The Ups and Downs of the Commoners 2 Page #15

This book is the second volume of the novel "The Ups and Downs of the Commoners". It will tell you about caused by the disastrous consequences of the "Great Leap Forward" and the People's Commune Movement in China in the middle of the last century to the livelihood of the Commoners, as well as the difficult path of study of the protagonist of this book, Fang Zhengben.

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Teacher Tang has already conducted a round of investigation of students, but what troubles him is that the case he is investigating about the theft of kerosene in his class has not progressed. The school leaders urged again, and Teacher Tang had to mobilize in the class again. He said: "Students should carefully recall the whereabouts of every classmate around you in the past few days, and you can't let go of any clues!" The students in the class also followed Teacher Tang's instructions, recalling the whereabouts of the surrounding students over and over again in the past few days. The case finally had a breakthrough.
First, when Teacher Tang talked to Fan Zhengkun again, he confirmed: "Xie Fanghua and I both sleep on the upper bunk, and the two are next to each other. He did go to bed every night before the lights went out, and he got up in after the wake-up bell rang in the morning. Only this past Sunday morning, when I woke up, I didn't see him. However, it is also possible that he went to the toilet or exercised early." Zhu Zihong also thought of a doubtful point later. When Teacher Tang talked to him again, he said: "I came back from digging sweet potatoes last Saturday and drank more water, and I got up to go to the toilet shortly after I slept at night. When I came out of the dormitory, I saw from a distance at the front of the row of houses where our dormitory was located, and a figure swayed at the corner of the gable and disappeared. That person seemed to be relatively tall. I still thought to myself, it must be some unruly guy who didn't bother to go to the toilet and ran to the back of this house to pee, so I didn't care. Now that I think about it, this may be the same person who went to our classroom to steal kerosene. But because of the distance, I couldn't see who it was. If only I had been a little more vigilant and went and caught him." Later, a classmate who shared the table with Xie Fanghua during the meal recalled: "I didn't see Xie Fanghua at dinner this Sunday morning, we put his sweet potato on the table, and he seemed to have eaten it later."
The situation gathered became more and more unfavorable to Xie Fanghua, but Teacher Tang could not believe that this would happen to him. He is the class leader, a student who is active and willing to work in the class, and has excellent academic performance!
However, emotions are emotions, and you cannot use it as a substitute for doing things. So Teacher Tang had to talk to Xie Fanghua again and again. "Xie Fanghua, tell me where you went on Saturday night?" Teacher Tang asked. Xie Fanghua lowered his head and said, "I'm not going anywhere!" "No, you should be honest about your problem. Let me tell you, some classmates saw you sleep for a while and then went out." Teacher Tang deliberately made up a sentence that a classmate saw him. "That...... I went to the toilet!" Teacher Tang stared at him closely and asked, "You go to the toiletand you can stay there until the next morning won't come back either?" Xie Fanghua's face suddenly turned red to the root of his ears, and he couldn't answer. Teacher Tang said: "Let me remind you again, some students have confirmed that you have not come back after you went out at night, and you have not even been able to come back in time for breakfast on Sunday morning." Tell me where you went? What did it you do?" Xie Fanghua continued to lower his head and said nothing. Teacher Tang continued to ask, constantly telling him the harm of not being honest.
In the face of Teacher Tang's powerful psychological offensive, Xie Fanghua finally said the cause and process of event.
When Xie Fanghua returned home for the first time on his home leave, he found that his family had long run out of kerosene, and the a small amount kerosene in the supply and marketing cooperatives said that they were only supplied to units and not sold to private individuals. Their home does not have a unique condition like the Fang Zhengben's home. There are many castor beans planted around Fang Zhengben's house, and a large number of castor beans can be picked and skewered and lit to illuminate. Some students have pine trees near their homes, and they can also find pine torch to illuminate. But there are no castor beans in around of Xie Fanghua's house, and there have no pine torch, so at night, his home is very dark and it is really difficult to pass time. He thought that he was at school and was on the errand of receiving kerosene for the class, and it would be nice if he could take a little out of it to solve the urgent needs of the family! However, he immediately dismissed this evil thought: this must not be done! If I am discovered, how shameful I would be in front of my classmates! Since I am still the class leader, this kerosene is for the whole class to self-study at night, and taking it away will affect the students' self-study at night. I can't harm others for myself! Besides, I am afraid that this supply and marketing cooperative will not to not supply kerosene for a long time! Maybe there will be kerosene someday, so why should I take this risk? However, when he returned home for the second time on home leave and saw that his family was still living in darkness at night, he could no longer maintain his sanity. He made up his mind to get some kerosene from his class to light his home, so when he returned to school after his home leave, he brought a large glass bottle to school in his school bag.
After Xie Fanghua returned to school, he hung the bag with the glass bottle on the wall above his bed, and there were two old clothes in the bag. He slept on the upper bunk, so no one ever discovered the secret in his bag. On the night of his return to school, as usual, he took the public kerosene bottle of the class, went to the office to find Master Xiao, took the kerosene of the class for a week, took it into the classroom, and distributed it to the eight kerosene lamps in the class. After everyone was allocated kerosene, they all quietly went to self-study. At this moment, Teacher Tang came to the classroom and announced that he would suspend classes for a week and go to the countryside to dig sweet potatoes. Even more coincidentally, after digging sweet potatoes, the school announced that it would stop self-study at night. So, a week passed, and the kerosene distributed to each kerosene lamp was not used much.

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