Great changes in the countryside

Chapter 2 The Enmity Between the Upper Two Generations
For several days, my father was not at home.

Chen Yang knew that his father was busy with his own affairs.

Chen Yang knew better that what his father did was useless.

The hatred between the Chen and Cai families is too deep.

As the eldest son, his father told Chen Yang about the hatred seven years ago.

24 years ago, my grandfather and Cai Zhengyuan from the same village competed for a county-level labor model.

Grandpa not only won, but also rose with the tide, and was elected as a regional model worker.

It's just that Cai Zhengyuan wrote a lot of report letters and tried his best to fabricate it. Grandpa was not elected as a provincial model worker.

The hatred between the two families began at that time, and they have heard of each other until now, but they have never communicated with each other until death.

My father was in the army in [-].

Five years later, my father became deputy platoon commander.Two years later, my father was promoted to platoon commander.

My father participated in the self-defense counterattack against India, and was awarded individual first-class merit once, individual second-class merit twice, and collective first-class merit once.

Father was appointed as deputy company commander and company commander by the front line.

After the war, his father went to Nanjing Army Academy for further study.

After coming out of the Army Academy, my father was promoted to deputy battalion commander.Later, my father was ordered to lead his troops to the north to participate in the Battle of Zhenbao Island, and was awarded first-class merit once and second-class merit once.

12 years in Hedong, 12 years in Hexi.

In 1970, in order to help his hometown, his father obtained three tons of cheap fertilizer from the army farm, but was reported by Cai Baofu, the son of Cai Zhengyuan.

My father was charged with reselling military supplies and was transferred back to the local area.

His father lost his status as a cadre because of his guilt, and was arranged to work as an ordinary electrician in the county power plant.

In August [-], Wenlin County was hit by a tenth-level typhoon, and all the buildings of Wenlin Power Plant were destroyed.

The father and others who were on duty at the time were expelled from the power plant for dereliction of duty.

In this way, my father returned to the village and lived a life facing the loess and back to the sky.

It was later learned that Cai Baofu, Cai Zhengyuan's son, was responsible for his father's dismissal from the power plant.

At this time, Cai Baofu was already the deputy head of the county production leading group, equivalent to the later deputy county magistrate.

My father could bear it. Now that he has even suspended his party membership, he didn't say anything.

There are old people on the top and young people on the bottom, and my father has to bear it.There are old parents and a sick wife on the top, and six children on the bottom. The father is the pillar of the family.

Only now, the hatred of the previous generation has continued to the third generation.

My father has many old comrades in arms, and their positions in the army are not as good as my father's.Some old comrades-in-arms also work in the county. If they can come forward to help, they should be able to help.

But the Cai family is now in full swing, and they even say that anyone who wants to help the Chen family is the enemy of the Cai family.

The rich have distant relatives in the mountains, but the poor have no one to ask in the city.

There is nothing my father can do about Chen Yang's matter.

The list for the re-examination has been announced, and the admission ticket for the college entrance examination has also been issued. It is impossible to add Chen Yang's name to it.

It wasn't until one night at the end of November that the tired figure of my father appeared in front of the house.

Chen Yang is waiting for his father every day, and tonight is no exception.

"dad."

Father sat on the threshold of the main room, although his face was tired, there was a smile on his face.

"Are they all asleep?"

"Well. Dad, have you eaten yet?"

"No."

"I'll get you something to eat."

Chen Yang brought his father two pieces of steamed sweet potatoes, a small bowl of pickles, and a jar of homemade rice wine.

The father held the wine jar, leaned his neck, and drank at least half of the jar.

"Yan, you drink too."

Chen Yang was stunned. In his memory, his father never allowed him to drink, not even a sip.

"You've got to drink tonight. Jan, if you drink, you're a man."

(End of this chapter)