Return To 1977 Chapter 143: Two loves
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When the train was approaching "Chaigoubao", it was also lunch time. Passengers on the bus took out their own dry food to fill their bellies. The young couple sitting opposite Hong Yanwen brought out a lunch box full of yellow oil cakes.
Like the steamed buns in southern Shanxi and the noodles in Jinzhong, the cakes in Yanbei are also famous. How chewy is it? It is said that stretching it can be used to tie up a dog.
Of course, this is undoubtedly an exaggeration, but eating cakes is indeed a very grand event in Yanbei. This is not only because it tastes good and looks good, but more importantly because "cake" and "高" are homophonic. Therefore, local people cannot do without it during weddings and funerals.
Due to the poverty in "Gedaling", Hong Yanwen only ate cake once in the eight years he came to Yanbei, and that was at the wedding of a girl from their educated youth center to a local villager...
Speaking of which, coming to a remote and barren area like "Gadaling" to "jump the queue" brings you all kinds of grievances and helplessness. But after all, there is one advantage compared to coming to the capital, that is, there is less political pressure. many.
Because here, the peasants don’t know a single word, and the rich peasants don’t have any. No one even knows what the ingredients contained in the “five black categories” are. Everyone is thinking about them almost all day long. How to fill your stomach. It is natural, then, that class struggle is carried out in a loose manner, and congresses and small meetings can be avoided as much as possible.
In short, this place is like a paradise, allowing Hong Yanwen to feel an extremely precious kind of relaxation and freedom.
As for the educated youth, if they are actually classified here, everyone has some problems at home. Li Weiguo, the only child of the "revolutionary army", his father still made a "mistake" and was "knocked down".
So Huoyazi eats fat meat - no one is fat, and the three men and three women get along extremely harmoniously and intimately with each other, and no one has the concept of being taller than the other.
Moreover, due to spending time together day and night, coupled with the emptiness of life and lack of supervision, as time goes by, some relationships will undergo qualitative changes uncontrollably, and the seeds of love begin to sprout in the hearts of these young people. .
It should be said that Hong Yanwen's outstanding appearance and the knowledge he accumulated from reading a lot of books in the past gave him a lot of points, which made him an absolute winner in the love field. Two girls from the same educated youth school actually became his girlfriends one after another, but unfortunately, both relationships ended in failure.
Hong Yanwen’s first love started because of a chat. His narration of "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich" won him the favor of Tang Xiaojing from the High School Affiliated to Normal University.
That is a delicate and lovely girl. Her father went to Japan to study, so her mother is Japanese. But in 1955, her mother returned to Japan in the name of visiting relatives, and there has been no news since then.
Both of them are in good youth and have similar looks. The two of them are equal in composition, from the same family, and share the same problem. They both have similar hobbies, they both read a lot of books, and they both like singing. So their relationship quickly heated up not long after it started, and they fell in love to death.
The two of them traveled together to all the scenic places near "GeDaling". The two of them sat side by side under the night sky and watched the stars together every day. They were a pair deeply envied by other educated youths. Everyone They all thought they were a perfect match.
But in 1971, the situation began to change. Tang Xiaojing unexpectedly recruited a job because of her outstanding appearance and became a waiter at the county guest house. Although the girl told Hong Yanwen that I would stay with you as long as you stay in the country, Hong Yanwen couldn't really delay the girl's future after all, so he was moved and sent her to the county in person. From then on, it became difficult for them to meet each other.
It can be said that it is just a matter of getting together less and staying apart more, but in fact this relationship can be maintained by the deep affection of the two young people. The most critical blow came in 1972.
With the successful visit of Japanese Prime Minister Tanaka Kakuei to China, my country's relations with Japan have undergone fundamental changes. Not only did the "Liubiju" in the capital reopened due to this major historical event, but Tang Xiaojing's mother also After the normalization of relations between the two countries, he returned to China and picked up his daughter.
So after the Spring Festival in 1973, Hong Yanwen and Tang Xiaojing completely severed all contact.
However, the end of a relationship can also be said to be the beginning of a new relationship. Just when Hong Yanwen was tasting the pain of lovelorn in his heart, another relationship was already silently sprouting.
The other two female educated youths at the "Gedaling" educated youth center both came from the same middle school and were cousins of similar ages. The elder sister's name is Lu Yanhua, and the younger sister's name is Lu Yanping. My elder sister was raised by her uncle since her parents died. They are almost like biological sisters.
It is this sister Lu Yanhua who has always had a crush on Hong Yanwen, but Tang Xiaojing got there first, so she has always kept this affection in her heart and never revealed it.
People at that time also had a special characteristic when it came to relationships. If they fell in love with someone, they would stare at them if they met each other. Therefore, Lu Yanhua has never accepted expressions of love from other male educated youths. So after Tang Xiaojing left for a foreign country, she happened to get close to Hong Yanwen again.
Although Lu Yanhua is also very beautiful, she and Tang Xiaojing are completely opposite types of girls. If Tang Xiaojing represents enthusiasm and liveliness, then Lu Yanhua represents calmness and tranquility. She doesn't know how to play the piano and the harp with Hong Yanwen in the romantic world. She can only express her care for her lover by using firewood, rice, oil, salt, cooking, sewing, and washing.
To be honest, for Hong Yanwen, at the beginning of this second relationship, he actually wanted to use substitutes to make up for the emotional trauma. But with the wholehearted dedication of the other party, as time went by, he gradually began to reciprocate his true feelings.
And because the way of this relationship was more simple, it eventually became a love that was more unforgettable in his heart than his first love.
In 1976, Hong Yanwen and Lu Yanhua had already considered getting married here. But a sudden accident completely separated them again.
This is what happened. Li Weiguo and Liu Yangping were so bold that they secretly killed the village party secretary's dog together because of their greed and because Liu Yangping was still thinking about the bite. Although the educated youth camp had been open for three days with the door closed, a piece of dog skin that was eventually buried in the ground and dug out still exposed their crimes to the broad daylight.
The real reality is completely different from the romantic feelings shown in many later movies and literary works. In this place, the village party secretary can dominate the sky with one hand. The son of the village party secretary who came to the house with the villagers showed no magnanimity or tenderness. He gave the educated youths an ultimatum, either to pay 200 yuan or to let a female educated youth marry him. Otherwise, they will pay with their lives.
As a result, a conflict broke out on the spot, and Hong Yanwen was beaten unconscious on the spot. When he woke up again, he learned a piece of news that made him stupid on the spot. At the critical moment, in order to protect the lives of three male educated youths and to protect his sister, Lu Yanhua actually agreed to marry the son of the village party secretary.
When Hong Yanwen heard this, he immediately got up from the bed and tried his best again, but Li Weiguo and Liu Yangping, who had just almost died once, were afraid and knelt down in front of him together. Even Lu Yanping, who came after hearing the news, was crying and trying to pull him away, saying that if her sister didn't want to marry, she would have to marry him.
In this way, under the timidity and obstruction of these companions, Lu Yanhua finally became an outstanding example of "taking root for a lifetime". Just like the "Ball of Suet" in Maupassant's works, she exchanged her love and future with Hong Yanwen for the peace of other educated youths.
So, how could Hong Yanwen swallow those greasy cakes at the wedding? For him, no matter how rich the food is, it may not be worth the dung.