After Donglai listened to Fugui's story, the "imprint" of the word "Spring Flower" in his heart deepened. During this period, because he didn't have the opportunity to talk to Chunhua, he wrote a letter to her, expressing his "thoughts", and Chunhua's reply to him was only a few words: "Don't waste your feelings on me, we are people from two worlds." He could see that the letter was wet with tears. Donglai replied undelibukely: "I will not give up!" ”

Early the next morning, Donglai was about to return to the county seat, and Fugui drove a tractor to see him off. Donglai looked left and right on the bank of the Happy River in the south of the village: how he wished she could see him off。。。。。。

Ten minutes passed, twenty minutes passed。。。。。。 She was still nowhere to be seen.

Donglai had no choice but to reluctantly bid farewell to Happy River Village。。。。。。

However, he didn't expect that in fact, while he was waiting, Chunhua was hiding behind a tree, her heart pounding, and tears rolling in her eyes。。。。。。

Donglai returned to his hometown to visit his grandmother, grandfather and mother. Two days later, he received a letter from his father, asking him to return to the county seat and discuss something.

The next day, I rode my bicycle to my father's county agricultural machinery company.

Dad first asked him if he was going to repeat it?

"I've reached retirement age, and if you don't repeat your studies, you can work here in my place." The father handed the peeled apple to his son.

Donglai took the apple, took a bite, and nodded to his father, indicating that it was delicious. Dad smiled. He suddenly found that there were already a few more wrinkles on his father's face---- and his father was really old!

Donglai thought about it for a while and expressed his attitude to his father: "I want to review for another year, and if I can't pass the exam again, I will consider the replacement issue." ”

Dad nodded. Donglai suddenly remembered something: "How is my sister's work done now?" ”

"Your sister has already implemented the work after returning to the city, and now she works at the county cultural center."

Donglai was very happy to hear it, and said that he had made time to visit his sister at the cultural center.

A month later, he returned to the repeat class of the county No. 1 middle school. There have been many new faces in the class, but fortunately, my friend An Xiaoqiang is also repeating in this class. During this period, he received a letter from Jiang Feng. Jiang Feng first apologized to him, hoping that he would forgive himself for his "rudeness" to him: she herself was such a "princess temper", a temper that was used to by her parents. I was happy to know that he had entered the repeat class. Hopefully he will review well, she will wait for him.

After class, Donglai pulled Xiaoqiang aside and kicked him: "I knew that you kid was a secret agent!" ”

Xiaoqiang smiled "hehe".

In early May, the repeaters of Donglai's class took the college entrance examination together with the fresh graduates. Donglai feels like playing normally.

Three days later, Jiang Feng called him and asked him if he felt sure. Donglai replied: "I seem to be a little more sure than last time."

Donglai stayed in his father's dormitory for the past few days.

Dad is also looking forward to his son being admitted to university, but he also knows that there are exceptions to everything, and he also thinks of a way out for his son: if he doesn't get in, he will settle down and take over his class, and he will be a "public family" anyway.

My sister also called to ask. Donglai felt a lot of mental pressure.

The day of the list has finally arrived!

Early in the morning of the 21st, Xiaoqiang invited him to look at the results together.

"Xiaoqiang, I won't go. Just give me a call. Donglai lay on the bed and didn't move, he always had an ominous premonition swirling in his heart. He had a nightmare last night.

Xiaoqiang couldn't resist him: "Okay, if you pass the exam, you have to treat you." ”

"Words count!" Donglai leaned sideways and hooked Xiaoqiang.

At about ten o'clock, Donglai was sleeping in a daze, and suddenly a harsh voice came: "Donglai, how did you take the exam, it's just three points short, I'm really angry!" ”

Donglai opened his eyes and saw that it was the eldest sister Yuhuan.

"Sister, why are you here?" Donglai rolled over and sat up.

"I went to the school early this morning to look at the college entrance examination results list, and when I looked at the school results list, I found out that 。。。。。。 I'm so! The eldest sister pointed to her brother's forehead and said.

"Sister, don't be angry, Donglai has done his best, and I didn't pass the exam." Xiaoqiang handed the eldest sister a glass of water, and when he heard Xiaoqiang's last words, he was slightly comforted in his heart. Actually, Xiaoqiang has also been back for a long time, he just reported Donglai's results to Donglai's father, Donglai's father didn't know how to comfort his son, so he didn't come over for the time being. About an hour later, Dad came.

"Donglai, don't be too discouraged, it's not just the college entrance examination, you can do it in the agricultural machinery company in the next step." Dad came home and sat at the head of the bed, stroking his son's head.

"Dad, you scold me, it's me who doesn't fight 。。。。。。" Donglai threw himself into his father's arms.

"You're talking stupidly again," the father comforted his son, "It's good to be admitted, but after all, there are only a few who can be admitted。。。。。。 ”

"Dad, don't comfort him, I don't think he used to repeat this year。。。。。。" Yuhuan is still angry.

"Just say a few words," Dad glanced at Yuhuan: "I see that your brother has done his best, and besides, working in the company can also create value." ”

"And what do you plan to do when you retire?" Yuhuan handed his father a tea jar.

Dad took a sip of tea and put it on the desk: "You don't have to worry about my business, the means of production company is ready to hire me as a manager, I haven't thought about it yet!" You don't have any pressure to work at the cultural center now, right?"

"There's no pressure, it's just that I need a diploma now. I really regret that I didn't study hard in those years as an educated youth。。。。。。 Speaking of which, Yuhuan's eyes were a little red, and tears were circling in his eye sockets.

"It's all your dad who has bothered you。。。。。。" Dad handed her a napkin.

"Dad, I don't blame you, I blame myself." Yuhuan threw herself on her father's shoulder, sobbing.

Shaoqing, Dad seemed to remember something: "Zhancai is busy with the organization department now, right?" ”

Yuhuan wiped his tears with a napkin: "He's very busy now, and he's preparing to take up a temporary job in the township below!" ”

"And when are you going to get married?" Dad handed Yuhuan a glass of water: "Your mother wrote to ask about you two days ago!" Alas, you are not too young to take marriage to heart. ”

"Dad。。。。。。" Yuhuan was a little embarrassed and knelt on his father's shoulder: "Last week, a few of our old comrades-in-arms gathered, except for Sheng Xiaojun, Zhang Hao and Li Yuehua are not married, you don't have to worry about me and Zhancai." ”

Dad nodded. Liangqing, he seemed to remember something: "The Li Yuehua you said is the one who wrote the anonymous letter, right?"

"Yes, to be honest, I heard that she did that, and I really hated it, but later, I forgave her," Yuhuan took a sip of water from the cup: "Lu Xun said: After the aftermath, the brothers are here, and they meet with a smile and an enemy." ”

"You're such a generous and good daughter." The father was moved to take his daughter in his arms.

。。。。。。

Speaking of which, going to college is also a knot in Yuhuan's heart.

In 1968, after graduating from Yuhuan Middle School, he bid farewell to his hometown, his father, mother and younger brother, and went to the Yuejin Brigade of Hongjiang Commune, Guangming County, Shanxi Province to become an educated youth.

At that time, she was in a young people's spot with four middle school students, two men and three women.

three women, one is Yuhuan, and the other is the daughter of a university professor, named Sheng Xiaojun; One is Li Yuehua, the daughter of the deputy director of the county party committee. Two men, one is Zhang Hao, the son of the director of the office of the county hospital, and the other is Zhou Zhancai, the son of the principal of the county No. 1 middle school.

They lived in a courtyard where the district workers lived in the village, a south house, which was lived by two male intellectuals; A hall house, where three of them live with female intellectuals.

This village is very poor, and they are not so much "receiving **** re-education" as helping them change the backward appearance of the village, including literacy.

Among these five educated youths, because of Yuhuan's courageous personality, he was elected as the head of the educated youth.

After thinking about it for a night, after eating early the next morning, he talked about his thoughts to the four comrades-in-arms: first, to form a "** propaganda team" to publicize culture through performing ** model plays, learning *** works in the field, writing slogans, and running blackboard newspapers; the second is to run literacy classes; The third is to mobilize the masses to "build water conservancy."

In the common revolutionary struggle, Zhou Zhancai fell in love with Yuhuan, the son of the principal, who inherited the bookish spirit of the old principal, and liked to write a poem or something, and the blackboard newspaper in the village was written by him; He also likes to read, and he read the famous writer Haoran's novel "Sunny Day" no less than three times at that time; Some pieces are at his fingertips. Of course, he was also a keen politician and read every issue of the "two newspapers and one magazine" at that time. He is also a very active person, he likes model operas, and he can sing the classic singing segments of the eight model operas, and he has a clear eye. Once, he and Yuhuan sang "Shajiabang" together ---- Zhidou, he played one or two roles of Commander Hu and Diao De, which can be said to be thunderous applause, that is, in that cooperation, he fell in love with Yuhuan.

He once wrote a love poem to Yuhuan--- "Yuan":

You and I meet

On a dense forest trail

You're like a waterfall

Hair

Weave into one after another

Sweet dreams

Your watery eyes

Captured

My soul

Let my body

In the vast sea of suffering

loiter

Your slender fingers

Embellished into

Endless thoughts

And the pain of wanting to stop

In order to surprise Yuhuan, he transferred it to Yuhuan through the post office, but on the day the postman delivered the letter, Yuhuan went to the commune for a meeting on behalf of the educated youth, and the letter fell into the hands of Li Yuehua, the daughter of the deputy director of the county * Party Committee actually had a crush on Zhou Zhancai, and when she looked at the familiar font, she guessed that it was Zhou Zhancai's letter to Yuhuan, and it happened that Sheng Shujun was not there, so she hid in her bedside box.

After Zhou Zhancai wrote a letter to Yuhuan, his heart pounded when he saw Yuhuan, but what puzzled him was that Yuhuan saw that he had not changed much from usual, but talked and laughed with Zhang Hao. made Zhou Zhancai jealous. Zhang Hao has lived in the compound of the Chinese medicine hospital since he was a child, he has read almost all of his father's books on traditional Chinese medicine, and he often sees his father to see patients, therefore, he will also see some headaches and brain fever.

Once, when Yuhuan came back from a meeting in the commune, he happened to be drenched in heavy rain and had a fever at night. Yuhuan is also a learning talent, and often asks Zhang Hao for Chinese medicine knowledge. Therefore, Zhou Zhancai suspected that it was Zhang Hao who "snatched love with a knife".

When Yuehua knew that the two of them were jealous of Yuhuan, she was even more jealous of Yuhuan.

Driven by Yuhuan, Yuejin Village soon became the "most typical" of the whole commune, and Yuhuan became an "advanced element of learning from Mao", and was commended by Secretary Liu of the commune many times, and was ready to develop Yuhuan as a member of the Chinese Communist Party. Yuhuan's return to Xingfu Village this time was to assist Xiao Wang, an investigator of the commune, in conducting her personal "background check", to put it bluntly, to investigate her family composition.

Yuhuan's maternal grandfather was the village chief at the time of the land reform, and his family was a poor peasant, so the results of the investigation were of course "innocent".

On the third day, Yuhuan returned to Zhiqing Point. Just as she was about to "take the oath of joining the party," she received a notice from the commune's investigation team: After investigation, Comrade Lu Yuhuan's father had historical problems, so the matter of joining the party needed to be further investigated.

After receiving the notice, Yuhuan wrote a "statement of defense" stating that his father had been screened and rehabilitated in 1964, but the commune did not reply.

Yuhuan is a stubborn person, and she wrote another letter to the county party committee.

But it's still like a stone in the sea. She never thought that all this originated from an anonymous letter, and this letter was written by Li Yuehua, who seemed to be outspoken!

This time, Yuhuan sat on the big stone mill in the south of the village, the autumn wind blew away her capable short hair, and the river opposite was whispering, and she fell into a deep confusion。。。。。。