Chapter 19: The Cruel Reality
"Hit the local tyrants and inferior gentry, and hit the counter-revolutionary"
"Fight feudalism, hit reactionaries"
Cuilian and several people who had just walked out of the gate of the supply and marketing cooperatives were attracted by the shouts of the loudspeaker. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info I saw a big army-green truck, full of young people with red armbands, and at the front of the body were several people who were criticized with hats and signs.
"Listen, this afternoon we will be in the commune primary school playground to criticize these counter-revolutionaries, and we will all see what will happen to the counter-revolution." The truck was parked at the door of the supply and marketing cooperative, and a young man who seemed to be a leader in the car shouted at Cuilian with a horn.
"Long live Chairman Mao!" The people around the truck understood very well, and when the Red Guard who shouted finished speaking, he hurriedly replied. Ye Xiang next to her was afraid that Cuilian wouldn't understand, so she took her hand, raised it together, and shouted "Long live Chairman Mao!" ”
Seeing the active support of the people under the car, it was obvious that the Red Guards were very satisfied, and commanded several of the same Red Guards to beat them hard with their belts before today's critics waved their hands and shouted "Drive", and the truck continued to drive forward.
Cuilian's eyes were good, and she just glanced at a few people who were criticized, all of them were a group of fifty or sixty-year-old old ladies, not only dirty, but also looked injured, when she was just beaten, there was an old lady who was about to die, if she hadn't been pressed by the Red Guards behind her, she must have fallen down. She knew that this old lady would die if she couldn't survive today, and if she survived, she would continue to be criticized.
"Hey, Cuilian, do you say that this day is still the day of the Communist Party and the people?" Ye Xiang looked at the truck in the distance and muttered to Cuilian.
"Sister-in-law, you can't talk nonsense, it will cause big trouble for others to hear it, let's leave quickly." Cuilian was very surprised that Ye Xiang would say such a thing, but she quickly reacted, this is not something that can be said at this time, haven't you seen how the fierce Red Guards just now treated those who were criticized?
"What's wrong with my sister-in-law today?" Seeing that Ye Xiang's spirit was not very good, Cuilian asked Xiaoya to pull up her clothes, and then she freed up one hand to support Ye Xiang, afraid that she would not be able to walk steadily.
"When I went to sell eggs just now, I met a guy from my mother's side. She told me that several Red Guards in the village raided Mrs. Yu's house last night and beat Mrs. Yu to death. How could those people do it to an old lady who was almost 90 years old? In the years of the disaster, if it weren't for Mrs. Yu's help, the whole village would not have survived, how could they do it to their benefactors, how could they do it, just because Mrs. Yu was the mother-in-law of the landlord's family? But she's a good person, she's a good person! The more she spoke, the more excited Ye Xiang became, she couldn't control herself, tears blurred her eyes, if it weren't for Cuilian's support, she would have been sitting on the ground at this time.
Ye Xiang was married into Qinghegou in Xiatang Village, and Mrs. Yu of Xiatang Village is a well-known figure in the surrounding villages. When she was very young, she was sold into the landlord's house as a child daughter-in-law, and did not enjoy a good life for a few years, when the revolutionary war broke out, the men in the family followed the revolutionaries away, leaving her a woman with two children to live. Not to mention in troubled times, even in peaceful times, it is not easy for a woman to live with two children. What about the landlords? There is no man in the family who stands up to the door, and anyone can be bullied. But these did not hit her, such a difficult day, for those who participated in the revolution, as long as she could do it, she actively worked hard to do it, just because her man was in the revolution.
Later, when New China was established, she didn't wait for her own man, she still took her children by herself, and she was still so good to the people in the village. Many people of the older generation in Xiatang Village, Ye Xiang's generation was hungry when she was young, and they basically relied on Mrs. Yu's help from time to time, especially when she was ************, it was not Mrs. Yu who tossed all the foundation of the landlord's house, where is the existence of the group of Red Guards in Xiatang Village now. It can be said that Mrs. Yu is the benefactor of the entire Xiatang Village, but now such a good person, such a kind and good person, was beaten to death by this group of ungrateful people.
Thinking of this, Ye Xiang couldn't help but feel angry, why did they beat people to death, what qualifications did they have to beat people, she wanted to reason with them, yes, find that group of ungrateful and ruthless people to reason.
"Sister-in-law, what do you want to do?" Cuilian helped Ye Xiang to a hidden corner, and before she could comfort and comfort Ye Xiang, she saw Ye Xiang struggling to get up, looking like she was desperate to find someone. Fortunately, she was fast, even if she grabbed her, she looked around vigilantly, and asked in a low voice when she saw that no one was there.
"I'm going to go to them, I'm going back to Xiatang Village, but I'm going to go back and ask them why, what qualifications they have to criticize the benefactors who have saved the lives of the whole village."
"Sister-in-law, you are calm and calm, it is useless to go to them at this time, on the contrary, if you go to them to reason at this time, they will only arrest you as an accomplice of Mrs. Yu, and they have nothing to talk about." As soon as she heard that Ye Xiang was going to reason with those fierce Red Guards, she grabbed it and didn't dare to relax at all, for fear that Ye Xiang would break free and run back to do stupid things if she didn't pay attention.
"I have a red seedling, my ancestors are poor peasants for eight generations, and the man is the secretary of Qinghegou, I see if they dare to arrest me."
"Sister-in-law, don't you know what kind of world this is? Why wouldn't they dare? Even the benefactor can say that he will be killed, what else would they not dare. They are a bunch of devils, and whoever is targeted will be ruined. Sister-in-law, do you want to watch your good family being persecuted by them? Watching Erya being criticized? Ye Xiang's naivety made Cuilian very helpless, this campaign has been carried out for several years, why hasn't she recognized the reality yet? This is the most chaotic era, this is the most difficult era, and it is also the most unreasonable era, especially with the Red Guards, which is the fast pace of death.
"Woooooooooo......oo Could it be that it was just that, and let Mrs. Yu die in vain? There is no place for reason in this world? "Cuilian's words, Ye Xiang didn't know, seeing that the Red Guards couldn't hide, who rushed forward? But...... She's uncomfortable, that's Mrs. Yu, who has been good to her since she was a child, that's it, that's it......
"Sister-in-law, this is a time of tribulation for our country, we can only endure, endure, endure again."
"Forbearance? When is the end of patience? Forbearance can make their gang of ungrateful, people punished? Can the old lady endure the rest of the life? ”
"Sister-in-law, we have to endure now, we have to protect ourselves and our own home first. You can rest assured, it won't always be like this, and our great leader Chairman Mao won't allow it to be like this forever. ”
"Chairman Mao, yes, Chairman Mao will not sit idly by, Chairman Mao will not let them be arrogant for a long time, that is our great Chairman Mao." Hearing Cuilian mention Chairman Mao, Ye Xiang, who was still emotional just now, instantly quieted down, and her performance made the corners of Cuilian's mouth twitch uncontrollably.
When she was a ghost, she didn't understand the kind of worship that people in this era treated Chairman Mao like a god, but as a human being, she still didn't understand this kind of admiration, such blind admiration as a faith. At this time, if anyone said that this movement was wrong, that it was a wrong decision of the great leader, she believed that in seconds, she would be gone. Therefore, she didn't dare to say anything, so she could only change the topic and said: "Sister-in-law, let's go to the commune quickly, the second brother should finish the meeting."
"Well, let's go. Cuilian, thank you so much just now, if it weren't for you, I'm afraid I would have done something stupid today. Ye Xiang, who has regained her composure, is the shrewd and capable branch secretary's daughter-in-law on weekdays. She knew that what she said just now, if someone heard it, she didn't persuade herself, and immediately ran to report it, the consequence would be that the family would be ruined, and the whole family would be dragged to death by herself, and this consequence would make her back cold and cold sweat flow. Fortunately, Cuilian is here, although she hasn't gotten along for long, she can still believe in Cuilian's character, which also makes her closer to Cuilian, and the two families will walk around like real relatives in the future. In later times, he also provided great help to Cuilian.
"What are you talking about, sister-in-law, we don't know who you have been doing for so long. Don't mention it in the future, let's go. Ye Xiang regained her composure and made Cuilian breathe a sigh of relief, if she didn't listen to the persuasion and wanted to go back to find someone to theorize, she had to think of a way to trap her first. Otherwise, she is afraid that it will affect her own family, after all, her own family and Ye Xiang and their family are now relatively close, and there is a villain who looks at the Wang family who is not pleasing to the eye, and then it is bad, even if there is an old revolutionary Wang Daddy in the family, it doesn't work, don't you see that so many successful people in the country are fighting.
"Okay, let's go."