Wake up（70）

 

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During the three-year famine period, He Jiafu fled Xinyang and then Bo County. He wandered around on crutches all the way. He is struggling on the death line...

While wandering, He Jiafu met a man from Longxi, Gansu, who was also a homeless man. Ragged, disheveled, unkempt, and bony.

Regardless of spring, summer, autumn and winter, he always wears an old gown and wanders outside all day long. He wore a pair of black cloth shoes on his feet, and sometimes he walked dangling like he was wearing slippers. He usually squats by the corner of the street, watching the people coming and going. If he is hungry, he will stand at the door of other people's restaurants. The boss will send him a few mouthfuls of food to let him go because he is afraid that it will affect the business. Maybe those kind people will give him a meal. At night, he would find a clean and sheltered place to sleep, and he still lived a wandering life when he got up every day. He left his imprint on the journey of life wandering.

In the Chinese dictionary, there is simply no proper Chinese word to describe a homeless person. Common English-Chinese dictionaries translate vagabonds as "walkers", "rogues", "rogues", and "loafers", but these translations lose the original meaning of the word. For example, the vagabond in Longxi, Gansu Province that He Jiafu met during his wanderings was not like a street performer who made a living, nor was he the kind of hooligan who blindly blackmailed him. "Rogue" and "loafer" both have derogatory meanings, but this does not specifically refer to the Longxi vagabond, but he is a lovely person. Although he is definitely not a son who owns property and has enough food and clothing, he is just a poor man wandering around. Some people may think that because they are rich, they will naturally be able to receive a good education, behave in a gentle manner, and have a refined conversation, not to mention that they will not compete with others and conflict with words. In fact, rich people are not equal to civilized people, on the contrary, they are more hypocrites who are not polite.

The homeless man in front of He Jiafu is gentle, upright and humorous. The homeless man said to He Jiafu: "Although I am poor, I am a liberal. I never pursue material comforts. I live at ease all day long, but I am carefree. I have long been used to a relaxed life and have no worries about wealth." , and do things happily, not like the rich who are timid and look forward and backward."

The vagabond in Longxi smiled at He Jiafu and said, "I don't have a surname or a name, so you can call me a bastard, everyone calls me that. I'm a person who goes around casually every day. I drink wine in big cups and talk casually." By the way, sometimes I will make up some interesting lies. There are too many lies in this world, and I have to learn. I don’t care about anything, and I smile every day. Those so-called well-behaved people will say behind their backs I have no sense of responsibility. Because I will not line up a bucket of soybeans and a bucket of black beans on the table, counting my good thoughts and bad thoughts all day like a plan. I will not frown and make a chain of tricks To frame others. I think it's better to be a fool than to be alive."

People who keep their own lives guard their lives with trepidation every day, fearing that they will lose their lives, but completely ignore the real happiness of life. When the coffin is finalized, they realize that their lives have been precious for nothing, but they have not received any benefits from them. It's a pity that it was too late, and there was no time to regret it. The tramp only cares about the present pleasure and puts the safety of life aside. But he never fails to enjoy life as much as possible.

The vagabond smiled at He Jiafu and said: "In this society where people cannibalize me, I am wandering in the boundless world, give my dream a pair of wings, let me accompany my dream to the end of time, I am not afraid of the painful wandering, I am not afraid Fate is bleak, I am only afraid that my happiness is not enough to support the weight of life, and I am crazy for half my life, just in exchange for the stubbornness of my dream."

These words actually came from the tramp in front of him, which made He Jiafuping a little surprised and puzzled.

He Jiafu asked tentatively: "I've heard about cannibalism everywhere in Xinyang, but what about Longxi?"

The homeless hooligan stopped laughing at He Jiafu and said: "Now is the time of the Great Famine. A large number of people cannibalism occurred in Linxia, Gansu Province. 588 people in 10 communes in the city ate 337 corpses, including 170 people in Hongtai Commune. 125, 5 living. Ma Xishun's family of Jinguang No. 9 team ate the patient's body, and all 11 members of his family died. Some production teams died more than 20 people in one day. Two radishes of the Tiezhai production team of Yinji Commune More than 60 corpses were dug out of the cellar. The 10 members of Mayoubu’s family in Lijiazhuang, Hongtai Commune, all died on the kang, and the corpses were decomposed and no one buried them. Some women died, and the children were still crawling on the mother’s corpse to nurse Members Ma Yibula and his wife killed and ate their 14-year-old daughter, and after Ma died, his wife ate her."

The tramp told He Jiafu about the cannibalism in Longxi:

Ma Abdu, a member of the Tibetan commune, told his daughter when he was about to die: "The flesh on my body is gone. After I die, I can dig out my heart and eat it." Another couple discussed eating their two children first to save their lives, and later there will be more Food was regenerated. They killed and ate one baby first, and when they felt stronger, they ate the second one. In order to avoid poisoning, they dug up wild vegetables and cooked them with the doll's meat. When the cadres went to their house, they found the doll's head and feet were still boiled in the pot.

The homeless man said: "I can't eat meat, but I will never kill my children for eating meat. Of course I don't have children. It's not that I can't have children, but that no woman is willing to have sex with me. Monks don't eat meat , don’t marry a wife, can’t I survive? I can’t even eat vegetables, so can’t I eat wild vegetables and fruits all over the mountains and plains? I don’t believe in the theory of a great famine. Look at the surrounding mountains, forests and fields, Drought? Flooded? If it’s a natural disaster, it’s better to say it’s a man-made disaster.”

Speaking of the phenomenon of cannibalism, the gangster seemed very angry. He told He Jiafu:

In the spring of 1960, a young man in Longxi County, Gansu Province beat his mother to death, marinated the picked meat in jars, and ate it slowly in the cellar. Xie Zhenyi, Goubao Township, Jichuan Town, Tongwei County said: Niu Zongxiang, a member of the commune, chopped up human flesh and cooked it at home. After being found out by the commune secretary, he found it and dumped it in a ravine. A breeder in the same village picked up the cooked meat after dark. Basin, bloated to death after overeating. A woman in Baiyanglin, Xinjing Township, Tongwei County went out and locked her little girl at home. The child was so hungry that she ran out. Someone in the village tricked her into killing her and eating her. In Tanqiaogou Village, Puma Township, Minxian County, a woman's whole family starved to death. She was so hungry that she lost her mind, so she coaxed a neighbor's doll to come home, killed it, and cooked it in a washbasin. An old man in Hezheng County was so hungry that he killed his little grandson and ate them. In Dazhuang Township, Gangu County, there was an old woman who killed her grandson and cannibalized her while her son and daughter-in-law were out. After the incident, she was sentenced to death and shot. A couple in Baiyanglin, Tongwei County were so hungry that they beat their daughter to death for cooking, but did not feed their two sons. As a result, the couple died, and the two sons who did not eat human flesh survived.

In the days that followed, He Jiafu saw more data about Longxi cannibalism from the Internet:

According to Sha Qing's "Yi Wei Da Di Wan", a farmer starved to death during the great famine in Tongwei County, leaving only the father and two children. One day the father drove the girl out, and the girl saw a layer of white flowers floating in the pot when she returned home. A bone was thrown by the stove, but my brother was gone. A few days later, the father, who had closed his eyes and said nothing, climbed crookedly from the kang to the stove to add water to make a fire. Don’t eat me, I’ll hold grass and light a fire for you, and no one will do your work for you after eating me…” A man from Shangdianzi Village, Jichuan Township in the county dragged his daughter outside and crushed her to death, then took her home and chopped her While cooking, her mother, Mao Qiaoma, ate her daughter's meat and cried, "Eating my own doll makes my heart hurt!"

Zhang Dafa, a former CPPCC cadre in Tongwei County, recalled and recorded a large number of cannibalism in the county during the Great Famine, and there are some sad "stories". A family in a certain village of Jichuan Commune, whose husband works out of town, sent more than ten catties of food coupons for emergency relief. After the woman bought the noodles with food stamps, she locked the door behind her back and did not leave for several days. When the villagers found something unusual, they climbed over the wall and went in. They saw that several children had starved to death, but the mistress was nowhere to be found. It was not until more than ten years later that the mystery was revealed. It turned out that this woman abandoned her children and fled alone with her back turned. However, she was killed and eaten before she could leave the village. According to another cadre, there were 6 people in our family at that time. My father went to the Taohe water conservancy construction site, and my younger siblings and I were dragged by my mother. My mother hid some food somewhere, and whenever my brothers and sisters fell asleep in the middle of the night, my mother would wake me up quietly, stuff a handful of cooked noodles pounded with a stone nest into my mouth, and then cover me with a quilt She didn't sleep peacefully until I ate my stomach.

Zhang Dafa recalled: I survived, but my brothers and sisters starved to death. A year later, my father came back from the Taohe construction site, and my mother handed me over to my father, saying, "No way, I only helped you with one job, and that's... that's all!" "He cried and fell to the ground. After that, my mother cried so much that she couldn't get up, and finally she cried blindly. At that time, she was only in her 30s.

There is an interview account by Yiwa: A half-grown boy named He Shunxiang called a bowl of thin soup from the cafeteria in Jichuan Sibao, Ganwei County. His mother competed with him for food, and he pushed his mother to the bottom of the earth cliff and fell to her death. , was arrested by the police, locked up until the age of 18 and shot. A breeder in Sijiachuan, Tongwei, cut off a leg from a live donkey and ate it before it was cooked. As a result, the intestine swelled and died. An old woman’s married daughter came back to visit her mother in Zhoudian Brigade, Longyang Township, Tongwei. The famished old woman strangled her daughter to death in the middle of the night, chopped her body up and stored it, and used her daughter’s flesh to sustain her life every day. An old lady in her 50s from the Majiahe Brigade in Sansanlipu, Hezheng County, ate five members of her family: first her husband and three sons were starved to death, and finally her teenage daughter Gainu was hacked to death cooking. In Yinwa Village, Houzhaizi Brigade, Chengguan Town, Hezheng County, a man smothered his baby to death with a broken quilt. Because he didn’t have the energy to go down the kang to cook it, he ate his baby alive and died of starvation. An old lady in Zhoudian Village, Longyang Township, Tongwei County actually ate up 7 members of her family. She ate the 6 members who died of starvation first, and finally cut up and ate the only living baby in the family.

According to the memories of the old lady Wang Suigou from Luodian Village, Wangbao Township, Qin’an County, Gansu Province, eight people in her family died of starvation when she was only in her teens. In this village, because of the shallow burial, the wolves picked up the corpses of people who starved to death. When Wang Suigou dug up wild vegetables, he dug up a human leg and gnawed it in his hand. She remembered that there was no blood on it, only dry skin. In Fengping Village, Qin'an County, a man who was fleeing famine from other places fainted from hunger on the road, and another man scraped the meat to eat before he died and his legs were still stretching. There was a teacher in Yangwanli, Qin'an County, who passed by Niujiapo, Tongwei County, and was stopped by someone in the river bend to kill him and scrape his meat for food.

After He Jiafu saw the data of cannibalism in Longxi on the Internet, he would always think of what the homeless bastard said to him: life is actually a life and death wandering, wandering in the world, it is better to say wandering in hell. Nature made us all vagabonds, and the vice of the world has made us respectable men. Decent and well-behaved people are actually a group of idiots. They want to be loyal to the emperor and serve the country, willing to be slaves or cannon fodder, and they want to use violence to suppress them and let the whip control them. That's a bunch of soul-indulgent walking dead from top to bottom. The true nature of the tramp is always optimistic. He believes that in a society ruled by the devil, the world in myths and fairy tales is actually full of lies. Years take time to wander, we walk all the way, without looking back, the spirit of the homeless is to enjoy the current life unlimitedly, live in the present, life is interesting, the life of the homeless is happy, you can freely choose your own Ways and directions, breathe the air of joy. In any case, in this insensitive China, the vagabond spirit is an excellent stimulant, the most needed booster. It is to write off any country or nation, because in this world, power does not belong to the people, and the devil who exercises power on behalf of the people has never done anything good for the people.