Chapter 14: The Great Change I
It was because of this training that when I went to the school three days later, Cha Wenbin had already dropped out. The reason, it is said that his adoptive parents did not read to him, it was actually Ma Sufeng, and after he knew about it, he understood that this child could no longer have an ordinary childhood like other children.
Hongcun and Wulipu are two villages, and there is not much contact with him, so I have been cut off from him for many years, and by the time I saw him again, his family had changed dramatically.
In the 70s, the catastrophe known as the "Ten Years of Turmoil" had reached its peak, and it burned all the way from the big city to a small village like Hongcun. Red treasure books and red armbands also began to be popularized in Hongcun, and students and young people who had nothing to do every day began to criticize bullfighting ghosts and snakes everywhere in response to the call, and there were only about 100 households in Hongcun, plus several villages around it were also caught in that catastrophe.
My father used to be a soldier, and in the first few years of the Cultural Revolution, our family was still a revolutionary family, and I would shout all kinds of slogans behind those older children every day, and I would have an inexplicable sense of excitement when I saw them arrest those "feudal capitalist roaders" and "stinky old nine" and then put up all kinds of big-character posters, but I never thought that one day such a disaster would befall me.
That year, I was fifteen years old, I was already in middle school, my mother went to my grandmother's house, and my father and I took a nap at home. It was very hot at noon in the summer, and after lunch, I heard a burst of slogans coming from outside the house, and the group of red generals were going to raid someone's house again. If my father hadn't allowed it, I would have joined their team and become one of them, but my father said it was just nonsense, they were all a bunch of little kids, and they knew what revolution was.
The sound of glass breaking woke me and my father from our sleep, and then stones the size of buns began to rain in from the outside, and my father hurriedly took a quilt and draped it over my head. Pull out the biggest villain in Hongcun and show it to the public! Down with Xia Lao Liu, down with the heirs of the four old poisonous weeds who propagated feudal superstition! ……”
As soon as his father heard these words, he immediately became angry, and he didn't care about putting on clothes, he rushed out with a kitchen knife in his hand, and he was smashed back by a shower of stone rain before he went out, only to see a group of red generals standing outside with a red treasure book in their hands and red armbands on their shoulders, and the one who led it was also from Hongcun, called Yuanbao. Yuan Bao is three years older than me, and there are more than 20 young people standing next to him, who are the heads of that wave of people, all of whom are eager to eat people.
Yuan Bao was in the limelight for a while, and it is said that the head of the county's revolutionary committee intended to promote him as a starter, and he took his father to open the knife because he heard the older generation say that my grandfather was a Taoist priest in the past, and he left a compass when he died, and that compass happened to be passed on to my father. So, this has become the evidence that my father is the descendant of the four old poisonous weeds of feudal superstition, and this is only one of them.
Second, the bricks used for my father's construction were removed from the largest "mansion" in the village, and some of the parts such as the tiles and walls were made with birds and animals, which in the past could only be used by the landlords and nobles. So, they felt that they could follow my father another example of the hedonistic restoration of the landlord class.
My father was a straightforward man with a fiery temper, and he had always had a reputation in the village. On more than one occasion, he scolded the young red generals who were doing evil in public, saying that they were bandits and robbers, a group of hooligans under the guise of revolution, and he did not allow me to associate with them. In order to completely defeat my father at once, he even added an article: Xia Laoliu was not a revolutionary soldier at all, but a complete deserter, and slandered and suspected that he was a hidden spy of the Kuomintang.
With these three "crimes", in that turbulent era, it basically means that a whole person can be killed in the dead, plus someone in the county has backing him up, although he was a little scared of my father before, but he couldn't resist the encouragement of his own "success" one after another, and violence has completely occupied Yuanbao's brain, so after three days of careful planning, he tangled up a group of Cultural Revolution generals and prepared to completely raid my home.
"Xia Lao Liu! You can rest assured that the weapons in your hands, don't do useless resistance, behind us are the vast number of proletarian people, we have the power of the people as the backing, please squat on the ground with your hands and heads in your hands to accept the people's judgment of you! ”
Was my father a troublesome man? A man who has experienced the baptism of war, a man who has never flinched in the face of bullets and bayonets, will be frightened by these hairy children, he casually picked up a sauerkraut jar in the corner of the wall and rushed out of the door of the house, smashing them fiercely at them, scaring those guys to flee in all directions.
"I'll fuck you, go back to milk, a bunch of little bunnies are here to go wild!"
With a "snap", the sauerkraut jar exploded in the middle of the crowd, and the sewage splashed and drenched them, while the father was standing at the door of the house with his hands on his waist and a bright kitchen knife stuck in his red pants and staring at them.
Those red generals are invincible under the banner of revolution, and they have never encountered anyone who dares to resist, especially those who resist like this. In addition, my father's appearance when he started his temper was indeed terrifying: the green muscles burst out, the eyes were wide-eyed, and his face was as black as Zhang Fei, all of which were fearless after the baptism of war.
In the face of such a man, several hairy children were naturally out of proportion, and they all went to the back of the ingots, for fear that they would be targeted. And Yuan Bao is already riding a tiger at this time, if you don't rush back, you will lose face and completely lose your status, if you go up, he didn't have the courage to see my father's appearance, so he thought of a trick and shouted to the house:
"Xiao Yi, now I convey to you an instruction on behalf of the Proletarian Revolutionary Committee, the organization believes that you and your Xia Lao Liu are not all the way, we have already investigated, you are a good comrade worthy of trust. Now you have to stand up and draw a line with Xia Laoliu, and you want to expose his crimes with us, as long as you do it, I promise to testify for you at the criticism conference and recommend you to be the vice captain of our area! You have to recognize the relationship between us and the enemy, don't shield the class enemy, Xia Lao Liu dares to go against the people today, and the people will definitely not let him go! ”
"I'll fuck your uncle!" I followed my father's example, picked up another sauerkraut jar in the house, rushed out of the house, and threw it at them, my strength was not as great as my father's, but I fell in front of them, but the effect was the same.
Seeing that the red treasure book in his hand was soaked with sauerkraut water, Yuan Bao suddenly yelled like chicken blood: "They dare to destroy ** quotations, this is to rebel!" Today, we must defeat the father and son of the Xia family, and we must completely eradicate this pair of bullies and hooligans who endanger one party, and rush me! ”
This group of red generals are a group of seventeen or eighteen-year-old guys, they are not good at stubble, and they are not empty-handed. In addition to the red treasure book, he also carried a guy thing, what sticks, ropes and the like were all available, and a guy from a neighboring village also had a dagger in his hand.
Maybe it was because their "revolution" was too smooth, or maybe they were ignited by the ingots that took the lead to ignite the violent flame that was temporarily extinguished, and more than two dozen guys waved the guys in their hands and rushed in like a tide.
And my father and I, the father of the Xia family, one is wearing red pants, the other is wearing black pants, two men, shirtless, and the two kitchen knives don't even frown, just stand side by side in place, waiting......
With a "poof", blood gushed from Yuanbao's shoulder, and when his father's kitchen knife slashed his shoulder, he was also hit with a stick on his head, and blood flowed out.
No matter how fierce he is, he is still a child after all, where has he seen this formation, he was almost stunned immediately, and after a burst of screams, he couldn't care about the "revolution", turned around and covered his shoulders and ran.
And the father pulled back the kitchen knife, and the cold light flashed again, and another knife slashed over the person who rushed up. Then, I only saw the red generals who were used to walking sideways on weekdays dropped their sticks one after another, and ran towards the gate with their feet on each other's feet, crying wolf, while my father and I each held kitchen knives and chased barefoot behind......
I chased him out for two or three miles, and my father, who was covered in blood, stood at the entrance of the village with a kitchen knife in his hand, and the people who came to see the excitement surrounded our father and son three times inside and outside, and those children were already trembling with fright, but their mouths were still unforgiving.
"Xia Lao Liu, you wait for me!" This was the last sentence that Yuan Bao said, his father was about to slash with a knife and was stopped by a few people, and the people in the village shouted to those red generals: "Don't run yet, wait for death here!" Seeing this, someone finally stopped the children, and took advantage of this opportunity to run away and scold out of Hongcun, presumably going out to find helpers