In the evening, there were a lot of people in the house, all of whom I didn't know. Rows of militiamen stood in the courtyard of my house with guns in their hands, it was the first time I had seen such a formation, Yuan Bao had a white bandage on his shoulder, and he was called out of the line for identification.

There was a man in a tunic and glasses with a document in his hand, and after reading it, he was going to arrest people, father and son. These people are said to be from the county, and the leader is the head of our local revolutionary committee, my father did not resist this time, his choice was wise, in that era, if you were given a name, we might be killed on the spot.

A few men with guns came up and smashed my father down with the butt of a gun, and when he fell to the ground, I saw the blood on his head "gurgling", but his eyes were fixed on the man.

Crowds of people burst into my house, and then all sorts of smashing noises came out, and my home was ransacked. That night, my father was taken to the county by them, and because I was still young, the villagers present also pleaded for mercy, but I was taken to the public office to receive ideological education, and when I returned home in the middle of the night, the house was in ruins. I don't know who set the fire, my home was burned to the ground, and all I was left with was a puff of green smoke.

The next day I heard that my mother had also been taken away, and that she had been taken directly from my grandmother's house, and a few days later, I was sent to the county, where I heard that a group of children with our family backgrounds were going to be sent to the countryside to be re-educated by the peasants. It's a joke, my family has been farmers for generations, but who are you going to talk to?

In the waiting room of the county train station, I met a lot of people in the same situation as me, and we each carried our bags and waited quietly to be sent to an unfamiliar place. At the train station, I seemed to have seen an acquaintance, very familiar, but I could not call his name, that person I always felt I had seen somewhere, with a thin body, pale cheeks, and a person curled up in the corner. Teh is easily recognizable at a glance because he has "filial piety" on his arm, a group of teenage and semi-old children, and we don't know where our fate is going.

The people who took care of us were divided into groups according to the list, and when I heard the name, I remembered that it was him: Cha Wenbin!

The leader wouldn't allow us to speak, and he looked at me, and I think he had recognized me, the classmate with whom he had studied as a child. I smiled at him, and he just twitched the corners of his mouth, luckily I was in the same group as him, but our destination was a name I'd never heard before: Savage Tun.

We were led on the green train by our respective people, and it was my first time going far away and the first time I took a train. He and I were in the same carriage as a dozen of our children, and the train was running north along the tracks, passing through the stations with people coming up one after another, just like us, whose parents had been more or less devastated in the movement, and their children who had been asked to quarantine and send them far away.

When passing through Shanghai, two men and three women came to the car, one of whom was very white, her eyes were big enough to get out of water, she had very popular Qi bangs, short ear hair, and a pair of leather shoes on her feet, which were almost rare at that time. The few of them huddled together and spoke in dialects and seemed a little out of place with the others, who seemed to deliberately avoid the girl and did not communicate with her, she seemed so weak that her eyes were stained with tears all day.

The train dragged us all the way north, and after crossing the Yellow River, people kept getting off and getting on the train, and I didn't know where it was, but I knew that the air outside was getting colder and colder, and the original green land outside the window was gradually replaced by yellow.

Five days and five nights have passed, and there are still four last people left in the carriage: me, Cha Wenbin, the girl and a fat man. Even the man in charge of guarding us had stopped the previous stop, and we still didn't know where we were going.

There was a dead silence in the carriage, because there was a requirement that we were not allowed to talk to each other, so all we could be accompanied by the sound of snoring and panting along the way. Before leaving, my aunt prepared a lot of rice balls for me, and the southerners were not used to eating pasta, so they mixed the rice balls with japonica rice and a little glutinous rice, and the bread was filled with pickles. Glutinous rice is not easy to digest, this thing can last for a long time to eat, and the military rations that the Japanese carried with them in the past were also the same. Cha Wenbin's ration was black steamed buns, but I had seen him eat the last steamed bun a day earlier, and the girl hadn't eaten anything since she got on the train.

Another stop arrived, and the fat man among the four of us also got out of the car, and before leaving, he said hello to us and said to each other to take care, this was the first time we made a sound to each other.

I swear, I did hear a gurgling sound coming from someone's stomach, and it was almost louder than the sound of a train. I lowered my head and rummaged through my bag, there were two rice balls, I don't know how far I have to go this way, try to eat only one a day, the night outside is already dark, I shouted softly to the person in the corner: "Cha Wenbin, do you still recognize me?" ”

"I don't recognize it." His answer was crisp, his voice was very soft, and it sounded very weak.

I slowly leaned over along the carriage and whispered: "I'm Xia Yi, from Hongcun, we worked together when we were young, don't you remember me?" ”

"Xia Yi?" I could hear a little tremor in his voice, and he continued, "I thought it was you in the morning, but I didn't dare to admit it, for fear of causing trouble." ”

I glanced back, and made sure that there were only three people in the carriage, so I went over and sat with him, knowing how excited it was to meet someone I knew in such a place, like two children in the water grabbing each other's bodies at the same time: that was the only thing to rely on.

"Great, I heard their names read before, we are in the same place, we are fellow countrymen and classmates, now we are not afraid." I was immediately happy, and then I took out a rice ball and said to him, "I see that you haven't eaten in a day, take it!" ”

He took the rice ball and wanted to send it to his mouth but suddenly stopped, gently touched my arm and said to Nunu in the corner: "That girl doesn't seem to have eaten for several days, you give it to her, I'm not hungry." ”

I didn't expect this kid to have not seen him for so many years, and he had learned to be a hero to save the beauty, so I turned my head and said to him: "You eat, I still have it, I am here, I can't starve her." ”

The girl sat across from me all the way, with her head buried between her legs all the time, and I hadn't seen her look up since I got in the car. Walking up to the girl, I crouched down in front of her and said, "Hey, wake up, what's your name?" ”

The girl looked up at me, and I saw that her eyes were red, and she did not answer my words, but lowered her head again.

What an interesting person, I took out the last rice ball and put it in front of her and said: "My name is Xia Yi, his name is Cha Wenbin, we are classmates, not bad people, this rice ball is for you." ”

I squatted in front of her for a full two minutes, she didn't look up at all, and I felt bored, so I put down the rice ball and walked towards Cha Wenbin.

Cha Wenbin asked me, "She doesn't eat?" ”

"What do you care about her, she is kind to be a donkey's liver and lungs, and she won't eat us!" As I spoke, I deliberately broke off a small piece of rice ball from Cha Wenbin and stuffed it into my mouth and said loudly: "Ah, it's really fragrant, come to Wenbin, let's eat together!" ”

The unique stickiness of glutinous rice makes the rice balls chew in the mouth and make a sound of "smack, smack", where can people resist such temptations when they are extremely hungry, besides, she is just a girl of the same age as me. Soon, she looked up, and then she looked at us, and we looked at her; Then she took the rice ball and took a bite and smiled at us, and we smiled at her, and just like that, the three young people came together for the first time in those years of suffering.

Her name is Yuan Xiaobai, a native of Shanghai, her ancestors have been officials, and her great-grandfather was a cabinet bachelor in the Qing Dynasty. After returning to China, his father stayed abroad and did business in Shanghai, dealing in spices and fabrics, and his biggest hobby was collecting, which was originally a well-known family in Shanghai.

The Red Guards smashed her family's livelihood and robbed her family's collection, her parents were taken away, and I don't know where they were locked up.

In those days, many people like us were sent to the countryside all over the country, in response to the slogan that "young intellectuals go to the countryside but receive re-education".

It was also on that day that I learned that Cha Wenbin's adoptive parents had all passed away when he was nine years old, and he had been living with his master ever since. I don't know who went to sue him, saying that his master was a Taoist priest, so a feudal superstitious stinky old Jiu's hat was buttoned up, and he was locked up in the cowshed all day and night, and he was pulled out to criticize when he was in a bad mood, and Cha Wenbin stepped on this northbound train with me