Yu Ding: Past Events in Jiangtun (2)

Yu Ding: Past Events in Jiangtun (2) Later we found out that Shen Fu was not allowed to live in the "Daxiao School"...

Later we found out that Shen Fu was not to blame for not being allowed to live in the "Daxiao School". Because yesterday, the political work team from my father's work unit came and said that my father's historical issues have not been cleared up and he cannot be given such a good house to live in. There is a saying: It's good to help the horse up and send it for a ride, but you have to kick it if you throw it off.

This abandoned pig farm is built in the north of the village, behind Yinshan Mountain. To the west are seven or eight abandoned pig pens, and to the east are three rooms used by breeders. Of these three rooms, one is for cooking pig food, one is for storing feed, and the middle one is a mill. It's hard for Shen Fu, who led the members to have a busy day yesterday. Before our moving car arrived, it had just been packed so that we could move the furniture and everything in. There was no decent furniture. During the Cultural Revolution, my house was ransacked countless times. Some of the interesting objects were smashed, dismantled, and lost.

My parents and younger brother and younger sister live in the west room. My eldest brother and I live in the east room, and the kitchen is in the middle. We had just moved in. The house was drafty on all sides and there were patches of frost on the walls. The family almost stayed up all night. The next day, I woke up before dawn and felt something was wrong in the room. The smell of pig manure, pig food, and pig hair is normal in a pig farm. Why is there still a smell of donkey manure and horse manure? I woke up my brother and walked around the house several times. I think the one in the middle has the biggest flavor. Dig with a shovel and you will find a shovelful of donkey manure underneath. It turns out that this is not a mill. The villagers use donkeys to grind rice and flour. Over time, the ground is covered with donkey dung. My eldest brother and I spent a long time digging out a large cart of donkey dung. We asked Shen Fu for a bullock cart and brought a cart of sand to lay on it. This time there is no peculiar smell. The so-called no peculiar smell means that the house only smells of pig manure, pig food, pig hair...,,,,,.

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Due to their background, my parents were old "athletes" in previous political movements and were frightened. When we first arrived at Qianjiang’s house, we didn’t know how the fellow villagers would treat us. Both adults and children were a little nervous.

Isn't there a flagpole in front of the "Daxia School"? Whenever the great leader waves his giant hand again, whenever he becomes energetic again, he must raise the national flag. The flag is placed at the home of veteran party member Jiang Laoliu, and raising the flag is Jiang Laoliu's "patent."

That morning, as soon as I left the house, I saw the "five-star red flag fluttering in the wind." Oh my god, why did those five stars go down there? When I came home and told my story, my father was very nervous and quickly closed the door, preventing me and my eldest brother who also worked in the team from going out. I asked why, and my father said: "Why? If you tell people that the national flag is hung upside down, you will offend Jiang Laoliu. His son Shufa is the militia captain of the brigade, and he has a gun. I will find a reason to arrest you, or even kill you, and you have nothing to say." "Go ahead." I said, "Don't tell me." "People will say that it's understandable that the members of the club can't see that there's something wrong with the flag. How can you not tell that you are adding dust to the flag on purpose?"

When my father said this, my heart pounded, as if I had done something wrong. Until I heard Yang Sanhuzi yelling in a bad voice outside: "Come and see, the national flag is hung upside down. I'm late and can't see it! Come and see...". Yang Sanhuzi’s father, Yang Laizi, was a brigade cadre with a good family background. No matter how you say it, everything was fine. Our whole family finally breathed a sigh of relief.

In those days, the production team was full of gangs, and everyone worked hard. The roosters won't crow and the hens won't lay eggs. Last year in our village, one laborer only cost a few cents. After the rations were distributed after autumn, many families not only did not receive any money, but also owed money to the production team.

The members of the commune have no money all year round. Although my parents are politically suppressed, they still receive a monthly salary of two to three hundred yuan. The contrast is huge. Gradually, villagers came to borrow money, some from three to five yuan, and some from one to two yuan. In fact, borrowing money started on the first day I moved in, as soon as my feet touched the ground.

On the day my family moved in, all the members who helped with the move left, and an old lady shivered and stood at the door of my house, refusing to leave. Mother asked her if something was wrong? The old lady hesitated for a long time and said she wanted to borrow two yuan, and her mother quickly gave it to her. The old lady was so moved that she almost burst into tears.

Later I found out that this old lady was Shen Wanren’s mother. Shen Wanren broke one of his hands when he was a child, and now he can only herd sheep for the team. A few years ago, his mother married a stupid wife, who gave birth to two stupid children. The season is about to change, and the eldest daughter of his family is a stupid girl. She is seven or eight years old and can't bare her buttocks. These two yuan really solved the problem of her family's "buttocks".

> Sanhuzi told me the secret of Shen Wanren’s family: Shen Wanren’s silly wife didn’t understand the style, and she married her into a family, so Shen Wanren wouldn’t be allowed to touch her. His family only had one room, and two generations lived on the north and south Kangs, with a curtain in the middle. Shen Wanren was not very good at it, but when the stupid wife shouted, he was at his wits end. Later, the old lady lost her temper and said, "Shen Wanren, your parents are the only ones in this house. What are you afraid of? Just do what you should do!",,,,,,," With my mother in charge, Shen Wanren must do what he should do, otherwise there would not be these two silly children.

Soon, the production team was re-elected, Yang Wanxing became the captain, and Shen Fu became the chairman of the Poor People's Association. Yang Wanxing is the seventh eldest, and everyone calls him Brother Yang Qi. Brother Yang Qi is a few years younger than Shen Fu and looks quite old. Because his second daughter Lanzi is the daughter-in-law of brigade secretary Han Big Er, even though Brother Yang Qi is bent over, he has a strong waist.

Yang Qi Ge is quick-witted and very eloquent. Most people don’t accept Sanhu Zi, but they are afraid of his seventh uncle, who is Yang Qi Ge.

As soon as my family moved here, Brother Yang Qi called my father uncle. He often visited my house. The day after he became captain, he came to my house to borrow money. The amount he mentioned was a large amount, and he wanted to borrow money to install electricity in the village.

At that time, there were electric lights in the front and back villages, but our village had no electricity because we had no money to buy poles to pull the wires. Even though I sing "The Communist Party is like the sun, it shines wherever it shines" every day, if I don't buy telephone poles, I will have to work in the dark at night. This is what my family is least used to, so my father agreed without hesitation.

At a cost of several hundred yuan, electricity was brought to the countryside and every household was lit with electric lights. The folks were so happy that night when the electricity was turned on! Almost everyone in the village came to my house to express their gratitude. I specially pulled a temporary line in the yard and installed a large 200-watt light bulb. The three tigers and the old ball were doing somersaults and tricks.

The smell of pig manure, pig food, and pig hair in the house we live in gradually fades away, and the human touch becomes stronger and stronger.

Brother Yang Qi comes to my house to sit for a while almost every day and says he wants to introduce someone to me.

(unfinished, to be continued)

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