Chapter 9 third quarter

On May 26, 1905, Wang Shusheng was born in Xiangjiachong, Macheng County, Hubei Province, at the western foot of the Dabie Mountains. Among the brothers and sisters, Wang Shusheng is a "lucky one".He was ranked fifth, loved by his elders, and because he was good at reading, after his grandmother took over the housekeeping, all the children of the same generation as Wang Shusheng in the family dropped out of school to work in the fields, raise pigs and cattle, and only Wang Shusheng continued to study. Wang Shusheng's family background is not good. He deeply understands the difficulties of the old man, buried his head in the books, studied tirelessly, and finally passed the ten-year cold window.

In 1923, Wang Shusheng was "titled on the gold list" and was admitted to the higher primary school of Macheng County. The news of "the sound of trees in foreign talents" quickly spread throughout the radius of Wang Shusheng's hometown with the joyful mountain wind and the ding-dong stream, which inspired the children of poor families and frustrated the rich and noble. .For 18-year-old Wang Shusheng, the first thing that surged in his heart was pride.You must know that in his hometown in a poor and remote area, the culture and education are extremely backward. In the eyes of the villagers, the high school run by the county government is the highest school for cultivating "foreign talents", and the gate of this school is mainly for the children of rich families. It's open.A "poor boy" like Wang Shusheng has now become a "foreign scholar". How can he not feel emotional and feel extremely proud?

At the same time, Wang Shusheng also felt the excitement of "brilliant ancestors".The old grandfather was poor in fame all his life, his parents taught him earnestly when he was dying, the old grandmother and brothers and sisters worked hard to provide him with education... What is all this for?What they entrusted today has been realized by Wang Shusheng, how can Wang Shusheng not be grateful and excited? Wang Shusheng bid farewell to his family and fellow villagers, and came to a county town hundreds of miles away.He was included in the roster of the 10th batch of students in the County Higher Primary School.From then on, a brand new page in his life history opened.

In the previously closed valley, Wang Shusheng's life circle was so narrow and his field of vision was so short. Now, what he sees before him is a vast and grotesque world: the bustling stream of people, the dazzling array of shops, and the spacious and spacious school... Everything he could see was so wonderful, which made him feel a sense of enlightenment. Wang Shusheng studied diligently and greedily, and his grades were naturally excellent, which won the favor of teachers and classmates. The carefree student life is full of fantasy.Students from all over the world gathered together, rich and poor, good and bad, but also shared the same interests.After getting along day and night, everyone gets to know each other well, so they will inevitably catch each other's appearance or personality traits, and call each other by nicknames, which is both close and funny.At that time, Wang Shusheng's face was covered with "pimples". When he got a little excited, the pimples on his face turned red, like bulging pockmarks. Everyone nicknamed him "Bangmazi" in the local dialect.

At this time, Wang Shusheng was very strong and strong.He has a small parted hair, thick black eyebrows, piercing eyes, thick lips, and he speaks like a machine gun. He looks even more heroic when paired with the blue homemade coat that he often wears and made by home textiles. Wang Shusheng likes various sports, especially football.He felt that there were too few football players in the school, and he couldn't get enough of it, so he saved money and bought a football himself.Often invited after school - to help football fans compete.He is very active on the court, with tricky feet and accurate feet.Every game, his team will win most of the time.At that time, there were often bursts of cheers on the court:

"Come on! Bang Mazi, come on!" "Good shot! Another one, Bao Mazi!" The nickname "Bang Mazi" reflects some of Wang Shusheng's appearance characteristics. He also had the nickname "Tuan Zhang Zhizi" at that time, which also reflects some of his inner qualities. When Wang Shusheng was at school, the warlord Yan Peifu who was entrenched in Hubei once sent a regiment of troops to guard Macheng.On the day when the army entered the county, the county government issued an order to welcome them with colorful decorations, wine and drums.The county governor personally led all walks of life to wait outside the city.Wang Shusheng and his team of students were at the forefront, and they could clearly see the welcoming scene.I saw that the head of the regiment was really majestic, and he entered the county government just like an "imperial envoy".After watching this scene and returning to school, Wang Shusheng, who has always been lively and funny, shouted to his classmates: "Guys, let's play a game?"

"what game?" Wang Shusheng gave a funny smile, picked up his own tattered curved umbrella, tore off the umbrella cloth several times with a "crack, crack", held up the skeleton, and asked everyone: "Does this look like a civilized stick?" "Like Like!" "Okay!" Wang Shusheng waved the "civilization stick" and said, "Then I will be the head of the regiment, and everyone will be my horse, and we will also come into the yamen." While joking, he imitated the demeanor of the head of the regiment he saw just now, leaning on a civilized stick, walking in figure eight steps, and walking around the playground; behind him, a group of students dressed as horses followed closely.Everyone was laughing and laughing for a while...

The nickname of "Head of the Group" was thus added to Wang Shusheng's head.People who don't know the details may feel that this nickname is offensive, even sarcasm.As everyone knows, the nicknames given to Wang Shusheng at that time were ingenious by the students, and the humor contained "blessings" to him. There are two meanings here: one is that the "head of the regiment" was great in the eyes of the childish teenagers at that time, higher than the "big official" of the county magistrate.Wang Shusheng said to his classmates more than once: "In the future, I will be a member of the regiment, and I will only deal with those doggy county officials and district and township heads who are corrupt and pervert the law and oppress the people, and support the poor."

The second is the word "embryo", which is a synonym for "material" in the local dialect.Therefore, the "leader's embryo" together means "good material to be the head of the group in the future". Although Macheng is located in the Dabie Mountains, it is not far from Wuhan, the thoroughfare of nine provinces, and the news is relatively well-informed. Around 1924, with the establishment of the cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, the revolutionary situation was on the rise again, and Macheng was also blown into the wind of the Great Revolution.

One day in May, Wang Shusheng went to the street for some business, and at the intersection, he saw a large circle of people surrounding a few strange immigrant youths, listening to their speeches.Wang Shusheng also hurriedly stepped forward, and saw a young man giving a passionate speech: "Let's take a look, what are we displaying in our store? Foreign oil, match, foreign yarn, foreign cloth, foreign cigarettes, foreign wine, morphine, Fat field powder... which one is not an oriental product! This is how Japanese imperialism stuck our necks from the economic lifeline, crushed our national industry and commerce, and squeezed our blood, sweat and money to Japan. Compatriots , as long as we still have a little national pride, can we just turn a blind eye and sit back and ignore it?"

After speaking, the young man threw out a handful of leaflets.Wang Shusheng snatched one, only to see that it was printed: "Swear to the national humiliation, swear to sever diplomatic relations with the Japanese imperial economy!" "Demand the complete repeal of Twenty-One!" This group of student propaganda teams from Wuhan ignited the anti-imperialist anti-imperialist fire that the people of Macheng had been harboring for a long time.Soon, Wang Youan, Wang Shusheng and other progressive teachers and students joined together and formed a boycott of Japanese goods in Macheng County, where patriots from all walks of life participated. Wang Shusheng and the students in the brigade, wearing the red armbands of the "Boycott of Japanese Products Committee", went in and out of various stores, inspected Japanese products, and took stock and registered them.This commotion frightened a small number of reactionary shopkeepers.They promoted the chairman of the county chamber of commerce as the leader, ordered all shops to close, and prevented students from interfering in business; they also hired a group of rogue thugs to fight against students. However, the students, aroused by patriotic enthusiasm, are fearless.Wang Shusheng was really like the "head of the group", leading everyone, angrily scolding the chairman of the chamber of commerce, and beating up all the hooligans; finally, amidst the cheers of the crowd, he burned some of the Japanese goods found! In Macheng County at that time, in addition to the county higher primary school, there was also a primary school run by a foreign church, which was in charge of a foreign missionary. This church school, under the signboard of "opening for the Chinese", exempts tuition and miscellaneous fees; but there are some prerequisites: anyone who wants to enroll must believe in their religion, strictly participate in the "service" of the church, and must not arbitrarily contact with the outside world... In the second year after Wang Shusheng entered the county higher primary school, there was an incident of arbitrarily expelling students from that missionary school. A student, because of his poor family, was forced to believe in religion and entered a missionary school in order to study.But he was too absorbed in his cultural homework, so it was inevitable that he would be careless during the "worship".The missionary in charge of school affairs expelled the student on the pretext that he was "dishonest to God". The news spread to the county higher primary school, and the students were all "exploded"!In connection with what the teacher often said about imperialism's use of the church as a cover and the use of guns to carry out cultural aggression against China, everyone was filled with righteous indignation, and unanimously recommended Wang Shusheng and others as representatives, and went to reason. The foreign priest was arrogant and ignored him at all.Wang Shusheng and others fought hard with reason, but the missionaries became furious and beat Wang Shusheng and others out of the school in the name of "making trouble for no reason".This made the Chinese students even more angry, and more and more students went to reason and surrounded the missionary school. The missionary was frightened and hurried to the county governor.The county magistrate was afraid of "foreigners", so he immediately dispatched the county police to suppress them.The students added fuel to the fire when they saw those military policemen in military uniforms and caps with white hoops rushing towards them. At this time, Wang Shusheng's face was flushed, and he waved his iron fist, and the students let out a roar of "Hit! Hit!", rushing towards the military and police like a torrent; at the same time, stones and tiles fell like raindrops. ... This fight was very enjoyable, but it also caused an uproar.The county magistrate summoned the headmaster of the county high school to reprimand him; the headmaster also angrily posted a notice: expulsion of the student Wang Shusheng and others who took the lead in making trouble. However, justice cannot be deceived.Called by some progressive teachers and students, the whole school went on strike to support their representatives! The school authorities had to withdraw their decision to expel Wang Shusheng due to the strong demonstrations by teachers and students.Although the school failed to expel Wang Shusheng, it was also secretly proud: This time the wildness of this "black sheep" has finally been cured, so he won't "make trouble" again in the future, right? Unexpectedly, it didn't take long for Wang Shusheng to "make a fuss" again.This time the spearhead is directed at profiteers. At that time, there were many boarding students in their school.The school authorities were indifferent to the lives of teachers and students, and to save trouble, they gave the students meals to a restaurant owner surnamed Song.This person is old and cunning, in order to confuse people's hearts, the food in the first year was not bad, some dry and some thin, with a combination of meat and vegetables, the pattern is constantly changing, and the taste is refreshing.But from the second year onwards, I slowly cut corners and the food got worse and worse.The students were out of respect and feared that profiteers would be troublesome. Although they were all angry, they only discussed in private, shaking their heads and criticizing. Wang Shusheng originally endured it, and didn't want to show his face for such a small matter of eating and drinking, but for several days in a row, the food was uncooked and the food was poor, and it was difficult to fill his stomach.It's really abhorrent that a profiteer who pays for food is so mercenary and doesn't care about the life and death of others!One day at lunch, he couldn't hold back any longer, and "dangdang" suddenly turned the dining table upside down! Looking at the food and broken dishes all over the floor, the students were stunned for a moment, and then the whole house applauded!Qi praised Wang Shusheng for letting everyone out of the fuss that had been pent up for a long time! The boss who provided the meals was angry, anxious and frightened, so he hurriedly invited the supervisor, and threatened: If Wang Shusheng is not dealt with, they will stop serving meals! The superintendent held a meeting immediately, and a few teachers advocated expulsion of Wang Shusheng because of "repeated troubles and never corrected after repeated admonitions".And because most of the students spoke out for Wang Shusheng, the school was afraid of public outrage, so it let it go. The profiteers didn't get the support of the school, and they knew they had a guilty conscience, so they softened.Not only did they serve meals as usual, but they also secretly restored the previous standard of meals. When the students ate delicious meals again, they couldn't help but praise Wang Shusheng for his "noisy" work! Some dedicated teachers couldn't help but admire: "This Wang Shusheng is really brave!"