Father's Land Mother's River

Chapter 82
After Liu Xiaonan finished writing the last word, she put down the pen with relief, rubbed her fingers and wrists, and sat on the chair for a long time, unable to move, her thoughts still immersed in the words she wrote.

My brain is a little messy, confusing Li Hongxia and Li Qiuxia, and I can't figure out which is real and which is fiction.

However, he had to let go of Li Hongxia or Li Qiuxia completely, and walk out of that fog.Tomorrow is the day when the university starts to register, and life will open a new page temporarily. Don't let other bad emotions interfere with a long-awaited study life.

write capital letters.With a pot of clear water and a writing brush, he squatted on the ground and wrote the ancient poems in his memory freely. The wet words appeared and disappeared like a group of elves, immersing him in the fresh, simple and meaningful artistic conception, and gradually separated from the real world.

No sound from the outside could penetrate his eardrums, even the sound of footsteps in the corridor was filtered out by his brain.It wasn't until there was a figure standing beside him that he realized it. When he looked up, it was Yue Xuelian who was smiling and not speaking.

Yue Xuelian was slightly surprised and said: "Brother, is this how you usually practice calligraphy? This is the first time I have seen it."

Liu Xiaonan threw the brush in his hand into the basin and put it on the washbasin stand, a little at a loss and incoherent: "This way of practicing calligraphy saves paper and ink, and it can also clean the floor. It is also the first time you have come to my hut , I am flattered by the flamboyance."

Yue Xuelian ignored Liu Xiaonan's flattery, looked around at his bachelor's dormitory, nodded frequently and said: "It's very rare to have such a small room, it seems that the goddess of your dreams is very attentive to you. How about it, do a good job of enrolling." Are you ready?"

"I'm eagerly looking forward to it." Liu Xiaonan gave up his seat and poured water, stood aside and said, "Teacher Xiaoyue is here, and there must be other arrangements. I am willing to listen carefully and follow the teachings."

Yue Xuelian glared at Liu Xiaonan: "If you talk sourly again, I will punish you to use a brush to mop the floor in the classroom."

"This is too cruel." Liu Xiaonan put away her smirk, sat on the bed and took out her brother's airs and said, "I have something to say."

Yue Xuelian said: "You report for duty early tomorrow. After the formalities are completed, go to the station wharf with your seniors to welcome the new students."

Liu Xiaonan agreed, thinking to herself, just go alone for this matter?Yue Xuelian seemed to have nothing else to do, so she casually picked up the manuscript on the table and asked, "A new novel?"

Liu Xiaonan said, "I lived in the mine for a while."

"Are you really going?" Yue Xuelian interrupted Liu Xiaonan sensitively, raised her eyebrows and said, "What new discoveries and gains?"

Of course Liu Xiaonan knew what Yue Xuelian was referring to. He said: "The past of my fathers is in the past. I went for a little widow. It's all in this novel."

"Really?" Yue Xuelian stood up after only turning two pages and said, "The beginning is thrilling, but the sequel will definitely be exciting. I'll take it back and enjoy it, okay?"

"I can't wish for it. I'm mixing two irrelevant events together. I don't know if my feeling is right."

"Your intuition has always been sharp." Yue Xuelian put the manuscript into her satchel, thought for a while and said, "I have wanted to see you for a long time, but I have never had time."

That is to say, there must be other things coming today.Liu Xiaonan didn't ask any further questions, but just said: "After school starts, we can see each other every day, and we can ask Teacher Xiaoyue for advice anytime and anywhere."

Yue Xuelian was very relaxed and happy, talking with great interest: "It's really unexpected that one day I will be your teacher." She thought of the scene when she and Liu Xiaonan met for the first time in the editorial department, and then said: "I owe you Apologize."

Liu Xiaonan didn't understand, so: "Can't you? Teacher Xiaoyue has been helping me all the time."

Yue Xuelian chuckled softly: "Do you remember, when we first met, I said to the cow playing the piano, the sad thing is not the cow, but the person playing the piano."

Liu Xiaonan also smiled: "What happened to me at the time. From now on, just treat me like a stupid cow."

Yue Xuelian got up to say goodbye, Liu Xiaonan sent Yue Xuelian to the bus station, gossiping along the way, but it was also very pleasant.

When approaching the bus stop, Yue Xuelian stopped, summoned up her courage to look at Liu Xiaonan and said, "Brother, I hope you will tell me the truth. Do you have any thoughts on Jifeng?"

This is the real purpose of this trip.Liu Xiaonan hesitated to say anything, she was afraid that telling the truth would hurt Yue Xuelian and affect her relationship with Ji Feng.Blindly speaking nice words, but afraid that Yue Xuelian would be hurt even more.

Yue Xuelian said: "Didn't you claim to protect me? If you have anything to say, feel free to say it boldly."

Liu Xiaonan could only say honestly: "Men look at men differently than women look at men, and their conclusions are also different. I only noticed one thing. When eating at your house, he never poured wine for anyone, including your father. He gave My first feeling is that it is not authentic, arrogance is not a big problem, but being unkind is something in the bones, and it is not the same kind of people as us."

Yue Xuelian's face was a little cold: "Thank you, brother, for your reminder."

Liu Xiaonan didn't want to provoke Yue Xuelian too much, he said: "Of course, this is just my opinion as an outsider, I hope it won't affect the normal relationship between you. Maybe I'm wrong, maybe Ji Feng is too casual."

Yue Xuelian smiled lightly: "Since you have told the truth, why bother to be ambiguous?"

After sending Yue Xuelian away, Liu Xiaonan returned to the dormitory, remembering that it was time to write the first letter to Gu Yu.Gu Yu has already arrived in the provincial capital, what is she doing now?Shop around or sit and learn?Or are you looking forward to your own letter?
He took out the letter paper, picked up a pen and wrote down the words "Dear Leader", clicked two colons, and the tip of the pen hung in the air. What did he write?Remember the sweet moments when we were together, or the bitter longing after parting?

It's too clichéd, it's better not to write.With a thought, I signed my name and date at the end of the second page of letter paper, leaving two full pages blank.

He imagined Gu Yu's expression when he opened the letter, and couldn't help but laugh with himself.He folded two pages of letter paper into a rectangle, folded the two ends in half to form a heart shape, and put it into the envelope seal.

Write down the name and zip code of the recipient's address, as well as the address and zip code of the sender, affix an eight-cent stamp, and go downstairs to the green mailbox standing next to the door of the dormitory.

On the first day of school, Liu Xiaonan came to the school early and was the first to complete the admission procedures.

Yue Xuelian personally pinned a white school badge on his left breast pocket, patted his chest lightly and said: "I finished reading the novel, and it shocked me greatly. The tenacity and fragility of life, the good and evil of human nature , the conversion of weakness and courage, the fog in nature and the confusion in real life are intertwined, all condensed in a short novel. You put the characters in a specific environment to torture, torture their souls and Conscience, let them see what kind of person they really are. I dare say, this is the most literary novel you have written so far. I will study it carefully and return it to you in a few days."

Liu Xiaonan looked at the red school badge on Yue Xuelian's chest and said, "I just want to restore the original state of the matter, which is not as thorough as your analysis. It seems that this is the gap."

Yue Xuelian said: "Four years of university study and life will make you progress by leaps and bounds."

After saying a few words, Yue Xuelian arranged for Liu Xiaonan and a dozen sophomores and juniors to meet the freshmen at the pier.At the end of the day, most of the freshmen reported to the school on time, and only one student from Shandong in his class was still missing.

The next day, Liu Xiaonan went to the pier alone, waiting for this freshman who was not in a hurry or angry.

In the morning, a passenger ship and a ro-ro passenger ship sailed from Shandong to Bincheng. The passenger ship entered the port, and the wharf was crowded with people.Liu Xiaonan held up a card with the name of the school on it, and stretched his neck to look around.The passenger flow cleared up, and no one came to him.

There was still a period of time before passenger ships could enter the port, so he bought a literary magazine and sat on the steps to read it.

When the ro-ro passenger ship entered the port, Liu Xiaonan felt that this student might not come to register for school due to other reasons.He rested the cards on his shoulder and stood there routinely, with his head down and his eyes on the publication in his hands.

"Teacher, hello." A greeting with a strong local accent sounded timidly in front of Liu Xiaonan.The flow of people parted beside him, and the noise and greetings were endless.He's not a teacher, so he doesn't need to look up.

"Teacher." The crisp female voice sounded again, and the volume increased a few degrees.A slightly dark, playful, clean and thin face slanted sideways and abruptly appeared between Liu Xiaonan and the publication.Under the black eyebrows shaped like willow leaves, a pair of lively and bright eyes blinked like bees, and swam from bottom to top like tadpoles on his face.

Liu Xiaonan raised his head, and there was a little girl from the countryside standing in front of him - he could recognize it at a glance, there was no doubt about it.

The little girl slung a cloth bag with a floral pattern on her shoulders, and had short hair that reached her ears. There were plastic hairpins on the top of her head and on both sides of her ears.He was wearing a homemade light colored and elegant flower jacket, a pair of blue flared trousers on his lower body, and a pair of black cloth shoes with layered soles on his feet.

Flared trousers have long been outdated in Bencheng, and almost disappeared on the street. Such a combination of local and foreign styles can't help but make people "beautiful", and can't help but laugh out of goodwill.

"You called me?" Liu Xiaonan asked with a smile, absolutely not meant to be sarcastic.It was probably the first time for the little girl to travel far away, and the family tried their best not to make her look too rustic.

"I came to this school to report." The little girl pointed to the school badge on Liu Xiaonan's chest, her expression was a little excited and a little nervous, and she spoke quickly: "Teacher, I'm not late, am I?"

"I'm not late, it's just that you were the last one to report." Liu Xiaonan had to prick up her ears and listen hard, filtering each word in her brain to understand the complete and accurate meaning of the obscure dialect.

After high school, why can't you pass Mandarin?How did you learn English?He corrected: "I'm not a teacher, just like you, I'm also a freshman."

The little girl exaggeratedly covered her mouth with one hand, and her eyes were bright without any apology, as if this was such a fun thing.She said, "Then you are a big brother?"

It turned out that she deduced that she was a teacher based on her age, and she also had a sense of quackery.Liu Xiaonan said, "Big brother, let me see your admission letter first, lest you go to the wrong school."

The little girl turned her back, took out the admission notice from her bosom and handed it to Liu Xiaonan.Liu Xiaonan glanced at the name, Meng Xiangxiang, it was right, it was her.

He handed the publications and the admission letter to Meng Xiangxiang, threw the cards in his arms into the trash can, picked up the luggage and the net bag at her feet and said, "Come with me, the school teacher is in a hurry." gone."

Meng Xiangxiang held a magazine in his hand, and followed Liu Xiaonan briskly with his small chest. He would occasionally jump up and down as he walked, like an innocent little girl.

With her height, appearance and walking posture, Liu Xiaonan felt that she was a combination of Guan Xiaoyun and Wu Yanli, but the spirituality in her eyes was unique.The spacious and smooth forehead is slightly raised, shining with a natural and healthy luster, which is a unique talent born with nature.

Liu Xiaonan turned her head to Meng Xiangxiang and said, "My name is Liu Xiaonan, and I'm in the same class as you. Since you call me senior brother, you can tell me if you have any difficulties in life or study in the future."

"Your surname is Liu, and my mother's surname is also Liu." Meng Xiangxiang was slightly surprised.

Eight poles can't be hit, there is no such thing as close.Liu Xiaonan asked casually, "The accent is so heavy that it's hard to understand. Where are you from Shandong?"

"I'm from Qixia County."

"Where are you from?" Liu Xiaonan asked.It's not that he didn't hear clearly, but he wanted to make sure.

"I'm from Mengjiazhuang, Qixia County." Meng Xiangxiang said word by word, as close to Mandarin as possible.

"Are there many people with the surname Liu?"

"There aren't many people with the surname Liu in our village, and the people with the surname Liu in my grandma's Li family are a big family."

"Is Lijiazhuang far from your home?"

"It's not far away. It's just over two mountain ridges. That's where I went to high school."

Liu Xiaonan stopped walking, quickly sorting out the chaotic thoughts in her mind.After walking for more than two hundred years, the sound of heavy and tenacious footsteps from afar hit his heart heavily, and the ancient melody beat like a drum in his heart.

He looked at Meng Xiangxiang again, his eyes were covered with mist, and his expectant eyes seemed to be looking for the lost time and shadow.

Liu Xiaonan's strange eyes frightened Meng Xiangxiang, and he looked at him without blinking at a loss.Liu Xiaonan grinned, and her tone was as calm as possible: "I'm asking you a question that is purely folklore. Does your grandma pay attention to traditional characters when they name their children? It's just out of curiosity, because they all have the surname Liu."

Meng Xiangxiang looked relieved, and said with a sigh of relief: "It's fine, it's not ambiguous at all. My grandfather's generation was complicated, my mother's and uncle's generation was complicated, and my cousin's generation was complicated. Yun, the next generation, Fanqi, I don't know about the rest."

There is no doubt about it.Liu Xiaonan took a step forward and took Meng Xiangxiang to the bus.Meng Xiangxiang lay on the car window, admiring the city scenery greedily, while Liu Xiaonan was secretly observing her.

At his feet were Meng Xiangxiang's luggage and a net bag. The luggage was wrapped in an old blanket, wrapped in a layer of plastic cloth, and tied firmly with a whole hemp rope; the net bag contained washbasins, lunch boxes, and towels. Dental appliances are not all new.There were several other books in book covers, the pages of which were free from curls and creases at every corner.

Inexplicable emotions surged in Liu Xiaonan's heart.

(End of this chapter)