Chapter 088: Born to be a Human • Changqing Volume
Xiao Wu didn't touch me that night, since I was a child, Xiao Wu has always been a debauched little rascal, he liked me from a very young age, even in front of Jiang Sheng, he was very presumptuous to me, but finally when it was time to share a bed with me, he was decent, according to the oldest tradition and promised me that the marriage cave room could be the same bed.
I don't know if Xiao Wu was scared by me last night, or if he didn't want to coerce me in any way.
My mind suddenly remembered Jiang Sheng, who had become increasingly blurred, and my heart ached endlessly, like a clear spring.
A month later, Xiao Wu sent me to Beiping East Railway Station, but my mother did not send me because she was busy with work, and kept telling me to pay attention to safety and study hard outside before leaving.
Xu is sad about parting, my mother has never liked it, so she found a reason not to send me, when I left, my mother did not show the slightest sadness and reluctance, just like over the years, she seems to have gradually forgotten Jiang Sheng.
Mother is a woman with a hard life, she was not invited to see when she was young, she was discouraged by Chen Gongbo at the age of youth like a flower, she swallowed her anger after marrying her father Jiang Zhengyang, and was bullied by her mother's family and cut off the relationship and remained silent, and finally watched her father die, watched the death of Lao Jiang, the pillar of the pillar, and watched Jiang Sheng, who was guilty of her life, become a lonely soul on the battlefield, she never went crazy and cried.
Her obedience seemed to be natural, like an ox that only knew how to plow the fields.
But at the same time, my mother was pleased, because for so many years, she had been hoping that I could get famous, which was her wish, and she didn't even care about Jiang Sheng and Xiao Wu's grades, she only cared if I could be admitted.
And my relationship with Xiao Wu also made my mother proud.
People in Qiantang Town have more or less heard that a family in a certain village in Beiping City has been inherited for three generations and is born with great strength. Xiao Wu has great strength, and filial piety, and looks not bad, which girl in the ten miles and eight villages around Sanlitun wants to marry Xiao Wu, and the matchmakers of several nearby villages often come to the door to say that the matchmaker wants to marry the village flower of a certain village.
In that era, there was not enough food and clothing, and people like Xiao Wu were hardworking and capable, and they could at least have a stable life with him.
When her mother adopted Xiao Wu, it was actually because of Jiang Sheng, Jiang Sheng begged her mother for a long time, her mother thought about it overnight, and finally adopted Xiao Wu, she didn't expect to adopt a future son-in-law, she personally raised Xiao Wu, and she best understood Xiao Wu's character, in the words of other people in Sanlitun, this is called fat water does not flow into the field of outsiders.
After the college entrance examination, Xiao Wu and I will get tired of being together every day, Xiao Wu is never willing to let me work, and I rush to do any work, even if the crops in the field are he and his mother work together, he also let his mother work for a while and rest for a while, he seems to have endless strength, and he is happy to do it.
My mother saw all this in her eyes, and naturally loved Xiao Wu, and often whispered in my ear that Xiao Wu was good, saying that our mother and daughter were blessed.
My heart is very conflicted, and the figure of Jiang Sheng always comes to mind, his gentleness and elegance, like a docile sheep, his eyes squint into crescents when he laughs, and he never tires of calling my name, Jiang Rong Jiang Rong. He would quietly buy candy for me behind my mother's back, leave all the delicious things for me, and sometimes when I got my hands dirty while playing with mud, he would hold things in the palm of his hand and feed me.
And Xiao Wu has become more and more like Jiang Sheng over the years, he no longer causes trouble, and he no longer fights with others, he and I suddenly kiss me when we are walking on the field road, will pick the wild flowers on the road and insert them in my hair, will carry me on the muddy road, and learn to bark when I am unhappy, like a naughty child.
I stood on the platform of the station, with large and small bags beside me, because it was the first time I went out, and my mother asked me to bring a lot of things, for fear that I would lack something when I arrived at school.
It was about a twenty-mile journey to the station, Zhao Dahai pushed the girder bicycle and tied my luggage to the back seat, and Xiao Wu and I kept walking in front.
After arriving at the station, the train would take two hours to arrive, and Xiao Wu kept holding my hand, he seemed to be more nervous than me, and told me to take care of myself outside.
When I got on the bus to check in the ticket, Xiao Wu was stopped outside the door, I walked to the car where I was with my luggage, put the luggage under the seat, Xiao Wu has been watching me outside the window, seeing that I put things away and looked at him, he laughed happily, he waved his hand to say goodbye, this is the first time I think, it turns out that Xiao Wu's eyes can also be squinted like a crescent moon when he laughs.
After the train started, Xiao Wu has been chasing after him, he didn't speak, and he didn't call my name, but I don't know why my heart is sour, remembering that when Jiang Sheng joined the army three years ago, he sat on the iron military car and walked away, he said goodbye to everyone but didn't say goodbye to me, I chased after the army like a red-eyed rabbit, Jiang Sheng asked me to go back, and then turned his back and never looked at me again until he disappeared from my sight.
Xiao Wu waved to me while running, I leaned out of the car window, looked at Xiao Wu's reluctant appearance, and remembered the sadness in my heart when I chased Jiang Sheng three years ago.
It turns out that there is also a person in the world who cherishes me as much as I cherish Jiang Sheng.
I couldn't help but reddened my eyes, I no longer looked at Xiao Wu, the whistle and the roar of the wheels resounded in my ears, the train went south, the future was worried, I don't know how much ahead.
In my imagination, maybe as soon as I leave like this, I will lose contact with Beiping City from now on, except for the correspondence with Xiao Wu.
Because of the previous knockdown of the landlord Sanlitun's phone has been cut off, I arrived at school a month after receiving a letter from Xiao Wu, Xiao Wu said that his mother is now in good health, and his complexion is much better than before, he is looking for a job, to see if he can work in the factory, let me not worry about things at home, study hard.
I picked up the pen and wrote a full three pages of letters, this is the first time I have written a letter, it is like unscrewing the water valve in my heart, I want to write all the happy and wronged things to Xiao Wu, I feel for the first time that I will have so many words, presented in the form of letters, sent to the people I think and miss in the distance.
Xiao Wu mentioned Qin Changqing in the letter, the person who had some kind of inexplicable relationship with Jiang Sheng.
Three years ago, Jiang Sheng was forced to go on an expedition, and the reason was that Qin Changcheng, the boss of Tangkou, was obstructing him, he knew Qin Changqing's Longyang fetish, and thought that sending Jiang Sheng away would make his younger brother of his mother's compatriots better.
Men love women, pass on the ancestry, the good people of Longyang have always been despised throughout the ages, Qin Changcheng couldn't bear his brother to do things that corrupted the door, and imprisoned Qin Changqing for a year, until Qin Changqing relented.
Jiang Sheng specially wrote a letter to Qin Changqing before leaving, at that time Qin Changqing was still under house arrest in the bedroom at the entrance of the hall, he was a quiet person, he never liked to argue with others, and he was not impatient when he was locked up in the room, and he read books all day to relieve his boredom.
At that time, the little maid at the entrance of the hall reported that Jiang Sheng had sent a letter, and Qin Changqing was ecstatic, but on the way to the letter, he was stopped by Qin Changcheng.
Qin Changcheng asked Qin Changqing to be escorted to the lobby and burned the letter written by Jiang Sheng in front of him.
Qin Changqing was furious, rushed up to grab the letter, and was held down by Qin Changcheng's men.
Qin Changqing is suave and talented, and can be called a talented person in Beiping City and Little Baylor, he likes Jiang Sheng, but he has never dared to show it, until that night when he was alone with Jiang Sheng in the bedroom, he said something, which made Jiang Sheng hesitate.
Qin Changqing knew that Jiang Sheng had a gentle temperament, and he also saw the contradiction in Jiang Sheng's heart, Jiang Sheng left a letter on his desk before saying goodbye to prevent him from thinking too much, which made Qin Changqing think that maybe he still had a chance, he was the kind of person who could give up everything, even his life, for a person.
Qin Changqing saw some clues from the book when he read the Stone Book when he was very young, and he never tired of looking at the description of Jia Baoyu and Qin Qiong in the book, he thought he was sick at first, and kept hiding the secrets of his heart until he met Jiang Sheng.
Qin Changqing was born rich and noble, and he loved reading and drama, when he saw the story of King Zhou You's lighting the beacon fire for Concubine Bo's smile, he did not scold and ridicule like others, but envied in his heart, he also hoped that one day he could light the beacon fire for his beloved, and give up everything, just to get a sincere person.
He gave his most precious gold-inlaid jade pendant to Jiang Sheng, but Jiang Sheng didn't want it, he knew that even if Jiang Sheng saw the gold and silver mountains, he would not be moved, and even in his eyes, it was not as good as a piece of sugar to make him happy.
Qin Changqing deliberately did not contact Jiang Sheng for a while, and he had been busy with Uncle Qin, but when he saw Jiang Sheng again, the sour secret in his heart was unearthed and could no longer be forgotten. He watched Jiang Sheng grow from ten to seventeen years old, and how many rich ladies he rejected for marriage.
Qin Changcheng tore up Jiang Sheng's letter in front of Qin Changqing, Qin Changqing roared furiously and was pressed to the ground.
The content of the letter is unknown to no one except Jiang Sheng, maybe it was Jiang Sheng's farewell to Qin Changqing before leaving, talking about his cousin's longing, maybe Jiang Sheng asked Qin Changqing for help and saved him from the battlefield, maybe the content of the letter was Jiang Sheng's vague response to Qin Changqing's incident that night, Jiang Sheng was contradictory, Qin Changqing could see it.
Qin Changqing felt that no one in this world could understand Jiang Sheng better than him, and no one's intelligence was worthy of Jiang Sheng, he could give up everything for Jiang Sheng, and for now, he just wanted to see the content of the letter.
Qin Changcheng burned Jiang Sheng's letter and said that Jiang Sheng had left Beiping City with the large army.
So after Qin Changqing learned from the little guy next to him that Jiang Sheng had indeed left Beiping City, he beat people like crazy, rushed out of the hall, and ran to the head of the city where the volunteers left Beiping City, he looked at the crowd that left the sparse Lala, and looked at the direction where the large army had gradually disappeared, he didn't know where Jiang Sheng was walking in the sea of thousands of people.
After all, he couldn't chase after him like a madman and ask Jiang Sheng where he was one by one, nor could he know what Jiang Sheng wrote in his last letter, let alone how long it would take for Jiang Sheng to come back.
In the past three years, Qin Changqing has paid attention to every battle of the Volunteer Army, and he wants to ask someone to inquire about what happened to Jiang Sheng, but he was monitored by Qin Changcheng and could not use his connections.
Until the end of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, three days after the return of the first batch of front-line soldiers, Qin Changqing sat outside the platform from afar, watching the backs of Xiao Wu and Jiang Rong, just looking at Jiang Sheng who had returned safely from a distance, and didn't want to disturb his life.
Qin Changqing is a person who believes in fate, he believes that a person like Jiang Sheng, who is favored by God, should not die on the battlefield even if he joins the war at the age of seventeen without any combat experience.
But Jiang Sheng didn't come back after all.
Qin Changqing was still hiding outside the train platform on the fourth and fifth days waiting for Jiang Sheng, he saw that Xiao Wu and Jiang Rong had not come to the station again, so he ran to the front of the crowd, and also held up a sign with Jiang Sheng's name written on it, and when he saw that there were soldiers coming down on the train, he called Jiang Sheng's name.
In Qin Changqing's imagination, Jiang Sheng would definitely come back, and when he came back, he didn't see Xiao Wu and Jiang Rong, but only saw him Qin Changqing, and he would definitely call his name happily, Changqing.
Qin Changqing didn't know if Jiang Sheng would be different from before after three years of war, and he couldn't even recognize it, he imagined a hundred scenarios when he met Jiang Sheng, but after all, he didn't even meet each other.
And Qin Changqing's every move was reported to Qin Changcheng by the whistle at the entrance of the hall, Qin Changcheng asked people to tear the cardboard in Qin Changqing's hand to pieces, forced Qin Changqing to have sex with various women, and also found Western doctors in Beiping to treat Qin Changqing, and even asked people to go to the pear orchard to find Xi'er's trouble.
Qin Changqing was a young man, and his status in Tangkou was equivalent to the corner of the military advisor, and several major decisions he made all conformed to the development of the rapidly changing times, so he convinced many people in Tangkou.
Qin Changqing swallowed his anger for so many years, because Jiang Sheng never returned and completely collapsed, so when the poison in his eyes was detected by Qin Changde, the second eldest of the Qin family, Qin Changde, who had been suppressed, became Qin Changqing's right and left hand.
Qin Changcheng was shot in the head, and his family was also hanged on the beams of the house, no one knew who killed Qin Changcheng, but it didn't take long for there to be a third master of Qin in Beiping City, Qin Changde was Qin Changqing's second brother, but he always had to keep his head down when he was in front of Qin Changqing.
Everyone in the hall has to call the third master when they see Qin Changqing, and the people with heads and faces in the capital have to call the little third master when they see Qin Changqing.
The Tangkou business in Beiping City is thriving under the leadership of Qin Sanye, many people know that he loves drama and literature, and he is even more expensive to Huadan Xi'er in Liyuan, and he also built a theater in Beiping City to give Xi'er a Liyuan Peking Opera building, and the name of the theater is Xi'er Building.