Bai Fumei in the ’70s Chapter 106
Translated by Serena Love
LF: editor~
After dawn, the faint sunshine shone warmly on Zhao Lanxiang.
She stretched her neck, her thick eyelashes trembled and slowly opened.
She found that she had fallen asleep in the grove where she used to make appointments with He Songbai, with her back leaning against a big tree. And her head was resting on He Songbai's broad shoulders. She squinted her eyes and stretched.
"Brother Bai."
Seeing her wake up, He Songbai helped her up and silently followed her home along the tree-lined path.
For a few days, Zhao Lanxiang followed He Songbai to guard the valley. The original valley flowers were Zhao Lanxiang and Jiang Li. In the eyes of the male educated youth, they were a pleasing landscape. When they were tired of work, they looked on the girls' side, and they became more energetic than mealtime. After Jiang Li left, Pan Yu came to guard the field. The male educated youths gradually discovered the country middle-school girl's beauty.
But she only came one day, which was regrettable for many people.
However, when they thought that the girl had reached the marriageable age, they had hope in their hearts. When all the food was sold, they could take out their family's savings, and they could always gather the gift money. If only Miss Pan would see them.
After the millet had been basked under the sun for three to four days, carts that delivered grains were continuously pushed to the county. Li Dali and Li Laifu decided to "falsify" the data. This year's total output increased by 48% compared to last year, but they reported it was the same as last year, only over a ton.
In the morning after they paid grain for taxes, when He Songbai had just returned from the pig farm and was about to rest, his door was knocked.
He thought his girlfriend would give him a "surprise," so he lay in bed and pretended not to move.
After a while, his door was knocked again, so He Songbai knew that it was not Zhao Lanxiang. If it were her, she would only knock on the door once to notify him politely. Then, she would just open the door and entered.
He Songbai put on his clothes and went to open the door.
An unexpectedly inexplicable person stood in front of him.
Pan Yu was wearing a dark blue long-sleeved shirt. In the hot and enduring summer, she dressed as if they just had passed the late autumn. The huge clothes on her made no sense. She was too thin. Her healthy complexion no longer existed. The whole person seemed to be salvaged from the deep well. She was clammy and pale.
He Songbai was so surprised that he didn't know what to say, so he asked, "Sick?"
Pan Yu shook her head.
She pursed her pale lips and said nothing, but fall into the arms of He Songbai. Her tears were flowing down.
"Brother Bai, I'll ask you again, can you marry me?"
He Songbai felt pain in the back of his head. His temples twitched suddenly, he pushed the person subconsciously with a dark face, but the body he moved was trembling. Her two shoulder blades on her back seemed overwhelmed as if she would shatter if he pushed harder.
He hurriedly caught the person, and he said sincerely, "I have a girlfriend."
"I'm happy with her. You only depended on me. This is not love."
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After finished making breakfast, Zhao Lanxiang planned to ask He Songbai to eat together. As soon as she entered the house, she heard He Songbai speak.
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She pushed open the door to see, and the woman in the blue jacket turned back suddenly, her eyes were sullen with tears.
She has black hair and a melon seed face. Although she is thin, she has excellent breast development. The 18 or 19-year-old girl is at the most youthful and energetic time of her life. Pan Yu's tearful look made the smile on Zhao Lanxiang's lips disappeared. She was about to open her mouth when the woman passed her by and disappeared like a kite with a broken thread.
He Songbai's head was sweating, and he felt that he was about to face a violent storm. His lips flapped twice, tried to explain, "Lanxiang, don't, you..."
Zhao Lanxiang's heels were sticking to the ground, and she never looked back. He Songbai could not see her expression at the moment.
He walked over, grabbed her hand, and looked into her eyes.
After a long while, Zhao Lanxiang recovered.
There was a fire in her heart, and the volcano erupted immediately. Her face was quiet and scary.
But Pan Yu's look before she left shocked her. She was immersed in Pan Yu's desperate face for a long time.
Zhao Lanxiang shook her head.
"I don't want to be angry with you."
She paused and said, "But you have to tell me one by one, piece by piece, what were you doing?"
He Songbai scratched his head when he heard her words, and said embarrassedly, "Just... she just say a few words without any boundaries. Asked me to let her to be my wife."
"But I told her clearly."
Zhao Lanxiang recalled the last time before her attack in the grove. Pan Yu also escaped from the grove with such a sad and tearful look. She believed He Songbai and thumped his chest angrily.
"He Songbai, you really have to turn the sky up. Poor boy still has the ability to attract bees and make butterflies. You really give me a good reflection!"
He Songbai's eyes were darkened, and he turned to glance at his cabinet, and then looked at his angry girlfriend.
"Don't be angry. I can have such a good girlfriend. I must have burnt incense for three lifetimes. You can see this poor boy; one of your eyes must be blind!"
He Songbai said this to coax her.
Zhao Lanxiang looked at his helpless and innocent look as if he wished to take his heart out if it would make the fire in her heart disappeared.
"Go to breakfast." He Songbai touched her's head and said this.
Zhao Lanxiang went to call Eldest sister and Sanya, and He Songbai was one step behind. He silently took out a box in his drawer and threw it away.
Busy days are like running water. He Songbai turned like a tireless machine for a day and forgot to return the box.
At night, Zhao Lanxiang lay in bed and had a nightmare.
She dreamed that she came out of He Songbai's room, and the scene in front of her immediately turned into a whirling river. She heard the crowd shouting, "Come-I am a Jade Emperor, full of power. Disrespect, disrespect."
Superstitious farmers knelt on the ground and knocked their heads on the ground. Someone pulled a drowned body from the water.
The corpse's black hair resembled the tangled plants. Water running from under the body, and the body was swollen. There was a bad smell. However, farmers were accustomed to pig manure and cow dung and didn't care about the odor. They don't feel dirty when they salvage someone from the water.
In the end, they took off the things that the body wear and took them out to identify the body. The Pan family ran over in a panic and wept bitterly.
"My second girl, second girl. My good girl."
"How do you look like this."
It turned out that the body was Pan Yu.
Zhao Lanxiang couldn't be more shocked. She covered her mouth. The flock of people crowded around them, and her head was dizzy.
When she woke up and opening her eyes, Zhao Lanxiang found out that it was late at night.
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She realized that it was just a dream. But the moment of dizziness when she woke up made her an inexplicable sense that it was real. When he cried aloud, Pan Yuhua's expression was vivid in her eyes, and even the feeling when the crowd squeezed her. She had never believed in the ghost or god, but if she was thinking of her rebirth, her heart suddenly jumped up.
Zhao Lanxiang's palpitations felt terrible. She hurriedly pushed away the quilt, and without shoes, she went to He Songbai.
He Songbai was getting dressed at that moment. He held a flashlight in his hand and was about to set off to the pig farm.
He saw his girlfriend suddenly rushed into his room and sternly asked him, "During the day, what did Pan Yu tell you?"
He Songbai was extremely embarrassed.
He still remembered Pan Yu's tearful expression from the morning. She said, "Comrade He, you are a good person."
"They can't understand the valuable qualities in you. I'm sorry. I'm a coward, and I will always be a coward in the future... I just hope you help me keep the secret."
He Songbai shook his head seriously.
Zhao Lanxiang got angry and her calmness looked terrible.
She stared at him and said slowly, "If you insist on not telling me, I will pack up my bags and return to the city immediately."
"If there is no such trust between us, I'm afraid I do not need to stay--"
Before Zhao Lanxiang's words were finished, her mouth was blocked by He Songbai. He said helplessly, "You are a very unreasonable woman. I have to admit it."
"Don't say this again in the future. When I listened to it, my heart was poked uncomfortably."
He took out the box he had forgotten in the cupboard. "In fact, she didn't say anything. He only said a few words to be my wife."
"Then, she gave me this and leave."
Zhao Lanxiang opened the box quickly. There was a letter in it, as well as some scattered banknotes, which were crumpled and musty. She glanced at He Songbai.
When He Songbai saw the money, his head suddenly hurt. He didn't do anything, but he was in a daze with the idea that he had become a guilty man.
Zhao Lanxiang ripped open the envelope and straightened up the letter.
She asked He Songbai as she opened it, "She gave you these things, why don't you take a look?"
He Songbai was in a guilty conscience at this moment. He couldn't wait to raise his hands to clear the relationship. He honestly said, "When she gave it to me, she told me to look at it the day after tomorrow. I didn't want it. I plan to return it to her."
After reading the letter, Zhao Lanxiang said with emotion, "She really knows you."
The letter was Pan Yu's suicide note. In the letter, she spoke to He Songbai in the tone as if she already passed away. Pan Yu did believe that He Songbai had no intention towards her. Even he might not even think of opening the box, so she dared to put her suicide note here.
When news of her accident comes out, he would open the box and see it.
He Songbai's face suddenly changed when he heard Zhao Lanxiang's words, and he glanced up.
He saw the last paragraph on the white paper read, "The money I have saved over the years is not much. It is just for you. Whether you use it to buy decent clothes or buy some meat for the holidays, these are all my shame for you. I know who you are, a comrade with the most precious spirit. I'm leaving, Comrade He, I hope you will overcome all your hardships, and your life will be smooth and safe."
After reading the letter, Zhao Lanxiang stared at the signing date and read through it again.
She remembered the scene that she saw in her dream. The body was soaked and swollen in the daytime. It was calculated that Pan Yu would end her life in a few days, plus she asked He Songbai to "open it the day after tomorrow," that is tomorrow. Something was up. Zhao Lanxiang didn't know what God meant for her to see this dream, but the days of the year were calm and smooth, and there was no trace of He Songbai's bad luck that she had waited for.
At this moment, she thought of an inexplicable intuition. She said to He Songbai, "Don't go to work today, just watch Pan Yu."
"She has a promising future, but has an idea of suicide, which is very regrettable."
He Songbai paused and hesitated for a long time before he ignored the oath of his conscience and narrated in detail what happened in the cornfield last year. "Last year, one night, I was so hungry, and I was thinking of getting some corn leaves to eat. I ran into a scene where Pan Yu was being pulled to the cornfield. It was too dark, I didn't see the man's face, but I beat him hard..."
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While listening to He Songbai's description, Zhao Lanxiang remembered, no wonder he did not want to let her go alone at night.
She still remembered the scene where He Songbai suddenly turned angry when she was digging Grandma Li's wooden box.
"Your parents didn't teach you: girls can't run around at night?"
Zhao Lanxiang recalled the little-known bitterness and darkness of a story of a female educated youth who went to the countryside in a newspaper.
Her lips clenched tightly, and the look on her face became colder.
He Songbai comforted her and said, "Don't be afraid, Lanxiang, I will protect you. I won't let you lose one strand of hair."
He recalled and said, "That man couldn't beat me. Last time, if it wasn't because I haven't eaten enough and my head was dizzy, I won't let him slip away. Otherwise, I'm sure I can beat him to death and take him out."
He Songbai was calm.
Zhao Lanxiang listened to his words, her heart was choked, and she glared anxiously.
"Bad people have bad people's rules. The law will punish him. You don't need to vent your anger. I will put the cruel words in the front: you are not allowed to fight anymore. If you return to your previous behavior, I have to reconsider us. Can this relationship be sustained?"
He Songbai felt very helpless after listening to her.
He sincerely said, "It's just an analogy. I just want to tell you not to be afraid. I will protect you."
Zhao Lanxiang folded the letter and urged He Songbai by saying, "You should go to Pan Yu's house to guard it now. When the day comes, I will call her to talk."
He Songbai couldn't help but kiss her.
"My Xiangxiang is so good. Your heart is kind and smart."
He Songbai's thoughts were all consumed by the pig farm. During the day, he didn't see anything wrong with Pan Yu. But his Lanxiang saw it clearly. She was not blinded by jealousy and guessed that something was wrong.
Zhao Lanxiang patted He Songbai's shoulder and told him, "Pad your stomach with pastries. I'll make food for you when it's dawn."
After she said that, she tipped her feet and kissed him on the cheek.
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