Chapter 16 The New Year
Some people feel relaxed and happy because they are happy, and there are also people who have to be more serious about life.
In the three west rooms of the No. 3 courtyard of Chashi Hutong in Chongwen District, the atmosphere of the Shou family is quite awkward.
Shou Jingfang had a dish of "braised abalone", and he had already drunk several glasses, and Moutai made his face flush slightly. But at this time he was not happy in his heart, because what his children were discussing was really unheard of.
Shou Rong slapped the table and glared.
"It's so annoying! Shou Xu, I have asked someone to check, and your test score exceeds the admission line of Beijing Medical University by more than 20 points. But even the first medical university doesn't want you, why should they? We have to go to them......
Shou Yu dealt with it calmly.
"Oh, sister, what's all the fuss? Actually, it's good to have a university, and fortunately, my third choice is to apply for Agricultural University......"
"Why are you so unproductive! Your current ability, as a chief doctor, is rich, so you are willing to learn how to repair the earth? Isn't it determined by the 'great man' that the unified examination will be selected on the basis of merit?"
"The above is the policy, and the bottom is the mastery scale, and your efforts are in vain......
"That's not good, you can't take the test in vain if you get such a high score, we have to solve this problem. Besides, our family is not out of the question, if not, I will take you to beg my aunt ......"
Hearing this, Shou Jingke, who had been silent, was no longer indifferent and scolded loudly. "You dare!"
Shou Rong was aggrieved.
"Dad, what's wrong with you? This is a major event related to Shou Xu's life, and my aunt is your own sister after all. Now that the 'movement' has passed, she doesn't have to worry about being implicated, and she will definitely not do anything to us anymore. Our longevity is not a matter of ability, this little favor, if my uncle can go and say hello, maybe it will be done. Didn't you always want Shou Zhen to be a doctor?"
How do you know that Shou Jingfang actually said very rigidly, "Being a doctor depends on ability, not by wagging his tail and soft bones." If you want to use this idea of becoming inflammatory, you are not worthy of being my daughter!"
"Dad......!"
Shou Rong had to argue again, but Shou Rong actually opposed her.
"Sister, you are in charge of my business! You don't know what virtues your aunt's family has? I still don't believe it, can't I study medicine when I go to agricultural university? I have thought about it, one of my classmates has already been admitted to the medical university, and I will follow him to listen to it when I have the chance......
Shou Jingfang listened and bowed his head happily. "Good boy, this is my son!"
But Shou Rong was so angry that she pushed the bowl. "You really don't lose your own two people, you both want to save face and suffer crimes, and you'd rather steal art than ask for help, stupid or not? How can my kindness be treated as a donkey's liver and lungs......"
Speaking of similarity to the Shou family, in a small bungalow on Zaolin West Street in Xuanwu District, the "red leaves" who were also admitted to the university this year are also a little troublesome at present.
However, he is not dissatisfied with his profession, but worried about the livelihood of his brothers in the future.
"'Naughty boy', I have to report to school in March, what will you do in the future? You can't keep doing this, now not only are there more and more policemen, but there are also more and more students who don't hesitate to cross the line to grab food, and this bowl of rice is no longer delicious......
But the "naughty child" was very free and easy, "Big brother, don't worry about us." But to be honest, you are really this one of our 'play masters'! Lift your breath and make a long face! Congratulations, your hard life has come to an end, brother toasts you with a ......"
"Red Leaves" naturally can't live up to the true feelings of the brothers, and as soon as they clinked glasses, the two of them "walked" a full cup.
But after drinking the wine, the knot in his heart was still difficult to let go, and he couldn't help muttering to himself.
"No, I'll have to think of a rut for you to rest assured, and ...... You'll have to go in sooner or later......"
"Naughty children" are still heartless.
"Go in, go in, and take care of the nest inside. Big brother, they all say that college students can become officials, and you can ascend to the sky in one step after the holiday! Maybe we'll have something to do in the future, and we'll have to count on you to save us. ”
"Momiji" glared when he heard it.
"Fart! The Public Security Bureau is not run by our family? If you want to worry about this, it will really kill yourself! I am even more unsure in my heart, I can't let you be stupid and ruin your own life......"
"Naughty" scratches his head in embarrassment.
"Big brother, I'll just say that, in fact, I understand the reason. Like the last time 'Red Boy' persuaded you to go to college, I listened to it with Bian'er, what kind of punishment will be severe in the future...... What crime will be the main task of the police in the future, and what will restore the country and what will be economical...... I remember it all. But even if he is right, we can't help it? That's why it's really useful for him to tell you the news of the resumption of the college entrance examination......
I didn't know that when I said this, "Momiji" eyes lit up, and I was a little excited.
"Hey, as soon as you say it, I'll remember! Let's go find this kid! He's washed his hands in a golden basin, and he must have his own way of living! Besides, 'Kitchen Knife', 'Shunzi', and 'Three Jumpers' are also his brothers, and he can't ignore ...... him."
But then, he looked at the "naughty child" with a little hesitation.
“…… But I'm just worried that kid is a master who doesn't let people go. There really has to be a good way. It's just that you're willing to pull our brothers to do it together, but your seat ......"
I didn't expect the "naughty child" to just laugh.
"Big brother, I know how many pounds and taels I have. Do what you say you should do......"
As the saying goes, "There is no feast in the world that will never be dissolved."
In the blink of an eye, "Momiji" and "Naughty Child" are about to go on different life journeys. Similarly, the two policemen, Xing Zhengyi and Zhao Zhenmin, are also about to part ways. This day was actually the last night they were on duty together.
West of Yongdingmen Railway Station, Fengtai District, Dongzhuang Police Station.
Xing Zhengyi fluttered a burst of snowflakes, rubbed his hands and sighed, pushed the door and walked into the office.
Zhao Zhenmin, who was reading the newspaper with a cigarette in his mouth, was happy when he saw him come in. "What's the matter, the future director has finished his inspection......?
"You kid, make fun of me again. Not to mention, I had to go around. The courtyard on the west corner was smoking, and someone had set fire to the earthen box in a small kitchen, almost setting the linoleum roof on fire. Finally in time, nothing big happened......"
"Hey, hard work! I say, I'm most convinced of you! If you don't become a policeman, it will be a great loss to the people of the entire capital!"
"Alright, you stink, don't be angry with me, where can I compare with you? You're about to be transferred to the 'pickpocketing team'. But I still have to stay here and grind my teeth with the street aunts every day. ”
"Little comrade, don't be passive! It's all revolutionary work!"
Zhao Zhenmin's face was pale, but he was also sincerely comforted. "You have to think about the good, Director Qin is about to retire, you are his most important successor. I've arranged for you to go to a short-term training class, and if you are cultivated for another two years, the deputy director of the section level will not be able to run......"
"Besides, I don't like to be a police officer, it's all trivial. Are you willing to change us?"
"Cut, did I say it worked? Actually, you just look too good, you look like a policeman, or you will go with me......"
"Hmph, look, I still have to go! My ultimate goal is to go to the second place (the interrogation office), that is where a good cop should go!"
"That's not necessary, you can definitely do it! But for now, let's come over and warm up, let's have a box of dumplings......"
As he spoke, Zhao Zhenmin took a lunch box from the heater and handed it to Xing Zhengyi. "Lao Liu in the canteen specially made it with us, pork and cabbage. But it's not enough for this box, people have already gone home for the New Year......"
Xing Zhengyi seemed to be really hungry, so he quickly grabbed two dumplings and stuffed them into his mouth. But then, he covered the lunch box again, took it and walked out.
Zhao Zhenmin was surprised. "Well, why are you going?"
Xing Zhengyi pulled the door with his hand and replied as he swallowed.
"Isn't there a thief of the two construction sites in the back, it's miserable enough to celebrate the New Year here, let's give them dumplings to eat......"
Zhao Zhenmin was anxious when he heard it. "Just those two dog things, do they deserve it? You don't eat them yourself, are you okay?"
Xing Zhengyi didn't look back at all, his legs had already stepped out of the door. "It's not a thing anymore, they're human beings! If we want them to change their ways, we still have to treat them as human beings......
"Bang", under the traction of the spring, the office door slammed slammed. Xing Zhengyi's figure disappeared into the flying snowflakes......
In this world, the police have the guidelines of the police, and the bastard also has the truth of the bastard.
Xing Zhengyi treats others as human beings out of a noble professional ethics. But there are also some people who never treat others as human beings, and that is out of the survival needs of animal instincts.
Tuanhe Farm in Daxing County, a suburb of Beijing.
Seeing that the Spring Festival is approaching, inside the big wall surrounded by the power grid, the government also wants to improve the food for the correctional students in the spirit of humanitarianism.
In the evening, the room made a fragrant "two rice" of millet medium and large rice, two bowls per person, and the dish was stir-fried cabbage and wide vermicelli stewed pork. There are also fifteen dumplings per person.
This very ordinary meal is simply a hearty "state banquet" for people who have only eaten bran noodles and cabbage soup for a long time.
So when the attendant "You San" just came back from the room, many pairs of greedy eyes in the dormitory stared at the rice bowl and the vegetable basin tightly, all of them were eager to swallow all the food and vegetables.
But "You San" didn't pity these hungry wolf-like upbringers at all, he only ran to the bunk closest to the stove, and respectfully invited the upside-down "Da Dehe".
"'De Ye', get up and eat, everything has come back......"
Then it wasn't until the "big fit" sat up that "You San" took the initiative to put on his shoes that the kid greeted "It's open, put the pot, put the pot." ”
"You San" counted the dumplings first, and he consciously put twenty more in the "big and fit" basin, and then put ten more in his own basin.
The same is true for pork stewed vermicelli, and when "You San" finishes dialing it out for "Da Dehe" and his own basin, a quarter of the amount in the big pot is gone, and it is all the best pork belly pieces.
In front of everyone's eyes, no one in the other dozen or so in the room dared to squeak. "You San" swept them around, and with another wave of his hand, the two cultivators next to him began to divide the rest of the people according to their heads.
And "Da Dehe" seemed to really wake up at this time, looked at his basin, beckoned "You San" over, and whispered, "You kid, it's a bit too much, right?
"You San" chuckled flatteringly.
"Wolves travel thousands of miles to eat meat, dogs travel thousands of miles ****, it must be divided into three, six, nine and so on, which is normal. These bunnies can still eat four or five pieces of fat meat by themselves, which is already our favor. You can't treat them as human beings! With you supporting me, I won't be scared, and whoever blows up the thorns, I'll kill whoever ......."
After speaking, he took out a small bottle from his arms and stuffed it into "Da Dehe", and a smell of wine came out at the same time.
"'De Ye', you taste it slowly, no one will check it today......"
"Big fit" eyes lit up instantly, and then he allocated some meat and dumplings in his basin to You San.
"You kid did a good job, you deserve to eat more!"
"You San" smiled and squatted with a rice bowl to eat. It really looks like a dog wagging its tail and gnawing bones......
The mysteries of life are difficult for most people to understand.
It's like a sweater woven from many colors of wool, even if a person wears it for a lifetime, it's hard to tell how many threads, how many colors, and how they are intertwined when they get old.
Therefore, even in places that are not close to each other at all, or even thousands of miles away from the capital, there are some people whose fate has long been predestined in the dark, and will gradually get closer to each other in the future and be closely intertwined.
Perhaps, this is called a number of lives......
Longkou Village, Jiulong Mountain, Fangshan County, Beijing suburb.
On the hot kang connected to the stove in a small courtyard of a farmhouse, Zhao Qing, who ran into the city to sell eggs the day before yesterday, was asleep.
In the next room, a conversation between his parents was being heard.
"What? Qing'er is asleep again, and he hasn't worshiped his ancestors yet? Is he going to sleep? Wake him up!" This is an old man's voice, and surprisingly, a mouthful of Beijing flavor is round.
"Will it work in a while? Don't you know Qing'er? The body is easily tired, but he loves to sleep. I can even fall asleep standing and talking. You just let him sleep more......" It was a local woman's voice, but with a distinctly local accent.
"But this can't be done, the time is spent sleeping, and you can't do business?"
"If you want me to see, just sleep, and don't hinder anyone, at most a few less work points at the end of the year, compared to those boys who steal chickens and dogs and pull garlic seedlings, our Qing'er is quite cute. What's more, it is not easy for him to enter the city this time, selling eggs to the family for more than 20 yuan, and he has been working for others for half a year, so he should feel sorry for him......"
"Alas, it's not that I don't feel sorry for my son. His body is weak, and he can neither practice martial arts nor work, but it is always good to be able to read more books and practice calligraphy and painting, and it is not better than dreaming all day long.......
"No, right? The hospitals of the People's Commune have been checked, but nothing has been found......
"Just the barefoot doctor who was promoted from the countryside? What does he know? I can't even figure out whether there are flies in Africa, 'penicillin' is penicillin......
The child's mother was confused because of these unheard terms.
"What are you talking about, kid daddy...... Porridge?
The old man couldn't help but sigh.
"Hey, I can't tell you, let's put it bluntly, Qing'er's strange illness may only be cured by Shou Jing in the capital. It's a pity that the Shou family has already been copied, and I don't know my whereabouts......"
Yanchang County, Shaanxi, Liujiahe People's Commune.
The intellectuals of the two earthen kilns are almost empty. Only two female intellectuals from the capital were left, and they couldn't go home for the holiday.
One of them is Shui Qing, the eldest daughter of the old water family, in the West Courtyard of the Furuli Guanyin Academy, and the other is her classmate in middle school, Ran Liying, who is sick.
Outside the earthen kiln, the fierce cold wind was blowing non-stop. Inside the house, under an oil lamp the size of a bean, Shui Qing helped Ran Liying, who was lying down, to feed her ginger syrup.
Thinking of the beautiful face of the girl in her arms before, and comparing it to her current haggard appearance, she looks like a "human lamp". (A local language that describes the appearance of a person who is extremely thin.) Shui Qing's heart was both worried and worried.
Yes, Ran Liying, who is in a fever, has no water on her face, and on her white face, only those big eyes are still moving.
It's amazing how quickly a flower wilts. Looking at her bitter appearance, it really makes people's hearts panic.
And the most worrying thing is that she still has a little life of less than three months by her side, and the sleeping baby is still a child who does not tolerate the world......
"Qing'er, I'm sorry for you, you're so tired that you can't go home for the holidays. Originally, you should have brought your university admission letter and happily celebrated the New Year with your family......"
Suddenly, Ran Liying in Shui Qing's arms spoke, interrupting her grief.
"Xiaoying, what are you talking about! We are classmates, and we came from the capital together. For so many years, I have long regarded you as my own sister, how can I leave you alone? Don't worry, I will keep watch over you until your illness is cured......
"Qing'er...... You're so good. You know, my family is gone...... Speaking from the heart, if it weren't for this child, I would have ...... a long time ago Never like this......"
"Don't talk stupid, you should take care of your illness, and you have to live well for the sake of your children. I'll go to the hospital in the People's Commune tomorrow and I'll find a way to get you some medicine back......"
Shui Qing suddenly felt that the wind exposed in the crack of the window was a little strong, so she carefully tucked the quilt for Ran Liying.
But Ran Liying still coughed, and the voice was very worrying. And then she even said, "Qing, I think I may not be better, you...... Can you promise me something?"
Shui Qing was afraid that she would be cranky, so she hurriedly coaxed and said, "Why are you always worried......?
Ran Liying suddenly shed tears, "In case I die, I want this child to recognize you as a mother." ”
Shui Qing was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly said, "Don't talk nonsense, how can you die? You will always be with the child's ......."
But the corners of Ran Liying's mouth flashed a more miserable look.
"Don't blame me for being foolish, I mean, in case, if I'm ...... I really won't live long, I hope you can raise this girl for me. You must promise me that I will not be able to repay this kindness in my life or two, and in the next life...... I'll be a cow and a horse for you......"
Shui Qing felt like she had been burned by a soldering iron, and her whole body trembled, and she couldn't bear to listen to it anymore.
"Okay, as long as you promise me peace of mind, I will recognize this child as my goddaughter! But when you get better, don't regret it......"
Ran Liying stared at Shui Qing for a long time, and a smile of relief suddenly flashed across her face, and finally fell down with relief.
Then she muttered in her mouth, "Qing'er, no matter if you do it or kiss it, the child will call you mom in the future." Now I'm relieved, I really want to kowtow to you......"
As she spoke, her tears "brushed" down again, and she closed her eyes in pain......
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