Back to the city, a different kind of cold and warm (5)
Author: Xie Bofu
You are also a hero
After buying a few snacks from the Riverside Road, he rushed back to the mall dormitory, waiting for her to invite Sister Dong to dinner.
After she returned, she whispered that Sister Dong was not coming, afraid of touching the scene and getting emotional, afraid of mentioning the past...
He didn't say anything, just chose a few snacks for her to send to Sister Dong.
He could understand the thoughts of this zhiqing sister who had never met before: in order to return to the city, divorce, and give up her son, this is the real separation of wives and children, what does it mean for a young woman, not ordinary people can appreciate ...
For some reason, Sister Dong's affair seemed to leave a shadow in his heart, as if some of his own places were inextricably linked to this situation, but what it was, he couldn't say clearly...
At noon the next day, he still ate early and withdrew from his position early.
Last night I heard her say that at noon the sisters came to sleep, and everyone praised him for half a day. The old lady who broke into the dormitory while undressing smiled and said, "Okay! This lad is boardy, sensible and atmospheric! ”
Although he felt a little relieved, he still felt ashamed of his sisters.
She suggested that the sisters should all go to work at three o'clock in the afternoon, so that he would not have to run so far, go to the small park next to him to find a shade for a few hours, and come back early in the afternoon.
He obeyed his wife's orders, shook the large fan provided by Sister Dong, and slowly paced to the park.
This park is really small enough, called a garden is not even close.
He circled along the path, carefully searching for his own midday foothold. But strangely enough, he found that there were no chairs where there were shades, and there were no shades where there were chairs. Finally, I saw that there seemed to be two benches in the shade next to the public toilet, but they were blocked by a row of bushes, and it was not clear to see.
He couldn't help but quicken his pace.
However, before he could run to the front, he could clearly see that someone here had already made a quick start. On the back of a bench lay an old man with five thick bare shoulders, who had snored like thunder. On the other bench lay an invisible, slightly thin man. It's just that the thick robe and pants and a hat on this man's body are extremely inappropriate for the hot climate, but they make him feel familiar.
Seeing that the favorable terrain had been taken advantage of, he shook his head and smiled bitterly, turned and walked toward the gate.
Just a few steps away, I overheard a soft call behind me: "Hey! That master! ”
He knew it was shouting at himself, because the sun was shining and there was no one around, so he quickly turned around.
"Wow! It's you! How can you be lying here ... He recognized her immediately from her outfit and her snow-white teeth, the same cleaner he had helped push the trash can yesterday.
She sat up and said a little embarrassedly, "I don't know your last name, I'm sorry for you!" ”
"It doesn't matter, my name is Xiao Quan!"
She hurriedly invited him to sit down, "This big noon, why are you wandering around here?" Isn't it too hot? ”
He folded his hands and said with a bitter smile, "Alas! Staying in the women's lounge is afraid of affecting other people's rest, so come out and kill time! ”
"Hahahahaha ... She heard this and suddenly smiled and bent down: "It turns out that you also escaped from that dormitory, so good!" ”
He heard her say, "You too... He immediately asked, "Are you also trying to avoid that house... ”
She laughed even harder: "I used to go there for a nap at noon, and then I overheard a lady complaining that 'I always smell the smell of garbage on Shan Ju's body, and I can't sleep soundly!'" Although I took off my coat every time and washed my hands and face vigorously before going up, people still said so. Forget it, just don't go! ”
Seeing that Shan Ju's face was gradually losing the smile, as if he had subconsciously grinded his small white teeth, Xiao Quan's heart surged with a thought of pity for the same disease, yesterday the two talked about the garbage dump, and today they were avoiding the same dormitory. He felt like a comrade in the same trench as her.
He asked with concern, "Then what do you do in winter?" ”
"Boiler room." She replied sharply, and then smiled, "It's warmer than the heating in the dormitory!" ”
Looking at her smiling face, the trace of sadness that had just occurred disappeared instantly. He also laughed a little: "You are optimistic enough!" ”
"What's wrong with not being optimistic? Crying? I've cried before, I've been crying for years, and there's no use for anything" Stopped, and her expression became complicated.
"Which regiment did you come back from?" He changed the subject.
"Corps? Pla? I don't even dare to think about it... ”
"So you're in line?"
"Not so lucky."
"So how did you get there?" He asked eagerly. The man of the same age and the same fate in front of him aroused his great interest.
She stared at him with a very trusting look and told him the following story:
It's ridiculous to say, I have a classmate from a different class at the same school, and my family is a close neighbor. In the second year of junior high school, he wrote me a note at school saying that he liked me, but I accidentally fell into the classroom. The other students picked it up and handed it to the teacher, he was reprimanded, I was also criticized, and I was suddenly discredited in school, becoming a child with an unhealthy style.
Originally, we were also considered to be green plum bamboo horses, and there was no guess between the two small ones. After the accident, I didn't hate him, and he didn't blame me.
His father and my father were both at our school, and his father was a worker in the logistics department, and was reported by my father, who taught mathematics, for stealing public wires. His grandmother's consistent way of propagating feudal superstitions in the streets was criticized by my mother and some activists. In this way, our family has offended their family for three generations.
After the Cultural Revolution, his mother replaced my mother as the head of the neighborhood committee, his father became the deputy director of the workers of the Revolutionary Committee, he became the deputy commander of the school's all-invincible corps, and suddenly he changed into a person, spreading everywhere that I had shown him first, and fabricated some irrelevant lies...
Later, his mother actually took the lies he made up to tell my mother: two children are like that, it is better to let them be like that, in a year or two your family will take out a building for them to get married...
My mother was anxious when she heard it: What are they all like? Still married? Faint to you guys!
This completely offended their family.
After the large-scale start of going to the mountains and going to the countryside, because my eldest brother went to Xinjiang in the sixth and fifth years, I should stay in the city to distribute work.
But the two of them attacked on both the school and the street, completely shattering the possibility of my distribution.
When the emergency war was prepared for evacuation, the two of them took advantage of the situation to take advantage of the fact that my father had already concluded a little historical problem at school to bomb my whole family back to the countryside.
His mother obstructed my distribution on the street.
Later, his father simply showed me a showdown: he said I had to leave, and when I left, he assigned work to my eldest brother, and my parents and younger brother did not have to go back to the countryside.
I was young and vigorous at that time, and I signed up to go to the corps, but he said that I was not qualified for the political examination; I asked to go to the inner Mongolian pastoral area to join the team, and he said that the pastoral area was a border defense area, and it was not OKAY. As soon as I gambled, I moved my hukou back to my hometown in rural Hebei.
A month later, I went back to the city to talk to him about his brother's distribution problem, and he turned his face and did not recognize the account, saying that I did not go to the mountains and go to the countryside according to the unified arrangement of the school, so I could not enjoy the treatment of zhiqing. He also said that my private return to my hometown was planned by my parents to sabotage the movement up the mountain and the countryside. Later, under this pretext, I sent my whole family back to my hometown.
I went around petitioning for advice, but at that time there was no place to reason ...
Fortunately, the poor and lower-middle peasants in our hometown were very good to us, and they said that my father was forced to be a baochang for several months and never hurt the villagers, but instead suffered a lot of beatings and insults from traitors and bullies for protecting the people. Therefore, my father and fellow villagers not only did not discriminate against our family, but took good care of us. Therefore, in addition to eating a little worse, the life is still relatively relaxed, and the mental pressure is much less.
My parents repeatedly advised me to confess my fate, don't look for it. That family won't let us go back, because we know too much about their family's ugly things.
I didn't believe that the sky was always dark, so I secretly swore in my heart: I must go back to the city, and I will also return the whole family to the city...
Listening to Shan Ju tell her story, no, not a story, it was her bumpy and tortuous experience of going to the countryside, Xiao Quan's heart was faintly painful.
"You've been back for several years, why haven't you found a better job?" He asked cautiously.
"Do you want to know how I got back?"
"Of course I want to!" He said excitedly.
"Because I married a hero!"
"My lover is a demobilized soldier who works as a police officer at the police station. That night, on night duty, ordinary people came to ask for help, saying that the dormitory building was on fire. He quickly called the fire brigade, and then ran to the scene with the people who came to the scene, and found smoke billowing in the corridor and flames coming out of some places. Asked the people who ran out, everyone said that at least two or three people had not come out. He asked the list number to shout loudly at the door of the building, just shouted was choked by smoke, so he rushed into the building without saying a word, knocked on the door according to the number of several units provided by the group to save people, after sending out the two families, there was already an open fire in the corridor. After doing his best to wake up the family on the top floor and urge them to escape, he himself collapsed in the fireworks-filled corridor. Fortunately, the fire truck came to rescue him... ”
"How was his injury afterwards?" Xiao Quan asked eagerly.
"When my cousin introduced him to me, he was back at work, but one leg long and one leg short, and there was no other way to mention it. I paid attention only to one thing: he could help me get back to the city because he was given a third-class credit. The organization promised that if he married a rural girl, he could immediately move his hukou to the city. So I met with him a few times and got my marriage license. To be honest, I didn't have much love for him at the time, but I respected him very much. Because he is a hero who sacrifices himself to save others, he really deserves respect.
After marriage, I took good care of his life and tried to do more for him. He is also obedient to me and tries to make me happy. After a long time, he finally knew what my heart knot was, and also understood the causes and consequences of my going to the mountains and going to the countryside.
Not long after, his mother approached me and said she wanted to help my parents and family back to the city. When I heard this, I was overjoyed to learn that he had asked his father, who had just been reinstated as a liberation officer, to ask for help. My father-in-law was a veteran who participated in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, and served as the director of the district civil affairs bureau. The old man learned about the situation in which my family was framed, and said with a straight face that they were originally urban hukou and that there was nothing wrong with moving back.
Originally, I wanted to move my family back to their original address, but I was afraid that the family would get in the way of it, so I finally gave up the idea.
With their hard work, my parents returned to the city with their two grown-up brothers, and his father solved a house for my family. At that time, relatives and friends said that this director's energy was strong enough and his ability was big enough. I thought the same thing, and later learned that this jealous old revolutionary had actually replaced his two-bedroom building with two and a half bungalows, one for our family, and he and his wife lived together.
What was even more incredible was that it was just in time for the spring conscription, and with their help, my little brother was honorably enlisted in the army and went to Qingdao to become a navy.
Finally, I was assigned a job.
With the identity of a heroic wife, the relevant departments quickly gave a recruitment target for a national enterprise. I thought about it, gave this indicator to my twenty-four-year-old brother, and firmly stated that I would no longer ask for the care of the organization, and I would wait in the street to be assigned, catching up with what was. I think that good things can't be taken advantage of by us, let alone embarrass the in-laws.
At this point, my purpose has been achieved and my wish has been fulfilled. So there is no desire and no demand. To tell the truth, our whole family is grateful and does not know how to repay others. ”
Hearing this, Xiao Quan sincerely exaggerated: "This family is really a good person, and your heroic lover is really great enough!" ”
Shan Ju's face burst into a bright and proud smile, so sweet, so happy ...
"What's really great is ... What you would never expect is... Touching ... Speaking of this, Shan Ju's chest rose and fell sharply, and she couldn't cry ...
Xiao Quan was stunned, he did not know how to comfort her, it was even more difficult to predict what plot she would say, and he could only eagerly look forward to it.
After a while, she slowly calmed down, trembled and said, "That day of the August 1st Founding Day, it was the day of our first wedding anniversary." In the evening, after celebrating the holidays for two generations of soldiers at my in-laws' house, we walked home, and I told myself to try to find the feeling of love, to try to turn gratitude into true love. I feel happy, even though the seeds of love have just sprouted.
When I got home, I took the initiative to hug him for a longer time than I had done a few times before.
After a while, when I let go of my hand, he said softly, 'Thank you, Shan Ju!' ’
With that, he took a piece of letter paper from his pocket and handed it to me, and quickly went into the bedroom himself.
I opened it, and I was so shocked that I couldn't help but shout: 'No! No! No! ’
In my hand was a copy of the Divorce Agreement that he had signed.
The main content is 'the divorce of the man and the woman by mutual agreement after friendly consultation.' After the divorce, the two parties' current housing residency rights are transferred to the woman, who cooperates in the transfer procedures within fifteen days ... ,'
In short, he gave me everything he could give!
I rushed into the house like crazy, pounding him desperately, and asked in a loud voice, 'Why?' Why? ’
He put his arm around my shoulder and said calmly, 'I know you married me to go back to town.' My cousin said you are a good girl with ambitions, so I decided to help you! Now that your problems are solved, I should give you back your freedom ... ’”
Speaking of this, Shan Ju was almost crying.
"I twisted his cheeks hard and shouted, 'You bastard! You underestimate people! I Shan Ju will not leave you in this life! I am not rare that you are a hero, I love you as a big man, my man ... ’”
Speaking of this, she has broken into a smile, and some shyness appears on her face: "I swear in my heart that I will love him wholeheartedly, love him for a lifetime, love him forever, love him ... Because he is a real man, a man who stands tall in the sky, a hero who deserves to be... ”
After listening to his narration, it was past noon, and my fiery heart seemed to be hotter than the scorching sun in the sky, and there was no feeling of heat in my body at all, as if I had received a remedy for summer ... . . .
I sighed: some people divorce in order to return to the city, some people get married in order to return to the city, and who knows the taste of it...
"Oh it's time, it's time to get to work!" She stood up and left.
Looking at her thin back, I followed her and shouted from the bottom of my heart: "Shan Ju! Well, you're a hero too! ”
I had just walked to the gate of the park, only to see Chi Yu running breathlessly: "You go to Tang Yun's place to see, Hu Bing said that Tang Yun killed people... ”
(To be continued)
Author: Xie Bofu, a junior high school graduate of Qingdao City, Shandong Province, 1967. In 1970, he went to the 17th Regiment of the Inner Mongolia Construction Corps, successively served as the trumpeter of the propaganda team, the reporter of the regimental political office, and later served as the officer of the farm political engineering section and the principal of the central school, etc. In 1985, he was transferred back to Tianjin, where his lover was located, and successively engaged in party affairs work in state-owned enterprises, and in 2000 he served as the principal, secretary and consultant of the technical school, and retired in 2010.
Source: Corps comrades