Chapter 16 Section 3
The next day, Ma Sheng took the gold coupons to go to the town market. Instead of eating spicy soup and sausages, he wanted to buy some cloth to sew clothes. But the shop said that the government issued banknotes of the Northwest Farmers Bank, and the gold coupons were invalid.Ma Sheng was so angry that on the way back, while holding the gold dollar coupon, he smashed all the gold coupons, and scolded himself for being unlucky.Back in the village, I went directly to Wang Caidong and said, "You know this gold coupon is invalid, so give it to me?" !Wang Caidong said: I didn't know this until noon today!Ma Sheng tore the gold coupon into pieces, threw it in Wang Caidong's face, and said, "Give it back to you, and I won't lose your favor!"A flock of chickens ran past in the alley, and they all quacked, as if laughing, and ran out of the alley.The news of the invalidation of the golden round coupons spread throughout the old city village on this day.
The richest person in Laocheng Village is Wang Caidong, and the poorest is Ma Sheng. This is a lice on the bald man's head, it's obvious.But Baihe is Ai Xianpai. Although he is in debt to the Hong family, as long as he eats lo mein once, he will definitely sit on the wooden bed outside the courtyard with a bowl, and the noodles are lifted high with his chopsticks. People passing by say : Are you eating long noodles?He said: Eat it, eat it every day!When the courtyard door was closed, he must have been eating porridge inside.In autumn, I dug some fungi on the hillside, and then sold them in the market for some money. Liu Shuanzi in the village borrowed all the money from him to buy wine for his son’s engagement. His wife complained, saying: “The Hong family scolded me.” I am a poor ghost, and many people look down on us. If Liu Shuanzi can borrow from me, I am a rich person in his eyes!Except for Baihe, the villagers live in hiding, wearing new clothes and always wearing old clothes over them. If it doesn’t rain in October, the next year’s wheat harvest will be tormented. What should I do? Shit? !When they meet, they always ask if they have eaten, and the answer is that they have not eaten. Of course, if you have not eaten, you will be hungry. No one invites you to eat, not even a polite word of please eat.However, as soon as the gold coupons were invalidated, they all cried out: "Cough, why is the money useless if it is useless?" !Take out rolls, stacks, and bundles, and burn them at the door crying.
Liu Shuanzi was finally going to marry his son, so he killed a chicken and gave Ma Sheng a pair of chicken intestines. Ma Sheng walked through the village alley with his hands, saw someone burning money, and said: Wow, your family still has so much money!No one paid attention to him, he continued walking, and a group of flies chased him.The son of the Hong family put the money in the toilet to wipe his ass, but his father said it would be better to burn it, out of sight and out of mind.It was burning in the yard, and the son threw the whole stack of money into the fire. His father thought that the whole stack could not be burned through, so he asked them to burn each piece separately. Wait, wait, until the land is not bought, the money is useless!His father said: Who has long eyes?I want to know that you grew up to be a white-eyed wolf, and you should be drowned in a urinal when you are born!When the father and son bumped into each other, the daughter-in-law threw the wooden God of Wealth in the main room and scolded: I respect you every day, you hurt me like this!The adopted daughter took Chai He back and asked her: Mother, what are you having for lunch?The daughter-in-law took her anger out on her adopted daughter again, scolding: Eat the bones!Throwing over the incense burner, the incense burner hit the adoptive daughter's shoulder, but the ashes in the incense burner fascinated her face, so she shouted loudly: "My God, what kind of king's law is this, bloody mouth, eat meat without vomiting!" Bones!Ma Sheng just happened to come to the door and said, "Arguing, are you scolding the government?"In the river beach in the county town, people were shot twice every three days!The daughter-in-law was stunned for a moment, and said: Who am I to blame for giving the government an idea? It took decades of saving to call it rich, and it became like a poor ghost overnight? !She was cursing Ma Sheng in her words, but Ma Sheng was not angry, shook his head and walked away, saying: I want the same!People are all people, who lacks noses and eyes, how can the poor be poor and the rich be rich? !
Wang Caidong did not burn the gold round coupons. He wrapped the gold round coupons in oiled paper, put them in an urn, and hid them in the cellar of the back room. Now he took out bundles and spread them out in the yard to bask in the sun.The sun was warm, and the sparrows stood on the courtyard wall and chattered, as if they were telling stories.Wang Caidong asked the jade bracelet: Do you think this bundle of money can smash people to death?Yu Bracelet said: You said the year before last that you have so much money that you can kill people.Wang Caidong said: I said so?said?Suddenly, my brain became muddled like a pot of glutinous rice. I stood up and wanted to go to the toilet. I didn’t know whether the toilet was in the northeast corner of the yard or the northwest corner of the yard. I saw that it was not the gable of the main room. on the wall.The jade bracelet said: What's the matter with you, what's the matter?The cry of the jade bracelet woke him up suddenly, and when he saw blood on the wall, he was dumbfounded and said: So much money is useless?Really useless? !Yu Bracelet helped him to the kang in the house, and went to the yard to collect the bundles of money that were drying out, and put them in straw bags and piled them in the corner of the kang.That night, after the rooster crowed twice, Yu Biao woke up, but Wang Caidong was sitting on the kang. She asked why he was still awake?Wang Caidong said: I look at the purse, don't let the mouse eat it.Yu Bracelet said: It's already a pile of rotten paper, just gnaw it.Wang Caidong said: You said it is really not money?Yu Bracelet said: No one's money is money anymore, and it's not just our family.Wang Caidong said: Nonsense, money is money!The jade bracelet said: "It's money, it's money. Spread the money on the kang and use it as a mattress shop!"It was really spread on the kang, and one layer was not finished.Wang Caidong yelled again, put the money into the back basket, and asked the jade bracelet to follow him to the ancestral grave.The jade bracelet said: It is good to burn it on the grave, the ancestors may be able to use it in the underworld.But Wang Caidong took a pickaxe when he went out.
When the gate of the courtyard was opened, someone seemed to be walking by in the alleyway. Yu Biao quickly closed the door, and waited until the footsteps could no longer be heard before going out of the North City Gate to the ancestral grave in Houshangen.Wang Caidong did not burn the money for his ancestors, but dug a hole, wrapped the money in oiled paper, took off his own clothes and wrapped it again, saying: "Ancestors are taking care of us, money will make money in the future!"Yu Biao felt that her husband was out of his mind, but she didn't allow him to wrap it with clothes, because the way to curse someone to death was to bury someone's clothes, so she said, "Did you bury you?" !Take out the clothes and put them on for Wang Caidong before burying the money.
When Yu Biao opened the gate of the courtyard, she felt that someone was walking in the alleyway. Someone really walked by, and that person was Ma Sheng.Ma Sheng couldn't sleep at night, and he wanted to go out to wander around the village. His footsteps were as light as a cat's, and he squatted on the window base of someone's house to listen to what the couple were talking about and what noises they were making, and then he went home first. Scolding a woman is called a dog, and then touching my dust roots, from the south of the village to the north of the village, from the east gate to the west gate, every time I think of the daughter-in-law of the family, I shoot the dirt on the Kang wall.There are spots on the wall of the kang, and I feel that every spot is a child. He already has hundreds of children, and this village is all his.He had just arrived in the alley that night, and he originally wanted to go to the window of Wu Changgui's house. Wu Changgui's daughter-in-law went to her mother's house for a month and didn't come back.But before he reached the back window of Wu Changgui's house, he found that the courtyard door of Wang Caidong's house was opening. He felt strange, so he hid behind a tree and watched, and then followed him to the root of the mountain, until Wang Caidong and his wife sat In the Wang family's grave, he stopped following.He didn't know what Wang Caidong was doing at the grave in the middle of the night.The next day at noon, I went to see what happened. There was nothing unusual on the grave, but there was water flowing in the canal behind the tomb. Another family was watering the land at the bend of the mountain. He opened the edge of the canal and let the water flow to In the cemetery of the Wang family.He said: Drown you!
When Wang Caidong learned that the ancestral tomb was flooded, when he went to see it, the water in the cemetery had dried up, and there was a mouse hole on the right side of the tomb, which may have been filled with water from the mouse hole, sinking a hole.Of course, Wang Caidong wanted to reason with the family that watered the land. The family paid a lot of money and helped to fill the sunken pit with soil.As soon as the family left, Wang Caidong was worried that the water would wet the money he had buried. When he dug it out, the water still soaked the money through the oiled paper, and it stuck together, and it would rot as soon as it was peeled off.Wang Caidong burst into tears immediately, bumping his head on the grave.Yu Bracelet persuaded him: This is because the ancestors took the money and saved it for us in the underworld.
One month later, a sapling grew on the grave, which looked like it had never been seen before.After another three months, the sapling was half a person tall, and blue flowers bloomed, and the petals were still round.Wang Caidong insisted that this is the legendary money tree, and said to the jade bracelet: Don't tell outsiders, our family will still be rich!
Wang Caidong's face became more and more mellow, and he often sat alone, talking and thinking alone, not caring about family affairs or field work.His family had a lot of land and cattle. Once the wheat was harvested, other people's houses were still grinding the grain. Baitu arranged for other long-term workers to sow dung on the slopes, and he began to tie up the oxen to plow the paddy fields.The paddy field is not easy to plow, and after plowing for half a day, the cow can’t bear it anymore, and another cow has to be replaced. The white soil still doesn’t rest, and the moon is up. He just came out of the field and sat on the ridge with his legs wet in the mud, smoking to relieve his fatigue.Baishi had been assigned from the county government to the township government as the deputy head of the township. He rode his bicycle back that night, and when he saw Baitu, he shouted: Uncle!uncle!Baitu once saw the village chief riding a bicycle, but never saw his nephew riding a bicycle. He liked to say, "Baishi, you have an iron donkey too?"Baishi said: I ride on the head of the village.Baitu said: You can do it, you can become the deputy head of the village at a young age, which is a bit higher than the head of the Bao.Baishi said: Does the new regime need cadres?As the two of them were talking, they saw wild ducks splashing over the paddy field with their wings beating the water, and flying over their heads with a quack.Baishi asked Baitu why he was plowing the land so late. Wang Caidong really used people hard. Baitu said that Wang's family had a lot of land, and if he didn't plow it as soon as possible, the seedlings would be planted late. He complained that Baitu didn't ride the iron donkey back during the day. Who can see it when it is dark and rides back!Baishi told that he came back and informed the village to elect representatives to go to the township government for a meeting.Baitu said: Oh, hold the Baojia meeting.Baishi said: "The Baojia system has been abolished, and we must elect farmers' associations."Baitu said: Why are everything abolished, the golden round coupons are abolished, the Baojia system is abolished, and if you say abolish it, it will be abolished? !Baishi said: Uncle, you don't understand!Pushed the bike away. Baishi asked the villagers to elect a representative, but the villagers couldn't get together, so Baishi asked his father who could be the representative. Baihe mentioned a few people, but they were all busy plowing the land and refused to go.Ma Sheng said: I have no land to plow, so I will go.But he asked again: Does the township government care about food?Baishi said: Why are you only talking about your mouth?Ma Sheng said: Being an official for thousands of miles is for food and clothing, who wouldn't do it for a mouth? !Baishi didn't want to talk to Ma Sheng, but no one in the village was willing to go to the meeting, so he let Ma Sheng go.The township government's meeting conveyed that each village would establish a peasant association and implement land reform in an all-round way. The people who came to the meeting must be the leaders of the peasant associations of each village.But it was Ma Sheng who came from Laocheng Village. Baishi reported the situation to the head of the township.Baishi then talked about Hong Shuanlao, the son of the Hong family.The mayor said: Then let Hong Shuanlao be the director. You said that Ma Sheng is a gangster, and you need some gangsters to carry out land reform. Let him be the deputy director.Baishi informed Ma Sheng of this decision, and Ma Sheng said: I have no land, and I must be more active than Hong Shuanlao. Why is he right and I am vice?Baishi said: If you want to be an official, you can be an official. If you are not, we will find someone else.Ma Sheng did not argue, but Baishi was asked to take him back to the village on a bicycle to announce that he needed to ride a bicycle on the way, but as soon as he got on the people and the car, he rolled over a slope, hit a hole in his head, and the wheels were crooked up.Baishi was so angry that he asked him to carry his bicycle for eight miles, but when he entered the village, he went directly to Hong's house. In the Hong family's courtyard, Lady Shuanlao sat on the thumping stone and wept, holding a piece of cowhide, crying for the cow. The cattle of the Hong family had plowed more than ten acres of land, and they were already exhausted, but the family had no food to burn, so Shuan Lao called the cattle to pull coal at the Incheon Coal Mine, 40 miles away, three days ago.After pulling thousands of jins of coal and walking back to Jinshuigou, the cattle walked evenly on the five-mile-long downhill road, but when they went up the five-mile-long gentle slope, the four legs of the cattle could not be straightened, and the cart backed up.Shuanlao hurriedly picked up stones from the side of the road to pad the wheels, and then whipped the cow. The cow was sweating, as if it had been fished out of the water.At that time, the sky was very cloudy, and the treetops on the roadside could catch clouds, and Shuanlao scolded: "It's going to rain, don't you hurry up?" !There was another blow of the whip, but Niu plopped down on the ground, foaming at the mouth.Shuanlao said, "Come on, let's go."He also sat down and smoked dry tobacco, smoked three pots in a row, and called the cow to get up and go, but the cow still couldn't get up. When he went over, he found that the cow was dead.Shuanlao panicked and had to go to Jinjiabao, five miles away, to find someone to borrow a cow to bring the coal cart and the dead cow back to Laocheng Village.Jinjiabao's cattle were too busy plowing the land and refused to borrow them, but a butcher was willing to sell their donkeys, but asked for five buckets of wheat.Wudoumai can buy the coal for this car, but the tied labor is definitely not. After some bargaining, the two agreed to kill the cow and return all the meat to the butcher, and he wanted to take the cow back.The butcher said: People in Laocheng Village love to eat intestines, so I will give you a pair of cow intestines.Shuanlao got angry and said: No!The butcher cut a cow in Jinshuigou and asked Shuanlao to help him, but Shuanlao didn't help or watch, and the rain was pouring down, so he sat in the cave at the root of the earth cliff and smoked dry tobacco.At dawn, he tied the borrowed donkey to the coal cart and came back with the old cowhide on the shaft.As soon as she entered the house, mother knew that the old cow was dead, and she didn't ask whether Shuan was hungry or not, and whether she could change the wet clothes on her body, she hugged the cowhide and cried. Baishi asked if Shuanlao was there, and Shuanlao's mother was still crying for the cow. Ma Sheng took the cowhide and threw it over the courtyard wall, saying: "If you die, you will die. If you die, I will give your family a cow!"Shuanlao Niang said: Can you give me a cow?Ma Sheng said: I will give it.Shuanlao Niang said: You give me the bones? !cried again.Bai Shi and Ma Sheng entered the main room, where Shuan Lao was smoking, his face as green as an eggplant.Baishi asked him to be the director of the peasant association, Shuan Lao agreed, and asked Ma Sheng to go outside the courtyard to retrieve the cowhide. Ma Sheng picked up the cowhide, but he put the cowhide on Shuanlao viciously, saying: Did you appoint a deputy director just after you became the director? !Unexpectedly, as soon as the cowhide was put on Shuanlao's body, the cowhide rolled up and wrapped Shuanlao inside. Baishi hurriedly took off the cowhide, and Shuanlao said, "This is for me to be a cow!" Afterwards, some people in the village also went to put the cowhide on their bodies. The cowhide hadn't been rolled again, so they felt that the cowhide rolls were tied.Baihe said, "Is it a livestock?"
Wang Caidong's face became more and more mellow, and he often sat alone, talking and thinking alone, not caring about family affairs or field work.His family had a lot of land and cattle. Once the wheat was harvested, other people's houses were still grinding the grain. Baitu arranged for other long-term workers to sow dung on the slopes, and he began to tie up the oxen to plow the paddy fields.The paddy field is not easy to plow, and after plowing for half a day, the cow can’t bear it anymore, and another cow has to be replaced. The white soil still doesn’t rest, and the moon is up. He just came out of the field and sat on the ridge with his legs wet in the mud, smoking to relieve his fatigue.Baishi had been assigned from the county government to the township government as the deputy head of the township. He rode his bicycle back that night, and when he saw Baitu, he shouted: Uncle!uncle!Baitu once saw the village chief riding a bicycle, but never saw his nephew riding a bicycle. He liked to say, "Baishi, you have an iron donkey too?"Baishi said: I ride on the head of the village.Baitu said: You can do it, you can become the deputy head of the village at a young age, which is a bit higher than the head of the Bao.Baishi said: Does the new regime need cadres?As the two of them were talking, they saw wild ducks splashing over the paddy field with their wings beating the water, and flying over their heads with a quack.Baishi asked Baitu why he was plowing the land so late. Wang Caidong really used people hard. Baitu said that Wang's family had a lot of land, and if he didn't plow it as soon as possible, the seedlings would be planted late. He complained that Baitu didn't ride the iron donkey back during the day. Who can see it when it is dark and rides back!Baishi told that he came back and informed the village to elect representatives to go to the township government for a meeting.Baitu said: Oh, hold the Baojia meeting.Baishi said: "The Baojia system has been abolished, and we must elect farmers' associations."Baitu said: Why are everything abolished, the golden round coupons are abolished, the Baojia system is abolished, and if you say abolish it, it will be abolished? !Baishi said: Uncle, you don't understand!Pushed the bike away. Baishi asked the villagers to elect a representative, but the villagers couldn't get together, so Baishi asked his father who could be the representative. Baihe mentioned a few people, but they were all busy plowing the land and refused to go.Ma Sheng said: I have no land to plow, so I will go.But he asked again: Does the township government care about food?Baishi said: Why are you only talking about your mouth?Ma Sheng said: Being an official for thousands of miles is for food and clothing, who wouldn't do it for a mouth? !Baishi didn't want to talk to Ma Sheng, but no one in the village was willing to go to the meeting, so he let Ma Sheng go.The township government's meeting conveyed that each village would establish a peasant association and implement land reform in an all-round way. The people who came to the meeting must be the leaders of the peasant associations of each village.But it was Ma Sheng who came from Laocheng Village. Baishi reported the situation to the head of the township.Baishi then talked about Hong Shuanlao, the son of the Hong family.The mayor said: Then let Hong Shuanlao be the director. You said that Ma Sheng is a gangster, and you need some gangsters to carry out land reform. Let him be the deputy director.Baishi informed Ma Sheng of this decision, and Ma Sheng said: I have no land, and I must be more active than Hong Shuanlao. Why is he right and I am vice?Baishi said: If you want to be an official, you can be an official. If you are not, we will find someone else.Ma Sheng did not argue, but Baishi was asked to take him back to the village on a bicycle to announce that he needed to ride a bicycle on the way, but as soon as he got on the people and the car, he rolled over a slope, hit a hole in his head, and the wheels were crooked up.Baishi was so angry that he asked him to carry his bicycle for eight miles, but when he entered the village, he went directly to Hong's house. In the Hong family's courtyard, Lady Shuanlao sat on the thumping stone and wept, holding a piece of cowhide, crying for the cow. The cattle of the Hong family had plowed more than ten acres of land, and they were already exhausted, but the family had no food to burn, so Shuan Lao called the cattle to pull coal at the Incheon Coal Mine, 40 miles away, three days ago.After pulling thousands of jins of coal and walking back to Jinshuigou, the cattle walked evenly on the five-mile-long downhill road, but when they went up the five-mile-long gentle slope, the four legs of the cattle could not be straightened, and the cart backed up.Shuanlao hurriedly picked up stones from the side of the road to pad the wheels, and then whipped the cow. The cow was sweating, as if it had been fished out of the water.At that time, the sky was very cloudy, and the treetops on the roadside could catch clouds, and Shuanlao scolded: "It's going to rain, don't you hurry up?" !There was another blow of the whip, but Niu plopped down on the ground, foaming at the mouth.Shuanlao said, "Come on, let's go."He also sat down and smoked dry tobacco, smoked three pots in a row, and called the cow to get up and go, but the cow still couldn't get up. When he went over, he found that the cow was dead.Shuanlao panicked and had to go to Jinjiabao, five miles away, to find someone to borrow a cow to bring the coal cart and the dead cow back to Laocheng Village.Jinjiabao's cattle were too busy plowing the land and refused to borrow them, but a butcher was willing to sell their donkeys, but asked for five buckets of wheat.Wudoumai can buy the coal for this car, but the tied labor is definitely not. After some bargaining, the two agreed to kill the cow and return all the meat to the butcher, and he wanted to take the cow back.The butcher said: People in Laocheng Village love to eat intestines, so I will give you a pair of cow intestines.Shuanlao got angry and said: No!The butcher cut a cow in Jinshuigou and asked Shuanlao to help him, but Shuanlao didn't help or watch, and the rain was pouring down, so he sat in the cave at the root of the earth cliff and smoked dry tobacco.At dawn, he tied the borrowed donkey to the coal cart and came back with the old cowhide on the shaft.As soon as she entered the house, mother knew that the old cow was dead, and she didn't ask whether Shuan was hungry or not, and whether she could change the wet clothes on her body, she hugged the cowhide and cried. Baishi asked if Shuanlao was there, and Shuanlao's mother was still crying for the cow. Ma Sheng took the cowhide and threw it over the courtyard wall, saying: "If you die, you will die. If you die, I will give your family a cow!"Shuanlao Niang said: Can you give me a cow?Ma Sheng said: I will give it.Shuanlao Niang said: You give me the bones? !cried again.Bai Shi and Ma Sheng entered the main room, where Shuan Lao was smoking, his face as green as an eggplant.Baishi asked him to be the director of the peasant association, Shuan Lao agreed, and asked Ma Sheng to go outside the courtyard to retrieve the cowhide. Ma Sheng picked up the cowhide, but he put the cowhide on Shuanlao viciously, saying: Did you appoint a deputy director just after you became the director? !Unexpectedly, as soon as the cowhide was put on Shuanlao's body, the cowhide rolled up and wrapped Shuanlao inside. Baishi hurriedly took off the cowhide, and Shuanlao said, "This is for me to be a cow!" Afterwards, some people in the village also went to put the cowhide on their bodies. The cowhide hadn't been rolled again, so they felt that the cowhide rolls were tied.Baihe said, "Is it a livestock?"