In the years of browsing novels Part 2
The long novel "Railway Guerrilla", which I had so hard to obtain, was passed on to each other in the hands of my classmates, one by one, and even played the game of "guerrilla warfare". In the end, I don't know whose hands it fell on.
At that time, when I was still in school, I looked around for novels to read, but it was really not easy to find a novel in that era. In October 1970, the railway transportation office of my father's unit was completed from the original narrow gauge railway to a broad gauge railway project, and then handed over to the Liuzhou Railway Bureau to take over, and the train could directly come in to transport coal. In this way, the workers of the railway transport office where they were originally located were diverted to other enterprises.
The male owner of the neighbor who was only one wall away from our family was originally an engineer in his father's factory, and the male owner of the family was transferred to Liuzhou. The next morning, I went into the room they had vacated to see what valuable scrap there was. The ground was littered with discarded garbage. I looked up at the wall and stumbled upon a wooden board resting on the wall, with several books on it, and I thought excitedly, Wow, maybe it's a long novel!
So, I carried a wooden ladder from home to climb up, and it was clear that it was the textbook of several children in the homeowner's family. I flipped through it, and sure enough, there was a long novel in the middle, and there was no cover, and the front had torn off several pages. I opened it and quickly saw several familiar names", "Liu Hong, Fang Linjie, Wang Qiang...", which turned out to be the novel "Railway Guerrilla".
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I took the novel down excitedly, the surface area covered with dust, and I carefully patted it off and took it home as if I had picked it up.
I haven't seen the novel, but I've seen comic strips in the library. Therefore, the names of the characters in the book have always been deeply engraved in the heart, and I have wanted to find this novel many times and read it well. Unexpectedly, the treasure was actually treasured next door, and it was really a response to the famous saying: "Stepping on the iron shoes is nowhere to be found, and it takes no effort at all!" ”
Subsequently, I found a piece of kraft paper and carefully made the cover of the novel, for fear of breaking the inner page again.
My sister came back from outside, saw me wrapping books, and asked with interest: "Brother, what books do you pack, and the pages are yellow?" ”
I said to her, "This is Railway Guerrilla. ”
"Really, who did you borrow it from?"
I told her about getting the novel. At that time, my sister also liked to read novels, so she was very happy to learn that she had now unexpectedly obtained a copy of "Railway Guerrilla".
On the same day, I held the novel and buried my head in the wonderful plot, and I didn't want to do any housework. In the evening, my mother called me several times and urged me to go to the vegetables, and I had to put down the novel and reluctantly pick up the bucket and go out. When my sister saw this, she immediately picked up the novel and looked at it with relish...
Unexpectedly, when I was about to finish reading this novel, one day, the school teacher asked me to copy the wall and prepare to post it on the billboard of the vegetable market on New Year's Day. In the evening, I finished copying the poster and hurried home, not caring about eating, so I looked for the novel on the table, under the bed, and under the pillow, but I couldn't find it.
I wanted to ask my sister, but she wasn't home. I thought, could it be that she took the novel out? I complained to her in my heart, how can this old book be taken out, once it is found that it is a "yellow book", it will be bad to confiscate it.
When I was in a hurry, my sister returned. I hurriedly asked her where to put the novel? She told me that at noon, a classmate from her class came to visit the door and saw her holding "Railway Guerrilla." That classmate was also a fan of fiction. Before leaving, taking advantage of the fact that my sister was not paying attention, she picked up the book and left.
After my sister had eaten dinner, she was afraid that I would come back and blame her for not keeping the novel, so she immediately went to the classmate and wanted to get the novel back. The classmate just refused to give it, saying that he would let her see it for one night and return it tomorrow morning.
However, the next morning, I did not see the classmate return the book. My sister went to school and asked the classmate in the classroom. Who knows, the classmate said that a big sister in a certain class saw the novel in her hand on the road, and she snatched it up, saying that she would let him read it first and then return it.
As a result, the novel was passed on to each other in the hands of those classmates, one by one, and even played the game of "guerrilla warfare". In the end, I don't know whose hands it fell on. I was so angry that I almost vomited blood. I have not finished reading the novel "Railway Guerrilla", which I have not received unexpectedly, and finally I have not even seen its shadow.
The situation in which this literary work has been gained and lost has always been a regret in my heart. Fortunately, after the end of the Cultural Revolution, in the golden autumn of October 1985, I finally saw this novel in the Xinhua Bookstore in the bookcase, and I did not hesitate to pay for it immediately, and finally ended the regret of more than 10 years ago.
(The series of stories will continue in the years of browsing novels)