Chapter 007: A Different Kind of Punishment

In fact, instead of being able to get a thin man, I was changed by the personality of the thin K.

I don't know where the news came from, my parents suddenly became four types of people, their desks were kicked over, their offices were plastered with big-character posters, and people from the commune took them away. Yongtai Primary School no longer needs teachers, and we don't have to go to class.

Grandpa Hao told me about my parents being taken away, and he deliberately said it lightly, but I still felt his heavy concerns—he sighed deeply and made me feel that my parents were unlucky. It scares me.

Another factor in my trepidation was that my parents had been taken away, my spiritual pillars had collapsed, and my sense of superiority would disappear. You must know that my parents are the capital of my pride among my peers, and I also know that many people deliberately get close to me, no matter how arrogant and unreasonable I am, they can take care of it, not because of how charismatic I am, but simply because my parents are their teachers.

Grandpa Hao said that my parents would come back late at night, but I couldn't open my eyelids until I couldn't open them, and my parents still didn't come back. Grandpa Hao came to my room to spend my first night without my parents.

The next day, I sat on the bluestone slab at the door of my house early in the morning and waited for my parents, Hao Junqi said that my uncle and aunt would rush back early in the morning, telling me not to worry, she waited with me, but I waited until the sun rose and there was a bamboo pole high, and I still didn't see the shadow of my parents.

Therefore, I barely ate some porridge, so I hurriedly ran to the entrance of the village with Hao Junqi to wait. I really hope that as Uncle Hao said: as long as you eat this bowl of porridge, your parents will definitely come back.

But disappointment, disappointment after disappointment, disappointment, disappointment, despair, despair.

Grandpa Hao really couldn't resist my entanglement, so after lunch, he went to the brigade to find out the news. Grandpa Hao said, maybe grandpa will bring your parents back as soon as he goes, it's okay, you still play how you go.

But I'm not in the mood to play at all. I didn't even want to go out, because I sensed that every playmate I knew might for a moment think of me as a stranger or even an enemy.

Grandpa Hao returned in an hour. He said that my parents and some people from several other natural villages in the brigade gathered at the Luwan Theater to study.

"Studying?" I was very surprised, "My parents are both teachers, and I still need to learn?" ”

"The teacher won't study?" Grandpa Hao touched my head, "The teacher also has a lot of things I don't know." Didn't your parents come to our countryside to study? ”

"Oh." I don't seem to understand.

"It's okay, don't worry about it anymore. Have fun and take advantage of not reading for a few days. ”

After dinner, I called Hao Junqi out. Hao Junqi immediately guessed my thoughts. We decided to go to the Furnace Bay Stage!

"Do you dare to go?"

"Why don't you dare? With my brother, I dare to go anywhere. ”

"It's going to be dark when you come back, aren't you afraid?"

"Don't be afraid. Brother will protect me, right? Hao Junqi tilted her head to look at me. She really didn't have the slightest fear.

It's still the same path, it's still the same boardwalk, it's still the same clear river, but for me, everything has changed. My mind was not on these things, and I was eager to know if my parents were really just being concentrated and studying, as Grandpa Hao said, instead of being beaten into the so-called four types of elements. So I didn't have so many words to say to Hao Junqi, I just knew to walk quickly, and I would stop and wait when I realized that Hao Junqi was left behind. Hao Junqi was already out of breath, but she didn't complain about me at all, but blamed herself for not being able to walk.

The Luwan Stage was built on the east side of the village, and a small stream flowed next to the stage. The stage used to be a forest, and the trees in the woods were tall and stout. There is a small pavilion on the edge of the woods. The old green bricks of the small pavilion are covered with evergreen plants that I can't name famous.

When we reached this little pavilion, it was completely dark, and although there was moonlight, the woods were still dark and very scary. I took Hao Junqi's hand and walked up to the stage. In the distance, you can hear the noise coming from the other side of the stage. Turning the corner of a thatched house, the stage appeared in front of us.

In the open space in front of the stage, it was as dark as when watching a play, and a group of people stood in the dark, and they were talking. I took Hao Junqi's hand and squeezed forward desperately. We finally squeezed to the front of the stage, but were scolded by two men with sleeves, and we had to step back a little, but we could still see the faces of the row of people standing on the stage. My parents were in this row.

What I can't figure out is how they all keep their heads down, where is their usual arrogance; What I don't understand is why they all have a sign on their chests, and the sign still has words written on it. The flames of the torches on both sides of the stage were very strong, but I couldn't read the words clearly. There were also a few people standing on the stage, who were also wearing sleeves, all of them were majestic and held their heads high, in stark contrast to the row of people. There was a man who even carried a gun on his waist!

When the man with the gun walked to the middle of the stage, the crowd fell silent. Then a man who appeared to be in his sixties was pressed down by two men wearing sleeves and walked towards the stage. The sign on his chest shook as he walked. He knelt down as soon as he walked to the stage.

What kind of torture it was, I don't think I'll ever forget it. As soon as the old man came over, they tied his hands tightly with the brown rope and tied them to his back, and then they pulled the rope hard, and we saw the man slowly ascending, and when the whole man was hanging in the air almost fifty centimeters above the ground, he stopped. Then I saw my parents coming over as they scolded me, and one of them grabbed a rope.

My heart hung in my throat.

I didn't fully understand the old man's "sentence", but only a little bit of it was a "special" person, who had done something before, and was now a cobbler.

The poor old man was moaning all the time. The man with the gun asks him "yes" or "do you want to do it" every time he says a word, and if he answers a little slowly, the two men with sleeves will each give him a kick, and you will see him swinging in the air,* turning into a wail.

When the audience in front of the stage saw this situation, they were not only unsympathetic but emotional, and one by one they said "deserved" and "deserved" as if they had been beaten with chicken blood, and the sound was really deafening.

The criticism of the old man lasted for more than ten minutes, and then I felt that the old man did not even have the strength to wail. Even if the flame of the torch flickered, I could see the beads of sweat on the old man's face falling one by one.

I finally put the old man down, and so did my hanging heart. As soon as the old man's feet touched the ground, his whole body collapsed on the ground, and my heart hung again. The man standing to the right of the old man kicked at the old man, and the old man did not move as if he had lost consciousness. The parents squatted down to untie the rope for the old man, then lifted the old man up from the ground and helped him to the backstage. The old man's feet were almost dragging forward.

"Brother, have you noticed, my uncle and aunt's hands are dripping blood." Hao Junqi said.

"How so?" All my attention was on the old man and completely ignored my parents.

"You didn't see it, the rope was covered in blood when they helped untie it."

"Ah, could it be that the palm of their hand was worn by the brown rope when they pulled the rope? The brown rope is rough. ”

"Doesn't that hurt?"

I understand that having your parents pull the rope is also a punishment for your parents (perhaps it would be more appropriate to say torture). A different kind of punishment.

While we were talking, another man was brought in. This time it was a middle-aged man with glasses, very thin and not tall. He also knelt on the stage as soon as he came up, and then he was hung up with the help of a brown rope like the old man, and my parents came to pull the rope. I can now imagine how painful it is for my parents to pull a person up with a rope. How much pain do you have to endure if you have to pull the rope your palm that has been worn out by the brown rope? When I think about it, my scalp tightens. This time, all my attention was on my parents. But my thoughts were soon interrupted by the middle-aged man's roar. It was a pig-killing cry. The man in the sleeve kicked him one after another, probably one of the softness of the underbelly or a bone that broke his bones, and he let out such an impactful roar. You know, the more you scream, the harder the sleeve wearer kicks. I saw the middle-aged man dangling in the air like a swing.

But my attention quickly turned to my parents, whose pain was beyond words. I saw them holding the rope tightly with both hands, and their bodies fell backwards, and the rope that was straightened formed a standard "eight". Beads of sweat were also pouring down their faces, and I couldn't describe the pained expressions on their faces. Suddenly I saw blood! There was really blood dripping from their palms! Slow pace, drop by drop, drop by drop. My father dropped a drop on his side, and then my mother followed with a drop as if she was not to be left behind, bright red and bright red. The rope they shook hands with was already red.

I can't stand it anymore. I can't tell you how aggrieved and depressed I am. Hao Junqi's hand, which I held in my hand, was clenched tightly, and her palms were already sweating. I can't figure out how the world has turned upside down all of a sudden, how people who, like my parents, were respected by the local villagers have suddenly become "special people" and become inferior to dogs.

I also suddenly realized that my world was turned upside down!