As the New Year approaches, Spring Festival couplets have been pasted up in the two courtyards after general cleaning. The food and drink on the tables are getting richer and richer day by day.
Even Professor Alexei is like a professional street kid, following behind Wei Ran’s father every day, drinking like a party in the neighborhood, especially those who run farmhouses. Only after being lost in three ways was he willing to come back.
Many of the neighbors who run farmhouses have a cooperative relationship with the small hotel in Wei Ran’s family. Since Wei Ran’s grandparents passed away one after another, and his family decided to come here to celebrate the New Year, they cooperated with these hotels years ago. Drinking and eating with friends and family every year has become an annual repertoire.
Counting the days day by day, on New Year’s Eve, the two families went back to their respective homes as in previous years, eating a sumptuous New Year’s Eve dinner, watching the Spring Festival Gala on TV, and commenting on each other’s opinions. A few words.
"Son, will you go to Russia after the new year?" During the dinner, Wei Ran's mother suddenly asked a question that he had never considered.
"Go back"
Wei Ran said without knowing why. Not to mention that he had only studied the course at Hongqi Forest Farm for half a year. If the metal book that became a tattoo wanted to be of value, Su De The battlefield is undoubtedly the first choice.
What's more, he used that precious photo to create a disguised identity for himself a few years ago. If he didn't go back, wouldn't all the previous investment be in vain?
Mother Wei Ran opened her mouth and looked at Comrade Lao Wei who was sitting next to her. After all, she didn’t say anything but skipped the topic.
As the hosts at the party began to count down to the New Year, large swaths of fireworks lit up outside the windows. Even Professor Alexei next door set up a battle array in the yard. Firework bombs were sent to the top of the head one after another.
Almost at the same time as the countdown to the New Year reached zero, a man wearing a bright red tassel also ran into the house shouting, as if announcing the name of a dish, "Second grandma, second grandpa." , Godfather, Godmother, and my brother, it’s your turn now!”
“You’re the smart little girl”
Mother Wei Ran will prepare the New Year’s money in advance! The first one was stuffed into Suisui's open little hand, and then he jokingly said to Wei Ran, who was dazed at the side, "Son, you can't lose, go to your eldest grandma's house to pay New Year's greetings and earn back the red envelope!"
"Oh!"
Wei Ran, who was in a daze, came to his senses, lowered his head and glanced at the tattoo that had just appeared on the tiger's mouth of his left hand, and quickly took out the red envelope and handed it to Suisui. .
"Why are you dazed?"
Suisui waved the stack of red envelopes she had just received in front of Wei Ran's eyes as if to show off, "Let's go, I'll take you to get the red envelopes." Go and put on the fireworks!"
As the stupid Wei Ran was dragged away by Suisui, Comrade Lao Wei said casually, "Isn't this silly boy attracted to Suisui?"
p>"How can he be worthy of Suisui?" Wei Ran's mother said matter-of-factly, "If you are as dull-witted as you, if you really want to fall in love, why not be together already? "
"It would be nice for these two little guys to be together."
Wei Ran's grandma said with a smile, "If the two of them can be together, we will tear down the wall between the two families." Let’s build a big house for them to use for their wedding. ”
While Wei Ran’s parents looked at each other, Wei Ran, whose mind was not focused on this matter at all, was accompanying the yelling couple after receiving four generous portions of the new year’s money next door. Suisui and Professor Alexei, who were enjoying themselves, were lighting firecrackers and setting off fireworks in the yard.
After all, they had finished playing with the father and daughter and came back through the small door. No matter it was grandma, grandpa or their parents. They had already fallen asleep, but their stupid dog with a crooked mouth was very frightened. When he came back, he immediately rushed over and screamed
He hugged the trembling dog and left. In the yard, Wei Ran got into the car parked at the door, and then summoned a metal book.
Under the gaze of the dog who was frightened by the sound of firecrackers, his body was covered with dots of green rust. The traced metal book slowly turned to the ninth page, revealing a vortex of red and blue colors.
What surprised him was that there were red and gold foil on both sides of the two-color vortex. There is a poem written in big characters
"I lie down at night listening to the wind and rain, and the iron horse glacier falls into my dream." "
Wei Ran recited this very familiar verse in a low voice, and then looked at the top of the white vortex. The four large characters written horizontally there were "Lucky Stars Shining High."
“Is this a New Year’s gift? "Wei Ran hesitated for a moment, then stretched out his hand to lift out the items from the vortex.
However, not only did the items in the vortex catch up with the weight of the medical box, but their length was far beyond his expectation. He carried half of it out, and the quilt in his hands had already touched the roof of the car.
In desperation, Wei Ran put it back, then took back the metal book that he had given as a New Year gift and moved it to the rear compartment. After that, he directly summoned the contents inside.
Under the dim reading light, the long box on Wei Ran's legs shone with dots of reflections, and the excessive weight made him almost miss it. Twisting his wrist.
Gently opening the metal buckle on the long box, Wei Ran was surprised to find that there was another dark guqin inside!
“Why are you giving me this thing for no reason? ”
Wei Ran, who didn’t understand why, gently plucked the strings of the guqin, and instantly felt his head “bang” and almost lost consciousness.
Not yet. He screamed, and the familiar feeling of brain failure subsided instantly. When he came back to his senses, he found that he had inexplicably learned a piece of music without saying it, just like he had learned Finnish and German twice before. , even the guqin in the box seems to have become very familiar after being used for a long time!
Gently pick up the guqin in the box. The weight of this guqin is far greater than that of my own bed. Compared to the previous one in Chen Guangling’s store, the other party usedThat bed of guqin needs to be a lot heavier.
After turning it over with great effort, two Chinese characters that looked like oracle bones were engraved on top of the circular dragon pond.
Although he did not recognize these two characters, the poem written with a red pen under the dragon pond not only had a particularly vigorous font, but the most important thing was that at least he could recognize that the traditional Chinese characters were written What.
The wind picked up more at sunset, and the boat on the river head could not go.
The desolate doctor's house, the desolate old royal city.
Drunk in the building at night, the love will last forever.
The cold corner is moving when I am worried, and it is difficult to calm down after a long night.
After reading the poem silently, Wei Ran couldn't help but summon the metal book again, turned it to the ninth page, looked at the poems on both sides of the two-color vortex, and suddenly seemed to understand this. The metal book was given to me as a New Year gift for no apparent reason.
I lie down at night listening to the wind and rain, and the iron horse glacier falls into my dream. Isn't this a true portrayal of himself being sent back to each battlefield by that book? And the poem just now was so similar to the state of mind I had every time I came back alive?
Those who survived the battlefield and those who died on the battlefield, the sense of powerlessness their stories bring to me, isn’t it that “it’s hard to calm down at night”?
In silence for a long time, Wei Ran gently put the guqin back into the box and locked it, then got into the driver's seat and started the car, driving straight out of the village and finally stopping at a wooden view deep into the lotus pond. Near the viewing platform.
Carrying the heavy piano case, he walked to the stone table at the end of the viewing platform and sat down. Wei Ran took a long breath, followed the things that came out of thin air in his mind, and gently played the piano. string.
Amidst the occasional sound of firecrackers and the biting cold wind, a piece of Guangling San that Weiran had heard played by different people played leisurely on the deserted observation deck.
The spirit of killing with swords and spears contained in that clumsy tune also made Wei Ran very clearly recall Lieutenant Lev and others in Stalingrad, as well as the No. 19 position on the Don River. Captain Aleutian and others also thought of the KGB agent Dr. Hans under the clouds of the Cold War, the sniper Mika and Father Ino in the winter nights of Finland, and the clinic in Berlin and everyone they met in the clinic. A person reminds even more of the Teng County he once defended and the Li brothers who died for their country.
Finally, when Wei Ran, who had burst into tears at some point, plucked the strings for the last time on the winter night of the new year, the simple sound of the piano like a bell gradually dissipated, and no one cared about it. The observation deck was as quiet as usual.
For a long time, Wei Ran slowly opened his eyes and looked up at some stars in the night sky. The regrets accumulated in his heart for a long time gradually let go. In the end, the only things left were the memories of those friends and Gratitude mixed in.
Resuming the rusty metal book, Wei Ran murmured and asked, "So, is this guqin bed the psychiatrist you hired for me? What exactly do you need me to do? ? Or what is the purpose of sending me to the battlefield again and again? "
His question, then?The metal book lying quietly on the stone table naturally would not give any answers, and Wei Ran obviously did not expect this book to really give him any answers.
As he took a deep breath, the cold air rushed into his lungs, and Wei Ran seemed to have been relieved of an invisible burden, even his bones became lighter.
Putting away the metal book and the extraordinarily heavy guqin on the bed in turn, Wei Ran called the silly dog who had been sitting quietly waiting to get into the car, and returned quietly with the corridor light still on. farmhouse.
In the blink of an eye, early the next morning, when he was awakened by the sound of firecrackers outside the window, his parents had already put hot dumplings on the table.
After respectfully wishing his grandma, grandpa and parents a happy new year, Wei Ran, who was full of energy, was pulled by his grandma to sit on the edge of the warm Kang.
"What's the matter with you kid?" Comrade Lao Wei, who was busy pouring wine for his father-in-law and mother-in-law, asked strangely.
"What's going on?" Wei Ran asked confused.
Comrade Lao Wei poured Wei Ran's wine glass smoothly, "From the day you came back, until last night, you were frowning and worried. Why didn't you see me this night? Nothing happened. "You look like a kid?"
The vinegar bottle in Wei Ran's hand shook involuntarily, "Have you... got it?"
"Have you gone?"< /p>
Wei Ran's mother brought the second plate of dumplings to the table, "Even Suisui noticed it, and she was so...Hey! I didn't say anything, eat, hurry up and eat!"< /p>
"You should say something..."
"Come on, nephew, let's meet grandpa!" Mr. Han, who was sitting at the top, didn't say anything to Wei Ran at all. When he had the opportunity to finish a sentence, he picked up the wine glass and stretched it out.
Wei Ran quickly stood up with the wine glass and touched it with his grandfather, while Mr. Han kept the conversation away by praising the bottle of wine that the latter brought back from Sichuan.
As for the doubts that had just popped up in Wei Ran's mind, they were naturally thrown out of the window after some interruptions.