Father's Land Mother's River

Chapter 92 Still That River

After finally surviving until dawn, Liu Xiaonan stretched his arms and kicked his legs in the hut, turning his neck and exercising his muscles and bones.Even though the hut was unlocked, he couldn't just go out casually. Now he was a criminal suspect, and he couldn't live up to the trust of the two policemen in him.

He was looking forward to Teacher Zhao Guangzhi coming over as soon as possible to rescue him from the fire and water.

It was only in the middle of the morning that a policeman brought Liu Xiaonan to the reception room, where Zhao Guangzhi and Yue Xuelian sat there waiting to pick him up.

Liu Xiaonan was taken aback, how did Yue Xuelian know?
Not long after he went to work in the morning, Zhao Guangzhi received a call from the police station, asking him if he knew a person named Liu Xiaonan, and whether it was the university recommended by the Federation of Literary and Art Circles.

Knowing that Liu Xiaonan was sent to the police station for fighting, Zhao Guangzhi first notified Yue Xuelian, and together they went to the police station to find someone.He didn't know the relationship between Yue Xuelian and Ji Feng, nor did he know why Liu Xiaonan fought.

Zhao Guangzhi rushed to the police station first, explained Liu Xiaonan's situation to the police, and learned in detail some reasons why Liu Xiaonan and Ji Feng had conflicts.Not long after, Yue Xuelian also arrived.

After the police who went to the hospital to investigate and verify came back, they briefly introduced Ji Feng's injury and requirements to them.Ji Feng's injuries were not serious, his lips were swollen, and his face was bruised. The doctor has treated him and he can be discharged today.But Ji Fenglai stayed in the hospital, saying it was a chest pain, and he insisted on pursuing Liu Xiaonan's criminal responsibility.

The police asked Yue Xuelian if she and Ji Feng were lovers as Liu Xiaonan said.Yue Xuelian's face was pale, she bit her lip and said yes embarrassingly.

The police kindly suggested that people like Ji Feng are difficult to deal with, and it is best to negotiate a solution, otherwise it will be bad for Liu Xiaonan.Zhao Guangzhi said he was going to work on Ji Feng, and Yue Xuelian and another policeman followed.

When he arrived at the hospital, he saw Ji Feng lying on the hospital bed, with a woman feeding him canned food bit by bit.

Yue Xuelian rushed in front of Ji Feng, slapped him hard, and said very calmly: "Aren't you going to pursue Liu Xiaonan's criminal responsibility? Well, I will also count."

Ji Feng looked at Zhao Guangzhi and the policeman, covered his cheeks and said, "Yue Xuelian, let's talk and break up."

Zhao Guangzhi said calmly at the side: "Ji Feng, Wen is like a person, and the Federation of Literature and Art does not welcome people with extremely low moral standards, no matter how talented he is. If you are not afraid of ruining your reputation, it is your freedom to pester you endlessly. However, the Federation of Literature and Art All the colleagues, the teachers and students of the normal university, and the cadres and workers of the textile factory will come forward to confirm Liu Xiaonan's character."

Under pressure, Ji Feng finally agreed to negotiate a settlement. As long as Liu Xiaonan compensates him for medical expenses and apologizes to him personally, he will not pursue it.After Ji Feng signed the police record, Yue Xuelian threw the money on his face on the spot.

Liu Xiaonan didn't know that the matter had been resolved satisfactorily. He held Zhao Guangzhi's hand and said apologetically, "Mr. Zhao, I got into trouble, and I have to trouble you to go back and forth for me."

Zhao Guangzhi laughed and said, "Xiaonan, Xiaonan, I didn't expect you to have a bloody side. The police comrade called me and said that you beat people up in the middle of the night and injured people. I wondered if it was a mistake. Alright, you go and apologize to Ji Feng sincerely, and this matter is over."

Liu Xiaonan was still in a daze, but Yue Xuelian said coldly, "You know you've caused a catastrophe, and Teacher Zhao has already patched the hole for you."

Walking out of the police station, the ex-soldier policeman said to Liu Xiaonan: "We know each other, even though the occasion is a bit special. After the novel is published, can you send it to us?"

Liu Xiaonan shook the policeman's hand and said, "Definitely. When the movie "Congjun Ji" is released, I will invite the policeman uncle to watch the movie."

Zhao Guangzhi left beforehand, Liu Xiaonan rode his bicycle to go to the hospital to apologize to Ji Feng, Yue Xuelian jumped on the back seat of his bicycle.

Liu Xiaonan stopped the car and said, "Don't go, you won't be sick when you see that person."

Yue Xuelian said: "I want to see how you apologize."

"Look." Liu Xiaonan pedaled the bicycle very fast.

After entering the hospital ward, Liu Xiaonan bowed to Ji Feng three times without saying a word.

Ji Feng suddenly sat up from the hospital bed, and said with a terrified expression: "Liu Xiaonan, are you apologizing to me sincerely? Don't think I don't understand, you are cursing me to death."

"Don't you have a chest pain? I think you are quite nimble in your carp kicking." Liu Xiaonan said sincerely, "Ji Feng, I am sincerely apologizing to you. I'm really sorry, it's the first time I'm so old. Man, I just let you hit me, the attack is not serious, it made you suffer. In fact, it was not because I wanted to hit you sincerely, but because the skills that my fourth brother taught me were not controlled by me. You don’t know, There is a simple and honest fourth brother in my hometown who is a master wrestler. He was afraid that I would be bullied, so he taught me some tricks. Don’t tell me, it really works.”

Ji Feng's face turned pale with anger, he waved his arms frantically and said, "Get out, I don't want to see you again."

"I'm going to get out now, you can rest assured, there are people waiting at the head of the bed and at the end of the bed, how nourishing it is." Liu Xiaonan pulled Yue Xuelian out, stopped at the door, turned back to the woman and said, "A word of advice, stay away from Huaxin. Big radish, so as not to be deceived."

"I want you to take care of it." The woman didn't accept this at all.

"You really have a personality, I'm extremely admirable." Liu Xiaonan gave a thumbs up and wanted to say a few more words, but was dragged out of the hospital by Yue Xuelian.

Walking out of the hospital gate, Yue Xuelian covered her mouth with her hands and smiled, her laughter was as refreshing as a stream, her thick black eyebrows twitched and her eyes were radiant.It seems that a happy little girl has encountered another happy thing.

Seeing this, Liu Xiaonan felt a lot more at ease, and said with a smile, "I just want him to have a better memory. I warned him that he doesn't have a brain."

"What are you laughing at?" Yue Xuelian stopped laughing suddenly, and said sharply, "What's so funny about you? Did you know that if things got serious, you might be expelled from school?"

"I'm not happy with this bad breath. If you get fired, you get fired. It's no big deal. If you don't go to college, you can still write novels. Besides, with you and Mr. Zhao here, how can the school expel me?"

Liu Xiaonan even thought that if things really got to the point of no return, she would have to turn to Gu Yu and her father for help.Gu Yu will not just watch herself being expelled from the university and lose her dream.

Yue Xuelian refused to let go: "You forgot how you went to university? Is this journey easy? Go back and write me a deep inspection."

Liu Xiaonan said: "I'll talk about it after the inspection. I'm hungry and sleepy now. Let's go to eat first, and take a leave of absence in the afternoon. I won't go to school. I'll go back and catch up on sleep."

"Brother!" Yue Xuelian shed sad tears and said tremblingly, "I heard that you were locked up in the police station. I was so worried. How could you lose your mind and beat someone? It's not worth it for such a person."

"It's worth it, it's worth it!" Liu Xiaonan comforted Yue Xuelian: "It's not worth it for that person, and it's worth doing anything to protect your dignity and reputation. Well, the matter is not that serious, isn't it all over?"

The two went to a small restaurant nearby and ordered two bowls of hand-rolled noodles.Liu Xiaonan was really hungry, gobbled down a bowl quickly, and ordered another bowl, looked up to observe Yue Xuelian's expression while eating.

After a short love, she was deceived by her feelings. Can she survive this test, get out of the psychological shadow, and face life again?

Yue Xuelian picked up the long and wide noodles with chopsticks, chewed them slowly one by one, and said calmly: "Senior brother, don't worry about me. After you remind me, I will pay attention to observe some of his inner performances." , I have already prepared in my heart. It is a great irony to say that after studying for so many years, as a college counselor, I am not sure about people, and I am blinded by some external appearances."

Liu Xiaonan comforted: "That's because your heart is too pure and kind, and when you look at others, you feel the same as yourself, so you don't have to defend yourself. Don't worry, with your senior brother around, Teacher Xiaoyue will never be hurt again. "

Yue Xuelian laughed softly: "What kind of logic are you talking about?"

"I have a suggestion." Liu Xiaonan stopped her chopsticks and said, "You should smile more at ordinary times. Your smile is very special, like rippling autumn water, like a full moon hanging in the sky, like a dream."

"You made fun of me again." Yue Xuelian lowered her head to hide her shy face, and whispered, "It depends on who you are laughing for."

Liu Xiaonan drank the last sip of noodle soup and said: "I was locked up by the police station for one night. This life is not in vain. I will be able to brag about it in the future. Next time I go home and ask my fourth brother to settle accounts. He insists on teaching me how to wrestle. This is all right. I fell to the police station." gone."

Yue Xuelian put down the bowl, and asked cautiously: "You and Gu Yu...is it really irreversible?"

Liu Xiaonan said: "Gu Yu has done a lot for me, I don't want her to make a painful choice between me and her parents, that would be shameful and selfish."

After leaving the small restaurant, Yue Xuelian went back to school, and Liu Xiaonan went back to the dormitory of the textile factory.As soon as he entered the dormitory, Yu Zhiyong followed him in.I found out that Liu Xiaonan didn't come back last night, and I didn't go to school today, so I hurried up to ask Liu Xiaonan what happened.Liu Xiaonan briefly explained what happened.

Yu Zhiyong asked: "Which hospital and ward is that Ji Feng lying in? I'll go get to know him."

Liu Xiaonan asked alertly, "What do you want to do?"

Yu Zhiyong said easily: "I'll go and give you the money back."

Liu Xiaonan said, "Don't make trouble, this matter has been settled."

Yu Zhiyong scolded and said: "You have never fought, and you don't know how to fight. You don't slap people in the face. You beat people into black eyes and left evidence. No wonder they want to blackmail you. I can see through you, you That is Cheng Yaojin's three-axe, go up and throw people down, and then beat you facelessly. If he still troubles you, tell me, I will go to the construction site to find some people, and block him at night. , calling him to cry for his father and mother, I don’t know who did it.”

"Don't worry about it." Liu Xiaonan warned, "Don't meddle in this matter. Thinking about how to marry Wang Ping is a serious thing."

Yu Zhiyong said disdainfully: "Okay, I don't care. I despise you literati the most when you work hard, how happy you are."

Liu Xiaonan said: "Don't put a high hat on me, what kind of literati am I?"

Yu Zhiyong laughed happily.

At the end of the month, Liu Xiaonan went home.The yard changed drastically, it became spacious and tidy, it became unrecognizable, and it made him feel strange and at a loss.

On the opposite side of my house, the old houses that Gu Yu's family lived in were later converted into livestock pens by Liu Qishun and his family. Now they have been demolished, and all the bricks and tiles have been filled into the foundation of the new house.

After the new house is built next year, these old houses of my family will also be demolished.At that time, all traces related to memory will completely disappear.

Liu Xiaonan stood in the empty yard feeling lost, recalling everything that happened in this yard.The joy and friendship of childhood, after many years, bloomed the delicate and bright flowers of love, but they could not withstand the ravages of wind and frost, withered and fell, leaving only a little lingering fragrance.

The past is so beautiful and memorable, but the memories are so painful and helpless.

Memories do not die with the passage of time.The apricot and jujube trees in the yard will still bloom and bear fruit next year, but I don’t know if the swallows that fly to the south for the winter will be able to find their former residence when they return to the north next year.

The fourth brother drove the carriage to pull the soil for his house and raise the yard to prevent flooding, and Liu Xiaonan followed.The two brothers sat on the cowl, swaying with the bumps of the carriage, and didn't want to talk much.

Liu Xiaonan felt that the fourth brother was very strange, he used to nagging and talking to himself about everything, what happened today?Like wooden pegs.

Liu Xiaonan intentionally teased the fourth brother: "Fourth brother, I made you suffer so badly that you almost went to jail."

After listening to Liu Xiaonan's story, the fourth brother laughed and said, "I didn't teach you to beat people. If you want to blame it, blame your inflexible mind. You put him down, wait for him to get up, then put him down, and let him stand up all the time." If you don’t get up, you don’t need to hit him, just see if he’s honest or not.”

Liu Xiaonan smiled and said, "Fourth brother, you are not mean enough, and you have left behind me, why didn't you tell me this trick earlier?"

"I still need to teach you, idiot." The fourth brother hit Liu Xiaonan on the head with a whip.

The soil was collected from the edge of the pond, and Liu Xiaonan and the fourth brother used shovels to load the soil onto the carriage.The fourth brother waved the shovel and flew up and down, still with endless energy and still not making a sound.

The fourth brother put his shovel into the mound with all his strength, and finally couldn't help but look down the river bank and said, "Xiaonan, I went to the market a few days ago, guess who I met?"

Liu Xiaonan can probably guess who the fourth brother met, but he still wants the fourth brother to say it himself: "How can I guess who you met?"

The fourth brother said: "I met the little widow from before, and she told me she was married."

The fourth brother is very calm, resigned to fate and calm.The fourth brother's longing is like a plump seed, which is buried in the barren land by accident. Without rain and dew, it will never take root and germinate, and it will only rot into mud in the end.

Liu Xiaonan stared intently at the winding river bank.The little girl who can never learn to swim, the little girl who likes to eat river crabs, the fiery figure who shouted "Spray is never illusory", has drifted away with the river, and can no longer be found.

The willows on the river bank shivered in the chilling autumn wind.All the words were weak, Liu Xiaonan hugged the broad shoulders of the fourth brother, and the long autumn water flowed slowly in his heart.

(End of this chapter)