Chapter 33 Thirty-three
... I got into the ragged cotton netting, and before I fell asleep, Captain Xie called me from outside the window: "Zhang YongLuola, Xiaozhang, Xiaozhang..."
His hurried cry made my heart sink, and I immediately thought that something happened to Hai Xixi!I didn't respond, and pretended to be asleep, but I was thinking about how to answer the leader's cross-examination in my mind.Captain Xie kept calling: "Xiao Zhang, Zhang Yong*"
The old accountant elbowed me: "Xiao Zhang, call you!"
I got up slowly and asked in a sleepy tone, "What's the matter?"
"Quick, quick, go to the team office for a meeting."
I don't think it would be so soon to find out that Hai Xixi ran away; the "meeting" was probably to discuss the distribution of mutton, and maybe we single farm workers would also have a share.I quickly put on my clothes and ran to the team office.
The group leaders of each organization are in the office.Everyone has a self-rolling cigarette in their hands, and the room is full of smoke.It turned out that there was a basket of tobacco leaves on the desk, which was the self-grown tobacco leaves that the team headquarters provided to the team leaders for free during meetings. "Excuse me, give me a piece of paper." I also squeezed in and rolled one, and just like everyone else, I couldn't think of anything to say and started whimpering.After a while, Captain Xie came back with a noodle bag, and sat down at the desk angrily.There was a lantern on the desk, illuminating the bloodstains on his hands.I was taken aback and the cigarette almost fell from my mouth.This kind of scene reminded me of the description in Sherlock Holmes, I thought of Hai Xixi, I thought of lantana... my body was almost stiff.Fortunately, Captain Xie just said that Hai Xixi that "donkey day" ran away.The old cattleman--the Dead Dog Pie handlebar--found it.The old man went to feed the stables and saw his door locked--I shouldn't have locked the door! ——Looking at the horse lantern through the glass window, "There is nothing on the kang, cleaner than washing", and went to the sheep pen to report to Captain Xie.Captain Xie said that the "donkey day" must be brought back. Seeing that it is going to be sown in spring, what can I do if no one shows it? ! "The donkey's day will run after the spring sowing!" He asked us group leaders to chase after each other.
He dispatched his troops like a general planning a strategy: whoever goes to the north road, whoever goes to the south road, whoever goes to Zhennanbao, whoever chases northeast.He said that I was wearing thin clothes and told me to walk along the east road to the small railway station thirty miles away to stop Haixixi.He specifically told me: "There is a stove on the station, you can warm it up, I will go to the sheepfold to settle down, and then I will come."
I just remembered that the blood on Captain Xie's hand was sheep's blood, and he just didn't notice the path that the sheep went to Shangen.I feel relaxed.In particular, he untied the noodle pockets and gave each of them two frozen barnyard noodle buns. "Everyone work harder, this is considered overtime pay." When he said this, I was even happier.The meeting broke up, and the team leaders left the office. "Bear! It's snowing, why don't you chase after it, go home and sleep!" They discussed quietly, and they really dispersed towards their respective houses.I can't go to the train station, Captain Xie will come to meet me soon.
The snow fell harder.The east, west, north, and south are all white and gray.It was hard to open the eyes from the snowflakes.It's strange if you don't get lost in this kind of ghost weather!I was a little worried for Hai Xixi: why did he choose to run on such a night?But after thinking about it, this is exactly where his cleverness lies. Didn't the group leaders go home and go to sleep?
I can only go down that road.Fortunately, there are willow trees planted on both sides of the road, and you will never get lost if you walk between the two rows of willow trees.I pulled the "borscht" sewn on the cotton wool blanket off my head, and immediately felt the warmth of the lantana flowers on my nose and cheeks.I also thought of Hai Xixi's suggestion before leaving. Although I was still conflicted in my heart, I also felt Hai Xixi's selfless friendship.I realized: kindness, sympathy, pity... people's beautiful feelings are not driven away by hunger and hard whips like I used to know, but it is precisely under these conditions that the more Show her brilliance.Fate, oh fate, since I was dragged out of the ivory tower, wouldn't it do me no good?Isn't it at this moment and under this condition that the deepest tenderness I enjoy, the most difficult thing to obtain in life's encounters? ... For a moment, I felt that I was very happy.I don't know what time it is now, it must be midnight!All I could hear was the soft rustling of snowflakes and my own snorting.Xue Ye was so quiet that his soul seemed to leave his body.Ahead, between two rows of willows, a small bridge suddenly appeared, with its back arched and a docile appearance bearing the burden of humiliation.I suddenly remembered that more than two months ago, just over 60 days ago, Hai Xixi drove a cart and several of us employed people passed by here.At that time, I was still looking for yellow radishes to eat in the fields, but he was sitting majestically on the cart, singing that beautiful and affectionate folk song.In my mind, the shadow of lantana flower must be lingering, and I want to rush back to meet her as soon as possible.But what a change has taken place in the blink of an eye!Now he was a lovelorn, a fugitive, and I, the triumphant rival, had the audacity to play the part of the pursuer.I imagined the scene of Hai Xixi trekking down the mountain step by step with heavy luggage on her back in this vast snowy night, and the sense of happiness disappeared without a trace.For this scene made me see very clearly that my happiness was based on his pain.I couldn't help recalling Hai Xixi's comment on "Moon black geese fly high, Shan Yuye flees, trying to chase Qingqi away, heavy snow is full of bows and knives", and I realized Lu Lun's beauty: his picture is in the Describing Tang Jiang Hun拳⑿XieFatLongGadongbaobiJiemouChengProvince 9 Zhi*De Haixixi will draw a completely different view from this poem from the general comment.After more than a thousand years, after we have formed a big family of nations, don't we still allow him to think like this?Yes, he himself is an ethnic minority brother who looks rough and unruly, violent and domineering on the outside, but is simple, sentimental and tragic in his heart!I have had the sympathy, friendship, and selfless attention of simple laborers who have always imagined me well and noble, and what have I to offer them?Nothing but pain!
I paused on the small bridge for a moment, with my head down, looking down at the snowflakes falling into the darkness under the bridge.Profound repentance, of course, is because you have caused other people's misfortune, but the victim not only forgave yourself, but also tried his best to bestow his favor again, then you are not only repenting, but a kind of heart-wrenching pain.what!Haixixi, Haixixi, dear friend, how can I repay you?