Chapter 14: Happiness Falls from the Sky
Liu Shuanglin's love was severed, which made the relationship between Li Yaling and Zhang Weiping from the initial hazy to gradually clear.
Zhang Weiping knew the relationship between Li Yaling and Liu Shuanglin before, when he was not the first director, but only the commander of the militia company. At that time, Li Yaling had not yet entered Zhang Weiping's heart, to put it bluntly, Zhang Weiping two years ago was still a child who had not grown up. Including Li Yaling went to Liu Shuanglin's army alone, of course, when she went, no one told her, including her father Li Zhishu. After Li Yaling returned home, she fell seriously ill, lying on the kang without eating or drinking, and her self-esteem was unprecedentedly traumatized. Her injuries had not yet healed, and Liu Shuanglin's letter from the army revealed the mystery. In his letter to his parents, Liu Shuanglin proudly and proudly recounted the process of Li Yaling's coming to the army, he was looking for a psychological balance, Liu Shuanglin can be said to have lost face in front of Li Zhishu, and now he has made up for it. In those days, Liu Shuanglin's parents had never been so proud, they held up their son's letter from the army, and they talked about it when they met people, and those who were literate would read the letter twice with relish. In short, Liu Shuanglin and his parents are showing people a truth, that is, Li Zhishu's daughter Li Yaling wants to marry Liu Shuanglin in a hurry, but Liu Shuanglin doesn't want it, Li Yaling can only come back in disgrace.
Such news blew in the ears of everyone in the Fangmagou Brigade like a gust of wind. Li Zhishu was greatly humiliated, and he couldn't say anything, after all, his daughter who was not angry did such a shameful thing, he could only swallow the anger into his stomach, and then it came out of his mouth again. In those days, Li Zhishu's mouth was covered with fire blisters, and Li Yaling, who was lying on the kang, was also a mouth of fire blisters, and she was holding her breath like her father. Li Zhishu couldn't get angry at outsiders, so he could only sprinkle the fire on Li Yaling's body when he returned home.
Li Zhishu sat cross-legged on his own kang, and said while drinking: Mom, it's a shame. It's not good who you want to marry, but you want to marry the one surnamed Liu. What is he? Isn't it just a pie falling from the sky for him to hold in his mouth, what's so great about a small broken platoon leader, I was the branch secretary when I was "social education", what kind of thing is that kid surnamed Liu.
Li Zhishu proposed to resign from the post of branch secretary around the time of this incident. Zhang Weiping left and immediately became the first director of the brigade. The branch secretary and the director are just a change of name, in fact, the power exercised is the same, Zhang Weiping stood out at this time, replacing Li Zhishu, who has been the branch secretary for decades.
There is always a time for the wound to heal, and Li Yaling soon returned to her position as a barefoot doctor. She seems to have changed all of a sudden, Li Yaling, who used to love to talk and laugh, is cheerful and lively, but now she has become full of worries, she is colder to people and things than before, she hides her thoughts, on the surface, she looks very arrogant.
It was at this time that Li Yaling walked into Zhang Weiping's heart. Since Zhang Weiping became the *** director, he has suddenly become mature, and he began to secretly pay attention to the women around him. He took a fancy to the changed Li Yaling at a glance. Li Yaling stands out among rural girls, and it is purely normal to walk into Zhang Weiping's heart. Regarding the rumors about Li Yaling and Liu Shuanglin in the village, Zhang Weiping didn't take it to heart at all, it was just a small episode.
With the passage of time, Zhang Weiping is also entering Li Yaling's heart bit by bit, and the only thing she can't let go of is that Zhang Weiping has always vowed to take root in the countryside for a lifetime. Liu Shuanglin was reluctant to leave, which she never expected. After all, the truth is cold, she quickly sobered up in the face of this kind of blow, she secretly swore that she must surpass Liu Shuanglin in the future, rely on her own efforts to live in the city, and live better than Liu Shuanglin, only in this way can the evil breath that is suffocated in her heart be released. Zhang Weiping in front of him is undoubtedly better than Liu Shuanglin, if Zhang Weiping can go back to the city, she can find any kind of job, her husband and wife are honored, and she will raise her eyebrows at that time. But what Li Yaling couldn't understand was that Zhang Weiping was determined to take root in the countryside for the rest of his life, which Li Yaling couldn't understand no matter what.
Now Li Zhishu has regarded Zhang Weiping as a guest at home, Li Zhishu is old, and now after drinking a few sips of wine, he will start to feel nostalgic.
On this day, after Li Zhishu and Zhang Weiping drank a few glasses of wine, Li Zhishu said: Your father, Deputy Commander Zhang, we were bare-hearted friends when we were children, and your father was only thirteen years old when he joined the Anti-Japanese Federation.
Zhang Weiping said: Old branch secretary, let's not talk about him, drink.
Li Zhishu also said: Your father is really a character, one winter I went to the old forest to deliver food to the Anti-Japanese Federation, and it was not easy to see your father running barefoot in the snow with the team.
Zhang Weiping said again: Don't mention the past.
Li Zhishu's eyes were already hazy: How can you not mention it, your father's life is big, the Anti-Japanese Federation has sacrificed so many people, your father has survived, and he has fulfilled the old saying, if you don't die in a big disaster, there will be a blessing after the disaster, what's the matter? He's a deputy commander now, right? That's under one man, above ten thousand, right...... When you go home next time, bring two bags of sorghum rice to your father, and say that I gave it to him, your father must still remember me, we are bare friends when we are young.
Li Zhishu talked for a long time, and when he saw Li Yaling on the side, the topic changed. He said: Girl, you and Wei Ping are good, Dad raised his hands in approval, dragons give birth to dragons and phoenixes, and the son of a mouse will make holes. The cadres of our major teams in the commune, Wei Ping, you are the youngest, if you don't take root, you will definitely be able to become a county magistrate or a provincial governor in the future, if you don't run! You believe me.
Zhang Weiping listened to the words of the former branch secretary, and suddenly felt proud in his heart, but he didn't say it, just said: Old branch secretary, let's not talk about this.
In Zhang Weiping's heart, he has already depicted the blueprint for the future, the vast world has a lot to do, he wants to continue to act, when he was sixteen years old, he failed to go to Vietnam to participate in the war, and now he is twenty years old but he has become the party and government leader of the Fangmagou Brigade by mistake, he has a kind of global mind at this time, he wants to take root in this fertile soil, let it take root, blossom, and bear fruit. He doesn't want his father to look down on him, without his father he can still live a very ideal life, if one day, he becomes the secretary of the county party committee and walks to his father's side, what kind of scene will it be. He was thrilled by his ambitions. Zhang Weiping has been looking for an opportunity to work hard, and he is not willing to work like this forever in the Fangmagou Brigade.
Just when he was thinking about the opportunity, this is when the opportunity really came. The county gave the commune two indicators for going to university, and these two college students went to the provincial college of traditional Chinese medicine, where they went to study and after graduation, they could justifiably become a doctor, what a glorious job it is to save lives and help the wounded.
This indicator was studied by the commune and decided to give up the quota to Zhang Weiping. Zhang Weiping is a rooted youth, and he has long been a typical example of the whole commune. In addition, he is young and educated, and his father is the deputy commander of the military district. Although his father did not say hello to the local parents when Zhang Weiping returned to his hometown, Zhang Weiping's existence is obvious to everyone. Deputy Commander Zhang is not only the deputy commander of the military region, but he is also a member of the Standing Committee of the provincial party committee. It's an invisible tree, invisible or tangible, but it really exists.
When the leaders of the commune found Zhang Weiping and talked, Zhang Weiping didn't even think about it and said: This indicator should be given to our brigade, but I can't go myself, let's let the intellectual youth with ideals go, doctors are trained for our own commune, anyway, I am a foreigner, I am afraid that the impact will not be good.
Zhang Weiping is now very mature, and he knows how to artistically express the thoughts in his heart. He said that half of these words were true, and the other half was for people to hear. He was not interested in this kind of worker, peasant and soldier college student, and if he wanted to go back to the city, he could go back anytime and anywhere, and he didn't need to go to school. Besides, he didn't want to go to school, and if he gave up his place to someone else at this time, it would undoubtedly be a gold sticker in his young political career. He had already thought that after this quota was in hand, he would let Li Yaling go to this school.
When the leaders of the commune saw that Zhang Weiping was so sincere, they quickly agreed to his idea. In July of that year, Zhang Weiping walked on the country road with a college student recommendation form in his arms. At this time, the sun was slanting westward, shining on Zhang Weiping's body in full swing, and his mood was like a crop in the countryside, growing strongly. He saw his own future, and he also saw Li Yaling's future. He firmly believes that his life can change at any time, and he also hopes that his lover will change. Li Yaling can't be a barefoot doctor for the rest of her life, she has to develop, so that such lovers can fly together. Not only does she have to improve, but Li Yaling also makes progress at the same time, and such a day is happy.
When Zhang Weiping returned to the brigade, it was already evening, and he saw Li Yaling who was about to get off work. Li Yaling also saw him, and the two looked at each other.
Zhang Weiping couldn't hide his joy, he waved his hand and said: Yaling, tell you good news.
The two of them entered the office of the brigade with their feet in front of their feet, Zhang Weiping couldn't wait to take out the admission recommendation form from his arms, put it in front of Li Yaling, and said: Look, what is this?
Li Yaling didn't react at first, she glanced at the recommendation form in shock, and then at Zhang Weiping. Zhang Weiping said: This is for you.
For me? Li Yaling couldn't believe her ears. She knows what going to school means to her! Before they first started to go to school, they were all talking about training college students for the workers, peasants and soldiers, but when they graduated, almost none of these college students returned to the countryside, and they became state cadres in the cities. She never dreamed that such an opportunity would be hers.
At that time, she hugged Zhang Weiping all of a sudden, lowered her voice and said: Weiping, is this watch really for me? Her eyes glistened with excitement.
Zhang Weiping immediately hugged her in his arms, and said while kissing her: Really, well, it's really for you.
He smelled the woman's body fragrance emanating from Li Yaling's body that evening, this smell made Zhang Weiping fascinated for a while, he loved the woman in front of him too much, if Li Yaling proposed any conditions at this time, he would meet her. He couldn't tell what attracted Li Yaling to him, he couldn't tell the reason, anyway, he was fascinated by Li Yaling. Love can make people lose their minds. That night, the two embraced each other for a long time, and they both forgot the time and place.
Li Yaling said over and over again: I'm really going to college, I'm going to college.
Zhang Weiping said: After graduating from university, you will be a real doctor, sitting in the hospital to treat people.
Li Yaling said like a dream: I'm going to enter the city.
Zhang Weiping said: It is not easy for the whole commune to have two places, and our commune needs doctors.
Li Yaling said: I'm going to the city.
At this time, Li Yaling had only one thought in her mind, and that was to enter the city.
In the following days, Li Yaling was simply a different person, she smiled when she saw people, and her personality became as cheerful as before. She was saying goodbye to everything in Fangmagou with a happy mood, including Zhang Weiping, of course.
When she went to the commune to hand in the admission recommendation form, she learned that the quota for her school should have belonged to Zhang Weiping, and Zhang Weiping's idea of taking root in the countryside had not changed, so he gave her this place. At this time, she was grateful to Zhang Weiping from the bottom of her heart, that is to say, without Zhang Weiping, she would not be where she is today. From gratitude, the impulse of love arises.
In the days when they were about to leave the Open Magou Brigade, Li Yaling and Zhang Weiping had frequent trysts on the hillside at night, by the river, and under the bridge. The two people talked lyrically about the ideals of life.
They sat on the grass by the river, with the murmuring of the river in front of them, the stars in the sky reflected in the water, and the murmuring of unknown insects in the surrounding grass. The eyes of the two people looked at each other from far and near.
She was still asking him: Do you really want to stay in the countryside for the rest of your life?
He replied: Good men have ambitions in all directions, I don't want to stay in the city, go to work, what's the point of doing that little thing every day?
She said: You have been in the countryside for a short time, and it will be boring if you have been in the countryside for a long time.
He said: No, my ideal is in the vast world, and I like this unfettered life. I can't be a hero, so I need to be free, the freedom to be able to embody my self-worth.
"You can also find freedom and value when you go back to the city," she said.
He said: That's different, I like this vast world, and the countryside needs young people like me.
The two stopped talking, and at that time they didn't realize that from the beginning, they were cars running on two roads, one wanted to go to the city, and the other wanted to take root in the countryside for the rest of their lives. In the days of separation, they were overshadowed by a sense of imminent separation, and neither of them was aware of the bottomless rift between them.
He thought: although she is in school, Kegen is still in the countryside, the commune needs a doctor, and she will become a real doctor after graduation, wearing a white coat, sitting in the hospital, saving the lives of the peasants. What a beautiful scene it was. However, their love is also destined to be romantic. Zhang Weiping yearns for the kind of love between Paul and Tonia - hazy and beautiful.
She thought: She likes Zhang Weiping sitting next to her, and the only thing she can't bear is that he wants to take root in the countryside. But all these thoughts are temporary, one day Zhang Weiping will change his mind, will smile and wave goodbye to the countryside, and then go to the city to find her. At that time, she may have been a doctor in the city hospital, and when she and Zhang Weiping were combined, it would be Zhang Weiping's life. She not only likes Zhang Weiping, but also likes Zhang Weiping's family, if she really marries Zhang Weiping in the future, then she will be a member of the high-level family, in and out, what a beautiful thing it will be.
The two of them had the illusion that they were the most suitable person for them, and there was no reason why they should not love each other on those wonderful nights. They hugged and kissed, and they hated not being able to be one. The imminent separation was affecting them, and they were both loving each other with a sense of farewell.
That night, it was late, and they had to separate. He sent her home, he didn't use a flashlight, and that night was very good, the whole village street was quiet, the villagers had already slept after a hard day's work, and the dogs had also slept. When he arrived at her door, he stopped and said to her, "Go back." She didn't move, she stood there, looking at him watery.
She said, "When I'm gone, I'll miss you."
He said, "Me too."
There the two men were standing, and they were looking at each other very closely.
Li Zhishu's dog heard the movement, heard the sound of the owner coming back, and came out to greet him sleepily, it was already very familiar with Zhang Weiping, and almost regarded him as his own family. It stood there without screaming or making noise, quietly looking at its two relatives.
He said, "Go in, go to bed early, get ready tomorrow, and you will leave the day after tomorrow."
After saying that, he made a gesture of walking, but did not walk. She didn't move, still looking at him so watery.
After a while, she said, "I'll send you."
The two of them didn't speak, and she accompanied him on the road leading to the brigade headquarters again, and both of them felt that the road under their feet was much shorter than usual.
He pushed open the door of the brigade headquarters and stood at the door, she stood outside the door, and the two of them looked at each other so reluctantly.
He said: I'm here, I don't worry about you going back alone, I'll send you.
At this time, she didn't speak, her upper lip bit her lower lip, suddenly, she hugged him, she trembled, the two of them entered the house, she said as if she was afraid of the cold: Wei Ping, let me stay here tonight.
The two kissed together again. The two of them hugged each other like that, and I don't know how long it took, their bodies fell to the kang beside them.
She panted and said: Wei Ping, I won't leave tonight, I'm your person, you just want me.
She began to undress, and he sat there with his mouth wide open and looked at her wistfully.
She stripped naked, pulled over the quilt, and lay there.
She said, "I'm your man tonight."
He sat there, not knowing for a moment where he was.
She sincerely wanted to dedicate her first time to her lover, and in return for love, she felt very happy to give her first time for him.
He loved her, the simplicity and purity of her peasant girl, and her fiery, and his love was with many dreams and ideals, and he was destined to pay for his love. At this time, he felt that his actions were holy, and there was an aura that could not be touched but could be seen shining in front of him. At this time, his love for her had transcended the physical body and entered the realm of the soul.
He hugged her through the covers.
He said: Yaling, I love you, I really love you. Let's just sit there until dawn.
She gradually calmed down in his arms, and she pushed him away and began to get dressed. At the same time, her tears welled up, and she didn't know why she was crying. At this time, her heart was very calm and gentle, and she was really moved by Zhang Weiping's love.
After getting dressed, she hugged him again. They have no words, only a silent gaze. In this perpetual gaze, they ushered in the dawn. It was dawn and the sun was rising in the east. Only then did they leave each other.
She cut her hair and said, "I'm leaving tomorrow."
He said, "When the time comes, I will go and see you off."
The next morning, she said goodbye to him with her luggage and bag. There is a long-distance bus stop at the entrance of the brigade department, and they stand at the intersection waiting for the morning bus to arrive, and then she has to go to the county to take the train to the provincial capital.
Her mood has calmed down at this time, and she is about to say goodbye to the countryside where she was born and raised, and go to the city to live and study. For the first few days, she was excited and excited, a wish she had always dreamed of. Her wish to go to the city finally came true, and she not only entered the city, but also a college student at the Provincial College of Traditional Chinese Medicine. She was glad that she and Liu Shuanglin ended in that way, if she hadn't ended with Liu Shuanglin, maybe there would not have been today's result. In just a few months, everything has changed dramatically. At this moment, she believed in fate, and there were others, and in just a few months, she seemed to understand many things, which were summed up in one sentence, that is, everything must be forward.
The long bus arrived covered in dust, and in a few minutes, she was about to leave the land for real.
He said, "When I arrived at the school, I wrote to him."
She said, "I will write to you every day."
He said, "I'll go to see you at school."
She said, "I'll be waiting for you at school."
The long-distance bus stopped, she got into the car and waved, and the car drove off. He watched the dust go away, and he didn't go back until the car was out of sight and the dust had cleared.
They are sad and sweet, respectively. With such a mood, he was waiting for the news after Li Yaling entered the city.
Not long after Li Yaling left, Zhang Weiping was once again recognized by the county as a typical example of taking root in the countryside. He put aside the university and gave up the quota to others, and he really wanted to take root in the countryside for the rest of his life.
The commendation meeting was held in the county, and soon after he returned to Fangmagou, the county party committee made a decision to appoint Zhang Weiping as the deputy director of the commune. The whole county was in a sensation, and Zhang Weiping was the youngest cadre at the commune level in history.
At that moment, Zhang Weiping seemed to see the ideal light buried in his heart, and it was ignited with a "Teng" sound.