Chapter 54 You can never think of 1-(Zheng Xiaofang)

In a person's life, there will always be some important and meaningful moments.I am facing such a moment now.Maybe it's not a big deal, but at least it's meaningful.I mean, in another month, I will be graduating from the Provincial Forestry College.You may not know that four years ago, I was a country girl in the valley of the Loess Plateau.And now, I have become a college graduate.Isn't the change significant for a person? I have already rejected the request to let me stay in school, and insisted that the school assign me to work in the area of ​​our hometown.Few of my classmates understood me.They laughed at me for being a total "bump".It seems so stupid to go to a desolate mountain area to suffer because of giving up the opportunity to work in a big city.

I admit I'm a country bumpkin.I love our country as city people love the city in which they live.A person always has a root deeply rooted in a certain place.My hometown is indeed desolate and barren.There, the severe cold will spread from November of the first year to before the Ching Ming Festival of the second year.The spring there is also extremely short, and the strong wind blowing outside the Great Wall often blows up the sand and dust in the Mu Us Desert, knocking the freshly opened peach and apricot flowers to the ground. However, there were also many good days there.Our wonderful time begins after the summer solstice.These sunny, breezy days are here to stay until another winter begins.During these days, most of the weather will be fine, especially in the dog days, the sky is dazzlingly blue, and the earth is golden with plenty of sunshine, but it is not as muggy as the big cities, and there are cool winds blowing the earth during the day and night , giving a kind touch to people and all things.

Four years ago, I lived there all the time, and I never traveled far except in the county town where I went to middle school.Since I was admitted to the Provincial Forestry College and came to this prosperous provincial capital, in the past four years, I have been missing my hometown all the time.Sometimes, in the dormitory on the third floor of the school, I often dreamed of those summer nights when I was a child. I slept with my father on the threshing field, smoked mosquitoes by lighting a moxa rope; let the cool wind blow my bare arms; The stars in the sky, listening to the noise of the small river... Sometimes, a rooster crows from somewhere in the city, and I can't help crying.This is the voice of the country!

The reason why I insist on going back to my hometown to work is not only that I am nostalgic and love it, but more importantly, the soil and water conservation I studied can only make a difference there.I applied for this major in the first place so that I could go back there in the end.I love the mountains and rivers of my hometown, and I just want to use the knowledge I have learned to make it beautiful.This idea has been with me since I was a child. To be honest, I look down on some of my classmates from the bottom of my heart.Although they are from the country, they despise the country.I am usually disgusted that they despise their hometown, just as a person talking about the shortcomings of his parents will arouse disgust from others.Now, these people are doing everything possible to stay and work in the city, even if they are asked to ride a tricycle.I am not saying that my ideological realm is so high.But I always feel that, aside from other things, a person should always have a spirit of dedication when he is young.I don't think the line between the sublime and the sublime in life has ever been blurred, despite the general fashion for pleasure in our current lives.Of course, I don't want to blame my young friends too much, because in the final analysis, people's understanding of life and happiness depends on each person's own understanding.This understanding is difficult to unify.I am going to go my own way, but I am also willing to bless my friends on the other way.Well, the time to part is coming.We all have to fly in all directions like birds leaving the nest. No matter which world we fly in, we have to start flying with our own wings.That is to say, we are going to start living independently.

All of this is exciting.It makes people excited, it makes people tremble with pleasure, Jing makes people restless, it makes people sleepless at night... Of course, there are other reasons for my excitement, and I can talk about it now without shame, but maybe you will laugh when you say it. Along with the excitement of graduating, I also thought that the day when I would live with a man was drawing near.This annoying and sweet thought haunts me from time to time and makes me uneasy.You must not misunderstand that I am going to marry him immediately.No, not in a year or two.Although he and I are both from the countryside, we have received higher education and will not marry as early as our classmates in the countryside.I mean, he and I will be assigned to work in the same place as a fiancée.He is a recent graduate of the Chinese Department of the Provincial Normal University and a fellow of mine.Their village is only five miles away from ours. He and I have been classmates since the first grade of elementary school. As the saying goes, we are childhood sweethearts.However, we had already discussed that we would not return to our county after graduation, but would go to work in an area farther north.Half of the mountainous area there belongs to the Loess Plateau like our hometown, and the other half is already the Mu Us Desert.When we were in middle school, we went to a county in the desert to participate in a sports meeting, and we were deeply attracted by the desert and magnificent scenery there.We once stood on the majestic beacon tower of the ancient city, and made an agreement with enthusiasm: we must come here to work in the future.It was probably childish at the time.But we've been taking this childish idea seriously for years.Please don't laugh at us, a certain idea when a person is a teenager may work in a person's life.At least, we are still faithful to this original oath.My friend wrote quite a few poems about it.He liked to write poetry, often with more romantic passion than I.I like him, and this is also a very important reason.As for me, since I was a child, I prefer a turbulent life, and I have a stubborn attitude towards it.Don't think I'm a "tomboy" for that.In all respects, especially in terms of feelings, I am a real girl.

Now I often imagine we've gotten there.We will have no acquaintances in that place at first, so we will be very close.I will take walks and watch movies with him under the eyes of strangers in a foreign land.Maybe I will forget the local customs and walk with his arm as we did later in this city.This will definitely attract a lot of disgusted eyes.I'm funny! I will definitely go to his unit from time to time, and he will come to mine from time to time.Maybe we'll have to buy a kerosene stove and some cooking utensils so we can cook together on Sunday.Of course these things will be placed in my place, because I am a woman.God, it was horrible!It also occurred to me that we would have a child later on.I like fat boys, but he said he likes girls...

Now it's time for me to tell you who the "he" I keep talking about is. His name is Xue Feng.If you have read the fifth issue of the provincial literary publication "North" last year, you will have seen a series of poems "Youth Movement" published by him on it.However, the signature is Xuefeng, which is a homonym of his name.Dissatisfied with you, I gave him this pseudonym.People who care about us probably mainly want to know about our present and future, so I will only briefly say here about our past. As you all know, he and I have been classmates since childhood.Junior high school and high school are also located in the county seat.Except that we were divided into two classes in junior high school, we were not only in the same class, but also at the same table in elementary school and high school.

In our poor rural area, it is extremely difficult to enter the county-run junior high school and high school.Those limited tables, chairs and benches are almost all taken by students in the county, and most of the students in the countryside can only go to social-run middle schools—this means that most of them have to return to the countryside to be farmers after graduating from junior high school.The low level of teachers and the poor teaching conditions have caused most of them to be unable to further their studies.Some community-run middle schools don’t even offer foreign language classes. How can students be admitted to universities?

Xue Feng and I won our place in the county with our good grades.Among the dozen or so villages in Yidaochuan, the two of us are the only ones who entered this sacred hall.In the junior high school entrance examination, Xue Feng actually took the first place in the county.Since we were young, we have basically been together all the time.When we went to school in the city, we would go home on Saturday afternoon and return to school after lunch on Sunday. We all followed each other.Of course, some bad things happened along the way.The classmates in the class once talked about us winkingly.When we returned to the village, the farmers we were familiar with on both sides of the road also rudely called us a "couple".How exasperating all this is.But when I grew up, I also admitted in my heart that I couldn't leave him in this life.When I vaguely understand love, I know I like him.I know he likes me too.When we were nineteen, we left our hometown and entered a university in the provincial capital together.I was admitted as my first choice, and entered the Department of Water and Soil Conservation of the Forestry College; he was admitted as my second choice, and was admitted to the Chinese Department of the Provincial Normal University.

Before going to college, since we were young, of course no one said anything about our mutual love.Neither did the first year of college.But this kind of relationship is actually understood by both parties in their hearts.After arriving in the big city, we became relatives with each other due to the remoteness of our lives.We often meet together, but not in love.It is nothing more than studying and the place we will go in the future-the land of Fauci with the vast desert and the winding remnants of the ancient Great Wall.I said that I would plant many trees and many grasses there.He said he was going to write some amazing poems there.How fascinating these fiery lives are!Until the second half of my sophomore year, one day we walked down the street together.He stopped suddenly, and stammered: "Xiaofang, you, hold mine, and walk with your arms..." My face was burning like coals, and I hurriedly looked around.I saw many girls walking on the arm of the young man in the street.I hesitated, and took his arm.Both of them can hardly walk anymore...

That day, he bought me a beautiful dress in the store.I bought him a dark blue woolen jacket. Since then, we have started a real relationship.Everything is the same as any young man or woman in a big city.In this process, of course, we have experienced countless sweet and novel experiences, but these things are nothing special to everyone, so we will briefly describe them. Now let me add a few words about my beloved's appearance by the way: Xue Feng is 1.75 meters tall, not too short;In the past two years, he has changed a lot compared to when he was in the countryside. The peasant blood on his body can hardly be seen, and he looks like a typical urban youth. I can boast without shame that the man I love is a handsome man.