Chapter 16: Who Are Your Parents?

In ordinary life, ordinary people live an ordinary life, and they don't know what a national crisis is, and they don't know how many people are busy for this harmony and peace, even at the cost of their own lives. As far as I am concerned, I don't know what's going on in the world, I don't want to know, and I certainly don't know that on the night I was looking for a "backup system", my father Huang Weiguo almost ran out of oil.

As a specialist in special work, my father was a genius in the field of semiotics. My father knew what a crisis in the system meant! The so-called intelligence is to find the hidden sand from thousands of mud and sand, or to find the hidden water from the three thousand rivers. The work of the Investigation Department is actually a job that balances the world. Grasp what's really going on in the world? The state makes judgments and countermeasures to the changes in the world at every moment based on intelligence, so the so-called agent refers to a special and unusual job, not the kind of hunting and killing in the movie. Of course, the Directorate of Operations will also take necessary measures against those who endanger national security, but that is only part of the special work. Therefore, the role of the Central Investigation Department is that of the guardian of the country. For example, the United States, Japan, and Israel all have intelligence systems around the world. With the loss of contact with Wangxi, many comrades have suffered a catastrophe, and Chinese scientists have been arrested in the United States, which proves that there must be renegades within us, whether it is related to Wangxi or not, the loss of contact with Wangxi is a matter of immeasurable seriousness, and if we cannot find and activate the "backup system" in time, I really don't know how far the situation will spread and become serious.

On the poetic mountain road of the Red River in Yunnan, I caught up with Ah Yue and said, you are my guide, you can't run away, where will I go?

Ah Yue said, "Where do you like to go there?"

I said to Ah Yue, "Really angry?"

Ah Yue said: "I won't be angry, why should I be angry with you?" Who are you? We don't have anything to do with each other. ”

I said to Ah Yue, "Tell me about you Yiche people." One moment it's Tusi, another moment it's a horse gang, how can you be a branch of the Hani tribe? But your personality is completely different from that of the Hani people. Why are there only twenty or thirty thousand of you? You are a Yiche girl who can't even speak Chinese, but you can understand the languages of many countries, is it that you Yiche people have a special talent for language comprehension and learning? ”

Ah Yue said to me: "So many questions? This is not surprising. Our ancestors have indeed been local toasters for generations, and they are also businessmen of the horse racing gang, if we are not doing business, there is money to build a big house, and of course we can't do toast without money. My grandfather had many women in Southeast Asia. Then my Abba was suddenly hunted down by a Burmese gang. My Abba ran back to his hometown for refuge. Although there was some kind of class struggle going on everywhere back then, after all, this place was remote, and no one cared who my Abba was. At that time, many caravan merchants in Southeast Asia were afraid to return. Didn't our family always support the revolution? So no one bothered us. The next thing is that a unit came to my father, saying that my father is familiar with Southeast Asia, or should do business, and be responsible for uniting Chinese businessmen in Southeast Asia. My Abba started his business again. I was born in Eusar and went to Myanmar when I was five years old. ”

I jokingly said to Ah Yue, "What unit is looking for your house?" Your grandfather and abba wouldn't be legendary agents, would they? ”

Ah Yue glanced at me fiercely and said, "These words will be scattered with the wind when they are said in this mountain, and they must not be said nonsense."

In fact, when I say this, it is also a kind of intuitive judgment of things or people. Because there are so many things in this world that are unspeakable. I don't know what my grandfather did in Beijing, I only know that he is an "old revolutionary", I only know that his guards are soldiers, and I only know what kind of "zero letter" his unit is. Where the unit is, even the family doesn't know. So what exactly my grandfather did, I can only guess and imagine. When filling in the social relations column of your resume, fill in a "mass" and you're done. During the Cultural Revolution, my grandfather was branded as a Kuomintang spy. I have the impression that my grandfather was taken away once and never came back. After the end of the Cultural Revolution, the organization rehabilitated my grandfather, saying that my grandfather was a staunch revolutionary who made unremitting efforts for the independence of the country and the nation. But my grandfather never came home. And there has never been a clear statement about how my grandfather died, that is, the organization determined that my grandfather was dead, but he could not see anyone alive or dead. Not to mention this, my father and mother still work in such a unit, "zero letter box". So even though we are a family, they seem to me to be completely strangers, just a blood symbol, my father and mother. But I don't know anything about them, I can't understand them, I don't want to know them. The difference between them and my grandfather was that they came home in civilian clothes and changed into military uniforms when they went out. I remember that when I filled in my resume at school, I couldn't fill in the zero letter box, and I could only fill in a certain chemical plant worker. I used to go to this factory to find my father and mother, but there was no such thing as a factory where they existed. When I was in the second year of junior high school, I was scolded by my teacher once because I was the last in the class in the final exam. The teacher said to me, "Huang Zijin, do you have a father or a mother?"

I said to the teacher, "Of course."

The teacher said: "I couldn't find anyone during the home visit, so I contacted the factory and said that I was on a business trip." Did your father and mother work on the atomic bomb? ”

I told the teacher, "The teacher guessed right, he studied the atomic bomb."

The teacher said, "Look at your IQ, could your mother have studied the atomic bomb?" If you want to be at the bottom of the class again, I'll transfer you to another class. ”

I said to the teacher, "If I don't take the penultimate test, won't anyone take the penultimate test?" There is always someone who has to take the first place in the exam. ”

The teacher said angrily, "Why don't you have any self-esteem at all?" You still dare to say that your mother researched the atomic bomb, aren't you afraid of being laughed at? ”

I said to the teacher, "Isn't it possible for a mother who studies the atomic bomb to have a child who is at the bottom of the exam?"

The teacher said: "You don't have to quibble, look at Yehena, why is it the first in the class, and the mother of the family is a diplomat".

I said to the teacher, "Teacher, you are bullying our children from working-class families."

The teacher said, "Don't go online with me, I'm not good for you."

At this time, my mother walked in, came to the teacher and respectfully said to the teacher: "Hello teacher, it's me who is a mother who didn't take care of the child well and caused trouble to the teacher, I will definitely let him remember it for a long time when I go back."

The teacher said to my mother: "Yehena's mother in our class is a diplomat and has set a good example for the child, so this child is very obedient and knows that he will grow up to be a big man." Of course, children from working-class families can also become talents. I hope that Huang Zijin's mother will cooperate with our school and educate her children is not just a matter of school. Does Huang Zijin's mother understand what I mean? ”

My mother still respectfully said to the teacher, "Yes, yes, it was my mother who failed to do her duty". He said to me, "Don't make a promise to the teacher yet."

I said to the teacher, "If I can't get the first place in positive numbers, then I'll try to be the second from the bottom."

The teacher said to my mother, "What does the child's father do, how can this child be like this".

My mother respectfully said to the teacher, "He's a father, a working class, but he can take care of the children."

The teacher said, "I hope so." Go ahead."

On the way home, my mother didn't say a word. My own child was the last in the class in the exam, and he was educated by the teacher for a long time, which must have hurt his self-esteem. In the night light, I saw that my mother actually had some gray hair.

I whispered to my mother, "Mom, I can take the first test, but I don't want to."

My mother touched my head and said, "It's Mom and Dad who are not good, and Mom doesn't blame you." Mom knows that you and Mom and Dad have a strange feeling, and it's not surprising. Because mom and dad have the peculiarities of mom and dad work. You'll understand it when you grow up. But Mom and Dad will always be your Mom and Dad, and that's not going to change."

I said to my mother, "I don't want to know your peculiarities, and I don't want to understand. Mom and Dad love me enough."

Finally one time my vanity was satisfied. Yehena likes to sell her mother's perfume brought back from capitalism in front of her classmates, and she also likes to say what kind of bureau-level cadre her mother is. Once I saw my dad on TV, and although he was wearing sunglasses and a military uniform, I recognized him. My father's identity on television was that China sent a temporary military observer in the Middle East. I saw that my father's military rank was the rank of major general. I think I've guessed a little bit about my father's identity. A lot of life in my teenage years was imaginary. Now I can understand the complexity of Ah Yue's family, and the world we see is always just the surface of this world. This also makes me better understand the land of the Red River, because of the thickness, because of the history, so its singing from the soul will be extraordinary.