Chapter 74 appendix

grandfather My grandfather passed away in the 1950s, and I was born in the 1960s, so I didn't see my grandfather.But he had a huge impact on our family.The first influence he brings to us is to be diligent and thrifty, and the second is to study no matter what, and to study even under difficult circumstances.I heard people in the village say that my grandfather would send 10 yuan to Tianshui people when he met outside, but he never used soap to wash his face.Because soap is too expensive and soap is cheap, he is very strict with his life.The grandfather I mentioned below is the younger brother of my own grandfather, and I also call him Grandpa.One day, my grandfather was taken away by the basic militiamen in the village, and he was going to hold a study class. My family asked me to send buns to my grandfather.When I arrived at the gate of the brigade, the squad leader of the militia pointed a gun at me and asked me what I was doing.I was frightened and cried, but I didn't dare to cry out loud. I saw my grandpa sitting on the floor of a dark room.Grandpa said very kindly: "My grandson brought me buns." I was put in, and when I saw Grandpa, I cried out loud.In this way, the concepts of "gun", "basic militia" and "study class" first appeared in my memory.When I was a little older, I asked my dad why he wanted to arrest grandpa.Dad said that the secretary of the county party committee proposed to implement the policy of "taking food as the key link" and cut down trees that had grown in the fields for decades, or even hundreds of years. Your grandfather objected and was arrested.The towering trees in the fields when I was a child have never been seen again, but the food in the village is not much, on the contrary, it is getting less and less every year. More and more people flee famine to beg for food and go to the Guanzhong Plain in Shaanxi.My grandfather passed away when I was in the first grade of elementary school. To this day, I still don’t know his name. I called my father and asked, and my father said: “Your third grandfather’s name is Pan Erlian, and his name is Lizhai. He died in 1968. He is hungry Dead, after he died, we went to his house and found that there was no food left."

parents My mother is very kind and has a great relationship with everyone.My first impression was that she was ill all the time, often in bed.As long as she is a little better and goes to work in the village, the people around her will like her very much. She has a special appeal and can become close friends with others.After our family was rehabilitated, we moved from Tianshui to Qingshui. My mother also made many friends. During the holidays, our family has a lot of people. They are all her good friends. She can become good friends with everyone around her. friend.The most interesting thing is that when I was 13 or 14 years old, my mother was critically ill and was hospitalized. She died several times, but finally she recovered.When she was discharged from the hospital, she unexpectedly became good friends with three patients in the same ward, and they were still in contact with each other for many years.My mother is very kind, making friends with others will quickly win everyone's trust, which is my mother's advantage.

And my dad was brave.I remember that my father often fought and quarreled with others in the village.One is that his composition is not good, and he is often bullied; the other is that he has a tough temper, and he has to reason with others about everything.Once when we were in school, many students ran out suddenly. It turned out that a man named Niu Niu fired a cannon and blasted rocks, punching a hole in his head, and he passed out, lying there bleeding.Niu Niu's son was also in school, and everyone else went to see it, but he didn't.My dad scolded him, saying that your dad is going to die, if you don't go to see it, why raise your son!After scolding Niu Niu's son, my dad found some people to send Niu Niu to a military hospital.But that hospital didn't provide beds. My dad swept all the bottles on the table to the ground when he got angry, and pointed to the table and said that this was the bed.He quarreled with the doctor, and when the quarrel was over, he went to the leader again.Finally, the doctor gave Niu Niu a bed, and Niu Niu was revived and lived for decades.

Wolf When I was a child, my hometown did not give me a sense of security or comfort, but poverty, hunger, and disease.I remember my dad suddenly fell ill one night and had a terrible stomachache.There is no hospital in the village, so my dad took oil and poured it on his back, and used a bowl to scrape Sha on his back. The scraping made his skin so painful that he was sweating all the time.Then my sister woke up, crying non-stop.Around three or four o'clock in the morning, my dad told me to call my uncle over.My uncle is very close to our house, only two or three hundred meters away, separated by five families.But there is still a section of mountain road for only two or three hundred meters. To get to my uncle's house, I have to run along the mountainside.There are wolves in the ravine. Although they have never eaten children, they often take pigs away.I'm scared.My mother gave me a wooden stick as long as one person. My father said that when you walk to your uncle's house, you must walk against the cliff. This side of the cliff can protect you.If you encounter a wolf, there will not be just one wolf, there must be many, so don't be afraid, just take a stick and charge towards it.

I gritted my teeth and rushed across the ravine without encountering a wolf. The door of my uncle's house was closed, and there was an iron chain at the door, and I shook that iron chain desperately.My grandma woke up and said what's wrong.I said my dad was sick and let my uncle go.My voice was hoarse and high-pitched, and my own voice echoes in my head now.Grandma opened the door and carried me to the kang. My whole body was weak and I had no strength at all.Grandma said a word, I always remember, she said, don't be afraid, children, don't do anything wrong, and don't be afraid of ghosts knocking on the door.

educate In my memory, I often played sports when I was a child.There is a movement to "criticize Lin Piao and Confucius", and a movement to criticize Deng Xiaoping, one after another.Every time there is a movement, the village has to write slogans, "To criticize forests, to criticize Confucianism, to cut weeds, to eradicate roots" and so on.My uncle felt that the slogans in the village were very ugly. He told me that you should learn two kinds of characters, one is imitation Song typeface, and the other is black typeface.Just give me a blackboard pen and ask me to practice bold and Song style characters every day.He said: After you have finished writing these two types of characters, you can write criticisms of Lin Piao, Confucius, and Deng Xiaoping every day, which is better than working in the field.My uncle gave me very clear and specific instructions, while my dad always said something in a general direction.There is a classmate in my class named Yongsheng, his family is a landlord, and my family is also a landlord. In our class, only two of us are landlords.Once my dad was digging stones in the river, and suddenly Changsheng’s dad came running along the small river at our door.There was a bridge by the river. He didn't go on the bridge for the sake of speed, but ran along the small river.He ran up to my dad and whispered, "The Gang of Four has been defeated." My dad asked if it was true, and he said it was true.So my dad said that this time our child has hope, otherwise we will never be born as landlords.One of the biggest influences my dad has on me is his optimism.No matter how difficult it was, he sang songs every day, and sang wherever he went.

herding cattle The thing I did most in the village when I was a child was to herd cattle. I herded cattle with a few classmates and three or four children.There was a classmate who was the child of the branch secretary of the brigade. He had a sense of superiority among us and often bullied me.As long as he doesn't bully me, the three or four of us are very happy to herd cattle together.The team assigned me a big yellow ox, a cow that fell off a cliff, lost one horn, and only had one horn left. It has a very gentle temperament, and I usually ride it.The breeder prepared a big basket and a scythe for us to mow the grass while grazing the cattle.There are two triangles on the body of a cow, and only when the triangles bulge out does it mean that the cow is full.If the breeder sees that the triangle is not bulging, you have to release the cow again and won't let you go home!I have no experience in herding cattle at first, and I can't get it up no matter how I feed the triangle.I didn't dare to go home, so I kept feeding and feeding until the cow stopped eating, no matter what.I have no choice but to go back.The breeder said the cow was full!I said the triangle didn't bulge.He said that the triangle is divided into two sides, the grass belly is on the left, and the water belly is on the right. The triangle with the grass belly has risen, but the triangle with the water belly has not bulged. You should take the cow to the river to drink water.I took my cow to drink water again. After drinking the water, the two triangles on the cow's body swelled up.

candy That year, the distant uncle who worked in other places came to the village and gave each of our children a piece of candy.I have only licked white sugar with my tongue before, and I have never eaten lump sugar, and the supply and marketing cooperative in our mountain village has never supplied this rare thing.Unexpectedly, accidentally and inexperienced, I ate this piece of candy into the trachea.According to the adults, at that time I was so held that my whole body turned purple, and then the adults did not know how to take out this piece of candy.This year is very important to me, if this candy can't be taken out in time, everything I have now will be gone.Sweets are a tempting luxury for country kids, especially lollipops.I never had a lollipop until I was 40.When I was 40 years old, my two sons wanted to eat lollipops. I bought three and bought one for myself. I ate lollipops for the first time at the age of 40. It was so sweet.

endure hardship Summing up my personality, I think it is mainly the hard-working spirit cultivated in the countryside, with a particularly strong endurance.Endurance is not only physical strength, but also the ability to bear loneliness and being alone.A few years ago, we went to a government department to go through a formality. In order to get people to sign it early, our people stood for several days until their faces turned green.When I saw it, I asked them to sleep in the car for a while.I was standing in the corridor with a camera on top. I wondered if someone was watching me inside, so I avoided the camera and ran into the stairwell.The place was cold and there was no sunshine, so I thought in my heart that it was much better than living in the countryside when I was a child.One stop for two or three hours.Later, when a leader saw me standing, he was embarrassed to leave and chatted with me.Later, the leader who signed for me came over and quickly helped me do it.They said, why are you waiting there, we have already handled it as quickly as possible.I said nothing.People's endurance is limited. If I hadn't gone through the experience in the countryside, I should be relatively fragile.I remember when I was in school, every time I went back to the countryside, I divided the land into a row, and I dug continuously, repeatedly, and dug in the ground every day or two.Without any interest, and no one to chat with you, you can think about whatever you like, and dig the ground desperately when you have nothing to think about.

middle School student Our town was originally called Dongquan Commune.Generally, the location of the commune is a relatively large place. It may be located in a plain province. The location of the commune is not a place that people yearn for. However, if people on the high slopes of the loess go to the commune to catch up with a market, it is a very big thing, so we can be there every day. Strolling around the commune, I feel that I have seen the world.The brigades near the commune looked down on the "country people". They said we were country people because we were farther away from the commune, 20 or 30 miles away, spoke a different language than theirs, and were not as fashionable as them.They also have a plastic pencil case, which we kids never had.The schoolbags on their backs are also different, they are army satchels, even though they are scratched, they are still very fashionable.Our schoolbags are all made of floral cloth. Compared with the army satchel, the floral cloth bag feels very petty and rustic.Hairstyles are also different. Our haircuts are all pushed away, and they will leave a little or something to make a hairstyle.Near the commune, the best and most fashionable thing is to wear a military cap.We will never be able to wear military caps.Students who were one or two grades older than us fought, mostly for the purpose of grabbing military caps.I really wanted a cap at the time, especially a Dacron cap.

A book that had a particularly deep influence on me when I was a teenager is.From comic strips to books, I don't know how many times I have read them.My dad always criticized me, saying why I didn't get another book.I said that there are no other books, and I can't read other books.I have read this book many times, and I remember every detail and every thing in it very clearly.After reading the novel, I looked at the comics and the posture of Paul Korchagin, and I was particularly yearning for it.A kid in our village who was a few years older than me lent this book to my dad first, and I read it after my dad finished it.The last part of the book is gone, ripped out of the cigarette by a man in the village. ideal When I was twelve or thirteen years old, my ideals were rather vague. I just saw the train and thought it was awesome. I wanted to drive a train, but it was impossible.Opposite our school is the Longhai Line, where there is a very long cave, through which the train goes to Baoji and Xi'an.I feel that once you pass Baoji and Xi'an, you will be in another world.What is this world really like, apart from knowing that there is Tiananmen Square, they don't know anything about it.My ideal of being a train driver is not very firm, because there is nothing else except that driving a train is awesome.To say the thing that I have most passionately hoped for, the thing that I have dreamed of, is to be a chef, and I am a chef at school.The most expensive dish in our school is 15 cents, and the cheapest is 5 cents. I often can’t even eat the 5 cents dish, but the chef in the school eats 15 cents every day, so I think the chef is the best career. In the year of the high school entrance examination, I took the college entrance examination, and I missed the entrance examination by a few points.I got the first place in Qingshui County in the technical secondary examination, why didn't I pass the college entrance examination?Because I was hit by a car and broke my left arm.At that time, it was raining heavily and I was covered in mud. I went to a military hospital, but the hospital refused to accept me.At that time, it was said that the self-defense counterattack with Vietnam was about to start, and the hospitals of all the troops were in a state of first-level combat readiness. There might be many wounded, so they refused to accept me.The person who sent me kept persuading the doctor, and the doctor finally accepted me.I remember he cut my clothes with scissors, washed them with water, and then went to take X-rays.Let me lift my shoulders, I cry when I lift my shoulders, the doctor said it was broken.When I stopped listening, I thought it was over, but it turns out I can still pick up.I went to the exam with a bandage on, dizzy, and failed the exam.We have five classes in one grade, and I am in class one, the top class.I thought I would be able to pass the exam, but I missed it by a few points.When I heard the news, I felt like the end of the world was coming. floral panties When I was young, the most inferior thing was that my clothes were so dirty.At that time, I thought from the bottom of my heart that the clothes made by Zhenliang were the strongest and most beautiful clothes, and they were the easiest to dry after washing without wrinkling.But my clothes are all crumpled and made of cloth.The most impressive thing is the pants.One semester, the whole semester, I only had one pair of pants.In the last two days, the back of the buttocks was so worn that it was about to break.I feel the last few remaining threads every day to see if they are about to break.I always wonder if I can make do with it and go home from Lanzhou. If I can’t, I won’t have any pants to wear.In fact, it doesn’t matter if the pants are torn. What I’m most worried about is that the underwear inside is made of floral cloth, so what if it’s exposed!When I got home from Lanzhou, my pants were just torn.I have an aunt who once gave my grandma a piece of cloth.My grandma asked my mother to make me a pair of trousers out of this cloth. It is dark gray cloth, polyester card cloth, which is better than Dacron.I have been wearing these polyester card pants for two years and they have never been torn. secondary school student After being admitted to a technical secondary school, I went to school in Lanzhou.I stayed in Lanzhou for several years, but I didn't leave any impression.I feel like I'm on Lanzhou Street, I never looked up, I just recognized the ground.I have no impression of what the buildings in Lanzhou look like, how tall they are, and what they look like.I feel like I have stayed in Lanzhou for several years, but it seems that I have never lived in Lanzhou.I feel that this city is out of tune with me. They speak, eat, and wear different things, and they also speak Lanzhou dialect.I remember that I also went to the largest park - Wuquanshan Park, and called a few classmates to walk there.The most interesting thing is that the trousers worn by the more fashionable people at that time were flared trousers, the men wore toad glasses, and the women wore sunglasses. When a pair of people walked in front of them, it was like a hallucination.It was the late 1970s, when reform and opening up had just started.I don't know anything about things in the city. What I am most concerned about is the contracting of production to households.I think the only way out is to contract production on a household basis, and the rest is nonsense.I asked other people, as long as I asked the industrious and kind-hearted people in the village, they said that the production must be contracted to the household, and if the production was not contracted to the household, you would not be able to bear the corruption of the accountant, the cashier, the custodian, and the production team leader.But as long as I ask the idlers and idlers in the village, I will say that household contracting is not good.I asked why it was not good. They said that on such a big mountain, people in the village used to be so lively together. There is no one to talk to, you say you are not alone.I remember asking a lot of people, anyway, my final conclusion is: as long as kind, honest, and hardworking people are willing to contract production at home, as long as they love to bully others, vested interests, slackers, and bums don’t like to contract production To the door. end