Chapter 6 1

Since 1963, newspapers no longer set up columns to teach several different ways to eat a certain type of wild vegetables.The "artificial meat" made by washing rice and sorghum rice through sedimentation has disappeared from the counters of various food stores inadvertently.It is said that that invention won some achievement award that year... Pork, a real common sense concept, began to be supplied to the public in large quantities.By 1964, meat tickets were once abolished.Moreover, at the cheapest time, it was only four cents and eight cents a catty.Fresh pork can be enriched into the meat warehouse for war preparation again.It is said that the meat depots have run out of storage, and the meat that has been stored for too long is an exception to be supplied to the common people.Flour increased from three catties to five catties per person per month.Rice increased from one catty to two catties.Soybean oil has increased from three taels to five taels.Soap, soda, matches, and light bulbs are still available by ticket, but they can be bought by ticket after all.So ordinary people feel that life is not far from communism.In 1965, the bodies of the eldest sons and daughters of the Republic accelerated their development and growth at the speed of the "Great Leap Forward" in the days just after the famine years.It seems that once the opportunity is missed, there will be no conditions to develop and grow.

If there is any sense of urgency in people's minds, it is - war... against imperialism and revisionism, with 700 million people and 700 million soldiers. This year, every window in the homes of ordinary people in the city was pasted with air-raid paper strips, and the shrill air-raid sirens often sounded suddenly in the sky. The quiet corridor in the school - all the classroom doors are suddenly opened, and the students run downstairs in an orderly team to conduct "air defense and explosion protection drills". The students came out of the teaching building and came to the playground—there was a teacher in the middle of the playground holding a flag to command, and the formation spread out...

Announcer: Attention!Now... there is an atomic flash on the left front... The students facing the front immediately turned their backs, prostrated themselves on the ground, and at the same time covered their eyes with "eight fingers" and pressed their ears with two thumbs with both hands. Some teachers and students put circles cut from cardboard on the kneeling students.It says "head", "back", "chest", "left leg", "right arm" and so on - which means that these parts of their body have been "injured". The radio announces: Shockwave has passed...

Teams of students ran out of the building quickly, most of them were female students.They represent the "ambulancemen" and bandage the "injured" students with white cloth triangular scarves. They do it pretty seriously. A female classmate saw that there were rescuers for the "wounded" nearby, holding a triangular scarf, she didn't know who to save for a moment—she was Hao Mei—she was almost a slim girl. "Hey, Hao Mei, save me, save me..." It was Tsui Hark who was lying on the ground and whispered to her - he had also grown into a half-grown youth...

Hao Mei walked over, knelt down and asked, "Xu Hark, where are you hurt?" Tsui Hark showed her the round card he was holding in his hand with some embarrassment-the two words on it were "buttocks". Tsui Hark said: "Actually, I would rather get a head injury..." "Don't talk!" Hao Mei asked again, "Left hip or right hip?" Tsui Hark looked at the card in his hand: "It's not written here. Just treat it as your entire buttocks." So Hao Mei bandaged her.Tsui Hark's hips were too wide, and the corners of the scarf couldn't be tied together.

Tsui Hark said, "Shoelaces! Quickly untie my shoelaces." Hao Mei hurriedly untie his shoelaces. Whistle... The broadcast voice ordered again: stop.Now start to check the status of each class... Hao Mei was very depressed. There are two lines written on the blackboard in their classroom: Coincidentally, apart from Zhang Meng who is in another class, the protagonists in our book not only entered the same middle school, but also were in the same class. The female teacher standing on the podium said: "I just practiced. Next, the students are free to speak, summarize their experience, and talk about their feelings...Wu Zhenqing, tell me!"

Wu Zhenqing has grown tall and strong.He put down his hands and stood up and said, "Teacher, after the shock wave, can our teaching building still exist?" "Of course it can't exist!" "Then, how could the ambulancemen escape from the building?" "Well, this question makes sense..." The teacher began to write down in the notebook. Tsui Hark raised his hand and said: "Teacher, the atomic bomb exploded, we just like this..." He covered his eyes with "eight fingers" and pressed his ears with two fingers, "Then lay down on the ground, what's the point?"

"You have to assume it's far, far away." "How far away? If it exploded on the other side of the earth, what am I doing lying on the ground in China? But what if it falls from the sky not far from me?" "Then you are unlucky!" said a male classmate. The teacher scolded the male student: "Be serious!" and said to Tsui Hark: "Sit down, it's just you who often ask strange questions!" Tsui Hark muttered and sat down: "Why is it a strange problem?" The teacher looked at everyone and said, "Han Debao, just sit there and talk!"

Han Debao stood up anyway: "Teacher...I...go to the toilet." "Too many things, just entered the classroom and went to the toilet!" Han Debao said as if worried: "I wanted to go to class last class, but the alarm went off..." "Go and come back!" Han Debao secretly made a strange face to his classmates and ran out. Wang Xiaosong raised his hand hesitantly—not only has he grown up obviously, but his appearance has changed, but he still belongs to the handsome type. The teacher was happy, and said, "Wang Xiaosong doesn't take the initiative to speak up, so go ahead."

Wang Xiaosong said: "Teacher, I... am not suitable to be an ambulanceman. Whenever I see wounds and blood, I will faint first..." The teacher was ready to memorize it, and after hearing what he said, he put down the hand holding the small book. Wu Zhenqing said: "Yes. He is like that. He suffers from hemophobia!" Several classmates laughed. The teacher said: "Don't laugh!" A male classmate stood up to express his opinion.A female classmate seemed to disagree with what he said and stood up to refute.Several female students stood up to express their support.

... Han Debao, who came back from the toilet, actively participated in the debate, pointing fingers and talking freely.Judging from the expressions of the female classmates, he was clearly on the opposite side of them. The teacher looked left and right, not knowing who to listen to.
Under the shadow of war, their middle school years entered 1966.The Third World War did not start quickly, but an unprecedented political movement took place in China - called the "Cultural Revolution"...