Chapter 44: Once Upon a Time in the Yellow River (3)
"How do you kid talk?!"
An old man sitting across from me was on fire and stood up with a 'whew'.
"That's it." In the dark, I stared coldly at the old man, "It should be said that your ancestors are worse than beasts. ”
"It's against you, little bunny..."
Several other old men were also angry and stood up one after another.
"How?" I sneered, "Do you want to follow the example of your ancestors and throw me into the Yellow River?" ”
"Ah Leng, let's say a few words." Miss Bai took my arm and whispered.
I snorted, "I just want to say that people were kind enough to help them find fish to survive the famine, and then they helped them sacrifice to the river god to ward off disasters, but they ended up like this, aren't they ungrateful beasts?" I finally understand why the people in this village are so savage, it turns out to be ancestral..."
"Alright, alright!"
The old man of the village stretched out his cigarette bag and pot to block the old men.
"Alas...," the village elder sighed, "Actually, this young man is right, what our ancestors did is really inappropriate..."
Several old men sat down silently.
"Uncle, let's go on, Political Commissar Xu took his son Gao Laosan to live on the Yellow River beach, what happened next?" I sneered, "Don't worry, no matter what, I will help you Gaojia Village, and I don't need your Gaojia Village's return, as long as you don't throw me into the Yellow River." ”
"Thrown into the Yellow River?" Miss Bai said coldly, "I'm afraid they don't have the ability..."
It was too dark to see the face of the village elder, but I guess it should be ugly.
"Later..."
The old man was just about to start his lecture when there was a knock at the door. At the door, a villager wearing a raincoat and a hat walked in with an oil lamp with a hood and an iron basin.
"Village chief, I'm bringing you food." The man said.
"Why are you still carrying a lamp, and the power is out?" The village elder asked.
"Well, there's a power outage."
The pot was filled with leftovers from the noon flowing water mat, the sea was long, and there was a stack of steamed buns on top.
"Are you two eating?" The village elder asked.
"Of course you eat it, why not eat it?"
"You're so angry." The old man smiled, "Then let's eat first, and then talk about it after eating, you won't be able to eat if you are angry..."
I looked out the window at the rainy night and said to myself, no matter what, I have to fill my stomach first. So he grabbed a steamed bun, broke it open, picked out some of Miss Bai's favorite dishes, sandwiched them in the middle, and handed them to her. The more time passed, the stronger our worries about Yang Shujun became, and neither of them had much appetite, so they barely ate a steamed bun and didn't eat it. After a few old men finished eating, the village chief picked up the lampshade, lit a pot of cigarettes by the lamp, and began to talk again...
After Political Commissar Xu moved to the river beach with his son Gao Laosan, he lived a life of fishing in the Yellow River. It is only when the ancestors are worshipped that the people of the village will remember them. In any case, Political Commissar Xu is half of Gaojia Village, and his son Gao Laosan is a descendant of Gaojia Village. Every time it is time to worship ancestors, the village chief will send people to the river beach to call the father and son back to the village to participate in the ancestor worship.
In a blink of an eye, more than ten years have passed. In the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, policies became more and more favorable year by year. The leadership is like a chicken, shouting slogans every day to catch up with Britain and the United States, and the Great Leap Forward smelts the cooking pot and the knife for cutting vegetables into the furnace and makes steel. In order to make steel, vegetation is cut down everywhere and the ecology is destroyed. Under the natural disaster**, a famine rarely seen in human history exploded. In 196o, a terrible famine swept through the whole of China, and there is no accurate figure for how many people died in this famine, mainly because this number is too sensational, and throughout the five thousand years of Chinese history, there has never been a famine that has killed so many people...
The people of Gaojia Village are also not exempt from the fate of hunger, all of them are swollen with their whole bodies, bulging bellies, and the children's necks are thin and long, with heads as big as pumpkins. In the face of hunger, any shameless morality and the like are empty talk. After the bark and grass roots were eaten, as people starved to death one after another, the village began to steal corpses and eat the dead. Later, even father and son cannibalism. Even if you don't care about family affection, how can you talk about their ancestors who have been dead for hundreds of years? Gradually, some villagers began to resent their ancestors, thinking that they had guarded the ancestral graves for generations, but the old man in the coffin did not bless them, so many people starved to death in the village. It is said that since the founding of New China, there has been no ancestor worship activity in the village, and the father and son of Xu, the political commissar who lives on the river beach all the year round, have become forgotten people in the village.
The following day, some people in the village suddenly remembered Political Commissar Xu, and remembered that many years ago, Political Commissar Xu led the villagers to dig up a lot of fish in the river. Now that the people in the village are starving to death, what happened to Political Commissar Xu's father and son? …
The previous village chief was dead, and the village was incumbent by a new village chief. The new village chief sent two villagers who could still walk the way to quietly go to the residence of Political Commissar Xu on the river beach at night. The Yellow River has a dry period every year, when the water in the Yellow River has long since dried up. Otherwise, with so many people in the village who are good at water, they would not starve to death if they went to fish in the Yellow River.
When the two villagers returned, they told the village chief that they had found leftover fish bones behind Commissar Xu's house. When the two children of Political Commissar Xu were thrown into the Yellow River, the new village chief participated. After listening to the reports of the two villagers, the new village chief gritted his teeth with hatred, and he said in his heart, we don't even have grass roots, and you two fathers and sons still have fish to eat...
The new village chief was more scheming, and he ordered the two villagers to quietly squat near Commissar Xu's residence to see where he got the fish. However, after squatting for two days in a row, the two villagers did not find out where Commissar Xu got the fish. At that time, those villagers, including the new village chief, were hungry and couldn't even bully the ants, let alone bully Political Commissar Xu, and forced him to ask him about the source of the fish. The new village chief had another plan, he carried a wooden stick, dragged his swollen body to the door of Political Commissar Xu, 'pounced' and knelt on the ground, wept bitterly to confess his mistakes back then, begged Political Commissar Xu to tell the source of the fish, save those villagers, he is willing to repay with death, bear all the mistakes committed by the people of Gaojia Village to the family of Political Commissar Xu.
At that time, Political Commissar Xu was already an authentic fisherman, his face was wrinkled by the river breeze, his temples were white, he was hunched over, and he looked like an old man in his fifties and sixties.
Political Commissar Xu first looked at the sky and was silent for a long time, finally closed his eyes, nodded slowly, and took the new village chief to the place where he found the fish. With the lesson of the previous time, this time, the villagers did not eat live fish in the river, but only ashore. The new village chief has long forgotten his promise of 'retribution with death', and as soon as the fish come ashore, he eats more than anyone else. At that time, because of eating fish, many villagers were killed, and it is a miracle that the new village chief was not killed. In this way, Political Commissar Xu once again helped Gaojiacun survive the famine, but also laid the groundwork for his death.
After the famine year passed, Commissar Xu and his son were once again forgotten by Gaojia Village, until 1966, when Gao Laosan, the son of Commissar Xu, had grown into a young man, although he had not enjoyed a day of happiness since he was a child, but he lived on the Yellow River beach without quarrel with the world, but the arrival of the Cultural Revolution changed this.
In 1966, when the Cultural Revolution broke out, the village chief ordered the radical young people in the village to open the ancestral grave of the Gao family and throw all the burial goods into the Yellow River. Then he opened the coffin of their father, sat up the corpse, and put the high hat of the rich man on the head of the corpse. The next day, the village chief suddenly remembered Political Commissar Xu, his two eyes suddenly lit up, and he said in his heart, who said that there is no fight in the village, isn't there one living on the river beach? The bastard surnamed Xu understands 'witchcraft' is a ready-made cow ghost snake god not to mention, during the famine in the 60s, he was a bastard who knew that there were fish to eat in the river and didn't tell the villagers, and he wanted Lao Tzu to kneel there and beg him, it's hateful to think about, if he had said it earlier, so many people in the village wouldn't have starved to death, it's a great crime! That's right, just criticize him! …
The village chief led people to tie up Political Commissar Xu and Gao Laosan to the village, coerced Gao Laosan to sever the father-son relationship with Political Commissar Xu, and criticized his father. At that time, Gao Laosan was young and vigorous, and he refused to do anything at first, he was beaten covered in blood, and finally gave in after crawling all over the ground, and broke off the father-son relationship with Political Commissar Xu.
Then, the village chief made a hat weighing more than ten catties out of iron sheet, tied it to the head of Political Commissar Xu, tied a rope to his neck, and ordered Gao Laosan to lead him and climb around Gaojia Village. A few days later, Commissar Xu's knee had worn out a bone and he could no longer climb. He set up a platform next to the reeds in front of the village, criticized and fought three times a day in the morning, noon and evening, and ordered Political Commissar Xu to kneel on the platform and sleep at night. Later one night, several people guarding Commissar Xu woke up and suddenly found that Commissar Xu was gone, leaving only a pile of rope on the platform, and there were traces of animal bites on the rope head.
They found Tianliang all the way, and finally found Commissar Xu by the Yellow River. At that time, it was the flood season of the Yellow River, and Political Commissar Xu stood there facing everyone, with the boiling river behind him. At that time, the powerful aura on his body made those people dare not step forward. Political Commissar Xu said something that made those people feel inexplicable, he said this, I now know that all those who participated in the digging of the cave back then will not end well, because we see things that should not be seen, and everyone who knows the secret of heaven will be punished by God, and the harshest way for God to punish a person is not to make that person die, but to let him live, because sometimes, death is a kind of relief, and to live, but to endure endless pain, now, as the initiator, I, I can finally be freed, and you, for all these hurts that have been inflicted on me and my family, sooner or later you will be retributed, remember what I said, sooner or later...
After finishing speaking, Political Commissar Xu turned around and jumped into the Yellow River...
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