Chapter 20: Cry, History
"Grandpa, are you sick? I only found out when your village chief went to the school. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info" Cao Yuanyuan bought a bag of fruit to see him, and the old man's name was Gao Mengyue written on the note.
"You're not in school, what's going on, I'm fine. The old man looked at the fruit she had put down and said.
"Your village chief said that you are a talent in the old society, how did you become a down-and-out old man in the current society?" Cao Yuanyuan was doing a social investigation on him.
Cao Yuanyuan washed an apple for him, and the old man chewed and swallowed it, and then stopped at this moment and said: "What's the matter, I took the wrong line at that time, and I was a soldier of the Kuomintang, and now I am lucky to survive." ”
"Then have you participated in the War of Resistance Against Japan?" Cao Yuanyuan said as he stretched out his hand and brushed his hair.
"I participated, I was a soldier in that era, and I wouldn't want people like us if I didn't fight. I was arrested as a soldier, not voluntarily, so after the defeat of the Kuomintang, I all returned to my hometown......" The old man was hurrying to finish eating the apple in his hand, and there were already many words waiting to be said in this mouth.
"Don't worry, eat slowly, do you remember what battles you participated in, such as the Huaihai Battle or the Taierzhuang Battle?" Cao Yuanyuan said.
Gao Mengyue threw the apple in his hand that was gnawed so hard that only the core was left out of the window and said, "It's the Battle of Wuhan...... After the fall of Wuhan, we all thought that the Kuomintang might surrender, and this battle was no longer fought, this **** Japanese devil! The Nationalist Government moved the capital to Chongqing, Sichuan......" Gao Mengyue said this, and tears were already in his eyes.
Cao Yuanyuan was already choked up, she thought that the old man would say that he was a soldier in the defense of Nanjing, but she did not know that the defense of Wuhan in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression was also a classic battle, and after so many fiascos, the Chinese nation still stood up! Japan, the dog fished into the river! Cao Yuanyuan scolded in his heart.
"Girl, don't be sad, it's all over, I'm still alive, this is a blessing!" Gao Mengyue said by touching the tears from the corners of Cao Yuanyuan's eyes.
"Didn't the government give you money? Even if you are a soldier of the Kuomintang, but you have always fought the Japanese invading army with a gun, you should always get the most basic guarantee of life, do you have it?" Cao Yuanyuan pushed away Gao Mengyue's old man's hand, touched his tears and said.
"Yes, yes. If I hadn't, I'd have died a long time ago!" Gao Mengyue confessed.
"How much money do you have a year?" Cao Yuanyuan said with wide eyes as he looked at Gao Mengyue.
"I don't know about this, all my living expenses are given by the village chief. Once I didn't recklessly say that he should not give me any more money, which made me feel indebted, even if I died, don't die with a debt to make people hateful. He told me that the money was given by the government. Gao Meng jumped and said truthfully.
"Look at your brainlessness, you still pretend to be a ghost when you give you money, you don't eat well and lose yourself into a handful of firewood, you don't dress well and leak yourself out of your buttocks, and you go to herd cattle, are you tired? Are you bitter?" Cao Yuanyuan counted the old man so low that he was silent.
"Actually......," said the old man.
"Actually, what, you say, I won't blame you if I make it clear. Cao Yuanyuan said with wide eyes.
"You won't go to ......" Cao Yuanyuan thought about it and said, I'm afraid that the old man will not go to jerk off and spend all the money that is enough to live a decent life on women, is this a hidden secret?
"Actually, I didn't get a lot of money from the government, but I can't say that it is less, compared to the life of the old society, I can be regarded as living a life in heaven. The old man said.
"You are still better than the old society? Now everyone is better off than the old society, and they are all better off than you, you are heaven? Who else has become a fairy world? You people, when you suffer losses, you like to be silent, and you endure until you die, as if this is how it should be!
You take this money, I will come again when I have time, and I will ask your village chief, what is your government salary, don't you lose weight and fat traitors?" Cao Yuanyuan said angrily.
"Don't ask, don't I live a good life, don't make people move the poor and extinguish the fire, haven't I been taken care of by the village chief all the time, he is the best person in the village to me, if you make trouble and make people angry and ignore me, aren't you hurting me?"
"You people, what good do you want me to say about you, you are a member of his village, and it is his job for him to help you, and if he treats his work as helping others, it is really shameless! He has to take care of social affairs when he takes a social salary. Cao Yuanyuan said.
"The family is just a village head, and the salary is not much, don't say strange things about others, this is not good. "The old man is really afraid of extraneous branches.
"Do you think he doesn't have as much as the mayor? I heard that there is a town mayor there who sells mountains and embezzles 600 million yuan, which is only one level bigger than the village chief. Cao Yuanyuan said.
"You said that it was from our back mountain, but it hurt those farmers, the mayor of the town was arrested and imprisoned, and the money must belong to the state, and it was originally the farmers who shared tens of thousands of yuan per mu. Oh my God, embezzling hundreds of millions, I heard that it was digging a pit in an old house to hide money. Gao Mengyue said.
"You fight the country, they sell the country, and you still think that you are living a life in heaven. They embezzle hundreds of millions, the money has to be buried in the cellar, and your wallet is a small plastic bag, and the money in it is like a mummy in a pyramid. Cao Yuanyuan watched the old man fold the money and be wrapped like a shroud.
"This is all my belongings, and I don't have to worry about having nowhere to put my money compared to corrupt officials, and I have to go to jail or jump off a building to death in fright. The old man looked at Cao Yuanyuan, and he also played with the spirit of Ah Q.
Cao Yuanyuan listened and listened, and felt that this old man was something, and then looked at his forehead carefully, there was a very serious malnutrition, or he had not used his brains for a long time, and there was a tendency to degenerate and begin to shrink, it may have been a long time!
Cao Yuanyuan wanted to ask something more, but he felt that there was nothing more to ask, was this caused by the fact that he had been living a very miserable life since he retired from the army? History is really heart-wrenching, Cao Yuanyuan only thought in his heart.
At this time, Gao Jianming, the village chief came in, and Cao Yuanyuan quickly stood up and said, "The village chief is here!" She knew and was introduced by the principal at school.
The village chief gestured to Cao Yuanyuan, and then said to the old man, "Are you going home today, or will you stay for another day?" The doctor said it would be better to observe for another day!"
"I'd better go home, isn't this just a cold, I'll be freer when I go home!" said the old man.
"Since the doctor said, listen to the doctor, take care of your spirit and then go home, don't be afraid that the cow in your house will be lost, I will give you a thousand yuan, my father is the contractor. "Cao Yuanyuan told a lie.
Gao Jianming looked at Cao Yuanyuan and didn't know what he meant. Cao Yuanyuan glanced at him, and the two of them walked out of the ward, and Cao Yuanyuan asked in a low voice: "How much money does this old man's government give him a year?"
Gao Jianming scratched his ears and cheeks when asked, and said slowly: "We will use the above funds to pay wages in general, and the rest will be symbolically distributed to those needy households who need help." It's not that you can give them as much as they want, but it depends on their level of difficulty. ”
"Why don't you give them as much as the government gives them?" said Cao Yuanyuan, slightly more aggravated.
"I don't know, it seems like it always was. Gao Jianming said in a low voice.
"Don't you have a salary, why do you still take government subsidies to pay your salary?" Cao Yuanyuan was pushed by inertia and asked the matter to the key point.
"If you only take the actual salary, will you do it? Less than 10,000 a year!" said the village chief.
Cao Yuanyuan looked at the village chief with wide eyes, he looked no better than the old man, and it seemed that he was also a person who didn't often eat meat.