Slice of mud
Cai Chengcheng/text
I've wanted to write about Luo Jin Luo for a long time.
Recently, I read Songbai's literary and historical monograph "Muddy", and there is a detail in the text that makes me interested. Songbai said that when he was a child, he often lived in Luofu, and he was afraid of two or three times a week. I inquired about it, and Songbai said that he already had two older brothers at that time, and the Luo family had only one daughter. The two families discussed and planned to give him to the Luo family. Listening to what he had to say, I was a little swayed, because it seemed that such articles should be written by Songbai, and that was his advantage.
And Chekhov said: The big dog barks, and the small dog also has to pay attention. So I picked up the teeth of the pines and cypresses and wrote down the above title;
When I went to middle school, I was in the same class as Luo Mengchang's daughter, so I learned about the league leader's name. Soon saw his true face of Lushan, but the scene was very embarrassing, at the criticism meeting at the League Stadium. Thin body, wearing a huge brand, black and white with a red cross, hanging his head, unable to see his facial features, this is the only time I have seen Luo Mengchang.
Mr. Zhang Nairen wrote an article "Strange Friendship", which was very touching and was included in my literature and history. There is a paragraph in the article that in those days, Luo Mengchang accepted a maximum of four criticisms a day. After a fight, he entered the butcher shop with the sign on his back, and people gave way to him to buy it first, but he nodded in a friendly way and went to the back of the line. The meat seller shouted, and the capitalist roader came to the front! Sell it to you first, pick a piece of fat for you, and eat it so that you can accept the criticism of the revolutionary masses. It's real, there's a variety of interpretations out there, and I think it's real black humor.
There is a doctor Li Zizhu in Chifeng Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital, who was born in a family of traditional Chinese medicine. Li Zongfu was a famous Chinese medicine practitioner who served as a member of the Standing Committee of the CPPCC in Lao Chifeng in the 50s. Zizhu has been learning martial arts from Li Jingxin since he was a child, and he joined the work when he was a teenager; For example, at a dinner, he pointed to the pot and said to me that Mr. Chen Yongqing had brought this dish back from Shenyang. Northeast people's pot wrapped meat is sweet, Mr. Chen developed and processed, turned it into salty, for more than 80 years, this dish has become the favorite of Chifeng people, there are women and children's table, it has almost become the standard. I took a fancy to Zizhu's full stomach and pulled him into the "Hongshan Literature and History Research Association", at that time I was also ambitious, ready to make a difference, who knew that the bad luck, strong heart Artemisia Lai, and later heard that the research society started a new stove, my generation was naturally photographed on the beach, this is a later story.
Get back to business. Let's say that Dr. Li and Luo Mengchang are neighbors, and they are both under the jurisdiction of the Blacksmith Camp Hutong Neighborhood Committee. The two families are also a bit of a transition - his brother-in-law is the niece of Mrs. Luo Ding Xinguang. Once at Zizhu's house, when I was drunk, the topic came to Luo Mengchang, Zizhu said, when my brother got married, Luo Mengchang was a parent. At that time, weddings were held at home. When the banquet is served, we will let the leader of the alliance go to the kang and sit in the right seat. But when he didn't do it, he said, "Hey, little plum—that's what he called me when I knew him—get me a little bench, and I can't cross my legs, I can't reach the food. As soon as I heard this, I laughed and quipped, you are an official, you are high everywhere, and you are even superior to others on the kang, so you will order it! He also laughed and said, you kid be respectful, we are really relatives, I am your elder, can you be polite? He is such a real person.
Zizhu told some interesting stories about Luo Mengchang. That was when he was the mayor of Chifeng City, he bought a bicycle and flew pigeons. Push my daughter to kindergarten in the morning. The masses were dissatisfied, thinking that he was engaging in specialization, and their opinions were reflected to him, but he was quite modest, and he never saw him take care of the children in a car again. Another time things got bigger. His old father came from his hometown in Hebei to visit relatives and brought some newly unearthed peanuts. Later, I didn't keep it well and covered it, and Mrs. Ding Xinguang didn't take it seriously, and poured it into the ditch casually, which made the masses angry. Shi Lanying, the director of our neighborhood committee, this woman is very powerful, and she was also a model figure back then, she directly found Luo Mengchang to verify the matter. In the evening, all the residents of the whole street held a meeting, at which Luo Mengchang made a profound review, which calmed down the people's anger.
Guoquan, who was sitting at the same table, also told me about Luo Mengchang.
Guoquan and Zizhu are Fa Xiao, they are classmates who graduated from the first elementary school in 1962, and my cousin Zhang Er'an. Guo Quan and I are not outsiders, we have discussed the valve, and he jokingly called us "three friends": alumni of Chifeng No. 2 Middle School, comrades-in-arms of the rebel brigade, and workers of Hongwei Coal Mine. Guoquan worked miracles in the mines, and he served as the captain of the coal mining team, the electromechanical team, and the security team at the same time.
Guoquan said that when I was still working in the tannery, once Luo Mengchang came to me, he said that his daughter had a friend, who was a soldier, and now she was demobilized, and asked if she could be arranged to our factory. Naturally, I agreed, but the old league leader never begged me, and then I said, "What department do you think you have arranged?" When he heard this, he laughed, what kind of department? First, he has no culture, and second, he has no technology, so he can use a gate as a sending and receiving department. I was moved when I heard this, you know, he was still in power at that time.
In people's minds, Luo Mengchang has always been approachable and has no shelves, but some people say that he is like a good old man and a bit of a "face".
My colleague Hou Yangeng, who was once an excellent Chinese teacher at Chifeng No. 3 Middle School, published an article in the "Old Cadres Life Newspaper" in memory of his father. In the chat, Chief Luo Mengchang was mentioned, and Yan Geng said that when Chief Luo Mengchang was in charge of agricultural work, he often came to my house to discuss work with my father, and we became very familiar with it for a long time. I once joked with him in a troublesome way, and I said, Uncle Luo, you angels call my old man, and if you don't get close or leave, give our old man a mention? Who knew that he glared at him, hey, good boy, you Lao Tzu is here? Let me tell you, your current position can best give full play to his strengths, and can best reflect his value, you know a fart? Little rabbit cub! This is the first time I have learned the power of this little old man, and I am so frightened that I dare not say anything. I have to admit that it is precisely because of their efforts that the yield of corn per mu in our region has exceeded the 1,000-kilogram mark, and a large number of "tons of grain fields" have appeared, which have contributed to the development of agriculture in our region.
Speaking of Luo Mengchang, I always feel guilty. When I was a child, I read big-character posters and said that he used his power to help actors take drugs. I was filled with righteous indignation and resentment. It wasn't until last year that I learned from Songbai that the approval of morphine for Master Meng Youdong was approved by the Standing Committee of the League, but I was shallow and ignorant, and I actually let Luo Mengchang be a "backstabber" for many years.
I asked Zizhu, to paraphrase the popular saying now, Luo Mengchang is a cadre who does not forget his original intention and practices the purpose of serving the people, do you agree? Zizhu nodded affirmatively, and he said, it is completely correct, there are too few such good cadres now.
After listening to Zizhu's words, I suddenly remembered a line in "Hamlet". Let me end this article with this line and use it to express my remembrance of this old man of history.
"He was a dignified man, and on the whole of the world, I would never see anyone like him again. ”
About the Author:
Cai Chengcheng, born in 1953, is a native of Hongshan District. Chifeng No. 4 Middle School Chinese teacher, retired in 2013.