Chapter 90. Chinese New Year's Eve
I admit to myself, not a fool. Among the junior masters of my generation, I am also considered to be an outstanding category. In life, I know how to take good care of myself, and properly avoid danger, theoretically speaking, my survival ability should be stronger than many people, at least when I encounter ghosts, I will not be the first person to braid.
But emotionally, I'm very sluggish. I've always blamed this sluggishness on the fact that I have too little contact with women and too few people. In other words, if I were in a pile of women, maybe I would also be a master of love.
Because of this, when Aunt Xu's ill-intentioned smile and the sentence that this girl likes you, suddenly made me understand a lot of things. People are like this, after being influenced by other people's prompts, many things are treated from a different angle. I suddenly realized that Meng Dongxue's concern for me, and even scolding, was it because she liked me? If she really likes me, then why did she always smile and not care at all when I tried to please me a few days ago?
So I stammered to Aunt Xu that it was because she didn't care much about me that I couldn't wait to take over Captain Li's matter, so that I could take this opportunity to go out and hide for a few days, because every day at home, I couldn't avoid the encounter, but the situation was embarrassing, which was very uncomfortable. Aunt Xu said, silly child, girl's heart, you know a fart!
Aunt Xu blinked her eyes as if she was still a girl.
She said to me, the girl's family always has to be a little reserved, you don't know, in the two days you have been gone, she has asked me at least ten times where you have been. And you didn't tell me carefully when you left, and I can't answer her. I'll just say why this girl has been so listless in the past two days, after a long time, people are still here, and her heart has already flown away.
She let out a burst of laughter. Well, it's the kind of aunty smile you can think of.
When I heard Aunt Xu say that Meng Dongxue actually liked me, frankly speaking, I was still very happy in my heart. This kind of happiness is even the kind that has never been seen before, just when Aunt Xu said this, I suddenly had a sense of constriction in my vest, and my heartbeat accelerated, this feeling is difficult to describe, full of excitement and excitement, some moved, but also some sad. As to what it is to mourn, I can't say.
Probably because my words in the morning completely angered Meng Dongxue, it is very likely that between the two of us, it will end before it starts. So I was a little annoyed, why did I speak so badly, maybe because of this, I was going to ruin the opportunity to get close to a girl for the first time in my life.
But it's useless to be annoyed, although I feel stupid, but I can't admit my mistake and apologize now, and I really didn't do anything wrong, who let Meng Dongxue not express himself, let me guess. So I got angry, sat on the stool with my ass, and said to Aunt Xu, no way, so be it.
Aunt Xu probably saw that I was angry, so she walked away with a smile, and as soon as she stepped out of the door, she turned her head with a smile, but asked me in a fierce tone, stinky boy, you will have breakfast later, you go and send breakfast to Meng Dongxue!
At breakfast, Aunt Xu had already wrapped the boiled potatoes and eggs in a handkerchief and handed them to me, and sat in front of me and watched me finish eating. I understand what she means, I have to deliver this breakfast today. So on the way to deliver breakfast, I kept fighting with heaven and man, after all, I had a fight with Meng Dongxue just now, and now I go to deliver food to show goodwill, I feel quite cheap. Since I was a child, I have been surrounded by all kinds of singles, except for my second uncle, my uncle and master, all of whom are old singles. Although I was young, I was a learner, and many girls stayed away. This Meng Dongxue is probably the first girl who can be so close to me, but because of my stinky temper, I scolded her and ran away.
While thinking about it, I walked, and soon I arrived at the propaganda team of the production team. Because Meng Dongxue is good at singing and dancing, she was arranged to the propaganda team, singing and dancing every day to encourage the villagers and educated youth's passion for production. When I went, they were a couple of girls, and they were rehearsing the dance. At that time, almost all of the dances had a strong partisan style, and they all sang about the relationship between the military and the people, and I was not interested in singing or dancing, but I was a little happy to see these young figures.
So I stood motionless in the doorway with potatoes and eggs in my hands and a stake. I bet if it was night, it would scare people. Soon Meng Dongxue saw me, but she didn't come over, but turned around and went into one of their team's rooms. The remaining female intellectuals, looking at me, seemed to understand something, and laughed one by one, the voice was very similar to a sheep in heat. I also noticed that I was standing here, as if I was a little stupid, so I went to their house and knocked on the door, and one of the young women opened the door halfway, and asked me with a wicked smile, who are you? Who are you looking for?
I... I... Who am I? I also repeated it once, but I didn't answer her question, but told her directly that I was looking for Meng Dongxue. The female intellectual, who was eighteen or nineteen years old, looked about the same age as Meng Dongxue, so she smiled and asked me, "What are you looking for Dongxue for?" I said I'd bring her breakfast, potatoes and eggs.
Through the door, I could hear a burst of girls' laughter in the room. I didn't quite understand what they were laughing at, but I always felt that the laughter seemed to have something to do with me. The female intellectuals who blocked the door still didn't open the door, and she then asked me, why do you want to send breakfast, who are you? I said she ran away in the morning without eating, so I brought it to her, and we lived together.
A long voice came out of the house, "Oh~~~!" It dawned on me that something was wrong with that. So he explained in a panic, I... I mean, she lives with me... Wrong! It's me and she who live in Aunt Xu's house at the entrance of the village! Aunt Xu asked me to send it over!
In the end, I was in a hurry. There was a terrible woman's laughter in the room, and I immediately felt disgraced. The little face that was finally established in the village also fell to the ground at the moment, and the fallen leaves were blown away by the wind.
At this time, the female intellectuals at the door seemed to have been pushed away, because I only heard the sound of "oops" and she disappeared, and the door suddenly opened, Meng Dongxue stood in front of me, she looked angry, but her face was red, I was wondering how warm it was in this room, and her face was red. I grinned hard to make a smiling face, and then held the eggs and potatoes to my chest, not to mention how cheap they were. Before I could speak, Meng Dongxue took the potatoes and eggs from my hands, and then said fiercely, go back! Who's living with you! Stinky rascals!
Then there was a clang, and the door was shut, and there was another burst of girlish laughter in the room. Although I was inexplicably scolded as a stinky hooligan, I also noticed that Meng Dongxue had a smile on her face when she scolded me.
I don't know how to describe the mood at that time, but from that day on, when Meng Dongxue and I met again, we would still look at each other and smile, but I no longer had that feeling of embarrassment, but felt that it was all natural and very comfortable. And between me and her, although in the eyes of Aunt Xu, we like each other, but neither of us has broken this relationship. Sometimes other educated youths like to make jokes about me and Meng Dongxue, and after we heard it, we all smiled slightly, which was quite comfortable.
1968 came, and on the night of the Chinese New Year's Eve, Aunt Xu and Meng Dongxue cooked a lot of delicious dishes together. Because I had another family banquet on the New Year not long ago, the day of the New Year is the day when each family is reunited. There was no TV, no noise, not even a radio, Meng Dongxue and I had a reunion dinner happily with Aunt Xu and her wife, three people from different families. During the banquet, everyone chatted happily, and Aunt Xu even boasted that when Meng Dongxue returned home, she would definitely go to the door to propose her relatives instead of me. Uncle Zhou poured cold water on the side and said, dead old woman, what do you know, young people nowadays, how can you mention any kiss, okay is good, there is nothing to hide, how is it like we were at that time, pulling me to drill cornfields all day long...
So I always thought that Uncle Zhou drank too much wine that night, and the answer was drawn from Aunt Xu's heavy old punches. Meng Dongxue and I didn't say anything, but I felt that these things seemed to be slowly coming to fruition. But just when everyone was eating lively, suddenly the big yellow dog outside the door barked, and the barking of the dog attracted my attention, because that night, everyone did not go out. So I looked back out the door and noticed that there were scattered flashlight pillars on the path in the distance.
I originally thought that this was someone's child coming back for the New Year, so I didn't care, but the dog barked non-stop, and a few minutes later, a group of people wearing blue tunics and looking about the same age as me appeared at the door of Aunt Xu's house. One of the people wearing glasses and combing his hair parted asked, this is Zhou Changshou's house, right?
Zhou Changshou is Uncle Zhou's full name, and a farmer has such a name, which is really sharp enough. Uncle Zhou stood up and said, this is it, who are you? When he asked, I realized that none of these people seemed to be from the village. I've been in this village for two years and I've never seen these people.
The bespectacled man didn't answer Uncle Zhou, but scanned the faces of everyone in the room through the lenses, and finally stopped his gaze on my face. He asked me, are you called Situ Shan? I didn't seem to be very friendly when I heard his tone, so I said, "What are you looking for me?"
The bespectacled man winked at the other two people next to me, and they came up to me, not arresting me, but just sandwiching me in the middle. The man with the glasses said, let's go, come back with us, we are members of the Revolutionary Committee.