Siheyuan: There are three little cats at home

Chapter 343 Meeting an Acquaintance
When Xu Qing sent his younger brothers and sisters to school a few years ago, he had registered for them by the way, and this time he is quite familiar with it.

Shazhu and Ma Jiefang followed, the three of them plus Li Guohua and Erniu, and the group of five passed through the bustling crowd and completed the admission procedures not long after.

In fact, there were a lot of people, except for those like Xu Qing who lived in Forty-Nine City, more comrades from all corners of the country and from all walks of life.

In addition, the school has a labor propaganda team and a military propaganda team, composed of members of the Xinhua Printing Factory and the Timber Factory respectively, as well as the 8341 Guard Regiment and the 63rd Army.

They seemed to be very enthusiastic about Xu Qing's newly enrolled college students of workers, peasants and soldiers, almost too enthusiastic.

Therefore, the registration of Xu Qing, Sha Zhu and Ma Jiefang went particularly smoothly.

Xu Qing chose the journalism major of the Chinese Department, and the department office and dormitory are located in Building 32.

Ma Jiefang and Shazhu, one has an indifferent attitude towards majors, and the other has no idea what to choose.

The two of them followed Xu Qing and chose journalism together.

Silly Zhu really knows nothing. He originally had the worst cultural background. When it comes to cuisine, he has a good knowledge, but when he chooses the department of study, he is blind.

He was already overjoyed to be able to enter university, so he would follow Xu Qing's major.

As for Ma Jiefang, he was interested in everything and wanted to learn everything, but in terms of foreign languages, he was basically a student serving in the military. Others, he didn't want to go alone, so he finally decided that it would be safer to stay with Xu Qing and Silly Zhu.

If three people go to college together, they will naturally stick together.

The reason why Xu Qing chose the journalism major was mainly because he wanted to get more exposure to outside information. This major, these days, can be said to be the most well-informed.

When it is changed in the future and the economy develops rapidly like a torrent, the news will be the most valuable.

After putting their luggage into the assigned dormitory, Xu Qing, Silly Zhu and Ma Jiefang made the beds and prepared to leave.

When I came out, I ran into four other students in the same dormitory at the door.

Two armies, one navy, and another air force.

The four of them carried luggage, hung portable water bottles around their waists, and wore standard clothing. They had dark skin and bright eyes.

Xu Qing took the initiative to chat with the four people, and Ma Jiefang and Shazhu also extended their hands to hold hands.

After brief introductions to each other, Xu Qing learned that the oldest one was Yan Guohao, who was a platoon leader before coming here, and had been on the battlefield, and the scar on his right face was caused by a shell blast.

The youngest is younger than Ma Jiefang, only 21 years old. His name is Ye Aimin, who comes from Guangdong. He speaks in Beijing movies that are not very standard. He speaks very bluntly, but he is sincere and very enthusiastic.

As for the other two, one is the clerk of a certain army regiment, Liu Shenghai, and the other is the officer of the Air Force, Wang Yingsheng, both obey orders and come to university for further study.

Xu Qing invited the four of them to walk around the school together. Yan Guohao, who was meticulous in his actions and words, squeezed out a smile on his face and said:

"Comrade Xu Qing, you go first, I have to make the bed."

The other three also nodded and said to wait.

Xu Qing had no choice but to take Ma Jiefang, Shazhu, Li Guohua and Erniu to leave the dormitory first and wander around the campus.

There are a lot of big-character posters posted in the school, and those on the street are nothing compared to here.

However, these big-character posters are not only written with high emotions, but also with high calligraphy.

Xu Qing glanced at it for a few times and then stopped looking, because Erniu suddenly stopped, pointed at a girl in front of him who was being scolded by the workers' propaganda team, and said in a slightly trembling voice:

"Brother Qingzi, it's her, it's really her!"

Xu Qing was a little puzzled, and looked at the girl with Er Niu's finger, but the distance was a bit far, and someone kept walking past them, so Xu Qing didn't see who the girl was?

Er Niu's honest face suddenly became excited and he shouted loudly.

"Dong Wenwen."

Standing beside the workers' propaganda team, the girl who was reprimanded suddenly turned her head to look at Xu Qing and Er Niu, and she was stunned.

Several people from the work propaganda team were also attracted by Er Niu's shouts. They walked to Xu Qing and others, pointed at Dong Wenwen, and asked in a deep voice:
"You know her?"

Erniu hummed, and the young man leading the workers' propaganda team immediately said, "Then you are in the same group?"

"What kind of gang, please pay attention to the wording."

Li Guohua's expression became serious, "Comrade, Dong Wenwen and we were high school classmates."

"Isn't that a group?!"

The young man in the lead of the Worker Propaganda Team showed the indifference of examining the enemy agents. With a wave of his hand, he surrounded Xu Qing and Li Guohua, as if they were about to interrogate them severely.

Seeing this, Xu Qing took out his student ID and said, "Comrade, we are new students this year. This is my ID."

Ma Jiefang instantly took out his student ID card. Silly Zhu took one look at it and took it out too.

The student ID is issued by Peking University's "G Committee". This thing is like a gold medal for avoiding death.

The people from the Work Propaganda Team took turns looking at the IDs of Xu Qing and the others. They were still looking at Xu Qing and the others. After a moment, they said:

"Since you are a new student, don't mind your own business."

After the young man at the head of the labor propaganda team handed his student ID card back to Xu Qing, he went to another place without reprimanding Dong Wenwen.

Er Niu next to Xu Qing hurriedly ran to Dong Wenwen, his honest face full of concern, but it wasn't until Xu Qing and Li Guohua walked over that they said, "Are you okay?"

Dong Wenwen's eyes were red, she looked at Er Niu, lowered her head and hummed softly, but her thin figure told her that she was not well at all.

Erniu looked at the girl he once liked in silence, unable to say anything for a moment.

Xu Qing didn't expect that he would meet an acquaintance when he reported to the university today.

It's just that Dong Wenwen's situation looks very bad. From the corner of Xu Qing's eyes, he caught a glimpse of the group of workers from the Propaganda Team and reminded him:
"Let's leave the school first and talk outside."

Li Guohua and Ma Jiefang agreed. After all, in addition to the moody worker propaganda team, there is also the military propaganda team. Who knows if the military propaganda team will come to interrogate them later.

Xu Qing and his entourage left the university gate and found a shady place outside. Er Niu bought six bottles of soda, and they drank and chatted.

After Dong Wenwen's narration, Xu Qingcai found out that Dong Wenwen's grandfather was an old professor at the school. He was locked up in the reform-through-labor compound because he was said to have low ideological awareness.

Dong Wenwen secretly delivered food a few times before, but was noticed by the workers' propaganda team and the school's 'G Committee'.

The director of the school's "G Committee" - "Lafayette" sent someone to stare at her.

The people from the work propaganda team were naturally watching.

After hearing what Dong Wenwen said, Xu Qing didn't express his opinion immediately. These days, in these changing times, things like this are not just like this.

When he first entered the school, Xu Qing saw the old man guarding the gate, holding a Hindi book and reading. He was obviously an old scholar. When he went to the toilet, the old man cleaning the toilet was also an old professor.

It's just that their situation is better than Dong Wenwen's grandfather.

Dong Wenwen's grandfather was a professor of the Russian Department.

Nowadays, the relationship between China and the Soviet Union is bad, and those who understand Russian are locked in the labor camp.

But having said that, not only did I meet an acquaintance today, but I was also a high school classmate, which can be regarded as a blessing among misfortunes.

The sun climbed into the center of the sky and scorched the earth. The sky was clear and cloudless. Even though autumn was approaching, it was still very hot.

Xu Qing, Erniu and five others took Dong Wenwen to a nearby restaurant and had a meal.

It can be regarded as a celebration of meeting old classmates, and it can also be regarded as a celebration of the smooth college careers of Xu Qing, Ma Jiefang and Sha Zhu.

Li Guohua and Er Niu finished their meal and were not in a hurry to go back.

Mainly because Erniu wanted to talk more with Dong Wenwen, who he had secretly liked.

However, Erniu is not talkative. It cannot be said that he is dull and introverted, but he is similar. He can talk a lot with people he is familiar with but rarely talks with people he does not know.

He was very familiar with Dong Wenwen. He hadn't seen or contacted her for nearly ten years.Instead, he was a little hesitant and didn't speak much during the meal.

On the other hand, Ma Jiefang and Li Guohua asked Dong Wenwen a lot of things, including whether she was married and where she worked.
Shazhu is the kind of self-acquaintance, even though he has never met Dong Wenwen before.

And Dong Wenwen is a woman, but after experiencing countless blind dates, he has already become thick-skinned and proactively recommended himself:

"Hello Comrade Dong Wenwen, my name is He Yuzhu, and I am not married. I used to be a chef in our factory, which is what we often call Dian Dashao."

Dong Wenwen looked embarrassed. She didn't get married, not because she couldn't find a partner, but because things at home were so noisy that she couldn't think about personal issues at all.

Er Niu was a little dissatisfied with Sha Zhu's blind date remarks.

Anyway, Dong Wenwen was the girl he once liked.

Silly Zhu said so in front of his face, inevitably felt uncomfortable.

Although Er Niu is also a married person, from a rational point of view, it is human nature for him to have this mentality.

I once liked it, but how could I let it go so easily?

Xu Qing lightly kicked Silly Pillar under the dining table with his right foot as a reminder.

Silly Zhu had good eyesight. As soon as Xu Qing reminded him, he immediately knew that he had said something he shouldn't have said. He picked up the wine cup and drank to cover up his uncomfortable behavior just now.

After everyone sat around in the restaurant for a while, they got up and walked out. Xu Qing, Li Guohua and Ma Jiefang took Sha Zhu away first, creating an opportunity for Dong Wenwen and Er Niu to get along.

After all, Er Niu liked Dong Wenwen before, but he never showed his love.

Now that we are all adults and have experienced ups and downs, this matter must be resolved.

Then this meeting happened to be a good opportunity.

Erniu looked at Dong Wenwen, took two strong puffs of cigarette, picked up the wine cup and took a swig of strong wine, and bravely said:
"Dong Wenwen, actually I was before"

"I know." Dong Wenwen rarely showed a smile on her face, and before Er Niu could finish speaking, she reached out and brushed her hair hanging down in front of her eyes and said:

"You wrote me a love letter before when you were in high school, but you never dared to write it to me. I heard Erya from our class talk about it. I remember she seemed to be sitting at the same table with you at the time."

Erniu nodded, his red face became even redder, and he hummed seriously.

5 minutes later
Xu Qing had just finished smoking a cigarette when he saw Erniu and Dong Wenwen coming out of the restaurant.

Both of them looked fine, Er Niu seemed to be in better condition, and his face was redder than when he had been drinking.

However, Xu Qing didn't ask them anything. Li Guohua and Ma Jiefang were also very sensible and just smiled at Er Niu.

The six of them chatted together for a while, and then Li Guohua and Er Niu got in the car and left.

Xu Qing took Ma Jiefang and Sha Zhu back to school, while Dong Wenwen went home.

As soon as he separated from Dong Wenwen, Ma Jiefang said, "Brother Qingzi, I have something to tell you. Although it's a bit late, I remembered it today, so I can't tell you."

"What's the matter?"

Xu Qing walked on the boulevard in the campus, turned to look at Ma Jiefang.

Ma Jiefang said: "Brother Qingzi, let me tell you, don't be angry, don't think I didn't tell you earlier."

"Should we say it or not?" Xu Qing rolled his eyes at Ma Jiefang.

Silly Zhu grinned and patted Ma Jiefang on the shoulder, "Young mother-in-law, tell me."

Ma Jiefang stopped and said, "Actually, a few days after you dropped out of high school, Dong Wenwen gave me a letter to pass on to you.

I don’t know the content. I promised the leader that I have never read it. Then the incident with Liu Toad made me never have time to find you. The letter was later lost. After that, I dropped out of school and never saw Dong Wenwen again. Just forgot about it. "

Silly Zhu heard Ma Jiefang's words, grabbed his hair with his hands, and didn't quite understand, "It's just a letter, just throw it away, what's the big deal, Jiefang, if you had said earlier, Qingzi would have known if she had just asked Dong Wenwen gone."

Ma Jiefang glared at Silly Zhu with a faint look, quickly reached out and took out a cigarette, handed one to Xu Qing and said:

"Brother Qingzi, I really didn't mean not to report the information. I really lost the letter, but you married my fifth sister, so don't argue with me about this matter."

Xu Qing looked at Ma Jiefang and said nothing.

What Dong Wenwen wrote in the letter to him before, he is not in the mood to know the content now.

Furthermore, it was all ten years ago. At that time, boys and girls were in a period of restless youth. A letter could not represent anything.

Maybe, but it's a thing of the past, so why bother to delve into it.

Besides, he didn't come to the university to meet Dong Wenwen, it was just a coincidence. Why was he angry about this matter.

Seeing that Xu Qing was not angry at all, Ma Jiefang breathed a sigh of relief.

In the evening, Xu Qing, Ma Jiefang and Sha Zhu were lying on bunk beds in the dormitory, smoking cigarettes with Yan Guohao, Liu Shenghai, Ye Aimin, and Wang Yingsheng, and talking about their interesting experiences.

Xu Qing had never been a soldier, so he was very interested in Yan Guohao's deeds.

Ma Jiefang and Shazhu are the same.

As for Liu Shenghai, Ye Aimin and Wang Yingsheng, the three of them were enlisted in the army, but they have never been on the battlefield.

Yan Guohao is the only one who has stepped on the battlefield, smelled the smoke of gunpowder, and witnessed it with his own eyes.

However, he only said one sentence, "Those bitches are disobedient, just one word, beat them!"

There is no text.

The night light filtered through the window onto the floor of the dormitory. Xu Qing was lying on the lower bunk, looking at the big brother Yan Guohao who had his eyes closed and refused to say another word. It was hard to imagine what he had gone through.

noon the next day.

The school announced through the radio that all the teachers and students of the school should gather in the large playground in the southeast corner to hold the opening ceremony.

Xu Qing, Ma Jiefang and Sha Zhu dressed neatly, arranged each other's clothes, and then followed Yan Guohao, who had already lined up, to the playground.

As soon as the ceremony ended, Xu Qing, a dormitory roommate of seven, had just returned to his class.

Suddenly two groups of people rushed in and started a fierce fight over the 32 new students.

(End of this chapter)