When the train was approaching "Chaigoubao", it was also lunch time. Passengers on the train took out their own dry food to fill their stomachs. The young couple sitting opposite Hong Yanwen took out a cup full of
The lunch box contains yellow oil cake.
Like the steamed buns from southern Shanxi and the noodles from central Jinzhong, the cake from Yanbei is also famous. How chewy is it? It is said that it can be used to tie up a dog when stretched.
Of course, this is undoubtedly an exaggeration, but eating cake is indeed a very grand event in Yanbei. This is not only because it is delicious and beautiful, but more importantly, "cake" and "gao" are homophonic.
Therefore, local people cannot do without it during weddings and funerals.
Due to the poverty in "Gedaling", Hong Yanwen only ate cake once in the eight years he came to Yanbei, and that was at the wedding of a girl from their educated youth center to a local villager...
Speaking of which, coming to a remote and barren area like "Gadaling" to "jump the queue" brings you all kinds of grievances and helplessness. But after all, there is one advantage compared to coming to the capital, that is, the political pressure is much less.
Because here, the peasants don’t know a single word, and the rich peasants don’t have any. No one even knows what the ingredients contained in the “five black categories” are. Everyone is thinking about how to fill their stomachs almost all day long.
Belly. So naturally, class struggle is also loose, and conferences and small meetings can be avoided as much as possible.
In short, this place is like a paradise, allowing Hong Yanwen to feel an extremely precious kind of relaxation and freedom.
As for the educated youth, actually being classified here means that everyone has some problems at home. Li Weiguo, the only child of the "revolutionary army", his father still made a "mistake" and was "knocked down".
Therefore, Huoyazi eats fat meat - no one is fat, and the three men and three women get along extremely harmoniously with each other, and they are so close that no one has the concept of being taller than the other.
Moreover, due to the fact that they get along day and night, and their lives are empty and lack supervision, as time goes by, when people get older, some relationships will undergo qualitative changes uncontrollably, and the seeds of love begin to sprout in the hearts of these young people.
It should be said that Hong Yanwen's outstanding appearance and the knowledge he accumulated from reading a lot of books in the past gave him a lot of points, which made him an absolute winner in the love field. Two girls from the same educated youth spot actually became
He married his girlfriend, but unfortunately, both relationships ended in failure.
Hong Yanwen's first love started because of a chat. He told "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich", which won him the favor of Tang Xiaojing from the "High School Affiliated to Normal University".
She was a delicate and lovely girl. Her father had gone to Japan to study, so her mother was Japanese. But in 1955, her mother returned to Japan in the name of visiting relatives, and there has been no news from her since.
Both of them are young and have the same appearance. They are of the same background, from the same family, and share the same problem. They both have similar hobbies, they have read a lot of books, and they both like singing. So their relationship quickly warmed up not long after it started.
, love to death.
The two of them traveled together to all the scenic places near "Gadaling". The two of them sat side by side under the night sky and watched the stars together every day. They were a pair deeply envied by other educated youths. Everyone felt that they were
A perfect match.
But in 1971, this situation began to take a turn. Because of her outstanding appearance, Tang Xiaojing unexpectedly recruited a job and became a waiter at the county guest house. Although the girl told Hong Yanwen that I would stay with you as long as you stay in the country, Hong Yanwen
After all, Yanwen couldn't really delay the girl's future, so he was moved and sent her to the county in person. From then on, the meeting between them became difficult.
Even though they only spent less time together and more separation, this relationship was actually able to be maintained by the deep affection of the two young people. The most critical blow came in 1972.
With the successful visit of Japanese Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka to China, my country's relations with Japan have undergone fundamental changes. Not only did the "Liubiju" in the capital reopened due to this major historical event, Tang Xiaojing's mother also normalized relations between the two countries. After being transformed, he returned to China and took his daughter away.
Therefore, after the Spring Festival in 1973, Hong Yanwen and Tang Xiaojing completely severed all contact.
However, the end of a relationship can also be said to be the beginning of a new relationship. Just when Hong Yanwen was tasting the pain of lovelorn in his heart, another relationship was actually sprouting silently.
The other two female educated youths at the "Gedaling" educated youth spot both came from the same middle school and were cousins of similar ages. The elder sister was called Lu Yanhua and the younger sister was called Lu Yanping. The older sister was raised by her uncle because of the death of her parents. The two sisters also
They are really almost like biological sisters.
It was this sister, Lu Yanhua, who had always had a crush on Hong Yanwen, but Tang Xiaojing got there first, so she kept her affection in her heart and never revealed it.
People at that time had a special characteristic when it came to relationships. If they fell in love with someone, they would stare at each other. Therefore, Lu Yanhua never accepted the love shown by other male educated youths. So after Tang Xiaojing left for a foreign country, she happened to return to the country again.
Get close to Hong Yanwen.
Although Lu Yanhua is also very beautiful, she and Tang Xiaojing are two completely opposite types of girls. If Tang Xiaojing represents enthusiasm and liveliness, then Lu Yanhua represents calmness and tranquility. She doesn't know how to play the harp with Hong Yanwen in the wind, snow and moon, she
They can only use firewood, rice, oil and salt, make fires to cook, sew and mend, wash and rinse to express their care for their loved ones.
Frankly speaking, for Hong Yanwen, at the beginning of this second relationship, he actually wanted to use substitutes to make up for the emotional trauma. But people are not grass and trees. With the other person's wholehearted dedication, as time goes by,
He also gradually began to reciprocate his true feelings.
And because the way of this relationship was more simple, it eventually became a love that was more unforgettable in his heart than his first love.
In 1976, Hong Yanwen and Lu Yanhua had already considered getting married here. However, a sudden accident completely separated them again.
What happened was that Li Weiguo and Liu Yangping were so bold that they secretly killed the village party secretary's dog because of their greed, and because Liu Yangping was still thinking about the bite.
The door was left open for three days, but a piece of dog skin was finally buried in the ground and dug out, exposing their crimes to the broad daylight.
The real reality is completely different from the romantic sentiments shown in many later movies and literary works. In this place, the village party secretary dominates the sky with one hand. The son of the village party secretary who came to visit with the villagers is definitely not magnanimous or tender. He
He gave the educated youth an ultimatum, either to pay 200 yuan or to let a female educated youth marry him. Otherwise, they would pay with their lives.
As a result, a conflict broke out on the spot, and Hong Yanwen was beaten unconscious on the spot. When he woke up again, he learned a piece of news that made him stupid on the spot. At the critical moment, Lu Yanhua, in order to protect the three men
In order to protect his sister's life, the educated youth actually agreed to marry the son of the village party secretary.
When Hong Yanwen heard this, he immediately got up from the bed and tried his best, but Li Weiguo and Liu Yangping, who had just almost died once, were afraid and knelt down in front of him together. Even Lu Yanping, who came after hearing the sound, also
She cried loudly and tried to pull him away, saying that if her sister didn't want to marry, she would have to marry him.
In this way, under the timidity and obstruction of these companions, Lu Yanhua finally became an excellent example of "taking root for a lifetime". Like Maupassant's "Ball of Suet", she used her love and future with Hong Yanwen in exchange for
Gain the peace of other educated youths.
So, how could Hong Yanwen be able to swallow those greasy cakes at the wedding? For him, no matter how rich the food was, it would probably be worth the dung.