01

Although Song Jishan did not die, his body lost a lot after all. He is reluctant to spend money on medical treatment and medicine, and his son's luggage and train tickets for college will cost countless expenses, so can he not know his family background? He relied on his medical background, wrote a few herbs, and asked his wife to go up the mountain to dig up the soup and drink it. The family took out all the money saved by a dime and a yuan on weekdays, and exchanged the cloth stamps, food stamps, oil stamps, and sugar stamps that were "unusable" on weekdays, and finally succeeded in buying a white good shirt, a khaki blouse, a pair of khaki pants, a pair of labor cloth pants, and a new pair of liberation shoes for Song Yunhui. Other bedding and the like were ready-made goods used by Song Yunhui when he cut the queue, so that Song Yunping took it to the August sun several times before he took away the pigs.

As a result, the family declared bankrupt, and they didn't even have the money to go to the county seat to take their son to the city train station by car. But he was reluctant not to send it, knowing that he would have no money to go home for a few years, and the whole family wanted to send it. So, they got up at one o'clock in the morning, walked from the stars and the moon, walked to the bright sun, and went to the city's train station to exchange the last bit of rough banknotes for a crisp cardboard half-price train ticket, and sent Song Yunhui on time. Song Yunhui became the first person in the Song family to take the train, but fortunately there was no need to change trains. Even at the last moment of the breakup, Song Yunping repeatedly told her younger brother that she could only go to college if she had to be so strict in political trial, and the people in it must be terrible. Song Yunhui said that he knew, but Song Yunping was not at ease, his younger brother had always been bold and open-minded, and the word "know" could not be put in his mouth and had to be put in his heart. While speaking, the crowd took Song Yunhui to the ticket gate, and the mother cried first, and the father and sister cried with him. Song Yunhui bit his lip and walked almost backwards, but in the end, he walked farther and farther, and when he turned around and couldn't see his family, he wiped the tears in his eyes.

Song Yunhui has always believed that the moment he jumps on the train is the real beginning of his college life. Jumping on the train was like jumping into a completely different world, with the passengers speaking dialects he didn't understand, and talking about things he had never been exposed to, and Song Yunhui thought curiously, this is what "all over the world" means. He craned his neck to listen, but he left the sorrow of leaving his homeland behind. On the contrary, after his parents and sister sent him to the car, he rushed back with his head down, crying all the way, without saying a word.

Song Yunhui thought that the people on the train were already wonderful, but when he arrived at school, he realized that his classmates were the real people from all over the world. The eldest student in the class was thirty years old, had children and daughters, was fourteen years older than him, and still received a salary to go to school. The youngest is also a high school graduate, still older than him, everyone in the class calls him little brother, little prodigy, where does he do things, people look at his immature appearance, they can't help but laugh and ask him if he is the little brother, he has become a little celebrity, more famous than the eldest brother with children and daughters. And his family composition, among the eight people in his dormitory, is still pediatric, the father of the second child in the dormitory, and the old rightist who is in the newspaper, which makes Song Yunhui relieved from childhood to adulthood. The teachers who taught them were also rightists, but at the orientation party, several professors and lecturers who had previously worked with Soviet specialists danced the Soviet dance merrily, walking as if they were ducks. Infected by their cheerfulness, Song Yunhui felt that he could endure it without having to endure it for a while, and he finally said a few words from his heart occasionally. Song Yunhui wrote all these novelties on stationery almost without leaking a drop, and sent them home one letter a week. Song Yunping loves to read these letters, and she is curious to ask back, but as a sister, she never forgets to follow a sentence and tells her younger brother not to forget to read.

How could Song Yunhui abandon his studies, not to mention that he really likes to read, even if he wants to play, those big brothers and sisters who know that reading opportunities are not easy to come by will also take him to read and read books. After the "Cultural Revolution", the first batch of college students, the learning materials are very simple, there are almost no decent textbooks, many of them are printed with ink by the school itself, some are teachers bring a few textbooks printed from the engraved wax paper every time they give a lecture, and some do not even have books, the teacher speaks above, the students write down, and English is learned from ABC. Teachers are eager to give their students what they have learned and knowledge, and always teach them to cherish hard-won opportunities, and students are willing to work hard. Song Yunhui has a good memory when he is young, and it is easier to learn anything than his older classmates, which makes those big brothers and sisters envious.

In the dormitory of the class, when it comes to studying, Song Yunhui is like a fish in water, but when it comes to current affairs, he is immediately speechless, he doesn't understand anything. His belated admission letter, everyone analyzed for him, whether someone maliciously stuck it, or someone withheld the letter but wrote to the admission school to ask for the cancellation of his admission to the bitch, seeing that he almost died, he was afraid of causing a big disaster, so he quietly returned to his house. When the big brothers in the same dormitory analyzed for him, they also patted him on the shoulder in unison, sighing that their family was still pure, rare and pure. The classmate from the Great Northern Wilderness said that in order to apply for the college entrance examination in 77, he braved the big smoke bubbles in the cold winter to find the instructor of the company to fight, and everyone was afraid of him, so he was released. Song Yunhui thought to himself, if he and his sister also sprinkled it during the political trial, would his sister also have a chance?

There were often political study meetings in the class, and the battle-hardened big brothers and sisters were impatient with the dogmatic stupidity of reading newspaper articles at a meeting, so of course they pushed the task of reading the newspaper to the youngest Song Yunhui, and the counselor was naturally lazy and asked Song Yunhui to go to the school gate to get a daily copy of the "People's Daily". Song Yunhui barely speaks Mandarin, and the class newspaper reading meeting has become a transformation meeting for everyone to teach Song Yunhui to speak Mandarin. Song Yunhui sometimes laughed anxiously, and vowed to read the newspaper to them in English in the future, but everyone coaxed and said wait and see, which forced Song Yunhui to go to Liangshan, and had to use the strength of self-study high school textbooks to learn English by himself. But more often, those college students debated "practice is the only criterion for testing the truth" and debated "two whatevers", Song Yunhui could only sit in dizziness when he listened, and the truth did not pass the test of practice, just like a mathematical formula did not pass the argument, how could it be determined that it was valid? What is there to argue with such a simple sentence and a few words? He didn't understand the seriousness of those college classmates in this sentence.

Song Yunhui never thought that a person like him would be qualified to read and keep the "People's Daily", and in his memory, the "People's Daily" was a treasure that could only appear in the principal's office and the office of the street revolutionary committee, and was placed on the highest level of the newspaper shelf. He cherishes this opportunity to save the "People's Daily", whether he can read it or not, he will take the time to read all the newspapers every day, even if it is extremely boring and long, he also eats it alive, sometimes he just doesn't understand it, he doesn't know what the newspaper says after reading it, and he needs a guide from the big brothers to get a clue. From the newspaper, he saw that the Third Plenary Session of the 11th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China was held, and he didn't know what was important about this session, only that those big brothers and sisters were unusual, rushing to read the newspaper, and then they didn't need counselors to organize, and they had heated discussions before and after class. From their discussions, Song Yunhui not only had an understanding of the political situation, but also gradually developed a new way of thinking, knowing how to link the news theory in the newspaper with his own life and study.

Of course, more news comes from the trail, from the home letters of those with backgrounds. Song Yunhui was hungry for theoretical knowledge in the university, and at the same time learned the knowledge of social university from those who were experienced in society. However, the university knowledge learned is more limited to nouns and concepts.

In the Spring Festival of 1979, Song Yunhui had no money to go home. However, the bleakness of the Spring Festival and the cold weather could not extinguish the raging fire that had just risen in his heart, so he participated in the discussion among his college classmates for the first time, and conveyed the good news to his parents and sisters at home as soon as possible: the central government made a decision to take off the hat for the "rich and evil". In the letter, he also wrote down the insights he came up with after discussing with his classmates, so that his parents, who were thousands of miles away, could hold their hearts up and be human beings from now on.

Although the final policy implementation has not yet arrived, from that moment on, Song Yunhui felt that he could stand up and be a man in a dignified manner, and he no longer had to hold his tail. Song Yunhui saw several college classmates who were deeply affected by him drinking liquor to celebrate, and he was so drunk that he burst into tears and hugged his head and laughed wildly, he didn't have enough alcohol, but he could empathize. It's all over. He found that he had come to love the world.

But this topic did not heat up in school for long, and the war of self-defense and counterattack against Vietnam began. The war is fought in the front, and the whole people in the rear are mobilized to share the same hatred for the enemy. In addition to some old fritter classmates, many people write letters to pay tribute to front-line heroes, and Song Yunhui is no exception. But he also made a bold move. He heard that the school was going to select a group of students with both ability and political integrity as amateur counselors of the attached primary school to publicize the heroes of the self-defense counterattack against Vietnam to primary and secondary school students. To this end, he carefully prepared a thick stack of newspaper clippings, notes, and experiences obtained from the "People's Daily". Unexpectedly, although according to the counselor, the process of approving him to join was rather special and full of twists and turns, but he was honorably approved to become an amateur tutor in the attached primary school. In the words of the college classmates, he, a comrade from a poor background, can use the sword of Shang Fang to corrupt the little flowers and bones of the motherland.

Song Yunhui is very grateful to the leaders of the department, cherishes this hard-won opportunity, and enthusiastically devotes himself to the work of the amateur counselor of the primary school attached to the university. He tutors students in grades 3 and 4, and the students love him. It was also the first time that he had made his sharp teeth stand and be put to good use, which was very convincing to both children and teachers. However, he still remembered the painful lesson that almost led to lifelong regret for saying a wrong sentence, and he didn't say much to children in his spare time. The homeroom teacher of the first class of the fourth grade was a young man who liked Song Yunhui's sincerity and invited him to attend the class in an afternoon when there was no class.

Song Yunhui went and sat at the back of the class, looking at a glance all the black and pressed little heads, and he was sitting upright with an adult face. The boys and girls around him all felt his aura and sat upright together. Only a tall girl occasionally studied him with shining eyes, and her staring gaze and slightly raised chin showed the girl's fearlessness and pride. Song Yunhui also noticed the girl, he could see that the girl's temperament was different, and she seemed to be radiant all over her body.

After a while, the head teacher commented on the composition of the previous class, it may be that the students' compositions are generally unsatisfactory, the more the class teacher talks, the more excited he becomes, he can't stop the car and count them one by one, and he scolded most of the class, and several students were attacked by chalk heads. But when the head teacher said that everyone was so half-hearted, how could there be any future prospects, Song Yunhui saw the girl raise her hand, and calmly spoke and argued that half of the students in the class would definitely be admitted to university, which was better than the teacher who graduated from the secondary school. The head teacher was trembling with anger, but instead of flying out of the chalk head, he brushed his sleeves away.

Song Yunhui was surprised and thought that he had to deal with the matter, so he asked the girl to go out and talk alone. The girl walked out of the classroom gracefully like a swan, followed Song Yunhui to the center of the playground, reported her home name to Liang Sishen, and took the initiative to defend her reasons. Song Yunhui admired it very much, since he was studying, how could he have been so high-spirited for a day, but he still dutifully took himself as an example as a counselor, telling Liang Sishen that it was difficult for his predecessors to study in the ten years of catastrophe, and that it was not easy for teachers to learn from secondary school. What he didn't expect was that after Liang Sishen asked a few questions curiously, he readily and boldly found the homeroom teacher to apologize.

Liang Sishen was curious about the hardships and twists and turns of Song Yunhui's junior high school entrance examination, while Song Yunhui was curious about Liang Sishen's courage and straightforwardness. Liang Sishen has become Counselor Song's little follower, and Counselor Song is as good as a stream.

Not long after, Song Yunhui handed over the application for joining the group to the class secretary, and it was quickly approved.

This trick impressed all the college students, but they didn't expect that it would be the youngest student in the whole class, or even the whole department, and even the youngest in the school.

Everyone thinks that this kid is a newborn calf who is not afraid of tigers, and he is hitting the opportunity crookedly, and some experienced people in society are waiting to see Song Yunhui's young ambition and arrogance, but they are all disappointed. Song Yunhui continued to live and study, everything was as usual, he studied hard as usual, every second counted, and he still rushed to do the class work that his classmates disdained, and worked hard. Everyone first thought that he was a man in a small city, and then slowly felt that this person was working hard.

Song Yunhui was not indifferent at all, after he wrote the idea of applying for an amateur counselor and applying to join the group into his letter, before he could become an amateur counselor, a thick stack of teachings at home came on a hot wheel. The father told his son with his own bitter lesson that although the policy was temporarily relaxed, no one knew when there would be a relapse. Remember not to provoke people's red eyes and not to be truthful. His father and sister told him in detail what not to do when eating, how to pay attention to the tone and rhythm when speaking, how to pay attention to what not to do when participating in group activities, and how to participate in group activities, etc., Song Yunhui was upset, he was not a child, and when was it, he was so cautious. But after all, he still remembered the lesson that a mistake would become a thousand years of hatred, and although he replied to the letter and refuted it vigorously, he still restrained himself in action. After all, my parents haven't taken off their hats yet.

So the letter rushed over again, and the trembling could be seen between the lines. The letter also contained two national food stamps. Song Yunhui has a monthly stipend of 15 yuan, and he saves money from between his teeth to buy books at Xinhua Bookstore. Sometimes the pickles in the morning are saved until noon, but the cost of the dishes is saved, but the amount of food is large, and half a catty is not enough, and the last class in the morning is concerned about the canteen. Fortunately, the family has a national food stamp sent to supplement it every month, unlike some classmates whose families have more than enough meal tickets, so they can only cut back on food and clothing.

Sister Song Yunping waited for recruitment after the college entrance examination, but even if the opportunity was bad, it would not be the turn of people like them, and their parents were too late to have low self-esteem, so they didn't dare to find someone to open the back door, so Song Yunping's job has not been settled. Song Yunping refused to eat, so she took two old tin cans at home and exchanged them for a pair of long-haired rabbits. It took the family two days to set up two rabbit cages in the backyard and start a family side business. Winter has gone to spring, and there has been a litter of six rabbits, and the long hair has been stubble. When the hair of the eight rabbits in the second crop of early summer was cut out, in the letter to Song Yunhui's family, he began to clip a two-yuan or five-yuan ticket every three or five times. In the family letter, Song Yunping is shrewd in calculation and plans a better future for her family, she doesn't want to take the university entrance examination again, and she doesn't go to school again, how to compete with the regular army in the new year, it is better to base herself on the present.

Therefore, Song Yunhui does not like the seventy-ninth class of college students who came in the new school year, the strange thing is that the classmates and teachers do not attach much importance to the seventy-ninth class of college students, everyone says that these little hairy balls who have no social experience do not understand anything, have no brains, and are like twittering sparrows, they only know how to play, and there are many parents who accompany them to school. The ceremony to welcome the seventy-ninth session did not welcome the liveliness of the seventh-eighth session, and the professor simply did not participate.

The long-haired rabbit raised by her sister has already given birth to a second litter, and she has seen it as a way out.

02

The way out is at the feet of man, but all roads lead to Rome, and all roads are different. Lei Dongbao has one of the biggest wishes to join the army, that is, to join the party in the army, and then strive to be promoted and wear a military uniform with four pockets. He was a bold person, worked hard, and had a small brain, and won the respect of the company commander's instructor, and he joined the Communist Party of China honorably in the second year of joining the army.

When the self-defense counterattack against Vietnam began, he, like other brave soldiers, wrote a bloody letter asking to go to the front line, but he did not expect that engineers like them did not have the part of going to the front line, and the war ended victoriously after only one month. These activists worked in vain, and after that, they could only listen to the speeches of those heroes who came to the group, and Lei Dongbao's blood boiled after listening to the speech. He thought that as long as he could be promoted and stay in the army, he would always have the opportunity to defend his family and country like those heroes.

But there were unforeseen circumstances, and a document suddenly came down from above, in order to ensure that the knowledge of military commanders and fighters is younger, all military cadres must pass the military academy examination, Lei Dongbao was dumbfounded.

Although he claimed to be at the beginning of the Chinese level, what kind of books he read at that time, most of the time was playing and making trouble, although he studied some more after joining the army, but his level was in the middle and lower in the company, and he could not compare with the city soldiers, where could he withstand the examination of the military academy. Helpless, he could only retreat. At the end of the year, together with other volunteers, he reluctantly discharged from the army. Lei Dongbao didn't get a commission, and he was reluctant to retire from the army, but the widowed mother who saw her baby son go home was overjoyed, and she revolved around her son when she had nothing to do.

Although his hometown is a place where he was born and raised, in the eyes of Lei Dongbao, who has now seen the world, this hometown is so poor. The newspapers and radio stations are all publicizing the realization of the "four modernizations," but there is no movement here, the slogans of "criticizing the forest and criticizing the holes" are still painted on the mud walls, and everyone is still listening to the radio horn under the eaves to get up and listen to the big bell at the entrance of the village to finish work. Men work a day, only seven cents, and it is not enough to buy a stamp. The key is that Lei Dongbao has a lot of strength and a lot of food, and he eats every day and worries about the next meal.

In the past few days since Lei Dongbao went home, the owner worshiped the uncle and the uncle of the west family, hurriedly counted the courtesies, and also understood the situation in the team. Backward, closed, and poor, only the eldest girl in the brigade is married, and the younger daughter-in-law is not seen marrying into the door.

On the fourth day of returning home, Lei Dongbao came to the brigade headquarters, a small bungalow with only two rooms, to find the secretary and the captain to work. The old secretary was his distant uncle, and he had already visited him on the first day of his return, but private visits were very different from official affairs, and if he wanted to work, he had to talk about it in the yamen, especially as a party member, and he had to find the organization in time. The secretary was reinstated this year, and the person who used to control the brigade was an old man from the rebel faction. The old secretary is highly respected, but he is a little powerless, so he entrusted Lei Dongbao with important tasks as soon as he came up.

The old secretary confessed to Lei Dongbao: "Dongbao, there are six party members in the brigade, four of them have a history of rebellion, and the commune refuses to reuse them. Now that I'm joining you as a new force, I can finally rest assured. Yesterday I went to the commune, and the commune asked me how you are, and I said okay, I watched Dongbao grow up, and he joined the party in our revolutionary ranks, can it be bad. The Commune promised you to act as deputy secretary for half a year. Toho, are you confident? A letter to my uncle. ”

Lei Dongbao said bluntly: "Uncle, I originally wanted to ask you to be a militia company commander, but I didn't expect you to think so highly of me." I didn't say it, I trained well in the army, I can't die of exhaustion, and if you have any tasks, you can just tell me. ”

The old secretary smiled when he heard this, and the wrinkles at the corners of his eyes and mouth were like a handful of old cat beards: "I like to be refreshing." Okay, since you said it, Uncle won't be polite to you. Uncle has not yet grasped the implementation of the tasks assigned by the commune this year, what is the responsibility system, one set of documents yesterday and one set today, and Uncle has not figured out this matter, and he has not dared to mess around. Go back and take a good look at these documents and tell Uncle how to do it. One is how to make our brigade rich, the commune said that our brigade is the poorest in the county, and we have to eat resold grain every year, so it can't go on like this. Uncle ordered you to come up with ideas before the Spring Festival and report to the commune with your uncle. ”

Lei Dongbao shouted: "Uncle, are you pressing the whole team to me?" In my unit, I became the acting platoon commander, not the company commander and regiment commander. ”

The old secretary said slyly: "You told me the day before yesterday that if you didn't have to go to the military academy to take the exam, you would be able to do it if you were given a company commander, you would do it, right?" Since you can be a company commander, you can be the secretary of the brigade, and you will be wronged by your deputy secretary. Don't push, you won't be tired, hehe. ”

Lei Dongbao was choked by the old secretary and was speechless, he was not the kind of person who could speak well. Looking at the old secretary's smiling cat-like face, he said in his heart that this uncle was more cunning than the regimental chief of staff. However, Lei Dongbao is young and eager to try, and he doesn't push more. Otherwise, according to his character, he will not do what he says, and he will still disagree with the company commander in the army, and he will never swallow his anger. He took the document to study, but he, a person with thick lines, couldn't finish his work, but the most important thing was to sit down and read the document, just like Zhang Fei's embroidery, and after a while, his eyes were full of stars.

The old secretary slipped away early. Lei Dongbao looked out of the empty window for a while, and went down to the ground to find Shi Hongwei, a classmate who had the best calligraphy in the past. He found a bucket of lime to paint the wall, and Hongwei held a bottle of red paint to brush the slogan. At the end of the day, three new slogans appeared in the most lively place in the brigade, all of which Lei Dongbao found from the documents and had seen them elsewhere. One is to promote the "Four Basic Principles"; One is "the big package is to ensure the country, keep enough for the collective, and the rest is your own", there are more complicated ones in the document, but Lei Dongbao still looks at this sentence is the most pleasing to the eye, and he understands it at a glance; One is to "carry forward the party's fine traditions and make concerted efforts to carry out the four modernizations". No matter how much it is, Lei Dongbao can't think of it, anyway, the implementation of the responsibility system, the development of the economy, and the support of the party's policies have all been said, what else is missing? It should be gone. He thinks that there are a few main ones, so that everyone can see them coming and going, be familiar with them, and know what to do and how to do it. Just like when he used to be in the army, the arrangement of work was to make up a smooth mouth, three sentences or two sentences, so that the soldiers were familiar with it, and they would not make a mistake if they said anything.

The old secretary slipped out after dinner and took a flashlight, smiled, and walked to Lei Dongbao's house in person, but saw that his house was lively like a small meeting, and everyone went straight to the topic and asked Lei Dongbao what a big bag is. The old secretary stood on the threshold and looked inside, Lei Dongbao was eating with red ears and red ears, and said in his heart, this kid must not have understood the spirit of the document, and he couldn't answer, so he hurriedly played a round loudly, saying that the big package has not been discussed by the brigade, and it can only be announced when Dongbao comes up with a plan to discuss it, and it is still confidential. Everyone didn't chase Lei Dongbao and asked. But everyone was talking about what this "the rest is their own" meant, and as they spoke, the cloudy clear eyes of the old and young were full of longing.

As soon as the old secretary saw that there was a door, Dongbao was instigated, and everyone was energetic, and Dongbao himself was forced to go to Liangshan.

The old secretary wanted to have a closed-door meeting with Lei Dongbao the next day, but he didn't expect Lei Dongbao to be more active than him, so he waited at the team headquarters early in the morning to drag the old secretary into the door, kicked the door and asked: "Uncle, what do you say should I do with it?" What do the brigades do? ”

The old secretary sat down according to Lei Dongbao, frowned, and said: "I don't know, the above document said in the first half of the year that the villagers voluntarily formed a team to contract, and they could not be contracted to individuals, and several teams next door were doing this." The previous child issued a document, saying that he could contract to an individual and learn from where in Anhui, but he didn't say how to learn, and I asked the commune, and they also had no clue. However, isn't it a mess when land is contracted to individuals? Didn't you become a small landlord before liberation? Do you want to be collective? I can't figure it out. Dongbao, we must be careful about this matter, the commune can't ask, we ask the county, we can't move without asking clearly, I think, we would rather not move, we must seek stability, and we must not make mistakes of principle. Otherwise, if the exercise comes, we will all have to eat criticism. ”

Lei Dongbao said in his heart, no wonder he looked at the documents last night and looked uncertain, it turned out that he was really uncertain. He happily stretched out his hand to the old secretary and said, "Uncle, open me a few letters of introduction, and I'll go to the next few brigades to ask and see what they do." ”

The old secretary said again and again: "Yes, we have to ask more questions and think more, and then we can steadily implement the spirit of the document." Dongbao, Uncle has a cold leg, you go by yourself, if you have something to call to tell your uncle. ”

Lei Dongbao didn't have any grandiose words, just nodded.