face: "The phone said you were sick, I thought..." "What do you think? If I'm not dead, I'll pretend you can't hear me, right?" Aunt Xu Xiazi breathed a sigh of relief.The two doctors hurriedly retreated knowingly.There was a whistle outside the hospital, and the ambulance drove away. Dayong sat on the sofa a little awkwardly, and concentrated his doubts on the wedding photo hanging on the wall. The wedding photos have long since faded, and Shuzhen and Yue Pengcheng in the photos look a little funny: small crew cuts, braids, dull faces, and a smell of dirt all over their bodies. "Where were you last night?" Dayong heard that he was asking himself, and the heart in his belly rose to his chest.Last night, he and Hu Qiang were drinking at the gardening field, and when the TV announcer said goodbye, they got drunk and broke into the beautiful little mute dormitory in the welfare factory to pester him for a long time, forcing the little mute to almost jump off the building.When Shuzhen asked, he thought he had revealed something and thought it was over, but he tried to put on a calm look on his face. "It's not like you don't know if you want to build a house... If you don't go out to run at night, when will you..." His eyelids drooped, his dark eyes searched Shuzhen's face, and he was nervously making up a lie denying any contact with the little mute. Shuzhen didn't have any doubts.Dayong found a partner in the shopping mall, planned to get married in the New Year, and was making arrangements to build a house, she knew about it. "Did you see your elder brother doing something good?" It is a custom in Pengcheng that brother-in-law is also called elder brother.Eldest brother, second elder brother, and third elder brother, those who can't tell the difference between the second and third are called elder brother or eldest brother. "Why did I see my elder brother coming? I came back late last night. Didn't he go to a meeting today?" "It's not about the past two days. It's about the past few months and years, have you seen him with some dubious people?" Dayong was stupefied, but his heart hanging in mid-air was returned to its original place. "Dirty people... Those who come to visit and do business, are there no passers-by? Who knows what you are asking..." On the other hand, Aunt Xu Xiazi sniffed out the doorway with the unique sense of smell of a woman, stretched out her hand to close the door, looked at Dayong and said, "Your sister is asking about a woman, you coquettish vixen!" Yinping took a novel and wanted to go out to find a classmate. When he passed by his mother's house, he happened to hear a question from inside. He quickly opened the door and asked, "Where is the vixen? Uncle, you caught it? Let me see!" Dayong didn't reply.Aunt Xu Xiazi hurriedly pushed her out of the door, and said angrily: "My lord, how can children listen to me? Why don't you go!" "Let's go!" Yinping curled his lips, went out, then turned around and said, "Mom, Qiaomei and I went out to play, took twenty yuan, and didn't come back at noon!" Before Shuzhen could reply, she had disappeared. At this time, Dayong had figured out what Shuzhen was trying to find him back.As for the relationship between Yue Pengcheng and Qiu Ling, he had heard rumors indistinctly for a long time.Once, he also met Qiu Ling coming out of the back room of Yue Pengcheng's office with a blushing face.Yue Pengcheng rarely let people in the room there.But he never dared to think too much, let alone inquire or reveal a word.This is not only because there is no definite basis, but also because everything he has obtained now, and everything he will obtain and possibly obtain in the future is inseparable from the brother-in-law who holds great power.When appointing him as chief of the finance section, Yue Pengcheng couldn't have said more clearly: "I let you do it because we are a family. If you don't rely on this, you, Xu Dayong, will not be able to choose two hundred financial section chiefs.Be obedient and do a good job, I can't lose you.If you want to play tricks, or play tricks behind your back, it's fine, but my brother-in-law is not a god of support.At that time, leave me the salary of 300 yuan a month. Didn't you come from the county town as a temporary worker?Give me back to the county to turn the sand! " Ask about your brother-in-law's privacy. If it's someone else, even if the chief of public security sits across from him, he won't tell you anything.Do not believe?We, Xu Dayong, are a man, who can cut off his brain and fail to go! However, it is my elder sister who is questioning now, the elder sister who has a deep love for herself and her mother... "What is your sister asking you?" Aunt Xu Xiazi urged, sparks of surprise and resentment burst out of her tone. "Just asking me, how would I know!" Dayong faltered, still not sure how to answer. "You've been following his ass all day long, why don't you know? I already know, how dare you hide it from him! It's that shameless coquettish vixen from Peng Biaozi's family! You still don't tell me!" Zhen dropped a string of bitterness again. oops!My sister knows everything!Dayong's heart skipped a few beats. Aunt Xu Xiazi heard Shuzhen's name and surname, gouged Dayong's forehead, and cursed: "You unbelievable little thing! You say it! You are mad at your sister, and see if you can marry a wife or not! " Dayong has always resisted Aunt Xu Xiazi's accusations. He tilted his head angrily, and said, "I'm not up to date? You are up to me! Those people outside are talking nonsense, you let my sister believe it, and go divorce my elder brother." , are you comfortable?" Aunt Xu Xiazi staggered.Only then did he realize the seriousness of the matter.Kongkong opened his mouth a few times, calmed down, took a few glances at Shuzhen, and then yelled at Dayong: "You ignorant little thing! You are deliberately trying to annoy your sister! You are laying maggots outside. There are too many people! There are too many things to make baskets and baskets to sow discord! You all come back to talk nonsense? See if I don’t tear your mouth to pieces!” After scolding, I really got off the kang to arrest Dayong. From Dayong's demeanor and words, Shuzhen has already confirmed what she wanted to prove.She is so sad.Seeing that the mother and younger brother didn't show any intention of supporting themselves, they seemed to have swallowed coptis and gallbladder, and threw themselves on the kang with a "wow" sound, and began to wail. Aunt Xu Xiazi hurriedly pushed Dayong out, then closed the doors and windows tightly, took off her shoes on the kang, patted Shuzhen's body and persuaded: "Zhenzi, please don't!..." Two lines of old tears rolled down her eyes . "You go! You go! I don't want you to care about it!..." Shuzhen's mournful cry made the roof rattle, as if it was about to collapse. Outside the window, Caesar, who was lying in the sun, let out a few rough and messy barks.A group of pigeons on the roof fluttered into the air.