The Ups and Downs of the Commoners 2 Page #27

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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"Who is stealing the leaf Mustard?" At this time, someone suddenly roared behind him, like a huge thunder, which startled Fang Zhengben. He immediately put grabbed leaf Mustard's hand and withdrew it, turning his head to see that it was not someone else, but Fang Fatie, who had a feud with their family.
Fang Fatie came out of dinner at the forest farm cafeteria and was about to return to the Linjia Bay's residence. When he came halfway, he suddenly heard the sound of trees being cut down at the opposite cemetery. He thought: Who else is cutting down trees there so late? And go over and take a look. He had just taken a few steps when he heard a loud "boom" again. "What the hell is this sound?" He walked gently to the cemetery, wanting to see what was going on. When he got there, he saw a huge tree stump lying in the cemetery, and a child hesitated by the vegetable field, and was reaching for a leaf Mustard, so he roared.
When Fang Zhengben saw that it was Fang Fatie, he immediately remembered what his father had described about him, and himself witnessing the scene for beating Zheng Tianfu, and he was even more afraid in his heart, so he replied in a trembling voice: "It is - me!" Fang Fatie bent down, tilted his head sideways to look at Fang Zhengben carefully, and asked suspiciously: "You are Fang Xinwen's son!" Fang Zhengben snorted. Fang Fatie immediately asked in a loud voice, "What are you doing here?" Fang Zhengben said: "I dig tree stump!" Fang Fatie retorted: "You dig tree stump, how did you come in the vegetable field? I see that your digging tree stump is false, stealing leaf Mustard is real! Come, take your basket and follow me!" He doesn't allow him to explain, grabbed Fang Zhengben's arm, threw his axe into the back basket, put the back basket on Fang Zhengben's shoulder, held Fang Zhengben's hoe in the other hand, pulled Fang Zhengben and left.
Fang Zhengben was pulled by Fang Fatie and stumbled to the forest farm's management office. Fang Fatie shouted from afar, "Everyone come and see quick! I caught a thief stealing leaf Mustard!" "Hang him up first!" Someone in the forest farm heard that the thief had been caught, shouted loudly, and went straight to Fang Zhengben.
Because at this time, the people around the forest farm have lost their self-esteem with hunger, and everyone thinks about steal, and the forest farm was a direct unit of the commune, and all aspects were treated favorably by the commune, and in people's minds, it was the local "big household" at that time, so it became the target of food seekers. It is also because of this reason that catching and torturing "thieves" has long become a professional habit of forest farm personnel, and if there is no "thief" to catch one day, then this day's life will feel that something is missing. And their trick to deal with these "thieves" is to "Hang him up first".  
The crowd shouted and gathered around. They lit the lamp and looked at it, and said in surprise: "Alas, isn't this Fang Xinwen's child? Why did you do this theft at such a young age?" "Don't care who he is! Hang it up first!" Someone shouted that again. At this time, someone had already taken a rope, tied Fang Zhengben's hands from the front, put the other end of the rope on the beam on the corridor, pulled down, and Fang Zhengben's body was immediately suspended in the air, leaving only two toes to land. His wrist was strangled by the rope and very hurts.
At this time, a tall woman in her 30s walked over and asked with a tiger face: "This is the thief you caught today?" Fang Fatie hurriedly confessed his credit and said, "I just had dinner and was going back to Linjia Bay, when I was walking on the road when I heard there is an abnormal sound on the that side of the vegetable field. I think someone must be stealing our leaf Mustard again, so I quietly walked over and sure enough caught this kid!" Fang Zhengben heard a woman asking, lazily raised his head and looked at her, feeling familiar. His brain raced and he was searching for the people stored in his brain. He finally remembered that this person was a person from the vicinity of Taiqing Town, named Fang Zhishu, who was the deputy village chief of the village at the time of the Land Reform. He had met her at a convention where people were fighting against landlords. At that time, she was sitting on the rostrum, holding a judge's gavel, and in her hand, and it "crackled" on the table, majestic and terrifying. Later, she brought the militia go to her home to night check, which caused another storm of "insulting female cadres". As soon as Fang Zhengben saw her, he was even more afraid in his heart. He thought: This time I must be dead!
Seeing Fang Zhishu coming, everyone hurriedly gave way and said respectfully: "Branch Secretary Fang sit quickly." At this time, Fang Zhishu was the party branch secretary and Manager of the Weixing Forest Farm.
Fang Zhishu went straight to the place where Fang Zhengben was hang, sat down at a square table next to him, and asked Fang Zhengben, "What's your name?" Fang Zhengben replied: "Fang Zhengben." Fang Fatie hurriedly added: "It's Fang Xinwen's son!" Fang Zhishu was stunned and asked, "Why did you come to steal Leaf Mustard?" Fang Zhengben argued: "I didn't steal the leaf Mustard! I was digging tree stump there!" "Hey! You are not honest yet! Look me..." Fang Fatie raised his right hand high, ready to hit Fang Zhengben in the face. But Fang Zhishu made a stop motion, signaling him not to rush to hit him, and Fang Fatie took his hand back.
Fang Zhengben felt numbness and pain in his arms and shoulders, and beads of sweat appeared all over his body.
"Say, why did you come to steal the Leaf Mustard? Who made you come? Fang Zhishu continued to ask. Apparently, he is trying to dig up the "mastermind behind the scenes". Fang Zhengben continued to explain: "No one asked me to come, and I went there myself to dig the tree stump!" Fang Zhishu said sharply: "Look you are not honest! If you don't make it clear, we won't let you down tonight!" At this moment, Fang Zhengben heard a familiar voice sighing and saying, "Alas! Isn't this Fang Zhengben? How could a good scholar come out and do such a thing!" It was no one else who spoke, but his fourth grandfather, Fang Zhicheng. He happened to be returning from work at the "Ammonium Chloride Factory" today, and heard that a thief was caught in the forest farm, so he wanted to run over to take a look. When he came closer, he saw that hanging from the beam was actually gentle Fang Zhengben is he had watched him grow up. He couldn't believe that this kid would come out and steal something, but he thought: Now that people are going to starve to death, who will not steal! As the saying goes, "It's better to get into trouble to die than to starve to death", and you can't sit and wait for death! Seeing Fang Zhengben hanging from the beam, he changed from initial astonishment to understanding and sympathy, so he stood in the crowd and stopped talking.

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