"I asked him: 'Why do you say it's not a Kazakh folk song?' Wu Xinwei said: "The style of 'In That Distant Place' is completely different from the Kazakh folk song, but it is very similar to the Tibetan folk song. Listen to me sing to you. He then sang the Kazakh folk song "Beautiful Girl": "Beautiful girls have seen thousands of them, but you are the loveliest, you are like the sun rushing out of the morning glow, incomparably fresh; Compare your face to a flower, you are more vivid than a flower, how many people in the world look at you, looking at your neck sore. When he had finished singing, he said, 'How's that?' 108,000 miles apart, right? I'll sing you another Tibetan folk song. He started singing (I forgot the lyrics), and when he was done, he said, 'How's that?' The style is similar, right? I said, 'I can't hear it, I think these three songs are very different, they are not the same thing at all.' He said: 'You don't understand, you don't understand music.' I'll sing you another song...... 'I didn't know he was singing to the girl, and I said impatiently, 'Don't sing anymore, people are watching us.' He said: 'Look at what you are afraid of?' I stood up and said, 'Then sing by yourself, I'll go to the bathroom.' ’”

"When I came back from the toilet, I found that Wu Xinwei was gone. And the girl began to stomp her feet in the aisle again, she was so cold that her suede shoes didn't seem warm at all. I wondered: Why didn't she dress a little thicker on such a cold day? Thinking about wrapping himself tightly in his fur coat, and was about to sit down, he saw Wu Xinwei walking quickly with hot air, and said loudly: "Let's go, let's go to the dining car, there is heating in the dining car, I have already told the conductor about it." ’”

The two of us picked up our bags and walked forward. When passing by the girl, Wu Xinwei said: "You can go too, see if you are frozen, be careful that your feet are frozen." The girl asked in pure Yanjing dialect, 'What are you doing?' Wu Xinwei said: "We are journalists. The girl hesitated, took her bag from the luggage rack, and followed us. ”

"When the dining car arrived, the heat wave came to my face, as if the heat of the whole train was concentrated here, and the whole body was suddenly warm. Wu Xinwei asked the girl without words: "It's not cold, is it?" The girl said, 'It's not cold.' She was a little shy and didn't talk much. And when I come into contact with the living, I can say less and say less. This just created an opportunity for Wu Xinwei, so I listened to him talk endlessly, I forgot what he said, anyway, he was pulling and talking, pulling and singing, or singing along with the radio: "In That Distant Place". I was a little annoyed and said, 'It's like this song on a record, singing over and over again.' Then the girl spoke, and said, 'For the beach of gold and silver is near.' Wu Xinwei and I looked at each other puzzled: What do you mean? The girl said, "I think you should know that 'In That Distant Place' was first produced in Jinyintan and is the best song adapted by Wang Luobin. ’”

"This is the first time I've heard that "In That Distant Place" is related to Wang Luobin, and it's also the first time I've heard that this love song was born in Jinyintan, which is only more than 100 kilometers away from Xining."

"I asked, 'So is it a Kazakh folk song or a Tibetan folk song?' Without waiting for Yang Lanyu to answer, Wu Xinwei said: "It doesn't matter whether it's a Kazakh folk song or a Tibetan folk song, the important thing is that it expresses a Han youth's yearning for a distant grassland girl." Yang Lanyu said calmly: "I think it's a Tibetan folk song." Because the herdsmen living in Jinyintan are all Tibetans and Mongolians, and there are no Kazakhs, the Kazakhs in Qinghai are all in the Qaidam hinterland - the Altunquk grassland, which is more than 800 kilometers away from Jinyintan. I said, 'But the Kazakh people have the custom of chasing girls, and in "In That Distant Place" there is exactly the sentence that I wish her to take a thin leather whip and keep hitting me gently.' The girl said, 'Is it so?' Wu Xinwei said: "That was Wang Luobin's imagination, pure coincidence. Besides, I have also encountered Tibetan girls in pastoral areas who chased and beat young men all over the grassland with sheep whips and laughing, who can say that such a life scene was not seen by Wang Luobin? The girl said, "That's right, 'In That Distant Place' should be a Tibetan folk song that Wang Luobin wrote again." ’”

"I asked the girl, 'What do you do?' It can't be music, right? The girl said, 'No.' Wu Xinwei asked, 'Where do you work?' The girl said, 'In the mines.' We all said, 'The mine is in Gold and Silver Beach, no wonder you're so familiar with the ins and outs of this song.'" ’”

Wu Xinwei looked very excited, said a lot more, informed her of her name, and left her her address. He said, 'Give me your address.' The girl said decisively: 'Forget my address.' Wu Xinwei said: "Then how can I find you in the mining area?" The girl suddenly became cold, and there was a hint of vigilance in her words: 'What are you looking for me?' Wu Xinwei hurriedly said, "Then you come to me." The girl smiled and said nothing. ”

"Half an hour later, we got off the train together at the Haiyan County Railway Station, and then we broke up. The mining area is still more than 10 kilometers away from Haiyan County, and there is no bus, so the girl said that she had to find a car along the way. Wu Xinwei asked, "Where can I find a ride?" She said, "There's a place to get on the bus." He walked away. Wu Xinwei looked at her reluctantly until she disappeared into the cold wind howling in winter. ”

"This is the first time I have met Yang Lanyu, and the impression she left on me is as beautiful and nihilistic as "In That Distant Place". For Wu Xinwei, this first meeting not only made him sing a nihilistic love song, but also made him sprout real love. He was eager to try it and painstakingly began to pursue it. First, he had to see her again. Although the mining area is not far from Haiyan County, he will never find out how to go to the mining area and where the door to the mining area is. He concluded that Yang Lanyu was bound to come out and take the train, so he insisted on waiting at the train station and waited for her. He said he had waited five whole months. At the moment when he finally waited for her, he suffered the heaviest blow of his life - she didn't even know him. He had to talk about the train ride, the discussion we had about "In That Distant Place." She finally remembered, smiled, and Yun Kai said, suddenly confirmed. She said, "What are you waiting for me?" Wu Xinwei said: "Here are a few letters, you can know if you read them." It was a love letter written by a reporter who was used to playing with the pen, and she was immediately moved. I thought that although in that mysterious and lonely mining area, in that cold and cold spring era, she had never read a better love letter, but what really moved her was not the little literary brilliance of Wu Xinwei in the love letter, but his actions, he actually waited for her for five months, even if he came from Xining once a week, it would take twenty trips......"

"They started dating. Yang Lanyu never went to Xining to look for him, he came from Xining to the county seat of Haiyan County to meet her. Don't call or write, the time and place of the next date, just say it in this meeting, come as scheduled, rain or shine. Half a year has passed, and it's another winter. ”

Before leaving, I called Wu Xinwei, and he said, "Let's go together, you can meet Yang Lanyu, and she also asked about you." On the train, Wu Xinwei said to me: "Yang Lanyu is dishonest, why doesn't she even tell me what she does?" I said, "Why did she tell you?" Wu Xinwei said: "Of course she has to tell me that we are no longer in an ordinary relationship. I said, "Maybe she's not doing a good job and doesn't want to tell anyone." Wu Xinwei said: "The work is not very good to tell me, I will help her transfer, as long as she is in Xining, as long as she does not leave Qinghai, there is a way." ”

"When the county seat arrived, Yang Lanyu was waiting at the train station. She seems to be prettier and more sleek. Seriously, I'm also a youthful person, and I like her very much, but Wu Xinwei took the lead, damn Wu Xinwei. ”

"At the Xihai Hotel, where he and she often date, we ate together. Wu Xinwei said: 'Let's go to your unit with you today, right?' She said: 'No.' Wu Xinwei said: "You always say no, no, why?" She said: 'No, no, it just doesn't.' I said, 'Just let Xinwei go and have a look, he wants to get you a better unit.' She said: 'There is no better unit, our unit is the best.' Wu Xinwei said, 'Really? Let's take a tour. She said, 'Why do you always want to go to our unit?' Who are you? Wu Xinwei said: "Who am I, you still don't know?" Yang Lanyu stopped talking, looking a little angry. I ate in a hurry, and then I took my leave and went about my own business. After the matter was done, I got into the car of the Haiyan County Administration to go to the province for a meeting, and went home. I didn't tell Wu Xinwei that I don't know when he returned to Xining. ”

"A month later, Wu Xinwei came to me and said mysteriously: 'Do you know what mines come from?' I shook my head. He said, 'Do you know that the mines don't come out at all?' I shook my head. He said, 'Do you know that the mining area is Factory 216?' I still shook my head. He said, 'Do you know what Factory 216 makes?' I said, 'I only know that it is a secret factory, and I don't know what it makes.' He said: 'It is the one who makes atomic weapons.' I was stunned: 'Whoever makes atomic weapons?' What is an atomic weapon? Who do you listen to? He said: 'Don't worry who says it, anyway, the news is absolutely reliable.' No wonder Yang Lanyu is mysterious, the next time I see her, I must ask her side-by-side to see if he is honest with me. I said, 'Yes, you must ask her if your relationship is not ordinary, and she should tell you.' Wu Xinwei said: "The most important thing is that I want to know what she does, whether she is making bombs, making artillery shells, or engaging in design, studying atomic physics, and keeping top-secret information." ’”

The next day happened to be a Sunday, and it was the date he had with Yang Lanyu. He went, and asked. According to him, Yang Lanyu did not admit at that time that Factory 216 was manufacturing atomic weapons. She said, 'How is that possible?' I haven't heard of it at all. Our factory is an ordinary national defense factory, just like the radio factory No. 1 and radio factory No. 2 of the national defense public system. Wu Xinwei said: "You lied to me, you didn't trust me, you didn't treat me as your closest person." She said: 'It's not the same thing as my job.' He said: 'No, it is one thing, I have the right to know everything about you, and you have the right to know everything about me.' In fact, officers at or above the colonel level know that Factory 216 manufactures atomic weapons, so what are you keeping a secret from me? She said: 'What do I do, is that important to you?' He said: 'It doesn't matter to be honest, it's your honesty that matters, your trust in me, and you see me and you as one person, not two.' She said: 'I don't understand you, I can't be alone with you, especially at work.' They quarreled and parted, and they did not even eat. ”

Later, Wu Xinwei and Yang Lanyu met again, either two, or three, in short, only two months later, Wu Xinwei became depressed. He called me and said he hadn't seen Yang Lanyu in weeks. He said, 'She has neither a phone nor a mailing address, so what do you say I should do?' I still go to Haiyan County every Sunday, or go to Xihai Hotel to wait, but I can't wait like this forever, right? Do you think I should go to the mine to look for her? I said, "It's best not to look for it, if the mining area is really making atomic weapons, it's not good for her to go, and people will think that you were called by Yang Lanyu." He said, 'Yes, I should definitely think about her, but sometimes I don't listen to you, what do you say?' ’”

Wu Xinwei still went, of course he didn't see Yang Lanyu, and he didn't even see the wall of Factory 216. He was walking on the vast grassland of Jinyintan and was wondering that there were no factories here at all, when he was suddenly grabbed from behind by the soldiers of the 'Sixth Sentry'. The soldier looked at him sternly: 'What are you doing?' ''Journalist. ''What are you doing here?'' ''Find someone. ''Who to look for?'' ''Find my sister. ''What does your sister do?'' ''My sister works in the mine and doesn't know what she does. ''You can't come here, you don't know that this is a forbidden area?'' ''Yes, but my mother is critically ill and I have to inform my sister.'' His lie won the sympathy of the soldiers, who did not catch him, but only called the provincial public security department, and through the provincial public security department, called the provincial radio station, confirmed that there was such a person, and watched him out of the forbidden area. He came back in a gloomy way. I talked to him and said, 'Who told you to go to Factory 216?' Don't think that because you're a reporter for a radio station, you can go wherever you want. This is no small matter, and both the DHS and the FBI have intervened. ’”

"Wu Xinwei came to me and said, 'What do you say I should do? I don't have any thoughts on it now, just how to meet her. I said, "It's still the old way, go to the train station in Haiyan County or wait at the Xihai Hotel, and go every week, and I don't believe that she will not show up from now on." Wu Xinwei said: "That's all it takes, but fortunately, I'm not afraid to wait." ’”

I don't know if Wu Xinwei, who is not afraid of waiting, is waiting for Yang Lanyu at the train station or Xihai Hotel in Haiyan County every Sunday, and I don't know if he will sing "In That Distant Place" with the radio on the train to Haiyan County every time, and I don't know how he cut off his crazy thoughts about this beautiful woman from the bottom of his heart when he couldn't wait for Yang Lanyu. I never saw him again. Later, I became a war correspondent, and when I returned to Xining a year later, I heard that he had gone and had been transferred to Xi'an with my parents. Their whole family is from Shaanxi, and their parents want to return to their roots, so he will 'see things differently'. Wu Xinwei, who was very attentive, saw a strange idea like this. I have always been paranoid that this is his betrayal, that he betrayed himself, and that he betrayed the distant gold and silver beaches. ”

"This summer, it seems like one morning, and when I was about to leave work, a phone call dragged me up from the downstairs of the newspaper building, who had left early. A woman's voice came from the phone: 'Hello Reporter Tan, do you remember me?' I'm Yang Lanyu. I was stunned: 'Yang Lanyu? She said: 'I am from Haiyan and have just arrived in Xining. As soon as she mentioned Haiyan, I remembered: "Remember, remember, you are Yang Lanyu from the mining area." ’”

"We met in front of the Zhonghua Bookstore on Xining Grand Cross Street, and then we went to the Ayu-Restaurant on West Avenue to eat. Yang Lanyu is still very beautiful, but she is a little haggard and a little pale. She said: 'I called the radio station and heard that Wu Xinwei was transferred to Xi'an, do you know his address in Xi'an? I said, 'I don't know, but I can ask you.' She thought for a moment and said, 'Forget it, I'm also passing by Xining, so I'll come and see you by the way, and I'll leave tomorrow.' I asked: 'Are you going home?' Visit? She said, 'No, I'm transferred, I'm leaving Qinghai.' I suddenly looked very happy: 'You're going to be transferred back to Yanjing?' That's great. She smiled and said, 'Why do you want to go back to Yanjing?' I'm going to Xinjiang Province. I said, 'Go to Xinjiang?' Isn't that even further? She said: 'My job is to get away from the crowd.' I said, 'Where is Xinjiang?' She said: 'Malan, Malan of Lop Nur.' I was stunned: 'It's desert, it's uninhabited.' She said: 'Not in the past, but now there is.' ’”

"I later learned that Malan was already the headquarters of the Lop Nur nuclear weapons test base, and that it had long been a Gobi center with people, roads, airports, shops, hotels, and communication facilities. I mentioned Wu Xinwei's wait for her at the Haiyan County Railway Station or the Xihai Hotel. She was silent, and suddenly sighed and said, "Actually, I have seen him from afar, and I am very moved, really moved. But I couldn't stay in that relationship with him anymore, because I realized that I couldn't be the woman he imagined I was. I wrote him a letter and told him that I was married. I said, 'Really?' No wonder he's gone, I thought he didn't have the patience to wait. She said with some sadness: 'Now that I think about it, I'm a little sorry for him.' ’”

(To be continued)