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Chapter 9 4

annual ring 梁晓声 4103Words 2018-03-19
After the series came back, Wang Xiaosong knelt on the ground of his own house. The mother held the broom in her hand and said, "You still have to take Hao Mei with you! Fortunately, she is back too! If something happens to her, can you take responsibility? Can you be worthy of her parents!" Wang Xiaosong said: "Mom, I won't go in series again." "Little Er, bring the scissors!" The younger brother handed the scissors to the mother. Wang Xiaosong said: "Mom, please forgive me." Mother said sternly: "Low your head!" Wang Xiaosong lowered his head...

The scissors cut, and locks of hair fell to the ground. His mother shaved Wang Xiaosong's "ghost head" cruelly, so that he would not be allowed to go out and connect indiscriminately.After shaving her head, my mother said: "Tomorrow you go to the countryside to see your aunt. Now she is in a meteorological school." Wang Xiaosong agreed.
weather school. A bench next to the campus green space. Wang Xiaosong and his aunt were sitting there. Xiao Song said: "Auntie, I miss you so much and always want to come to the countryside to see you, but now I am too nervous. I just got back together, and I got the school to hold an experience sharing meeting, and I have to continue to catch capitalist roaders in the party."

My aunt asked: "It's interesting to go in series, isn't it? Then you can see the world!" Xiao Song was a little excited: "Yes, I met Chairman Mao. He is really healthy and caring about the young Red Guard. When he met us, everyone cried. We also met Deputy Commander Lin. So many reporters took pictures of us. .” Auntie became pensive. Xiao Song asked, "Auntie, what's the matter with you?" My aunt woke up: "Ah, I was thinking, I came to the meteorological school this time, and I wanted to study meteorology, but my elder brother who was the village party secretary was also labeled as a capitalist roader, so I couldn't study meteorology."

Xiao Song hurriedly asked: "Then why don't you go to my house?" My aunt shook her head: "My parents are not in good health, I have to do all the work at home, and there is Xiuxiu." Xiuxiu is the child my aunt gave birth to in his family that year. Wang Xiaosong said, "By the way, where is Xiuxiu? I have to meet her." "In the house, let's go in." On the boulevard, Xiuxiu, who was more than five years old, ran towards her. She called "Mom". Xiaosong and aunt greeted her, and Xiaosong picked up Xiuxiu. Xiao Song hugged Xiuxiu and said, "Xiuxiu is already this big! Xiuxiu, do you know me?"

Xiuxiu shook her head, and said, "Yes, you are brother Xiaosong." The aunt smiled: "Yes, this is Brother Xiaosong." Xiuxiu said: "Brother Song, I have known you for a long time, and my mother misses you every day." Xiao Song kissed the child and sang: "A newly built house with snow-white walls and a portrait of Chairman Mao hanging in the house..." The three walked towards the house talking and laughing. Back from the countryside, Wang Xiaosong's main job is housework. With his back bare and trousers rolled up, he made briquettes in the midday sun.His head was cut into a "ghost head" by his mother, so he wore a single hat, which looked a bit strange.

A woman came to his house and asked, "Xiao Song, are you making coal cakes?" "Yes, auntie, the sun is good today, I want to do more." The woman praised him: "This child is really helping the family! Why are you wearing a hat with a bare back?" Wang Xiaosong faltered: "I'm afraid I'll be in the sun for a long time...dizziness." The woman answered absently and walked into his house. Another woman walked into his house. Another woman entered his home.Before entering the door, he spied around, as if he was afraid of being followed. Wang Xiaosong couldn't help being suspicious.Don't do it, quietly walked into the house and listened outside the back room door.

The mother and four women are discussing something.All of them looked frowning and bewildered. "If we don't find someone out and fight around, those young Red Guards will come again!" "It's not bad, I will definitely come again!" "Yesterday they yelled five times and drank six times, but I was scared to death. I have never seen that kind of battle." "I don't know whose child it is, why did it come to a small street factory like ours to 'stir the flames'!" "Oh, is the Five Continents shaking!" Mother said: "Even if it's a play for those kids, it must be done, right?"

The women said, "Yeah yeah..." "Factory Manager Zhang founded our small factory, and we housewives have a place to work and earn money. Besides, he has nothing to do with it. It is not easy to work hard for us all year round." The mother said: "I heard that his woman has heart disease. He is the father of four and a half children. We can't do things that are outrageous!" "Yes, yes, that's why the sisters recommended the four of us to discuss with you. Everyone says you are a woman who can make big decisions." "Ordinarily, you shouldn't be involved in this matter. You just applied to join the factory, and you haven't been approved to officially work yet."

"The sisters said, if you can take a little grievance for the sisters and the factory, in fact, for yourself, then everyone will worship you as a living Bodhisattva in the future." "Think about it, if you let those children mess up a small factory, wouldn't you have nowhere to go to work?" The mother realized something, and she asked, "What do you mean—" "Let's just get straight to the point, you...can you give up your face and pretend to be a 'capitalist roader'? Anyway, those half-grown kids don't know who is real and who is fake."

Mother was taken aback for a moment, and gradually became more reserved.Gradually, I found it ridiculous again, and couldn't help laughing: "Me? Pretending to be a capitalist roader? Which sister has such a vision, just look at me?" "this……" "Hey, from everyone's point of view, follow the mass line in everything." The expressions of the women are a little unnatural. Wang Xiaosong broke into the back room and shouted: "Why don't you pretend to be a 'capitalist roader'? My mother is not a living Bodhisattva! I won't go to work in your little broken factory in the future!"

His mother slapped him across the face: "How can you participate in the affairs of adults? Get out of here!" Wang Xiaosong still wanted to say something, but his mother raised his hand again, so he had no choice but to withdraw angrily. Mother said, "I don't think there's anything wrong with me." "I'm afraid I have to wear a tall hat." "Then wear it." "It is necessary to hang a sign." "Then hang up." "You have to make funny faces too, it's a fake show, but you have to sing it for real!" "Then paint it." "I have to shave my head..." The mother immediately said seriously: "That won't work! If your face is smeared, you can go home and wash it off before you go out. If you shave your devil's head, do you want me to see people? If you want to shave your devil's head, you should hire another wise man!" All the women hurriedly said, "Don't shave, don't shave!" "Don't worry, don't worry, just talk!" Wang Xiaosong was so angry that he punched the dirt wall outside the door.
Night. Wang Xiaosong's house. The moonlight shone on the kang, and the younger siblings fell asleep.Mother opened her eyes wide, looking at the roof. Wang Xiaosong leaned over to his mother and said, "Mom, are you stupid?" My mother said: "Mom is not stupid. Mom just wants to have a job and earn money so that you can eat better, dress better, and go to school to afford tuition fees. I don't need my mother to issue free certificates everywhere for you." .” Wang Xiaosong said: "Then you can't...Mom, I beg you, don't let others manipulate you tomorrow." My mother said: "If you say it, you will be splashed with water. You have already promised, and you cannot go back on your word."
Three tour trucks with drums and gongs.In the car, some secretaries, directors, directors, and factory directors wearing tall hats, hanging signs, and painting ghost heads... bent down and bowed their heads, and "everyone took their positions." The mother, who also wore a tall hat, hung a sign, and painted a grimace, was "arrested" by the women in front of the car. Mother can't get in the car.She stretched out her hand to the people in the car, and said angrily, "Hi! Can't you give me a hand? Are you blind?" So several hands reached out to her at the same time. The women also lifted her from behind. My mother got into the car and muttered, "He's a big man, he doesn't even have a penny!" Mother looked left and right at her partner—saw a fat man on her left, the sign wire digging deep into the muscles of his neck. His mother criticized him: "How can you 'agree' to make you such a heavy brand?" The fat man raised his head slightly, and looked at his mother in astonishment as he looked at someone from Martian... The mother said: "It's been a long time, and you still haven't strangled your head? You are so stupid, you still don't carry it on the car board." on board. But the man said: "This is not acceptable, this is not an honest attitude." He himself resumed the hanging method just now. This time it was his mother's turn to look at him in astonishment. Wang Xiaosong was caught in the crowd of spectators, looking at his mother from afar with complicated emotions. When the car drove away, his mother also saw him and said loudly: "Pick up the beans! Mom will stew the beans for you tonight!" Send those who are wandering to the outskirts of the city.You have to walk back on foot, and you are not allowed to take a car.It is not allowed to enter the urban area until it is dark. This is called "sending the plague god"...
Wang Xiaosong's house. Three children are pinching beans. "Xiao Song, come with me to pick up your mother!" Wang Xiaosong and his younger brothers and sisters looked up and saw Wu Zhenqing's father, who was carrying a marching water bottle and a thermos bottle tied with a belt that could be carried on the back. Wang Xiaosong and his younger siblings stood up at the same time. Wu Zhenqing's father said to his younger siblings: "Don't go, just stay at home for me!" Seeing that he spoke harshly, the younger siblings sat down fearlessly. He said to Wang Xiaosong, "Bring a wet towel."
On the suburban highway, Wu Zhenqing's father carried Wang Xiaosong on his back on a bicycle.Wang Xiaosong was carrying a thermos bottle tied with a string on his back. Wang Xiaosong asked, "Uncle, did Zhenqing send you a letter?" "Come on, where is Ergou in Guangzhou! I haven't fucking been to Guangzhou yet. Wait for him to come back. I will shave his ghost head like your mother treated you!" At the fork in the road, Wu Zhenqing's father said, "Get out of the car!" Both got out of the car. Wu Zhenqing's father said: "The first few batches of 'Plague Gods' were sent to the wild forest over there. I guess your mother and the others were also sent there. Go find them!" Wang Xiaosong looked at the woods, at Old Wu, hesitating, as if hoping that Old Wu would accompany him. Wu Zhenqing's father looked at it and said, "I can't accompany you. No one will be charged if my son finds his mother. I am an adult, so I will accompany you. That's a different matter. This is a revolutionary principle." You still don't understand?" Wang Xiaosong said: "It's so far away, how can my mother and I go back?" "Er Gouzi's father will also come by bike in a while. We will wait for you two here, and we will secretly carry you back!" "Then... what about those people?" "Of course I don't care about those people! This is not an outing, and it includes pick-up and drop-off!" Wang Xiaosong went alone. Wu Zhenqing's father warned afterwards: "The water in the pot is for your mother to wash your face! I dare not carry you on your face until you wash your face. You will be stopped at the entrance of the city!"
Quiet wild woods. The evening sun shines into the forest. Wang Xiaosong called and searched: "Mom, mom!" He spotted a figure and ran over quickly: "Mom!" The person with his back turned his head, it was not his mother, but a man.Wang Xiaosong was shocked by his blackened face and numb expression. Wang Xiaosong retreated. The man turned his head slowly. Here and there, the backs of the "Plague Gods" were squatting or standing, and Wang Xiaosong seemed to be in a strange dream. He finally found his mother... The mother bent down to pick something under the roots of the trees in the grass. Wang Xiaosong called out: "Mom!" Mother straightened her back and raised her head: "Why are you here? Look at how many mushrooms Mom has picked!" Mother used the top hat she was wearing to hold the mushrooms she picked. Wang Xiaosong took the marching water bottle from his body, poured water slowly, and his mother washed his face with the water. The water in the camping pot ran out, so he took down the thermos bottle and poured out the water in it. Suddenly several hands stretched out to catch the water—several "plague gods" gathered at some unknown time, vying to be the first. The water was poured out again, but their faces were not completely washed, and all of them were neither black nor white. After the mother wiped her face, she handed the towel to a "plague god". They fight over towels. Wang Xiaosong poured the mushroom from the tall hat into his mother's lapel and kicked it away. But my mother went to pick a sign and tore off the white paper pasted on it. Mother picked another brand and said as she picked it up, "Pick all of them and go home, you can use them in your daily life."
The outline of the city can be seen in the distance. Wang Xiaosong and his mother were carried on the front and back of the two bicycles. Wang Xiaosong also carried a few pieces of plywood he had picked up. Behind them, the setting sun is like blood... At night, Wang Xiaosong and his mother returned home. The younger sister, who was sleeping in the corner with her brother hugging each other, threw herself at her mother, examining her face. Mother said: "It's not black, is it? Did I say, mom is still your old mom, and it won't change at all." The younger brother got off the kang and held the basket of beans to his mother: "Mom, all the beans are pinched!" Mother said: "Mom is tired. Let's stew tomorrow." The younger brother pointed to the table: "Mom doesn't need to cook anymore, look!" There are several lunch boxes on the table. Mother opened a lunch box - white rice and scrambled eggs. Another lunch box was opened—steamed buns and two small fried fishes. Mother asked: "Is it from your Aunt Wu's family and Aunt Xu's family?" The younger sister rushed to answer: "No. It was given by the aunts who came here. The second brother said that he wanted to wait for mom to come back and eat together!" "What auntie, they are all bad women!" Wang Xiaosong picked up a lunch box and wanted to throw it away. His mother stopped him and gave him a light slap: "Go, get two bowls." Mother picked vegetables from the lunch box into the bowl-and pulled out a paper roll. Mother opened the scroll, and inside was money. She handed the paper to Wang Xiaosong and ordered: "Nian Nian." Wang Xiaosong read reluctantly: "Eldest sister, avoid the turmoil for a few days, so you can come to work quietly. The sisters pooled in the ten yuan, so you spend it first..."
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