Chapter 2: It was a young man

In the spring of 1970, Chunhua picked up the flower schoolbag made by her mother and went to school in a hurry!

On the first day of school, Chunhua became the same table as her good partner Han Donglai, and her cousin Ruyan was in the same class as her. I heard my mother say that Han Donglai used to live in the county seat, and his father went to the province for some reason to "transform", he had a sister who was a educated youth in the province, and he and his mother settled here, which is Han Donglai's grandmother's house. It was because his father was a "* element" and he was an outsider, so the whole class was reluctant to talk to him, and Jin Ling relied on the "people" in his commune and often bullied him; And Chunhua is most unaccustomed to bullying honest people, often fighting for Donglai, and in the past six months, the two have become good friends.

Speaking of which, although the two have different family conditions and are not with the same surname, they can be regarded as "childhood sweethearts".

Donglai was particularly afraid of dogs when he was a child, all because his eldest sister often told him stories about "dogs and ghosts".

One summer afternoon, it was hot. Donglai went to the happy river in the south of the village to catch it with his bare ass, suddenly, a dog jumped out, scared him to run hard, and he might as well slide into the river in the cold, although the water of the small river is not very deep, but because Xiaodonglai is small and has little strength, he tried to climb ashore several times, and he slipped down, so anxious that Donglai shouted "Help me!" ”

At this moment, Chunhua happened to be playing near the riverbank, heard the call, hurriedly ran to the riverbank, saw the little friend struggling in the river, and had an idea, picked up a wicker stick from the riverbank, and stretched out one end to Donglai, who pulled the stick and climbed ashore.

Chunhua realized that Donglai was wearing nothing, so she hurriedly covered her face and said, "Shame on the dead!" ”

Donglai knew why Chunhua was covering her face, and she was still washing her buttocks. Chunhua tore off a handful of wicker from the tree, handed it to Donglai, turned his face away, Donglai thought he was going to beat the dog, and then asked, "What about the dog?" ”

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After Donglai returned home, his mother saw that Donglai was covered in mud, so she asked him if he had gone to play in the river. Donglai didn't dare to admit it at first, but under his mother's repeated questioning, he told the truth. Mother blamed Donglai for not playing with Chunhua.

"Why?" Donglai shook his mother's hand and asked puzzled.

"Alas!" Donglai Niang pulled out her hand and sighed: "The child doesn't understand!" ”

Speaking of which, the older generation of the Donglai family and the Chunhua family are a little festive.

In the winter of 1951, Donglai's father was stationed in Xingfuhe Village as a correspondent of the land reform team. At that time, Donglai's father Han Yongze was only nineteen years old.

One day in Layue, after Yongze wrote materials in the village office, he carried a bucket to a well in the south of the village to draw water, and saw a girl wearing a cotton jacket and two black braids by the well, shaking her wheel. Suddenly, her two thick, oily black braids were wrapped around the wheel bar. Saying that it was too late, Yongze put down the bucket and rushed to the girl with an arrow step, helping her tear the braid off the crossbar of the roller, avoiding an accident.

"Thank you。。。。。。" The girl's face turned red when she finished speaking; Suddenly, she found that the back of Yongze's hand was bleeding from the wheel, and she couldn't care about the girl's shyness, so she hurriedly tore off the cloth strip on the cuffs of the padded jacket and bandaged Yongze's wounds......

This girl with two black braids, named Lu Juan, is the daughter of the old village chief Lu Chang. Since that time the two "Jingtai meeting", they have each other, and the next year, the two established a relationship and soon got married. In 1953, the two had their eldest daughter, Han Yuhuan. The family settled in Happy Village.

At the end of the fifties, Han Yongze questioned the "star" of Xingfu Village in terms of grain production, and sent people to Xingfu Village to investigate after hearing about it. Although Lu Youguang later released his "apology" to the Han family, the relationship between the two families was still pimple.

Donglai was born in 1963. Five years later, after graduating from Yuhuan Middle School at the age of fifteen, he said goodbye to his father, mother and younger brother to the Yuejin Brigade of Hongjiang Commune, Guangming County, Shanxi Province. ”

Xiao Donglai scratched his bare scalp, blinked his dark eyes, and nodded.

Later, after Donglai went to school, he happened to be at the same table as Chunhua. The two helped each other, even if they were older and had a "*-level consciousness", Chunhua never discriminated against him; And Chunhua's mother always feels indebted to their family, and often lets Xiaodong come to the house to play, because Donglai's mother can't do needlework, Chunhua's mother also sews and mends Donglai like her own children, and also gives Xiaodonglai's clothes when her eldest son Fushun was a child to wear.

When they were in the second grade, they not only studied with each other at school and took care of each other, but also often studied together at home on Sundays. Gradually, a subtle feeling sprouted between the two in their young hearts.

One Sunday morning, Donglai came to study with Chunhua again, and Chunhua was still dreaming at that time.

"Spring flowers, spring flowers, get up!" Donglai shouted softly in Chunhua's ear.

"Oh, what are you shouting, you have ruined other people's dreams!" Chunhua stuck her head out of the quilt, and a lock of hair fell out of the quilt.

"The sun is out, and you're still dreaming!" Xiao Donglai put his hands on his face to shame her.

"Then why didn't you come and call someone earlier? Really! Chunhua said with her head covered.

After a while, she stuck her head out of the quilt again: "You bring my clothes." ”

Xiao Donglai obediently put his little friend's clothes on the head of her bed.

"Turn your back on it!" Chunhua ordered, "Don't look. ”

Donglai hurriedly turned his back on his face. After a while, Xiao Chunhua got dressed.

"Turn your face away!" Chunhua patted her little friend and said.

Only then did Donglai turn his face.

At that moment, a flash of lightning flashed out the window.

The two looked out the door, and saw the dark clouds in the sky rushing like thousands of horses; Then there was another flash of lightning and thunder.

"Let's go, let's go to Grandma Chen's house to see if the house is leaking?" Chunhua took Donglai's hand and ran.

Grandma Chen is a military family, her husband sacrificed his precious life in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, Grandma Chen often goes to the school principal to talk about her son's heroic deeds, and Chunhua sheds tears every time she listens to it.

"Flowers, it's going to rain, where are you going?" Chunhua's mother was cooking breakfast and said distressedly.

"Let's go to Grandma Chen's house!" Chunhua replied without looking back.

"Put on a plastic sheeting and go!" Chunhua's mother caught up with her daughter and stuffed the plastic sheeting to her daughter.

When the two ran to Grandma Chen's courtyard, the rain fell from the sky, but fortunately they brought the plastic sheeting prepared for her by their mother, otherwise, the two would have become chickens in the soup.

"Come inside, kid." Grandma Chen asked the two children to take off their wet clothes, and Chunhua waved her hand and said, "Grandma Chen, let's see if there is a leak in the house." ”

Without waiting for Grandma Chen to answer, the two of them looked carefully on the roof, only to hear the sound of "popping and clicking" somewhere, and the two looked down to see where the water was dripping. They searched and searched, and finally found that there was water in the corner of the house, and if it was not blocked, it would pour into the house.

"Grandma Chen, do you still have sacks at home?" Donglai asked Grandma Chen, Grandma Chen was a little behind her ear and couldn't understand what Donglai was asking.

"Use my plastic sheeting!" Chunyi said decisively.

"Is this appropriate?" Donglai frowned.

"Oh, don't mother-in-law!" Chunhua shoves her plastic sheet into her partner's arms.

Although Xiao Donglai is only a teenager, he is quite "wise" in his work, he put on plastic sheeting, lifted a ladder with a "long history", and placed it not far from the rain leakage, Chunhua held the ladder below, and Grandma Chen put a grain bag on Chunhua's head.

After a while, Xiao Donglai climbed to the roof of the house, put the plastic sheet on the leak, and pressed seven or eight bricks.

But when he came down from the roof, he saw a few bricks flying to the ground.

"It's not pressed!" Xiao Donglai shouted a little disappointed.

"It's okay, pull it tight with a rope and it'll be fine." Chunhua handed the rope to Donglai, who climbed onto the roof and pulled the two ropes tight.

"No more rain, come from the east!" Haruka clapped her hands excitedly. She had no idea that her face and head had been smeared with rain as a painting.

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In the third grade, the whole class was regrouped, the two separated, and Xiao Chunhua cried for this all afternoon. Still, the two learned from each other as before.

It was another Sunday, and Chunhua asked Donglai to help Grandma Chen's house grind noodles, left and right, it was almost ten o'clock, but there was no shadow of Donglai.

Chunhua couldn't wait any longer, and she decided to go to Donglai.

Donglai's family lives on the west side of Nanbei Street, and there are three halls, Donglai's grandmother and grandfather live on the west side, and Donglai and his mother live in a brick house on the east side.

When Chunhua walked into the yard, Donglai's mother was taking the soles of her shoes at the door--- which she had just learned from Chunhua's mother, and when she saw Chunhua, she hurriedly beckoned her into the house and shouted: "Donglai, someone is looking for you!" ”

There was no answer inside, and Donglai's mother was about to shout again, but Chunhua waved her hand and tiptoed inside.

Seeing that Donglai was concentrating on reading a book, Chunhua stepped on his back curiously, Leng might as well snatch it from his hand, and look at the title of the book----- "How Steel is Made"!

"Okay, it looks like you're going to be a steelmaker next!" Chunhua playfully joked with her friends.

"What nonsense are you talking about!" Donglai grabbed the book and defended: "This is my sister's book. It's not a steelmaking book。。。。。。 ”

"What kind of story is written, can you tell me about it?" Chunhua flipped through it again, but there were many words she didn't recognize, and she shook her head.

"I don't know a lot of words, I have a dictionary!" Donglai picked up the "Dictionary for Primary School Students" and shook it in front of Chunhua: "It has helped me a lot!" ”

"Really?" Chunhua took the "Dictionary for Primary School Students" and flipped through it: "After you finish reading it, I will also look at it, and the dictionary will also lend it to me." ”

In this way, the two are in the process of each other, and the flower of friendship is slowly blooming.

One afternoon, the other students came home from school, only Donglai and Chunhua were still doing their homework together, and when they finished their homework and were about to go home, they found that the classroom door had been locked from the outside. The two banged on the door and shouted "open the door", and about half an hour later, the head teacher, Mr. Xia, heard the shouting and opened the door for them, and Chunhua ran home crying.

The next morning, Donglai clenched his fists and asked who locked them in the classroom yesterday.

"That's me!" Jin Ling swaggered in front of Donglai.

"Why are you doing this?" Donglai raised his fist, anger in his eyes.

Jin Ling put on a posture that was not afraid of heaven and earth: "Are you allowed to make trouble with her in the house, and I am not allowed to lock the door?" ”

"You talk nonsense!" Donglai Xiang Jin Ling was a punch in the chest; Jin Ling grabbed Donglai's fist and pulled it to the ground suddenly, seeing that Donglai was going to suffer, he saw the squad leader Ning Fugui hugging Jin Ling's neck from behind, Jin Ling had to let go of Donglai's hand, only to hear the head teacher yell: "Stop me!" Fugui stopped. So, the two of them were called to the school office, Fugui explained what happened, and the head teacher gave Jin Ling a hard reprimand, and ordered him to apologize to Donglai, although Jin Ling was forced to apologize to Donglai, but Jin Ling's nature is difficult to change.

Jin Ling relied on "there are people above", he did not accept this lesson, and he was jealous of being rich and noble---- a person with a foreign surname dared to find trouble, and he was thinking about waiting for revenge.

Winter came, there was heavy snow in the sky, Fugui's left heel was accidentally broken, and he didn't go to the clinic in time to bandage it, so that it turned into chilblains. Jin Ling thought that the time for "revenge" had come, and deliberately stepped on Fugui's heel after school, and Fugui felt distressed; Jin Ling was about to step on it again, but Teacher Xia grabbed one of his legs, and Jin Ling fell to the ground on his back. It turned out that it was Donglai who sued Jin Ling to Teacher Xia. Since then, Fugui and Donglai have become good partners and classmates.