I walked along the railway for three days, passing through no less than five train stations on the way, but my father didn't take either train. Why, at this time, the sense of crisis in the hearts of my father and Wang Sihe was gone, only the young people's ** and adventurous spirit of exploring the unknown were left, and the two of them worked together, and finally ran out with the adults in the family behind their backs, and if they wanted to play, they would play for a few more days, anyway, they would either be beaten or scolded when they got home. In addition, they are not lonely along the way, they met many people on the road, some are acting alone, some are in groups, those in groups, and some are holding big red flags, and the red flags are written with words such as "follow closely **" and "not afraid of all difficulties to make revolution".

Later, when I inquired with someone, I learned that some of these people were unable to squeeze on the train, and some of them deliberately walked to Beijing in order to emulate the Red Army's 25,000-mile Long March.

At this time, the five cents that my father had brought on him had been spent, and Wang Sihe couldn't steal a penny from the family because of the family's watchful attention. The two of them hadn't eaten for a day, and they were hungry. At this time, they found that the adventurous spirit could not be eaten, and the two of them wondered how they could get something to eat.

Seeing the people passing by the two of them, one by one in good spirits, as if they were full of food, my father wondered in his heart, because some of them were not wearing as good clothes as the two of themselves, which meant that their families were poorer, and how much money could they carry with them for this virtue? Haven't you starved to death all the way through? I don't understand.

They walked four or five miles further on, and entered a barren area, and they did not know where it was, and looked at the chaos, except for the two parallel train tracks, all around which were endless rocks and dead grass, not to mention the village, not even a tree. The two of them walked in this desolate Gobi desert, and the more they walked, the more panicked they felt.

At this moment, a few people came from a distance on the opposite side, looking at the figure, the age of several people should not be very old, and after a while, they came closer, and my father looked at them, and they were actually several children, at most eleven or twelve years old, like elementary school students. Three boys, one girl, and several children all wore red armbands on their arms, on which were written "Red Guards of XX Township".

Along the way, my father and I have seen many primary school students go to Beijing on foot, but they have never seen anyone acting alone.

Wang Sihe discussed with my father in a low voice at this time, "Brother, while there is no one at this time, let's go over and ask those children to see if they have anything to eat, if they have, ask them to give us a little, if not, we will rob it." ”

My father glanced at Wang Sihe and said, "You can grow up a little longer, grab the children's things, let's go further, if there is a village, let's go to the village to find something to eat." ”

Wang Sihe pursed his mouth and said: "You can pull it down, brother, you still expect to have a village in this broken place where birds don't, if we let these children go, there will be no store in this village." ”

My father looked at the children again, but didn't speak. Wang Sihe was about to walk towards the children, and my father raised his hand and was about to stop him. Unexpectedly, those children actually walked towards them. My father said to himself, "Isn't this the one who came to the door and was robbed?" Wang Sihe hurriedly stopped at this time, and the two of them looked at the children silently.

Several children came to my father and the two of them, the little girl was very polite, looked at my father, and then looked at Wang Sihe, I guess I felt that Wang Sihe looked a little kinder, and asked Wang Sihe: "Brother, is it almost to Beijing in front?" ”

As soon as he heard the accent, he was still a fellow villager in Henan, but Wang Sihe asked expressionlessly, "Do you have anything to eat?" ”

Several children were stunned for a moment at the same time, and the little girl reacted the fastest, and replied in her mouth, yes, and hurriedly opened the "Lei Feng-style" green schoolbag on her body, and took out two white-flour steamed buns the size of children's heads from it.

My father and Wang Sihe saw that it was a white-flour steamed bun, and their eyes were straight, Wang Sihe snatched it from the little girl's hand and handed it to my father, and the two of them gnawed like starving ghosts reincarnated.

Wang Sihe gnawed the fastest, swallowed the steamed bun in three or five bites, and asked the little girl, "Is there anything else?" The little girl glanced at the little boy next to her, and the little boy hurriedly took out two large biscuits from his backpack.

Wang Sihe snatched it again, but this time he didn't eat it, and stuffed it directly into his pocket.

The little girl looked at Wang Sihe's starving ghost and smiled, and took out a few baked cakes from another boy's bag and gave them to Wang Sihe. This surprised both my father and Wang Sihe.

Wang Sihe was surprised that today's children are so honest, and they don't have to rob themselves to "confess and be lenient". My father was amazed at how these children had come from so much food, and it was not like they had brought them out of the house.

My father nibbled on steamed buns and asked them, "You also went to Beijing to meet **, right?" ”

The children nodded, and my father asked, "Did the family give you a lot of money when you came?" ”

The children shook their heads again, and the little girl said, "When we came, my parents didn't give us a penny." ”

As soon as he heard this, Wang Sihe, who was busy stuffing baked cakes into his pocket, asked: "Then where did you get the money to buy baked cakes?" ”

"From the Red Guard reception station." Several children replied in unison.

My father and Wang Sihe were both stunned. The little girl continued: "There are reception stations in every town on the road, and everyone at the station will be given two yuan and three catties of food stamps......

"What?" As soon as he heard this, the baked cake in Wang Sihe's hand almost didn't fall to the ground, and there was such a good thing for the fuck? Hurriedly asked, "Where is the reception station?" ”

The little girl turned her head and pointed behind her, "There's one far from here." ”

Wang Sihe looked at the "far away" behind the little girl and was stunned, probably complaining that his two stupid children were not as good as a few children, and he was almost going to ask for food to go home.

The little girl immediately asked Wang Sihe again, "Brother, is it almost to Beijing in front?" ”

Wang Sihe didn't answer, but my father hurriedly said, "It's still far away, and I still have to walk for three or four days." ”

The children were a little disappointed, and the little girl thanked my father. My father asked the little girl, "How many days have you been gone?" ”

The little girl replied, "We have been gone for more than ten days." ”

When my father heard this, he turned his head to look at Wang Sihe, who was still in a daze, it turned out that the circuit between the two of them was still long, and he had to walk for more than ten days.

By the time we walked out of this barren land, it was already dark, and just as my father and I were about to find a grass nest to sleep in, a black silhouette appeared in the distance ahead, looking like a town. Wang Sihe said that there must be a Red Guard reception station in front, so let's get a few yuan there. The two of them lifted their spirits and quickened their pace.

My father doesn't remember exactly what the name of this town was, because they passed through so many towns on the way that they couldn't remember the name of each of them.

When I walked into the town, it was about nine o'clock in the evening, and there were very few pedestrians on the road, but I could still meet one or two occasionally. My father and I inquired about it, and there was a Red Guard reception station in the town, but you had to have a letter of introduction from the village or school to receive the money.

The two of them soon came to the reception station, but there was a sign on the door of the reception station, which turned out to be a school. The door was open, the campus was empty, and the people inside seemed to have fallen asleep, and the two men walked in with courage.

There are several houses in this school, and judging by the style of the houses, it should have been a large family living here in the past. The doors of the other houses were all closed, only one door was open, my father and Wang Sihe were silent, they walked to the door and looked into the house, it was dark and empty, there were no tables, chairs and benches, and on the ground in the middle of the house, there were two black things, like two people.

Wang Sihe discussed with my father, no, let's sleep here for the night, there are walls and roofs, it is better than lying in a grass nest with wind on all sides. When my father heard this, he nodded in agreement.

The two men did not dare to go into the house, for fear of alarming the two people on the ground, so they found a place at the door, and just lay down on the ground and fell asleep.

In the middle of the night, my father felt so cold on his back, as if he had an ice lump under him. Anyway, can he not be cold, at this time it is already the late autumn season, and he will not sleep on the cold ground without anything, it will be okay for a short time, and no one can stand it for a long time.

My father woke up from the cold, but he didn't want to get up, he was already tired after a day's walk, not to mention the cold, even if the knife was on his neck, he didn't want to get up.

Turning over, my father continued to sleep, but he couldn't sleep, one was cold, and the other was that he didn't know why, he always felt very stuffy and panicked, as if he couldn't breathe on something, and there was a faint smell of fishy smell in his nostrils.

Suddenly, there was a "click" sound in the room, very clear, as if something had fallen from the roof and fell to the ground. Immediately after, Wang Sihe next to him screamed "ah". My father was lying on his side at this time, and he hurriedly opened his eyes, "Ah! My father screamed too.

I saw a woman's face, almost touching the tip of her nose, her eyes open, staring at herself, and the beads of her eyes were blood-red.

My father screamed as he sat up from the floor before he could figure out what was going on. There was a haha laugh from outside the house, and there were quite a few people, men and women, and then several bright beams of light came in from the door and landed on my father's face, causing my father to be unable to open his eyes, and hurriedly covered them with his hands.

In a white light and laughter, a playful voice came, "You two are so fat, that one?" ”

My father blocked the light with his hand, but it was still dazzling, he didn't know what could be so bright, like a few suns, my father replied casually: "Erqi commune." ”

The voice came again, with a hint of sarcasm: "You Erqi faction are all revolutionary heroes, dare to sleep in the same room with the dead......"