Chapter 5 Chapter 4 Wei Na and Zheng Qiulun

Their love affair started from discussing Paul's love with Tonya and Lida.Although Wei Na had already read it, she did not hesitate and re-read it seriously.Perhaps because it was rereading, she was able to ask a lot of questions and discuss with him.What they talked about the most was naturally the love in the book.Working from morning to night, I don't have much time to read.The book reads very slowly.When Wei Na read about two-thirds of the time, her first love with Zheng Qiulun was also refined.It was also an evening, and by the lake where they first met unexpectedly, the two hugged each other.But it's no longer summer, it's autumn.The reeds are yellow and bloom with snow-like flowers.The reeds are being harvested, leaving boundless desolation.The North Lake without reeds is clear and cold, as deep as the sky.That evening, Wei Na knew that Zheng Qiulun was nineteen years old, three years older than her.

The two of them hugged each other until late at night.There is an unknown bird on the lake, which is always singing sadly and flying back and forth.Years have passed, and as long as she thinks about it, the tragic bird cry that makes people cry will ring in her ears.If people are confused by fate, they will become superstitious.Afterwards, she always thought that the bird's cry actually foreshadowed something to them, but they didn't realize it. The work on the farm is getting more and more boring, and the educated youths are always looking forward to the rain.As long as you are not too busy, you can stop working if it rains.It happened to be raining one day, and the farm had a holiday.Zheng Qiulun asked Wei Na to go to the reading room to read books and newspapers.Zheng Qiulun looked at "Reference News", suddenly threw the newspaper away, and said softly, "Bullshit!"

Wei Na didn't know what he was talking about, she looked at him, and it was not easy to ask.When she came out, she asked, "Why are you angry?" Zheng Qiulun said: "There was an article in "Reference News" titled "Soviet Revisionists Running Fast on the Road to Commodification", criticizing the Soviet Union for its resurgence of capitalism and the smell of commodities everywhere. Whether the Soviet Union restored capitalism or not, I dare not speak in vain. However, it is obviously unreasonable to deny the existence of commodities. To deny the existence of commodities will suffocate the economy. The economy is a living organism that needs blood circulation to survive. The exchange of commodities is the blood circulation of the economy. Since they advertise dialectical materialism , we have to look at things from a materialist point of view. Commodities exist objectively, and it’s not that if they are called products in other words, they will disappear. Isn’t this deception?”

Wei Na couldn't understand, so she said: "Let's not talk about this? Let's go for a walk." They walked out of the farm compound and toward the lake.The road was very muddy, and after walking a few steps, the overshoes were covered with mud.The mud is very sticky, sticking to the shoes and unable to fall off, and the feet are getting heavier and heavier.Zheng Qiulun said, "Go barefoot." Wei Na had no choice but to imitate Zheng Qiulun, took off her shoes, and said: "It's hard to have a day to wear shoes, but there is no good way to walk." The rain gradually subsided, but the wind was strong.Sisi autumn rain blowing on his face, it was cold.The two carried their shoes and wore plastic raincoats, holding hands, and walked forward with their heads bowed.If you are not careful, you will fall down.Zheng Qiulun said: "Weina, the road is not easy to walk, and I'm afraid it will rain heavily later. I'll take you to Granny Cai's house."

"Grandma Cai?" Wei Na asked. "Oh, you don't know me, right? It's there." Zheng Qiulun pointed to a thatched hut by the lake. "Grandma Cai is an old lonely woman who cannot see. I often go to her place to sit and talk to her." Wei Na found it interesting and asked, "You still have this temper? Are you interested in talking to the blind old lady?" Zheng Qiulun said: "Grandma Cai is like a fairy. She can't see with her eyes, but she knows everything about the North Lake Plain. Anyone who stops by her door will know who is coming without you asking."

After speaking, he arrived outside Granny Cai's hut.Zheng Qiulun said: "Let's wash our feet, Granny Cai is cute and clean." "Is it Xiao Zheng?" The two looked back and saw Granny Cai standing at the door, holding on to the door frame. "Grandma Cai, we won't be working today, so we'll come and see you." Zheng Qiulun said. Granny Cai asked, "Who is the other girl?" Surprised, Wei Na looked at Zheng Qiulun.She didn't say a word just now, how did Granny Cai know that there was a girl?Zheng Qiulun said: "The one in our venue is called Wei Na."

"Weina? That's the newcomer? Isn't she pretty?" Granny Cai said. Zheng Qiulun said: "She is the most beautiful girl on our farm." It was the first time Wei Na heard Zheng Qiulun say that she was beautiful, and her face was flushed with embarrassment.Granny Cai said: "Well, Xiao Zheng is the best boy on the farm." This was for Wei Na to hear, so she felt embarrassed. After entering the room and sitting down, Wei Na raised her eyes and couldn't believe that Granny Cai was really blind.The thatched hut is very delicate, and there are only two rooms inside and outside.The outer one is the kitchen, with a bare earthen stove.Inside is the bedroom, a broken bed, the mosquito net on the bed is old brown, but the patches are square.The ground is tightly built with lime and loess, and it is also flat and clean.Several small low stools are neatly placed on the four walls.Granny Cai fumbled to move the stool, Zheng Qiulun hurriedly said, "You keep sitting, let me do it myself."

"Sister, Xiao Zheng is a good man. The young people on your farm all go to the yard to steal chickens and ducks. He is the only one who has never done this. It is not easy for the villagers to feed a few chickens and raise a few ducks. .” Granny Cai said. Hearing Granny Cai boast, Zheng Qiulun just smiled, but Wei Na was even more embarrassed.Zheng Qiulun said: "Grandma Cai, if you need my help, just tell me." "I have nothing to do. I live alone, I eat, and the whole family is full. How is your life? There is no oil in your stomach, so you go fishing in the lake." Granny Cai said.

Zheng Qiulun said: "Don't dare. The militiamen of your brigade patrol by rowing boats. If they catch them, they will be criticized." "There are so many fish in the lake, I'm afraid you'll catch a few of them? Shall I tell them to go fishing? You go fishing and cook them on my stove." Granny Cai said, her eyes turned outside the door .Not far from the door is the misty and rainy North Lake, with high winds and strong waves. Zheng Qiulun said: "Okay, one day I catch fish, I will borrow your old pot to cook." Wei Na shuddered suddenly.Zheng Qiulun asked: "Are you cold?"

Wei Na said, "It's not cold." Granny Cai said: "In this weather, it's a bit cold to sit still. Sister, don't freeze. Don't think it's dirty. I have rags, take some to wear." Wei Na said, "No need, Granny Cai. Let's sit down and go back." "Aren't you going to talk to me?" The rain suddenly became heavy, and Granny Cai smiled, "Look, God left you guys alone." The rain is getting heavier.The rain curtain sealed the door, and the field outside the door could not be seen.It was as dark as night in the hut.The strong wind and the torrential rain howled on the vast wasteland.Granny Cai was chattering about people and things.Zheng Qiu took Wei Na in her arms and held her in her arms.Wei Na was a little embarrassed, as if Granny Cai saw everything in her eyes.

"In the old society, how could there be so many thieves?" Granny Cai said, "There are only one or two thieves from tens of miles away, and everyone recognizes them. Whoever is a thief in the village is caught and locked up in the ancestral hall. There is a wooden frame in the ancestral hall, and you are tied up on the frame, with your buttocks exposed. A stick is placed next to it, and anyone who sees it will hit your butt three times. This is called the whole family law." Zheng Qiulun hugged Wei Na tightly, and said to Granny Cai: "Really?" Granny Cai said: "Those who are stealing and robbing today are all reincarnated by the bandits who were killed during the liberation. Let's pinch your fingers and count. They have reincarnated as adults, just at your age. Retribution." Wei Na smiled and said, "Grandma Cai, what you said is reactionary." Granny Cai said, "What am I afraid of?" Wei Na was still cold, she burrowed hard into Zheng Qiulun's arms.Suddenly Granny Cai smiled, Wei Na hastily pushed Zheng Qiulun away and sat up.Granny Cai said, "I'm your age, I've already been a mother." Wei Na asked: "Grandma Cai gave birth to a child?" "I gave birth to three, all of whom were coaxing my mother, and left me early." Granny Cai sighed, "My damn ghost, let him go to Changde, so that he can be a bitch in Changde Mansion, no matter how old our mother is. one." Zheng Qiu waved his hands and told Wei Na not to talk nonsense.The rain hadn't stopped yet, the wind was getting stronger and stronger, and the rain was rolling in the door.Granny Cai said: "Old Dragon King lost his temper." She got up and closed the door.It was as dark as night in the room.But I felt that Granny Cai was walking around and cleaning up the house.She has no day and night. Granny Cai said, "Just have lunch with me. I'll go to sleep for a while, and I'll cook for you when I get up." Zheng Qiulun said: "No, no. Let's sit for a while and go back when the rain stops." Granny Cai said not to be polite, and there was no sound.Sitting in the hut and listening to the rain, there is no violent rain, but it is more real.The sound of rain hitting dry grass, the sound of rain hitting leaves, the sound of rain hitting soil, and the sound of wind and torrential rain are all combined together.Listen carefully, it seems that you can still hear autumn insects creaking in the rain. Zheng Qiulun leaned against Wei Na's ear and said softly, "Weina, are you listening to the rain?" "Listening. I want to cry," Verna said. Zheng Qiulun touched Wei Na's face and hugged her even tighter.His hands slowly felt wet, and Wei Na really started to cry.Zheng Qiulun wiped her tears with his hands, and his heart felt soft.Wei Na writhed in his arms, her chest pressed against his.He always dared not reach out to touch the place that made him feel uneasy. Granny Cai has already fallen asleep. On the field where the reeds have been harvested, the wild mugwort has turned white, as if in mourning.Wei Na always has strange thoughts that come from nowhere.For example, mugwort, people hang it on the door during the Dragon Boat Festival, saying it can ward off evil spirits.But she always regards mugwort as an ominous thing, which makes the field more desolate and the autumn wind more bleak.Wei Na imagined that mugwort always grows in the cemetery, and she was a little scared when she thought about it. On this wasteland, she and Zheng Qiulun often wandered from dusk to late night.Autumn is getting deeper and deeper, but the lake is getting thinner and thinner.The road to the lake is getting farther and farther.The place where Wei Na first met Zheng Qiulun was originally a lake in summer, but now it is dry black soil, cracked, like countless shouting mouths and angry eyes.The night sky was cold and starry. One afternoon, the farm was idle.Carrying her schoolbag, Zheng Qiulun ran outside Wei Na's dormitory and shouted, "Weina, are you going out to play?" It was Dai Qian who came out, smiling at Mimi, and said, "Zheng Qiulun, come in and have a seat." Zheng Qiulun said, "I won't come in. Where's Wei Na?" Dai Qian said: "I don't know what's wrong with her. She went out early in the morning and didn't talk to anyone." Someone inside could be heard saying: "Dai Qian, what are you worrying about? I'm not looking for you." Dai Qian blushed, turned and went into the room. Zheng Qiulun walked to the wilderness outside the farm alone.He was anxious, not knowing what happened to Wei Na.He thought Wei Na would not go anywhere, only to the lake.He looked around as he walked.There are not many ups and downs in the field, and the sky can be reached as far as the eye can see.He walked to the lake where the two of them usually go, and he saw Wei Na sitting there. "Weina, I'll look for you in your bedroom." Zheng Qiulun ran over. Wei Na looked back at him, but said nothing.Zheng Qiulun asked, "What's wrong with you?" "I got a letter from my dad," Wei Na said. "Is there something wrong at home?" "No." Zheng Qiulun said: "Then you should be happy. My father doesn't write to me." Wei Na said: "My father himself is the most miserable, but he always writes letters to comfort me. Every time I receive a letter from him, I feel uncomfortable." "You have never talked about your father with me. How is your father...?" Zheng Qiulun tentatively asked. Wei Na said: "My father is a professor of history at Jingdu University. He left the podium a long time ago and went to a forest farm in the south of Jingdu to work as a logger. The forest farm is in Mengniu County. My father is not an ordinary Professor, he is an expert on Ming history, very famous." "Really? I respect learned people." Zheng Qiulun said. Wei Na sighed: "My father suffers because of his knowledge. His research has his own theoretical framework, and he only accepts death, so he suffers. Every time my father sends a letter, he asks me to work hard and resolve to take root in the countryside. In fact, I know in my heart that he only wants me to return to the city as soon as possible." Zheng Qiulun couldn't help sighing, and said, "Everyone is looking forward to going back sooner. That day at Grandma Cai's house, the door was closed by a heavy rain, and it was as dark as night. You started to cry. I didn't ask why you were crying, but I knew why you were crying. In my heart It’s also a little gray, almost hopeless. Trapped in such a hut by the heavy rain, thinking about my future, I can’t see anything.” Wei Na said in a low voice: "Yes, we can't see a future. The biggest wish of our whole family is that Dad can go back to university to teach. Dad is the pillar of the family. My sister has returned to the city from the rural areas. I work as a car worker in an automobile engine factory. My parents have two children, me and my sister. My mother is also in my father's university and works as an administrator in the library. My mother originally learned English, but never used it. When I was very young , my mother taught me English. Don't say I'm bragging, my English level is better than my middle school teacher. My mother is a person who reads a lot, but never has her own opinions. She lives in fear and caution. Fortunately, my mother is With this character, I carefully guard this home. Otherwise, I’m afraid I won’t even have a home.” "Okay, let's not talk about that. There will be bread and everything." Zheng Qiulun smiled and patted Wei Na's face, "Really, you will teach me English from now on, okay?" Wei Na said, "Why do you still learn English these days? It's useless." Zheng Qiulun said: "It will be useful. I said you should not waste your English." "Okay, I'll listen to you. Alas, my dad just had too much ink in his stomach, so he just finished it." Wei Na sighed as she spoke. Zheng Qiulun smiled and said, "Okay, let's not talk about this anymore. Let's go, let's go steal fish from the lake." Wei Na asked: "How did you steal it? It would be amazing if you caught it." Zheng Qiulun smiled slyly and said, "It's okay, just follow me." The two walked casually by the lake, and when they arrived at a secluded place, Zheng Qiulun took out a paper bag from his schoolbag.When I opened it, I found a wooden stick wrapped around an inch long with silk thread inside.It turned out that Zheng Qiulun had already prepared a fishing rod, but he didn't need a fishing rod. "There are plenty of fish in the lake, even the blind can catch them. We are not in a hurry, as long as we catch one, it will be enough to eat." After Zheng Qiulun said, he picked up a stick on the ground and dug a few times in the ground. Dig out a few large earthworms.He hung the earthworm on the hook and threw it into the water.Then he took out a book and told Wei Na to look at the buoy. "What book are you reading?" Wei Na took the book in Zheng Qiulun's hand and looked at it, and saw that it was "Feuerbach or the End of German Classical Philosophy" by Engels.She saw that Zheng Qiulun was always reading this kind of books, so she thought he was great.Wei Na has had the opportunity to read a lot of books since she was a child, but she only reads books, and only likes to read literature books.She is a girl who is bewitched by literature and is full of fantasies.She worships heroes, and always dreams that her destiny is linked with heroes.She is willing to obey the hero's call and dedicate everything to the hero, even if she sacrifices herself for him.She even often has a crazy idea, that is, to bury the body of her beloved hero with her own hands, and then turn her head, facing the bitter wind and rain, and walk to a distant land. Zheng Qiulun reads novels only occasionally for pastime, and his favorite thing is to delve into political and economic theories.He looked for Marx's "Philosophical Manuscripts", Merlin's "Biography of Marx", and Lenin's "State and Revolution".But there aren't many good books, most of them are the official tone that Zheng Qiulun doesn't take seriously.He said that he was reading the book from the front, and that he was reading from the cracks in the book.Every time he finished a book, he would talk endlessly in front of Wei Na for several days, refuting the views in the book.He didn't appear to be impassioned, he just spoke the truth mildly.Wei Na listened clearly and logically, but seemed to understand half of it.There are also some things that Zheng Qiulun doesn't agree with, but he can't find a reason to refute them, and he is deeply troubled by this. Wei Na leaned lazily in Zheng Qiulun's arms, staring at the buoy without blinking.Zheng Qiulun is the hero in her heart.But the hero got into the book completely, only the warm breath blowing evenly on Wei Na's face.Suddenly, Wei Na raised her hand to touch Zheng Qiulun and said, "It's moving, it's moving." It took Zheng Qiulun a long time to reflect and asked, "What?" Looking at the buoy again, it was motionless again.Wei Na scolded: "It just moved." Zheng Qiulun said: "It doesn't move now, which means there are still no fish. If you don't believe me, you can go and have a look." Pull it up and see that the hook is empty.Wei Na said, "I said there are fish." Zheng Qiulun smiled and said, "What a cunning fish. It's okay, we have plenty of time." Zheng Qiu put on the bait and went back to reading.Wei Na said: "Any more fish will be baited, I will make my own decision, and I won't talk to you." Zheng Qiulun touched Wei Na's face and said, "Okay, just go fishing." Not long after, Wei Na stood up abruptly, stretched the silk thread in her hand, and said softly, "Hurry up, I'm fishing." Zheng Qiulun hurriedly put down the book, took the silk thread from Wei Na's hand, and said in a low voice: "You squat down, we are stealing fish." Wei Na hurriedly looked around, squatted down and said, "No one." Zheng Qiulun took the thread slowly and said, "This fish is too big, you can't pull it hard, you have to try to pull it back. Just watch people and wait for me to take my time." Wei Na stood up again, looking around.Zheng Qiulun laughed and said: "You can't do this, you look sneaky. You can't engage in underground work." Wei Na asked: "Then what do you say?" Zheng Qiulun said: "You take my book. You stand, pretending to be reading, and look into the distance." Wei Na held the book and looked at it pretendingly.Zheng Qiulun said again: "You can't always go in one direction, you have to pay attention to other directions. Be natural, right, that's it." Wei Na laughed and said, "Underground work is something that happened during the Revolutionary War." "It's practical now." Zheng Qiulun said with a smile, "Okay, okay, the fish is almost here. My God, such a big fish, I'm afraid it weighs about ten catties." Wei Na squatted down, blushing with excitement.The fish jumped high on the ground, splashing mud.Zheng Qiulun said: "It's a herring. Such a big herring is rare. Green grass carp, herring is the best fish in Beihu Lake." Wei Na wiped the mud from her face and said, "I can't tell what fish is what." Zheng Qiulun said: "Look, the herring has a small head, a long and round body, iron gray, with blue light. It eats small fish and snails, and is very fierce. Look, it has teeth, like pig teeth. It They are usually in deep water, so it’s really lucky to catch them today. Quickly find a mugwort stalk, and I’ll string it up.” Mugwort grows strong, and it took Wei Na a long time to pull out one.She suddenly noticed a boat approaching in the distance, panicked, and said softly, "Is that the militia patrolling the water?" Zheng Qiulun raised his fist and slammed it hard at the fish's head.The fish stopped moving.He quickly skewered the fish and said, "Don't panic. Let's walk slowly through the dirt bag behind, and then run, straight to Granny Cai's house." Zheng Qiulun was carrying the fish, Wei Na was carrying the schoolbag, and the two walked nonchalantly.The soil bag behind them blocked the lake, and the two started running.After running a few steps, Wei Na couldn't stop laughing.When she smiled, she couldn't run fast.Zheng Qiulun looked back at her, both anxious and amused.Wei Na squatted down laughing, panting, "Qiulun, leave me alone, just run." Zheng Qiulun asked: "What's wrong with you? What are you laughing at?" Wei Na smiled, with a bitter face, and said, "You run." Zheng Qiulun ran for a while, and saw a lush mugwort bush, threw the fish into it, and ran back to Wei Na.Wei Na was still squatting there laughing non-stop, her face flushed with sweat.Suddenly, I saw a few people standing on the dirt bag not far away, like the militiamen on the boat just now.Wei Na stopped laughing immediately, and said softly, "It must have been discovered that we stole fish." Zheng Qiulun said, "Don't panic. Even if they come to search, they won't be able to find it. Just read the book." The few people on the dirt bag stood there, looked around for a while, and then walked back.Wei Na said, "Let's go." Zheng Qiulun said: "Wait, I'm afraid they will return to the carbine." Sure enough, within a few minutes, someone stood up from the dirt bag.Wei Na said, "Qiulun, you are really cunning." Zheng Qiulun smiled and said, "No, it's wit." The two sat for a while, and it seemed that nothing happened, so they got up and walked back.Zheng Qiulun took the fish out of the mugwort bush and carried it, and saw that the fish was still alive and kicking. "This fish is really powerful, I just knocked it out just now." Zheng Qiulun said. "Grandma Cai." Zheng Qiulun called. No one agreed.Wei Na called out too, but still no one answered.The door was open, and the two entered.Zheng Qiulun said: "It's okay, we just need to do it ourselves. Granny Cai never closes the door when she goes out. If the weather is good, she will go for a walk in the village. Wherever she goes, people will call her for dinner. The old man is very popular. it is good." The two cleaned the herring and kept it in a wooden basin.Zheng Qiulun said: "Take a break and see if Granny Cai comes back. The pigs squawk, the fish jump, and kill the fish while cooking." "You seem to know everything." Wei Na looked at Zheng Qiulun, smiling with watery eyes. Zheng Qiulun asked again: "What were you laughing at? Fortunately, it wasn't the era of the Revolutionary War." Wei Na blushed and said, "I won't tell you." Zheng Qiulun wanted to know, and said, "I want you to tell. What are you laughing at? Tell me quickly." Wei Na lowered her head and said, "I don't want to tell you." Zheng Qiulun grabbed Wei Na's shoulder and said, "Really, tell me, what are you laughing at?" Wei Na buried her head lower, pointed to her chest and said, "Run, I'm shaking so badly here." Zheng Qiulun's hands trembled, and he hugged Wei Na into his arms.Wei Na said softly, "Kiss me." Zheng Qiulun bit Wei Na's lip and sucked it hard.Wei Na's hand was hot and trembling, she grabbed Zheng Qiulun's hand and pulled it up to her chest.Panting, she said, "Kiss me here." Zheng Qiulun was startled, and looked up at Wei Na.Wei Na's eyes were closed, and thin beads of sweat covered her forehead.His hand slowly reached into Wei Na's arms, gently rubbing and pinching. "Kiss, kiss." Wei Na moaned.Zheng Qiulun buried his head deeply in Wei Na's arms, arching and grinding.Weina hummed and unbuttoned her clothes.Zheng Qiulun held her round nipple in her mouth, feeling the surging waves of the North Lake. The two hugged and kissed, sweating profusely, their lips were anxious and irritable.Wei Na cried, "Water, water, my throat is on fire." Zheng Qiulun put down Wei Na, found a job, and scooped up a bowl of water.Wei Na has buttoned her clothes and is sitting there combing her hair.She didn't dare to look up at him, she lowered her head to take the water, and gulped it down.Zheng Qiulun was at a loss, scratching his head. "How do fish do it?" Wei Na asked in a low voice. Zheng Qiulun said: "I don't know how to cook either. You can cook whatever you want, as long as it is cooked. There is perilla outside the house, let's get some." The outside of the hut is covered with wild perilla, purple in color, with fleshy and tender leaves.When I smell it, it smells so fragrant that tears are about to flow out.Wei Na likes to smell the scent of basil, so she talks about it a lot.Zheng Qiulun said: "Enough is enough, it's just condiments, why do we need so much?" The herring was so fierce that it opened its mouth and was still jumping.Both Zheng Qiulun and Wei Na have never done housework, and the fish that have been chopped are one big and small.Both of them laughed.Zheng Qiulun said: "Never mind it, as long as it's cooked." Boil the fish in clear water, and it will be cooked in a while.Fill a large pot.Put some salt and basil, taste it, it is very delicious.There was no cooking, and the two of them just ate fish. Wei Na said: "I am almost seventeen years old, and I have never eaten such delicious fish." Zheng Qiulun felt a little pity, and said: "It's a good fish, let our cooking skills be ruined." Wei Na said: "You don't understand. It's not just fish today." Zheng Qiulun smiled naively.The fish was too big for ten people to finish it.It was slowly getting dark, but Grandma Cai hadn't come back yet.Zheng Qiulun suddenly thought of his friends, and said, "Weina, let's save some for Granny Cai, and bring the rest to Li Long and the others. We won't go to their place for a few days." Wei Na was very happy to hear that, and said, "Okay, let's go right away." There are several educated youth farms around the North Lake, and there are also educated youth farms in other provinces.Zheng Qiulun often took Wei Na to various farms, where he had friends who were of the same type as him.Sometimes even the educated youth farms in other provinces have friends who invite him to play.He has an old bicycle, and he can hear it from a long distance when he rides it.Every time, after a hasty dinner, Zheng Qiulun carried Wei Na on his bicycle and creaked to other farms.When friends meet, they don't talk too much, and they don't make jokes. They always discuss world affairs in a serious manner.These friends are not many, three or four, five or six in each place.They seldom sit in the dormitory, and mostly walk along the North Lake.The night was dark and the wind was high, and the lake water was crackling. Of Zheng Qiulun's friends, Wei Na's favorite is Li Long from Mengze Farm.He is also tall, fair-looking, and eloquent.But she was very shy and blushed when she saw Wei Na.Li Long and Zheng Qiulun also got along the most.Mengze Farm is the closest to Beihu Farm, and Zheng Qiulun often takes Wei Na there to play.Sometimes it was too late to chat, or the weather was too bad, Zheng Qiulun would go to Li Long to set up a bunk, and Li Long would send Wei Na to the women's dormitory to sleep.They can only sleep for a while, and when the sky is bright, they have to get up and hurry.They dare not miss the next day's work. Zheng Qiulun asked Wei Na to wait at Granny Cai's house. He rode a bicycle back to the dormitory and brought a bucket.A large bowl of fish was left for Grandma Cai, and most of the bucket was left.The two were just about to go out when Granny Cai shouted outside the door: "Xiao Zheng?" Zheng Qiulun hurriedly said: "Grandma Cai, you are really a living god." Granny Cai laughed and said, "I smelled the fragrance of perilla from a long distance away. It's not Xiao Zheng, who would come to my place to cook fish?" Wei Na said, "We left a big bowl for you. It's herring." "Herring? What a blessing. Herring is a fish monster." Granny Cai said. Zheng Qiulun said: "The fish is served in a big bowl and placed in a pot. Let's go." After leaving the door, Wei Na asked, "Grandma Cai said that the herring is a fish monster, what does that mean?" Zheng Qiulun said: "The fishermen here talk about the herring very mysteriously. The fish monsters they talk about are probably elves and ghosts. Herring is very cunning, hard to catch, and lives in deep water, so they think it is strange. North Lake There are many stories about herring." Wei Na said: "Grandma Cai is really like a fairy, very smart." Zheng Qiulun said: "A blind person has exceptionally good ears and nose." The road was potholed, and the bicycles were even louder.Wei Na put her arms around Zheng Qiulun's waist with one hand, and supported the bucket with the other.After a while, the hands were sore.He kept getting off the car and changing hands. Zheng Qiulun shouted loudly: "You said teach me English, let's start." "What teaching method?" Wei Na asked. Zheng Qiulun said with a smile: "Just say whatever you want. Please rest assured, Mr. Wei, my English is not too bad, it's just that my oral English is not good." The two of them just talked in English, talking wherever they thought, and they were dying of joy.Zheng Qiulun's pronunciation is not very accurate, Wei Na always makes fun of him.Zheng Qiulun said: "What are you laughing at? I am humbly asking for advice." When she arrived at Mengze Farm, Wei Na was already sweating through her clothes.Wei Na waited outside, Zheng Qiulun went into the farm alone to call someone.In a few minutes, Li Long and the others arrived.There were four or five people, each holding bowls and chopsticks.And brought a bottle of wine. Friends sat on the ground, drinking, eating fish, talking and laughing loudly.They both had kaviana fish well cooked and so delicious.Wei Na just laughed and didn't say much.The fish has been cold for a long time, but fortunately it is not winter.Zheng Qiulun stopped eating and took a few sips of wine from Li Long's bowl.Everyone gobbled it up and ate up half a bucket of fish. "Qiulun, I heard that a counter-revolutionary organization called the Plum Blossom Party has been busted recently. Have you heard of it?" Li Long asked. Zheng Qiulun shook his head and said, "I haven't heard of it." Li Long said: "The spread here is very scary. It is said that the Plum Blossom Party has grown to tens of thousands of people, and every party member has a plum blossom mark on the soles of their feet. I heard that people came from other farms and gathered the educated youths. , Check the soles of the feet one by one." Zheng Qiulun said: "This is a bit mysterious." Educated youths like to quietly spread the news, enjoying the thrill of thrills.Life is too dull.Some people were unlucky because of spreading these gossips, and they were criticized for mild cases, and imprisoned for serious cases.Of course, there are also some people who enjoy the excitement of rumors, and at the same time make small reports, so they get lucky and even get rich. Zheng Qiulun said: "Li Long, we don't want to spread these things. It's hard to tell whether it's true or not. This is an era when whistleblowing is regarded as a noble quality, but it's just a rhetorical treatment of whistleblowing, called reporting. Our friends If you say it casually, if you accidentally say it, it will be troublesome if someone reports it." Li Long felt embarrassed and said, "Qiulun, I'll listen to you." Zheng Qiulun said: "Who is the revolution and who is the counter-revolution, sometimes it is really hard to tell. Let's study some issues in a down-to-earth manner." Tonight is the same as usual, Zheng Qiulun and Li Long are talking, and other friends are just interjecting.Wei Na listened with her chin propped up, like an obedient elementary school student.The autumn wind blows across the North Lake Plain, breaking the dry mugwort stalks and peeling them off.The coolness of the lake water comes with the wind, with a hint of chill.