"You young man from other places, how can you speak so impolitely, don't understand any etiquette, and don't know how to respect your elders!" The old man said angrily.

"Ah -" I was a little stunned: "Grandpa, where am I impolite?"

"Why do you say I live a long life?" The old man is still very angry.

"Isn't it a good thing to say that you live a long life?" I said.

"You obviously curse that I can only live for 12 years. Don't you curse me for dying early?" The old hair caught fire and the beard on his chin turned up.

I can't laugh or cry. I wipe it. The old man really loves life. Living a hundred years old is not enough. I hurriedly said, "Oh. oh Grandpa, I'm wrong. I apologize. I wish you at least 200 years old and a long life! I can't speak. Don't tell me the truth, old man! "

I kept apologizing. The old man slowly calmed down his anger, began to smoke again and looked at me: "where did you come from?"

"Xinghai!" I'm busy.

"Xinghai." The old man repeated and said, "not near, driving here?"

"Yes!" I said, "have you ever been to Xinghai?"

"No:" the old man shook his head: "the biggest city I've been to is Dandong, and xinyizhou over there. I haven't been to any other cities!"

"Oh. Dandong is a big city, and Xinyi Prefecture over there is also a big city! " I said casually.

"In the past, xinyizhou was similar to Dandong. However, over the years, people from the village came back and said that the development of xinyizhou is far worse than Dandong, which is not a grade." The old man said, "however, you say Dandong is a big city. I don't agree. I think Xinghai is a big city. Dandong seems to be a grade worse than Xinghai!"

"Haven't you been to Xinghai?" I said.

"I can't watch TV. I won't listen to people working outside the village come back and say!" The old man asked me.

"Oh. You're right, you're right! " I nodded.

"Although I haven't been to Xinghai, I'm really no stranger to Xinghai. I knew Xinghai many years ago and knew that Xinghai was a big city!" The old man said complacently.

"How did you know?" I said.

"Many years ago, a group of educated youth who cut in line came to the village, including Shenyang and several Xinghai!" Said the old man.

My heart moved and said, "do you know them?"

"Of course, I was the production leader of the village. Do you think I didn't know him? Not only do I know them, but I know them very well! " Said the old man.

"Oh, did they jump the queue here for many years?" I said.

"For a few years, but later, they left one after another and returned to the city! A few years ago, some of them came back in groups and revisited the old land. When I saw them, I could still call their names! " The old man looked proud again.

"Yes." I nodded: "you have a good memory!"

"Of course, these young people followed me to work in the field. I assigned them all the work they did!" The old man said with emotion: "thirty years have passed in a flash. When they came back, they have become people in their 50s from the young people of that year. Many people have become grandparents. Time has passed so fast and people have changed greatly."

I don't know if Lao Li was among the people who came back from the group. A few years ago, Lao Li was in full swing and elated. It is estimated that he may not come back.

I said, "listen to you, it seems that they jumped the queue here and came together, but left, but not together?"

"Yes, we came together when we came. When we left, we went on and on. When we had places to go back to the city or go to college, we all robbed. It depends on who has a hard relationship. Those who have a hard relationship go back to the city first. If it doesn't matter, we can only wait. I remember the last one to leave was a young man surnamed Li. By the way, that young man is the educated youth from Xinghai! "

My heart was a little excited and said, "that means this young man surnamed Li who finally returned to the city is the most irrelevant?"

"Hey --" the old man sighed and said, "the young man's parents are rightists. His family background is not good. Whether he has a background or not, it's not his turn to do good things. However, in the end, he left. However, among the educated youth who jumped the queue in those years, he was also the best one after returning to the city."

"Oh, how do you mix best?" I said.

"It's said that he later became a working and living chief in Xinghai, or the Deputy persimmon chief of Xinghai. You came from Xinghai. Should you know?" Said the old man.

Obviously, the old man's news is still a little blocked. Although he knows that Lao Li has become a working and living chief, he doesn't know about Lao Li's sacking later.

I said, "I don't know the senior officials of Xinghai. I don't care about these. I just came to Xinghai from other places!"

"Oh." The old man nodded: "no wonder!"

"It seems that leaving in the end may not be a good thing!" I said with a smile.

The old man didn't speak. After smoking a cigarette, he threw away the cigarette end. I hurriedly handed over another cigarette. He waved his hand and touched his dry pipe: "forget it, your cigarette is boring. I'll still smoke mine! Would you like two? I grow my own dry tobacco. I'm very energetic. "

I smiled and waved my hand.

The old man continued to smoke his own dry tobacco, remained silent for a long time and said, "in fact, the young man who left last didn't go very quickly. Although he left and grew up later, he didn't leave any good reputation in the village!"

"Why?" I said.

The old man looked at the river and was silent for a long time. He said, "there's a story here. The young man surnamed Li was not sociable when he came to jump the queue. Because he was born in a bad family and was somewhat excluded, I took care of him, didn't let him go to the ground to do heavy work with everyone, and arranged for him to release the cattle of the production team.

This arrangement, on the one hand, avoids conflicts between him and everyone when they are working, and on the other hand, is a light and happy person to take care of him. Later, when he was herding cattle, he saved a girl who caught a fish and fell into the water over there. As soon as he came and went, they got well. I knew this at that time. I think the girl was really good. She was good-looking and kind-hearted, so she deliberately set them up.

But unexpectedly, in order to return to the city, the young man fell in love with a female classmate in the city, married someone else and abandoned the girl. The girl used to come to see him. She hasn't been here since he married the woman in the city and left here.

Later, people with relatives in Lijiang, the village said that something happened to the girl. I don't know what it was. I only know that the girl is missing. I don't know where she has gone. Up to now, I don't know whether she is dead or alive. Alas, it hurts to think about it. What a good girl, poor girl. "

I didn't speak for a long time.

"For this reason, people in the village have some opinions on the young man. Later, although they heard that he was a senior official, they still despised him. He didn't come back with those educated youth groups a few years ago. I guess he probably didn't feel ashamed to come back! Such a good girl was so kind to him that she dumped others in order to return to the city. Alas. Sin! " The old man sighed.

I sighed. It was really a sin, but I didn't know whether it was caused by Lao Li or that era.

In the face of an era, the fate of an individual is very small.

I said, "but if the man surnamed Li doesn't leave here, it may be unfair to him. If everyone leaves, will he stay here all his life?"

The old production leader said, "isn't it good for us here?"

"Well, it's good, but for a young man who wants to develop, if he is locked up in this closed place all his life, his lifelong ideal will be over!" I said.

The old captain was silent for a moment and nodded: "maybe what you said is reasonable. In fact, I know that they can't stay in the village. Sooner or later, they will leave. They don't belong here. They belong to a broader world! The vast world is promising. What Mao Zhuxi said in those days is that this vast world is not a country, but a city. "

I said, "since he wants to leave here, maybe he will lose something, pay some price or make a deal!"

The old captain looked at me and said, "yes, his departure was a deal. The female classmate's father was the director of Dandong's Land Reform Commission at that time and had great power. The female classmate promised him that as long as he married her, he would be able to return to the city and arrange promising jobs to his satisfaction. He got it and lost it. What he got was glory and wealth. What he lost was such a good girl. What he got will return to nothing sooner or later. What he lost will never come back! "

The old captain's words made me think deeply. I suddenly didn't know how to evaluate whether Lao Li was right or not, and whether I could understand Lao Li at that time.

But I still firmly believe that if I were Lao Li and Qiu Tong was Jin Jingxiu, I would never do anything like Lao Li.

However, this is only if.

I can't help feeling a little confused and melancholy.

After smoking, the old captain knocked the cigarette pot on the upper of his shoes, stood up, shook his body and said, "in this life, what should come will come and what should go will go. No matter what he did when he was young, just think about peace of mind when he was old!"

With that, the old captain put his hands on his back and walked unsteadily to the village. The old yellow dog of some age got up and followed his master.

Looking at the back of the master and servant leaving and thinking about his last sentence, I was a little stunned. It sounded simple, but it seemed to take a deep life philosophy that many people can't understand in a lifetime.

I stood up, patted my ass, walked to the place where Jin Jingxiu and Qiu Tong went, turned a corner and saw them.

They are sitting on a stone beside a beach by the river. They are all looking at the river and the other side of the river.

I don't know what they're thinking.

The beach area is not small, and the grass on it has turned yellow.

It suddenly occurred to me that this would be the place where Lao Li herded cattle? Could it be the place where Lao Li and Jin Jingxiu dated?

The more you think about it, the more likely it is that Jin Jingxiu is sitting here, recalling those years and looking for those unforgettable green years in her memory.

And Qiutong sat there silently with Jin Jingxiu. What was she thinking?

I don't know.

I looked at them for a while, didn't bother, quietly retreated back and returned to the parking place.

At this time, a taxi came slowly and stopped next to my car.

This is Du Jianguo's car.

There is a man in the back seat of the car. I know it's Lao Li.

I went straight over.

The taxi stopped, but Lao Li didn't get off.

I went to the car, opened the front door and sat in.

Du Jianguo glanced at me, didn't speak, directly opened the door and went out to smoke.

I looked back at Lao Li.

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