Things about village flowers

A few days later, Ling Liping really went to the commune to participate in a performance. She agreed that after the performance the next morning, she would come back with me in the afternoon to catch crab roe and bake it. But who would have expected that the commune would have an extra performance in the afternoon, and it was already after six o'clock when she returned to the village, so the plan to catch crabs was ruined. I waited until I returned to the city after the summer vacation but didn't get the chance.

The new semester has begun. In the autumn of 1976, the sixteen-year-old me was promoted from junior high school to high school, and the fifteen-year-old Ling Liping was promoted from the first grade to the second grade. Soon after the school started, the school organized all the literary and art activists in the school to rehearse the art program (I am a backbone of art and art, so naturally I had to participate) and prepared to represent the school in the county-wide National Day middle school student art performance. This made me think of Ling Liping immediately. I thought She will most likely participate in the performance. She is the literary and artistic backbone of Qingdun Commune in her hometown, let alone in school. She will definitely come to the county. It is so rare to be able to appear on the same stage with her in the county and watch her perform.. By then, maybe we will have time to visit the county town together, and she may also come to my house to play. She has been looking forward to playing at my house for a long time.

The performance is scheduled for October 2nd and 3rd. Today is September 15th, which is still half a month away. I will be able to"join forces" with Ling Liping in the county seat. Thinking of this, I am extremely happy, but I can turn around now. Calm down, are you too optimistic? How can you be so sure that Ling Liping will come back? You can't just take everything for granted. Yes, this is a literary performance for middle school students in the county. You can ensure that all middle schools in the county can participate. Well, Ling Liping’s school will definitely participate. What if people don’t want to participate or are unable to participate? Unless middle school students are organized as communes to participate, Ling Liping is more likely to come.

It seems that I must try to get in touch with Ling Liping to confirm whether she can come to the performance. Well, how do I contact her? I don’t have any problem here. After I return to the county party committee compound after school, it’s not difficult to find an office and make a phone call. There’s no one on the county party committee staff that I don’t know. We are the main ones of the county party committee. Where's the leader's eldest son? The problem is that in my hometown, there is only one telephone in the whole village at the brigade headquarters, and the brigade headquarters is often locked and unattended. The phone cannot ring or be called twice a year, and it has become a complete decoration. Even if you get through the phone, what's the use? No one will answer you at all. If you're lucky, someone happens to be there. That depends on your luck.

We have no choice, we can only try our luck, adopt a stupid method, just call the village a few times, a blind cat can still encounter a dead mouse, no matter what, let's give it a try.

So, when I returned to the county party committee after school every day, I went around several offices (I couldn’t always go to one office to make calls, after all, this was a private phone call, so I tried not to affect or disturb other people’s work) and took the trouble to call my hometown village. But after calling for a week, I still couldn't contact Ling Liping. It was probably because the phone got through but no one answered, and then there was a busy signal or a blind tone. However, when I encountered a busy signal, I saw hope every time, and I would patiently wait for the busy signal. In the past, but in the end, I could never wait for the busy signal to end. I suspected that either the phone on the other end was not connected properly, or there was something wrong with the phone. If there was a blind tone, there was no hope. In rural areas, line problems are commonplace.

As a result, I called countless times, but the only time I actually got through, someone answered the phone. It was the accountant of the brigade. He only occasionally visits the brigade headquarters and promised to help me find someone (Ling Liping). Who would have thought, he would eat Ling Liping's house was shut down, and the door was locked. It was as if the call was not made. No way, we can only wait patiently for the arrival of National Day and wait and see.

The day after tomorrow is the National Day, and the day before participating in the performance is October 1st. I have already found out that the commune and not a middle school are participating in the county performance this time. This is just as I wish. It is a certainty that Ling Liping will be able to perform.

The National Day that I was looking forward to finally came on October 1st. At 9 o'clock in the morning on this day, I went to the county party committee guest house with the county middle school student performance team to check in and stayed together. Our team was the first to check in. It is close to the water and the terrace has the largest number of participants. There are more than 30 people in total. I heard that about 500 people from more than 20 communes in the county are participating in the performance. The guest house can hardly accommodate them. The most common rooms with three beds and four beds have been reserved for the participants this time.. If everyone comes here, why not let the guest house explode? You must know that these people are not ordinary customers. They can all talk, sing, jump and dance. They are young men and girls with serious excess energy. The designated time will be like a sparrow.

Seeing the participating teams and their members arriving one after another, I was very excited. I jumped up and down, looking here and there. My eyes were exhausted. I was so eager to see Ling Liping in the crowd.

It was almost 11:30, and most of the participating teams were arriving one after another. Only three relatively remote western mountainous communes including my hometown Qingdun Commune were missing. Could they have arrived in the afternoon? I hurried to the conference registration office to inquire, and learned that these three communes were on their way and were expected to arrive soon. The original plan was to ask all participating teams to arrive before lunch today. Be sure to arrive.

But I couldn't wait any longer, so I went directly from the registration office to the guest house door to wait. By coincidence, before I got to the door, I saw three large trucks rumbled in, with some childish-looking people standing on the trucks. , obviously here to participate.

I immediately hid aside and looked at the car, but I looked at all three cars, but I still didn’t find Bai Liping in the car. I watched the three cars stop at the registration area of ​​the conference in front. The team leader got off the car and stopped at the registration area. I signed and drew the papers in front of the receptionist and left. I immediately went over to confirm with the receptionist whether the person I had just checked in was from the three communes in the west that was the latest to arrive. After getting confirmation, I almost sat on the ground. It was over. I gave up completely now. , where did Bai Liping come from? Unexpectedly, I was looking forward to the stars and the moon, looking forward to such a result. I was so disappointed that I couldn't stand anymore. I sat on the ground, holding my cheeks with my hands, and I couldn't understand it. It didn't make sense, but I did it anyway. , I won’t think bad things about Ling Liping, even if I don’t think about anything, I won’t think about it.

It's almost lunch time. This is the moment I'm most looking forward to. I heard earlier that the guest house will specially make seafood stewed noodles for everyone at noon. The dumplings to send guests off and the noodles to welcome guests are all very particular. But my butt felt like it was stuck to the ground. I couldn’t lift it up, and I didn’t want to get up. I had lost all my appetite, and my head felt dizzy and dreamy.……

"Hi!"It felt like I had been sleeping for a long time. Suddenly I felt someone tap me on the shoulder, which woke me up. When I looked up, it was Bai Liping. I rubbed my eyes hard, thinking I was dreaming, and then I heard Ling Liping." Haha." I burst out laughing, and then I finally woke up. However, I couldn't stand up because my legs were numb, and I almost fell over. Fortunately, Ling Liping hugged me in time (but my feeling was not strong, just like a piece of wood, and I wasn't fully awake yet. ), and helped me sit down together

"Liping, am I not dreaming?!"Until now I was still doubting my feelings

"Hee hee hee……"Ling Liping covered her mouth and laughed for a while, then she pinched my arm with her hand and asked,"Does it hurt?"

I suppressed my laughter and deliberately said,"It doesn't hurt!"

She saw it and pinched me again and asked ,"Does it hurt this time?"

I couldn't pretend anymore and felt the pain. I frowned in an exaggerated way and couldn't help shouting,"Ouch! It hurts so much. Why are you so cruel?!" In fact, it wasn't very painful, but for Ling Liping, it was too much for me, and she couldn't be willing to be really cruel.

Ling Liping hugged my arm and burst into laughter. She knew it well and knew that I was pretending to be in pain.

"oh! Only then did I remember having lunch and shouted,"Let's go!" Liping, hurry up and go eat. If you're a little late, you won't have to rush. There's seafood braised noodles!"Immediately he took her hand and the two of them ran towards the guest house's dining room as light as a flying bird.