C1349 Old Lee's Goal
"Yes sir!" I said, looking at Lee.
"Do you know why?" Lee said.
"I don't know!" "No," I said.
"Actually, you know that I didn't come here by chance today to find you. You know that I have a purpose in inviting you out for dinner, don't you?" Lee said again.
"Yes sir!" "No," I said.
"Do you know why I came to invite you to dinner?" Lee said.
"I don't know!" "No," I said.
"Do you want to know?" Lee said.
"Want to tell me?" "No," I said.
Lee stopped talking and looked at me quietly. His eyes were filled with a deep melancholy.
I quietly looked at Lee. Although my eyes were calm, my heart was filled with curiosity.
Lee continued to look out of the window in the blink of an eye, at the heavy autumn night outside.
It was unknown when it started to rain outside, but it was drizzling in the autumn rain. The raindrops hit the glass, making a slight sound.
"It's raining." Lee mumbled. His eyes were heavy, as if he was reminiscing about a long time ago.
"Yes, it's raining." I said, lighting a cigarette and smoking slowly.
Lee was silent, as if he was lost in long memories.
I too fell silent, with ignorant curiosity and anticipation.
After a long while, Lee turned around and finally opened his mouth, "Yi, the main purpose of inviting you here tonight is to know if you went to Korea to see Jin Jingze's chairman's aunt."
"Oh." I frowned and looked at Lee.
"This time you guys are going to Korea for a holiday. Before you left, Qiu Tong told me that she said that besides the trip arranged by the travel agency, she also wanted to visit Jin Jingze, the president of today's media industry, to visit the media industry. Hearing this news, I started to pay attention to your trip to Korea, so as soon as you came back, I found the time to come and find you. " Lee said.
"You're paying attention to our trip to Korea because of the chairman's aunt and nothing else, right?" "No," I said.
"Yes." Lee nodded, and his voice trembled again.
"Why?" I finally couldn't hold it in anymore and looked at Lee: "Uncle Lee, you know that chairman and aunt? You and her. "What is their origin?"
Lee didn't answer my question directly. After a moment of silence, he said, "Ever since I saw the media brochure in Qiu Tong's hands today, I started to pay attention to Jin Jingze's chairman and aunt. I've always kept that picture book, and I often opened it to look at it. "
I focused on Lee and didn't say anything. In my heart, there was a faint excitement and nervousness, as well as anticipation. It seemed that Lee was going to solve a secret that had settled in his heart for me for many years.
Lee became silent again. He smoked in silence and looked out of the window.
I looked at him.
"The first time I saw her picture in the picture book, I recognized her immediately, the one who had been buried in my heart for so many years. The one who made me feel as if my heart had been wrenched out of my chest for more than 30 years. " Lee said slowly.
My heart was pounding. I seemed to realize something, but I also didn't seem to know anything. I stared straight at Lee.
Lee suddenly smiled. His smile was a little desolate, miserable, and also a little guilty and apologetic.
"Uncle Lee, are you going to continue the discussion?" "No," I said.0
Lee looked at me: "Yi, would you like me to tell you a story?"
"Yes —" I nodded.
"This story has always been buried in my heart. For decades, I've only tasted it myself, and no one has ever shared it with me." Lee said.
"It's quite painful to keep it in your heart all this time. If you say it out loud, perhaps you'll be relieved and released." I encourage Lee.
Lee smiled bitterly and said, "Free..." Release... This is impossible. However, even though that's impossible, I'm willing to tell you this story. You're the only person to hear this story for more than 30 years. "
"Why would you tell me?" "No," I said.
"Because …" Lee hesitated for a moment and continued: "Maybe, some things don't have to have a reason. If it must be, then I can only say that you and I are fated to be together. Or perhaps it's because of my trust in you, or perhaps it's because you're the one who should have heard this story. "
Lee's reason seems reasonable, so I nodded. "Yeah. "Uncle Lee, tell me, I'll listen to it seriously."
"This story is very simple, and the plot is even very unlucky. However, it is a true story. The story took place in the late 1970s, on the banks of the Yalu River near the border between China and the United States. " Lee's voice was a little dazed.
Yalu River? Danton? I was particularly sensitive when I heard the names, and my heart tightened.
I looked at Lee and listened to him continue.
"It was a crazy time. It was a time of boiling blood. It was an age when ideals melted into the heavens. It was an era of idolatry. In those days, in a small mountain village on the banks of the Yalu River, thirty kilometers north of Danton, lived a group of young people from the countryside.
Amongst this group of young people, there was an unknown, ordinary young man. He was the most silent among this group of people, the reason he was silent was because of his birth, his grandfather was a capitalist, his parents were bad Lao Jiu, and he was beaten into a rightist and entered the cattle shed. Because of his birth, he did not have the qualifications to be on equal footing with the other young people, he was the ugly duckling in this group, he did the most dirty and tiring work, and was often ridiculed and ridiculed by everyone.
In this group, he had no close friends, no good companions, no one willing to talk to him. He was arranged to go to the Yalu River every day to graze cattle. Therefore, he would talk to the old cow every day when he was free. Although the old cow did not have any reaction, he still wanted to tell it, because his heart was too depressed, and he really wanted someone to listen to him.
However, he was not among those who had the opportunity to do so because he did not have any connections or background. Watching the youth beside him leaving one after the other, his heart became more and more deathly still, as he knew that he might be the last one to leave, or that he might never leave this place ever again. "
Listening to Lee's story, my heart couldn't help but to rise and fall.
"One summer noon, he was alone on the banks of the Yalu and he was lying on the grass and he was staring at the blue sky and there on the other side of the river was the socialist country and there were children playing in the water and on the river not far away from him was a small fishing boat and it was a girl in red who was fishing and that was against the country.
He continued to lie on the grass in a daze. Most of the village's knowledgeable youths had left, but he had never had any hope of surviving here. Every day, he would plant his cows here. He was thinking that he might have to stay here for the rest of his life. He would never be able to leave this little mountain village.
Just as he was thinking desperately, the weather suddenly changed, a strong wind blew, and then he heard a cry for help from the river. He got up and saw that the boat had been knocked over by the wind and the girl in red had fallen into the river.
He hurriedly got up, plunged into the river, and struggled to swim towards the drowning man. Using his good water, he lifted the girl to the surface, and then swam back. The girl had already fainted. After some effort, he finally managed to save the girl. At this moment, he realized that this girl was actually so pretty. She was astonishingly beautiful.
The Korean girl could speak fluent Chinese. After a short conversation, she found out that although she was right about that country, she had relatives over at Jiang's side. She often accompanied her family over there when she was young, so her Chinese was very good. Usually, the ones that come to fish in the river are her father, who is fishing for the group. But today, her father is not well, but the person in charge has to ask her father to work, so there is no choice, she took his place to fish, but she did not expect that she would run into a strong wind and fall into the water. Luckily, she was saved by him. "
Lee's voice was slow and heavy. I looked at him intently.
Lee continued, "After this act of saving the beauty, the two of them have gotten to know each other. From then on, the girl often came to the other side of the river in the name of fishing, to see him with the cattle. The two of them often chatted together, and the two of them would always find a lot of topics of mutual interest.
From then on, his life of cow-feeding was no longer lonely, his lonely heart was no longer dead, because this beautiful Korean girl, he felt hope and light for life again. In his relationship with the North Korean girl, he also clearly felt that she had an affinity and a growing fondness for him. And he, too.
Summer turned to autumn, autumn turned to winter, in countless beautiful days, in countless joyous exchanges, the seeds of love quietly sprouted in the hearts of these two foreign men and women. They expressed their love for each other, swore to love each other forever, and let Yalu testify that they would always be faithful to each other's love and oaths.
At that time, she had been simple and naive, innocent and persistent, obsessed with him, willing to spend her life with him in this remote corner of the world; at that time, he had also loved her to the death, as if she had become an inseparable part of his life, but in his heart, from time to time, she would burst forth from that wonderful world.
"One day, when he was working in the city, he encountered a high school classmate who had been very fond of him and had repeatedly hinted at pursuing him. By now, that schoolmate had already returned to the city and had a good job, because her father was now the director of the city's Revolutionary Committee. After meeting him, this female classmate immediately threw him an olive branch, hinting that as long as he was willing to marry her, his return to the city, his job, and his future, were all not a problem.
Facing this huge temptation, he was swayed. He knew that as long as he promised his female classmate, he would be able to live a different life from then on. He would return to his original world, and he would have a comfortable job and a good future. But at the same time, he wanted to betray his love, and he also wanted to leave and abandon the girl he loved.
After several days of painful thinking, he finally made a heartbreaking decision. He couldn't let his life be buried in this small mountain village, he really wanted to become outstanding, he wanted to have his own future and ambitions, he wanted to become a great man, he couldn't let go of this chance to save his life, he had to seize this opportunity that would never come again after he missed it.
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