Chapter 45 College Dances of This Era

Beijing Normal University Old Teachers’ Dormitory

Song Jianming pushed the door and walked into the house in a daze.

There was a square table in the living room, two elderly people in their fifties and sixties, a girl of fifteen or sixteen, and Song Jianchun.

“Boss, are you back? Come back for dinner soon. We’re waiting for you.”

His father waved at him with a smile on his face.

“Brother, please sit down.”

The younger sister Song Wan, holding a bowl, stood up aggrievedly and gave her seat to her older brother Song Jianming.

“Well, no need, little sister, you sit down, I’ll sit for a while and eat.”

Song Jianming shook his head and sat aside to smoke.

Seeing this, everyone thought he was tired and started eating.

The Song family is considered a scholarly family with five members. The father used to work in the Logistics Department of Beijing Normal University, and later Song Jianming took over his job. The mother works in the civil affairs department.

My second brother Song Jianchun is also a talented person, and my younger sister is also doing well in Wangfujing High School.

The family’s monthly income is around 100 yuan, which is considered a high-income family. It is not a problem to feed five people, and they can eat meat from time to time.

On the table was a plate of fried bacon, a plate of fried cabbage, fried radish, and a plate of eggs. Even in the middle of winter, the food was already very good.

“Brother, if you don’t eat, then I will eat more bacon, right?”

The younger sister looked at Song Jianming very smartly and said quickly.

“Eat, eat…”

Song Jianming nodded dully. For some reason, he thought of the mother and daughter he saw on the street just now. Although he only took a quick glance, he was not sure whether it was…

“Just spoil her. She is not sensible at all.” The father scolded.

“What? Brother, you’ve obviously been promoted to an assistant teacher, earning 56 yuan a month. What’s the big deal about going to get some bacon, right, brother? Before, you said you would buy me some White Rabbit milk candy. My deskmate gave me some White Rabbit candy yesterday. It would be so embarrassing if I don’t take some back.” Song Wan muttered.

“How can you compare with him? His father is a professor at CAFA, and his mother is a dancer.”

Song Jianchun, who had been silent for a long time, said with a smile.

“So what? If Big Brother hadn’t been framed… he might be a professor now…”

“Alright, alright! I’ll buy it for you tomorrow!”

Song Jianming sighed and said.

“Great!”

……

After a while of excitement, everyone continued to eat.

“Boss, you are not young anymore, almost thirty. When will you find a partner? It is said that men should get married when they are old enough, and women should get married when they are old enough. I think the girl who brought you back from southern Xinjiang is not bad. She is good-looking, has an outstanding family background, and treats you well too.”

Not long after, the old father said something out of the blue.

“talk later.”

Song Jianming waved his hand perfunctorily. He was very confused at the moment.

After dinner, Song Jianchun got dressed and went out. “Brother, I’m leaving first. My Chinese department classmates are having a ballroom dance in the cafeteria. I’ll go take a look.”

“I also need to go!!!”

Little sister Song Wan’s eyes lit up and she immediately raised her hand and spoke.

“You’re not allowed to go! Why is a girl dancing? It’s so inappropriate!”

At this time, the mother, who had not spoken for a long time, refused.

“I know, Mom…”

……

Beijing Normal University canteen.

“Hahaha! Ji Qinglan, you tiger girl, you can even fall asleep during an exam in the middle of winter?”

“You’re killing me with laughter! Ji Qinglan, I can make you laugh for the rest of my life, even if I was asleep, why did you say that?”

A corner of the Beijing Normal University cafeteria.

While eating, several girls made fun of Ji Qinglan who fell asleep in the examination room.

“What did I say? Stop talking nonsense!”

Ji Qinglan retorted dissatisfiedly while chewing her food.

“You’re just trying to make excuses, right? I heard from my friends that Teacher Cheng woke you up, but you asked, “Teacher Cheng, why did you come to our girls’ dormitory?” Do you know that most of the Chinese department knows about it now? You’ve embarrassed yourself!”

Zhao Ruixue poked the silly girl with a chubby face with her finger in disappointment.

“I didn’t mean to…”

Ji Qinglan lowered her head weakly. Although she really wanted to be famous in front of her classmates, she definitely didn’t want it in this way!

The chubby-faced girl glanced around furtively out of the corner of her eye, trying to find out if anyone else was laughing at her.

The four of them discussed the content of the exam while eating.

“By the way, how did you interpret the central idea of ​​Professor Jiang’s novel…”

“The one about life and death? Professor Jiang wrote this novel really well.”

“Is such that……”

Ji Qinglan was explaining the exam in a chattering voice. Even though she fell asleep in the exam room, she was still a very good student. She fell asleep because she had finished the questions and reviewed too late.

Soon, everyone was debating the answer to a question and the central idea of ​​an article, and Ji Qinglan successfully refuted everyone in the debate.

Having just finished an exam, most of the students were talking about the exam, questions, scores, etc., just like Ji Qinglan and the others.

In addition, we were very tired from the exams in the past few days, so it was inevitable that everyone felt relaxed after the exams were over.

“Hey! Isn’t that Teacher Cheng?”

The quiet girl Zhang Chun pushed her glasses and pointed at a couple walking in from the front door.

“Who is this woman?”

Yang Mengshan said with a suspicious look in her eyes.

This aroused Zhao Ruixue’s vigilance and she looked over immediately.

I saw a man and a woman walking into the cafeteria. They were Cheng Kaiyan and Lin Xiaohong.

Yang Mengshan glanced at Zhao Ruixue, who had an unknown expression on her face, and couldn’t help but laugh in her heart.

Almost everyone in the dormitory knew that Zhao Ruixue could not forget her childhood friend, but unfortunately, one of them was a teacher and the other was a student, so it was impossible for them to be together.

His eyes rolled, he stood up and shouted, “Teacher Xiao Cheng, here, here!”

Not far away, Cheng Kaiyan heard the noise and walked over immediately, “You guys are here too? Wait for us to get food first.”

The two of them went to the window to get a meal, then came back and sat down with the four others.

“Teacher Xiao Cheng, who is this?”

“I forgot to introduce you. This is Ms. Lin Xiaohong from the Foreign Literature Research Office.”

Cheng Kaiyan solemnly introduced them to Zhao Ruixue and the other three.

“Hello, Teacher Lin!”

“Hello, Teacher Lin!”

“Hey hey hey…”

When Lin Xiaohong heard everyone calling her teacher, her reserved expression suddenly turned silly because it was her first time to eat with students, and she grinned.

Although Lin Xiaohong was an assistant teacher, she was always running errands for the director and rarely met students. She spent more time shuttling back and forth between the offices of various professors.

How could anyone ever call her a teacher?
Everyone in the office is called Xiao Lin Xiao Lin, or Xiao Hong.

God bless her, Lin Xiaohong actually became a teacher one day!
“what happened to you?”

Seeing that she seemed to have a sudden illness and kept smiling foolishly, Cheng Kaiyan asked quickly.

“Ahem… I am very pleased that my classmates respect the elderly and love the young, and are filial to their teachers.”

Lin Xiaohong coughed twice and spoke righteously. Then, as everyone approached her intentionally, Lin Xiaohong sold herself out completely as expected, and her background was emptied out.

“Teacher Lin is really interesting.”

“Where’s the fun?”

“She’s so silly, even more silly than Ji Qinglan.”

The girls exchanged information with their eye contact, and Zhao Ruixue also breathed a sigh of relief at this moment.

That’s right, Teacher Lin is not pretty, at most she is pretty, there is no way Cheng Kaiyan would like her.

Why do you worry so much…

Ah! Who is worried!
After dinner, Cheng Kaiyan looked at the sky and it was a little dark.

When he was about to go back, he was stopped by everyone.

“Why are you in such a hurry to leave, Teacher Cheng? There’s something exciting going on tonight. Do you want to come and see it?”

“What’s exciting? Is it something nice to watch?”

“This is definitely an excitement that a lazy person like you could never imagine! I guarantee that once you come here, you won’t want to leave!!”

“Well!”

Cheng Kaiyan swallowed and said excitedly.

It’s definitely not about thinking about something bitter…

By half past six in the evening, it had become completely dark.

I saw a group of students in strange clothes coming over with a large tape recorder with four speakers. All of a sudden, all the lights dimmed, leaving only one or two lights in the corner.

Then the humming sound of the radio began to sound, and a piece of lascivious music flowed out from the speakers, and a note that was familiar to Cheng Kaiyan jumped up:

sweet

You smile sweetly
It seems that the flowers are blooming in the spring breeze
Open in the spring breeze
Where have seen you

Your smile is so familiar that I can’t remember it for a moment
……

Students from the Normal University also danced to the music. Both boys and girls found their own dance partners, held hands, swayed their bodies, and danced in rhythmic steps.

Cheng Kaiyan could also see that some boys with poor skills frequently stepped on the toes of their female companions, causing them to turn around and walk away in disgust.

Of course, there are also those with good skills. Not only do they walk lightly and nimbly, but they also raise one hand from time to time and spin on the spot.

“Is this the excitement you’re talking about?”

“That’s it?”

Cheng Kaiyan sighed. He thought it was something else…

too.

It is now the early 1980s. As the capital, Beijing is experiencing a period of reform and opening up. The cultural life of college students has begun to become richer, and dancing has become a popular campus activity.

College students are keen on dancing in school. Every weekend and holiday, a group of dance enthusiasts will gather together and secretly use a dance machine to dance. Not to mention that now is the end of the final exams, so it is normal to organize a dance party.

Even people from other schools came to dance. There are many universities and institutions located in Xinjiekou. Even students from Peking University, Tsinghua University and Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications would come to Beijing Normal University to dance.

Nothing else!
Because there are more female students in Beijing Normal University.

There are jokes circulating in the Normal University such as “Tsinghua is poor, Peking University is rich, if you want to find a wife, go to the Normal University” or “Normal University, a university for eating”.

“Shida Ren” is also often used to mock oneself.

“How about you, you’ve been in Southern Xinjiang for so many years, you’ve never seen anything like this, right? A boy holding a girl’s hand, one hand clasped together, the other hand around her waist and back, isn’t that too vulgar?”

Zhao Ruixue stood aside and asked softly.

“It’s not so vulgar… it’s just a form of resistance to oppression.”

Cheng Kaiyan shook her head. Southern Xinjiang was not as open as the capital.

In the first few years of reform and opening up, social atmosphere was more open, but by 1983, this was no longer necessarily the case.

Fortunately, they are college students, representatives of openness and progress. If they were in other places, they might be criticized and educated.

The university does not encourage dances at this time, but it does not oppose it either and adopts the attitude of turning a blind eye.

Not only students need this kind of dance that represents openness, progress, and enthusiasm to express their inner needs that have been suppressed by society in the past few decades, even teachers will participate in the dances, as many teachers are single.

Dancing is not only an entertaining activity, but also a way of socializing. Students can make new friends through dancing and enhance understanding and friendship among classmates.

The two of them sat at the dining table, chatting idly while watching dozens of couples dancing together not far away.

“These two are so annoying! If they want to dance, then dance. If they don’t want to dance, then forget it. They act like they’re a couple just by dancing. How hypocritical!”

Finally, the carefree Yang Mengshan couldn’t stand it anymore and said in a sarcastic tone.

“Yes.”

“That’s right! Let Ruixue teach you. It’s a shame for a grown man to be so timid.”

……

“How about I teach you?”

Zhao Ruixue’s face turned slightly red as she spoke softly.

“Okay, but don’t mind if I don’t dance well.”

Cheng Kaiyan didn’t think there was anything wrong with it. It was just ballroom dancing, not Latin dance. Most of the male and female partners who did that had probably been together before.

He indeed had never danced, not even when he was in the art troupe, because he played a musical instrument and rarely appeared on stage.

He took off his military coat, put it aside, and gestured for invitation.

“Your left hand holds my right hand, and your right hand is around my waist…”

“Get ready…”

Zhao Ruixue felt the warmth from the other person’s palm reaching her cerebral cortex from her weak waist, and for a moment her voice trembled.

However, as the melody of the music progressed, she slowly calmed down, and was surprised to find that Cheng Kaiyan did not step on her foot. On the contrary, she learned very quickly and gradually became fluent.

The two of them soon understood the idea, and Zhao Ruixue’s emotions became excited for a moment. She held hands and did a jump, kick and spin.

The two of them cooperated perfectly on the dance floor, like elves.

It soon attracted the attention of many people.

“Isn’t that Comrade Zhao Ruixue from the Chinese Department? Who is this boy?”

“do not know.”

“She’s a teaching assistant in the Chinese department, right? Her last name seems to be Cheng. She’s very good-looking and is said to have gotten in through the backdoor. She has a high school degree and is a capable assistant to Professor Jiang. Several girls in our class like her very much…”

“Jianchun, why don’t you go up and dance?”

In the corner, the vice president of the Cradle Literary Society and Song Jianchun and others stood there, watching the two people dancing and chatting.

“Forget it.”

Song Jianchun shook his head. Seeing the two of them dancing in each other’s arms, he felt a little sad, but he also understood that this was just a ballroom dance.

“There will be a poetry competition in the school auditorium in a few days. Jianchun will also participate, right? If you win a prize, remember to treat everyone to a meal.”

“Row.”

“I heard that the teachers at the school will also participate. I wonder if this person will participate.”

Thinking of this, Song Jianchun couldn’t help but think of what he had read in “Children’s Literature” before. He recognized the talent of Teacher Cheng, but that was in novels and children’s literature.

But this is poetry, the pursuit of beauty.

I may not lose to him, Song Jianchun thought to himself.

……

After he finished dancing with Zhao Ruixue, Ji Qinglan and others saw how well he danced and came up one after another to want to dance with him.

After five people jumped down in succession, it finally quieted down, but I was dragged down by the poor skills of these people and was stepped on several times.

After dancing, it was already eight o’clock and everyone went home to sleep.

Before leaving, the girls said, “Great writer, please work hard in the poetry competition the day after tomorrow. If you win a prize, please treat us to a meal!”

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