If you really can't understand it, just think about it: why does a country need to develop? Isn't it simply so that its people can have enough to eat and wear and not be bullied?
After saying that, Lin Ying ignored the others and drove away with Wu Bo.
On the way, Wu Bo didn't sit on top, but sat directly on the bottom like Shuanzi.
He would occasionally let out a strange laugh, prompting Lin Ying to frequently glance at him through the rearview mirror: "What kind of hysteria are you having? Don't scare the child."
Wu Bo laughed again: "I just think what you said is particularly good. Back then, our commune was a village, a whole ten villages. Every year, every winter, hundreds of people would die. In the whole village, there were very few people over sixty years old, and the belts on their pants were tightened again and again."
Because there was no food, everyone was hungry.
Hibernating? Why is the cat like that? It only eats two meals of thin porridge a day. It stays curled up on the kang (heated brick bed). Does it not want to get off the kang? Or are its legs too weak to move?
The elderly are reluctant to eat their own food and save it for their children, while the young people know nothing and just stay at home all day, doing nothing but making babies.
Each family has a string of babies, all begging for food. Who could stand it for long?
So they went to the town to make trouble, they went to the county to make trouble. They even went to the leaders' homes to make trouble, but I didn't care. How could I care? Could I give them food? No! But things are different now.
Aside from a few villages that had opened small factories, the other villages mostly bought things from their own plots of land and traded eggs. However, there were many kinship ties between the villages. One family's daughter married into another's family, and so on. They helped each other out, and with the commune's assistance, they managed to get by, albeit with some difficulty.
So I understand what you're saying. They haven't experienced it, so they don't know how unbearable those desperate days are.
They didn't know that ordinary people are never afraid of hardship; as long as their families can survive, they are willing to endure any amount of suffering.
Lin Ying remained silent, because the topic was too heavy.
She had heard about the villages uniting to protest against the government, but she didn't know there was such a heavy story behind it. In ten villages, very few people lived past sixty; she hadn't realized this until Wu Bo mentioned it.
Wu Bo got off the bus at the commune gate. Lin Ying looked at Wu Bo's happy back and actually admired him quite a bit.
If he were the kind of person who could watch the lives of ordinary people go unchecked, perhaps these villages would have been like other villages, waiting for time to wear them down, waiting for the country to become strong enough to discover and save them, or perhaps they would have completely withered away before that time even came.
"Director Wu!"
Lin Ying called out to Wu Bo.
Wu Bo looked at Lin Ying with a puzzled expression.
Lin Ying took a folder out of the car: "This is for you."
Wu Bo immediately recognized these as several other project proposals. His already cheerful mood brightened instantly, his eyes sparkling: "Oh dear, what should we do?"
But it snatched it from her hands with incredible speed.
Lin Ying was speechless. This thing was originally meant for him, but she was so angry at the time that she deliberately didn't give it to him.
She already told him, why would she go back on her word?
On the way back, Lin Ying thought about what had happened today, and she found it quite unbelievable that she had stood up for the people of Jinzhuang.
Life is truly strange. Last year, she was still that timid girl, afraid of being arrested if she did something wrong. This year, however, she can stand there so confidently and argue with people.
The car slowly drove towards the courtyard, and Lin Ying's thoughts were still lingering on the scene from earlier. Shuanzi sat beside her, his little hands gripping the car window sill, his eyes sparkling. Every now and then, he excitedly shared with Lin Ying the birds and wildflowers he had seen, his childish voice dispelling the slightly somber atmosphere in the car.
Lin Ying was delighted to discover that not only had she changed, but Shuanzi, who had also been with her, seemed to have changed as well.
Back home, Lin Ying turned off the car engine and drained the water. Er Ya woke up as soon as the car stopped.
After dressing Shuanzi, Lin Ying wrapped Er Ya in a blanket and went straight home.
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