There is a kind of flower that is like a fire, when it blooms, it can burn through the sight and cause pain in the nerves.
Yang Qing, who was not confused in his age, was dumbfounded, as if he had lost his words. He was stunned for a while before he put his tongue back on, and then waved his hands incoherently: "I... No... my children are so tall... I'm already married! I Daughter-in-law... Your sister-in-law is at home, but she is not by my side... She is very good at craftsmanship. When will she come, let her treat you to pancakes... "
"He was living in a single dormitory with his children at that time, and he didn't even have a mother fly beside him. I always thought he had no wife, was divorced or widowed or something," Zhang Meizhen looked at the night scene of the city, and curled her ears languidly. Curly hair, "One hundred and one was built later. In the early days, the unit allocated public housing to employees. In addition to the seniority ranking, sometimes it also depends on the population of the family. The married life is definitely more important than the single one. The same age as him, as long as he has a family , almost all of them were allocated to public housing, but he didn't."
"That's why I didn't believe it at all—then people didn't pay attention to school districts like they are now. Whether the child went to school in Yanning or in his hometown in the countryside was almost the same. I thought if the child really had a biological mother, how could he live with a man in a homeless place? The dormitory? Besides, Yang Qing was raised by a beggar and has no parents or relatives. After liberation, he settled and worked in Yanning. Where did he come from? So I figured that he was perfunctory for me, so I entangled him."
"I tried every means, and I also joined this unit to work. I went around him every day, forcing him to run away when he saw me. When he moved out of his trumped-up wife, I would say to him with a smiley face, 'Tell me about you' I have a daughter-in-law, okay, there are always family photos, right? If you let me see the photos, I will believe it', he can't take the photos, and he is very embarrassed every time." Zhang Meizhen paused, laughed, and gently He sighed, "It's so shameless... Now that I think about it, I was young and ignorant at that time, and the little girl was so thick-skinned. Since Lao Yang has already made the words clear, I would still be a stalker, if it were a man. , that's a typical stinky hooligan, maybe he's already been beaten."
"If it's a man, you have to look at your face," Gan Qing said solemnly, "A stalker like you is an idol drama, not a scumbag."
Zhang Meizhen sneered: "A sweet-mouthed sword, sweet-mouthed and cold-hearted little thing."
Gan Qing smiled and scolded with a good temper.
"Actually, it's not a big deal to be beaten. Even if you have a bruised nose and a swollen face, you will still be a good guy when you get up. One day, you will regret it and become a 'prodigal son' again," Zhang Meizhen suddenly whispered, "Women, it's different. On the surface, I don’t want to hit women, but anyone who wants to have a face doesn’t dare to fight with women on the street, so the beatings women receive are secret and shameful… Later, I was reported by someone in a letter.”
Gan Qing asked, "Who wrote it?"
Zhang Meizhen shrugged: "Who knows, I have offended too many people."
Gan Qing looked at her through the rearview mirror, and always felt that this old lady had a temperament of perfection, not like a silly white sweet who offended others and didn't know it herself.
"It's true. If everyone has made do with the dark lights, you're the only one who stands alone. If you have to turn on the lights, you will offend others, don't you mean?" Zhang Meizhen said. ' Pretty much the same, isn't it, Master?"
"Hey, eldest sister, you can't say that, it can't be compared, blindly turning on the high beams is easy to cause accidents, that's incompetent." The taxi driver, a middle-aged man with white temples, first subconsciously retorted, then fell silent. After a while, he added in a murky voice, "Anyway... Whatever happens to others, let's do the same, there's nothing wrong with it, right?"
"Who said it wasn't." Zhang Meizhen responded with a smile, and said, "The letter reports me for destroying other people's marriages, seducing the backbone of the unit's business to break the shoes, and ruining the social atmosphere... Anyway, that's probably what it meant. At that time, it was almost always like this. One set. Then there are punishments, criticisms, 'step on 10,000 feet' or something."
"I came from a walking gang, I believe in kung fu, I am not afraid of the sky and the ground. I ran with a five-bat command, how can I go? Those people can't catch me at all. I’m not active anymore, but my connections and connections are still there, and my uncles and uncles won’t let me starve to death. I didn’t suffer, and I was a little smug... Later I learned that during that time, Lao Yang had been behind my back for me He ran the relationship, repeatedly clarified, and explained to the unit leader. He always felt that he must not pay attention to the details and accidentally provoke the young girl, so everyone believed him - that he also had something wrong. Since he can't catch me, someone has to vent. People are angry, that's fine, it's him."
"So the job was also removed, the model worker was relieved, and he was punished. He changed from a backbone to the lowest person in one fell swoop. Anyone can step on it, even the single dormitory can't live. They He was driven to a junk house that was converted from a bicycle shed, and a scolding meeting was held every once in a while, and he was taken out and beaten. , Even the old man of the Beggar Gang took the initiative to draw a clear line... I hid outside for several years, only to find out about it later, I went outside his bicycle and cried all night, feeling that I was really nothing."
"Those people also turned over his wife, and I realized that he really didn't perfunctory me. He did have a wife, and it was his master who got engaged when he was a child—several brothers got together and drank too much. It's like taking children as cats and dogs, and they haven't met a few times before they get married... It's a feudal relic of the old society. His wife is the daughter of a family friend. Rescue himself was injured, half of his face was disfigured, and since then he has changed into a person with a strange temper, never leaving his hut all day long, and seeing no one."
"Lao Yang is a very decent person, sometimes too... decent." Zhang Meizhen sighed, "Although the elders are gone, he still married her according to the agreement of his ancestors."
"At first, I was crazy with envy and jealousy. I thought how nice it would be if I were that woman? I would also like to disfigure. It took many years to realize that what I envied might not be a good thing for her. It may be moved, or it may be ecstatic for a while, but after a long time, everyone remembers Yang Qing’s promise, and such an ugly woman doesn’t dislike it. It’s a pity that she wronged a good man. Lucky and high 'responsibility' and 'burden', if you are sensible, you should die sooner and save others a few years... She has been refusing to go out to meet people because of the injury on her face, I think she must not be heartless I don't know how she got through so many years, and then she became a little crazy."
"I went to see her secretly once, and the local people told me that she couldn't see the light, she would go hysterical and crazy when she saw the light, so she went out at night. When I saw her on the road, I had to pretend that I didn't see her. Anyone who dared to look at her more would have to cause something to happen. Not to mention following Old Yang back to Yanning, she didn't even let anyone mention her name, she was born The children don't want to care."
"Every time Lao Yang goes back, she happily cooks for him on the first day and faces him, and the next day it will change from strong to light, and after three or four days, if he still refuses to leave, she will She would be anxious and find trouble, so during the holidays, Lao Yang just hurried home for a day, left her the money and food stamps and left."
"I, when I was young, I could only see men who were handsome, loyal and courageous, but not women's pain. Knowing the cause and effect, I don't think I'll ever forget him in my life. But how can I teach him embarrassment? I ran back and said that he was just a big idiot who was tricked by me, that there was nothing wrong, that he took the blame for me in vain, and that I made myself notorious... Anyway, I was born in the gang, and I... don't care about that. "
"Lao Yang has many brothers in the beggar gang, and some people can't stand it for a long time, and it didn't take long for him to be rehabilitated. As for me, I know that I have no fate with him in my life, and I married someone like a joke in the middle. At that time It's like a mouse crossing the street. A man who liked me for many years took a risk and took me in secretly. Later, this man became seriously ill. I was idle when I was idle. Come back to your wife once, so that no one will send you to the end'."
"After many years of peace and harmony, the upside-down days are finally over, the cowshed has been released, and the labor reform has been rehabilitated. The grievances are clear, and I am not wronged, but luck is good, and I can walk again. The old people I helped take care of, and I also followed the troubled waters to fish, and I have resumed my working conditions, so I don’t have to hide anymore.”
When Zhang Meizhen said this, she was suddenly silent for a long time, until the taxi took them to the gate of the 111th courtyard.
It was already the second half of the night, the onlookers had long since dispersed, and the courtyard was quiet. The old gang leader Yang was pulled away by an ambulance for rescue. The wooden crutches he was carrying at the time were poking at the door of the delivery room, which was clumsy and sparse. Zhang Meizhen walked over, picked up the crutch, wiped the dust on the head of the stick, and said to herself, "Why are you throwing this away? I'm not afraid that someone will take it away."
The small lamp in front of the reception room outlines the wrinkles on Zhang Meizhen's face. The appearance of her carrying a cane and chattering makes Gan Qing pause. For the first time, she realizes that she is really an old lady.
"Miss Meizhen..."
Zhang Meizhen didn't look back, she looked up through the sparse tree canopy in the small courtyard, and looked at a room on the sixth floor - the light was on in the house of the old gang leader Yang, the grandparents and grandchildren came down in a hurry, and then went directly to the hospital, ignoring the customs. The lamp, at this time his house was suddenly lit in the silence, like a cloudy and gentle eye.
"I complied with the agreement and gave my man the end of his life. His wife had also completed her sentence in the world several years ago and left. In those few years, the men were unmarried, and the women were unmarried, although they were old and different things... " Zhang Meizhen said gibberish, she raised one hand, as if to catch the light that fell on the sixth floor, the dim yellow light leaked ruthlessly from her fingers, all of which were phantoms that could not be grasped - she. Sighing out the snow-white mist, "It's a good day."
"We re-acquainted and re-acquainted."
She is no longer a thorn flower, and he has had enough ups and downs.
"Let's start first, the society is not very open, everyone is a little secretive, sometimes sneaking glances at each other, sometimes saying a few words, writing a note, stuffing something... They all work underground. It's like a connection."
And love is like moss, the darker and damper the backlight, the more unbridled it grows.
"I feel that I have done all the hardships and hardships, and I have survived in this life." Zhang Meizhen lowered her head and smiled vaguely.
Unexpectedly, the light she captured was just a fleeting fire in the stone.
Gan Qing asked: "Is it because... the Walking Foot Gang and the Beggar Gang have a feud?"
The feud between the Xingjiao Gang and the Beggar Gang has existed since ancient times, because these two sects are well-informed and pervasive, and their business positioning is a bit repetitive. And although the two factions have their own brilliance and scum, but in comparison, the beggar gang is more upright, and there is no lower limit for the gang to cheat.
The Xingjiao Gang doesn’t look down on the Beggar Gang’s sanctimonious appearance, and the Beggar Clan also doesn’t think much of the Xingjiao Gang’s evil deeds. With competition and both good and evil, conflicts are inevitable.
"Nominally yes." Zhang Meizhen said, "My master is of high rank in the Xingjiao Gang. If Wang Jiusheng and his like met me, they would call me 'Master Uncle' by pinching their noses. I still have a red bat command, although I myself don't like to be in charge, but after the various sects gradually resumed their activities, my friends supported me, and they still made me a nominal Beiruozhu."
Gan Qing was slightly taken aback.
"But I'm really not that material," Zhang Meizhen spread her hands, "in this respect, I'm pretty much like Lao Yang, if you let me use the martial art to get out of the way like Wang Jiusheng did, I wouldn't be able to kill me. If I don't have that vision, it's too troublesome... Besides, I'm usually a person I can't get around to, and I don't have the prestige of Lao Yang in the Beggar Gang, so today's incident, I experienced it once 30 years ago."
"I want to ease the relationship between the Xingjiao Gang and the Beggar Gang. Originally, after liberation, we will not talk about the 'three religions and nine streams'. The beggars of the Beggar Gang have all found jobs, and no one dares to use the unseen methods of the Xingjiao Gang in the past. So, why do you still know what you are doing? In the future, everyone will be your own brothers, right?"
"I wanted to join hands with Lao Yang to handle this matter, but I didn't expect Wang Jiusheng in my backyard, who has been staring at the position of Beiruozhu, for fear that if I have foreign aid from the Beggar Gang, he will not be able to defeat him. I am."
"It just so happens that there is Yang Ping on Lao Yang's side. After Yang Ping turned ten years old, he has not grown up, and even his voice is a little like a little boy... I made their father and son live in a bicycle shed. For so many years, he has always felt that he This 'sickness' is because of me... and my fucking early death, and I'm also angry."
"I really... can't say I'm wronged." Zhang Meizhen paused, "So these two hit it off."