Spring Roll 2022
"All About Farewell" (Lu Nei)
Li Bai, a native of Wuli, born in December 1975, pen name Li Yibai. Writers, unmarried, teenage nostalgic romantic men (until middle age). When he was ten years old, his mother eloped with someone and did not know the end. He has talked about more than a dozen loves, written two or three books, and the novel "The Past of Prince Lane" has been shortlisted for the Chen Liangcai Literature Award. Father Li Zhongzhong, deputy director of the agricultural machinery factory, firefighting hero model, future Alzheimer's disease patients. This book chronicles the joys and sorrows of the father and son's life from 1985 to 2019.
Everything about saying goodbye
Inside the road
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Taizi Lane is not far from the center of Wuli, from Minzhu Road into Hongzhuan Street, passing through the post office, neighborhood committee, tobacco shop, cadre guest house side door, public toilet, is the entrance to the lane. The above is the pattern of the eighties. Since it is a dead end, there are only eight house numbers in the alley. Published in 2004, The Story of Prince Lane fictionalizes a noisy, chaotic side street that houses the protagonist and his three girlfriends, which are eventually destroyed by fire (symbolizing the end of the protagonist playing with fire and self-immolation). In fact, the real Prince Lane is very quiet, except for Li Bai's father, Li Zhongzhong, who accidentally blew up the public toilet cesspool, there has never been even a large or small fire alarm.
Li Bai's family lived at No. 3 Prince Lane, two low-rise tile houses, and a kitchen made of linoleum cloth. Zeng Xiaoran and her mother Yu Guanzhi lived in No. 8 at the bottom of the alley, a gloomy southern ancient house, with more than twenty families, turning over the promenade, patio, guest hall, climbing up the stairs to the second floor, a fifteen-square-meter cottage is her home, all four walls are wooden planks, a row of north-facing fancy long windows, usually not sunburned, and cold into the bone marrow in winter.
Xiao Ran's father died of illness in 1984, and her family was the only single-parent family in Prince Lane, but soon Li Zhongzhong and Li Bai, a bitter father and son, also joined the ranks.
Li Zhongzhong was originally a casting worker in the agricultural machinery factory, with a pointed head, a thin body, wearing two pairs of the same labor cloth overalls all year round, the family's body was cleaner, and the oil in the factory could stick to cockroaches. In the fire of the agricultural machinery factory in 1984, Li Zhongzhong frantically rushed into the fire and dragged out a comatose worker, this oily overalls mixed with his acrylic sweater on the back of the fire, making a surprising crackling sound, he fell down, rolled on the ground and was beaten dozens of times by the workers with brooms, rescued by the People's Hospital, leaving a circular scar the size of a pot lid on his back, a bit like a turtle shell. Since then, in the factory bathroom, the workers have had an impulse to write words on the scar, such as "courage", such as "demolition". In 1985, Li Zhongzhong won the title of heroic model, met the big leader in the provincial city, and at the same time broke through the rules and worked as a clerk in the supply and marketing department. Two months later, the Supply and Marketing Section was promoted to deputy section chief because of embezzlement of public funds and private storage of small treasuries, and all the staff squatted down, but Li Zhongzhong was dumbfounded and survived, so he was promoted to deputy section chief. At this time he went to the factory bathroom to take a shower, and everyone just wanted to write a "Fu" word on his scar.
However, Li Bai's mother, Bai Shuzhen, eloped with someone.
People can't understand why she chose to leave after Li Zhongzhong's promotion, and people suspect that he burned more than just his back (which was later relieved by a bathhouse examination). In 1985, during a fierce tsunami-style quarrel, Bai Shuzhen held up Li Zhongzhong's heroic model award on the wall, smashed it on the ground along with the mirror frame, and a glass ballast crossed Li Bai's calf, leaving a blood bar. Unable to bear it (for the award, not for the son), Lee raised his hand to give her a slap and ended their decade-long wrong marriage.
What happened? Li Bai was nine years old, and had just eaten half of the sweet eleventh birthday cake (yes, many of the things he thought happened to the age of seventeen or eighteen, but actually fifteen or sixteen years old, which caused his memory to always go wrong), the remaining half was placed on the chest of drawers, continued to eat, and was cut through the mouth by another glass ballast in the cream, which shows how powerful and thorough Bai Shuzhen's smashing is. Disaster, disaster is instantaneous destruction, long silence. Soon, all traces of her in the family were swept away by Li Zhongzhong, including the name she signed on Li Bai's homework book, and was also ordered to wipe it clean. Li Bai was confused and unclear, so it was Zeng Xiaoran who calmly told him: "Your mother has put a green hat on your father." Li Bai asked, "What is a green hat?" Zeng Xiaoran patted his head and said, "Just be with other men." ”
Years later, he wrote in the novel: This story begins with a climax, and then it is a long foreshadowing. Bai Shuzhen did not return, he waited until the summer, the family was full of dirty clothes, the food was steamy, and the grapes in the patio grew wildly but did not bear a single fruit. All summer vacation Li Bai ate cucumbers, and one day he asked Li Zhongzhong: "Daddy, cucumbers are obviously green, why are they called cucumbers?" Li Zhongzhong couldn't hear the green word and gave him a kick. And because half of Li Bai's name belonged to Bai Shuzhen, Li Zhongzhong changed his name and gave Li Bai several plans: Li Shengli (paired with loyalty), Li Xiaocheng (who sounded like Li Ka-shing's son), Li John (who was generous with foreign spirits), Li Xi (the plan he wanted from Mr. Zizi), and Li Xiaoye (obviously copied Zeng Xiaoran). Later, the director of the neighborhood committee laughed and said: "White is very good, otherwise, what color does your son want to change to?" Li Zhongzhong rose up and tore up with the director, and the police came to educate him.
Li Bai of Prince Lane, pen name Li Yibai, called himself Li Taibai, known as Wu Li's second talent, but that was after he became an adult. Throughout the late eighties, his name was: Son of Lee Tortoise.
"They called you Li Tortoise, which tired me." He told his father the news, which was extremely masochistic, and in times of pain he would ask for a violent beating in this way, but this time he saw Li Zhongzhong paralyzed at the dinner table. In the night, Li Bai heard his father muttering in bed: I want all the men in Prince Lane to be turtles. Later, he changed his speech: all married men of the right age. Later, he explained himself: It's too hard, go to sleep. Since Bai Shuzhen left, Li Zhongzhong has developed the habit of talking to himself, sometimes comforting himself with the shadow that fell on the wall, and sometimes confronting some kind of breath that pervades the room.
"Your mother didn't elope with anyone, and she and I are in a formal divorce." On his twelfth birthday (there was no cake left), Li Zhongzhong was ashamed to tell Li Bai. He suddenly realized and walked out of the house.
"Son of a bitch." A group of people laughed and told him.
【Selected reading, the full text is published in the "Harvest" novel 2022 spring volume]
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