On August 18, 1975, at nine o'clock in the morning, my father was sitting in front of the coffee table in the living room drinking tea and reading today's newspaper, while Aunt Qiu Yun and I were standing nearby to prepare the fishing tackle that the family was about to go to the lake.

At this time, Xiao Zhang in the school's communication room held a copy of "Notice from the Guangping County Party Committee: Principal Ge Daren must rush to the county today to attend an important meeting in the next two days." Standing at the door, he said shyly: "Principal, there is a copy of the "Notice" for you to sign it. ”

Father and Aunt Qiu Yun both beckoned Xiao Zhang to come into the house to rest, but he said that he would be busy going back to guard the phone, but most of them refused to enter the house because he was afraid of the principal. My father walked to the door and said, "It's been almost a year since I came to school, and I'm still so outstanding, it seems that when school starts, I have to let you go to the podium to exercise." ”

As soon as Xiao Zhang heard that he was going to arrange for himself to go to the podium for class, he didn't even bother to hand out the "Notice" in his hand, so he hurriedly said: "Principal, please don't send me to the podium, I will faint in the face of many students in the audience." ”

The father reached out and took the phone record that Xiao Zhang was holding, read it, and signed it with the pen that Xiao Zhang had prepared, "I know." Godaren, nine o'clock on the same day. He handed over the pen and record to Xiao Zhang, and said orderly: "Going to the podium is not going to the battlefield, even if you can't retreat, to be my subordinate of Godaren, you must have the courage and desire to be a general." You go back and prepare well, and you can make a good record of how to make a good record, especially the experience and method of shorthand, and teach the students when the school starts. ”

When Xiao Zhang heard this, he was almost speechless: "Principal, can I do it?" Just spare me! The father patted Xiao Zhang's shoulder and said kindly, "How can it not work?" Our little Zhang is so shrewd. Don't worry, I will let you teach the students in the first year of junior high school first, and then give it to the students in the second and third years of junior high school, including the high school. This skill of yours, strictly speaking, is a talent that you have to take a course in college, but I would like to introduce it into secondary school. Moreover, after a few years of development, every household can install a telephone, and you and the practitioners in this industry will be unemployed? Have you thought about it? ”

Xiao Zhang left in a panic as if he had taken on a heavy responsibility. The father turned around and walked to the coffee table, and said to Aunt Qiu Yun: "Oh, Qiu Yun, please prepare a set of clothes and toiletries for me by the way, I have to rush to the county this afternoon, there is an important meeting in the next two days, and the notice is coming." ”

Aunt Qiu Yun and I have always never inquired about our father's unspoken work affairs, let alone read documents and the like, so we just stood there and went about our own business. When she heard the greeting, Aunt Qiu Yun replied: "Just leave it to me, Brother Daren is always so polite, making the little sister embarrassed." Do we still want to go fishing and swimming in the lake? ”

The father walked to the coffee table and sat down, picked up the unfinished newspaper, and said: "Of course we have to go, this is an important event in our family, no matter how important the meeting is, it will not be held until tomorrow, I will take the car at 5 o'clock in the afternoon, just catch a meeting meal, and our two 'gluttonous cats' have been reading for a long time, and want to eat the fattest grilled fish in autumn." ”

After Aunt Qiu Yun and I prepared the utensils for the activities by the lake, we went to pack up the things for my father to use for the meeting, and when I saw that I was still following like a fart, she was amused: "You are following so closely, do you smell any fragrance again?" ”

"Auntie," I grabbed the clothes that Aunt Qiu Yun took out from the cabinet, and said embarrassedly, "I have grown from a little baby to a big boy now, so don't make fun of me anymore." ”

"But in Auntie's eyes, you're still a cute little baby." Aunt Qiu Yun motioned for me to put my clothes on the bed so that I could fold them, and then said, "Oh, to tell you something, to be precise, it is a feeling, I will say it in front of Daddy, it will be regarded as superstitious." Recently, I dreamed that our family was fishing and grilling fish by the lake, and as soon as Daddy said that he was going to the county to have an important meeting, I felt that we might have to follow Daddy to live in the county. But I still prefer to stay here, and if I want to eat grilled fish, I just need to go to the lake and watch for a while. ”

"How can these dreams be connected to this meeting? Auntie's imagination is too rich. However, I suddenly want to ask Ina to join us at the lake to play and eat grilled fish, but I don't know if I can do it? ”

"I still asked if it was okay, I made an appointment with someone in advance, and I pretended to remember it suddenly."

I looked at Aunt Qiu Yun in confusion, and silently said in my heart, "How do you know?" It's a random guess. Aunt Qiu Yun stroked my little head and said with a smile, "What are you still confused about?" It's your eyes that tell you, do I still need to guess? But you have to ask Daddy's opinion first, can Ina swim? ”

"Ina can swim, but she only swims in the shallow section of the Qingshui River. As long as Auntie agrees to this, Daddy will agree, so I'll ask Daddy's opinion. ”

I hugged Aunt Qiu Yun to show my gratitude, and then ran to the living room to ask my father for advice, and as soon as he finished speaking, my father seemed to feel that someone was walking around the fence, and said that he looked outside and said, "Don't call it, the people you have made an appointment with are here, why don't you go and greet them." ”

I walked to the gate and looked closely, and the one standing in front of me was the future Fan Yina, who was a lot taller than me, with a backpack on her back, carrying heavy luggage in both hands, and said shyly with a red face: "Brother Hailiu, I'm so worried that you didn't receive the letter sent, as soon as I received the "Admission Notice" from Binhai University, I couldn't wait to come in advance. If you don't come to pick me up, the waterfront is so big, I really don't know if I'll get lost. But now it's okay, I can get along with Brother Hailiu who thinks about it day and night every day, why don't you hug someone as a meeting gift?! I wondered, "Am I daydreaming?" In the blink of an eye, the restored Fan Yina continued: "Brother Hailiu, you are in a daze, don't let people enter the house, is it that your uncle and aunt don't agree with me to go to the lake with you to play?" Didn't you say I don't swim in the lake? You let me into the house and say it yourself. "I was about to let Fan Yina walk into the gate, as if all of a sudden, I had already arrived at the edge of Lake Mochizuki.

The autumn sun was really bright, and it was only ten o'clock in the morning, and a pool of lake water had been shining brightly, and even the scenery near and far seemed to be wrapped in a layer of dazzling light. Fan Yina and I were talking and laughing on the shore of the lake to gather firewood and prepare to grill fish, I felt as hot as being burned, but in my heart I felt more comfortable and cool than going down to the lake to swim, and it was also more leisurely and dignified than fishing with the "fisherman" holding the fishing rod.

Fan Yina followed me among the low bushes by the lake, picking up dry firewood, and suddenly stopped and said thoughtfully: "Brother Hailiu, look at Uncle and Aunt, sitting under the sun umbrella and guarding the fishing rod together, talking intimately, so leisurely and chic!" ”

I looked at where my father and Aunt Qiu Yun were sitting, and replied, "What's this, this lake is too small, to sit like this by the sea, it's almost the same to say leisure." At this moment, another scene appeared in front of me at the same time - like one noon two or three months ago, I was sitting by the sea in the suburbs of Binhai with Fan Yina and Aunt Qiu Yun, watching the ebb and flow of the tide with laughter and laughter, Fan Yina also said happily: "Aunt, Brother Hailiu, after I graduate from college in two years, we will build a small house here, how good it is to sit together and watch the sea every day." ”

I silently said to myself, "Am I dreaming in a dream, or can I dream while awake?" Fan Yina happened to be saying, "Brother Hailiu, you also like the sea?" I dreamed of one day having the opportunity to see the sea, and I would have nothing to regret in my life. ”

"It's easy to see the sea, but what's so difficult? If you really regard this as a dream, then we will go to university in a place where there is a sea in the future, and I am sure that you will feel tired from watching the sea. ”

Fan Yina's face flushed, and she said shyly: "As long as I can sit next to my aunt and sit next to Brother Hailiu, I won't feel tired even if I look at the sea every day." ”