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Chapter 78 File Five: Decoction (5)
"Who are you looking for?" The old lady looked at us suspiciously.

"Excuse me, is Li Chunxiang... still there?" Xiao Nan asked in a trembling voice.

"Who? I've never heard of it!" The old lady closed the door with a bang.

"Wait a minute!" Xiao Nan hurriedly knocked on the door again.

"What are you doing?" The old lady opened the door again displeased.

"I'm sorry, I want to ask again. Li Chunxiang, she used to live here, and she also has a daughter named Liu Hongyue." Xiao Nan asked almost in a pleading tone.

"Before? How long ago? We've lived here for ten years, and we've never heard of this man." The door closed again.

The spicy hot pot in W City is very famous. The soup base is a mixture of bone broth and chicken broth, and then add dried chili, pepper, ginger slices, green onions, star anise, fennel and other dozens of ingredients. The red pot, It makes people blush and heartbeat when they see it, and move their index fingers.

Who said that southerners don't like spicy food, I'm an exception, but I ordered a mandarin duck hot pot to take care of Xiao Nante, but she didn't eat a bite, just looked at the hot pot and kept crying.

"Hurry up, hurry up, this hairy belly is just right, hey, try it quickly." I pretended not to see it, and kept calling her to eat.

After leaving her "hometown" just now, we came to the police station in this street again. If Li Chunxiang and her daughter had really lived here, they would definitely leave a household registration record.

However, the results of the investigation by the police station were unexpected. They found no record that Li Chunxiang and her daughter lived in the house.I don't know why the result is like this. China is one of the countries with the strictest household registration management. It stands to reason that it is impossible to miss the household registration of a family of two. Could it be that Xiaonan remembered it wrong?
After leaving the police station, Xiao Nan has been in such a distraught state.

There have been several changes in personnel affairs in ten years, not to mention decades of separation. I know that Xiao Nan's hope of finding her former mother is very slim, and even if she finds it, it may be just a handful of loess.Although I really wanted to find conclusive evidence of the existence of Li Chunxiang's mother and daughter, but seeing Xiao Nan's appearance, I suddenly didn't want to look for it anymore.

Xiao Nan suddenly hummed a nursery rhyme in a low voice:
"Tintin cat,

Red Claw,
Brother got up and beat his sister-in-law,
sister-in-law crying,
back to my mother's house,
A bowl of bean curd and a bowl of meat,

Don't cry when you eat and go home.

......"

"What song is this?" I asked in amazement.

"Before I didn't eat, my mother sang this song to me." Xiaonan's tears finally couldn't help but "push, puff" and flow down.

I finally understand why in the legend, people have to drink a bowl of Mengpo soup before reincarnation, because the memory of the previous life is really a heavy burden for Xiaonan.But it's also strange, why no one else remembers it, but she does. Could it be that she didn't drink that bowl of Mengpo soup when she was reincarnated?
"Don't forget!" I said in a deep voice, "Your mother is in City S, waiting for you to come home."

My reminder finally made her smile a little bit. What people fear most is being helpless. She "now" has both parents and a happy family. So what is there to be sad about?

Xiao Nan wiped away her tears embarrassingly, and said with a smile: "I'm so stupid, I don't remember all the things I should remember."

Because Xiaonan's "memory" only stopped abruptly when the school was besieged, and we did not find Liu Hongyue's name in the list of casualties in the "June Fight" in the school archives. After that catastrophe has become a mystery.

But our trip is not just looking for memories, I also need to find conclusive evidence of her "previous life", otherwise this trip will be in vain.

"Where is Lin Yuntao?" I suddenly remembered that she mentioned this name just now, but this name did not appear in the list of the dead and injured. "Do you still remember the situation of this person?" Since Li Chunxiang was not found, can you Find some clues on Lin Yuntao?
"Lin Yuntao?" Xiao Nan asked in amazement, "Who is he?"

"Didn't you just say that he pulled you back from the People's Bridge?" I asked back.

"Lin Yuntao, Lin Yuntao..." Xiao Nan pondered the name repeatedly, the expression on his face changed rapidly, and suddenly stood up "huo".

"He... he is Lin Yuntao!"

"Who?" I didn't understand what she meant.

"The 'rescue him' mentioned in the video is to save Lin Yuntao!" Xiao Nan said anxiously, "I remember now, I'm going to save him, I have to go and save him!"

"Where is he?" I asked dumbfounded, the video said "underground", where exactly is the underground?

"I'll think about it." Xiao Nan frowned, thinking hard.

"I saw...the train station, and many students, all with luggage, and the sign on the train said... City W——Kunming."

"Go to the mountains and go to the countryside!" I immediately understood that after the "June Combat", the authorities realized that these fanatical students had lost control, and they simply moved the tiger away from the mountain in order to stabilize the situation.As soon as this order came down, 600 million students across the country were immediately forced to put down their schoolbags and be exiled in Yunnan, Guizhou, Hunan, Inner Mongolia, Heilongjiang and other places in the "broad countryside, to receive re-education from the poor and lower-middle peasants"!
"Brother Mo, can you accompany me to Yunnan again, I want to go there to find Lin Yuntao!"

I don't like seeing her caring so much about another man, but looking at her begging eyes, who can refuse?
Xiao Nan decided to go down to Yunnan by train, because her memory was still very messy, so she wanted to retrace the road she had traveled back then, hoping to pick up those lost memory fragments on the way.

On the train, she told me intermittently about Lin Yuntao.Lin Yuntao was a very unobtrusive person in school, and he was always at the end of every collective action of the rebels.In the words of the time, they were "backward elements with extremely unstable revolutionary will".

Liu Hongyue looked down on him at first, but she didn't expect that he would be the one who saved her in the Renminqiao massacre, and was sent to Yunnan together with him.

We took the train for a day and a night, and then changed cars three times before arriving at the Construction Corps that Liu Yuehong and the others sent down.

I have visited many places over the years, but I have never seen so many rubber trees.The road extends almost endlessly in the rubber forest. If there is no road, people who enter it may not be able to get out for a lifetime.

Liu Hongyue, Lin Yuntao, and other [-] educated youths from all over the country lost their youth in this vast forest. Some of them never went out once they entered.

The closer he got to the Corps, the more confused the expression on Xiao Nan's face became.Her memory was interrupted here again. What happened to Liu Hongyue and Lin Yuntao after they arrived in the Construction Corps?She couldn't remember anything.

When I arrived, I realized that the former Corps has now been restructured into a state-owned farm, and the farm actually has a special reception for educated youth.Obviously, the educated youth who "escaped" from the farm did not forget this place. Many years later, they came back here to cherish the memory of their ruined youth.

Because of my journalistic status, the staff at the reception received us more warmly than others.I told them that Xiao Nan is Liu Hongyue's daughter (whose age is quite similar), and I came here to find out where my mother went to the countryside to learn about their work and life.

The receptionist carefully checked the list of educated youths from that year, and then politely told us that there was no such person as Liu Hongyue.I asked him to look for Lin Yuntao again, but it still didn't work.

"Impossible!" Xiao Nan said excitedly, "I remember that we did come here."

The receptionist immediately looked at her suspiciously, and I quickly smoothed things over for her and said, "It was her mother who told her that they had been here. Could you please help us find out more?"

"It can't be wrong!" The receptionist said with certainty, "You also know that the educated youths in Yunnan had several major events that caused a sensation in the country. Therefore, every file of educated youths is registered in the register, and it is absolutely impossible to have omission."

Xiao Nan stopped talking after listening to it, and instead entered into long-term meditation.She firmly believes that she is not wrong, but why are there only two of them in the list of educated youths?She couldn't figure it out.

I also fell into confusion. The reason why I believed in Xiao Nan was not only the unexplainable video tape, but also Xiao Nan's sincere feelings when recalling the past, which cannot be imitated by any acting skills.But why can't we find evidence of her previous existence?If it is said that the neighborhood committee may make mistakes, then the school and the farm cannot be such a coincidence that they just missed them, right?
But now my desire to find the truth is not as strong as it was when I came here, because when I saw that Xiao Nan had complicated feelings for Lin Yuntao, I felt that it might not be a bad thing not to find him.

Whether it is true or false, our journey of searching for past lives should be over here.

We stayed in the guest house at night, and before going to bed, I persuaded her, telling her that people should cherish the present, and that something has passed, let it pass.

When I got up the next morning, I went to find Xiaonan, but I saw two people standing in front of her room door, one in black and the other in white.When I saw his clothes, I thought it was weird, so I hurriedly asked, "What are you doing?"

Those two people suddenly looked back, and I saw that the face in black was as white as snow, while the face in white was as black as ink.I was taken aback and woke up suddenly, only to realize that it was a dream.

Although it was just a dream, I couldn't let Xiao Nan feel at ease, so I went to look for her.But when I got to her room, I realized that she was gone!

I quickly asked the staff of the guest house, but no one saw where she went.I called her cell phone and there was no signal. Now I am really anxious. If Xiao Nan gets lost in the vast forest for hundreds of miles, don't expect to find her.

Just when I was about to mobilize all forces to find her, Xiao Nan called back, and she was actually in a sub-farm more than ten kilometers away at the moment.

I can't imagine how Xiaonan came to this sub-farm overnight through a forest area of ​​more than ten kilometers without a car.But Xiaonan's tone on the phone was very relaxed: "Come here, I've found it!"

When I arrived at the sub-farm, Xiao Nan was sitting leisurely on a hillside.

"I've already remembered everything!" These were Xiao Nan's first words when he saw me.

My heart sank, did she find Lin Yuntao?

Five, there may be ghosts

"This is where we used to live." Xiao Nan pointed to an open space under the hillside, and then told me a thrilling and sad story:

When I was first assigned to the farm, the living conditions were unimaginably crude. There were only a few huts made of thatch, the beds were made of tree branches, and the soil on the ground was still wet, exuding an unpleasant smell. Earthy smell.To solve the "size" problem, there is not even the simplest latrine, and you have to run into the woods to get it done.

From the colorful and prosperous city to this poor and remote place with nothing, several girls couldn't accept it and cried on the spot.But Liu Hongyue was in a happy mood, thinking that this isolated place could allow her to escape those bloody battles.But the cruel reality soon made her understand that she just jumped from the fire pit to hell.

The first meal I ate when I arrived at the farm was a cake made of corn mixed with rice bran and wild vegetable soup that was too bitter to swallow.But this meal is not bad, at least it can be full, and the days after that will not be so easy.

Every educated youth has a quota of work points, and if they fail to complete, their rations for the month will be deducted.But the task formulated according to the standards of local farmers is almost an impossible task for these pampered urbanites.I have to go to work before dawn every day, and the work points have not been completed until dark. While I am exhausted, I don’t have enough food to eat.After a few days, even the male educated youth who had the most "revolutionary passion" at the time started to quit.

But it's easy to come, but impossible to leave!

Facing the torment like purgatory day after day, every educated youth feels depressed and feels that the future is bleak.An educated youth from Nanjing composed this feeling of loss into a song. Unexpectedly, as soon as this song came out, it spread among the educated youth at an astonishing speed. All over the country, even foreign radio stations reported on the song.

The singing among educated youths is at most just an ideological issue, but foreign radio stations report that it is a serious political crime to discredit the country.The educated youth who composed the song was immediately arrested and sentenced to ten years in prison.

Political high pressure does not eliminate the boredom of the educated youth for "going to the countryside", but instead makes them more eager to escape this purgatory on earth.In order to be able to return to the city, the educated youths did everything possible to send favors and find connections. Those educated youths with a certain family background were able to escape from the countryside smoothly, and some girls without backgrounds committed themselves to the army at the cost of their own bodies. Cadres, in exchange for a place to return to the city.

Two years later, a quarter of the educated youth who had been sent here together had left.Lin Yuntao's parents are rightists, and they can't take care of themselves, let alone save him.If Liu Hongyue wanted to leave, it was okay, because she was very beautiful. The battalion commander of the corps had hinted at Liu Hongyue intentionally or unintentionally, but she was not moved at all.

The consequence of doing this is that the burden on her is even heavier. If Lin Yuntao hadn't been helping her all the time, she wouldn't have been able to complete it.Although Lin Yuntao had saved her and she knew Lin Yuntao's intentions very well, she was always stingy with Lin Yuntao.Because Lin Yuntao was always too weak in her mind, not an ideal prince charming.

Although she has always insisted on her chastity, it doesn't mean that others won't have her idea.One day, she had a high fever and was unable to go to work, so she stayed alone in the shed, when the battalion commander broke in suddenly.Just when he was about to act, Lin Yuntao rushed in suddenly.

"What are you doing, get out!" The battalion commander yelled at him furiously, Lin Yuntao didn't dare to look at him, but insisted on not leaving.Because he was worried about being seen by others, the battalion commander didn't dare to make a fuss, so he had to leave resentfully.

The next day, the battalion commander directly ordered Lin Yuntao to lead the team to tap rubber at the forest farm thirty miles away. Not to mention the heavy task, it would take two days just to go back and forth.Then at night, the battalion commander sent someone to inform Liu Hongyue to come to the battalion headquarters to meet him.

When Liu Hongyue came to the battalion headquarters, the battalion commander grabbed Liu Hongyue into his arms without even closing the door.Liu Hongyue shouted for help, but the battalion commander sneered and said, "It's useless to scream, who would dare to help you here?"

"Aren't you afraid that I will sue you?" Liu Hongyue said anxiously and angrily.

"Where are you going to sue? Do you think the organization trusts me, or you, the daughter of a capitalist roader? If you really sue, I can also say that you deliberately seduced revolutionary cadres, and the crime will be aggravated!"

The battalion commander roughly tore Liu Hongyue's clothes and pushed her down on the table.The gas lamps in the regiment headquarters were very bright, illuminating Liu Hongyue's skin as white as snow. Her beautiful eyes were wide open, but all she could see was darkness.

At this moment, someone outside the door suddenly said tremblingly, "Let her go!"

The battalion commander turned around in astonishment, and that person turned out to be Lin Yuntao who should be thirty miles away.The clothes on his body were torn, and there were many bloodstains from weed cuts on his hands and feet. It was obvious that he did not know how many somersaults he fell on the mountain in order to rush back.

"Get out!" The battalion commander drew out his pistol and pointed it at Lin Yuntao. He was definitely not threatening with empty words. In this place where nothing is heard of, he could have killed Lin Yuntao and then charged him with a damning crime. .

Lin Yuntao lowered his head, and the battalion commander smiled contemptuously. He knew Lin Yuntao's character. If he was the kind of person who was not afraid of death, he really wouldn't dare to touch Liu Hongyue casually.

(End of this chapter)