Chapter 54: Savior
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After Hong Yanwu recovered, he became the same as before, he became an honest child, and since then he has been extremely filial to his "snake god" father.
He didn't talk back, he didn't run out, he just stayed at home quietly. He is like a little squirrel on the move, looking left and right, always on the guard, vigilant, and even learned to read words and emotions and swallow his anger.
However, things in life often go against people's original intentions.
Hong Lucheng did not feel a little relieved because of this, but still had a trace of distress. Because he knew that Hong Yanwu's great change in temperament was actually the sequelae of that raid. The son has completely lost his sense of security and has gone to the other extreme.
In this regard, although he has been trying to find a way to relieve his son, the actual situation has made him have no energy to take care of it at all. The reason is naturally because of the valuable jade flat square.
Director Mao of the Ethnic Affairs Committee has been eyeing the Hong family since he raided his home, not only frequently visiting to inspect and admonish, but also biting the title of "Eight Mansion Gates" and insisting on letting go, saying that he would catch it to the end and find out clearly.
In fact, to put it bluntly, everything is false. This "stinky thatched house" is just the three fires of the new official, who not only wants to knock out all the valuable things of the Hong family, but also wants to show it by the way.
But in fact, it was extremely disappointing to Director Mao, because the Hong family was indeed "innocent" to the point that even rats didn't like to come. Even in the end, in order to find a step down, Mao Yuanfang had to make a fuss about a bundle of workers' labor protection white gloves found in Hong's house.
That was Wang Yunlin's reluctance to use it when she went to work, and she saved two pairs of land every month for a year. Originally, she planned to save enough to knit a thread for the children, but at this time, in Mao Yuanfang's mouth, it became evidence of a "decadent" lifestyle.
Of course, these evil things that can corrode people's hard and simple will were not cut off or burned in the end, but confiscated after being criticized by Director Mao.
The matter is not over here, because he lost face and did not achieve his goal, Mao Yuanfang wanted to toss the Hong family even more. As a result, the big-character posters outside the window of Hong's house were quickly pasted into a series of articles, and the huge black letters of "confess leniently, resist strictly" were also struck dazzling, and Hong Lucheng and his wife were forced to go out to tour the street.
When parading through the streets, there are unusually many onlookers. Among these people, it is not only the residents of Furuli, in fact, a large number of people are from the nearby hutongs. And this is undoubtedly the title of the "Eight Great Mansions" that has played an effective role. Because out of curiosity, everyone wants to see what the top rich people looked like.
Unlike the old neighbors, these many strange eyes seemed both unscrupulous and a little disappointed, and they had no scruples to talk around Hong Lucheng and his wife, who were hanging signs with their heads down.
"Dare to love this is the person of the Hong family, tsk, why do you wear patched clothes? People are not rich, and their faces are ...... Yellow, don't you look like a rich man?"
"You can't look at it, look, your fingers are as thin as shallots, and your arms and legs are like hemp sticks, and you can't do much work when you look at it. ”
"You said it, there are servants waiting for you, so you don't have to do anything. ”
"Didn't you say that capitalists drink human milk? Do you think this beautiful daughter-in-law is occupied? Old thing, it's not a good thing!"
"Hey, don't look like a bad guy, if you can't get their family, there will be a 'white-haired girl', yes!"
I don't know for what purpose, a strange old lady suddenly pinched Wang Yunlin's buttocks.
Then, an unknown man slapped Hong Lucheng in the mouth again, making him look at Venus.
Fortunately, at this time, some old neighbors found out about the situation and came to stop it, which stopped the rest of the outsiders who were about to move.
To say that the most outrageous thing is Mao Yuanfang's critical speech, she actually programmed the sins of the Hong family in the past dynasties, and read it out loud in public.
"His ancestors have seen the emperor's face, and his father has invited the warlord to dinner. His grandfather wore a pearl shirt, and her grandmother wore a grosgrain shirt. When he went out, he took a car, and when he was tired, he beat his back and called the maid. The meal is served with a golden rice bowl, and the urine basin is also inlaid with colorful blue. Exploiting thoughts is the true soul ......"
Not to mention, the response of the masses was very enthusiastic. There was a burst of cheers below, and the onlookers were in an uproar, and the whole thing was a big chaos.
Then, in the midst of the laughter, someone brought a pointed paper hat made of paper paste from the thatched house and put it on Wang Yunlin's head. Someone else brought a bowl of ink from nowhere and wiped it on Hong Lucheng's face with a brush, making him unrecognizable in an instant......
In this way, Hong Lucheng and his wife entertained the public like this almost every day for a long time, suffering in patience in every way, and had no time to care about anything else. And as the situation of the "movement" became more and more "deep", even the work units of the two began to hold similar activities.
Under such circumstances, the increasingly exhausted couple can not talk about any hope of changing their situation, but only want to return home safely every day.
However, the world is unpredictable, just when Hong Lucheng and his wife didn't think about the future at all, God suddenly showed mercy and sent them a savior.
What's going on?
It turned out that there used to be an old man Liu living in the west courtyard of Guanyin Academy, and later because it was found out that his son-in-law was a senior official of the Three People's Party who defected to Taiwan, he was sent back to his hometown in 1966, and the three houses where he lived were also idle.
On the eve of the National Day in 1967, under the joint arrangement of the street and housing management departments, these three rooms were assigned to Chen Deyuan, the newly appointed production director of the Nanhengjie Coal Plant. So soon after, he took his wife and son who had just picked up from his hometown in Dingxing, Hebei Province, and settled his family here and became a new resident here.
And it was precisely this Director Chen, who had a somewhat vicious face and a nickname of "Chen Dabeard" in the coal factory, who quickly fished out Hong Lucheng's family from the boundless sea of suffering and became a noble man who saved the Hong family from fire and water.
This is not an exaggeration. Not to mention anything else, not long after Chen Deyuan moved to Furuli, he went to persuade the "stinky thatched house" to change to other objects to fight on the streets. Later, he also asked Director Mao to be gracious and allowed Hong Lucheng's children to sweep the streets on behalf of the couple who had been tossed to the point of weakness.
In addition, what is even more unexpected is that he even went to the sugar and pastry company and personally guaranteed it, so that the representative of the company's Zhizuo Army was exempted from the drudgery of cleaning the toilet of the unit, and the content of his labor reform was also changed to warehouse storage.
Some people may be curious, where is this Chen Deyuan sacred, why is there so much energy?
First of all, I think the coal plant was a very important unit back then.
In that era, coal was even more important than grain in the lives of the people of Beijing, ranking first in the means of living. And the main reason for this was because there was no natural gas at that time.
The people of Beijing not only rely on coal for heating in winter, but also rely on coal stoves to boil water for cooking every day. At that time, the coal needed by the residents of the capital had to be divided according to the coal zone, and then supplied by the coal factory according to the head of the family, which also exposed that coal was an extremely scarce energy source.
In addition, in the special period, the emphasis on ideology and light on production, the most common thing for all enterprises is to stop work and learn collectively, so there are often times when there is not enough coal to burn in people's homes.
Let's imagine that if someone's family is short of coal, they can't even drink hot water, and that's a sinful thing!
In addition to private households that are inseparable from coal, each unit also relies on boilers for heating, bathing, and drinking hot water. Even in some individual industries, such as sugar and pastry companies, even the production and canteens are all about coal supply.
If the relationship with the coal mill is not good, not to mention that once the coal burns up, it will not give you an increase, even if the quality of the quantitative coal issued to you is poor, it can also cure you. Therefore, the coal plant is also easily unwilling to offend the various public units in the mainland of its segments.
In addition to the above reasons, the second point to mention is the particularity of corporate positions in special periods.
On the surface, Chen Deyuan's position as production director is only equivalent to the department level. According to the administrative establishment of the enterprise, there are several directors and deputy directors, directors and deputy secretaries and the chairman of the trade union, which are not a big deal.
However, let's not forget that due to special historical reasons at that time, the party, government, labor, and youth league organizations and administrative organs of various enterprises were paralyzed. Most of the former leading cadres are undergoing scrutiny, and are even required to work in production posts and undergo transformation.
On the contrary, the original working class, with the help of the representatives of the Left Army, began to participate in the management of enterprises.
Take the coal plant as an example, the military deputies have no problem grasping ideas, but they are laymen when it comes to production. Therefore, in fact, the military deputies gave Chen Deyuan quite a lot of power, and he almost took over all the responsibilities of the former director and deputy director of the plant, and was responsible for the production, transportation, and storage of the entire coal plant.
At the same time, in order to make him feel at ease in his work, the military deputies even recommended Chen Deyuan to join the party, making him the most popular person in power in the coal plant.
Finally, from a personal point of view, I would like to add that Chen Deyuan's origin is also very important.
In the early years of the capital, there was a regional nature in any industry. For example, the cloth shop is from Gaoyang, Hebei, the tea shop is from Anhui, the Qianzhuang is from Shanxi, the restaurant and restaurant are from Shandong, and the coal shop and bathhouse are mostly in the hands of the people of Dingxing, Hebei.
The specific division is to take the Jinghan Railway as the boundary, and the coal shops call themselves "those in the west of the railway", the people in the old capital call them "those who shake briquettes", and the "those in the east of the railway" are mostly engaged in the bathing industry.
Speaking of which, it is also known that most of the people who come to Beijing from all over the world to establish themselves are engaged in industries run by locals. It is very difficult to work across industries. Because even if you come, you can't stay, and people will squeeze you.
In situations like this, the effects continued after liberation, even when the state distributed work. Because although the new employees have broken the geographical restrictions, the old people in the bathhouse and the coal factory, and even the leaders, are almost all Dingxing people.
Chen Deyuan is a genuine "railway west". Not only did his ancestors work in the coal shops in the capital, but his grandfather also worked as a casual laborer who walked the streets and did odd jobs for those who had accumulated coal scrap.
It is precisely because the Chen family came to the capital to make a living relatively early, so these Dingxing people in Nancheng have some friendship with the Chen family. There are even a considerable number of people who were brought to the capital by the Chen family, or have received a lot of care from the Chen family, so Chen Deyuan's prestige among these people is extraordinary. To put it another way today, it is "a lot of people in the industry".
Everyone knows that regionality is easy to bring people together, and outsiders are difficult to manage. For example, in the coal factory, sometimes even the factory director doesn't take the workers seriously, but the workshop doesn't care about big and small things, and someone follows and responds just by saying hello to him "Chen Dabeard".
In fact, it was precisely because of this that the military deputies took a fancy to this point that they promoted Chen Deyuan as his right-hand man.