Father's Land Mother's River

Chapter 40 The Melody of Youth

Fallen leaves covered the grass at the edge of the dense oak forest.Spread out a square checked cloth, on which are placed canned luncheon meat, canned fruit, dried squid fillets, beer and bottled soda, as well as some food brought by Wang Ping and Wu Yanli from home.

Unknown red wild flowers were placed in the middle of the tablecloth, a few flat stones were placed around, newspapers and handkerchiefs were spread, and six young people sat down to have a picnic.

Wang Ping took off her windbreaker and hung it on a tree branch. She sat steadily and asked everyone, "How is my arrangement?"

Everyone said yes, unique and unique.Wang Ping also said: "Yu Zhiyong bought all the food and drink. You report how much it is, and everyone will share it equally."

Yu Zhiyong drank his beer and said, "Is it interesting for you to say these things while drinking? You all have to save your family money for your dowry. I am full and the whole family is not hungry. Today is my treat."

Wang Ping said: "Why do we have to save for the dowry? You can eat enough for yourself and the whole family will not be hungry. You don't save money to marry a wife? Then ask your parents for it?"

Yu Zhiyong did not shy away from it: "They have divorced a long time ago, each has his own family, no one cares about me, I have long been independent."

Wang Ping asked, "What's going on?"

Yu Zhiyong waved his hand and said, "Stop talking, it's a disappointment."

Liu Xiaonan said: "Zhiyong came out very early to make a living on his own, earning his own living, and endured a lot of hardships. He is the person I admire the most."

Yu Zhiyong stared at Liu Xiaonan: "Don't talk such disgusting nonsense, just drink with me if you admire me."

Dong Xiaojun said: "Our team and our work section are a big family, you should treat everyone as brothers and sisters."

Wang Ping said: "If you have the opportunity to become a train operator in the future, I will take you and I will take you as an apprentice."

Yu Zhiyong rolled his eyes and said, "I'm really a little afraid of you."

Wang Ping patted Yu Zhiyong on the shoulder, and laughed cheerfully: "It's right to be afraid of me, otherwise I'll be your master."

Dong Xiaojun picked up the guitar, played and sang to cheer for everyone, and sang one after another. His young and energetic singing voice wafted through the woods.After singing a song, Wang Ping stood up and asked Dong Xiaojun to sing a sweet song for her.

After singing a couple of lines, Liu Xiaonan and Yu Zhiyong looked at each other, and couldn't help laughing out loud.

Wang Ping stopped singing, looked at the two people who were laughing together, and asked suspiciously: "I can sing well, what is wrong with singing that made you two laugh like this?"

Liu Xiaonan stopped laughing and said: "It's not that you can't sing well. You don't know, when Zhiyong got a single-card recorder when he was in high school, we jumped out of the school wall to listen to the music of Mimi, which is the song you sang Teresa Teng's "Seeing the Cooking Smoke Again". Later, Zhiyong was also forced to drop out of school because of eavesdropping on Teresa Teng's songs."

Dong Xiaojun said: "Teresa Teng's songs are not decadent."

Liu Xiaonan said: "Five years ago, it was a scandal, and the school strictly prohibited it."

Wang Ping laughed and said, "It's so pitiful, I'll sing live for you two today."

Wang Ping re-sang "Seeing the Cooking Smoke Again", and Yu Zhiyong bent his index finger to his mouth, playing a beautiful rhythm different from a whistle, and accompanied her with the guitar.In the beautiful melody, there are beating passionate notes, telling the desire and longing.

Liu Xiaonan noticed that Yu Zhiyong's eyes became more stable, while Wang Ping became quieter.

Their singing and laughter attracted the attention of two young people from society. The two slowly approached, and one of them said: "These young ladies are pretty, why don't you sing? Sing for the Lord."

Guan Xiaoyun turned around and cursed: "Stinky rascal."

When the two young people from the society heard this, they showed a fierce look on their faces: "I was passing by, but since someone scolded you as a hooligan, the matter is considered endless."

Yu Zhiyong picked up an empty beer bottle and knocked it on a stone. The bottom of the bottle was broken. He stood up and pointed the uneven and sharp bottom of the beer bottle at the two people, shouting angrily in a low voice: "Go away, don't miss it!" comfortable."

Instead, the two of them came forward to meet them: "I have encountered a quarrel, anyway, I have nothing to do, and I am not afraid of many people. It is good to have a fight."

Liu Xiaonan stood up and winked at Yu Zhiyong, meaning not to use force easily.He walked up to the two of them and smiled calmly: "Brother, look up and look down, peace is the most important thing."

The two said, "Assuming you can speak, let that little man apologize, and then sing a song for Grandpa."

Liu Xiaonan made a sudden move.He rarely fights, is not good at fighting, and doesn't approve of fighting.He originally wanted to comfort the other party with words, and turned the major incident into a trivial matter, but the skills taught to him by the fourth brother were completely out of his control, and the muscles in his body contracted and jumped, and Guan Xiaoyun would never be allowed to be humiliated for this.

The moment the other party relaxed slightly, the right arm struck out suddenly, hugging one of the necks tightly, and a big Bessie threw the other party down.

This trick is simple and practical. The fourth brother used to be a training partner and taught him to practice repeatedly.The fourth brother stood still like a tree stump, he never knocked down the fourth brother once, and he didn't have much confidence at the moment of making a move.

He didn't have time to think about the consequences if he missed, he just reacted instinctively and subconsciously felt that he should be worthy of the painstaking efforts of the fourth brother and that it was necessary to maintain Guan Xiaoyun's dignity.

What he didn't expect was that he easily knocked down the opponent. Compared with the fourth brother, he was not at the same level at all. His first actual victory greatly boosted his confidence.Now, the initiative is in his hands.

According to the teaching method of the fourth brother, after falling down on the opponent, hug the opponent's neck tightly to make it difficult to breathe, and put the right knee on the opponent's chest to make it difficult to turn over.Liu Xiaonan didn't want to do anything wrong, so she stretched out her right leg and put her knee on the opponent's waist, making her body hang in the air without using any strength.

The man tried to reach his pocket with his right hand, and there was a long and thin object in the trouser pocket.Liu Xiaonan firmly grasped the opponent's wrist with her left hand, and twisted the opponent's arm behind her back.

For a moment, everyone was stunned.Yu Zhiyong was the quickest to react, he had already got a hint from Liu Xiaonan's eyes that he had to join hands with the brothers as a last resort.He lunged forward and forced another person with a broken beer bottle.Dong Xiaojun picked up an empty beer bottle and stood beside him.

Guan Xiaoyun arrived later, holding up a bottle of beer with both hands, aimed at the head that Liu Xiaonan was holding, and could knock it down anytime, anywhere.

Liu Xiaonan tightened her arm around the other party's neck, and calmly asked the other party: "Brother, is this thing over today?"

"It's over, it's over!" The other party said again and again: "The women are all rushing up, can there be no end?"

Liu Xiaonan said: "I saved face for you, you know?"

The other party rolled his eyes and looked at Guan Xiaoyun above his head, and said conciliatively: "I know, in fact, we two brothers don't have any malicious intentions, and we were just playing around when we were idle. Who knew that this girl's words are too harsh, and I can't bear face."

"What an offence." Liu Xiaonan let go of his arms, helped the other party stand up straight, and secretly watched the movements of the other party's hands. He could see that there was a murder weapon in the other party's trouser pocket.

The other party shook his neck, stretched the collar of his clothes and said, "Okay, my buddy has opened his eyes today. He looks gentle, and his shots are fast and ruthless. I didn't even realize it."

Liu Xiaonan judged that the other party did not dare to act rashly, took the beer from Guan Xiaoyun's hand and handed it over, and said conciliatoryly: "Actually, it's nothing, just treat it as if we didn't know each other, right? Drink a bottle of beer to calm down the shock."

The other party glanced at Guan Xiaoyun, took the beer, knocked open the bottle cap with his teeth, gulped down two gulps and said, "I admire, for such a woman, I am willing to work hard, so let's go."

While drinking, they greeted their companions, and the two walked along the same road.

When the two young people from society walked away, Yu Zhiyong punched Liu Xiaonan, laughing: "You winked at me, I thought you wanted to say something nice to coax the other party away, but you made the move first. I remember You never fight."

Liu Xiaonan said: "At first I thought that way, somehow I lost control when my head got hot. Be reasonable with reasonable people, and deal with unreasonable people. The more you shrink back, the more he will make progress. The key is to have your strong backing. "

Guan Xiaoyun also said: "When did you practice such a skill?"

Liu Xiaonan said: "The fourth brother taught me, and often dragged me to the river to practice, he was afraid that I would be bullied."

Guan Xiaoyun said to Dong Xiaojun again: "You're not bad, you didn't back down at the critical moment."

Dong Xiaojun said: "You have gone up, can I still watch from the sidelines?"

The six sat down again.Wang Ping looked into the distance and said, "Those two people didn't go far away. They stood there and pointed towards us, as if they couldn't swallow their breath. Let's go quickly."

Yu Zhiyong said: "I can't leave. Once we leave, they will think that we are afraid of them, and I'm afraid they will continue to entangle. Don't they want to listen to the song? Why don't we sing a song together and let them hear our momentum."

After everyone discussed it, there was a song that everyone could sing.Dong Xiaojun played the guitar, Yu Zhiyong still bent his fingers and played the rhythm of the music, Wang Ping tapped the time, and everyone sang together: "Young friends, come to meet today, let the boat ride, the warm wind blows gently, the flowers The fragrance, the singing of the birds, the intoxicating spring scenery, the joyful songs and laughter flying around the colorful clouds. Ah, dear friends, who does the wonderful spring scenery belong to? It belongs to me, to you, and to our new generation in the 80s.”

The singing voice is passionate and heroic, flying out of the woods, skimming the sea, and circling in the blue and high sky.After a song was sung, the two social youths had disappeared without a trace.

Liu Xiaonan remembered that he hadn't checked the fishing lines for a long time. He walked to the embankment and found that one of the fishing lines sank and floated suddenly, which was quite different from the state of the Spanish mackerel biting the hook.After receiving the fishing line, I felt that the strength was very heavy, which meant that a big guy had taken the bait.He tightened the fishing line, turned around and called Wu Yanli loudly.

Wu Yanli ran over in small steps, and Liu Xiaonan handed her the fishing line and told her to reel in at a constant speed without stopping.Wu Yanli bent over to take up the thread with both hands, exclaiming in excitement, "It's so heavy."

Liu Xiaonan was also excited, and kept shouting from the side: "Don't relax, hold on, and pull it up in one go."

The fishing line was received at the end, and the fish floated to the surface. It was a flat fish, like a gray-black tile, struggling horizontally from one end to the other.

The fish was pulled to the root of the dam. Liu Xiaonan was worried that the fishing line would be broken by the reef, so she told Wu Yanli not to let go, and stepped down to the bottom of the dam by stepping on the cracks in the rocks, holding the two-pound fish in her hand.

After climbing up the embankment, Liu Xiaonan handed the fish to Wu Yanli and said, "This fish belongs to you."

Wu Yanli held the fish and showed it off into the distance, shouting: "Come and see, I caught it."

Dong Xiaojun and Guan Xiaoyun ran over and admired the fish.Guan Xiaoyun said to Dong Xiaojun: "Xiao Nan only catches big fish, why do you only catch small fish?"

Dong Xiaojun said disapprovingly: "It's not too small. What he wants is the weight, and what I want is the quantity. The sum is more than his. It takes him a long time to catch a fish, and it's not fun."

Dong Xiaojun and Guan Xiaoyun continued to go fishing in the fishing port, while Liu Xiaonan and Wu Yanli remained on the dam.

While waiting patiently, Wu Yanli whispered, "You were so brave just now, I was so scared."

Under the white sun hat, the bright eyes shone with the color and heat of the sun.

Liu Xiaonan shook his head, looking into the depths of the sea, only he knew how cowardly he must be.

(End of this chapter)