Quincy's Quiet Contemplation Chapter 62

When we got to the mountain, his stomach was so swollen that it felt like it was about to burst. He endured the pain and climbed up the maple tree. As soon as he put away the red flag, his eyes were suddenly filled with stars. He said: Is there a meteor shower? He reached out to catch it and fell from the tree. The tomb student fell headfirst and feet upward. He turned his head to meet a stone under the tree. The stone was not big, but it stood upright and was inserted into the top of his head.

There was a loud noise when the tomb student fell, and a flock of birds flew up in the woods, but there was no one on the mountain and no one knew. The tomb student didn't know that he had fallen and a stone was stuck in the top of his head. He just fainted suddenly. He thought he was collecting the red flag and catching the shining stars with his hands, so he lay there bleeding a lot. By the middle of the night Died silently.

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When Lao Pi came back to receive the award, a warm and grand celebration was held in the lower courtyard. The cadres from each village led people to beat gongs and drums, set off firecrackers, and first draped him in red and flowers. Liu Xueren said: Secretary, your face is glowing. So energetic! At that time, this word was used by Chairman Mao. Lao Pi laughed and said: I am hot and my face is sweaty. After the plaque was hung on the gable of the rostrum, Lao Pi began to speak. His voice was very high. It had never been so high before. There was a slight tremor in his voice. He said: Comrades and fellow villagers, my honor is Guofeng Tower. The honor belongs to all the cadres and the masses of the commune... Suddenly there was a clang. Lao Pi's speech stopped with a clang. This clang was not the gongs and drums team beating the drums. Everyone at the venue saw that the plaque hanging on the gable fell down, and the bench below broke. For two pieces. Everyone in the venue screamed in surprise. Lao Pi looked back. He didn't scream, but his face was already pale. Feng Xie and Liu Xueren, as well as the office director and Yan Liben, ran to the rostrum from both sides of the venue almost immediately, and found that the reason why the plaque fell was because the wooden pegs on the wall were broken. Yan Liben was saying: The wooden peg is broken. How can the wooden peg be broken? Who did anything? ! Lao Pi is also shouting: Tomb life! Grave life! He was used to calling out tombsheng when something happened, but there was no response from tombsheng. When Liu Xueren saw that no tomb student appeared, he asked sharply: Where is the tomb student? Grave life! No one at the meeting saw Tomb Life. Lao Pi raised his head and looked at the top of the mountain. He thought that the tomb student had gone to the upper courtyard. There was no one on the steps on the slope, and there was no red flag waving on the tallest tree. Lao Pi could no longer speak, but he was still standing in the center of the rostrum. He was asking: What's going on? The red flag is no longer raised? ! Liu Xueren cursed: Damn! He understood that the problem was all with Tom Sheng. It was Tom Sheng who nailed the wooden pegs. He must have sabotaged it and escaped, so the red flag was not hung today. He told Yan Liben and the office director to let the secretary have a cup of tea first and maintain order. The meeting would continue and it must continue. Then he and Feng Xie ran to the top of the hill.

What happened later, of course, was that they found Tomb Sheng under the cypress tree. Tomb Sheng had been dead for three days, with his mouth open and a red flag stuffed in his arms. There was also a layer of branches and leaves falling on the red flag. They took the red flag away. When I came out, I saw clearly that those were not branches and leaves, but stick insects. After the meeting, Lao Pi also went to the scene and concluded that Tomb Sheng did not commit suicide out of fear of crime, but that he fell to his death from a tree. Lao Pi said: This short-lived ghost! His eyes were filled with tears, and he couldn't bear to look at him anymore. When he turned around and left, he said again: He is an orphan, just bury him.