Chapter 39 Chapter Thirty-eight

Zhu Lihong's father, Zhu Yanming, was sitting on the double sofa in the living room, while his wife, Qi Enhui, stood behind him and beat his shoulders. On the coffee table in front of him was a large stack of photo albums and piles of photos. While discussing important matters with his wife, Zhu Yanming looked at the photos one by one. Zhu Yanming is a special leading cadre of the Ministry of Health, responsible for the health care work of the heads of the central government. Therefore, he has taken photos with most of the heads of the central government. The piles of photos in front of him are his glorious records for many years.Now, with the sudden change in the political situation, he thought of sorting out these glorious records and dividing them into teams according to routes.Some photos absolutely cannot be kept: the photo with Peng Zhen, the photo with Luo Ruiqing, the photo with Lu Dingyi, and the photo with Yang Shangkun should be destroyed immediately.And the photo with Chairman Mao should of course be enlarged and hung in the middle of the room.He looked at a picture hanging on the wall: Chairman Mao was standing in the center, and the rest of the people stood on both sides and behind him in two rows, and Zhu Yanming stood on the side of the first row.He lowered his head while flipping through the photos while listening to the movement in the corridor.

A person's footsteps came upstairs, and his wife stopped her hands and listened, and said, "It's not Lihong." Zhu Yanming also recognized that it was not his daughter's footsteps, and asked his wife to continue beating his back, At the same time, he held a stack of photos in his hand like looking at playing cards, and looked at them one by one.Footsteps passed the door and went upstairs.There were footsteps coming from downstairs again, and both of them stopped to listen.Footsteps came up the stairs willfully, and the two said almost at the same time: "Lihong is back." Zhu Yanming got up to stand up, but his wife Qi Enhui pushed him back to the sofa, and walked a few steps to open the door .Panting, Zhu Lihong rolled into the door. As she walked in, she stared into her big blistered eyes and shouted, "Why is the door opening so slow today? I knocked for the fourth time." The parents smiled apologetically. When the sound of footsteps appeared on the first floor, they responded; when their daughter reached the second floor, they had already confirmed it; Welcome baby girl kind gesture.Today, the daughter's footsteps passed the second floor before they started to react. When the daughter knocked on the door for the first time, they hadn't reached the door yet.

As soon as Zhu Lihong entered the room, she yelled for water, and her mother handed her a glass of cold water.After watching her daughter finish drinking, she took the cup and handed the towel over. After her daughter finished wiping her mouth, she took the towel and said, "Go to your dad's place. Your dad has been waiting for you all afternoon." Zhu Lihong curled her lips and said, "I haven't washed my hands yet. Isn't it the rule of our family to wash my hands first when I get home?" Her mother gave a cautious smile again.The father's eyes followed his daughter with a smile all the time, and now he waved his hand with a smile, meaning to wash his hands quickly and come over again.Zhu Lihong snorted, ran to the kitchen, turned on the faucet, and washed her hands with soap.He took the towel handed by his mother and wiped it, then walked over and sat on his father's lap.

The daughter of the third year of high school would sit on her father's lap as soon as she came home, which is enough to show her status as a baby in the family.The daughter was already very fat, and she was pressing heavily on Zhu Yanming's thigh. Zhu Yanming not only didn't feel burdened, but also had a kind of ecstatic excitement. He liked to hold his daughter like this since he was a child, reading comic books with her, reading folk stories with her, and telling stories to her.As the daughter grew up, she hugged less. However, every time the daughter came in and out of the house, she still wanted to be hugged like this.Of course, the way of hugging now is different from before.

When I was young, I always hugged my daughter tightly in my arms and supported her with both hands.His daughter's fat and tender body and fresh smell always arouse the impulse and love deep in his life.He kissed his daughter's hair and neck, and the daughter would writhe on his body, kick his legs, and even reach out to scratch his chin because of the itch.At that time, he would grab his daughter's white, fat and delicate arm, and the daughter would try to break free, and he would say, "Daddy help you beat daddy." Then, he would grab his daughter's hand and slap his face.When the hit was heavier and louder, the daughter was satisfied and continued to sit quietly in her father's arms and read the comic books.He also hugged his daughter quietly, while shaking his body slightly like a cradle, giving his daughter the feeling of being caressed, and giving himself the feeling of caressing her.

Now, of course, he can no longer casually hug his daughter's body from behind, that is, lightly pat her thigh with both hands, then grab her shoulder or arm, and let her bounce on his body.This inversion shows that the daughter is maintaining her image as a little girl who has been favored since she was a child, and it also shows that it is an innocent move for her to sit on her father's lap at such an age.Both father and daughter cherish the ritual of intimacy every time they meet, and they are both reliving the intimate activities of father and daughter in the past.They all know that such a big daughter should not sit on her father's body for a long time, and her hugs should not be too much, but they always seem very casual and habitual.Like sitting on his lap when she usually meets, the daughter always finds a very eager or happy topic to naturally prolong the time of sitting on his father's lap.She took the photos in her father's hand, looked at them and asked, "Dad, what are you doing with these photos?" The father talked about his plans.The daughter was so absorbed in looking at the photos one by one that she seemed to have forgotten where she was sitting.While gently embracing his daughter's warm body, the father continued to talk seriously about his thoughts on rearranging the photos.

Qi Enhui has long been used to the affectionate behavior of father and daughter. She doesn't seem to mind this, and often plays the role of a daughter competing with her husband for favor.She came over at this time, touched her daughter's short, smooth hair with her hand, patted her chubby face, and said, "What do we Lihong want to eat today?" Zhu Lihong pouted while looking at the photo One sentence: "Anything goes." Finally, Zhu Lihong felt that she had sat on her father's lap for a long enough time, so she slid to one side and leaned back on the sofa, half lying and half sitting.The father turned his body sideways so that his daughter could put both legs on his knees more comfortably, and began to beat her ankle gently, and said while beating, "Are your legs sore from riding a bike today?" ?” Zhu Lihong continued to look at the photos carefully, and at the same time stretched his legs comfortably on his father’s knees: “Why is it not sore?” The father beat his daughter’s legs from top to bottom and from bottom to top Come.When she was happy with the pounding, she took her daughter's legs as a piano and "played" them.The daughter sits on the left side, her thigh is the low-pitched area, and her calf is the high-pitched area.He hits from high notes to low notes, and from low notes to high notes.

Sometimes while humming a song, the high and low notes jump and hit like playing a piano.At this time, while looking at the photos, my daughter would curl her lips and say, "Your attitude of serving the people is not correct at all, and you don't serve the people wholeheartedly." Tap in order of high pitch. Qi Enhui sat down on the opposite side, looked up at the father and daughter with that shrewd face, and said, "Lihong, why don't you beat me for you." The daughter lay on the sofa and said, "Your wife Professional, give it to Dad." The mother smiled, she was doing physical therapy in the hospital.The daughter looked at the photo and asked, "Mom, is the meal ready?" The mother said, "It's already ready, and you can eat it anytime." The daughter said, "Okay, okay, I'm hungry, and I want to eat." As she spoke, she pushed away her father's hand, lowered her legs and stood up.

When a family of three eats around the table, the usual topic is to comment on each other's weight and appearance.The daughter glanced at her father and said, "Dad, have your eyes been a little swollen lately?" Zhu Yanming, who has a clean face with Chinese characters, would touch his eyes and say, "I don't sleep much." Zhu Lihong Then he would look at his mother and say, "Mom is neither fat nor thin, nothing has changed." Then, the parents looked at their daughter carefully.Their daughter's oblong face with protruding eyes always looks more and more pleasing to them.Whether you are fat or thin, you are really like a big baby when you bury your food in the rice bowl.

Dinner is rice porridge, sesame sauce rolls, braised octopus, fried celery with shredded pork, jellyfish mixed with scallion oil, and scrambled eggs with tomatoes. Zhu Lihong was picking and choosing, and finally finished eating under the constant reassurance of her parents.Then, the family discussed serious matters. The problem Zhu Yanming is facing now is that he was in the army in the past, and when he went to the local area, he saw the changing situation of the Cultural Revolution, so he considered wearing a military uniform again.The couple had already discussed this issue for many days, and today they will ask their daughter for her opinion.

My daughter has always been the backbone of the family, and now she is one of the leaders of the Red Guards in Beiqing Middle School. She is a well-known rebel faction in the country. Every time she goes home, she brings leaflets, large and small, including speeches by the head of the Central Cultural Revolution, Chairman Mao’s Up-to-date instructions are much better informed than parents. Zhu Lihong was very satisfied with the role she played. She sat in the middle of the big sofa, leaning her back against her father on the right, and put her two legs on the mother's left.This time, it was her mother who massaged her calves and ankles. This is what she must have every time she rides home for a long distance.She took out a stack of photos from the pile of photos on the coffee table, looked at them one by one like playing cards, and asked: "You want to go back to the army now, can you go back anytime?" Zhu Yanming nodded and said: " Can it." While talking with his daughter, he held her daughter's hand and stroked it.The daughter's hand is not as fat as her body, but looks more delicate. When she pinches it like this, she can occasionally use it to brush her own beard. It is very comfortable to touch the rough stubble with her smooth hand. Qi Enhui pinched her daughter's ankle while explaining: "Your father can go to Lin Biao and Ye Qun." Zhu Yanming said: "I will have the opportunity to go to Lin Biao's house in a few days." Zhu Lihong was a little excited, she raised her face to look at her father, and said, "Then you go." Zhu Yanming asked, "Where are you going?" Zhu Lihong said: "Go to Vice Chairman Lin's house, go to the army." Zhu Yanming nodded and said: "However, there are quite a lot of factors here." Zhu Lihong asked: "What factors?" Zhu Yanming thought for a while and said: "I'm slow Slowly figure it out, and then I’ll tell you.” The mother clarified her words at this time, she squeezed her daughter’s ankle hard, and the daughter screamed, reprimanded: “You are a veterinarian.” The mother stopped her hands, Said: "Your father wants to stay in the local area. It seems that the ministers of the Ministry of Health will not stay long. Chairman Mao is not satisfied with the Ministry of Health. The Cultural Revolution has been going on and on, and your father may eventually be made a minister. You Dad has a good background and a clean history, no problem. However, no one can be sure about the Cultural Revolution, and he may stay in the local area and be defeated in the end. It is much safer to go to the army. It’s just that he has been away from the army for so many years. Going back may not be able to play a good role." Zhu Yanming felt that his wife's words were too inappropriate, so he said: "I didn't think about it that much, I mainly thought about not being on the wrong team when it comes to the route." Zhu Lihong kicked her feet, signaled her mother to continue the massage, then patted her father's cheek with her hands, and said, "Then you should follow Vice Chairman Lin closely, the same as Vice Chairman Lin and Chairman Mao." Zhu Yanming thought He nodded and said, "I think so too." He took out an enlarged photo of himself and Lin Biao from the photo album, and said, "Dad wants to enlarge this photo a little bit, and also buy a frame to hang it in the living room. What do you say?" Okay?" Zhu Lihong picked up the photo and looked at it, Lin Biao was standing there thinly in military uniform, and his father was also standing respectfully and uprightly beside him in military uniform.At that time, my father looked much younger than now, like a young man. She had seen this photo a long time ago, and she said, "What's wrong with that?" At the same time, she pointed to the photo of a group of people on the wall with Chairman Mao and said, " Don’t be bigger than that one, Chairman Mao will always come first.” Zhu Yanming nodded repeatedly and said, “Of course.” Having said this, the family seems to have solved a major problem that has been puzzling for a long time.Zhu Lihong sat up, and the three of them gathered around the big coffee table and sorted out the photos. Zhu Lihong has loved the photo of his father and the head of the Central Committee since he was a child, and Zhu Yanming has always shared this with his daughter as a pride. He often explained to his daughter the name and position of each chief there, including the great achievements he knew. At that time, one of the games he and his daughter often played was to arrange hundreds of photos of various kinds face up like playing cards.Then, the three members of the family were dealt out one by one like playing cards.In the end, everyone spread out the photos in their hands, and whoever has a photo of Chairman Mao in his hand is the greatest honor and the greatest victory.Zhu Yanming has already clearly explained to Zhu Lihong about the other heads of the central government: Chairman Mao is first, Liu Shaoqi is second, Zhou Enlai is third, Zhu De is fourth, Chen Yun is fifth, Lin Biao is sixth, Deng Xiaoping is seventh, and Dong Biwu is eighth. , Peng Zhen ninth.He can always let his daughter get the greatest glory, because the photos of Chairman Mao, Liu Shaoqi, Zhou Enlai, and Zhu De often fall into the hands of his daughter more often, so they will say: "Honghong met Chairman Mao , Honghong met Chairman Liu, Honghong met Premier Zhou, and Honghong met Commander-in-Chief Zhu." Now, the photos need to be rearranged.One category of photos belonged to the Proletarian Headquarters: Chairman Mao, Zhou Enlai, Chen Boda, Kang Sheng, Jiang Qing, and Zhu Yanming all took photos with them, although some were group photos.The other category is for the bourgeois headquarters, with photos with Peng Zhen, with Luo Ruiqing, with Yang Shangkun, and with Lu Dingyi.These photos had been destroyed two days ago, and today they were cleaned up, and a few more were dug out and put aside.There are also a large number of photos piled up between the two headquarters, and now it is obvious that the two ends are small and the middle is large, and the photo in the middle is like a hill. Zhu Yanming said: "You can't tell which headquarters these people will belong to in the future. Zhu Lihong took out a photo of Liu Shaoqi from it, and said, "This one is definitely unreliable." As she spoke, she prepared to put it in Peng Luo Lu Yang's pile.The father said: "Don't be in a hurry, I have to look at it again." Zhu Lihong took out a photo of Deng Tuo, the deputy mayor of Beijing, from the pile of photos in the middle, and said: "This has already been overthrown by characterization. "Zhu Yanming recognized Deng Tuo in the photo, nodded immediately and said: "Yes, this photo should be destroyed." Saying this, he put it on the pile of counter-revolutionary routes.Zhu Lihong took out a group photo with Deng Xiaoping's image from the photos, and she said, "This one probably won't work either." The father still said, "I'll have to look at it again." Zhu Lihong picked up the pile of photos in the middle with both hands, and then let them fall from his hands onto the coffee table, saying: "It won't take long to distinguish them." Father said: "Yes." She He patted the photos of the bourgeois headquarters on the right with his hands, and said, "Never have any contact with them." Father nodded.She patted the big pile in the middle again, "Keep a proper distance from everyone here, and analyze with a split eye." Father nodded again. Finally, Zhu Lihong took the photo on the far left and said, "This is what you should follow closely." She took out several photos of Chairman Mao from it, "This is what you should always follow closely." A group photo of Zhang's father and Lin Biao, "This is what you should always follow." The father nodded again.The family seems relieved to have solved a major problem. Only then did Zhu Yanming remember the question he had been wanting to ask for the past few days, and he said, "Is Lu Xiaolong from your school big enough for gallbladder." Zhu Lihong asked, "Why are you so old?" Zhu Yanming said, "The anti-working group opposed it last time, and it seems that he opposed the anti-couplet this time. I see that the speech of the Central Cultural Revolution is on the leaflet you brought back." Zhu Lihong said, "When will Dad go to Vice Chairman Lin's house?" Zhu Yanming said: "After a while, this is not up to me." Zhu Lihong said: "Take me with you when you go, I want to go too."