In 1960, the disaster of the Chinese struck, and the sharp decline in industrial and agricultural production caused an extremely tight supply of grain and non-staple food. In addition to urgently relocating grain from the country to support the most difficult areas, the government has also taken a variety of emergency measures, such as reducing the average ration of civilian cloth, lowering the ration standard and edible oil ration for urban residents, and promoting the manufacture of substitute food. Even so, news of people dying of starvation continued to come from all over the country, and hunger hung like a dark cloud over the country.

Even the families of generals like Li Yunlong are threatened by hunger. With the new regulations in place, the standard of rations for officers was reduced to 27 catties per month, and five catties were deducted from the 27 catties of rations to support the state treasury, and another one catty was deducted to support the disaster-stricken areas, so that only 21 catties remained. Li Yunlong has been eating the army's big pot of rice for most of his life, he has almost no concept of family expenses, and he also looks very lightly at money, and his monthly salary is collected by Secretary Zheng and then handed over to Tian Yu. He spends very little of his own money, not because he is frugal, but because he can't think of anything other than buying cigarettes and alcohol.

Tian Yu is difficult, her own ration standard is only 21 catties, and there are two sons, the eldest son Li Jian is eight years old, and the youngest son Li Kang is only two years old. What's even worse is that there is a nanny Zhang Ma at home, Zhang's mother is an elderly widow, no children and no daughters, from rural Shandong, no urban hukou, no hukou and no rations, it doesn't matter what the normal year is, but this hungry year is difficult to break Tian Yu. Zhang's mother has no children, and she doesn't even have a house in her hometown, can you let her family go? But it's hard to keep her, and the whole family is on this ration standard. Tian Yu was so anxious that he had no choice but to discuss with Li Yunlong, whether he could talk about the difficulties and the organization, take special care, as long as there was another 15 catties of rations, the whole family would be able to pass the belt. But when Li Yunlong heard this, his eyes widened like bull's eyes: "Who is not in difficulty?" Do you have to take care of it organizationally? You can figure it out! ”

Tian Yu was embarrassed and said, "Then what do you say?" Mama Zhang has been working in our house for several years, so we can't bear to drive her away? Besides, isn't inviting people to leave at this time driving them to death? ”

Li Yunlong said: "Zhang's mother is also from our family, of course she can't drive people away, the whole family eats when there is food, and the whole family is hungry together if there is no food, the situation can't be so bad all the time, and it will get better slowly." ”

Tian Yu said: "But it's a little unbearable in front of me." ”

Li Yunlong was stunned, he didn't expect that his family was also in danger of being cut off, he was silent for a while before he said, "There is no way, you can only strangle your trouser belt again." ”

Originally, Li Yunlong was a big-bellied man, and he could usually eat three or four steamed buns at a meal, but in recent years, he has been less active, and his stomach has also bulged slightly, and he is known as the "general's belly". After this conversation, he re-set the ration standard for himself, half a pound of grain a day, and when he was really hungry, he secretly drank a large bowl of cold water, and within two months his general's stomach was flat, and then it gradually recessed, and his ribs were also protruding one by one. Once, he took Secretary Zheng and several staff officers to inspect the artillery positions at the front, and he couldn't climb a hill anymore, his eyes were full of gold stars, and he was sweating profusely. Secretary Zheng hurriedly helped him sit on the hillside. Li Yunlong laughed at himself and said: "No, the age is not forgiving." The young officers were in tears when he said this, but who didn't know that the commander was hungry? Although the relationship between Tian Yu and her husband has long been cracked, in this difficult situation, it seems that the emotional grievances and grievances in the past cannot be taken care of. Especially from this matter, she saw Li Yunlong's kind and bold side and sense of responsibility as a husband, in fact, she ate less than her husband, and she had begun to be swollen, but she couldn't take care of herself. Seeing Li Yunlong losing weight day by day, Tian Yu's heart was as uncomfortable as a knife, she took the initiative to move into her husband's bedroom, wanting to give her husband some tenderness and comfort, but she was disappointed to find that Li Yunlong seemed to have become a wooden man without any desire, indifferent to his wife's intimacy.

That winter, a series of misfortunes befell the family.

That day, Li Yunlong received a phone call in his office, it was from his old comrade-in-arms Kong Jie, Kong Jie, who usually has always been loud and loud, has a very small voice today, and his speech is also slurred, because the distance is too far, coupled with the noise in the line, Li Yunlong listened for a long time before he understood. Kong Jie told him the shocking news that General Ding Wei had been arrested. When Li Yunlong heard this, he was so shocked that he couldn't speak for a long time, and his mind was blank.

At the "Lushan Conference," marshals and party veterans who had made great achievements in the war were condemned as "anti-party cliques" and "right-leaning opportunists" and then purged. Li Yunlong had already seen these things from the documents, but he never expected that Ding Wei would be implicated in this matter.

Originally, according to Ding Wei's level, it had nothing to do with these big shots, but Ding Wei's personality made him unlucky, he never concealed his opinions, and he had to say something in his heart. When the anti-rightist meeting was held in the large military region, Ding Wei, who was the chief of staff of the military region, actually stood up to defend Peng Dehuai in public, and claimed that he did not intend to change his views. Ding Wei's rebellion caused an uproar, and he was immediately stripped of his military rank and announced his arrest. Ding Wei behaved very toughly when he was handcuffed, and he shouted to the hundreds of senior officers in the meeting: "Comrades, our party and army are in danger, this kind of atmosphere is too abnormal, and even a marshal who has made great achievements in war has been designated as an anti-party element if he puts forward some opinions according to the organizational procedure, and if this continues, it will be difficult for everyone in the party to protect themselves in the future, there will be fewer and fewer good people, and there will be more and more villains, what hope does this party have?" Knowing this, I, Ding Wei, should not have joined the Red Army or the Communist Party in the first place! ”

It is said that hundreds of generals and colonels in the venue at that time were shocked and changed color when they heard Ding Wei's words. Li Yunlong's face turned pale and he found a bottle of Moutai, which he left for Ding Wei. He drank all the wine in one go, and when he was drunk, he shouted: "Ding Wei, good brother...... You're a man...... I, Li Yunlong, are not as good as you...... Yes, it's his mother's seed, and the soft bones are ......" was so frightened that Secretary Zheng hurriedly closed the doors and windows.

Tian Yu didn't go to work that day, because the cabbage was distributed in the military compound today, and after she and Zhang's mother moved the cabbage into the yard together, she suddenly found that there were still some frozen cabbage gangs thrown messily in the place where the vegetable cart was parked just now, Tian Yu hesitated for a long time, and finally made up his mind to take these rotten vegetable leaves home and wash them with water, and salted them with Zhang's mother.

She was busy, the doorbell rang, Tian Yu opened the door, and found a strange middle-aged man standing outside the door, this person's face was bronzed, full of wrinkles like knife carvings, and at a glance it was the result of years of outdoor labor.

"Are you Tian Yu?" The stranger asked.

"Yes, who are you? Is there something wrong with me? Tian Yuhu asked suspiciously.

"Can you talk about it alone? Don't have anyone else present. ”

Tian Yu brought the stranger into the living room and said, "There is no one else here, you can talk about it." ”

"I came from the Xingkaihu Labor Reform Farm in Northeast China, I won't say my name, others call me Lao K, I am a criminal criminal, I was sentenced to three years in prison for theft in 1954, and after the completion of the sentence, I was employed in the Xingkaihu Farm, so Mr. Zuntian Moxuan and I were in the same labor camp......

Tian Yu was shocked, and asked eagerly, "Is my father okay now?" Let's talk about it. ”

Old K lowered his eyelids, was silent for a while, and said, "Ling Zun passed away a month ago. ”

Tian Yu froze there like a lightning strike, her brain was blank for a moment, she stood in the center of the living room, not moving for a long time, as if standing on the bank of the long river of the universe in a trance, watching the waves rolling, surging, the gentle wind carried a soul towards her, in the far reaches of the sky, there was a sound like gold and stone floating slowly, curling like heaven...... Child, the history of mankind is nothing but a little bubble in the waves. Suffering is the touchstone of human character, and only by putting people in the purgatory of suffering can we see the true meaning of human nature and the spectacle of the soul soaring with lightning. Tragedy pushes the good and evil of life to the extreme, and the philosophy of life and the lessons of history it provides are incomparable. Human nature is too complicated, it has a huge inclusiveness, a frenzied madness, a despicable despicability, a cowardice that makes people choke, a contemptuous tactfulness and sophistication, and a corresponding risky face, a backbone and a backbone of outspoken advice, and the whole country is the enemy of me, and does not change its degree. This is the duality of human nature, everything in the world is inseparable from its origin, such as the sun, since human beings have accepted the magnificence of its eruption and the vigor of its rise, they must accept its arrogance and the fierceness of the heavens, which is given to you at the same time. …… In the vast twilight, on the bank of the long river of the universe, Tian Yu has a deep sense of life and death and the desolation of the universe, but although it is desolate, it is not sad, and the breeze carries a soul away......

Tian Yu was surprised to find that she had no tears, she looked at Lao K quietly, and whispered, "Please tell me more about my father's situation." ”

Lao K said: "I won't tell you, I came out this time, and I have already notified several family members of the deceased, and every time I cry earth-shatteringly, I have to wait patiently for the family members to cry enough before we can talk." When a professor's wife heard the news of her husband's death, she went into shock on the spot, and I had to take her to the hospital. In fact, I escaped from the labor camp, I have no hukou, no money and rations, but I have skills, I can steal, and I can't starve to death when I travel all over the country, but I shouldn't show my head, and it will be troublesome to run into the police checking my documents, and I have been pondering for several days, is this kind of idle matter of notifying my family worth taking care of anymore? If there is another case of sending a patient to the hospital, I will hang in suspense, and this is the first time I have met you with such a calm person. You're not going to tell me, are you? Seeing your family like this, as if you are a big official, I wonder, Mr. Tian Moxuan's family has a big official, why can't he save him? Still watching the old gentleman suffer this kind of sin? Forget it, don't talk about this, but before I say it, I still have a small condition, I just told you, I'm penniless now, although I know a little craft, but now in these years, it's not easy to steal, everyone is poor, a little bit of food is locked in the safe, you don't have food stamps, you have money and it's useless, you see if it's ......"

Tian Yu nodded in understanding and said, "I can give you more money, but I can only give you ten catties of food stamps, and I really can't take out any more." ”

"Enough, enough, now who doesn't take food stamps as if they were killed, ten catties is a lot, you are really a Bodhisattva, my old K is grateful. Let's get down to business. ”

"I completed my sentence in 1957, and for a person like me who has no home, no job and knows a little craft, the labor camp will not let me go, to put it bluntly, I am afraid that I will go out and have no food to eat and steal, so when the sentence is completed, I will move the bed cover roll from the prisoner team to the employment team, and I still have to work, but I have a salary of more than 30 yuan, but I have to pay for the food by myself, and the prison uniform will not be issued, if you don't want to be bare-gued, you have to buy clothes to wear. In short, the completion of a sentence is about the same as serving a sentence. In November of that year, a large number of rightists from all over the country arrived one by one. We have never seen so many people with great culture when we are so old, we can't figure out what the rightists are, and we feel that the country seems to have an enmity with cultural people, and the higher the culture, the greater the hatred, and the correctional cadres usually always look at us criminal criminals unpleasantly, saying that we are scumbags, and although the brothers say that they don't care about people scolding us, they also understand our status. Since the rightists came, we criminal criminals have trembled, the appointed team leaders are all criminal criminals, and the uneducated are in charge of the educated, then again, in that kind of place, there is no use for cultural people, all of them have fine skin and tender meat, wear glasses, and even work with hands and feet. That's not all, there are a lot of fucking rightist team members, don't look at the work, there are a lot of small reports, and they especially love to write ideological reports, and they write more than 20 pieces of paper, scolding themselves so much that they are not even as good as bastards, and they are more positive than one by one when they start to criticize them. For example, if you put a pack of wolves in a cage and starve, everyone will fight to see who will go down first, and as long as one of them can't hold on, a group of wolves will pounce on the wolf that fell down first. ”

"So our criminal criminals look down on these rightists, and we steal things and talk about 'stealing things is also a way', and we also talk about the righteousness of the rivers and lakes, but once they get to this point, they don't talk about any rules, they just want to get rid of themselves and push things on others' heads. In the years since the disaster, the ration of the labor camp has been reduced again and again, and finally reduced to seven taels of grain per day, that is, grain with skin, and none of the rightists dare to shout hunger, and whoever wants to say the word hungry will immediately make a small report, saying that seven taels of grain is enough, and we people have committed crimes against the party and the people, and the party and the people have lenient us, giving us food to eat, and you are still shouting hunger, isn't this dissatisfied with socialism? Of course, there are also tough guys among cultural people, even if Mr. Ling Zuntian is a man, there are more than 200 people in the right-wing team, and there are only five people who refuse to bow their heads and admit their guilt, and he is counted as one. Mr. Tian did not admit that he had committed a crime from the day he entered the labor camp, and told the correctional cadres that he would be a "three-no" until he died, that he would not admit his guilt, that he would not change his views, and that he would not fall into the trap. Damn, the old man's toughness even admires us criminals, for this, Mr. Tian has suffered a lot, the conference criticized the small fight, closed the trumpet, increased the quota for work, canceled the right to communicate, Mr. Tian didn't say a soft word. Outsiders think that the most tiring and bitter work is to pull wheat, in fact, pulling wheat is not the hardest, the most afraid of the prisoners is digging the frozen side in winter, the winter in the northeast is minus thirty or forty degrees Celsius, the ground is frozen harder than stones, a pickaxe down a white mark, you have to use a steel drill and an eighteen-pound sledgehammer to hit the holes, connect the holes into a row, and then use the steel brazing to pry, the sledgehammer is not anyone can pick, the strength makes the small useless, the round and not the head, no one dares to help the drill, that is not a joke, it is not a joke. The eighteen-pound sledgehammer slammed into the head and the head blossomed, and the bones could be smashed into the hands and arms, and several people were killed in the whole farm alone. ”

"Mr. Tian is a big rightist who does not repent, and he needs to be reformed well, so he was sent to work as a driller, and the old gentleman is a fortune teller, and he only smashed his hand and broke it, and he had to continue to support the drill after bandaging. Alas, the sin is great. In the first two years, the food is not tight, and this kind of work can still be carried by doing this kind of work, as soon as the disaster year comes, it will be over, you think, seven taels of food will be stuffed between the teeth, not to mention the work, lying down is enough to choke, everyone is swollen, the aisle is like stepping on cotton, swaying from side to side, cold sweat, and gold stars in both eyes. The construction site is more than ten kilometers away from our dormitory, and it takes more than an hour to walk each way, and it is minus 40 degrees Celsius. Every day, I have to fall a few on the road, and if I fall, I will run out of gas. Once I fell down while walking, I didn't feel cold or hungry at that time, I just felt that my body was warm and comfortable, and I couldn't open my eyelids, and I wanted to sleep. I've heard people say, when do you feel this way, your kid should be finished, at that time I knew very well in my heart, my eyes were closed, my heart was horizontal, fuck it, what you love, you can do it, you will have a life, you will suffer if you live, and you will be a hundred. And guess what? When we were almost finished, someone broke a piece of the nest and put it in my mouth, and I didn't want to live anymore, so why did I eat it? But this mouth is just disobedient, I just feel that the fragrance of the stick noodles is about to hook my soul. I thought it would be worth it to let me eat a nest head and cut off one of my legs, but I was probably no better than a hungry dog, and half of the head of the nest almost choked me to death. Just after eating at this point, I actually recovered. You probably guessed, it was given by Mr. Tian, I don't know how the old man saved this half of the nest, only seven taels a day per person, people are so weird, half a nest can save a life at a critical moment, this is Mr. Tian, he would rather let you cut off one of his legs than give up that half of the nest. I'm not afraid of your jokes, we have traveled north and south in this life, no home, no job, disrespectful to the world, no knees have been bent, and our heads have not been lowered. But when I came to my senses, my knees weakened, and I was stunned to kneel down for Mr. Ling Zuntian. The grace of saving lives, doesn't it mean that we can still mix in the rivers and lakes in the future? Guess what Mr. Tian said? He scolded me, 'There is no interest, how can a man kneel for a mouthful of food if he has gold under his knees?' After saying that, I turned around and left, and at that time, hi ......"

"Don't laugh at me, I have tears and snot on my face, except for Mr. Tian in this life, no one has treated us as a person, my old K only then understands that people are really fucking different, bad people are so bad that they are so bad, good people make you wonder how there are such good people in this world. After that, I took Mr. Tian as my grandfather, which bastard dared to get along with Mr. Tian, and our old K would kill him regardless of whether he was overt or secret. Mr. Ketian doesn't like us, he doesn't know us when he sees us, he usually doesn't say a word to anyone, he is alone, he ignores the people who scold him and beat him, and he ignores those who slap him on the back like us. Let's understand this, who is Mr. Tian? They are great intellectuals, people with knowledge and status. Who are we? Rogue thieves, scumbags, people look down on you. ”

"Anyway, no matter whether Mr. Tian looks down on us or looks down on us, we only have respect for Mr. Tian. People, no matter how bad you are, you still can't help but admire good people when you see them, and hooligans also have a conscience. I still don't understand how a good person like Mr. Tian was also sent to a labor camp. This world seems to be a little wrong, since ancient times, prisons are places where people like us should live, people like Mr. Tian should be big officials, good people are officials and ordinary people enjoy happiness, they must be Qing officials, just like Bao Gong and Hai Rui. Forget it, let's not talk about that, I'll move on. To tell the truth, I look down on cultural people, except for being able to practice their mouths, nothing else, most of them are still very soft-boned, they don't understand, since the government sent you to the labor camp, it means that people don't like you, and they want to clean you up, you have to be whipped like a dog and wagging your tail at people It's boring. They think that the happier they wag their tails, the more lenient they will get, so they desperately make small reports, write ideological reports, and criticize others when they are fierce one by one, but in fact, when you enter the labor camp, everyone's identity will be leveled, and no one will take you seriously no matter how good you behave. ”

"It stands to reason that you can't even eat your fucking stomach after the disaster, what kind of little report do you have? No, you have to continue to toss, criticize this, report and report that, yes, the first to die are the people who are happy. If you think about it, seven taels of food will not be given to you in vain, you have to walk back and forth for three hours, and you have to do heavy work, which is enough to choke. No matter how busy you are exposing and criticizing others, your physical and mental power is being consumed, and it would be strange if you didn't die first. People have been dying on the farm since the beginning of winter, at first one in a few days, and then a large number of people died, and at most a dozen people died in a single day. I can't bury it, the ground freezes like that, and it takes four people to dig a shallow pit for a whole day, and the dead are buried and the living are almost exhausted, so I began to nail a thin wooden box, and then the grass swept away, and finally the straw mat can't be supplied, so bury it naked. Now the criticism meeting is not open, and the small report can't be bothered to fight, it's important to take care of your life, everyone understands, if you want to live, you don't care how you perform, no matter how good your performance is, you have to die, you have to save your physical strength everywhere, don't even move your brain, for example, everyone lifts frozen clods together, you should be louder and don't use a little strength in your hands, to put it bluntly, it is possible to survive by stealing and playing tricks. To tell you the truth, that's how I survived, otherwise ten old Ks would have been finished. Our criminal offenders have no self-esteem, they are just scum, they don't want to do their work, they fall down and pretend to faint, and it's easy to pretend to be like a little bit, you just froth at the mouth like a crab, and the discipline cadres kick and scold twice, you just think it's a hypnotic song. Are you still afraid of being scolded after all the prisoners are scolded? What do you want to do with your face? ”

"Of course, I'm talking about us people, generally speaking, cultural people are more honest than us, although the work is not very good, but it is really hard, you let him lie down and pretend to be a dead dog is more uncomfortable than killing him. This is a common problem of cultural people. Mr. Tian is even more so, no one is willing to do the work of the drill, and they are afraid that the person who picks the hammer will miss it, so Mr. Tian is the drill. Later, the food was reduced again and again, and no one was willing to use the hammer anymore, and the physical consumption of that kind of living was too great, and everyone would rather be stoned to death than hammer, so Mr. Tian was sent to hammer again. If we can't look at it, we secretly said to Mr. Tian: 'Don't be stupid, others are bullying you.' Mr. Tian said: "Someone has to do this work, and a few days ago I was in charge of the hammer, and I was tired of hammering, and now it is time to change it." 'Alas, do you think he is smart or stupid?' How many rations were there the other days? How much is it now? Is that the same thing? I can't help it, people have their own ideas, that's it, I saw that Mr. Tian was not as good as day by day, and finally he was so swollen that he couldn't even put on his shoes, we were like a mirror in our hearts, the old man didn't have a few days to live, I secretly asked him: 'Mr. Tian, who else is there in your family?' Is there anything I need to do? I'm not afraid that you don't like to listen, but you can't hold it anymore, if you have something to say, it will be too late. The old man thought for a moment and said, 'My wife has also come in, and she is on this farm, I don't know whether she is dead or alive, and there is a daughter who is married.' Forget it, old K, I received your kindness, I don't have anything to do, people, where to go, there is a fixed number, the living are like passers-by, the dead are returnees, the red stripes come to the red stripes, and life should be frank and unrestrained. After I die, you can take away my cotton clothes, cotton pants and quilts, and leave me a pants vest, anyway, don't be afraid of the cold, don't spoil things. When I heard this, tears came down my eyes, and I couldn't speak for a long time. Fuck, what the fuck is this? Why can't this world keep good people? I said you have to leave a few words for your daughter, right? Don't worry, I'll get it. ”

"Mr. Tian shook his head and said, 'Since it is a class society, there must always be people who are untouchables, and my wife and I are already untouchables. When he finished speaking, he closed his eyes and said nothing. I was right, Mr. Tian left two days later, the old man walked quietly, he didn't wake up when he slept at night, and the next morning he found that everyone was hard. I took a few buddies to work for a whole day to dig out a pit more than one meter deep, I wanted to bury the old man deep so as not to be dug out by wild beasts after thawing, but the frozen layer on the ground was two meters thick, and the brothers really couldn't dig it. I didn't take Mr. Tian's cotton clothes and quilts, if that were the case, would I still be a human being? The old gentleman was neatly dressed and buried under the quilt, and that day I blew the brothers away, and I sat alone by the grave and cried happily. Mr. Tian, a good person, there are so many damned people in this world, why did you let Mr. Tian die? What a fuck...... A few days later, I pried the correctional cadre's room, got some food, and escaped overnight. We have already completed our sentence, when will it be changed to life imprisonment? Okay, I've told you everything about Mr. Tian, and it's time for me to go......"

Old K looked at Tian Yu with blank eyes, hoping that Tian Yu would fulfill the promise he had just made. Tian Yu sleepwalked to the cabinet and opened the drawer, took out 20 catties of food stamps and 500 yuan and handed them to Lao K. Old K was taken aback, and said repeatedly: "I said that I would give 10 catties, why did you give so much?" Yourself can't do it? No, no, I only need ten pounds......"

Tian Yu looked at Lao K in a daze, and suddenly knelt down for Lao K with a "plop", panicked Lao K hurriedly went to help, Tian Yu insisted on refusing to stand up, her face was pale, and she looked at Lao K firmly and said word by word: "My unfilial daughter, thank you for my father, thank you for letting him dress warmly on the road, thank you for burying him, so that he maintained his dignity until death, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you......" She kept talking, and kept banging the floor with her forehead, she seemed to have lost her mind and ignored everything in front of her, even the old K who has been in the rivers and lakes for a long time is frightened.

Lao K picked up the food stamps and money, looked out the window at the surrounding movements, and said to Tian Yuyi, "There will be a period later." After saying that, he jumped out of the door and disappeared.

Tian Yu didn't seem to notice Lao K's departure, she suddenly let out a miserable scream: "Dad, Mom, don't leave me alone, please......" She collapsed on the ground, and tears flew like rain......

The old K, who had just jumped out of the door, suddenly crashed into a person's body, and the old K looked at it and was immediately frightened. This person was wearing a yellow tweed military uniform, with the rank of major general on his shoulder, my mother, Lao K had never seen a general so face-to-face, and he was so frightened that his legs were weak......

Li Yunlong had just sobered up and wanted to go home and lie down for a while, but before he entered the living room, he heard Lao K's narration...... He glanced at Lao K and only said briefly: "Please follow me." Then he walked straight into the living room, took out ten catties of food stamps from the cabinet and grabbed a handful of money randomly, stuffed it into Lao K's hand without even looking at it, waved his hand to signal Lao K to leave, and then, without looking back, he went upstairs and went into the bedroom to lie down. Old K froze there, and he didn't slow down for a long time. Li Yunlong was lying on the bed, he felt that his head hurt as if it was about to crack, Ding Wei's arrest had already made him feel extremely bad, and he was shocked when he heard the bad news of his father-in-law just now, he felt that his whole body was burning, and the stuffy breath in his chest seemed to solidify into a hard lump, which was blocked there, making him breathless, and the blood vessels in his temples seemed to be pounding. Just as he was uncomfortable, Secretary Zheng came in and said a few words to him gently, and Li Yunlong suddenly jumped up from the bed......

It turned out that his son Li Jian was in trouble again. Li Jian is eight years old and in the second grade of primary school, and when he came home from school in the morning, he saw his mother and Zhang's mother washing rotten vegetable leaves, and he had some ideas in his heart. He knew that it was a difficult time and that everyone was starving, so he wanted to go out and see if he could pick up some more leaves. As a result, I went out for a long time, and instead of picking up vegetable leaves, I picked up a whole cabbage from a tricycle that pulled cabbage. But this little guy is unlucky, he didn't take two steps to be caught, people are not interested in anything these days, only extremely sensitive to what can be eaten, a cabbage in people's hearts is heavier than a grinding plate, this is worth it? When Li Yunlong knew about this, he was like five thunderbolts, and he felt ashamed and humiliated, and said in his heart that this army commander couldn't do it, his son did such a humiliating thing, what kind of face did he have to be No. 1 in the military compound? He hurried home in a rage, picked up his son and tied him to the bench three times and twice, pulled off his pants, picked up the cowhide belt, and whipped it up lifelessly. Because he was angry, he hit too hard, causing Li Jian to scream again and again, so frightened that Zhang's mother knelt on the ground to intercede for Li Jian. Li Yunlong didn't listen to it, he just smoked it ruthlessly, and said that he would smoke this evil seed to death, just if he didn't give birth to him, he would kill him Lao Tzu to pay for his life, he learned to steal at such a young age, and when he grew up, he didn't know what bad things he would do, and Lao Tzu would eliminate harm for the people now.

Tian Yu heard her father's bad news, and her spirit was greatly stimulated, she cried for a long time and fell asleep in the bedroom, and her son's crying woke her up. When she rushed downstairs, Li Yunlong had no intention of stopping. Tian Yu didn't care about arguing with him, so he fell on his son, Li Yunlong couldn't hold his hand for a while, and a belt was pumped on Tian Yu's back, he threw away the belt hatefully, and reprimanded his wife angrily: "Look at your son, it's all what you are used to!" He has a habit of showing his face when his son has something to show his face, such as winning the first place in the exam, he will boast proudly: "Look, my son has won the first place in the exam, which is our Lao Li's species." If his son caused something, he would say to his wife: "Look at your son'......" It seems that Li Jian has become Tian Yu's son again.

Tian Yu had just recovered from her grief-stricken state, but when she saw her son's bloody buttocks, she suddenly lost her mind again, and she shouted hysterically: "Li Yunlong, I fought ...... with you" and ran into Li Yunlong. Li Yunlong panicked, he had never seen his wife become so crazy, he couldn't help but feel empty, and he secretly regretted that he was too heavy, he grabbed his wife and said stiffly: "He dares to steal things, I can't care about it in the future......"

Tian Yu hugged her son and burst into tears, she said to Li Yunlong angrily: "You are not disciplining your son, you want to kill your son, I have never seen a father like you, and you dare to do this kind of poison to your son." She turned to count her son, "Child, why are you so uncompetitive, even if you starve to death, you can't steal, look at you ......" She cried loudly, Li Yunlong also found that he was too much, he hurriedly called Secretary Zheng and asked him to send his son to the hospital, and he hid out in disgrace.

Li Yunlong's family is chaotic enough, and the heavens don't seem to be enough. After Li Jian was beaten, the more Nanny Zhang's mother thought about it, the more she felt sorry for the Li family, she thought that she was the root of all disasters, if it weren't for the fact that she didn't have a household registration and no ration quota, how could the chief's family be like this, let the child suffer such a big crime, the Li family only has two children, except for the youngest son Li Kang who lives in the kindergarten to ensure basic supplies, the whole family is starving. Especially Li Jian, his neck is so hungry that he can't seem to support his head, and the rations for three people are eaten by four people, isn't he dragging down the Li family? The more Mama Zhang thought about it, the more desperate she became, she was a rural woman with a lot of self-esteem, and she thought that she should not drag down the Li family anymore. From that day on, Zhang's mother refused to eat, hoping that she would die soon. She changed into her cleanest clothes and lay quietly on the bed waiting for death to come, no matter how much Tian Yu pleaded.

After Li Yunlong knew about this, he regretted beating his head, he knew that the family was like this, it was all related to himself, and his son should be disciplined, but that day he was dizzy for a while, and his hands were too heavy, and he didn't think about what Zhang's mother would think, this self-respecting rural woman eats very little every time she eats, according to the guard Wu Yongsheng, he has seen Zhang's mother crying secretly a few times, and Li Yunlong has not bothered to persuade her.

This time, he felt that the problem was a bit serious and needed to be solved. He took his youngest son Li Kang home from kindergarten, and commanded the whole family to stand in front of Zhang's mother's bed in a proper manner, and the husband and wife said everything they had to say, but Zhang's mother still closed her eyes and didn't say a word, it seemed that she didn't want to live anymore.

For a while, Li Yunlong was so anxious that beads of sweat appeared on his head, and he said: "Mother Zhang, the whole family has knelt down for you." After that, he knelt down first. Tian Yu hesitated, and knelt silently in front of the bed with the two children.

Li Yunlong said with emotion: "Mother Zhang, you are more than ten years older than me, you are my elder, and the whole family should kneel and beg you according to the generation." I Li Yunlong is not a chief, I am also a poor boy from the countryside, I have known the taste of hunger since I was a child, to catch up with the disaster year, my mother also led me to beg for food with a dog stick, it is difficult to eat in the disaster year, and I am not allowed to take a bite when I walk ten miles and eight miles, that year our mother and son were so hungry that they couldn't walk, and a Henan old lady gave us the only one nest head. The old lady is also poor, I still remember the appearance of her old man, about the same age as you are now, with white hair, kind eyebrows, my mother wiped her tears and said to me: 'Child, you will be born in the future, but don't forget the poor folks, don't forget that you are also a child of a poor family.' After that, I joined the Red Army, we have never been a bad breed on the battlefield, the more hard the heart becomes, but there is one thing, when I meet the old lady of the poor family, alas, my heart, like someone is pulling, reminds me of the old lady who saved our mother and son, and also thinks of my mother, I can't help but want to cry, my mother has not lived a comfortable day, her old man died too early, I really have no chance to be filial to her old man. Zhang's mother, you have been in this house for several years, and the whole family has long regarded you as their own family, a family, sharing blessings and difficulties, with me Li Yunlong eating a mouthful, you will be indispensable for half a mouthful, you don't eat now, you are treating me as an outsider, isn't this a slap in the face? Let me bear the notoriety of disloyalty and unfilial piety, what face do I have to live? ”

He said to his two sons: "Son, listen, our family is a family of five, this is your grandmother, if my mother and I are not here in the future, you will all have to provide for the old man and send him to the end of his ......life."

Zhang's mother finally couldn't help crying: "Don't say it, chief, your family is a good person, from now on, I will also take this place as my home, my wife has a good life, I ...... meet you" Tian Yu and the children couldn't help crying.

There was a strange thing in the military compound, although it was not big, but it made the security department very nerve-wracking. A vertical water pump in the logistics department was inexplicably lost. There is quite a lot of open space in the compound, and since the food supply has been tight, all the open space in the compound has been planted with corn and vegetables. This vertical water pump is usually used for pumping water and watering vegetables.

The wall of the military compound is three meters high, the gate is set up with double posts, there are mobile posts inside and outside the wall, this vertical water pump is more than four meters long, and the weight is more than 100 kilograms, not one or two people can easily move away, let alone in the heavily guarded military compound. The security department had no clue for a long time, and no clues were left at the scene. The Chief of Security and several security officers, out of professional custom, considered it likely to be a political incident created by hostile forces.

When the matter was reported to Li Yunlong, Li Yunlong became angry, and he slapped the table and said very politely: "What do you guys do in the security department eat?" The delay in solving the case shows that you are stupid, in my opinion, from the chief of security to the officers below should take off this military uniform and change jobs, and the army does not raise waste! ”

Political Commissar Sun Tai'an said to the chief of security: "How are you going to solve the case?" You can't go to the local government and ask the public security bureau for help, right? That's not to make people laugh off their big teeth. ”