Chapter 15 Chapter Fourteen

There was a loud bang, and a group of people were blown away.In the flames, there were various things floating in the air, and a piece of charcoal landed in Xiaolu's arms. When she looked carefully, it turned out to be a human leg. "Ah!" Xiaolu screamed and sat up from the bed.After a while, she realized that she had just had another nightmare. She was still in shock, sweating profusely, and dared not sleep again, so she turned on all the lights in the room, poured herself a glass of wine, and sat on the bed until dawn.Xiaolu locked herself in the house, never going out the door or going down the second floor.When Bo Tsai came to visit, she ignored him, and even refused to let him in a few times.

Wanrou came to visit every afternoon. Although Xiaolu let her in, she was indifferent to her concern and didn't even bother to be polite.Asked a sentence and answered a sentence, there was no smile on his face.A week later, Wanrou had no choice but to say, "Xiaolu, I know what you're thinking. Instead of thinking about it here, it's better to go home and ask." "Go home? Which home?" "Go back to Jilin, your biological father's home. Go and ask about your mother's situation, or I know you can't feel at ease." Xiaolu's eyes flickered, and she nodded.The next day she set foot on the road home.Three days later, Chen Jiao walked out of Jilin Railway Station with her luggage bag in hand.After getting off the train, she took a minibus for more than three hours to Huadian, and then she took a minibus and walked for more than an hour to a small town.I took a rickshaw in the small town.After going all the way, Chen Jiao finally came to the family area of ​​the Forestry Bureau where her father worked.In the twilight, Chen Jiao pushed open the door of a house, and the people in the house who were having dinner jumped up in shock.

"A-Jiao! Is it A-Jiao? Why are you back?" Chen Dalong stood up and asked in doubt.Chen Jiao threw the luggage bag on the ground, leaned against the door frame and said, "I'm Gillian. Dad, I'm back." Chen Dalong went forward to meet her, and stopped when he was two steps away from the door. He looked at the strange daughter and didn't know what to do for a moment. A girl poked her head out from behind Chen Dalong and looked at Chen Jiao curiously.Chen Dalong grabbed the girl out and said to her: "This is your sister, call me!" Chen Jiao looked at the girl in front of her, who was about sixteen or seventeen years old, tall and tall, with a pair of red phoenix eyes similar to her own, and she was timid. looking at himself.

"Is she my sister?" Chen Jiao knew that she had a sister of the same father and mother, but she had never seen her. "Yes, her name is Chen Mei. Xiaomei, call me sister." Chen Dalong gave his second daughter a push. "elder sister." Xiaomei finally called out.This "sister" called out Chen Jiao's tears, she responded with a choked up voice, and hugged her sister.That night, the three of them talked in the living room in the middle of the night.That night, Chen Jiao knew the story of her own life and parents for the first time. The spring of 1973 came very early.This is the most beautiful season of the year, when everything grows, is full of vitality, and the sweet and fragrant breath wafts around.Jin Xiaocui, a ruler inspector of Hongxing Forest Farm, sat cross-legged on her kang, staring fixedly out of the window.She had been sitting like this for three or four hours without moving.At this moment, if there is anyone in the family, they should be able to spot her abnormality.Because although she was looking out the window, her eyes were not focused, she seemed to have lost her soul, and what was sitting there was just a shell.Unfortunately, Aunt Jin went home that day.In order to take care of her daughter during the confinement period, Aunt Jin lived in Xiaocui's house for a month, always thinking about the man in the family, as well as the food and clothing of the eight chickens, nine ducks and a dog.She left in a hurry early in the morning on the day of her granddaughter's full moon, leaving Xiaocui alone at home.In the evening, Xiaocui's husband, Chen Dalong, came back from get off work.Dalong is 1.90 meters tall, which is much higher than the average height of Chinese men. Therefore, even if the overalls issued by the forest farm are the largest, he still wears them a bit shorter.He was also extremely thin, and with oversized clothes on his upper body, everything was empty, as if someone could get in, which made him always feel like a gust of wind when he walked.At that time, people described those thin and tall men as "hemp stalks".

Dalong's surname is Chen, so everyone in the forest farm calls him Chen Magan.Chen Magan was wearing a set of navy blue cotton trousers. These were the winter overalls issued by the forestry farm. All the men in the forestry farm wore them for half a year.The cotton-padded trousers worn by Dalong have been worn since late autumn. The cuffs and front of the cotton-padded jacket are already greasy. It looks like one trouser leg is high and the other trouser leg is low.In short, Dalong appeared in front of Xiaocui with a slovenly and unkempt image.Xiaocui has been a clean girl since she was a child. Her cleanliness is as famous as her beauty.Seeing her husband enter the courtyard, Xiao Cui frowned, her body still motionless.Dalong did not enter the house.After he entered the yard, he looked around, rubbed his hands, bent down, and pulled up weeds on the vegetable patch in the yard.The small courtyard of more than 20 square meters at home, except for a corridor, has become a vegetable field.Two weeks ago, Dalong just planted a bed of peppers. In the past two days, tender green sprouts have emerged, but along with the pepper seedlings, there are also green grasses.Dalong squatted on the ground, carefully pulled out the grass, and moved towards the house step by step.At this time, the baby girl on the kang woke up.

She wriggled her little mouth and made a babbling sound to remind her mother that she was going to breastfeed.The ah ah sound really made Xiaocui move a bit, and turned her gaze to the baby girl.However, she did not look at the baby with a loving mother's gaze, she looked at the child on the kang as if she was looking at something she didn't know, as if she didn't understand how a baby appeared beside her.The baby girl found that the signal she sent was not responded to, and the dark red nipple filled with milk was not stuffed into the mouth as expected, so she increased the volume and cried loudly.Xiaocui finally stretched out her arms and hesitantly picked up the baby girl.She put her left arm around the baby and stroked her small cheek and hairy head with her right hand, pausing at her right ear.Two grain-like granulation sprouts grew out of the baby girl's right auricle, like a pair of small colons.Xiao Cui looked at the pair of colons in horror, stroked them repeatedly, and pressed down hard, as if she wanted to press the colon into the flesh and make it disappear.The baby girl was tickled by her mother's touch, and smelling the warm milky scent on her body, she stopped crying and grinned.Xiao Cui was startled by the baby girl's smile, and she threw the baby out of the window like a hot potato!Overnight, this explosive news spread among the family members of the employees of Hongxing Forest Farm: Jin Xiaocui, the most beautiful ruler inspector in the wood workshop, went crazy on the day of her daughter's full moon!

Time went back to a year and a half ago, when Chen Dalong met Jin Xiaocui for the first time.Chen Dalong is a native of Changchun City. When he graduated from high school, he faced two choices. One was to directly participate in the work and become a worker of Changchun Machinery Factory; the other was to study in Jilin Provincial Forestry School.The advantages of the first option are obvious. When you go to work in the machinery factory, you can get paid immediately, and the factory is only two miles away from home, so you can go home every day.And if you go to the forestry school, although you can get a technical secondary school diploma and be regarded as a national cadre in the future, you must be assigned to work in a forest farm after graduation. The forest farms are all in the mountains, and it is difficult to go home once a year or so.Dalong's parents naturally hoped that he would make the first choice, stay in Changchun, and become a member of the glorious working class.Dalong originally agreed, but one night, he and his classmates were watched a movie called "The Little Hunter in the Forest" by the school. Only by spending time in the big forest can he show his value, so he ignored his parents' persuasion and resolutely went to the forest school to study.

Two years later, Chen Dalong graduated from the provincial forestry school and was assigned to Hongxing Forest Farm, more than 300 kilometers away from Changchun.In the second month of working in the forest farm, he met Jin Xiaocui.Chen Dalong, an intern technician, and the workers sent a batch of red pines that had just been felled from the mountain to the timber workshop. Seeing that the gauge inspector was a beautiful girl, he asked the workers next to him, "Who is this girl?" "Chen Magan, you don't even know this girl? She is a flower in our forest farm, her name is Jin Xiaocui, and she is also the announcer in the forest. Her voice can be heard on the broadcast every afternoon."

Chen Dalong carefully looked at this girl called "Yizhihua".The girl in front of me is about 1.70 meters tall, and if she is taller, she will be too fat. If she is thinner, she will be too thin. She is wearing a set of clean blue work clothes, with a pink shirt collar turned out at the neckline, and jet-black long hair. Her hair was not braided into two braids like other girls, but tied into a bundle behind her back, and a pink handkerchief was tied at the end of her hair.She was measuring the wood with a plywood and a bamboo ruler, fiddled with the abacus next to her from time to time, and then lowered her head to write it down in the notebook, her movements were very skillful.When she raised her head, she accidentally glanced in Chen Dalong's direction. Chen Dalong felt as if she had been swept by a soft feather, her heart suddenly contracted, and then slowly stretched out.Chen Dalong looked at this pretty and clean girl, and his heart arose.From that day on, as soon as the loudspeaker sounded, Chen Dalong pricked up his ears, and when he recognized Jin Xiaocui's voice, he stopped what he was doing and listened carefully.He felt that her voice was really sweet, like the sound of heaven.After listening to the broadcast for a month, Chen Dalong made up his mind to chase Jin Xiaocui.After writing a few love letters but receiving no response, and being coldly received by pretending to meet on the way home from get off work, Chen Dalong changed his pursuit strategy, no longer confronting Jin Xiaocui directly, but turned his attack on Jin Xiaocui's parents.

Jin Xiaocui's family lived in the forest farm. Her father, known as "Jin Ye", worked as a chef in a big restaurant in Changchun before liberation.After liberation, the Hongxing Forest Farm was established, and he was recruited into the forest farm to cook in the cafeteria of the field department, resuming his old job.When Chen Dalong came to Jin Ye's house with the sweets and snacks and two bottles of liquor brought back from Changchun, he received a warm welcome.He talked with Jin Ye in Changchun dialect. When they chatted, the alley where Jin Ye lived in Changchun was less than 300 meters away from Chen's house. This coincidence made Jin Ye feel closer to the young man in front of him.Gaining the trust of his future father-in-law greatly increased Chen Dalong's confidence.He simply gave up his plan to communicate with Jin Xiaocui and communicated directly with his future parents-in-law.Whenever he was free, he would run to Jinye's house, go to the kitchen to help Aunt Jin chop firewood, water the vegetable garden, stay for dinner and drink with Jinye.Jin Ye is usually reticent and serious, but he has met Chen Dalong's eyes, and the two of them get along as if they have been friends for years, and they always have endless things to say.Chen Dalong chatted with Jinye for two or three hours every night, and he didn't leave until Jinye was ready to go to bed.In less than two months, Chen Dalong won the hearts of his future father-in-law's family.Jin Ye identified him as his son-in-law and told the neighbors that Dalong was a son-in-law who was hard to find even with a lantern.When Chen Dalong came to formally propose marriage with a gift and wearing new clothes, Grandpa and Aunt Jin happily agreed.Unexpectedly, this marriage was resolutely resisted by Jin Xiaocui, and she firmly disagreed with marrying Chen Dalong!Master Jin and Aunt Jin seemed to realize at this moment that Jin Xiaocui was the party involved in the marriage. If she disagreed, Chen Dalong would not be their son-in-law.They dragged Jin Xiaocui to the back room and closed the door.The couple got on the kang, asked Jin Xiaocui to stand in front of the kang, and began to interrogate her.

"Why don't you agree to marry Dalong?" Jin Ye asked. "I despise him!" Jin Xiaocui said forcefully. "What a good boy Dalong is. He is gentle and honest, well-educated, and energetic. He is a cadre and a native of Changchun. How is he not good enough for you?" Aunt Jin counted out many advantages of Chen Dalong in one breath, and asked her daughter . "How energetic is he? Didn't you hear people call him 'hemp straw'? He was so thin, hunchbacked, and there was an extra piece in his right ear, and he didn't pay attention to hygiene. A suit of clothes was half of his body once he wore it. Yue, the collar and cuffs are greasy, it's disgusting!" Jin Xiaocui retorted dismissively.The conscience of heaven and earth, Chen Dalong's image is definitely not as bad as Jin Xiaocui said.Even if he wasn't handsome, he was by no means ugly. He didn't lack a nose or eyes, and his facial features were all where they should be.It's just that the auricle of the right ear is a little longer than normal, but it doesn't affect the appearance.Even according to the current standard of mate selection, Chen Dalong's height and appearance are also the object of many girls' hearts, but unfortunately, he just fell in love with Jin Xiaocui who turned a blind eye to all his advantages. "What's wrong with this? A tall, thin man isn't a bit hunchbacked. Isn't your father also hunchbacked? His ears are a little bit bigger than the average person's. People say that such a person can also hear better than the average person. His parents are not here. There is no one around him to help him, it is normal to be sloppy, after you get married, you will wash his clothes and keep him clean and decent." Aunt Jin enlightened her daughter disapprovingly. "Anyway, I can't marry him!" Jin Xiaocui muttered. "Tell me the reason, why can't you marry Dalong?" Jin Ye asked. "I have a date!" Jin Xiaocui was silent for a while, then whispered something. "What?!" These words startled Master Jin and Aunt Jin almost fell off the kang.The two asked in unison who this person was. Under the pressure of her parents, Jin Xiaocui introduced the situation of her partner hesitantly.Jin Xiaocui did have a date at that time. It was called Li Chun, and she was also working as a ruler at the forest farm.The two were classmates in high school. At that time, Jin Xiaocui was the literary and art committee member of the class, and Li Chun was the study committee member.Li Chun not only looks gentle and delicate, but also can write poems, which fascinates Jin Xiaocui, who is just in love.The two have secretly been in love since high school, but due to shyness and considering that the two are still young, they did not make it public.After listening to her daughter's introduction, Aunt Jin knew whose family Li Chun was from.Li Chun's father was also a worker in the forest farm. More than ten years ago, he had an accident while felling trees and was crushed to death by a falling tree.His mother has been a widow and never remarried, it is said that she was worried that her stepfather would wrong her son.Aunt Jin didn't like this kind of family with orphans and widows at first.The relationship between mother and child is so deep. After the daughter is married, the relationship between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law is difficult to get along well.Besides, Li Chun is the only son, so don't expect him to come to help him with work and drink with his wife often.Aunt Jin also remembered that she had met Li Chun several times, and every time Li Chun just nodded to her and hurried past, never greeted her warmly.Aunt Jin doesn't like this kind of ungenerous personality either. Compared with Chen Dalong, the gap is too big.In short, Aunt Jin easily rejected Li Chun. "How long have you been with him?" Aunt Jin asked. "Almost three years." Jin Xiaocui replied in a low voice. "It's been three years, why didn't you bring it back to show your parents? Also, he knew I was your mother, why didn't he even say hello when he met me on the road?" "Our relationship hasn't been made public and he's shy." "Since it's a formal relationship, why be shy? I think he is an irresponsible bastard! You break up with him quickly and marry Chen Dalong!" Aunt Jin patted the kang mat vigorously and gave an order. "If you want to marry yourself, I will never marry Chen Dalong!" Jin Xiaocui flatly refused. "Slap!" Jin Xiaocui slapped her mother heavily in the face. "It's the other way around! You dare not listen to what your parents say!" Aunt Jin beat her daughter, her chest heaving with anger. "Wow..." Jin Xiaocui cried and ran out. "Catch me back!" Master Jin, who had been watching the development of the situation majestically, raised his beard in anger and ordered sharply.Jin Xiaocui failed to run, and was stopped by her sisters at the gate of the courtyard.Then he was locked in the back room by his parents.Jin Xiaocui began to fight against her parents for the freedom of marriage.The struggle lasted for three days and three nights, and her crying and excuses failed to change her parents' mind.So she started a hunger strike.On the third day of her hunger strike, Aunt Jin came to her daughter's kang, took off her trouser belt, wrapped it around her neck, and gave Jin Xiaocui an ultimatum: If she does not agree to this marriage, she will hang herself in this room on the spot. !Jin Xiaocui, who was dying of hunger, didn't even have the strength to cry at this time. Looking at her mother with a belt around her neck, she could only surrender.Aunt Kim triumphed with a belt. On the night before her wedding, Jin Xiaocui secretly went to Li Chun's house to bid a final farewell to her beloved.The lover who has been in love for three years is going to get married, and the groom is not himself. Li Chun is overwhelmed by such pain.He cried and knelt in front of Jin Xiaocui, begging her to change her mind.Li Chun's begging broke Jin Xiaocui's heart, and he was full of remorse for his betrayal.She really wanted to agree to Li Chun, and even thought of elope with Li Chun, and run together to a place where no one knew them.But thinking of the image of her mother with a trouser belt around her neck, she swallowed the idea and cried bitterly while hugging Li Chun helplessly.Later, the two went to bed in tears.Chen Dalong married Jin Xiaocui as he wished, and he was very happy.I wrote to my classmates at Lin School, comparing my marriage to the most pleasing and beautiful event in heaven and earth.After the people making trouble in the bridal chamber dispersed, he put his arms around the beautiful bride, looked at the double happiness lettering on the window, and thought that he was about to start a happy life.The next day, Chen Dalong knew that his illusion was shattered.On the wedding night of Chen Dalong and Jin Xiaocui, Li Chun ran to the woods in front of the new house and hanged himself.Li Chun's mother was sitting in front of the new house in white mourning and weeping.For seven days in a row, her mournful cry wafted over the forest farm.The entire tree farm could hear her hurling vicious curses at the newlyweds while crying for her son.Chen Dalong was overwhelmed by Li Chun's mother's crying and cursing. He had no idea that the result of his deliberate planning for several months was to rob someone else's fiancée, which made him regret and hate. The death of Li Chun made the newlyweds of Chen Dalong and Jin Xiaocui not happy at all. They were like eggplants beaten by frost, downcast and gloomy.That day Master Jin and Aunt Jin were complaining at home. Since Li Chun died, whenever they went out, whenever they heard someone whispering, they suspected that they were discussing this matter, which made them feel ashamed and feel that their daughter made friends carelessly. Let them lose face.At this time, Chen Dalong ran in to report that Jin Xiaocui was mentally abnormal, and asked his father-in-law and mother-in-law to go and see quickly!Master Jin and Aunt Jin followed Chen Dalong to their new house, and saw Jin Xiaocui sitting on the ground in a daze, seeing her parents coming in, she didn't respond as if she didn't know her.Seeing her daughter haggard and dull, Aunt Jin was in pain and anxious, not knowing what to do.Master Jin was still calm, and he went over to his daughter and said gently, "Xiao Cui, Dad will take you home, okay?" Xiao Cui reacted to what Master Jin said, she looked up at her father, nodded, obediently followed their parents away.Master Jin took his daughter home, let Xiaocui sleep in her original boudoir, and asked Aunt Jin to take good care of her, and went up the mountain to gather herbs by himself.It is certain that after hearing the news of Li Chun's suicide, Jin Xiaocui's spirit was strongly stimulated, and she was already a little out of order.But after taking the herbal medicine made by his father Jin Ye, he fell into a coma for three days and three nights, and returned to normal after waking up.Nine months later, Jin Xiaocui gave birth to a baby girl.Chen Dalong wrote a letter to announce the good news to his parents, and the child's grandfather Chen Yuhu wrote back and named his eldest granddaughter Chen Jiao.The birth of her daughter did not make Jin Xiaocui happy. She was depressed during confinement and often cried while holding her daughter. She was most disgusted by people saying that her daughter looked like her father.One day my younger sister Xiaoyan came to see her older sister. She hugged her niece for a while and said that the child really looked like her brother-in-law. Xiao Cui was furious. She grabbed the child and slapped her face across the face.Shocked and angry, Xiaoyan cried and quarreled with her sister, scolded her for being crazy, and never came to the door again. Unexpectedly, Jin Xiaocui really went crazy the next day.Chen Dalong told his daughter that her life was picked up by him.That day, he was squatting in front of the window weeding, when he saw a bundle thrown out of the window, he subconsciously reached out to catch it.After catching it, he opened the bag and looked at him. A pair of dark eyes were looking at him.Chen Jiao knew nothing about her brush with death a few seconds ago, she thought that the soaring into the air just now was a game played by her mother and herself, when she was caught by her father, she danced and giggled for joy .After Jin Xiaocui threw her daughter out like a mistake, she began to cry hysterically.She went to the kitchen to bring a kitchen knife, and threatened to kill Chen Dalong to save Li Chun.Dalong hid at a neighbor's house with his daughter in his arms. Jin Xiaocui, who couldn't find the target, brandished a kitchen knife and chopped whatever he saw.Seeing the crazy Jin Xiaocui, none of the surrounding neighbors dared to dissuade her, until Master Jin and Aunt Jin who came over heard the news and restrained her together.Jin Xiaocui, who was brought home, went crazy as soon as she heard Chen Dalong's name, and she asked her parents to decide for her to divorce Chen Dalong.After arguing for more than half a month, Master Jin and Aunt Jin had no choice but to agree.After the divorce, Jin Xiaocui rested at home for three months, drank the herbal medicine picked by her father for a while, and became normal again. She returned to the venue and continued to work, but she stopped broadcasting.Jin Xiaocui is still young and beautiful, with a slender figure like a girl, and it is impossible to tell that she was married and had children.Suitors began to appear around her again, and Aunt Jin was regretting that she used coercive means to interfere in her daughter's marriage, which led to a tragedy of one death and one madness. Seeing that her daughter returned to normal, she also wanted to persuade her to forget the past and start over.But no one expected that one day Jin Xiaocui would suddenly appear at Chen Dalong's door and say to him, "I want to remarry you." Looking at the still beautiful Jin Xiaocui, Chen Dalong was both surprised and delighted, thinking that she had figured out the truth and forgot about Li Chun, and wanted to start a happy life with him again, so he agreed with all his heart, happily going through the remarriage procedure with her. Chen Mei was born after their second marriage.The marriage lasted three years.One evening, a neighbor saw Jin Xiaocui throwing Chen Dalong's belongings out of the house one by one, and finally the disgraced Chen Dalong came out.Jin Xiaocui, who is divorced for the second time, lives in the dormitory of the unit with her youngest daughter Chen Mei.She looked haggard, but her charm remained.From time to time, old bachelors and old widowers came to propose marriage, but Jin Xiaocui kicked them out.After being single for two years, she went to find Chen Dalong again.The two marriages with Jin Xiaocui left Chen Dalong with lingering fears, this time he dared not agree and shut Jin Xiaocui out.After being rejected, Jin Xiaocui did not give up. She behaved like an infatuated woman, knocking on the door of Chen Dalong's house every night, begging to let her in.Chen Dalong couldn't be bothered by her, so he opened the door.The two married for the third time.But within a year, Jin Xiaocui went to the court to sue, determined to dissolve the marriage relationship with Chen Dalong.During the court mediation, Jin Xiaocui made a big noise in the trial court, and the judge was so annoyed by her that she had to leave on the spot.Chen Dalong and Jin Xiaocui set a record in Hongxing Forest Farm. They got married three times and divorced three times in seven years.Chen Dalong was ruined by this marriage of three knots and three divorces, and he was miserable. In order to get rid of Jin Xiaocui's entanglement, he had to ask his relationship to transfer away.Without the goal of Chen Dalong, Jin Xiaocui has not suffered from illness for several years.She is still working as a ruler in the forest farm, and her three marriages with Chen Dalong have made her a celebrity in the forest farm. Although she is still the most fashionable and beautiful woman in the Hongxing Forest Farm, she has no suitors around her.Jin Xiaocui was later sent to a mental hospital.The cause of the matter stems from a small incident.A colleague who had a good relationship with Jin Xiaocui was late for half an hour because of something at home, and all the bonuses for the month were deducted. Twenty yuan was a large sum in the early 1980s. Jin Xiaocui defended his colleagues against injustices, and together with them went to the director of the factory to argue.The director felt that Jin Xiaocui was meddling in his own business, and said something ugly, which irritated Jin Xiaocui. She suddenly raised a stool and threw it at him. The director was beaten to the ground and fainted.The field director was sent to the hospital, and Jin Xiaocui was arrested and detained at the police station for seven days.At that time, the police station had just caught a rapist. He was a pervert who had raped countless women, and for a long time made the local women's eyes turn pale. He happened to be locked up next door to Jin Xiaocui.After the pervert was caught, he knew that he would definitely die, so he was still arrogant in the detention center. When he saw a young woman imprisoned next door, he used the most obscene words to tease her day and night.What happened to Jin Xiaocui during the few days in the detention center made her feel extremely humiliated, and after she was released, she went completely insane. After Chen Dalong divorced Jin Xiaocui, he was transferred to the current Forestry Bureau, but he did not completely sever ties with Jin Xiaocui.He never forgot his ex-wife who had tortured him unspeakably. After knowing that Jin Xiaocui was sent to a mental hospital, he went to the hospital to see her once or twice a year.Xiaocui's illness fluctuated from good to bad, and she recognized Chen Dalong a few times, and the two of them could still talk a little bit.This visitation lasted for six years until Chen Dalong remarried seven years ago.Chen Dalong was taken to Jilin City by the introducer for a blind date.When Chen Dalong heard that the woman was only 25 years old and had never been married, and that her father was a section chief of a bureau of the municipal government, he felt that he was not worthy of her, so he backed down.It was only at the insistence of the introducer that he agreed to meet.The meeting place was arranged at the woman's house, and Chen Dalong first accepted the cross-examination by the woman's parents since he didn't see the girl from that house at first.Chen Dalong honestly explained his age and marriage history, and he didn't hold any hope for this marriage.The strange thing is that after listening to the woman's parents, they didn't dislike his poor condition at all, but praised his honesty and honesty.He said that his daughter was spoiled and spoiled since she was a child, and her ability to take care of herself is very poor. She hoped to be taken care of by him in the future.Chen Dalong was a little surprised by the expression of the woman's parents, thinking that they were going to sell him a girl who was too ugly to marry, and he became a little curious about this girl. During the meal, the girl finally appeared. To Chen Dalong's surprise, the girl was very beautiful, wearing a pink flower dress, she walked out gracefully, and when she saw Chen Dalong, she lowered her head with a blushing face.The girl has a nice name, Luo Tingting.Girl Tingting doesn't like to talk, she just likes to laugh, no matter what her parents say, she doesn't respond, just purses her lips and smiles.Her innocent smile reminds one of a seven or eight-year-old girl, and her delicate face reminds one of peach blossoms in early spring.Chen Dalong was a little confused, and began to wonder if the girl was dumb.Tingting seemed to guess what Chen Dalong was thinking, she suddenly put a chicken wing into Dalong's bowl, and said: "Eat!" After saying this word, she smiled at Dalong.Chen Dalong was fascinated by this smile, like a deer running wildly in his heart.Just like when he chased after Jin Xiaocui without a full understanding, Chen Dalong fell in love immediately because of Luo Tingting's sweet smile.He wholeheartedly agreed to the marriage, but turned a deaf ear to the shortcomings that the introducer later added that Tingting had no job and could not do housework.The two got married a month later, and the woman's parents gave a generous dowry.When Chen Dalong was sleeping with his lovely wife in his arms at night, he felt like a pie in the sky.Soon, Chen Dalong felt that this "pie" was not tasty.Luo Tingting's mental retardation, 25-year-old intelligence is only equivalent to seven or eight years old.This didn't bother Chen Dalong much, he just treated Luo Tingting as a child of seven or eight years old.After living alone for so many years, after marrying a beautiful girl with a childlike face, she can be regarded as a daughter during the day and a wife at night, there is nothing wrong with that.But Luo Tingting is not only mentally retarded, but also intermittently mentally ill, which is what people often call "nympho".Her parents heard people say that this disease will be cured as long as they get married, so they asked people everywhere to introduce their daughter to someone, and wanted to marry her out.Because he was worried about his daughter being bullied, he specifically wanted to find a loyal, honest, older man with a marriage history, and Chen Dalong became the best candidate.What's more, Chen Dalong works in a forest farm. In the eyes of Luo Tingting's parents, he is working in an old forest deep in the mountains. There must be fewer factors that can induce her daughter to get sick than in the city.In the first year of Luo Tingting’s marriage, she was still a bit reserved as a bride. Chen Dalong steamed a pot of steamed buns for her every morning before going to work. She watched TV alone at home, listened to the tape recorder and learned pop songs, and opened the pot when she was hungry. Gai took a steamed bun and ate it. Occasionally go out for a stroll, and rarely talk to people, and usually go home before Chen Dalong gets off work.In the spring of the following year, Luo Tingting gave birth to a daughter. She often sat at the door to breastfeed the child, exposing most of her breasts, feasting the eyes of passers-by.Once her parents and relatives came to see the child from Jilin. A group of people were talking in the outhouse, and the child suddenly cried. She said she went in to nurse the child. After a while, she took off her shirt and let the child run out with a nipple in her mouth.Originally, Chen Dalong's ability to take care of himself was very poor, but now he has to take care of the mother and daughter, and his life is miserable.Chen Jiao recalled that year, when she proposed to go back to Jilin to go to middle school, she felt resentful because her father didn't respond.At this moment, she forgave her father.Luo Tingting's parents took the child back to Jilin City.With the loss of a nursing child in the family, Chen Dalong was much more relaxed, and he was able to spare his energy to deal with Luo Tingting.Luo Tingting gradually returned to normal. Except for the occasional illness in spring and running around in the mountains in red and green, the rest of the season was basically the same as ordinary people.Unexpectedly, Jin Xiaocui would come to her and broke the balance that was so hard to maintain.Jin Xiaocui suddenly appeared at Chen Dalong's house with her second daughter, Chen Mei.Seeing Luo Tingting sitting on the kang eating melon seeds, watching TV and humming a ditty, she was so angry that she rolled up her sleeves and climbed onto the kang and dragged her down, scaring Luo Tingting into a fright. cry.The incident was so troublesome that Luo Tingting's parents were recruited from Jilin City. Jin Xiaocui declared that she was Chen Dalong's wife.Luo Tingting's parents asked Chen Dalong to make up his mind that they could only keep one wife.I don't know whether Chen Dalong still has feelings for Jin Xiaocui, or is afraid of Jin Xiaocui, but in short, he actually chose Jin Xiaocui.Chen Dalong's attitude made Luo Tingting's parents furious. They scolded Chen Dalong and took Luo Tingting away.Jin Xiaocui won a complete victory in this struggle for husband, and she happily took Xiaomei to live in Chen Dalong's house as the hostess.She had just lived there for a few days when she gave the house a big cleaning and threw out Luo Tingting's things.When Chen Dalong came back from get off work every day, hot meals and dishes were placed on the table, and then he looked at the neatly tidy home, sighing in his heart the difference between the two women, feeling a sense of liberation.The good times have only passed a month.One day, Jin Xiaocui set fire in the forest and was arrested by the forest police.She escaped while the guards were off guard, and ran around the street with disheveled hair.Later, someone from the mental hospital took her away directly. "Can I go and see her?" Chen Jiao asked after a long silence after listening. "It's best not to go. Her condition has just stabilized, and she will be stimulated again when she sees you." Chen Dalong said. He told Chen Jiao that Jin Xiaocui had asked about his eldest daughter the night before he set the fire. He told her about Chen Jiao's current situation in Guangzhou and showed her a photo of Chen Jiao.As soon as Jin Xiaocui saw Chen Jiao's photo, she became emotional and didn't sleep well all night.Arson broke out the next day.Chen Jiao didn't insist.She yawned.In the past three days, she traveled more than 3,000 kilometers, changed vehicles, returned to her birthplace, and heard the stories of her biological parents. She didn't have any more emotions.She seemed emotionally numb and just wanted a good night's sleep. Chen Jiao was wandering by the river.After going home for three days, she left the house after having breakfast every day, and went out to walk around by herself.Chen Dalong's home is not far from the Songhua River. She walked for more than half an hour to reach the bank of the Songhua River.The scenery along the Songhua River is still very beautiful. There is a kind of dignified and colorful scene unique to autumn in the north, which is completely different from the charm of southern Guangdong.But at this moment, Chen Jiao was not in the mood to appreciate the scenery at all, no matter how beautiful the scenery was, it was just a fleeting moment in her eyes.She was walking by the river, and saw a big stone on the river bank, the surface of the stone was smooth and flat, like a stone bed, so she climbed up and lay down on it.The sky was as blue as a wash.Chen Jiao had never seen such a pure blue sky in Guangdong, it was so blue that it made people despair, and she wanted to melt into it.A gust of autumn wind blows, there is a rustling sound, and golden leaves fall from the trees.Chen Jiao turned her gaze to the birch forest not far away.She was surprised to find that there were eyes growing on these tree trunks.They are of different shapes and sizes, open and closed, smiling but not smiling, some are sad, some are depressed, and some seem to be glaring.In her ears, the Russian folk song "Birch Forest" sung with comrades in the class at the New Year's party in the army a few years ago: Why are the leaves fluttering sadly, are they comforting my soul hidden under the clothes?The enthusiasm in my heart was ignited again and again, but I couldn't get the answer again and again.The leaves fell from the birch tree to her shoulders, like a wandering wanderer like me... The beautiful and mournful melody filled Chen Jiao's heart with sadness, she hummed over and over again, and tears fell silently from the corners of her eyes.太阳落山了，气温骤然下降。陈娇坐起来，从石床上跳下，慢慢地往公路上走。一辆黑色的小轿车在她身边停住了。 米处长探出头来，示意她上车。陈娇上车后，米处长什么话也没说，将汽车一直往前开。汽车开过了一个又一个村落，在一个不知名的村庄外面停了下来。两人下了车，米处长把陈娇带到一片白桦林里才开口。 “陈娇！你犯了大错知道吗？为什么这么冲动？受训三年，难道连控制情绪你都没学会吗？你差点就暴露了，若不是我及时补救，我们这几年的努力就白费了！”陈娇对米处长的出现一点也不吃惊，早就做好了在这里与她对话的心理准备。她看着米处长，冷冷地反问：“被炸死的21个人是怎么回事？你明明可以通知香港警方让他们撤离的，那里面有14名警察！你为什么不去做，为什么？！” “核实情报需要时间，我不知道香港警方与大陆警方这次的联合行动。而且就算是知道，我也不会通知他们。” 米处长冷静地说。 "why?" “为了大局。” “什么样的大局能抵得上14个警察的生命？你太残酷了！你这个冷血动物！是你害死了他们！”陈娇激动地大喊起来。米处长突然用力给了陈娇一个耳光。 “陈娇，真正害死他们的是你！因为送信的人是你，我才不能通知他们。他们撤离了，张婉柔就会怀疑到你。张婉柔让你带的信连口都没有封，就是为了考验你。为了保护你，我才没有把情报转给香港警方。你不顾国家培养你这么多年，不顾自己身上肩负的任务，随便破坏纪律，差点就让任务失败！你要是暴露了，那些牺牲的英雄们会死不瞑目！”米处长激动地说，又打了她一个耳光。 “陈娇，你知道吗，我的儿子也在里面，他前几天刚过20岁生日……你知道我听到这个消息时，我的心情是什么样的吗？你理解一个失去亲生儿子的母亲的心吗？”米处长说着哽咽起来，泪水夺眶而出。陈娇如五雷轰顶，震惊得半天说不出话来。她这才发现，米处长的脸色非常憔悴，距离上次见面不过两个月，她却好像老了十岁。陈娇喃喃地说：“对不起，米处长，我错了。请组织处分我吧。” 米处长冷静下来。她擦了擦眼泪，严肃地看着陈娇说：“陈娇，对你的处分我暂时没有往上报，我想给你改正错误的机会。希望你不论遇到多少困难，都要尽快把张婉柔的制毒点找出来，把这个国际贩毒集团端了，让死去的14名烈士的英魂安息。” “是！我保证完成任务，即使牺牲生命也在所不惜！”陈娇立正，庄严地保证。 “好！希望你记住自己今天说过的话，不要辜负组织对你的期待。” 米处长神情严肃地说。 看陈娇一脸坚毅的样子，眼里露出一丝怜爱。她拍了拍陈娇的肩膀，轻声说，“注意安全。我不需要烈士，要的是能功成身退的战士。” 陈娇点点头。米处长说：“我们走吧。” 桦树林里铺满了落叶，厚厚的一层，踩上去沙沙作响。东北的秋风已经凛冽，吹在脸上像被刀刮过一样微疼。汽车开到小镇附近停下，陈娇下了车，目送这辆黑色的轿车远去。风越刮越紧，将两旁的桦树所剩无几的树叶毫不留情地刮落，漫天金色的树叶在空中飞舞，落地时心有不甘，随风又起，几个回合之后，到底还是落在地上，发出呜咽的悲鸣。这样的情景在陈娇的眼里有一种悲壮的凄美。她一动不动地看了几分钟，转身向家的方向走去。