Chapter Forty-Nine: Homesickness
Since the XPCC was first established, there has not been a decent modern pig farm, only planting, and the cost of pig raising is rarely calculated. It turned out that this teacher was talking about the accounting business of foreign collective farms, but we felt that this kind of study could not solve the practical problems in the future work, and everyone was very anxious, because most of the comrades who came to study had never engaged in accounting work and were "illiterate" in accounting.
Now that I'm here, I have to learn a little bit, otherwise how will I work when I go back? A few people in our group worked with the female group leader to "private businessmen" and asked her to use the rest time to teach some practical things, such as: how to keep accounts, how to make year-end statements, how to report balance sheets, how to do current settlements, depreciation calculations...... Wait a minute. She is also willing to teach, so that we can deal with the calculation of the group of "pigs" in the morning, and secretly learn the "capital" that is urgently needed at work in the afternoon, which is very effective after a few months. Just one month laid the foundation for my future accounting work. As for the calculation of the group of piglets and pig grandchildren, there was no shadow later, and all of them were returned to Mr.
In the intense study, I never forgot her from afar. When I first arrived at the training class, I went to a letter, and I often wrote to her in the future, but unfortunately I only received a letter from her, and there was a small photo in the letter, with a thin face, the face shape of melon seeds, two braids like oxtails dragged behind her back, and the small checkered clothes set off her decent figure (I didn't see her face when I first returned to my hometown in 1957), and now I have grown up, like a hibiscus out of the water, showing the unique natural beauty of a young girl. This may be "Shi Xi in the eyes of the lover".
The door of memory slowly opened, and I remembered the past with her childhood sweetheart. Before liberation, her family lived in the back of the county junior high school (by the west), her father from the primary school to make pastry craft, and later with several uncles and brothers to save a little money, partnership to open a shop to make cakes, and later opened their own independent shop, because her father was careful to calculate, credibility, quality, clear real price, old and young, good at management, business is quite popular, and later the business did to Tianyuan City, bought a store there, made a lot of money, made a house in Wenshan, put a few acres of thin fields, and then learned to make soy sauce, Because of the good quality, low price, and prosperous business, he gave up the pastry business and specialized in soy sauce. Zou grew up with the increase of soy sauce tanks. She has three sisters and brothers, her sister is married to Shuitian Township, and her brother is studying, and she is the youngest. Household chores such as chopping wood, collecting pigweed, laundry, and cooking can be done. When she made soy sauce at home, she was her father's assistant, taking care of housework as her mother's helper, and she was also an elf. Her father often sighed: "It's a pity that it's not a boy, and it can't be the climate." ”
I am the same age as her brother, from elementary school classmates to junior high school, they follow each other, every time she goes out to play, she always shouts to go, especially like to go to my house to eat that kind of red, yellow sweet plums, sometimes in good spirits, we take her to go, go more times, her brother is not willing to take her, so crying, noisy to her mother to play coquettish, we take the opportunity to slip away.
She was born on November 5, 1936, eight years younger than me, with a thin and dark face, flickering eyes, blazing spirits, and two clear snots often hanging under the bridge of her nose, which retracted and flowed in and out, and sometimes I teased her: "If I don't wipe the snot off, I won't take you to play." She was also refreshed, wiped it with her sleeve, and said, "No, right?" "We all thought it was funny. She was arranged by her parents since she was a child, and she made a baby kiss with others. After that, I went to Tianyuan and Hongdu to study in high school, and I went home less and saw each other less. In 1957, I went home to visit my mother for the first time, and her brother was the first to get in touch with her, but unfortunately I didn't see her face that time, and she may not remember the "brother" who used to give her plums. I heard that she went to middle school and became a teacher after graduation. In order to pursue women's emancipation, she resolutely cut off the "baby" parent, participated in the work independently, and finally broke through the shackles of feudal marriage and became a new woman in the new era.
Far away, even if she is busy with studying, there is still a "gap" in her mind, always thinking about her, with this photo, you can comfort the inner famine. I wrote to her whenever I could, enclosing my "standard" portrait and sending it by registered mail.
In January 1959, the accounting training course ended, and the trainees went their separate ways. For those of us in our thirties, it's time for us to solve our own problems. The General Administration approved my one-month leave, hurriedly completed the formalities, specially bought a 135 camera exported from Czech Slovak, and took the train to the east.
At the beginning of February 1959, I took a train to Zhangshu Station and sent a telegram to her. The next day, the car arrived at the ferry port in the north of Wenshan County. At this time, the mood fluctuates and the imagination flows.
"Heart, don't beat so hard, dust, don't block my eyes! I didn't let go of the loess in my hand, and I stuck to my heart tightly. I went back to Yan'an in my dream several times, and put my hands on Tashan. (He Jingzhi's "Back to Yan'an") Hometown, I'm back again!
I stretched my neck from the car and looked around, hoping to see my beloved at a glance, but the guests were gone, and I didn't see anyone to pick me up, let alone Yiren's shadow, and my fiery heart suddenly cooled down. Maybe she didn't get my telegram, maybe she couldn't come, maybe ...... I got out of the car in great frustration, changed my military uniform into civilian clothes, carried my duffel bag, and walked towards the county seat. In order not to run into acquaintances, I also put on dark glasses and walked straight to her house. Due to the early death of my father, my mother went to the island province in 57, and my sister and brother have set up their own doors, and my hometown in the county seat is no longer inhabited. This day happened to be the second day of the Lunar New Year in 1959, the street was full of firecrackers, pedestrians were weaving, young people were wearing festive costumes, calling friends, busy going to the elders to greet the New Year, people were immersed in the joy of the Spring Festival.
My family has no residents in Wenshan County anymore. Dad died of tetanus in 1945, Mom went to Island Province in 1957, two elder brothers went to Island Province before 1949, several sisters married to other towns, Sister Hui's family originally lived in Wenshan County, in 1957 the family has moved to Longnan County, the younger brother was still studying in Hongdu and did not go home for the New Year, so I had to go to live in the enrollment family.
When I arrived at Zou's house, my heart was beating excitedly again. I saw that the door of the Zou family was wide open, and the red couplets and red firecracker confetti were filled with the joy of the New Year. When I entered the door of Zou's house, I hurriedly shouted: "Happy New Year, father and mother, I will greet you for the New Year!" "I bowed to the second elder, and the two old men were very happy to see me come back. The admissions mother wiped her tears and said, "Child, we are waiting for you to come back every day!" Okay now, finally back. "Why didn't the admissions pick you up, why did you go?" Her father complained. Zou Ping was also very happy to see me come back and beckoned me to sit down. After chatting for a while, I didn't see the admissions figure, and I didn't want to ask too much. At the sumptuous lunch, the old man said, "The recruit boy hasn't come back yet, and I don't know where he went." I was silent. Zou Ping was very enthusiastic about urging me to drink, my mother kept serving me food, and I also toasted them, wishing them good health and good luck for the whole family! After dinner, Zou Ping took me to her sister's Li Dong Primary School where she worked to find her, but when I arrived at the school, there was no one, and after waiting for a long time, Zou Ping left first if he had an emergency.