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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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After a severe beating, the "Ma Lingguan" signaled the two thugs to pause. He asked, "Ye Zhenghua, you honestly, where exactly are you hiding cotton?" Ye Zhenghua tried to restore calm and said, "There really is no cotton allocated to me in the company!" "You're not honest yet!" "Ma Lingguan" said. This was followed by another round of beatings. Ye Zhenghua thought that this was clearly to force him to confess by beating him, If you don't tell lies, you can't get by, so you have to plead again and again: "Don't fight, don't fight, I say!" I say!" Xia Zhihu and Zhou Zhenhua stopped." Ma Lingguan" said: "Then tell me well, where do you hide the cotton allocated to you in the company?" Ye Zhenghua trembled and said, "It's all made into cotton quilts." "Ma Lingguan" finally got the result he wanted, and said loudly: "This is still about the same!" Then he said to Xia Zhihu and Zhou Zhenhua: "You two go to his house and bring the cotton quilt!" Xia Zhihui hurriedly shouted: "Ye Changjiu, you quickly take them to your house to get the cotton quilt!" Ye Changjiu couldn't bear to see his father being beaten, so he didn't dare to slack, so he was busy leading the way in front and leading the two of them to fight torches to his home. "Ma Lingguan" motioned for Ye Zhenghua to put on his clothes, and said to the members attending the meeting: "Everyone sees, you can't deny it if you want to! All the privately divided cotton must be handed over! If you can hand it in early, everyone will save trouble! ”
Xia Zhihu and Zhou Zhenhua came to Ye Changjiu's house, searched everywhere for a while, but did not find a single piece of cotton, and finally took the only three quilts in the house.
The two returned to the venue with the quilt, and quickly pulled out the cotton quilt from the quilt cover in front of the "Ma Lingguan".  "Ma Lingguan" saw that one of the cotton quilts was very old and motioned to throw it aside. He asked Xia Zhihu and Zhou Zhenhua to tear open the net threads of the two relatively new cotton quilts, reached out and grabbed a ball of cotton from the quilt, held it up in the air and said, "Let's see, isn't this cotton? He also insisted that he had not been allocated cotton and wanted to muddle through!" Xia Zhihu and Zhou Zhenhua worked even harder, and soon grabbed the two cotton quilts to all that's left is a messy mess of net threads. Ye Zhenghua was very distressed when he saw this, but when he thought of the "Free airing of views" the year before last, because he said that the basic ration of 180 kilograms of raw grain was set too low, he still carries a "Rural regulation" behind his back. Today I was beaten again, and where did I dare to stop it, I had to let it go. When Xia Zhihui called them out to clean up the old quilt and the remaining two balls of net threads, Ye Changjiu came to the front to clean up.
It was late at night. The people at the meeting were shivering with cold, and their stomachs were grumbling with hunger, but one by one, they could only complain in their hearts.
The meeting repeating the previous process: roll calls, beatings, search the house, tear cotton quilts. The number of cotton of different new or old in the courtyard dam is gradually increasing.
Fang Zhengben with Fang Zhengzhong to sleep at home, and in the middle of the night, no one returned. He kept wondering in his heart what kind of meeting was going on today and how could it take so long. He lay on the bed with his eyes open for a while, but no one returned, and slowly fell asleep again.
By the time Fang Zhengzhong woke up, it was already dawn. He didn't see his mother at home and asked, "Older third brother, why hasn't my mother come back yet?" Fang Zhengben said, "I don't know. Did they attend a meeting until dawn and went to the public canteen to eat? Let's go, let's go to the public canteen." When the brothers arrived at the public canteen, they found that the canteen was deserted, and there was no cooking, only a few old people and children waiting to eat in outside of the canteen. As soon as Fang Zhengben inquired, he learned that none of the people who went to the meeting last night had returned. The old people were full of resentment: "What kind of meeting, so long, even the cooks are not allowed to come back to cook!" Everyone was in a hurry, and saw Cao Yuhua hurriedly walking towards the canteen. She said breathlessly: "Last night, cotton quilts was torn all night on in the Zhou Family Courtyard and the search of the first Platoon was not completed until dawn. Anyone who does not admit to 'concealing production and private distribution' or who cannot hand over cotton will be beaten. They also sent people to search house to find better quilts and take them. The search for our second Platoon began after dawn. 'Ma Lingguan' also said that if you can't hand over the cotton today, no one is allowed to eat! No one is allowed to leave half a step!" I thought that there were still so many old people and children at home who wanted to eat, so I told them to search my house first, and took a relatively newer quilt before 'Ma Lingguan' allowed me to leave. She said, opening the kitchen door and cooking.
The cotton in the quilt taken from Cao Yuhua's house was taken away, and next Liu Hanxing was called by name. Liu Hanxing is a sorcerer man known far and near known as " A half immortal" who has lived alone since his elders died last year. His clothes have never been washed from the time they are worn to the point where they can no longer be worn, and the dirt accumulated on his neck is so thick that it is difficult to cut through with a knife, and his sloppiness is well known. The "A half immortal Liu" was yawning at this time, and suddenly heard Zhou Yonggui call his name, and hurriedly promised: "Oh, in!" "Come to the front!" "Ma Lingguan" ordered. The "A half immortal Liu" staggered forward. Before his body arrived, a large smell of sweat and an indescribable strange smell came to their faces. "Ma Lingguan" asked: "Where do you put the cotton allocated to you in the Company?" "A half immortal Liu" knew that anyone who said "no" would be beaten, and if he said "yes", he couldn't take out cotton, so he replied lazily: "Go to the house and find it yourself!" Ma Lingguan felt a little uncertain, and further asked, "Where is it placed?" "A half immortal Liu" remembered that several people in front of him said that hiding cotton in the quilt and take out the quilt to finish, so he also followed their example and said: "Put it in the quilt." Hearing of the "A half immortal Liu", the members next to him were secretly amused, but no one dared to speak. Seeing that Liu Hanxing answered so affirmatively, "Ma Lingguan" is not dare not believe it, and said to Xia Zhihu and Zhou Zhenhua: "You guys better go and better take a look!" The two followed Liu Hanxing to his residence and saw that his small room, which could only put accommodate a bed and a simple stove, had no door at all, and there was nothing in it except a bed for with rope binding a few logs of wood. On the bed was a quilt like oil residue, and there was no duvet cover.           At first glance, it doesn't look like there is cotton, and the two have a feeling of being deceived.           "Do you have any cotton?" "A half immortal Liu" said unhurriedly: "Whether there is any, you a look so know it yourself." "If not, no, why are you lying to us?"           In order to relieve the hatred in his heart, Xia Zhihu kicked ass of "A half immortal Liu" fiercely.           "A half immortal Liu" argued: "I said no, can you believe it?" The two escorted "A half immortal Liu" back to the venue, whispered a few words in the ear of "Ma Lingguan", and "Ma Lingguan" also felt fooled, and said angrily: "Hmph, you Liu Hanxing, not hand over the cotton, and dare to play tricks on us!  Beat!"  Xia Zhihu and Zhou Zhenhua picked up the bamboo strip again and beat him fiercely.

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