Hao Yue bought manuscript paper, her family's economic conditions were poor, and now that the great movement was over and the system of manuscript fees for newspapers and magazines had been restored, she tried every means to earn some money and prepared to submit the largest daily newspaper in H City.

Jian Lu came to buy a bottle of ink, and she had to prepare a bottle of ink.

The others also looked around, and Qiu Cuiping was the most generous, weighing a pound of peach crisp and a pound of winter melon candy, and bought a bag of biscuits.

It seems that the conditions in her family are really good, and it is good for her, but remembering that Qiu Cuiping had gone to the countryside to be an educated youth for several years, Sun Shangmei could not understand how the family that felt so sorry for her daughter was willing to let her go to the countryside to join the queue.

"Qiu Cuiping, are you spending money a little uncontrollably?" Hao Yue is a penny broken in half and spent, and she always feels that this person is not at home and doesn't know that firewood, rice, oil and salt are expensive, so she can't help but say more.

But as soon as the words came out, she regretted it, and said a word to herself, this person was afraid that she would make a fuss.

Who would have thought that this time Qiu Cuiping was different, smiled and explained, "It's okay, I'll eat this for a month, eat slowly." ”

It's strange, Hao Yue actually thinks Qiu Cuiping is easy to talk to!

"Qiu Cuiping?"

As she was talking, a female comrade walked over and stared at Qiu Cuiping, her eyes flashing with a little doubt and concern.

"You're Qiu Cuiping?" The female comrade thought for a moment and then asked, "Have you ever been an educated youth in City D?" ”

Qiu Cuiping was stunned and didn't answer for a while. Instead, it was Song Guilan next to her who answered for her, "Yes, Cui Ping has been working in the queue over there for a few years." ”

Everyone knows this, after all, it is written in the household registration and files.

"It's really you?!" The female comrade immediately took her hand, but Qiu Cuiping instantly avoided her, and an embarrassed look climbed up the female comrade's cheek, "Sister Cuiping, do you remember me?" I'm Ma Xiaoling! Ten years ago, we met on the train to the countryside to be educated youth. ”

Qiu Cuiping's eyes widened instantly, her eyes almost fell out, her mouth opened, she didn't say anything, her face was red, I don't know if she was excited or anxious.

"You have changed so much in the past few years, I don't recognize you at all, and if I hadn't just heard that comrade call you by name, I wouldn't have believed that I would have met you here!"

"Comrade, did you two know each other when you were educated youth?" Song Guilan leaned over and felt that this fate was quite wonderful.

Sun Shangmei also likes to listen to stories, and echoes the voice, "See you again in ten years?" ”

"Yes, we met once on the train at that time, and then we went to different places to become educated youths, but I didn't expect to meet here!" Ma Xiaoling was excited for a while, but looking at Qiu Cuiping's expression, this person didn't seem to know herself, "You... I wouldn't be mistaken for someone, would I? You really don't remember me? ”

Ma Xiaoling looked left and right, trying to overlap the memories of "people and herself" who had a relationship with herself ten years ago, but the memory was vague, "You are Qiu Cuiping, who went to the countryside in Songyuan County, City D, from City A to become an educated youth, right?" ”

"It's her, it's her!" Song Guilan and Sun Shangmei are obviously more excited than the parties involved, and their names and places match, and they love to watch such a drama of reunion after many years.

Qiu Cuiping's face was pale, and her lips were trembling, "Yes, Xiaoling, I... I just didn't remember it for a while, but now I have an impression, after all, after all, it's been too many years. ”

"Yes, it's been so many years, have you been admitted to college? Me too! ”

Old friends reunited, and others were also lively, Jian Lu looked at Qiu Cuiping's face, and always felt that she was more like she was sick than usual at this time, and her face was a little pale.

It's too exciting to meet an old friend?

Originally, I thought that Qiu Cuiping was going to talk to Ma Xiaoling more or go to dinner, but Jian Lu and the others were going to go back first after shopping, but who knew that Qiu Cuiping also opened her mouth to leave.

"We have to go back to study, so let's go first."

Ma Xiaoling, who was studying at the Normal University next door, was a little regretful, "Okay, then I'll make an appointment next time to catch up on the old days." ”

When Jian Lu and Sun Shangmei heard this, they looked at each other and felt that the sun was coming out in the west, and Qiu Cuiping actually said that she wanted to study?!

Of course, Qiu Cuiping did not go back to study, but when she returned to the dormitory, she locked the food she had bought in the cupboard and went out.

Sun Shangmei felt that this was right, this was Qiu Cuiping she knew.

However, Qiu Cuiping no longer had a moth, and the dormitory felt that life was better, and they slowly returned to a harmonious atmosphere.

——

After the mid-term exams, the school had an extra half-day holiday on Saturday afternoon, and Jian Lu, Sun Shangmei, and Song Guilan went to participate in the activities of the poetry club.

This year, the poetry clubs of the two universities in H City organized an exchange activity, and each person prepared at least one poem to bring about mutual exchange.

Jian Lu saw many scenes here that would not be seen in later generations, and many of her classmates closed their eyes and slowly recited their own poems.

After memorizing poems, some people will also share their own creative experience, and most of them have rich life experience and write poems with affection.

At this moment, in the middle of the crowd, a gay man with black-rimmed glasses, in his thirties, had been an educated youth in the countryside for six years, and after the college entrance examination was resumed, he was admitted to university and finally returned to the city, and his jet-black hair was already mixed with a few gray hairs.

I still remember that it was the first year I went to the countryside, and when I encountered the autumn harvest, the fields were full of people at night, and everyone was working. That day, I still remember..."

He stared ahead, not knowing whether to stare at the classroom wall or to go back to the distant days of intellectuals through the wall.

"That day, the sky was dark, the moon was very round, just hanging in the sky, we grabbed it at nine o'clock and ten o'clock in the night, and ate two stick noodles steamed buns all day, tired and hungry, it was at that time, everything was done, I sat paralyzed in the field, with rice in front of me and behind me, looking up at the night and bright moon, and looking down at the crops, and wrote this poem "Homesickness". Now I can go to college, I can have enough to eat, and I can remember what it was like that day. ”

Many of the 77-year-old college students returned to the city after the educated youth examination, and they felt very much about this, as if through this classmate's description, they had also returned to the past years of going to the countryside, with tears and dust.

Jian Lu applauded, she was not very interested in the poetry club before, or Sun Shangmei dragged her to participate, and every time she participated in the event, she also participated casually, but at this moment, she was also brought into this classmate's poem, although it was a time that she had not experienced, it seemed that she could also experience some feelings.

"It's not easy." Sun Shangmei sat next to Jian Lu and sighed, while the corners of Song Guilan's eyes next to her were red, obviously evoking memories.

"Sister Guilan..."Jian Lu took out her handkerchief and handed it over, motioning for her to wipe the corners of her eyes.

Song Guilan thought of the days when she was an educated youth in the past, and she did not know how many emotions were mixed together, but now that she has finally returned to the city and can study at university, she feels a deep sense of happiness.

In her eyes, she and Hao Yue and Qiu Cuiping are the same kind of people, both of whom have experienced a long period of youth, and she divides the two closer to each other in her heart.

Halfway through the process of the poetry club, everyone took action on their own, and three or four, five or six people sat around reading the poetry collection, and the huge classroom was divided into several parts.

"Hey, Sister Lulu, take a look, is that Sister Cuiping's acquaintance, that, that... Horses..."

Jian Lu reminded her, "Ma Xiaoling." ”

"Yes!" Sun Shangmei remembered.

Ma Xiaoling noticed the gaze not far away, and saw a few people through the bustling crowd.

"You're Cui Ping's roommates, right?" Ma Xiaoling had a smile on her face and came over to say hello.

"Yes." Jian Lu reported the names of the three of them, and everyone officially met, "Xiaoling, are you also participating in your school's poetry club?" ”

"That's right, today our school came over to your school to have an exchange meeting, and I also said that I would talk to Cui Ping when the time comes."

Sun Shangmei felt that the relationship between the two was good, and asked her curiously, "Sister Xiaoling, you and Sister Cuiping met on the train ten years ago, and they seem to have a good relationship." ”

Speaking of this, Jian Lu was also quite puzzled, Ma Xiaoling wanted to be close to Qiu Cuiping.

However, Qiu Cuiping's attitude is incomprehensible.

"Of course, Sister Cui Ping is the best person I have ever met, helpful and selfless, we were on the train for two days, and she took care of us. So I've always remembered her. ”

Yes?

Jian Lu and Sun Shangmei glanced at each other, and even Song Guilan, who had a special affection for the educated youth, was surprised, these words didn't sound very similar to Qiu Cuiping.

"I still remember, when I was young, I went to the countryside to be an educated youth and suffered a lot of crimes, I was so scared that I felt uncomfortable on the train, and I fell sick directly, I didn't know anyone at that time, so Sister Cuiping gave me water to drink, and often touched my forehead to see if I still had a fever, and took care of me for two days! Not only me, but others asked her to fetch water to help or something, they were very enthusiastic, and I was dizzy for two days, thanks to her. It's just a pity that I had to go to another place to be an educated youth, and I got off the bus before her, and then the place was far away, and I didn't see her for ten years. ”

Sun Shangmei sighed, "It turns out that Sister Cuiping used to be like this? ”

"But maybe it's been too many years, and I can't remember it clearly, I always feel that Sister Cuiping has changed a lot, if I hadn't heard you call her name, and confirmed the place where she went to the countryside, I wouldn't have dared to recognize her. She used to be similar to me, quite simple, at that time we chatted, she said that her family was poor, there were many people, all dependent on her father's second-class salary in the family power plant, life was tight, clothes were patched, she was also very economical, and she was reluctant to spend money at all. ”

Jian Lu understands that Qiu Cuiping is very bold in her clothes now, and the clothes she buys are fashionable in style and good fabrics, which are definitely different from the simple appearance of the past.

"Cuiping is reluctant to spend money?" Song Guilan thought about it, Cui Ping smeared alabaster every day, and her clothes were also bought, and it seemed that her family was developed.

After a few people talked for a while, Ma Xiaoling wanted to go to Qiu Cuiping to catch up, so she followed Jian Lu and the three to the dormitory.

"Sister Cuiping, look who's coming! Your old acquaintance! Sun Shangmei listened to Ma Xiaoling's words, and suddenly changed her opinion of Qiu Cuiping, what a good person she used to be, it must be that the life of being an educated youth was too hard and difficult, which made her seem to be a different person.

Qiu Cuiping was gesturing with a bragi she had newly bought, when she turned her head when she heard the voice, her face instantly froze, and the muscles at the corners of her mouth jumped.

"You ..."

"Sister Cuiping, I'm coming here with our school poetry club, are you free for a while? Let's have a meal and talk. ”

Pursing her lips, Qiu Cuiping's eyes flashed, "I'm sorry, I'm in trouble." ”

"That's right." Ma Xiaoling is not reluctant, "What about rest next Sunday?" ”

"There's something going on."

"What's next?"

Qiu Cuiping was impatient, and her voice was a little louder, "It's all arranged, I'll look for you when I'm free in the future." ”

Surprised that her reaction was a little loud, Qiu Cuiping tried her best to soften her voice, "Okay?" ”

"Oh, okay." Ma Xiaoling is not stupid, she responded with some loss and said goodbye and left.

She can realize that when she sees her again in ten years, Sister Cuiping doesn't seem to want to be close to herself.

Qiu Cuiping watched Ma Xiaoling leave, her chest wheezed violently, and it took a while to calm down, and when she turned her head, she saw Jian Lu looking at herself.

Her eyes flickered a few times, and Qiu Cuiping smiled at Jian Lu for the first time.

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Sophomore year The first semester started for two months, and there were no classes on Saturday afternoon, so Jian Lu took another half-day off, made up a two-day vacation, and set off to go home on Friday afternoon.

Tomorrow is my mother-in-law's 60th birthday, and the family will always have a lively time.

Because Jian Lu has been among the top students in her grade since she entered the school and has actively participated in various activities, she has a good impression of her from the class teacher to the teachers of various subjects, so it is also smooth to ask for leave.

Traveling lightly, Jian Lu took a shoulder bag and got on the green train, and returned to Haiwu County at about 8 o'clock in the evening.

However, at this point, there is no ferry back to the island, so we can only wait for time to land on the island early tomorrow morning.

Cheng Zheng was wearing a white military uniform and stood straight and straight on the platform of the railway station.

"Brother Cheng!"

Jian Lu ran towards him in a good mood, he hadn't seen him for more than two months, he was fine when he was studying, but on the train, when he thought that he was going to meet in a while, his thoughts were like spiders spinning silk, and after a while, a web was intertwined, which was the taste of longing, intertwined and entangled, regardless of each other.

"Tired or not?"

Cheng Zheng specially came to pick up people, and his daughter-in-law couldn't return to the island tonight, so he came over to stay with him in a guest house for one night.

"Not tired! It's only two hours by train. The rare double holiday period is intoxicating, and Jian Lu's smile is more dazzling than the moon in the sky at this moment.

"Go to the guest house first to get a room to check in, there may be no place if it's late." Cheng Zheng knew his daughter-in-law, "Are you hungry?" ”

"Well, I'm hungry indeed." Jian Lu was in a hurry, and when she got on the train, she realized that she had forgotten to eat.

"Let's put it first." Cheng Zheng didn't know where to conjure up a piece of chicken cake, fed it to his daughter-in-law's mouth, and explained, "I took it from Shuangshuang." ”

"Are you both obedient? Think I don't? Jian Lu misses her daughter, and she can't wait to fly across the ocean and return to the island at this moment.

However, there is a limit on the number of ferries from the wharf to the island, and unless a soldier has landed on the island on official business, he can apply for someone from the island to pick him up, and other people do not have this right in other private matters.

"I thought about it, but I didn't think about it."