The Seven Branch was established only the year before last, and is located about 15 kilometers northwest of the field and is known as the Siberian of Maoshan. There is only one dirt road leading to the outside world, and on the way it goes around a small lonely mountain, which is overgrown with shrubs and often infested with wild boars. Isolation and reflection there is tantamount to captivity.

You Hongshan called Tong Xiaoyuan as a member of the leading group: Old classmate, I will send you someone in the afternoon. Yes, it's him. Quarantine introspection! Don't have a place to live? Just live in a peasant dormitory, what's inappropriate! He should have paid for his actions a long time ago. Future? Let's see, once that person comes to his senses, it shouldn't be a problem to send him to re-education through labor. Your mission: Stop him from running. Correspondence? Of course, it has to be buckled! Suicide? That's a hassle-free. Okay, more contact, I'm in the exercise office in the afternoon, just this call.

"He" refers to Jiang Lesheng, and "that person" is Cong Jing.

Tong Xiaoyuan is stunned on the surface, but in his bones he is good at calculating, and he is very good at planning his own interests, but his conscience is not bad and he does not dig out his mind to rectify people. After working with Jiang Lesheng for a year, the well water between the two does not interfere with the river water, and I still admire his literary style and teaching level. You Hongshan couldn't catch up with Cong Jing, and blamed Jiang Lesheng for intervening, Tong Xiaoyuan was very disapproving: It's because you don't have Yu Lian's ability, don't blame you for relying on him! It's normal for a woman to ask for a hundred families. I once threatened to compete with you, or you hated me too?

Married to Zhang Zhi for a year, life is satisfying. The correctional officer is the third-in-command, wearing a uniform and a cockade, and the prisoner must stand upright when he sees it, and he must "report to the government" before speaking, and he is accustomed to enjoying majesty and supremacy. Zhang Zhi was sometimes busy with housework and asked him to help, but he was afraid of wrinkling his uniform and soiling his shoes, claiming that this work was not done by the government, and his wife was helpless against the "government".

After Jiang Lesheng came to the seventh field, he was arranged to work in the yard, turning over the grain and filling sacks, loading the cars that delivered grain to the grain depot, dropping the rake and taking the broom, and there was no time to stop. The people who worked together were the old, weak, sick and disabled peasant workers.

On the edge of the courtyard, Tong Xiaoyuan said to him: Tong is not a person who fell into the well, who guarantees that there will be no time for him to fall into trouble in his life? When others are not there, we are still buddies as in the past, and when there are people, you have to call me Secretary Tong, and you have to write a leave report when you leave the branch. The inspection is handed over once a week, and I don't even look at it and send it away - there is no way to do it for others.

Jiang Lesheng smiled sadly: Now that you have become a prisoner, it is lenient enough not to shout "report to the government".

Strangely, Tong Xiaoyuan did not mention the "facts of the case". Jiang Lesheng thought about it, this thing is ghostly! If he asked, sympathy or condemnation? Should the quarantine measures being taken for introspection be taken? His statement represents the "government".

After dinner, Tong Xiaoyuan took him to the peasant dormitory. explained: The house is tight, Director Wu ordered you to live here, and the place where there are many bad guys has wronged you. But it doesn't matter, it comes out of the mud without staining, you know the truth.

The last sentence was blurted out unintentionally. Before Tong Xiaoyuan was transferred away, You Hongshan took him into the female teacher's dormitory, and asked him to evaluate how good "Lotus Song" was? So he remembered the phrase on the painting.

There are eight rooms in the dormitory of the Agricultural and Industrial University, and more than 200 people live on the kang opposite, each of whom is two feet wide, and there is no space between the large empty chambers. The handyman who cleaned and boiled water was surnamed Yuan, known as Yuan Blind, nicknamed the one-eyed wolf. This person was born as a ruffian, specially hired to be a soldier for others, deserted without waiting for a war in the barracks, escaped and then did it again, four in and four out of the repeated cycle, as a Sichuan army, puppet army, **, Jinzhou was captured and a month as the People's Liberation Army, and was sentenced to five years in prison for running away with a gun again. After being released from prison, he was sentenced to another five years for attempted rape and "two palaces". One eye was blinded by an opponent in a fight with the Sichuan army, but he boasted that he was injured by fighting with a Japanese ghost with a bayonet.

Jiang Lesheng's luggage was still in the logging team, and Yuan Blind got a set of old bedding and threw it to him somewhere. The gray cloth is dirty, and it smells musty with the smell of urine, which must be the relics of a dead ghost buried in the "Peninsula Garden". Seeing Jiang Lesheng's brows furrowed, the one-eyed wolf was not angry: Make do with it, what are you paying attention to in this place?

The lights go out at nine o'clock, and a small 15-watt bulb is kept at each end of the dormitory, and the dark red filament is like a ghost fire. Snoring one after another, gritting teeth, farting, coughing, spitting, dreaming, crying, stretching arms and kicking legs, hindering the cursed ...... Some people rolled cigarettes on the edge of the kang, took a puff and coughed a few times, and then smoked again, and the fire flashed like fireflies. The air is filled with bad breath, smelly feet, sweat, garlic, and fart......

Jiang Lesheng couldn't sleep. Lie down and sit up, lie down and get up again, so tossing for several rounds still can't sleep, simply put on clothes and go out to breathe. The blind man tiptoed out, as if he was watching him and was afraid that he would run away.

He wandered aimlessly in front of the room, and the blind man behind him suddenly asked: You also came in because of a woman? Jiang Lesheng didn't understand, and turned around and asked what did you say? Yuan Blind repeated.

Seeing that Jiang Lesheng was stunned and silent, Yuan Blind was very proud of his judgment: I can see at a glance that the little brother has clear eyebrows and beautiful eyes, which woman doesn't like it? It's like I didn't do anything and was sentenced to five years! I won't tell you my brother, my brother is in his forties, and he hasn't tasted femininity yet! You are cost-effective, you will not be sentenced to two labor reforms, and you will suffer several years of crimes!

Yuan Blind was very envious of Jiang Lesheng, and "coming in" like this was good luck.

Jiang Lesheng stopped, eager to smash his other eyeball!

The blind man pretends to be an old brother and chatters: there are no good people in this peasant labor team, one counts as one, and they are all fucking scum. Needless to say, what are the counter-revolutionaries, stealing, robbing, cheating, raping, gambling, smoking, murder and arson? You just didn't understand, there are gangs and factions here! The Running Orders Gang will definitely suffer. Don't look at me as inconspicuous, who is not convinced by my old Yuan? Find a stubble and ask him to sleep on a cold kang in winter, and I don't provide him with hot water in summer, so I will sprinkle ashes on the stove to stew some food! People often say that I am lame and blind and vicious, but my blind man Yuan is ruthless and poisonous, and he is not a husband if he is not poisonous!

At the head of Fangshan is a pile of wheat straw for burning kang. The blind man's tone became gentle, he took a step forward and shook his hand, and said affectionately: What do we expect to live to this point? Happy for two and a half days a day, people are also merry to die under the flowers. Little brother is as bright as a flower, I was moved by your heart at first glance, let's liberate ourselves!

The blind man pointed his stinky mouth, poked the stubble straight into Jiang Lesheng's face, reached into his crotch with one hand, grabbed Jiang Lesheng's belt with the other hand, and moved step by step towards the wheat straw stack.

Jiang Lesheng was ashamed and angry, opened his bow left and right and rewarded him with four slaps, and shouted: Blind you dog's eyes, get out! At dawn, you ask Secretary Tong, what does Lao Tzu do? Lao Tzu was appointed by the government to go undercover to clean up your villain! Yuan's blind man was on all fours, and he refused to get up on the ground.

Jiang Le got angry, and went back to the bunk and slept until dawn.

He misses Cong Jing all the time. Did Guan Erzhuang tell her that I came here? Did she come home? Can her father listen to her and transfer us out of Maoshan? Her mother won't stop it? When I thought that her family might have conflicts and disputes over this matter, I felt very sorry for her. Besides, what disease did she have? Pregnant or with something growing in your belly? If you are pregnant, can you solve all the problems as Cong Jing imagined? If there is something bad in my stomach, I am willing to serve her for the rest of my life and repay her affection!

Every week he wrote a letter to her, expressing his strong thoughts about her, asking about all kinds of issues he was concerned about and worried about, caring for her not to be in a hurry, to have something to say, and never to hurt her parents' feelings. I especially told her to hurry up and see a doctor, which is more important than other things! He didn't tell her about his predicament, he couldn't bear her to share his pain, and he didn't say a word about the mental torture, and the end of the letter was "I'm fine, don't worry" with the sentence "I'm fine, don't worry".

Letters after letters were sunk into the sea, and every day I was looking forward to replying to them—none of these letters were received, and all of them were detained and locked in the group's tin box.

At dawn that day, Jiang Lesheng suddenly woke up from a nightmare. The dream is like a scene in a movie: he and Cong Jing climb a steep peak from different directions, meet on two eagle's beak rocks close at hand, and touch each other's fingertips. Come on, come here! Her silver bell sounded in the clouds. She reached for him, but suddenly her feet slipped and she fell off a cliff. The clouds and mist shrouded in the valley of the empty mountains, and the cry of a baby could be faintly heard......

Yesterday was the first of September, and before going to bed, he silently wished her twenty-first birthday in his heart. After a month of no news, something must have happened to her! Is it telepathy, as is it commonly called, or is there someone who dreams about me?

His head was bursting with a headache, and his head was covered in sweat. The old Wei of the neighboring shop was lying on the pillow and smoking, and when he saw Jiang Lesheng looking at him in a daze, he asked, "Come and taste?" Jiang Lesheng thanked him, took the note and sprinkled it with cigarette dust, but it couldn't be rolled up. Lao Wei rolled up a horn and handed it to him, and said ostentatiously: This cigarette is called "Purse Fragrance", it is not strong and a little sweet, take a sip to relieve fatigue and boredom.

Jiang Lesheng lit a cigarette and took a puff, it was bitter and spicy but not very choking, and when he tasted it carefully, there was indeed a hint of sweetness on the tip of his tongue, and his head didn't hurt anymore when he smoked, and his mind was blank and comfortable. His 30-year history of smoking began on this day.

Zhang Zhi opened the door early in the morning and emptied the urinal, and saw a person standing motionless outside the fence, and when he looked at it, it turned out to be Jiang Lesheng. He came to Tong Xiaoyuan to ask for leave and wanted to go to Heishui to visit Cong Jing. This is a decision made by drawing two sticks of "purse incense" in a row.

Teacher Zhang, did your officer Tong get up? Shall I go in and say that the conversation is OK? After a month of isolation and reflection, Jiang Lesheng ate and lived with the "scum" and worked together, and his tone became like Lu Xun's pen when he saw Brother Xun's "master". Zhang Zhi was very enthusiastic, opened the fence door and let him in, and shouted into the house: Xiao Yuan, get up, Teacher Jiang is looking for you.

Jiang Lesheng walked into the inner room, Tong Xiaoyuan was lying on the kang with his face hunched over the wall, not knowing whether he was asleep or pretending to be asleep. Zhang Zhi shouted while pushing him: Get up, Teacher Jiang is here! She brought a square stool and invited Jiang Lesheng to sit and make breakfast by herself.

Tong Xiaoyuan yawned and stretched his waist and asked, what time is it?

Jiang Lesheng hurriedly replied: At half past six, I'm noisy for you. I'd like to take three days off work with you.

He crossed his hands over his chest, and his confidence in speaking was obviously lacking.

Tong Xiaoyuan slowly got dressed, listened patiently to him after explaining the reason for his leave, and said in a sympathetic but helpless tone: It's not that I don't understand your feelings, this leave must not be approved. You think you made a mistake for this, and you should not let you get together, how dare I grant you leave to see her?

Jiang Lesheng was a little anxious: "Teacher Tong, I don't think we have made much of a mistake.

Tong Xiaoyuan shook his hand to stop him: I don't want to fight with you on this issue, and I didn't invite you to come to the seventh session, right? Take a step back and say, even if I see the old face criticizing you for being fake, who will give you a pass? Heishui is located at the border, and it is difficult to move an inch without a border pass, and it is possible to be arrested at any time, that is, it is suspected of illegally crossing the border in an attempt to surrender for repairs, and it is a counter-revolutionary! Now in the time of exercise, the inspection is stricter than usual.

Jiang Lesheng was dumbfounded, hanging his head like a deflated ball, ten fingers digging into his hair and grabbing hard, tears rolling down involuntarily.

Zhang Zhi persuaded: Teacher Jiang, don't worry, it's useless to be anxious. Everything has a result, and it is actually the same if you know it early and know it later. I'm a man who believes in fate, let it be fate!

She probably didn't know that her husband was abusive, so she withheld Jiang Lesheng's four letters and handed them to the group. But what if she knew? How many people in those days could not speak against their hearts and do things that hurt nature and reason?

Tong Xiaoyuan saw Jiang Lesheng's pain, and seemed to be moved by compassion: Zhang Zhi is right, what's the use of you being in a hurry? According to me, it's the same whether you go or not. It's not that I promote the "Four Olds" in my own home, you know the story of Liang Shanbo Zhu Yingtai, Zhu Yuanwai Tiexin put his daughter Xu with the Ma family, what is the use of Liang Shanbo rushing there? The two of them will look at each other with tears in their eyes, and finally say goodbye sadly, unable to save his little ninth sister! As soon as this lame metaphor came out, he consciously lost his words and quickly stopped: Hey, don't talk about it, didn't you have breakfast? Head back to my door and eat here?

Zhang Zhi: "Phew! "Phew!" Spit on the ground twice, and the husband looked at him and said angrily: What is the crow's mouth talking about early in the morning? smiled apologetically at Jiang Lesheng: Don't listen to him and sneer Teacher Jiang, God willing, there are lovers in the world who become dependents, and you will have good results.

It is said that the matchmaker always praises the girl with a numb face for her kindness. The reason is that the smallpox virus tortured her to death, and at the end of her face was a scar that will never go away, and this unforgettable suffering prompted her to push herself and others and be more compassionate, which may be true. Zhang Zhi can be called kind-hearted, she cooked a bowl of noodles for Jiang Lesheng, lay two poached eggs, and the prisoners enjoyed a guest courtesy.