"Yes!" I said, look at Lao Li.

"Do you know why?" Lao Li said.

"I don't know!" I said.

"In fact, you know I didn't come to you by chance today. You know I asked you out for dinner for a purpose, didn't I?" Lao Li said again.

"Yes!" I said.

"Do you know why I came to invite you to dinner?" Lao Li said.

"I don't know!" I said.

"Want to know?" Lao Li said.

"Want to tell me?" I said.

Lao Li stopped talking and looked at me quietly with a deep melancholy in his eyes.

I looked at Lao Li quietly. Although my eyes were very calm, my heart was extremely curious.

Lao Li then turned his eyes and looked out of the window at the starry autumn night.

I don't know when it began to rain outside. It rained in autumn. The raindrops hit the glass and made a slight sound.

"It's raining." Lao Li murmured. His eyes were heavy and seemed to have memories of the past.

"Yes, it's raining." I said, lit a cigarette and smoked slowly.

Lao Li was silent and seemed to fall into a long memory.

I was also silent, with ignorant curiosity and expectation.

After a while, Lao Li turned his face and finally said, "Xiao Yi, I asked you to dinner tonight. The main purpose is to know if you have seen the chairman's aunt Jin Jingze when you travel to Korea."

"Oh." I frowned and looked at Lao Li.

"Qiu Tong told me before your trip to Korea. She said that in addition to the itinerary arranged by the travel agency, it is possible to visit Jin Jingze, President of today's media, and visit today's media. Hearing this news, I began to pay attention to your trip to Korea. Therefore, as soon as you came back, I took the time to come to you. " Lao Li said.

"You focus on our trip to Korea because of the chairman's aunt, not others, don't you?" I said.

"Yes." Lao Li nodded and his voice trembled.

"Why?" I finally couldn't help but look at Lao Li: "Uncle Li, do you know the chairman's aunt? You and her. What is the origin? "

Lao Li didn't answer my question directly. He was silent for a moment and said, "since I saw the Xuanchuan picture album of today's media in Qiu Tong's hand, I began to pay attention to the chairman's aunt of Jin Jingze. I keep that album all the time. I often open it and read it. "

I stared at Lao Li without speaking, but I was vaguely excited and nervous, and looked forward to it. It seemed that Lao Li was going to solve a secret that had been precipitated in his heart for many years.

Lao Li was silent again, smoking silently and looking out of the window.

I don't speak. Look at him.

"When I first saw her picture in the album, I immediately recognized her, who had been buried in my heart for many years. That over the past 30 years, I remember her with a knife in my heart. " Lao Li said slowly.

My heart beat violently. I seemed to realize something, but I didn't seem to know anything. I looked straight at Lao Li.

Lao Li suddenly smiled, a little desolate and miserable, and a little guilty and sorry.

"Uncle Li, are you going to continue talking?" I said.

Lao Li looked at me: "Xiao Yi, do you want to hear me tell a story?"

"Think -" I nodded.

"This story has been buried in my heart. For decades, only I have tasted it over and over again, and no one has shared it with me." Lao Li said.

"It's also very painful to keep depressed in my heart. If you say it, you may be relieved and released." I encourage Lao Li.

Lao Li smiled bitterly: "Liberation... Release... It's impossible. However, although it is impossible, I am still willing to tell you this story. You've been the only one to hear this story for more than 30 years. "

"Why are you willing to tell me?" I said.

"Because..." Lao Li hesitated and then said, "maybe some things may not necessarily have a reason. If it has to be, I can only say that you and I are predestined friends with our family. Or because of my trust in you, or because you may be the one who should hear the story. "

Lao Li's reason seemed reasonable. I nodded, "HMM. Uncle Li, tell me. I'll listen carefully. "

"The story is very simple and even bloody, but it is a real story. The story took place in Dandong in the late 1970s, by the Yalu River on the border between China and North Korea. " Lao Li's voice was in a trance.

By the Yalu River? Dandong? As soon as I heard these two place names, I was particularly sensitive and my heart couldn't help tightening.

I stared at Lao Li and listened to him go on.

"It was a crazy age, a blood boiling age, an age when ideals melted into heaven, and an age of blind worship. At that time, in a small mountain village by the Yalu River, 30 kilometers north of Dandong, there lived a group of educated youth from the city.

Among these educated youth, there is an unknown ordinary youth. He is the most silent one in this group. The reason for his silence is because of his origin. His grandfather is a capitalist and his parents are notorious old Jiu. He was beaten as a rightist and entered the cowshed. Because of his origin, he is not qualified to be on an equal footing with other educated youth. He is the ugly duckling in this group, Doing the heaviest, dirtiest and most tiring work is often ridiculed and ridiculed by everyone.

In this group, he has no close friends, no good partners, and no one is willing to talk to him. He is arranged to herd cattle by the Yalu River every day. So, on the quiet side of the Yalu River, he kept company with the old cow every day. When he was free, he spoke to the old cow. Although the old cow had no response, he still wanted to say to it, because his heart was too depressed and he hoped that someone would listen to his voice.

Later, as the country brought order out of chaos, educated youth began to return to the city through various channels, and some were escorted or recommended to go to college, but he was not among the people who had the opportunity, because he had no relationship, no background and no backstage. Watching the educated youth around him leave one after another, his heart became more and more silent, he knew, Maybe I will be the last one to leave, maybe I will never leave here again. "

Listening to Lao Li's narration, my heart can't help rising and falling.

"On a summer noon, he was herding cattle by the Yalu River alone, lying on the grass beside the river and staring at the blue sky in a daze. Across the river was the country that society paid attention to. There were children playing in the water by the river. On the river not far from him, there was a small fishing boat fishing. The fishing girl in red was right for that country.

He continued to lie in a daze on the grass. The educated youths in the village were almost gone, but he remained here without any hope and herded cattle here every day. He was thinking that he might stay here all his life. He would never get out of this small mountain village.

He was thinking sadly and desperately. Suddenly, the weather changed suddenly, a gust of wind blew, and then he heard a cry for help from the river. He got up and looked. The boat was overturned by the wind, and the girl in red fell into the river. Obviously, she was not water-based, and was struggling for help in the water.

He hurriedly got up, a fierce son plunged into the river and tried to swim to the drowner. With his good water character, he lifted the girl to the surface of the water, and then swam back. The girl had been choked and fainted. He hurriedly flattened the girl's body, and then gave her artificial respiration... After some efforts, he finally saved the girl. At this time, he found that the girl was so handsome and beautiful.

The Korean girl can speak fluent Chinese. After a simple conversation, she learned that although she was a person of that country, she had relatives on the side of Jiang. When she was a child, she often went to Jiang with her family, so she spoke Chinese very well. She has just graduated from high school and is idle at home. Her father usually comes to the river to fish for the collective. But today, her father is not well, but the person in charge still has to ask her father to go to work. She can't help it. She came to fish instead of her father. Unexpectedly, she fell into the water in a strong wind. Fortunately, he saved her. "

Lao Li's voice was slow and heavy, and I stared at him.

Lao Li continued: "after the heroic act of saving the beauty, the two met. Since then, the girl often rowed to the other side in the name of fishing to see him who accompanied him here. They often chat together. They can always find a lot of topics of common interest, and often have a tacit understanding without words.

Since then, his cattle herding life is no longer lonely, and his lonely heart is no longer dead. Because of this beautiful Korean girl, he feels hope and light for life. In his contacts with the North Korean girl, he clearly also felt that she had a sharp sense of his heart and increasing favor. And he, too.

Summer goes and autumn comes, autumn goes and winter comes. In countless beautiful days and countless happy exchanges, the seeds of love sprout and grow quietly in the hearts of foreign men and women. They expressed their love for each other and vowed to love each other forever. Let Yalu River testify that they will always be loyal to each other's love and oath.

At that time, she was simple and naive, pure and persistent, infatuated with him, and was willing to spend her life with him in this remote corner away from the world; At that time, he also loved her life and death. It seemed that she had become an integral part of his life, but in his heart, he would surge up the wonderful world outside from time to time and think of his ambition and pride. Although he was close to despair, he had never despair.

"Until one day, when he went to work in the city, he accidentally met a female classmate who had always been very fond of him in high school and repeatedly hinted that he had pursued him. At this time, the female classmate had already returned to the city and had a good job, because her father is now the director of the city's reform committee. After meeting him, the female classmate immediately threw him an attractive olive branch, suggesting that as long as he was willing to marry her, his return to the city, work and future would not be a problem.

In the face of this huge temptation, he wavered. He knew that as long as he promised his female classmates, he could live another life. He would return to the original world, he would have a comfortable job and a good future, and all his dreams would be achieved. But at the same time, he has to betray his love, leave and abandon his beloved girl, which makes him tangle with painful things.

After several days and nights of painful thinking, he finally made a heartbroken decision. He can't bury his life in this small mountain village. He is too eager to stand out. He wants to have his own future and ambition. He wants to be a master. He can't let go of the only life-saving straw. He must firmly seize the opportunity he will never have after missing.

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