"Comrade, what's wrong with you?" A small-eyed female intellectual, who was walking out with a basin of water, saw Ji Yuanhai standing at the entrance of the team department.

"Hello comrade, I'll look for Lu Heling."

Ji Yuanhai said.

The female intellectuals were stunned for a moment and glanced at Ji Yuanhai.

"Are you looking for Lu Heling?"

Ji Yuanhai nodded.

The small-eyed female intellectuals nodded, turned her head and shouted to the house: "Lu Heling, someone is looking for you!" ”

After a while, a pale-faced woman slowly walked out and saw Ji Yuanhai.

"Hello."

She said, and then didn't speak, just looked at Ji Yuanhai like this, and didn't ask him what he was doing.

Although he looked at the sea of Ji Yuanhai with two eyes, he didn't have any focus, it was no different from looking at a wall and being distracted.

This appearance made Ji Yuanhai feel tricky when he saw it.

Although they have worked in the fields together, they can barely be regarded as acquaintances, but they don't even want to speak, how should they convince her?

How should I start my speech?

After hesitating for a moment, Ji Yuanhai hadn't opened his mouth yet, and Lu Heling was also stunned, the two of them were like two pieces of wood, and they were relatively speechless for a while.

After a few seconds, Ji Yuanhai smiled: "It's not a way to stand, let's go?" ”

Lu Heling didn't seem to hear it.

Ji Yuanhai had no choice but to repeat again: "I said, let's go, I have something to tell you." ”

Lu Heling finally had a slight change in expression.

"Why?"

"I have something to tell you." The Anno Sea repeats again.

Lu Heling was like a stuck machine, and it only reacted after a pause.

Because of Ji Yuanhai's insistence, she finally didn't ask any more questions and followed Ji Yuanhai to leave the team site.

The two walked slowly along the loess road in the countryside, and Ji Yuanhai was also organizing language in his heart - he couldn't just say things like "Your parents are dead", "I want to marry you", "Don't commit suicide......

Let's take a detour and start with other aspects.

"Lu Heling, where are you from?"

Lu Heling looked at Ji Yuanhai, as if trying to think about what he meant by this.

After two seconds, he said, "Provincial capital." ”

"You're from the provincial city? The provincial capital is a big city, so it should be very prosperous, right? Ji Yuanhai asked.

Lu Heling was distracted again and didn't answer Ji Yuanhai's words.

She looked at an elm tree on the side of the road and stopped.

Ji Yuanhai turned his head to see that it was an elm tree that had been stripped of a large piece of its skin.

The rough bark resembles a large patch of black fish scales that have been dried in the sun.

The bark has been stripped of the tree, and the inner part is yellowish.

"It's all like this, can it still live?"

Lu Heling reached out and touched the scarred elm tree and asked softly.

Ji Yuanhai turned his head and looked at her with a focused expression.

"It's still alive." Ji Yuanhai said, motioning for Lu Heling to look up overhead, the green elm leaves stretched overhead, densely intertwined into a shadow.

Lu Heling's eyes were slightly red, and her fingers touched the yellowing of the elm tree.

The place where the bark was cut off is like a wound after humiliation, and it will never heal.

"It's all like this, why does it have to live?"

Lu Heling asked softly again.

Ji Yuanhai immediately said: "Because it makes sense to live." ”

Lu Heling immediately turned her head, and her voice raised slightly: "What is the meaning?" ”

"The meaning is to live, to continue, to multiply; It's to heal the pain and usher in a better tomorrow......" Ji Yuanhai said immediately.

Tears welled up in Lu Heling's eyes, and she reached out and patted the place where the elm tree was peeled: "It's all like this, are you still alive?" ”

"Is it still alive?"

"Look at this elm, it was supposed to be whole, but now how ugly it is!"

"I want it to live, and it can survive." Ji Yuanhai said in a deep tone, "It's still very good. ”

Lu Heling suddenly calmed down, she wiped her tears, and looked at Ji Yuanhai in surprise.

Only then did she realize that what she said should not be answered by ordinary farmers; Even if it is, it must be a rough country language, not words such as "survival", "meaning" and "multiplication......

Even Lu Heling can be sure that few of the other seven educated youths who came to the Xiaoshantun production team with him should be able to talk to him so quickly and talk about these issues.

Because now they don't study anymore, they don't like to read like Lu Heling, and occasionally take time to think about the stories and knowledge in their minds.

So, there is a certain degree of cultural knowledge in this era?

"You went to high school?" Lu Heling took the initiative to ask Ji Yuanhai for the first time about him.

"Nope." Ji Yuanhai replied.

"Went to junior high school?" Lu Heling asked again.

"No, there isn't. After graduating from elementary school, I barely knew how to read. ”

Lu Heling looked at him, feeling that he was lying to himself.

What Ji Yuanhai said is not something that a person who graduated from elementary school can say at all, he must have cultural knowledge.

"You've just said so much...... It's not like elementary school culture. ”

"I am a primary school culture, and the Xiaoshantun production team knows it." Ji Yuanhai said.

"What other books have you read?" Lu Heling asked again.

"No, I graduated from elementary school and haven't read any books." Ji Yuanhai said.

Lu Heling stared at Ji Yuanhai again, and said in her heart that he was really lying to me.

I don't want to talk to him anymore.

"I'm leaving." Lu Heling said.

"Don't you talk about elms anymore?" Ji Yuanhai asked.

Lu Heling stopped: "What else does Elm have to say?" Being hurt like this is just living, what's the point? ”

"It still makes sense." Ji Yuanhai said, "Tell you a secret that you educated youth don't know, do you want to hear it?" ”

Lu Heling's heart was like ashes, but at this moment, she was inevitably a little curious.

"What's the secret?"

"There's a secret about the elm tree." Ji Yuanhai pointed to the wound of the elm tree, "Do you know where the bark goes?" ”

"Where?"

"We ate it." Ji Yuanhai said.

Lu Heling was taken aback: "Eating tree bark? ”

"Impossible! Every household at least has a nest of sweet potatoes to eat, and it is not to starve to death, how can they eat tree bark? ”

"Because elm bark is delicious." Ji Yuanhai laughed, "You think we're hungry?" Or do you have nothing to do and destroy the trees? No, elm bark is indeed edible, and it is better than sweet potato wotou. ”

"In the spring, we cut the bark that can be used, and in the future, we will grind it into flour and make it into a nest, which tastes really good."

Lu Heling blinked a little when she heard this: "It's really delicious?" ”

"If you want to say that it's really delicious, it doesn't count, it's just a change of taste, it's better than bad sweet potatoes that are disgusting and bitter in the mouth." Ji Yuanhai said.

"Then why don't we educated youths know?" Lu Heling asked again.

Ji Yuanhai replied very practically: "It's useless for you to work, you don't have a light or heavy hand, what should you do if you strip the elm tree of our small mountain to death?" ”

Lu Heling was a little embarrassed - this is really a common problem of educated youth.

"So, the elm tree is still useful and meaningful." Ji Yuanhai touched the elm tree and looked at Lu Heling, "You are the same." ”

"Don't think about it too much, okay?"