The two men left the school with shovel paper bags and walked through the streets and alleys to the west.

On the way, Wang Sihe asked my father coldly, "Brother, why are you called 'Four Girls' when you say such an old woman?" ”

My father smiled slightly and said: "If you are not married, you are a girl, I heard my mother say that many people in their line will never get married in their lives, and this fourth girl may be the fourth in the family, because she has not been married in her life, and after a long time, she is called the fourth girl." ”

"Oh." Wang Sihe nodded, and asked again, "Then what is she doing?" ”

My father paused and said, "Who knows what she does, it doesn't look like a fortune teller, and it doesn't look like a feng shui star, so let's ask my mother when we get home." ”

"Home?" The word "go home" seemed to touch Wang Sihe, and he cried and asked, "When can we go home?" ”

My father patted him on the shoulder, "We'll go find that Zhou Jianhong early tomorrow morning......"

Walking through the streets, the two of them turned into a small road directly west of the town, which seemed to lead to other towns or villages.

It was still raining in the sky, dripping, the path was slippery and muddy, and it was dark night, so the two of them walked extremely hard.

When he was about to walk out of the town, Wang Sihe looked at the sky and said to himself, when will the rain stop, I don't know what time it is. When my father heard him say this, he hurriedly took out the pocket watch in his pocket and looked at it. When I saw it, my father was stunned, and the hands on his pocket watch were still pointing to eleven o'clock. My father turned it over and patted it lightly on the back cover, and when he turned it over again, the pointer didn't move, and he put a few more strips on it, but it still didn't move. My father's heart sank, it was broken, the watch was broken, and he looked through it carefully, and this pocket watch seemed to be my grandfather's.

My father immediately stopped and stared thoughtfully at his pocket watch. Wang Sihe saw that my father was walking well and stopped suddenly, he also stopped, and when he saw my father looking at the pocket watch in a daze, he asked puzzledly: "What's wrong with you, brother, what's wrong?" ”

My father ignored Wang Sihe, still stared at the pocket watch blankly, Wang Sihe saw this and asked again, my father said like a dream at this time: "The person who pushed us off the cliff must be our grandfather, he saved our lives, he has been dead for almost ten years, and he is still worried about us......"

When Wang Sihe heard this, he fell silent......

After standing in place for a while, my father wiped his eyes, carefully put the pocket watch back in his pocket, turned his head to Wang Sihe and said, "Let's go Sihe, don't cry." ”

Wang Sihe wiped his face, choked up and said, "Whoever cries, it's the rain that falls into his eyes." ”

My father nodded, "Well, it's rain......"

The two brothers, one holding a yellow paper bag and the other holding a big shovel, continued to walk along the path, and their hearts were full of childhood memories of my grandfather's appearance, excited, moved, missing, and sad...... Five flavors are mixed.

The two of them quickly left the town and continued westward, which was the path my father had just told my father to take.

All the way to the west, about to walk can have more than three miles of appearance, there is a courtyard sitting north facing south on the side of the road in front, take a closer look, there are three halls in the courtyard side by side, there are several partial houses on the left and right sides of the longitudinal direction, the whole courtyard is quite large.

My father stopped on the side of the road and looked into the courtyard, and said, "Here we are, this should be the place."

At this time, my father did not rush to the gate, and led Wang Sihe around the compound from afar. Wang Sihe didn't understand what my father was trying to do, so he pulled my father and asked puzzledly, "Brother, what are we going around the courtyard?" The old woman won't tell you to bury the yellow paper in this compound, right? ”

When my father heard this, he shook his head and said, "It's not buried in the compound, it's buried behind the north wall of this compound, the old woman said, in the past, this was a Taoist temple, but now it is occupied by the Red Guards, do you think this courtyard looks like a Taoist temple?" ”

Wang Sihe raised his head, glanced at the courtyard again in the dark light, and said, "I look a little like ......," he said, raising his hand and pointing to the three halls side by side in the courtyard, "Look at who built a house and put the houses together." ”

My father nodded and beckoned to Wang Sihe, "Let's go, let's take a look at the gate again." ”

The two of them soon came to the gate of the compound, and at this time the gate of the courtyard was closed, and the two of them found that there was a very eye-catching white sign on the side of the door frame, and there were words on the sign.

Wang Sihe looked at the sign and read it from top to bottom: "Red Flag Rebel Revolutionary Headquarters ......" After reading it, he looked confused, turned his head to look at my father, and asked: "Brother, isn't it the 'Red Star Faction', why is it written here 'Red Flag Faction'?" ”

My father shook his head, he was just as confused as Wang Sihe at this time. My father said, "Whatever it is, bury the yellow paper and we'll go back." ”

Two people slipped around the north wall of the courtyard, came to the center of the north wall, my father leaned his back against the north wall, paused for a second or two, raised his feet and stepped forward, while walking, silently counting the steps, when he reached the tenth step, my father stopped, signaled Wang Sihe to dig a pit where he stepped on his feet.

Behind this compound is a barren grassland, much easier to dig than the backyard of the school, three down five divided by two, Wang Sihe dug the pit, my father took off the sheets on the yellow paper bag, the clay figure in the yellow paper bag headed north and rushed south, and the school head of the head to the south foot of the mud figure in the north, put it in......

By the time the two of them returned to school, it was at least four o'clock in the morning, and at this time, the rain had stopped, and the two of them had rubbed the mud from their shoes outside and went inside. Because the old woman was lying in the room, both of them were embarrassed to take off their wet clothes to sleep, so they were so wet that they took off their shoes and wrapped them in the quilt, and fell down on the bed......

When I woke up the next day, I was woken up by the little girl named Xiaoru, who was shouting outside, and almost raised her foot and kicked the door.

My father got up first, looked sleepy, and opened the door for her, and when the door opened, Wang Sihe also hurriedly got up from the bed.

The little girl didn't shy away from it, she didn't even look into the house, she went straight into the house, and while walking into the house, she asked my father, "How are the four girls of the cow, ghost, snake and god?" ”

My father was just pointing to the bed where the old woman was lying, "Sleep on that bed, don't worry, it's okay." ”

The little girl hummed and walked straight to the old woman's bed, but if she wanted to get to the old woman's bed, she had to pass by my father and Wang Sihe's bed. The little girl glanced at the two of my father's beds as she passed them. My father noticed that the little girl's face turned red immediately after glancing at it, and my father wondered if there was something on his bed.

Walking to the old woman's bedside, the little girl lifted the quilt and looked at it, and saw that the old woman was sleeping quite soundly, so she turned her head and said to my father: "Let's go to the town today to arrest a few rightists, and in the afternoon we will fight with these four girls, and you two will not go, Comrade Zhou told you to stay in school and watch her carefully." ”

My father nodded hurriedly.

When the little girl had finished speaking, she turned to leave, and my father hurried after her to see her out, and the little girl glanced again as she passed by my father's two beds.

What does this mean?

After my father sent the little girl out of the room, the little girl turned around sharply and said, "You want to dry the quilt in the house, as a revolutionary soldier of the *, you still wet the bed when you are so old!" With that, the little girl turned around and walked away.

My father looked at the back of the little girl and was stunned for a moment, then came to his senses, turned around and glanced at Wang Sihe in the house, and the two of them were full of bitterness.

After the Red Guards in the school left, the two of them found half a straw rope and a wire in the school, and the straw rope and wire were tied together, and then tied to the head of the two beds, and each put their own quilts and mattresses on them.

Originally, I planned to ask Zhou Jianhong for a slip early in the morning and get some money to leave, but who knows that I overslept, and now it seems that we can only wait until they catch a few rightists and return to school.

The morning passed like this, and the old woman actually slept all morning, during which my father probed her snort several times, and she was still alive.

It wasn't until it was almost time to eat lunch that Zhou Jianhong came back with the Red Guards, and the old woman actually woke up at this time.

When the old woman woke up, she asked my father, "Is it buried?" "It's buried." My father nodded to her. The old woman smiled faintly, "Then wait and watch the show." ”

Zhou Jianhong and the others tied up and arrested several rightists, one of whom was different from the others, in his forties, white and clean, quite stylish, and dressed in very regular clothes, looking like a local tyrant and inferior gentry.

Wang Sihe looked at the guy coldly, and whispered to my father: "This kind of person is not wronged when he is criticized and fighting, he looks like he grew up sucking the blood of the poor, and our brothers will also come to the stage and beat him a few times later." ”

I have to say that Wang Sihe's psychology at this time represents the psychology of many Red Guards at that time. In other words, if Wang Sihe's family is not a landlord, our family is not a cow, a ghost, a snake, and a god. My father and Wang Sihe are likely to become one of the Red Guards who fight and beat people.

Who is the good guy and who is the bad guy is not in human nature, but in the environment.

When my father heard Wang Sihe say this, he glared at him fiercely and said, "When the elders in your family are pulling people to criticize and fight, others are also saying the same thing next to you, what do you feel in your heart?" ”

Wang Sihe immediately choked, and his face was embarrassed.

After lunch, the Red Guards in the school boiled. Originally, my father and the two planned to ask Zhou Jianhong for a note, but who knows, as soon as they entered Zhou Jianhong's office, they arranged a task for Zhou Jianhong. What is the task, after the criticism meeting begins, let my father and Wang Sihe be responsible for escorting the old woman.

Soon, the criticism meeting began, with a total of five rightists and a bull ghost, snake and god.

Zhou Jianhong, the leader of the Red Guards, came to the stage first, and after everyone said a few words, the little girl Xiaoru took out a list and began to roll call.

The old woman was the first to be named, my father hung a sign of "cow ghost snake god" around the old woman's neck, Wang Sihe put a pointed paper hat on the old woman, and the two of them cut the old woman's hands upside down and pressed her to the stage. Of course, my father and I discussed it with my wife in private, and cutting her hands upside down was just for show, unlike others, twisting her arms and breaking them.

After the old woman pressed up, the little girl Xiaoru immediately called the name of the second person, and then the third and fourth......

The very handsome "local tyrant and inferior gentleman" was the last, when he was pressed to the stage, before these Red Guards began to criticize, he saw a group of people coming in outside the school gate, there could be more than a dozen, it seemed to be menacing, after these Red Guard leaders on the stage noticed it, the criticism would be forced to temporarily stop, and these Red Guards in the school soon all looked at that group of people.

When the group of people was about to come closer, Wang Sihe quietly poked my father with his finger, and my father turned his head to look at him, at this time, no one paid attention to the two of them. Wang Sihe leaned over and whispered in my father's ear: "Brother, do you look at the one who led the group of people, are you familiar?" ”