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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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She didn't expect that this matter would not end there. The next morning, Zheng Yunhai saw that Wang Qihui had not delivered the rice to the canteen, and continued to ask: "Wang Qihui! What did I tell you yesterday? I told you to hand over the grain that your family brought back to the canteen, why didn't you do it? I tell you, if you don't hand it over before noon today, from the evening onwards, your family won't want to get a meal in the canteen!" Go eat your that a little rice! I'll see how long you can eat! Wang Qihui knew that she couldn't delay, so she had to agree: "Ok, I'll hand it over later!"
At noon, Wang Qihui took the 6 kilograms of rice to the public canteen, and Zuo Chaodong weighed the rice. After Wang Qihui's repeated requests, he asked her to leave the rice that Fang Zhengben had times on home leave. That night, with the a little rice handed over by Wang Qihui, the entire canteen ate sweet potato rice porridge once. While distributing food to everyone, Cao Yuhua joked: "We are really stained with the light of Fang Zhengben today! Otherwise, you won't be able to eat this porridge.”
People were eating dinner when they heard a hurried gong sound from Hengshanzi Hill. As soon as the gong stopped, they heard Xia Zhihui shouting loudly from the top of the hill: "Notice! After dinner, all the members went to the third canteen for a meeting! No one shall be absent!" People didn't know what urgent meetings were going to be held, and they secretly complained: "What meeting? On such a cold day, there is still a meeting in the night!" But no one dared to say a word of complaint.
After dinner, everyone obediently went to the third canteen for a meeting. Fang Xinwen, Wang Qihui and the eldest son Fang Zhengqing all went, leaving Fang Zhengben at home to sleep with Fang Zhengzhong. When they arrived at the third cafeteria, they saw that the people from other canteens had arrived first. They saw that in the courtyard dam in front of the main house of Zhou Yonggui's house was placed the square table that was usually used for meetings, and the triangular kerosene lamp was lit on the table, but there was a large number of bamboo strips next to the table than usual.
Seeing the people from the several canteens had arrived, Xia Zhihui carefully walked into the main house of the Zhou family, and said to Ma Fengshi, the secretary of the commune sitting inside, with a smile: "Secretary Ma, everyone has arrived, let's have a meeting!" Ma Fengshi said, "Okay." He said, pacing out of the room. Following him out were Xia Zhihu and Zhou Zhenhua of the "Four Buddha's warrior attendant" of the commune. When everyone saw it, they knew that today's meeting must not be ordinary.
Seeing that Ma Fengshi came out, Xia Zhihui hurriedly shouted to the members who attended the meeting: "Everyone quickly find a place to sit, the meeting will start immediately!" After Secretary Ma sat down, he said loudly again: "Comrades members, we have a meeting today, mainly to talk about the handover of cotton. The higher level government held a meeting and said that our cotton harvest this year is very good, but... The task has not been completed yet, the main thing is..." When he said this, he suddenly stopped talking, turned to Ma Fengshi, and said: "Secretary Ma, it would be best for you to speak. I'm worried that I won't speak it well." Next, he faced the meeting and said, "Let's ask Secretary Ma to give us a speech!"
Hearing Xia Zhihui say that this year's cotton harvest was very good, all the members were puzzled: Why did they say that "the cotton harvest is very good" again? Last year, people who could farm were pumped out to make steel, and there were only some old, weak and sick left in the family, except prepare for the daily food in the canteen, even corn and sweet potatoes were planted very little this spring, you when was cotton planted? This situation, you Company Commander Xia is very clear, how can you open your eyes and say nonsense? I really don't understand which play they are going to play today! Everyone was puzzle, and only heard Ma Fengshi speak: "Comrades, the Great Leap Forward Movement launched by Chairman Mao has been going on for more than a year. Over the past year and more, under the guidance of the Basic Line, we 'Go mustered up full energy, to striving get the upper reaches and Building Socialism with more outcome, higher speed, better quality and less cost', and scored remarkable results. Our cotton, for example, has a better harvest than any previous year. But so far, we haven't handed in a single bit of cotton. Why is that? As far as we know, the reason is that there is a serious phenomenon of 'concealing production and private distribution' below us, that is, some of our grassroots cadres insist speak that they have not received cotton, but secretly distribute it to members. I tell you that at the meeting of the commune, your Xia company commander had already admitted that he had privately divided the cotton for you. Now, we ask everyone hand over the cotton you have been allocated, and to hand over it cleanly. If the task of hand over cotton to the government is not completed, how does our worker old big brother dress? How to going the national construction? Therefore, the cotton task that we should hand over must be resolutely completed. If you don't hand over the cotton, I can say that this year's Chinese Year will not be peaceful.”
In fact, Ma Fengshi himself knew very well that this year, except for a few commune cadres who planted a small piece "cotton high-yield satellite field" next to Taiqing Town, and claim "produces 7,500 kilograms of cotton per hectare," none of the Company planted cotton. But he thought the conference of "Anti-concealing production and private distribution" in the County and District, as long as you dare to say that you have not planted cotton or that the yield of cotton is not high, you will be recognized as concealing production and private distribution", or buckling a "right-leaning" hat and pushing people on stage and beating you to a half death. If you don't have a sense of fear, unless you're a wild man! In order to avoid a catastrophe and earn an advanced position at the same time, he patted his chest in front of Rong Guang, the secretary of the district party committee, and commitment: "We, the Taiqing People's Commune, promise to complete the task!" If I can't hand over the cotton, I will with my own cotton quilt to replacing cotton for submission!" These words have already been spoken, and it is not okay not to take out cotton and turn it in now! People say that "no conscience is out of helplessness", just as last year forced the cadres below to falsely report their output, he can only open his eyes and say nonsense.

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