Shen Mengxi walked upstairs and found Teacher Zhang in a large room full of small drums and colorful flags.

Teacher Zhang glanced at her when he heard the voice, lowered his head and said while arranging the teaching aids, "You are here." Your mother wants you to learn the flute, I can also teach you the harmonica, erhu, pipa, and the accordion can also make do, oh, accordion Wang Hongmei will too, she is your sister-in-law, right? ”

Shen Mengxi nodded yes.

Mr. Zhang's hair is a little long, half of it has turned white, and there is a scar on his forehead that extends back into his hair, and there is no hair growing in that place. There was a handful of hair standing stubbornly in his ears, and he seemed to be with Luotuo. The highly myopic glasses made his eyes deformed and bulged out. When he took off his glasses and wiped the lenses, his eyes were not in focus, and he looked like a blind man and a child.

Shen Mengxi felt that this was a person with a pure heart, his eyes were pure, his beliefs were firm, even if he had suffered unfair treatment back then, he still persistently dedicated his enthusiasm to the frontier and to the cause of education.

On the second day of Shen Mengxi's fourth class, Teacher Zhang asked her if she had any difficulty writing essays after skipping a grade, and told her that she had already mentioned to Lu Xiuzhi that she had subscribed to publications such as composition guidance for Oriental teenagers and primary school students. She is also often reminded not to be proud, to work harder if she skips a grade, and so on.

Teacher Zhang should have wanted Shen Mengxi to learn the pipa very much, he put on his nails, sat on the chair, and demonstrated a song of mountains and flowing water to Shen Mengxi, he played it very devotedly, not affected by the dance music downstairs at all, and Shen Mengxi also sat on the side and listened carefully.

Mr. Zhang's ten fingers are slender and slightly rough, but the plucking is gentle and powerful.

Mountains and rivers look for soulmates, in this world, wine and meat friends are easy to get, but soul souls are hard to find. Shen Mengxi has been lonely for decades, no one can talk to, no one can communicate, she has recognized that loneliness is a normal state of life.

Teacher Zhang is also lonely.

At the end of the song, Shen Mengxi gave a standing ovation gently.

Teacher Zhang stroked the pipa and said nostalgically: "The one in the past has a better timbre than this one, it's a pity that they smashed it." ”

The voice was very light and faint, as if he was talking about someone else's business, as if it was not his own beloved thing that was smashed.

Shen Mengxi didn't know what to say, and guessed in his heart that he should not only smash the instrument, but also beat him.

"I'll teach you music theory first, and then you decide what you want to learn." Teacher Zhang put down the pipa and picked up the chalk.

Teacher Zhang started with staves and beats, and Shen Mengxi took out the notebook he brought and recorded them one by one.

At the end of class an hour later, Teacher Zhang was very pleased, "Qi Baozhu, you are smarter than I thought, and you can understand a little." But you can't relax, you have to work hard, you know? ”

"Got it, Mr. Zhang." Shen Mengxi suspected that among Teacher Zhang's students, there must be a smart and easily proud student, otherwise why did he always tell her not to relax and not to be complacent.

"Very good, you are a child with Su Hui." Teacher Zhang picked up a canned food bottle from the window table, took a sip of water, and said with a smile, "Go home, it's still this time next week." ”

"Goodbye, teacher!" Shen Mengxi put away the diary and picked up the small satchel.

A little girl knocked lightly at the door, it was actually Yuan Jianxin, a classmate of Yuhong's class, since the first grade, they were not in the same class, but they often met on campus.

She was also surprised when she saw Shen Mengxi, but she just glanced up and down at her new clothes, rolled her eyes, and walked by by mistake.

Shen Mengxi looked back at her, she was holding a cloth bag in her arms, it seemed to be a pipa, it turned out that she was also here to learn musical instruments from Teacher Zhang, Shen Mengxi smiled and went downstairs.

Downstairs, there were more people in the dance hall, and there were many people sitting on the dance floor. The current song is fast three, the rhythm is very good, and the dancers embracing each other in the room are all beaming, turning around the room upside down, making people dizzy.

A large ball on the roof of the shed shone with a strange light, spinning, and illuminating the human face strangely. In the 80s, when cultural life was extremely poor, there was no better way for people who had been suppressed for many years to vent their enthusiasm, Shen Mengxi counted on his fingers, and game consoles, computers, Internet cafes, and square dances appeared one after another.

Qi Weiming was still in the dance hall.

Shen Mengxi walked over and went to Wang Hongmei's side, "Second sister-in-law! ”

I didn't hear it, and I tugged at her again.

"Yo, Orb!" Wang Hongmei said loudly while playing the piano.

"Well, I'm out of class, I'll take Wei Ming to my house for dinner, do you think you will pick him up, or let him go home by himself?"

"Ah, oh, go back by yourself!" Wang Hongmei turned her head left and right to find her son, finished speaking succinctly, and continued to play the accordion happily.

Shen Mengxi beckoned to Qi Weiming and walked towards the door, Qi Weiming reluctantly followed, "What's the matter?" ”

This kid never calls her aunt outside.

"Your mother asked you to come to my house for dinner, let's go quickly!"

Qi Weiming looked back at his mother, Wang Hongmei raised her head at him, Qi Weiming sighed and walked out the door.

In the second week, Shen Mengxi met Yuan Jianxin again, it turned out that she had been learning pipa with Teacher Zhang for half a year, and her progress was quite fast, her pipa was bought by her mother from Shanghai, and she spent all her family savings.

learned from Shang Jing that Yuan Jianxin's father was an educated youth, who was admitted to university in the year she was born and never came back. Her mother has never remarried with her, her mother is very strong, and she is very strict with Yuan Jianxin, although the family conditions are not good, but she also let Yuan Jianxin go to the Yuhong class for other children, and she also let Yuan Jianxin learn musical instruments, she also let Yuan Jianxin learn, to be honest, when she heard that Shen Mengxi skipped a grade, she also had the idea of letting Yuan Jianxin skip a grade.

Shen Mengxi still remembers the incident of half a white flour cake and a black bean bun back then, which shows that Yuan Jianxin's mother has a strong self-esteem and has reached the point of being too mean.

Yuan Jianxin was holding the pipa at all times as if he was protecting his life, Shen Mengxi never thought of touching her instrument, she became a little interested in the erhu and decided to learn the erhu from Teacher Zhang.

Mr. Zhang was a little regretful, but he didn't say anything. Lu Xiuzhi didn't like it very much, she thought of the blind Ah Bing.

Shen Mengxi didn't care, insisted on agreeing with Qi Youheng, and when he went to Harbin to study, he would buy her an erhu.

You have to learn a new instrument.

Wang Hongmei first helped her borrow an erhu, and since then, the neighbors on Binjiang Street have often heard the rattling sound of the Qi family, and they have complained bitterly.

Lu Xiuzhi regretted not being at the beginning and hinted at her daughter a few times, but she was energetic and refused to give up.

In May, daylight saving time was introduced across the country, and the time was set forward by one hour.

It's also good, go to bed early and wake up early to save energy.

When I went to school in the morning, the cleaners were sweeping the streets, and they didn't sprinkle water, sweeping the streets all over the dust, like heavy smog, almost invisible, Shen Mengxi covered his mouth and nose with a handkerchief, and sat on Qi Health's bicycle.

Qi Jianxing has been in a good mood recently, his course at the University of Electrical Engineering is going well, and he even went to Yishi once last month to get together with a few comrades-in-arms. As soon as he returned, the Post and Telecommunications Bureau built a welfare house, saying that it was paid in full according to the cost of the house, and that it would be specially distributed to young workers, and that the property rights would belong to individuals after five years. The whole situation is sensational, and every day it is discussed whose years of service are and whose qualifications are enough.

The house was built as soon as it was seen, it was made of bricks and concrete, a big ship pulled red bricks, and all classes above the fourth grade of the first and second primary schools went to work and study to move bricks to the dock. Because Shen Mengxi was too young, Teacher Zhang specially approved that she could not participate, but she had to pay a work-study tuition fee of two yuan and five jiao, and Lu Xiuzhi paid the money immediately with great gratitude.

In this work-study program, several students suffered minor injuries, all of them wore out their fingers and smashed their toes, and a sixth-grade boy fell from the gangplank into the river, and his dog came up with a few gouges and laughs, and none of the parents were dissatisfied or complained about it.

The post and telecommunications bureau's housing division plan came out, and although Qi's health care service was short, he had military merits and bonus points, and he was also assigned a household.

The house is very close to the river, it is two three-story buildings before and after, listen to the description of Qi health care, it is a tube building, about 30 square meters, of course, it is a real use area, not including what stairs, public stalls, young couples with a child is enough.

Qi Health's house is on the third floor of the south building, the third household from the west, not the head, not particularly in the middle, the south building does not blow the northwest wind directly in winter, with his qualifications assigned to this house, it must be taken care of by the leaders of the Post and Telecommunications Bureau. Someone in the post and telecommunications bureau said strange things behind their backs, but fortunately, in the end, no one fought in person, and the Qi family only didn't know.

Lu Xiuzhi was the happiest, and secretly went through the more outstanding young girls in various units in the county one by one in her heart.