Fengcheng old events

Chapter 11 The sky is falling

From winter to spring, the flowers wither and bloom. Year after year, the old trees in the yard are more green, but no longer luxuriant.

58 years came unknowingly.

According to the latest policy, this year, Liu Jinrong should go to elementary school.Zhang Jingyi sewed a schoolbag for Liu Jinrong early on, and the little girl sat on the threshold every day with the schoolbag containing her brother's book, looking forward to September.

Since the past two years, for some reason, the street has gradually become deserted, and it is no longer so lively.

There are fewer and fewer people doing business, and occasionally one or two are carrying burdens, sneaking around, and those singing like operas can no longer be heard.The smiles on the faces of the adults became less and less, and they walked in a hurry, and the people who usually squatted on the side of the road talking loudly disappeared.

Neighboring shops were also closed, and there were two more state-run shops beside the yard, and the insides were so dark that Liu Jinrong never dared to go in.

On the street, on people’s bodies, those red, green and colored ones disappeared. They were replaced by black, blue, gray and army green. The little Liu Jinrong always felt that everyone passing by was looking at his clothes. The flowery clothes, I feel like I did something wrong.

There are always big characters painted on the wall, and red cloth banners are always hung under the eaves opposite. Liu Jinrong knows a [-]D, and he looks at it every day in a daze.

She couldn't figure out why the characters her brother taught her were different from those written by her father. The ones written by her father were better, but her brother said that what he wrote was correct.My brother said that this is called simplified characters, which is a symbol of the progress of the times.

She doesn't know what an era is, she should be very powerful.

The wind in early spring is very cool. Sitting by the door for a while, Liu Jinrong will have two snotty noses, but she doesn't want to go into the house.

"That's it, that's it, this one."

"How big is Liu Gan's house?"

"So much nonsense, be careful. Girl, are you from this family?"

Liu Jinrong was frightened by the sudden rush of people, stood up timidly while supporting the door frame, and nodded.

"Is your lord here? Go and call your lord."

Liu Jinrong burst into tears, turned around and ran into the yard, almost tripping over the threshold. "Mom, Mom, there are a lot of people coming outside."

Zhang Jingyi put down the scissors in his hand and looked at his daughter who ran in: "Who?"

Liu Jinrong shook his head: "I don't know."

Zhang Jingyi lifted his legs to get off the kang and put on his shoes. Liu Huawen ran over: "Sister-in-law, elder brother is ill and just passed out at work."

Zhang Jingyi's head buzzed, and she saw Liu Huawen's mouth moving but couldn't hear the sound. She looked around in a panic, pulled Liu Jinrong and hugged her in her arms, and then she felt at ease.

Liu Huaqi was half-lifted and half-supported by several people into the house, lay down on the kang, and settled down. A leader who seemed to be a leader said a few words to take a good rest, and a group of people went out.

Zhang Jingyi stood in the corner of the room with Liu Jinrong in his arms and watched the whole process, he was too scared to move.

"Jing Yi." Liu Huaqi waved to Zhang Jingyi.

Zhang Jingyi just woke up like a dream, and walked to the kang with Liu Jinrong in his arms: "You, what's wrong with you?"

Liu Huaqi forced a smile: "It's okay, it will be fine in a few days, don't be afraid."

Liu Jinrong stretched out his small hand to touch Liu Huaqi's face: "Father, are you sick? If you're sick, you need to eat canned food. It'll be fine, it's sweet."

Liu Huaqi smiled at his daughter and said: "Children eat canned food when they are sick, and adults need to take medicine."

Zhang Jingyi poured a glass of water for Liu Huaqi: "What's wrong with you?"

Liu Huaqi said: "It's okay, I stayed up late some time ago, I may have caught a cold, and I had a cough a few days ago, but I didn't care about it, and it became severe. I just lie down and take some medicine, it will be fine, don't worry."

Liu Jinrong climbed onto the kang, kicked his little feet on each other to take off his shoes, then went to dig out under the cabinet in the corner of the kang, his little face was flushed, and finally took out half a can of fruit, with two or three pieces of pears in it, four One-third of the soup.

She put the can on the side of the kang, turned over and climbed down with her back on her back. She scratched a few times with her little feet and found her shoes on her feet. Scooped out the sugar water: "Dad, eat it, it will be fine, this is very sweet."

Liu Huaqi couldn't evade it, and couldn't resist the little girl, so he had to take two sips with her little hand and said, "Okay, you can eat the rest."

Liu Jinrong stared at his father with big black eyes: "Is it better? Do you want to eat more?"

Zhang Jingyi said: "There is no western medicine at home, and you can't buy it outside. Why don't you go to the hospital to see a doctor."

Liu Huaqi shook his head and said, "No need, I'll just lie down and take the kids to play, I'll sleep for a while."

Zhang Jingyi carried Liu Jinrong out of the room, Liu Huaqi leaned over the kang and coughed, he had been holding back because of the child.It's like a heartbreaking cough.

After resting like this for three days, he finally started to have a fever. Zhang Jingyi didn't know what to do, so he called Liu Huawen over, and pushed Liu Huaqi to the clinic with a bicycle. The doctor listened to his lungs, checked his tongue, and looked at his work permit , Only then did I get an injection, and I brought back a few pills, but no money was confiscated.

Liu Huaqi just rested at home like this, and only occasionally had to translate some urgently needed materials or something. Although the work in the hotel had not been delivered, he hadn't been there yet, and the wages had not stopped.

After taking some medicine and occasionally getting an injection, Liu Huawen got some traditional Chinese medicine from where and came back to boil it. Soon, more than a month passed.

Although Liu Jinrong is very happy that his father is at home every day, he still sits on the threshold of the gate most of the time every day, because his parents said that children cannot stay in their father's room all the time, they will be infected, and they don't know what infection means.

There were fewer and fewer people on the street outside, and the number of slogans was multiplying. Some were torn off by the wind and ran wildly along the road.

A wooden pole was planted on the street. The adults called it an electric pole. A silver horn was nailed on it, and it would make various sounds. Sometimes it was people talking, and sometimes it was a nice song. This became Liu Jinrong’s favorite. New goals, to stare at every day.

"We must go all out, strive for the upper reaches, build socialism more quickly, better and more economically, and realize the revolution of industry and agriculture..."

Listening to passionate music every day and chanting some unknown slogans, the little girl doesn't know what her life will be like.

By August, Liu Huaqi had completely collapsed. It was already difficult for him to get out of the kang, and he relied on Zhang Jingyi to take care of him. He lost weight, couldn't wear his glasses anymore, and became irritable.Most of the time every day, I just read some photos and letters, coughing non-stop.

In late August, the county’s labor propaganda team came to the door. All supplies will be provided by tickets.

The old version of RMB is no longer in circulation, and the common people have officially entered the era of 18 yuan and [-] cents.

The ignorant Liu Jinrong didn't know that the money in her purse would never be spent again from now on.

A few days later, Liu Jinrong was about to enter elementary school like his elder brother and wear the red scarf that he had always dreamed of. Just as the little girl dreamed of realizing her dream, Liu Huaqi passed away.

Following Zhang Jingyi's hoarse cry, Liu Jinrong's sky collapsed.

(End of this chapter)