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Time flickers, in the bag of life, in addition to the heavy paper and pen, there are also stories that have been experienced along the way, and the dinging of parents in the ears for decades. Every time I think back, it is like a pearl in a river of thousands of miles, always warming my heart.
Wang Yuewen was born and raised in Pupu, a place where Qu Yuanxing had lived, and this loyal and noble poet influenced generations of Pupu readers. Wang Yuewen was born in a rural family in Pupu Flood, his parents are also ordinary people, they do not say great truth, but they taught Wang Yuewen the most simple morality and values with practical actions. His father's patience and mother's courage are telling him how to behave and do things.
In this part of the countryside, whenever he hears his parents talk about the past, Wang Yuewen often has a feeling of being in a trance, but every time he listens, he inadvertently "falls" into the years.
The hidden patience in the father is also a man's responsibility. Wang Yuewen's father was a local "cultural person" who had read books and had served as the secretary of the township party committee, but he became a rightist because of his "wrong remarks". In Wang Yuewen's impression, his father did not smile and made people afraid, so he was always a little "afraid" of his father. So, "Is Mom at home?" This is what Wang Yuewen asked every time he went home when he was a child, but he never dared to ask if his father was there.
People often say that words are like their people, "words are the crown of literati, we must practice words well" This is my father's instruction to Wang Yuewen. Wang Yuewen's communication with his father when he was a child was that his father sent him several times. But he said that at that time, he didn't understand things and didn't have the perseverance to practice words, so he didn't grow enough, and he is still practicing words to this day.
In Wang Yuewen's memory, the deepest impression was that his father smiled at him for the first time. It was 1978, and the times had changed, and the merits and demerits had changed. At that time, Wang Yuewen was boarding in the middle school, and learned from the news sent back by his classmate's uncle in Beijing that the rightists were about to be rehabilitated. "Rehabilitation" is a folk saying, and the official version is called "correction". Therefore, he immediately wrote to his father about the situation he learned, and asked his classmates to bring the letter back.
That Saturday, when Wang Yuewen came home from school and walked to the door, he saw his father standing in the doorway and smiling at him in the distance, which was the first time he remembered seeing his father smile. As he approached, his father touched his head, as if to say that he had grown up and understood things. The parents' generation is not good at expressing their feelings directly, and they have little intimate contact with their children. But at that moment, Wang Yuewen felt extra warm inside.
Because of Wang Yuewen's letter, my father first learned that the state wanted to rectify the chaos and rectify the unjust, false and wrongly decided cases. Therefore, he prepared the appeal materials early and waited for the policy documents to come down. Later, Wang Yuewen's father was the first rightist in the county to hand over the appeal materials, and he also became the first rightist to implement the policy.
Nowadays, Wang Yuewen's father, who once did not smile, has become more and more kind, and the friends who come to visit him laugh that his old man is a bit of a Buddha. Presumably, the hard years of the past have refined his father's forbearance, and also refined his mastery of looking down on the world.
Wang Yuewen said that in the most difficult days of the family, the mother was the most courageous person in the family. She embodies the "pungency" of the Huxiang people, with a sense of bravery and wisdom.
On the day of my father's first criticism, my mother carried a high bench and took my brothers and sisters to a meeting at the brigade headquarters, and my mother placed the stool in the most conspicuous position. When the father came on stage to be criticized, the mother quietly left the venue. After a while, my mother came back with a bamboo basket and went straight to the stage. The audience was stunned, not knowing what she was going to do. The mother stood next to her father, pointed at her father and scolded, "Rightists, listen!" Chairman Mao said that eating is the first major event! You refuse to eat food, and you want to cut yourself off from the people? You eat honestly first, and then honestly confess your sins! The mother said, and then opened the bamboo basket and brought out a bowl of rice.
Who dares to disobey Chairman Mao's instructions? Immediately someone came up to untie my father. As a result, hundreds of people on and off the stage watched their father eat. The mother also said: "Eat well, and when you are full, you will accept the criticism!" There's also a poached egg below! In fact there were no poached eggs under the rice, and she deliberately spoke angrily. After the father finished eating, his mouth was broken, and the criticism would continue.
Years later, my mother told Wang Yuewen why she had to move a high chair to sit in the front, and she said that she was going to show it to two kinds of people, "The first is the person who watches our jokes, then let him see, we are very strong, it's okay to sit here; there is another kind of person who cares about and sympathizes with our family, and also wants to reassure them that we are still strong and okay." ”
One summer, the brigade classified our primary and secondary school students, and the children who were "well-composed" in the poor and lower-middle peasants went to learn from Lei Feng to do good deeds; the landlords and rightists and other "black five categories" went to fight tung oil seeds and engage in labor. Wang Yuewen's mother went to ask the cadres stationed in the county: "Are the children of our family 'black five categories' or are they poor and lower-middle peasants?" The garrison cadre said: "Of course, it is the 'black five categories'!" The mother said: "Now that it is the world of the Communist Party, my children are the 'black five categories', and they have no way to live." Don't say that I speak reactionary words, Chiang Kai-shek clamors to counterattack the mainland, if the Kuomintang is replaced, my sons and daughters are the sons and daughters of communists, and they have no way out, so what should we do? We have to give our children a way out. Hearing this, the garrison cadres thought about it and said, "Then your children will go to one side." Therefore, under the struggle of his mother, Wang Yuewen's brothers and sisters will not be divided into the "black five categories.". When the eldest sister was older, her mother said, "You are older and participate in the 'Black Five Categories', and they don't dare to bully you." Then let the brother go to the side of the children of the poor and lower middle peasants, "so as not to be bullied."
Over the years, Wang Yuewen's mother used her strength and wisdom to carry a home, so that they would not be in turmoil at that time. Although those difficult and bitter days have passed, his mother's bravery and wisdom have always been the guiding light for Wang Yuewen on the way forward. After graduating from university, Wang Yuewen became a civil servant and has been writing ever since. Over the years, every time my mother called, she has constantly told Wang Yuewen the basic principle of being a person, "Be modest and cautious, guard against arrogance and impetuosity, and be clean and clean." ”
The inheritance of family style is actually the continuation of the wisdom of the life of predecessors from generation to generation. Wang Yuewen admires the patience, wisdom and courage of his parents, and also hopes that his children can understand the most simple but profound truth on the road of life - lowering the standard of life and raising the requirements of being a person.
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Planning | Yang Tianbing
Co-ordination | Huang Qichen
Executive — Tang Jingting
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