Chapter 6 Two Movie Tickets
The old landlord died that day. The captain of the pen %fun %Pavilion www.biquge.info called out to a few old men, nailed a fire box with the door panel, and hastily buried him. Mangwa has been there to help, and no one has been held accountable for his "current counter-revolutionary" crimes. Some people say that Huang Chunhua's speech helped him, and others say that it was the storm that saved him.
In short, after the sudden death of the old landlord, Fangsheng Dam did not hold a meeting to fight the landlord. Although there have been several criticism meetings, they are all criticizing the "Gang of Four". Huang Chunhua didn't dare to call Mangwa to speak on stage anymore, for fear that he would leak his mouth and be charged with something!
It was a sunny day. The wheat and rape on the dam have been harvested, and the fields have become large paddy fields. A flock of egrets foraged in those paddy fields, and the air smelled of fresh earth.
People are busy planting rice seedlings in paddy fields. The captain of the old pimple was doing work with everyone for the first time, and now that there were fewer meetings above, he had no reason to be lazy, so he had to come to the field to find some easy work to do.
Mangwa and a few young people were planting seedlings in that field, next to them were the educated youths Fat Dun'er, and the other educated youths had returned to the city, only he and Cuihua remained in the team. Mangwa knows that this fat man, who walks like a duck, is secretly chasing after spring flowers. "Brother Mang. Look at that black peony dressed up so well today!"
"Ball!" Mangwa only hummed a word, and didn't even glance at Huang Chunhua. In fact, he had already discovered that Huang Chunhua has always loved to dress up, she changes a set of clothes every day, and always dangles her charming figure in front of Mangwa.
"Brother Mangwa. You're off track!" Huang Chunhua said on the ridge. She and a few women were responsible for carrying the seedlings from the seedling fields here, and then throwing the seedlings from the basket to the mangwa in the fields.
"Oh. Mangwa only hummed, then lowered her head and pulled up a few seedlings and replanted them.
"Hehe! Sister Chunhua. You are dressed up like Liu Sanjie in the movie today. Fat Dun stared at the spring flowers and said with a smile. Cuihua also came over with seedlings. When Fat Dun saw this, he walked to the edge of the ridge and followed the basket on her shoulder. "Fat brother. Is the movie Sanjie Liu good-looking?" asked Miss Cuihua gasped.
"Hey!" Fat Dun threw a basket of seedlings into the paddy field, and the splash of water startled the two egrets that were foraging in the water and landed in the distant field.
After throwing away two baskets of seedlings, Fat Dun sat on the ridge of the field and gasped and said, "Okay, it's very good-looking! I've been to see it twice! Haha! That Third Sister Liu is so beautiful." It's like ......" he glanced at the spring flower, and then stared at the green flower, "in short, it's more beautiful than both of you." Hahaha!"
Aunt Jin came with the seedlings, and when she heard Fat Dun's words, she looked at Chunhua who was staring at Mangwa in a daze and said, "Haha! What other girl is better than Chunhua's sister! I'll take the time to take a look!" She had secretly discovered that Chunhua was in love with Mangwa in her heart.
Huang Chunhua knew that Aunt Jin was laughing at herself, so she took the basket and left with a red face.
"I also want to see it, I haven't seen a movie in a long time. Cuihua said. "It's just not good to buy a ticket! I have to go to the station and line up the night before. There are so many people watching the movie!" Fat Dun'er said. Her eyes never left the delicate and delicate beauty beside her.
Cuihua sighed, glanced at the silent reckless baby, and picked up the basket and left. "Emerald flowers. If you can't afford to pick it, pick less!" Fat Dun looked at her back and said with concern.
"Hey, fat man. Don't be lazy!" the old pimple shouted. He and Wang Laohan, who was on the opposite side of the paddy field, were comparing the bamboo poles on the rope to make good row spacing, and then the two of them pulled the rope tightly and inserted it on the ridge, and the people who planted the seedlings in the paddy field planted the seedlings along the rope. This is an easy job that does not need to be soaked in water, and the old pimple said that this is a work with technology, and young people can't do it at all.
Mangwa had been bending down to plant seedlings, and when she heard Cuihua's sighing words, a thought suddenly rose in her heart, so she raised her head and said to Aunt Jin, the clerk on the ridge, "Aunt Jin." I'll take half a day off tomorrow!"
"What are you going to do?" Aunt Jin had already picked up the empty basket and walked to the side of the seedling field, so she turned around and asked loudly. Before Mangwa could say the reason for asking for leave, the old pimple objected, saying, "It's been very busy these days, and no one is allowed to ask for leave!"
Mangwa said, "I'm going to do an urgent matter, and I can't delay it for half a day." The old pimple didn't say anything. Aunt Jin said, "Then you should come back early! I'll just remember you being late." ”
Fat Dun guessed that Mangwa was going to buy movie tickets, so he approached him and asked in a low voice, "Brother Mang." I'm going to buy a movie ticket! Buy me two too. Mangwa glanced at the captain and quietly asked, "How much money?" Fat Dun said.
"Then you can lend me two cents and four cents!" said Mangwa. Fat Dun nodded, "Wait a minute, it's a call for you." ”
At the end of the evening, Fat Dun really gave Mangwa five cents, and he took the five cents and ran to the movie theater in the city overnight. There were already dozens of people lining up outside the ticket gates, all with small benches and overnight coats, waiting to buy tickets for tomorrow's movie.
Mangwa lined up behind, staring at the movie advertisements posted on the wall, looking at the appearance of Liu Sanjie and thinking about it, "Ball." That black peony is so beautiful!" Then he sat on the ground and dozed off.
He was suddenly awakened by a commotion, and saw that it was already dark. Tickets began to be sold at the ticket counter, and the people who had been lining up suddenly crowded in front of the small window. Before he could get up, people ran past him, and by the time he could react, he was already at the back.
"Get in line! don't crowd!" shouted some. Mangwa also shouted, but no one listened, and hundreds of ticket sellers pushed and squeezed, scrambling like a group of fighting roosters.
Mangwa was anxious, and she also threw off her arms and squeezed into the pile, but was soon pushed back behind. "Ball! want to fight with me!" he scolded in annoyance, and pushed into the pile of people with all his strength, and with a "boom", a large part of the crowd fell, and he stepped on the bodies of those people, and finally squeezed into the small window.
"Ouch! what a turtle son!" came the scolding and arguing of many people behind Mangwa.
He secretly rejoiced in his heart, "I'll buy four tickets for the night!" He put his hand holding five cents into the window and said, only to hear a woman say, "Today's tickets are all sold out." Come back tomorrow!" Then there was a snap, and the little window closed.
Mangwa couldn't believe it, she stood all night, and finally squeezed to the front, and it was sold out. "Hey, I just saw you weren't sold out yet!" he called out as he tapped the small door of the window. But there was no response inside.
"People are keeping the back door open! Damn! You have to rely on a relationship to buy a ticket!" Many people who didn't buy tickets scolded angrily. When Mangwa heard this, she was also full of anger and disappointment.
Discouraged, Mangwa was about to leave, when he heard someone behind him say, "Dude." How many do you buy? I'll sell them to you!" He looked back at the young man with dozens of tickets in his hand, "Do you have any for the evening?" he asked in surprise.
"Absolutely. How many do you want? The lad said. Mangwa took out the five cents and said, "Four." The young man took the money, "You can only buy two for five cents!" Then he ripped off the two tickets, stuffed them in Mangwa's hand, and turned to leave.
"Isn't it a dime?" asked Mangwa. But he immediately realized that this person turned out to be a "ticket seller"! I only bought two, why don't you explain to Fat Dun!" he looked at the two movie tickets in his hand and thought to himself.
It was still early, and Mangwa rushed back to the team at a trot, and he was only delayed for an hour. That day, we were picking grass in the corn field on the slope of Ao Mountain, and the male and female laborers in the team were there, and everyone was talking about the changes in the situation while picking grass.
"Brother Mang. Have you bought a ticket?" asked Fat Dun'er, leaning close to Mangwa's side. "Ball. Fucking sold out just by standing up. Mangwa lied. Fat Dun'er was very disappointed, "I'll go to the station row again tomorrow." Mangwa whispered again.
"Oh. Fat Dun'er took the hoe and went to the side of the green flower to gather grass. Every day he works, he has to find a way to be with Cuihua.
"I heard that the brigade on the other side of the mountain has distributed the land to each family!" Huang Chunhua said. She didn't know when she came next to Mangwa. Mangwa ignored her, thinking about how to give the movie ticket to Cuihua.
"Captain Gou. When are we going to divide the land?" asked Aunt Jin, the clerk, the old pimple. He kept his head buried in the grass, "Oh. Let's rest for a while!" He didn't answer Aunt Kim, but stuck his hoe in the dirt, and walked out of the cornfield alone with his cigarette stick. In fact, he has been thinking about this matter in his heart these days, and the changes in the current situation have made him unable to think through it at all, "Isn't this calling on the peasants to 'go it alone'?"
The people put their hoes in the ground and went to the woods to cool off. Mangwa was holding a cigarette stick in her hand, but she was holding a movie ticket in her other hand, and when she saw Fat Dun'er running into the woods, she walked to Cuihua's side and quietly stuffed the ticket in her palm, "It's eight o'clock in the evening." He whispered and walked away.
Cuihua felt a little sudden, and two red glows immediately appeared on that beautiful face. She quietly glanced at the movie ticket in her hand, and then looked up at the burly back of the mangwa, and her chest fluttered all day with excitement.
Mangwa anxiously waited until the evening to finish work, and didn't even eat dinner, so she hurriedly took a shower, changed into clean clothes, and combed her hair to be shiny, and then quietly ran to the county seat.
That night, a semi-circular moon hung in the sky, and the lights of the county town twinkled like stars on the dripping streets.
The cinema is in the People's Park, and there is only this cinema in the county, and there are already many moviegoers waiting here. Mangwa ran all the way to the door of the theater, he looked at the crowd for a while, and didn't see Cuihua, so he was a little worried about whether she would come.
When it was time to enter, Mangwa still didn't wait for Cuihua, so he entered the theater with the crowded people, and then found his two seats to sit down, and before the time for the movie to be shown, he took out the cigarette stick, looked at the embroidered cigarette pouch for a while, and thought, "Wait a minute, she came, and I asked if this cigarette pouch was given by her." ”
"Hey, lad. Take out the ticket and check the ticket. No smoking in the theater!" said a woman checking tickets. She had a flashlight in her hand. Mangwa had no choice but to put away the cigarette stick and show her the ticket. "If you're young, smoke leaf cigarettes, remember not to smoke them!!," the woman muttered and walked away.
Mangwa wanted to get angry when she heard this, but she had to endure it, because a shadow appeared on the screen in front of her, which was an encorel newsreel. He turned his head to look at the empty space next to him, and then at the entrance at the back of the theater, all of which were full, "Oh, she's not coming." He was disappointed.
It wasn't until the newsreel finished and the feature film began for a while that a woman sat down next to him. Mangwa didn't look back, her eyes were fixed on the screen, but she was both happy and nervous in her heart, after all, it was the first time she sat with a woman and watched a movie.
"Has the movie been on for a long time? I, after taking a shower, can't win dinner, so I'm coming!" Mangwa whispered as she heard her gasp. At the same time, a pungent smell of perfume entered his nostrils, and he turned his head to glance at her, and his heart shook violently.
She is not the gentle and beautiful Li Cuihua, but the Huang Chunhua with a horizontal face.
"Ball! the ball is not coming, but it should not have come!" Mangwa thought disappointed and annoyed in her heart. At the same time, a question poured into his heart, "Obviously she gave the ticket to Cuihua, why did she come here?"
On the screen, Liu Sanjie and the man walked under an ancient tree that looked like a yellow kudzu tree, and Liu Sanjie sang a love song. "There are only vines wrapped around trees in the world, but now I see trees wrapped around vines," Huang Chunhua asked Mangwa in a low voice, "Da Mang." What do you mean by trees and vines?"
Mangwa pretended not to hear, and Chunhua hummed along with Liu Sanjie in a low voice. The voice was so left that it gave the baby goosebumps all over her body. He felt very uncomfortable, as if he was sitting with a poisonous snake sitting beside him, scared and helpless. He took out his cigarette stick and put it in his mouth, trying to smoke a cigarette to suppress the restlessness in his heart.
"Brother Mang. Can you guess which cigarette pouch this cigarette pouch is......" Huang Chunhua asked with a smile as she looked at the cigarette pouch hanging from his cigarette stick. But before she could finish her sentence, the woman in charge of the yard cried out, "That young man, tell you not to smoke." Please pay a fine of five cents and come out!"
"The ball is fine, I haven't lit it yet!" Mangwa said suddenly angrily. His voice overwhelmed the singing voice of Sanjie Liu in the movie, and many people stood up, not knowing what was happening.
The woman shone a flashlight on Mangwa's face, and also said loudly, "You have a cigarette stick in your mouth, hehe! And an embroidered cigarette pouch! Why don't you smoke? Hurry up and pay the fine, or I'll ask you to go out!"
"Lao Tzu didn't smoke it, he didn't smoke it, why did your turtle son want to fine me!" He already harbored a wave of anger in his heart, so he took the anger out of his stomach on the woman.
"Hey, everybody's heard, this guy is swearing!" the woman shouted. Many people blamed Mangwa, the scolding turned into a commotion, the theater was in chaos, the movie had to be parked, and the lights on the ceiling were on, shining on Mangwa's annoyed face.
Huang Chunhua also stood up to defend Mangwa, "People don't get cigarettes on their cigarette sticks, why should they be fined!" Her words didn't work, and people were still accusing Mangwa. "Get him out of here! don't interfere with our movie!" some people shouted.
"Go, follow me to the management committee, you have to apologize to me!" the woman squeezed in front of the mangwa, pulling him by the collar and yelling. Mangwa pushed her hand away, and shouted, "Lao Tzu is unlucky today! I don't watch this fart movie!" After scolding, he left Chunhua who was still arguing with everyone around him, and ran towards the door of the theater angrily.
The woman shouted after him, "Stop this second-rate man!" Several people tried to stop him, but he pushed him to the ground.
Mangwa ran out of the movie theater and heard that there was still a commotion inside, so she guessed that it must be Chunhua arguing with everyone. He didn't stop and left the theater with a stomach full of resentment.
It wasn't until he ran out of the county seat in one breath and stepped on the Tuojiang Bridge that Mangwa heard Huang Chunhua's anxious voice behind him, "Brother Mangwa." Wait for me!"
The semi-circular moon still hangs over the Tuojiang Bridge, where there are few pedestrians and the occasional car passes by. Mangwa heard that robberies often happened here, so she slowed down. "After all, it's a girl's family, and I can't get by if something happens!" he thought as he walked.
Huang Chunhua caught up, gasped behind him and said, "I, scolded that mother-in-law severely." Hahaha! Those people are also scolded by me, and they don't dare to open their mouths! Hahaha!"
Mangwa didn't say anything, he knew that Huang Chunhua didn't lie, in the Fangsheng Dam, she was famous for quarreling, no one was her opponent, even Aunt Jin often let her score three points!
"Wait a minute, let me take a breath!" Huang Chunhua said pleadingly. She just ran for a while to catch up with Mangwa, "Alas! It's a pity that I didn't finish watching such a good movie." ”
Mangwa hesitated for a moment, but had to stop and look back at her, and said in surprise, "Yo." It's a bit good!"
Huang Chunhua is tying up the hair that is scattered on her shoulders with a rubber band, that face, that figure, reminds Mangwa of Liu Sanjie in the movie.
"Haha! The moon is so round tonight!" Huang Chunhua seemed to be very excited, and said happily when she saw Mangwa staring at the semi-circular moon in the sky. "Ball. It's obviously a waning moon, but you say it's round, nerd mother-in-law!" Mangwa thought in disgust, so she didn't say a word, and walked forward alone.
Chunhua was stunned for a moment, only to know that Mangwa was unhappy, so she silently followed him. After crossing the bridge, it is a dark road, and the trees on both sides block the moonlight, which makes it look a little gloomy and calm.
She was a little frightened, and wanted to get close to him, but Mangwa shook her body away and walked to the other side of the road. "What are you dodging and dodging, am I just annoying you?" she asked, shy and angry.
Mangwa still didn't say anything, just buried her head and walked forward. A car drove from the front, the light of its headlights shining on his annoyed face. Seeing that he was silent, Chunhua suddenly became angry: "I know that you like that Li Cuihua! What is so good about her? Is her family a capitalist? You, you Chen Damang have to stand firm!"
"What's wrong with the capitalist! People are more reasonable than you! People don't hurt people by themselves!" Mangwa heard this, and the anger in her heart burst out.
Huang Chunhua panted and ran behind Mangwa from the side of the road, tugged at his sleeve and asked loudly, "Chen Damang, you make it clear! What am I unreasonable? Why am I harming people?"
Mangwa shook off her hand and said loudly, "You! You killed the old landlord in that criticism meeting! Also, the little landlord just urinated, so you went to the brigade to complain and put a black hat on him!" After speaking, he ran to the side of the highway again.
Chunhua followed closely and said angrily, "They are all class enemies." Besides, I didn't speak for you that day, I'm afraid you're still wearing a black hat!"
"Ball! Didn't you ask me to speak? I, I didn't say anything wrong! It was the people of your Huang family who wanted to fix me, so you came out and pretended to be a good person!" Mangwa suddenly said the hatred she had for her in her heart, and then she left her and ran towards the house.
Huang Chunhua stood on the road, looking at the back of Mangwa, and tears rolled out of her eyes. Then he pointed at him and scolded, "Chen Damang! You, your turtle son is an ungrateful big fool!"
Mangwa had disappeared into the dark house, and she stood in the dim moonlight and wept. During the day, she found that Mangwa quietly handed something to Cuihua, and she was suspicious until the evening, when she went to ask Cuihua, "What did Brother Mangwa give you in the morning?"
Cuihua changed into a pink and white dress, and wore a good-looking hairpin on her hair. She was about to go to the city, and when she saw that Huang Chunhua's tone was a little fierce, she took out the movie ticket, "Yes, I asked Brother Mangwa to buy a movie ticket." She lied.
Huang Chunhua saw that Mangwa also went to the county seat, and understood that the two were going to watch a movie together. "Sister Cuihua. Sell me this ticket!" she had never screamed so passionately.
Cuihua hesitated and didn't say anything, so she took her hand and snatched the movie ticket, "Your family lives in the county, so you will have a chance to watch it in the future." Sell me this ticket!haha!" she said, and before Cuihua could speak, she turned and ran. Cuihua was very disappointed and sad for several days.