Chapter Twenty-Three: Daddy Chengzi
Dachengzi's father, Wang Yuanchu, the "four types of elements", was branded as a "rightist" after his big bang in 57 years, and he is not a "four-type element" in the strict sense, but should belong to the category of "black five types".
But the old family members all called him "the old four categories", and there were many people with this name, so he became a "four types of molecules".
In fact, both are the same, they are the untouchables of that era.
The difference lies in the fact that the "rightists" are basically cultural people and revolutionary cadres, who have problems ideologically, and are objects that can be reformed, and do not belong to the rank and bottom enemies in the pure sense.
According to Mr. Wang Yuanchu's own recollections, in response to the country's call to make a big announcement, he raised an inappropriate question.
He opposed the abolition of child brides under the new Marriage Law, arguing that it would undermine the family of origin.
Because at that time, not long after liberation, many peasant families were married as child brides. There are several dolls in the family, and once the marriage is annulled, the original good family will be dispersed.
This proposition is also unreasonable when viewed today, and it lacks a sense of the overall situation.
The new "Marriage Law" is related to the emancipation of millions of working women, what a great piece of legislation!
There are still very few divorces in child daughters-in-law families that have become de facto marriages, and they can only be said to be individual cases, which will basically not be affected by the new law.
When Wang Yuanchu proposed this bill, he probably had not yet understood the full content of the new "Marriage Law", especially the relevant provisions on the protection of marriage and family.
Or he didn't want to stand up and make any suggestions, but he was forced by the supervisor to pick up this seemingly inconsequential problem in order to complete the assigned task.
Just like ordinary people who usually complain about the evils of the times, although they are neither in line with the times nor in line with the situation, the public heart of caring for the people's weal and woe can still be revealed.
It's just that the price of telling the truth in that era was too great, and a few simple speeches lost public office and five years of freedom, and became the "old four categories", in the most precious young and middle-aged years of life, as a swineherd in the production team for 20 years, history and Mr. Wang played a cruel joke.
At that time, there seemed to be a Wen G song, and the lyrics were like this: what vine bears what melon, what tree blooms and what flower, what song is sung in what era, and what class says what words.
If we open the historical accounts of Wang Yuanchu, the father of Chengzi, we will find that the identity of the "rightist" element is well deserved to him.
From his student days, Wang Yuanchu was a vacillating revolutionary opportunist.
Before liberation, the Wang family had only a few acres of thin fields, which belonged to the class category of poor peasants and middle peasants.
Wang Yuanchu completed five years of private school with the help of his clansmen, and later transferred to a new-style school, and has always been a good seedling for studying.
When he was a teenager, he was admitted to the local national normal school, which can be regarded as a carp jumping the dragon gate, but the unfirm position of Zheng Z has laid the groundwork for his life in this life.
When he was studying in the county seat, the enthusiastic Wang Yuanchu joined the school's Three Youth League, and before graduation, he swore an oath to the party constitution of the "Three M's" and became a member of the National M Party.
After graduating from the National Normal School in 48, Wang Yuanchu and several classmates came to the provincial capital on the Yangtze River, hoping to show their lifelong ambitions.
As a result, he didn't find a job, but he was admitted to the Xicheng Military Police Academy in southern Jiangsu.
It is said that all the student soldiers of this school were transferred to Taiwan before they entered the battlefield, and later the police circles over there were all mixed up.
In this police academy of National D, it is common for instructors to beat and scold cadets, and the food in the cadet canteen is too poor, and they always can't eat enough.
And like a prison, it is completely closed for 365 days and nights.
After staying up for a few months, he couldn't stand it anymore, so Wang Yuanchu and a few classmates from Dabie Mountain took the risk of breaking the iron fence of the dormitory window and escaping from this high-level demon cave.
Later, after becoming a swineherd in the production team, Wang Yuanchu often boasted to the old members: "When I was 48 years old, I knew that the Kuomintang was going to be finished! Some people dared to embezzle the food expenses of the military police school, and the reserve officers could not have enough to eat, let alone those soldiers who had captured strong men, who would care whether they lived or died! It was strange that such a unit could win a battle!"
Fortunately, the political consciousness of the old members was not high, and Wang Yuanchu was scolding the Kuomintang reactionaries, so no one went to tell the truth.
Otherwise, if the big hat of the gendarmerie spy is pressed on the head of the old swineherd, he will never be able to turn over, and it is not certain that he will be suppressed as a counter-revolutionary.
Talking nonsense seems to be a common problem among readers, although they know best what comes from the mouth.
As a philosopher said, it takes a year to learn to speak, but it takes a lifetime to learn to shut up.
After returning from southern Jiangsu, the hometown has been liberated.
Wang Yuanchu threw himself into the arms of the people's government without hesitation, completely forgetting his identity as a member of the National M Party.
This choice is extremely correct, and it can be regarded as abandoning the darkness and turning to the light.
For Wang Yuanchu at that time, there was really only one purpose, that is, to find a job that could make a living without losing dignity.
It is said that after the establishment of the local people's power, he was the first intellectual youth to take the initiative to look for a job, and at a time when there was a shortage of cadres in the local area, Wang Yuanchu was fortunate enough to be entrusted with an important task.
As the youngest leader of the county's land reform working group, he became a glorious witness of that era.
This is the second opportunity in Wang Yuanchu's life, which is related to the honor and disgrace of his life and the well-being of the whole family, and he seems to have seized it.
Later, when the million-strong division crossed the river, Wang Yuanchu was promoted to the captain of the county's front brigade because of his outstanding work ability, and led more than 1,000 former migrant workers in the liberated areas to follow the army south.
When the heroic troops supported by the counterpart are sent across the Yangtze River, his mission will be completed.
Then there were two Yangguan avenues full of flowers in front of Wang Yuanchu: enter the officer training regiment of the southbound army to study and become a glorious revolutionary soldier. Or return to their hometown with a letter of introduction from the army, at least they will be middle-level cadres in the county.
The nerd Wang Yuanchu didn't choose either path at all, it must be the wrong tendon.
Hearing that his hometown was preparing to build a primary school, he gave up his original good career and returned to the township and became the first principal of the village primary school. In Mr. Wang Yuanchu's own words, returning to his hometown to be a teacher is not a noble consciousness, but he feels that the world outside is very chaotic, and it is safe to be a teacher.
Dachengzi heard her grandmother say that her father was influenced by two people when he returned to his hometown to teach.
One was his husband when he was in the Normal School, and told him that in two years, the national army would return to the mainland, and it would be very risky to serve as an official in the people's government.
The other is Dachengzi's great-grandfather and Wang Yuanchu's father, who listed a large number of elders, relatives and friends who died in the 18th year of the Republic of China.
Some were killed by the returning group with boiling water, some were killed by guillotines, some families were ruined, and their wives and children were sold to other countries.
In short, the officials of G and D can't be the officials, and they do all the business of killing heads.
At that time, the liberation of the whole country was just around the corner, but everyone with a little culture and a little brains was desperately squeezing into the revolutionary ranks.
Mr. Wang, however, was deceived by others into not being able to see the situation clearly, and his political sensitivity was too poor.
Wang Yuanchu seemed to be confused when he was young, but to say that he was a G-ordered opportunist was to promote him, and he did not do such speculation.
As an educational enlightener in remote mountainous areas, even in today's view, it is a very noble and respected profession, and it is exactly what Wang Yuanchu, who was born in a normal class, should have done.
Although the good luck in his life was temporarily reversed because of the "anti-rightist" in 57, the god of luck did not completely abandon him, and left a gap for him.
In 1963, there was a "rectification of chaos," and the state gave a chance to reform a new leaf for a "rightist" element like Wang Yuanchu, who was born in a middle-peasant family and participated in revolutionary work before liberation, but who only said a few wrong things.
At that time, the county's cultural and educational working group came to Wang Yuanchu in the village and asked him to write a review of his views on the "three red flags".
If the written review passes, he can be reinstated and paid back wages.
At that time, Wang Yuanchu was only 32 years old, and the father and third uncle of Chengzi were at the age of elementary school, and everything could be started all over again.
But this opportunity to change his fate, Chengzi's father failed to grasp it, and he was scared by the big bang.
Wasn't it the government that let them speak their minds freely? As a result, a "big hat" fell on their heads.
Now this review of the "three red flags" is wrongly written, and I don't know what kind of punishment it is.
Anyway, I have already returned to my hometown to become a farmer, so it is better to have more than one thing.
On the eve of the Spring Festival in 1979, Wang Yuanchu sat in the corridor of the office of the Executive Office, and when he learned that he could be rehabilitated 16 years ago, he couldn't help but cry.
A moment of timidity and a thought not only ruined half of his life, but also ruined the children's supposed beautiful lives.
With such a heartbroken remorse, how can a cry be relieved!
There are also old colleagues of the working group who went to the countryside with him to carry out land reform, and now they are the leading comrades of the organization department of the administrative department.
Wang Yuanchu was able to implement the policy so quickly, and this former colleague helped a lot.
They were both enthusiastic young people and participated in revolutionary work in the same year, but decades later they were worlds apart, and the creation of fate was so cruel and magical.
The poet Liu Qing once said that although the road of life is long, the key is often only a few steps.
The life of Wang Yuanchu, the "old four categories", completely verified the logic of the poet.
The passionate years that should have been full of glory were turned into chicken feathers by his several wrong choices.