The Xicheng District Power Supply Bureau is not far from Bauhinia City, on East Chang'an Avenue adjacent to Tiananmen Square.

When passing by a private house on East Chang'an Avenue, Xu Xuecheng knew that the Chang'an Club, a famous political dignitary in the future, would soon be broken ground here by a rich Hong Kong woman.

"Comrade, let me ask when the wires in my room will be pulled," Xu Xuecheng asked a middle-aged man sitting behind a desk.

The middle-aged man didn't reply, took a newspaper in his hand, and looked at it to himself, one leg resting on the other, shaking like a sieve.

"Comrade?" Xu Xuecheng shouted in a loud voice.

The middle-aged man frowned, looked up at Xu Xuecheng, and there was a displeased color in his eyebrows, "You little comrade, what are you doing here, you can talk quietly if you have something." ”

Xu Xuecheng was accustomed to seeing the faces of these bullish and coaxing public families, and he didn't talk back, and handed over a Marlboro with a smile, "I'm sorry, comrade, I have a loud voice,"

The middle-aged man saw that Xu Xuecheng also had a lot of "eyesight", wiped a match, lit a cigarette for himself, and spit out a puff of white mist, then asked lukewarmly, "Which one?"

"Liuhai Hutong is there, it's the courtyard," Xu Xuecheng replied with a smile.

"Liuhai Hutong, isn't it a miscellaneous courtyard over there?" the middle-aged man muttered, and unhurriedly took out a large notebook from the drawer, sipped it on his fingers, dipped some saliva, and began to flip through it.

It took a long time for the middle-aged man to find the place where Xu Xuecheng said, "No. 1 Liuhai Hutong, isn't this a miscellaneous courtyard, how can you let a young man do things?"

Xu Xuecheng said, "Yes, it used to be a courtyard house, but it was later bought by Hong Kong's Jiamei Electric Appliance Company, and it had to be redecorated. ”

When the middle-aged man heard the name of Jiamei Electric Company, he immediately became upright, put away his cold attitude, pulled a chair for Xu Xuecheng for the first time, and made tea.

"Oh, why didn't you say it earlier, it's about Hong Kong friends, we should take the initiative to provide door-to-door service as soon as possible, you sit down, I'll help you arrange manpower." ”

With that, he pushed the door open and walked out of his desk.

Xu Xuecheng sat there drinking tea by himself, he knew that the middle-aged man must have verified it, and he was not afraid, anyway, this house was listed in the name of the company.

Sure enough, within a few minutes, the middle-aged man returned, followed by two young men in work uniforms, "You and this comrade go and install the wires." ”

The two workers are riding two or eight bars, the wires are looped to the back, and the tool kit is hung on the tripod, which is very convenient, that is, they have to walk the streets and alleys to install the wires, otherwise they can't mix with the high-standard treatment of bicycles.

Xu Xuecheng sat in the back seat of a person, his hands climbing the iron frame under his buttocks, and the wind was blowing in his ears all the way.

"It's time to stop. Xu Xuecheng jumped down from the back seat with both hands.

Uncle Hu was playing chess with another uncle on the side of the road, and he was inseparable, when he saw Xu Xuecheng coming back, he said hello, "Hurry up and go out so early and come back?"

Xu Xuecheng pointed to the two workers, "Isn't the wire in the courtyard pulled properly, and I went out to the power supply bureau." ”

Uncle Hu nodded, "You're busy with you, I'm playing chess." ”

Xu Xuecheng answered and took the two into the courtyard.

Yu Ping was drying clothes, and set up a rack for drying clothes by the fish pond, a bamboo pole horizontally, and hung a lot of wet clothes and pants.

"You're back,"

Xu Xuecheng asked Yu Ping to make tea, and the tea he brought back from Baofu Temple Bridge was still a little bit, which was obtained from Li He Restaurant, and it tasted quite good.

The two workers hurriedly waved their hands, "You're welcome, let's do things first!"

When he came, the officer of the bureau told him clearly, this courtyard is from Hong Kong, and he must do it according to the words of this young man, he messed up and couldn't eat and walked around, under this pressure, how dare the two of them drink Xu Xuecheng's tea.

"That's okay, that's cool first, you guys get busy first,"

The previous lines in the yard were all open lines, and they had all been torn off, Xu Xuecheng naturally didn't want to see the gray wires at a glance on the carved railing, so he simply let the wires go from under the roof tiles.

However, it is not visible when you look at it this way, but there are many more wires, and they are easy to get wet.

"Anyway, there are not a few rains a year in the north, let's talk about it when it gets wet!" Xu Xuecheng could only comfort himself like this.

After a busy afternoon, he pulled Xu Xuecheng's main house in the backyard and Yu Ping's west wing, and left joints in the aisle in the rest of the places, and when the time came, Xu Xuecheng bought a switch bulb and connected it directly.

"Fortunately, fortunately, I am sorry," Xu Xuecheng handed each a pack of cigarettes.

Can't give money, this will be grasped tightly, a few dollars can be found out and sent to a desert prison for a few years, they don't dare to accept it, the cigarette is different, this is called a gift exchange!

"Unfortunately, it's unfortunate, it's really unacceptable" The two pushed and refused twice, but they were still forced into their pockets by Xu Xuecheng, "Then thank you, change the open switch to find me in the bureau, and I'll help you." ”

With the light bulb hung up, the two finally didn't have to smear and light the candle at night.

When the sky darkened, Li He had not come back from the restaurant, and Yu Ping stayed in Xu Xuecheng's room, so that he could turn on one less light and save some electricity bills.

"Brother Chengcheng, there are still 13 days," Yu Ping held his chin in both hands and watched Xu Xuecheng write something on Huang Huali's desk.

Xu Xuecheng stopped writing suddenly, he knew what Yu Ping was talking about, and it was about to be the day when she went abroad.

Yu Ping continued, "I heard that the United States is far away, and it takes a whole day to take a plane, is it really as good as they say that a place so far away?"

Human beings are always full of yearning for the unknown, but also accompanied by fear, Xu Xuecheng wants to tell her that the United States is a paradise for the rich and a hell for the poor, but he himself has heard others say on the Internet in later generations, so he has not so much right to speak.

"Don't worry, come back if it's not good, with me here, are you still afraid, it's a big deal that I'll go to the United States to see you in a while." ”

This is not a lie, it may be that for other people, the difficulty of going abroad now is not inferior to the last moon, but for Xu Xuecheng, going abroad is really not a big deal, and he will help him arrange the plane to the United States in Hong Kong every day.

"Really?" Yu Ping raised her head happily, she thought that going to the United States would mean at least two years of separation.

"Really, I never lied to you," Xu Xuecheng said by touching Yu Ping's forehead.

Xu Xuecheng vaguely heard someone knocking on the door, and the copper ring was buckled on the door, making a dull "Tong Tong" sound.

"Who?"

"Me, Li He!"

Xu Xuecheng guessed that Li He was also back, out of the weeping flower door and the shadow wall, and took the big bolt to open the door, isn't it Li He, carrying a bicycle under his armpit, crossing the threshold, and leaning the old phoenix against the corner casually.

"You came back so late?" asked Xu Xuecheng.

"The shop was busy, and there was no tram when I left, so I came by bicycle,"

Fortunately, Li Heyi was a big man who had been a soldier, otherwise it would have been a big night, and it was really not reassuring to be outside with valuables like a bicycle alone.

"Let's rest in the store in the future, there's no need to rush back every day, Yu Ping and I won't be there for school tomorrow, and there are no valuables to steal in the room." ”

Li He responded, and Xu Xuecheng also knew that he didn't listen, so he told him to be careful, and went back to the room.

Yu Ping had already gone back to his room, and the yellow incandescent lamp in the room shot out through the oiled paper, like the color of a crescent moon.

When there are no outsiders, she is a little bolder, but when Li He comes back, lonely men and widows will always give people a bad association when they are in the same room, so Yu Ping left Xu Xuecheng's room.

He dragged his clothes and got into the quilt, and the light switch was next to the bed, and he could reach out as soon as he stretched out his hand.

This is also Xu Xuecheng's special request, since there is no maid to serve him, he can only install the switch within reach, which can be regarded as a humanized design.

The next morning, he had to rush to school for morning self-study, although no one named or not, but Yu Ping was never vague about the fact of studying, and Xu Xuecheng didn't want to be late, lest Zhao Yingmei come to nag him again.

When I arrived at the school, the sky had just brightened, and there were already a lot of students.

The location of the study room and the library always needs to be "grabbed", and there are often one or two people in a dormitory who are responsible for "grabbing the position", holding four or five books early in the morning, and slipping to a row of desktops when they arrive in the classroom, which is considered to be the king of land occupation!

Xu Xuecheng heard Zheng Zhicheng reciting poems again, it was Tagore's "Bird Collection", which were all beautiful poems, which were very suitable for the character of this sullen man, especially when the class leader approached the classroom, he recited it very loudly, like a wolf seeing the moonlight, with green eyes and a neck stretched out and howled.

"Summer birds,

Fly to my window and sing,

Flew again. ”

Zhao Yingmei was unmoved, just sat down by herself, took out a copy of "Ma's Wentong", lowered her head and read it silently.

"She's a summer bird, but she just doesn't sing in front of your windowsill, wake up, Nian Nian," Xu Xuecheng said in Zheng Zhicheng's voice.

Zheng Zhicheng made a bitter face, "Fuck off, are you such a brother, where have you been in the past two days?"

The four big men in the dormitory have always advanced and retreated in the same way on the issue of seats, so Xu Xuecheng was surrounded as soon as he came, and obviously he couldn't leave without explaining his whereabouts for the past two days.

"Moving, I've been busy moving for the past two days," Xu Xuecheng exclaimed beggingly, maybe his voice was too high, and the classmates next to him rolled their eyes.