Chapter 23 Visiting Xingqing Park
On the night shift at six o'clock this afternoon, Fang Minghua had dinner at home at noon. He read for a while and felt bored. When he saw the beautiful spring outside, he decided to go out for a walk.
I rode my bicycle out of the Family Courtyard and headed north first to East Street, then all the way east along East Street, through the East Gate and out of the city, and continued eastward, wandering all the way to Xingqing road, and finally turn south to Xingqing Park.
The entrance fee is five cents, plus two cents for storing the bicycle. Fang Minghua paid and entered through the west gate.
Xingqing Park was the largest park in Xijing City at that time. Although it was not summer yet, there were already vendors selling popsicles on bicycles, as well as wooden guns, balloons and other toys that children liked. What surprised Fang Minghua even more was that while wandering around, he encountered a farmer from a suburban county holding a puppy bear for sale by the fountain in the park.
Not juggling but selling!
On the cardboard box next to it, there are a few calligraphy written crookedly: Asking for 15 yuan.
Many tourists stopped to watch and were amazed. Fang Minghua squeezed in to watch the fun, secretly wondering.
Peat.
Trading national protected wild animals.
But these days, bears don’t seem to be protected animals, right? There are many people selling bear paws and tiger whips on the streets, but I don’t know whether they are real or fake.
How do you keep this thing after you buy it?
I guess you ate it directly?
There were many people watching, but few asking. After watching it for a while, Fang Minghua felt that it was not interesting and walked forward along the path.
Although today is not the weekend, there are still many tourists inside. Fang Minghua met several groups of girls wearing sweaters and wavy hair. It seemed that they had dressed up carefully before coming to play. Hearing them talking and laughing, it seemed It was a collective organization of a certain state-owned commercial company out for fun.
There is a jingle in society these days: a flower in a department store (everyone likes to dress up), a doll in a clothing company (first come first served in the nearest building, you can buy fashionable clothes without queuing).
But the appearance does seem to be above average.
Another attraction is college students.
Xingqing Park is very close to Jiaotong University and Shaanxi Institute of Technology. There are many college students in the park, men and women, in small groups. Their clothes are relatively simple. The most striking feature is the school emblem on their chests.
Fang Minghua was wandering aimlessly along the path by the lake. Suddenly he heard singing from a recorder on the lawn not far in front. There was a group of people surrounding him. When he got closer, he saw only what was inside. There were several young people dancing disco.
He didn't wear glasses or bell-bottom pants. They were all wearing ordinary imitation green military uniforms or tunic suits, and they even had school badges on their chests.
Why are you a student of Western University? Come here to play?
"Hey, what do you think of their dancing?"
"Is it okay? I can't dance, so I don't understand much."
Fang Minghua suddenly I heard several girls nearby talking in low voices. One of them had a nice and familiar voice.
He turned around and saw that it was Li Li from the Western University Literary Club.
Li Li also noticed Fang Minghua at this time. Seeing him looking at her, she greeted generously: "Hello!"
"Hello! Are you guys out to play?" Fang Minghua said.
"Yes, there are no classes this afternoon, so a few of our classmates will come over to play." Li Li replied, then looked at Fang Minghua: "You don't go to work?"
"I am a family The guard of the confidential unit is on night shift today," Fang Minghua replied.
I originally wanted to say it was from Yanhe Magazine, but knowing that the girl was a literature lover, I simply said it was from a confidential agency to avoid getting to the bottom of things.
Li Li was a little surprised when she heard that Fang Minghua was the gatekeeper: "Then how do you know so much about literature, and you also have a good foundation in English."
"Just because of me I'm a janitor, so I have more free time, so I can read more." Fang Minghua explained: "I also like literature."
"Well, I can see that. And you also signed up for the Chinese correspondence class in our school. Very motivated," the girl praised.
Well, this girl is pretty good, at least she doesn’t look down on the profession of doorkeeper.
But what the girl said next made Fang Minghua dumbfounded:
“Fang Minghua, when we were eating in the cafeteria that time, you said that Gu Cheng wrote a poem: The wind is shaking its leaves/The grass is bearing its seeds/You "Standing there and saying nothing/It's very beautiful", which magazine was it published in? I looked for it in many magazines and couldn't find it. "
This girl, has such a character to break the casserole and ask the truth?
But how do I know?
Fang Minghua had to reply: "I really forgot, so Well, if I remember it, can I tell you? "That's all it can do.
Li Li nodded.
"Do you like the poems written by Gu Cheng?" Fang Minghua asked casually.
"Yes, I think the poems he wrote are different from Bei Dao. His poems are bright and pure, focusing on the beautiful, pure and bright things in nature, just like a fairy tale world. You said, yes No? "Li Li looked at Fang Minghua.
"You are right, it is simpler and purer than Bei Dao's poems." Fang Minghua nodded and said.
"So, I guess he is a very simple and kind-hearted poet, and I admire him very much."
Really?
But there is a devil hidden in his heart.
Who would have thought that this seemingly powerless poet would kill his wife?
Of course you can’t say this, no one will believe you if you say it.
But we need to inoculate the girl in front of us.
“Actually, you don’t have to admire someone, just like their works - whether they are poets or writers, when you get closer you will find that they are actually very ordinary people.”
< br>"Really?" The girl smiled: "Fang Minghua, I found that you are a very confident person."
Just don't say that I am narcissistic.
At this moment, the dancing boy had finished dancing, and the girl with pigtails next to her shouted to Li Li: "Li Li, we are going boating, do you want to go?"
"I'm not going, I'm seasick."
"Okay, let's meet at the park gate after rowing and go back."
"Okay, I'll go look for you then. You guys."
"Please be careful alone." The little braided girl looked at Fang Minghua again and walked towards the ticket office with her friends.
“Are you really seasick?” Fang Minghua was a little curious.
"Why, you don't believe it?"
"Your accent seems to be from Jiangsu and Zhejiang." Fang Minghua explained.
"Does it mean that even southerners can swim and don't get seasick?" the girl asked.
This?
Fang Minghua was speechless for a moment.
"My grandma's family is in Zhejiang Province, and I grew up in my grandma's house when I was a child." Li Li explained.
That’s it.
"But your voice is very nice, you can definitely be an announcer."
"Really? Many people say that about me." The girl pursed her lips and smiled: "Actually, I can't be with you. Compared with radio announcers, they are more focused on correct words and smooth accents. You can also hear that my accent has a bit of a Wu accent."
"That's good. Didn't Xin Qiji say: "Zui." "Wu Yin is charming"? There are also Su Dongpo's "Wu Yin is delicate and soft, with a child's infatuation, infinite leisure and sorrow are always unknown", they all say that Wu Yin is beautiful."
Li Li laughed after hearing this.
“You know so many poems.”
“I said, I am a janitor and I have a lot of time at work, so I have no time to read.”
“I guess you are the best in the world. The doorman who likes to read the most.”
This is a bit high.
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(End of this chapter)