Chapter 14 Chapter Eleven

When the "sweet potato child" was born, the parents went to the commune to register, and they could receive a cloth ticket measuring 1.6 feet 5 inches and two catties of soybean oil.Those who have twins can get double rewards.The parents looked at the golden soybean oil and twirled the cloth tickets exuding the aroma of ink, their eyes were moist and grateful.It's better to be a new society!Giving back things after giving birth, my mother said: The country is short of people, the country is waiting to employ people, and the country cherishes people. While the people were grateful, they secretly made up their minds to have more children to repay the country's kindness.

The wife of Xiao Shangchun, the keeper of the commune’s grain depot—that is, the mother of my classmate Xiao Xiachun—had given birth to three younger sisters for Xiao Xiachun.When I came back from grazing cattle, I often saw Xiao Shangchun passing by a small bridge on a broken bicycle.He was fat, and the bike creaked under the load. People in the village often joked about him: Lao Xiao, how old are you?Can't be free overnight?He smiled and replied: You can't be empty, you have to work tirelessly to create people for the country! At the end of 1965, the rapid growth of the population made the top feel the pressure.The first family planning climax after the founding of New China set off.The government put forward a slogan: One is not enough, two are just right, and three are too much.When the county film team came down to show the film, it also added a slide show to popularize family planning knowledge before the feature film.When the exaggerated figures of male and female genitalia appeared on the screen, the audience in the dark screamed and laughed wildly.We half-grown children followed suit, and many young men and women quietly held hands together.This kind of contraceptive propaganda is like an aphrodisiac. The county theater troupe organized more than a dozen small teams to go deep into the villages to perform a small play "Half the Sky" to criticize patriarchal thinking.

At this time, my aunt was already the director of the obstetrics and gynecology department of the commune health center, and also served as the deputy head of the commune's family planning leading group. The group leader was Qin Shan, the party secretary of the commune. Leaders, organizers, and implementers. At that time, my aunt was a little fat, and her enviable white teeth turned yellow because she didn't have time to brush them.Her voice was hoarse and manly, and we could often hear her speak over the tweeters. Most of my aunt's speeches started with the following words: Beat the gong to sell sugar, and each will do his own thing.What are you shouting for?Three sentences are inseparable from the line.Today I'm going to talk about family planning...

During that time, my aunt's public prestige declined, and even the women in our village who had been favored by her began to speak ill of her. Although the aunt spared no effort to strengthen the family planning, but with little effect, the villagers did not pick up on it at all.When the county theater troupe came to our village to perform, when the heroine sang on the stage: The times are different—men and women are the same——Wang Gan’s father, Wang Jiao, yelled loudly from the audience: Fart!it's the same?Who dares to say that they are all the same? ! ——The crowd in the audience responded, making noise and shouting.Bricks and tiles were all thrown onto the stage.The actor fled with his head in his arms.Wang Jiao drank half a catty of white wine that day, relying on the strength of the wine, he broke out wildly, separated from the crowd, jumped on the stage, leaned back and forth, gesticulated, and gave a speech: You control the world, and you can control the people to have children?If you have the ability, find a hemp rope and sew up all the women's household items.The audience roared with laughter.Wang Jiao became even more dog-like, picked up a tile from the stage, aimed at the gas lamp hanging on the crossbar in front of the curtain, and threw it on it.The gas lamps were extinguished immediately, and it was pitch black on and off the stage. ——For this reason, Wang Jiao was detained for half a month. After he was released, he still refused to accept it, and angrily said to everyone: I have the ability to cut off my penis!

A few years ago, when my aunt came home, she hugged each other; now, when my aunt comes home occasionally, people coldly avoid her.My mother persuaded: "Auntie, did you figure out the matter of family planning by yourself, or was it ordered by your superiors?" What do you mean by "figured out by yourself"?My aunt said angrily that this was the party's call, Chairman Mao's instruction, and the state's policy.Chairman Mao said: Human beings should control themselves and achieve planned growth. My mother shook her head and said: From ancient times to the present, having children is a matter of course.During the Han Dynasty, the emperor issued an edict that folk girls must marry when they reach the age of 13. If they don't get married, they will ask the girl's father and brother.If women don't have children, where does the country go to recruit soldiers?Every day it is advertised that the United States is coming to attack us, every day it shouts to liberate Taiwan, women are not allowed to have children, where do the soldiers come from?Without soldiers, who will resist American aggression?Who will liberate Taiwan?

Sister-in-law, don't repeat your clichés to me.My aunt said, Chairman Mao is better than you, right?Chairman Mao said: Population must be controlled!Without organization and discipline, if things go on like this, I think human beings will be destroyed in advance. Chairman Mao said: There is great power in numbers, and things are easy to do when there are many people. People are living treasures, and some people have the world!My mother said that Chairman Mao also said: It is wrong not to let it rain, and it is wrong not to let women raise children. My aunt said dumbfoundingly: "Sister-in-law, you are forging quotations from Chairman Mao and correcting the imperial decree. In the past, you would be beheaded."We didn't say that we should not let everyone have children, but we just let everyone have fewer children and have them in a planned way.

How many children a person has in his life is predestined.My mother said, this still needs your planning?I reckon you are blind men lighting lamps—in vain. The efforts of the aunts were indeed, as the mother said, a waste of money and notoriety.In the beginning, they distributed free condoms to the women's directors of the villages, who distributed them to women of childbearing age and asked their husbands to wear condoms.But these condoms were either thrown into the pigsty, or blown up as balloons, painted and made into children's toys.My aunt and the others also went door-to-door to distribute contraceptive pills for women, but the women refused to take them because they thought the side effects were too great.

Even though they were forced to swallow it on the spot, as soon as they turned around, they would use their fingers or chopsticks to probe their throats and spit out the pill.Therefore, the technique of ligation of male vas deferens came into being. At that time, it was widely rumored in the village that my aunt and Huang Qiuya jointly invented the technique of men's piercing.It is also said that Huang Qiuya's contribution is a theoretical conception, and my aunt's contribution is in clinical practice.Xiao Xiachun said to us in a serious manner: Both of them are perverted women who have never been married. They feel jealous when they see other people's husband and wife, so they invented the house plan.Xiao Xiachun said that my aunt and Huang Qiuya first experimented on boar pigs and then on male monkeys. Finally, they experimented on ten death row prisoners. After the experiment was successful, those ten death row prisoners were commuted to life sentences imprisonment.Of course, it didn't take long for us to learn that Shaw Lower Lip was talking nonsense.

In those days, my aunt’s shouts were often heard on the loudspeaker: Cadres of all brigades, please pay attention, cadres of all brigades, please pay attention: According to the spirit of the eighth meeting of the leading group of family planning in the commune, any wife who has given birth to three children or more than three children All men have to go to the commune health center to have a sterilization operation.After the operation, 20 yuan will be subsidized for nutrition, one week off, and the work points will be recorded... The men who heard the radio gathered together and complained: Damn, there are pigs, steers, gelding mules and horses, where have you seen gelding?We also don't want to enter the palace as eunuchs, so what are we doing?When the family planning cadres in the village explained to them that vasectomy is just——they retorted with staring eyes: You are talking nicely now, I am afraid that once you go to bed and a dozen anesthetics, not only our eggs, but also our dicks will be killed. They cut it off!At that time, we can only squat and pee like old women.

It is very beneficial to women, the operation is simple, and the male barking operation with few sequelae has encountered many obstacles.My aunt and the others were sweeping the couch in the hospital, but no one came.The county family planning headquarters calls every day to report the numbers, and is extremely dissatisfied with my aunt's work.The commune party committee held a special meeting and made two resolutions: First, male sterilization should start with the commune leaders, and then spread to general cadres and ordinary workers.In the village, the brigade cadres took the lead, and then extended to the general public.The second is to implement a proletarian dictatorship over those who resist male circumcision and create and spread rumors. For those who meet the conditions for circumcision but refuse to undergo circumcision, the brigade will first stop their labor rights. If they still refuse to obey, their rations will be deducted.If cadres resist, they will be dismissed from their posts; if employees resist, they will be expelled from their posts; if party members resist, they will be expelled from the party.

Qin Shan, Secretary of the Party Committee of the Commune, delivered a speech on the radio in person.He said that family planning is a major issue related to the national economy and the people's livelihood. All departments and brigades of the society must attach great importance to it. Cadres and party members who meet the conditions for men's marriage must take the lead and set an example for the masses.Qin Shan suddenly changed his tone and said in a homely tone, comrades, for example, my wife has undergone hysterectomy due to illness, but in order to dispel the public’s fear of male piercing, I decided to go to the hospital tomorrow morning ligation. In his speech, Secretary Qin also asked the Communist Youth League, Women's Federation, and schools to actively cooperate and vigorously publicize, setting off a vigorous "male bar" climax.Just like previous sports, the most talented teacher Xue in our school compiled the allegro poems. We memorized them at the fastest speed, and then we went into groups of four, each holding a trumpet tube made of paper or iron, Climb to the roof, on the treetops, and shout loudly: comrades, don’t panic, comrades, don’t be busy.Male pricking operation is very simple, definitely not gelding.The small incision was half an inch long, and he got out of the hospital bed within fifteen minutes.No bleeding, no sweat, get the job done the same day... In that extraordinary spring, my aunt said that the whole commune had performed 648 cases of male barking operations, and only 310 cases were performed by her personally.My aunt said that, in fact, as long as the truth is explained thoroughly, the policies are determined, the leaders take the lead, and implement them at all levels, the masses are still reasonable.She has performed so many operations, most of them came under the leadership of village cadres and unit leaders, and there were only two cases of those who were really mischievous and used a little coercive measures.One example is the handlebar king foot in our village, and the other is Xiao Shangchun, the grain depot keeper. Relying on his good family background, Wang Jiao is both reactionary and arrogant.After he was released from the detention center, he uttered wild words, and whoever dared to force him to have a sterilization, he would go in and out with red knives.My friend Wang Gan, because he is infatuated with my aunt's assistant Little Lion, emotionally leans towards my aunt.He personally mobilized his father to have a vasectomy, only to be slapped twice.Wang Gan escaped from the house, and Wang Jiao chased him with a big whip.After chasing to the pond at the head of the village, the father and son cursed across the water.Wang Jiao: You bastard, how dare you mobilize your father to have a vasectomy!Wang Gan: You say I am a bitch, and I am a bitch.Wang Jiao thought that scolding his son was tantamount to scolding himself, so he chased around the pond.The father and son turned round and round like a millstone.There were a lot of onlookers, adding fuel and vinegar, fanning the flames and causing bursts of laughter. Wang Gan stole a sharp saber from his home and handed it to the village party secretary Yuan Lian, saying it was a murder weapon prepared by his father.Wang Gan said that my father said that he would use this knife to kill anyone who dared to let him have a vasectomy.Yuan Lian didn't dare to be negligent, so he went to the commune with a knife and reported to the party secretary Qin Shan and my aunt.Qin Shan slapped the table angrily and said: It's against him!Destroying family planning is a counter-revolution!The aunt said: If the king's foot is not resolved, the situation will be difficult to open.Yuan Mian said yes, saying that the men in the village who should be circumcised were all looking at Wang Jiao.Secretary Qin said: Grasp this negative example. Lao Ning, a public security officer of the commune, came to help out with a pistol hanging on his waist. The village party secretary, Yuan Face, led the women's director, the militia company commander, and four militiamen, and rushed into Wang Jiao's house. Wang Jiao's wife was braiding grass braids under the shade of a tree with a nursing girl in her arms. Seeing the menacing approach, she dropped her work and sat on the ground, crying loudly. Wang Gan stood under the eaves without saying a word. Wang Dan was sitting on the threshold of the main room, holding a small mirror, looking at her small and beautiful face. Wang Jiao, Yuan Lian yelled, come out, don't toast or eat fine wine.The commune and Ning police have come, and if you escape today, you will not escape tomorrow.If you are a man, you might as well be more straightforward. The women's director said to the Wangjiao woman: Fang Lianhua, stop howling.Let your man come out. There was no movement in the house.Yuan looked at Ning Gongan.Ning Gongan waved his hand, and four militiamen rushed into the house with ropes. At this moment, Wang Gan, who was standing under the eaves, cast a wink at Ning Gongan, and slapped at the pigsty in the corner. Although Ning Gongan has one short leg and one long leg, he moves very nimbly.He dashed to the door of the pigsty, took out his pistol, and shouted sharply: "Wang Jiao, come out!" Wang Jiao came out with a spider web on his head.Four militiamen surrounded them with ropes. Wang Jiao wiped the sweat off his face, and said angrily: "Ning lame, what are you talking about?"I'm afraid you won't succeed if you hold a piece of broken iron? I didn't scare you, Lao Ning said, follow me obediently, nothing happened. What if you don't behave obediently?Do you still dare to shoot?Wang Jiao pointed at his crotch with his finger and said, if I have the ability to hit here, I would rather be shot by you with a gun than cut off by those old ladies with a knife. The women's director said: Wang Jiao, don't mess around with me, the male tie, just tie the tube... It's time to sew that thing of yours!Wang Jiao pointed at the crotch of the female director and cursed rudely. Ning Gongan shook the gun in his hand and ordered: Go, tie up. I see which of you dares? !Wang Jiao turned around and picked up a shovel, held it flat, with green eyes, and said, I will shovel off the head of whoever hits it! At this time, the pocket girl Wang Dan stood up holding her small mirror.At that time she was already thirteen years old, and her height was only centimeters.Although her body is short, she is very well-proportioned, like a little beauty from Lilliputian.She used a small mirror to reflect a strong beam of sunlight onto Wang Jiao's face.A thin, innocent laugh escaped her mouth at the same time. Taking advantage of the strong light shining on Wang Jiao's eyes and making him unable to see, four militiamen rushed forward, grabbed the shovel from his hand and cut his arms backwards. As the militiamen tried to tie his arms with rope, he suddenly burst into tears.His crying was so painful that the people who were lying on the courtyard wall of his house and watching the excitement around the gate of his house also felt sad.The militiamen were at a loss for a while holding the rope. Yuan Lian said: Wang Jiao, are you still a man?Such a small operation scares you like this!Lao Tzu has already taken the lead, and it doesn't affect anything. If you don't believe me, let your wife ask my wife! Man, stop talking, Wang Jiao cried and said, I'll just go with you. Auntie said that Xiao Shangchun, a bastard, is a negative example of the social organization. He relied on the fact that he carried a stretcher for the underground hospital of the Eighth Route Army, and he fought hard.But when the party committee of the commune decided to dismiss him from public office and send him back to the village to work in agriculture, he came to the hospital by himself on a broken bicycle.My aunt said that he asked me to operate on him by name.He's a lecher, a rogue, and full of dirty words.Before he went to the operating table, he chased the little lion and asked, "Girl, I don't understand. As the saying goes, "the semen flows by itself", but if you tie up the vas deferens for me, what will happen to my semen?"Will it burst my stomach? The little lion looked at me with a flushed face.I said: Prepare your skin! He actually got an erection while preparing his skin.The little lion had never seen such a formation before, so he dropped the knife and hid aside.I said: Be healthy in your mind!He rascally said: My mind is very healthy, it wants to be hard on its own, what can I do? —Well, my aunt said she picked up a rubber mallet, pointed it at it, and hit it casually, and the thing withered immediately. My aunt said, I swear to God, I did the operation on Wang Jiao and Xiao’s upper lip very seriously and it was very successful, but after the operation, Wang Jiao kept bending over and said that I broke his nerve; Xiao’s upper lip, He kept coming to the hospital to make trouble, and even went to the county to petition many times, saying that I had destroyed his sexual function... These two guys, my aunt said, the king foot may be a psychological problem, and the small upper lip is pure nonsense. When he was the head of the Red Guards during the "Cultural Revolution", he spoiled many girls.If he hadn't had a vasectomy, he would still have some fears, fearing that it would end badly if someone got a big belly, but after the vasectomy, he really has no scruples!