Hunger for a hundred years

Chapter 33 (13)
Within a few days, He Kuiyuan and He Tuanjie were praised at the brigade meeting held at Zhouzisitai, saying that they had contributed to "breaking the four olds".Regrettably, the main task of that meeting was to fight against Liu Shaoqi.Of course, it is not to drag Liu Shaoqi himself to the stage of Zhouzi Temple to fight, but to ask the rich and anti-bad elements of the whole brigade to make a statue of Liu Shaoqi weighing more than [-] catties in advance, and carry it to the brigade headquarters, so that the men and women of the whole brigade The old and the young spit at the statue; at the end, the local rich and anti-bad elements sent "Liu Shaoqi" to the pig pens and sheep sheds of the brigade cadres and production team cadres, and let Liu Shaoqi frighten those who occasionally come down from the mountain and try to attack pigs and sheep at night. hairy dog.This kind of struggle meeting has been held many times. The number of "Liu Shaoqi" that He Zhongcai sent to He Zhongbao's pigpen is too numerous to count. Most of them collapsed after being swollen by the sewage beside the latrine.Since it was fighting Liu Shaoqi, the praise of He Kuiyuan and He Tuanjie was mentioned in passing, which seems to be an understatement.Besides, they just opened up Luo Siju's grave. People looked at the Drum Tower and burned down a large temple with a history of hundreds of years.This made He Kui Yuanhan, who deliberately made a little noise, feel very cold.

However, the destruction of the "Dagou Grave" had a profound impact on He Jiapo.Not long after the Kui Yuan brothers were praised, the two of them experienced various symptoms such as vomiting, abdominal pain, drooling, mouth ulcers, and mucus-like bloody stools almost at the same time.More than a dozen people in Hejiapo also developed similar symptoms. The severe ones were the same as Kui Yuan's, and the mild ones often felt a metallic taste in their mouths.At that time, Liang’s grandson, Kuan Huan, had grown up to be a barefoot doctor in Hejiapo (because Kuan Huan had never seen his father, Liang’s pain was like food in famine years, and he carried him on his back whenever he had nothing to do. I don’t want to think that when he was around four years old, Mrs. Liang accidentally broke his waist, but he didn’t pay attention at that time. After several years, a big lump grew on Kuan Huan’s back, which would never let go, so he became a hunchback), Kuan Huan said: "That's mercury poisoning. You need to inject sodium dimercaptopropanesulfonate. I don't have it here. You can go to the street." People in Hejiapo don't know that mercury is mercury, and they can't remember the name of the drug Kuan Huan said. But anyone who got sick followed Kuan Huan's instructions and went to the township health center to get an injection.Fortunately, the poisoning was not too serious, and no one died in the end.

The physical impact is secondary, the key is that it makes most people in Hejiapo lose their roots!Although they didn't take the legend about Dagoufen seriously for a long time, there is a difference between the existence of it and the existence without it. Sometimes, the difference between the two is equivalent to a person walking home. The difference between a human being and a homeless bum.Now that the window was open, everything was clear, and there was no longer any reason to convince and deceive myself.Since his ancestors were not buried in the Dagou Grave, how did the Hejiapo people come here? We can only believe in the looming bloody stories.And most people in Hejiapo are unwilling to believe such a story. They would rather be the offspring of the beggars than the offspring of the murderers.

The belief that has always been in my heart was ruthlessly destroyed!

My home is high on the mountain,

Where the cloud grazes the cliff;

My home is by the spring,

In that place blessed by the gods;
I hugged the woman and fell asleep near the mountain chrysanthemum,

When I woke up, I saw the heads of my ancestors who died in battle

Plant it beside me!

O my amorous land,
why are you so sad
Soon, there were rumors on the slope again, saying that the geomantic omen of Hejiapo had been completely destroyed, and a "martial stick hammer" like Mr. Luo couldn't afford it, and a scholar like He Tiaoyuan couldn't afford it!
He Da believed that this rumor was deliberately directed at his family by some people, because his second son, He Ji, was about to graduate from Zhongjiaba's Xuri Middle School, and his grades were so good.The reason why He Da suspected that some people said that was because in Hejiapo at that time, people who sent their children to school had begun to respect them.The quiet formation of this kind of atmosphere is like crops growing from the soil, which is both natural and reassuring.He Da is undoubtedly an example of valuing reading. It can also be said that he is the first one in He Jiapo to put his efforts in promoting children's reading into action.This may be due to the inheritance of his grandmother and mother.His grandmother Li Gao sent his son Hedi to study, and his mother Xu Lian fell in love with the bookish Hedi desperately, which made He Da's blood soaked in the fragrance of books.

Hearing those rumors, He Da felt deeply worried.He is determined to find a way out for He Ji, who has excellent grades.

The so-called finding a way is to finish junior high school and then let him go to high school.

It stands to reason that it should be a natural thing for He Ji, who has excellent grades, to be promoted to high school, but at that time, he didn't look at his grades, but relied on recommendations.The power of recommendation is in the hands of the principal.The principal of Xuri Middle School is surnamed Lu. A few years ago, Principal Lu also met the rebels. Stand a few meters away, pick up stones weighing more than ten kilograms, and throw them into the basin one by one.Principal Lu's neck was not severed by the steel wire, but his facial nerves were damaged.When he spoke, the muscles in his face twitched.

If He Da wants his second son, who is both outstanding in intelligence and grades, to enter high school, he must pass the test of Principal Lu.

It was a cloudy and rainy day, and it was also a rush day. He Da pressed the only hen in the family into a flower basket, tied the beak tube of the chicken with straw, and covered it with a dirty snakeskin bag, timidly. timidly walked down the street.The shame of standing in front of someone else's house and begging when he was a child had left too deep a scar in his life, so he didn't want to go to Principal Lu's house to find someone, but wanted to meet him in the country farm and settle the matter—— Give it to Principal Lu to let him agree to He Ji's entry into high school.But He Da didn't think about it, how could Principal Lu leave the house during this critical period?He Da dawdled on the street until the afternoon, and then crossed the river with Huang and Zhong Erba's rushers, and walked towards the peninsula.Principal Lu's house is easy to find, it's on the road near the school.

"Principal Lu."
He Dali stood outside the door, shouting to the little man lying on the rattan chair in the middle of the room.

Headmaster Lu half-closed his eyes and was resting his mind. When he heard someone calling, he opened his eyes casually and with some difficulty. Before he could speak, the muscles on his cheeks jumped up.He didn't speak for a long time, he only squinted his eyes to look at He Da.He saw He Da's rotten clothes, he saw He Da's miserable face, he saw the flower basket on He Da's back, and the yellow cow dung embedded in the strips of the flower basket.His eyes are really fierce, faint, pouring out from the narrow slits of the eyelids, cutting the person he is examining like a blade.He Daben came to Principal Lu with the confidence of winning, because his son is a top student; he even thought that Principal Lu would be very polite to him, but at this time, he himself was already a little short.

Principal Lu felt that it was almost done, and waved with his limp little hand, "Come in," he said softly.

He Da went in. There was a stool beside him, but he didn't dare to sit on it.

"Whose parent are you?"
"He Ji, my son's name is He Ji."
"He Ji? Why haven't I heard of this student?"
He Da's rosy face from nervousness and excitement suddenly dimmed.Principal Lu's simple sentence gave him an incomparable blow.How could Principal Lu not have heard of He Ji's good grades?In He Da's opinion, the whole village should know about his son.He was very disappointed.

"He is a student in class two," He Da stammered, "his grades"
Principal Lu obviously didn't want him to finish his sentence, and asked, "Graduation class?"
"Graduating class."
Principal Lu squinted his eyes to look at He Da again, and looked over from time to time to see the dirty flower basket on his back.After a long time passed, he said with a blank face: "You graduate, you graduate. What an honor to go back to repair the earth after graduation!"
He Daji broke out in a cold sweat, and hurriedly said, "I want him to go to high school."
Principal Lu grinned, and the muscle that was used to jumping rose up like a hedgehog, covering his entire left eye.Even He Da recognized this mocking expression. "High school," he muttered, "do you think anyone can go to high school?"
Just as He Da was about to reply, the chicken, which had been tied up for a long time and had been hungry for a long time, began to resist, stomping on the bottom of the flower basket.

Judging from the strength of its pedaling, this chicken is not big.

For Principal Lu, the farmer standing next to him had no secrets to speak of.

He Da shook the flower basket, finally quieted the disobedient cockroach, and said, "My son has good grades."
Principal Lu was almost angry, and the muscles on his face twitched violently: "Okay? What a fart! I've become old fritters, it's okay! What's the use of good grades? Hmph, what's the use? The key is to have good moral character! Bad character, better grades, worse!"
He Da asked with a trembling voice, "Which kind of virtue is bad for He Ji?"
The muscles on Principal Lu's face couldn't be controlled anymore, and they started to jump wildly. Whenever it jumped rapidly, Principal Lu seemed to be urged, and he spoke faster and faster.He spoke for a full 5 minutes, but He Da didn't catch a word.Afterwards, Principal Lu stood up from the rattan chair, tapped his right foot on the ground involuntarily, and shouted, "Are you the principal or am I the principal? In Xuri Middle School, I, Lu Minghuan, are the principal! Lu Minghuan is the principal." , Lu Minghuan said that his moral character is not good, so he is not good at moral character!"
He Da was not intimidated by this simple and profound logic, but he was heartbroken that his son was judged as "bad moral character".The words of the principal Lu Minghuan broke his waist.

He didn't give the chicken to Principal Lu and left his house
On the day He Ji received his junior high school diploma and returned to his hometown to work in agriculture, He became seriously ill.This was the first time he got sick after Chen Yuexiang's death.In fact, after Chen Yuexiang passed away, he had been ill all the time, but he had survived it all, but this time, he really couldn't bear it.He lay on the bed, groaning without hesitation.The room he slept in was next to the gutter, and behind it was Liang's private plot. Liang planted clumps of citrus bamboos on the edge of the private plot, so that the room where He Da slept could not see sunlight all year round, and it was extremely humid. Cauliflower snakes and black-headed snakes often Climb onto his pillow, or onto the pickle jar in the corner.There was a sad atmosphere in the room, and the scene of Chen Yuexiang's death was almost completely reproduced.

He Kou said, "Dad, let's get some medicine. Mom just left because she didn't want to get medicine."
He Dabai rolled his eyes at him, and continued to groan.

He Ji said, "What are you going to do if you don't get medicine? Are you afraid of illness or are you afraid of illness?"
Among the brothers and sisters, He Ji was the most well-dressed and the most bookish. He Da glanced at him, and unspeakable heartache and guilt welled up in his heart.He thinks that He Ji failed to go to high school because of his incompetence.

He said softly: "Baby, people are nourished by their spirit. Once a person is afraid of illness, he will not develop his spirit. If he does not develop his spirit, he will die."
We don't know what to say.

After a while, He Kou gave us a wink, and we followed him to the kitchen outside. He Kou said, "He Ju, go secretly and ask Kuan Huan to grab two sets of traditional Chinese medicine."
Although everyone knows that Kuan Huan is good at medicine, but in Hejiapo, few people invite him, and his business is done for people from other villages.He already had a great reputation in the outer villages.In addition to the reason why the flowers bloom inside the walls and the flowers are fragrant outside the walls, a deeper reason is that the locals don't want the locals to know when they get sick.Getting sick is a very normal thing, but people at that time could not afford to get sick, because getting sick means spending money, and spending money means getting poorer; and being poor is a shame.We guess that his father He Da also had the same thoughts, just like his mother Chen Yuexiang did back then.

Before He Ju had even left his feet, He Ji said, "We must let Kuan Huan take a pulse?"
He Kou said, "Just tell me about the symptoms!" He seemed very angry.

After his mother passed away, He Kou always spoke bitterly, his eyes staring like a bull's.At home, we are not afraid of our father, but of him.His tyranny is still developing, so that we tremble with fright when we hear his cough (Hekou doesn't know when he started to cough habitually, dry cough. He actually didn't need to cough, it was just a habit , a signal).He is so authoritarian that we are not allowed to make any mistakes in any trivial matter.It is also a strange thing to say, for example, when we were lighting a fire, the fire was kindled, but when he came, the fire went out by itself!When the fire was extinguished, we puffed our cheeks and blew hard, and when the blowing died, the fire didn't burn, as if the fire was afraid of him.We were really frightened, threw the torch, put our face on the sparks and blew it, our face was burnt, and the smoke made tears flow, but the flame still didn't light up; during this, He Kou kept saying "huh, hum" cough.He is threatening us.The more threats we have, the more flustered we are, and the worse things will be.The final outcome was naturally to be slapped severely by him. (He beat us and walked away, but the fire started to ignite by itself. Whenever this happened, we would angrily put out the fire.) Hekou beats people indiscriminately. Once I went up the mountain to mow grass, When I walked near the pine forest bend, it suddenly rained heavily. I put the flower basket on my head and ran back. As soon as I went to the yard, he grabbed me, took the sickle from my hand, and chopped me on the back several times. break my bones
Apart from overwork, Ho Da's illness is mostly heart disease. Overwork will get better after a while, but heart disease cannot be cured.However, after boiling a few sheets of Chinese medicine, he went to work in the field again.

After this illness, He Da suffered two root causes: one was toothache, and the other was backache.

Toothache is not a disease, it hurts to death.Ever since he suffered from dental disease, He Jiapo has made another sound out of thin air. This sound is like the cry of a sick wolf in a cave at first, sharp but very penetrating. Then, the sound penetrates The intermittent cursing, with a kind of decisive vigor.He is swearing at someone, and this person is himself.As soon as they heard the sound, all the women and children in Hejiapo knew: He Da had a dental problem.He Zhongbao told people that he could only eat well and sleep soundly when he heard He Da's cry. Although other people on the slope did not speak such harsh words, they always came to our door and smiled. Said to the screaming He Da: "It's so fierce without the ball!"
He Da added joy to He Jiapo with his peculiar cry, but it was a disaster for his family.

(End of this chapter)