Hunger for a hundred years

Chapter 28 (8)
Niujiaoxi Bridge originally thought that it would do its duty in such a quiet way, and finish its life quietly, but it never expected that it would become lively again in the late 60s and early 70s.

This time, it is not to sink the widow who stole the man, but to stop the person who is disloyal to Chairman Mao.

The first to bear the brunt was a tall and thin man named Chen Huaizhi.This person lives in Jinyinkou Village under the Wanggu Tower. He went to other places to study very early. He was a top student of the once-famous Southwest Associated University. He later went to the University of Chicago to study for a master's degree and a doctorate degree in economics. He taught in a famous institution of higher learning in Beijing. After a few years, he was labeled as a rightist and sent back to Jinyinkou, his birthplace (none of his past relatives are gone).He went out alone, and came back with four people: him, his wife, and two young daughters.His wife is also a university professor. She was born and raised in Beijing. When she suddenly came to this wild land surrounded by mountains, she felt that her life was over. It means falling into despair after entering.Chen Huaizhi and his wife were a good couple, but not long after arriving at Jinyinkou, they quarreled and fought.

Chen Huaizhi is deeply myopic. His wife has a unique trick when fighting with him, which is to knock off his glasses first. Without glasses, Chen Huaizhi is almost blind. He lies on the ground, fumbling with his hands, trying to get the glasses back , his wife can hit his back and ass with ease.Fortunately, the spectacle lenses are rubber lenses brought back from the United States, and they will not break no matter where they are dropped, but the frame of the glasses broke quickly.There is no such thing as a seller in Dashan, so he had to use hemp rope to put the glasses on his ears.When I saw Chen Huaizhi in Laojun Mountain after I became an adult, I found that his ears were not opened, but rolled into tubes, covered with hemp rope.His wife lived in Jinyinkou for less than three years before she went insane. She fell off a cliff and died shortly after she became insane, so I had no chance to meet this man.But I have seen the brush calligraphy she wrote. It was at the Sunrise Middle School in Zhongjiaba. She came for about a year, and the Sunrise Middle School sent students to Jinyinkou to escort the "bourgeois lady" from Beijing to school. Quotations from Chairman Mao are written on the walls of the teaching building.That word is really good, Wei stele body, has the style of gold and stone!

After his wife died, Chen Huaizhi became weird.After work, he either goes to work in the private plot or in the pigsty, and never speaks a word to outsiders.The pumpkins he planted, soon after the fruits came out, he injected injections at the stems of the pumpkins.This is an anecdote throughout the ages in the entire Laojun Mountain and even the entire Qingxi River Basin.The pumpkins he has injected grow as fast as blowing up balloons. The pumpkins grown by others are not bad when they grow to more than 30 catties, but Chen Huaizhi's minimum is [-] catties!Laojunshan people raise pigs, and the pen is full of pig feces and leftover food, while Chen Huaizhi’s pig pen is as clean as a kitchen. He not only sprinkles lime in the pen, but also washes the pig’s face!Every morning, he would bring a big basin of water and use a special handkerchief to wash pigs one by one.He even took the pigs for a run!After washing the pig's face, he opened the pen and ran up the hill while shouting. The pigs didn't listen to him at first, and ran around when they left the pen. After less than a month of training, the pigs understood what he meant. , just behind his buttocks, appearing and disappearing on the winding mountain road.He ran with the pig for a full hour before returning to the house.Chen Huaizhi said that pigs, like people, need exercise, and only after exercise can they grow their skeletons. To grow big, pigs must first have a big skeleton.It's true that pigs need a long skeleton, but who ever heard of pigs needing exercise?This is obviously a strange talk that only rightists can say!What's even more strange is that the pigs he raises are like the pumpkins he grows, growing fast and well.

Chen Huaizhi was intercepted at Niujiaoxi Bridge, which was related to pigs.

At that time, after paying the pig tax (pork or cash is acceptable), the trading of piglets and fat pigs was allowed, but the scope of trading was stipulated. For example, if you were from Dongba Township, you could only trade in Dongba farms.Jinyinkou was managed by Dongba Township, but Chen Huaizhi carried the pigs to Gold Township and sold them.The Golden Township is in the upper reaches of Dongba Township. When my great-grandmother, Li Gao, took her two sons to flee the famine in 1914 for food, she listened to her son’s words and went to the lower reaches, but more people went to the upper reaches of Wanshan. Pingba is crowded.That flat dam refers to the Golden Township.Although gold is far away, its price is much higher than that of Dongba, so Chen Huaizhi worked tirelessly to carry the pig there.Not long after he went to Jinjin, someone made a report. That afternoon, when he came back from selling pigs, he passed the Niujiaoxi Bridge and was stopped by more than a dozen Red Guards.

"Do you listen to Chairman Mao?" the Red Guard asked.

"Listen." Chen Huaizhi said.

"Why do you carry pigs to gold after listening to Chairman Mao's words?"
"Golden pigs are expensive."
"This reactionary!" the Red Guard said with a smile, "not only carry the pigs back to sell for gold, but also wash the faces of the pigs, and take the pigs for exercise. They are clearly dissatisfied with the society. Kneel down!"
Chen Huaizhi took a look at those baby faces.He had twines hanging from his earshells, and his glasses had slipped onto the tip of his nose, and he pushed them up.

"Kneel down!" The Red Guard stopped laughing and became serious.

"I haven't heard of it." Chen Huaizhi said.

Before he could finish speaking, he was hit on the leg.It was beaten with a pole carrying dung.

Chen Huaizhi bent his knees and knelt down.

Immediately afterwards, he was subjected to a few more shoulder poles and kicked on his sharp buttocks.The kick in the ass sent him throwing himself forward, on his stomach.He kept screaming in pain, "Ouch, Ouch".The Red Guards laughed and asked him: "Have you heard of it now?" Chen Huaizhi stopped crying, and hurriedly replied: "I have heard of it, I have heard of it, pay tribute to Chairman Mao, and pay tribute to the young Red Guard general."
The second person to be intercepted at Niujiaoxi Bridge was He Zhongbao.

At that time, night schools were held in every village in the region. Every evening, adults from every household gathered in the night school to learn the "highest instructions."In Hejiapo, the evening school is held in the ancestral hall. The "highest instruction" is firstly publicized through paper speakers, and the second is "correspondent" He Kuiyuan brought back from the countryside; the second way is more reliable, because the speakers speak Mandarin. People in Hejiapo couldn't understand it, and if they didn't understand it, it meant they didn't listen to anything.In addition to carrying a gun on his back, He Kuiyuan also carried a gong on his shoulders. As soon as he walked to the entrance of the village, he beat the gong and shouted the quotations he had just learned.At dusk, people on the slope gathered in the night school, and He Kuiyuan taught everyone to recite it.The vast majority of the villagers could not read large characters, let alone understand the meaning, and it was quite difficult to memorize them. It was often late in the night to memorize a short quotation.

The men's saliva is dry, and their tongues can't be rolled, so they keep smoking; the women are pitiful, they can't smoke, and they are so tired during the day, carrying instructions on their backs, and drowsiness is stitched on the eyes like needles. A dead chicken cannot straighten its neck.But you can’t get up. In Hejiapo, except for people as old as Liang, they always have to go to the street to do errands, and to go to the street, you have to pass the Niujiaoxi Bridge. At this end of the Niujiaoxi Bridge, the working group Five or six members of the group and seven or eight Red Guards stood in a row. When you walked to the bridge, they asked you to recite quotations. As for the content, they were all newly requested to recite; Policy." You should continue immediately. If you hesitate a little, those with a gentle attitude will wave your hand and let you turn around and go home. If you have a violent attitude, you will have to slap you twice before yelling: "Go back, disloyalty Unfilial things!" It would be even worse if they were being investigated by the Red Guards. The Red Guards were all teenage children, and they thought they had flesh instead of iron when they beat them.

In those years, they were beaten for fear of not being able to memorize the quotations, and because of this, they dared not go to the market, so that the family could not eat salt for a month or two.

Strange to say, He Zhongbao is so smart, but he just can't memorize the quotations. His ability to memorize the quotations is worse than those women who doze off after sitting down!He clearly remembered it the night before, but he forgot everything when he woke up the next morning.Therefore, whenever he had to go to Dongbachang to do business, he would go to He Kuiyuan for advice before dawn. At this time, Kuiyuan was always lazy and heartless, and he didn't get up for a long time. He sat on the sill and smoked his cigarette, and he taught He Zhongbao when he was fully aired. When he was teaching, he deliberately slurred his speech. In this way, He Zhongbao was bound to ask him many times in a humble manner.What a shame!He Zhongbao thought.He hated He Kuiyuan so much.After finally learning what to recite, He Zhongbao left Kui Yuan's house. When he started walking, he kept wriggling his lips.He will use his lips to engrave in his heart the words that need to be remembered.He didn't stop talking until he reached the bridge.

If it is the rush day, there is often a very long queue at the bridgehead, passing through the customs one by one, which is similar to the current car toll booth.When randomly checking the person in front of He Zhongbao, He Zhongbao could still remember what should be memorized, and when it really came to his head, his mind quickly became blank!Once, the working group started for him: "We can learn what we didn't know before." The following words should have been "We are not only good at destroying an old world, but we are also good at building a new world." How could He Zhongbao remember this? Complicated sentences?But he didn't dare to hesitate, rolled his eyes and muttered: "We can learn things we didn't understand before. When planting seedlings." Before he finished speaking, he was slapped hard on the face, almost deafening his ears up.Damn, Chairman Mao is so busy fighting with feudal capitalists that he can't sleep at night, why do you care about planting seedlings?Without further ado, "Go home" and settle the matter.

In less than two months, He Zhongbao was slapped three times.

This dealt a huge blow to He Zhongbao.

He kept his face in front of people (after all, he was not the only one who was slapped), but when he got home, he couldn't hide his sadness and anger.So many people were slapped, but He Da was not slapped!He Da's memory is surprisingly good. In night school, he was always the first to memorize the quotations verbatim.He Da was not slapped, neither was Chen Yuexiang.But he, He Zhongbao, was slapped!He felt that he was sorry for his father He Huaqiang, so he took out the dog-beating stick and beat his leg hard.Just like his father did to their brothers back then, he pulled his son He Guanghui who didn't understand anything to him, and said to his son viciously: "You bastard, you will fight for my father in the future!"
He Zhongbao pinned his hopes on his son. Does it prove that he feels that he is no longer good enough, and has even lost to He Da?In fact, this is not the case at all. First of all, He Zhongbao is not such a weakling who lacks willpower, not to mention that he knows how to judge the situation. A few years later, he became the production team leader of He Jiapo; when he became the team leader, He Jianshen was demoted again For the vice-captain.The second is that everyone has not shown any signs of improvement.At the beginning of liberation, He Min, who was closely related to He Da, was considered an anti-Japanese hero. Although he did not bring any direct benefits to He Da, it also opened up a psychological umbrella for him. Now, people only remember He Da. Min is a hooligan in the Qingxi field, a bandit who beat the guerrilla army away with rolling wood and stones, and a teacher of the Kuomintang. The stone statue of He Min on the site of the Wanjia Casino in Qingxi has long been overturned and smashed.

As for He Min's elder brother He Dong'er, not to mention his own death too early, even his superior, Wang Weizhou, who is now an alternate member of the Central Committee, was criticized and fought.Everyone, there is really no improvement!My eldest sister He Ju, my second sister He Yue, and my younger brother He Ben were all born one after another. However, the more people there were, the poorer the family became.Fortunately, the later the stage, the shrewdness and ability of my mother Chen Yuexiang became more and more fully revealed.In Hejiapo, not only was there no woman who could compare with him, but also very few men dared to speak hard in front of Chen Yuexiang.She has never read a book and cannot read, but no matter how complicated the network of muscles and tendons is, she can quickly sort out the clues, so the house is well organized.According to my father, there were not many stores in Hejiapo that still had aged bacon at that time, but ours had them.

The existence of Chen Yuexiang did cast a shadow over He Zhongbao. On the other hand, after so many years of tossing, everyone was going to be poor together. Even if He Zhongbao buried some foundation, it was exhausted.But none of these can explain the problem. If there is a change, it is He Da's own psychology.At that time, my second elder brother He Ji had already enlightened, and his school was still in Anzi Temple (the prototype was a wooden house built by Yang Xiucai). He Ji was like a ignited fire just after entering the school.The teachers discussed in private, saying that He Ji's intelligence can be compared with his grandfather He He's, but his temperament is not as arrogant as his grandfather's, and he will be lucky in the future.A ray of sunshine penetrated He Da's life.Instead of wrapping dry tobacco and stuffing it into his mouth, he cut a delicate bamboo chimney.When he went to work, people talked about his baby's good grades in school, and he often said: "No matter how good his grades are, he can only recognize a few more words than others, so what is he capable of?" Even so, he couldn't hide it. The joy in the heart, the wrinkles on the face are smiling.

But he was too happy.

A new house was erected next to the old house. Not long after the new house was erected, my youngest sister, He Qing, was born.Her mother, Chen Yuexiang, had given birth to eight children before. According to the people of Hejiapo, it is as easy as urinating for a woman who has given birth to seven or eight children.But Chen Yuexiang's last birth was not easy at all.He Qing was reborn.If you've ever seen a python eat a goat, you know that.When a boa constrictor swallows a goat, it always puts its head in first, and then sends it in section by section. In the end, only the goat's hind legs are left outside the mouth, which are stabbed like two swords, which is shocking.Chen Yuexiang didn't swallow, but came out. He Qing's two legs were like goat's legs. The point of the sword had come out, but the hilt and the person holding the hilt were still inside. It was harder than a boa constrictor swallowing a goat. up.Chen Yuexiang felt that her lower body was being scratched and scratched by something with steel teeth, and her hair was sweating from the pain. She felt that she had no other way out, so she could only die from such pain.

She had never hired a midwife before giving birth to those eight children, but this time, she asked He Da to hire a midwife.He Jiapo's midwife is He Jianshen's wife He Bi.In fact, He Bi doesn't know how to deliver babies either, it's just because when she was a child cooking at the rich man's house, she saw how the midwives surrounded the rich man's little wife and hurried up and down.He Bi was invited by He Da to the room where Chen Yuexiang was lying, and as soon as he entered the room, he laughed loudly and scolded loudly: "Ms. After pulling the guy, you know that you are quietly waiting for children, do you think children are so good?" At this time, Chen Yuexiang was so painful that she couldn't listen to anything, and He Da was so anxious that her ankles were on fire, how could she have the heart to talk to her? Just kidding, He Da said: "Sister-in-law, you should find a way." He Bi took a deep breath and pressed Chen Yuexiang's stomach.This pressure made Chen Yuexiang feel like he was being torn apart, and screamed wildly.He Bi let go, and said doubtfully, "It's not the first time, why are you so annoyed?" She didn't know that Chen Yuexiang had an inverted pregnancy, and when she saw the two swords protruding from between Chen Yuexiang's legs, she screamed louder than Chen Yuexiang. rang, backed up to the door, turned around and ran away.

In the eyes of Hejiapo people, having an inverted pregnancy is unlucky.

(End of this chapter)