Chapter 10 5
Wu Zhenqing and Tsui Hark came back in tandem, and like Wang Xiaosong, they just stayed at home all day.One day, Wu Zhenqing came out of the house following his father, holding pancakes in one hand and a pickle in the other, and took a bite of pancakes and pickles.
Han Debao came and called him: "Zhenqing, come here."
Wu Zhenqing looked at his father - he also wore a single hat, and sure enough, like Wang Xiaosong, his "ghost head" was shaved.
Father was noncommittal.
Wu Zhenqing asked: "What's the matter, tell me!"
Seeing Wu Zhenqing's father staring at him not so welcomingly, Han Debao didn't dare to walk over rashly: "Come here for a while! Just a few words!"
Wu Zhenqing had no choice but to walk over.
Han Debao said: "You said, someone has to carry the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution to the end, right?"
Wu Zhenqing didn't even look at him, just took a bite of the pancake and pickle.
Han Debao said again: "There is no order in the revolution. When you were revolutionizing, I was a free and unfettered faction. Now that you are not revolutionizing, it happens that I am revolutionizing. This is also considered as successor to successor, right?"
"I'm not dead, so what's next for you!"
"Yes, yes, I was wrong. I mean—some people have some people's historical mission, don't they?"
"Don't reason with me! What exactly do you want me to do, just tell me!"
"I want... political power... that is the stamp of our school... Anyway, you don't go to school, and holding it in your hand is meaningless to you."
Wu Zhenqing suddenly realized: "That thing? You go to Tsui Hark! I remember he said he found it again. If he is willing to give it to you, I have no objection!"
After he finished speaking, he turned and left.
Tsui Hark was wearing a single hat, and was holding the rough in front of his house with his bare back.
Han Debao came, squatted beside him, and said, "You can't do it! There is less grass, and it will crack if it dries up!"
Tsui Hark looked at him: "Isn't it possible? Then you can cut grass for me!"
"Hey, I have something else to do!"
Tsui Hark said: "Then you go to work!" He slammed a large handful of mud into the mold, splashing mud on Han Debao's face.
Han Debao said: "You boy, why are you unfriendly to me?"
"I'm doing it here, and you are pointing fingers at me, are you annoying? Tell me what's going on, and leave quickly!"
"Okay, I say! How is our relationship?"
Tsui Hark said solemnly: "We are doing well! Who provoked our relationship?"
"That's not true. You...you give me the school badge! Our organization needs it very much!"
Tsui Hark looked at him thoughtfully, but didn't answer right away.
Han Debao said: "Zhenqing has already agreed."
Tsui Hark stood up without saying a word, and walked home.
Han Debao hurriedly said: "Hey, I haven't finished talking yet, so don't go."
Tsui Hark doesn't look back...
Han Debao muttered: "It's really not interesting" - stand up and leave.
Tsui Hark came out of the house and called him: "Debao!..."
When Han Debao turned around, he saw Xu Hark was carrying a small red cloth bag with a muddy hand.
He ran back, stood in front of Tsui Hark, stretched out his hands, and bent down: "On behalf of our 'Reverse to the End' combat team, I accept the power handed over by the 'Learning to Breakthrough' combat team! Twenty-one of my members swear to Broken, blood..."
Tsui Hark said, "What? You only have 21 people and you want to take over the regime!"
He put his hands behind his back.
Han Debao said: "Don't be like this! The Communist Party of China has grown from a few people! If you don't give it, isn't it tantamount to playing tricks on me!"
Tsui Hark asked, "Zhenqing really agreed?"
Han Debao: "You are not a human being!" He grabbed the single cap from his head, "Here is the military cap for you! A real military cap! Look, the number of the army is printed on the inside of the cap!" Saying this, he put the cap on It was folded and stuffed into Tsui Hark's trouser pocket.
Tsui Hark silently gave him the stamp.
The stamp was wrapped with the armband of the Red Guards—Han Debao held it with one hand and unfolded the armband with the other. Seeing that it was the stamp, he immediately grasped his hand and looked at Xu Ke gratefully.
Tsui Hark said: "You are called grabbing the fruits of revolution."
Han Debao said: "What are you doing with the bill?"
Tsui Hark said: "I can't take care of national affairs now. My kitchen leaks and it's too small. I want to build a small house."
Han Debao said: "When we have consolidated the regime, I will bring people to help you build it!" He punched Tsui Hark in a friendly way, and then asked in confusion, "Hey, why didn't you reform? Aren't you poor? ?”
Tsui Hark said: "What if you are still poor after the reform? It is not allowed to divide the land!"
Han Debao said: "It's better to keep an eye on the scenery!"
"Well, when you revolutionize the whole country and the mountains and rivers are red, let's follow the glory of the revolution!"
Some more mud splashed on Han Debao's face. He patted Xu Hark on the shoulder, stood up and said, "Don't worry, I will call you a democrat who helped the revolution!"
It was raining heavily.Wu Zhenqing and his son pulled a cart across a railway line, and the wheels got stuck in the rails—the father and son tried their best to lift the cart—the cart was lifted out, but it rushed forward out of control, and the wheel crushed one of Wu's father's legs... Wu Zhenqing rushed to his father, hugged his father's upper body in his arms, and shouted loudly. He picked up his father's trouser legs—blood. Wu Zhenqing looked around, but there was no one—only the car was planted by the roadside. He yelled in all directions for help... The rain splashed on his weeping face.
Wu Zhenqing's home. The door of the back room was ajar—you could see a corner of the kang and my father's splinted leg.The mother said to herself: "How good is this, the whole family relies on you to eat alone!" Father's angry voice: "Stop nagging! Am I willing!" Wu Zhenqing sat on the stool with his head bowed, while Wang Xiaosong and Xu Ke looked at him sympathetically. Wu Zhenqing stood up suddenly, and shouted into the back room: "Mom, I want to pull the cart instead of my father!" Mother's voice: "Can you pull it? Talk big!" Wu Zhenqing said: "I don't pull much, can't I pull less? Strength comes from hard work!" Tsui Hark patted him on the shoulder: "If I'm free, I'll help you!" Wang Xiaosong said: "There is also me." At noon, under the scorching sun. Tsui Hark and Wang Xiaosong helped Wu Zhenqing pull the cart one after the other. They sat on the side of the road to rest—Wu Zhenqing paid for popsicles. Wu Zhenqing said: "Three sticks and five cents." Tsui Hark said: "Three points!" The old lady selling popsicles looked at this and that, not knowing who to listen to. Wang Xiaosong resolutely: "Three points!" Wu Zhenqing said: "Then, listen to them." The old lady said: "I've already made money, why don't you want to eat a popsicle for five cents?" Tsui Hark pretended to be serious and said: "Chairman Mao taught us: 'Financial expenditure should be based on the principle of economy.'" The old lady looked at him blankly.
The three good friends were sitting on the edge of the sidewalk sucking popsicles, watching the people wearing various armbands coming and going, and the promotional van passing slowly, all seemed indifferent.
In Xu Ke’s house, the small adobe building has basically been built—three good friends, one is laying linoleum on the roof, the other is plastering the walls, and the other is installing window frames.
Night.Wang Xiaosong's house - the family is having dinner. There was a knock on the door—Wang Xiaosong put down his rice bowl and opened the door. Standing outside was Hao Mei. Mother said: "Xiaomei, come in quickly, have you eaten yet?" Hao Mei shook her head, covered her face with her hands, and wept sideways. Hao Mei said: "My father and my mother were both sent to the cadre school, and our home was taken over by someone else." Mother was shocked: "Why, even your hut is taken? Don't worry, don't cry, eat first. After dinner, I will take you to them to reason with them!" Hao Mei said, "I didn't occupy my hut. But the adults and children who came in and out of that family didn't look at me well. I dare not live with them." The mother had no idea for a while, and said nothing. Wang Xiaosong said: "Mom, let Hao Mei live in our house first!" "This is fine. But..." Hao Mei said: "I don't mind being crowded, as long as I have a place to sleep at night. I'm also willing to help with housework." Mother walked up to Hao Mei and wiped her tears: "Look at what you said pitifully. Our family doesn't have that much housework. As long as you don't feel wronged, you can stay here." The younger sister said: "Mom, when my aunt lived in our house, didn't she all fall asleep!" Mother looked up the kang, and then at Wang Xiaosong, as if she had some scruples about not being able to speak clearly. Wang Xiaosong said: "Mom, Xu Hark's little Pianxia is ready for people to live in. I can go to his house to sleep and be with Tsui Hark as a companion." The mother said: "That's it, Hao Mei can sleep more comfortably!" Then she said to Hao Mei: "Son, you take this as your home. It's better not to see outsiders at all." Hao Mei looked at Wang Xiaosong and nodded, "Mmm..."
Wu Zhenqing, Xu Ke, and Wang Xiaosong came to Hao Mei's house boldly in turn.They all wore Red Guard armbands and chairman badges pinned to their chests.Wu Zhenqing got a military uniform out of nowhere and wore a military belt around his waist.They beat the door. Menacing questions came from inside the house: "Who?" Wu Zhenqing was also unkind: "Me!" "Who are you?" "Stop talking! Open the door!" The door opened—the three couldn't help but rush in. "Hey, hey, what are you doing? This is a private residence, do you know that?" The middle-aged man who opened the door had a towel around his neck, his chin and cheeks were full of soap foam, and he held a razor in his hand. Wu Zhenqing put one hand on his waist: "Is it your private residence, or someone else's private residence?" "This... used to belong to someone else's house... now... now it belongs to my house." The man was a little bit taken aback by Wu Zhenqing's approach. Wu Zhenqing asked: "Which party approved it?" "Our district committee is a revolutionary organization." "As far as I know, there are more than a dozen organizations in your district committee! Who knows if your organization is a revolutionary organization?" "Yes, yes! It must be! We were the first batch to rebel against the District Committee. Our organization is the 'Defending the Country' combat team." Wu Zhenqing turned his face slightly and asked Wang Xiaosong: "Have you heard of it?" Wang Xiaosong shook his head contemptuously: "Never heard of it." Wu Zhenqing said: "You are only a small group! So my subordinates have never even heard of it." The man said: "You are..." He looked up and down suspiciously at Wu Zhenqing. Tsui Hark sternly shouted: "Presumptuous! Call me 'You'." The man trembled in fright: "Don't misunderstand the three young Red Guards. Don't misunderstand, we can't flood the Dragon King Temple, and the family doesn't recognize the family!" Wu Zhenqing arrogantly: "Who is your family?" Tsui Hark said: "We are the headquarters of the 'Ghost Seeing Sorrow' joint operation! Ghost, see, worry! Can you understand what it means?" "understand……" Wang Xiaosong said: "He is the captain of the Death Squad of our United Headquarters! He made great contributions in the battle when the city's rebels captured the Provincial Party Committee Building!" Wu Zhenqing said: "Our Death Squadron had already taken a good look at this house and planned to expropriate it in the name of revolution. Since you took it without knowing the situation, you will take it. But, maybe one day, we may take it." Come to recover. If any piece of furniture is found to be damaged during the recovery, you are the only one to ask!" The man said: "We must love, we must love." A five or six-year-old boy poked his head out of Hao Mei's small room, peeping uneasily. Tsui Hark made an evil look at him, which made him cry—the man quickly pulled him away. The phone rang——Wang Xiaosong walked over to answer the phone, and respectfully said to Wu Zhenqing, "Captain Wu, the number of the deputy commander." Wu Zhenqing answered the phone: "Well, it's me. This family is quite interesting. In my opinion, let him take care of this house for us first." With one hand on his waist, he handed the phone to the man: "We The deputy chief wants to give you some instructions." The "deputy head" is Han Debao, who is on the phone at school.He said: "Listen honestly, if you dare to disrespect or disobey my subordinates a little bit, my five thousand soldiers of 'Ghost Seeing Sorrow' will deal a devastating blow to your organization! Including you Myself! Our revolutionary purpose is that those who follow us will prosper, those who oppose us will perish, and those who resist will be severely suppressed." The man kept saying: "Don't dare, dare not! Long live the red terror, long live!" He was completely intimidated.After putting down the phone, he looked at Wu Zhenqing and the others anxiously. Wu Zhenqing instructed Tsui Hark: "Take whatever you should take." So Tsui Hark and Wang Xiaosong walked into Hao Mei's hut—Wang Xiaosong dragged out an old suitcase from under the bed familiarly, and they stuffed useful and useless things that could fit into the suitcase as much as possible. In the living room——Wu Zhenqing had changed his face at this time, playing finger games, teasing the child in the man's arms: "Old man, old man, come out! Old man, old man is gone, old man, old man is here again..." The kid smiled. Wu Zhenqing said: "Uncle is not so terrible, right? Uncles today 'rebellion is justified' is for your generation and the next generation, so that you will not suffer twice in the future, and you will not suffer twice." He asked the man again: "Yes No?" "Yes, yes, the general direction of our revolution is the same." Xu Hark and Wang Xiaosong came out of Hao Mei's hut, one carrying a heavy-looking suitcase, and the other carrying a large package made of bed sheets across his shoulder. Wang Xiaosong was still carrying the accordion case. The man asked: "You are..." Wu Zhenqing said: "We will supervise the daughter of this family. In accordance with Chairman Mao's teaching of carrying forward revolutionary humanitarianism, we will bring these commonly used things to her." Wang Xiaosong said: "After we leave, you have to seal up this room; no one is allowed to enter without the permission of my 'Ghost Seeing Sorrow' Joint Operation Headquarters." "Do it, do it..."
The three of them were walking on the road carrying things. Han Debao led more than a dozen people, riding bicycles to meet him. Han Debao stopped the car, stepped on the edge of the sidewalk and asked, "It's over so soon? Did my phone call serve as a deterrent?" Wu Zhenqing said: "It's more than a little bit! I heard it all from the side. What you said, it's really..." - no adjectives, he looked at Wang Xiaosong. Wang Xiaosong opened his mouth and came: "The black clouds are overwhelming the city and want to destroy it!" Han Debao smiled triumphantly: "No, I'm not at ease, I personally brought people to cheer you on!" Wu Zhenqing said gratefully: "I will never forget your revolutionary and just actions for the rest of my life!" Tsui Hark asked, "Where did you get so many vehicles?" Han Debao said: "It was confiscated from the teachers! Give it to Hao Mei! I am busy, and I have to organize the teachers to learn the proletarian revolutionary education line. It is really like Chairman Mao said, consolidating power is much more difficult than seizing power!" He turned around Bicycles, lead the crowd away. The three good friends looked at them, seemingly envious for a while. Tsui Hark looked at Wu Zhenqing and said, "We should have taken power in the first place." Wu Zhenqing said: "Forget it, didn't you hear him say that consolidating power is more difficult than seizing power!" The three good friends were lying crowded in the "side building" of Xu Ke's house, where there were a few temporary beds made of wooden planks. Wang Xiaosong looked at the door and said to Tsui Hark, "Your carpentry skills are really good!" Tsui Hark said, "Without the pieces of plywood you gave me, I wouldn't be able to make this door." Wang Xiaosong said, "It wasn't my mother, and I couldn't pick up those pieces of plywood." From the door leading to the back room, there was the moan of Xu's mother. Tsui Hark quickly jumped off the "bed", and ran into the back room without putting on his shoes. Tsui Hark asked Mom: "Mom, what's wrong with you, Mom? What's wrong with you?" Xu's mother said, "Quick... water... my heart is blocked." Xu Ke brought water and said: "Mom, drink slowly, don't choke. Mom, after I have cleaned up the hut thoroughly, I will install a heated kang for you, and you will no longer have to lie in this room without seeing the sun all day long." I'm in my house...the hut I built is facing the sun! I'll take you to the hut now to have a look?" After a while Tsui Hark came out from the back room. Wang Xiaosong said: "Xu Hark is really filial!" Wu Zhenqing said: "It's just recently. Have you forgotten the things about him making his mother angry?" After the three of them lay down again, Wu Zhenqing suddenly thought of someone.He seemed to be talking to himself: "I haven't seen Zhang Meng for a long time, and I don't know how she is doing." Wang Xiaosong said: "Yes. After all, we belong to the 'Red Five'. But our family is poorer, and politically we are much more optimistic than her and Hao Mei." Wu Zhenqing said: "Her situation is not as good as Hao Mei's. Hao Mei still has our concern." Tsui Hark said: "You guys are so redundant, Zhang Meng doesn't need us to care about her at all! I think she's living a pretty good life, and she's still as proud as before!" Wu Zhenqing: "How do you know?" Tsui Hark: "I saw her again, holding hands with a man, walking slowly, talking and laughing." Wu Zhenqing asked: "Hand in hand? I don't believe it!" Xu Ke gave him a white look: "That man is a leader of the city's Red Congress. He's a freshman in No. 2 Middle School. Do you still remember the Red Guards Pledge Meeting, where a boy took the lead in shouting 'Squeeze London, liberate Paris, and occupy New York? , Liberate Moscow'? That's the kid. I recognized him right away! Zhang Meng also saw me, and raised her head high, pretending not to see it." Wu Zhenqing said: "This is impossible. This is simply impossible! Zhang Meng hates everyone who wears the armband of the Red Guards in her heart—I know this!" Tsui Hark said, "I don't have to force you to believe it either!" Wang Xiaosong pondered: "I don't think there is anything impossible." Wu Zhenqing got annoyed and said, "What are we talking about her for? Talk about something else." Tsui Hark said, "Did you mention her first?" Wu Zhenqing said: "I...I don't want to be hated by her. On the day her house was raided, I also watched around. She found me...Actually, I didn't just gloat to watch the excitement, but just wanted to find an opportunity secretly , comfort her." Tsui Hark said: "Then you are always so fierce to her!" "I don't understand what's going on with me. It seems that if I don't treat her like that, I don't know how to treat her. Maybe, I can only treat her that way." Tsui Hark asked, "What do you mean it can only be like that!" "Then what else can I do to her?" "You can also do what Xiao Song did to Hao Mei!" Wu Zhenqing sighed: "It would be great if my mother saw her when she was young." Tsui Hark leaned over and studied Wu Zhenqing's face. "What are you looking at me for?" "Yeah, I get it all." "Even I don't understand, what can you understand?"
Wang Xiaosong said: "These days, I always want to sing." Tsui Hark said: "Men worry about singing, women worry about crying." Wu Zhenqing said: "Let's sing that song that Hao Mei always loves!" Wang Xiaosong asked: "The Soviet Union's 'Three Sets of Cars'?" "Don't sing. What's so good about the song 'Old Xiu'!" Tsui Hark said. Wu Zhenqing said: "Sing!" Wang Xiaosong came to reconcile: "Let me whistle!" So he played "Three Sets of Cars". So Wu Zhenqing and Tsui Hark also hummed along. Tears gradually flowed from the corners of Wu Zhenqing's eyes.
After a few months, they all had to sign up to go to the countryside.Including Hao Mei.Even Han Debao, who had been in charge of the "power" in school for a while, was not lucky to be an exception. Leaving quickly, the three good friends, Hao Mei and Han Debao, sat in two rows on the steps of the river embankment, looking at the Songhua River flowing slowly under the moonlight. Tsui Hark suddenly stood up, trying to take off his vest. Wu Zhenqing asked, "What are you doing?" "I'll be working in the Great Northern Wilderness in two days, and I'll have another swim!" Wu Zhenqing sternly stopped him and said, "You're just digging like a dog. What can you do? I can't see where you are when you sink to the bottom. I can't save you. Sit down!" Tsui Hark was obedient and sat down obediently. Han Debao said: "If I had known that they would be treated the same, why would I still hold power with enthusiasm!" The figure of a couple passed in front of them. Their heads turned in unison, following... Tsui Hark looked at Wu Zhenqing and asked, "Is it Zhang Meng?" Han Debao said: "Like her back." Hao Mei called tentatively: "Zhang Meng!" The slender figure stopped and turned to look at them—the two figures separated. Xu Ke quickly said, "The one holding her arm is the head of the 'Red Congress'." The two figures walked forward again, holding each other's arms again. Tsui Hark said, "I think she clearly recognized us." Han Debao said: "They're so fucking sentimental!" Hao Mei stood up and ran down the steps. Wang Xiaosong called: "Hao Mei!" Hao Mei caught up with the two figures and stopped in front of them. Zhang Meng looked up: "Hao Mei?" Then she said to her partner, "I'm a classmate in primary school, you wait for me in front." He took a look at Hao Mei, and had no choice but to walk forward alone. Hao Mei asked, "I called you, but you didn't recognize my voice?" "I heard it." "I heard it, but you don't want to talk to me?" "I don't want to pay attention to them." "What's wrong with them? They want to be like lovers with that guy?" Zhang Meng said, "It's not like." Hao Mei exclaimed in shock, "You!... At the whole district's criticism meeting, he whipped my father with a belt, and he whipped your father too!" "But it is also he who intends to carry out persuasion work to 'liberate' my father as soon as possible, and strive to integrate my father into the 'revolutionary committee' as soon as possible." Hao Mei said: "But because my father didn't want to expose your father against his conscience, he and my mother were sent to the farm for reformation!" "My father used your father heavily in the past, and now your father is being wronged for my father. What can you be angry about?" Hao Mei said, "Shameful!" On the steps, Wang Xiaosong wanted to stand up. Wu Zhenqing grabbed his arm: "Don't go! We boys don't get involved in the affairs between the two girls!" Zhang Meng said: "I am ashamed? But I will continue to stay in the city. You are glorious, but you will make a red heart in the vast world, roll in the mud, grind your old hands...and—forever..." Hao Mei was too angry to speak. Zhang Meng said again: "I will not accompany you!" Holding up the skirt with both hands, she made a "curtsy" and walked away. Hao Mei burst into tears... On the steps, Tsui Hark suddenly stood up and shouted: "Zhang Meng! The kid you hooked up with is my godson!" Zhang Meng's partner threw off Zhang Meng's arm and strode towards Tsui Hark and the others without hesitation. Wu Zhenqing stood up and stepped down the steps calmly. Tsui Hark, Han Debao, and Wang Xiaosong all stepped down the steps afterward. The other party couldn't help but stopped. Wu Zhenqing and the others were still walking down the steps. Seeing that the situation was not good, Zhang Meng ran over and dragged her partner away.
Wang Xiaosong's house.The three good friends and Hao Mei each carried bundles of luggage, net bags, bags, etc., saying goodbye to the adults.Wang Xiaosong's mother, Wu Zhenqing's father, and Tsui Hark's father sent them off together. Hao Mei looked at Wang Xiaosong's mother and said, "Auntie, please find a way to tell my parents." Mother said: "I will. Don't worry!..." Then she said to Wang Xiaosong, "Take good care of Xiaomei, huh?" Wang Xiaosong looked at his mother with attachment, and nodded silently. Wu Zhenqing's mother said: "You must ask to be separated together, and you must not separate, so that you can take care of each other." Wu Zhenqing's father said to Wu Zhenqing: "Listen to me, you are the biggest, you have the most fucking ideas, you are their big brother. If any of them made a mistake, or didn't learn well, don't plan to come back to see me!" Wu Zhenqing said: "Dad, I will definitely remember your words!" Tsui Hark said to his father: "Dad, you...give my mother... a heated kang in my newly built hut! She hasn't seen the sun for many years." Tsui Hark whimpered like a child. Tsui Hark's father also cried, and couldn't help but hugged his son. Wu Zhenqing said: "Dad, if you have time, help my Uncle Xu and put another layer of wall plaster on their hut, otherwise it will be cold in winter." "It's up to you to ask!"
The parents watched their children off for a long time—the fathers and the mothers all shed tears...
After an almost farewell scene at the train station, the train slowly moved away.As soon as the wheels moved, a female classmate suddenly cried uncontrollably in the carriage—crying so desperately, so lost. Han Debao stood up and looked at the place where the crying came from, sat down and said, "It's Zhang Meng..." Wu Zhenqing and the others looked at each other in blank dismay - it seemed that she did not stay after all.
Trains, cars, horse-drawn carriages... Finally, they came to the Great Northern Wilderness by relying on a pair of feet struggling to walk in the meadow.
It was raining heavily.Wu Zhenqing and his son pulled a cart across a railway line, and the wheels got stuck in the rails—the father and son tried their best to lift the cart—the cart was lifted out, but it rushed forward out of control, and the wheel crushed one of Wu's father's legs... Wu Zhenqing rushed to his father, hugged his father's upper body in his arms, and shouted loudly. He picked up his father's trouser legs—blood. Wu Zhenqing looked around, but there was no one—only the car was planted by the roadside. He yelled in all directions for help... The rain splashed on his weeping face.
Wu Zhenqing's home. The door of the back room was ajar—you could see a corner of the kang and my father's splinted leg.The mother said to herself: "How good is this, the whole family relies on you to eat alone!" Father's angry voice: "Stop nagging! Am I willing!" Wu Zhenqing sat on the stool with his head bowed, while Wang Xiaosong and Xu Ke looked at him sympathetically. Wu Zhenqing stood up suddenly, and shouted into the back room: "Mom, I want to pull the cart instead of my father!" Mother's voice: "Can you pull it? Talk big!" Wu Zhenqing said: "I don't pull much, can't I pull less? Strength comes from hard work!" Tsui Hark patted him on the shoulder: "If I'm free, I'll help you!" Wang Xiaosong said: "There is also me." At noon, under the scorching sun. Tsui Hark and Wang Xiaosong helped Wu Zhenqing pull the cart one after the other. They sat on the side of the road to rest—Wu Zhenqing paid for popsicles. Wu Zhenqing said: "Three sticks and five cents." Tsui Hark said: "Three points!" The old lady selling popsicles looked at this and that, not knowing who to listen to. Wang Xiaosong resolutely: "Three points!" Wu Zhenqing said: "Then, listen to them." The old lady said: "I've already made money, why don't you want to eat a popsicle for five cents?" Tsui Hark pretended to be serious and said: "Chairman Mao taught us: 'Financial expenditure should be based on the principle of economy.'" The old lady looked at him blankly.
The three good friends were sitting on the edge of the sidewalk sucking popsicles, watching the people wearing various armbands coming and going, and the promotional van passing slowly, all seemed indifferent.
In Xu Ke’s house, the small adobe building has basically been built—three good friends, one is laying linoleum on the roof, the other is plastering the walls, and the other is installing window frames.
Night.Wang Xiaosong's house - the family is having dinner. There was a knock on the door—Wang Xiaosong put down his rice bowl and opened the door. Standing outside was Hao Mei. Mother said: "Xiaomei, come in quickly, have you eaten yet?" Hao Mei shook her head, covered her face with her hands, and wept sideways. Hao Mei said: "My father and my mother were both sent to the cadre school, and our home was taken over by someone else." Mother was shocked: "Why, even your hut is taken? Don't worry, don't cry, eat first. After dinner, I will take you to them to reason with them!" Hao Mei said, "I didn't occupy my hut. But the adults and children who came in and out of that family didn't look at me well. I dare not live with them." The mother had no idea for a while, and said nothing. Wang Xiaosong said: "Mom, let Hao Mei live in our house first!" "This is fine. But..." Hao Mei said: "I don't mind being crowded, as long as I have a place to sleep at night. I'm also willing to help with housework." Mother walked up to Hao Mei and wiped her tears: "Look at what you said pitifully. Our family doesn't have that much housework. As long as you don't feel wronged, you can stay here." The younger sister said: "Mom, when my aunt lived in our house, didn't she all fall asleep!" Mother looked up the kang, and then at Wang Xiaosong, as if she had some scruples about not being able to speak clearly. Wang Xiaosong said: "Mom, Xu Hark's little Pianxia is ready for people to live in. I can go to his house to sleep and be with Tsui Hark as a companion." The mother said: "That's it, Hao Mei can sleep more comfortably!" Then she said to Hao Mei: "Son, you take this as your home. It's better not to see outsiders at all." Hao Mei looked at Wang Xiaosong and nodded, "Mmm..."
Wu Zhenqing, Xu Ke, and Wang Xiaosong came to Hao Mei's house boldly in turn.They all wore Red Guard armbands and chairman badges pinned to their chests.Wu Zhenqing got a military uniform out of nowhere and wore a military belt around his waist.They beat the door. Menacing questions came from inside the house: "Who?" Wu Zhenqing was also unkind: "Me!" "Who are you?" "Stop talking! Open the door!" The door opened—the three couldn't help but rush in. "Hey, hey, what are you doing? This is a private residence, do you know that?" The middle-aged man who opened the door had a towel around his neck, his chin and cheeks were full of soap foam, and he held a razor in his hand. Wu Zhenqing put one hand on his waist: "Is it your private residence, or someone else's private residence?" "This... used to belong to someone else's house... now... now it belongs to my house." The man was a little bit taken aback by Wu Zhenqing's approach. Wu Zhenqing asked: "Which party approved it?" "Our district committee is a revolutionary organization." "As far as I know, there are more than a dozen organizations in your district committee! Who knows if your organization is a revolutionary organization?" "Yes, yes! It must be! We were the first batch to rebel against the District Committee. Our organization is the 'Defending the Country' combat team." Wu Zhenqing turned his face slightly and asked Wang Xiaosong: "Have you heard of it?" Wang Xiaosong shook his head contemptuously: "Never heard of it." Wu Zhenqing said: "You are only a small group! So my subordinates have never even heard of it." The man said: "You are..." He looked up and down suspiciously at Wu Zhenqing. Tsui Hark sternly shouted: "Presumptuous! Call me 'You'." The man trembled in fright: "Don't misunderstand the three young Red Guards. Don't misunderstand, we can't flood the Dragon King Temple, and the family doesn't recognize the family!" Wu Zhenqing arrogantly: "Who is your family?" Tsui Hark said: "We are the headquarters of the 'Ghost Seeing Sorrow' joint operation! Ghost, see, worry! Can you understand what it means?" "understand……" Wang Xiaosong said: "He is the captain of the Death Squad of our United Headquarters! He made great contributions in the battle when the city's rebels captured the Provincial Party Committee Building!" Wu Zhenqing said: "Our Death Squadron had already taken a good look at this house and planned to expropriate it in the name of revolution. Since you took it without knowing the situation, you will take it. But, maybe one day, we may take it." Come to recover. If any piece of furniture is found to be damaged during the recovery, you are the only one to ask!" The man said: "We must love, we must love." A five or six-year-old boy poked his head out of Hao Mei's small room, peeping uneasily. Tsui Hark made an evil look at him, which made him cry—the man quickly pulled him away. The phone rang——Wang Xiaosong walked over to answer the phone, and respectfully said to Wu Zhenqing, "Captain Wu, the number of the deputy commander." Wu Zhenqing answered the phone: "Well, it's me. This family is quite interesting. In my opinion, let him take care of this house for us first." With one hand on his waist, he handed the phone to the man: "We The deputy chief wants to give you some instructions." The "deputy head" is Han Debao, who is on the phone at school.He said: "Listen honestly, if you dare to disrespect or disobey my subordinates a little bit, my five thousand soldiers of 'Ghost Seeing Sorrow' will deal a devastating blow to your organization! Including you Myself! Our revolutionary purpose is that those who follow us will prosper, those who oppose us will perish, and those who resist will be severely suppressed." The man kept saying: "Don't dare, dare not! Long live the red terror, long live!" He was completely intimidated.After putting down the phone, he looked at Wu Zhenqing and the others anxiously. Wu Zhenqing instructed Tsui Hark: "Take whatever you should take." So Tsui Hark and Wang Xiaosong walked into Hao Mei's hut—Wang Xiaosong dragged out an old suitcase from under the bed familiarly, and they stuffed useful and useless things that could fit into the suitcase as much as possible. In the living room——Wu Zhenqing had changed his face at this time, playing finger games, teasing the child in the man's arms: "Old man, old man, come out! Old man, old man is gone, old man, old man is here again..." The kid smiled. Wu Zhenqing said: "Uncle is not so terrible, right? Uncles today 'rebellion is justified' is for your generation and the next generation, so that you will not suffer twice in the future, and you will not suffer twice." He asked the man again: "Yes No?" "Yes, yes, the general direction of our revolution is the same." Xu Hark and Wang Xiaosong came out of Hao Mei's hut, one carrying a heavy-looking suitcase, and the other carrying a large package made of bed sheets across his shoulder. Wang Xiaosong was still carrying the accordion case. The man asked: "You are..." Wu Zhenqing said: "We will supervise the daughter of this family. In accordance with Chairman Mao's teaching of carrying forward revolutionary humanitarianism, we will bring these commonly used things to her." Wang Xiaosong said: "After we leave, you have to seal up this room; no one is allowed to enter without the permission of my 'Ghost Seeing Sorrow' Joint Operation Headquarters." "Do it, do it..."
The three of them were walking on the road carrying things. Han Debao led more than a dozen people, riding bicycles to meet him. Han Debao stopped the car, stepped on the edge of the sidewalk and asked, "It's over so soon? Did my phone call serve as a deterrent?" Wu Zhenqing said: "It's more than a little bit! I heard it all from the side. What you said, it's really..." - no adjectives, he looked at Wang Xiaosong. Wang Xiaosong opened his mouth and came: "The black clouds are overwhelming the city and want to destroy it!" Han Debao smiled triumphantly: "No, I'm not at ease, I personally brought people to cheer you on!" Wu Zhenqing said gratefully: "I will never forget your revolutionary and just actions for the rest of my life!" Tsui Hark asked, "Where did you get so many vehicles?" Han Debao said: "It was confiscated from the teachers! Give it to Hao Mei! I am busy, and I have to organize the teachers to learn the proletarian revolutionary education line. It is really like Chairman Mao said, consolidating power is much more difficult than seizing power!" He turned around Bicycles, lead the crowd away. The three good friends looked at them, seemingly envious for a while. Tsui Hark looked at Wu Zhenqing and said, "We should have taken power in the first place." Wu Zhenqing said: "Forget it, didn't you hear him say that consolidating power is more difficult than seizing power!" The three good friends were lying crowded in the "side building" of Xu Ke's house, where there were a few temporary beds made of wooden planks. Wang Xiaosong looked at the door and said to Tsui Hark, "Your carpentry skills are really good!" Tsui Hark said, "Without the pieces of plywood you gave me, I wouldn't be able to make this door." Wang Xiaosong said, "It wasn't my mother, and I couldn't pick up those pieces of plywood." From the door leading to the back room, there was the moan of Xu's mother. Tsui Hark quickly jumped off the "bed", and ran into the back room without putting on his shoes. Tsui Hark asked Mom: "Mom, what's wrong with you, Mom? What's wrong with you?" Xu's mother said, "Quick... water... my heart is blocked." Xu Ke brought water and said: "Mom, drink slowly, don't choke. Mom, after I have cleaned up the hut thoroughly, I will install a heated kang for you, and you will no longer have to lie in this room without seeing the sun all day long." I'm in my house...the hut I built is facing the sun! I'll take you to the hut now to have a look?" After a while Tsui Hark came out from the back room. Wang Xiaosong said: "Xu Hark is really filial!" Wu Zhenqing said: "It's just recently. Have you forgotten the things about him making his mother angry?" After the three of them lay down again, Wu Zhenqing suddenly thought of someone.He seemed to be talking to himself: "I haven't seen Zhang Meng for a long time, and I don't know how she is doing." Wang Xiaosong said: "Yes. After all, we belong to the 'Red Five'. But our family is poorer, and politically we are much more optimistic than her and Hao Mei." Wu Zhenqing said: "Her situation is not as good as Hao Mei's. Hao Mei still has our concern." Tsui Hark said: "You guys are so redundant, Zhang Meng doesn't need us to care about her at all! I think she's living a pretty good life, and she's still as proud as before!" Wu Zhenqing: "How do you know?" Tsui Hark: "I saw her again, holding hands with a man, walking slowly, talking and laughing." Wu Zhenqing asked: "Hand in hand? I don't believe it!" Xu Ke gave him a white look: "That man is a leader of the city's Red Congress. He's a freshman in No. 2 Middle School. Do you still remember the Red Guards Pledge Meeting, where a boy took the lead in shouting 'Squeeze London, liberate Paris, and occupy New York? , Liberate Moscow'? That's the kid. I recognized him right away! Zhang Meng also saw me, and raised her head high, pretending not to see it." Wu Zhenqing said: "This is impossible. This is simply impossible! Zhang Meng hates everyone who wears the armband of the Red Guards in her heart—I know this!" Tsui Hark said, "I don't have to force you to believe it either!" Wang Xiaosong pondered: "I don't think there is anything impossible." Wu Zhenqing got annoyed and said, "What are we talking about her for? Talk about something else." Tsui Hark said, "Did you mention her first?" Wu Zhenqing said: "I...I don't want to be hated by her. On the day her house was raided, I also watched around. She found me...Actually, I didn't just gloat to watch the excitement, but just wanted to find an opportunity secretly , comfort her." Tsui Hark said: "Then you are always so fierce to her!" "I don't understand what's going on with me. It seems that if I don't treat her like that, I don't know how to treat her. Maybe, I can only treat her that way." Tsui Hark asked, "What do you mean it can only be like that!" "Then what else can I do to her?" "You can also do what Xiao Song did to Hao Mei!" Wu Zhenqing sighed: "It would be great if my mother saw her when she was young." Tsui Hark leaned over and studied Wu Zhenqing's face. "What are you looking at me for?" "Yeah, I get it all." "Even I don't understand, what can you understand?"
Wang Xiaosong said: "These days, I always want to sing." Tsui Hark said: "Men worry about singing, women worry about crying." Wu Zhenqing said: "Let's sing that song that Hao Mei always loves!" Wang Xiaosong asked: "The Soviet Union's 'Three Sets of Cars'?" "Don't sing. What's so good about the song 'Old Xiu'!" Tsui Hark said. Wu Zhenqing said: "Sing!" Wang Xiaosong came to reconcile: "Let me whistle!" So he played "Three Sets of Cars". So Wu Zhenqing and Tsui Hark also hummed along. Tears gradually flowed from the corners of Wu Zhenqing's eyes.
After a few months, they all had to sign up to go to the countryside.Including Hao Mei.Even Han Debao, who had been in charge of the "power" in school for a while, was not lucky to be an exception. Leaving quickly, the three good friends, Hao Mei and Han Debao, sat in two rows on the steps of the river embankment, looking at the Songhua River flowing slowly under the moonlight. Tsui Hark suddenly stood up, trying to take off his vest. Wu Zhenqing asked, "What are you doing?" "I'll be working in the Great Northern Wilderness in two days, and I'll have another swim!" Wu Zhenqing sternly stopped him and said, "You're just digging like a dog. What can you do? I can't see where you are when you sink to the bottom. I can't save you. Sit down!" Tsui Hark was obedient and sat down obediently. Han Debao said: "If I had known that they would be treated the same, why would I still hold power with enthusiasm!" The figure of a couple passed in front of them. Their heads turned in unison, following... Tsui Hark looked at Wu Zhenqing and asked, "Is it Zhang Meng?" Han Debao said: "Like her back." Hao Mei called tentatively: "Zhang Meng!" The slender figure stopped and turned to look at them—the two figures separated. Xu Ke quickly said, "The one holding her arm is the head of the 'Red Congress'." The two figures walked forward again, holding each other's arms again. Tsui Hark said, "I think she clearly recognized us." Han Debao said: "They're so fucking sentimental!" Hao Mei stood up and ran down the steps. Wang Xiaosong called: "Hao Mei!" Hao Mei caught up with the two figures and stopped in front of them. Zhang Meng looked up: "Hao Mei?" Then she said to her partner, "I'm a classmate in primary school, you wait for me in front." He took a look at Hao Mei, and had no choice but to walk forward alone. Hao Mei asked, "I called you, but you didn't recognize my voice?" "I heard it." "I heard it, but you don't want to talk to me?" "I don't want to pay attention to them." "What's wrong with them? They want to be like lovers with that guy?" Zhang Meng said, "It's not like." Hao Mei exclaimed in shock, "You!... At the whole district's criticism meeting, he whipped my father with a belt, and he whipped your father too!" "But it is also he who intends to carry out persuasion work to 'liberate' my father as soon as possible, and strive to integrate my father into the 'revolutionary committee' as soon as possible." Hao Mei said: "But because my father didn't want to expose your father against his conscience, he and my mother were sent to the farm for reformation!" "My father used your father heavily in the past, and now your father is being wronged for my father. What can you be angry about?" Hao Mei said, "Shameful!" On the steps, Wang Xiaosong wanted to stand up. Wu Zhenqing grabbed his arm: "Don't go! We boys don't get involved in the affairs between the two girls!" Zhang Meng said: "I am ashamed? But I will continue to stay in the city. You are glorious, but you will make a red heart in the vast world, roll in the mud, grind your old hands...and—forever..." Hao Mei was too angry to speak. Zhang Meng said again: "I will not accompany you!" Holding up the skirt with both hands, she made a "curtsy" and walked away. Hao Mei burst into tears... On the steps, Tsui Hark suddenly stood up and shouted: "Zhang Meng! The kid you hooked up with is my godson!" Zhang Meng's partner threw off Zhang Meng's arm and strode towards Tsui Hark and the others without hesitation. Wu Zhenqing stood up and stepped down the steps calmly. Tsui Hark, Han Debao, and Wang Xiaosong all stepped down the steps afterward. The other party couldn't help but stopped. Wu Zhenqing and the others were still walking down the steps. Seeing that the situation was not good, Zhang Meng ran over and dragged her partner away.
Wang Xiaosong's house.The three good friends and Hao Mei each carried bundles of luggage, net bags, bags, etc., saying goodbye to the adults.Wang Xiaosong's mother, Wu Zhenqing's father, and Tsui Hark's father sent them off together. Hao Mei looked at Wang Xiaosong's mother and said, "Auntie, please find a way to tell my parents." Mother said: "I will. Don't worry!..." Then she said to Wang Xiaosong, "Take good care of Xiaomei, huh?" Wang Xiaosong looked at his mother with attachment, and nodded silently. Wu Zhenqing's mother said: "You must ask to be separated together, and you must not separate, so that you can take care of each other." Wu Zhenqing's father said to Wu Zhenqing: "Listen to me, you are the biggest, you have the most fucking ideas, you are their big brother. If any of them made a mistake, or didn't learn well, don't plan to come back to see me!" Wu Zhenqing said: "Dad, I will definitely remember your words!" Tsui Hark said to his father: "Dad, you...give my mother... a heated kang in my newly built hut! She hasn't seen the sun for many years." Tsui Hark whimpered like a child. Tsui Hark's father also cried, and couldn't help but hugged his son. Wu Zhenqing said: "Dad, if you have time, help my Uncle Xu and put another layer of wall plaster on their hut, otherwise it will be cold in winter." "It's up to you to ask!"
The parents watched their children off for a long time—the fathers and the mothers all shed tears...
After an almost farewell scene at the train station, the train slowly moved away.As soon as the wheels moved, a female classmate suddenly cried uncontrollably in the carriage—crying so desperately, so lost. Han Debao stood up and looked at the place where the crying came from, sat down and said, "It's Zhang Meng..." Wu Zhenqing and the others looked at each other in blank dismay - it seemed that she did not stay after all.
Trains, cars, horse-drawn carriages... Finally, they came to the Great Northern Wilderness by relying on a pair of feet struggling to walk in the meadow.