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(99) Sudden farewell

The misfortune is the basis of good fortune, and the blessing is the basis of misfortune. The wise prophecy of the ancients once again fulfilled my last night shift in the weaving workshop. After two days of resuming, because I was going back to the pre-spinning and preservation class, the team leader Xia of the electrician class personally organized all the workers to hold two tables at the Hongwei Hotel in the center of the city and saw me off. That night, everyone kept comforting me and persuaded me to drink over and over again. Master Liu was in a complicated mood and apologizing for me, saying that he had not brought me well and asked me to leave the electrician class.

The wine was so dark that it was so dark that Senior Brother Xiao Wang and two other brothers drank high and vomited wine on the spot at the table. I didn’t know why this time, but I was abnormal. Not only did I not get drunk, but I became more and more sober as I drank, but my face turned pale and sweated. Captain Xia thought something was going to happen to me, so he was frightened.

At night, like a light green curtain, covering the quiet small town by the canal. We staggered out of the hotel gate and dispersed one after another on the streets with mottled shadows. Master Liu was a little drunk and hooked my shoulders and refused to let go. Squad Leader Xia was afraid of something wrong, so he told me to send him home. Master Liu's home lives in the county fertilizer factory, and I carried him to walk towards the northeast.

"Xiao Wu, I'm sorry for you. I took you... to take you to take a shower, which made you unable to stay in the electrician class. I'll apologize to you..." Master Liu squirted and continued to chatter in my ears.

"Master Liu, don't blame you. I went to the electrician class and went to the city to study again. The old monkey knew about it, but he was not happy. When he came back, I pushed him again. It was his intention to mess with me, and I understood in my heart." I was afraid that Master Liu would vomit on me, so I patted him on the back hard.

"Xiao Wu, wait... when I go back to the south and stand there, I will... find a way to get you over, and be sure to be much better than here. Don't you... want to go to the south?" Under the dizzy moonlight, Master Liu widened his blood-red eyes.

"Okay - I'll go and have a chance to do it with you. I really don't want to stay here for the rest of my life and think of going out to see the outside world." I knew that Master Liu was talking drunk, but his heart was sincere.

The fertilizer factory is located in the north corner of the city, surrounded by farmland in Chengguan Township. Last time I stood up for Senior Brother Xiao Cai, and played against Zhao Wu and Zhao Wen here. I sent Master Liu home. I walked back alone in the night. The earth was already asleep. The sound of machines in the fertilizer factory appeared and the surrounding villages were occasionally barking one or two dogs, which further showed the tranquility of the surrounding wilderness.

The breeze was gently caressing, and the street lights were dim. After all the troubles along the way, I felt a little drunk. Just as I was walking forward dizzyly, a Beijing 212 jeep was coming towards me with its flute, and the two headlights were shaking their eyes. When the jeep drove past me, it slowed down slightly. I saw the driver sitting in the shaking window. It was the second young master Wang I met last time in Wolong Lake. There was a pretty woman beside him. Because the light was too dark, I didn't see clearly, and the jeep passed in a flash.

I slept in a daze until the middle of the night. I woke up because of my dry mouth. I got up and drank a meal of cold boiled water, and the people became awake. People who drink alcohol all had this feeling, and once they woke up, they couldn't sleep. I went to bed, turned off the lights, sat in the darkness with my clothes, took out a cigarette and lit it, and took a sip of pain.

The scene at night came back to my mind. I remembered what Master Liu said on the road. Could it be that I really could leave the yarn mill, leave this small Huaibei city, and go to a completely unfamiliar place? My thoughts began to float. Suddenly, I remembered the jeep I saw on the way back. Why did Mr. Wang drive to the fertilizer factory in the middle of the night? Why did the woman beside him look a little familiar? Oh my God, my heart skipped a beat, and I was a little scared. She could not be Li Qin, right?

I couldn't help but sighed, got out of bed and came out of the house, stretched my muscles and bones casually, and began to practice the eight-stage small grabs taught by my master under the slanting moonlight. The boredom and slackness for many days made my posture a little deformed. I gritted my teeth and beat them twice, and kept trying until I was exhausted before I returned to the house.

I fell asleep again, until I was awakened by the sound of knocking on the door again. When I opened my eyes, it was already rising and the sun was shining. I quickly got out of bed and opened the door. I saw the moped guard who had only lived in for less than a week, standing in front of my door with a pale face.

"Master Xiao Wu, I'm disturbing you. I'm here to pay back the keys." The elder sister from the former spinning workshop said embarrassedly.

"Return the key? Why? You don't live here?" I looked at her and asked in confusion.

"Her dad... Her dad suddenly received an urgent telegram from the army yesterday afternoon, ordering him to stop visiting relatives immediately and return to the team immediately." The eldest sister's eyes turned red, and the delicate little girl grabbed her clothes and looked at me blankly with her big eyes.

"What happened? People rushed back after the holiday. Now they were not hot yet. Why did they just leave?" I was anxious for my elder sister and asked in a hurry.

"We can't explain clearly, the military order is like a mountain falling, who made him a soldier?" The eldest sister's tears were filled with reluctance in her voice.

I suddenly remembered something, and quickly bent down and asked the little girl, "You and uncle have an agreement, haven't you forgotten, are you calling you dad?"

The little girl avoided my gaze and shyly lowered her slender eyelashes. The eldest sister looked at the timid child and sighed: "I took this child alone, and I have become very stubborn. Why did his father tease her when he came back this time? He hasn't called him yet."

Watching the mother and daughter leave, I felt a little uncomfortable. These female workers who married soldiers, because their husbands were not around for a long time, had to work in three shifts. After giving birth, they would either send Yin Hong back to the countryside to take care of their parents-in-law, or squeeze in to the collective dormitory with me. This required great patience to maintain their lives normally. I suddenly remembered the look of Yin Hong when she was having dinner in the hospital. Yin Hong said that Peng Dazhuang was in a panic. I wonder if he has come back to visit relatives now? I really hope he can take Yin Hong away with the army as soon as possible. As long as she is happy, I am willing to miss and suffer forever from now on.

I picked up the broom and started cleaning the building. Since Aunt Cao left, there was no administrator at the guesthouse. There were many people who covet this idle position, so I couldn't settle the position for a long time, so I naturally became a temporary manager. Thinking of myself being taken back to the security class by the old monkey, if he knew that I was still living in this guesthouse, he might have driven me out. Thinking of this, I was a little panicked and my heart couldn't help but thump.

At noon that day, the husband of the mow blocker reluctantly said goodbye to his wife and daughter. I went to the factory to find Senior Brother Cai, who was on Changbaishi, and borrowed his "permanent" to help the elder sister and daughter, and sent the soldiers to the bus station.

On the platform, the little girl hugged her mother's neck tightly and kept turning her head to look at her father. The soldier kissed her cheek and finally begged her to call herself. In our encouraging eyes, the little girl's mouth was squirming, her face turned red, but she didn't scream. The soldier hugged his wife and daughter in disappointment and hurriedly boarded the bus that had already started.

The sun was bright and bright at noon, but the body of the female worker blocking the car was trembling like reeds in the wind. The bus slowly slid out of our eyes. The soldier poked his head out and waved his hands vigorously. Just as he was about to retract, the little girl suddenly opened her voice and shouted to the distance: "Dad——"

The tender voice echoed under the spring sun. The father in the car probably heard it, poked his head out again, and waved his hand at the mother and daughter.

The little girl burst into tears, and the bus went further and further amid the crying of "Dad-Dad-" and the bus was getting farther and farther away. At this time, the mother holding her daughter was already lost and she was already in tears.

On the way back, the mother and daughter were wiping their tears. I didn't know how to comfort them, so I could only accompany them silently. When I arrived at the intersection in the center of the city, a loudspeaker on the ancient bell tower was broadcasting a correspondence report written by a reporter from a county radio station, "The reform of the cotton mill is taking real action, and the reward and punishment measures are not vague". This bullshit manuscript was finally added to the provincial and municipal newspapers at that time.

On the third morning, after I arrived at the workshop, I went to the distribution duty room, handed over my electrician bag and all the tools, and returned to the safeguard class I was familiar with, and started my "Changbaishi" life from 8 am to 5 am.
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