The Pure Years (Novella) Zhang Baotong 2016.1.2

Chen Jie came to Yuxiu's radio room after dinner, and the two chatted and laughed together, playing the harmonica and singing songs. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 infoEvenings are the best part of their day.

Once, after the two of them sang the song "Yingshan Hong" affectionately, Yuxiu said to Chen Jie, "One day after the rain, I will take you to Chashan to see Yingshan Hong, especially after the rain, the sky is clear, and the flowers are red and the mountains are like fire, which is very beautiful." ”

When Chen Jie heard this, he immediately said, "Let's go tomorrow morning." ”

Yuxiu said, "No, you still have to go to work tomorrow morning." ”

Chen Jie said, "I'll ask Daddy Huang for a leave." ”

Yuxiu said, "It's the time when the spring plug is busy, I'm afraid that Huang Dad won't grant the leave." ”

Chen Jie said, "I just said that I had a headache and wanted to go to the health center to see a doctor." ”

Yuxiu thought for a while and said, "It's okay, you bring a small basket, and we can pick some mushrooms." ”

Chen Jie said, "Okay. ”

After breakfast the next day, Chen Jie was waiting for Yuxiu at the intersection of the mountain behind the brigade headquarters. The two of them wore hats and single clothes, riding the dripping rain, and walked along the path towards the depths of the tea mountain.

In the early morning after the rain, the pine forest is thick with fog, green floating, light breeze and fresh air. Yuxiu and Chen Jie were barefoot, carrying bamboo baskets, stepping on moss full of rain, like two cheerful yellow orioles running in the verdant green.

In a few moments, they were in a large flat forest. The trees here are thick and leafy, and although the forest is dark, the ground is spacious, and the light from above is bright and soft. Next to a large mossy tree, Chen Jie saw four or five mushrooms of different sizes, like small white umbrellas, so he picked them up casually, and then shouted, "Sister Xiu, come over here." ”

"Okay," Yuxiu ran over, and saw that Chen Jie was holding a large handful of mushrooms in his hand, so he stretched out the small bamboo basket and asked Chen Jie to put the mushrooms in.

Soon, Yuxiu was also not far away, and found a huge mushroom, so he shouted, "Chen Jie, come and see, what a big mushroom." Chen Jie immediately ran over, and when he saw that the mushroom growing on the ground was as big as a man's palm, he was pleasantly surprised, "I haven't seen this big mushroom yet, it weighs half a catty." ”

Yuxiu said, "I heard that this big fungus is very rare and very precious. ”

Chen Jie said, "Yes. So saying, he pulled the fungus out of the roots.

The further you go, the denser the forest becomes, and the more fungi there are. The two of them couldn't help but run and pick with joy, and after a while, the small bamboo basket was about to be full.

Chen Jie couldn't help asking, "There are so many fungi here, why is no one picking them?" It's not that people don't like to eat these things. ”

"People in the city look forward to the weekend, but farmers can only look forward to rainy days. Finally, it was a rainy day, and I don't know how many things to do in the house, how can I have time to run into this forest? Although Honghua Commune is full of hilly woodlands, some woodlands do not grow fungi. ”

Suddenly, the sky brightened, like the sun coming out. The two of them continued to walk deep into the forest while searching and picking. Soon, the basket was full.

Yuxiu said to Chen Jie, "Go further, out of the forest, it is Jianhu, let's go and have a look." ”

Chen Jie had never heard of a lake in this mountain, and said, "Great." He and Yuxiu walked forward one after the other.

In just ten minutes, they came to the edge of the forest, and when they stood at the edge of the forest and looked down the slope, there was a water area of thousands of acres, stretching far away. It's not a lake, it's just a larger pond or a small reservoir. Because it is located in the mountains on all sides, in addition to the dense forest, it is a barren grass, giving people a sense of desolation. Just as the rain had passed, the entire water surface was foggy, looming, and filled with patches of fantastic rain and fog.

Chen Jie wanted to go down to the lake to enjoy the lake view. However, there was a steep grassy slope below the edge of the forest, and it was impossible to go down. So they walked along the edge of the forest toward the lake. Not far from the lake, there is a grassy slope that stretches to the lake, but is not steep. Hand in hand, they went down the grassy slope very carefully to the lake.

On the edge of the lake is a large slope of earth that stretches slowly from the water to the side of the mountain, and the bottom of the slope has been eroded by the water, and the grass is growing green. Not far from the water, there is a large patch of bright red and bright mountain red, blooming like a fire in the wet grass, as if dyeing the air by the lake red.

Chen Jie couldn't help but rush forward, picking the reddest and most colorful flowers one by one. After a while, a lot of them were picked. At this moment, he stood up from among the flowers, turned around, and saw Yuxiu standing on the edge of the grass, smiling at him like a flower. His heart was hot, so he ran over and put the bouquet of flowers in her hand. She took the flower, held it to her chest, and sniffed it with her nose. The bright red color reflected her face, making him feel that her smiling face was more gorgeous than the bright red Yingshan red.

This made him feel the urge to kiss her. She saw his thoughts and waited for him to kiss her. However, he hesitated, and only touched her face with his hand, and said, "You are truly more beautiful than this flower." ”

Chen Jie also had to go to the grassland to pick flowers, but Yuxiu said, "There is only this one flower here, and over this ridge, there are flowers all over the mountain." ”

As soon as Chen Jie heard this, he immediately took Yuxiu's hand, walked around the lake, and then walked along a path up the mountain towards the mountain. Because it is a hilly area, the mountains are not very high, so they will climb to the top of the mountain in a while. Almost all of the mountainous areas near the mountain side are cleared by the production team to grow tea and rapeseed, while the remote mountains are covered with dense trees and flowers. Because there are several reservoirs connected to each other, the water vapor and humidity are particularly high, and after the new rain, the fog is thick, covering the mountains and fields layer by layer, making it difficult to see the mountains on the other side.

Carrying bamboo baskets and flowers, they walked to the top of the hill and waited for the mist to slowly drift away. Around noon, there was a sudden flash in the sky, as if the sun was about to come out, and the fog began to drift away in large areas with the wind. Soon, the opposite side of the reservoir was lit up by the sky, revealing patches of bright and dazzling red flowers. The saffron was not a patch, but a mountain all over the wilderness, and wherever the fog cleared, it was the kind of wet bright red soaked by the rain, like volcanic magma burning.

Chen Jie had never seen such a beautiful and spectacular scenery. He put down the basket in his hand and couldn't help jumping and shouting, "Ying-mountain-red, red-full-mountain." Then, he picked up Yuxiu at once, spun it a few times vigorously, and then kissed her on the forehead, and shouted in an addicted tone, "He Yuxiu, I love you." You are this beautiful Yingshan Hong. ”

Yuxiu looked at him with Mingxiu's gaze, smiled intoxicatedly, and said, "You really love me?" ”

Chen Jie said very seriously, "Don't you feel it, don't you believe it?" ”

Yuxiu looked at him with a smile, her eyes a little moist. Chen Jie was moved, so he hugged Yuxiu tighter, and when he picked up her face, his face was already full of tears. Chen Jie comforted her and said, "Yuxiu, I will love you forever." ”

However, Yuxiu did not get happy, but shook her head pessimistically.

Chen Jie was anxious and said, "You still don't believe it? He hated to take his heart out and show her.

After seeing the red flowers and the beautiful scenery, they went down the mountain. Yuxiu silently took Chen Jie's hand and walked on the familiar path before letting go. Only then did she say to Chen Jie, "It's not that I don't believe you. However, good flowers do not bloom often, good times do not always exist, how long can we get better? ”

Chen Jie said, "Who said that good flowers don't bloom often, and good times don't always exist?" The mountain flowers bloom every year, the beautiful scenery is there every year, and I will come again with you next year. ”

Yuxiu said, "It's okay next year, but what about the year after next year, the year after tomorrow?" ”

Chen Jie was speechless, because he might have left here the year after tomorrow or the year after tomorrow, recruited workers to go to his father's unit, and built a railway in the mountains of the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau.

Yuxiu saw Chen Jie lower his head, so she said to him, "Tell you a story." So, she told him the story of Han Xiaoyi and Yan Meizi. After telling the story, she said, "A few days ago, I went to Yan Meizi's house, and she happened to go on a blind date, looking for a security officer from the commune, a demobilized soldier, who was not only divorced, but also eight years older than her. ”

After listening to the story, Chen Jie immediately felt a heavy responsibility: loving someone is risky and has a price. You either make her happy or you make her miserable. But he just wants her to be happy, and he doesn't want her to be miserable. It's just that he doesn't have the ability and the means. As an educated youth, of course he knows that he can't fall in love with a rural girl. However, this girl is so delicate and cute, he can't help but want her not to love her, otherwise, he won't be able to eat and sleep well. It's not that he hasn't stopped himself, but the result of stopping can only be to draw a knife and cut off the water, and raise a glass to pour more sorrow. From the moment he first saw her, he was shocked, he didn't expect that there was such a pure and beautiful girl in the world. So, whether he was working in the fields or sleeping in bed, his mind was full of her voice, smile, and beautiful appearance. That's why he made that ridiculous move of blowing the flute to attract the phoenix. At the same time, this immediately made him realize that it was no wonder that he played the harmonica in front of the brigade department for so many days, and she refused to pay attention to him. It turned out that she was afraid that she would follow the old path of Yan Meizi. So, he said to her apologetically, "I'm sorry, I shouldn't have been so impulsive and gaffe just now, and I shouldn't have been rude and disrespectful to you." I will definitely correct it. ”

She frowned and said, "Are you thinking too much?" I didn't mean that. ”

Chen Jie continued to review and said, "I should indeed have a little boundary with you, but I like you so much that I can't help but treat you as a favorite person." Actually, I also know that the two of us can't fall in love. Otherwise, the two of us will be friends, best friends. As he spoke, he raised his fist above his head and swore an oath.

Chen Jie's words made her disheartened, sad and disappointed. If it was just to be friends, she wouldn't give much, but she had already given her whole heart to him. Originally, she didn't tell this story to draw a line with him, but to know what would happen to Chen Jie once they met Han Xiaoyi and Yan Meizi. She wanted to know how much he loved her through his answers. Unexpectedly, the story she told had the opposite effect. So, she regretted it very much and felt that she shouldn't have told him this story. In fact, she also knows the end of their love, but she is willing to take this risk, because he is the new and beautiful spring of her life, and the rain and dew of her emotions. She is willing to endure any punishment that comes her way after a romantic life.

Thinking of this, Yuxiu stopped, took Chen Jie's hand again, and said very earnestly and sadly, "No matter what changes happen in the future, I will be with you." ”

But Chen Jie said, "Han Xiaoyi and Sister Yan also want to be together, but can they?" ”

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