Chapter Eighty-Six: Dead Drifter in the Sea
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"What is this place? are you the only one taking care of it?" I asked.
The strange man nodded and said, "This is my hometown, and I have the impression that it is so beautiful, but unfortunately, I am the only one here, but now it's okay, you're here." ”
I was shocked when I heard this, what do you mean, this strange man doesn't want me to stay with him, does he? No matter how stupid I am, I can see that these fantasy and real things here have a sense of unreality, and the person in front of me is not so amiable as he seems, he must have used some kind of evil magic to trap me here!
I didn't want to go around the bush with him, so I asked him directly, "Who the hell are you?"
The strange man filled my teacup before he said to me, "My name is Du Jianguo, and I am an educated youth from the countryside. ”
This word is not the same age as me, so he is about the same age as my parents, but although he looks scary, he should be in his thirties, right?!
"Why are you here? And you...... How did it get to be like this?"
Du Jianguo touched his face with his hand, then turned around and took down a photo frame from the bookshelf behind him and handed it to me.
I took the photo frame in his hand and looked at it, it was a tall and thin handsome guy, dressed in a gray tunic, and holding a copy of Lu Xun's anthology in his hand.
I didn't understand why he showed me this picture, "Who is this?"
"That's what I'm ......," Du Jianguo said calmly.
I couldn't close my mouth when I heard this, how could this be him, where there was a little resemblance, whether it was height or appearance, no matter how you looked at it, it was two people! But looking at his expression, it didn't look like he was joking.
"You...... How did it come to be?" I asked in disbelief.
Du Jianguo smiled bitterly and said, "It's hard to put into words, the hardships that our generation has endured are unimaginable to you juniors, if you are interested, I can tell you about my past, after all, I haven't chatted with people like this for many years."
I nodded, ready to be a loyal listener, because I could feel in the dark that this Du Jianguo should be inextricably linked to the legends on the island......
Du Jianguo's hometown is in Baoding, because he was born just in time for the first anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, so his father named him Jianguo. Because he was born in a scholarly family, his parents were beaten into stinky * old * nine during the Cultural Revolution. Before the stormy movement began, his parents were teachers at Baoding No. 2 Middle School, and he himself was a young and promising intellectual youth.
After the movement began, his parents were sent down, and the school teachers were beaten into stinky *old*nine, so naturally classes were suspended, and then the movement of intellectual youth to go to the mountains and countryside began.
Because of his bad background, Du Jianguo was arranged to a place called Xitouling in Guangdong after going to the countryside. It is remote and barren, and the local people are almost exclusively fishermen, who make a living by going out to sea to fish.
When he first arrived, everything was very unaccustomed, and the brigade did not give them much rations, and if they wanted to eat enough, they had to go to the sea with the fishermen to survive. But even so, he still did not lose faith in life, he believed that it would all pass, and now it was only a matter of time......
Although the conditions at that time were very difficult, Du Jianguo didn't feel it at all, because he was in love! He fell in love with Xia Qingqing, a female intellectual, who came to Shanghai in the same period as him.
Xia Qingqing's family was even worse, her parents were capitalists before the liberation, and at that time they owned a lot of industries in Shanghai, and they also cooperated with the Japanese in business, although her father later donated a lot of industries, but at the beginning of the movement, their family still bore the brunt of the disaster.
Maybe it's because two people have the same fate, maybe it's because two hearts can warm each other, in short, the two of them love each other......
When there is love in people's hearts, then even in the harsh winter, the heart is warm. They imagined the future together, and Xia Qingqing also promised that after returning to the city one day, he would definitely go to Baoding to find Du Jianguo, and the two would never be separated again.
It's a pity that the good times don't last long, and a bad luck awaits them at the fork in the road of their lives......
The common people of Xitouling are very superstitious, they believe in Mazu, and there are many taboos when they go to sea or catch the sea, especially for women, for example, women can not get on the boat, nor can they participate in the sea sacrifice, and women can not go to the sea when they come to the moon, because this will bring disaster to their local area.
Du Jianguo has seen a few times that a local woman was immersed in a pig cage because she violated a certain taboo. To put it bluntly, it is to stuff the woman into a bamboo cage containing piglets and throw it into the sea to feed the fish.
On this day, several male intellectuals who went to the countryside together wanted to go to sea to catch some seafood, so Du Jianguo and the villagers borrowed a small fishing boat to prepare to go to sea, but several female intellectuals wanted to follow. Du Jianguo knew that women were not allowed to go to sea in the local area, but when he saw Xia Qingqing's longing eyes, he relented and agreed to them.
In order not to let the villagers see it, they deliberately let several girls wear men's clothes, and they all wore hats. I thought that if I went so quietly and returned quietly, no one should be able to find out, but who knew that things did not develop in the direction they planned......
Everything was going well, but on the way back, they rescued a man and a woman from the sea, lying on a rotten wooden plank
I barely survived, and I originally wanted to go ashore quietly, but now it has become impossible.
The people on the shore were all frightened when they saw that these educated youths had rescued the two dead drifters, and they immediately called the village party secretary and resolutely refused to let the educated youths take the two people ashore.
The educated youths can't accept that the people in the village don't ask for death, and the people in the village can't accept that they bring death drifting back to the village, they think that this is a very unlucky thing and will invite disaster!
When the people on both sides were arguing with each other, some people found that in addition to the two "dead drifters" on the boat, there were actually a few female intellectuals......
The angry villagers proposed to dip a few female intellectuals who went to the sea into the pig cage, but the village branch understood that this was not okay, after all, these intellectuals were all from the city, if the top was investigated in the future, many villagers would definitely be fine, but when the time came, it was him who was the village party secretary!
So the village party secretary had no choice but to override public opinion, protect a few young women, and let each of them write a letter of guarantee to promise that he would not go to the sea in the future. And the two dead drifters were also rescued back to the village, but no one among the villagers was willing to take care of them, so it was best to put them in the dormitory of the educated youth.