Chapter 20: Lights
The car quickly arrived at the waterfront time community.
A marble-carved arch with an artificial lake not far behind the door, where lights and tree shadows meet in a pool of autumn water blown by the breeze.
"Is this a picture of postmodernism, or is it a handy graffiti of Impressionism?" I said casually.
"Manager, I didn't expect you to understand art. Listening to my words, Zhang Shan couldn't help but praise.
"I know a little bit about fur. I said modestly.
In fact, I use my personality to testify: that's buddy nonsense. I used the messy things such as Western aesthetics that I watched in college, and I didn't use them at work, but I didn't expect wow, I didn't expect it!
Ranking officials, there is no harm in learning more when you are young, right?
I'm sorry! I didn't know much later that I had been working on Sunflowers with Mr. Van Gogh that day.
"Okay," although it's strange that Haixiang didn't call all night, but our famous grass owner is still conscious. "You're home, I'll go back. ”
With that, I was ready to turn around and get into the taxi to go home.
"Hey, you wait for me!" Zhang Shan suddenly ran over and grabbed my hand.
"You are not allowed to go!" her delicate face was suddenly covered with autumn frost, and her hands were spread out to stop me.
"Brother, can't you go?
"yes, you're home. "I'm a little sleepy, my heart says no!
"As a leader, don't you send people to your home?" Xiao Nizi also said loudly: "Are you so unconcerned about your subordinates?"
"Oh, isn't it just a few steps into the community!" I said confusedly.
"I'm afraid of the dark, I don't dare to leave alone, it's always okay, right?" Zhang Shan pouted.
"Okay, okay, I'm afraid of you!" I walked to the front of the taxi and gave my brother an extra 10 yuan: "I'm sorry, I've been waiting for a long time, you can go first." ”
"It's all right, lad! "Big cities are powerful, and even my brother is so educated.
"Hahaha, it's not what you think, we're colleagues. "I'm a little embarrassed, and my ears are burning.
"Understand, understand, cherish! That's the beauty of the Aladong Sea. The brother started the car and disappeared in a puff of smoke.
"Let's go. I was stunned and greeted Zhang Shan.
Along the way, this little girl always said that it was too dark, and her left hand held my arm tightly, and the proud protrusion made me feel the current.
My voice was a little flustered and trembling: "You, ah, be careful. ”
Xiao Nizi must have sensed my strangeness and deliberately held me tighter.
Fa Xiaoyan Liang said: I hope that the path to send my girlfriend home can be darker and longer, and it will be perfect!
I didn't feel that way, at least not that day.
Originally, when I texted to ask for leave, I was so arrogant, business entertainment. But after this half an hour of ambiguity, I suddenly felt a little weak.
In a single-family villa in the depths of the community, the door was open, the lights were on, and it was splendid, which made my calmness in the townhouse of my old classmate Yang Zijiang disappear. What a magnificence!
Dude is an accountant, and writing is not my forte. Anyway, according to the five major classifications of depreciation of fixed assets in the tax law, there is no less.
After a short period of dizziness, I walked over, sat down elegantly on the single sofa, and said, "Little ghost, yes! Come and report to the leader about your work!
"Hahaha!" Seeing me pretending to use the voice of the old man in "Family with Children", Zhang Shan couldn't help it for a long time, flew to the edge of the sofa I was sitting on, put her arms around my neck, and turned my face with autumn waves in her eyes, "Manager, I didn't expect you to be so humorous!"
"Hehe, there are so many things you didn't expect!" Smelling the seductive body fragrance, I had to brag to hide the throbbing in my heart.
"Tell me everything, okay?" Xiao Nizi, who was full of affection, mixed with wine and refreshing breath, blew on my face and tickled, like hair brushing my face.
Look at the watch, the time passed so fast, it was half past twelve.
Seeing my absent-minded appearance, the beautiful woman got angry: "Is it so difficult to stay with me for a while?" She pinched my arm with her hand.
"No, no. I struggled to explain, "You should know, I'm divorced. I can't fantasize about the beauty that doesn't belong to me!"
Divorced people are like the car you bought, from the moment you get in the car, you can't sell it at the original price anymore, and it will depreciate!
Men and women are.
If you want to pursue the opposite sex you like, you feel like you're taking advantage of others, even though you're still excellent!
"I know, it's nothing. Zhang Shan asked casually: "Why do you want to leave?"
"Before I became the vice president of the bank in my hometown, she left me. ”
"How could she leave? Isn't it just a small governor's position. "Women are always more curious than men.
"I don't know! I sighed, even after 10 years of marriage, I didn't dare to say that I knew women: "Don't talk about that, it's a headache! Maybe, maybe everyone has their own pursuits, no matter what that pursuit is." ”
"Alright, alright, it's okay. Don't be sad, I think someone will like you!" Zhang Shan patted me on the back.
She tilted her head and squinted at me.
My high school classmate Qin Chuan said that women who like to tilt their heads to look at people are the sexiest and most seductive.
Yes, too!
"How can you be biased against Tony?" I was afraid that my heartbeat would exceed 250, so I quickly changed the subject.
"Prejudice? That pervert makes excuses to rub oil around me every day, and his eyes are not honest. She was shy.
"What about me?" I wonder what this young secretary of the finance department thinks of me?
"You're different. Zhang Shan said eloquently: "In addition to giving orders every day, you are immersed in reading." People want to talk to you, but you are also 1, 2, 3 and stop talking. ”
Xiao Nizi remembered something, and said angrily: "One morning, people saw you from afar on the edge of the garden and beckoned to you. It's good that you didn't see it, and you turned a corner and walked the other way. ”
"Gee, I can't remember. But there must be something else, I guess I went to the engineering department to ask for a budget. I hastened to explain.
"I said yes, although you don't pay much attention to me," Zhang Shanhua looked bright: "But this girl looks okay, right?"
"Well, why are you so unconfident?" I said, "What is okay?
"You dare to laugh at me!" Xiao Nizi actually tugged at my ear.
I gently scratched her little Yao's nose a few times as if I was fighting back, and after a while, I gently held her hand.
"Let's talk about my childhood. I grew up in Fuxing Township as a child. I made myself the decision to return in 1 hour, and took another sip of sweetened cappuccino toffee coffee (buddy doesn't like to eat the bitterness of childhood again, and I don't want my people to go through that difficult and humiliating era again, so I want to add sugar and milk), and said slowly:
"When I was a child, I often listened to my grandfather and grandfather tell stories about the Anti-Japanese War. During the Anti-Japanese War, Country C was poor and weak, and in the face of powerful invaders, it could only hold back tears, grit its teeth and carry rudimentary weapons to defend its homeland.
The war was cruel and even more ruthless, and the RI army was raging in the land of country C.
The most poignant thing is that the children who should have sat in the school hall did not survive their teenage years with peace of mind, and many of them resolutely took up their weapons in the war.
The boys' bodies were still weak, but their spirits were not weak.
In the northwest of Yichuan, there is a place called Mantou Mountain, which is easy to defend and difficult to attack due to the complex terrain of Mantou Mountain, and the RI army built its main position here. At that time, the 121st Division of the 94th Army of the National Army received an order to attack this base area of the Ri Army, so the 11-day tug-of-war began.
Eleven days later, the small place of Mantou Mountain was littered with corpses, and the blood even dyed the stones red.
Unfortunately, despite the heavy casualties of our troops, they were not able to take their positions in the end, but the RI army also suffered heavy losses.
After the war, the RI army came to clean up the battlefield.
They found a dying soldier lying in the pile of corpses, who looked like he was in his teens, all his comrades were dead, and he had no weapons.
He was prepared to face death, so when he saw the Rijun coming, he looked extraordinarily calm at a young age.
There was a Chinese-speaking second lieutenant named Nara Shigezo in the army, and he asked the boy why he was going to battle. The young man who was on the verge of death replied only six words: "To protect the family and defend the country." ”
Hearing this answer, even if it was a rijun army, it was difficult not to be moved, and Nara Shigezo asked the boy some more questions, and the boy answered them one by one. It turned out that he was a member of the Sichuan army, and he came to join the army by himself.
The Sichuan army has always been known for its bloodiness, and even if it is an enemy, it is quite admirable to the Sichuan army. Shigezo Nara found the boy carrying a new pair of shoes on his back, but the shoes on his feet were extremely tattered.
Nara Shigezo asked him why he didn't wear new shoes, and the boy replied without hesitation that they were going to be worn at military parades after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War.
He said it so naturally, he believed that the motherland would definitely win, but he couldn't wait for the day of victory in the Anti-Japanese War, and he couldn't hold it out and died. The army buried him thickly.
This young man is my little grandfather, Yang Wanyong. He secretly followed my grandfather out of Sichuan to the frontal battlefield. My grandfather joined the military engineering team behind enemy lines. ”
I finished speaking with tears in my eyes, and saw that Zhang Shan couldn't cry anymore. I wiped her tears from her eyes.
I continued to recount fondly: "Although the material life of my childhood was hard, and I even ate birch bark, in the big family of my grandfather and grandfather, everyone was very united. During the difficult period, my father was in the Jincheng Military Region and had the highest salary, but he remitted almost all of it to my grandfather and grandfather, and they distributed it. ”
My eyes moistened a little when I said: "It can be said that three generations have experienced all the wars of modern country C, whether it is humiliating or glorious, our Lao Liu family and Lao Yang (grandfather's surname) family have done their best."
Grandpa and grandfather gave priority to the distribution of money and food to family members who had died in the family.
When I was a child, whenever my brother and I were dying of hunger, we saw smoke rising from the house next door. At that time, I was young and ignorant, and I always felt that my father didn't care about us, and my grandfather and grandfather were not fair.
Whenever this happens, my grandfather or grandfather would come and comfort us, like a trick of pulling out a few sweet potatoes or bird eggs. ”
"Later, when I grew up, I heard my grandfather say to my mother: "You and your children have suffered the most in those years!" But if you don't take care of those who have died in their families, who will go to war when the country is going to war in the future?"
When Zhang Shan heard this, she burst into tears again. Maybe her family is having a good ride and hasn't experienced any of this, right?
"Then why don't you go to the government?" asked Zhang Shan, choking up.
"Grandpa was the leader of Fuxing Town at that time, and he said that the government was also poor, and he couldn't take that lead! ”
"Your grandfather is so ruthless!" Xiaoni, who grew up in a honey pot, how can you understand the feelings of the older generation who are worried about the world first, and happy after the world!
"I don't understand either. "But I respect my fathers, my elders, their way of doing things. "Hegel said that whatever exists is reasonable, and under the circumstances of the time, perhaps you and I could only do that. ”
"Hmm. Zhang Shan tapped her head.
I patted Zhang Shan's hand and said decisively, "Okay, it's time for me to go." ”
"Can't you stay?" Zhang Shan suddenly hugged me, and hurriedly explained shyly: "No, it's not what you think, I have a lot of houses, you can choose one to live in." ”
"Besides, you're divorced, who else cares about you?" she said, staring at me with a clear look in her eyes.
"No, I have to go back!" I snapped.
"Is there anyone waiting for you?" Zhang Shan asked with a wary face, woman!
"Yes!" I looked directly into Zhang Shan's eyes with a frank look, trying to adjust my image in the clear and misty mirror.
"Well, let's go. Zhang Shan slipped down on the sofa in disappointment, as if she was unwilling, she blushed and said, "Can you kiss me before leaving?"
"Alas!" I sighed, leaned down, and pecked lightly on her white, glowing forehead, regardless of whether her eyes were closed or not.
I took the door heavily and walked down the garden-like path.
Looking back at the bright and soft light of the villa, the graceful and graceful shadows leaning against the window, I can't help but think of the famous song "Light" by Qianshulian: through the faint mist, the young man saw that in front of the girl's window, there were still lights shining.
Who wrote it? I am jealous of the breeze because it can touch my lover's face.
I want to say: wrong!
I want the breeze to say: Good dreams, girl!