Issue 42
Author Tian Yanning
Lesson 3
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Lin Yulai stayed in the hospital for half a month before being discharged from the hospital, and the red-lit appearance of a lovelorn who was on the verge of collapse in the hospital gate made his relatives and friends overjoyed, until he took Xiao Zhu, a nurse who was shy and shy, to the West Street Tea House to disclose their relationship. It seems that the magic of love can call life or death, and the teaching gentlemen who are not dull have opened their eyes again. Lin Mu, who got this unexpected surprise, was even more overjoyed, and insisted on giving one of her treasured gold rings to my mother who came to report the letter as a reward, but fortunately, my mother was quite indifferent to gold and other valuables and insisted on refusing to let Lin Mu, who was smiling brightly, take it back.
When relatives and friends were glad that Lin Yu, who had suffered a major emotional setback, had gained a new life from sweet love, an unexpected but inevitable event hit Lin Yu and his relatives and friends who cared about him very hard. Xiao Zhu's father is a famous pig killer Zhu Beard in the slaughterhouse of Xiaocheng, this man has always been rough and fierce in his dealings with people with a face full of fat and fat, and he is extremely fond of his only daughter Xiao Zhu.
When Zhu Huzi heard the rumor that his palm pearl was in the hospital ward with Lin Yu's teacher Lin Yu of Xiaocheng Middle School, he immediately jumped like a thunderbolt and slashed a shiny pig-killing knife on the case board, leaving two harsh words Lao Tzu's daughter not marrying the teaching smith who played a treacherous business trick to seduce us Xiao Zhu, seeing that Lao Tzu did not use a pig knife to chop him, I would not be surnamed Zhu! This loud and harsh word soon spread throughout the city, Xiao Zhu, who loved and feared his father, put his arms around Lin Yu and cried darkly, but still had to leave him, and the story of the pig killer holding and beating the Mandarin ducks flew everywhere in the streets. Lin Yu, who has experienced two unsuccessful loves in succession, is almost desperate to solve his marriage in the small town, and Lin Mu, my mother, and the teachers who often gather at the West Street Tea House also have unspeakable disappointment and sadness.
At the same time, everyone is secretly determined to find a good object for Lin Yu, who has a good character and learning, and let those small city people with colored glasses see that the teachers of the middle school still have status and ability.
This sensational small city's failed marriage also has a little-known episode, the pig killer's daughter Xiao Zhu is also a little girl with blood guts One night after her father cut off her love relationship with Lin Yu with a pig-killing knife, she ran to the room of Lin Yu in the middle school teacher's dormitory to hug, kiss, and cry again, and resolutely took off her clothes and lay naked on the bed of the man she loved to sacrifice her precious virginity, and Lin Yu, who was ignited by the fire of love, jumped into bed with a sense of revenge and was about to do a big job. But at the moment of the angry swoop, a bloody pig-killing knife was suspended in front of his eyes, and in the sudden inexplicable panic, he broke out in a cold sweat and then the thing in his lower body softened and could not stand up no matter how hard he tried.
Witnessing a man's impotence process, the little nurse could no longer bear it, jumped out of bed, dressed carelessly, covered her face, and fled as if she had left the man she had loved but could no longer love. Abandoned by love, Lin Yu was still kneeling on his bed, his face was painfully twisted like a statue of a man who had been burned by passion by the sculptor Rodin, and he was sluggish for a long time until the heavy night poured in from the window to completely cover it up.
After experiencing two tragic failures in marriage and love, Lin Yu's mental and physical blows made him almost change into a person, and the free appearance of the formerly radiant and flowing scholarly newcomer disappeared, becoming a young scholar with a melancholy body and a withered body and no longer paying attention to his clothes, and the usual self-confidence and youthful flying have been completely drowned in the two waves of rouge that have risen and passed away. The people of the small city who have a light and leisurely life will not let go of some gossip and gossip that pass through the streets and alleys, and the most beloved young son of the Lin family, a famous grocery store in the city, has made some salty gossip, which is really enough to find troublesome people to set up some Tianlongmen array. The inferiority and despair shown by Lin Yu, the witness of the incident, made my father's group of friends who cared about him worried, and men of this age were obsessed with women and also attached too much importance to women once they suffered a woman's blow, not only was they mentally frustrated, but they were also likely to be completely depressed.
So the teachers tried to make Lin Yu happy, the number of times they went to the West Street Tea House every week to taste tea and talk about the commentaries also increased, although the weekend dance party in the small auditorium of the county CPPCC Committee had been suspended for several months and resumed under the proposal of Xiao Hanshan, the light music in the dim light of the male and female dancers with the brass drum beating out the rhythm of "bang, click", which was the most elegant entertainment activity in the 1960s. Middle School Teachers Circle of Friends Lin Yu has participated in these activities, but the mental condition is not as good as before, and a young teacher who is active and cheerful and occasionally spits out a few playful words has become dull and wooden like a neurotic little old man.
My father understands that Lin Yu's heartache is still in the woman, and the heartache still needs to be cured, but where to find a woman who can make Teacher Lin happy and healed? Now as long as you mention to him about women, he is like being stabbed by a big horse bee and immediately changing his face and changing color, which scares you to the point that you can't talk about it, especially don't mention how a woman in a small city can match him, and Lin Yu must be angry and even scold ugly words. The reality of the marriage-age baby son encountered Lin Mu the most, every time I went to my mother to pour out her inner pain, shed tears more than my mother hollowed out her heart and said comfort to each other.
This also prompted my mother to make up her mind to find a good woman for her distant cousin who was in the pain of lost love no matter what, so that he could get rid of the pink fog and regain his self-confidence. My dad was very sympathetic to my mother's kindness, saying that this was not only a private matter for the Lin family, but a teacher's marriage that attracted the attention of the whole city seemed to have affected the reputation of a high school of all fame.
This view was completely endorsed by Xiao Hanshan and Gao Yunting, so at the instigation and participation of my father, my mother began to mobilize all the relationships between relatives and friends to strive to find a girl with good looks, talents, and good character for the young and strong Lin Yu in a short period of time. Lin Yu himself was not kept in the dark, and when my father took a large stack of freshly washed standard photos from his hand, his lips were no longer so full and he would emit a cold and mocking smile.
After sending out the letters and photos of Lin Yu looking for qualified objects, my mother has always been a little excited and looking forward to it every day, always wanting to get good news to surprise the Lin family and my father and their group of teachers who are also waiting. At the beginning of that year, a secondary school teacher was not as valuable as the workers of the leading class as the soldiers with shining red stars, and the choices of the beautiful women of the marriage age in the small town were mostly these two kinds of reliable and decent men, and if a young officer who returned from the army to visit his relatives appeared on the street, he could almost stir the hearts of these young girls, even if his family was in the countryside.
The frustration and loneliness of the marriage of Lin Yu, an ordinary middle school teacher, has some characteristics of the times, so that my mother's enthusiastic help is also pale and weak, if the long-tongued women in the small city understand those details, they really don't know what ugly words they will say.
There will be a harvest of those who were touched by my mother's sincere and frank letter of help, the relatives and friends also took action, and successively sent some young women's youthful photos and briefings, every time my mother held the letter and photos and ran happily to Lin Mu's place, the two of them excitedly analyzed and discussed together, planning to invite the girl they liked to visit the small city or let Lin Yu take a long-distance bus with native products to visit the city where the girl worked, but when they put the good news and the girl Liying together in front of Lin Yu, he was surprisingly cold. Even with the photo that people thought was good, they sharply ridiculed and complained that their mother wanted to force the ugly woman that others did not want to give him, that scene made Lin Mu sad every time, my mother was embarrassed and had to squeeze out a smiley face to comfort the stimulated young teachers, and the teachers who gathered in the West Street Tea House to wait for the news received the news and only sighed, everyone did not expect that the marriage of a young middle school teacher with a good salary and good character in this small town was so difficult to handle.
With the frustrated, my mother's confidence in this matter also weakened day by day, but she never showed it in front of Lin Mu, and the once rich and decent boss lady had no hope for her younger son's life events in front of the ruthless reality, and felt in her heart that as long as there was a woman who could marry Lin Yu and start a family, it would be a matter of heart.
Mr. Xiao also chanted a few sentences from Zheng Banqiao's "Nian Nu Jiao Mo Shuo Lake" to comfort everyone, saying that "the word Mandarin duck is a good story of a red girl, but is it not?" How many heroes and children have brewed misfortunes..." So a group of small intellectuals in a bad mood drank tea and secretly sighed that the lively tea house also added a bit of desolation.
It can be said that the emperor has paid off the unremitting efforts of my mother, who has held her breath, and finally had an unexpected harvest in that hot summer. The news that the third aunt wanted to return to the small town to visit her relatives from the school where she taught in the deep part of the Daba Mountains during the summer vacation has been circulating in my matriarchal family for a long time, this kind and gentle female teacher left the comfortable town to teach in the poor mountainous area in response to the government's call to support the old revolutionary areas of Sichuan and Shaanxi in the early fifties.
My mother is quite close to this simple and elegant and warm sister, and she is warmly welcoming every time she comes along, and the clothing, food, shelter and transportation of the third aunt are also carefully arranged by my mother, which is simply the ability of her small family, and the deep friendship between the sisters without any conditions is a rare warm fire that gives people a lasting warmth in the years when the emotions are too strict.
The two sisters who have not been together for two years have an endless dragon gate array together, husbands and children, oil, salt and rice all let women worry about their stomachs, and some inconspicuous details are discovered by them and they also relish that they will smile at each other's interesting points, which is the return of years of hard work and love for women. Inadvertently, my mother mentioned the annoying marriage of the youngest son of the Lin family, and the third aunt was also very familiar with Lin Yu's situation and did not expect that a middle school teacher who had attended college would be so difficult to solve the marriage matter in the small town of his hometown.
After sighing, the enthusiastic third aunt began to search for her students or other women in her memory to see if she could help this distant cousin who was in a marital crisis, and simply thought that it would not be too difficult for a middle school teacher like Lin Yu, who was good in all aspects, to find a girl who matched him. When it was difficult, there were relatives and friends who were willing to help Lin Mu was grateful to kill chickens and thank her for being rejected by the third aunt who had always treated people in a low-key manner, saying that she went back to her hometown to visit relatives so that she wanted to do more housework with her husband and children for ten days, and she also made up for the debt in the weekdays, Lin Yu's cousin's help She must help but for a while she could not remember which familiar girl was more suitable for him, and Lin Mu, who was disturbed by her son's marriage, had few requirements, as long as a woman without disabilities and a job was willing to marry into the Lin family, Amitabha Buddha burned high incense.
(To be continued)