After writing an article for a literary journal it was deemed that Four Eyes’ time on Phoenix Mountain was over. His reeducation was complete and his mother had come to take him back to the city. His article about traditional mountain songs had shown his devotion to chairman Mao. An event was planned the day of his departure, September 4. This event would be held in the village and all the villagers would be invited. This party was so important they were even slaughtering a buffalo. The purpose of the event was to Four Eyes completion of the reeducation and to pray for his safe travel back to the city.
Four Eyes was very excited. Before being offered the opportunity of writing the article he had thought he would stay on the mountain forever, because the chances of him leaving were three in a thousand. He was very lucky to be leaving because he was in that category of those whose parents had been considered enemies of the state, which meant his chances of leaving were three in a thousand.
The day before the event on September 3, Four Eyes pushed a buffalo of a cliff to disguise its death as an accident, because killing a working animal was illegal. A crowd then gathered to watch the buffalo be killed as it had not died from the fall. Four Eyes gathered some of the buffalo’s blood waited for it to congeal and drank it. This was a ritual to gain courage.
The next day was the event. All the villagers came and celebrated. The village brought sorceresses to perform a ritual of good fortune for Four Eyes. During the celebration He felt sick and went back to his hut with his mother, who had arrived to take him home, and found the package he kept his secret books was open. His mother scolded him for not keeping it wrapped up but he could have sworn that he had closed it. They then left and went back to the party.
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