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Chapter 39 ruined youth

Orphans of Asia 吴浊流 1528Words 2018-03-19
The death of his mother reduced Taiming's already diminished will to live even more.He didn't want to see anyone, and the idyllic life that had once made him feel peaceful looked like Saumur shrouded in gray."Hundred days" had passed since his mother passed away, and he still hadn't walked out of the study, so it was not long before the end of the year, and the Chinese New Year came. After Ah Cha's death, Ah Yu naturally took over as her mother and took care of Tai Ming's life. Her son Zhinan has grown up and now joins the Youth League. Ayu's sincere kindness to Taiming made Taiming feel it unconsciously.Therefore, on the issue of tenant farming, if there were troublesome disputes between her and the tenant farmers, Taiming would assist Ayu to resolve them.Ayu's tenant farmer is a person who takes advantage of the landlord's weakness and often finds some difficulties.Since the start of the food supply movement, tenant farmers have demanded rent reductions or returned the plowed fields to landlords. The situation at that time was that the landlords would bow to the tenant farmers instead.

On the evening of the 15th day of the first lunar month, Ayu worshiped "Tiangong" and invited Taiming to have dinner.Treating her to a meal included thanking Taiming for all the help she had given her.Taiming accepted Ayu's sincerity without hesitation, and his father Hu Wenqing ate at the same table. Although Hu Wenqing was visibly old, his body was still in good health. After drinking, he was in a good mood, so he talked freely about "entering and leaving the mainland".Taiming didn't agree with his father's view of entering and leaving the mainland.This is the same as the general theory of entering and leaving the mainland. His father also fell into the trap of the Japanese propaganda, thinking that going to the mainland is to build the mainland.

However, Taiming did not agree with this view because he experienced life in mainland China, but Taiming was still very happy to see his father getting older and more energetic.Seeing the harmonious appearance of father and son, Ayu happily served the food, but then he fidgeted a little.Taiming asked her with concern, only to find out that her son Zhinan was summoned by the Youth League and had not yet returned.The convening time was only in the morning, and the neighbors had already returned, only Zhinan hadn't returned home in the evening. Especially recently, people in the society have often talked about the rough practices of the Youth League instructors, so is she very worried about what happened to her son?

At nine o'clock, Zhinan finally came back, his face pale. When asked what happened to him, he said that because the school persuaded him to join the volunteer army, he refused, which angered the school teachers and locked him up until now. Because of Zhinan's refusal to volunteer for military service, the director of youth training, who became irritable, took Zhinan to a room, gave Zhinan a severe punishment, punished him to kneel on the concrete floor, and whipped him, but Zhinan still refused. When the whip sounded repeatedly on Zhinan's back, Zhinan suddenly turned around, snatched the whip from the director's hand, snapped it into two pieces in front of him, and then jumped out of the window. resistance.

However, Zhinan's actions aroused the excitement of all the school staff, and they mobilized to arrest Zhinan. Zhinan had to resign himself to fate and was taken to the office obediently. The faculty and staff got angry out of control because they were too excited?Zhinan, because of this, the office was full of commotion, Zhinan's pale face was as hard as a stone, endured being scolded, and said in a firm tone that did not look like a young man: 'Teacher!Please let me understand the word "volunteer" for volunteer soldiers, please? ' he said without timidity.This sentence has an effect on those passionate faculty members, as if three buckets of cold water have been poured on them.At this time, the principal couldn't bear to see the situation, and stopped the staff from talking: "You, come with me," the principal said, and called Zhinan to the principal's office.And in a gentle tone, after persuading Zhinan in detail: "Then, think about it slowly!" After the principal finished speaking, he left Zhinan in the principal's office and walked out. The rotating chief instructor came in. He was from Taiwan and had once been Zhinan's grade tutor.He said: "Zhinan, the teacher doesn't think your views are wrong, but the current situation cannot prevent you from having such views, why don't you feel a little bit wronged yourself, and obediently stamp it!" ’ So he explained the school’s policy and social situation to Zhinan in detail. The government’s approach is: those who have a job participate in voluntary enlistment in their service units, and those who are unemployed will be stamped by the police station.Youth league members are handled by the school.Things in the world seem simple, but they are not.This kind of volunteering is not voluntary, but it can generate power from the bottom up. It is the government's policy to promote the implementation of conscription.Chief Discipline Instructions.Then he said: "──So the teacher doesn't say anything that is not beneficial to you, because it will cause trouble later, so you should obediently listen to the teacher's words."What happened to you today, even if you volunteer, there is absolutely no need to worry that you will be recruited, because the school has no courage to recommend you anymore, the first thing to do is to be a model youth to be qualified...' He cleverly persuaded Zhinan.

Zhinan finally listened to his words and stamped the volunteer letter.After hearing what Zhinan said, both Hu Wenqing and Taiming swallowed silently.Ah Yu felt sad from being a mother, and covered her face and cried.
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