Hunger for a hundred years

Chapter 42 (22)
During those long years, He Jiapo often quarreled, just because of the five per cent work points, the quarrel was turned upside down, and the six relatives did not recognize each other.He Mangzi once quarreled with the sow who was the scorekeeper for five per cent work points. The fight finally broke out in the middle of the night. He Mangzi took a machete and chopped down the bamboo forest in front of the sow's house Well, the sow grabbed He Mangzi's mouth and almost cut off his tongue.Things like this happen often, every day.But in any case, fights can be quarreling or fighting, but work points must be deducted, because you did not dig the first hoe in accordance with the rhythm of the group.In this way, those who are clearly willing to work hard for the collective also regard the collective as an enemy and try every means to deal with the collective. "Collective" is a lifeless, fragile and powerful existence, it is nothing else, it is time!If you are not late or leave early, you are a member of the collective, otherwise you will be outside the collective and will be punished by the collective. As for what you did during that time, the "collective" will not hold you accountable.

In the eyes of Hejiapo people, how unreliable is the "collective" composed of a lot of empty time. It allows you to get work points, but not food, and no basis for living!Because of this, if a few people go to cut a wheat field, they will secretly tell their children where they work, and let the children rush to that wheat field at a certain time. , Ask the children who followed to "pick up" those ears of wheat and go home.Only the ones you pick up in your bag are reliable and can make people feel at ease!They are also particularly looking forward to the rain, because when it rains, they will not have to work, and if they do not work, they will be freed from the "collective" and can work for themselves. Cut birch bark or cut wild palms by yourself (these things can be sold in the countryside), how at ease in my heart
He Zhongbao thinks this way, He Da thinks the same way, everyone on the slope thinks the same way, without exception!
But in comparison, He Zhongbao thought deeper and hurt more.What he shoulders is not only the rations of the family, but also the mission of the family.He had too many things on his mind.To be fair, He Zhongbao can be regarded as a model of loyalty and filial piety to his ancestors. He firmly remembers his father He Huaqiang's history of revitalizing his family business. His father is an insurmountable example in his mind. Unhappy to follow.He Huaqiang did not allow their brothers to study for a day, but He Zhongbao, purely under the pressure of the times, allowed his children to go to the third grade of primary school, and when they reached the third grade, he simply stopped their children from studying.When He Guanghui was in the first grade, his grades were very poor. Teacher Wu wrote a word for "person" for him to recognize, but he couldn't recognize it. Teacher Wu reminded him: "Walk on two legs." He Guanghui said: "Chicken!" Teacher Wu shook Shaking his head, he reminded him again: "It's bigger than a chicken, it runs faster than a chicken, and it can't fly." He Guanghui squinted his eyes and thought for a while, but still couldn't think of it, and was afraid of being caught by Teacher Wu's brown film (Teacher Wu often used brown The film made the student's hand swollen), before Teacher Wu stared at him, He Guanghui shouted: "It's a wild thing!" Teacher Wu didn't hit him, because he almost died laughing and didn't have the strength to hit him.He Guanghui was better in the second grade, better in the third grade, and became the top five in the class, but He Zhongbao refused to let him continue. "Don't delay the good time to learn how to grow crops!" He said.

"An inch of land is worth an inch of gold, and the land is the lifeblood!" In He Zhongbao's view, even after another 1 years, this sentence is the truth of farmers.It is not only the truth of future people, but also the truth of the past. Father He Huaqiang changed his second life and became a girl. Didn’t he come back and ask for the land deed?It can be seen that even for those who have died, land is the most important thing.

At that time, He Da heard that the commune officials said that He Zhongbao was promoting superstition, and he also said that He Zhongbao found a girl to pretend to be He Huaqiang. He Zhongbao couldn't figure it out!He Zhongbao told people that even if he was looking for him, he would still be looking for a boy, right? .Damn it!If time goes back to the past, if He Da had so many children, and if his second son He Ji hadn't suddenly become so powerful, He Zhongbao would have used his dog-beating stick. "I can beat Chen Yuexiang, why don't you, I can still beat him!" He Zhongbao thought.However, he was just thinking about it, after all, he was getting old day by day, and He Da's son was growing up so fast!The dog-beating stick passed down by his father can only lie sadly under his pillow.There were many nights when He Zhongbao heard the dog-beating stick crying, muffled and heartbroken.When Dagou stick cried, He Zhongbao cried too.He often fell asleep crying.One night, as soon as he was in a daze, he saw the dog-beating stick get up from the head of his bed, stand in front of him for a while, then automatically bend back and forth, and slapped his legs fiercely.He was awakened by the convulsions. After waking up, his legs were sore and unbearable, and he clearly smelled the dog blood on the dog-beating stick, and heard the gasping sound of the dog-beating stick.

He knew it was his father whipping him.He is so useless.

When you can't move forward, you want others to regress.The regress of others is equal to your own progress.When He Zhongbao felt the crisis was serious, he once pinned his hopes on He Kou's depravity.He Kou did fall, but unfortunately, it was only for a short time!What He Zhongbao couldn't figure out was, what method did He Da use to prevent He Kou from falling?
In fact, there are still many things He Da makes He Zhongbao do not understand, the most important point is the issue of sending children to school.Since the second son, He Ji, failed in his studies, why did He Da desperately send his third son, He Zao, to study?What is going on in his head?Didn't He Da know that He Jiapo couldn't support scholars at all?Don't talk about He Tiaoyuan, don't talk about He Jianxiang, even He Jianxiang, who has some scholarly airs, can't die well. Don't you know?Chen Huaizhi and his wife from Jinyinkou, who were very talented and educated, were released from Beijing because they had read too much. They could be slapped even if they knew the word "一". You can throw stones at them. Hasn't He Da heard of it?

In this way, He Da's desperate efforts to send his son to study did not fail to cause waves in He Zhongbao's heart.Although his eyes never wandered outside of Hejiapo, he has also been to Qingxichang, the county town, and he has also visited other places with the secretary of the county party committee. He has personally seen the tragic scene of scholars being rectified , At the same time, I also understand that the reason why those people have recited time is because they were once in high positions and were respected and admired by others. Will the world be turned upside down again, and scholars will be promoted to high positions again? Thinking about such a problem is a torment for He Zhongbao. However, He Zhongbao has strength in his heart, and no matter how big the waves are, he can be turned into a plain by the power in his heart.He firmly believes that no matter how the times change, as long as people's hearts remain unchanged, they can still have everything they should have.On this point, he and He Da believe in the completely opposite truth. He Da believes that as long as a person transforms himself, he can change his destiny, and only by transforming himself can he change his destiny; There is no sign of changing his fate, so the shadow of fate still covers a large area of ​​him. However, with his understanding of the world with a humble soul, he knows that some things must be changed.
In this way, He Zhongbao continued to regard Hejiapo as his family business. He believed that working on this land made no difference whether he studied or not. Teacher He didn’t graduate from elementary school, and he was stupid when he was in school, but he can still teach and get a monthly allowance of 15 yuan. He Ji is a junior high school graduate with good grades, but the brigade and The commune had no intention of letting him replace Teacher He at all. All He Ji could do was to listen to the sound of the wooden clapper knocked out by He Jianshen, and the instructions after the clatter sound were given by He Zhongbao!He Ji's greatest glory is that the brigade arranged for him to go to several villages to write slogans, use a ball of rags, dip it in lime water, write on those cliffs, and write on the walls of other people's pigpens, what the hell is that? amazing?

Therefore, He Zhongbao felt that it was out of line for his children to suspend school until the third grade of elementary school.

Take care of the land, take care of the crops, that is the duty of a farmer!

That morning when the wind stopped, He Zhongbao yelled at his wife and children, some went to hunt pigweed, some picked manure to pour pumpkins, but He Zhongbao didn't move.His cigarette hadn't been wrapped yet, and the innocent sky suddenly turned pale yellow.This is a sign of rainstorms.He Zhongbao stopped wrapping up the smoke, looked at Youyun who was galloping fiercely on the Yanghou Mountain in the opposite river, and said to himself: "If the rain comes, it will come sooner." As soon as he finished speaking, he saw that all the clouds had turned into clouds in the mountains and fields. There are furry dogs wandering around, they seem to be fighting hard for a dead cow.He Zhongbao sniffled and smelled the smell of dead bodies.He knocked the cigarette rod on the threshold vigorously, and cursed: "Damn it, I'm afraid I ran into a ghost in broad daylight!"
At this moment, He Jianshen entered the yard.He Jianshen thought he was scolding him, so he stood under the walnut tree in a dull manner without taking a step.When He Zhongbao looked back and saw the dark shadow under the walnut tree, he thought it was a ghost, and his mouth was so frightened that he closed his mouth after he recognized Jianshen's thin face with high cheekbones. At the same time, A hot and sour gastric juice rose up and rushed straight to the nose.He swallowed the gastric juice with difficulty, and then he called out: "Jian Shen."
He Jianshen came over, walked up to He Zhongbao, and said mysteriously, "Zhongbao, you won't be working today." He Zhongbao asked why, "I had a dream last night," Jianshen said , "I dreamed that He Jiapo disappeared!"
He Jianshen couldn't imagine how much shock his words would bring to He Zhongbao.

He Zhongbao took one look at him and then another.All his life is condensed in the eyes, so that the eyes become bones and knives.The knife cut He Jianshen and He Zhongbao himself.He asked, "Why are you missing?"
Jianshen said, "I can't tell, anyway, it's gone."
"Where are the people on the slope?"
"He Jiapo is gone, who else is there?"
He Zhongbao suddenly became angry, and said loudly: "The ball is inexplicable! There is no one, which proves that you are gone, so how do you know that He Jiapo is missing? Hurry up and ring the bell, the man will go down to Zhu's slab-built ridge , the woman went to Anzi Temple to weed weeds in the field!"
He Jianshen said shyly, "It's not that time yet."
"Knock before it's time!"
He Jianshen had no choice but to leave.

Before he got close to the middle courtyard dam where the wooden baton was hung, it started to rain heavily.It was customary to not work when it rained, so He Jianshen returned home without asking He Zhongbao for instructions.When he ran home with his hands over his head, he cursed out of nowhere: "Like a fucking mad dog"
(End of this chapter)