"May I?"
Li Fang looked around and asked, "Will the battalion commander be angry?"
Yin Xiaoman looked at her, stunned for a moment, then reacted and couldn't help laughing, "You have been hiding from me, are you afraid of him?"
Li Fang nodded vigorously.
She looked around again, and after finally making sure that Shen Qingyun had already taken Master Chen away and would not suddenly appear, she reached out and put her arm around Yin Xiaoman's arm and breathed a sigh of relief.
Then he complained quietly: "Sister Xiaoman, you don't know how scary Captain Shen is. I haven't seen him smile in more than a month.
There are probably about 20 or 30 of us in this group, young and old, right? They are all families, and the chaos along the way is beyond your imagination. ”
Having said this, Li Fang subconsciously stretched out her hand and fanned the air, looking as if she was still frightened.
Then he continued, "But didn't you see that no matter whether it was a quarrel between a couple, a conflict between a mother and her son, or a crying child, as long as the battalion commander glared at them, they would all suppress their anger immediately.
Oh my god, sister, I have never been so afraid of being alone in my life! I have never been a coward in front of my dad! ”
Yin Xiaoman: “…”
Li Fang may have felt that the "great god" was no longer around her, and she had nothing to worry about, so she began to complain unscrupulously.
"My brother told me in a letter that I should be obedient and follow the battalion commander's steps, not to cause trouble or drag my feet...
Alas, he really doesn't know me well enough. Do I dare? I'm not saying this, but whenever Captain Shen looks at me, even if it's just an unintentional glance, my calves will immediately cramp! ”
Yin Xiaoman: "...not really?"
"As for that! Didn't you see that old man Chen? What a powerful man, so ferocious. No one dared to get close to him along the way. No one dared to intervene when they saw him fighting. But look at the battalion commander, he dared to rush over and hug him! My God, that's old man Chen! He's a blacksmith, and he can kill someone with one punch!"
Li Fang said this as she followed Yin Xiaoman home. Along the way, his little mouth kept chattering, making people laugh non-stop.
Yin Xiaoman felt that he hadn't laughed like this in a long time.
She never knew that in the eyes of outsiders, her man was like this.
However, she knew in her heart that with such a large group of people, without someone who could calm the situation, many things might happen along the way, and it was even possible that not all of them could arrive safely.
The man must have been worried sick along the way.
After arriving home, she took out the mangoes and coconuts picked by the children to treat Li Fang.
Because this was something she had never seen before, Li Fang's eyes were full of curiosity, but she still had the self-control to wave her hands vigorously at her.
"Sister Xiaoman, I've already eaten. You can keep this for the children. I'm an adult now, why would I need to eat fruit? Put it away quickly."
"Do we need to distinguish between adults and children when eating fruit?"
Yin Xiaoman smiled and helped her pour out the coconut water. Then he used a knife to break the mango into three halves and cut the fleshy part into small pieces like a checkerboard. He put them in a small bowl and gave her a spoon to scoop them out and eat them.
"Eat. You have been on the island for a short time. When you get to know it, there is no shortage of fruits on our island."
Li Fang carefully scooped a piece of mango with a spoon and put it into her mouth, then she immediately squinted her eyes with happiness.
Just by looking at his appearance, you can tell that he hasn't eaten sweets for a long time.
After a while, she suddenly said, "I always feel that my brother has nothing else in his heart except his work. In his heart, I, his sister, am not even as important as a letter in his data.
But now I suddenly feel that maybe my weight is a little more than the letters, and he can even remember to bring me to such a magical place! ”
Yin Xiaoman: “…” How come she never knew that Li Fang had such an interesting personality?
Probably this opened the conversation, and there was no need for any guidance afterwards, Li Fang started to talk nonstop.
Only then did Yin Xiaoman know that the brothers Li Fang and Li Hai were from the provincial capital of Province C, and their father was a cadre of moderate importance. Her mother died early, and her father remarried when Li Fang was very young. He also gave them two younger brothers and a younger sister.
The stepmother was not harsh to them, but people always have different relationships, and the family conditions were not good, so she and her brother were always treated a little worse.
There is a big age difference between Li Fang and her brother, twelve years. So it can be said that in the following years she was supported by her brother who graduated from college and had a job.
But even so, as she grew older and the house seemed smaller and smaller due to the large population, her stepmother would often begin to hint to her that she should respond to the country's call and go to the vast countryside to find a new world.
She was annoyed by the nagging every day, and also because she really couldn't live in the same house with her two grown-up brothers, she simply fulfilled her stepmother's wish and signed up to go to the countryside.
Yin Xiaoman knew what happened next. She and her classmate Liang Xiaoyu were assigned to Shuanggui Village, and finally lived together in their house.
After hearing Li Fang finally find the house after many twists and turns, Yin Xiaoman quickly caught up with the conversation and asked casually, "Are you female educated youth still living in my house? I remember the west room is leaking a bit. Has it been fixed? Is it not getting wet?"
Hearing her question, Li Fang didn't notice her thoughts at all, and answered very cheerfully: "How could it leak? Before we moved in, the team had already organized migrant workers to repair the house inside and out. Sister Xiaoman, don't worry, the house is very solid now. Even most of the tiles on the roof have been replaced!"
Looking at Li Fang's expression, Yin Xiaoman knew that she was telling the truth and the situation that repeatedly appeared in his dreams should not have happened.
Her heart, which had been tense for a while, finally settled down a little.
She continued with a smile, "Xiaoyu and the others must be very upset when you left this time, right? We don't know when we will meet again. By the way, have there been any female educated youths from the village in the past few years? How many are there at the educated youth center now?"
What she didn't expect was that after hearing these words, the smile on Li Fang's face suddenly faded a lot. For the first time, a look of discomfort appeared on that worry-free face.
"What's wrong?" Yin Xiaoman's heart sank suddenly.
"Xiaoyu got married." Li Fang said in a low voice.
"Married? Married to whom?"
The image of the girl who looked a little frail immediately appeared in Yin Xiaoman's eyes. She remembered that she was about the same age as herself, but one could tell at a glance that she was well protected by her family.
Moreover, her family was relatively well-off. After all, at that time she was able to share a house with Li Fang.
"Marrying Erwazi."
"Erwazi? The old Party Secretary's youngest son?"
Yin Xiaoman couldn't believe her ears and sat up straight. "Xiaoyu married Erwazi? How old is Erwazi?!"
She still remembered that it was Erwazi who took their family to the train station. In her impression, he was just a quiet child at that time.
How could he marry Liang Xiaoyu? !
"He's nineteen, almost twenty in age. The old branch secretary wanted them to have the wedding first, and then go to the city to get the marriage certificate when they reach the age," Li Fang explained.
Yin Xiaoman looked at her and asked in a low voice: "What happened?"
It’s not that she doesn’t believe in Erwazi’s character. On the contrary, she has always had a very good impression of the kid. But this doesn't mean that she thinks he and Liang Xiaoyu are suitable.
Apart from anything else, Liang Xiaoyu should have gone to the countryside after graduating from high school, and she must have been at least 19 years old when she went there.
Now three years have passed, and this year I am either twenty-two or twenty-three years old.
How could a twenty-something girl from the provincial capital be interested in a teenage boy who grew up in the countryside?
Li Fang bit her lower lip, tears welling up in her eyes: "Liang Xiaoyu's parents are both university teachers, and now they have been sent to labor camps. The director of the Revolutionary Committee of their school is her father's student, an old man who is almost 40 years old. I don't know why he fell in love with her and said that as long as she marries him, he will let her return to the city.
Then Xiaoyu's parents asked someone to tell Xiaoyu that if she dared to marry him, they would hang themselves on the farm and would never see her again in their life.
Xiaoyu was helpless. It was impossible for her to go back, but if she just stayed in the village, she was afraid that the man would not give up and would think of other tricks, so he would think of marrying her off.
But in her situation, no one dared to marry her. Later, the old branch secretary couldn't stand it anymore and forced Erwazi to marry her. ”
At this point, Li Fang wiped away her tears and said, "Sister Xiaoman, you asked me how many female educated youths are left in the educated youth center? To be honest, I am the last one. After I leave, there will be no female educated youths in our village."
Yin Xiaoman's hand suddenly trembled: "Where are the people? I remember there were quite a few of them?" Otherwise, there wouldn't have been a problem of not having enough accommodation in the first place.
“All gone.”
Li Fang's eyes were a little dim: "Not long after you left, one of the educated youth returned to the city due to illness. Later, no one knew what happened, as if something evil had happened, and the female educated youth had accidents one after another. First, a senior from our school was hit on the leg by a hoe while working, and she was infected with tetanus. In the end, she was sent to the commune hospital but could not be saved, and she died in less than a week.
Later, there was another one who was riding in a carriage to the city. The horse got frightened halfway through the journey and threw her off the carriage. Her head hit a rock and she suffered a severe concussion.
She was in a coma for a long time, and finally there was no way to notify her family to come, so she was sent to a hospital in the provincial capital. Before I came, he was said to be still unconscious and had become a vegetable. ”
At this point, Li Fang smiled self-deprecatingly: "Everyone in the village says that there are dirty things around us female educated youth, otherwise why do we always encounter all kinds of bad luck?"
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