Dig Deep
In the dark of the night, the torches of the large army's "Dig Deep" burned half of the sky in the South Sichuan Basin. The torches were mostly made of bamboo poles removed from the houses. When they burned, they made crackling sounds. On the top of the stone bone mountains (or the stone rock mountains) that looked like steamed buns, the earthen broadcasting tube rolled up with iron sheet shouted at the top of its voice,"The more daring a person is, the more fertile the land is!”"One day equals twenty days, and one year equals twenty years. Five years to surpass the British, ten years to catch up with the United States, and run towards Communism!”
The voices echoed from afar, rising and falling.
Most of the people working overtime under the torch were elderly and women. Their bodies were so wet from the fog and dew that water could be wrung out. Some of them were standing in the soil, dozing off with their heads on the hoe handles, while others were lying in the sand near the ridge. They were in groups of three or five, snoring loudly.
" Wah!" Da Hong, who was dozing off in the sand, suddenly cried out.
Xiong Yaoniang raised her head on the hoe handle, and Da Hong fell asleep again. Juxiang's mother said with heavy eyelids,"Mother, is Brother Dahong still having a fever?"”"Yeah, I went to catch spotted locusts in the sugar cane forest of Mount Shihong with Juxiang and came back with a fever. She was worried about leaving him at home, so she had to bring him here.”"Sigh, when will this endless overtime end?”
"Quick, quickly get up…The Bending Stick is here!”
" Curved Stick " was the nickname people gave to the commander of the Great Corps, Yang Anbang. This was because in this Bright Moon River Village, which had a radius of several square kilometers, even those who dared to ride a tiger like a horse would be 90% afraid of him. Whoever dared to provoke him would not be able to shit for a few days and nights.
Dongxiu's father, Yang Dahan 'er, suppressed his voice and shouted as he woke up Shulin's father and Juxiang's father, who were sleeping like dead pigs. Juxiang's father said regretfully,"How embarrassing." Yang Dahan said,"If you want to get the title of 'plowing the top score', you can doze off yourself.”
Everyone pretended to work. The mother patted the crying baby on her back and snorted,"Hey, hey, hey. Be good and go to sleep."
Yang Anbang strolled into the soil and saw the right-wing Zhao Wenxiong dozing off with his head on the hoe handle. He stepped over and slapped him twice. " You're right!" Zhao Wenxiong cried out in a dream-like manner." If you didn't launch the 'outcry,' I would have only spoken a few words of truth. Why should you put a 'hat' on me?"”
Pa, pa, pa.
"What a f * cking idiot. He hasn't woken up yet. Tell me, tell me, which dynasty and which generation did the talented rebel?”
Yang Anbang's slaps seemed to have sobered Zhao Wenxiong up. He did not make a sound in shock, but the strange halo in his pupils grew bigger and bigger, flying in the night sky like the "big hats" from back then.
Zhao Wenxiong trembled and broke out in a cold sweat. Dongxiu's youngest aunt reached out and grabbed his arm, pulling him."Wenxiong, what are you doing? Hurry up and get to work."
Yang Anbang pretended to laugh happily and said teasingly,"Haha, everyone, smell the sourness of Zhao Wenxiong. His clothes and pants were all fished out from the pickled cabbage jar.”
Everyone's reaction was indifferent and they only focused on their work. Yang Anbang asked for a snub. Zhao Wenxiong walked to the ridge and cursed in his heart,"Damn it, the East is turning white. So many people are only digging a palm-sized piece of soil. Son of a b * tch, Yang Dahan…"
"Yang Dahan!" Yang Anbang shouted sternly.”
"You son of a bitch, you're sleeping comfortably with your wife in your arms, so you came to find fault with me." Yang Dahan complained softly. I am still a human being, even a dog has its moments of napping. I'll go all out tonight…" However, when he thought of the bowl of sweet potato soup tomorrow morning, he could only suppress the words that had rushed into his mouth.
Yang Dahan forced a smile and ran forward."Guild Leader, you called me?" "It's the middle of the night. Look, what kind of platoon leader are you? When I went to visit other people, they dug more than ten feet deep. Look, look, you only dug two to three feet deep. Look at Tian 'er, what kind of situation is this? She only dug a palm-sized piece. Listen up, if you can't finish digging this piece of soil before dawn, don't even think about pooping tomorrow!”"Captain, we've already dug out the old stone bones. Everyone has really used all their strength.”"Yang Dahan, don't play this game with me. Don't think that just because you've been fighting the war against the United States and aiding Korea for a few days, you're old. If you don't want to be operated on tomorrow morning, you should stuff less bean dregs in your head.”
Yang Anbang left angrily. Yang Dahan, the leader of the row, had a belly full of grievances. He could not bear to go against his conscience and force everyone to death, but he was often reprimanded and punished for not being able to report his work. He thought, Back then, I went to the North Korean battlefield to fight the Americans. Even if I didn't have any credit, I still worked hard. The few big copper scars on my back are proof. He returned to the country in victory, but he returned to this remote place because he had black eyes. He worked day and night, and he couldn't bear the anger of his son.”
Yang Dahan was so angry that his entire body trembled and he stomped a few times. He vented at Yang Anbang's back,"What's so impressive about a son of a bitch? Wasn't it just catching 5,000 sparrows in exchange for this black gauze hat?”
It was a warm-up match for the Great Leap Forward. The whole country had launched a vigorous campaign to eliminate the four pests. Sparrows had nowhere to go, mice had nowhere to go, and mosquitoes and flies had no descendants. In particular, they wanted to exterminate the sparrows. Men, women, old and young occupied the various mountains and set up an inescapable net by knocking on the "pig's mouth"(bamboo tube sounder). Many sparrows were frightened into the air and had nowhere to land. They died of exhaustion. The prosperous Sparrow Family suffered its first great calamity in history. Yang Anbang saw the report of "5,000 Sparrows Champion" in the People's Daily, so he had an idea. He caught 5,123 sparrows like a myth, surpassing the national sparrow "champion" on the "satellite pattern" and became the commander of the large army.
"I really want to be your platoon leader.”
Yang Dahan vented on himself for a while, and he seemed to feel better. He thought to himself, If I can't finish digging this piece of soil before dawn, who among the old and the young won't have an empty stomach? Bending Rod was a person with a heart of stone. He would do what he said. If this continues…" Yang Dahan ran to the middle of the soil and roared,""My young and old men, if you don't want to have an empty city tomorrow, you'd better be more agile.”
Arsonist (1)
The hungry children rushed to the kindergarten for breakfast. Half a bowl of inky rotten sweet potato soup was smelly and no one could swallow it. Therefore, Ye Wenzhi, Hong Zhong, and a few other children led a hunger strike and shouted,""Is the kindergarten's mistress drinking sewer water?”He ran to the regiment headquarters to complain. The concubines stood at the door with tears in their eyes, watching the children walk past Sanwan Weir.
Not a single person was seen in the regiment headquarters. The children instinctively ran to the food regiment to find the food that their adults had saved. They did not chew it and ate it. Some children could only stamp their feet and wipe their tears when they failed. Shuchun took Xiong Yaoniang saved a steamed sweet potato to eat with Dahong, Dahong snatched it from her hand and ran away. She caught up with him and said,"Dahong, give me some."”Da Hong pushed her down with a palm and escaped.
Cattle breeder ninth sister-in-law carrying grass passing by, see book spring crying like a tearful person, from JuXiang mouth after knowing book spring called to the side: "Youngest sister, when Youngest mother comes back, I will report him and beat his butt.”"Ninth sister-in-law, please don't sue him. He's also hungry.”
Ninth sister-in-law shook her head. She wanted to say something but swallowed her words. She looked around to avoid the children's sight, secretly took out a raw sweet potato from her pocket and stuffed it into Shuchun's hand, saying,""Little sister, go hide and eat." Shuchun nodded. Fuyuhide found out and called out," Mommy." She ran to the front and watched helplessly. Ninth sister-in-law glared at her, and she did not dare to say a word and left.
Shuchun went to the bamboo forest dam to find Dahong. He had fallen asleep leaning against the bamboo, his face wet with tears. Shuchun shook him awake and handed him the two halves of the sweet potato. "I don't, I don't want it," Da Hong said with a sobbing tone.”"Eat it. Ninth sister-in-law gave it to you." Shuchun forced it into his hands, and the siblings looked at each other with tears in their eyes and smiled embarrassedly.
At noon, perhaps the sun took pity on these children and injected them with sleeping pills with a needle-like beam of light. Dahong was sleepy. He climbed onto the big square table in the dining hall to doze off. After a while, he snored. Ju Xiang quietly walked to the table. She watched as a mischievous smile flashed across his swollen face and he turned over while muttering. Ju Xiang's lips moved a few times before she turned around and left.
The dining hall was next to the kitchen, and smoke was rising from the chimney. Hong Zhong's mother added a large handful of firewood. After a moment of silence, there was a loud bang in the furnace hall. A large cloud of smoke came out of the chimney with a ball of sparks, igniting the charred thatched roof. Thick smoke billowed. The sudden wind helped the tyrant to do evil, pulling up flames that were more than ten feet high.
The sound of bamboo shoots exploding made people's hearts jump.
"Light it up, light it up, oh my god!”
Hong Zhong's mother wailed and staggered out of the kitchen with a hoarse voice, turning into a pile of mud on the ground. The people who worked on the mountain had not finished work yet. Moreover, distant water could not put out a nearby fire. The children were so scared that they cried and were in a daze. Shuchun looked for Dahong in horror. Juxiang cried and said,"He's dozing off at the dining table.”Shuchun was so anxious that she cried and stomped her feet. Ninth sister-in-law, who was mowing cattle grass nearby, arrived. The thick smoke that came with the wind had already sealed the door. She threw away the cow grass in a hurry, covered her head with her backpack, covered her nose, and rushed in.
Ninth sister-in-law touched Da Hong who was in dreamland. She picked him up and bent down to protect him in her arms as she walked out of the door. Behind her, a group of burning thatch fell down with a bang.
The workers heard the news and rushed over. In front of them, apart from the broken walls that were emitting green smoke, there were terrified children. Xiong Yaoniang was extremely grateful to her ninth sister-in-law and told Da Hong to kneel down and kowtow three times. Yang Anbang stood in the middle of the dam with his hands on his hips. His interrogation-like gaze swept across the frightened faces and roared,"Which counter-revolutionary did this? Stand out now, or I'll skin him alive today!”
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