Wang Ping'an's side.

After getting into the taxi, the driver opened the conversation: "You are a soldier, right?" And this gait that is obviously not adapted to the ground, you are the Space Force, right? Why did you get off vacation? ”

Wang Ping'an: "Is it so easy to see?" ”

The master laughed: "Hey, I've been driving a taxi for almost thirty years, and I still can't see it?" I didn't make any achievements during the war, but after the war, I was assigned to the taxi department, and I have been driving until now.

"It's boring, so we're going to practice watching people. I also signed up for a class to learn how to look at people, and I originally wanted to study psychology. ”

Wang Ping'an: "Registering for class? ”

"Yes, this is the welfare of the unit, which is called providing workers with conditions for self-improvement. If you don't provide us with this class, it will be troublesome for the unit to be evaluated. So when you go to the Workers' Cultural Palace, you used to only be able to watch a movie, but now, hey, it's like the Children's Palace, all kinds of classes!

"But many of our old workers would rather play cards than enrich themselves. Oh, don't mention, recently I have an old co-worker Lao Yang, who was despised by his daughter, and came to register for work as soon as he was ruthless, and now when I meet him at dinner, he talks to me about astrophysics, and his girl is studying astrophysics. ”

Wang Ping'an: "The Workers' Cultural Palace still teaches astrophysics? ”

"Teaching, as well as psychology, I studied it over there, and I have completed three periods, so I can see that people are accurate. He is a space force, and he went out in civilian clothes today, and he went to a veterans' party or something like that, preparing to have a good drink, and he didn't want the inspectors and gendarmes to catch him. ”

Wang Ping'an: "Almost, class reunion." ”

"Look, I guessed right, right? Also, I can tell from your face that you don't want to go. ”

Wang Ping'an touched his face: "So obvious? ”

"Haha, fooled, right? This is called a preset question, and fortune tellers used this hand in the past. ”

"This is also taught by the Workers' Cultural Palace?"

"yes. Hey, we, sooner or later, we will have to be replaced by computers, most of the taxis are gone, and computers drive better than us. Even now, if you see me holding the steering wheel, it's actually the computer that's on, and we're nominally responsible for emergency response.

"But you see, there are probably still many emergencies in space, and where on earth we have so many emergencies, I've been driving for thirty years, and I've had two encounters, and most of the time my responsibility is to talk to the passengers.

"Let's talk about you, you were tricked out by me just now, what, don't you want to go to the class reunion? Is there someone you don't deal with better than you? ”

Wang Ping'an: "Not really. I didn't have any enemies in middle school. But it's true that the mix is not as good as it should be. ”

"You were the top student in your class when you were in high school, right? The Space Force is not something that cannot be entered by a scholar. Now it's not as good as it should be, and there is a gap? ”

"Sort of."

"I should have told you that revolutionary work is not a brick in the building. But the general truth is one thing, and the feelings of the individual's psychology are another. My advice is, go and drink more, and you won't think about it when you're dizzy. ”

Wang Ping'an nodded: "Got it." Actually, I don't want to go so much, I still want to see what everyone is like back then. ”

"What, there's a little girl you can't forget?" The driver quipped.

"Nope." For a moment, Xiao Fang's figure appeared in Wang Ping'an's mind.

"I think there is!" The driver's master said in a conclusive tone, "That expression just now, that's it." The first time I was emotionally memorable, during the Great War, I had a very good relationship with the hygienist of our company, and she carried me back from the pile of dead men several times. ”

The driver's eyes looked ahead with some nostalgia.

"At that time, the supply during the war was not very good, after all, it was to that extent, and the supplies sent to the front line were all of uniform specifications, and girls also had to wear men's military uniforms and men's underwear. Her military uniform always didn't fit and looked baggy, and because she couldn't keep braids in wartime, she always had a hedgehog-like unkempt hair.

"I have the impression that she always talks like a man, and she will scold us when she is bandaging, 'Isn't it just painful, bear with it, morphine should be used for the seriously injured'.

"I had a good relationship with her, and I remember very clearly that it was the year when the war was at its most intense, and we fought on the front line for 41 days, and finally we were dismantled and repaired, and we were treated with a lot of flour.

Then she ran to the secretary and asked for two noodle pockets, changed her skirt and put them on. There was a meadow next to the manicured station, and it was spring, and the grass was full of wild flowers that she couldn't name, and she danced on the lawn.

"That's when I learned that she had studied ballet before the war. She could have danced to the music of the symphony orchestra on the big stage covered with the red carpet, but now she was dancing in the mud, with only the crickets accompanying her, and the fluttering skirt was changed from two face pockets. ”

Wang Ping'an suddenly answered: "The net weight of thirty kilograms is still written on the noodle pocket, right?" ”

The driver laughed.

After laughing, he returned to the nostalgic and fascinated expression he had just now: "But all of us, the remaining thirty or so brothers of our company, just sat there and watched her dance.

"I went to see ballet after the war, and I have to admit one thing, I really don't appreciate this fine art. But at that time, I thought I could understand. Later, she told me what kind of big goose lake she was dancing at that time. ”

Wang Ping'an: "Swan Lake, the work of Soviet artists. ”

"Yes, yes, that's it. We were all stunned, and for a moment, I even thought I could smell the scent of wildflowers. I studied psychology, I know it's called the empathy effect, and with my current knowledge of psychology, I think it was at that time that I fell in love with her.

"For me, that's a precious first love."

Wang Ping'an: "What about later?" She died? ”

"Nope. We all lived peacefully to victory. When we were about to win, I always felt like there was only a layer of paper between us, but neither of us could break it. Maybe it's afraid that after being pierced, he will be sacrificed, leaving another person to suffer.

"Soon after the war, we were demobilized and returned home. At that time, manpower was needed everywhere to rebuild, and I joined the bandwagon. We weren't the dispensable profession of renting at that time, we were glorious transport workers, the arteries of recovery!

"At work, I got to know my current sweetheart. Clean, pretty, with a warm smile, not at all comparable to that wild boy, I was immediately captured by Gentle Township.

"At that time, I felt that I should say goodbye to my unstarted battlefield romance. But I didn't expect that for so many years, she has been haunting me, and whenever I quarrel with my lover, I will think of the dance of her face pocket in the mud full of wild flowers. ”

The driver paused, and then said, "That's right! At that time, she had braids, because we had been fighting on the front line for more than 40 days, and we had been stationed on the front line until then, and we had contact with the enemy every day, and she should have saved up a small braid at that time, like a pig's tail.

She tied two bows in her braids with the straps that tied her face pockets. It was the most beautiful scene I've ever seen in my life. ”

Wang Ping'an was immersed in the empathy with the driver.

The driver suddenly smiled: "You are very emotional, I know by looking at your expression that you have brought yourself into the situation." Do you often cry when you watch movies or something? ”

Wang Ping'an smiled awkwardly.

"It's a good thing to be emotional, my lover - my current lover, she never cries when she watches movies and TV series, she always thinks it's in the story."

Wang Ping'an asked: "Do you think your war lover is the kind who will cry when watching movies?" ”

"Of course, she studied ballet! She told me about the Big Goose Lake...... When I told the story of Swan Lake, I looked like I was about to cry.

"By the way, what are we pulling into this?"

"I'm saying I must be missing a little girl from high school."

"Oh yes! It's normal, I've studied psychology, people, it's going to glorify things that you once had, but now you can't pursue anymore. Just like I now recall the noodle pocket dance of that day, it must have beautified a lot of places. Probably the truth was that it was a muddy field, and there were no wild flowers, and she jumped and fell.

"It's the same with her in your high school, and now that you see her again, the filter in your memory is shattered, and you will find that she has more wrinkles, uneven concealer coverage, and a bit thick waist. Although your generation has been genetically adjusted, you will still be fat. ”

Wang Ping'an smiled wryly.

What if I could see her again, even if the filter was broken? It's stronger than it is now.

The driver: "Okay, it's time to get to the place, let's have fun!" Remember, if you're really depressed, drink alcohol! It's all in the wine! ”

Wang Ping'an nodded: "Thank you." ”

With that, he opened the door and got out of the car.

As soon as he got out of the car, he heard the voice of the squad leader: "Yo, isn't this our scourge!" You're here! I haven't seen you in 12 years! It's a whole Jiazi! ”

Wang Ping'an: "One Jiazi is sixty years. ”

"Oh, you're right in pointing out other people's mistakes!" Saying that, the squad leader came over and hugged Wang Ping'an's shoulder, "Let's go, in fact, in order to give you a little surprise, we have gathered in advance, just waiting for you, the protagonist!" ”

(End of chapter)