1978: Female educated youth, don’t want an illiterate husband

Chapter 201: Scholars! Don’t you know that he is Pioneer Factory Director Qiao?

What a coincidence!
When Cheng Xuemin saw Gong Xi, who also had a surprised look on his face, he thought to himself what a coincidence he ran into Nan Gong Xue in the General Political Department's southern consolation delegation.

But I soon realized that it would be strange if I couldn’t touch it!
When Gong Di was in the Yan University Library, she told Cheng Xuemin that she was a drama actor in the General Political Department Art Troupe.

That's not surprising!

The consolation delegation organized by the General Political Department to the south was originally composed mainly of young people for training, so those selected and called upon were all young art soldiers.

Ge You Lao Ge from the drama group, Yan Weiwen from the singing group, and Gong Di are all roughly in their twenties.

There were also young art soldiers, such as Li Shuanggang, Li Guyi, Wan Shanhong, Dong Wenhua, Jiang Dawei, and Cheng Xuemin. I recognized and got to know quite a few of them just now.

They are all full of youth now, and they will become veteran artists in the art circle in the future.

"Student Gong Xi, what a coincidence, you are also going south to express condolences?!"

Cheng Xuemin smiled sullenly at Gong Di. He was indeed avoiding Gong Di a little. He was really scared by the letter, which was not really a love letter, that this female comrade left for Cheng Xuemin before she went home for the winter vacation before the New Year.

He didn't dare mention it to his wife Feng Jiayou, and the letter was also disposed of by Cheng Xuemin!

In the letter!

Gong Xi also left her hometown landline number, probably thinking that Cheng Xuemin could call her during the Chinese New Year.

Ok!

When he dealt with the letter, Cheng Xuemin didn't dare to remember the phone number.

Even if he remembered it, Cheng Xuemin wouldn't fight!
There is no need for a married man to have too much involvement with these young girls who are just beginning to fall in love and adore him.

Even though she is Zhu Lin in the north and Gong Xue in the south, she is one of the most beautiful actresses of this era.

So what!?
My own wife is definitely prettier and more beautiful, and has more feminine charm.

Now Cheng Xuemin feels that Gong Xi is just like a little girl, not his type.

I don't have that idea at all.

After all, this was the late 1970s and early 1980s. If news of his lifestyle problems really came out, Cheng Xuemin would have no chance of a career in politics.

If you are accused of hooliganism, you will be finished!
Therefore, Cheng Xuemin basically kept his distance from it, as he could not afford to play and did not want to play.

"Yeah! I, I, I... let's talk in the car later!"

Gong Xi really shouldn't get too excited, his face instantly turned red with embarrassment. He wanted to chat with classmate "Huang Tu" eagerly, but now everyone was gathered waiting for the train to arrive, so it was not appropriate to say hello.

"Okay, let's talk in the car later!"

After Cheng Xuemin greeted Gong Yu, he continued to follow Ge You.

This attracted heated discussions among the artistic female soldiers behind them!

"Gong Xi, he is the classmate Huang Tu whom you met when you were taking correspondence courses at Yan University?" Han Qiaoyue, who was standing next to him, tugged at Gong Xi's sleeve and asked in a low voice.

Han Qiaoyue and Gong Di were both drama artists in the General Political Department Art Troupe. Because they were of similar age, they were assigned to the same company, class and dormitory, so they became good sisters who could talk about anything.

But don’t think that Han Qiaoyue is about the same age as Gong Xi, in her early twenties.

But Gong Xi is a pure newcomer in the General Political Department. He was only transferred to the General Political Department Art Troupe for study in the second half of last year. Han Qiaoyue is different!
She is considered a veteran among the General Political Department's drama and art corps, and has participated in several large-scale national musicals and dance dramas.

For example, the dance drama "White-Haired Girl", the ballet "The Red Detachment of Women", "Sons of the Grassland" and so on.

Now he is the squad leader of Gong Xi and his classmates!

"Ok!"

Gong Xi hummed softly, and her ears turned red with embarrassment!
"Is it really him!?"

"Gong Xi, didn't you meet your classmate Huang Tu when you were taking correspondence courses at Yanda University? Didn't you say before that he was a student at Yanda University?"

"Why was he also recruited into this southern consolation delegation?"

Han Qiaoyue continued to eat melons and continued to ask.

"I don't know either!?"

She really didn't know this Gong Xi. Yesterday she went to the Yanda Library and wanted to see classmate Huang Tu and say goodbye to him.

Unfortunately, I still didn't see him.

I thought I had missed him, but I didn't expect him to appear so suddenly.

Moreover, he was wearing a military uniform, which made Gong Xi hesitate to recognize him just now.

"Well, I'll go and ask around for you later!"

Han Qiaoyue volunteered to go and ask about Gong Xi's "Huangtu classmate" while waiting for the bus.

That makes sense!
The troops who went to the south to express their condolences this time were basically the art soldiers affiliated with the General Political Department, and very few college students were recruited from outside.

So, isn’t this classmate Huang Tu a student at Yanda University?
How did I get recruited into this consolation delegation?

"Captain, let's not do that! I'll go ask him after we get on the bus!"

We're waiting for the bus now, so it's not a good idea to move around, right?
"It's okay, it's over there with the gay guys in our drama troupe, why don't we just go over and listen!"

Han Qiaoyue urged Gong Xi to hurry over and listen together.

"Isn't this bad? The train is about to arrive, and the instructor told us not to run around!"

Gong Xi really wanted to go over and take a look, but in the end he held back and used the instructor's instructions to evade responsibility.

"That... that's fine!"

Han Qiaoyue looked around and found that the other teams were maintaining discipline and no one was walking around randomly, so she didn't run around either.

But he continued to eat melons, and continued: "Just now I seemed to see the skinny monkey in our drama group coming over from that side..."

Ge You, who was jokingly called "skinny monkey" by Han Qiaoyue, asked Cheng Xuemin in surprise: "Old Cheng, what's going on? How did you become Huang Tu's classmate, Gong Xi, the art soldier of our drama troupe?"

"You two knew each other before?! Why is he called Huangtu?"

Cheng Xuemin's face darkened, and he said to Ge You unhappily, "This is a long story. Actually, we met at Yan University and we met a few times!"

"Gong Xi is also from Yanda University? Didn't she come from Nanjing?"

Obviously, although Ge You had just joined the art troupe not long ago, he had some understanding of the situation of the members of the southern visiting delegation.

Also a possibility!

Gong Xi might be the most handsome art soldier in their art troupe!
"Correspondence course!"

"At the end of last year, Yanda University opened a correspondence course. She went to take the correspondence course and I met her in the library several times!"

"Then why should I call you Huang Tu classmate?"

Ge You was still curious and continued to eat melon, asking questions endlessly.

"Just for fun!"

"Actually, my pen name is Huangtu, so isn't it normal for her to call me classmate Huangtu?" Cheng Xuemin glared at the guy and was too lazy to talk nonsense with him!

"Horror? You also have a pen name called Huangtu? What articles have you published?" Ge You continued to be surprised and puzzled. He thought about it again and realized that this guy must have never told him that he had published any articles under the pen name "Huangtu". He asked with a puzzled look on his face.

"It's just a short story!" Cheng Xuemin didn't want to talk any more nonsense about it, so he changed the subject and talked to Ge You about something else.

He also let Cheng Xuemin know that their delegation heading south would first go to Kunming.

After a collective performance in Kunming, they were divided into several groups and headed to various border fronts in Guangxi and Yunnan to perform in-depth consolation performances.

Therefore, when they arrived in Kunming, it was not certain whether Cheng Xuemin and Ge You could be assigned to the same section.

Moreover, if Cheng Xuemin was assigned to Guangxi, his mother-in-law and father-in-law might have told him to contact his second uncle in Yunnan if he had the chance to find out about his specific situation there. But now there is no chance at all.

Of course, even if he was assigned to Yunnan, there were also many border battles there, and he might not be able to contact his second uncle.

Anyway, let’s get there first.

Almost half an hour later, the special train arrived at the station!
Cheng Xuemin and others all got on the train, and the carriage they were assigned was a hard seat carriage, not a hard sleeper carriage.

Since you have joined the General Political Department, even if you are a cultural and art soldier, you are an active-duty soldier. It is our tradition to carry forward the spirit of hard work and endurance.

When traveling south, you basically sit in hard seats.

"Lao Ge, I've got it when I get back. We'll talk later!"

Cheng Xuemin didn't stay with Ge You for long. After getting familiar with the place, he returned to carriage No. 7.

"Eh? Comrade Ge You, where is Comrade Huang Tu who was with you just now?"

Not long after Cheng Xuemin left, Han Qiaoyue, who came over from the back carriage, greeted Ge You and asked.

"Hello, Comrade Han Qiaoyue!"

When Ge You saw Han Qiaoyue from their drama troupe greet him, the young man couldn't help but blush. He was so nervous that he didn't know who Huang Tu was. He actually asked, "Comrade Huang Tu? Who is Comrade Huang Tu?"

"It's the comrade who was with you just now! Isn't his name Huang Tu?"

"The one who just greeted Gong Xi!"

Han Qiaoyue was puzzled. She crossed her feet and looked around the entire carriage, but she did not see the man named Huangtu.

"Are you asking about Old Cheng?!" Ge You finally reacted and realized that Han Qiaoyue came to find Cheng Xuemin, and Old Cheng had just explained it to him.

"Old Cheng!?"

"Who is Lao Cheng? Isn't his name Huang Tu?"

Han Qiaoyue was even more surprised and suspicious now. Wasn't he the classmate Huang Tu that Gong Xi had always been thinking about?
How come he became Lao Cheng again?

"Old Cheng is Cheng Xuemin! Huangtu is just his pen name, don't you know that?" Ge You also looked at him with a look of surprise, thinking that since he knew that Old Cheng was Huangtu, he should not be unaware of his real name!

Moreover, the pen names of Lao Cheng's other horse herder Lao Xu and Director Qiao Lao Qiao seem to be more famous than the pen name Huang Tu. They should not be unaware of this, right?

"Ah?! I know! Huang Tu is indeed Lao Cheng's pen name!"

"Where is Old Cheng? I saw him coming with you just now?"

Han Qiaoyue nodded repeatedly to show that she knew, but she really didn't know in her heart that Huang Tu was just a pen name. His real name was Lao... Cheng Xuemin, right?

I don’t know if Gong Xi knows about this.

"Oh, Lao Cheng has returned to his own carriage, carriage number seven, the PLA Arts and Culture section!"

"Old Cheng is a great writer. This time he was personally appointed by the old commander to go south with us to interview the soldiers on the front line and write their heroic deeds into a novel!"

Ge You was chattering non-stop, praising Cheng Xuemin.

"Is it true? Didn't he just write "Loess Plateau"? "

Listening to this skinny guy in front of me bragging so much, he was actually appointed by the old commander himself?

How great a writer must be to have the qualifications to alarm the old head commander Shi Lao and personally select that guy's generals to go south to express condolences and interviews?

Han Qiaoyue and Gong Xi were close to each other, and she knew that her classmate Huang Tu, whom she had been thinking about, had just published a manuscript called "Loess Plateau" in "Yanhe Literature".

After that, it seems that there are no articles published?

That's it!

How could a new student author, who had only published a somewhat popular article titled "Loess Plateau" in the local magazine "Yanhe Literature", be personally selected by the old director?
That's if that's the case!

The response to "Loess Plateau" is really not as good as that of Lu Xinhua, another new student author. How big a sensation did his "Scars" cause when it was published?

Scar literature, especially because of Lu Xinhua's "Scars", has brought about a new literary genre.

Even with such influence, he was not absorbed by their General Political Department's art troupe. How could this skinny guy, Old Cheng, be favored by the old head of their General Political Department and personally appointed him just for the song "Loess Plateau"?
This is not the way to brag!
"Didn't he just write 'Loess Plateau'?"

"So you don't know who Lao Cheng is?"

Seeing Han Qiaoyue's face full of doubt and disbelief in him, Ge You really got excited!

He had not boasted to other comrades in the art troupe before that his best friend, his desk mate, was the pioneer of reform and opening up whom they praised so much. That was Ge You being low-key.

Now Old Cheng himself is on the train, and he just says that this is his buddy, Cheng Xuemin!
The comrades were able to react quickly. Isn’t the pioneer also called Cheng Xuemin?

So, everyone could react and know who his buddy was.

But this Comrade Han Qiaoyue is different!

Ge You has said more than once that Old Cheng’s real name is Cheng Xuemin, right?
I had thought that Han Qiaoyue would exclaim, but she didn't.

Not only did he not exclaim, he also asked in return: As for Lao Cheng, the pioneer of reform and opening up, didn't he only write one book, "Loess Plateau"?

Isn't it just one?
OK, OK!
It was a rare occasion for Ge You to meet a comrade who had no reaction to the name Cheng Xuemin, so he had to show off his skills on the spot.

"Who is Lao Cheng? Is he famous? Has he written any famous articles?"

“Is it Lu Xinhua who wrote Scars, or Lao Xu who wrote The Shepherd?”

"Or maybe it's Old Qiao, the pioneer of reform and opening up who wrote "The Record of Director Qiao's Taking Office"?"

Han Qiaoyue was confused and her mind went over again the story of Gong Di's classmate Huangtu. According to Gong Di, her classmate Huangtu only wrote one article called "Loess Plateau" and no other articles!

If there were other articles, given Gong Xi's obsession with them, would he not buy them and read them?
After she saw it, how could she not recommend it to herself first?

No!

Definitely not!

So even Gong Di didn’t know what other manuscripts her Huangtu classmate Lao Cheng had published, let alone Han Qiaoyue!

and!

Hearing the skinny guy in front of her asking herself such a question with an incredible expression, Han Qiaoyue really thought that this Huangtu classmate, Lao Cheng, was a great and awesome writer!
Listen to his tone!
Could it be Lu Xinhua who wrote "Scars"?
Could it be the old Xu Lingjun who wrote "The Shepherd"?
Or maybe he is directly the pioneer of reform and opening up who wrote the inscription above, Director Qiao Qiao, the author of "The Record of Director Qiao's Taking Office"?
Could it be these three?

This skinny guy in front of me is so boastful, can he really say that his Huangtu Lao Cheng is one of the three of them?

impossible!
If these were really the three, how could Gong Xi, who was so familiar with him, not know them?

……

PS: I want to ask all the godfathers, can I drive this car to take off? What's the intention of reporting it? I am crying!
I have learned from the lesson of the previous book. This book has only a female protagonist and is basically a plain story throughout... I feel so wronged. I will resume the weekly update tomorrow.

(End of this chapter)