12. Growth

It is said that during the country's crackdown, Tie Dan'er's second grandfather's leash also hit the muzzle of the gun and was severely beaten.

The reason is that he stole a wrench in the team, was reported and then arrested by the police station, and the police at the police station came to search the house, and found dozens of big felts and dozens of wooden boards, and the public security asked the leash: "Where did the big felt and wooden planks come from?"

Tie up and answer: "Big, big, big... The big felt was made by a carpenter, wood, wood, wood... The planks are, yes, yes... The feltmaker's ......"

It was originally a stammer, but when I was scared by the police, I stuttered even more. One sentence amused a group of people, and even the police couldn't help laughing.

Because Tie Dan'er's great-grandfather was a landlord, he naturally had a lot of belongings, although he was confiscated by the house, and part of the family property was returned after the policy was rehabilitated. So the big felt and wooden planks are naturally their own things.

But during the Strike Hard period, he was sentenced to six months in prison for stealing a wrench.

Under such a severe crackdown, from then on, the cattle were put into Nanshan, the knives and guns were put into storage, the doors were not locked, everyone only had to do their own livelihood, and the militia of each village was naturally responsible for safety.

Shandan and Mao Dan'er have also grown up in junior high school and high school, and the two have always been in the same class, like sisters and brothers.

Because Erwa studied for several years and knew a few words, when she was engaged in water conservancy construction, she became a technician at a hydrological station and managed a newly built reservoir. In addition, grandpa also left some family property for Mao Dan'er's family, and Maodan'er's life is more relaxed than that of Tiedan'er's family.

When the two children were in junior high school, they had to go to study in Karatai Township, 30 miles away from home. Shandan doesn't have a bicycle at home, and the tall Mao Daner takes Shandan to school every week, and carries dry food for the two of them, and Mao Daner often distributes his delicious dry food to Shandan.

The conditions of the school are very difficult, and there are only one and a half feet of space for each person in a large wooden plank. The heating is a carbon stove, and each dormitory is a fixed amount of large carbon, which is far from enough. In winter, there are often low temperatures of minus 20 or 30 degrees Celsius, and the doors and windows are blown by the cold wind of Saibei, and the children dare not take off their clothes to sleep. I only took off my cotton shoes and got into the cold bed.

Later, someone figured out a way: when sleeping, one person hugged one or two bottles of glucose filled with boiling water. Because every night after self-study, the boiling water room will provide a dormitory with two buckets of boiling water. In this way, holding a hot water bottle will not hide in the bed and shiver.

Once, Shandan poured one into the quilt first, and poured another one and threw it into the quilt casually, only to hear the sound of "click", Fan Lian realized that the bottle had been broken.

Hurriedly reaching out to grab it, not wanting a sharp pain to come, Shandan hurriedly withdrew his hand back, and blood came out.

The students helped out with all sorts of hands - cleaning up the bed, treating wounds, reporting to the teacher......

When the teacher arrived, the wound was no longer bleeding. Shandan's right palm was cut an inch long, and the teacher took iodine wine to disinfect it, she said: "It's really fortunate - it's not cut to the back of the hand, otherwise the blood vessels and nerves will be in trouble!"

The winter on the grassland is particularly cold and long, and the school's coal is only enough to build a stove to heat the house after self-study at night, and the school is worried about the students' gas poisoning and stipulates that too much carbon is not allowed to be put into the stove at night.

Every morning, when I wake up**, my face is covered with frost.

Once, after the next night's self-study, everyone was under the covers, and they were still chatting, and Shandan was telling a joke, and everyone was laughing. Suddenly, there was a "grunt" and something fell to the ground. Everyone cried and covered their heads with quilts. Later, I heard the reprimand of the life teacher: "You still haven't gone to sleep, what time is it? The lights have been out for so long, and your dormitory is still noisy! Hurry up and go to bed!"

It turned out that the weak door panel was knocked to the ground by the teacher's punch, and listening to the teacher's footsteps and walking away, everyone laughed again for the intimidation of the door panel.

Everyone agreed: it's cold anyway, and the door panel will never be installed.

Early the next morning, a thick layer of snow accumulated on the floor of the dormitory, and it snowed heavily at night and blew. The children continued to suffer from hunger and cold, and did not retreat from the cold and hardship.

Because the students are scattered all over the grassland, the distance is long, and the climate is not good, the school decided to take 11 days of classes every two weeks and rest for three days, and the evening self-study on the second Thursday night will not be the evening self-study, and the evening self-study on Sunday will start the next cycle. Students can ride their bikes home on these three days. You can get home on Thursday night when you are closer, and you can go to school on Sunday night or Monday morning, and Shandan and Mao Daner are far away, and it takes two or three hours for Mao Daner to ride a bicycle back and forth on Shandan, so you can only stay at home for a whole day every two weeks.

Although the school also has a cafeteria, it only serves steamed buns to students. Students also have to bring flour to school. The good flour produced by the school has been exchanged for commercial grain by the teacher, so the steamed steamed buns in the school are not much better than those in Wowotou, whether they can eat it or not, the school forces each student to order a school steamed bun, and pay 100 catties of flour per person every semester. So, every student brings dry food from home. Shandan's mother always gave Shandan enough dry food every time, no matter how good or bad it was, so that Shandan's dry food was always surplus and not insufficient.

Qingqing, a niece in the same village as Shandan, is the same age as Shandan, called Aunt Shandan, and every time she takes dry food, she doesn't have enough to eat, and every time she gives her own dry food to Qingqing to eat. After doing this a few times, my cousin Hua Feng actually took less and less dry food for Qingqing, only enough to eat for a week, and Qingqing had no dry food for four or five days from Sunday.

Shandan really couldn't see it, and discussed with Qingqing, even if Shandan still had enough dry food to eat until the holiday, Shandan would accompany her to go back early. Did Shandan ask the teacher for leave, saying that Qingqing was sick and wanted to go home. The two rode Qingqing's bicycle and walked back.

It happened to be a rainy day, and I had to pass through a grassland swamp, and the cement was wrapped around the tires and stuck on the scraper. The two children walked through the swamp with great difficulty, and returned home from a muddy and exhausted Shandan. But he was scolded by his cousin Hua Feng: "Just you pleaded Qingqing to run home if you don't go to school well, I get enough dry food every time, why is it so bad this time? Could it be that someone stole it because it was delicious? ”

When Shandan heard this, he was angry! Pointing to his cousin Huafeng's nose, he asked: "You said that the dry food you take every time is enough to eat, and you can tell me how many baked foods and how many steamed buns you take each time to Qingqing? You name a number? Look at how much she eats in a day? Do your own calculations to see if it is enough? You are so stingy that you are reluctant to give her a full stomach, I give her my dry food every time, and you still come to scold me! You give her less and less dry food, it used to be only one or two days away, and now there are still four or five days without food! You ask your conscience, how did you become a mother? Others steal food? You let Qingqing lock it in your own small cupboard, who can steal food? Besides, except for you Qingqing, none of your classmates are hungry! I asked for leave to accompany her back, and when it rained on the Kanna marsh beach again, she was half tired to death, and you still came to scold people?!"

Shandan's continuous bombardment blew up her cousin Huafeng stunned, and Shandan's mother couldn't cover Shandan's mouth on the side, so she had to look at it curtly, she had never seen Shandan so powerful. has always been a weak little girl, but now her words are so fierce and reasonable. Shandan's mother was impressed with her daughter. She believes that this daughter who has been sick and crooked since she was a child has grown up and is by no means an ordinary person.

Cousin Hua Feng's face was as red as the noon sun in August on the grassland, and she muttered: "I'm just here to ask you, to see if Qingqing is skipping school? You scolded me for a long time! The nose is not the nose, and the eyes are not the eyes." You're so powerful at such a young age, who will dare to marry you in the future?"

Shandan pouted angrily and ignored his cousin. Shandan's mother hurriedly poured water for Huafeng, and hurriedly compensated.

It happened that the second wife of Li next door was visiting Shandan's house, and couldn't help but interject: "Shandan is right, the girl's daughter has a point." ”

After the propaganda of Li's second wife, Shandan became famous for his sharp mouth in less than the next day, and everyone knew that Shandan who had read the book was reasonable, righteous and righteous, and should not be underestimated. Hua Feng, a woman recognized as powerful in the whole village, was speechless.