The Ups and Downs of the Commoners 2 Page #9

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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Moon you are lazy older brother, listen carefully to me:
If we compare ages, you are much older than me;
If we compare the enthusiasm of labor, you are inferior to me;
If you are not convinced, you listen to me tell the facts.

From the first to the third day of each month, you hide at home;
When it was dark I came to call you, and I broke my throat from shouting.
But if you don't come, I can still work;
We held up a red lantern and illuminated several hillsides.
We accumulated fertilizer in one night and piled up into several mountains.

From the fourth to the tenth day of each month, you are also lazy;
You have no spirit, as if you are sick.
After you appear for a short time on the side of the mountain, you hide back in the house;
You think that without you, people can't work.
We, the people of Yingshan County, are not afraid of many difficulties.
Light the big torches and we can build several ponds.

You'll do a little better in the middle of each month, but you'll be lazy by the end of the month.
We waited for you to come out in order to work the night shift, making us very angry about the wait.
I planted a few fields of rice before you showed your feet.
You are so humiliated,, I hope you will correct your mistakes quickly.

If you don't correct your mistakes, you will be replaced.
We're going to make an artificial moon, and it's going to be a lot brighter than you.
We hang it in the sky and it never lands.
It works with the people and rejoices with the people.

After she left the stage after singing "Humiliating the Moon", her singing still echoed in the auditorium. The applause of the audience was also wave after wave.
The Entertainment Gala came to an end amidst the majestic and powerful sound of 'Chuan River Work Song'. This was performed by older boys from several high school classes. They wore white Chinese shirts, cotton belts around their waists and white turbans around their heads. They were all bent over, rowing neatly, shouting in unison, "Hey yo! Hey yo! "Go backstage.
The Announcer announced the end of the Gala, and the classmates in the audience did not want to leave.
The next day is Sunday. Before school worker Master Xiao rang the wake-up bell, and the noise broke the quiet of the morning. The classmates who shared the dormitory with Fang Zhengben also began to stir, and there was a continuous sound of getting dressed and getting up in the dormitory. Because the school informed them yesterday afternoon that it was going to Ma'an Mountain to carry firewood today, everyone made preparations in advance. Of course, Fang Zhengben couldn't sleep, and also followed everyone to get dressed and got up. When the wake-up bell rang, he was on his way to the student canteen.
After breakfast, before he could wash the dishes, he saw senior classmates carrying poles and ropes heading towards Ma'an Mountain. He hurriedly washed his enamel cup, ran and sent it into the kitchen, and returned to the bedroom, took his carrying pole and rope, and followed. He followed a group of students of carrying firewood in the mountains, and walked for more than an hour along a winding field path, and saw that in front of him was a steep hillside with sparse trees. Looking up at the mountain, the students walking in front have climbed to the top of the mountain along a rugged mountain road.
Fang Zhengben followed the team to climb that section of the hill, climbed to the top of the mountain, and found that there was another long ridge connected to this mountain. The first student has passed this ridge and climbed a new hill, and the last student is still moving on the field path under the hill. He walked at the top of this fish-ridge like ridge and looked to both sides, only to see deep valleys on the left and right. At this time, a classmate who was familiar with the terrain pointed ahead and said, "After this ridge, there is Ma'an Mountain in front."
Fang Zhengben looked in the direction indicated by the classmate and saw that there was indeed a high mountain in front of this ridge. There are two peaks protruding upwards, both of which are concave on both sides and in the middle, resembling a saddle. Ma'an Mountain is also named after this. This Ma'an Mountain belongs to the Longyun Mountain Range as the mountain where Fang Zhengben and his family went to the countryside, and from a distance, the clouds and mist shrouded the trees and peaks are also very spectacular.
Fang Zhengben followed the team along the ridge for a while, and when he climbed a bulging upward ridge, he suddenly heard an exclamation from the classmates walking in front. When Fang Zhengben looked in that direction, what he saw was a very strange danger: there was a large ridge in front that split in two from the middle at some point, and the left half collapsed neatly from the spot and fell to the deep valley floor, only the right half was still standing in place, as if it was in danger of collapsing at any time. Teacher Zhang, who teaches history behind Fang Zhengben, said: "The collapse of the mountain here occurred during the flood last year. Since then, the place has had a new name called 'Banbian Mountain'". Fang Zhengben looked down at the bottom of the valley and saw that halfway down the collapsed mountain there was a crooked thatched hut. While marveling at how nature could have created such a dangerous situation with such magical power, he speculated about the fate of the family in the thatched hut when the mountain collapsed. He soon came to the top of that fractured mountain. The ridge, which was already narrow, is now so narrow that only one person can pass through. When Fang Zhengben passed by that ridge, he was really trembling, like walking on thin ice, deeply afraid that he would accidentally fall into the abyss on the left, and at the same time, he had to worry that when they passed, the remaining half of the mountain suddenly broke apart , and with a loud noise, collapsed from mid-air...
Beyond Banbian Mountain, the team in front had disappeared into the dense clouds and trees. Fang Zhengben followed the team along a slope, stepping on a wet step road paved with stone slabs, and climbing up in the shadow of smoke clouds and trees. He was only halfway up the mountain when he met high school classmates who had already come down with firewood. Then, he met his elder cousin Zhang Xueru. He hurriedly asked, "Elder cousin, how far is it?" Zhang Xueru replied, "Go up another slope and you'll be there."
Fang Zhengben, together with a few classmates in front and behind, climbed up a steep slope and climbed a small flat land. On the small flat land, on the left is a large quadrangle dwellings with a mud wall and grass roof, and on the right there are also several small huts, and in the middle there is a path leading to the top of Ma'an Hill, which is not far from here. Students carrying firewood are hurrying in and out of the gate of the quadrangle dwellings on the left. Needless to say, this is where they move firewood.

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