Chapter 50 Chapter 92

Just after dawn, Lu Xiaolong came to the construction site of the Engineering Department of Xuzhou Railway Bureau.This is part of the new Xuzhou Railway Station project, and it has come to the finishing stage. Lu Xiaolong assigned a construction team of several hundred people the work to be done today, and the brigade can act.The new station is basically completed, and today we are concentrating on building a wall several hundred meters long. In the afternoon, the leaders of the Ministry of Railways came to Xuzhou Railway Bureau to inspect and build the wall before they come. In the late summer and early autumn, the weather was still very hot, especially in the early morning. As the leader of the construction team, Lu Xiaolong held a brief meeting for the team leaders, clarified the tasks and put forward the requirements. The whole construction site started to work vigorously.The cement mortar mixer is turning rumblingly. The foundation of the wall has been dug. After a little tamping with a toad ram, hundreds of masonry knives will start to dry. Pieces of red bricks fly down into the foundation ditch with cement mortar. The foundation was soon formed, and the small workers on both sides who transported bricks and cement mortar also provided a steady stream of supplies.Lu Xiaolong looked at the preparations for the wooden planks that needed scaffolding when the wall was built higher, and knew that today's work was all arranged.He looked at the construction site like a long dragon again. The masons were bending over one by one and wielding their trowels and masonry knives quickly, paving the red bricks one by one. He estimated the progress and felt relieved. He left the construction site and went to the Engineering Department of the Railway Bureau.

Before the sun came out, with a straw hat on his back, a short-sleeved white shirt, and a pair of gray-blue denim pants were splashed with mud, and a pair of Jiefang shoes were also mottled with mud spots. In addition, his sunburned face and arms, It all vividly explained his identity as leading the construction team to carry out infrastructure construction.He has been working in Xuzhou for more than a year. At the beginning, he learned engineering budget from a technician. With his good foundation in mathematics when he was in high school, he quickly mastered the basic skills of budgeting and final accounting. He was able to do many small engineering projects alone. The budget and final accounts made both the director and the technicians amazed.In addition to working on budgets and final accounts in the department, he often leads the construction team when he is busy on the construction site.The organizational and calling ability trained in the Cultural Revolution soon made him a rare construction team leader.Like jumping in the queue in the countryside, he led the work and learned to do it at the same time. He picked up a trowel and a trowel to lay bricks. In the words of the workers, it was not enough for an eighth-grade worker, but also enough for a third- and fourth-grade worker.Being the captain of the construction team is the same as being the captain of the production team. You have to take the lead, you have to be able to do it, you have to be good at assigning work, and you have to be rewarded and punished.He is good at winning people's hearts. He arrives early and leaves late every day. He manages the construction team of hundreds of people in an orderly manner. He has become an advanced model of the Infrastructure Department of Xuzhou Railway Bureau.

He went to the infrastructure department, because today he was going to meet the leaders of the Ministry for inspection, the entire railway bureau had already started work ahead of time, and the infrastructure department had already taken their positions. Director Jiang was talking with several people around the desk, and when he saw Lu Xiaolong coming in, he was He raised his long, bald face in front of the desk, and asked, "Is the construction site all arranged?" Lu Xiaolong said, "It's been arranged, and we've been working on it for a while." Director Jiang nodded in satisfaction.He is an old cadre with old qualifications and low education, and he likes to lecture people at every turn. Lu Xiaolong has already figured out his temper.When he first came to the office, Director Jiang looked at him as a well-known leader of the rebel faction in the whole country.Later, when I learned that Lu Xiaolong's father was a veteran cadre who participated in the revolution in 1937, he felt a little cordial, because Director Jiang himself was also a "37-style".He also heard that his father had died of persecution since the Cultural Revolution, and he felt sympathy for Lu Xiaolong again.Lu Xiaolong adjusted his relationship with him quietly, went to his house for a sit-down after get off work, occasionally sent two bottles of wine, sometimes had dinner at his house, worked hard, talked less and did more.His approach quickly won the favor of Director Jiang.When he was working overtime in the office with the lights on all night, rushing to make project budgets and final accounts, he was bumped into more than once by Director Jiang who came to the office at night to pick up things and make phone calls. Director Jiang always asked casually: "Do you still work overtime?" What about it?" He intentionally replied without raising his head: "Hurry up and take the initiative to make it ahead of time."

Continue to bury in the table full of numbers and forms, shaking the calculator and busying, never looking at Director Jiang more than once.At this time, Director Jiang often sits in the office, makes a cup of tea, drinks a few sips of water, and says, "Go to bed early." Then he walks away with his hands behind his back.He still continued to be busy with his desk work without looking back. His style really made Director Jiang treat him more and more differently, and the general assembly and the small meeting praised him; while he sat in the crowd without saying a word, occasionally smiling cautiously.He knows that being so unique will arouse the envy of other people in the office, so, except for work, he maintains an insensitive attitude towards all human relations, and does not fight or compete for anything related to reputation and interests.When setting up the desk in the office, he was first placed in a corner, and he huddled in the corner without any complaints. The light was dim, and he turned on the desk lamp during the day to work.Later, he moved him to the window and sat face to face with a technician surnamed Wen, and he also took it calmly.Technician Wen is in charge of budget estimates in the office. Lu Xiaolong worships him as his teacher, studies carefully, and calls him "Master Wen".When it was his turn to fetch water and sweep the floor, he always went to work ten minutes earlier and did it first; when it was his turn to be praised for his work on budget finalization, he always let Technician Wen show up. He hid in the dark like a flightless fly. in the corner.Later, a new cadre came to the infrastructure department, and he offered to move his desk to a place close to the door to give others a place with sufficient light, while he sat face to face with a female student who was also just assigned .The other party is a local technical secondary school graduate who has been in the team for several years and is also a recruiter. His name is Li Yan. He has a small white and thin face, with light eyebrows, thin eyes, and a soft voice.Lu Xiaolong still behaved honestly.As soon as the other party heard his name, he immediately opened his mouth in surprise: "You are that Lu Xiaolong? I can't think of it." Lu Xiaolong smiled honestly, what should he do.

He knew that he must not take advantage of the only young woman in the office, which would also arouse jealousy.He worked at his desk, doubling down on his uselessness and dullness.When the director, the deputy director, and several engineers and technicians who dominate the department make fun of Li Yan, he will lie on the table indifferently and settle his accounts. No matter how earth-shattering the teasing around him is, he will remain indifferent .Occasionally, someone leans their butt on his desk and chats gesticulating, blocking his light, and he just moves the report materials on the desk a little.People were chatting lively and accidentally spilled the water in the teacup. He quickly picked up the rag to wipe it. When the other party found out and apologized repeatedly, and was in a hurry to help clean up, he said calmly: "It's okay, I can clean it up by myself."

He, the rebel leader who used to have "horns on his head and thorns on his body", has become as round as a potato, unobtrusive, which makes him grow up safely in various commendations from Director Jiang. When it rose silently, the boat moved forward silently. Several construction teams under the Infrastructure Department were always mismanaged. Director Jiang often stared blood-red as if he had drunk wine, and lost his temper at the cadre meetings of the whole department.The construction team leaders were all masons. They lowered their heads and murmured, "Many of the small workers nowadays are the children of the railway bureau. There is a fight there, and you can’t come up for a long time. Less training is useless. If you get too much training, he will quarrel with you. The parents of these people are employees of the railway bureau, and you can’t offend any of them.” Director Jiang patted the table He shouted: "Then there is no way to control it?" He glanced at the dozens of cadres in the office, including some technicians, and asked, "Which of you will go down and lead a construction team? Take care of it." Everyone knows This job is not easy to do, no one said anything.Lu Xiaolong raised his eyes and looked at Director Jiang. He couldn't offend everyone, but he wanted to stand up when Director Jiang encountered problems.His action was just right, Director Jiang noticed Lu Xiaolong's raised face, and asked: "Lu Xiaolong, do you dare to go?" Lu Xiaolong said low-key: "If you want me to go, I will go." Jiang The director was eager to find a forbidden result for his fury, so he immediately decided to send Lu Xiaolong down to lead a construction team.

When everyone was silent, Lu Xiaolong stood up, and Director Jiang regarded Lu Xiaolong as his confidant from then on.As soon as the meeting was over, Lu Xiaolong got close to several construction team leaders, Master Zhang and Master Li, and asked them for advice modestly, and finally paved the way for not stimulating them in the future.He said: "I don't know much about construction, but I'm a newcomer. Foreign monks are good at reciting scriptures. I don't know the staff in the bureau, so I'm not afraid of offending people. I'll try to take care of it." As soon as he went to work, he showed his tricks.He went to work at eight o'clock, and he arrived at the construction site a quarter of an hour earlier.The skilled workers who play masonry knives are commonly known as big workers, and most of them come when the time comes. Those laborers who mix cement mortar and transport bricks and materials are commonly known as small workers, but few of them come on time. They are a group of seventeen The eight-year-old employees' sons, newly recruited, all refused to obey.As soon as Lu Xiaolong arrived at the hour, he said to the master workers: "Let's do it." The master workers spread their hands with trowels and trowels and said, "It doesn't matter what you want, how can we do it?" Lu Xiaolong said: "Let's do it ourselves." Be a small worker, transporting bricks and materials." The big workers looked at each other in blank dismay, there was no such rule.Lu Xiaolong understood their thoughts, and said: "We can do as much as we can, and we can't stop working." After speaking, he made a rough assignment, and picked up a small cart to transport materials.Seeing that the captain was doing it, these more or less aged workers also looked at each other, and started to move one after another.More than half an hour passed, and those small workers arrived at the construction site one after another on bicycles, humming tunes and eating snacks.Seeing the masters start working on the small workers, they put down the car and said casually: "What are we doing?" Lu Xiaolong pointed to the big workers who moved bricks and materials and said, "You push them down one by one." People scrambled to the side of the master who was working, made strange faces, took the carts and shovels in their hands one by one, and started to work lazily, stopping from time to time while working, looking around, There were people behind them who rode their bikes and arrived late one after another.While Lu Xiaolong was doing the work in hand, he assigned everyone's work one by one.

A young man said to Lu Xiaolong strangely: "What do you do, master?" A young man next to him stopped the shovel in his hand, whistled and shouted: "This is the new captain." A group of young men and women The hall roared with laughter, and the master workers working on the scaffolding also turned their heads to look at Lu Xiaolong.Lu Xiaolong pretended nothing of the matter, and continued to push his cart.The laughter passed away, and the young men and women stuck out their tongues at each other, made strange faces, and started to work unhurriedly.When it was time to rest, Lu Xiaolong gathered all the big workers and small workers together, sat on the ground and had a meeting.Lu Xiaolong said: "Today, most of the masters are good. They all came at 8:00, and only three masters were late." He reported the names of the three masters, and said calmly and seriously: "More than a hundred masters have arrived on time. This is enlightenment. You three didn't arrive on time. You need to review." He stopped there with his hands behind his back, silent for a moment.The old workers sat there silently, and the three late workers, who were not very young, bowed their heads in embarrassment.Lu Xiaolong pointed to the seventeen or eighteen-year-old boys and girls sitting on the side and said: "You masters should set an example for your apprentices. Some of you are late, how can you blame your apprentices? They say young people in the construction team It’s hard to control, we haven’t set an example ourselves, so what right do we have to make irresponsible remarks?” His strategy really worked, and when he stood there and spoke seriously to two or three hundred people, two groups, one on the left and one on the right, All were silent.The young people were whispering to each other just now, jostling each other and making fun of each other, but now they all sat with their knees hugged, and they stopped making noise.Lu Xiaolong glanced at the young people again, and said: "Before I came, I said that most of the small workers in the construction team were the children of our factory workers, and they were doing idle work. They went to work at eight o'clock and arrived at nine o'clock. I looked and there were 11 people who arrived on time."

Lu Xiaolong scanned the group of young people, and based on his memory, began to count the people who arrived on time one by one.He ordered a tall and thin young man first, and said, "Stand up for a while." The young man stood up crookedly amidst the laughter around him.Lu Xiaolong asked: "What's your name?" The other said: "Wang Fulin." Lu Xiaolong said with his hands behind his back: "This is the first one to arrive today among the workers, and we arrived five minutes earlier." The young man stood crookedly in the crowd shoulders, feet uncomfortably backwards.Lu Xiaolong ordered another chubby girl and said, "Stand up." The chubby girl stood up embarrassedly with a round red face, and the girls and boys who looked up at her laughed softly again.Lu Xiaolong asked: "What's your name?" She said: "My name is Sun Xiaofei." After saying that, she lowered her head and blushed even more.Lu Xiaolong said: "This is the second one to arrive among the small workers." Then, he pointed out all eleven people who went to work on time without omission, and asked them to stand in the crowd. He said: "What is eight people?" Come to work at 9 o’clock? It’s a slander to them if this word falls on them.” Then he said very sternly: “You can’t slander our young people casually, and you can’t discredit them. I hope everyone will give these ten A young man applauds." The big workers and small workers clapped their hands one after another, and there were one or two whistles from the young people, and eleven people stood awkwardly in the crowd.After the applause passed, Lu Xiaolong asked eleven people to sit down, pointed to a young man with thick shoulders and round waist, and said, "Stand up." Standing up, the audience burst into laughter immediately.Lu Xiaolong asked: "What's your name?" The other party said: "My name is Zhang Dazhu." As soon as the name was announced, the audience burst into laughter again.The young man was very tall, but he looked very shy. Fangfang's fat face was like a big silly baby, and his face was sweating because of embarrassment.

Lu Xiaolong said: "I saw Zhang Dazhu. Although he was 25 minutes late today, he worked very hard afterwards. Two others pushed a car, and he pushed a car by himself. With his work like this, the You can be a pacesetter." Zhang Dazhu scratched the back of his head embarrassingly, and the young man clapped his hands and laughed again.After the laughter passed away, Lu Xiaolong said: "Everyone is applauding Zhang Dazhu." The young people applauded happily, and the big workers also applauded with a smile.Zhang Dazhu's fat face was flushed red, and he kept touching the back of his head.Lu Xiaolong said to him: "You may be delayed by family affairs today, and try to arrive on time tomorrow." Zhang Dazhu nodded obediently and sat down.Lu Xiaolong said to everyone with his hands behind his back: "The Infrastructure Department had a meeting, and Director Jiang also lost his temper. Everyone said that the construction team is not easy to manage, so I will try." Looking at the young man, he said: "I have already said that I am a foreign monk who likes to recite scriptures. I don't know anyone in this bureau, so I am not afraid of offending people. If I am good, I will praise it. If I am bad, I will criticize it. If I don't accept criticism three times, I'm going to let him go home." Next, he re-divided the young people into teams and elected team leaders.After the meeting was over, he took the lead in pushing the cart and started working with the others, and the construction site immediately regained energy.In a few days, he put a construction team in order.Director Jiang led several deputy directors around the construction site. The big workers and small workers were very busy. Director Jiang stood there with his hands behind his back and was very satisfied. The construction team led by Lu Xiaolong immediately became the infrastructure department. One of the results of the rectification.The office soon sent him to rectify the second construction team.

When he left the first construction team, the big and small workers gathered together and were a little reluctant to let him go.With a smile, he took out a pack of cigarettes he bought with his own money from his satchel and distributed them to everyone. Most of the masters smoked, and many young men also smoked. Join in the fun and take one and light it on fire.Lu Xiaolong sat in the crowd and chatted casually with everyone, and even told a little about his own stories in the Cultural Revolution. The young people all stared at him happily and admiringly.He arrived at the second construction team, and within a few days he got another look.Now, no matter where he goes in the Railway Bureau, old workers or young people often call him "Master Lu" affectionately. And every engineer and technician is honestly called "Master".Right now, he was standing in front of Director Jiang in a well-behaved manner.Director Jiang smiled and solemnly put on a director's appearance, and said to him: "Today is just the time to pay wages, you go to the construction site after receiving your wages." Then asked: "Can the fence be raised by noon?" Lu Xiaolong He nodded and said, "It's not a big problem, I'll go to the construction site to supervise." Director Jiang waved his hand and said, "Go and get your salary first, and don't work too hard yourself, you are not allowed to take sick leave. " Lu Xiaolong knew that this was Director Jiang's style of showing concern for his subordinates, so he sighed without embellishment, turned and came to Li Yan.Li Yan is in charge of the internal affairs of the entire infrastructure department, paying wages, labor insurance, and managing official seals are all her business.At this moment, she took out a kraft paper salary bag from the drawer and handed it to Lu Xiaolong: "You order some yourself." Lu Xiaolong took out the banknotes in the salary bag, and there was a finger-wide note tied around the waist of the banknotes, It was a salary slip, which stated his actual salary for this month.Lu Xiaolong put it in his pocket without ordering.Li Yan glanced at him and said, "Why don't you order?" Lu Xiaolong said: "Thirty-nine yuan, it's definitely right, don't need it." Li Yan said: "I don't care if I make a mistake." Lu Xiaolong said with a smile: "I won't look for you anymore, less I'll come to you again." Li Yan shook his fair and thin face, and said angrily, "Then I'll wait for you." Lu Xiaolong turned to leave, Li Yan opened the door of a wooden cabinet next to him and said: "And your labor insurance." A pair of canvas gloves, a bar of soap, and a mask were placed on the table.Lu Xiaolong took out the key, opened his own desk facing Li Yan, put the labor insurance supplies in the drawer, closed it and locked it, and said, "Then I'm going to the construction site." Li Yan looked at him The shirt pocket propped up by the banknotes said, "Be careful not to lose it, you won't be able to find me if you lose it." Lu Xiaolong smiled honestly, and glanced at Li Yan, and the two looked at each other with a special meaning in an instant.Over a relatively long period of time, without everyone being aware of it, he has established a slightly different sense of intimacy with the only young girl in the infrastructure department. He waved at Li Yan and was about to leave the noisy office and go to the construction site, but Li Yan called him back and said, "Hey, you haven't signed my salary and labor insurance yet." Lu Xiaolong said, "Who's on your I will not rely on your debt." Li Yan turned the salary to Lu Xiaolong's page, pushed it in front of Lu Xiaolong and said, "That's no good, you are not bad, I still can't pay the debt." Lu Xiaolong picked up the pen and signed the words "Lu Xiaolong" in imitation Song Dynasty fonts.Li Yan took a look at his salary and said, "Why do you always write imitation Song characters like a budget for your signature?" Lu Xiaolong smiled and said, "My old handwriting was too ugly, so I just wrote it all. It uses imitation Song characters." Li Yan raised his thin eyes and glanced at him, then curled his lips disapprovingly.Lu Xiaolong smiled and left. His father passed away a year ago in Shanxi. His father sacrificed himself to protect him at the last juncture of his life. Before he died, his father stared at him and the action of wanting to pull out the infusion tube with his hands was deeply etched into his memory. In his memory, it was as if he had killed his father, and his heart was full of guilt and remorse.Lu Xiaohui told his father what he had told him before he died: "Don't rush out and confess." He also knew that there was no need to send himself to prison again, and after cremating his father, he quietly left Taiyuan.When signing his father's cremation form, he began to replace the original handwriting with imitation Song typeface, and asked Lu Xiaohui to destroy all the things with his handwriting when he returned home.His chic pen writing has since disappeared.When he arrived at the infrastructure department of the Xuzhou Railway Bureau, he happened to be working on a budget, and sometimes he helped to draw pictures. He needed a hand-made imitation of Song characters, so he used it as his daily handwriting.Even so, he was still terrified, thinking that he had left some handwriting of one kind or another in the work of the Railway Bureau for more than a year before that, and he even thought that there was a resume he had filled in in his file bag, which would reveal His past handwriting, if the Shanxi side thought of him, Lu Tiehan's son, and came to check the handwriting, he would definitely not be able to escape.He hides and hides like a fox being tracked by hunters and hounds, and is nocturnal and cautious like a field mouse, which is one of the reasons why he puts his head back and works hard.Maybe it was because of his father's death, Shanxi Province put all the cases on his father, or it could be some other reason. Nearly a year has passed, and he seems to have passed the dangerous period. The sun had already come down violently. He pulled the straw hat from behind to his head and put it on, and hurried to the construction site.Hundreds of people were busy working up and down, and the fence had already been built up to knee height. When he appeared, the big builders who were building the wall began to work faster, and the small workers who were handing bricks and delivering mud on both sides also worked hard. Work harder.He first worked in the small work pile for a while, pushing carts, moving bricks, and delivering mud, and then he also picked up a trowel and bent over to do the work of laying bricks.Put a shovel of mud on it, wipe out the middle, pick up a brick and scrape a little mud on the corner, stack it up and press it, and then tap it lightly with the wooden handle of a small trowel to make the brick and this layer Level the bricks that have been built, and then use a trowel to scrape off the excess mud squeezed out of the gaps between the bricks. A brick is considered to be built, and when it is built, get up quickly. This series of actions comes out without thinking.Just like in the past in the countryside, he did it without straightening his waist.The sun scorched his back, and his bare arms were as hot as a barbecue. He didn't care about it at all, and he was building bricks one by one. Every piece of red brick on the mud.Just at this moment, a thin, panting female voice called out to him along with the sound of running footsteps.He looked up and saw that it was Li Yan.Lu Xiaolong straightened up and looked at her, Li Yan said: "The inspection team from the Ministry will arrive in a while, they arrived early." Lu Xiaolong asked: "What should I do?" Li Yan said: "Director Jiang said, they are Those who come to inspect the overall work also have to look at the new station, the entire station has been built, only this wall has not been built yet, let them have a look at the construction site and show our enthusiasm." Lu Xiaolong nodded, made a loudspeaker with his hands and yelled to the whole construction site: "The leaders of the Ministry will come to inspect in a while, what should everyone do, don't stop what you are doing, and besides, everyone clean up your surroundings to keep the construction site safe." Neat and tidy." The work on the construction site became more compact, and after a while, a large group of people squirmed and appeared on the newly built new station square over there, the sun was shining white, and a group of people walked around to see Look.Lu Xiaolong looked up for a while, and roughly understood the situation. There were dozens of people from the Ministry, and there were also dozens of people from Xuzhou Railway Bureau who accompanied them to visit. Lu Xiaolong looked again at the construction site where the wall was built like a long dragon, pointed and yelled, and bent down to lay the bricks again. After working for a while, the inspection team squirmed towards us, and Lu Xiaolong continued to work on the work in hand without looking back. He knew that the entire construction team was also busy in an orderly manner under the inspection of the inspection team.He heard the slow footsteps of a group of people approaching, and also heard such and other voices from the crowd, most of which were about the situation of the entire railway bureau and the situation of the new station. It cannot be the topic of the inspection team.Suddenly, Lu Xiaolong heard a conversation about himself. It was clearly Director Jiang's buzzing voice, probably saying that the construction team in front of him was an advanced model, and then he heard a few sentences about himself, and heard Director Jiang's loud voice: "Lu Xiaolong. " Lu Xiaolong straightened his waist and saw Director Jiang waving to him in the crowd.He pushed the straw hat back a little bit, put down the trowel and walked over.First, a bearded cadre smiled and said to him: "You are Lu Xiaolong?" Lu Xiaolong smiled, and he knew that this was Deputy Director Huo of the Railway Bureau.Deputy Director Huo looked at him and said, "Director Jiang introduced you just now." Director Jiang was accompanying Deputy Director Huo with a smile all over his face. Deputy Director Huo turned his head again and pointed at the person he was accompanying. A tall and fat old cadre headed by the crowd said: "This is Vice Minister Qian." Lu Xiaolong stood there cautiously and nodded. He was especially afraid that his name would attract unfavorable comments, so he was particularly embarrassed, like It was standing there limply like a radish shredded by the sun.Deputy Minister Qian did not respond to the name "Lu Xiaolong". He walked slowly surrounded by people, and said casually: "Young people, do a good job." Then he turned his gaze and attention to up front.The entire inspection team did not pay any attention to this small wall construction site, but the inspection route passed here.When the crowd walked past Lu Xiaolong talking and laughing, he was just like an unobtrusive mailbox.Deputy Director Huo and Director Jiang over there also forgot about him. Among this group of people, the Directors accompanied the Director, and the Director accompanied the Minister. Naturally, Lu Xiaolong knew how insignificant he was. He was about to turn around and go to work, but he heard someone call out from the sparse tail of the inspection team: "Lu Xiaolong." He looked a little stunned, it was Shen Xia.Shen Xia walked over tall and tall, standing in front of him in a short-sleeved white shirt, a pair of gray pants, and a pair of sandals.Lu Xiaolong felt that he was short, and also felt that he was tanned and thin in the sun, but Shen Xia's square face was still so smart and fair.Shen Xia said: "I heard that you are at the Xuzhou Railway Bureau. I never expected to meet you here." Lu Xiaolong smiled lightly, he did not take off his straw hat, and at the same time saw the mud and brick foam all over his body.Shen Xia explained again: "This new station was designed by our Beijing Design Institute, so let's come and have a look." Lu Xiaolong felt his own poverty again, Shen Xia was the designer of such a big new station, and he was just leading a small construction team to do some finishing work.Shen Xia looked at the wall construction site behind Lu Xiaolong, and said: "Shen Li is here too, you go and see her." Lu Xiaolong looked at Shen Xia with a little doubt, and Shen Xia explained somewhat awkwardly: "Shen Li Li has never been to Mount Tai, so she came to Xuzhou with me. After the inspection here, I will accompany her to Tai'an to climb Mount Tai. She is in the guest house now, go and see her." Lu Xiaolong turned his head and looked Going to the construction site, she said: "I can't leave for a while." Shen Xia looked at the inspection team walking away, pulled out a pen, took out a piece of white paper from the file folder, wrote a line hastily, folded it and stuffed it into Lu Xiaolong's In his hand, he said: "This is the address and room number of the guest house. You can't go now, so go after work." Said, Shen Xia hurried to catch up with the team. In the evening, Lu Xiaolong still knocked on the door of the guest house.The door opened, and Shen Li appeared in front of her wearing a red flower dress with a white background. When she saw Lu Xiaolong, she was slightly taken aback, and immediately said with a smile: "Come in, Shen Xia said he met you." Lu Xiaolong stood at the door and paused for a while, the sun that had not yet set on the horizon shone light from behind Shen Li, her neck and shoulders shone brightly, looking clean, fragrant and beautiful.Although he changed into clean clothes and threw away his straw hat, he knew how dark and thin he was, especially after pushing his bald head two months ago, the short hair that was growing made him look like a black monkey, He also read such a reaction from Shen Li's eyes.Shen Li said: "Come in." He seemed to have made up his mind and stepped into the door. In the room, two single beds were placed against the wall, one on the left and one on the right, with a window in the middle, and a table with two drawers and two chairs in front of the window.He sat down on the chair, Shen Li sat on a bed, stared at him with a smile, he smiled casually, and asked: "Where is Shen Xia?" Shen Li said: "Maybe in his room. Lu Xiaolong turned his head to look at the two beds, and asked: "Doesn't he live here?" Shen Li said: "I'm not married to him, how can he live with me?" Lu Xiaolong glanced at Shen Li, Shen Li tried her best to liven up the atmosphere, and said: "It's not like the Cultural Revolution, men and women can squeeze together." Lu Xiaolong lowered his eyes, thinking of the scene of the two going to Chongming Island together.Shen Li asked: "What are you thinking about?" Lu Xiaolong said: "I remembered something small." Shen Li looked out the window and said: "Do you think of Chongming Island?" Lu Xiaolong said: "There is nothing to think about." Shen Li lowered her gaze, smiled thoughtfully, and said, "Have you not returned to Beijing for two years?" Lu Xiaolong nodded. Shen Li said: "You don't even write me a letter." Lu Xiaolong said: "I don't want to be annoying." Shen Li looked at his dark and thin face and dark and thin arms, and asked: "What have you done in the past two years?" What have you been doing?" Lu Xiaolong stretched out his iron-black arm and said, "You still can't tell? Be a working people." Shen Li adjusted her skirt so that it covered her knees.Lu Xiaolong noticed that her arms and calves were white and plump, she seemed to be fatter than before, and she was still so beautiful, but faint crow's feet appeared in the corners of her eyes.Shen Li probably noticed Lu Xiaolong's gaze, stroked her hair back with both hands, and said, "We are all grown up." Lu Xiaolong lowered his eyes and did not speak. From 1966 to now, nine years have passed. Turning 30 years old is really a bit emotional.He asked: "Can I smoke?" Shen Li said: "Yes, but I don't smoke here." Lu Xiaolong said: "I take it with me." He took out a cigarette from his pocket, took out one, took out a match and lit it, and put both the cigarette case and the matchbox on the table.Shen Li looked at his cigarette case and said with a smile: "You still like to smoke Daqianmen." Lu Xiaolong exhaled a cigarette and said: "One person earns money and the other spends it, that's enough." He remembered a few years ago in Beijing The scene of Shen Li buying cigarettes for him.Shen Li asked: "How have you been in the past two years? Tell me about it." Lu Xiaolong looked at the smoke rings he spit out and said, "Save your life first." Shen Li asked: "What do you mean?" Lu Xiaolong simply said that his father was dying. I told the previous situation again, and finally said: "To put it bluntly, I am still a counter-revolutionary who slipped through the net." Shen Li stared at him with concern, Lu Xiaolong said: "However, you must not tell anyone about this, if it spreads, I will die." Shen Li nodded and said: "I know this, I will never I won't tell anyone." Lu Xiaolong heard that "anyone" included her parents and Shen Xia, so he said to Shen Li: "In order to escape, I even changed my handwriting. My letter, don’t be surprised by the imitation of Song Dynasty.” Shen Li looked at him without saying a word, and said after a while: “Have you destroyed all your writing?” Lu Xiaolong nodded and said: “ Yes. All my diaries, notes, and letters I wrote to my family have not been kept, and now probably only you have some letters I wrote in the past, are they still there?" Shen Li lowered her eyes and said, "It's still there, do you want me to destroy it?" Lu Xiaolong looked at her and asked, "Has anyone seen it?" Shen Li shook her head and said: "You wrote it to me, why should I show it to others?" Lu Xiaolong said: "Then it's up to you, if you want to keep it, you can keep it, if you want to destroy it, you can destroy it, as long as you don't let others see it." That's fine." Shen Li squinted her eyes and said, "Then I'm still reluctant to destroy them." Her eyes dimmed and she showed a faint smile recalling the past. After a while, Shen Li asked again: "How are you doing now?" Lu Xiaolong replied: "Work in the world, make a good relationship in the infrastructure department, and please the director." Shen Li asked again: "What else? ”卢小龙说：“下了班，能洗澡就洗澡，然后去食堂打饭。食堂饭不好，就花钱去买个鱼罐头、肉罐头，再不行了，就跟周围农村老乡买两斤鸡蛋，回宿舍用煤油炉下挂面。”沈丽问：“你住什么地方？”卢小龙说：“集体宿舍，三个人一间。”沈丽又问：“那个鲁敏敏呢？”卢小龙说：“完全傻了，还在农村呢，和一个老乡在一起过。”“鲁继敏呢？”沈丽又问。卢小龙说：“原来在公社当妇联主任，现在不知道。”沈丽又问：“田小黎呢？”卢小龙回答：“我都不知道，我这两年和北京没联系。” 沈丽不说话了，过了一会儿，她问：“你现在还认识什么人吗？”卢小龙反问道：“你具体问的什么？男的、女的、老的、少的？”沈丽看了看卢小龙，说：“当然是女的。”卢小龙叹了口气，说：“没什么，夹着尾巴做人，还没顾过来。”沈丽站起来给卢小龙倒了一杯白水，放到桌上，又坐下说道：“顾得上来的时候，还是顾一顾吧。”卢小龙把烟摁灭在沈丽刚刚给他拿过来的烟灰缸里，说道：“放心吧，我现在完全是一个俗人，只要有了机会，打情骂俏的事我都会干。” 沈丽看了他一眼，问：“你要不要擦把脸？”卢小龙摇了摇头，说：“不用。”沈丽说：“是我自己的毛巾，不是招待所的，我给你搓一把吧。”说着，她站了起来。卢小龙摆了一下手说：“不用了。”沈丽已经在门后墙角的脸盆中将毛巾搓了一把，拧干递了过来，说道：“擦一把吧，这是我从北京带来的自己的毛巾。”卢小龙想了想，接过毛巾抖开，擦着脸和脖子，一边擦一边说：“我现在可没有那么讲究。”他看了看毛巾被自己擦脏，又翻叠过来擦了一把，递给沈丽说：“你看，我一擦就脏了，你再用肥皂好好洗洗吧。”沈丽将毛巾挂到脸盆架上，又回到床边坐下，两人互相看了看，不知说什么好。过了一会儿，沈丽问：“你怎么不争取上工农兵大学呀？北清大学已经招了好几届工农兵学员了。”卢小龙哼了一声，说：“上工农兵大学要有基层单位推荐，谁推荐我？”沈丽说：“你现在不是在这儿干得挺好吗？他们不能推荐你吗？”卢小龙说：“就算基层单位推荐了我，北京哪个学校敢要我？你想想，像北清大学这样的学校敢要卢小龙吗？”沈丽说“你不是和江青挺熟的吗？江青不是还给你留过地址和电话吗？你不会把你的情况向她反映一下？”卢小龙冷冷地说道：“没有她，我爸爸还死不了呢。”沈丽看了看他，问：“你现在恨江青吗？”卢小龙眯着眼狠狠地将挺长的一截烟头摁灭在烟灰缸里。 窗外的天空已经暗了下来，沈丽站起来拉亮了灯。卢小龙问：“沈夏怎么不回来？”沈丽走到床边坐下，说：“他们视察团一起去吃饭了吧。”卢小龙问：“你怎么不跟他们一起去？”沈丽说：“我不和他们一块行动，我又不是视察团的，我刚才自己随便吃了点面包和榨菜。”卢小龙问：“你们今天晚上干什么？”沈丽说：“沈夏要和人一起去徐州市里转一转，他没来过徐州。”卢小龙问：“你来过吗？”沈丽说：“我也没来过。”卢小龙说：“你为什么不去转？”沈丽想了一下：“我身体有点不舒服。”卢小龙问：“怎么了？是中暑了吗？”沈丽垂下眼，有些不好意思地笑了一下，轻声说道：“我来例假了。”两个人又相互凝视着。 沈丽能够这样说话，无疑表明他们曾经有过极为特殊的关系。想到沈丽曾经是多么矜持和骄傲的女性，现在仍这样随和地和他坐着说话，给他拧自己的毛巾，确实是件很不平常的事情。正是从这一刻起，他觉出屋里的气氛发生了变化，两年来的隔膜与生疏似乎消融了许多，他的隐隐有些敌意的矜持也在渐渐消融。对方是一个自己曾十分熟悉的女子，他甚至能够用比较坦然的目光打量对方的身体。透过这条裙子，他凭着记忆想象出了整个身体的形状与质地，这不能不给他带来一种男人的刺激。沈丽刚才说起来例假的那种声音，让他感到她是一个曾经被自己照顾过的女孩。不过，这一切都还不能使他从自尊的矜持中完全摆脱出来，他还是比较生硬地坐在沈丽对面。他虽然知道从相貌上看沈丽显得比自己年轻，然而，他却拿不出一个大男人的样子来对待沈丽，他没有力量表示对沈丽的关心和爱抚。 又过了一会儿，楼道里响起了脚步声，卢小龙以为是沈夏回来了，便做好了撤退的准备。脚步声从门前走过了，不是沈夏，然而，他还是准备走了。沈丽没有硬留他，站起来送他，一直走到招待所一楼的大门。卢小龙让她留步，她却又将卢小龙送出了院子。已经到了马路上了，卢小龙说：“你回去吧。”沈丽却说：“我想走两步。”卢小龙看着她，她也看着卢小龙，两个人就在街上缓缓地走了一段。稀薄的路灯照着单调的马路，有些无关紧要的人在身边走过，他们却如走在无人的路上。终于，卢小龙站住了，说道：“我还是送你回招待所吧。”沈丽说：“那样送来送去，就没完了。”卢小龙说：“把你送回去，我才放心。” 沈丽在朦胧的路灯中看了他一眼，没有争辩，顺从地转回身来，两个人又款款地往回走。 眼看招待所院门口就在前面不远了，两个人走得尤其慢了。明明他们的事情可以由他们随心所欲而定，然而他们却都知道，再走回到招待所门口，就是他们必然要分手的时刻，无论他们怎样想再多说一会儿话，都没有理由了。这段路再有弹性，也很难拉得更长了，他们终于走完了。沈丽站在院门口，卢小龙站在她面前。沈丽说：“你什么时候回北京，一定要来找我。”卢小龙点点头，说：“好。”沈丽凄凉地一笑，目光有些恍惚，她说：“你会来找我吗？”卢小龙说：“不知道。”沈丽扬起了脸，泪水从眼睛里流了下来。卢小龙说：“咱们会有机会见面的，今天不就见了吗？”沈丽听任眼泪在脸上流淌着，摇了摇头，说：“你走吧，我不送你了。”卢小龙站在那里说：“你上楼去吧，我在这儿看着你上去。”沈丽闭着眼摇了摇头，说：“你快走。”卢小龙固执地站在那里，看着沈丽，说：“我要看着你上楼。” 眼泪更加连贯地从沈丽的眼里溢出，她闭紧眼睛晃了一下头，抖落眼泪，扭转身快步走上楼门前的台阶。卢小龙失声喊道：“沈丽！”沈丽头也不回地进了楼门，跑上了楼梯。