I looked back and saw a tiger-headed kid standing behind me, holding a plastic submachine gun. Behind me, my third aunt followed, panting and saying, "We can't catch up with this kid!" Seeing us, I hurriedly said hello, "Shi Yan is here, have you graduated?" I replied: "I have graduated. The three of us jointly opened a metaphysics studio to see things for people, provide psychological counseling, etc. Something happened this time. , I heard that my third uncle knows an expert who can command the gods and send generals, call the wind and rain, move mountains and seas, scatter beans into soldiers..." My third uncle burst out laughing, "How can there be such an expert? Ah!..." The child ran over and climbed on the third uncle. When he saw the fruit basket we brought, he stared at it. I quickly opened the fruit basket and asked him which one he wanted. The child took it. Taking this and touching that, the third aunt pointed and said: "Look at the potential!" After speaking, she held the fruit basket and said: "What are you buying! This kid doesn't taste good... "As he said that, he entered the house, and the child followed him into the house.
Hearing us talk about the master, the third uncle became interested, took a sip of tea, and started chatting: "I want to talk about this master, I met him when I was working in the mountain village! Your third uncle, I Yeah, back then we were responding to the call, 'It is very necessary for educated young people to go to the countryside and receive re-education from poor and lower-middle peasants!' I wanted to make progress, so I took the initiative to write an application and went to the countryside! At that time, I was wearing big red flowers and beating gongs and drums. It was put on the train. When I first went there, I really suffered a lot! The big dumplings made my throat hurt. At that time, the wheat was not harvested by harvesters, nor was it cut with sickles, but was pulled out by hand. It was so tiring, the big sun was so poisonous! Some educated youths were screaming loudly there... Fortunately, they got over it very quickly, all thanks to the appearance of that expert!"
Speaking of this, the third uncle took a sip of water and said with excitement: "That's an old cadre who used to work for the enemy and puppets in Tianjin, that is, he was an undercover agent. Later, when delivering intelligence, his identity was accidentally exposed. The organization sent an insider to cover his escape from Tianjin and returned to the embrace of the organization. Soon it was the Battle of Pingjin and Tianjin. Because he was familiar with the terrain of Tianjin and its suburbs, he was transferred to the front line and incorporated into Deng Hua's army. , and later, with his expertise in reconnaissance, he was transferred to North Korea to participate in the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea.
After that, he returned to China and changed his career to work in the National Materials Department. It was such a veteran cadre who was mistakenly classified as a rightist during the anti-rightist movement. Because he has many battle stories and glorious history, but he never mentions it. Instead, he always tells people the story of his past dealings with a god when he was an undercover agent on the enemy and puppet side! This can't be entirely blamed on him. At that time, he was an educated person and arranged work there, but his subordinates were no less qualified than him. They were all veterans with many years of combat experience, but they were uneducated and illiterate. , let’s give them full-time positions below. If they don’t have enough education, they can’t do it. Let’s give them deputy positions. Those full-time positions were once their subordinates, so they can’t get rid of them. Instead of staying in the capital, they would rather be custodians. When it comes to telling battle stories, those people are much better at telling them than he is, so he can only brag about these nonsense! But these were demons and monsters at the time, so they were labeled as rightists. However, he was not sent to work at that time because of what he said. Even if he thought he was a poisonous weed, he had no intention of attacking the party. It was just nonsense after dinner. But he was not so lucky in the next ten years. Since he had a single line of contact while working with the enemy and puppets, he could not find the leader at that time, so he was accused of "historical problems" and was sent to his hometown for labor reform. This was originally a bad thing for him, but it turned out to be a blessing in disguise!
He was transferred from the Materials Department and knew the material bureaus of various places. At that time, he was able to get pesticides, fertilizers and other in-demand production materials for the village, and he was very valued in the village. He also contacted various places through his connections and eliminated a factory. The equipment was bought back as scrap steel, and experts were hired to debug it. A spring factory was built in the village to produce large springs for machines and trucks. At that time, the output of state-owned factories was tight, so of course they were willing to have such helpers, so we outsourced processing to them. The springs it produces naturally become the output of state-owned factories. At that time, the unit price of that big spring was more than 70 yuan! It is equivalent to one month's salary of a sixth-level urban worker.
After that, he built several more factories, and he became the leader of the brigade. I would ask him to come forward and discuss many things with him. Up to now, the village can still collect several million in contract fees every year, and the factories he opened are still there! At that time, we educated youths were sent to various factories as young laborers. This meant that the work was no different from that of workers in the city! But the income was not low. I was working as a maintenance fitter in the factory at that time. I earned more than 80 yuan a month, which was recorded as 10 work points. At the end of the year, the work points would be divided again. It was a very enviable job! The income is higher than that of an eighth-level worker in the city! So at that time, the educated youths nearby asked people to rely on their reputation and tried their best to transfer here. Some people with bad status simply married the members of the brigade with good status and did not return to the city.
But this expert was rehabilitated at this time. He only stayed in the team for two or three years, and he was rehabilitated before the ten-year movement was over. The reason was that the comrade who covered his evacuation from Tianjin was also imprisoned because he could not find a witness. Later, this person confessed that when he was in Tianjin, he had covered a comrade's evacuation from Tianjin according to the instructions of the organization. That person was liberated. I later saw this evacuated comrade in the National Materials Department! So the unit took the letter of introduction and came to the Materials Department for external transfer. In this way, the historical issues between the two people were clarified. In addition, his high-level subordinates made trouble at the beginning, so he was rehabilitated and recalled to work in the original unit. Later, when he retired and implemented the policy, the brigade did not forget his contribution. They built a yard for him, hired a nanny, and invited him back. Firstly, he enjoyed happiness, and secondly, he listened to his ideas on some important matters in the village. He gave up the house allocated by his work unit to his children and returned to his hometown. "
I interjected at this time: "Holy crap! If you tell me this, Third Uncle, this old man should be over a hundred years old now. Can he still be found? He wouldn't have gone west early!"
The third uncle waved his hand and said, "He is still alive. Not long ago, at our educated youth gathering, there were some educated youths who got married locally and did not return to the city. According to them, the old man is still alive. He is still in high spirits. He has just lived in seclusion in the past two years." I I quickly said: "Third uncle, do you think we can go and ask the old gods?" The third uncle still smiled and said, "I really want to go there and see it!" I quickly "lighted the fire" and said, "Third uncle Ah, when is it convenient for you, we can drive and you take us to visit this old god?" The third uncle smiled and said, "Whenever is convenient, I will have nothing to do after I retire! Haha... "My third uncle is always straightforward and straightforward. I hurriedly said, "Do you think it's okay tomorrow?" The third uncle nodded, "Yes!" I was overjoyed: "At eight o'clock tomorrow morning, the three of us will drive to pick you up!"...
When I came back from my third uncle's place, I called my parents and told them that we were going to the countryside tomorrow. Lin Feng also filled up the car with gas, said hello to Uncle Quan and Aunt Quan, and Chongxi was also ready. I still have a fruit basket, two bottles of wine and a bucket of tea. The next day, we picked up our third uncle and headed into the mountains under his guidance. Although the road into the mountain is narrow and winding, it is smooth and made of cement. After entering the mountain, the surroundings were green, the tits on the mountain were chirping, and the air was very fresh. Driving in such an environment was really refreshing. The third uncle unknowingly hummed the song from that time. It can be imagined that today the third uncle thinks about that time. The mood when "the vast world refines the red heart"! This may be something that our generation cannot understand!
After entering the village, it was easy to find out where the old man lived. When he got to the gate, he rang the doorbell. After a while, a nanny-like person opened the small door on the gate. After asking about his purpose, he opened the whole gate. , our car drove into the yard. After the nanny closed the door, she took us into the courtyard. Inside the courtyard is a two-story main house, a traditional Jingdong tile-roofed house with overhanging eaves. Passing through the main house on the first floor, there are wing rooms on both sides, a corridor in the middle, and "cannot die" on both sides of the corridor. Flowers passed through the second-story house and arrived at the backyard. It turned out that the backyard was unique. There were grapes on the top shelf. The fruits were already hanging, but they were not yet ripe. After walking for a while, there was a loofah. There is a rockery in front, with corridors on both sides bypassing the rockery, and there is a lotus pond in front of it. What a luxury! There is a pavilion at the back. There are steps on one side of the lotus pond and iron railings beside the steps. It seems to be for the elderly to fish. Behind the pavilion is a fruit tree. I am not from the countryside. I don’t know what kind of tree it is. It has already grown. There was a spherical fruit. There was a stone table in the pavilion with a teapot and a teacup on it. The old man was sitting on a chair drinking tea. The third uncle walked a few steps and said loudly: "Uncle Xuan!" Hearing the shout, the old man looked up for a while and stood up in surprise, "Hengzi! Haha..." He stood up and shook hands with the third uncle, forgetting to say, The third uncle's name is Zhang Yuheng, and he is a junior to the old man. The old man used to call him Hengzi. The third uncle called the old man "Uncle Xuan" because the old man's surname was Xuan. The old man's surname was Chen, and his name was Chen Yixuan. As for uncle, there are two cases in Jingdong dialect. If the word "ye" is pronounced softly, it refers to uncle; if it is stressed, it refers to one's grandfather's eldest brother. Here, Uncle Xuan is pronounced softly, which means the title of uncle.
After greetings, the third uncle introduced the three of us, "This is my nephew Shi Yan, and those two are his buddies Lin Feng and Chong Xi." When the old man heard my name, he was stunned, and then he pointed at me and laughed. , "Haha, Shi Yan, Shi Yan! Hahahaha!" I laughed so hard that I even made this old guy laugh!