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Business gathered in the South Lake to raft the Dragon Boat Festival

The beautiful city of Mudanjiang was named after the Mudanjiang River, but from the founding of the People's Republic of China to the early days of reform and opening up, the banks of the Mudanjiang River have not been effectively developed until the mid-eighties, when the Municipal Development Company developed a residential area along the Yangtze River. Subsequently, the Municipal Construction Committee and the Municipal Bridge Construction Company built a Mudanjiang Bridge on the nearby river and paved an asphalt road, which was named Tongjiang Road, which communicated the connection between the urban area and the Jiangbin New Area and the Mudanjiang Bridge. Since then, the urban section along the Mudanjiang River has entered the stage of comprehensive planning and development, repairing the river embankment, building squares, building gardens, and developing residential areas. Nowadays, the entire urban section along the river has been connected with the urban area, and there is a Nanhu Park, which is rebuilt on the basis of the original water bubble.

Nanhu Park covers a small area, and the main recreation area is the long and narrow lake, which is surrounded by many large stones embedded in the embankment, which should be the product of the dredging of the lake. On a whim, the builders flattened the top surface of each large stone of different sizes, so that each large stone became a small hydrophilic platform. In the center of the lake is a small island with only an octagonal mud pavilion and a few large trees that grow naturally. Whenever summer comes, there will be many light boats around the island, especially on holidays, and many couples will visit here.

June 5, 92 is a traditional Chinese festival Dragon Boat Festival. At about ten o'clock in the morning on this day, two young men came to Nanhu Park, they rented a small boat, and floated on the lake, and judging by their casual appearance, it was possible to guess that they were not here specifically for boating.

"Feng, look there, how sweet it is. Zhi pointed his finger in the direction behind Ling Feng's head.

Ling Feng turned his head and looked in the direction of Zhili's finger, there was a couple sitting on a big rock by the lake, and their faces were not very old. The boy rested his head on the girl's lap, and the girl put one hand around the boy's shoulder and the other stroked the boy's hair. Looking at their sweet appearance, Ling Feng was really envious.

"I don't know when we'll have this sweetness. ”

Perhaps due to emotion, Zhili lowered his oars as he spoke, and lay back on the boat, his eyes deep in thought as he stared at the blue sky. At this time, a scene from three days ago appeared in front of Ling Feng's eyes.

On Sunday afternoon, Zi Yan and Mei Ping suddenly visited. They didn't enter the house, they just handed Ling Feng a letter, saying that it was handed over by Ying Shun, Ling Feng didn't read the letter immediately, but just put the letter in his trouser pocket. Zi Yan and Mei Ping stood at the door for two or three minutes before leaving, looking at the direction they went, the next stop must be Wen Hai's house.

Seeing off Zi Yan and Mei Ping, Ling Feng immediately went back to the house and took out the letter, and a computer-printed text message was immediately presented in front of him.

Brother Ling Feng:

Chi Lai Di:

Hello, I haven't seen you for a long time, and I miss it so much. Today coincides with Ah Ping's return, and you have completed the adult college entrance examination, I really want to get together with you, can I?

Yan and Ping will introduce my situation to you, and as for this meeting, you will discuss and decide, and then inform me.

Yingshun

2 June 1992

"Among the classmates, Yingshun is the only one who cares about and values us. Ling Feng looked at the letter, his heart warm.

Ling Feng walked out of the house after reading the letter, he wanted to inform Zhili of the news.

Since the start of school in March, Ling Feng has been busy taking the adult college entrance examination, and he hasn't seen Yingshun for a long time, and he thinks about it in his heart. After Ling Feng finished the adult college entrance examination, he also went to Yingshun's house to find Yingshun, but Yingshun was not at home, and through a simple conversation with Yingshun's mother, he knew that Yingshun was now working in a typing and copying agency called Tianyu Boyang at the intersection of Xisanjo Road and Tongjiang Road. On the way home, Ling Feng locked onto Tianyu Boyang, which had a chemical factory diagonally opposite.

At half past eight o'clock in the morning of June 5, Ling Feng and Zhili went straight to the Tianyu Boyang Copy Agency after meeting, and met Meiping who went out to buy meat on the way, and the three agreed to meet at the Tianyu Boyang Copy Agency at noon. When they arrived at Tianyu Boyang Copy Agency, seeing that Yingshun was busy with work, Ling Feng and Zhili came to Nanhu Park to pass the extra time.

At noon, Ling Feng and Zhili returned to Tianyu Boyang Copy Agency, and Meiping arrived on time with zongzi and eggs. The four of them discussed the gathering while eating zongzi at the photocopying club. In the end, it was decided that Ling Feng and Zhili would go to Ziyan with Meiping first, then go to the market to purchase, and finally go back to Meiping's house to prepare, and wait until Yingshun got off Ban and then went to Meiping's main stove.

Ling Feng, Zhili and Meiping found Zi Yan very smoothly, and then went to the market together to purchase. Meiping deliberately chose a bundle of celery, saying that she would go home to make dumplings.

In the afternoon, there was no one at Meiping's house, and Ling Feng and his party were busy as soon as they entered the house. Zhili chopped meat, Ling Feng and noodles, Meiping and Ziyan picked vegetables and washed vegetables. After the noodles were saved and the stuffing was mixed, the four of them wrapped the dumplings with great interest and laughter.

"Zi Yan, are you still staying at home? It's okay to just stay at home, it's not okay to find a partner without a job. Ling Feng first provoked a topic against Zi Yan.

"Go, if you want to worry about it, my dad has already found me a job in the North Tool Factory, and I will go to work next month. "Zi Yan feigned anger and anger, as if facing a great enemy.

"The Northern Tool Factory, a military enterprise specializing in bullets, has a good unit, don't forget to give us some bullets when the time comes. Zhili joked again.

"At that time, my family will reward you both with a bullet. Zi Yan was already smiling.

"On the day we sent the letter to Ling Feng, did Wen Hai say that the workers laid off in their ceramic factory were also divided into the Northern Tool Factory?" Meiping also lost no time in interjecting.

"Yes, I heard my dad say that the northern tool factory has a production task recently, and there is a shortage of people, Wenhai said that it is very likely. Some of the information that Zi Yan will know corroborates Wen Hai's words.

"It's not a family, it's not a family. Ling Feng found the topic again.

"You know that your dog can't spit ivory out of his mouth. Zi Yan already has a stick in her hand and is ready to go.

"Yes, if you want to be in a factory, you don't have to go to find someone in the future. "Meiping has the meaning of falling into the well.

"What the hell, don't you need me to tell them your secret. Zi Yan's spearhead turned to Mei Ping.

"Sister, sister, I was wrong. Meiping hurriedly begged for mercy.

"This makes the eyes of the masses bright, right? ”

"Yes, the thief is bright. ”

Faced with Ling Feng and Zhili's singing and harmony, Zi Yan decided to fight back.

"Do you know? Yingshun has a partner, I met in a typing training class, someone should be crying this time, right?"

"It's a good thing, this time my sister has someone to take care of, so I don't have to worry about it all the time. Ling Feng replied mockingly.

"It's a good thing, one day I will see my future brother-in-law, dare to bully my sister, I will. Zhili said as he lifted the dough with one hand and held the dough with the left and right with the other.

While everyone was amused, Zi Yan looked at Ling Feng with an incredible gaze.

"You, lonely and unheard, this is spent in your heart, I will tell you again one day when I have the opportunity. Meiping saw Zi Yan's doubts, and pointed at Ling Feng as she spoke.

"Speak now, speak now. Zi Yan was a little impatient.

"When I was in school, I often wrote love letters to Meiping. Ling Feng began to babble nonsense.

"Really, is there such a thing? Zi Yan looked surprised.

"You listen to his nonsense, when he was in school, he didn't even look at me, his mind was on the pretty little girl. Mei Ping easily coped with the rumors.

"How dare I look at you then, look at you Luo Yong should beat me. Ling Feng snorted nonsense.

"Luo Yong's little note, dare to go one by one, sister, I was also wrong. Zi Yan was halfway through her words, and when she realized that something was wrong, she quickly apologized to Meiping.

"During the Chinese New Year, I heard Luo Yong say that he was already working in the oil refinery, and it was good to work, and the little girl was worried about it. Zhili interjected at the right time.

"Look at you, who is a brother, and you are invincible, patronizing yourself left and right, don't be sad, one day my sister will introduce you to a one-meter-eight, there are many tall girls in our school. Meiping counted Ling Feng while guaranteeing Zhili.

"Are you as old as me? I remember when I was in elementary school, you were in kindergarten. Zhili teased Meiping's age.

"Alas, alas, why is the topic going to kindergarten again, isn't it for you to talk about this flowery carrot?" Zi Yan seemed to remember something, and hurriedly interrupted.

Just as Ling Feng was thinking about leading the topic elsewhere, there was a sound of the door opening the courtyard outside, and then as soon as the door opened, Meiping's parents returned. Meiping's parents were very hospitable, and after cleaning up, they replaced Ling Feng and the others, and asked Meiping to lead her classmates to the living room to chat.

At around five o'clock in the afternoon, Yingshun led Qinghua and two strangers, a man and a woman, into the house.

"This is my boyfriend Buren, this is my good sister Liangju, we met when we were learning to type. Ying Shun introduced two new friends first.

"These two are my best friends, Meiping and Ziyan, these two are known as Ling Li's invincible, one is my brother and the other is my brother. Ying Shun introduced Ling Feng and a few people to Buren and Liangju.

When she was polite, Meiping's parents had already prepared the meal and called Meiping to serve it in the living room, and the sensible Yingshun hurriedly went to express her gratitude to her uncle and aunt. Meiping's living room is very large, and there is more than enough to set up a round table. Stir-fried vegetables, cooked food, and dumplings filled the round table, and everyone gathered to talk and laugh from time to time.

Ling Feng is like this, he can talk to familiar people, but he doesn't talk to people he doesn't know. Sitting at the table and just eating was not the same thing, so Ling Feng chatted with Qinghua without a match. Through small talk, I learned that after Qinghua failed the college entrance examination again, he went to a flour soda factory opened by the eldest brother in the same village to run supply and marketing, and today I went to the third chemical factory in Mudanjiang City, which is diagonally opposite the Tianyu Boyang Copy Agency, to buy raw materials and met Yingshun.

If you don't drink and eat, it's fast, and you can leave the table in just half an hour. After the meal, Liangju invited everyone to dance, and on the way to the dance hall, Yingshun and Buren always fell last, and they didn't know what they were talking about.

In the dance hall, Liangju is very active, but Ling Feng, Zhili, and Qinghua are not very good at dancing, and they sit on the sidelines most of the time. Gradually, Liangju also lost interest, and finally politely asked Ling Feng, Zhili, and Qinghua to dance a song and then said that they wanted to go home early.

When I got out of the dance hall, it was already past nine o'clock, Qinghua sent Meiping, Zhili sent Ziyan, Buren sent Liangju, and Ling Feng and Yingshun rode to Jiangbin New Area together.

"Buren is very good, he is very energetic, and he is tall. Ling Feng saw that Yingshun's mood was not too good, so he broke the silence first.

"You didn't talk to Buren much today, aren't you upset?" Ying Shun turned her head to look at Ling Feng, wanting to see the clue from Ling Feng's expression.

"No, I just don't know what to tell him, but you, after you arrived at the dance hall, you always had a tense face, and you quarreled with Buren on the way here?" Ling Feng also raised his own questions to Ying Shun.

"He said he was going home to get the money and invite everyone to drink, but I said that I didn't need to go when I was full, and there was a little dispute, and it was okay, it would be fine in two days. Yingshun said it freely, but the state betrayed her.

Along the way, Ling Feng and Ying Shun chatted about something else, and when they were about to arrive at Ying Shun's house, Ling Feng turned the topic to Buren.

"Buren is from the Xian tribe. ”

"No, he's Han. ”

Ling Feng heard from Zi Yan that Ying Shun had a boyfriend, and his heart had always been very calm, but he just thought that he would not be able to go to Ying Shun as often as before in the future. But Ying Shun's remark that Buren was Han made Ling Feng's mood bad. Ling Feng still clearly remembers that when she was in high school, Yingshun once said that her parents wanted her to find a partner to find a Xian people. Ling Feng also knew that Ying Shun was guarding against himself at that time, but Ling Feng was still convinced. Now that he heard that Buren was of the Han nationality, Ling Feng felt uncomfortable in his heart, and Ling Feng couldn't tell the specific reason