Chapter 45: House Raid Scene
Diagonally opposite the back door of the supply and marketing cooperative is a row of courtyards. Usually at this time, everyone goes to work.
At this moment, the rows of courtyards were silent, and every household had their doors closed, with a deathly silence.
Several people wearing red armbands were standing at the door of a house in the middle. Shouting, smashing and children's crying could be heard from inside the house, which made people feel nervous.
"Something big has happened."
I woke up instantly from a sleepy moment with my mouth wide open. My scalp went numb when I heard the baby crying, so how could I sleep anymore?
"Look, that tall girl with two pigtails on the back, isn't that Xiaoyu?"
Gao Xiulan leaned sideways and spoke unconsciously in a low voice and with her mouth wide open.
"Really? How did that girl end up among the red armbands?"
"They're really courting death. Those guys are not good people."
Gao Xiulan and Zhang Dazui were standing in a position where they could see what was happening at the gate of the yard.
Gao Xiulan looked up and inadvertently saw Qian Yu, the youngest daughter of the Qian family, also mixed in with the group of people wearing red armbands.
Qian Yu wore a hat with the five-star red flag on it, a red armband on his arm, and his little face was flushed with excitement.
"She's courting death! I guarantee this girl will be severely beaten when she gets home."
He said with his mouth wide open and eyes wide open.
Gao Xiulan thought of Yu Afen who was still buying cloth at the supply and marketing cooperative, and her heart ached and she sighed.
It turns out that children are a debt to their parents.
The yard was in a mess. The leader with a red armband was a boy with an honest face, but his eyes were filled with madness and greed.
An elderly man in the yard was pushed to the ground, his crutches were thrown aside, and his pants were covered with shoe prints.
Old man Song Huaizhang was trembling as he protected the little boy who was crying in his arms. The boy looked to be about ten years old.
"Beat them, smash them all, this whole family is a bunch of stinky old men."
"The old man used to be the principal of the school, and he has the nerve to criticize us, the defenders of the proletariat."
“We are cleaning out the socialist termites.”
"Beat the stinky old nine! Beat the stinky old nine!"
The person leading the riot raised his arm with a red armband, and the people with red armbands following behind him shouted together.
The excited voices grew louder and louder, and Gao Xiulan and Zhang Dazui found it extremely irritating.
But they could do nothing, nothing at all, unable to stop this cruel farce. They could only desperately suppress the anger in their hearts and tell themselves to calm down, calm down, and calm down again.
When the red armbands had smashed everything they needed to, the leader raised his arm and a group of people came out.
In the messy yard, only the grandfather and grandson were left, crying silently.
The old man wiped away the tears from his grandson's face with trembling hands and cracked fingers.
"Liewazi, don't cry, don't cry, grandpa is fine, we will all be well and wait for your parents to come home."
"Grandpa, I miss my parents. When will they come back?"
The boy's tears stopped. He looked up at his grandfather's increasingly cloudy eyes and spoke with a sob.
"It's almost there, it's almost there, just wait a little longer."
The old man's own son and daughter-in-law are both intellectuals. They were reported last spring and sent to Xinjiang for reform. There has been no reply since then.
The old man must be in pain. He has been teaching for his entire life, but he didn't expect that in the end he would be reported by his own students. It's ridiculous, really ridiculous.
The leader, a man with a red armband, led a group of people and walked in the opposite direction. No one knew who would suffer next.
"It's crazy. This world is really crazy."
Gao Xiulan and Zhang Dazui were afraid of being noticed by the people with red armbands, so they turned their backs. Thinking of the tragic scene in the yard, their eyes became red.
"I've bought it. Hey, why are your eyes red? Is it the wind blowing?"
Yu Afen, who had bought the cloth, came in from outside and noticed the little sister's red eyes and asked in confusion.
"Afen, let's talk about it when we get home."
Gao Xiulan quickly wiped away the tears from the corners of her eyes.
"What's going on? Why are you being so mysterious?"
Yu Afen looked at Zhang Dazui in confusion.
"Afen, where did your Xiaoyu go today?"
Zhang Dazui didn't dare to look directly into Yu Afen's eyes, but stared at the cloth in Yu Afen's hand and asked.
"She told me this morning that she went to a classmate's house. What happened?"
Yu Afen was also completely confused and didn't understand what was going on.
"Afen, ask your husband Qian to go home early tonight."
Gao Xiulan sighed. The street was really not a suitable place to talk.
Yu Afen felt very upset and her fingers subconsciously clenched the cloth in her hands.
The atmosphere was depressing along the way, with only the occasional squeaking sound of the cart rolling over the bluestone slabs.
Finally they arrived home, and Zhang Dazui parked the cart in front of Yu Afen's house.
The three of them worked together to move the cabbages to the main room of Yu Afen's house and stacked them.
"Pile it up first and move it away after the cellars of each household have been cleaned out."
"Xiu Lan, Big Mouth, go ahead and talk. I'm mentally prepared."
Along the way, Yu Afen thought of all the possible accidents that might happen to her family, such as Qian Min meeting a Phoenix man and insisting on marrying him, and Qian Baozhu's cooking poisoning a senior leader...
"Afen, Dazui and I saw..."
Gao Xiulan pulled Yu Afen to sit at the dining table in the main hall, adjusted her mood and began to tell Yu Afen what had happened in the yard behind the back door.
As Yu Afen listened, her face became paler and paler. She held Gao Xiulan's hands tightly with both hands and was unable to speak.
Yu Afen endured until Gao Xiulan finished speaking, then her body softened and she was about to fall backwards.
"Afen, hold on."
Zhang Dazui's strong arms suddenly supported Yu Afen.
"Afen, it's better to find out about this early. Wait until Lao Qian comes back and you two can discuss it."
He opened his mouth wide and spoke in comfort.
"I thought Xiaoyu was studying hard at school, and I was worried she would be tired."
"She was always out early and back late, so I thought we were friends. I never expected she would be so bold as to wear a red armband."
Yu Afen burst into tears and covered her face with her hands.
"Afen, I think Xiaoyu must have sneaked in recently. We found her early, and she's not deeply involved yet. You should think positively."
"That's right, you can't fall down."
Today's events also brought back memories for Zhang Dazui. Her eldest son Zhou Zhixi's wife Tong Wan was reported to be the descendant of a capitalist, so the couple were sent to Xinjiang for forced labor.
The place where Zhou Zhixi and Tong Wan stayed was surrounded by Gobi Desert. The temperature difference between day and night was so large that people could freeze to death at night.
Hu Tou was still young and lacked food and clothing, so he could not survive there at all.
So after Hutou was weaned, Zhou Jianguo looked for people to use their connections to go to Xinjiang and bring Hutou back.
"Poor Tiger, my grandparents raised him."
Gao Xiulan and Zhang Dazui helped the dazed Yu Afen to lie down on the bed. They waited until Yu Afen fell asleep from exhaustion before they went home.
"Mom, what's wrong? You look so bad."
Lin Xiaotong came out of the house to get a glass of water. Seeing Gao Xiulan sitting on a bamboo chair at the door, she came over and squatted down, asking with concern.
"Xiaotong, I saw today..."
Gao Xiulan recounted the bad things that happened to her today when she went out on the street.
"Mom, I'll stay away from red armbands from now on."
After hearing this, Lin Xiaotong felt a little scared. No matter how happy she was eating melons, she had to save her life.
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