Dear Grandma,
Today I woke up at five o’clock this morning to go help father with the rice crops. It is the double rush so that means we have to harvest the rice and plant new crops. This is the most difficult time of the year. Good thing their is a good amount of children that came to do honest work as Chairman Mao said you should do. I did the two rows before it was time to go to school in the center of the village. We did our usual routine. We start the day of with the same chat to Chairman Mao (one of the students forgot his red book and was sent home immediately). Then we learn about the Communist party and Chairman Mao. Today I learned that they were doing raids on people that have bourgeois lifestyles. The Red Guards would go into their houses and take anything that was considered Four Olds. I am so thankful that Chairman Mao is our leader instead of some Capitalist that just think about the wealthy. Mao has helped our village so much. Without him I couldn’t be going to school because I would have to help father. He has also gave more land to our village so we can grow more crops. After school I went home mom had made a stew out of a goose father bought from the butcher that lives five house down. It was very good and one of my favorite meals. I then continued to help father in the fields until it was too dark.
Our house was very simple. It had no electricity but we did have a well with a pump in our back yard. Our house was made out cement. Our roof is made out of straw, it has some leaks but it isn’t bad at all. We slept on straw that was bound with string and then draped with a fabric. That is my daily life.
Love- Xi Chang P.S I left you a picture of our house to the back of the paper
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