Yu Ding: Past Events in Jiangtun (3)

Yu Ding: Past Events in Jiangtun (3) Phoenix Yu Ding At that time, a female classmate kept communicating with me, and her meaning was expressed very clearly. However, my parents are different...

Phoenix City Yu Ding

At that time, a female classmate kept communicating with me, and her meaning was very clear. However, my parents didn't agree and I was very confused.

In 1968, I went to the countryside and she went to the Production and Construction Corps. Originally, the Corps was not much better than the countryside, but soon she became a reporter for the "Corps War Report" and no longer had to work. Her father is a university professor. Although he was criticized during the Cultural Revolution, he was "liberated" early. Her father had some connections and transferred her to the reporter station of the "Corps Battle Report" in the provincial capital, and she had actually left the Corps.

She is the only girl in her family, and she is the apple of her father's eye. Accordion, violin, roller skates, etc., she bought whatever she wanted. As a reporter for the Corps, she also learned photography, horse riding, and shooting.

When she was in the same class, her studies were average. She worked as a reporter for several years and became a literary youth. The letters to me were all written on two A-size papers. Because they were overweight, each letter had to be affixed with several stamps.

Her letters often tell me what world famous books she has read recently, and then her thoughts after reading several major chapters. Let me also read that book and write my thoughts after reading it. Or write a review of her review.

She once asked me to look at a certain star at a certain time on a certain day, saying that she would also look at that star at that time, so that we could have spiritual communication, emotional communication, and make true confessions to the stars.

She also sent me answer sheets more than once, asking me to fill in: favorite color, favorite food, most admired celebrity, most disgusted personality,,,,,,.

Whenever I received a letter from her, my father lectured me righteously: "Son, we can't mess with a girl like this. You have been a farmer all your life. How can you look at the stars and answer papers the next. Just get a wife and live a good life in the countryside!" I felt that what my father said was reasonable, and gradually he stopped replying to letters.

When I went to the countryside, I was twenty-two and my eldest brother was twenty. In the countryside, we are both the age when we should marry a wife. Maybe it’s because I don’t have much contact with society, but I don’t have a strong desire to marry a wife.

I matured quite late. I am already in high school, and I still don’t know why chickens can float out of eggs. Once, I asked my father, who is engaged in breeding high-quality sheep, and he told me that roosters and hens also ejaculate through mating. The semen is stored in the hen's body. When the egg is formed, it is first combined with the sperm and then wrapped in an eggshell. After that, I noticed that roosters and hens do behave like that, that is, "roosters step on eggs."

Children in rural areas should mature early. Not only are there live demonstrations of horses, cows, pigs and sheep at any time and anywhere, but the words and deeds of adults are also ubiquitous. Although the talk at the beginning of the meeting was all about learning from Dazhai in agriculture, grasping the revolution to promote production, fighting against selfishness and criticizing revisionists,,,,,,. But in the fields, the adults told all dirty jokes, not even a combination of meat and vegetables, just meat and vegetables. The young and old girls listened, and their faces were neither red nor white. San Huzi, who is two years younger than me, is not only willing to listen and good at speaking, but he can also perform "cock stepping on eggs", which is a "unique skill" recognized by men and women in the whole village.

Whenever the village members gathered in front of the "big elimination school" and Sanhuzi was in a good mood, he would almost do a "rooster stepping on the egg". He first distanced himself from the eldest daughter-in-law and the younger daughter-in-law, and began to stand on one leg, flapping his arms up and down, and turning his head back and forth, indicating that the big rooster was preening its feathers, cheering up, and preparing to attack. If the old lady finds out at this time, she will howl loudly: "Run quickly, the three tigers are coming!" I don't know whether it is fear or excitement, the wives are laughing and shouting, running around. Soon enough, Sanhuzi would spread his arms like an eagle, run in an arc in the yard, and then catch the target. He would run up behind the old woman and grab a lock of her hair. One leg was supported, the other leg was raised, spasmodically, and the whole body was shaking. The old woman seemed to have been "stepped on" and shouted desperately: "Here, help!" At this time, her husband often laughs too. It wasn't until Sanhuzi's twitching leg became slower and slower, and his whole body stopped shaking, that the old man symbolically began to chase Sanhuzi, and there was a chorus of laughter and shouts...

At that time, I didn’t expect that I would be able to return to the city, take the college entrance examination, and recruit workers. My father often said: "People can be farmers for generations, why can't we? Three generations back in our family, your great-grandfather was also a farmer. He came here from Guandong on a pick-up truck..."

> Brother Yang Qi introduced me to someone. My parents were very happy, but when they heard that it was Da Zhenzi, the women's captain, they lost their confidence and knew that I couldn't pass this test.

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Dazhenzi was about the same age as me, and she was almost a leftover girl in the countryside at that time. He is a tall man of 1.7 meters and has a sturdy back. He is usually serious in speech, has a loud voice that makes Hong Zhong angry, and does farm work like a good old man. The biggest feature of Dazhenzi is that she is extremely dark. Originally, everyone worked in the fields all day long and was exposed to the wind and sun, so no one could turn white. But she is really dark, a bit like black people. If she puts on a dragon robe and a beard, she will be the female version of Bao Qingtian. When this girl comes home, let alone Chen Shimei, even if you are asked to be a dynasty mahan, you will still be afraid to stand next to her!

Brother Yang Qi saw that my family members didn’t get along with each other, so he didn’t say anything in depth. Later, my parents and I both felt that Brother Yang Qi said that he introduced Dazhenzi to me just to test his feelings. In fact, he wanted to give me his daughter Xiaoqing as his wife. Xiaoqing is one year younger than me, so he is already quite a bit older. The year before last, Xiaoqing's sister Lanzi married the son of brigade secretary Han Big Er, and now she has brought out the children. The elder sister has not yet left the cabinet, and the younger sister is a baby. Xiaoqing must be "Alexander".

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When Brother Yang Qi comes to my house, nine times out of ten, Xiao Qing will come to see his dad. There is always something going on at home, and his dad is not in a hurry to leave, so Xiao Qing will sit with his dad at my house for a while. Sometimes Brother Yang Qi calls Xiaoqing over and brings some red potion and bandages to my house. Xiaoqing is the "barefoot doctor" in the village. He actually has a medicine box, and the brigade gives out some medicine from time to time.

Xiao Qing is not tall, not good-looking, nor ugly. The people are quite sensible, but their education is too low. It seems that they only went to school for three years. My father told Brother Yang Qi: "Your Xiaoqing is a good boy, but didn't my bastard son go to high school? I don't know how high the world is. I have to find a middle school student, at least a primary school graduate..." Brother Yang Qi is a sensible person and never mentions Xiao Qing again. When my father's words spread, the other girls in the village were also "blocked". It is sad but also gratifying that none of the girls in the village have graduated from elementary school.

Yang Qi Ge is the captain, unlike Shen Fu, who leads the members to work in the fields every day. Brother Yang Qi often went to the brigade, the commune, and the front and rear villages to do things. This also includes introducing people to me. Brother Qi was kind-hearted and knew that there was no suitable person in this village, so he took me to Houjiangjia, Duanjiadian, Xiaojiagangzi, etc. to go on a blind date. I even went to the Wangjia Commune on the other side of the river, but I didn't find anyone suitable.

Once, Brother Qi took me to Wushu Commune and met a girl who said she had studied in a rural middle school for one year. The girl had pretty features, but she was wearing rouge, her hair was permed, and she felt a little uncomfortable. When I came back and told Sanhuzi, Sanhuzi rode his bicycle to Wukeshu the next day. He came back and said to me: "You can't have that girl. The child was born in the corn field last year. His father hung him up and beat him, but he didn't even ask who the child was." Later, he became anxious and shouted to his father, "It's yours! It's yours!" He was so angry that he passed away on the spot.

Later, Brother Yang Qi also heard about this girl and wanted to have a good meal with my family.

(unfinished, to be continued)

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