The great revolution lasted for ten years. His father spent years in prison. In the prison, the food was no free, and since he was captured the only family’s source of living was from Yu Qiuyu’s work-26 yuan per month. However, he needed to fed his father, 75-year-old grandmother, 44-year-old mother, 21-year-old himself, 21-year old sister and three brothers. Averagely, each person had just 0.07 yuan one day. If the number of people were subtracted by half, it may be possible for Yu Qiuyu to support. Nevertheless, it was just too hard to really feed everyone enough food. His father, the one used to be the main financial support of the whole family, felt shame. What he did when he was in prison was just looking to the north where his brother was buried. The Red Guards kept him as a pet but they showed no mercy or love to this pet. He was more like a earth-bag used for people to express their anger. He himself knew, and so he thought of death. Qiuyu was the only hope he had at that time. Easily, he could finish his life, but he wouldn’t left his family to Qiuyu-it was too hard for him alone to afford the whole family. His death would cause no harm to the Red Guards but forced them to find another one to replace him. He would like to just live by this, if his suffering will save others. In this way, he was imprisoned until the end of the revolution.
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