When I arrived at the Weiziwan Brigade from the county seat yesterday, it was already dark. Zhang Zisheng, secretary of the party branch of Yanyangtian, warmly received me, introduced me to the situation in the team, and finally sent me to Mrs. Hou's house.
These are three brick north rooms, the west room left for me to live in has long been cleaned up, and the east room is occupied by the landlord. The eldest lady went to visit the door, and only a boy named Qingming was doing his homework under the electric light. He told me that his parents both worked in the city, and that he and his grandmother stayed in the countryside to live.
After waiting for a long time, I still didn't see the eldest lady come back, so I had to go back to the house and lie down. I haven't been to the countryside for several years, and this time I have the opportunity to come to the countryside where I have passed through the proletariat, and I feel fresh everywhere. Tossing and turning, I finally fell asleep.
Suddenly, there were several knocks on the door: "Comrade, comrade, have you slept?"I guessed that it was the landlady, and was about to get up and open the door, and she said outside: "Don't get up when you fall asleep." I've come to see you several times, but I haven't heard any movement, and I'm still working with you. ”
The landlady is so enthusiastic that she should let me come in and sit down, and I hurriedly put on my clothes and get off the kang. The landlady continued: "If you don't read or write, turn off the lights and sleep with the lights on, wasting electricity!"I'll tell you to sleep for this. "I heard this and immediately turned off the lights.
Just as I was sleeping soundly, I was awakened by a sound. By this time the sunlight had climbed to the window lattice. I tightened up and looked through the window, only to see the landlady reprimanding a child loudly: "Who told you to climb over my wall and pick my peaches?"Can you eat it if it's not ripe?What should I do if my arm or leg is broken?It's naughty!”
Take them all out for me!·· Is there anything else?What is it?When the eldest lady saw the little boy take out the slingshot from the bag, she said, "The slingshot must also be confiscated." Send a sunny piece to your teacher, and let him see if his students are studying hard or are they specifically destroying the discipline of the masses!”
Then came the pleading of the child, the stubbornness and rebuke of the landlady, and it was not until I got dressed and came out that the child took the opportunity to run away.
The landlady put two half-green and half-red peaches on the windowsill, turned around, and smiled at me: "Get up, did you sleep well?"I smiled at her and said a few kind words when we first met.
The eldest lady didn't wait for me to finish, waved her big hand and said: "It's not a trouble, let alone a disturbance, the comrades who came to Weiziwan for thousands of miles are all for the revolution, and for the revolution is a family." You can ask me for anything, and if I don't have it, I'll borrow it for you, sew and wash the things, and put them on my kang. ”
I introduced myself again, saying that I was here for a short-term labor exercise and asked her to help me more. The landlady smiled and said very seriously: "When the two of them get together, everyone will have strengths and weaknesses, and if you want to help, it is to help each other." Write a letter, read a newspaper, and talk about national affairs, I ask you to do so. ”
At noon that day, a third thing happened. After finishing work and eating, I had just returned to my lodgings when I heard a loud noise in the yard, so I hurried out to have a look. Qingming stood at the door with a rice bowl, and I asked him who his grandmother was arguing with. "With the South Courtyard, the nickname is "Hou Xiaoshou". Qingming replied.
I asked him again why Grandma was arguing with othersQingming told me: "This old man's little hand stretches out everywhere, and his stockade is clamped once in a few days, always squeezing to our side!”
The landlady crossed her waist with one hand and gestured with the other: "How many places have you occupied?"What kind of heart do you have?If you don't put a little in your arms, don't hurt others, what's wrong with your palms?”
Hou Xiaoshou "stood with one foot in the freshly dug soil ditch, and one foot on the wet soil, posing aggressively: "You keep saying that I have invaded your place, where is it written?"Where do you remember?”
The eldest lady was on fire: "I planted the toon tree at the root of the west wall, didn't I?"·· Yes, okay, you open your eyes and see, if you straighten the sunny son of the village according to the ditch you dug newly, where will that tree go?"Hou Xiaoshou" shouted: "That... Isn't that more than a foot wide? ”
More than a foot?Even an inch of land, a piece of soil, can't be given to you!It's okay for you to retract your little hand for me quickly, or we'll find Secretary Zhang immediately!The landlady snapped. "Hou Xiaoshou" knew that he was at a loss: Then the ditch will be changed to this side of my yard? !
The eldest lady said categorically: "This ditch you dug can't be flat!""Hou Xiaoshou" knew how powerful the eldest lady was, and pretended to say: "I'll give you a level..."
If you keep it, you will keep it for me!I want the cadres and members to visit the Sunny Sky Temple, analyze and analyze, wipe their eyes, and gain a long insight!"Hou Xiaoshou" panicked: "Old sister-in-law, you live in the front and back yards, why bother?"”
The landlady's words broke him: "You don't need to accept the hard and soft ones, I can't eat them at all." Tell you, it's a struggle between two minds!"Hou Xiaoshou" played a scoundrel and said, "You won't let me live?."”
I'll let you live a socialist life!Let's gossip and let's do it!The eldest lady said and walked away. When I returned to the house, I felt a little unhappy, remembering that when Zhang Zisheng introduced me to the landlord yesterday, he said "That lady is selfless." I now feel that "iron mask" is true, but "selfless" is not necessarily true.
I thought to myself: in order to save a little electricity at home, I could unceremoniously wake up the guests I didn't meet from their deep sleep;For the sake of two peaches, to embarrass a child like that;It is not right for others to encroach on her place, but since she has admitted her mistake and changed it immediately, she still refuses to give up, which is too much.
In the afternoon, the members were cutting rice in the field, and I helped scratch the rice. Aunt Hou moves neatly, not like an elderly person, and it took me a lot of effort to keep up.
During the break, I tactfully proposed to Zhang Zisheng, the branch secretary, to live in another house. Zhang Zisheng glanced at me and said, "Why change places?"Mrs. Hou's family has a small population, generous, and quiet... I told him that I don't write lately, and the main task is to get in touch with and get acquainted with the masses.
He still persuaded me: "Although Aunt Hou is not a party member or cadre, she is representative and can represent ordinary members who have undergone *** training, especially the older generation who have survived the old society." If you look at the changes and improvements in their thinking, you will be able to understand the great spiritual achievements of *** in a deeper way.
I had to be frank about my impression of the landlady, and cite her quarrel with "Hou Xiaoshou". Zhang Zisheng suddenly laughed and said, "You just came, and you are not familiar with Aunt Hou!."She cherished the little mansion, it was true. That small courtyard is the history of blood and tears in the past, and the account of grievances!
It turned out that the yard was as low-lying as the reed pit at the back of the house. The Hou family does not have an inch of land, let alone a place to shelter from the wind and rain. The two of them, one as a long-term worker and the other as a wet nurse, worked for the landlord for two years and promised to give a piece of land as a price.
As a result, the ruthless landlord allocated them only half a reed pit. The two of them had no choice, so they worked for the landlord during the day and carried the soil to the pit at night. Basket by basket, and after two years of drying, it was as high as the river embankment, and a small nest was pressed, and the family settled down...
Zhang Zisheng pointed to the courtyard of the Hou family and said: "Today, this courtyard is one of the objects that we have carried out in educating the young people of the brigade on class struggle. Aunt Hou has a keen eye and high vigilance, and the problem she discovered in time is very important”
Seeing that I did not understand, he explained: "'Hou Xiaoshou' is a wealthy middle peasant with a very serious capitalist ideology, and he was criticized by the masses for speculation in the past two yearsNow it has changed its tricks, not only occupies the courtyard of Aunt Hou's house, but I went to see it just now, and he has also occupied a lot of collective farmland in the east...
In the evening, with a feeling of guilt, I returned to the little precious yard of the landlord. The eldest lady and Qingming are picking peaches. Both small baskets were full, and there were some piled up in the ground.
The eldest lady warmly beckoned me to eat peaches. When I asked why she didn't pick it until it was ripe, she said, "I wanted to raise it for a few more days, but it always invites children to climb trees and be naughty, and it is more troublesome to fall on them." Don't let the small hurt the big one. ”
After a while, she walked out from under the tree with a basket, and said to Qingming: "You send this basket to Grandpa Wang of the Wubao household in Dongtou, and I will give this basket to Grandma Liu, a military family." ”
The grandfather and grandson did not come back until very late. As soon as the eldest lady saw me writing notes in her room, she said, "You can move the small table to that room and write, because doing homework in this room will disturb you." ”
I said that sharing a lamp can save electricity. The eldest lady smiled and said: "Use it when it should be used, and save it when it should be saved." Nowadays, we are building small factories in the countryside, and the number of machines is increasing, so we should save some electricity for their use. ”
The eldest lady said naturally, without the slightest intention of confessing herself or educating others, I listened to it, and my heart was very moved. The eldest lady is indeed a member of the "iron-faced and selfless" commune. I'm going to step up my efforts to make it look up to them.
Three days later, there was a storm. After the rain and the sky was clear, the ground was muddy, and she could not work, so the eldest lady went to the "Philosophy Group for Members" to study and Xi. Qingming and I sorted out the wind-blown cucumber racks and tomato seedlings in the vegetable bed.
As we went along, we heard the sound of whips and shouts from behind the courtyard. Qingming shook his head and said, "Oops, it's stuck again!."So saying, he ran out.
I followed it out and saw that it was a newly built small road. It stretches out from due west, turns past Hou Damiang's house, and can stretch straight out towards the newly built small factory and grain depot due east. This section of the road behind Mrs. Hou's house, because of the low-lying and water storage after the rain, is very muddy. Sure enough, a large wagon pulling timber was stuck here.
The eldest lady is helping to lift the wheel. When she saw us, she gasped and said, "You two will take this wheel for me, and you can't let go."As soon as you let go, the wheels sink deeper and the animals on the wheel are in danger!”
The two of us took over from the eldest lady. She ran home, and then she ran back again, carrying a door panel and a shovel.
Walk in front of him, throw down the door panel, and shovel in front of the wheels. Then, he shouted to the handlebars: "Leave the cattle alone, quick, put the door panel on the place where I dug it, hard, hard!".”
After the handlebar type pads the door panel, the eldest lady said to me and Qingming: "I'm here, you guys are over there, the three of us push up, as long as the car wheels on the door panel, it's okay!."”
Just as Zhang Zisheng, the secretary of the branch, arrived with a few members, we worked hard together in the voice of the eldest mother's "one, two, three" password, and the wheels rolled to the door panel with a "whoosh".
The handlebar style turned from worry to joy, and I looked for the eldest lady to express my gratitude, but I didn't see her anymore. Zhang Zisheng said: "This is what we should do. In a few days, we have to find a way to cushion this detour, otherwise it will be more dangerous to run a car in the future!”
In the days following this incident, I noticed that the landlady was always going in and out as if she was thinking about something. One morning, I was woken up by a strange sound outside my window. I got up and went out to take a look, and I froze.
The landlady and Qingming were sawing the big peach tree in the yard. The shining silver sawtooth gnawed at the purple trunk, and the golden sawdust flowed out like flour and piled up under the roots...
I was confused and asked why I sawed off the peach tree. The eldest lady smiled at me, and before she could speak, the lush peach tree had already fallen with a "bang". Broken branches and leaves fell all over the yard, smashed the cucumber stand, and unpicked peaches rolled around.
The eldest lady said to me: "Go and brush your teeth and wash your face, and help me clean up these vegetable seedlings and tree trunks in a while."Let's pick up the wall in a while... Pick up the wall?"Not only was I confused, but I was surprised.
The eldest lady shouted, "Don't be scared, act quickly, oh, you still don't understand what I mean?"That's right. I can't pad the road behind the house, hard pad, the team is laborious, and it can't last long, the cars come and go, continuous turns, always troublesome, and dangerous. I want to give up half of our yard and straighten the avenue!”
My reverence for the landlady is indescribable. But I felt that it was a pity to break this courtyard, so I said: "Auntie, can you think of another way to get the best of both worlds." ”
The eldest lady shook her head disappreciatively, and said meaningfully: "In order to make the road of revolution unimpeded, it is nothing to lose a little belongings!.""In this way, I helped my aunt do everything she asked and wanted me to do.
The east and west walls were torn apart, and the avenue crossed the courtyard and joined in a straight line. Whips sounded, horns sounded, and carts, cars, and tractors passed through the yard in an endless stream and went straight to the east where the sun was risingAlthough this trip to the countryside is short, the noble quality of the "iron-faced and selfless" Aunt Hou will always inspire me to move forward.