Back to 80: My literary life

Chapter 24 Utopia

While the two were talking, several young people came over carrying tape recorders. This time they were different from the students just now. They were all wearing toad glasses and bell-bottom pants, and they were dancing disco on the lawn again.

Obviously, these young people from society can dance better than the students just now.

Fang Minghua noticed that the girl was looking at her seriously, so he asked:
  "You like disco too?"

"I like to watch but I can't dance. I have a cousin who is in the art troupe. She can not only dance ballet, but also do disco very well." Li Li said in a low voice.

Oh.
  Perhaps it was because of Li Li's beauty. Fang Minghua noticed that the young man was looking this way frequently while dancing, so he said, "Let's just walk around."

Li Li also quickly discovered this detail, nodded, and the two of them walked forward along the lake.

There are red flowers and green willows on the shore and rippling blue waves on the lake.

There were a lot of people rowing, and not far away there was a girl rowing on the boat singing a song:
  Let's paddle together

The boat pushes the waves
  The sea reflects the beautiful white tower

Surrounded by green trees and red walls
  做完 了 一 的 功课
  我们 来 尽情 欢乐

我 问 你 的 伙伴
  谁 给 我们 安排 下 的 生活
  Fang Minghua stopped involuntarily.

The girl's voice is not very pleasant, but Fang Minghua feels the joy and enthusiasm from the heart.

Think about it a few years from now, what else will you do after you finish your homework for the day?
  I also need to attend tutoring classes.

"Do you like listening to this song?" Li Li looked at him and asked.

"Yeah, it sounds pretty good."

"But it's a children's song."

"No, no." Fang Minghua shook his head and looked at the happy girls still rowing and singing on the lake: "It describes an ideal life state or a utopia."

"Utopia? What do you mean?"

"There is a passage in "The Analects". Once Confucius discussed the ideals of life with his disciples, his disciple Zeng Xi replied, "In late spring, when the spring clothes are ready, five or six crowned men, six or seven boys, bathe in Yi, and the wind He almost danced and chanted and returned. "

"It means that in late spring, people dressed in spring clothes, together with a few adults and children, go to the Yishui River to bathe, go to the dance platform to watch the wind, and then sing all the way home."

"The master sighed and said: I am the same as Dian! He appreciated this kind of life very much."

Having said this, Fang Minghua looked at the girl in front of him: "Do you like this kind of life?"

"I like it, but isn't it very common?" Li Li replied.

very normal?
  Fang Minghua smiled and did not answer.

After a few years you will realize how precious it is.

"Fang Minghua, you are so amazing. You can still remember so much of The Analects." Li Li was really impressed this time.

"I'm a guard." As soon as Fang Minghua started to speak, the girl took over the conversation and playfully imitated his accent: "I'm a doorman. I have more spare time, so I can read more."

Both of them laughed.

In fact, this paragraph is just a comment about this song that Fang Minghua saw on the Internet. He found it interesting and wrote it down.

The two started chatting while walking. They started talking about literature, from Homer's epics to the complete works of Lu Xun, and then slowly talked about other things.

Li Li found that the young man in front of her seemed to know a lot. He seemed to know a little bit about astronomy and geography.

"You actually understand Einstein's theory of relativity?" The girl looked at him in surprise.

"The theory of relativity is divided into a narrow sense and a broad sense. I only know the formula E=MC2. How dare I say that I understand the theory of relativity?" Fang Minghua laughed. "But Einstein once said a very humorous statement about his theory."

"What?"

"He said that putting your hand on a hot stove for a minute feels like an hour. Sitting next to a pretty girl for a whole hour feels like a minute - that's the theory of relativity."

"Huh? How funny!"

The girl smiled, suddenly thought of something, her face suddenly turned red and she walked silently without speaking.

Fang Minghua followed behind, muttering to himself
  I didn't mean to tease, this is really a joke on the Internet.

The two of them walked for a few minutes. Li Li suddenly raised her head and looked at her watch on her wrist: "Oh, we said we would meet at four o'clock. It's now half past four. My classmates are probably all gone. I have to go back quickly. Goodbye!"

After speaking, he waved to Fang Minghua, turned around and ran towards the park entrance.

"goodbye!"

Fang Minghua replied and walked in the other direction. I just chatted with the girl, but I haven’t wandered around in some places.

Fang Minghua strolled around alone for a while, checked that the time was about the same, and then left the park gate.
  After getting back his bicycle, he suddenly found that Li Li was still at the bus stop at the entrance of the park, with a lot of people standing around waiting for the bus.

So he pushed his bicycle over and asked, "What's going on? You haven't left yet?"

"There are too many people, I can't squeeze in." The girl had to say.

Sure enough, a bus came over. As soon as the bus stopped and before there was a chance to open it, people at the bus station crowded on it, pushing Li Li outside.

"Take my car and I'll take you back." Fang Minghua said.

what?
  I have never ridden on a boy’s bicycle.

Li Li hesitated.

Fang Minghua understood and smiled: "Okay, you wait slowly, I'll go back first, goodbye!" After saying that, he rode away.

"Hey, wait!"

Li Li shouted out in desperation. Seeing more and more people at the bus station, she gritted her teeth and made a decision.

Fang Minghua stopped and put one foot on the ground.

The girl came over slowly.

"Are you ready?" Fang Minghua asked.

"Ah."

Fang Minghua kicked off the bicycle and the bicycle moved forward leisurely. Li Li took a few steps and sat on the back seat of the bicycle with a slight jump.

The figures of the two people quickly disappeared into the sea of ​​bicycles.

Of course, Li Li did not dare to sit on the back of her boyfriend's bicycle like other girls on the street and put her arms around the boy's waist. Instead, she held on to the back seat of the bicycle tightly. After a while, her nervous mood slowly calmed down.

At this time, the sun sets in the west, and the city looks particularly beautiful under the setting sun.

Li Li felt very happy and couldn't help humming a song softly.

Let's paddle together,
  The boat pushes the waves
  "Li Li, you sang much better than the girl rowing in the lake just now." Fang Minghua said while riding his bike after the girl finished singing.

"Well I like singing!"

"What other songs can you sing?"

"Dora. I can also sing Hong Kong and Taiwan songs."

"Really? Then I'll listen to you sing."

"See smoke rising again

Twilight Shroud

want to ask bursts of smoke
  where are you going"

"Sung by Teresa Teng?"

"Ah, you also know Teresa Teng?!"

"I heard."

"I especially like the songs she sings."

"I would also like."

"Then can you sing?"

"know a little."

"Can you sing it then?"

"Sweet you smile sweetly
  It’s like flowers blooming in the spring breeze.”

While the two were riding, singing, and chatting happily, the atmosphere in the conference room of "Contemporary" magazine in Yanjing, thousands of miles away, was a bit tense.

Because today is the day when the winning entries in the poetry contest are announced.

　Thanks to the book friends for the invincible reward of being warm in winter and cool in summer. Thanks to the boy who loves reading for his monthly vote.
  　　
  　
  (End of this chapter)