Father's Land Mother's River

Chapter 54
In the afternoon of the day shift, Zhang Shiyao received a call from the workshop director, asking him if a farmer rotation worker named Liu Xiaonan was working in his section.He said yes, and the workshop director asked him to take Liu Xiaonan to the workshop office.

Putting down the phone, Zhang Shiyao couldn't figure it out. The workshop director didn't say anything. He didn't even know which section Liu Xiaonan worked in. What can I do with him?
One thing is certain, this group of migrant workers has been working in the factory for almost a year, and most of them have become the backbone of production, playing a vital role in various positions.

Liu Xiaonan, in particular, used his spare time to organize blackboard newspapers for the workshop and sections, and the workshop was registered.Could it be to mobilize Liu Xiaonan's work?

Zhang Shiyao greeted Wang Aiqing first, asked someone to replace Liu Xiaonan, and led him to the workshop office.On the way, Zhang Shiyao told Liu Xiaonan to be polite when meeting the workshop leaders, be more polite and humble, and obey the assignment if they are transferred.

He felt that the workshop director wanted to see Liu Xiaonan suddenly because he wanted to reuse him, so he talked to him in advance to find out.

Liu Xiaonan agreed one by one, even though she didn't know exactly what the workshop was looking for her.He hadn't met the workshop leader yet, so he was very upset.

When he came to the workshop office, Zhang Shiyao knocked on the door and walked in first. He saw the workshop director and several political leaders were there, as well as a strange middle-aged man.He was about to turn around and introduce a few workshop leaders to Liu Xiaonan, but he saw Liu Xiaonan shaking hands with a strange man as if no one else was there, and excitedly calling out to Teacher Zhao.

What Zhang Shiyao didn't expect was that the leaders of the workshop seemed to know Liu Xiaonan very well, shook hands with him enthusiastically, and beckoned him to sit down.Seeing this situation, it would be superfluous to intervene to make an introduction, so he tactfully sat aside.

The strange man in Zhang Shiyao's eyes was Zhao Guangzhi.Zhao Guangzhi pulled Liu Xiaonan to sit beside him, and explained: "The novel draft of "Congjun Ji" that you handed to me last time caused quite a stir in our editorial department, and everyone agreed that you described it from a completely new angle. War, with novel and unique characters and plots, is a rare war-themed novel. The editor-in-chief also greatly appreciated it after reading it, and designated you as a literary youth that the Federation of Literary and Art Circles will focus on cultivating. Let me recommend this novella of yours to The literary publication sponsored by the Provincial Federation of Literary and Art Circles aims to help you go further."

Liu Xiaonan's gratitude was beyond words, so she could only say thank you dryly.

Zhao Guangzhi handed the large envelope and a remittance slip to Liu Xiaonan, and said happily: "Your "Congjun Ji" was published on the first issue of the ninth issue of the provincial magazine, which shows that it has also been affirmed and valued by the Provincial Federation of Literary and Art Circles. What worries. Because I used the address of our editorial department, the provincial magazine sent the books and manuscript fees to me. I sent them to you when I had nothing to do this afternoon. I also wanted to know about your work and life. .I went to the dormitory to look for you, and the dormitory administrator said you were at work, so I found your workshop."

Liu Xiaonan tried her best to control the excitement and excitement in her heart, and opened the envelope. It was two publications of the Provincial Federation of Literary and Art Circles. After a quick glance, "Congjun Ji" was indeed published on the first page.He gave one publication to the workshop leader and the other to Zhang Shiyao.

The leaders of the weaving workshop were obviously shocked, and I am afraid that they will have to look at rural workers from a different perspective in the future.

They probably knew that there was a farmer rotation worker who ran a good blackboard newspaper before, but they didn't expect that he could write novels and get the attention of the Municipal Federation of Literary and Art Circles. They couldn't find such a person after searching the whole factory.The conversation between Editor Zhao and Liu Xiaonan attracted their attention.

Zhao Guangzhi asked Liu Xiaonan: "I have a general understanding of your accommodation situation. The dormitory is crowded and you work night shifts. I want to know how you usually write."

Liu Xiaonan said shyly, "I wrote lying on the bed when other people were sleeping, and when the dormitory was not quiet, I went to the stairs on the top floor to write. I didn't go home during the holidays, and I was the only one left in the dormitory. It was quiet and no one disturbed me. "

Zhao Guangzhi nodded and said, "It's not a bad thing to suffer a little when you are young. I believe that you will write more and better works. My colleagues in the editorial department and I will also give you great support."

This sentence was actually addressed to those workshop leaders, hoping that they could improve Liu Xiaonan's living and working conditions, so he stood up and said goodbye.

Liu Xiaonan sent Zhao Guangzhi out of the factory, and when they parted, Zhao Guangzhi said to Liu Xiaonan: "I am not lying, you are indeed the key training object of our city's Federation of Literary and Art Circles, and you can only be convincing if you come up with better works. Young man, the road ahead is still to come." It's long, try hard."

Liu Xiaonan watched Teacher Zhao leave, stood at the gate of the factory to calm down a little, and then went to the office of Duan Zhang to find Zhang Shiyao, and explained why he didn't learn to be a car driver in the first place, Zhang Shiyao expressed his understanding.

Back at work, Wang Aiqing asked the workshop what he wanted with concern, and he said he would go to her home to talk about it at night.

After get off work, Liu Xiaonan and Wang Aiqing went to the vegetable market together. He showed Wang Aiqing a remittance slip worth several hundred dollars, and said that he would borrow her stove tonight as a treat.Wang Aiqing readily agreed, she was happier than Liu Xiaonan.

Liu Xiaonan bought fish, meat, vegetables and beer, drank and chatted with Wang Aiqing's couple at Wang Aiqing's house, and returned to the dormitory very late.

People in the same dormitory are getting ready for bed.Yu Zhiyong told Liu Xiaonan that several groups of people came at night, some from the workshop, some from the factory department, some from the labor union, and some from the Youth League Committee.

Liu Xiaonan was secretly amused, it was precisely because of this that he hid in Wang Aiqing's house.The secret of writing novels has been revealed, and there will be no peace in the future.

Liu Xiaonan handed over two packs of cigarettes and a bag of oranges to Yu Zhiyong and asked him to share them with everyone.

Yu Zhiyong distributed cigarettes and oranges, and told everyone that Liu Xiaonan's success alone was also an honor to everyone. In order not to disturb everyone's rest, he went to the top of the building to sit on the steps to write novels at night, and everyone must support him in the future.

In the next few days, relevant personnel from the workshop and the factory department all talked to Liu Xiaonan, expressing condolences, praise and support. The bulletin board of the factory committee and the factory radio station also vigorously publicized his achievements.

However, the person he had been vaguely looking forward to had never appeared.This is not surprising, in line with her always high character.

At Wang Aiqing's house that day, Wang Aiqing asked him if he still wanted to meet her?He said he was unwilling, at least he would not take the initiative to meet each other.Wang Aiqing said it was very interesting, let's see who of you can hold your breath.

If you don't see it, you won't see it, what's the matter!Anyway, I don't expect you to lend me books now, I can write books myself.

night shift.When he was about to get off work, Liu Xiaonan suddenly asked Guan Xiaoyun if he would go home after two days of rest, he wanted to go home, and he wanted to go back together.

Guan Xiaoyun was surprised: "National Day is coming soon, why go home now? Do you want to go home during the holidays?"

Liu Xiaonan said: "Going home for the National Day, today I just want to go home and have a look, and I want to hide and relax."

Guan Xiaoyun said: "If you want to go back by yourself, I won't imitate your elusiveness and make the family confused. No, you are hiding from that 'harmful spirit' right? You still don't want to meet her?"

Liu Xiaonan nodded.Just as he was talking, Zhang Shiyao came to find Liu Xiaonan, saying that someone was looking for him and asked him to go to Duan Chang's office by himself.Liu Xiaonan asked who was looking for him, but Zhang Shiyao was told not to disclose it in advance, only that it was from the factory youth league committee.

There seemed to be some kind of premonition, amidst the faint expectations, a trace of timidity suddenly emerged from the bottom of my heart.Liu Xiaonan came to Chief Duan's office and paused for a moment before knocking on the door.

A female voice came from inside: "Please come in."

The voice is somewhat familiar, which can basically be confirmed.Liu Xiaonan opened the door and walked in. He saw a young woman sitting in front of the desk, wearing the light gray overalls of a factory-level plumbing worker, with shawl hair and a simple but serious face.Sitting upright, he only glanced at him, with an air of refusal to stand thousands of miles away.

It is not unfamiliar to say that it is strange, and it is not familiar to say that it is familiar, but an insurmountable sense of distance is clearly discernible, and it is not an exaggeration to treat it as a stranger.Even though I had rehearsed the scenes of meeting countless times in my heart, my heart still couldn't help beating wildly.

Liu Xiaonan stood where she was, and asked in a muffled voice with no expression on her face: "You looking for me?"

The other party pointed to the chair opposite, and replied briefly: "Yes. I am from the Youth League Committee of the factory. I want to ask you for some information. Please sit down."

Liu Xiaonan sat down, leaned back on the back of the chair, put her arms around her shoulders, and looked at the "factory youth league committee" opposite without saying a word.

The "Factory Youth League Committee" put his arms flat on the armrests of the chair, tapped his fingers lightly, and a pair of bright eyes with unknown meanings looked straight at him curiously and provocatively, as if he wanted to see through the man opposite him at a glance. A country boy in a hostile state.

The noise of the loom came in faintly through the crack of the door, covering up the sound of each other's heartbeats.The seemingly peaceful atmosphere was filled with the smell of gunpowder, cold and suffocating, as if it would not be enough to thaw without a spark.

After a moment of confrontation, the "Factory Youth League Committee" took the lead to break the deadlock and asked, "When did you start writing novels?"

Liu Xiaonan replied, "After graduating from high school."

"How did you get into this path of literary writing?"

"I don't want to hoe and drill several furrows into the cow's back, I want to find another way out for myself."

"I know what it means to count the furrows with a hoe, isn't it just farming. But what does it mean to drill the back of a cow? Have you ever drilled?"

"It's a rude way to deal with cattle. It doesn't mean you have to put your head in the cow's buttocks. Rural people are uneducated and don't speak well. Don't take it seriously if your ears are dirty."

"Not necessarily? Can you write novels without education?"

"Blind writing."

"I have a touching story that can be written into a very good novel, would you like to hear it?"

"It doesn't hurt to listen."

"When I was thirteen or fourteen years old, I followed my parents to the countryside and met a young friend. We were only together for a little over two years, but we formed a deep friendship. On the morning I returned to the city, he Someone sneaked into the river to touch crabs for me. Adults dare not go into the water in the October weather. He knew that I love crabs. In order to express his heart for the last time, he jumped into the river early in the morning and his lips were frozen Turned blue and trembling all over. On the way back to the city, I looked at the dozen or so crabs in my hand and kept crying, worried that he was suffering from cold. If I remember correctly, he was only 13 years old that year.”

Liu Xiaonan said blankly, "That young friend of yours is really stupid."

"The member of the Youth League Committee of the factory" was obsessed with his face: "Silly is a little stupid, but I can't forget him. Back in the city, I didn't even want to eat any of the dozen or so crabs, so I put them in a big basin." Keep them, watch them every day and feed them something. But if you don’t feed them, they all die.”

"You're stupid enough."

"Later, I made many new friends, but no one could replace him in my heart. After I grew up, I always looked forward to meeting him, and wanted to see what he would look like when he grew up. So stupid. To my disappointment, when he grows up, he becomes ruthless, doesn't care about our childhood friendship, and is arrogant and fake."

Liu Xiaonan stood up abruptly and shouted loudly: "It was you who hinted first and set up obstacles in advance."

The "Factory Youth League Committee" slapped the table and stood up, and asked bluntly: "So you published the novel and deliberately concealed it, just to keep me from knowing, isn't it?"

"Gu Yu! Can you be reasonable? Don't think I'm still afraid of you like I was when I was a child."

"Liu Xiaonan! You've grown up, aren't you? Dare to yell at me, do you think I can't control you now?"

Hearing the quarrel between the two, Zhang Shiyao opened the door and came in, persuading Liu Xiaonan: "Xiaonan, how can you quarrel with comrades from the Youth League Committee? Talk it out if you have something to say."

Liu Xiaonan sat down.Gu Yu smiled and explained to Zhang Shiyao: "Mr. Zhang, Xiaonan and I have known each other for a long time, and we are used to bickering."

Zhang Shiyao gave Liu Xiaonan a suspicious look, walked out of the office and closed the door.

Gu Yu deliberately leaned over the desk to observe Liu Xiaonan's angry appearance, with a playful look in his fiery eyes, and said with a smile on his face, "Okay, I haven't seen you in [-], as you grow up, your temper is also good. "

Liu Xiaonan felt uncomfortable being stared at, and said conciliatoryly, "I'm sorry! I didn't want to argue with you. I just don't understand. I see you whenever you want, and you don't see me if you don't want to. It's no big deal. Why do you want to hint at me through the bulletin board? Test my IQ? Fortunately, I am not stupid."

Gu Yu sat down and said: "In my impression, you should be admitted to a university, or at least a technical secondary school. The textile factory came to your township to recruit workers. I checked the list to see if there were any familiar people. I was very surprised when I saw your name. Later, I found out that you were assigned to the weaving workshop, so I asked my master to ask you to join her team, in order to understand your specific situation. After graduating from the light industry school, I entered I work in a factory. Wang Aiqing was my master during my internship. I asked her to take care of you. I don’t know how to meet you so as not to hurt your self-esteem, so I hinted at you through the bulletin board. Are you satisfied with my explanation? "

Liu Xiaonan smiled embarrassingly: "Actually, I don't need your explanation. In that case, seeing each other is worse than not seeing each other. When I went to the beach for vacation, I thought you could organize activities and wanted to take a sneak peek at you, but I didn't see you." .”

Gu Yu said triumphantly: "After publishing two novels, I still don't want to see me. I have to wait until my shoulders are even. I am very angry. I am very angry. When you are on vacation, I should go there. I will switch with someone else." After a while, the purpose is to prevent you from seeing me secretly. I didn't expect that everything about you is under my control."

Liu Xiaonan slapped his forehead: "No wonder Master Wang gave me a lot of hints."

Gu Yu pretended to be aggrieved and said: "I've read all the novels, it's great! When I thought about it, he is now a key training target of the Federation of Literary and Art Circles, and he is no longer that silly boy in the countryside. His proud little tail must be raised to the sky. People who take the initiative will not see me. I ran here early in the morning to meet the future great writer."

Liu Xiaonan became more and more embarrassed, and said embarrassingly: "Don't complain, it's because I can't do it."

Gu Yu said: "It's not good to just talk about it, there is no sincerity. Tomorrow is Sunday, and you are also on holiday. You are not allowed to go anywhere after work. Get a good sleep. I will go to the dormitory to find you after work in the evening. I heard that there is a fee for the manuscript. Hundreds of dollars, on top of my salary for a few months, were all used to make amends."

Liu Xiaonan felt that she had returned to her childhood, willingly accepting Gu Yu's manipulation and control.

(End of this chapter)