Chapter 38: Li Xiangqian's suicide turmoil
After lunch, Dapeng walked into the dormitory, several little carpenters looked at him and smiled, laughing so much that he was a little inexplicable, Zhang Xiaotian had no choice but to say: "Just now Li Xiangqian came to lie on your bunk, he not only admired your violin, but also looked through your diary, none of us looked at it, don't be careful." ”
"The diary is a personal **, it is immoral to peek at other people's diaries, and there is no way for him to peek if he wants to." ”
Although Dapeng said that, his heart was unbalanced, even though he was a true and false educated youth, as if his self-esteem had been hurt. In particular, the diary has a historical record of his first love with Yaqin, as well as an evaluation of Cai Baozhi and Li Dabao, and even a speech of admiration for Li Xiangqian: He is so young, handsome, and simple, he and Yaqin grew up since childhood, and they are also childhood sweethearts, if it were not for the existence of his father, I believe that he and Yaqin must have lived happily?
Only a day later, the news of Li Xiangqian's drinking medicine came from Jiulian. According to legend, in the morning when Li Xiangqian changed into a new costume, he secretly drank a lot of dichlorvos while there was no one at home, and when his sister came home to find him dead.
Others say that Li Xiangqian worked the night shift in the technician team, and suddenly came home and met his father molesting Yaqin, and now Yaqin is pregnant, I don't know whose child it is? Li Xiangqian couldn't think of it before drinking medicine. He did not leave a word or a word, and at the age of twenty-one, he passed away silently with remorse.
This earth-shattering thing made Dapeng restless, and he had no way to know the truth? The only way to do his daily work was to keep accounts, and Wang Yu, the former director of the water conservancy brigade, was the commander-in-chief, and he asked Zhang Dapeng to keep track of the number of blanks in the earthen kiln supervisor. The work in the earthen kiln is very simple but closed, and he doesn't know everything after Yaqin and Xiangqian get married?
In fact, the kiln is a group of two people, a total of six groups of 12 people, each group of one person bulldozer stuffy mud, the other person is 3 o'clock in the morning to start the hand buckle blank, is even three billet buckets, a single person can buckle three pieces, a person every day to buckle the blank to complete 1500 pieces, generally completed at nine o'clock in the morning. At noon, the billet is dried, the billet is dried in the afternoon and the rack is taken, that is, the dried billet is taken to the shed to dry, so that the six groups have to complete 9,000 pieces per day, and the billet can be loaded into the kiln when it is dry, which is really tiring to load the kiln out of the bricks. Now that Dapeng is in charge of the canteen, who can tell him about Yaqin's situation?
Cai Baozhi and Li Dabao's family must have been in chaos? I don't know how much Yaqin was hurt? Will she go to extremes if she can't resist it? Dapeng can't wait to come to the regimental headquarters Lao Chi's house, he is the only old worker who stays at the regimental headquarters, although Yaqin's mother's family and his family are neighbors, and they don't know anything else except those gossip. Dapeng only asked for help from the Chi family and handed over a letter to Yaqin, whether there was a reply or not, it could be regarded as a wholeheartedness.
In the vast helplessness, Dapeng stood in the east of the dormitory again, looking up at the ethereal Jiulian who had been absent for a long time, raised the Xinghai brand violin left by his brother, and started to play it from "White-Haired Girl", followed by "Ma Lanhua Blossom", and then "Motherland, Nanjiang, maybe only those old music can evoke his memories of two years ago." Especially the song "Turning into a Butterfly", he still played so slowly and seriously, as if he was also recalling the past that had happened! It was also a call to Yaqin who was silent in pain! He pulled it over and over again, his mood was like the tide of the sea, but his tears could not be controlled.
Legend has it that Sheng Yaqin miscarried the child back to her parents' home. Li Dabao began to sue Cai Baozhi, the educated youth Wang Zhihe asked Dapeng to solve 20 catties of millet, saying that Li Dacang let him get it, and there was no millet in the canteen, not only Wang Zhihe quarreled with Dapeng, Li Dacang also came to the canteen to make trouble, which shows that Li Dacang will be unscrupulous when he has a foundation in the battalion.
Ten earthen and grass houses were built in the south of Yingbu Road in a month, Cai Baozhi's family moved in, and Li Dacang went home to make trouble, if Yaqin did not return to Jiulian, he would file a complaint. There is also a legend: Yaqin ran to the police station in the middle of the night in Jiulian to report the case, saying that Li Dacang wanted her. Director Wang saw that she was only wearing pants, naked and barefoot, and scolded her a few words. It seems that Li Cannon has a deep foundation and no one can take care of it, and Sheng Yaqin's life is on the verge of death.
Jiulian is the place that Dapeng misses the most, and it is also the place where he lingers and reminisces about the past. Due to the Cultural Revolution movement, the beauty of the green mountains and land was changed, and in the past, instead of simply criticizing the employed workers, after the workers were transferred and decentralized, the educated youth launched an attack on the old cadres. Li Laoyu and Wang Laoyuan, the company commander, were in Dongshan, directing the educated youth and workers to burn bricks, using wheat straw kilns in wasteland. Not only did they arrest two company commanders on the grounds that they were counterrevolutionary, but Instructor Li and Director Fu were also arrested one after another, and the provincial governor's military headquarters set up a hotline and the detention ended with a street after six months. Wang Zhihe asked Dapeng to go to Jiulian and sent 20 catties of soybean oil to Director Fu and Director Wang, saying that Director Wang agreed.
Dapeng walked to Jiulian with oil, and after delivering the oil, he came to the house of the worker Liu Xueyou, and he told everything about Yaqin. Liu Xueyou and his wife were dual-income workers, and they were also sent to the Hongqi Commune in 1969, and now they have returned to the Corps without permission. Liu Xueyou and the Old Summer Palace promised to send a message, it was the Old Summer Palace that went there, and came back to say that Yaqin was sick, and she had tuberculosis, and she had to use penicillin medicine, all of which were obtained by Li Cannon from the military region, and she would not have survived without medicine. The Old Summer Palace called the girl Hua over and asked her to go to Yaqin often, the girl Hua was two years older than Yaqin, and she grew up with her since she was a child, and after knowing the inside story, she agreed to ask.
The young Yaqin was only twenty years old, why was she shrouded in sin? How helpless she was, and now she was sick, it was all Li Cannon and Cai Baozi who were the culprits.
Several girls in the flour mill often come to the canteen to buy food, and they all intend to come to buy it after the meal, because the canteen is the only one in the canteen who is counting the meal tickets, they are happy and teasing. Especially that Song Haixia is a good singer, she is the child of a working worker, a Beijinger, and there is only one old father in the family, and she found a young boyfriend to return to the city and return to Beijing. She and the two old cadres' two Wang girls often come to the canteen, and they also began to pay on credit, because Dapeng put out the arrears board with her name, Miss Wang came to Song Haixia to cry in the dormitory.
Once Dapeng wore a white coat to the flour mill to pick noodles, apologized to Song Haixia in person, several girls like playing with puppets, they pushed him down on the cloth mat, the four girls lifted the cloth and wandered back and forth, so happy that they couldn't close their mouths, and Dapeng's psychology was not only wronged, but also seriously hurt by self-esteem.
Director Wang led more than a dozen leaders of the Forestry Bureau to dine, and only Dapeng served two tables in the canteen. The stove fire is dying, he adds wooden strips of coal to blow the fire at the same time, a stove small pot frying, a stove horse spoon frying, the fire can not reach the spoon to pour soybean oil on the fire, what slipping meat, crispy white meat, slipping tofu puff, mushu meat, grilled elbows, mustard fried shredded meat, vinegar cabbage, fried peanuts, eight dishes on each table to drink, the rest is to burn sea rice and eggs to thicken the soup, and then heat some steamed buns, Dapeng has been sweating.
The stew is not eaten in vain, it is more than 400 miles away from the Forestry Bureau, it is said that Director Wang has drunk with them in the tent of the workers on the mountain, before leaving he put a strip under the bowl, to come to the third camp with the cadres of the forestry farm. After they drove away, the logging team workers found a note under the bowl and ordered: 4,000 square pine trees must be brought down by the river within 24 hours. Fifteen chainsawers worked hard in shifts, and the rest used fast horses. The orders are like a mountain and they are all doing their best.
When Director Wang and the leaders of the Forestry Bureau returned to the forest farm, all the trees along the river were put down. Director Wang has never had such a big temper, he scolded when he opened his mouth, asked the team leader to be tied up, and he had to be investigated for criminal responsibility, and the cadres of the forest farm also helped to intercede. When the forest farm cadres left, he announced that the punishment would be cancelled and that he would spend as usual for a seven-day holiday. Originally, the task of a winter was completed, because the felling forest land is 120 miles away from the riverside, now there is no need to transport it by the river, you can tie a wooden raft on the river ice, wait until the ice is cleared in the spring and then transport the timber back, and the remaining three months let the loggers clear the forest and make more money, which is really a triple win.
Director Wang transferred his sister-in-law to the third battalion and arranged for her to teach in the school. She looks young and beautiful, every time she comes to the canteen to eat, she is very simple, and seems to be deliberately peeking at Dapeng, and that look is always flashing with a strange light, as if there is something hidden in her heart?
Instructor Chen's criticism meeting in the evening is still in full swing, and dozens of people are already fighting in shifts, and the daily meeting will be held until the second half of the night. During the day, when people were not energetic in their work, Instructor Chen walked to the east and the workers in the west rested. This so-called grasping revolution does not promote production, why is there such a big contrast between his and Director Wang's working methods?
The instructor has a high-sounding set of words, and why do you still come to the cafeteria to ask for things, there is no way but bookkeeping, otherwise he will find you trouble. Wang Zhihe, an educated youth, not only wants things, but often drinks with the educated youth of the police station at night, Dapeng also has to send the food to the dormitory, the director of the police station is a Harbin educated youth, it is possible that he drank too much wine that time, he grabbed Dapeng's hand and said: "There is a saying I said to my face, you can't put two eyes and don't hand over four eyes." Dapeng was puzzled, although Dapeng also wore glasses, it is possible that he intended to prompt "stinky tofu", or pointed out, it was Director Jiang who wore glasses in the office, right? Wang Zhihe asked Dapeng to go to Jiulian to send soybean oil to the cadres, and he just took the opportunity to go to Liu Xueyou's house to ask about Yaqin's situation.
"Hua Ying and I have been to her house alone, and she is very sick and only supported by penicillin. She asked me to tell you that the work has been stopped, and even the medical expenses for injections cannot be reimbursed, she is no longer the Yaqin of the past, and she may die at any time, I only hope that you can marry Hua Ying, because they are like sisters, with different tragic pasts, I hope to hear the news of the marriage of the two of you. She finally took my hand and said that as long as you can marry Hua Ying, she will definitely insist on seeing a doctor and living. The Old Summer Palace cried as she spoke.
Dapeng took off his glasses like a nerd, Yaqin seemed to be threatening her life, if she didn't follow her wishes, would something happen? Intentionally or unintentionally, she was burdened with Yaqin's life, what should Dapeng do? Only to ask the Old Summer Palace to meet Sheng Yaqin, saying that it was a response to her threat, but in fact, it was because of responsibility and could not forget the past relationship.
After going through the Old Summer Palace and then going to Yaqin to negotiate, she finally agreed to meet Dapeng at home three days later.
See Chapter 39: Yaqin Meets to Talk About Separation.