The third time

Lilac was one of the few women in that era who had officially entered the school.

Because she often goes to school with her two brothers, gentlemen know her, and when the school is on vacation, a Mr. Wang in the school meets Lilac and a group of boys on the road, and when he teases her, do you want to go to the school to study and play with them, Lilac said that he wanted to think about it.

When she went home that day, Lilac told her grandmother and mother that Lilac also had to study. Grandma bluffed a girl's family to read a book, and grandma ventured into the school, learning something else is better than reading! When Lilac heard this, she was in a hurry, and she lay on the ground and howled.

At this time, my mother stood on the side and pulled up the cloves, and the few ones who didn't hit her, just said, wait for your father to come back, your father will call the shots.

After more than ten days, Dad finally returned. Unfortunately, that day, Lilac went back to her grandparents' house in Xinhua with her grandmother to visit relatives, and when she came back, her father went out again.

After returning home, her mother took her to the back room, carefully handed Lilac a brush and a stack of red paper, and said to her: "Your father promised you to study, and you must study hard to surpass your brother and them."

When Lilac heard this, she happily didn't sleep well all night. Afterwards, I learned that my father went south and north to see different ordinary farming in the countryside, and my mother herself had studied with her grandfather since she was a child, so she supported Lilac to study, but that day her mother-in-law spoke, and it was difficult to refute the old man's face before saying that.

A month later, the eldest brother put the cloves around his neck, the second brother carried the stationery and schoolbag, and the two brothers ran like crazy, and the mother Yao chased all the way with her little feet, shouting: "You three slow down, don't fall!!"

Two months before Lilac's death, she still talked to her third grandson, Zhou Xiang, that the first lesson of the Chinese language book they read was "Heaven and Earth, Sun and Moon, Landscape, Civil Engineering".

One of the gentlemen who taught the second brother was an uncle of his grandfather's family, and he had read Zihu with his grandfather in his early years, so that when teaching the eldest brother, he often dragged a long tone and shook his head, and the eldest brother always imitated and teased him behind his back. The one who taught Lilac was Mr. Wang, who teased her, and he was a cousin of his brother-in-law's family.

This Mr. Wang, who has studied in Xinxue, has studied in the provincial capital, and is also the principal, and listens to the adults and is still the representative of the county. Speaking of which, the two gentlemen and Lilac are all relatives in the corner.

Mr. Wang has a son named Wang Ziyang, who is a classmate of Ding Xiang and shares a table. Half a year ago, when my sister got married, we met when I was Uncle Man (a term for the young and middle-aged guests of the local wedding when the woman was married).

Lilac is the youngest in the class, Ziyang is more than 1 year older than her, on the first day of school, Mr. Wang asked him to call Lilac Mangu, which made other classmates snicker, Wang Ziyang blushed and refused to call her aunt.

Later, when Sister Lilac came to the school to see Lilac with a big belly, Ziyang called Sister Lilac a good aunt, and by the way, she also called Lilac Auntie. Since then, he has been calling Gu and has never changed his words.

Studying in school is a rare joy in Lilac's life, but it is too short. About half a year later, a major change occurred in the family, and Lilac never had a happy childhood.

Lilac is the first month of the 16th year of the Republic of China, just a few months after Lilac entered the school, many major events happened in China, which in turn affected China's social development in the following decades, until today. Anhua, as an ancient town in central Hunan Province, is inevitably involved in the eye of the storm.

In the early days of the Republic of China, the great man Mao Runzhi had entered Anhua three times, conducted extensive social surveys on Anhua and personally guided and developed the Anhua Peasant Association and the Communist Party organization, Anhua was one of the earliest counties in Hunan to establish a Communist Party branch, and had good cooperation during the first cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party.

Luoyingzhai is backed by the mountains, since ancient times the bandits are serious, in order to protect themselves, Cao, Wang, Liu, Yao several ancestors of the great clan ancestors formed a village to defend themselves, when the farming was idle, please ask the martial artist to teach the young strong to practice the fist and foot knife stick, this characteristic is very common in central Hunan and western Hunan region. Grandma Lilac also joined the industry and taught the local women and daughters-in-law some self-defense techniques.

Since the cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, Luoyingzhai has also established a peasant cooperative, and has been stationed in the People's Army Self-Defense Corps all the year round, and a class of more than ten people live in the village in the ancestral hall - the ancestral hall is Cao, Wang, Liu, Yao four surnames jointly built, when the years are old when it was built, it is probably because the ancestors of the four ethnic groups formed this slightly different reason from the ancient times with a surname and a ancestral hall. Therefore, the Shuiyan River has been clear for several years.

Around mid-May, Lilac went to school with her two older brothers as usual, and as soon as she entered the school, she found something unusual, there were two self-defense soldiers in the school who were leaning and slanting spears in the school, and sat on a bench and chatted at the door of the school, and Principal Wang did not greet the students at the door as usual as usual.

The first class was a class with an uncle in a long shirt and a gentleman in a tunic with a very beautiful discs in the shape of the sun of the national flag on his pocket. first introduced his surname Jiang, as if he was the director of the county, and then appointed his uncle as the temporary principal, and he would teach the lilac class later, Mr. Wang seemed to have committed something and couldn't come. Then excitedly talked about a lot of things that they didn't understand, probably like the righteous destruction of relatives, the elimination of adultery must be purified, and then it was long live the Three People's Doctrine and so on, and asked everyone to follow along with a few slogans or something. At this time, Ding Xiang found out that Wang Ziyang did not come to school either.

As a result, Lilac sat alone for several days until a new classmate was reassigned to join her in class, so she was depressed for several days.

When I got home, I was very unhappy with my little mouth, and at dinner the eldest brother told me what happened in the school. At that time, my mother was stunned for a while, lowered her head and didn't say anything. Grandma glanced at everyone and said, "Children read your books, don't ask around!"

Everyone didn't dare to squeak, and they ate and went to bed early.

After more than a month, my father also came back and brought things to the Lilac brothers and sisters as usual. It's just that at dinner, I told my grandmother and mother that there was a lot of chaos outside, and I won't go out for the time being this year, and I will talk about it when it's peaceful, and there will be a lot of Communist Party killed in Hankou and Changsha, and it seems that there is a Mr. Lu's father who also sent him goods, and his father also said that the person was very kind and generous.

When talking about Mr. Wang, my father glanced at my mother and didn't say anything more. When I was going to sleep, my grandmother chatted with my father a few words, and my grandmother said that they were all relatives and courtesy, why bother to kill them, I have seen how many times the emperor has changed, and I don't know which one will do it tomorrow.

Dad hurriedly stopped grandma and said, don't talk nonsense about the old man, I don't know how to kill a lot of people who are a little related outside, I heard Boss Liu say that the blood in Changsha is stained red, and Boss Lu's corpse is collected by others, and they are all fed to the fish!

Not long after the school was on vacation, a lot of big things happened in Luoyingzhai that holiday, and Lilac never returned to the school since that holiday, and suffering was waiting for her behind!

At nine o'clock in the morning in July and August, the Luoyingzhai Ancestral Hall was already crowded.

The dog day sun was so poisonous that it shook at nine o'clock and people didn't dare to look up. The seedlings of the terraced fields on Kankan have all been tasseled, and some of the fields lacking water are so sparse that you can see the white mud and cracked like the face of an eighty-year-old woman.

The leaves of the seedlings that could not be extracted due to lack of water were rolled up, and the tips of the leaves were red, and they looked like they were burning from a distance. The waterwheels of the river creaked and turned, pumping out the little water from the ditch - the crystal water of the river shimmered brightly under the sun, and when it flashed, it shook so that the lilac eyes could not be opened, and none of the farmers who usually carried water in the fields were gone.

That day, my father took Lilac to see the excitement. Because there were too many people, my father carried cloves around his neck and drilled them into the cracks. From a distance, I saw that in front of the ancestral hall, the platform that was temporarily used for New Year's singing and playing drums was erected again, and behind the long table, many people wearing long shirts or wearing Mao suits with signs on their chests were sitting precariously.

In front of the stage, the two people with their hands tied behind their backs were pressed down by the soldiers of the Township Regiment with spears behind them, and there were long signs behind them - the original self-defense regiment became the Township Regiment.

At the entrance of the ancestral hall, I also saw my uncle and some people busy, Lilac called uncle, maybe I didn't hear it and turned around and entered the ancestral hall. The audience was surrounded by people who watched the excitement and laughed and were in a mess. When I got closer, I saw that my uncle was also on the stage, dressed in a long shirt and leaning over his waist, whispering something to a man wearing a top hat with a medal on his chest.

After finishing speaking, the uncle straightened up, signaled silence with both hands, and said in a voice with a long voice: "Fellow villagers, don't make noise, and now I would like to invite our county magistrate Lin to give a speech!" Next, the chubby middle-aged man spoke a lot, and his spit was very excited.

Most of the cloves don't understand, one thing Lilac understands, Mr. Wang is the leader of the bandits and has now absconded, they caught it to kill the braincase, even Ziyang is a bandit cub, be sure to cut the grass and eradicate the roots, who can catch the weight of 8 yuan a pound of ocean, if there is a cover-up or do not report the knowledge according to the bandit Communist Party to deal with the killing. Then an officer in a military uniform with a short gun on his waist stood up, and behind him stood a row of soldiers with loaded guns and ammunition, very majestic, very different from the militia usually stationed in the village, and listened to the adults next to him talk that this was the battalion commander Zhang sent by the provincial capital Changsha.

I saw him read many names aloud, and then roared with a wave of his big hand and shouted, execution!

One of the prisoners who had just been remanded with a circle and a fork on the sign was already wet, and there were also a few calves and stomachs shaking among the prisoners who had not been drawn! Then the militia soldiers dragged a painted prisoner to the position where Lilac and them stood - under the big maple tree next to the public ancestral hall, pulled open the hoe used to hoe cow grass on weekdays, and pressed the prisoner down, the prisoner struggled and shook it a few times, but was restrained and stepped on his back with his foot, and the hoe went down to the head and rolled to a place only ten steps away from Lilac and them, and his mouth was open and his eyes were not closed, and a few drops of blood were splashed on his pale face. When the hoe is up, the blood in the neck cavity is still spurting like spring water flowing down a mountain stream, and the body without a brain is like a lilac that shakes like a skinned frog when they play!!

At this time, some of the children in the crowd were scared and cried, and Lilac's father hurriedly put down Lilac's arms and covered her eyes with his hands and tried to squeeze out, but there were too many people behind him and couldn't get out. During the whole process of killing the head, no one squeaked except for the occasional call of the prisoner, and a strong smell of blood filled the air, and the click of the hoe was clearly audible.

The lilac who was blindfolded by his father didn't dare to come out, and he didn't cry. I don't know how long it has been, but I only heard the battalion commander report that the execution was over, and then there was a commotion on the stage, and when Lilac's father took away the hand that covered Lilac's face, the people who watched the excitement had gone home noisily one after another, and the soldiers on the stage escorted the prisoners who did not cut off their brains on the way back to the county seat by the waterwheel by the stream below the ancestral hall.

Lilac remembered for decades that day there were a full twelve bodies without braincases and braincases scattered around under the tree. The scarlet blood flowed into a small ditch, the blood on the side had turned dark red, and some people who had not dispersed and could be relatives of the prisoner were sobbing on the side, and a swarm of green-headed flies were flying around on the corpse!!

When they got home, it was already lunchtime, and Lilac found that their father and daughter were already soaked, and the sweat on their father's neck and cheeks had become a small ditch. The uncle didn't come back, and there was no one to talk to the family all day. At night, when Lilac and her grandmother were sleeping, she secretly asked her grandmother, how is Mr. Wang a bandit, and will the two fathers and sons also be cut off from their heads? Grandma stroked Lilac's head, sighed and didn't answer.

That night, Lilac had a nightmare, in which she dreamed that Ziyang's father and son were also cut off and fell under the maple tree, but they disappeared in a blink of an eye.

At breakfast the next day, my grandmother found that Lilac's forehead was feverish, her ears were red, and everyone was already confused and talking nonsense. Grandma complained to her father for a while, and was busy going to the back room to pick herbs for cloves, and then lit three pillars of incense in the hall, and made a method for a while, and drank the tea and herbs for the cloves.

After taking the medicine, the clove fell asleep in a daze, I don't know when I heard the sound of firecrackers outside, and got up from the mat in shock, only to hear a noisy sound of congratulations outside, and after a while, my brother-in-law entered the lilac house and said to her with a smile: "Sister Man, congratulations on being an aunt!"

In the next few days, the family was very busy, my mother took my two brothers to Wangjiayuan to take care of my sister, my father was busy going to the county seat to buy gifts for my little grandson, and my grandmother was left at home to take care of the sick cloves.

The next day, the cloves were much better, and my grandmother went to the mountains to pick herbs as usual in the morning. But in less than an hour, my grandmother came back in a hurry, looking a little nervous. Grandma went to the kitchen to get some food and put it into the back basket of collecting medicine, and then told the cloves a few words not to run around, and then cook when grandma came back from picking medicine, if you were hungry, you can find something to eat, and left in a hurry after speaking.

It wasn't until a while after noon that my grandmother came back and hurriedly messed around with something for the cloves to eat. Grandma didn't go out to do anything all afternoon, just packed a pack of pills that had been cut two days ago and put them in the back room, and used a palm leaf fan to cool off at the door when she was free.

In the evening, grandma made a meal early and called Lilac to eat quickly, saying that grandma still had something to go out for a while, and she would be back soon. Lilac was clamoring to go together, but her grandmother was angry and said that she didn't take her with her brother-in-law and nephew when she was full moon, and she would be alone at that time.

Lilac didn't say anything. When I saw the direction of Wangjiayuan where my grandmother went, I thought that my grandmother was watching my sister's nephew go, and she secretly followed her grandmother from a distance.

After following for a while, Lilac finally found out that something was wrong, and Grandma came to the Wulei Cave on the edge of the cliff of the Stone Mountain where she used to dig herbs.

In the past, when my grandmother was tired, she used to take cloves to the cave to rest and rest, and there were many stones like bodhisattvas or bamboo shoots, which were very beautiful. Because it is relatively remote, few people usually go. Grandma looked around for a while before entering the cave, when it was already dark, and Lilac happened to be on the mountain road full of thorns at the bend of more than 100 meters below, Grandma didn't find Lilac at all.

When Lilac climbed to the bend of the cave edge, a pair of big hands covered her mouth, "Manmei, good cub, don't squeak." This is Grandma's somewhat trembling voice. At this time, Lilac recognized two familiar people in the faint twilight, and looked at her in surprise and nervousness.

This is Mr. Wang and Ziyang who I haven't seen for a long time. Mr. Wang, who has a scruffy beard, is still so kind, and after a few days, Ziyang, who usually likes to talk and laugh, looks around vigilantly like a kitten, dirty like a little beggar who begs with adults on weekdays, and mutters in a small voice: "Aunt Man, what are you doing here, Daddy's talk will affect you."

The events of the past few days have made Lilac grow up a lot, although she still doesn't understand the things in the adult world. After dealing with the traces on the edge of the cave, the grandmother hurriedly took Lilac out of Wulei Cave, and when Lilac left, she said to Ziyang like a little adult: "Wang Ziyang, don't be afraid, my aunt will come to see you tomorrow." At this time, Ziyang, who was sticking out of the cave entrance, waved his hand vigorously at Lilac, and shouted in a low voice a little nervously, "Aunt Man, please don't come, it will really affect you!" ”

When I went back, it was already dark, and in the dark, my grandmother was holding the lilac and carefully groping forward. Along the way, I whispered not to mention this matter to anyone, if it was found that Mr. Wang Ziyang was going to cut off his brain, his grandmother and parents would cut off his brain. Although Lilac couldn't see her grandmother's expression in the dark, she still felt that there was a trace of fear in her grandmother's uneven tone.

End of the third round