The Jianan Ribao on 28 November 1984 carried a special report entitled "'Outsiders' Became '10,000 Households'." The journalist writes like this -

Coincidentally, as soon as we walked out of the gate of the Wulong Township Government in Jiacang County, we met Sun Fuqiang, who was introduced to us by the party secretary from a "foreign household" to a 10,000-yuan household. He wore a light gray polyester suit and rode a domestic heavy-duty motorcycle to the township government to run errands. If someone hadn't introduced him, I really wouldn't have seen that he was an ordinary farmer who had experienced a lot of ups and downs.

Sun Fuqiang invited us to his house. After following his motorcycle, the secretary of the party committee of our fellow township turned left and right on the shaded road of the Jialing River, passed through fruity orange orchards and green wheat fields, and entered the new settlement of Sunjiagou Village. We followed Sun Fuqiang into a small courtyard, and the new courtyard house with white walls and blue tiles was very dazzling. As soon as we entered the room, we couldn't help but exclaim in unison, how beautiful! The spacious living room and bedroom have sofas, TV cabinets, dressing tables, large wardrobes, televisions, and cassette recorders. Who would have thought that the owner of this house was a wandering person a few years ago, lacking food and clothing.

Sun Fuqiang, who is only 23 years old this year, fled here with his younger brother from Shiqiao Township, and is a shrewd and capable farmer. After the communization, he was also a good laborer in his hometown, because his father died early, he took his younger brother alone, not only to work in the mountains, but also to do carpentry for the production team, and was also selected as an "advanced element". He longed to use his strength to exchange his strength for a happy life. However, it backfired. He worked hard for a year, but he couldn't solve the problem of food and clothing for his family. As he grew up, he grew tired of this kind of labor that did not create zào value. One day in 1976, he took his younger brother and carried his worn-out carpenter's tools from his hometown to Sunjiagou and became Sunjiagou's son-in-law. Soon after getting married, Sun Laohan and Sun Fuqiang separated their families, ready to let the dolls go on their own.

In 1979, the spring breeze of the Third Plenary Session of the 11th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China crossed the "Shu Road Difficulty" and blew to Daba Mountain. Soon after, the Sunjiagou Brigade, which had been poor for many years, began to change the method of "big pot rice" and implemented the responsibility system of "five fixed and one prize". The enthusiastic Sun Fuqiang not only rushed to the front, but also gave full play to his carpenter's skills to make agricultural tools and furniture for each family. At this time, the members of the club were also impressed by this "outsider" Sun Fuqiang, and everyone elected him as the team leader. At the end of the year, Sun Fuqiang's group reached a binary triangle in the daily value of labor. The team members were very happy and praised Sun Fuqiang's skills. This year, Sun Fuqiang and his daughter-in-law not only paid off the team's arrears of 400 yuan, but also shared more than 200 yuan in cash. He bought a large buffalo, bought a new belongings for his crafts, and began to embark on the road to prosperity. When he was busy farming, he drove buffaloes to plough the fields, and when he was not working, he processed furniture and sold it to farmers. No matter the heat or winter, he is just as hardworking.

In 1980, his income reached 4,000 yuan, he went to the area to buy power tools, and his daughter-in-law also learned to paint furniture, and the two of them set up a furniture factory in the village. Two years ago, Sun Fuqiang built a new house in this courtyard and built a comfortable home. Even his younger brother, who dropped out of school, picked up his schoolbag again and went to school. In 1983, his family's income was 11,000 yuan, becoming the first 10,000 yuan household in Wulong Township. In February this year, Sun Fuqiang was commended by the township.

While talking, the hostess Sun Yumei brought candy, melon seeds and pastries, with a happy smile on her face, and poured us tea and water. Everyone was happy for their bittersweet life. Sun Gengting, secretary of the township party committee, said humorously: "Your days are as sweet as sugar, it's time to give birth to a fat doll quickly!" Sun Yumei blushed and touched her stomach and said, "In the past, I was so poor that I didn't have to eat, and I didn't dare to give birth to a doll, but now, I'm pregnant!" ”

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Fu Shun pinched this heavy "Jianan Daily", and his whole body was trembling. The mimeographed black letters on the newspaper are vivid, and the smiling face in the photo in the lower right corner is obviously the outline of the big brother, although it has matured a lot.

Fushun angrily threw the newspaper on the table, not at all happy for this "Sun Fuqiang". He never thought that the eldest brother was in Wulong Township, less than 100 miles away from Shiqiao, not only sold his ancestor's house, but also changed the surname given by his ancestor, what is the name of "Sun Fuqiang", and the younger brother is also called "Sun Fujia"? No wonder they didn't kowtow to their father's grave, how could such a bastard who sold his surname for glory have the face to go back?

"Fuwa'er, what does Dad have to ask you?" Yang Zegui pushed open Fushun's door and picked up the newspaper on the table.

"Dad, I'm going to fetch water!"

"Wait a minute. Fu Wa'er, you see that your brother is also out of business now, haven't you been looking for him? Now the newspaper has helped you find it, I will discuss it with your mother, why don't you go to Wulong to see him? And your brother! ”

"I'm not going! After all these years, they knew I was here, and they never came to look for me! ”

"Fuwa'er, dad shouldn't hide it from you, in fact...... In fact, your eldest brother came to look for you when you weren't there the year before last! ”

"What? Dad, why haven't you told me all this time? ”

"You also have a lot of things to do when you come back, and we also forgot about jì."

Fu Shun was so angry that he didn't dare to be angry at his father, so he got up and came to Shufen's house, pushed the door and went in.

"My brother was here last year?" Fushun asked his sister, in fact, what he wanted to ask more was why his sister didn't mention it in the letter?

Shufen was reading a book, and was so frightened by Fushun that the books fell to the ground. "Come on...... Been here......"

"Oops, you ......"

"Listen to me, brother, when you were studying in Jiangyun, you believed so strongly in your dream, I want you to study hard, and after you read, you will go to the bigger world outside. I know that the only thing that sustains you is that dream. ”

The distraught Fu Shun looked at the lovely Shufen and began to blame himself for the impulse just now. "Shufen, I'm sorry, I'm also hot, what do you think I should do?"

"Blame me, you didn't hear you talk about it again when you came back, and I forgot about it. He came from Layue the year before last, and he lost 200 yuan, but his father didn't ask for it. Dad also told him that you are studying, and you may not come back in the future. I saw that your eldest brother left in a lost place, and he never came back since. ”

"Is my brother coming?"

"No, he's alone."

"Did you read that newspaper?"

"Look, I saw it first, I looked at the photo, and then I asked my father, and my father said it was your eldest brother!"

"You said you have to change your surname when you come to the door?"

"Whether he changes it or not, it's just a surname, and he doesn't have the blood of your Liu family in his bones?"

"Our Liu family doesn't have such a traitor as him! No, I have to go and take my brother away, and I can't let my brother change his surname as well! ”

"But ......"

"I know, my brother is here to have one more person to eat, you don't take it in, I'll go back to the muddy ditch, we are originally from there, I don't believe that they won't give them a hukou or land when they go back?"

After Fushun finished speaking, he ran out. His words were all heard by Yang Shuzi. "Fuwazi, you stand for me!"

Yang Zegui's loud scolding made Fushun stay where he was, and tears flowed uncontrollably. Maybe it's a conditioned reflex, how many times have he been, it's such an angry roar that prevented him from leaving Yangjiawan. But he was grateful for the roars of the past, otherwise he would have wandered the streets or even frozen to death in the wild.

This time, he was not afraid, but he still turned around, wiped away his tears and said, "Dad, I'll go see my brother." ”

"Is it that if you go, you won't come back?"

"I ......"

"If yes, go ahead!"

"Daddy......"

"Do you know I'm your father? Yes? You come back for me, you go to pick up your brother? Can you compare your current financial conditions to your brother's? You take your brother and let him go back to the mud ditch with you to farm? Don't read? Besides, are you sure your brother can go with you? ”

"That can't sell the ancestor's surname!"

"What are you doing?" Mowing the grass Shufenniang, I heard Yang Zegui's voice from afar, and ran back with the basket on her back, "Is there anything you can't say well?" What are the two masters roaring? ”

Shufenniang was fierce at Yang Shuzi, and then went over to pull Fushun into the hall. Shufen came out of the bedroom, and the mother and daughter looked at Fushun and then at Yang Zegui.

"Fuwa'er, I heard it all, because the eldest brother's business is right? In fact, I have discussed it with your father, the eldest brother is the father, you see that your father of the Liu family is no longer here, and the marriage between you and Shufen is a major event, so don't you have to discuss it with your eldest brother? ”

Unexpectedly, this sentence provoked angry eyes from the other three people, "Mother, you are not messy enough, are you?" ”

Shufenniang didn't pay attention to Shufen, who slammed the door and entered the house again, and took Fushun's hand: "Fuwa'er, in this way, you write a letter to your eldest brother, say that you are back, and call him to come to Shiqiao to see you." Do you want it? ”

"Mother, I don't want to see him!"

"You doll, didn't you run to see them that year? Why don't you want to see you again? Dad, you write a letter, go quickly, and send it away tomorrow! ”

"Fu Wa'er, what your mother said makes sense, it's better for them to come here than for you to go to them, it's easy to say anything, otherwise you will become outsiders over there, what if the family surnamed Sun bullies you?" While adding, my father looked for pen and paper in the cracks of the wall,

Fu Shun didn't have an idea for a while, he wasn't afraid of bullying. But now I calmed down and thought clearly, after all, my brother is also a person with a family, and the newspaper said that the sister-in-law surnamed Sun was pregnant with a doll, no matter how I said that the doll with the belly was also surnamed Liu from the root, and it was inevitable that I would lose my temper when I ran over, and it would not be good if my sister-in-law was angry. It would be more appropriate to call the elder brother to bring the younger brother.

Fushun then went back to the house to write a letter. Shufenniang went to Shufen's house to comfort Shufen for a long time.

This heartbroken mother, since Shufen came back from her eldest sister's house, has been extra cautious, for fear of making her baby daughter angry again. Moreover, he listened to Shufang say that the second girl had reluctantly agreed to marry Fushun......