Chapter 1: The Ignorant Years

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May 1973. Hongqi Commune Xingfuhe Primary School. 2nd grade 2nd class

While! While! While! The big bell on the crooked neck tree on the campus rang--- class bell rang. The students hurried back to the classroom. After a while, the head teacher, Mr. Xia, walked to the podium.

"Stand up, sit down!" As soon as the class leader's shout fell, he heard a burst of laughter from the back of the classroom. It turned out to be a ten-year-old thin elementary school student who was squatting on the ground because he was pulled off the bench from behind.

At his lesbian table--- a little girl with two short pigtails, who was a little thin but still handsome, pulled him up and patted him with dirt.

The head teacher walked over from the podium curiously.

"Who did this? Stand up for me! "The head teacher was about twenty-five years old, thin, wearing a myopic glasses, but his expression was very serious, and many students were afraid of him. There was silence in the classroom.

"It's Jin Ling!" The little girl said bravely.

"Jin Ling stand up for me!" The head teacher pointed the whip at a student who was slightly taller than the others behind the victim.

Jin Ling left the desk hatefully and glanced sideways at the girl who had exposed him.

"Tell me honestly---- why are you bullying other classmates?" The head teacher struck the desk with a whip.

Jin Ling is a well-known "little bully" in the class, because his uncle is a leading figure in the commune, and he always feels that someone supports him, and he always has an unattractive demeanor in the class. This annoyed the head teacher. He shook the whip on Jin Ling's head.

"Jin Ling, in view of your bad behavior, I will punish you to stand outside the classroom for 45 minutes!" The head teacher tapped his bare head with a whip.

Jin Ling walked out of the classroom in a huff, turned his head and glanced at the "troublemaker" again, muttering something.

After class, Teacher Xia asked Jin Ling to finish writing the "Inspection Book" before letting him go home.

The student who was tricked by Jin Ling is named Han Donglai, Xingxinghe Village is his grandmother's house, he is discriminated against because he is a foreign surname, and it is said that his father is a "* element", and his lesbian table is named Lu Chunhua, the daughter of Lu Youguang, the village party secretary, probably because she is the daughter of the "village cadre", Jin Ling does not dare to do anything to her.

mentioned the name "Spring Flower", it sounds a bit of a origin, probably because her father had a hunch that his baby daughter had not yet been born, and he had already named the name "Spring Flower", which is homophonic to "Village Flower". The year Chunhua was born was 1965. She also has an older brother named Fushun, who is two years older than her. People in the village said that the Lu Zhishu burned high incense, and he was happy to be a golden boy and a girl!

But it was said that in the winter when Chunhua was three years old, after the heavy snowfall, Chunhua Niang was making cotton gloves for the two children, and she was not careful, but Chunhua was gone; She hurried to the street to look for it, and saw Xiao Chunhua standing next to the neighbor's crop stack, eating ice skates. The little face was frozen like a white radish.

Chunhua Niang took her daughter in her arms, and then hurriedly ran home to carry her daughter to the bed, took off her cotton shoes, and surrounded her with a quilt three layers inside and three layers outside.

Probably because Chunhua suffered from the wind chill on a snowy day, that evening, Chunhua suddenly had a high fever and diarrhea.

This is a bad spring flower girl. She held Chunhua, who had a high fever, and ran to the village clinic, only to see that the door was locked in the clinic; She hurriedly ran to the brigade with her daughter in her arms. Chunhua's father is leading a group of people from the village committee to write big-character posters.

"Chunhua's father, it's not good, look at what is wrong with our Chunhua!" Chunhua's mother only felt that her legs were weak and her face was pale.

Chunhua's father hurriedly took his daughter, tested the temperature on his daughter's head with his forehead, and shouted to his baby daughter with trembling lips: "Flower, wake up。。。。。。 ”

Haruka closed her eyes and did not respond.

"Why don't you just go to the clinic and find it? What are you doing in the village committee! Chunhua's father asked Chunhua Niang in a reproachful tone.

"Director, you forgot, you came to the commune for a meeting," militia captain Chen Guangyun reminded: "Branch secretary, you should hurry up and go to the commune hospital to show Xiaohua, and you will write a big-character poster when you come back." ”

"Good 。。。。。。" Chunhua's father handed over the little flower to Chunhua's mother; Then, he picked up his bicycle and drove her and her mother to the commune hospital.

The doctor took Chunhua's temperature: 39 degrees 5! Quickly gave Chunhua a fever-reducing injection, and an hour later, Xiao Chunhua opened her big eyes.

"Flower, my baby, you scared my mother to death!" Chunhua Niang put her face on her daughter's face.

"Doctor, my daughter is awake!" The overjoyed Chunhua Dad couldn't wait to report this "good news" to the doctor.

The doctor came over and took Chunhua's temperature.

"It's back to normal. I'll prescribe some antidiarrheal medicine for my child, and you can go back." The doctor handed the prescription to Chunhua's father.

After Chunhua's father grabbed the medicine, he took her and her mother home.

I thought that Chunhua could be bouncing at home again, but I didn't expect Chunhua to still have a fever and diarrhea. They went to the commune hospital again to see a doctor.

This time the doctor made a difficulty, saying that it was a rare disease that could not be cured here, and he was given the county hospital.

Chunhua's father drove a tractor to the county hospital this time to hang up an internal medicine department.

Unexpectedly, the county hospital not only had the same diagnosis results as the commune, but also the medicines prescribed.

After Xiao Chunhua went home, she took laxatives every day, sometimes good and sometimes heavy, and after half a month, her skin and bones were like a small roast chicken.

Chunhua Niang was so anxious that she went to the Happy River every night to pray, asking the river god to bless her daughter. In this woman's mind, the river god lives in the river of happiness.

Speaking of which, there is a legendary story about this happy river!

In the winter of 1955, Chunhua's father Lu Youguang was still a 20-year-old young man, and he was the secretary of the Youth League branch and the militia captain in the village at that time.

After more than 20 days of hard work day and night, a river was finally dug up.

The river not only irrigates the farmland, but also allows housewives to wash their clothes; Of course, in the hot summer, people who come back from working in the fields can wash off the stinky sweat on their bodies and take a beautiful shower.

As a result, this river has become a veritable "happy river" in people's minds, and this is how Happy River Village got it.

Of course, Chunhua's father and Chunhua's mother are also connected because of this river.

When the river was dug, Chunhuaniang was only 18 years old at the time, and her name was Su Guiying. At that time, Sujiazhuang, where Chunhua's father and Chunhuaniang were located, was a neighboring village, separated by such a river, so this river was actually completed by two villages, at that time, Su Guiying passed by the river when she was delivering food to their village laborers, at that time, there were two young men who were naked and only wearing pants on their lower bodies, and shouted at Su Guiying: "Little sister, don't go, my brother is here。。。。。。 One of them jumped to the shore and wanted to pull Gui Ying, but Lu Youguang couldn't stand it anymore, so he pulled them down from the river bank, and a burst of fists hit his face and body like raindrops. Since then, Su Guiying has had a light in her heart, but she didn't have a chance to meet her, and she was embarrassed to ask a matchmaker.

It's also beautiful. In the spring of 1956, after Lu Youguang was named a model worker, he went to the county to hold a commendation meeting for model workers, and happened to meet Su Guiying, who was rated as a "female commando", and she said with a red face: "What a coincidence! ”

"yes。。。。。。" Lu Youguang is not good at words.

"Thank you。。。。。。" Gui Ying lowered her head and rubbed her black braids, but her spirit was there.

"Thank me?" Youguang scratched his scalp: "Thank me for what?" ”

"That's it。。。。。。 You're angry for me。。。。。。 Gui Ying said in a low voice.

"Oh, that's what you say!" Youguang gestured with his fist: "These two boys are just underbeaten!" ”

。。。。。。

Since then, every time Gui Ying delivers food, she always secretly stuffs two steamed buns for Youguang, afraid that he won't be able to eat, and later, this secret was finally discovered. Youguang simply made public the relationship between the two. In 1958, the two came together, and in the spring of 1961, the eldest son Fushun was born. In six or five years, there were spring flowers.

It may be the reason for the malnutrition of Chunhua Niang when she was pregnant with Chunhua, Chunhua was born with a headache and brain fever, and Chunhua's grandmother often asked Zhu Daxian from the neighboring village to exorcise evil spirits; Chunhua is always bad this time, and Chunhua's grandmother believes even more that her granddaughter is afraid that she is evil, so she has to ask Chunhua's father to invite "Zhu Daxian" from the neighboring village to exorcise evil spirits.

"No, now I'm breaking the 'four olds', I'm the head of a village, how can I take the lead in engaging in these superstitions?" Chunhua's father took a puff of cigarette, drooped his head, and resolutely disagreed.

"Dad, do you remember? Our son fell into evil that year, so he asked Zhu Daxian to call his soul over. Chunhua Niang patted the cigarette ash on Chunhua's father's leg.

Of course, Chunhua's father remembered that when Fushun was five years old, he was unconscious due to a high fever, and Zhu Daxian shouted a few times, "Fushun, come home!" He woke up, and as a result, Zhu Daxian's name spread all over the country.

Chunhua's father couldn't help it, he threw away the cigarette butt and said: "I quietly invite Zhu Daxian to come over at night, don't make too much noise, spread it, and my village party secretary won't do it!" ”

Zhu Daxian was invited to Chunhua's house at night, spraying water and burning incense, and finally, he sat in front of Chunhua and muttered a few words, saying, "It's okay." After speaking, he put the "practice" money stuffed to him by Chunhua Niang in his waist and left.

After midnight, Chunhua opened her eyes, and her parents thought that "Daxian" had appeared; Unexpectedly, a few minutes later, Chunhua closed her eyes again.

"What can I do?" As the head of a village, Chunhua's father squatted on the ground this time and was at a loss.

"There is light, you look at the flowers and bones, I'm afraid I won't be able to survive, I think it's better to throw it away!" Grandma Chunhua gritted her teeth and said.

"Are you talking about human words?" Grandpa Chunhua glared at her: "The child hasn't died yet!" ”

Chunhua Niang hugged her unconscious daughter tightly: "If you want to throw it away, throw away my mother!" ”

At this moment, Su Junning, the third uncle of Chunhua, came to see his niece. He had a flashlight in his hand.

"Sister, brother, it's not a way for you to see your niece get sick like this." Junning pressed his eyebrows against Chunhua's eyebrows: "If you burn it again, you will die!" ”

"What's the best way to do that?" Chunhua's father drooped his head, smoked a stuffy cigarette and said, "The commune and the county hospital have seen it, and there is no good way." ”

"Give me a cigarette," Uncle Chunhua is also a person with a heavy smoking addiction, and he usually smokes rolled tobacco leaves, because he came in a hurry today and forgot to bring tobacco leaves; Seeing my brother-in-law smoking cigarettes, I can't care about any cigarettes.

Chunhua's father threw him a cigarette and lit it for him.

"I heard that there is an old Chinese medicine doctor in Songjiatun who specializes in treating incurable diseases, why don't you let Hua'er go to him to have a look?" Uncle Chunhua took a puff of cigarette, and because he couldn't get used to cigarettes, he couldn't help choking.

"Junning, if you can't smoke this, don't smoke it." Chunhua's mother handed Uncle Chunhua a porcelain tea jar and asked him to drink some water; Junning took the teapot and took a sip.

"At this point, I have to be a dead horse as a live horse doctor." Chunhua's father said a foul word, and Chunhuaniang's heart ached.

Chunhua's father threw away the cigarette butt, stood up and stepped on it with his foot, and said to Chunhua's mother: "Guiying, it's windy today, you wrap Chunhua with a tight quilt, and I'll push the bicycle." ”

"Brother-in-law, I think it's better to use the land to arrange the car more steadily." Uncle Chunhua also threw away the cigarette butt.

"Then, I'll borrow land and line up the car." Chunhua's father pushed open the door, but found that there was a row of cars at the door.

"Junning, it turns out that you are ready!" Chunhua's father only felt a warm current surging through his body.

"I was worried that it would be inconvenient for my sister to take a bicycle with flowers in her arms, so I found a ground row bike." Uncle Chunhua lifted the handlebars, and the tail of the car was slightly down.

Chunhua Niang sat on the ground row car with her drowsy daughter in her arms.

"Junning, you come to ride a bicycle, I'll pull her and my mother, right?" Chunhua's father handed Uncle Chunhua's bicycle.

"Oh, brother-in-law, don't fight, I'll pull the car every day, smooth and slippery!" Uncle Chunhua is also a stubborn temper.

Chunhua's father stopped arguing, he handed Uncle Chunhua a cigarette; Uncle Chunhua put the cigarette on his ear, Chunhua's father lit the cigarette, and he waved his hand: "Let's go, it's more than twenty miles away!" ”

"Don't panic, we need to bring some gifts, right?" Chunhua's father went back to the house and got two bottles of canned food.

After about two hours, they finally came to the home of the old Chinese medicine doctor in Songjiatun Village. There was a locust tree in front of the door that had lost its leaves, and there was a small patch of land in front of the locust tree that I don't know what was planted, there were white, green, yellow。。。。。。

Uncle Chunhua parked the car next to the Chinese medicine field, Chunhua Niang hugged Chunhua, and leaned her head on her daughter's brow, her head was still so hot.

Youguang carried the gift and followed Uncle Chunhua to the door, only to see the two wooden doors with a lot of black paint half-closed.

"Doctor Song, are you there?" Uncle Chunhua knocked on the door. There was no movement inside; He knocked again, listened intently, and felt the sound of snoring.

Uncle Chunhua pushed open the door, only to see a black rumbling inside.

"Come in." A hoarse voice came.

Chunhua's father beckoned Chunhua's mother into the house with Chunhua.

Chunhua's mother took a closer look: it turned out to be an old man with deep-set eyes and a beard that hadn't been shaved for several months.

"Doctor Song, this is a little courtesy, not a respect, and I hope to accept it with a smile." Chunhua's father put the two bottles of canned food in front of him, and the old man didn't push, so he accepted it.

"Doctor Song, could you please check my niece's pulse and see if she can be saved?" Uncle Chunhua couldn't wait to ask.

Doctor Song stood and checked Chunhua's pulse, then opened her mouth and looked at her tongue.

He first went to the ground in front of the door to pinch a flower, then turned around and went to the inner room, and after about five minutes, handed the five packets of Chinese medicine to Chunhua's father and said, "Take it once a day, cook the medicine again the next morning, come back in five days, and I will adjust the prescription." ”

"Thank you, Dr. Song." He stuffed two yuan to Dr. Song, who waved his hand and said, "Let's count it after the child is cured after drinking the medicine." ”

Unexpectedly, the county hospital did not look at the disease, Chunhua only drank 10 pills, and afterwards, Chunhua's father asked this "miracle doctor", what kind of disease is Chunhua, this "miracle doctor" said a professional term of traditional Chinese medicine, and Chunhua's father didn't understand a word.

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