The old bachelor's name is Li Wanzheng, but he was a celebrity in the brigade back then. His father was a local landowner who was suppressed by the people's government during the crackdown. His brother was the main battalion commander of the 8th Brigade of the 3rd Division of the New Fourth Army, and later died on the battlefield in the counter-sweep.

Li Wanzheng was a famous student when he was young, and he is almost fifty years old, and he is still single. Later, the year before Yu Songyuan was specially recruited by a high-level unit of the army, on the first day of the Spring Festival, he committed suicide by hanging himself. Yu Songyuan clearly remembers that the snow fell so deep and thick that year, and the weather was so cold and cold.

The old bachelor likes to grow watermelons and sell them on the market. When he cut the tail of capitalism, he smashed all his melon orchards, but he still grows melons every year. He was single, and the village cadres had no choice but to fend for himself. As a result, the old bachelor turned all his land into melon orchards. The melons he grows are so big and sweet that they are in short supply every year without going to the market, and they are sold out in the melon orchard early. Therefore, life is completely self-sufficient.

In those years, the land in the village was mainly used to grow grain, and the land reserved by each family was mainly for growing vegetables for self-eating. Some people also learn from the old bachelor's practice and plant a few watermelons on the ridges, but there are few that grow haode. The old bachelor has a unique trick to grow melons, and he keeps it secret.

But for Yueyue and Wang Feng, he taught them all the tricks, and repeatedly told them not to tell others. The reason why he is so generous is not because the two of them are the two most beautiful flowers that are famous far and wide, but because whether his melon garden can be peaceful has something to do with them.

He didn't have much contact with people, but he had a close relationship with the lame teacher Chen, and the two often played chess or Go under the melon shed, playing chess, drinking tea, and eating watermelon. It is precisely because of his close relationship with Teacher Chen that except for Yu Songyuan's brothers, no one dares to come to the idea of beating his watermelon.

The naughty boy Yu Songyuan also likes to play Go, which is very contradictory to his naughty nature. Although Mr. Chen is a martial artist, he is very quiet. When the farm is not working, a person often puts a chessboard drawn by himself under the tree, and makes chess pieces with corn and broad beans, and competes with himself for a whole day. Among the four naughty boys, only Yu Songyuan slowly developed a love for Go. Teacher Chen taught them kung fu and occasionally gave him a nudge.

Yu Songyuan lost the card and had to steal the melon. He didn't complain that Yue Yue caused him to lose cards, on the contrary, it seemed that there was a huge secret, a secret that only he knew, was hidden in his heart, and he was sweet.

Yu Yueyue saw that they were going to steal melons again, so she hurriedly walked into the hall with her pants on, "It's all slow, and you're going to spoil your Uncle Li's watermelons, aren't you?" If you want to eat melons, there are them in the field, and my aunt will go to the field to pick a big one for you, it is all ripe, it will definitely be sweet to death, does it count? ”

Several people giggled and said in unison, "It doesn't count!" ”

Yu Songyuan gritted his teeth and said: "Okay, okay, I am willing to lose the bet, aunt, don't worry, with my skills, I will never be caught." I'm not stealing, I'm going to let the watermelon grow legs and quietly walk out of the melon orchard by itself. ”

Yu Yueyue said: "I think you just owe repairs, your master is playing chess there, you didn't send it to the door to find a beating." When Yu Songyuan heard her mention the master, his heart was even more furious, but when he looked at the three ill-intentioned and smiling little faces, he gritted his teeth. The rules are set by himself, so let's go.

The melon orchard is on the opposite bank of the West Pond to the west of the village. Yu Songyuan quietly dived into the water from the side of the big pond, which was only seventy or eighty meters wide, and he plunged to the opposite bank. Then, climb ashore, stick to the ground, quietly get into the melon orchard from under the melon leaves, pat the melons one by one, choose a large watermelon to pick, and slowly roll towards the pond.

The melon orchard is more than 100 meters long, and the melon shed is more than two or three meters high, and the big watermelon suddenly rolls away by itself in the melon field. Yu Songyuan lay on the melon field, slowly pushed the melon, sweated profusely, and finally arrived at the pond, he rolled down the pond cliff with the melon, and quietly transported it back to the opposite bank from the water.

The four of them were elated with a big watermelon, returned to the court in victory, went to Yu Yueyue's house, and cut it on the small table under the tree in front of the door. God, the red boy is black, obviously ripe, and the four of them rushed to eat it excitedly.

"Xi Shi" handed the melon to grandma and mother, and said flatteringly, "Grandma, mother, it's so sweet, you can eat it too." The professor took it and put it down, smiling without saying a word.

Yu Yueyue ignored him, and said angrily, "I don't have any ambition at all!" Take it aside, I won't eat what I stolen. A few people who were excited didn't care if she was really angry.

The watermelon was too big, the professor and Yu Yueyue didn't eat a bite, the four of them couldn't finish it, and the rest had to be covered with a gauze cover. Just as they were about to continue playing cards, Mr. Chen came, and the four of them were too late to escape, and they were immediately silent. Yu Yueyue deliberately added fuel to the fire, and said with a smile: "Teacher Chen, you are also here to eat watermelon, right?" ”

Teacher Chen snorted, walked up to the four disciples who were standing upright, and slapped each of them on the head: "Uncle Li is almost sixty years old, an old bachelor, and has no children and no daughters. Every year, I point to this acre of watermelons, and I rely on it for food, clothing, medical treatment, and pension. But you went to steal his watermelons again and again, is there still a bit of humanity? ”

scolded and scolded, the anger became even bigger, and it was a heavy slap on the face of each person, and the beating sounded, "Get out of here, everyone will circle the village ten times." ”

"Grandma will tell you a love, five circles." The professor looked at the poisonous sun in the sky and quickly pleaded.

Teacher Chen said: "Look at grandma's face, each person has five laps, and after running, come back and stand on the pile for an hour. ”

Yu Songyuan took the lead, and the four of them immediately rushed forward along the road in front of the door. Circle around the village, about a kilometer and a half. Five laps, seven or eight kilometers, this is a hot day in July.

When the four of them ran away, Teacher Chen, Yu Yueyue, Professor, and Teacher Chen began to eat. Wang Feng watched Teacher Chen teach them from afar, hurriedly walked over, and asked distressedly: "What's the matter, it's such a hot day, it means it, it's really a punishment." ”

Yu Yueyue said hatefully: "Wang Feng, you are not allowed to care, these little bastards, you are angry with me." The problem of stealing must be corrected, and it should be punished severely. So, he laughed about losing cards and stealing melons.

The county town is open on the second and seventh days of the lunar calendar, and the next day of the punishment for stealing melons is the big set.

Yu Yueyue was going to the post office in the county seat to pick up the money sent by Shi Yuandong, and when it came to the big set, she was ready to go to the big set by the way. That day, everyone happened to have something, and "Xi Shi" was also called by her grandmother to accompany her to the brigade clinic for injections, so only Yu Songyuan accompanied Yu Yueyue.

Catching up with the market, Yu Songyuan likes to do it the most, it's lively and fun.

He followed Yu Yueyue like a little bodyguard. They came to the middle of the village, where Sankui's walk-behind tractor was waiting. When Yu Yueyue climbed up to the carriage, Sankui hurriedly reached out to help her ass.

But seeing Yu Songyuan looking at him coldly from the side, he hurriedly retracted his hand, smiled wryly, and nodded flatteringly, meaning "I have no other ideas, I just want to help." Yu Songyuan ignored him, jumped into the car first, stretched out his hand to pull Yueyue up, and found a seat for her in the position of the handrail.

Soon, the car was packed with a carload of people.

When arriving at the county seat, Sankui stopped in front of the Guanhe Hotel, which is the most prosperous area of the county, and the whole Hongqi Road is crowded with people, and it is very lively. Sankui said loudly: "Everyone pay attention to the time, gather here on time at twelve o'clock." The train departed at 12:10 and went back for lunch. "He's a team worker, and it's his responsibility to pull everyone back.

Yu Yueyue took Yu Songyuan to pretend to be in the flow of people, walked to the "People's Post Office" first, went in and queued up to withdraw money. Then, for four cents, he bought two popsicles, and the two of them continued to shop around eating popsicles, buying a lot of things and carrying them on their backs. Walking to a large bookstall, Yu Yueyue couldn't walk, and forgot the time while holding the book.

Yu Songyuan likes military books, and he also took a copy of "Biography of Famous Generals of World War II" and flipped through it. He asked Yu Yueyue: "Auntie, what do you see?" Yu Yueyue raised her hand to show him that it was "The History of Chinese Folk Dance". Yu Yueyue put the book down, and Yu Songyuan noticed that under the title of the book, there were four small bold characters written "by Yu Yueyue".

He quickly picked it up and looked at it, and turned to the title page, a large color photo, on which Yu Yueyue stood behind a cluster of plum blossoms, smiling innocently. People are more delicate than flowers, and flowers are integrated with people, which is really beautiful.

"Auntie, this is a book you wrote? Look at your photos, they're so beautiful! He sighed from the bottom of his heart. Yu Yueyue already had tears in her eyes, she just nodded silently and didn't say anything. The two looked at other books again, and before they knew it, the meeting time had already passed, and Yu Yueyue raised her hand to look at her watch, it was broken, and it was already half past twelve.

It was too late to rush back to the meeting point, so Yu Yueyue comforted him and said, "Don't be afraid, buy more things later, and my aunt hired a three-wheeled card to send us." As he spoke, he took out seven cents and three cents and bought the thick copy of "Biography of Famous Generals of World War II" for Yu Songyuan, and the two left.

I was walking with the flow of people, trying to find a place to eat, and someone opened the shelf on the side of the road in front of me. When I got closer, it turned out that three scoundrels had eaten in a small restaurant without giving money, and they were beating people.

It seems that there are two father and daughter in this small shop, and the owner of the shop was pressed to the ground and beaten to death by two little hooligans, and the screams continued. A big man next to him pressed a seventeen or eighteen-year-old girl, and the girl was no more than two years older than Yu Songyuan.

The girl punched, kicked, and cursed. The big man scolded: "If you are not honest anymore, Lao Tzu is not polite to you, don't blame me for beating women." The girl kept struggling, and the big man was angry, so he tied her hands.

The big man took a breath and lit a cigarette and took a long puff. He didn't pay any attention to the girl's scolding, but scolded the middle-aged man who was being beaten: "Lao Qin, you really don't care about." Squeak and squeak when you eat two broken meals, Lao Tzu will come to eat every day in the future, can you pinch my cock hair? ”

Yu Yueyue knew that Yu Songyuan hated people who bullied the weak and feared the hard, and she held his hand tightly, afraid that he would cause trouble in the county. Yu Songyuan wanted to break free, but Yu Yueyue didn't let him, and whispered: "Auntie can't see it, but this is the county seat, and the place is not familiar, and the strong dragon still doesn't suppress the head snake." You can rest assured, there will be someone in charge of the world. ”