Chapter 5: Going to the countryside
As the saying goes, a good man is not a good man, Zhang Guozhong scattered his legs and ran away, but right at this moment, Li Daming suddenly collapsed to the ground like a puddle of mud. Zhang Guozhong heard a thumping sound and couldn't help but look back, just in this moment, only to see Captain Li suddenly grinned and rushed up, a choke Zhang Guozhong's neck.
At this time next to the frozen strong boy also reacted, swarmed up, broke the arm of the captain Li, to say that the strength of this captain Li compared to Li Daming can be a lot smaller, in a moment was tied up a solid. At this time, Zhang Guozhong covered his neck with his hand, panting heavily, only to see Captain Li squatting on the ground, laughing, the expression is exactly the same as Li Daming.
At this time, the son of Captain Li rushed up to hit Zhang Guozhong, "you this little bastard, my father so trust you but you get that thing on my father..." The crowd is stopping, suddenly Captain Li and flopped on the ground, at this time fell to the ground Li Daming raised his head again, issued a burst of laughter, the laughter is not big, but seeped into the ground, the laughter is exactly the same as Li Daming. The laughter was not loud, but it seeped into people's hearts, making them feel unusually harsh.
Although both times failed, but Zhang Guozhong's view of this "Maoshan Atlas" has completely changed, he began to believe that the contents of the book is never as simple as he imagined, never science can explain.
With apologies to Captain Li and Li Daming's daughter, Zhang Guozhong returned to the city. He found an opportunity to tell his grandfather about his experience in the countryside, and his grandfather frowned after hearing it, "Is it that bad?" "It's that bad! In the end, even a broom stick as thick as hemp rope almost broke." "Don't mess with this kind of thing in the future! When I was young, I was as fearless as you are, and I suffered a lot. That thing is not something we mortals can fight!" Grandpa shook his head and went back to the attic.
However, Zhang Guozhong's thoughts could not be calmed for a long time. The day after he returned from the countryside, a blindly made up critical article was submitted to the Revolutionary Committee. In the article, Zhang Guozhong taught the villagers to believe in science, a lot of gods and wizards can not cure the patient, Zhang Guozhong took the doctor over, a shot on the good, "Maoshan Tuji" written on the villagers do not work at all, misuse, and finally the doctor to use science to save people, etc., the article, Zhang Guozhong as a proletarian history of science to save the majority of villagers who were poisoned by feudal superstitious, while the book on behalf of the feudal superstitious ideas of the "Maoshan Tuji". The book representing feudal superstitious ideas, "Maoshan Tuzhi", has rightly become a big tumor of the socialist motherland.
The article was praised by the leaders of the school reform committee, but also recommended to the city. In the article, the book "Maoshan Tuzhi" was burned by Zhang Guozhong in public, symbolizing the ultimate victory of the great proletarian scientific outlook over the poison of feudal superstitious thinking.
At this time it was already the spring of 1968, a larger campaign to force the whole society into a state of chaos, during the day, Zhang Guozhong as usual, go out to smash and grab, engage in campaigns, and then go home in the evening, secretly study this "Maoshan Tuji", during this period, from the home of a number of old intellectuals copied out a lot of old books, including even a well-preserved Republic of China version of the "Kangxi Dictionary" and the lead-printed version of the "Vernacular Classic of the Book of Changes, which has a significant influence on the Zhang Guozhong research this ancient text-based "Maoshan Tuji" played a great help to do.
A year has passed, Zhang Guozhong for the "Maoshan Tu Zhi" study has made great progress, many ways and means have been mastered, a lot of previous puzzling things, with the help of some copied out of the ancient books, can also be a reality of the items on the number, this time Zhang Guozhong's biggest wish is that one day you can learn a little real skill, go to save that Li Daming, that Li Daming family is really too poor outrageous. The Li Daming family is really too poor.
* period of time who are poor, especially Zhang Guozhong's family, his father was implicated by his grandfather was fired from the factory, his mother to an insole factory to look at the warehouse, 17 dollars a month, Zhang Guozhong to join the work of time is not long, 20 dollars a month salary, Zhang Guozhong also has a younger brother to read the third year of high school, the whole family together, 37 dollars a month to feed 5 mouths of people, if anyone's family is poor and even Zhang Guozhong can not look down, that's the If anyone's family is poor and even Zhang Guozhong can't stand it, it's really poor.
On this day, Zhang Guozhong's mom wrapped two pairs of insoles in newspaper and brought them home, saying that they were issued by the factory. Zhang Guozhong was not interested in the insoles, but the words on the newspaper drew Zhang Guozhong's attention.
"It is necessary for the intellectual youth to go to the countryside to receive re-education from the poor peasants. It is necessary to persuade city cadres and others to send their children who have graduated from junior high school, high school, or college, to the countryside for a mobilization. Comrades in the countryside everywhere should welcome them to go."
This was Chairman Mao's call, but in Zhang Guozhong's eyes, it was a chance to go to the countryside in name only, where there were more strange things to see and where it would help him to study the Maoshan Tuji.
For Zhang Guozhong to go to the countryside, the family was strongly opposed, but Zhang Guozhong and the director of the school reform committee has a good relationship with the younger brother of the senior high school arranged to work at the school, a kind of replacement for their own, anyway, the younger brother to go to school in the high school has long been closed down, a little bit of real talent of the teacher basically have been knocked out of this kind of high school on and not on the no difference. Although the past replacement system is the son of the old man, but in that chaotic era, the principal is a live target of the fight, the Revolutionary Committee is the big brother, what is the director of the nod, there will be no one against it. Economic problems solved, the family is not much care, after all, the income is not much less, but less a mouth to eat. So, Zhang Guozhong packed a few clothes, take the book, in the identity of a young man, and a group of fifteen or sixteen years old bald boy together in the countryside, and Zhang Guozhong to go to the place, it is the village of Li.
