Chapter 102

The dignity of children

"So, Comrade Xiao Chen, are you eating shredded beets today because I did well on the exam?"

The caramelized beets were crispy inside and covered with a layer of caramelized sugar on the outside. When Nie Weimin saw it for the first time, he rejected it. "Beets again! In the mining area, they are fed to pigs. I would rather die than eat them."

But after taking just one bite, he said, "Mom, it's delicious, so fragrant."

"Of course. If you can keep up your academic performance in middle school in the fall, I'll make you shredded apples."

"Can apples be threaded?" Nie Weimin became interested. "Learning is just a small thing. I know all the math in junior high school, and I also know physics and chemistry. Even biology..."

Well, he didn’t say anything more, but to put it bluntly, with the knowledge he has currently accumulated, he will have to wait until he is in high school before he really stumbles.

He bit his lip and looked around. Sandan was concentrating on licking the candy. He licked a little, dipped his chopsticks in the candy and offered a piece to Chen Lina. As for Erdan, he was concentrating on eating. Of course, he was getting fatter now and his height was as high as Nie Weimin. He didn't even have a belly and was full of fierceness, which was all from eating.

Seeing that the child was hesitant to speak, Chen Lina thought he wanted to confess that he had hidden pornographic books, but he actually said, "By the way, Liu Xiaohong will have to change her name when she goes to school this time. Her aunt wants to change her name to Wang Zhaodi, to give her a younger brother, and her uncle wants to change her name to Wang Hongxing, to represent the red star shining over the Republic. I think neither is good. What do you think? Can I change her name?"

"Wang Hongxing, I shudder when I hear this name. Zhaodi, what kind of brother is this? She really wants a son so badly. What does Xiaohong mean? What does she want to be called?"

"It doesn't matter what she wants to be called. I have a very good name for her. You have to convince her to use it. You also have to help her report to the public security bureau and register her in the household registration book." Comrade Xiao Nie is very confident. He always feels that his stepmother has been conquered by him a long time ago and should just listen to him.

"Oh, tell me about it?"

"Wang Sitian, recalling the bitterness and sweetness at the same time, what do you think?" Nie Weimin said.

"Okay, very good, let's use this name." Chen Lina was still thinking about it.

After all, this child was not born from her own belly. Moreover, you have to know that since 1958, the culture of the entire republic has been cleansed. Even ordinary "Physiology" was regarded as a banned book and burned.

People at this time don't think about where they came from, and don't regard sexual impulse as a normal physiological response. If you want to go to bed, it means you want to give birth to a child. If you climb onto your wife's belly, it means you are building a republic. If the child has any ideas, it would be like a disaster.

Yesterday, Chen Lina went to the autonomous region library, hoping to find a book on "Physiology and Hygiene" to take to Nie Weimin, and she was almost mistaken for a female hooligan by the library manager.

By the way, there is a crime now called female hooliganism. If a girl is labeled as a female hooligan, she will never be able to turn her life around in her life.

So, Chen Lina was racking her brains, preparing for a proper talk with Nie Weimin about sexual relationships between men and women, the dangers of reading pornographic books, etc.

However, before she could get ready to speak, retribution came.

"Wang Fan was arrested by the Public Security Bureau. Wang Fan was arrested by the Public Security Bureau." Qian Goudan's voice came from outside, which was even harsher than the loudspeaker.

"What's the matter, Goudan? What happened?" Erdan asked through the window while chewing shredded beets and eating rice.

"He is guilty of hooliganism. Moreover, the police have come and are searching every household. They say his hooliganism has infiltrated our entire base."

Qian Goudan is even dumber than Erdan. He gets dizzy at the sight of words. He wouldn't even read a pornographic book if you gave it to him. Only when he heard that someone was searching for a hooligan novel did he start to regret not getting one himself.

Nie Weimin almost overturned the table when he stood up, and rushed directly into the bedroom. It was obvious that he was going to look for his book.

"Okay, stop looking, I've already burned it." Chen Lina followed him to the door.

If she hadn't seen him reading pornographic books with her own eyes, Chen Lina would not have realized that her eleven-year-old son was about to grow as tall as her.

Although he hasn't reached his voice change period yet and hasn't grown an Adam's apple, he's already grown into a grown man.

"I'm not saying that it's a serious mistake for you to read that kind of book, but Comrade Xiao Nie, do you know why your father has achieved what he has today? He has never read that kind of book. No, I should say that he would never waste his limited time reading that kind of book."

"I, I'm just curious. Besides, Wang Fan said that his house probably can't hide anymore, so he wants to hide it in my house." For the first time, Nie Weimin's hair turned red with embarrassment.

No, I should say I was totally ashamed.

"Girl's Heart" is just a simple book, but it caused a lot of bloodshed in the 1970s and 1980s. Many girls were convicted of hooliganism because of that book, and many young men in their prime were shot simply for reading that book.

"What I want to tell you is that at your age, you should be taught about physiology and hygiene in school. It is certainly wrong to read this kind of book, but there is nothing to be ashamed of. If you really feel ashamed, just don't read it in the future."

Nie Weimin was about to nod, but when he turned around, he saw Sandaner biting his lips with his two little rabbit teeth, sucking on a piece of shredded beet, and looking at him with a smile.

Oh, I'd be so embarrassed if my brothers saw this.

"Hello, Director Chen. We are here to bother you. Wang Fan just confessed that he has a copy of "Rogue" and borrowed it from your house. Can I come in and take a look?" At this moment, Chief Feng from the Public Security Bureau came in with his men.

"What is a hooligan? I have never heard of it. Chief Feng, can you tell me what it is?" Chen Lina asked back.

To tell the story, she had already burned it, so there was nothing to be afraid of. She was just very angry about the police station's behavior.

"Director Chen, the whole country is cracking down on hooligans now, because many young people have no ambition to make progress after learning hooliganism. Men will play hooliganism with young women, and women will play hooliganism with young men. You see, Chief Engineer Wang is such a respected person. His family member Wang Fan played hooliganism with a female comrade in the mining area two days ago and was caught. We found a pornographic tape in his house, which is "Girl's Heart". He said he still has the book, which he lent to your family to protect the people."

Nie Weimin's face turned red instantly. Of course, how could he not turn red?

In the whole base, he was like a little rooster with his head held high and chest puffed out, feeling proud of himself because he was a good student. But now, everyone in the base knew that he was a gangster.

"Nieh Weimin, you little hooligan. Nieh Weimin, you little hooligan." No one knew who started the commotion, but they started shouting.

Seeing the lively crowd filling the yard, Chen Lina suddenly grabbed someone and found that it was a young man named Zhao Guangyuan who had just been assigned to Base No. 1.

Because he is from Sichuan, everyone calls him Little Sichuan.

It was a direct slap in the face. Chen Lina was tall and fierce, and she slapped Xiao Sichuan with a devastating slap, knocking him to the ground.

She was about to call again, but Section Chief Feng was so frightened that he said, "Director Chen, don't be impulsive. Don't be impulsive."

"Manager Chen, why did you hit someone?" Little Sichuan got up, still cursing.

Someone immediately advised him, "Manager Chen is not someone you want to mess with. Can you please control your mouth? If you continue like this, she will eat you alive."

Chen Lina waved her hands and said, "No, no, why are you trying to stop me? I didn't do anything, and I don't hit anyone."

But when she saw Xiao Sichuan muttering something and calling him a little hooligan, she suddenly turned around, picked a bunch of wind-dried corn from the beam, and smashed it directly on Xiao Sichuan's head.

Xiao Sichuan came from Sichuan, where there were hot and sexy girls everywhere, but he had never seen such a fierce woman. He was so scared that he ran away quietly.

"If we talk about hooligans, big hooligans and small hooligans, I, Chen Lina, am the biggest hooligan in our family. Section Chief Feng, you go in and search now. You can turn over all the boxes in our house and search to see if there is any of the damn "Girl's Heart". If you find it, you can arrest me, Chen Lina. If you don't find it, I won't be mad at you. Search now."

Section Chief Feng was embarrassed to let anyone in. When he entered the room and saw a wedding photo framed on the large cabinet in the master bedroom, he backed out. Of course, it was not easy to search for our National Advanced Workers.

He turned around and went into the bedroom of the three Nie Weimin brothers. He saw that the books were neatly arranged, but they were all elementary school textbooks. Even the space under the mat where the children loved to hide their books had been turned over.

Although I flipped through the pages quickly, I actually searched very carefully. I searched all the places where I could find this thing, but I didn't find it.

"Have you found anything, Chief Feng?"

"It's a misunderstanding, it's just a routine search. So, Director Chen, please try to control the children in the future and don't let them associate with bad kids."

"Are you going to publicly try Wang Fan?" Chen Lina was stunned when she saw Section Chief Feng was about to leave and everyone else followed him.

"He was caught in the mining area, but he is from Base No. 1, so he must be brought to Base No. 1 for trial. We are here on the playground of the elementary school. We don't have that much power, so we just read out the evidence of Wang Fan's crime to everyone so that the young people of Base No. 1 can learn from it."

Having said that, he waved his hand and left with his people.

After a while, Mr. Song, a family member of Chief Engineer Wang, rushed in.

As soon as I entered the door, I heard, "Wei Min, Wei Min, are you okay?"

"Song, don't be so anxious. Tell me slowly what's going on. I'm still confused. Wang Fan is only 15 years old. How can he be charged with hooliganism?"

"In fact, Wang Fan knew a female educated youth. She was only fourteen when she came here, and she is only sixteen this year. She was about to leave. The two of them had some contacts in the mining area, so they met and were about to say goodbye. Now, they were both arrested for hooliganism."

"They just hugged and kissed in the woods?" Boy and girl. Although Chen Lina had never done that, it was not surprising to her when she thought about the fact that elementary school students often hugged and kissed on the bus in later generations.

"No, they didn't kiss. If they did, I would have said he deserved to be arrested." Mrs. Song was so anxious.

Her son is still a child. If he really knows how to kiss a girl, she would have to say that he has grown up.

"Could it be that someone wants to deliberately make trouble for your Mr. Wang?" Chen Lina thought there was this possibility.

Mrs. Song thought for a moment and said, "No, he is just an engineer like your laborer. Who could he offend?"

Then, this is truly the common sin of the great era.

As of now, with Nie Gong's firing on the prairie of Inner Mongolia, his mentor has entered the leadership, the culprit of the revolution has been eliminated, and reforms have been proceeding step by step, but the remnants of the revolution still remain.

Those people are spread across all walks of life and all places, and their thoughts are all kinds of weird.

In fact, when some people kneel down, it is like their knees are dug out by others. If you ask them to stand up, they cannot do so. If you give them dignity, they do not want it. If you give them openness, they think it is the five poisons and harm.

What do you call this? This is called slavery.

"Miss Chen, are you going to watch some excitement, or are you going to cause trouble?" On the way home from work, Nie Gong saw Chen Lina taking her three sons with a copy of the Book of Psalms in her hands, looking very imposing and preparing to go to the elementary school, so he stopped her.

"The Book of Songs is a banned book now, are you planning to take it with you?" Nie Gong said.

"Why, are you scared? Seeing the public's strong support, do you also think Wang Fan is guilty?"

"It is wrong to waste your limited time on reading miscellaneous books."

"But you're still using the big movie screen to show a romantic action movie, so should I report you and have you arrested?" Xiao Chen asked back.

Nie Gong was petrified for a moment. "Xiao Chen, I am just looking at you with a critical eye..."

"Then at the conference table, you have eight different postures. Are you also critical?"

"I beg you, please don't say any more."

"Old Nie, you know, in your previous life you always laughed at me for being stupid about these things, saying that I shouldn't take the lead, but he admired me very much. He said that I have the chivalrous spirit of Huo Qingtong. I have to tell you something. I have to take care of this kind of thing."

At this time, a meeting to expose the hooliganism crime of the fifteen-year-old boy Wang Fan was in full swing.

"Mom, if you go up there, you'll be treated like a female hooligan." Nie Weimin held her back again.

"Defender, I have to tell you that it is not unforgivable for children to secretly read something like that during puberty, and it is normal to fall in love. But it is abnormal to announce this to the world. I don't care what happens in other places, but it cannot be done in Base 1. This is called privacy. That is to say, I burned your book, but I will never tell anyone that you have read this book."

"My dad won't do it either?" Comrade Xiao Nie's eyes lit up and he immediately became energetic.

He was not worried about anything else, but he was afraid that his father would know about this, and then his dignity would be gone. If a child did something bad, it would be okay if his mother knew about it, but he must not let his father know about it.

"No, definitely not."

"I have to admit that you are a good mother," said Xiao Nie.

"Director Chen, do you have any remarks to make as well?" When Chief Feng saw Chen Lina coming behind him, he covered the microphone in front of him and asked quietly.

"Yes, I do have something to say to everyone. Can I borrow your microphone for a moment? I have a lot of feelings in my mind. If I don't say them out loud, I feel like I'm going to die of excitement."

"You can't say anything reactionary, of course. If you want to declare that your Wei Ming is not a hooligan, I totally agree with you," said Section Chief Feng.

"No, no, I just want to ask one thing. All the workers present here are educated, right? I only want to ask these educated workers, have you read the Book of Psalms?"

The new Sichuanese is quite capable. He is still resentful and directly says, "Those are the Four Olds. You are promoting the Four Olds."

"Bullshit! The leader praised the Book of Songs as the quintessence of the nation. He even had his secretaries excerpt passages from the Book of Songs and recite them every day. Now you say the Book of Songs is one of the four old things. What do you mean?"

Well, Xiao Sichuan was short to begin with, and now that he lowered his shoulders, it was even harder for him to find anyone.

"I am now opening this book of "Book of Songs" and I have to read you the first line, "Guan Sui" Guan Guan Zhi Sui, on the island in the river, a beautiful lady, a gentleman's ideal match. Who knows what this line means? Who knows what this line means?"

"Of course, he's a target for the little gangsters."

"Yes, but the leader said that the Book of Psalms is the highest model of poetry, which brings that distant era closer to us. You can look it up in the book, because it is true."

After a pause, she continued, "This book has been passed down for many years. The leaders say it is great, so I believe it is great. But the first chapter of the book talks about a little gangster dating someone. I think that as long as the man and the woman are willing, the little gangster is not guilty."

"Xiao Chen, how could you be like this? What did you say when I asked you to speak?" Section Chief Feng squeezed the microphone, and immediately there was a buzzing sound at the scene.

"Chief Feng, I want to ask you something. You live in the police station and your wife lives at home. How many years have you not lived at home? I want to ask you."

"You also listen to the nonsense that everyone in the mining area spreads?"

"It's not nonsense spread in the mining area. We all know each other in the same system. You and your wife don't get along well. If you really had to spend two days together before marriage to understand each other's personality and temperament, would it have been like this? What's wrong with a man and a woman meeting and talking about a partner? The woman didn't even file a complaint, but you specialize in arresting people in the woods. I think there is a big problem with the work of your security team."

"Xiao Chen, can we not do this? I didn't find anything in your house, but you don't have to affect our work like this."

"Then let me ask you, which article in the Constitution of the Republic says that men and women cannot have sex, and which article says that two people walking side by side is hooliganism?"

"Wang Fan is a hooligan for keeping banned books privately."

"Then you should release the girl. Wang Fan is a hooligan. The girl didn't hide any banned books. What grounds do you have to arrest her?"

"That's right, let the girl go, Chief Feng. She didn't hide any banned books. Besides, you didn't catch her in the act, so why do you accuse her of being a hooligan?"

"Yes, let the girl go. We think what Director Chen said is right."

Nie Gong stood far away, folded his arms, and couldn't help but curl the corners of his lips.

To be honest, he has nothing but disgust and aversion towards this crazy era, but he will avoid it if he can, and not letting anyone catch him is a victory for him.

After all, life is precious, and he will not waste his time and energy on any meaningless things. To surpass Britain and the United States and to be at the forefront of world science and technology is his greatest pursuit in this life.

At this moment, suddenly, Nie Gong could understand why the fork in the apricot tree in his previous life fell in love with Chen Lina.

No, it should be said that it was so disgusting, pretending, performing, and loving her madly.