They in the 70s

Chapter 44

On the wooden pier at the entrance of the cave dwelling, Lu Zhansheng sat there with his eyes downcast, his face stretched longer than ever before, and there were two big characters shining brightly on every strand of hair on his body:

disappointment.

It can be seen that just 10 minutes ago, when he heard the postman call his name, he still felt that it was a huge surprise. He ran to pick up the envelope. He felt the wind under his feet, and he was even happy during the run. almost jumped up.

However, after receiving it, seeing the signature on the bottom of the envelope, he felt as if he had been struck by lightning, and he stood there in a daze on the spot.

It never occurred to him that the letter was indeed from his hometown, but the sender was not what he expected.

At this moment, he was holding the brown paper envelope in his hand, and he didn't have the slightest desire to open it. He even wanted to tear it up and throw it in the stove to burn it.

I just don't understand!

Why did Zhou Mingliang write to him when he had nothing to do?Just to send him a long way to go all the way!

Really sick! !

After the postman left, the educated youths happily went back to the house with their parcels in their arms. Song Jian and Zheng Yan saw Lu Zhansheng in this state, and they were afraid of irritating him. There was nonsense chatting nearby, so I looked at him by the way.

Lu Zhansheng sat down for a long time and was irritable for a long time. After a long time, his mood eased a little, and he finally decided to read the letter twice, just in case something happened.

After tearing open the envelope, there were two pages of letter paper. With resentment and limited patience, Lu Zhansheng read ten lines at a glance:

"Lu Zhansheng, I see the words as they are, I heard that you went to northern Shaanxi to join the team, I hope everything goes well..."

The first page was basically filled with words of thanks and greetings. Lu Zhansheng thought it was all nonsense, and it was useless. He quickly glanced at it and changed to the next page.

The second page was so densely packed that it dazzled the eyes. Lu Zhansheng thought it was another pile of nonsense, and planned to throw it away after scanning the first line, but just after scanning the first line, his eyes narrowed, and he immediately became nervous.

"After I was discharged from the hospital, I went to your house to look for you as soon as possible, and I happened to meet your brother and had a conversation with him.

At that time, your brother was sitting in the yard of your house, his complexion was not very good, he looked haggard, and his mood seemed to be very low, as if he was sick. "

Get ill?

It can be seen that after seeing these words, Lu Zhansheng felt as if his heart was pulled hard by something, and he couldn't sit still because of the pull, and he stood up almost immediately.

Zheng Yan and Song Jian were talking, when they suddenly saw that Lu Zhansheng stood up suddenly and started running outside after being stunned for a while, they were startled.

Zheng Yan reacted a little faster, and immediately followed up and pulled him back: "Lu Zhansheng, what's wrong, why are you running?"

run what?

Yeah, what are you running for?

Lu Zhan stopped suddenly, he suddenly felt a little dizzy, for some reason, it took a long time for his brain to react before he suddenly remembered what he was running: he wanted to go home.

Because He Zhi was sick.

Lu Zhansheng suddenly turned his head and grabbed Zheng Yan's arm and said anxiously: "Zheng Yan, I want to go home!"

"go home?"

Zheng Yan immediately frowned.

These days, Zheng Yan was afraid that Lu Zhansheng would suddenly shout this sentence. After all, Lu Zhansheng had been in a low mood since he left home. He will clamor to go home because he can't stay.

However, since they have arrived in Shimen Village, they have settled here. Strictly speaking, they are considered to be people in this village, and they can't just go back if they want to.

Even if you go home to visit relatives, you must first apply to the village, and then get the approval of the educated youth office to get the stamped approval, otherwise it will be difficult to buy train tickets, and it is almost impossible to transfer the household registration and food relations back. .

Lu Zhansheng has been self-willed since he was a child, and it is easy to ignore everything when his energy comes up. It is normal for his stubborn temper to go to the village or organize a riot with educated youths. Zheng Yan is afraid of this.

After all, in the current general environment, their situation is very sensitive, and it is useless to toss it, and they are very likely to be detained by the Probation Section of the County Educated Youth Office, leaving a criminal record.

"Student Lu Zhan, don't be impulsive."

Zheng Yan pulled him to persuade him: "We just settled down here, and we can't figure out anything. Even if we want to go back, it will take a while, and we will slowly figure out a way."

"No!" Lu Zhansheng said anxiously, "I just want to go back and have a look, He Zhi, He Zhi is sick!"

At this time, Song Jian also followed, and noticed the letter tightly clutched in Lu Zhansheng's hand, he took a look at it and said immediately: "Lu Zhansheng, don't worry, your brother just has a small cold, it's nothing serious. Don’t talk about it later, it’s already done.”

Hearing this, Lu Zhansheng was stunned.

Seeing him like that, Song immediately put the letter paper upright in front of his eyes again, and then he continued to look down:

"But you don't have to worry, your brother said it was just a cold and a cold, and he has almost recovered."

Only then did Lu Zhansheng's gripped heart loosen suddenly.

"Lu Zhansheng, I'm sorry, I'm sorry to hear that your two brothers had a lot of trouble because of the incident in the square that day, and I explained a lot to him.

After he learned that you went out to fight because you saved me, he was silent for a long time, and he looked very sad. I guess, he felt that he had wrongly blamed you, so he was a little sad.

The intention of writing this letter to you is also to hope that you can feel relieved and stop fighting with your brother. It can be seen that your brother is a silent and reserved person, and he is not used to expressing emotions directly, but he should be very miss you.

When I was talking to him, he kept his eyes down, and his eyes fell on the photo frame placed under your coffee table. The most obvious one in it was your photo. "

After reading this letter, Lu Zhansheng's eyes suddenly stopped.

Although this might just be Zhou Mingliang's subjective assumption, for some reason, Lu Zhansheng believed it was true at the moment, and following these few sentences, he could even imagine He Zhi's appearance at that time.

It turned out that He Zhi also missed him.

After his eyes lingered on those few lines for a while, Lu Zhansheng's nose suddenly became sour, and his eyes became blurred almost instantly.

Seeing that Lu Zhansheng's eyes suddenly turned red, and tears began to roll in his eyes, Zheng Yan was startled at the time, and he suddenly remembered the first time he saw Lu Zhansheng crying when he was a child.

Zheng Yan vaguely remembered that they didn't remember much at that time. One afternoon, he was chasing and playing with a group of children in the compound on Central Avenue. When he passed by Lu Zhansheng's house, Lu Zhansheng suddenly ran out of the house.

As if just waking up, with a sleepy look on his face, after running to Central Avenue, he stopped and looked around eagerly.

Zheng Yan was very puzzled at the time, so he ran up to him and asked him what was wrong. He said that he had just had a dream in which his mother said that he missed him. Where to find it.

Zheng Yan was also ignorant at that time, but he heard from the adults that Lu Zhansheng's mother passed away, and if he died, he was gone, so he said to Lu Zhansheng, don't look for it, you can't find it, your mother is gone I can't find it anymore.

At that time, Lu Zhansheng was stunned immediately after hearing that, and he was stunned for a long time. When Zheng Yan called him again, he suddenly blinked his eyes twice, followed by tears falling down.

That incident left a deep impression on Zheng Yan in his childhood. Later, when he grew up, he understood the concept of the word "death", and then he realized what it meant to Lu Zhansheng.

In the following years, Lu Zhan had a good personality and a generous heart. Although he was often angry, annoyed, and depressed, he never cried again.

Of course, the teardrops are not really crying now, but Lu Zhansheng didn't allow them to fall, and he held back them after a few seconds.

Even so, this was the first time Zheng Yan saw Lu Zhansheng in such a state of near collapse in the following years, and it was also the first time he realized that He Zhi was so important in Lu Zhansheng's heart.

In the evening, after some deliberation, Zheng Yan wrote a letter to He Zhi without telling Lu Zhansheng. He said that Lu Zhansheng was unable to join the army because he was injured, and he ran out to jump in the queue because he didn't know how to deal with him. What happened, and how Lu Zhansheng was lost these days, how sad, how special he was, how much he cared about him, everything, every detail, was written truthfully.

Zheng Yan wrote these for no other purpose. He knew that He Zhi was so angry because he regarded Lu Zhansheng as his own brother. He just didn't want to cause such a misunderstanding between the two. He hoped that He Zhi could at least write a letter to Lu Zhansheng. , then Lu Zhansheng's mood probably won't be so low all the time.

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The next day is New Year's Eve.

During the day, the village held a membership meeting. The whole village gathered together, set off firecrackers and delivered congratulatory speeches. Wu Changde, on behalf of the village leadership, expressed condolences to the educated youths and gave everyone the village's self-brewed food and wine.

In the evening, the educated youths all contributed the New Year’s goods sent by their families, and a few girls cooked a large table of New Year’s Eve dinner with ingenuity.

This was the first New Year that everyone spent outside. Everyone sat around, chatting and laughing, and it was quite lively. Everyone's homesickness also weakened a lot.

It was rare for Lu Zhansheng not to spoil everyone's interest. Although the interest was not high, he still ate the whole New Year's Eve dinner with him and stayed up late for a year.

In fact, every year on New Year's Eve, Lu Zhansheng does not sleep.

In the first half of the night, he and Zheng Yan would carry a bunch of firecrackers from door to door to "give presents". Every time he reached the door of a house, he would light one and throw it in, receive a wave of scolding, and then laugh and go to the next house.

In the middle of the night, he went to sit in He Zhi's room, and the two of them stared at each other for a while. When they were tired, He Zhi would go get some snacks. The two of them ate and kept watch together, and finally slept in He Zhi's room. So, in the morning when Aunt Luo finds out, she will be beaten again.

Every year is thrilling, but extremely fulfilling and joyful.

This year is different.

In a foreign country, none of the people who watched the year together would stare at him, and no one would chase him around the yard with a stick in the morning, which was very boring.

Moreover, this is the last New Year's Eve before he becomes an adult.

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According to the custom of the local people, on the first day of the Lunar New Year, everyone had to get up early to pay New Year's greetings to each other. The educated youths all went, but Lu Zhansheng didn't go and slept all day.

From the second day to the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, it was customary to meet relatives. The educated youths had no relatives here, so they went to various hillsides with each other for a few days to enjoy the local natural scenery.

On the night of the fifth day, when everyone was eating, Wu Changde came to the educated youth spot.

After everyone said hello, Wu Changde asked Lu Zhansheng alone with a smile: "Little Lu baby, how is the new year, do you miss home?"

Lu Zhansheng lowered his head and picked at the rice in the bowl, ignoring him.

Wu Changde seemed to have gotten used to Lu Zhansheng's "shyness", and continued to smile at him and said, "How about coming to my house for dinner tomorrow?"

Lu Zhansheng stopped chopping the rice, raised his head and asked, "What's the matter?"

"It's nothing serious." Wu Changde said with a smile: "Well, the sixth day of the junior high school is the day when we invite our daughter-in-law who hasn't passed the family to visit my house. My nephew's daughter-in-law is coming, so how about you? .”

Ok?

If I understand correctly, Wu Changde is entertaining his nephew and daughter-in-law, and then asking Lu Zhansheng to accompany him?

This…

Zheng Yan and Song Jian regained their spirits immediately.

A nephew's daughter-in-law is not a nephew's son-in-law, so even if she is looking for someone to accompany her, she must also find a lesbian to accompany her. What is the custom of finding a gay man to accompany her?

Furthermore, everyone has met Wu Changde's nephew, and apart from anything else, he is really bad looking. Everyone firmly believes that Lu Zhansheng sat there. In a strong contrast, this marriage is likely to be yellow.

So, be a ghost companion.

Zheng Yan and Song Jian had sharp eyes and had already noticed that Wu Changde would take special care of Lu Zhansheng every time he came around recently.

"Branch secretary."

Zheng Yan asked with a smile: "Why only invite Comrade Lu Zhansheng, why not invite some of us?"

"That's right."

Song Jian also smiled and said, "What's the matter with us? We are not as good-looking as Comrade Lu Zhansheng, and we don't even deserve to eat. Secretary, your differential treatment is too obvious."

"... "

Wu Changde looked at the two of them, knocked on the pipe and cast a displeased look, or he liked Lu Zhansheng better in comparison, he felt that Lu Zhansheng was a cute little boy who didn't like to talk. They never talk back, but Zheng Yan and Song talk a lot when they see these two people.

"You two come if you want! You didn't say no!" Wu Changde breathed out, followed by another sentence: "But you must bring your own food!"

Tsk, it's better to refuse directly.

But Zheng Yan and Song Jian didn't want to go at all, because tomorrow is the sixth day of the Lunar New Year, and it's also Lu Zhansheng's birthday. They have already discussed with everyone and want to make good arrangements for Lu Zhansheng tomorrow.

After all, the birthday of adulthood is of great significance.

Thinking that after Lu Zhansheng went to Wu Changde's house, they could arrange and tidy up, so as to surprise him when Lu Zhansheng came back, Zheng Yan and Song Jian had a good time, and agreed directly on Lu Zhansheng's behalf.

Wu Changde was very satisfied. He was very happy when he left. He seemed to remember something when he walked out the door. He turned around and said to everyone:

"By the way, the county just came to inform us that another educated youth has been assigned to our village. He will arrive around tomorrow afternoon, and you will organize to welcome him then."

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The author has something to say:

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Zhou Mingliang: Lu Zhansheng, you saved my life. I have nothing to repay. Isn’t it just a letter from my hometown? people miss.

Lu Zhansheng: Oh, thank you!To be honest, this letter from you almost made me feel almost the greatest disappointment I have ever felt in my life so far! !

Zhou Mingliang: Huh?Uh... sorry, I was wrong, I will write it next time.

Zheng Yan: Lu Zhansheng said before that Zhou Mingliang has two skills. Now it seems that he is indeed a good swordsman.

Song Jian: None of it matters. What matters is that a new educated youth will come tomorrow!Comrades, new educated youth! !