Chapter 59: Diary [7]

Saturday, September 25 is fine

This Saturday, after the morning held a few simple sports projects after the successful completion of the 13th Autumn Sports Meeting of the Red Middle School, the teachers and students of all grades of the school to the class as a unit in the playground number column standing, today is a good day with a clear sky, the principal on the rostrum with a loudspeaker to talk about what life to struggle, to struggle, to grow in the wind and rain, to grow into a towering tree to become a pillar of society, we must be moral, intellectual, physical, aesthetic all-round development of socialist successors, to study hard, learn solid skills for the future motherland of the four modernizations licking bricks and tiles··· The long table on the rostrum was already full of gifts, including sneakers, table tennis rackets, pens, notebooks, school bags, pencil cases, and the students stretched their necks to see what kind of gifts the champions of each event could get.

Huang Cheng won 6 championships, went to the rostrum six times, and received six prizes, all of which were sneakers, enough for him to wear for three years, I don't know if he would exchange sneakers for other prizes. Song Limei won the women's shot put championship, and her prize was a fountain pen, but she wanted a pair of sneakers, Li Liling encouraged her to find Huang Cheng to exchange, but she really didn't expect Huang Cheng to change with them.

In the afternoon, the school holiday, Hu Bo, Song Limei, Li Liling and I met together to play on the embankment by the river, the riverside is two or three kilometers away from our school, we walked along the road of workers and peasants to the shipyard, through Hongwei Road, Fumin Road and then the bridgehead, the riverside is at the bridgehead to the south 500 meters away, in fact, the 21 bus has a bridgehead this station, but we all feel that the distance of the 3 stations is too cost-effective to take the bus and walked all the way.

When we were in junior high school, we often walked to the riverside to play, but my mother never allowed us to come to the riverside to play, on the one hand, because we were afraid that we would accidentally fall into the river while playing in the water, on the other hand, because the riverside was far away from the road, overgrown with wild grass, and relatively desolate, plus I don't know when the rumors came out that there were bad people on the riverside who had harmed several girls, so my mother repeatedly emphasized that I could not go to the riverside to play, and every time I went secretly, this time was no exception.

A group of four of us wore blue sportswear and walked on the side of the road bouncing up and down, and an old woman passed by and praised us for being handsome! I was the youngest of the four of us, and in their eyes I was a nerd who didn't know anything. Hu Bo revealed to Song Limei and Li Liling along the road that He Liwei and her brother liked me, I blushed and tried to deny it, because Song Limei once mentioned to me that she liked He Liwei when I was in junior high school, I didn't care at the time, but today I saw Song Limei's face change after listening to Hu Bo's words, I quickly pulled Hu Bo, but she was still there and said, I said in a hurry that you still like your brother's classmates, and sure enough, her face turned red. Or Li Liling is clever, she found that the atmosphere was not right, so she said, 'What's so embarrassing, we are already high school students, it's normal to like someone, and I still like Huang Cheng!'

When I mentioned Huang Cheng, I remembered his mother, I told everyone about Mr. Xiao Zeng's visit to Huang Cheng's house, and talked about Huang Cheng's mother and his grandmother, his mother is normal, who said that she was neurotic, it was all rumors. Hu Bo hurriedly clarified that it was her brother who saw Huang Cheng's mother sick, it was when Hu Jun was in the second year of junior high school, Huang Cheng had just transferred to another school, Hu Jun, who was a member of the life committee, accompanied the head teacher to visit Huang Cheng's house, and before he arrived at the door, he heard Huang Cheng's mother scolding there with the iron door in the house, and the scolding was fierce, Huang Cheng's grandmother sat at the door and sighed, and when they walked to the door of Huang Cheng's house and found that the iron door was locked, Huang Cheng's mother was frightened and hurriedly said after seeing the stranger. Don't arrest me, don't arrest me, I'm sent by the central government, I have a special mission on my body, you can't arrest me. Hu Bo said that her brother was frightened at the time, and after listening to her brother say that after a while, the crazy woman behind the iron gate suddenly danced with a smile, and sang in her mouth, "The golden mountain of Beijing shines in all directions, *** is the golden sun, how warm, how kind, illuminates the hearts of our serfs, and we are walking on the road of socialist happiness, the road of happiness." ’

After listening to Hu Bo's words, I was skeptical, and I really couldn't connect the elegant beautiful young woman who could play the piano I saw with the madman and the insane. Hu Bo asked Li Liling, 'Do you know that Huang Cheng's mother is a psychotic child, do you still like him after that?' Li Liling said, "I don't know, I just think Huang Cheng is so pitiful!" No wonder he loves to fight so much, many people must have scolded him for being a neurotic child, so he has a bad temper and fights with others. Hearing Li Liling say this, I also think Huang Cheng is quite pitiful.

Light rain on Sunday, September 26

Today's rest, the weather is not good, it is raining lightly outside, the weather has cooled overnight, I lie in bed and don't want to get up and was scolded by my mother again, my mother said that I can't do anything for such a big girl, and I don't know what to do every day? What if she is not there to see me? How can she not be there?

When I came back from playing at the riverside yesterday, I was scolded by my mother! She asked me if I had gone to the riverside, but I tried my best to deny it, but my mother became angry at once, and said 100 times that she wanted you not to go, and if you went away, did you sell your ears to a barbecue shop? You are a girl who is fooling around outside all day long, what should you do if you meet bad people, what should you do if you are abducted by human traffickers like rice wine? You say that it is so easy for my mother and me to pull you with a handful of and urine, what if you are killed? All kinds of tragic fates were imagined by my mother before I let me go. I wondered how my mother knew that I had gone to the riverside, and I couldn't help but ask her, she pointed in the direction of my sneakers and said that you went out in the morning with clean sneakers, and when you came back at night, the shoes were covered with fine sand by the river, and said that you didn't go to the ghost letter!

Actually, I think my mother is still very amazing, because she not only calculated that I went to the riverside, but also expected that we would meet bad people, in fact, we really met bad people by the river yesterday, but I didn't dare to tell my mother, and now I can't help but shiver when I think about it.

Yesterday, not long after Hu Bo, Song Limei, and Li Liling and I arrived at the embankment by the river, we saw "Big Wave" walking from a distance with several men in society, some of these men wore toad glasses, some had mustaches, some wore bell bottoms, and some had tattoos on their arms. The gang whistled at us as they passed, so frightened that we ran straight down the causeway to the river.

We are all children who grew up on the Yangtze River, and we don't know how many times we run here every year, so we know this environment well. There is a 500-meter-long river beach from the river embankment to the riverside, this river beach is completely submerged in the river water during the summer flood control, we can only play on the high river embankment, and now it is about to enter the dry period of the Yangtze River, this 500-meter-wide river beach is fully revealed, we pass through the weeds, reeds, and small saplings that are almost one person high, and then come to the large beach on the bank because the water recedes.

This beach is the main reason why we come here to play, we take off our shoes and socks and pull up our trouser legs to step on the cold river water, and play with each other, so unhappy. When you are tired of playing, you put your shoes under your buttocks and sit on the beach to watch the smoke and waves of the river, the endless river, the smoke from the two big chimneys in the chemical plant on the other side of the river in the distance, the vast river from time to time down a few cargo ships carrying coal, and a few small fishing boats casting nets not far from the river to fish, and the mottled cargo ships in the distance from time to time make a sharp whistle to break the silence of this autumn afternoon.

Time seems to stand still, we sit in a row on the river beach in a daze, along the turbulent river water down, the place that flows to the sea seems to be called Shanghai, Shanghai is a good place, those in-demand goods such as watches, bicycles, sewing machines are all made in Shanghai, I don't know what kind of place it is.

It seems that Hu Bo asked what he wants to do after graduation? This sentence stumped us, and in the blink of an eye we were already 16 or 7 years old, and we were almost adults, so should we continue to work as workers like most children in their parents' units and enter their parents' units?

My mother's plan for me was to wait for me to graduate from high school and go to their unit to take a job, and it would be good to be a spinning woman. But I don't want to be like my mother who stands in front of that deafening loom all day long, walking around and connecting the terminals, and has to work three shifts, two morning shifts, two middle shifts, two night shifts, and a day off after the night shift and then turn over the morning shift, and never wake up tired.

Li Liling said that if she wants to change the status quo, she can only go to college, and if she wants to get out of this small town, she can only go to university, although she knows the importance of studying in college, but her brain just can't remember what is said in class, what can she do?

Hu Bo said that she could not get into college, and that she only hoped that after graduating from high school and having a diploma, she could work as a small clerk in the planning and adjustment room of her father's unit, better than being a conductor squeezing around on the bus.

Song Limei said that she must be admitted to the university, and she must leave this dilapidated and backward town to work and live in Wuhan, a large provincial city. Wuhan has the Yangtze River Bridge, the Wuchang Uprising Memorial Hall, the Great Hankou, Wuhan University, Central China Normal University, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, these are all universities that she yearns for infinitely.

We were holding the infinite longing and reverie for the future when suddenly there was a shout from nowhere, we were startled, Hu Bo's ears were sharp, she heard someone shouting for help, we swooped to our feet, we didn't even have time to put on our shoes, picked up our shoes and searched in the direction from which the sound came. The voice came from a thatched bush 50 meters away, and we only heard it intermittently, 'Stinky rascal, get out of the way!' Help! 'Someone!''Don't scream, tell me to believe it or not, Lao Tzu will kill you!'' The voice of a man in the grass in front of us frightened us to go forward, and through the gap in the thatched pole, we saw the one wearing a toad mirror among the men we had just met on the causeway, pressing on the body of the "big wave" with one hand 's hands, the other hand to pull her clothes, one, two, bras, after a while, the clothes were gone, the four of us trembled in fear through the thatch, or Li Liling was bold, and suddenly shouted in the direction of the causeway, "Come on!"