Remembering my father

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My father's hometown is in Cixi, Zhejiang. He made a living by farming, but later panicked because of the disaster. I can't stay in my hometown anymore. So the whole family came to Shanghai to break in. From the beginning, he lived in a thatched house in Zhabei, Shanghai. Unfortunately my grandfather died shortly thereafter. The family was suddenly in trouble after the death of my grandfather. My father had to go to an orphanage. My father's memories of the orphanage were vague. I knew that when they were five years old, the orphanage organized them to work and study half-time. Do some simple work in the morning. In the afternoon, they were taught to read and write. My father studied for three years, and his education level was equivalent to that of elementary school. When he was seven years old, his father left the orphanage. Followed my uncle to sell pork to support the family. In the old society, you had to open a shop selling meat. It's not easy. Need to deal with a wide variety of people in society. Among them are inevitably those in the underworld. Later, my uncle may have entered the underworld. Ran away from home. Never came back. It is likely that the underworld fought each other and died. My grandmother was lost because my grandfather was gone, and she was paralyzed when she was angry and anxious. My aunt was working in a glass factory, and once the factory caught fire, my aunt was frightened and deaf. She could no longer work and had to take care of her paralyzed grandmother at home. Leaving three nieces, they depend on their father to raise them. The father also has a younger brother who is three years younger. Young and honest, not very good at work. In this way, the burden of life of a large family of seven or eight people fell on the father. My father was in his teens at the time. To support his family, my father worked as an apprentice in a pharmacy for several years. Later, the rickshaw was pulled. One. On the 28th, the Kou carried out a major bombing of Shanghai, and the houses in Zhabei were destroyed. The father led the family to the ups and downs, living in a stable place, and tasted all the suffering. Later, I found a house in a lane on Panyu Road, Yan'an West Road, and settled down. After the Japanese occupation of Shanghai. With strict control over living materials, Shanghai is called an isolated island. The life of the inhabitants is extremely difficult. In order to survive, my father risked a hail of bullets and bullets to carry rice. He was bitten hard by the Japanese wolf dog and almost lost his life. Decades later I saw a big scar on my father's leg. Mixed in Shanghai Beach for more than ten years. My father is a living map of Shanghai. No matter which corner of Shanghai is in the open, my father knows it all. Father's appearance is cool. It was definitely a little fresh meat in today's terms, and the father was very clever. At that time, Shanghai was vigorously developing electricity. My father learned some crafts. Especially for the manufacture of bakelite products, such as lamp plugs and switches, my father had some unique skills. There is some fame in the bakelite industry in Shanghai Beach. My father began working for people, specializing in technical work. Wait until some money has been accumulated. My father opened a small workshop of his own. Manufacture and sell your own. All the money my father earned was given to my grandmother. There is a grandmother who dominates to support the family. But at that time, social unrest was chaotic. Doing business is sometimes good, sometimes it's bad. Life as a family is difficult and difficult.

Until liberation, the people's government vigorously rectified the social order. Those hooligans and gangsters were swept away. The social environment is much better, and it is really a change of day and place. The business of my father's small workshop also slowly improved. Some capital has also been accumulated.

At that time, I advocated being a glorious mother, so my parents had 8 children. Public-private partnership in 1957. My father was very supportive, and invested all the assets of about 700 yuan accumulated over the years into a public-private partnership enterprise. The Government has adopted a policy of redemption for public-private partnerships. That is, the money you invested in the country will be repaid to you in ten years, which is called public debt. He also retained his father's original salary quota. My father's salary is $150 a month, and my mother's salary is $50, so even though our family of ten is a family of ten. Life is more than enough than the top is less than the bottom. It is better than the average worker's family. At that time, the joint venture factory was in Pudong, and my parents lived in the factory. The factory is gender-dependent. Even couples can't live together. There are kindergartens in the factory, and parents put their children in the kindergartens when they go to work during the day. After work, I will be brought to the dormitory to bring my own. Our five older children live in the alley and take care of ourselves.

In 1960, the grain suddenly became tense. My father said it was because we had to pay off the Soviet Union's debts and suffered another serious natural disaster. Father said that the Soviets were really harsh, and the apples had to go through a special funnel one by one, and the larger apples could not fall, even if they were eligible. If the smaller one falls down, it does not meet the requirements, and they will not accept it. To be honest I gritted my teeth in hatred. In order to survive the natural disaster, my eldest sister took us to the western suburbs park to dig wild vegetables. The wild vegetables dug up are combined with a little flour to make a cake. The bread was black and hard. It's hard to swallow, but in order to fill your stomach, you still grit your teeth and eat it. We also have a canteen at the entrance of our lane. It's not like a canteen in the countryside where you can eat without paying. To buy a meal ticket, you can buy steamed buns with porridge. I don't remember those days being very long. For a year or so, things slowly got better. So when it comes to three years of natural disasters, I am not particularly impressed. Maybe we live in cities. The state still takes good care of the city dwellers. The countryside can be very difficult and miserable. I also often see people from the countryside going door to door begging for food. As for the fact that many people starved to death in the countryside at that time, I only heard about it after the end of the Cultural Revolution.

After the public-private partnership, my father was the deputy director of the factory in charge of technology, and he was very busy. So when I was a child, I wasn't very impressed with my father. A home is spread out in two places, which is very inconvenient. So later my father transferred the house to Pudong. Our family of ten lived together. The house we moved to Pudong was a new workers' village. At the time, the conditions were very good. The red-painted floor, and the flush toilet, no longer have to pour the toilet every day. Living conditions have improved a lot. My parents said that this was really a blessing for Chairman Mao of the Communist Party and socialism.