Chapter 49
Time flies, and the cold and heat pass by, and it seems that in a blink of an eye, the season is about to leave. Although Lu Li has already made a decision, looking at his aunt's familiar face with a gloomy look every day, he still felt a burst of pain in his heart, "Uncle... Mom, don't worry about me... I..."
"Xiaoxiao, come to the letter, don't worry the adults, do you know?" Yu Fang turned around and lowered her head to stuff her clothes into the camphor wood box. "My aunt brought you some money and put it under the box. If it works, take it out."
“…Auntie?”
"A poor family and rich, obedient." Yu Fang closed the lid of the box and turned to look at the child who was already taller than him. He felt a sense of sorrow in his heart. He swept his face with the belly of his fingers. "When I came, I was still so young..." Yu Fang had a look of crying and laughing, her eyes were covered with water, and she said in a trembling voice: "Now you are going out by yourself? Xiaoxiao, go there... obedient?"
Luli closed his eyes, opened it again after a while, and smiled as usual, "Don't worry... I'll write a letter when I arrive."
Yu Fang finally couldn't bear it and cried with sobs. Tears slid down on her cheeks, crying and saying, "Xiaoxiao, you... When you were a child, my aunt always... beat you, don't hold a grudge... Auntie, ah?"
Lu used his strength to widen his eyes, and after a long time, he couldn't say a word! "Aunt, you are so kind to me... I can't repay you all my life. How can I... hold a grudge against you?"
Yu Fang cried for it, slapped the child's neck while crying, "You are an immoral ghost! Why are you so good at speaking now? My aunt didn't love you in vain, but she didn't love you in vain!"
Wu Baokun leaned in and glanced, "Okay, let's cry! Xiaoxiao went not far, much closer than his two sisters. She came back for the New Year. How many months have they been?"
Yu Fang turned around and scolded her husband, "It's all you! If it weren't for you, Xiaoxiao might not have to leave!"
Wu Baokun was startled and quickly shrank out.
On August 19th, Lu Li and Xu Yunjian boarded the train. Li Xiaoping, Zhang Qing and Zhao Min stood on the platform, raised their faces and looked at him, "Brother Li, come there to write a letter, don't forget our brothers."
"Where can...?" Lu Li smiled and leaned out of the window, looking at these friends who had made friendships over the years, "When I come back, I still hope... brothers will take care of you?"
"I didn't say anything." Li Xiaoping said loudly: "Hey, Luli, my father said, let me go to police school and become a policeman after graduation. When you come back, I will register you with my household registration."
Lu Li and Xu Yunjian laughed, but Li Xiaoping didn't laugh, "Lu Li, to be honest, I'm still not convinced about the things you had fought with me for so many years! When you come back, we two will gesture again." After saying that, he stretched out his hand and pressed Xu Yunjian's head back, "Brothers, do whatever you should do, let them both say a few words."
Zhang Qing and a few of them avoided Xiaoshi. Zhao Min walked forward with a pale face, "Lu Li..., you, come there and write me a letter."
Luli nodded silently, "Don't worry, oh, did you remember what I said to you last time... did you remember?"
Zhao Min recalled, "Did you hear from your teacher? I remembered it. I told my parents and they agreed and asked me to continue to go to high school."
"Then... that's good." Lu Li smiled. He also spoke with occasional feelings. He quickly told Zhao Min what Yang Shiguang said to him, "When I don't know what I can do in the future, I will write to me. I will teach you."
Zhao Min spat at him habitually and suddenly waved to him, "Down? I have something to say to you."
Lu Li looked at the time. There were less than ten minutes before driving. There were people seeing off the platform everywhere. I thought there was no big problem. I explained to Xu Yunjian and walked out of the carriage. "Is there something...?"
"Yes." Zhao Min approached him a little, tiptoed, leaned close to his ear and said, "When you come back, I... give it to you."
Just this sentence made Luli react in the most primitive way! He looked at her with a tongue-tied look, his face flushed, "You...you... say?"
"Bah! I didn't hear it!"
"Xiaoxiao, you've driven? Why did you go down for so long?"
"Oh, oh." Luli agreed indiscriminately, stepped onto the train, stood beside the conductor, suddenly leaned over and shouted, "I'll be back for the New Year... and wait for me!"
The train started slowly, leaving Tianjin Station with a huge and boring "bang, clang" sound, and galloped eastward.
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Tangshan is about 120 kilometers away from Tianjin (Tianjin), and together with Beijing (Beijing), it forms a less standard equilateral triangle. It takes three hours to get there. The two of them walked out of the train station with their respective luggage. There was not many people in the square in front of the station. Compared to Tianjin, it seems to be simple and much closed. "Xiaoxiao, where are we going now?"
Lu Li turned around and looked at the square like them, looking at many young people around aimlessly. He knew at a glance that, like them, they were all educated youths from the city. He walked forward a few steps and greeted him, "Ah?"
The other party had a much larger number than them, with twelve or three. The boy in the lead was strong, like a door panel, "What's wrong? What's the matter?"
When he heard his accent he spoke was from Tianjin, Lu Li was even more relieved, "I am from Tianjin, too, where are you... going?"
The other party's expression became relaxed. He was in the same mood as him and stretched out his right hand friendly, "I am from the Red Star in Hedong, Luo Yaohua."
"I'm from Long March..., Lu...li." Lu Li turned around and pointed, "That's me... classmate..., Xu Yunjian."
Luo Yaohua nodded and introduced him to him. Most of them were from Hongxing Middle School, and there were a few children from the same school, but they were close to the same district. At this time, other children around the square gathered here and found out after asking that they all came from Tianjin, with a total of fifty-eight. After careful investigation, although these people both went to the countryside to Tangshan, their specific destinations were different, including Fengrun, Fengnan, Luan (county), Luannan, and Leting and Qian'an counties. As for the county and the distribution, they had to wait for another batch of distribution and arrangement.
Lu Li nodded, showing his understanding, took out a map from his pocket and placed it on the ground to unfold it. This is the Tangshan map found by Wu Baokun from his unit. It clearly depicts the locations of various districts and counties in the city. "Student Lu Li, how do we have to go?"
"Sit... and take a car. If you have to find someone to ask."
Only then did everyone notice that this boy who was very organized was actually a stuttering? There was a girl who probably had never come into contact with someone with stuttering and laughed hilariously. "Oh, sorry, I shouldn't have laughed at you."
Luo Yaohua glared at the girl who was traveling with him and slapped his chest, "You wait, I'll ask." He turned around and walked away. After waiting for less than five minutes, he turned back, "I asked, we should have a car to pick us up like this. I don't know what happened, but didn't come?"
"What should we do? Let's go?"
"I can't go, I don't have a car today, I have to go tomorrow."
"Ah?" Everyone was a little stupid, and Luli clapped his palms, "We... go... the city committee! I... ask for the address?"
I found out the address of the Tangshan Revolutionary Committee from a post office not far from the railway station, and then asked the bus that I should take. More than 50 young people who had just arrived in Guizhou rushed into the bus and went to the city. The so-called Revolutionary Committee is located in the north (district) of the city. This is the Tangshan Political, Economic and Cultural Center, all important facilities such as libraries, exhibition halls, workers' cultural palaces, Tangshan Labor Daily, Tangshan People's Radio Station, and some cultural and educational units are located in the district. (Note 1).
Everyone got out of the car. The Tangshan Revolutionary Committee Building was not far from the street. This was a six-story building with two huge iron fences half open. A communication room was built beside one door. Lu Li and others looked around the roadside for a few times. They were sure it was here. Everyone was carrying their luggage and were about to walk in. "Hey hey hey..." Someone immediately shouted through the window in the communication room. The two men came out, "Would you like to drink?"
The two people had a very strong accent, but it did not prevent them from being able to understand. "We... are intellectual youths from... Tianjin," Lu Li said word by word: "Originally, when we arrived at the train station, the local town government should have sent a car to pick it up, but now there is no one? What's going on with you? We responded to the call of the country and arrived in Tangshan, but we encountered such treatment. Is it how you implemented the decisions of the great leader?"
He spoke very slowly, but the two men were sweating all over his head. In that special era, one sentence, one word, and one extremely small detail were made indefinitely, and they could be exaggerated indefinitely! Maybe there would be a danger of family destruction! The leader quickly waved his hand, "Yes, the young intellectuals are right, this is our negligence, please wait." One of them quickly returned to the communication room, picked up the phone and said a few words, "I'm sorry, please wait a little longer, and someone will come to receive you soon."
Sure enough, soon, two people ran out of the Revolutionary Committee building. The two people in the communication room saw it at a glance and introduced them to them first. "The previous one was Director Zhen of the reception office, and his secretary Xiao Zhang was behind him."
Director Zhen apologized without any trouble when he arrived at the door, "I'm sorry, young intellectuals, we have not done our job well. On behalf of one hundred and seventy-seventy-nine thousand revolutionary comrades in Tangshan, I would like to express my sincere apology to the young intellectuals from Tianjin."
Lu Li and Luo Yaohua winked, and they both took a step forward at the same time, "Director Zhen, you... Hello, we are the representatives of the intellectual youth from Tianjin. My name is Lu... Li. This is my... companion, comrade Luo Yaohua."
"Come on, please ask the young intellectuals to go upstairs and talk to us."
Take dozens of children to the conference room upstairs, where there are large photos of the leader hanging in the room, and the highest instructions one by one, such as 'Don't forget class struggle', 'Make up your mind, don't be afraid of sacrifice, overcome all difficulties, and strive for victory'; "Comrades, please sit first and rest for a while..."
"Stop... and rest... no need," Lu Li said: "Director Zhen, we are responding to the call of the country and determined to be a brick of revolution. We will move wherever we need to, and come to Tangshan to receive re-education from poor and lower-middle peasants. I think, please make arrangements for us as soon as possible, so that we can devote ourselves to the vigorous production labor as soon as possible."
"Yes, this young intellectual comrade is right. We are all willing to be a brick of revolution in response to the needs of the revolution!" Director Zhen nodded deeply, "This young comrade has a high revolutionary awareness. I want to learn from you!"
Luli smiled, "Well?"
"Oh, I have contacted the local town government. For some reasons, the car will come tomorrow. I will introduce you to you later." Director Zhen said: "Today, comrades, please take a break first. I will arrange a temporary residence for you and wait for tomorrow, okay?"
Chapter completed!