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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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Liu Hanxing, who was covered in scaly wounds, limped go down, and it was Fang Xinwen's turn. Fang Xinwen had already seen that today this meeting would be for cotton, and if you can hand over the cotton, you so okay. If you cannot hand over the cotton, you would have to be beaten. He thought of the quilt that Fang Zhengben had just moved home from school to be relatively new, and when he heard "Ma Lingguan" ask, "Where do you put the cotton you allocated back?" he replied loudly: "It's all made into quilts." "Ma Lingguan" then asked Fang Zhengqing to take Xia Zhihu and Zhou Zhenhua to the house to get the quilt.
Fang Zhengben waited in the canteen for Cao Yuhua to cooked a pot of sweet potatoes, took the pottery basin to divide his own share, and ate it with Fang Zhengzhong first. He wanted to send the sweet potatoes left behind to the meeting place, but he was afraid that the "Ma Lingguan" would not allow it, but he would take the sweet potatoes into it, so he had to take them home and wait for his family to come back for dinner.
As soon as Fang Zhengben and Fang Zhengzhong returned home, they saw their older brother bringing Xia Zhihu and Zhou Zhenhua to the house. As soon as the two entered the house, and with four eyes sneaked around and looked around. Fang Zhengqing said: " You guys search for it yourselfs!" The two searched for a while under the bed, and then searched through the cabinets, and found a total of 3 quilts on the bed. The two pulled off the quilt covers one by one, carefully inspected the quilts, and found that only the quilt that Fang Zhengben had just brought back from school was in newer condition, and the rest were old quilts from many years ago. The two discussed it and said, "This one is okay!" And taking and go. Fang Zhengzhong saw that the two people who came in had fierce faces, and they were so frightened that they stood silly and did not dare to make a sound. Although Fang Zhengben felt sorry for the quilt, he heard Cao Yuhua say that if you couldn't hand over the quilt, you would be beaten. He was worried that his parents would be beaten, and he did not dare to speak, so he could only watch them took it and went, and at the same time shouted in his heart: "You bandits! Isn't this a blatant robbery? ”
Xia Zhihu proudly returned to the venue with the quilt, tore open the net threads, grabbed out the cotton, and threw the remaining mess of net threads to Wang Qihui, and "Ma Lingguan" agreed to let the couple leave.
The method of "first using intimidation, second using beatings, and third using hungry food" of "Ma Lingguan" is really effective: The members were so hungry that they couldn't stand it, and they knew that if they didn't hand over the quilt, they would not only be unable to leave, but they would also be beaten, so they gradually changed from passive to active, and many people rushed to express their willingness to hand over the quilt from home. In order to speed up the process, the "Ma Lingguan" sent two platoon commanders from the first Platoon and the second Platoon who had already handed over quilts to assist in the work and continued to conduct house-to-house searches.
One quilt after another was constantly being torn apart. The cotton in the quilt kept being caught. One day and two nights passed, and the different new and old cotton in the courtyard dam had piled up like a hill.
"Ma Lingguan" confiscated cotton at the 2nd Company of the 3rd Battalion, and won the initial battle. That afternoon, he recalled all the commune officials and a stage summary meeting be held for the confiscation of cotton. At the meeting, he criticized Gao Dehou, the president and deputy secretary of the commune, who did not carry out his work effectively. His experience in the Second Company of the Third Battalion was quickly extended throughout the commune.
The Taiqing Commune soon exceeded the "Anti-concealing production and private distribution" task of cotton. Party Secretary Ma Fengshi's act with lightning speed and violent force of work style has been unanimously praised by higher-level leaders. His experience was also quickly spread throughout the county, and a vigorous "Quilt Tearing" Movement was being launched throughout the county...

Chapter 42

On Chinese New Year's Eve day, the People's Commune failed to supply its commune members with a grain of rice, nor half a piece of pork, also not even that kind dead pork of last year. The members can only eat the pitiful boiled sweet potatoes in the canteen as usual. In comparison, Fang Xinwen's family is lucky, because their family still has 1.5 kilograms of rice left over after hand over rice to canteen. After eating sweet potatoes in the cafeteria, Wang Qihui found the clay pot that had not been used for a long time, cooked a few bowls of porridge at home, and added a meal to the family. Wang Qihui drank the rice porridge, and then remembered his elderly mother, and said: "I think your maternal grandmother must have not drunk rice soup for a long time, and the remaining 1 kilogram of rice cannot be eaten, so we must leave a little to send to your maternal grandmother."

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