Chapter 9 A miserable childhood

"In October 1949, New China was founded. On November 21, the Beijing Municipal Government launched a thorough removal of brothels. I was about 1 year old at that time. The brothels in the Eight Hutongs were closed, and the brothel madams and the family of the collar were locked up. More than a thousand prostitutes were also concentrated in eight nursing homes for labor reform.

At that time, the government adopted the policy of transforming ideas, curing sexually transmitted diseases, and guiding them to engage in production, so that they could make a living by relying on labor.My mother hugged me and went to the nursing home.My mother said that the old society posted in the nursing home at that time turned people into ghosts, and the new society turned ghosts into human banners, which was particularly eye-catching.

At that time, the government's discipline staff also brought me children's clothes and toys, asked my mother about my origin, and prepared to send me to an orphanage.But my mother had been pulling me up for a year and had already had feelings for me. She hugged me and cried without letting go.

The disciplinary staff didn't make things difficult for my mother, so they asked my mother what to do?Of course my mother wants to go back to her hometown Shaoxing.In this way, my mother and I stayed in the nursing home for half a year. After the nursing home taught J my mother some labor skills, the government distributed the severance money, bought us a train ticket, and sent my mother and me back to their hometown Shaoxing.

After my mother returned to Shaoxing, she realized that her biological parents had already died early, leaving only F brothers but still not knowing where to die.Although there is a man who is a material ghost, she is very cold to my mother and ignores her. She has become a person who has no relatives.

My mother hugged me without any hesitation, so she had to ask the local government to solve the difficulties.Not bad. The government found us a place to live and my mother’s job as a sock factory, so we had a living support.

My mother was very happy at that time. She thanked the government for helping us and sheltering us from the bottom of her heart, so she gave me a name called Tu Xinsheng.My name means commemorating the new life that New China has given us, which shows how grateful my mother is to the government of New China.

At that time, my mother also had a yearning for a new life and wanted to find a good family to marry.Unfortunately, her prostitute and her child became a stumbling block for her. No serious good person is willing to marry my mother.

Later, the union cadres in the factory introduced my mother to a bachelor who died of J's wife. The two started to interact, but the man just disliked me. He repeatedly advised my mother to send me to the orphanage, but my mother just refused, so the two broke up.

My mother also lost her thoughts on marriage, and she was very focused on me and grew up.Unfortunately, as I grew up, I became a naughty man, with a strong body and a very tall figure. I just didn’t study hard and went to school. I liked to fight and cause trouble, which made my mother very angry.

She chased me and beat me hard, calling me a bastard.Although she beat me and scolded me, she still kissed me very much.

In 1959, my mother worked in a sock manufacturing factory at that time, but she offended a workshop director.Because my mother looks good and knows how to dress and is very outstanding, she wants to make an idea for her.When he saw that my mother was a single woman with a child, he wanted to take advantage of my mother with bad intentions.

Although my mother was a prostitute, she had a strong personality and looked down on this man's face, so she made him lose face at work.This guy was so angry that he framed my mother for stealing cotton thread and socks from the unit, causing my mother to lose her job and also brought her reputation for stealing things.My mother was dissatisfied and asked the head of the unit to report it, but the leader at that time thought that my mother had been a prostitute and was not a good person. They would rather choose to believe that hooligan director.

But my mother had nowhere to seek justice, so she had to take me away from Shaoxing and go to the provincial capital Hangzhou to survive.

At that time, the country was catching up with three years of natural disasters, and many people were starved to death in our Zhejiang Province.My mother thought it was easy to find a job in Hangzhou, but when she got there, she found that it was no different from Shaoxing.But she is very strong and doesn't want to go back to Shaoxing.I couldn't find a job, so I found a broken house to live in and led me to pick up rags to survive.

I remember that the deepest impression at that time was that we often had a meal without a second.I was growing up and I was very good at eating. For me, my mother gave me my food rations, but she was so hungry that she was skin and bones that she became sick.But when she died, I didn’t know what kind of illness my mother died of, but I only knew that she died of starvation.

I still remember it very clearly the day my mother died.My mother was in a coma at that time. She was so thin that she was not as good as a human. I stayed in front of her bed and didn't know what to do. I was only 12 years old at that time.I wanted to take her to the hospital, but there was no penny at home, and she was very stubborn and didn't let me borrow money from others.

She shouted my name in a coma, and I asked her what she wanted with tears. She said half-drowsy and half-awake that she wanted to eat steamed pork.

I said, Mom, you wait for me, I will take it to you now.That's because I don't even have a penny in my hand, so I can only borrow money from someone.At that time, everyone was very poor, and we were an outsider, who would lend me money?I had no choice but to borrow money from Mr. Wu, who was also a rag in the street.

I found Uncle Wu and cried and told my mother about her situation.Uncle Wu is such a good man, Ah. He led me into his house and took out five yuan from the junk pile to give it to me.He asked me to go to a restaurant in Shaanxi to bring back steamed pork with minced pork. He was worried that my mother might not be able to do it anymore and she couldn't even eat steamed pork.

I ran to a restaurant and urged the master to make a bowl of steamed pork for me.At that time, it was a luxury to eat steamed pork with stew. A bowl of steamed pork with stew costs 4 yuan and 50 cents.It was a three-year difficult period, with supplies in short supply and prices extremely high. One pound of dried sweet potatoes would cost 6 yuan.

After the master finished cooking, I ran home with steamed pork with stew and cried. I was also worried that my mother wouldn't be able to eat steamed pork with steamed pork.

When I got home, my mother was no longer able to do it.She opened her eyes hard, stretched out her thin hand and touched my face with tears in her eyes, saying, "Where did you get the money? You can eat it, mom doesn't need it anymore."

I said it was the money I earned from picking up things. Mom, you can eat steamed pork with noodles in Shaanxi. If you eat it, you will be cured.

I hurriedly picked up a piece of steamed meat with chopsticks to feed my mother, but she only took a bite and swallowed it before she could swallow it. Speaking of this, Mr. Tu was already crying, and he held her husband and cried in tears.

At this time, the audience was almost silent. Those who had already picked up the chopsticks to eat put down the chopsticks. Some women had already sobbed and sobbed, and a few soft-hearted men were already wiping their tears secretly.

My eyes were red, and when I turned my head and saw Tu Xiaofeng sitting at the same table with me, I was already in tears, but I didn't cry.

At this time, the big screen behind the rostrum showed a black and white photo of Tu's father and adoptive mother.It can be seen that Tu's adoptive mother is indeed a beautiful woman with beautiful eyebrows but a stubborn look.In the photo, Tu's father is about one year old. Although he is a little thin, he is also a child with beautiful eyebrows and eyes.There is a line of small words on the right side of the photo: October 15, 1949 in Beiping