Chapter 115 Great Changes after the Earthquake
After Chen Youfu roared like this, everyone was stunned.
No one dared to move.
People hugged their children tightly, protected their elderly, and the whole family huddled together, leaning against the haystacks urgently, staring at the scene happening in the distance with wide eyes.
The stones on the big roller mountain rolled down.
The snow on Big Roller Mountain slid down.
The trees on Big Roller Mountain fell down one after another.
Huge rocks rolled down the village, collapsing houses, damaging roads, and destroying their former homes.
Nearly a thousand people just stood there, staring at the scene in confusion.
I watched this horrific thing happen with my own eyes, which I will remember for the rest of my life, but I was powerless to do anything about it.
At this time, they realized how insignificant their own power was and understood that they were just ants crawling on the ground in the face of the great changes in nature.
The chickens and ducks began to cluck loudly, "cluck cluck, quack quack", and the pigs from the production team also gathered there and grunted and made howling sounds like they were being slaughtered.
But among the less than a thousand people, no one spoke.
Everyone watched helplessly as their homes were destroyed, as this superhuman force ruthlessly ravaged the houses they had worked so hard to build and destroyed their farmland.
Some people raised their trembling hands and covered their eyes, while others fell to their knees with a thud.
Shengjin shouted sharply: "Mom, my mom!"
However, he was held down tightly.
You can’t go, you definitely can’t go.
…
It seemed like a very long time had passed, so long that everyone felt they were going to freeze in the snow and ice, when the catastrophe finally stopped.
People looked at each other cautiously.
But no one dared to take a step forward, they all looked at Chen Youfu.
Chen Youfu looked at Huo Jinyun: "Ying, it should be okay, right?"
Huo Jinyun was confused, he was even more dumbfounded, he looked at Fubao cautiously.
Fubao nodded slightly.
Huo Jinyun breathed a sigh of relief: "No, it's okay."
This is really a lie.
He knows nothing, and he can't become a god, but he has to come out and be a god, and he has to take the blame for the gods.
Huo Jinyun said this, and Chen Youfu breathed a sigh of relief. He used a loud speaker to call out to everyone, "You can go back now, you can go back now, everyone go back."
However, after these words were spoken, no one moved.
Before, Chen Youfu asked everyone not to go back, but everyone was thinking about going back.
Now Chen Youfu called on everyone to go back, but no one dared to move.
No one wants to go back.
I was so scared and terrified.
"Let's, let's wait..."
"Yes, yes, let's wait..."
"We're not afraid of the cold! Stand outside a little longer!"
"We're not afraid of being hungry. Hunger is nothing. We're not hungry at all."
So no one moved, no one dared to move, even Shengjin was held down and not allowed to go back.
One hour passed, two hours passed...
Chen Youfu: "Okay, okay, okay, I think we can go back now, let's go back and take a look!"
This time, someone finally dared to go back, and Shengjin and Nie Laosan also hurried back to find Nie Laosan's wife.
The vanguard went to the village to test the waters and found that everything was fine, so they called everyone back. Everyone drove the chickens and ducks, led the children, and supported the elderly to the village.
In fact, the situation in the village is not bad.
Dagunzi Mountain is located to the south of Pingxi Production Brigade, separated by a field of crops.
So the Big Rolling Mountain came down with great momentum, as if it was going to smash a village to pieces. In fact, it mainly damaged the crops in the south and some houses on the south side.
Not everyone was affected.
That's easy.
Chen Youfu organized everyone to quickly check the situation of each household, take inventory, and then write a report to report to their superiors.
At this time, Nie Laosan ran over and shouted for everyone to go and rescue people. Chen Youfu hurriedly took people over and saw that Nie Laosan's wife had been hit by the beam of her own house and was crying there.
Everyone lifted the roof beam together and finally rescued her after a long time. She cried and screamed in pain. There was nothing they could do, so they quickly sent her to the commune.
After saving the unfortunate wife of Nie Laosan, the other members of the village also plucked up the courage to come back and check their own homes. Some cried a little, while others were relieved and said that nothing was wrong. After all, they were all from the same production team, so they helped each other. There was also Chen Youfu above them to help with the coordination and decisions.
As for those whose houses collapsed, they would first stay in the houses of their brothers' families. If that was not possible, they would seek refuge with their relatives. The villagers were all related to each other, so when one side was in trouble, all others would come to its aid. Everyone extended a helping hand, and with many hands together, the fire would burn brighter. Slowly, the disaster was overcome.
At least no one died, at least no one froze to death, and no one starved to death. That's good enough.
When the most difficult times were over, Chen Youfu suddenly remembered that he had taken the time to write a report and submitted it to the commune, but why hadn't he heard back yet? It was such a big thing, how could such a big thing happen in the countryside, and there was no response from the higher-ups? They should at least send someone to express their condolences and provide disaster relief.
Chen Youfu realized something was wrong and quickly rode his bicycle to the commune. However, he only found out when he arrived at the commune.
The world has changed, the world has changed!
Something big happened!
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I can finally enter and leave the county town freely.
After this great change, Fubao, Gu Shengtian and Chen Cuier stepped into the county town with their schoolbags on their backs. As soon as they entered, they felt an atmosphere that was completely different from before.
All the shops and restaurants were open, people ran to the streets to celebrate, some held up banners and shouted, some set off firecrackers, and everyone raised their fists and shouted long live.
Fubao and his friends were stunned and ran to the school. As soon as they entered the school, they heard big news broadcast on the radio.
"...This is the world's largest meteorite shower, covering an area of nearly 500 square kilometers. We are currently collecting the scattered meteorite fragments. It is estimated that these meteorites will be scattered in XX City, XX Province, my country..."
Fu Bao, Gu Shengtian, and Chen Cui'er looked at each other in bewilderment. "Could it be that the incident in our village wasn't an avalanche, but a meteorite that hit our mountain?"
Think about what happened at that time.
I have seen avalanches before, but this doesn’t seem to be like this. I imagine this time it really seemed like it was caused by a huge rock.
Gu Shengtian touched his head and said, "Should we go into the mountains and look for it? Maybe we can find some meteorite fragments..."
If he really found it, would it be a merit? Or could he sell it for money? Gu Shengtian's brain started to work...
At this moment, the next broadcast began: "People from all walks of life in the capital gathered and marched, cheering the victory of crushing the 'Five Tigers Gang.' Detailed information follows: Ye Guoxing delivered a speech at the meeting on the process and significance of crushing the 'Five Tigers Gang.' The members and alternate members of the various bureaus present fully agreed with the handling of the 'Five Tigers Gang.' Residents cheered and celebrated the victory."
Everyone had heard this news before entering the county town, but they were still shocked when they heard it now.
The Five Tigers Gang is a shadow hanging over everyone's heads. No one knows how many bad things they have done in the past. Even Huo Jinyun's family seems to have been persecuted by the Five Tigers Gang. Who would have thought that they would suddenly fall now?
However, for Fubao and the others, after cheering, they felt more confused. What will happen after the Five Tigers Gang falls? They don’t know what will happen after the fall.
The children looked at each other, and finally Fubao said, "Let's just study hard and don't worry about anything else. Let's see what happens next."
Gu Shengtian and Chen Cuier nodded.
In these turbulent times, many things in this world are unfamiliar and distant to them. After experiencing the horror of the meteorite falling, they feel even more deeply their own insignificance and powerlessness. In this era of going with the flow, they can only do their own duties and wait and see.
And what happened next can truly be called a huge change.
The content about student life in the school's news broadcasts has almost completely disappeared. Instead, they are all broadcasted from CCTV news. Every day there are sensational news broadcasts, today's decision, tomorrow's agenda, and the day after tomorrow's promulgation. And among these big news, there are also some things involving Fubao and his friends.
For example, Huo Jinyun's family was rehabilitated, and Huo Jinyun was about to return to the city.
It is said that when Huo Jinyun heard the news, she jumped high with joy on the playground of the primary school, and then hugged the big willow tree and cried.
He had been the principal of Pingxi Production Brigade Primary School for so many years, and that was the first time he had lost his composure like this.
Ten years, a full ten years, from the age of twenty to thirty. These were the most important ten years in his life, the golden ten years of a person's life. During these ten years, he had a heavy hat on his head, unable to breathe or move. He could only shrink himself in his shell, cautious, not daring to speak much or do much.
But now, he can finally stand up straight and live his life as a man.
There was also other news that followed, for example, Sun Yanhong came to the school and invited Fubao to visit her home. She was smiling when she said this. After asking carefully, I found out that Li Mingshuan was almost implicated before, but now he is fine and has regained his sight. He finally doesn't have to worry anymore.
Fubao took time off on Saturday at noon to go to Li Mingshuan's house for lunch, and brought some fruits with him.
Fubao was grateful for the food Sun Yanhong had given him before, and wanted to return the money and food coupons to Sun Yanhong. Naturally, Sun Yanhong firmly refused. Fubao thought about it and realized that it was impossible for someone to take his money. So he gave her some fruits as a small favor.
After we got there, we could see that the family was in high spirits. Sun Yanhong even said that when Fubao got admitted to a provincial university, he could come to find them.
Li Mingshuan listened and smiled. "Fubao is a good student. He will go to school in the capital in the future."
Then he said to his son Li Jianbai, "Jianbai must also study hard and strive to go to school in the capital like Fubao."
Li Jianbai looked up and said nothing.
The college entrance examination has been suspended for a long time, and it has been suspended for ten years. Now the students are selected from workers, peasants and soldiers. Whether you can go to college has nothing to do with your academic performance.
Fubao understood this in his heart, so he smiled and said, "Uncle, aunt, the universities in the capital are far away from me. I don't have any expectations. I just need to be able to read and write, not be blind!"
When she said this, everyone remembered that Fubao came from the countryside. It didn't matter, but it was indeed unlikely for him to go to college. It was a bit regrettable to think about it.
After leaving Li Mingshuan's house and returning to school, Gu Shengtian and Chen Cui'er were waiting for Fubao.
The two of them discussed that they would go and see Huo Jinyun off before he returned to the city and give him a gift.
After all, they were all brought up by Huo Jinyun and Su Wanru. Now that Huo Jinyun is leaving, it is necessary to give them a gift as a commemoration.
Fubao naturally had no objection. In fact, giving a gift as a keepsake was something she had thought about before.
But what to give?
A few people simply went to the store. At this time, the state-owned store was also in a festive atmosphere. Large banners were posted everywhere to celebrate. The sales clerks inside were all smiling and their attitudes were better than usual.
Fubao and his friends picked for a long time and finally chose a Hero pen, spending eight yuan and sixty cents.
This is very expensive for them.
When they were in elementary school, they all used pencils. Pencils were cheap, only three cents each. After entering junior high school, the teacher required them to use fountain pens. Most families would "spend a lot of money" to buy a fountain pen for their children. The best fountain pen only cost two yuan, and such a pen could be used for many years. It was considered the most precious asset of poor students.
Now, this pen costs eight dollars and sixty cents, which can be said to be the most luxurious purchase in their lives so far.
After buying it, Fubao carefully placed the pen in the box, then put the box in his schoolbag and took it back to the production team.
As soon as a few people arrived at the production brigade, they found that the atmosphere in the brigade was very different from usual. Even the old men and women with their sleeves tucked into their sleeves on the well platform were talking about something, and some people said they wanted to go to the educated youth site to watch the excitement.
When Fubao and the others heard this, they were immediately puzzled: "What's going on? What happened?"
Wang Fugui's wife said, "You don't know yet, but your teacher Huo is going back to the city. I heard his brother has come to pick him up."
Chen Cui'er suddenly became curious: "Wow, let's go over and take a look."
Fubao: "Okay, let's go home first, put our things down, wash our faces, then take our gifts and go talk to Teacher Huo."
So they all went home, packed up a little, and hurried to the educated youth site.
As soon as I entered the educated youth site, I saw that many people were already there.
Huo Jinyun served as the principal of the Pingxi Production Brigade for nine years, teaching and educating countless people. Moreover, he helped the villagers a lot at critical moments several times. In everyone's eyes, he was almost like a god and a lifesaver.
He was going back to the city, so naturally many people came to see him off. All of a sudden, all kinds of fruits, peanuts, and cakes, which the villagers usually couldn't bear to eat themselves, were sent to Huo Jinyun.
Huo Jinyun wore a white shirt today, looking particularly energetic. He looked at the villagers with emotion, tears welling in his eyes, but he managed to hold them back. "Fellow villagers, if there's a chance, I'll come back."
Fubao and the others were immediately moved by this scene.
They were originally very happy for Huo Jinyun, but now when they came back and saw this atmosphere, they almost wanted to cry, but they still tried their best to hold it back. They went over to greet Huo Jinyun and congratulated him on finally being able to return to the city.
Fubao, Gu Shengtian and Chen Cuier were the first batch of students taught by Huo Jinyun, and they were also Huo Jinyun's most proud disciples.
At this moment, Huo Jinyun looked at his favorite students and felt even more emotional. Over the years, he watched them grow from little kids to big boys and girls.
These were the ten years of his youth.
Huo Jinyun gritted his teeth, suppressed the sob in his throat, and his eyes fell on Fubao.
Fifteen-year-old Fubao is tall and graceful, like a small tree that is not afraid of the cold winter, full of vitality and exquisite.
It was this little girl, so beautiful that she was rare in this countryside, who had spoken to her several years ago.
He still remembers it.
She said, Teacher Huo, good people will be rewarded, and Teacher Huo will definitely get what he wants most.
Three years later, he got what he wanted, and he got everything that the world owed him.
He finally got his reward, didn't he?
Huo Jinyun looked at the little girl in front of him, his lips moved, and tears fell.
"Thanks."
The two words were spoken without making any sound, but he knew that Fubao should have heard them.
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Fubao and his friends gave Huo Jinyun the Hero brand pens they bought.
Huo Jinyun looked at the pen carefully for a moment before saying, "Fubao, Shengtian, Cui'er, thank you."
He was truly grateful to them.
In fact, he once had a pen like this, which was given to him by his father. He cherished it very much, but later there were great changes in his family and the pen disappeared.
I didn’t expect it to be such a coincidence that the pens that Fubao and the others gave me were exactly the same brand and model, as if it was a coincidence in the dark.
Fu Bao and the others finally breathed a sigh of relief when they saw that Huo Jinyun liked it. After all, they didn't have much money, and it was not easy to give her something that could be kept as a souvenir. This pen seemed to be very suitable.
At this time, the neighbors who came to deliver gifts had gradually dispersed. Huo Jinyun invited Fubao and others to sit down and took out fried peanuts to treat them.
Fubao looked at it and suddenly remembered: "Why didn't I see Teacher Su?"
The Teacher Su she was referring to was naturally Su Wanru.
For Fubao and the others, Huo Jinyun is the principal and a strict teacher, and Su Wanru is like their older sister, and she holds a great importance in their hearts.
When Huo Jinyun heard Su Wanru's name, he was slightly startled: "She was here just now and is out now."
After hearing this, Fubao stopped asking questions and instead talked about going to the city in the future. Chen Cuier was naturally curious about Huo Jinyun's life in the city and asked a lot of questions.
Huo Jinyun answered as best he could, talking about the city's buses, trams, and department stores. Chen Cui'er listened with gusto and couldn't help but sigh, "When can we go to the city? I also want to see buses, trams, and department stores..."
Huo Jinyun fell silent after hearing this.
In this era, there is a natural gap between rural and urban areas. People in cities eat commercial grain, while people in rural areas can only grow their own crops. People in cities earn a few dozen yuan a month and have food coupons, but people in rural areas may not get much after working hard for a year.
The difference is huge.
The college entrance examination has been suspended for ten years. During these ten years, the only hope for rural people to turn their lives around is to join the army and stay in the army, or to find ways to wait for opportunities for recruitment in nearby factories.
Fubao's brothers Gu Yuejin and Gu Yuehua chose to join the army and be recruited as workers respectively, but such opportunities were actually very rare. Not to mention the Pingxi Production Brigade, there were only a few people selected in the entire commune.
Fubao's two older brothers are really lucky.
Thinking of this, Huo Jinyun looked at Fubao again.
Fubao had a faint smile on her lips and a soft light in her eyes. She didn't say anything, but just listened quietly to Chen Cui'er's questions and her own answers.
Huo Jinyun couldn't help but think of what had happened and took a deep breath in his heart.
There are many strange stories in the countryside. If one has not experienced them personally or heard them with his own ears, he will never believe many of them.
As they were talking, Chen Youfu came over with a group of people. They were very lively and called out "Teacher Huo". They also came to see Huo Jinyun off.
When Fubao and the others saw this, they quickly got up and said goodbye. When they left Huo Jinyun's dormitory, they happened to see Su Wanru's dormitory door next to them half-open. Fubao had an idea: "Shall we go over and see Teacher Su?"
Gu Shengtian and Chen Cui'er naturally had no objection, as they hadn't seen Teacher Su for a long time.
Fubao's eyes moved, but he smiled and said, "Brother Shengtian, you go home first. Cui'er and I will go visit Teacher Su."
Gu Shengtian was immediately unhappy: "Why? You guys are going but you won't let me go?"
Chen Cui'er didn't understand why, but she believed in Fubao and listened to Fubao. Fubao always had some ideas.
So she deliberately looked up at the sky and snorted, "I won't let you go, don't you know what's going on?"
Gu Shengtian: “…”
What did he do wrong?
Fubao pursed his lips and smiled, holding Chen Cuier's hand: "Brother Shengtian, Teacher Su is a girl, Chen Cuier and I are also girls, and you are the only boy. Let's talk about girls, you should go home first."
Chen Cui'er: "Yes, we are three girls talking, why are you, a boy, joining us?"
Gu Shengtian: “…”
At this moment, he felt deeply the gender discrimination.
But he didn't say anything.
As a boy and Fubao's older brother, he had a vague feeling for several years that girls had some little secrets of their own, which they often whispered to each other, and these secrets would not be told to him, a boy.
He sighed deeply, accepted it, turned around and left.
Fu Bao did have some ideas of his own for driving Gu Shengtian away.
Although she was young and not old enough to understand some things, she knew that Teacher Su and Teacher Huo had a good relationship.
When she was a child, this kind of good relationship meant that classmates got along well with classmates, and teachers got along well with teachers. There was nothing special about it.
But later, Widow Wang got together with Uncle Li's son, and she couldn't help but think too much.
For example, she remembered the night when she saw Widow Wang and Li Jinlai. That night, they did some bad things.
Brother Dingkun said that they stole something.
But Fubao thought about it later and felt that they didn't steal anything.
If they didn't steal anything, then what did they do?
She quickly linked this incident to "Li Jinlai delivering food to Widow Wang" and made reasonable inferences and associations.
She has read many books, including some foreign classics, such as "How the Steel Was Tempered".
She now knew that it was not a book about steelmaking, but was about Pavel Korchagin, and it also touched upon something she did not understand at all: love.
Fubao believed that there was love between Widow Wang and Li Jinlai.
Fubao clearly remembered that Teacher Huo was very kind to Teacher Su and often liked to give his own food coupons to Teacher Su in the name of "too much to eat".
So Li Jinlai brought food to Widow Wang, this was love.
And Teacher Huo gave food coupons to Teacher Su. What is this?
Through comparative analysis, Fubao concluded that there was love between Teacher Huo and Teacher Su.
Now Teacher Huo is going into the city, but Teacher Su can't. Is Teacher Su very sad?
Fu Bao pulled Chen Cui'er and whispered in her ear, "When we get there, don't ask anything. Just go and take a look, okay?"
Chen Cui'er nodded desperately: "I know, I know!"
Chen Cui'er was quite smart. Both of her brothers were about to get married, and she had seen how her brothers looked after blind dates, so she soon came up with the same bold guess as Fubao: these two people had already fallen in love with each other, but they were just being secretive and hadn't revealed their true feelings!
In this way, the two friends, through different ways, came to their own conclusions: love and attraction.
So the two of them walked to Su Wanru's door and knocked.
Su Wanru opened the door. There was no other female educated youth in the room at that time, only Su Wanru.
Fubao looked over and saw that Su Wanru's eyes were a little red. Although she had wiped it off, the traces were still visible.
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