The ridge is full of Yingshan Red (novella) Zhang Baotong 2016.1.2

Red flowers bloom in the safflower mountains. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoThis safflower is the saffron that is like a flame.

In March and April of spring, it is the rainy season in northern Hunan Province, the fog in the safflower mountain is ethereal, the spring is full of joy, and the red mountain will unconsciously bloom, like a piece of bright red and gorgeous fire in full swing all over the hills and mountains. When the rain has passed and the sun is shining, the rain-stained saffron will open its smiling face brightly in the early spring sunshine and smile towards the spring sunshine. This is the most beautiful time of the year when the saffron flowers are at their most beautiful.

The blooming season is the season when people are most willing to come to the mountains to enjoy the mountains and rivers, watch the flowers and enjoy the scenery. After being suffocated by the rain for many days, I came to the mountains to take a walk and take a look, the Tao is pleasing to the eye and relaxing. Let the heart leave a happy and bright memory, cherish a sudden beautiful feeling.

However, at this time, it is the busy season of spring planting, few people come to the mountains to watch the flowers and enjoy the scenery, and most of the people who come and go in a hurry come to find their relatives and make love. The girls here are as delicate and beautiful as the red flowers in this mountain, and they are also in a hurry to bloom and leave in a hurry like this beautiful flower season. missed this opportunity, and the good girl let others give it to the end and rob it all. Because there is such a custom in the mountains, I am busy with marriage in the spring and marriage in the autumn. If you want to find a safflower girl, you have to start early.

The flowers in the Red Flower Mountain, the girls in the Red Flower Commune are even more colorful. There is an old Chinese saying that "the emperor's daughter does not worry about getting married", but there is also a saying in Linjiang that "the sister of the red flower does not worry about marrying". Otherwise, if you go to the county seat, there will be a kilometer-long and half-kilometer-wide street on the street, and the young daughter-in-law, who is a little flowery, speaks with the accent of the red flower. Because the safflower girl is delicate, there are many people who come to the door to find relatives and intercede, so they also hang the eyes of the safflower girl looking for relatives and marrying people very high, and they are bent on finding a public official who eats the imperial grain, so as to follow the people out of the countryside and get rid of this farming life facing the loess and facing the sky.

Yuxiu is the purest and most beautiful of the girls in the Honghua Commune. Wherever she went, it was as if a cloud was shining on her, just like the spotlight on the stage was chasing her, making her stand out from the crowd and shine, always in the center of the stage, while others were holding her like stars holding the moon.

She is only 17 years old this year, only one year after graduating from Honghua Middle School and High School, and is a broadcaster of the Chaling Brigade of Honghua Commune. Seventeen or eighteen years old is the brightest and brightest flower season for rural girls, the beginning of love, informed and reasonable, giving people a feeling of pear blossoms with rain and spring dew, and it is also the best time for rural girls to find relatives and marry. However, Yuxiu's eyes are too high and her heart is too strong, whether it is a young descendant from her hometown or from the county, some are workers and some are cadres, and she has broken the threshold of her family in waves, but she didn't take a fancy to one. was so angry that her parents couldn't stop sighing, scolding her for being stupid and weird, but they couldn't do anything about her.

However, Yuxiu's luck is good. She was born in the most colorful and prosperous Chaling Brigade in Yingshan Red. In front of her house is the embankment of the Luo River, and behind the house is the tea mountain that produces Biluo spring tea. Between the tea mountain and the Luojiang River, there is a fertile plain river that is one or two miles wide and more than ten miles long. More than a dozen production teams of the Chaling Brigade live along this fertile plain river. Not only the mountains and rivers here are beautiful, but also rich in products, the grain production increases year by year, and people do not have to worry about food and clothing, especially the girls here, which are a must of the Honghua Commune. Otherwise, people say that Linjiang girls count saffron, and safflower girls count Chaling. As the announcer of the brigade's radio station, it was the easiest and most enviable position in the entire brigade. Therefore, how can Yuxiu, who occupies all the scenery, not raise her eyes high and puff up her heart?

However, her calm and carefree state of mind was about to be broken for a long time, but this day came so suddenly.

It was the same day, as usual, and it was raining all the time, and it was falling heavily. All afternoon, Yuxiu sat in the radio room of the brigade headquarters, holding the book of "Revolutionary Songs Everyone Sings" that she had just bought, and was quietly learning to sing the song "Yingshan Hong". This song is an episode in the "Shining Red Star" recently produced by Bayi Studio, the song is sincere, the tune is deep, and it has a strong lyricism. Yuxiu likes this song very much, and these days she is learning to sing according to the songbook whenever she has time.

By four or five o'clock in the afternoon, it was already a little dark. She thought about whether she should go home in the evening and pick up two thin clothes. Because the spring equinox has arrived, and the swallows have flown back from elsewhere, the weather is slowly getting warmer.

At this time, the water secretary of the brigade shouted at her from the office next door, "Show girl." ”

"What's the matter?" She hurried into Secretary Shui's house. She saw a young man standing in front of Secretary Shui with a hat in one hand and a flat shoulder in the other, dressed in a robe. On one side of the pole are several farm tools such as hoes and rakes, and on the other side is an old wooden box. Because he had just come in the rain, a patch of rain was dripping from where he was standing.

Secretary Shui stood up from his desk and said to her, "This is Chen Jie from the commune's tea house." I'm going home, and you take him to the cafeteria to eat. ”

Yuxiu said, "I know. Then he said to the young man, "Let's go to dinner." ”

The young man glanced straight at her, nodded and said, "Okay." Then he put down his pole and hat, and began to take off his robe.

Yuxiu was not used to standing in front of strangers, so she walked to the door outside the house and waited. At this time, Secretary Shui came over and whispered to her, "Secretary Huang of the tea field said that Chen Jie's son was not very obedient, so he was sent to the production team to work and receive education." With that, he went away in the rain.

Of course, Yuxiu understands the meaning of the word decentralization, which means to be degraded. She also knew that there were thirty or forty educated youths from the county town in the commune tea house, and she had performed with them on the same stage at the commune's art show last year, but she had little contact with them and was not familiar with them. However, this Chen Jie was sent to the production team by Secretary Huang, it must be because he did not obey discipline and did not accept the re-education of poor middle peasants.

When she saw Chen Ji coming, she took Chen Jie down the corridor to the easternmost cafeteria. Because spring planting is about to begin. The people in the brigade headquarters have all left the team, so only the two of them come to the cafeteria to eat. Cook Father Xu served Chen Jie a bowl of rice from the big iron pot, beat a small plate of green vegetables, and put it on the table in front of him. Yuxiu took a pair of chopsticks and handed them to him, and sat opposite him eating.

The lights in the cafeteria were dim, but she could still look at him clearly. He wore a yellow military uniform, which was double-pocketed. is more than 1.75 meters tall, shaved the kind of split head of a high school student in the city, and his appearance is not only dignified, but even a little handsome and gentle. This reminded her of the two sentences in Chairman Mao's poem, "Just a classmate is a young man, and he is a scholar." No, people in the city are really different from people in the countryside. Although the sister of the Red Flower Commune is famous far and wide, but the son of the Red Flower is very ordinary, not to mention that he can't see such a handsome young man with a scholarly spirit, and he is even half a piece short of size, how can he be as handsome and tall as him?

Because she had a good impression of him, and looking at him again, Yuxiu felt that this young man looked like a disobedient person. But she also knows that the appearance and essence of people are sometimes different. She saw that he had eaten very well, and quickly finished a bowl of rice, and thought that he might have walked more than twenty miles of mountain roads and was hungry, so without waiting for him to finish eating, she took his bowl and added him a large bowl of rice, and added some vegetables to him. At this time, she saw him smile at her with a very grateful expression, and the smile was bright and bright, and it illuminated people's hearts at once.

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