Chapter 23 Chapter Six (2)

In the silent valley, the north wind is howling.The cold moonlight sprinkled on the continuous mountains, giving people a feeling of hazy and distant.They all suddenly became a little sad, maybe parting was imminent, and they were reluctant to part with this rare friendship.The blazing bonfire made everyone's faces red, and Zhong Yuemin's singing echoed in the valley... Back then my mother, I didn't close my eyes all night, Accompany me to go all over my hometown and bid farewell to my parents and folks, At that hour of dawn, She sent me on a long journey, Gave me a hand towel,

she wished me good luck ... Zhou Xiaobai leaned close to Zhong Yuemin and started humming along with him.As Zhou Xiaobai sang, she suddenly felt her nose sour. She tried hard to control her emotions, but failed. She burst into tears in an instant. Luo Yun's eyes filled with tears... Zheng Tong also took off his glasses and wiped his eyes gently. Yuan Jun turned his head and stared at the valley full of brilliance, two lines of tears dripped down his cheeks... Zhong Yuemin has been very busy recently, and he needs to arrange all the things that should be done before going to the countryside.Zhou Xiaobai and Luo Yun are leaving next week, Zhou Xiaobai hopes that he can spend more time with him.Zhong Yuemin remembered that he still had two friends living in the hospital, so he had to go to the hospital to say goodbye to them anyway before leaving.

Zhang Haiyang lives in the railway hospital. His injuries are much better, but he is very depressed. He feels that he is completely useless in the hands of the little bastard this time. He has fought countless times before, and he hasn't even hurt a single hair. However, it was a shame to be stabbed by the little bastard this time. Zhong Yuemin comforted him: "I don't blame you, it's because you didn't want to kill him, so you showed mercy, but the little bastard didn't have such scruples, and if I were in this matter, I would still suffer." Zhang Haiyang said bitterly: "The key is that I lost too much, not to mention losing my share. I even missed this conscription, with a knife wound on my stomach, and failed the physical examination."

Zhong Yuemin tucked the quilt for him: "It's okay, next year, your father is the chief of staff, and it's not a matter of you being a soldier? Haiyang, what are your plans for the next step?" "It's impossible to be a soldier this year. Let's jump in the queue first. Our school is going to Yunnan. I was thinking, if the border control is not too strict, I want to sneak across the border to Vietnam to find our troops to help Vietnam. Fight there. It was very lively. One of my dad's old subordinates was the commander of the anti-aircraft artillery division there. I heard that their division had shot down three Phantoms. I have to go and see what I said. Think about it. Sanqi artillery, it must be very enjoyable to sweep the American planes wildly, it is much more exciting than shooting birds with a slingshot."

Zhong Yuemin was fascinated when he heard it: "Going to Burma is also fine. I heard that the Burmese Communist Party's troops are very fond of Chinese educated youths. After three or five years, they can become division commanders and brigade commanders. Our school has a lot of buddies. When I was in the company, I went around for a while, this buddy actually went to play, I can see the leader of the Burmese Communist Party, and he insisted that he joined the People’s Army. He really believed it, and issued military uniforms and guns on the same day. Fuck, One recruit was sent two long pieces, one long and one short, a "five-six" submachine gun and a "five-four" pistol, and the bullets could be fired at will. It was so fucking enjoyable. This buddy played there for a month and had enough guns Addiction has deserted again and returned."

The two laughed, and Zhong Yuemin joked: "I don't have this opportunity to sneak across the border. Our school went to northern Shaanxi to jump in the queue. The place is poor and has no borders with anything. There is no place to run. I resigned to my fate." In the future, marry a girl named Chaihe from Mizhi and live a life." Zhang Haiyang laughed and said, "It would be great if you fucking marry Mizhi's girl. Mizhi's aunt is Han from Suide. I heard that Mizhi's girl is very beautiful." Zhong Yuemin said: "Yunnan is better. The whole nation is united. When it comes to the Songkran Festival, you can carry a bucket and see which girl is beautiful. Just pour a bucket of water in your pocket to make her feel comfortable. You are gone, unlike us in northern Shaanxi, where you have not even touched your hand yet, you just open your mouth and ask for a bride price."

Zhang Haiyang laughed so hard that his knife hurt: "Your mouth is really worth money. In the future, if you can't marry a mother-in-law in northern Shaanxi, come to Yunnan to find me. I'll send you a Dai girl..." "When you come back from visiting relatives, bring me a golden monkey. I'm going to train it to steal wallets and become a Buddha. My buddy will live by eating Buddha in the future. Even if it is caught stealing wallets, it will not enter the police station. , who can be as knowledgeable as a monkey? I am at most a lax discipline." Zhong Yuemin was talking nonsense.

"Yuemin, are you here to see me or to hurt me? My mother's knife is about to open, can you stop making me laugh?" Zhang Haiyang held back his wound and smiled. Zhong Yuemin sighed: "Let's be poor and happy, or you won't worry about death? You go to Yunnan for a while, and you will come back next year when you are recruited. Your father is on stage, and you can have fun, unlike me. My dad is still locked up, it's hard to say whether he will be released, I'm afraid there is no hope for me to be a soldier in my life." Now it's Zhang Haiyang's turn to comfort Zhong Yuemin: "Yuemin, don't talk about being discouraged. There may be a turning point in life at any time. Let me tell you some good news. Don't talk nonsense. Listen to my dad. The central government is preparing to liberate a large number of veteran cadres, and I heard that this is Chairman Mao's intention, I think your father has hope this time."

"Oh, that's a good thing. I don't know if my dad can be liberated." "There is definitely a show, just wait." Zhong Yuemin asked with some doubts: "Is this news reliable? Isn't the ranks of the ranks being cleaned up now? There are still many arrests. How can the veteran cadres be liberated?" Zhang Haiyang seemed to be very confident: "You don't understand this. The purpose of cleaning up the class ranks is to eliminate class dissidents who have mixed into the party. Your father is not a dissident. The current situation is that the revolutionary committees at all levels want to set up old, middle-aged and young people." In conjunction with the leadership team, what is old? Veteran cadres, but there are very few veteran cadres on stage now, and many of them are locked up. What should I do? I see no other way but to let them go."

Zhong Yuemin stood up excitedly: "I have to apply to see my dad and tell him the good news." Zhang Haiyang instructed: "Brother, keep it secret." Zhong Yuemin walked to the door of the ward, Zhang Haiyang suddenly called out in a low voice: "Yuemin..." Zhong Yuemin turned around. Zhang Haiyang reluctantly said: "Dude, it's a blessing to know you in this life, let's keep in touch with each other, if you have any changes, please let me know, take care..." Zhong Yuemin, Yuan Jun, and Zheng Tong went to buy things for going to the countryside together. They met Du Weidong when they passed by the intersection of Xidan by bicycle. A leather cap and a pair of white "Huili" brand sneakers on his feet.

When Du Weidong saw Zhong Yuemin, he shouted excitedly: "Yuemin, long time no see, what have you been doing lately?" Zhong Yuemin stopped his bicycle and greeted Du Weidong. He suddenly found a blond foreign girl beside Du Weidong, so he asked strangely: Weidong, where did this foreign girl come from?Did you bring it? Du Weidong turned his head and muttered a few words to the foreign girl in English, and the foreign girl generously extended her hand to Zhong Yuemin, and said stiffly in Chinese, "Hello! I'm Emma." Zhong Yuemin shook hands with Yang Niuer and turned to Du Weidong and said, "She can speak Chinese?" Du Weidong said with a smile: "I know this sentence. I taught her. Emma is from Paris. Her aunt is also an expert hired by the Foreign Languages ​​Translation Bureau. She and my father are colleagues. We met at a party. She Speak French to me, and I'm confused, I don't know what this girl is going to do. I said I can speak a few words in English, can we talk in English, she said that her English is not very good, I said it's okay, we Even talking and making gestures, as long as you know the general meaning, that's it, we made friends." Yuan Jun asked suspiciously, "Weidong, who are you fooling around with? This girl is an Albanian girl if she's exhausted, or a farmer in the suburbs of Tirana." Du Weidong didn't like to hear it anymore: "Brother, who are you running on? Emma is an authentic Aryan race, look carefully at her eyes, they are blue for a while, and then turn green again for an Albanian girl. Can the eyes change color?" Zheng Tong interjected: "Nonsense, girls from any country can't change their eyes, that's a Persian cat." Zhong Yuemin and the others laughed. While they were talking, Emma stood looking from one to the other, as if she were eager to understand what the Chinese were talking about. Du Weidong said to Zhong Yuemin: "Have you heard? Paris is also rioting. The students built barricades. When the police came, they beat them with big bricks. The French police have no temper at all. They are not like us. As soon as they heard that the police were coming, they ran faster than rabbits. The students in Paris are romantic. There is a red flag on the barricade. Guess what is written on the flag? Make love, don’t fight. It's a woman, everyone is a soldier, absolutely equal, you can sleep with whoever you like, and you can roll over to sleep, it's so fucking exciting, this is the revolution. Yuemin, your dad is an old revolutionary, he joined the revolution Is it ever so romantic?" "No, I'm afraid it was very plain at that time." "That's right. Originally, I wanted to learn from Guevara and go to the jungle to make a revolution. Later, I heard Emma say that there is such a revolution? My buddy changed the game immediately. Since they are all revolutions, why don't I pick and choose?" , choose a revolution that suits me?" Zhong Yuemin asked, "Why did this foreign girl come to China?" "It's over in Paris. The students have gone back to school and the barricades have been dismantled. Emma is heartbroken by the failure of the revolution. She hasn't played enough. Later, I heard that the heart of the world revolution has moved to China. Chinese students don’t have to go to school, don’t have to do homework, they are engaged in revolution every day, even the police dare not come to make trouble, and Chairman Mao is poking him, who dares to make trouble? Emma is not to mention envious, her aunt happens to be in China Work, that's it, Emma finally came to China. When flying, I saw red flags waving at the airport, revolutionary songs blaring from the loudspeakers, and a huge portrait of Chairman Mao several stories high.Do you still remember Wu Qinghua in "The Red Detachment of Women"?This girl finally came to the base area after going through untold hardships, and she saw the red flag at the first sight. Wu Qinghua immediately put her face on the red flag, tears filled her eyes, Emma was like this at the time, I understand her mood very well , I can be counted as home and have seen my relatives. This is the heart of the world revolution and the place where the red sun rises.Emma thought of her comrades who fought side by side in the barricades, and they were still suffering in the dark capitalist society. At that time, she was crying faintly, with snot and tears rolling down her nose.Unexpectedly, the police at the airport saw that something was wrong with her, and wondered why this foreign girl was sick, and she was so startled when she got off the plane?It seems that it needs to be carefully reviewed, yes, this trial lasted for more than a month, and the more doubts became more and more, it looks like an international spy. Later, if her aunt hadn't acted as a bailiff and the French embassy negotiated, Emma is still in the house now stay here. " Zhong Yuemin and the others laughed happily. Zheng Tong said: "This is called putting a hot face on a cold ass. Let's see if you are still revolutionary or not." Zhong Yuemin laughed and said, "Emma didn't teach you how to revolutionize?" "I'm sorry, she is really my teacher. The first time we met, she asked me, can I live in your house? Just in those few days, my dad returned to China, and I was the only one at home. I thought to myself, how can this French girl be alone? Hit me? Now that someone has opened their mouths, it’s inappropriate for me to refuse, Yuemin, my conscience, don’t mention being a gentleman that night, I put her in my mother’s bedroom, and I slept in my own In the bedroom, I said to myself that I should not act rashly on the first day, and things will come to fruition slowly. This kind of thing should not be rushed, and haste makes waste. Who knows that I slept until midnight, and Emma rushed into my bedroom without saying a word , I lifted the quilt first with a loud noise, my buddy was sleeping in a daze, wearing only a pair of underpants, I was rather shy, so I quickly sat up and grabbed my clothes to cover my shame and said, Emma , you don’t want to do this, can you go out first? Wait for me to get dressed... ouch, it’s useless. It disappeared, at that time I closed my eyes, stopped struggling, and said in my heart that I can do whatever I want, buddy accept fate..." Zhong Yuemin and his group burst into laughter, and Yuan Jun laughed and said, "Weidong, we all sympathize with you. You just let someone spoil you. You must think about it." Zheng Tong said: "Starving to death is a small matter, but injustice is a major matter. I can't swallow my anger. Sue me, sue me for raping you. The party and the people will decide for you." "Forget it, I still think it's unlucky, I know that sooner or later there will be such a day, and I still can't dodge it. Thinking about it, I'm fucking blocked, and I have a pretty innocent body..." Zhong Yuemin saw that it was getting late, so he said to Du Weidong: "Okay, don't talk about it, it doesn't matter if you lose your body, just take your time and find a chance to be a good man. Weidong, we are going to northern Shaanxi to jump in the queue soon. What do you have?" Intend?" Du Weidong said: "I'm going back to China soon, and I'm leaving next month. My dad contacted me with a preparatory class in Tokyo. I want to prepare for the university entrance exam in two years." Zhong Yuemin sighed: "It's a foreigner after all. Enough torment, pat your ass and leave. There is still a university to go to. Comparing people is damned, and shopping is worth throwing away. We can only repair the earth. Goodbye, Wei." Dong, we will meet later." Du Weidong held Zhong Yuemin's hand and said, "Take care of yourself. I will come back sooner or later. China is my second motherland. I really don't want to leave here. Goodbye! Yuemin. Goodbye! Yuan Jun, Zheng Tong." Zhou Xiaobai was about to leave, and as the day of parting approached, Zhou Xiaobai wished he could seize all the time to stay with Zhong Yuemin. The day before parting, Zhong Yuemin proposed a farewell party for her. Zhou Xiaobai was so moved that his eye circles turned red. Small cares can move her, and she is even a little flattered. She often wonders, when did she become so worthless?I can't even take care of my self-esteem. The living room of Zhong Yuemin's house was quiet, and Tchaikovsky's "Melancholy Serenade" came from the gramophone speakers, and there was a faint sadness flowing in the hearts of both of them. Zhong Yuemin and Zhou Xiaobai each held a glass of red wine in their hands, and they looked at each other silently. Zhong Yuemin raised his glass and said, "Xiaobai, you are leaving tomorrow, so I will drink this toast for you." Zhou Xiaobai's eyes blurred: "Don't do it, just take a sip, okay?" "why?" "The wine in the glass is gone, the party is coming to an end, but I don't want it to end." The two took a sip each. Zhong Yuemin sighed and said, "There is no banquet that never ends." Zhou Xiaobai retorted stubbornly: "If there is, there will always be a banquet, and my banquet will never end." "Xiaobai, let it be." Zhou Xiaobai burst into tears: "Why do you want to follow fate? Things in the world must be achieved through hard work, not by fate." "I want to be a soldier, can I do it with hard work?" Zhong Yuemin asked softly. "Sure, I'll beg my dad to send you into the army once your dad's problem is sorted out." "What if my dad's problem can't be solved?" Zhou Xiaobai was silent. Zhong Yuemin smiled softly: "You should let nature take its course?"