On the eve of the Spring Festival, Jiang Lesheng got two opportunities to show his talents.

The publicity window in front of the entrance of the venue is managed by Xiao Zhang, a film projectionist of the Propaganda and Education Section, and is updated once a month. After New Year's Day, Xiao Zhang returned to his hometown to get married, and he couldn't find a suitable person to change the version for a while.

The Spring Festival is the most solemn festival of the year, and the window cannot be displayed at the gate with the old face. Xue Xue, the elder of the personnel department, recommended Jiang Lesheng to He Lesheng, the elder of the mission department, saying that the young man could write well, so he might as well try it.

Wang Huaju received the phone call and happily said to Jiang Lesheng: Section Chief He asks for my opinion, let you get the publicity window of the field department. This is a good opportunity to show your talent, show some skills, and win glory for us.

The instructor said that I have a good relationship with your brother-in-law, Technician Ma - by implication, he is elevated.

Jiang Lesheng used two days and one night to update the window. I have the experience of running a blackboard newspaper in the Hongqi Printing Factory, and I am familiar with the road and handy. The calligraphy of Zhao Tixing written by the brush is like a calligraphy exhibition, and the title of the art word complements the lace, and the layout is sparse and dense. A few fills are just right -- the light ink depicts the harvest of Maoshan under the blue sky, the golden fields, the fat grain hoards, and the fiery tractors, and the layout is full of vitality and interest.

The window after the change really caused a sensation. People stopped to watch and admire, and Jiang Lesheng's name was given the title of Ma Nong Technician's brother-in-law, or Jiang's younger brother, and spread rapidly in government departments.

This also confirms what Secretary Sun said, the farm is too short of talents.

Three days later, the night before the Chinese New Year's Eve, the conference room of the field department will be lit up with lights, and a New Year party will be held here for organs and directly affiliated units. The two tiers of tables and chairs form a large oval, and nearly 100 seats are placed on the table with melon seed candy cubes, unpacked cigarettes and rare citrus fruits in the north. An open space is set aside in the center of the venue for performances. Due to space limitations, only five representatives from each directly subordinate unit, such as the children's school, the health center, the automobile team, the repair shop, the rice and flour processing factory, and the improved seed station, were selected to participate.

Wang Huaju led the four representatives of the Liangzhong Station to sit in the designated seats. He asked Jiang Lesheng to bring the erhu, and the young woman Lan Rong, willow buds, and Liu Zhi all put on makeup, and she wanted to perform in a beautiful scenery tonight. In previous years, all units competed to perform, and in addition to him shouting two Shanxi folk songs, there was no other program to be on, and this year he wanted to make a handful of colors to save face.

At the beginning of the party, the director Yu Dajiang delivered a speech first. He briefly summarized the achievements of the double harvest of transformation and production in the past year, and the leaders of the representative field congratulated everyone on the Spring Festival, and handed the microphone to the host, the elder of the propaganda and education section, He, who had accumulated a lot of notes in his hands, and everyone handed over the notes to recommend their favorite programs to the host.

Section Chief He pulled out of a note, pretending to be mysterious while drawing: Who should be the first show?

In people's eagerly anticipation, Lao He read out slowly according to the note: Secretary Sun sang the best Dream of Red Mansions in Yue Opera, which is a classic repertoire of the party, and asked him to sing "Sister Lin Falling from the Sky". Recommended by: Xiao Cai.

This note was indeed handed over by agricultural technician Cai Chuanguang. The recommended program does not require a name, and Xiao Cai's name is just to win the favor of Secretary Sun. Due to the promotion of his eldest brother as the section chief, he was listed as an active member of the party. After joining the party, he is a veritable "Section Chief Cai".

The atmosphere at the venue was lively. The applause and cheers rang out. Yu Dajiang pushed Sun Junhu, who was eating melon seeds and chatting with Deputy Field Director Wang: Secretary Sun, order your program!

The host read the note again, and Sun Junhu smiled and said: Are you tired of singing every year? Please come first.

Cai Chuanguang shouted loudly: Sing Secretary Sun, we never get tired of listening to it! The audience burst into applause again.

Yu Dajiang found Lin Bai, the female principal of the school, from the seat, she was Secretary Sun's partner in singing Yue Opera in the past, of course, "Sister Lin". Greetings to the head of the field: Principal Lin, Sister Lin is coming! Holding Lin Bai's sleeve to the center of the venue, Secretary Sun walked in with a smile. There was no accompaniment, and the two quietly sang to each other, and their voices were full of emotion.

Sister Lin fell from the sky/Like a light cloud just coming out/Only the grass in his belly is reckless, and the people are frivolous/But it turns out that the bones are strange and not vulgar/Demure is like a flower shining on the water/The action is like the wind supporting the willows/The corners of the eyebrows and eyes are delicate/The voice and smile are gentle/The outsiders are clear in front of him/But the bottom of my heart is an old friend......

Well sung! It's too short, it's not fun! One more time! The venue erupted in enthusiastic cheers.

The two of them couldn't get out of the show, so they had to sing another paragraph.

Principal Lin is in his forties, with a fair face and short hair that reaches his ears, and a blue tunic in a typical middle-aged intellectual. She bowed to the crowd with a red face and returned to her seat. Sun Junhu clasped his fists with both hands, looked around the audience and said loudly: Throwing bricks and throwing bricks and attracting jade. I wish comrades a happy Spring Festival, progress in work and good health!

Section Chief He then read out the note recommending the director Yu Dajiang to sing the two-person turn, the deputy director Wang Zihe and the Tianjin Allegro. The order of the performance is quite particular, and the host naturally asks the leader to appear first.

Yu Dajiang's partner is Xiaoqu, a slender telephone operator with a slightly crooked mouth, and they had a successful collaboration last year. Don't look at the director of the field in his fifties, with a high-pitched and loud voice, flexible spinning and jumping dance steps, and a full belt frame with one move; Xiaoqu performed with the director, both glorious and slightly restrained, she didn't want to expose the defects of her crooked mouth, and she lowered her head shyly when she should sing, which was even more charming and cute. They danced and sang in the central clearing, their handkerchiefs on their fingertips and tossing into the air, winning applause again and again.

Wang Zi and his daughter Wang Yingchun, who was a police officer at the police station, said a Tianjin Allegro. In the middle, the daughter forgot the words, Wang Zihe improvised, threw off two bars to guide her to reconnect the stubble, and most people just watched the excitement and did not notice it. The audience also applauded the father-daughter duo's performance.

Yue Opera, Duo Zhuan and Tianjin Allegro have an accompaniment effect, but unfortunately no one in the organs and directly subordinate units knows how to play musical instruments. At last year's party, a worker in the repair shop volunteered to play the erhu solo "Horse Racing", but his skills were too poor, and his voice was squeaky and dumb to death. The children's school has a pedal organ, which is not suitable for the accompaniment of the party, except for the music teacher who teaches the students to sing.

The auditorium held a dance every Saturday with the accompaniment of a working peasant worker named Wang Changneck, whose only instrument was a half-used accordion. On the afternoon of the ball, Wang Changneck did not go to work, shaved his face, trimmed his face, changed his clothes, and prepared to play the piano at night. The canteen gave two steamed buns for supper, which was a good treatment at the time.

It is obviously not suitable for the Spring Festival party to use employed peasants, and an accordion cannot accompany a wide variety of programs. Just when everyone regretted that there was no accompaniment, Section Chief He read out a heart-warming note: Jiang Lesheng's erhu is good, welcome to play a solo song.

This note was handed over by Wang Huaju. There was a commotion in the venue, both rejoicing that the party had musical instruments, and asking each other who was calling the unfamiliar name. Seeing Secretary Sun's inquiring gaze, Xue Xue, the elder of the personnel department, quietly introduced: The younger brother of Teacher Jiang of the school has just come to try it out at the Seed Station. He did this issue of the window at the gate.

Jiang Lesheng stood up with a red face and said shyly: I didn't pull well, please bear with me. He opened the case and took out the erhu, trying to make do with it in his seat.

The director greeted warmly: Come on in the middle, young man, your place is small, and you can't shake off the bow.

Section Chief He brought a chair and put it in the center of the venue for him to sit. The first time I played formally in front of everyone, I couldn't help but feel a little nervous, my heart beat involuntarily faster, and my arms trembled slightly. He lowered his head to avoid the unfamiliar gaze of the audience, and tried to calm himself down.

The first piece of erhu player Liu Tianhua's famous article "Good Night". The piece is soothing and gentle, and the technique is not too difficult. He adjusted the strings, nodded slightly to the audience, took a breath and began to play. The horsetail bow pushes left and right, and the sound of the piano flows outward from the barrel, and the four sides are overflowing and curling. Gradually, he became less nervous, and his bow movements became smoother. The music ** shows the lively scene of the carnival night, his upper body shakes involuntarily, and his expression is vivid and rich. At the end of the song, thunderous applause broke out on the stage. The shouts of "one more song" came and went.

He bowed, turned his face to Wang Huaju, and asked whether to pull back to his seat or to go back to his seat?

Then play "Joyful" and "Golden Snake Dance", these two songs are festive! Wang Huaju knows which of his songs are the best and can attract listeners.

He sat down again and played heartily. The right arm moves the wrist to push and pull the horsetail arch, or rapid or slow, or jumps or pauses, like a dragon and a snake; The four fingers of the left hand dexterously press the strings, or knead or slide or pluck or tremble like butterflies and bees flying. He was intoxicated by the sound of his piano and went into a state of euphoria, his head, neck and upper body shaking violently to the rhythm of the music. The exuberant melody infects the listener, and many people clap their hands or hit the table with the tune. This is the most proud performance he has ever played since he learned the erhu, but it lacks the cooperation of other instruments and the amplification equipment is monotonous and thin.

The applause was like a tide, wave after wave, and Jiang Le couldn't give birth. The host then read out two notes to relieve the siege - Liu Ya Liu Zhi Hunan Flower Drum Opera "Bangs Chopping Wood" and Lan Rong solo "Honghu Water Waves Hitting the Waves", accompanied by Jiang Lesheng.

The Liu sisters graduated from junior high school in their hometown of Hunan, their mother divorced and remarried, and came to Maoshan Farm to join their biological father who had completed their sentences and was employed, hoping to find a job. 's father's historical counter-revolutionary crime, they came all the way to the Great Northern Wilderness, and no matter how bad a job is, it is better than watching their stepfather's face and eating idle food.

Northerners don't understand Hunan Flower Drum Opera, and most people have never heard of it. Sister Liu Ya disguised herself as a man to decorate Brother Bangs, and her sister Liu Zhi played Sister Hu, and the two sang witty and funny. Although they look average, and they have purple scars from frostbite on their faces, but the Hunan women have loud voices, slender bodies and light dance steps, which attract the attention of the majority of male audiences.

Female solo in the next show. Lan Rong usually doesn't like to sing, and her timbre is generally out of tune, which is the advice of Instructor Wang's "rare opportunity", and the erhu accompaniment inspires the courage to take the stage. She is not stage frightened, with a smile on her face, a pair of eyes full of anticipation, and a bit of singer style.

The sound of the piano aroused the expressive desire of agricultural technician Cai Chuanguang, only to feel that his throat was itchy, and he couldn't hold back his hair, so he recommended himself, and handed a note to Section Chief He: Please Jiang Lesheng accompany, I will sing "The Sun That Rises on the Prairie".

The effect of singing with and without accompaniment is very different, Jiang Lesheng's accompaniment adds a lot to these people's programs, and the atmosphere of the party is repeated.

Before the gala ended, Section Chief He read out the last note: Tonight's program of the good seed station shines, welcome Wang Hua to shout a Shanxi folk song!

There was no such note at all. It was Lao He who thought about things out of thin air and gave him a chance to appear on camera.

Wang Huaju stood up and waved his hand again and again with a spring breeze on his face: There are no new songs this year, give the leading comrades a New Year's greeting in advance, I will show my nose!

I saw him take out a newspaper, tore out four holes in the distance, put it on his ears to make a mask, only exposed his eyes, mouth and the tip of his nose, looked left and right, looked around, and made some antics, making some antics, which caused the audience to laugh.

Yu Chang said happily: Wang Huaju, this kid really showed his face today!

Jiang Lesheng undoubtedly showed his face, but he felt a little sad and bitter in his heart: after twelve years of hard study, the knowledge he learned was thrown away from the clouds for nine days, and now he has earned applause for pulling erhu!

After the Spring Festival, the farm set up a radio station, and the telephone operator Xiaoqu also served as an announcer. The newly purchased bakelite record contains an erhu solo song. After the broadcast of "Maoshan News" three times a day, melodious erhu melodies floated over the venue, including "Joyful Yangyang" and "Golden Snake Dance" played by Jiang Lesheng.