How to Thrive in the ’60s

The boy sitting on the side of the road seemed to be out of control, came over and lay down beside the door, swallowing more violently.

The waiter's brows immediately wrinkled, and he yelled at him, "Go go go! Where's the little beggar, dirty or not, it's disgusting..."

Before he finished speaking, he saw the boy rushed in like a wolf cub going down the mountain, grabbed a large amount of noodles and ran out the door, while running, he put the noodles in his mouth and stuffed it into his clothes.

"...Robbery!"

The waiter was stunned for a moment, and after reacting, he immediately ran out screaming.

Like a pebble thrown into the calm water, the originally clean road suddenly became noisy because of this chase.

Everyone in the hotel was completely stunned by the scene. Not knowing who reacted first, everyone rushed to the door to see the waiter chasing the boy.

Yun Chang was also stunned, came back to his senses, swallowed the tofu brain in his mouth, squeezed to the door, and stretched his head to look out.

At this time, the waiter had caught up with the boy, and I saw the boy bent down desperately, ignoring the slaps from the waiter, and slammed the noodles into his mouth and clothes, even though his hands and the corners of his mouth were slapped. He was not willing to spit out the food in his mouth after the blisters were scalded.

The waiter slapped the boy hard, then lifted the boy's ear with one hand and dragged it to the hotel. The boy had to turn sideways and walk on tiptoes, his posture was very strange.

When he got closer, Yun Chang saw that the boy's ear was pulled so long by the waiter.

"Comrades, everyone has seen it, rushing into the state unit to openly loot the noodles! This is more serious robbery than theft and robbery, and it should be sent to the police to be shot..."

The waiter stood at the door of the hotel, holding the boy by the ear, forcing him to raise his head, facing the crowd on the road, while pointing and shouting at the boy's crime.

And Yunshang noticed that in the increasingly excited voice of the waiter, the fierce look in the boy's eyes gradually faded, and it was replaced by boundless panic and helplessness.

As the onlookers glared and criticized him, his body began to tremble, and the tips of his clenched fingers gradually turned white.

The waiter raised his head and shook his ears in high spirits, "Comrades, a bad guy like this, we must hand him over to the police, and let the police comrades try him on behalf of our working class, we can't let this happen. The black sheep of the gang are back in our revolutionary ranks..."

"Yes, it's time to send it to the police, it's a new society, and there are robbers, let him eat guns!"

"You're only so old, you've learned to rob. There must be someone behind you! I think his parents are very suspicious. Let's go and visit his house. If you don't teach your children, send them to a labor camp together!"

"That's right, it must be his family who instigated him to work hard and get something for nothing. This kind of unhealthy capitalist ideology must be strictly judged!"

...

He probably heard that the adults around him were involved in the family, and the boy struggled like crazy, waving his arms and making a depressed and dull voice in his throat.

The waiter's hands subconsciously exerted force, but because the boy struggled too hard, the long ears that had been pulled were torn in half.

Blood poured out all of a sudden, and half of the boy's face and neck were quickly stained with blood.

And the suppressed roar in his throat suddenly rose because of the pain, like a wolf howl, a shrill whine, which made people's back shiver, and his heart tensed.

The waiter seemed to be frightened, and quickly released the boy's ears that had almost fallen off, took a few steps back in horror, tripped over a dead branch on the ground again, and sat down on the ground.

The surrounding crowd also quieted down, looking at the scene in front of them, no one spoke for a long time.

The boy felt that he was free,

He stopped screaming, raised his hand to touch his face, looked at the blood on his hands, and stared blankly at the waiter.

After a while, the boy suddenly turned around and rushed out.

Probably because his body was too weak and he ran too fast, he fell heavily on the ground just after running a few steps, his elbows and knees went straight down, and his half-dropped ears dangled on his face, but he didn't seem to feel it. To the pain, I got up and continued to run like crazy.

This time, no one said that the boy was not allowed to escape, and no one chased after him to see how the boy's injuries were.

Looking at the scene in front of her, Yun Chang's forbearance burst into tears, her eyes seemed to be full of blood, her eyes were hot, and her eyes were red.

Even though Gu Shinian covered her eyes as soon as the boy was injured, the dazzling red seemed to flow in Yun Chang's heart, making her depressed and almost breathless.

Yun Chang didn't dare to say the boy's pitiful words, and didn't dare make people think that she was sympathizing with the boy. She turned her head and shed tears, while pulling Gu Shinian to ask him to leave the hotel:

"...Second brother, second brother, my eyes hurt, let's go and go home..."

Gu Shinian didn't speak, went in and picked up the two people's things, hugged Yunshang out of the hotel door, stopped, and chased in the direction where the boy disappeared.

Yun Chang was lying on Gu Shinian's neck, tears kept falling down, in addition to the unspeakable anger and helplessness, her heart was also churning with fear and helplessness.

Noticing Yun Chang's trembling, Gu Shinian hugged her tightly and coaxed carefully over and over again:

"A-shang, don't be afraid, there is a second brother, the second brother will protect you..."

After a long time, Yun Chang said dully, "Second brother, I want to help him."

"Okay, let's go find him."

Gu Shinian knew that Yun Chang was talking about the boy just now, and following the blood on the ground, he accelerated his pace and chased after him.

The two followed the blood trail all the way to a large courtyard. Before entering, they heard the sound of crying, beating, and scolding.

"You little prostitute! Are you able to eat that braised stick? It's not enough for me to have a big bite. How can you eat it! How can you still have the face to eat! And you little bastard, why didn't you let it go? People were beaten to death outside..."

Gu Shinian walked in with Yun Chang in his arms, and at a glance, he saw the boy standing at the door of the Westinghouse with a wooden stick in his hand, confronting an old lady who was jumping and cursing.

And his half-dropped ear was still drooping beside his face, and his face was even more gray than before because of the excessive blood loss.

"That's my aunt's life-saving food! Whoever robs me and who is desperate!"

The old lady didn't look at the boy, and scolded the Westinghouse angrily, "It's a long-dead thing, it's also forbidden food to eat, how can it be better! You're a jerk that makes people lose the beach, I'm a scumbag. Bad luck! Hurry up and get out of our house with the little bastard!"

Yun Chang and Gu Shinian couldn't figure out what the situation was, and they didn't dare to say a word for a while. When the old lady scolded a few words and returned to the main room, the two walked to the Westinghouse.

The boy looked at the two of them vigilantly, the tips of his fingers holding the wooden stick turned white from the force.

"Who are you looking for?"

Gu Shinian took out an oiled paper bag from the bag, which contained the Yunnan Baiyao powder prepared by Yunshang on the road.

The portion is quite large, enough for boys to use.

"Little comrade, there is medicine in it. After you put the medicine on your ear, go to the hospital to have a look. If you delay for a long time, your ears may not look good."

The boy's expression loosened, staring blankly at the oil-paper package, he didn't dare to reach out to pick it up for a long time, until the sound of things falling to the ground came from the room, the boy didn't react, and hurriedly threw the stick and rushed in.

Yun Chang also heard the movement inside, and without thinking too much, pulled Gu Shinian and followed him into the door.

It was a firewood room with firewood and briquettes piled on one side, an empty wooden bed on the other, and a square table with a crippled leg.

There is only one window in the house, no window paper is pasted, and a thin wooden board is used to block the window lattice to block the cold wind.

On the bed under the window lay a woman with a thin and gray face and sunken eye sockets. She was covered with a thin bed quilt. On the head of the bed was a broken bowl with a light layer of miscellaneous braised noodles at the bottom. .

Yun Chang suddenly remembered that when the waiter was chasing the boy to fight, he bent down, stuffing noodles into his mouth and hiding noodles in his clothes.

At this time, looking at the noodles in the bowl again, Yun Chang immediately reacted.

The reason why the boy put noodles in his mouth at that time should be to cover up his actions of hiding noodles.

He knew in his heart that if the waiter found out that he still had noodles hidden on his body, he would definitely turn it over, and even if he threw it on the ground and stepped into the mud, he would not be allowed to take it home.

If he guessed correctly, he grabbed the noodles because he wanted to feed the woman on the bed.

The boy picked up the tea jug on the ground, put it on the table, sat beside the bed again, took out a noodle from the bowl, and carefully put it to the woman's mouth.

"Gu, try it now, this is noodles! It's made from white noodles, it's delicious!"

The woman slowly opened her eyes and stared at the boy's half-cracked ear. Tears rolled down drop by drop and fell into the pillow.

"Gu! I don't hurt, it really doesn't hurt!" The boy grinned naively, pointed at Gu Shinian and Yun Chang, "Gu, look, this kind comrade gave me medicine, I Just take the medicine."

The woman turned her head to look at Gu Shinian, tried her best to squeeze out a smile, opened her mouth, but couldn't make a sound for a long time.

Gu Shinian and Yun Chang were still a little stunned at the moment, even though they were mentally prepared, they were still stunned by the scene of the four walls in front of them.

The boy's home is even poorer than the thatched hut that was leaking everywhere in Grandma Tian!

The boy put down the bowl, walked up to Gu Shinian, looked at him earnestly and pleadingly, "Comrade, tell my aunt, your medicine is very good, as long as I put it on, my ears will grow back, no become crippled."

This time, even Gu Shinian's eyes were a little hot. Looking at the boy who was not much taller than Yun Chang, he nodded vigorously, comforting both the boy and the woman on the bed:

"Yes, this is a special medicine in the army. It is really effective. After applying it, the ears will grow back quickly."

As he spoke, Gu Shinian opened the oil paper bag in his hand, pulled the boy over, and first applied medicinal powder to him to stop the bleeding.

Yun Chang took the opportunity to run to the bed and looked at the woman carefully. She felt that her eyebrows and eyes were very familiar, but she couldn't remember where she had seen her.

When Yun Chang realized that the woman's face was wrong, she was already in a semi-conscious state.

"Second brother Gu!" Yun Chang exclaimed, pointing at the woman on the bed, "Second brother Gu, this aunt... hurry to the hospital!"

The boy became anxious when he heard it, rushed over and called the woman twice, but got no response, and immediately burst into tears.

Gu Shinian also hurried over to look at the woman's face. Seeing that her face was pale, he turned back and shouted at the boy:

"Stop crying, go out and borrow a scooter and take your aunt to the hospital!"

"I... my aunt, the trolley, the hospital..."

The boy was completely panicked and repeated Gu Shinian's words unconsciously, until Yun Chang turned around and slapped him, and the boy came back to his senses and rushed out crying.

Yun Chang stared blankly at the woman, and then looked at the braised noodles sticking together in the bowl by the bedside, and her heart became more and more panicked.

Gu Shinian wanted to give the woman some salt and sugar water first, but after walking around the house, he couldn't find a sip of cold water.

Just as they were about to go out to have a look, several uncles and aunts wearing red sleeves pushed the flatbed car into the yard, and ran into the house like a gust of wind, and together they carried the woman to the car with the quilt, ready to be sent to the hospital.

The old lady who confronted the boy before rushed out of the main room, crying while holding on to the flatbed truck:

"Oh, there are bandits coming from this blue sky and day's house! Where do you want to take my daughter-in-law? Come on people! They're all liberated and they're going to grab people..."

"Bah!" An aunt snorted and scolded the old lady, "Mother Zhou! I order you to let go! We're going to send Lin Dani to the hospital. If you don't let go, I'll go to the Women's Federation to sue you for abusing your daughter-in-law! I'll sue you for deliberately killing someone! I sue you for persecuting women and children!"

"Bah! She, Lin Dani, who married our Zhou family is my Zhou family. Why do you sue me? I also want to sue you as bandits, who came to rob women of good families!"

"Just because we are members of the joint defense team! Let go! If we don't let go, we will report to the Women's Federation immediately! Report to the police!"

When the old lady heard that these people were coming, she let go, but as soon as the flatbed truck moved, the old lady chased the car and ran a few steps forward:

"Your joint defense team wants to send Lin Dani to the hospital, so the medical expenses will be paid by your joint defense team. I don't have the money to see her doctor!"

However, the flatbed truck had already left the yard at this time, and no one paid any attention to the old lady's nonsense.

Yun Chang followed out of the yard, still feeling uneasy.

The Zhou family refused to pay for the medical expenses. The woman and the boy had no money at first sight. Even if the people from the joint defense team were sent to the hospital, it is estimated that the two would not be able to see the doctor.

"Second brother Gu, let's go to the hospital to have a look."

"Um."

Gu Shinian responded and stared at Yun Chang with a strange expression for a long time. When Yun Chang looked back, he hugged her and walked a few steps, catching up with the team in front of the defense team.

The boy followed by the car, wiping his tears while trotting all the way to stay beside the woman, the ear that had just stopped bleeding began to ooze out again.

After walking for about 40 minutes, I finally arrived at the city hospital. The people from the joint defense team helped to take the person to the emergency room, and then greeted the boy to go to the hospital quickly.