They in the 70s

The cave dwelling is very simple, with only a broken table, two low benches, a large kang with a full floor, and a stove that looks like it has just been built with mud embryos.

Fortunately, the Datong bunk was quite spacious, and the five boys spread out their own bunk rolls one by one, so that no one was next to each other.

Lu Zhansheng leaned against the wall, and beside him was Zheng Yan.

Zheng Yan's sleeping appearance is still good, he doesn't kick or kick at night, he is more honest and quiet, Song Jian next door to him is also okay, but the two next door are not so good, not only snores but also grinds teeth in the middle of the night, making a lot of noise.

In addition, the doors and windows of this cave are rotten, and there is a big crack at the top, and the wind is whining at night...

Lu Zhansheng didn't sleep well at all that night, and when he woke up the next morning, he found that the depression in his heart had not dissipated as he wished, and he didn't even relax a bit.

When I opened my eyes, everything around me was very strange. I got up and looked outside, but I didn’t see the familiar yard, there was no clothesline outside, and there were no clothes that were just washed and dripping water.

Just woke up mentally still relatively fragile, Zheng Yan and the others have not yet woken up, and the surroundings are also very quiet.

At that moment, Lu Zhansheng's heart suddenly surged with a strange emotion that he had never had before.

homesick.

In the past, Lu Zhansheng always believed that his heart was higher than the sky and wider than the sea. He has lived until now, but he never thought that one day he would feel homesick.

Moreover, this kind of mood is extremely violent, like scratching the heart and scratching the liver, there is no way to resolve it, at a loss what to do, it makes people collapse.

Lu Zhansheng was very irritable, and he repelled such emotions from appearing on him, because it made him feel that he was useless, even worse than the girls next door.

No one wants to have such a useless side, so he closed his eyes and scolded himself fiercely in his heart: Lu Zhansheng, look at your cowardice!It's fucking useless!Think of a fart home!It's rubbish!shame!

After scolding for a long time, Lu Zhansheng barely swallowed those emotions back to his stomach, he breathed a sigh of relief, and then got up.

There is no yard in front of these two cave dwellings, but only an open space in front of them. There is a well in the open space. The mouth of the well is built with stones, and there is no device for drawing water.

A few girls got up early, and they were studying how to get the water up the well at the moment. After they saw Lu Zhan was born, they turned their hopeful eyes to him.

Lu Zhansheng also needed water to wash up. He looked around and found a large water urn in the middle of the two cave dwellings, and an iron bucket beside it, so he went to find a thick rope to get out.

The rope is tied to the handle of the bucket, and it is thrown into the well and shaken from side to side, and when it is lifted up, it is filled with water.

Lu Zhansheng cleaned the inside and outside of the urn, including the lid, filled the inside with water, and then went to wash himself. He didn't speak to anyone during the whole process, and he didn't even make eye contact.

This surprised those girls, because the Lu Zhan students they had heard about before were not like this.

Lu Zhansheng went back to the room after washing, stared at the dirty clothes he had changed for a while, and finally tidied them up, put them in the basin and went out to wash.

There is nothing that people really don’t know. For things like washing clothes, there is no need to learn after hope is gone.

Although Lu Zhansheng deliberately controlled himself not to think about it, when squatting on the ground to wash clothes, he still unconsciously scolded He Zhi silently in his heart.

He Zhi that bastard!

What's the big deal, if he doesn't care, won't I still live well?

Ruthless!

He really didn't go to the train station, didn't go to pull him down, who cares, he has seen through him a long time ago, he is an indifferent and hypocritical person, and he may have longed for my father to get away.

Now it's all right, no one will obstruct his eyes anymore, and he won't have to pay half of the wages he earns from work in the future, and he can be with that girl surnamed Qin blatantly, which makes him feel at ease.

I don't know if the two of them will be married when I go back next time, or even have children...

Fuck!

Lu Zhansheng suddenly felt very angry, and unconsciously threw the clothes he was scrubbing into the basin violently.

There was a snap, and the water splashed everywhere.

Tong Xiaoxue, who just passed by after washing, was taken aback by surprise. She thought that Lu Zhansheng was in a hurry because he was not very good at washing clothes, so she hesitated for a long time, and asked in a low voice: "Lu... Lu Zhansheng, do you need me to wash for you? "

"... "

Lu Zhansheng looked up at her, didn't speak, just turned his back, pouted and continued to scrub the clothes vigorously, as if trying to rub the clothes to pieces.

After a while, Wu Changde came, and when he saw Lu Zhansheng squatting on the ground washing clothes, he yelled and praised him: "Hey, what a baby, you're hardworking."

"... "

Lu Zhansheng didn't want to talk to anyone right now, so he didn't answer, and continued to wash his clothes as if he didn't hear.

But in Wu Changde's eyes, he felt that the child was shy. After all, in his eyes, taciturn children were honest and introverted, and he also felt that the child was young and his family didn't want him anymore. It looked so pitiful.

At this time, Zheng Yan and Song Jian also got up, and they came out to talk to Wu Changde.

Lu Zhansheng didn't listen to a few words, only heard them say that Chinese New Year is coming soon.

Right now is the slack season, there is no work in the fields, and the educated youths have nothing to do after they live in, and every day is very boring.

Song Jian brought cards and played cards with Zheng Yan and the boys all day to pass the time, while Lu Zhansheng fell asleep every day.

One afternoon, Lu Zhansheng was awakened from his sleep by a loud singing voice, and after waking up and listening to it for a while, he immediately got up from the bed and followed the singing voice to find it.

Lu Zhan loved to listen to songs and sing in his life. Later, He Zhi popularized a lot of knowledge about music, including ancient and modern, Chinese and foreign, operas and operas, covering a wide range of subjects.

He had known earlier that due to the landform of gullies and rivers in northern Shaanxi, people are used to standing on the hillside, greeting and talking at the bottom of the ditch from a long distance, and the voice is very long, so a very regional A characteristic folk song form - Xintianyou.

The characteristics of Xintianyou are free rhythm, high-pitched and open melody, shouting out with a raised voice, melodious and distant, exciting and soul-stirring.

Lu Zhansheng searched for the sound and found it on the hillside at the other end of the village. He found that it was an old man herding sheep, and he was very intoxicated.

"...

Riding on a donkey, dogs bite their legs,

You come here in the middle of the night, you hooker,

Put your arms around your loved ones and kiss on the mouth,

The lumps in my stomach turned into water,

......"

Lu Zhansheng once followed He Zhi to the Tianqiao Theater to listen to the folk song special. He had heard the tune of Xintianyou, but the theater version was always the theater version, and he didn't feel much at the time.

But at this moment, in the current environment, the original tune sung from the mouth of an out-and-out old farmer, he felt that it was almost completely different from what he had heard before.

He was shocked.

"...

Soup with buckwheat noodle and mutton soup,

The flesh sticks to the chest,

Stretch your arms and kick your feet on the kang,

The closer you are, the better you don't want to let go,

Live and die to keep up.

 …”

Lu Zhansheng sat down silently beside the old man, listening to the lyrics, he couldn't help wondering what would happen if He Zhi was here now.

The tunes sung in the theater were all finished tunes, and the lyrics were serious, unlike what I heard at the moment, the lyrics were extremely straightforward and unrestrained, which made people blush.

If He Zhi listened to such passionate lyrics, that prudish person would definitely not be able to accept them. He would drop his jaw in shock, feel ashamed, blush, plug his ears, and cover his face in embarrassment.

That picture is very interesting when you think about it.

As he thought about it, Lu Zhansheng's imagination appeared in Lu Zhansheng's mind, the appearance of He Zhi after hearing it.

The old singing man turned his head and saw him, and asked with a smile, "What's wrong, baby, do you miss your mother-in-law?"

The old man spoke in an authentic northern Shaanxi accent, and Lu Zhan couldn't understand him abruptly, and he didn't quite know what "mother-in-law" meant.

The old man saw his confused face, and explained with a smile: "Mother-in-law, she is a daughter-in-law, and the baby looks like a daughter-in-law, so it looks like she misses a daughter-in-law."

"... "

Lu Zhansheng didn't know what was going on at the time, he felt strange, he scratched his head: "It's not a daughter-in-law, it's... a family member."

"Isn't that the same?"

The old man turned around with a smile and continued to sing loudly:

"...

One bean and two rice,

I still miss you in my arms.

Beat the dog with a copper whip,

I think your beard is stuck in your mouth.

Miss you, miss you, miss you...

 …”

The scenes in those straightforward lyrics are unbearable to think about.

Lu Zhansheng had no experience at that time, and his thoughts were pure. He could understand, but he didn't have any deeper understanding except that he felt straightforward. He just heard three "missing you" with progressive emotions, and suddenly found that his heart was piling up. It seems that the stuffiness and sadness I read have a specific source.

From longing.

Although he didn't want to admit it, he had to admit it.

In fact, he missed He Zhi very much.

But in only six or seven days, he felt like half his life had already passed.

It seemed that he hadn't seen He Zhi in half his life.

From then on, when Lu Zhansheng had nothing to do, he would go to the hillside to listen to the old sheepherding man singing. He liked these high-pitched and melodious tunes, the unabashed lyrics, and the cheery singing that was almost like a cry.

I prefer the feeling of standing on a high hillside and letting the loud and clear singing bring my thoughts far away.

Time passed very slowly, but it was still the end of the year in a blink of an eye.

The day before New Year's Eve, the postman from the county came to the educated youth spot.

When they first arrived in Shimen Village, all of them wrote letters to their families and reported that they were safe. Now that the end of the year was approaching, they all received the reply and the New Year's supplies from their families.

Everyone gathered in front of the postman's carriage and waited to claim their things. Lu Zhansheng planned to go out to listen to music on the hillside.

He wrote to no one, knowing he would not hear back.

He put on a hat and scarf and walked out silently, but suddenly stopped after walking a few meters away.

Because the postman suddenly shouted at the top of his voice:

"Who is Lu Zhansheng, I have a letter from you!"

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The author has something to say:

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Lu Zhansheng: Do you want to guess who wrote it for me?

If you guess correctly, a new chapter will be added tonight to reveal the answer.

If you can't guess... [Lu Zhansheng rolls his eyes]

He Zhi: Cough cough... bet that no one can guess it right.