Bai Su filled the canned wild cherry sauce and gave a small bottle to Uncle Liu to take home for his two granddaughters to eat. The extra ones were packed and taken back to the dormitory.

    She has inconvenient legs and feet. Uncle Liu specially borrowed a fire stick for her to let her walk.

    After Ji Lanying returned the bicycle, he went to Liu Zheng's dormitory. A few educated youths from the brigade next door came to play, and they all got together to chat and talk about hearsay.

    When Bai Su passed by the door of their dormitory, he heard someone say: "I heard that the county is going to renovate the original reservoir to at least double the scale. From the past two years to the summer, the communes in the lower reaches of Yong'an County have flooded. Several villages are flooded every year. Last year, a few cows were washed away, and even two people died. The above took it seriously, saying that the reservoir must be expanded this year to cause more lives, but the black hats will be dropped. "

    "Then we're going to work on the construction site, right?" Ji Lanying asked only curiously. It must be a more tiring job than doing farm work in the fields to dig a reservoir on the construction site. She frowned when she thought about it. Come.

    "It's not necessarily true. It is said that it is necessary to select strong people from several communes. It is not necessarily our educated youth. The members of the team can also go. The work points are more than that of farm work. They also care about a lunch at noon." The man said. A hint of pride flashed across his face, and he continued: "Last year our commune was repairing the canal. I went there. I saved lunch money and doubled the usual work points."

    "Doubled more than usual ." Ah!" Everyone's eyes were clearly brighter, and someone couldn't help but ask: "From now until October, when the farming is busy, there are still several months in between. If you can go there to work, the dividends at the end of this year will be There is hope."

    Bai Su heard this, but his expression was a little worried. Back then, Liu Zheng was not in this reservoir.

    At that time, the expanded reservoir had not been repaired, but the flood was raging, and the leaders above ordered someone to dig the dam. But who knows, on the other side of the reservoir, there are dozens of educated youth and members who are still working. When the flood was over, Liu Zheng was swept away by the flood in order to save a local member.

    This matter was agitated at the time. In order to seek justice for Liu Zheng, Ji Lanying took the educated youth of the commune to the county several times. In the end, there was no other way, and the official who ordered the opening of the reservoir was removed from public office. Liu Zheng was posthumously named a martyr, and that was the exposing of this matter.

    But in the past few years, Bai Su learned from the mouths of other educated youths that the person who was dismissed had already revoked the punishment, and changed a place to be his official...

    "In my opinion, go there anytime. " To dig a reservoir, it is better to read more books in the dormitory." Bai Su stopped at the window, and said something not salty and not salty. She is good-looking, and usually looks quiet and elegant, and never talks to strangers. Then, suddenly there was such a sentence, which made several male educated youths feel a little embarrassed, but bowed their heads looking at each other, not knowing how to answer the conversation for a while.

    Or Ji Lanying followed: "It's just... the tiring work of digging a reservoir. I heard local members say that they can't stick to it. With your body, can you stick to it?"

    Liu Zheng was actually a little moved in his heart. Not to mention whether the resumption of the college entrance examination is true or false, but he does want to save some money. If it is true, there will be some money to spend when returning to the city to go to school in the future; if it is false... he and Ji Lanying are getting older. Now, you must be prepared to start a family and start a business. It is impossible to be so poor, so Ji Lanying will follow her forever.

    Bai Suyuan also hoped that Ji Lanying could say something good. Unexpectedly, when she said that, everyone's faces became a little embarrassed, which made her a little embarrassed, and she just said: "I just said it casually. Repairing the reservoir is not an easy task. You must go there and pay attention to safety." Anyway, there are still several months before the torrential rain that lasted for ten days. She can let Ji Lanying slowly persuade Liu Zheng.

    ****** In the

    evening, Ji Lanying missed Bai Su's wild cherry sauce, soaked a cup full of her large enamel cup that "serves the people", leaning on the bedside and slowly enjoying the delicious food.

    There was a patter of rain outside. Bai Su was reading under the lamp, and he heard Ji Lanying say to himself over there: "I know that Liu Zheng wants to repair the reservoir. Last year, he didn't take his turn to repair the canal, and he wrote a letter. You complained to me!"

    Bai Su put down the book in his hand and turned his head to look at Ji Lanying. At this time, Ji Lanying was still looking like a girl. Her self-curling hair was thick and jet-black, and her docile nest was behind her ears, but Bai Su vaguely remembered that after Liu Zheng passed away. , Half of her hair is gray.

    The morning when Bai Su left the Liuxi brigade, she stood on the dam at the entrance of the village and handed the baggage to herself.

    "Are you really not leaving?" Bai Su asked her at that time.

    She said, "I'm not leaving. Where is Liu Zheng? Where is I." Bai Su had tears in his eyes, but she continued to say, "Susu, why can't you stay for Xu Jianan?"

    Dang When everyone opposed her and Xu Jianan's love, Ji Lanying was the first person to ask her this.

    The one she loves is dead, and the one you love is still there, but you want to leave him.

    But Bai Su at that time did not have the courage to contend with this world after all. She is just a cowardly marionette, arranged step by step by her mother.

    There were already tears in Bai Su's eyes. She lowered her head and quietly wiped the tears off the corners of her eyes with her fingertips. After a while, she said, "Do you think Liu Zheng is suitable for repairing the reservoir?"

    Liu Zheng is their middle school. The secretary of the Youth League branch at that time was born short-sighted and wore a pair of heavy glasses. He looked like a weak scholar who was doing farm work in the fields. They were all out of place, let alone being mixed with a group of strong men. Go to the reservoir to be the porter.

    "But didn't we come to work when we went to the mountains and the countryside? Farming is work, and repairing reservoirs is also work. Work has always been regardless of high or low. We should go to work wherever we need it." Ji Lanying only frowned. She frowned, she wanted to convince herself, but found that she couldn't persuade at all.

    Bai Su looked at her frowning appearance, only shook her head, and said with a smile: "There is no distinction between high and low labor, but we can choose the labor that is more suitable for us, and arrange the right people in the right posts. It's called production efficiency. This is also part of Marxist philosophy."

    "You seem to be making some sense?" Ji Lanying raised her eyebrows and glanced at Bai Su, then lowered her head to take a sip of sweet and sour cherry juice, and lay down contentedly.

    Bai Su was not sleepy at all at this time, and the night rain outside was pitch black. She looked at the bicycle in the room and inexplicably thought of Xu Jian'an.

    He was there on the day the dam was opened and the water was released. Later, he was also carrying Liu Zheng's body back to Liuxi. At that time, the two of them had not yet met, but she had already remembered his resolute and courageous eyes.

    Perhaps at that moment, Xu Jian'an had already walked into her heart.

    ****** The

    same can't sleep, there is Xu Jianan a mile away.

    Although it was early summer, the rainy night was not very hot. After Xu Jianan settled down with his mother Liang Xiuju, he returned to his room.

    There was a rain leak on the thatched roof, and he used a wooden basin to follow it. Hearing the ticking of water droplets, the drops seemed to be knocking on his own heart, and his sleepiness was not left.

    The body could not help but became hot, as if the woman who had been hugging her in the morning was lying on his side at this time, he could still vaguely feel her light breathing and soft figure, and the side she had pressed against. The shoulders were trembling uncontrollably at this moment. He had never touched any girl's body before, and he didn't know that the girl's body could be so soft, like a willow on the dam, as if it would break if it was folded gently.

    Xu Jianan could swear to the sky that when he picked up Bai Su and ran away, he had absolutely no distracting thoughts, all he wanted to do was escape for his life. But once night falls, the mind seems to be out of control, no matter where he sleeps, as long as he opens his eyes, it seems that the person is sleeping opposite her, looking at him with a pair of affectionate and watery apricot eyes. Smiling like a flower, he couldn't help but stretched out his hand, put the woman in front of him into his arms, and pressed him fiercely.

    Xu Jianan suddenly sat up from the bed, looked at the dark emptiness, and couldn't help cursing.

    He unexpectedly had such an absurd dream...

    The sky outside was still so dark, the moldy smell in the room mixed with a somewhat non-essential smell, made Xu Jianan's scalp numb, he got up from the bed and opened the door. , The rain outside has stopped, and humid air is permeated around.

    Xu Jianan walked to Liang Xiuju's room, covered her with a quilt, and found a used crutch in the corner.

    This was used by his grandmother before. His grandmother had a broken leg when she was in the street. He made this crutches, but it didn't take long before the old man passed away.

    Xu Jianan didn't dare to complain about this world, but when he saw this crutches, he couldn't help but red eyes. After the two old men died, he once burned all of their things, but only left this crutches. , I did not expect that there will be another day of use.

    He took a deep breath, put back the sore tears in his nose, and walked out the door with a cane.

    After grinding it again with sandpaper to make sure that there were no extra wood thorns on it, Xu Jianan put on the walking stick and the basket, and took advantage of the darkest hour before dawn to go to the educated youth dormitory.

    I don’t know how many times he walked in the darkness of dawn. Although he was afraid of the darkest moment, he knew that the light he yearned for was in the near future.

    When he walked to the educated youth dormitory, there was a hint of whiteness in the east, and the sky lighted up, and Xu Jianan's face also showed a firm smile.

    The educated youths are still asleep in their dreams, and can even hear the snoring one after another. Only the door of Bai Su's dormitory is quiet, and there is no sound. The dark green curtains covered everything in the room, Xu Jianan couldn't see anything, but he could feel her close to him.

    The inexplicable feeling of rapid heartbeat came from his chest again, and Xu Jianan quickly put down the crutches and left without looking back.