Quincy's Quiet Contemplation Chapter 46

Lao Pi has extraordinary energy, and what is known is that he has double-pupiled eyes and double rows of teeth. When he went to various villages, someone would secretly observe him, but he always wore large glasses, and it was not clear whether he had double pupils. What was certain was that he did not have double rows of teeth, but that his teeth were uneven and some were crooked. The protruding one is a set of messy teeth. The cook in the commune kitchen knew best that the secretary had bad teeth and would dig everything he ate into the gaps between his teeth, so he had to prepare toothpicks after every meal. The county party secretary found out about this and gave him a tiger beard. The secretary of the county party committee got this tiger beard when he visited the tiger park during a meeting in the province. Lao Pi specially made a small bamboo tube to put it in. After every meal, he took it out and picked his teeth with the tip of the beard. It was inevitable that everyone would come close. When I went to see the rare thing, I was only allowed to look at it and not move it.

※※※

This day was the morning after the rain. Mushrooms sprouted from the grass and moss grew on the stones. The woodpeckers knocked on this tree and then on that tree, making a loud sound. Lao Pi hadn't woken up yet. As usual, Lao Pi got up at dawn, and asked the tomb student to be right outside the door when the courtyard door was opened. However, he drank too much wine that night, so the door opened late, and the tomb student was already on the steps. Sleepy. Lao Pi kicked with his feet and said: Wake up, wake up! The tomb student opened his eyes and immediately slapped the steps with his hands, resenting the steps for making him sleepy. Then he dipped his fingers in saliva to wet his eyelids to clear himself up. Lao Pi said: Learn how to bray like a cow, and you will wake up as soon as you bray. Tomb students imitate the cow's cry: Moo---! When the tomb screamed, the sound of the woodpeckers disappeared. All around, the cows in the village were braying, and their moos were like rolling thunder.

The grave student began to do the first thing he had to do every day, which was to take a red flag from the secretary's office, run to the hill behind the upper courtyard, where there was a cypress tree, and put the red flag on the top of the tree. It is said that the Taoist temple was very large hundreds of years ago. The mountain gate, archway and main hall were built from the lower courtyard of the commune to the top of the mountain. The cypress tree was the symbol of the Taoist temple. The Alfalfa tree also blooms every year when alfalfa blooms. The flowers are purple and the fruits are white. Once it bears fruits, people in the town will go and see which branch of the tree has more fruits. If the stock points in the direction, the crops will be abundant. However, since the red flag was planted every day, for almost three years, the cypress tree has not produced any more fruit. Liu Shaokang from Qipan Village told Wang Yaocheng privately that gold overcomes wood, which means that the red flag has an ax and a sickle printed on it. The ax and sickle are metal, so the tree will not bear fruit if it is damaged. Wang Yaocheng nodded in agreement at the time, but later reported this to Lao Pi. Lao Pi slapped the table and ordered Liu Shaokang to be sent to the study class. From now on, no one dared to talk about the Po tree.

The decision to plant the red flag was made by Lao Pi after he came to Guofenglou. He learned from the practice of raising the red flag every day in Beijing's Tiananmen Square, hoping that people in the town would see the red flag when they raised their heads, stimulating a revolutionary passion. At that time, the cypress tree was the largest tree in Guofenglou. It was upright and bare, and no cadres in the commune could climb up it. The one who planted the flag was a monkey with a red B*tt. That monkey was raised by a rat poison seller in Xigou Village. When he sold the medicine, he let the monkey climb a pole to dry the place. Lao Pi organized a movement to cut off the tail of capitalism in the whole commune. No villagers were allowed to go out, so the monkey Confiscated, they were trained to put flags on trees. But the monkey got sick in a year. Lao Pi remembered the Tomb Sheng who was dressed up and beheaded when he was worshiping the God of Winds. Someone called the Tomb Sheng to climb a tree for him to see. The Tomb Sheng climbed the tree faster than the monkey. This is the Tomb Sheng. The reason why students were left behind in the first place.