Chapter 88 life(7)

Gao Jialin lay weary on the kang, too tired to even eat dinner.His mother put the food up and down with a sad face, admonishing him, babbling like coaxing a doll: "Man is iron, and food is steel. If you don't want to eat, you have to struggle to eat..." His father told him not to go out of the mountain tomorrow. Go, rest for a day, so that you can get used to it slowly. What they said, Galin didn't hear a word.At this moment his thoughts were completely concentrated on Qiaozhen.After the day of the market, he has always regretted his impulsive behavior towards Qiaozhen.He felt that his current situation was not the time to talk about love at all.He even felt that it was a sign of depravity and depression for him to have such a thing with an uneducated rural girl in a hurry; it was tantamount to admitting that he would be willing to be a farmer for the rest of his life.In fact, the fire of fantasy about his future life in his heart has not been extinguished at all.Although he is now a farmer covered in yellow dust, he still does not believe that he will always be like this.He was still young, only twenty-four years old, and had time to wait for his turn.If he is combined with Qiaozhen, he will undoubtedly be tied to the ground.

However, what troubled him even more was that Qiaozhen could not be erased from his heart no matter what.Although he avoided her these days, in fact he missed her very much.This kind of contradiction and pain is more unbearable than having your hand twisted by a shovel. Qiaozhen's beautiful, lively face full of passion, and her slender body like a poplar tree are always swaying in front of his eyes. Especially when he came back from work at night, and his stiff body was lying tired on the kang, the feeling of missing him was even stronger.He thought: If she were to be by his side at this moment, his spirit and body might relax immediately; she would turn his restless heart into a calm lake.

She loved him, so strongly.He saw her changing clothes one after another these days, knowing that it was all for him.Today when he came back from work, the hoeers had left, and he saw her standing on the opposite river bank—that was also waiting for him.But he avoided her again.He knew that she was crying; he could also imagine how uncomfortable she would be when she was walking home alone on the path in the cornfield!He is so unkind!Why did he avoid her when she wanted to be with him that much?Hadn't he actually longed to be with her himself? He couldn't lie down on the earthen kang anymore, and the torrent of passion immediately washed away the rational embankment he had built.Now he quickly put everything aside again, just wanting to see her soon, to be with her.He got up, got off the kang, and told his parents that he had something to do in the village, so he hurried out.The night was quiet.The stars in the sky have already appeared, the moonlight is shining dimly, and everything on the earth is indistinct, full of a mysterious atmosphere.

Gao Jialin walked to the back village and stopped at the foot of Liu Liben's house.He didn't know how to call Qiaozhen out. Just as he was looking hesitantly at the high-walled courtyard of Liu Liben's house, he suddenly saw a person turning from behind the old locust tree outside the gate, walking hurriedly down the slope.Ah, my dear!She had actually been there waiting hopelessly for him to show up! Gao Jialin's heart was beating wildly, and without speaking, he went down to the bottom of the ditch and walked out of the village along the path above the small river.He looked back from time to time, and Qiaozhen followed him not far or near.He went to a valley across the river outside the village, and lay down comfortably under a pear tree, excitedly listening to the sweet footsteps approaching him rustlingly.

She is coming.He sat up immediately.After a moment's hesitation, she timidly but resolutely sat down next to him.She didn't speak, and first kissed the tanned red skin on the place where the clothes on his arm had a big cut made by kudzu needles.Then she wrapped her arms around his shoulders, pressed her face to the place she had just kissed, and sobbed affectionately and aggrievedly. Gao Jialin hugged her shoulder sideways, pressed his face against her head, two big teardrops couldn't help gushing from his eyes, and dripped into her black hair.Only now did he feel that the person who kissed him was also his dearest person!

Qiaozhen put her head on his chest and asked him crying: "Brother Jialing, why have you ignored me these days?" "You must be sad..." Gao Jialin stroked her hair with his bad hand. "You're right if you know people's hearts..." Qiaozhen raised her head and looked at him aggrievedly with teary eyes. "Qiaozhen, I'm not like that anymore." Jialin kissed her on the forehead. Qiaozhen wrapped her trembling arms around his neck, smiled and wept, and said, "Brother Jialing, you swear to the Jade Emperor in the sky!" Jialin was amused and said, "You are so superstitious! Qiaozhen, you believe me...why didn't you wear that beige short-sleeved dress? You look so good in that dress..."

"I was afraid that you would find it unattractive, so I changed into this one again." Qiaozhen pouted at him mischievously. "You can put it on tomorrow." "Well. As long as you like it, I will wear it every day!" Qiaozhen said while taking out a calico bag from behind her, and took out four boiled eggs.He took out another bag of cakes and placed them in front of Jialin.Gao Jialin was extremely surprised.He was only looking at Qiaozhen just now, and didn't realize that she brought him so much food.While peeling the eggs for him, Qiaozhen said, "I know you didn't eat at night. Those of us who have been working all year round are too tired to eat when we get home. Don't mention you!" She handed the eggs and a piece of cake to him. give him. "The cake was brought by my sister when my mother fell ill a few days ago, and my mother was reluctant to eat it. I stole it out of the box tonight!" Qiaozhen smiled shyly, "If you don't come Find me, I have to come to your house to deliver it to you tonight!" Jialin swallowed a mouthful of the cake, and hurriedly said to her: "Don't dare to do this! Let your father know, and be careful to break your leg! ' Galin joked to her.

Qiaozhen stuffed another peeled egg into Jialin's hand, looked at his devouring look kindly, then put her hands and head on his shoulder, and said tenderly: "Brother Jialing, I Seeing that you are closer than my father and my mother..." "Stupid words! You are such a silly woman!" Gao Jialin stuffed half an egg into his mouth, and patted her on the head lightly, just in time for a broken blister on his hand to touch Qiaozhen's hairpin. , The pain caused him to yell "Ouch". Qiaozhen raised her head as if she had been electrocuted, not knowing what happened to him.Soon, she understood.She frantically rummaged through her bag and said, "Look, I forgot..." She took out a bottle of iodine and a pack of cotton wool from her bag, pulled Galin's hand over and put it on the On her knee, apply medicine to him.

Jialin opened her mouth in surprise again, and asked her, "How do you know that my hand is rotten?" Qiaozhen lowered her head and rubbed the lotion on his hand, saying, "The Jade Emperor told me." She laughed. A cry, "No one in the village knows that your hands are rotten! Your husband's hands are so delicate!" She raised her face and smiled affectionately at him, slightly opening her mouth, revealing two rows of brushed white teeth, like white corn The seeds are generally pretty. A huge emotional tide surged in Gao Jialin's chest. O love, sweet love!It is like a silent spring rain quietly sprinkled on his restless heart.He had only felt its charm from novels before, but now he has experienced all these things for real, and the most precious thing is that his happiness comes just when he is unlucky!

After Qiaozhen smeared his hands with the potion, he lay down on the ground in a very comfortable mood.Qiaozhen leaned against him gently, her face pressed tightly against his chest, as if she was listening intently to how his heart beat.They snuggle together silently, like morning glory around a sunflower.Stars littered the dark blue sky like shining pearls.The undulating curve of Laoniu Mountain in the west is as soft as if someone drew it with a charcoal pen; the Dama River gurgles in the distance, as beautiful as the melody played by the erhu.A gust of wind blew over, and there was a rustling sound from the valley leaves all over the ground.The wind stopped, and everything around me became silent again.Above the head, among the whirling, dark green leaves, the immature Du pears glowed with a little blue light under the hazy moon.

They just lie quietly and sweetly under the starry sky, in the embrace of the earth... When love wakes up for the first time in a young man, it will transform into a great force.Even in a man who has lost all confidence in life, passionate love may restore the sparkle of his spirit.Of course, a person like Oblomov is an exception, because he is effectively a dead person. Because of Qiaozhen's intoxicating love, Gao Jialin suddenly rekindled his enthusiasm for life from his discouraged mood.The warm current of love overflows the spiritual tundra, and new vitality bursts out. Love reawakened him to the land, a deep affection.He was originally the son of the land.He was born here and spent a dreamlike childhood in the mountains and rivers of his hometown.Later, when he grew up and went to school in the city, the dirt smell on his body gradually diminished, and his connection with the land became much weaker; now, from Qiaozhen's simple and beautiful love, he feels deeply again. : He shouldn't be so afraid to live on the land; on this dear yellow land, life still bears sweet fruit!Gao Jialin gradually began to treat labor normally, unlike in the first few days, with a depressive and perverted mentality, he tortured his body with destructive labor to divert his mental anguish.After a while, his hands became much harder.When I woke up the next morning, my waist and legs were not as sore as before.He also learned to plow the land and the very difficult hoeing to divide the seedlings.Later, the cigarettes became unscented, and I started to roll dry cigarettes in the mountains.He practiced the habit of speaking carefully and carefully as a teacher into an authentic peasant language; he learned to speak rude words and joke with women.The clothes are not deliberately worn so tattered, they should be washed and changed when they need to be washed. When he came back at noon, he took the initiative to go to the private plot to help his father; he went home to pull the bellows for his mother.He also raised many rabbits and wanted to have a side job.He was so busy that he looked like a farmer who had passed the time. The day was hard work, but he had a good night.It is precisely because of such a happy yearning that he feels that other hardships are not so heavy. At night, after dark, he and Qiaozhen met in the crop field outside the village.In the dense green gauze tent, they sometimes held hands like children, walking aimlessly along the path in the middle of the crop field in silence; sometimes they stopped, kissed each other, and smiled sweetly at each other.When they were tired from walking, they would find a secluded place, and Galin would lie down and dispel the tiredness of work with pleasant sighs, and Qiaozhen would snuggle beside him.Comb his dusty, unkempt hair with your hands; or put her small mouth against his ear, and sing to him the ancient songs handed down by the ancestors softly.Sometimes, Galin fell asleep to such a lullaby, snoring loudly.His dear girlfriend hurriedly shook him awake, and said distressedly: "Look how tired you are. Take a rest tomorrow!" She pulled his hand over to cover her face, "When we get married Now, you take one day off every seven days! I will let you spend Sundays like in school... ". Gao Jialin was intoxicated in such tenderness every day, and all his original thoughts retreated far away.Only sometimes, when he occasionally saw county and commune cadres on bicycles galloping past on the road across the river, their snow-white shirts fluttering in the wind, he suddenly felt a pang in his heart. An indescribable melancholy; a bitter taste came to my heart, and it was like swallowing a hard-to-swallow traditional Chinese medicine.He tried to free himself from the emotion as quickly as possible.It wasn't until he saw Qiaozhen again that the turbulent mood subsided completely—it was like eating a spoonful of honey after taking traditional Chinese medicine. Now he wants to be with Qiaozhen all the time.It's a pity that they are not in the same production group, and it is difficult to meet during the daytime labor, and they all want to die.Sometimes, when the two groups were working very close together, he would pretend to be looking for something after a break, and would always go to the back village where the group worked for a while.In such a place, he couldn't talk to Qiaozhen; he just looked at her with his eyes.At this time, no one else knew about it, only the two of them knew it in their hearts, and this was even more indescribably sweet.Sometimes, when he can't go to her place without any excuse, she will use her wild voice to sing the heart-pounding Xintianyou—— (Which) duck in the upper river, goose in the lower river, A pair of (which) hairy eyes look at brother... When he heard the singing in the distance, he couldn't help grinning. On Qiaozhen's side, as soon as she finished singing, the girls joked with her: "Qiaozhen, Ma Shuan is coming again on a cart, use your hairy eyes to look around!" She was so angry that she scolded them again, and pushed them to raise soil, but she thought proudly: "My brother is ten times stronger than Ma Shuan, you will find out in the future, you will be jealous!" When Gao Jialin and Qiaozhen were passionately in love, matchmakers for Qiaozhen continued to appear at Liu Liben's house. Liu Liben said that things are different now and women have to make up their minds, but he knew it well.He only looked at Ma Shuan—his family was in a good condition. Although Ma Shuan was honest, he knew business. In the future, his father-in-law and son-in-law would be able to do business in partnership, and he would be handy.It's just that Qiaozhen can't look down on this young man who is like black charcoal, so he needs to do a good job.He even wanted to ask his in-law Minglou to come forward to persuade Qiaozhen.As far as Gao Jialin was concerned, quite a few farmers came to visit him from time to time to say goodbye.When Jialin's parents saw that their family was poor and their income was poor, and someone called her a daughter-in-law, they were so happy that the old couple couldn't close their mouths.Especially a woman in the village behind the mountain who wanted to marry Jialin without a bride price really moved Gao Yude and his wife.But all the happy events they thought were laughed off by Jialin. In this way, Jialin and Qiaozhen think it's good to cover up their relationship.They didn't want to reveal their secret just yet; for they lived in the same village, and among other things, the crude banter of the crowd was too much to bear.They do not want anyone to disturb their peaceful and mysterious happiness. Once, when Jialin and Grandpa Deshun were plowing together, the old man asked him, "Jialin, do you want a wife?" Jialin smiled and said, "It's not appropriate to want one." "What do you think of Qiaozhen?" the old bachelor asked him suddenly. Jialin's face turned red, and he didn't know what to say for a moment. Grandpa Deshun smiled and said: "I think you two are the most suitable! Qiaozhen is handsome and has a good personality; you two are a natural match! Jialin, you have a good eye!" Jialin said in a panic, "Grandpa Deshun, I didn't even think about it." "Boy, don't coax me, my old man can see it!" Jialin pouted at him and said, "Good grandpa, you must never talk nonsense!" Grandpa Deshun grabbed his hand with two old wrinkled hands and said, "My mouth is so tight that an iron crowbar can't be pried open! I'm happy for you two dolls! Good! It's like the old song, you two A 'real match'..." At noon, he and Grandpa Deshun went back after plowing, and suddenly met Ma Shuan again at the entrance of the village.He was still the same as last time, inside and out, pushing that colorful bicycle.Jialin thought a little unhappy: He must have gone to Qiaozhen's house again. Ma Shuan enthusiastically blocked Jialin from the road.He didn't say anything, and waited for the old man Deshun to leave for a while before he said: "Mr. Gao, alas! I almost broke my leg at Liu Liben's house, and Qiaozhen doesn't care at all! I see The temple burns incense, you are from this village, and you are also a gentleman, you probably know Li Benzi well, can you also give me a hand from the side?" Gao Jialin was very upset, but he tried not to show it on his face.He forced a smile, and said to Ma Shuan: "Don't run around, Qiaozhen has already seen her partner." "Who?" Ma Shuan asked in surprise. "You'll find out slowly..." After Gao Jialin finished speaking, he bypassed the frustrated horse tie and went home.