Rebirth begins with marrying an educated youth

Chapter 4 Lu Heling

"Comrade, what's the matter with you?" A small-eyed female educated youth was walking out carrying a basin when she saw Ji Yuanhai standing at the door of the team.

"Hello comrade, let me find Lu Heling."

Ji Yuanhai said.

The female educated youth froze for a moment, and then took a look at Ji Yuanhai.

"Are you looking for Lu Heling?"

Ji Yuanhai nodded.

The small-eyed female educated youth nodded, turned around and shouted into the room: "Lu Heling, someone is looking for you!"

After a while, a pale woman slowly walked out and saw Ji Yuan Hai.

"Hello."

She said, and then said nothing, just looked at Ji Yuanhai like this, and didn't ask him what he was doing here.

Although his eyes were looking at the Era Sea, there was no focus. It was just like looking at a wall in a trance.

This look made Ji Yuanhai feel troublesome.

Although they worked together in the fields, they barely knew each other, but they didn't even want to speak, how should I persuade her?
How should I start talking?
After hesitating for a while, Ji Yuanhai hadn't opened his mouth yet, Lu Heling was also in a daze, the two of them were like two pieces of wood, they were relatively speechless for a while.

After a few seconds, Ji Yuanhai smiled: "Standing is not an option, how about walking?"

Lu Heling didn't seem to hear it.

Ji Yuanhai had no choice but to repeat: "I said, let's go for a walk. I have something to tell you."

Lu Heling finally had a slight change in her expression.

"why?"

"I have something to tell you." Ji Yuanhai repeated.

Like a stuck machine, Lu Heling stopped for a while before reacting.

Because of Ji Yuanhai's insistence, she finally stopped asking more questions and followed Ji Yuanhai to leave the team headquarters.

The two walked slowly along the loess road in the countryside, and Ji Yuanhai was also organizing words in his heart-he couldn't just say "your parents are dead", "I want to marry you", "don't commit suicide", etc. Kind of words...

Let’s take a detour and start from other aspects.

"Lu Heling, where are you from?"

Lu Heling looked at Ji Yuanhai, as if trying to think about what he meant.

After two seconds, he said: "Provincial capital."

"You are from the provincial capital? The provincial capital is a big city, so it should be very prosperous?" Ji Yuanhai asked.

Lu Heling was distracted again, and did not answer Ji Yuanhai's words.

She looked at an elm tree by the side of the road and stopped.

Ji Yuanhai turned his head and looked, it was an elm tree that had been stripped of a large piece of bark.

The rough bark is like a large piece of dried black fish scales.

Where the bark has been stripped off, the inside part is glowing with old yellow.

"It's like this, can it still survive?"

Lu Heling stretched out her hand to touch the scarred elm tree, and asked softly.

Ji Yuanhai turned his head and looked at her with a focused expression.

"It's still alive." Ji Yuanhai said, gesturing to Lu Heling to look up at the top of his head, the green elm leaves stretched above his head, densely intertwined to form a shadow.

Lu Heling's eyes were reddish, and she touched the yellowed part of the elm tree with her fingers.

The place where the bark was cut off was like a wound after being humiliated, which would never heal.

"It's all like this, why does it still live?"

Lu Heling asked softly again.

Ji Yuanhai immediately said: "Because it is meaningful to live."

Lu Heling immediately turned her head, her voice raised slightly: "What's the meaning?"

"The meaning is to survive, to continue, to reproduce; to heal the pain and usher in a better tomorrow..." Ji Yuanhai said immediately.

Tears welled up in Lu Heling's eyes, and she reached out and patted the barked part of the elm tree vigorously: "It's all like this, do you still want to live?"

"Is it still alive!"

"Look at this elm tree. It was originally intact, but now it is so ugly!"

"I want it to survive, and it can survive." Ji Yuanhai said in a deep tone, "It's still very good."

Lu Heling suddenly fell silent. She wiped away her tears and looked at Ji Yuanhai in surprise.

Only then did she realize that what she said, ordinary farmers should not be able to answer; even if she could answer, it must be in rough rural dialect, not "survival", "meaning" and "reproduction" if……

Even Lu Heling can be sure that among the other seven educated youths who came to the Xiaoshantun production team with him, there should be few who can talk to him so quickly about these issues.

Because now they don't study anymore, and they don't like to read like Lu Heling, and they occasionally go back to the stories and knowledge in their minds when they are free.

So, this Era Sea has a certain degree of cultural knowledge?

"Have you been to high school?" Lu Heling asked Ji Yuanhai for the first time about him.

"No." Ji Yuanhai replied.

"Educated in junior high school?" Lu Heling asked again.

"Not at all. After graduating from elementary school and barely knowing how to read, you will not be able to go to school."

Lu Heling looked at him, feeling that he was lying to her.

What Ji Yuanhai said could not be said by someone who graduated from primary school. He must have cultural knowledge.

"You just said so much...it doesn't look like elementary school culture."

"I am educated in elementary school, and the Xiaoshantun production team knows it." Ji Yuanhai said.

"What other books have you read?" Lu Heling asked again.

"No, I graduated from elementary school and haven't read any books." Ji Yuanhai said.

Lu Heling stared at Ji Yuanhai again, thinking that he was really lying to me.

Don't want to talk to him anymore.

"I'm leaving," Lu Heling said.

"Stop talking about elms?" Ji Yuanhai asked.

Lu Heling stopped in her tracks: "What else can the elm tree say? After being hurt like this, it's just surviving. What's the point?"

"It's quite meaningful." Ji Yuanhai said, "Tell me a secret that you educated youths don't know, do you want to hear it?"

Lu Heling was originally heartbroken, but at this moment she was inevitably a little curious.

"What secret?"

"There is a secret about the elm tree." Ji Yuanhai pointed at the wound of the elm tree, "Do you know where the bark went?"

"where?"

"We ate it." Ji Yuanhai said.

Lu Heling was taken aback immediately: "Eat bark?"

"Impossible! Every household at least has sweet potato steamed buns to eat, and they don't want people to starve to death. How can they eat tree bark?"

"Because elm bark is delicious." Ji Yuanhai laughed, "Do you think we are hungry? Or are we idle and destroying trees? No, elm bark is indeed edible, and it is better than sweet potato steamed bread."

"Cut off the bark that can be used in spring, and grind it into flour in the future to make steamed buns. The taste is really good."

Lu Heling blinked a little: "It's really delicious?"

"If you say it's really delicious, it doesn't count. It's just a change of taste. It's better than bad sweet potatoes, which are disgusting and bitter in the mouth." Ji Yuanhai said.

"Then why don't we educated youths know?" Lu Heling asked again.

Ji Yuanhai's answer was also very practical: "It's useless for you to work. What if you stripped the elm trees in our small mountain village to death?"

Lu Heling was a little embarrassed - this is really a common problem of educated youth.

"So, the elm tree is still useful and meaningful." Ji Yuanhai touched the elm tree and looked at Lu Heling, "You are the same."

"Don't think too much about it, okay?"

(End of this chapter)