Hao Jiali was locked up in the auditorium by the deputy captain of the production team, and the deputy captain said that Hao Jiali could only be released when the remaining grain in the granary of the production team was distributed to the masses these days.

At the mass meeting where the production team interrogated Chen Qing, there were people from Hao Jiali's family in the village, and as soon as they returned to the village, they shouted at Cao Juying: "Sister-in-law Chen! Your granddaughter was locked up by the cadres of the production team. ”

Cao Juying couldn't care less about getting up from the bed when she heard the news, and before she could sit down, she held her forehead and asked, "What's wrong with my Lili?" Why was she locked up by the cadres of the production team? ”

"Your Lili set fire to the granary of the production team."

"What! My family Lili set fire to the granary of the production team? Ouch! Trouble! It's a big disaster! ”

Cao Juying's eyes were dark and she fainted sharply, and her uncle didn't wake up again, so Chen Zhanjun had to carry Cao Juying in a bamboo chair for sleeping with the family members, and then put a pillow on Cao Juying, covered a thin quilt, and wrapped Cao Juying and the bamboo chair with a rope round and round a lot, and after wrapping it, he carried Cao Juying to the commune health center more than ten miles away from the village for hospitalization.

Cao Juying was admitted to the hospital, and then Chen Feng also learned about it.

Chen Feng is not like Cao Juying, who thinks that Hao Jiali's crime this time is bigger than the sky, but Chen Feng seems to be extraordinarily calm.

In Chen Feng's own words, he said to the people in the family: "It's better to die than to live, if you can't live, let's die well, and the cadres of the production team will starve to death and freeze to death in the auditorium. ”

When the people of the family saw Chen Feng say this, they immediately accused Chen Feng: "Hao Guang's daughter-in-law! It's not right for you to ignore your family Lili's affairs like this, you have to find a way to get your daughter out of the auditorium of the production team, after all, she is still a child, and she is locked in the auditorium at night in the dark light, so as not to scare the child's head. ”

The entire production team knew that there were no villagers living near the production team's auditorium, because the hill behind the auditorium was all a cemetery.

In Hao Jiali's hometown, only the old and adults died to be buried, put into the soil, and piled graves, if it is a minor and stillborn baby, all of them are put in a back basket and placed under the tea tree, or rolled up with a mat and placed in the thatched bushes on the mountain, let the birds be pecked by crows, and the insects and snakes can be bitten, saying that these dead are unfilial sons, and they will not be buried in the ground, and they will not be reincarnated as human beings in the next life, but only to be lonely souls and wild ghosts wandering around the world like insects and birds.

As a result, the auditorium is a hill that is hardly ever set foot on.

Every year, the tea trees in this cemetery on the mountain bear so much fruit that even the branches are bent over, and no one dares to pick them.

Therefore, the millet of the production team, the tools and materials used by the production team and the masses are all stacked in the warehouse here, usually there is no one to guard at all, even the thief wants to steal things, he said that he is afraid of ghosts, saying that he passed through here, because the new graves and old graves are the villagers they were familiar with many years ago and not long ago, they did not feel this way during the day, and they passed by here at night and felt that these deceased people would come out of the grave with the same hallucination, and then they were very afraid.

And it is naturally conceivable what Hao Jiali will be scared of being locked up here at such a young age, but Chen Feng ignored what the family said, and Chen Feng replied to the people in the family: "Let these bastard cadres and the masses of the production team kill Lili, if you kill one, this family will have one less mouth to eat, and one less expense." ”

Hao Jiaming listened to his mother's words and jumped up anxiously.

My sister went to the production team auditorium and didn't go back for so long, Hao Jiaming didn't know what happened to my sister, if I put my sister into this house for my uncle, it would be a mess.

Hao Jiaming can't live without his sister.

The rice at home is gone.

The salt is gone.

The dish is gone.

and Hao Jiaming can cook rice, but he can't chop pigweed to cook pigs, let alone farm.

Chen Feng's legs can't walk, he can't do these things, if Hao Jiali is at home, Hao Jiali will do these things.

Now that Hao Jiali has been locked up, Hao Jiaming can't figure out what to do at home, and he doesn't know where to start, without his sister Hao Jiaming feels that he and his mother don't know what to do and how to spend this day.

Hao Jiaming saw that his mother didn't care about his sister, turned around and Hao Jiaming went out with his bag.

Chen Feng knew what Hao Jiaming was doing, Chen Feng asked the people of the family to hurry up and grab Hao Jiaming, but when the people of the family rushed out, Hao Jiaming had already run away without a trace.

Chen Feng was really anxious at this time, Chen Feng pounded the bed board under him with his hand, and hit the back of his head against the wall against his body and cried: "It's over!" Finished! This home is going to collapse! This family is going to fall apart! Hao Guang! You have a bad conscience! I haven't had a good life since I married you for so many years, and if I don't have a good ending, my two children will be killed by you! It's miserable! ”

At this time, Hao Jiali sat on the stool in the auditorium of the production team and couldn't take a step.

The deputy captain of the production team arranged a group of people to be busy for Hao Jiali at the moment.

The crowd lit a charcoal fire at Hao Jiali's feet.

At this time, the back of Hao Jiali's hand was oozing blood, but it was no longer like when she was in the granary, and the pain of the wound gradually decreased from the beginning to the point of being bearable.

After being locked in the auditorium, Hao Jiali never stopped, blowing wind and cooling the wound on the back of her hand with her mouth to relieve the pain.

These wounds were not bandaged and medicated and washed with well water, and when Hao Jiali was hospitalized for nephritis, she heard the doctor say the word inflammation all day long, and Hao Jiali knew that her wounds would definitely be inflamed.

Hao Jiali can't help it.

I'm stuck here.

As soon as the pain of the wound on the back of her hand subsided, Hao Jiali began to feel that her body was wet by the peasant woman and her body was cold after arriving in the auditorium.

And it was cold for a long time, Hao Jiali did not change into soaked clothes, and there were many windows in the auditorium, at the end of the seventies, there was no glass in the rural windows, and there was no plastic film, all of which were pasted with white paper and rice milk, these white papers were blown into tatters by several major storms every summer, and there was no obstruction inside and outside the window, only the wooden window lattices were left, and the cold wind outside the window was pervasive and blew into the window from the window lattice, and Hao Jiali, who was so wet that her whole body, knocked her upper and lower teeth "squeaked", and after a while, Hao Jiali sneezed again and again. A high fever comes with a cold.

The people of the production team built a pot of charcoal fire for Hao Jiali to roast, and used straw to make a place for Hao Jiali to sleep.

The crowd also took a quilt from home to wrap Hao Jiali, and then the crowd took off the wet clothes on Hao Jiali's body, and dried Hao Jiali one by one on the charcoal fire and put them on.

After taking care of all this, the crowd locked the door of the auditorium and left.

Hao Jiali's cold and fever were ignored by the masses.

Hao Jiali reported her illness to the masses and asked the masses to take her to the barefoot doctor of the brigade to see a doctor, and the masses said impatiently to Hao Jiali: "It is impossible for the production team to spend money on medical treatment for you, you will die of this heart!" ”

Hao Jiali begged the crowd to let her go out to find medicine by herself, and to see the barefoot doctor of the production team.

The crowd said, "Let you go out to see a doctor, huh!" Don't even think about it, where will I go to find you if you take the opportunity to run away, besides, what if you go out and you light a fire on the remaining grain in the granary of the production team? I can't afford that, so you're just going to stay here for a few days. ”

Hao Jiali thought in her heart that there was a way only by waiting for her family to know about her affairs.

But what Hao Jiali didn't expect was.

As soon as the mass meeting to interrogate Chen Qing ended and the fire in the granary was extinguished, Hao Jiali waited for her younger brother Hao Jiaming to appear at the window.

Hao Jiali's longing grandfather didn't come, her grandmother didn't come, and none of the cousins and cousins in the family appeared, Hao Jiali remembered that her mother, grandmother, and uncle were all powerless people who couldn't protect themselves, and they were no longer able to take care of their own affairs, and Hao Jiali immediately stopped hoping for anyone, including her ignorant brother.

At this moment, seeing Hao Jiaming's small body appear by the window of the auditorium, Hao Jiali jumped to the window of the auditorium and asked her younger brother Hao Jiaming: "Obviously! What are you doing here? Hurry up, do you hear me? ”

Hao Jiali, like Chen Feng, knows what her younger brother Hao Jiaming wants to do.

Hao Jiaming's schoolbag has a slingshot made of tree branches to shoot birds, and Hao Jiaming's slingshot shoots far and accurately, which was practiced when he hunted birds in spring. The birds in Hao Jiali's hometown like to inhabit the plane tree and the camphor tree, these two kinds of branches are the best hiding place for the bird, Hao Jiaming uses a slingshot to hit the bird down as a meat dish, but occasionally once and a half, because the bird is also very smart, I feel that this tree is in danger, and the second time I will not come to this tree to perch and nest, and the children in the village also play with slingshots like Hao Jiaming, and the two big trees in the village have not even seen a bird shadow fly in the past two years.

Hao Jiaming took out the slingshot in his schoolbag and said, "Sister! This one doesn't shoot birds, I'm going to use it to shoot these bad guys in the production team to get my sister out. ”

"It's useless, Mingming! During the day, there is a crowd here to guard me, and at night, the production team will have two locks at the door of the auditorium, and I can't fly out even if I have wings. ”

Hao Jiali is not exaggerating at all, although the windows of the production team auditorium are made of wood, but the wood of the window lattice and window frame is as thick as the cattle pen door in the cattle pen, Hao Jiali can't get out even if she sharpens her head and body with a knife.

"Sister! Naturally, I have a way to get you out. Hao Jiaming still insisted: "I used a slingshot to shoot the crowd like a bird, and the crowd fainted, so I could get the key to the crowd and open the door and let my sister out." ”

When Hao Jiali heard this, she hurriedly warned her younger brother: "Obviously! You are not allowed to shoot and injure the people guarding me with a slingshot, otherwise, the mass cadres of the production team will not let you go. ”

Hao Jiali knew that if her brother had another accident, her mother Chen Feng would go crazy.

"Obviously! Go back and take good care of your mother, be obedient, what if you have anything else to do with your mother? ”

"Sister! What about you? ”

"I'm fine, the cadres of the production team will release me home in a few days, you can do a good job at home and wait for me to go back."

Hao Jiali's tone was as light as possible.

"Okay then, I'll let you go back and take care of Mom."

After Hao Jiaming finished speaking, he put away the slingshot and put it in his schoolbag, leaving the window of the auditorium to go home, but he didn't take a few steps, and was stopped by Hao Jiali.

"Obviously! Clearly! When you come back, my sister still has something to say. ”

"What's the matter? Sister! Hao Jiaming turned around and ran close to the window of the auditorium, leaning on the windowsill with his face on the windowsill and asked Hao Jiali anxiously in the window.

Hao Jiali explained to her younger brother: "Obviously! There is no rice at home, you go to your uncle's house to cook the rice for yourself and your mother for the past few days, you don't know how to cook pigs in the pigsty, you cut grass and vegetables directly from the ground and throw them into the pot for every meal, and the pigs will eat raw and cooked when they are hungry. ”

Hao Jiaming nodded, then remembered something and asked Hao Jiali in turn: "Sister!" Do you need to take your books from home, you can't go to school during the days you are imprisoned, you can't go to school, and the cadres of the production team don't know how long you will be locked up, and if you delay classes for too long, your studies really can't keep up. ”

"No, my hand hurts, I can't open the pages, I can't write."

"Sister! Your hand is injured, hold it up and show me, is it serious? Hao Jiaming begged Hao Jiali outside the window.

Hao Jiali slowly stretched out the back of her bloody hand to the window.

"Ahh Hao Jiaming screamed in fright when he saw it: "Sister! Your hands are terrible! Gotta get your medicine up quickly. ”

"So, Mingming! When you go home, immediately ask your uncle for trauma medicine to bring to my sister. ”

"Okay, I'll go back and ask Uncle Gui for medicine immediately."

"Also, after you go back, go to the privet tree at the edge of the village, pick a handful of leaves and branches of the ligustrum, wash them and put them in a medicine jar, then pat a piece of ginger and boil water with ginger, and then scoop a bowl of old glutinous rice wine from the wine jar of grandma's house and pour it together and bring it to the auditorium."

Hao Jiaming immediately thought of asking and asked, "Sister!" Do you have a cold and fever? ”

"Yes, I'll be fine if I drink a bowl of privet medicine and sweat, don't worry."

"Okay, I'll get you both, sister! You wait. ”

Hao Jiaming agreed to Hao Jiali one by one, and immediately left the auditorium of the production team and ran quickly to the way home.

As soon as Hao Jiaming left, the high fever in Hao Jiali's body went up one by one like a monkey on a tree, Hao Jiali was afraid of cold, afraid of cold, and swayed, and it didn't take long for Hao Jiali's weak body to fall under the window of the auditorium and curl up into a ball uncomfortably.