Grassroots figure three
Text/Sun Guohui
Some middle-aged and elderly people on Hada Street still remember that about before the "Cultural Revolution", there was a man who walked on his knees, pushing a small self-made rectangular wooden box, with a small iron box under the box, and some haberdashery at that time was placed or supported on the car. It's nothing more than a needle thread: the top finger, the pancreatic box, the colored plastic rope and shoelaces that tie the pigtails...... Although it only makes some small profits, there are many buyers. At that time, prices were not high, and making ends meet was not a problem.
The surname of this mobile haberdashery salesman is Gao, and I have forgotten the name of our classmates.
At that time, the mobile sale of haberdashery on the market was strictly prohibited by the market management department, and there were only two traveling merchants who bought haberdashery on the entire street, one was approved to sell due to disability, and the other was a woman, who was the widow of a martyr who died to resist US aggression and aid Korea, and was allowed to sell it with special care, and that person seemed to have the surname Gao.
The knee-walking salesman is a burly man, and he is not short when he stands up, but he can only walk on his knees with his feet in tow. The knees were padded with felt and big car tires, and they looked very pitiful.
The curiosity focused on the disability of his knee. After a long time, I have heard several statements intentionally or unintentionally:
One said that Mr. Gao himself confessed: when he was a child, he froze his knees when he asked for food.
One says that when the Kuomintang planes bombed the North Market on April 18, 48, when he saw people fleeing regardless of the deserted goods, he collected the goods for himself, and sometimes his knees were blown up.
One said that he robbed other people's money and belongings during the bombing, and was reported by the public and sentenced by the authorities.
said that his violent niece and daughter were scolded by the clansmen.
All the sayings are hearsay, and they are vain and vain.
It's just that there was such a person who haunted the streets of Chifeng, so that the past was taken away by time.
(The picture comes from the Internet)
Before his retirement, he worked in the cultural and historical materials department of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, enthusiastically studied Chifeng's modern and modern historical materials and photography, published "Chifeng Photography History" and held a solo exhibition of portrait photography, and his literary works have been selected by national and provincial newspapers.