As the saying goes, "red face and thin life", the school flower of our school, the female class leader of our class", "Pan Renmei", was raped in the collective household. Within a few days, the cadre of the brigade was shot, and "Pan Renmei" returned to the city to assign work.
When I entered junior high school in 1965, I was 13 years old. My classmates were two or three years older than me, and the female class leader was four years older than me. She was beautiful, tall, had leadership skills, organized skills, spoke and did things vigorously, and in today's terms, she was a strong woman. Because she was beautiful, her classmates nicknamed her "Pan Damei", and those who called her around were called "Pan Renmei".
People are afraid of nicknames, they are afraid of taking the trail, and many old sayings make sense. By 1972, "Pan Renmei" was 24 years old, and in that era, rural girls were not married at the age of 20, even if they were older leftover women. "Pan Renmei" got married after returning to the city, and my classmate Shoko told me the news, and I also went to her wedding, when all 15 of us in a collective household were present.
On the day of "Pan Renmei's" wedding, we went to send relatives as a mother's family, and when we saw the groom's official, the classmates shed tears. "Pan Renmei" is 24 years old, 1m72 tall, and her long and convex figure cannot be expressed in words. The groom was 32 years old, about the same height as me, old and ugly, and this man was not without merit, he was like Wu Dalang, with a good temper and weakness. The students were very sorry, "Pan Renmei" did not look at it that way. She said to us:
"I am full of storms and storms in this matter, I can marry out, and if someone is willing to marry me as a wife, I will be satisfied."
"Pan Renmei" got married, and I gave four gifts, a hairpin with a different hairpin on my head, a small mirror, a washbasin, and a small diary. I said to her at the time:
"Send you a hairpin, meaning that your life starts from the beginning; send you a washbasin, a small mirror, meaning that you wash your heart and face, life from a new beginning; send you a diary, meaning that the friendship of our classmates will never be forgotten." 」
The students were together, recalling that in the 1966 movement, "Pan Renmei" led us to engage in great criticism, led us to enter Beijing in a big series, and led us to go up to the mountains and go to the countryside to become intellectual youth. Looking back on the past, some of my classmates cried bitterly, some laughed, and the things she helped me in the collective household made me unforgettable.
Since that separation, more than forty years have passed. By 2015, I was in my sixties! My wife and I went to Jiutai Nanshan Park to exercise, and at the gate of the park, I met "Pan Renmei". I hadn't seen her for more than forty years, and I recognized it at a glance, an old lady in her seventies, she was still so pretty, her waist was straight, and her temperament was very good. I said to her:
"Old classmate, do you still know me?"
She looked at me carefully and shook her head, indicating that she didn't know who I was. When I was a child, I heard people say that the height of a boy jumped twenty-three times, but I was 63 years old, and my height did not jump up. When I was younger, I was 1m63 tall, now less than 1m60, I am full of wrinkles, bald and bent, she does not recognize me is also normal. I said to her:
"I am Liu Jinglong."
Hearing me say her name, she immediately remembered me. She said:
"Liu Jinglong! I haven't forgotten that name, you're studying pretty well. ”
When I was reading, I was young, small, mixed in the crowd, and couldn't get people's attention. But my academic performance was at the top, I jumped a year when I was in elementary school, and I was always in the top three in the exams. After a semester in junior high school, the school was closed, and I wrote big character newspapers, drew cartoons, and carved steel plates with wax paper, all of which I did with ease.
"Pan Renmei" now lives in a neighborhood with me, and since she retired, she has organized a group of yangge teams. I was invited to play with her several times, but I was an introverted person who didn't want to show my face outside, but we often saw each other and reminisced about the past.
Classmate Junko was the last to return from the collective household, he spent eight years in the countryside, in his own words, he experienced eight years of resistance in the rural collective household. In 1972, after the female squad leader "Pan Renmei" returned to the city to get married, Junko also got married in the winter. He married a daughter-in-law from the countryside, and he didn't look very good.
It seems that God is not fair, fate is such a trick. "Pan Renmei" is a big beauty, but she is married to an ugly and old man. Shunzi was a handsome young man, but he married a rural wife, Shunzi married in the countryside, took root in the countryside, at that time was praised by the superior leaders, he was transferred to the township government.
Almost all the classmates of the collective household have returned to the city, Junzi and his father have been in prison because of gambling, and his mother has pasted cartons in the Wuqi Factory, and he cannot take his parents' class back to the city to participate in work. Junko is a man of great brains, who conforms to nature, sees the wind and steers, and will seize the opportunity.
When Junko got married, I went to the wedding with my classmates. I also gave him four gifts, a pen, a pair of insoles, a pair of pillows, and a large teapot for drinking water. These four gifts also have meanings, a pen records a beautiful life; a pair of insoles indicate that we should be down-to-earth; a pair of pillow towels show that we both have affection for each other; a tea pot that drinks water, indicating that drinking water does not forget the person who digs the well, this description is not very appropriate, that is, it does not forget the meaning of friendship. I've been in contact with Junko for decades, and his story is in a future article.
From 1969 to 1972, Wu Jie and I have been together for four years, and in these four years, I did not go to her house once, and she came to my house with gifts every New Year's Day. When I arrived at my house, I helped my mother to work, cooking on the fire, removing and washing bedding, sewing clothes, and catching lice for my sister. After dinner, I sent her back to her eldest sister's house, and for four years I hadn't even touched her hand, and this time I had an idea, and I deliberately approached her.
My brother and my sister-in-law went back to my father-in-law's house with the children, and I stayed at my brother's house every night, showing him the house, and I kept the key to open the door. I took Wu Jie to my brother's house, and during the day I had already heated the kang, and when I walked into the house from the outside, I felt very warm in the house.
Wu Jie wore a cotton military hat, a large mask on his face, and a green military uniform on the outside of the cotton jacket, which was also the most fashionable dress for young people at that time. This year Wu Jie was 22 years old, 1m68 tall, we had been with each other for four years, and I had never carefully observed her before.
She is not fat or thin, not tall or short, and I can't express it in words, otherwise the platform review will say that the scale of my description is too large. Before, I never wanted to take care of her, because I had someone else in my heart, at first there was a circle, and then there was Yaqin, and I was not a big heart, and I could only hold one woman in my heart.
Now that I have put Wu Jie in my heart, I want to show it with practical actions. I asked Wu Jie to go into the house and prepare to spend the night with her at my brother's house. But she stood in the middle of the house, her ass not even touching the edge of the kang. Wu Jie wore a hat, the mask was not taken off, she was 22 years old and understood everything, and she knew my intentions. Wu Jie said to me very seriously:
"Jing Long, we've known each other for four years. At my age, the girls in our village are married and have children. If you don't want me now, my life will be over, but I can't be with you without marriage. ”
Listening to what she said, my heart was cold, my heart was also warm, although I was a little unwilling, but I also thought that she was not wrong in this way. Wu Jie said to me in a serious tone:
"Jing Long, we are also old and not small, we have been together for four years and know each other, when will we get married?" I don't ask for anything, I don't want a bride price, I just ask you to marry me soon, I can't wait any longer. If you disagree with me and are not satisfied with me, you will quickly tell me that I will find my own home sooner. ”
I said, "Get married next May Day." ”
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