Chapter 13 Eleven, the king of children

During the two years I lived in the People's Square compound, I experienced a leadership addiction unprecedented in my life.There is a fat old man with no beard in the yard. It is said that he used to be a eunuch. Whenever I pass by him, he will shake his cattail fan and call me "Kid King".There were many children in that compound, and they were divided into two groups according to whether they lived in the buildings or the huts. In the eyes of the children living in the buildings, the children living in the huts were wild children, and I became the leader of the children living in the buildings.

When I first lived in the compound, I was once provoked by wild children.One day I was playing in the street near my yard when I suddenly found myself surrounded by wild children.One of the children, who was about my age, was very strong, and kept saying, "Come on, let's fight!" I was not good at fighting since I was a child, and I was very timid when I saw his posture.The rest of the children looked at me gloatingly, waiting to see the excitement.The kid sensed that I was afraid of him, and became more and more complacent, touching me with his body, repeating his challenge.I was irritated, and I hugged his waist suddenly, and the two twisted into a ball.The children yelled for help.Quite to my surprise, and certainly to everyone's surprise, I prevailed and threw him to the ground.I ran, and he gave chase, but I finally got rid of him.I was still very scared in my heart, afraid of being retaliated, I dared not go home, and wandered the streets for a long time.Finally, when I walked towards the compound with trepidation, I found him standing at the door, but he didn't rush towards me, but smiled at me friendly.This incident brought me great prestige, and since then no wild child has challenged me again.

The wild children are friendly to me, which probably has something to do with my father's personality.Every typhoon season, the thatched houses that Jiangbei people live in are precarious and must be reinforced with thick straw ropes and wooden stakes to prevent them from collapsing.If the typhoon is fierce, such measures will not be safe, so the neighborhood committee will mobilize the residents of the buildings to open their doors and let the residents of thatched houses come in for the night.My dad was always responsive and happily turned my home into a makeshift shelter. I lived in the compound during the summer vacation before I graduated from elementary school and entered junior high school. I had nothing to do, so I developed a strong desire to organize and wanted to organize the children to play.This is more or less an imitation of Chen Xintian, the captain of the Young Pioneers.I first found three children who were about the same age as me. They all lived on the first floor of a certain building, much like the rooms separated from the steerage of a ship. Their family conditions were slightly better than those living in thatched houses, but they were still poor. people.I announced to them the establishment of an organization with an unimaginative name called the Red Star Group.There is a clothing store next to our compound. The owner’s surname is Tian. He has two children. The eldest is two years older than me, and the second is slightly younger than me.The family's backyard is connected to the compound, and the Tian brothers often take a bunch of kids to play military games in the backyard.I thought to myself that if we absorbed them, we would definitely be able to enrich the content of our activities, so I proposed this suggestion to the three companions.These three poor children have always looked down upon the Tian family brothers and expressed their opposition, but they all obeyed my opinion.After the success of the alliance, under my proposal, our six generals formed the General Affairs Committee, as the leading body of the Red Star Group, leading a group of little kids, including my four-year-old and six-year-old two brothers.I don't want to have a power dispute with the boss of the Tian family, so the General Affairs Committee does not have a chairman, but the actual person in charge is me.

I work very seriously and often hold meetings at my home, each meeting has an agenda and writes minutes.The question we discussed was, of course, how to play and how to play better.Playing requires money, so I came up with a way.There was an old man who set up a stall selling all kinds of gadgets that children were interested in, including a beetle called longhorn.This black beetle has two long tentacles and sharp teeth, and there are many in the woods in People's Square.The old man sold one for two cents, I discussed with him, we caught and sold him, two for one cent, he readily agreed.We used this method to quickly raise more than two yuan, bought chess, military chess and so on, and had a little collective property.I also bought paper materials and made a batch of paper officer caps and epaulet collar patches to equip the troops.The six eldest children are all officers, among them, the boss of the Tian family and I are generals with three bars and four stars, and the other four are lower general ranks.We often played in the backyard of Tian’s house in full gear, and sent a few snotty soldiers in paper olive hats to stand guard, and asked them to salute the officers who came in and out, to show that we were very majestic.These interesting activities aroused the jealousy of the wild children, and they vented their resentment on the Tian brothers.One day, we found that they were lining up, shouting the slogan "Down with monks and Taoists", and parading outside our headquarters.The Tian brothers once shaved their heads and got the nickname of Monk and Taoist.Conflicts are unavoidable. One time when they were marching, we caught a laggard and found a handwritten ID from him, which said "Banish the Association of Monks and Taoists". Only then did we know that they had also established an organization. .The situation was tense for a few days. I didn't like this hostile situation, so I came forward to negotiate with them, proposing mutual non-aggression, and a settlement was easily reached.In fact, after the settlement, their organization lost its meaning and soon disbanded.Our organization remained until the demolition of the compound. That year, the Great Leap Forward began, and we changed its name to the Yuejin Group following the fashion.However, later activities were much more slack than at the beginning.

Nearly half a century has passed, and I can still clearly recall the names, appearances and personalities of these friends back then.At that time, I imitated the one hundred and eight heroes of Liang Shanbo and gave everyone a nickname.For example, the boy from the north named Ma is black and thin. He moves very quickly and climbs trees quickly. We mainly rely on him to catch beetles, so I call him the tree-climbing monkey.I had a hard time naming that Jiang kid from northern Jiangsu.He always stares blankly. He is very honest, but rather stupid. I can't think of any specialties in him, so I simply named him Muduji.I explained to him how excellent the name meant, and he believed and was satisfied.Thinking about it now, this is of course a prank to bully honest people, it is too unkind.I call myself the omnipotent dragon, and I am too conceited.For the boss of the Tian family, I also gave him the title of dragon, but added a word in front of it to indicate counterfeit.This man is quite loyal, but rather vulgar.Once, the two of us were walking in People's Square, and we got into an argument over something, and he made a bet: "If I lie, I'll sleep with every woman who walks by this People's Square!" Sleepiness is sexual intercourse I mean, I was taken aback by his way of swearing, and I thought, he must be very happy to lose his bet.