This was the so-called transition period in the early days of the founding of the Republic. Beijing was planning social changes, and rural reforms were brewing. People's way of life and production was about to change. Xia Zonglan, Xia Fu, and Xia Zongru from Xia Manor started to form a mutual aid group. The farming families helped each other. This way, the families who lacked labor, livestock, and vehicles could also farm and harvest on time.
Although Teacher Wang Lixian was in school, he was a person who paid attention to the outside world, followed the situation, followed the trend, and improved his thinking. Before the founding of the People's Republic of China, during the War of Resistance Against Japan and the War of Liberation, when the villagers returned from the Eighth Route Army, he invited them to the school to talk about the situation and make reports. Xia Junshi had once taught revolutionary songs at school, and he was the one who invited him.
When the support group was established, he asked the fourth-year students, Xia Changdi and Xia Juntai, to spend a week drawing posters based on newspaper materials. To promote the superiority of the support group. One by one, the little figures were very clear and pasted on the door. The students looked at them, and the villagers also looked when they walked over. The drawing was quite good, but the junior students did not understand what it meant.
During the spring farming season, he would organize his students to step on the fields during the afternoon break. They would go in groups. No matter whose field it was, they would help to step on it when they saw that it had been planted.
He didn't know where he had gathered some materials for the allegro. During market days, the students would go to the rooftops of Zhouge Village to count the kuaiban and promote it. Primary school students were playing allegro on the roof, shouting at the top of their lungs. They counted fluently and their voices were loud. The people who went to the market liked to hear it.
One day, the teacher asked Junji, Ah Hui, Xia Yulan, and Xia Jungui to skip a grade. Jun Ji, Ah Hui, Xia Yulan jumped to the fourth grade, and Xia Jungui jumped from the second grade to the third grade. "You've all been doing well," he said."The course is too shallow for your brains. You'll be able to keep up if you skip to the first year. In the past, the war had wasted some of our time. Now, we can snatch whatever we can.”A few students said that they would listen to the teacher's arrangements.
Xia Yulan's eldest brother didn't agree to Xia Yulan skipping a grade because he was Xia Yulan's uncle and lived in the same courtyard. Xia Yulan was five years older than Xia Yulan, so they were in the same grade. Fortunately, Xia Yulan was still young in the third grade, so she didn't care if she didn't move. From the bottom of her heart, Ah Hui was willing to jump a level. People always wanted to go higher. It would be good if they could reach a higher position as soon as possible. However, Teacher Wang Lixian changed his mind. He considered the problem of learning step by step. Jumping from the third grade to the fourth grade, there were many classes that needed to be rushed. The primary school entrance examination was not too far away, and it would be difficult to make up for it. Therefore, Ah Hui and Jun Jibai panicked for a while and failed to jump levels. Only Xia Jungui had jumped from the second grade to the third grade due to his age.
It was also because of the " enemy intelligence " that Jungui was thirteen years old when he went to school after Liberation, which was six years older than other people who went to school. He was tall and did not look like he was in the same class as a seven or eight-year-old. The slightly older ones, like Awu, Chang Mao, Chang Hui, and Chang Guang, had all left the school one after another. Jungui was barely able to make do, so he followed suit. Teacher Wang Lixian saw that he knew how to work hard and asked him to jump to the first grade. He was eager.
After Jungui skipped a grade, he studied even harder. His family lived in a large courtyard on the west side of Junjie's house. There was a small platform facing the street, and the main house with a covered house was the entrance. Xia Jungui stayed in the house. He did his homework during the day and studied at night. Soon, he had made up for all the lessons that he should have.
In the summer of 1952, Xia Changdi and Xia Juntai were admitted to Shigezhuang Senior Primary School with first and second place. His voice shook the land east of the river. Teacher Wang Lixian was overjoyed. Xia Changdi and Xia Juntai were the standard students he was most proud of.
Ah Hui entered the fourth grade normally. During the summer break, she had a calf at home. Usually, it was her brother, Ah Wu, who herded the livestock. During the holidays, Ah Hui would do the same. Herding cows in Xia Village should be the happiest job for people. To the east of the river is a big river, two or three miles wide, no head in the south, no tail in the North. The Hetao was filled with weeds, reed grass, water barnyard grass, shuttle grass, hot grass, and everything else. The cattle scattered from the bridge, do not care, free to eat in the Hetao. There were wild wormwood, water-collapsing trees, and willow trees everywhere in the Hetao. Wang Liye's reed pit was lush. When the cows were scattered, the children who herded the cows hid in the shade of the grass to play. Some were playing Pai Gow, some were playing poker, some were playing five cards, and some were milk dogs. After playing enough, some went to Dongtuo to steal melons, and some went to the grass to look for wild duck eggs. The person was searching in the grass when a wild duck suddenly flew up, scaring everyone. Go and look for it. Where wild ducks fly, you can definitely find a small grass nest. There must be duck eggs in the nest. Sometimes, the children even went to the ditch to fish and catch crabs. Come back and set up the firewood to burn. It smells so good! There was endless fun in the Hetao.
Xia Yanchang and Ah Hui were roasting crabs by the ditch when Junguo drove his cow over with a whip and said,""You two are still burning. Your cows have gone to the south and are about to reach the bridge.”Xia Yanchang looked up and saw that the sun was already in the south. "It's noon. Go chase the cow and go home.”As they spoke, the two of them ran south. When they were almost at the bridge, they saw the cow. The two calves were eating grass in a patch of grass. It was as if they were afraid that others would eat such good grass. It was only when Xia Yanchang cracked the whip in his hand that they raised their heads, ready to listen to their little master's orders.
"Since we're already here, let's walk on the river dam.”Xia Yanchang said.
"Alright, it's easy to walk on the river dam." Ah Hui whipped the bull's butt.
The two oxen walked in front of them, one in front of the other.
Not far away from Goufu Bridge, Ah Hui's eyes inadvertently glanced at the bank of Xiheba opposite. He saw a big turtle lying on the dam to dry the lid. Looking closely, there were five or six of them lying on the riverbank.
"Hey, look, Xiheba and Bastard are basking in the sun.”Ah Hui exclaimed.
Xia Yanchang turned to the west and said,"
"Whoa! There are so many of them. They're all lining up."
The two of them walked north as they watched. On the West River Dam, the bastards lined up one by one. They picked up the big earth pagoda and threw it over. Some of the earth pagoda fell into the water, and some fell on the river dam. The tortoise near the landing point quickly jumped up and flipped over. The big lid was facing down and flipped into the water. The one further away was as if nothing had happened. It did not move and stuck to the dam. Seeing that there was no movement, those who had flipped down climbed back up in a while to fill the long row of vacancies. Ah Hui and Xia Yanchang fought as they walked. They climbed up and down, and neither of them stopped.
Just as they were about to reach Zhang Jiuer's grave, a man came from the opposite bank of the Xihe dam and walked from the south to the north. "There are quite a number of big turtles by the river. They're drying their lids."”The man put down his pick, pulled out his pole, and walked quietly to the river. However, before he could reach the river, the turtles noticed the movement and jumped up one by one, falling into the water. He had no other choice but to pick up the pick and walk.
The tortoises lined up at Xihe Dam to dry the lids, all the way to Zhang Jiuer's grave, which was three miles long. Ah Hui and Xia Yanchang fought as they walked.
When they got home, Ah Hui told Brother Ah Ting about the wonder on the river dam. He said,""Bastard, you stopped just because you hit him? It was very clever. When you came in front of it, it would jump into the water with its four legs.”
"Then how do we catch it?" Ah Hui asked.
"There's a way. On rainy days, we'll leave the swallow meat and go to Zhang Jiuer's grave to fish.”
Ah Ting was an expert at catching fish and crabs, so he had to listen to him when fishing for turtles. Ah Hui was looking forward to the rain.
A few days later, the sky turned gloomy, as if it was raining. Brother Ah Ting cleaned the swallow meat and called Ah Hui with a pole,""Let's go and fish for turtles." They left the house, crossed the bridge, and went straight to Wangbawan, the tomb of Zhang Jiujia. Zhang Jiujia's grave was on the west bank of the new river. The river was blocked by the grave at this place, so it turned sharply into a bay and then flowed south. Over time, it formed a big water bay. It was circular, over a hundred meters in diameter, and four to five meters deep. Because the water was deep and the current was fast, people didn't dare to come here to bathe. Therefore, this place became a surface of water with few people. Perhaps tortoises liked the quiet, as there were many tortoises here. On a rainy day, you see, on the surface of the water, one by one, the heads of the earth turtles are out of the water and swimming in the water. They are especially bold. There are people on the shore, but they turn a blind eye.
Eldest Brother and Ah Hui came to the water bay. He hooked the swallow meat on the fish hook and threw it into the water with all his might. Then, he held the end of the rope and sat on the beach, waiting for the "willing one to take the bait" with Ah Hui.
Ah Hui's eyes were fixed on the water surface. After a while, the turtle poked its head out of the water. Its round eyes saw that there was someone on the shore, so it dived down.
After a while, the rope in the elder brother's hand moved. The elder brother said,"You can't wait anymore. You still want to eat it!”Ah Hui wanted to pull the rope, but Big Brother said,""Don't move, it's biting you."
After a while, the rope started to move violently. Big Brother pulled the rope hard and then slowly pulled it up. His eyes stared straight at the water surface. The more he pulled, the heavier he felt. "I can't run away," said Big Brother. After a while, a big turtle was pulled out of the water. The eldest brother pulled the turtle to the beach and began to pick the fish hook from the turtle's mouth. He even muttered,"Come on, take it off and it won't hurt anymore.”After taking the fish hook, he put the turtle into the iron bucket and threw the swallow meat down again.
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