When her mother talked about her family's business and the prosperity of the big family in the past, she would rave like a soul," How can it be gone just like that? "The land is gone, the house is gone, the people are gone, and in the end, there's no home." She really couldn't understand."How can people in this society be so powerful? They don't have any enmity with the poor. Aren't the villagers quite harmonious? We've never treated beggars badly. Why are they so angry when they fight? We can divide the property, but they have to kill us and kill us all?"”Mother didn't hate him. She blamed her fate." This is fate. What's so good about having money? Wasn't this all because of money? If they didn't have money, would their family have suffered so much?”，Her family used to have money, and it wasn't just ordinary money. However, the world had changed and she had nothing left. This seemed to have made her mother realize that " money isn't a good thing. It's really harmful. It's better to have no money and live a peaceful life without suffering."
Mother then talked about her aunt who was a cadre." Our family is gone, but her family has become a big cadre. When they need money for revolution, aren't we always helping them? Sigh, why didn't we expect that the world would change? The Zhao family is richer than the Xu family, but they don't have the foresight of the Xu family. The children of the Xu family have all joined the Party. When the world changes, they will become big cadres, but the Zhao family has been beaten up and disappeared. Weren't the children of the Zhao family also studying? Why didn't they have such foresight?" Isn't it just about joining the party over there? The Zhao family used money to help the children of the Xu family go out to cause a revolution. Why don't the children of the Zhao family know how to use money to cause a revolution? If this isn't fate, what else can it be?" Mother was regretful that the Zhao family and Xu family had chosen different paths, which led to different fates. But now, Mother could only envy Biao Aunt in vain. Although when Biao Aunt needed money, Mother generously helped her with money, but today Biao Aunt's prominent official position and high-ranking treatment had nothing to do with Mother. Now, in order to take care of this poor family, she could only put on the pitiful identity of Eldest Sister and beg from Biao Aunt.
People might have a certain personality since birth. They might be likable, loathsome, or somewhere in between. They were neither likable nor loathsome. For example, the female classmate who vomited when she saw me didn't have anything to do with me, but she hated me. Before she publicly expressed that she hated me, I had a good impression of her. I really couldn't figure out why our views on each other were so different. What caused this contradictory result? This problem had been troubling him for decades, but before he started writing The River of Time, he saw a foreign movie, Shameless Bastard, which was about the torture and murder of the German SS. In the movie, a conversation between a SS officer and a German farmer seemed to have answered this question:
Farmer: " Do you have to kill these people?”
"Yes,"
Farmer: " Did they offend you?”
"No,"
Farmer: " Did they commit any other crimes?”
"I don't think so?"
"Then why?"
"That's an order," the officer said.
Farmer: " Why is there such an order?”
Officer: " Oh, let me put it this way. You don't like rats, do you?”
Farmer: " No, I don't."
Officer: " Then do you want to kill mice when you see them?”
"Yes,"
"Did Rat offend you?"”
"I don't think so."
Officer: " Then why do you want to kill them?”
Farmer: "Look at them, they're annoying."
Officer: "Yes, that's right. They (the Arabs) are like annoying rats, so they want to kill them as soon as they see them.”
Some people wanted to change the image of the mouse. The Mickey Mouse cartoon showed us an extremely cute image of the mouse. People cheered for its humorous performance, but in reality, the mouse was still a disgusting thing in people's eyes. Why was that so? In the end, it was because rats were too " humble ". If it were a lion or tiger, they would probably be scared to death first, let alone kill them. Not to mention lions and tigers, how many people would dare to provoke a wolf? Or, even if it was a dog? How many people would dare to step on a dog and kill it? It could be seen that to change one's fate, one must first change one's humble situation. This was of utmost importance. One must recognize the seriousness of this problem and work hard in this direction.
To be honest, I said that I was in the second grade of primary school in Dafutun, but in fact, I didn't learn anything. In the first grade, I followed the school to make a great leap forward. In the second grade, there was a famine, and my mother went to Qingdao. When I stayed in Dafutun alone, I didn't have the mood to study. I really didn't even reach the level of the first grade. From Dafutun to Zhoutian Primary School, I was still enrolled in the third grade (I was in the same class as my brother. He went to Qingdao for a year). At this time, not only could my academic performance not keep up with work, but I also did not know anything else. The third grade students had reached the age to join the Young Pioneers and were given a red scarf, but I did not know how to tie it.
This morning, during the class exercise and formation, the teacher found that my red scarf was crooked and asked me to tie it again. I took the red scarf off my neck and tied a dead knot on one end of the red scarf again. Then, I passed the other end through the dead knot and made a circle that seemed to be able to strangle people. Then, I put it on my head. Seeing me wear the red scarf in this way, the students laughed non-stop. The formation was also chaotic. I didn't know what the students were laughing about. Because I didn't know what was wrong with the way I tied the red scarf. Just as I was laughing at my classmates until my face was red and I couldn't get off the stage, Ban Changxing stepped forward and walked in front of me. He took off my red scarf, straightened it, rolled it up a few times, and nimbly helped me tie it around my neck. He also unfolded the two corners of the red scarf. Seeing Xing do this for me, the students stopped laughing and gave Xing strange looks. It was as if they were embarrassed to laugh just now, but also as if they admired Xing for helping their classmates. The teacher also looked at him with approval. Xing was not as tall as me, and when he helped me tie the red scarf, he had to stand on tiptoe. After the class exercise ended, I returned to the classroom. Xing came to my seat and sat down. He asked me to take off the red scarf and taught me how to tie it. This was the first time since I was in primary school that a classmate helped me so carefully. It made me truly feel the friendship of my classmates. I felt that Xing was the class monitor. He was so mature and steady. From then on, I became the best friend of Xing. After that, I would firmly vote for Xing in the election of class monitor every semester.
Xing was from the Anhui Province. They had fled from their hometown to Zhoutian to seek refuge with their uncle who had been discharged from the army to the copper mine. For some reason, they had not been able to get a job in the copper mine. Xing's father had fled to the mountains further south, so Xing and his grandfather had stayed in the Zhoutian Construction Team. After becoming friends with Xing, he heard from Xing that the hunger in his hometown was even more severe than that in Dafutun. When the family members starved to death, they were placed under the bed so that they could get another share of the dead's rations. When the corpses rotted and stank, they had to be taken out and buried. At most, there were three dead people piled under the bed. Hunger had long made the living no longer afraid of ghosts. Hearing about the tragic things in Xing's hometown really made people panic. It also let me know that it wasn't just the doctor village that was poor, nor was it just the doctor village that starved to death. It wasn't just our family that was poor, but there were many other families that were even more miserable, poorer, and had more disasters than our family.
I was surprised that Xing, who lived in a more miserable, poorer life and experienced more disasters than I did, had surprisingly excellent academic results. His handwriting was ranked first in the class, and his essay was posted as a model for the students to learn from. Xing could be considered a student with excellent moral character and learning. In the chaotic times of the Cultural Revolution, many seemingly elegant students showed ferocious expressions and beat teachers and students for no reason, but Xing told me,"We must not do such evil things." During the period of school during the cultural revolution, Xinghe and my classmates never laid a finger on any teacher or classmate, nor did they lay a finger on any of the overthrown authorities. This was one of the few students in that chaotic era. It wasn't that we had a high level of awareness at that time, but that our human nature was kind enough to keep us from committing 'sins'.
If the cultural revolution hadn't disbanded the school and allowed Yi Xing to continue studying, he would have been able to enter university with his grades. However, in that chaotic era, he could only go down to the farm to work like a student with terrible grades like me. After that, although he went to the army to be a soldier, he didn't do anything worth mentioning. It was really a pity for Xing.
Student Zhi came to the class in the fourth grade. His father was the mine manager of the copper mine, and his mother was a political worker of the Ministry of Mines. Zhi's parents were both from Northeast China (Liaoning Province). Zhi was like his parents. He had a forthright personality and a kind heart. The arrival of Zhi changed my situation. Zhi was born with strength.
In terms of fighting, there weren't many people in the class who could be his opponents. Zhi liked to fight, and he was the kind of hero who would fight when he needed to. Zhi's academic performance was definitely not in front of the class, but this didn't affect the good impression he gave me. Zhi was also willing to accept me as his friend. Zhi had become a "big brother" who could protect me, so that I wouldn't be bullied by the bully students.
His mother was a doctor, and his father was the head of a farm maintenance station. He used to be a sports worker in the army and suffered from severe kidney disease. He passed away a few years later. When Qun arrived in class, he made the whole class look at him in a different light. He had a handsome face, a strong physique, fair skin, and was gentle and refined. His words and actions revealed the good upbringing of his family. Qun's results were perfect, and he was at the top of the class in all subjects. He was good at basketball, table tennis, swimming, high jump, long jump, and rope climbing. He was the only boy in the class who could read music and sing. Qun became my idol, and I couldn't help but get close to him in order to get his good impression. Soon Qun found that I was very willing to make friends with him, so he accepted me warmly. When choosing a class, my vote for Xing Hequn has never wavered. Xing and Qun took turns to be the class monitor and vice class monitor, and I was their loyal electorate. They were my idols, and they knew that I was following them, so there was usually no trouble from the class. The deep interaction with Xing, Qun, and Zhi played a certain role in changing my humble situation in class.
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