Niu Yuehong's childhood did not leave her with any good memories.

However, as the eldest child in the family, she was especially loved by her parents. She is the little princess of the Niu family. Whatever is delicious and fun, her parents are the first to give her. The two elder brothers only have a pitiful and dry look.

Niu Yuehong has shown her assertive, sharp personality and strength since she was a child.

The two older brothers are both fond and jealous of her. In fact, they also admire their sister very much, because this little girl will also give them ideas and teach them how to please their parents.

Often, when the tired parents came back from work, they saw their two naughty sons not doing their homework, and they were fighting and playing all over the yard covered in dust, and they were so angry that their faces were crooked, and they chased and beat them while scolding.

Niu Yuehong, who is only 5 years old, gave advice to her brothers: "After your parents go to work and leave, you can just go and have fun." When they are about to get off work, you hurry home to do your homework and serve cold tea to your parents. As long as they are happy, you will not be beaten. ”

The brothers thought their sister's idea was good and decided to give it a try. They played around for a day, and when Mom and Dad were about to come home, they hurried home to boil a pot of boiling water, put it in a teacup for Mom and Dad to cool, and then lay on the bedside to do their homework. The result was really as my sister said, not only did I avoid a beating and scolding, but also made my parents' faces smile.

Since then, Niu Fushou and his wife can always drink a cup of cool tea when they come home from work. The two sons' homework was also completed on time, and the parents were no longer called to school meetings by teachers every three days. The Niu family has become much quieter and more harmonious since then.

Soon new problems arose.

The eldest son, Niu Xinguo, has been naughty since he was a child, does not like to study, and has poor grades, and is often severely reprimanded by Niu Fushou.

On the contrary, Erniu Xinjiang loves to study, has good grades, and has been praised and loved by teachers and parents.

Niu Yuehong, who was about to enter the first grade of primary school, loudly defended Niu Xinguo: "Dad, Mom, don't always scold your eldest brother. You see, which cadre in our production team is an intellectual? All of them have been transferred from the army. Let the eldest brother go to the People's Liberation Army and become a big official in the future. ”

The young Niu Yuehong said it clearly, reasonably.

Niu Fushou didn't say anything, but he was very happy in his heart, he didn't expect this little girl to see things so clearly.

Niu Xinguo is naturally full of gratitude for his sister's grievances. If anyone dares to bully his sister, he will rush home like an angry bull, pick up the kitchen knife on the board, and run to fight with others with blood-red eyes.

Once, when the child of the neighbor Song Shicai was playing a game of flying stones, he accidentally missed, and the pebbles thrown out deviated from the predetermined direction, and a piece of glass on the window of Niu's house was shattered with a "clang". The glass ballast is scattered on the moon and moon red carefully cultivated by Niu Fushou.

Niu Fushou saw that the child was naughty and broke the glass, and the relationship between the two families was usually good, so he originally planned to settle the matter and find a piece of glass to install by himself.

Niu Yuehong didn't do it.

She rushed into Song Shicai's house angrily, pointed her little finger at the face of the old Song son, and scolded loudly: "You stinky hand broke the glass of our house. Lose money, lose money!"

Lao Song's fat son knew that he had fallen into trouble, his little face turned red, and he lowered his head and ignored Niu Yuehong.

Niu Yuehongxing's eyes widened angrily, her hands crossed her waist, and she blocked the door of Song's house. It wasn't until Song Shicai saw a doctor and returned home to compensate for the one yuan he bought the glass, and Niu Yuehong went home proudly.

Niu Fushou looked at his baby daughter with a strong personality, and shook his head with a smile: "Others are reasonable to give three points." This little girl in our family is unreasonable. ”

Niu Yuehong pleaded loudly: "What am I unreasonable about? Obviously, he broke the glass of our house, so he has to pay money!"

The neighbors all said, "Old Niu, you girl is amazing! You will not suffer in society." ”

Niu Yuehong listened to the neighbors' comments on herself, pursed her mouth, snorted and turned around and ran.

Niu Yuehong doesn't like to play with girls. She hates girls who cry at every turn, and likes to mess with boys of the same age. Winning cigarette cases, playing tricks, playing hide and seek, burning ant holes, digging birds' nests in trees, these boys' games are all out of her mind. These competitive games made her feel at ease and had an indescribable sense of pleasure. It was only when the boys ran to the reed lake and stripped naked for a water fight that she realized that she was different from them, forced to stay away from her friends, dangling alone in the fields, feeling a kind of loneliness and boredom of being excluded.

When she was in elementary school, she still went to school with the boys, played together, and had a big personality.

A group of boys formed an army in imitation of the movie. Someone served as a commander, someone served as a chief of staff, a corps commander, a division commander. Each of them was assigned an official position. is the only one who did not give her an official position.

Niu Yuehong sensed the sexism and asked the commander seriously: "What kind of officer am I?"

The commander, chief of staff, and army commander looked at each other: "There are no female cadres in the army in the movie." ”

The chief of staff was more clever, and remembered the hygienist in the movie "Outwitting Tiger Mountain", so he relieved the commander and said: "Or, you will be a hygienist, right?"

Niu Yuehong frowned unhappily, tilted her head and thought about it seriously, and readily agreed: "Okay, that's it." If you are wounded in battle, you will come to me. I'm the biggest official. ”

The friends all laughed, and no one took her words seriously.

In 1974, the nationwide campaign of "Approving Forests and Approving Confucius" spread to Hexi Province.

At this time, Niu Yuehong had already turned into a delicate little girl. Her academic performance was mediocre, and she was not a class leader in the class, but when she saw the excitement of the adults at the criticism meeting, her inner curiosity and strong desire for self-expression were suddenly aroused. When she heard that the school was also going to hold a critique meeting, she ran to the production team's big-character poster column alone and copied the critique draft word by word.

Niu Yuehong returned home after copying the critical draft, and asked her father excitedly and a little uneasily: "Dad, tomorrow the school will hold a 'Criticism of Lin and Kong' conference." I would also like to take the floor. ”

When Niu Fushou heard his daughter's words, he found that his daughter, who had never been interested in politics, began to care about national affairs, and immediately said happily: "Okay." Girl, don't be afraid of anything, go to the podium and read the manuscript aloud, as if you were reading the text alone in an empty house. ”

With her father's encouragement, Niu Yuehong was full of confidence.

The next day, the school held a conference of "Criticizing Forests and Criticizing Confucius". The principal had arranged in advance for the senior student representatives to speak. Niu Yuehong volunteered and raised her hand to ask to speak.

Seeing Niu Yuehong, who is usually inconspicuous, holding her little hand high, the principal was surprised at first, and then smiled and asked Niu Yuehong to speak by name.

Niu Yuehong walked generously to the podium, took out the speech from her coat pocket, and read aloud in accordance with her father's instructions: "Kong Lao Er and Lin Biao have repented of their self-denial and tried in vain to restore, so that our poor and middle peasants will suffer twice and suffer two (stubble) crimes. We resolutely refuse to agree!"

Except for the teacher, none of the students knew that Niu Yuehong had pronounced a typo.

All the students in the school were conquered by her courage and generosity on stage. Under the infection of Niu Yuehong's passionate emotions, they frequently raised their right hands and constantly shouted slogans: "Down with Kong Laoer! Down with Lin Biao!".

Since then, the young Niu Yuehong has begun to get involved in politics and care about political affairs. Sometimes, when she saw adults gathered together to discuss the commune, Jinshan County, or even the country, she would sit on a small stool and listen quietly to various opinions. As for her homework, Niu Yuehong completed her primary school stage calmly and plainly, and entered the commune middle school to study in junior high school.