Chapter 8: Two Great Earthquakes

It is said that graduating from primary school and going to junior high school is natural and smooth, and there will be no suspense. However, the political climate at that time had reached a crazy stage, and although it was not so obvious in the countryside, it was also affected.

"Going to junior high school depends on the family composition" Long Xin was also ridiculous when he heard the news, since ancient times, children go to school is a free and voluntary thing, whether to go to school or not is their own decision, this is the first time I have heard of such a thing.

Long Xin hurriedly inquired with his teacher, Mr. He, and understood what was going on. It turns out that the struggle has reached a fever pitch, and the slogan of fighting to the point of being rich and opposing the bad and the right has already been raised to the height of politics, and children with poor composition cannot be allowed to go to school, which is a new formulation, otherwise the more knowledge, the more reactionary. Originally, Long Xin didn't have to worry, his family was also an old farmer for eight generations, so he didn't have to worry at all, he participated in the anti-Japanese war in his early years and was also a veteran. But when I think about it, I have a stain, and everyone knows about the street parade in the past few years. also hung up a "capitalist royalist" hat, whether it will affect Xiaolongdan's schooling, it is unknown.

The eldest Long Wen has graduated from high school and is the secretary of the Youth League branch in the village, and the next step is to choose the secretary. The second son Longhua has already entrusted the relationship to become a soldier, the third son is already in junior high school, and the remaining fourth is a big regret if he can't go to school?

So, Long Xin was busy asking people to find relationships.

Long Xin's first thing to look for is naturally the secretary Xu Fu, Xu Fu often goes to the commune for meetings, and there is naturally more news in the officialdom, so it is natural to ask Xu Fu. With years of friendship, after a meal of old white, the secretary Xu Fu was full of promises to think of a way for Long Xin. The next day, the news came, Xu Fu told Long Xin that he had already greeted the head of the commune education group, and asked Long Xin to bring something to the education team leader's house. Sure enough, Long Xin carried 5 catties of noodles and 20 eggs, so he naturally settled the matter.

In fact, this matter can be big or small, of course, people with ulterior motives want to use this matter to make some foreign money. A leader of the group of broken education usually has no rights, but after this incident, how many children in the whole commune have to be rich and anti-bad? This made this small team leader taste the sweetness and made a real fortune.

At the beginning of the school year, the school held a student meeting, and the head of the education team also came to Shijiaquan Union High School to give instructions. The theme of the speech was "Push down the four walls and go into the vast fields", which is said to be the spirit of the central government, and the common people below are not clear anyway. In general, it means that it is useless to study, and students should go to the peasants to be tempered and transformed. After a month of classes, there is a holiday, in fact, it is half farming and half studying. When Long Dan returned home, he told his father, and Long Xin scolded angrily: "Bullshit, go to the peasants, Lao Tzu's whole family is a farmer, and you still need to exercise?" I knew I wouldn't be able to do this, but it's a pity that I still have 20 eggs for my five-pound dried noodles." I was angry, and I had no choice, so I had to let Long Dan play at home, but I didn't let Long Dan go to work in the field, but just let Long Dan follow the bearded old man to do chores to help, and learn medical skills by the way.

Although the school is on holiday, there is a task, that is, each student must hand over 200 catties of grass to the school every week, and the school will find someone to be responsible for drying it and selling it to the production team to raise cattle. Long Dan has great strength, and is good at being in the limelight, and he is also very hard at cutting grass, and the number of grass handed in every week has more than doubled, and after a month, he has handed over more than 3,000 catties of grass, and he actually received 3 yuan and 1 cent and eight cents at the beginning of school, which can be regarded as a real work-study program, Long Xin heard about it, and sighed.

This summer, there was a lot of rain. One night, Long Dan, who was sleeping in a dream, was suddenly picked up and ran outside the house. It turned out to be an earthquake, and in the days to come, in order to prevent earthquakes, Long Xin set up a few shacks and lived in the yard, the yard of Long Dan's house was huge, and it was not too crowded to take down a few shacks. After a few days, I heard that there was a major earthquake in Tangshan, and many people died.

Most of the school's work-study programs are organized, and on this day, Longdan's class was beating corn leaves in the corn field of the production team to feed the cows, and suddenly, the school's horn sounded mournful. At first, the students did not pay attention, but later the teacher informed the students to return to the school to gather. When Long Dan and his classmates returned to school, the playground was already crowded, and mourning music was constantly playing in the wired loudspeakers. "How so?" The classmates all have the same idea as Long Dan, Taizu has become a god, and it is impossible to die, but this is the case.

I don't know who cried first, but everyone in the whole playground cried. Long Dan also howled and cried, and he didn't know why, Long Dan wanted to cry in his heart. I cried for more than two hours, the principal and teachers were busy with their work, and Long Dan and his classmates gradually dispersed and went home.

Since then, the students have not gone to work-study again, and in the days that followed, the school returned to normal, and since no one mentioned the work-study thing anymore, the students continued to study step by step. After this incident, Long Dan asked the old man what he should do, and the old man only gave Long Dan four words: study hard.

Long Dan's third brother, Long Cheng, was also in the second year of junior high school in this joint middle school, and in the second half of the semester, he stopped going and went to the county fertilizer factory as a worker. This was the first time that the fertilizer plant openly recruited contract workers, that is, regular workers who did not have an establishment, and according to the parlance at the time, regular workers who could not eat grain from the state treasury. The treatment is the same as that of regular workers, because there is no establishment, and the hukou is still in the village. If you want to get the food in the village, you have to hand over money to the production team. Almost half of the wages had to be paid in order to receive a ration for a strong laborer. It's not a job that everyone can get. It is also Longxin's reputation in recent years, and his path is also wide, and it took nearly 200 yuan to get a spot. Since then. Long Dan's third brother, Long Cheng, worked in the fertilizer factory for fifteen years, until a major accident occurred. That's an afterword.

Long Dan's life has returned to the past, getting up early in the morning to practice with the master, and running to school after practicing kung fu, Long Dan's study has gradually improved. Long Dan listened to his grandfather's words, and naturally became interested in learning, and Long Dan's uncle also helped a lot. Because my uncle has a lot of books in his house, especially mathematics books, it is a treasure for Long Dan, and the confusing mathematical problems have led Long Dan into the ocean of knowledge, and even Mr. Wu, who teaches mathematics, has praised Long Dan.

Long Dan's two-year junior high school career is coming to an end, and there is good news from above, the national college entrance examination will be resumed, and the best will be admitted. When this news came, Long Dan's eldest brother Long Wen was also alive in his heart. Although he was the village youth secretary, he soon became the secretary. But after all, it is not as good as in the city, so I found high school books and studied hard. After studying hard for a few months, Long Wen took the first exam after the national college entrance examination, but it backfired, his grades were not good, and he fell out of the exam list and fell to Sun Shan. In fact, in Long Xin's eyes, the eldest son can't be admitted to college, do you think, during the whole school period, he either helped the production team to work, or did some work-study, how could he have the opportunity to attend classes? Long Wen studied for a few months, and he was also sharpening his guns, and it would be strange if he could be admitted to university.

Long Dan's academic performance is not said. Admitted according to the merits, Long Dan has no pressure in his heart. When peasant children go to high school, they no longer rely on recommendation to go on to higher education, but they have to be admitted according to their scores. This year, 13 of the 40 students in Long Dan's class were admitted, and Long Dan was admitted to Luxi No. 6 Middle School with the first score, and began Long Dan's high school career.