Chapter 8 Years of Wandering Sons Return to Their Homeland Children do not know each other
Sir, since Li reformed the whole family ran away, only the sheep and dogs in our village are dominant, his pasture is getting better and better, the scale is getting bigger and bigger, and the women from other villages have also begun to work here, and my eldest sister Yang Dahua has also been upgraded from a skilled worker to a manager, working hard all day long, mingling with front-line workers, and the income is also rising, although she is only fifteen years old, but she has put the production and operation management of the pasture in an orderly manner, and the eldest sister is an important assistant to the sheep and dog in the career development, Sheep Dog often lamented that his previous big gamble with Li Reform for the eldest sister was wise, and the eldest sister did not disappoint him. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
I will tell you about the matter of the eldest sister here for the time being, and then I want to tell you a new thing, that is, my grandfather's brother has returned from Taiwan.
It was 1998, I was four years old, but the height was no different from when I was three years old, the daily noodle soup drank my eyes with Venus, the face yellow muscle thin, so I began to eat a hundred meals, the village is relatively large, but who made stir-fried vegetables and put the meat I still feel more sensitive, I can run quickly from the north of the village to the south of the village, my big yellow dog can not catch up, to the cooking people will always eat a few bites, which makes me very happy.
One day, there was a burst of dust on the north side of the village, just like the sandstorm I saw in the movie, and I knew that there must have been a car entering the village, and half an hour later, the dust cleared and a car was exposed and parked in the middle of the village, right in front of my house. I looked at it excitedly and waited at the door.
A few people got out of the car, one of them was our village party secretary, he was still wearing a black tunic and covered in dirt. There is also a man in a suit with shiny hair and a red tie, looking very noble. The last one came down was an old man, who was also wearing a suit, and then a black tweed coat, and a black hat on his head, and his body was slightly rickety, and this man was my grandfather's brother.
At that time, it was the civil war between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, and both warring sides were trying their best to replenish the troops, some adopted the method of strengthening the strong men, and some adopted the method of giving appropriate subsidies, that is, two silver dollars. However, there has been a tradition of good children not being soldiers in the countryside since ancient times, and the war during the civil war was already very fierce, if you join the army, there is a high probability that you will not return, so the landlord's family will not let their son be cannon fodder, they will find a way to avoid the government's conscription order, and they will also not respond to the call of the Communist Party, they have poisoned the working people for so long, and they even try to block the liberation cause of the Chinese people, which is simply outrageous. But in our family, it is a typical family background, and it is common to not be able to open the pot, so my grandfather decided after research to change this evil old society, let one of his two sons go to join the People's Liberation Army, defeat the landlord and divide the land, and at the same time get subsidies to subsidize the family, but who to choose to go actually made it difficult for the grandfather to make it difficult for a while, the two sons are very good, and it is reluctant to go, so the grandfather used the way of throwing copper coins to resign himself to fate, and then, My grandfather stayed at home to carry on the lineage, and my grandfather's younger brother, my second grandfather, joined the People's Liberation Army. Listening to my grandfather, when the second grandfather left, the scene was very bleak, he took a step and kowtowed to the family, which may be the most simple way for ordinary Chinese to say goodbye, grandpa said that if it was not for grandpa Tai to block at that time, he would have gone to serve as a soldier for his younger brother, but grandpa Tai beat him with a stick, saying that everyone has a life, and wealth is in the sky. Grandpa gave up such an idea, and there was nothing he could do about it when he saw his younger brother leave.
After the second grandfather joined the army, he participated in the Battle of Menglianggu, the Battle of Jinan, the People's Liberation Army won these battles, and the second grandfather was also promoted to platoon commander because of his bravery, and became a junior commander, a year later, the Communist Party achieved a complete victory in Jiangbei, and the second grandfather became a company commander.
In 1949, the second grandfather's troops marched south, passing through our hometown, so by the way back to visit relatives, brought a variety of food and clothing supplies to the family, quite a feeling of wealth and nobility such as brocade clothes night walking, grandpa also reached the peak of life, there is a son, what more can the husband ask for! Accompanying the second grandfather to visit relatives in his hometown were also the administrative heads of our region, large and small, and so on, and since then our sheep family has ushered in spring.
However, the good times did not last long, in July 1949, the Battle of Kinmen broke out, and the three regiments of the People's Liberation Army that participated in the attack, a total of 9,086 people, were basically wiped out, and my second grandfather was in the attack force at that time, and he was lucky not to die and was captured in Taiwan.
The news of the battle shocked the PLA leadership, which was tantamount to capsizing in the gutter for the PLA attacking the sharp-edged, so they demanded a thorough investigation of the prisoners in the battle, and then in the form of a trial in absentia, the second grandfather was convicted of treason, so our family had a traitor, which was fatal for us. Our poor peasant elements, which were originally well-rooted, were not recognized, and when we divided the landlords' land, we were given a very small allotment, and we were given the most barren land, which was not guaranteed by drought and flood. Grandpa Tai fell seriously ill because of this, and then died with hatred in the accusations of everyone.
Besides, the second grandfather, after being captured in Taiwan, joined the Taiwan army, obtained very good conditions and treatment, and later joined the Korean War on behalf of Taiwan, and cooperated with the US military and the mainland army to start a showdown on the Korean Peninsula.
Time flashed to the 70s, the second grandfather's longing for his hometown became stronger and stronger, he was discharged from the Taiwan army and was arranged by the authorities to have a spouse, is a soldier's widow, and a seven or eight-year-old child, they do not have a solid emotional foundation, life is dull and boring, the second grandfather works in a taxi company, responsible for scheduling, such skills will be of great help to him in the future.
At that time, the two sides were still in a period of confrontation, strictly prohibiting any official and non-governmental exchanges, the mainland side wanted to liberate Taiwan, and the Taiwan side wanted to oppose communism and restore the country, so any contact between the two hostile sides, including the defection of personnel, became the focus of propaganda on both sides, and during that period, there were cases of mainland pilots flying planes to defect to Taiwan, and the story of the pilot in the Gaomi Northeast Township in Mo Yan's novel was not groundless, of course, there were also people on the Taiwan side who could not stand the high martial law environment on the island and chose to abandon the darkness and go to the mainland. I won't give examples here, but I believe that Mr. has a more comprehensive and profound understanding of this than I do.
In such an atmosphere, my second grandfather could no longer hold back his longing for his hometown and was ready to smuggle from Vietnam to the mainland by boat, but before he could make the trip, he was informed, imprisoned in Taiwan, and also convicted of treason.
Sir, it is also very rare for a person to be convicted of treason twice in his life, and my second grandfather experienced such an incredible thing, and then he was sentenced to 18 years in prison.
More than 10 years later, the second grandfather, who had tasted all the ups and downs in prison, had become an elderly man in his 60s, but the policy at that time had changed, and in 1987, the Taiwan authorities allowed residents to visit relatives on the mainland, and the mainland side also set things right by inviting people in Taiwan to visit the mainland. But the second grandfather, who has no income for many years, does not have enough financial resources to pay for the cost of returning to the mainland, and he also needs to make himself have a decent image, so he needs to work hard to accumulate capital, ten years later, in 1998, at this time he already has considerable savings, plus the pension insurance has begun to be issued many years ago, so his wealth is far more than the sheep and dogs in our village. Therefore, he decided to set foot on the land of the mainland after nearly half a century, this year, he was 71 years old, and the vicissitudes of life, the sun and the moon were like a shuttle.
When I got out of the car, I watched at the door of the car, but I didn't know who this old man was, he looked at me, and then asked my name, and I was afraid to step back, because his appearance made me look like a Kuomintang spy in the movie, which was a very fierce and vicious existence.
Then he whispered a poem:
When he left home, he returned to his hometown, and his hometown accent did not change, and his sideburns declined.
When the children don't know each other, they smile and ask where the guests are from.
Sir, just like that, my second grandfather who disappeared has returned.