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Chapter Fourteen Family Portrait (2)

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    All the parents and photographers present noticed the incongruity, because Chairman Mao's head was almost bigger than Gong Xiaojun's face.  However, no one dared to dissuade him. Who can guarantee that if he is angered again, he will not tear off the badge and throw it on the ground?

    In this way, the family of three sat together again, leaving this unforgettable photo, which is also the only family photo since then.

    When Gong Xiaojun's father was killed in a sudden car accident, it was not long after this photo was retrieved.  This photo was also used for the portrait of my father. At that time, it was not as troublesome as this time, because the negative plate was still there.

    The photographer finally gave this huge Chairman Mao badge to Gong Xiaojun, and told him to read Chairman Mao's books when he grows up, listen to Chairman Mao's words, and be a good soldier of Chairman Mao.

    After Gong Xiaojun returned home, he hung this portrait of Chairman Mao on the head of his bed, and he always looked at it when he woke up.  He cherishes this badge very much, and he is proud of having such a big badge among his classmates, but he almost has an accident because of cherishing it too much.

    That was when he was in the third grade of elementary school. This badge had been hanging on the head of the bed for more than a year, covered with layers of dust, obviously dirty.  Gong Xiaojun came home from school one afternoon, washed his hands, and took the badge off the bedside.  He held the statue in his hand, puffed up his mouth and blew, the dust on it was gone, but some of it had penetrated into the plaster of the statue.  So he found a new snow-white mask and took it off, and wiped it with water, but the more he wiped it, the darker it became, and some places became mottled.

    At this time, Gong Xiaojun was no longer the Gong Xiaojun when he took the family portrait. At the age of ten, he knew what "politics" was and what "counter-revolution" was.  Looking at the gray of Chairman Mao's badge, he was terrified, and tears fell down his face.  Isn't this vilifying the great leader Chairman Mao?  Wouldn't it be a counter-revolutionary if the students saw it and sued the teacher?  Gong Xiaojun wanted to hide this badge, so that the classmates would be fine if they couldn't see it.  However, thinking about it again is not enough. What if the students ask where the badge of Chairman Mao is?

    Gong Xiaojun, who was circling around the room in a hurry, finally came up with a solution, which was to wash it with water.

    Gong Xiaojun put the portrait of Chairman Mao on the bed, took a basin to fetch water from the water pipe in the courtyard, and found a shoe brush to clean.  At this time, he suddenly remembered that the water was too cold to freeze Chairman Mao, so he added hot water from the thermos again.  I stretched out my hand to try it, but it was too hot, so I added cold water, repeated this three times, and finally felt that the water temperature was neither hot nor cold.  He got up and held the badge of Chairman Mao with both hands, looked at it affectionately, and put it in the basin.

    As soon as the gypsum statue of Chairman Mao was placed in the water basin, blisters suddenly popped up.  Even though Gong Xiaojun was politically "mature" at that time, he was not as knowledgeable as he is now. Seeing this strange phenomenon, he was frightened again. He didn't understand what was going on, and he trembled again.  Finally, the plaster was filled with water and stopped bubbling, and Gong Xiaojun let go of his heart.  He picked up the shoe brush and brushed it carefully.  Just when he cleaned the portrait of Chairman Mao and was about to stand up, Gao Diandian from the same courtyard came to play with Gong Xiaojun and found that Gong Xiaojun was brushing the portrait of Chairman Mao with a shoe brush.

    "Gong Xiaojun, you counter-revolutionary." Gao Gao pointed at Gong Xiaojun's head and shouted loudly.

    Because Gong Xiaojun was too focused, he didn't notice Gao Diandian's arrival, so he was startled by Gao Diandian's roar.  He turned around in horror, stared blankly at Gao Diandian, and asked, "Why am I a counter-revolutionary?"

    "Look, what are you holding in your hand?" Gao Dian pointed to Gong Xiaojun's head, then pointed to the shoe brush in his hand, and said.

    "Shoebrush," Gong Xiaojun said, shaking the water from the shoebrush, "You don't know this, you don't work hard, and you don't know the five grains."

    "You also know it's a shoe brush. You use a stinky shoe brush to brush Chairman Mao's portrait. Are you a counter-revolutionary?" Gao Diandian snatched the shoe brush from Gong Xiaojun's hand and said, "Let's go to Teacher Wang."ú±

    At this moment, Gong Xiaojun's tears kept rolling in his eyes. He thought, if it's broken, how can he use a shoe brush to brush the portrait of Chairman Mao? Isn't this counter-revolutionary?

    When Gong Xiaojun obediently followed Gao Diandian to Guangming Street Elementary School to find Mr. Wang, the head teacher, he couldn't help crying.

    Teacher Wang was in her mid-twenties and was quite pretty. At that time, she was having a meeting on political life, and the theme of the meeting was to ask her to explain why she used a photo of Chairman Mao meeting a certain foreign head of state.  People's Daily wrapped the book cover, and it happened to be folded on Chairman Mao's face.

    There is no problem with Mr. Wang's background. His father was Wang Congsheng, an underground party member before the founding of New China.  Of course, she never met her father, sheWhen my father was only a few months old, my father died in the Kuomintang prison because of the betrayal of the traitor Sun Xing.  After the founding of New China, her mother remarried under the support of the organization, and married a hero who played on the Korean battlefield.  This hero, surnamed Xu, was a super disabled soldier, with only one arm left in his limbs, and the rest were frozen to death on the Korean battlefield.  After her mother remarried, her life became extremely difficult. Even though the mother received subsidies for martyrs and Lao Xu also received subsidies for disabled soldiers, Lao Xu couldn't take care of himself. This kind of difficulty was a spiritual difficulty.  Teacher Wang never changed her surname. She used this to commemorate her father who should have seen Jiefang but failed to see Jiefang.  When she was 19 years old, her mother recommended her to go to college. After graduating from college, she went to Guangming Avenue Primary School as a language teacher.

    At that time, the phrase "Don't rest on your laurels, but make new contributions" was popular. Teacher Wang not only failed to make new contributions, but also made political mistakes, and it was inevitable to be criticized.  She asked the principal for leave for a while, and then came out to receive Gao Diandian and Gong Xiaojun in the corridor.

    Gao Diandian was the most airy day in his life. After he handed the shoe brush to Mr. Wang, he exposed how Gong Xiaojun became a "counter-revolutionary".

    Gong Xiaojun didn't dare to stand in front of Teacher Wang, he hid behind her, every word of Gao Diandian made him feel the depth of his sin.

    After listening to Gao DianDian's narration, Teacher Wang burst into tears.  Gong Xiaojun made a similar mistake to her.  She first greatly praised Gao Diandian's revolutionary consciousness, and told him that he would develop him into the next batch of red soldiers.  Then, she turned around again and asked Gong Xiaojun: "Gong Xiaojun, do you know that you are wrong?"

    Gong Xiaojun burst into tears again and said, "Mr. Wang, I was wrong."

    Teacher Wang patted Gao Xiaojun's head, then Gong Xiaojun's, and said, "You are all good boys of Chairman Mao, and Chairman Mao likes a good boy who corrects mistakes the most. Okay, let's go home."  "

    Just like this, Gong Xiaojun passed the test, and Gao Diandian really became a red soldier when he developed the next batch of red soldiers.  And that teacher Wang's problem is not so simple, she becomes an "athlete" as soon as she exercises, until the end of "*****".  After Gong Xiaojun returned to the city, he visited Teacher Wang specially. At this time, she was only 47 or 18 years old and was already paralyzed in bed.

    Today, the Chairman Mao badge that Gong Xiaojun was proud of is still there, and it is placed in the drawer of Gong Xiaojun's desk. It has not been touched for more than ten years.

    Now, Gong Xiaojun, holding a court summons, suddenly had a desire to take a look at this Chairman Mao badge. He bowed deeply to his mother's portrait, and then returned to the bedroom and took out the badge from the desk drawer.

    The badge has turned yellow, and the mist has lost its original luster, but Chairman Mao's smile is still so familiar and kind.  Gong Xiaojun held the badge in his hand, placed it on his chest like his parents did when they took pictures, and looked into the distance through the window.

    "Chairman Mao," Gong Xiaojun recalled the past and looked forward to the upcoming story, tears filled his eyes suddenly, "bless me." (Remember the website website: www.hlnovel.com
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