Chong Sheng 1977Nian Cong Zhi Qing Kai Shi

The life of Nanyi and Liu Zhen is booming, but the life of the educated youth is still as difficult as ever.

July 23, the eighth day of the sixth month of the lunar calendar, is the Great Heat.

At noon, it was too hot to go to work in the field, so I could have a rest time of more than two hours at noon.

Nanyi took the bucket and poured a ladle of water on the floor, then watched with burning eyes to see if the water seeped into the ground.

The water fell on the floor, and after only being quiet for a while, it flowed to a corner very regularly.

Soon the water in the room gathered in that corner.

Nanyi took out a steel ball from a bicycle bearing from his pocket, stood on the side where there was no water, put the steel ball on the ground, and tossed it lightly to the other side.

The steel ball rolled slowly for nearly two meters, then suddenly accelerated, and rolled slowly into the stagnant water and continued to roll forward until it hit the corner of the wall and bounced back about one centimeter.

"The level difference is three millimeters."

Nanyi muttered something, lay down on the floor and listened for a while, and there was a crackling sound coming from the ground.

Continue to listen to it in another place, but there is still a sound.

He listened all the way until he got to the place where the water accumulated. He stood up and cleaned up the water before he got down and listened again.

There was also a sound, but not a crackling sound, but a sound like water dripping from a high place.

I tapped my hand on the floor, but I didn't hear the echo of the cavity below.

"The thickness of the floor is more than twenty centimeters."

Nanyi can basically judge that there is something weird about this underground area, but it cannot be said that there must be a secret room underneath.

There was a crackling sound from under the floorboards, a chemical reaction between the water and the dry layer beneath the floorboards.

The reason for the chemical reaction is that the desiccant under the floor is mostly quicklime, which will crackle when it meets water.

"Brother, did you find anything?"

At this time, Liu Zhen, who had already taken a nap, came over and asked.

"Yes, if there is a secret room, there must be an entrance here."

"Then let's dig it out?"

Liu Zhen's two small eyes were shining brightly.

"Don't worry, I'll talk about it someday when I'm free. I don't have any hope of finding any rich treasure."

"Why? Isn't the Liu family a rich man?"

"Whether the Liu family has money, the people in the brigade don't know yet? No matter what happened back then, if they hadn't copied a lot of money from the Liu family, they would definitely not let it go. They would definitely turn the house upside down, and the secret room would definitely not be able to hide it." .

But I have looked at the floors of every house, and there is no sign of prying them open. This can only show that the property that matches the Liu family's net worth has already been confiscated, and there is no need to look for it. "

"Will the secret room be empty?"

"That's not the case, even if you can't find gold bars, Yuan Datou will always have some."

Nanyi is not interested in finding the secret room, and there are also preconceived reasons.

As for the golden nanmu in the house, no matter what age it is, it will cost a lot of money to buy them.

Just a local rich man in the countryside, how much money can he have?

Most of the valuable things should be land deeds and house deeds. Nanyi is really afraid of opening the secret room. There is a box of house land deeds lying in it.

"Come on, you go to study, and I'll sharpen the hoe."

"Um."

In the yard, Nan Yi polished his hoe, took his own towel from the washbasin and hung it around his neck, took a summer hat from the nail on the wall, put it on, and went to the kitchen to get his own tea Tank, go out and walk to the field.

As soon as he reached the pier by the river, Lin Guangwei walked over to meet him.

"Nan Yi, do you have any cigarettes?"

"have."

Nanyi handed over a pack of unopened cigarettes.

Nan Yi usually carries two packs of cigarettes on his body. One pack is unpacked and smoked by himself, which is used for dispensing by the way; the other pack is a spare, and the other is to cope with the current moment.

Lin Guangwei opened it, pulled out a few cigarettes, and handed back the cigarette case.

"You take the whole bag to smoke, is it out of cooking?"

"It's already broken. It costs five yuan a month. There are so many things to buy. How can I have money to buy more cigarettes?"

"You, buy one for eight cents, and it's okay to use it for dry addiction when you're out of cooking. By the way..." Nan Yi took out a stack of odds and ends from his pocket, and counted out twenty or so pieces before collecting them. 10 yuan is enough, "Give this money to Ou Jing for me."

"Is this Liu Zhen's repayment?"

"Um."

"I'm really sorry last time. It's not that I don't want to borrow it, but I really don't have one."

"I know, Liu Zhen, a silly girl, secretly asked you to borrow money without telling me. I already told her. I actually have some money on hand. If you don't want it, you can ask me for it."

"Forget it, you caused such a big famine yourself, and I'm sorry for not being able to help you. If I ask you to borrow it again, how can I open my mouth? I'm fine here. I don't have to worry about food or clothing, but I can't smoke. Haha, as long as you go to Xian Yaodong's place a few more times, you can always smoke a few cigarettes."

"Hehe, let's not talk about it, I have to rush to the ground."

"You, you are working so hard. I won't go to the ground until half past three."

Don't pass Lin Guangwei, Nanyi will go directly to the paddy field.

A few days ago, weed it. The rice seedlings are growing gratifyingly these days, looking lush and lush. By the end of September, there will definitely be a bumper harvest.

No need to be ordered by anyone, Nan Yi first weeded on the ridge of the field, and when the ridge of a field became bare, he went down to the field to pull weeds.

The weedus nourished the rice seedlings and also the weeds in the field. After two or three days, the weeds grew again.

Bending down to pull the grass, a girl with two braids came to the ridge of the field and shouted at Nanyi in the field: "Brother Nanyi, are you thirsty? I'll bring you water."

"Zilin, I'm not thirsty, it's so sunny, go home and stay."

Xian Zilin, a relatively rare high school student in Wenchangwei, has just graduated from high school.

Their current class, that is, the 77th class, is relatively lucky. In the second year of high school, when the knowledge is most solid, they can take the college entrance examination in a few months.

Well, Nan Yi is actually talking about himself. Didn't he also just graduated from high school and came to join the queue?

"Brother Nanyi, the movie "Youth" will be shown in the commune the day after tomorrow, can you accompany me to watch it?"

"Let's talk about it, let's see if the field is busy these two days."

"Oh, then write me a letter the day after tomorrow."

"knew."

As soon as Xian Zilin left, Ge Cuizhu walked to the edge of Nanyi in a hundred steps.

"Nanyi, I think this girl is very nice, you can try to be everywhere. Let me tell you, our family likes you, if you really get married with girl Zilin, then we all like it."

Ge Cuizhu's husband is Xian Yaorong, and Xian Zilin's father is Xian Yaogu. Xian Yaodong, Xian Yaohua, Xian Yaowei, Xian Yaoguo, Xian Yaorong, and Xian Yaogu are all uncles and brothers.

Either the grandparents are brothers, or the fathers are brothers, they are really a family.

Alas, counting all the members of Wenchangwei, until the grandfather's generation, there are only sixty-two houses in total, and seven or eight generations forward, they are all brothers.

Originally, Wenchangwei was established by a pair of brothers in the late Ming Dynasty, and the history of this branch is not long.

"Auntie, don't mess with the mandarin ducks. I haven't fully understood it myself. Let's talk about the matter of men and women a few years later."

"You, I didn't let you marry girl Zilin now, you are everywhere, if you get along, you will be together, and if you don't get along, no one will force you."

"Hehehe..."

When a scholar meets a matchmaker, he can do nothing but pretend to be stupid.

"Don't play dumb for me, go to the movies with Zilin the day after tomorrow. If you go, I will give you full work points."

"Okay, okay, I can't go."

"Okay, don't play Ligelen for me then."

"Don't worry, if I say go, I will definitely go."

After finishing work, I went to the pier by the river to wash my muddy legs. Ang Ju was sitting leisurely on the pier fishing.

"For Qi, did you catch anything?"

"No, I can't catch it."

"You pick it up and have a look."

Ang Juyi said that he picked up the hook, but the hook was bare and there were no earthworms at all.

"There is no bait, how can the fish bite the hook?"

"Don't bait, I will learn from Jiang Taigong... what it said in the play."

When Ang Ju spoke, he always had a smile on his face, although he looked a little silly.

Strange to say, it seems that every brigade in the countryside has a person similar to Ang Ju, and most of them burned out their brains when they were young.

What a coincidence.

"It's getting dark, I'll go fishing tomorrow and go home for dinner."

"Fishing for a while."

"Then fish slowly, be careful, and don't fall into the river."

"Uh-huh."

After walking across the bridge on the river, Nanyi would still look back.

Sometimes he envies people like Ang Ju, who are carefree and unrestrained.

...

The next day, afternoon.

The Dragon King didn't know whether he was frightened by Wei Zheng, or he was slapped by Dian Mu, and the water for washing his feet was poured down in basins—it was raining heavily.

The courtyard door of Nanzhai was knocked open, and Nan Yi saw that it was Lin Guangwei.

"What's the matter, you still come here in heavy rain, go in and sit?"

"I won't go in, just say it here." Lin Guangwei wiped his face and said, "Nan Yi, please do me a favor, get me a car inner tube."

"You are embarrassing me too much. I have no way to do this thing. Suddenly, why do you want this thing?"

In fact, Nan Yi has guessed that what else can a car inner tube do, it can be used as a life buoy.

Lin Guangwei made it clear that he wanted to escape.

"Don't worry about it, can you lend me some money?"

"No!" Nanyi flatly refused, and then changed the topic suddenly, "However, at nine o'clock sharp tonight, you can definitely find money on the pier by the river."

Lin Guangwei's face turned black and then red, "Okay, if you don't borrow it, you won't borrow it... Nine o'clock?"

"Well, today is the ninth day of the lunar month, and the ninth day is the first day. The moonlight at nine o'clock is the best."

"gone."

Lin Guangwei left after speaking.

Nan Yi summed it up, one hundred yuan should be enough to build a car inner tube and buy some food.

I don't know if he is alone or with Ou Jing.

The relationship between Lin Guangwei and Ou Jing was a bit ambiguous, and a layer of paper was broken, and the relationship between the two was a man and a woman.

At two o'clock in the afternoon, the rain stopped.

Nanyi stuffed his shirt into his trousers, tied up the laces of his Jiefang shoes, put on his German water bottle, and ran towards the brigade's grain drying field.

"Report to the company commander, militia fighter Nan Yi is here to report."

When he arrived at the grain drying field, he trotted to the edge of Xian Yaoguo, Nan Yi raised his right hand with a swipe, and saluted as a military salute.

"Soldier Nanyi, from today onwards, you are a soldier of the Wenchang Wei Militia Company. This gun will be your closest comrade-in-arms from now on. You must stay with him and protect him well. The gun is there, and the gun is there. "

"Yes!" Nanyi saluted again, stretched out his hands, and shouted: "The new era of a rich country and a strong army is the time for men to serve the country!"

"Can you shoot?"

"Report to the company commander, yes, I participated in shooting training in high school, and also participated in anti-tank exercises."

"Bragging, what kind of drills are there for schoolchildren?"

"Report to the company commander, everything is true, hehe, but we are dealing with wooden tanks."

"I just said, how could the school let you do some anti-tank drills, and join them."

"yes!"

Nanyi was at the end of the queue, and Xian Yaoguo began to give lectures.

"stand at attention!"

"Relax."

"Today, we went on a five-kilometer cross-country walk along the barbed wire fence. We were exercising and patrolling at the same time. When we encountered escapees, we fired warning shots. If the opponent did not listen to the advice, he would continue to flee. The second shot was aimed at the thigh. Clear?"

"clear!"

"Okay, turn left, run forward... The red flag is flying, the singing is loud, ready to sing."

"The red flag is fluttering, the singing is loud, the militia team is walking vigorously, holding the guns tightly, obeying the call of the party, coming when called, fighting can be fought, fighting can be won, go forward indomitably, military and civilian joint defense, steel front, militia fighters, red heart Zhijian..."

Before 1977, most areas went to school under the 522 system, with five years of primary school, two years of junior high school, and two years of high school.