Chapter 3 three

Luo Xiaomao's mother is a working woman and a primary school teacher.All her life, she has spared no effort to compete for any certificate from the school and the District Education Bureau.One wall of Luo Xiaomao's house is covered with red, green and green certificates of "excellent head teacher", "excellent teacher", "model worker" and so on.These are all chapters written by Luo Xiaomao's mother with her hard work and sweat.Every day, Luo Xiaomao's mother always went out early in the morning with her leather bag, and hurried to school after lunch.I often didn’t go home until after eight o’clock in the evening. After eating cold food and cold dishes, I was busy correcting the students’ homework until late at night, every day.She cares too much about cheap honors such as the first place in the school's selection and awards, so of course she can't spare her eyes to take care of her children.Luo Xiaomao's two older brothers and sisters don't know whether his mother took care of him, but he feels that he didn't receive much education from his mother when he was a child.At most, his mother scolded him a few words, and then hurried to do her own work.

Luo Xiaomao was very lonely when he was a child. When Luo Xiaomao's father was labeled as a traitor and capitalist roader, Luo Xiaomao felt even more lonely, because the teachers of H Normal School no longer loved him, and instead began to put pressure on him. "Luo Zhonghan is a traitor to the revolution. You are a new generation born in the new society and raised under the red flag. You don't want to follow your father's old path, do you?" On the first day of the new semester, his class teacher called him to the office , Enlightened him earnestly and said. "You have to draw a clear line with your father, Luo Xiaomao." "Mr. Jin, my mother wants me to deliver meals to my father every day," Luo Xiaomao said with his head down, "I have no choice but to deliver meals." Boundary and food delivery are two different things," Teacher Jin said, Luo Xiaomao was confused and stared at the teacher. "It's one thing to deliver meals, but it's another to draw the line," Teacher Jin explained.That was when Luo Xiaomao was in the second grade of elementary school. That day was the first day of school. It was a sunny day in September. Birds were flying around in the treetops and the school had finished cleaning. Luo Xiaomao It was past twelve o'clock when I returned home with a tired body. My mother had already packed the food and was just waiting for Luo Xiaomao to deliver it. "Hurry up and bring food to your father," mother ordered, "Come back to eat after delivery." Luo Xiaomao remembered what the class teacher said.I hurried back to my mother and said: "Mr. Jin said that I should draw a line between my father and me." Luo Xiaomao's mother stared round her eyes, "What did Teacher Jin say?" "Mr. Jin said that I should draw a line between my father and me." Luo Xiaomao He said it again, with a firm expression on his face. "How dare you!" Mother threatened, "You have to draw a line with your father. From now on, you don't want to eat. You go wandering." Luo Xiaomao wanted to draw a line with his father, so of course he didn't eat.But at night, hunger swallowed like a beast his thoughts of drawing a line. "I'm hungry," Luo Xiaomao looked at his mother and said, "I want to eat."

"You go wandering," his mother said to him, "what else are you eating?" "I want to eat," Luo Xiaomao said again, "I will deliver food to my father tomorrow." His dad draws the line and stops thinking about these things. One day in physical education class, because of the rain, the physical education teacher arranged for the male students to do somersaults on the gymnastics mat in the auditorium.After the physical education teacher demonstrated two forward rolls, he asked the male students to line up and do somersaults on the gymnastics mat one by one, but he hid in the equipment room to drink tea.A classmate named Yang Xiaohan kicked Luo Xiaomao's ass when Luo Xiaomao squatted down to do a forward roll, causing Luo Xiaomao to fall and eat shit, making some classmates laugh out loud.

How could Luo Xiaomao bear this anger, he rushed up and kicked Yang Xiaohan in the stomach hard, causing the latter to sit on the ground.Yang Xiaohan said "Oops", got up and hurriedly hugged Luo Xiaomao's waist, trying to throw Luo Xiaomao down.Luo Xiaomao was stronger than him, hooked his feet and pressed his upper body, Yang Xiaohan fell down again, his head hit the concrete floor with a bang.When Luo Xiaomao pressed down with his elbow, he hurt his opponent's nose. Nosebleeds gushed out cheerfully from Yang Xiaohan's two upturned nostrils, scaring some students to yell for the school doctor.With a sullen face, the physical education teacher twisted Luo Xiaomao's clothes, and dragged Luo Xiaomao into the office fiercely. "Stand up for me," the physical education teacher scolded, "Stand up straight." Because it was Yang Xiaohan who kicked the person first, Luo Xiaomao didn't have a lot of fear on his face. "You bastard, you're pretty vile if you don't see it!" The physical education teacher Hu Shidandan stared at Luo Xiaomao, "Stand up straight, stand up straight!" Luo Xiaomao didn't stand upright, but replied: "He kicked you Me." "Then you don't want to kick it either!" The physical education teacher refuted him, "You don't know how to tell the teacher? Huh?" Of course, Luo Xiaomao felt a lot of grievances in his heart, and this physical education teacher reprimanded him like this last semester. opponents and wholeheartedly defend his. "Anyway, he kicked me first," Luo Xiaomao argued, "I didn't mess with him." "Oh, you still have a reason?" The physical education teacher became angry, "Do you still want to take my physical education class?"" I don’t want to go.” Luo Xiaomao said firmly.The physical education teacher was irritated, and made a look of wanting to hit someone, and pressed a palm on Luo Xiaomao's head, "You son of a bitch, you have a pretty hard mouth, huh?" Luo Xiaomao defiantly turned his head away , His young self-esteem was hurt too deeply by this sentence, "I am a son of a bitch, you are a piggie." The physical education teacher slapped Luo Xiaomao on the face, and then said: "I beat you to death!" You scold teacher Luo?" "I'll see if you kill me!" Luo Xiaomao threw his heart into the sky, "If you beat me to death, you will die. I'm still afraid of you?" He grabbed the physical education teacher's hand and was about to To bite, the physical education teacher pushed him away casually. "A little mad dog." The physical education teacher said angrily.At this time, Luo Xiaomao's head teacher came in. "Luo Xiaomao, talk to the teacher with a good attitude," Teacher Jin said loudly to Luo Xiaomao. "Respect the teacher first! It's too dangerous for you to go on like this, Luo Xiaomao."

When Luo Xiaomao was in elementary school, he liked teacher Jin the most, because the students all liked and pitied Mr. Jin. "Mr. Jin is so pitiful." "Mr. Jin will die in one lifetime." "I like Teacher Jin the most." Students often talk about it behind their backs, and Luo Xiaomao is naturally infected, so he loves Teacher Jin very seriously. Teacher Jin is extremely docile in appearance, tall, fair-faced, and soft-spoken in class, all of which are due to Teacher Jin's heart disease.I don’t know where it came from that Mr. Jin has a heart attack. Anyway, the whole class knows that Mr. Jin has a heart attack. They also know that a woman with a heart attack will die in her lifetime.Therefore, when Teacher Jin criticized Luo Xiaomao harshly in the office, Luo Xiaomao immediately lowered his head in aggrieved and sad manner, and secretly vowed not to embarrass Teacher Jin again, because Teacher Jin has a heart disease and cannot be angry.Luo Xiaomao wrote a review and gave it to the physical education teacher.When school was over, Teacher Jin called him to the corridor, looked at him, and taught him earnestly: "Be obedient, don't talk back to the teacher when you grow up! Then you will not be lawless when you grow up? Do you understand?" "Understood," Luo Xiaomao nodded, looked at his beloved teacher Jin and swore, "Mr. Jin, I promise to behave well in the future and be a good student."

For a while, Luo Xiaomao really performed well, and wholeheartedly wanted to join the organization called Red Soldier. Luo Xiaomao looked at some male and female students wearing Red Soldier armbands on their arms, and was so envious that he dreamed of wearing red armbands.In order to be able to wear the red armband as soon as possible, he took the initiative to stay after school every day to do good deeds. He cleaned the classroom together with the classmates on duty, and often snatched the dustpan from the female classmates and ran to take out the trash.In the morning, Luo Xiaomao was the first one to arrive at school in the class. As soon as he walked into the classroom, he hurriedly removed the chairs that had been placed on the table for cleaning the day before, and then sat down on his seat to read a book.Luo Xiaomao simply thought that as long as he performed well, he could join the Red Soldier, just like Teacher Jin said.Teacher Jin also said: "Every student is eligible to join his own organization, and the Little Red Soldier is your organization." Luo Xiaomao desperately wanted to join this organization.

During that time, Luo Xiaomao's family had moved from the large dormitory area of ​​Teacher H to the small dormitory area crowded with "bad elements" - it was a mansion of a landlord and capitalist, with a 5 cm thick fir gate, where they lived. The "five black categories" found in seven or eight households of H teachers.Luo Xiaomao’s family was ordered to move into a small dormitory by the rebels of Teacher H. The family of 6 were only given two dark and damp houses to live in. Fortunately, the two houses were not so crowded when the elder brother and the second brother were driven to the countryside one after another. .That winter, Luo Xiaomao's father was released from the east building. Because the rebels did not get anything satisfactory from Luo Zhonghan, he had to be released for labor reform and arranged to carry slag and garbage in the cafeteria. It has been banned, but the text fight is getting more and more intense.Luo Xiaomao’s father was often dragged by various rebels in the school to criticize or parade in the street. A cardboard of horse manure was hung around his neck. On the cardboard was written in black and white, “Down with Luo Zhonghan, the traitor and capitalist roader!!” Luo Xiaomao every time Seeing a sign hanging on his father's neck, he hurriedly hid to the far side. "Luo Xiaomao, your father is fighting over there," said his peers, looking at him.Luo Xiaomao lowered his head, pretending not to hear. "Luo Xiaomao, there is a Red Guard who is still stepping on your father's back." His peers prodded him, "Screaming slogans to defeat Luo Zhonghan. I lied to you." Luo Xiaomao hung his head flushed. , walked away in despair.At that time, the naive Luo Xiaomao was still self-motivated, eager to join the Red Soldier organization, and eager to wear a red armband on his arm.But on New Year's Day that year, his beautiful and fragile self-motivation was completely shattered by the ruthless facts.

On the eve of New Year's Day that year, Luo Xiaomao's class developed six red soldiers.The performance of these 6 red soldiers is not as good as Luo Xiaomao, especially Yang Xiaohan, who has become a fact for all teachers and classmates to tell short stories in class.However, he was approved to join the Red Soldier.There is also a classmate named Zhang Jinguo. He was criticized by the teacher at least 5 times for playing things in class, but he was also developed into a red soldier.Luo Xiaomao couldn't figure it out.He performed well for a semester. In order to join the Red Army, he devoted more energy and time than any of his classmates, and wrote 3 application letters in a row.The hard facts made his self-esteem and enterprising spirit accept a ruthless challenge, and then, the enthusiasm that was dedicated to making progress was like a flood.The afternoon before New Year’s Day, Teacher Jin announced in the classroom: “Go to the auditorium of the normal school to hold a meeting this afternoon, and celebrate New Year’s Day with big brothers and sisters.” You are not allowed to play things, and you have to ask for leave.” Then everyone walked out of the classroom one by one, went to the playground to listen to the physical education teacher’s deployment, and then the team walked towards the auditorium of Teacher H like a long queue.It was raining lightly that afternoon, and Luo Xiaomao never expected that there would be a show about his father being criticized at this celebration with entertainment programs.It should be said that Luo Xiaomao walked into the venue happily, and sat there waiting to see the Red Soldier take the oath.This is what he wants to see most today.But the first thing he saw was his father being dragged by two big men, with his hands folded behind his back, and the horse dung cardboard hanging around his neck, he walked to the stage with his head down.Behind the father walked other "ghosts and snake gods" one by one.Luo Xiaomao saw that the short and thin head of the security section was escorting his father to the stage. He was wearing a knee-length military coat with the military coat unbuttoned, and he was a bit flamboyant on stage. "Kneel down!" He ordered Luo Xiaomao's father in a rough voice.Luo Zhonghan knelt down slowly and obediently, and the piece of horse manure paper on his chest fell to the ground.The ink and brush characters on the horse dung cardboard are arranged like this: the word "Down" in the upper left is slightly larger; the middle line is "The traitor in power and the capitalist roader"; A strong exclamation point.Luo Xiaomao sat under the stage with a flushed face, he really wished there was a hole under his feet for him to hide in.The classmates around him all turned their heads and looked at him with a sympathetic look.Luo Xiaomao's mind was full of waves, as if it was not his father but himself who was being criticized on the stage.When Luo Xiaomao caught sight of Dr. Yang who was speaking on stage, he rushed behind his father with an excited and vicious expression, and kicked him viciously.And his father (standing on the edge of the stage) fell headfirst off the stage, making a loud bang and screaming "Ouch". Tears flowed out like a faucet. "Luo Xiaomao is crying," the female classmate next to Luo Xiaomao said, "It's not worth it."Of course, this sentence refers to the person who kicked Luo Xiaomao's father off the stage.This sympathetic and naive "necessary" was like a cannonball that blew away Luo Xiaomao's reason, making Luo Xiaomao unable to control himself anymore and weeping while covering his face.The crying quickly attracted the eyes of the surrounding students to him. "Luo Xiaomao, Luo Xiaomao." Teacher Jin walked over.He stared at him seriously, "This is a meeting, why are you crying? Don't cry." Luo Xiaomao's crying sounded a lot brighter, woo woo woo. "Luo Xiaomao," Teacher Jin was anxious, and her tone was a little annoyed, "You have to cry outside the auditorium, don't affect the meeting." She hurriedly said to Yang Xiaohan and the big classmate Zhang Jinguo who were only waiting for the oath: "Hurry up! Pull Luo Xiaomao out." So Zhang Jinguo and Yang Xiaohan dragged Luo Xiaomao out of the auditorium involuntarily. "Don't cry, you don't have a treasure." Yang Xiaohan comforted Luo Xiaomao with sympathy. "The more you cry, the happier someone will be. Stupid." "I don't want to cry," Luo Xiaomao cried, "I don't want to cry." When Teacher Jin approached, Luo Xiaomao's cry had become harmless sobbing. "You two go back to the auditorium soon, and the red soldiers will take an oath soon." Teacher Jin said, and then Teacher Jin turned his head and glanced at Luo Xiaomao, "You should have drawn a clear line from your father, he is a revolutionary You are a traitor, you are a student who grew up under the red flag...Luo Xiaomao, you have to think about yourself."

Luo Xiaomao didn't think about anything.