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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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2015
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Fang Zhengben moved the meat had been allocated to him in front of him, but he was not in a hurry to eat it, and he remembered his poor mother at this time. She had to go to work in the company every day, and when she came back, she had to work hard for the family's affairs, and she was hungry all day, and she hadn't been stained with oil for more than half a year. Despite this, she always saves a bite of from her own bowl of mush for her children. How nice it would be if I could hold these pieces of pork in my hands and deliver them to my mother. Although a student only has about 100 grams of fresh pork, which is cooked in no more than three or five small pieces of meat, but it is better than not contact a little oil star. He wished he could grow wings and fly back to his mother immediately. At the same time, he also thought of his little brother Fang Zhengzhong, he was also very pitiful... But he also knew that it was impossible. Today is the first Friday of the week, and it's still early before the school holiday! Classmates while talking, laughing, and eating their own piece of meat, Fang Zhengben ate tasteless, like chewing wax blocks. In the blink of an eye, it was Sunday. Fang Zhengben had breakfast in the student canteen, first went to the post office on the street to send a letter to his Patrilineal aunt, and then he went to the Yuejin Reservoir site to find his elder brother. Of course, he also wants to see this huge project, which claims to have 40,000 people working. He came out of the post office and had just stepped on the road to the Yuejin Reservoir, and he clearly felt the lively in this direction. People come and go, traffic is busy, and the huge noise of the construction place resounds in the sky. One step further, you can see the reservoir dam in the distance. On the dam, dense numbers of people are moving. Fang Zhengben quickened his pace and ran up the dam, only to see a sea of people on the construction site of about one or two Square kilometer. Most of the migrant workers carry soil on their shoulders, and some use rack car to pull mud or push soil with a handcart. One by one, like swallows for carrying mud and ants migrate, they hurried between the various soil extraction points and the dam in the reservoir area. People rush to the dam like a tide, and dirt flows to the dam like a tide, unstoppable. After they unloaded the soil, they exited the dam like tide, just as unstoppable. As the "tide" comes and goes, the dam rises layer by layer. At one end of the dam, a "long dragon" that creaks and rattles attracts Fangzhengben. He hurried over to see that it turned out to be a conveyor belt used to transport soil. The conveyor belt is made of many wooden strips tied with bamboo ropes, spans the dam and a hill on the opposite side of the dam, more than 500 meters long. Its two ends are wrapped around two huge wooden wheels, and next to each wooden wheel stand several large men who keep turning it. In this way, the surface loam scraped from the hill on the opposite side lay on this conveyor belt and flowed continuously to the dam. All that remained on the hill was bare rocks. There are also several huge stone rollers on the dam, more than a meter in diameter. Dozens or a hundred of migrant workers formed a team, like a porter pulling a boat on the riverbank, almost crawling on the ground and pulling these stone rollers, going back and forth to compact the soil gathered from all sides. Where the stone rollers could not be compacted, many people divided into groups of four, humming and shouting Haozi, holding high the rammer made of stone, and throwing it the ground, trying to compact the loose soil. Fang Zhengben looked at the reservoir dam for a while, and finally remembered that the main purpose of his coming today was to find his elder brother, so he asked a migrant worker: "Uncle, do you know where this Reservoir Art Troupe is?" The migrant worker pointed to a house on the right side of the dam and said, "Over there!" Fang Zhengben followed the direction indicated by the migrant worker to the quadrangle dwellings with a mud wall and grass roof. He looked around the courtyard and saw that it was a canteen for migrant workers. He asked another cook: "Uncle, the Art Troupe of this reservoir here?" The cook looked at the Fang Zhengben and said, "You are asking the Reservoir Art Troupe! Oh, this Art Troupe was withdrawn a few days ago. All of them moved away." Fang Zhengben didn't understand why the Art Troupe was abolished, and with a puzzled face, he asked, "Do you know where they moved?" The cook shook his head and said, "I don't know!" Fang Zhengben had to leave the reservoir in disappointment and slowly return to school. Chapter 38 On a new Monday morning, instead of going to the outer playground to do gymnastics, the students gathered in the school's inner playground. The tall and thin Principal Yang stood in front and addressed all the students: "Students, it has been a week since we started school. In the past week, the school education and teaching order has been normal, whether it is old students or new students, they have performed very well, and there have been no incidents of violating school discipline and class rules. Everyone is also working hard in their studies. I hope that students will continue to maintain this good atmosphere of abiding by rules and discipline and being diligent and studious. Next, let me focus on the issue of eating. At present, the state gives our middle school students a food quota of 12 kilograms per person per month, if calculated as 30 days a month, the average is 400 grams per person per day, if it is 31 days, then it is a little less. This standard, for our smaller students, may not be too bad, and for older students, especially high school students, I am afraid that the problem is bigger. Considering that larger students need more energy to maintain normal life activities, while smaller students need less energy to maintain normal life activities, we decided to make overall arrangements for the food supplied by the state to our schools, that is, to implement individualized rations, so that smaller students can eat less a little and larger students can eat more a little. This is also the common practice in schools today. Our preliminary opinion is that the primary students should adopt the standard of 310 grams per day, and the reduced part should be added to the quota of the older students. As for how much to eat at each meal, each student decides for himself. After the meeting, each class is requested to setting the quantitative standards of each student and then report to the school.” Because of his short stature, Fang Zhengben did not have much hunger during this time. He didn't know how much he had eaten at each meal, and he didn't have a specific idea of the quantity of the new amount he was going to enjoy, so the "setting food standards according to the size of a person" didn't provoke much reaction in his mind.
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