Chapter Twenty-Six: Life II
The next day, after getting up and having dinner, Gongsun Guiyi twisted his father and began to continue the discussion.
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InfoGrandfather was the principal of a provincial key middle school, and he was quite famous in the local area, and during the special period, he was known as a "reactionary academic authority"
, and the "capitalist roaders"
My grandmother was a Chinese teacher at the school for many years, and because of her successful teaching experience, she was a "reactionary academic authority"
, coupled with the dismissal of his grandfather from public office, the family lost a stable monthly income.
Grandmother and young father cut cow grass under the scorching summer sun and then dried it, and then sold it to the dairy farm, began to be unripe, often cut hands with a sickle, bloody, in order to survive with rags bandaged only continue to cut, although the head with a straw hat, but the exposed parts are still often sunburned and peeled, the skin is black, like a non-state person, and then slowly become proficient, hands are covered with calluses, In this way, they relied on the meager income from cutting cattle grass to support the two; In the winter, I had to pick up the garbage, and when I was really helpless, I had to change the clothes, furniture, and other things of a little more value in the sale, and struggled to survive.
It was in these years that my father lost the opportunity to go to school, and in the case of hard and tired, my grandmother still persevered in teaching my father to study, broken newspapers and old books were teaching materials, and my father was no matter how sleepy and tired he was, but also persevered and studied seriously, and in the cold winter, his limbs were frozen and stiff, rubbing his hands, moving his frozen and stiff limbs, and returning to study when he was a little warmer.
Speaking of this, Gongsun Guiyi still wanted to continue to understand the experience of being an educated youth, but when he saw that it was very late, he ended the conversation that day.
The next day, the conversation continued: such a difficult life could not be maintained, and in 1969 a large-scale "going to the mountains and going to the countryside" of educated youths began
Sports, "Refining a Red Heart There"
"It's a big deal"
。
Grandmother and father are "unemployed"
of the "Social Youth"
, according to the regulations, it should also "go to the mountains and go to the countryside"
because they are "anti-subordinate"
was arranged in the most remote and poor ravine in Anhui.
What is lacking there is grain and more people, and the per capita cultivated land is less than 1 mu.
In order to overhaul the reservoir, a lot of money and labor have to be invested every year, and the production team has to invest money and labor every year, so there is not much left, so each full labor force is distributed less than 200 catties of grain throughout the year, and the daily labor value is only 2 dimes, and the production team ranks the grandmother and father in the range of semi-labor, so the income is also halved, and the daily labor value is only 1 dime, so that they still owe the production team money at the end of each year.
Since all the laborers went to repair the reservoir, there were not many people who were really left to work, so the people who stayed behind were still very busy with farm work.
It was a crazy time, for the sake of the "agricultural village"
, the country is building reservoirs and terraces everywhere, and it is generally repaired today and collapsed tomorrow, becoming a bottomless pit for investment and always having no entry and exit, the "Gang of Four"
After being defeated, he quickly stopped this kind of blind devotion and fruitless behavior.
To cut the "tail of capitalism"
Each household can only raise a chicken or duck, everyone is relying on their eggs to buy salt and kerosene for lighting, except for the secretary of the brigade, no one in the production team can afford to raise pigs, every year after the Spring Festival is the "spring famine"
Each person only relies on 4 catties of food per month supplied by the state (only 2 catties for children halved) to sustain their lives, and the rest of the family is vegetable + water except for a handful of rice for each meal (there is no ability to add oil and salt at all), and before eating, these leafy vegetables should be dusted with boiling water to squeeze out the water, so as to minimize the "scraping oil" inside
of alkaline substances.
Annual "Spring Famine"
There are always a few people in the team who can't get through it and go to see "God"
Finish.
The grandmother and father could only add two cents of food to the production team, and the counter-revolutionary family members were the objects of class struggle, (there are already many descriptions in all these various works, so I will not be verbose here), and in order to survive, the "spring famine" lasted for nearly half a year every year
During the time (after the Spring Festival and until the end of June, before the spring grains such as tender corn and edamame came out), my father took my grandmother to go to hundreds of homes and took turns to "visit the door" of the educated youth everywhere
Eat 100 family meals (because after all, they still have a monthly family subsidy, and my grandmother and father don't have any foreign aid, they have nothing!)
They didn't go back to the city until their father was admitted to college.
It was in this difficult and difficult environment that my father still gladly accepted the "barefoot doctor" arranged for him by the production brigade
task, using his self-taught acupuncture and moxibustion skills to treat everyone for free, and learning by doing in diagnosis and treatment, solving the suffering of many patients, and laying the foundation for his own medical studies in the future.
Everyone is grateful for the relief of many local people's illnesses, and at the same time, my grandmother and father often do their best to help everyone in all aspects, which has won everyone's favor, and the relationship with the local people has become more and more harmonious.
According to the actual situation of my grandmother and father, the production team arranged for them to work in the reservoir, my grandmother mainly helped with some writing (quite a writing secretary), and my father mainly treated everyone, where there were half a catty of "political rice" for three meals
, (at that time, the reservoir people jokingly called steaming rice in a crockpot) there was still half a catty of "political meat" every month
, (also because it is steamed in a crockpot) solves the most basic and biggest survival problem.
In fact, at that time, because all the funds for the construction of the reservoir had to be solved by themselves, in order to solve the problem of funds for the repair of the reservoir, the areas that were slightly touched by the reservoir were all included to the greatest extent, and after the actual construction was completed, they could not enjoy the use of the reservoir water, so it caused widespread dissatisfaction at the beginning, but they were forced to oppose it openly due to political pressure, and because of the long construction period of the reservoir and the huge amount of funds, the local economy could not bear it at all, and many common practical problems were even more disgusting. Therefore, local governments and institutions at all levels generally adopt a coping attitude, and the entire project is operated by manpower, so the labor intensity is very large, the safety is very poor, and the basic calories and nutrition of migrant workers can not be met in life, resulting in general negative sabotage, and generally produce "tofu dregs"
There are serious problems in the quality of the project, and the phenomenon of collapse often occurs, so that the completion of the reservoir will never have a deadline.
And there are huge political risks.
Because my grandfather was first beaten and tortured in prison, he died of illness before he could be released from prison.
Therefore, it affected the rehabilitation of my grandfather and grandmother, and it was not until my grandmother and father returned to the city that they repeatedly ran around the relevant departments to solve it.
After that, he relied on his father's salary and his grandmother's pension to support the three of them.
With a stable income, life has gradually improved.
In order to bring the grandson to the same one, the only condition that the father put forward when he was in love was to raise the grandson, which brought some difficulties to the father to solve personal problems, but the mother just took a fancy to the father's personality and character and married the lotus.