Wu Chongbin opened a bottle of beer and said, "I estimate that I can go to the junior college line, and the undergraduate is a bit hanging." I would rather choose to study in the factory than go to a third-rate university to study for a junior college. Cheers tonight, don't get drunk and don't go home. ”

Everyone opened the beer around them and began to drink passionately in large glasses. A beer was on the stomach in the blink of an eye. After drinking, everyone began to discuss the plan of playing at night, and after the discussion, they compromised with each other, first went to a dance, then played billiards, and then went home to sleep.

Without Yan Lin by his side, Wang Qiao would rather play billiards, but in order not to affect everyone's interest, he agreed to the dance plan.

The ballroom is still bustling with activity, the temperature is high in summer, the women are thinly dressed, and the electric fans hanging high often blow up the women's skirts, revealing a patch of spring. Tian Feng and Cai fitters, dressed in white shirts and hairspray in their hair, posed as social workers, and pretended to be very sophisticated and walked around the hall to choose dance partners.

Wang Qiao is tall and talented, and he successfully invited a young woman to dance alone. After entering the dance hall, he was quite gentlemanly and kept his distance from the woman.

After jumping a few steps, he felt the young woman lean over him, intentionally or unintentionally. He knew that it was not appropriate to dance like this, but it was a little difficult to push away with gentleness. After a song, Wang Qiao said secretly: "Am I a lustful person, I am obviously in love with Yan Lin, how can I still dance with women in society?" ”

After self-reflection and review, Wang Qiao stopped dancing and left the dance hall alone.

In the ballroom, the former graduates of Jingzhou No. 1 Middle School held a class reunion and met at the ballroom after dinner. Lu Qi is a first-class character of the school flower, and naturally became the object of the boys' competition, when dancing the first song, the light flashed, and she saw a familiar back in the distance, and was about to take a closer look, the back blended into the crowd. After a dance, she walked to the other end, trying to find her long-lost back. She was disappointed by the fact that there were quite a few tall men in the ballroom, but none of them were him.

In the next song, "Come to Taipei to see the rain in winter" sounded, and when she heard the music, Lu Qi's nose suddenly became sour, and tears came out of her eyes. She and Wang Qiao have listened to this song together many times before, this tune represents an important period of history in life, listening to the song and thinking about people, tears welled up. She secretly wiped away her tears and said to a young strange man who had come to invite her to dance, "I'm sorry, I'm tired and need to rest for a while." ”

Tian Feng finally found a woman with good looks and temperament in the dance hall, and he didn't want to give up, but the woman always looked cold and rejected thousands of miles away, and finally became discouraged and returned in a huff. walked to the other side and said to Cai Fitter: "There is a beautiful woman over there, please don't move." Cai Fitter refused to admit defeat and also came over, but was also rejected.

When Cai Fitter walked back, the dance music had already begun, and he didn't invite other dance partners, so he sat on the side and chatted with Tian Feng, saying, "Where is Wang Qiao?" I saw him dance a song, and there was no one to see. He looks like a talent, so let him ask the ice beauty to dance. ”

Tian Feng said: "Yan Lin is not here, he has no energy to dance, forget it." ”

Not far from the hustle and bustle of the dance hall, Wang Qiao smoked alone in the dark. After smoking a cigarette, he flicked the butt of his cigarette to the side and strode down the street. He originally had no purpose, just wanted to walk briskly and vent the inexplicable grievances in his heart. Unconsciously, he walked near the family courtyard of the Public Security Bureau and saw several golden characters in Jingzhou Tobacco Factory.

The big characters are like a benchmark guiding the way forward, like a banshee on the sea, making Wang Qiao irresistible. The closer the Jingzhou Tobacco Factory is, the closer it is to the family home of the Public Security Bureau.

Standing at the door of the family courtyard and smoking another cigarette, Wang Qiao walked into the family courtyard, and stood in the courtyard and unexpectedly found that Lu Qi's house was actually lit up. A rush of blood came to his mind, and he forgot everything and strode towards the lighted place.

When he came to the door, he resolutely raised his hand and knocked on the door. A female voice came from inside: "Who?" Wait a minute. The door opened, and a woman with cucumber slices on her face appeared in front of her and asked, "Who are you looking for?" Wang Qiao was startled when he saw the cucumbers on his face, and said, "Is Lu Qi at home?" The cucumber girl said impatiently, "I've moved early." With that, he slammed the door shut.

Countless disappointments were despair, and Wang Qiao walked down the door expressionlessly. The lights were on at Yang Hongbing's house opposite, and he had no desire to go up to chat, so he walked out of the family courtyard of the Public Security Bureau lonely.

According to common sense, the college entrance examination is over, and the exam is good, tonight should be a happy night, but Wang Qiao can't be happy anyway, his mood is low, and he feels that he has lost the motivation and direction to move forward in a short time.

Walking back to the ballroom, Wang Qiao did not go in again, waiting outside. After the dance hall ended, he met with Wu Chongbin and others, and everyone made an appointment to play billiards. The billiard room was almost full of young people who looked like students, all of them smoking cigarettes, as if they had changed from students to social figures overnight.

After playing billiards, everyone went to the barbecue stall outside the Hongqi factory office to eat barbecue and drink beer.

At eleven o'clock in the morning, everyone was still sleeping, and a knock on the door woke up several boys. Wang Qiao knew who it was, quickly dressed and got out of bed, opened the door, and sure enough, he saw Yan Lin in a red dress standing in front of the door, and her first words were: "Did you do well in the exam?" ”

Wang Qiao said: "I will definitely be able to go in, and whether I can go to undergraduate depends on luck." How are you doing? ”

Yan Lin said: "The performance is a bit abnormal. Success is in people, planning is in heaven, since the exam is over, I don't want to. ”

Liu Hu heard the conversation, walked over from the opposite room, and said, "Yan Ling, we have discussed going to Dayan Lake, will you go?" ”

Yan Lin said: "I asked my family to take a good leave of absence, play outside for a few days and then go home." ”

At noon, the group went to Dayan Lake to play. Everyone took advantage of the interval between the release of college entrance examination results to have fun to their heart's content, and almost forgot about the torturous college entrance examination.

Two days later, Wu Chongbin, Liu Hu, Tian Feng and others returned to the Hongqi factory, Wang Qiao and Yan Lin returned to Shannan, and after two days of glue, Wang Qiao returned to Changdong County, Jingzhou, and Yan Lin returned to Jingzhou Hongqi Factory.

In mid-July, Wang Qiao received a letter with the words Hongqi Factory printed on the envelope.

Dear brute, this is the last time I will address you like that. Writing this, my heart is like a knife, and I can't help but write this breakup letter. I have been a love idealist since I was a child, you are my first love, I am my greatest happiness to meet you, and I will always remember you in my heart. While I tasted the most beautiful love, I also tasted bitter wine at the same time, I don't want to pursue your past, I just want to grasp the present. But three times, you called another girl's name in a dream, do you know how I felt in the dark? You must love me, but I want to have love to myself, and I can't share it with anyone. When I came back from Dayan Lake, I made a wish that if you stopped calling that girl's name at night, I would bury that name in my heart forever. But something broke my heart, and you called that name again that night.

People's subconscious is the most real, I believe that there is a place for me in your heart, but my position is definitely not as good as the status of the person named Lu Qi. This is my truest feeling, and it is also true. The love I want is the love that two people devote themselves to, and I don't ask you to have mercy on me.

Dear brute, my dearest brute, I will love you forever and ever. But I don't pray for love, I don't know what happened to you and that girl before, since her place in your heart is so important, you have to try to pursue the purest love.

When I wrote this, I couldn't cry again, I just felt that life had lost its color. You don't have to reply, you don't have to look for me again, and you can't find me. My mother and I will go on a trip, and after the college entrance examination, I will study in the ministry's commission training, and I will not return to Jingzhou in the future.

Farewell, dear barbarian, love your Yan Ling forever.

Writing this, I remembered that you always called me "Yan Lin", and did not call me "Lin" or "dear", and in retrospect, I am so sad.

Maybe we will never cross paths again, I sincerely wish you happiness!

At the back of the letter, no address was left behind.

After reading the letter, Wang Qiao felt that the world was "unpredictable", and he was ready to fall in love, but he received this letter unexpectedly, and the glass of wine in life was really a little bitter.

Putting the letters in a drawer, he took the basketball out of the courtyard and ran wildly until he was exhausted.

The sunset is like blood, illuminating the sky, so beautiful that it makes people's hearts tremble.

(End of Volume 1)