Chapter 13 Chapter 12 Peasant Associations

No matter how suffocated Erye Shui was, the turmoil of the peasant association became more and more serious. For several days in a row, the raging fire not only burned the entire canyon, but the flames even reached the remote Wanzhongtai. Since that night with Yingying, Shiliang is like a strong horse, and he can't stop exerting himself.This horse gallops on the mountain, on the grassy beach, and on the banks of the Sister River, and it gallops Qingshiling cheerfully and smoothly. Behind him, there is an extra tail. Wherever he goes, the tail follows him, and he can't shake it off.

This tail is Shui Yingying.Shui Yingying is no longer the arrogant Shui Yingying she was back then, as if God had cast some kind of magic, suddenly, her temper became softer and more affectionate.Soft and affectionate, but also gradually more a mother-like tolerance. She is tolerant of dogs.Since that night, when Shui Yingying saw the dog, she no longer turned her eyebrows coldly, but cared about her and considered her everywhere. Her attitude made the dog who was used to running wild full of uneasiness.She is also kind to the other servants in the courtyard. This kindness is not like the charity of Shui Erye, nor is it the stupid way of the He family in Donggou to please you with wages. She suddenly put down the master's shelf , On an equal footing with the servants.If it were someone else, this kind of equal sitting would still be understandable, but she is Shui Yingying, she can actually let go of her airs and sit with the servants, and the chickens and dogs are endlessly noisy.

I really don't know what kind of magic Shiliang has cast to turn a tigress who is scary to everyone into a docile heifer. If you are close, you must be close, and you still have to do your work. During the long winter, picking up food did not help the helpers in the yard. They slept in the hot kang and ate hot food and had to work. This is what he said to the servants with a smile.The green grass harvested after autumn and the wheat straw and medicinal stalks pulled from the crop fields all went into the two ponds, which were dug by him.When the snow was still covering the entire Qingshiling, Shiliang and Yingying went to Gulang County, which was the first time he had traveled so far.According to Yingying, he has a novelty at a glance, and he inquires about everything he sees wherever he goes, and inquires about everything he sees.After four days of coming and going, in addition to helping Yingying and Yueyue buy a bunch of clothes and helping Shui Erye buy a walking stick, he also brought septic technology.He learned this septic technique from a distant relative's house in Yingying, a suburb of Gulang City. Yingying took him to recognize the relative's door.

Shui Erye was very happy, and he scolded him for being a genius, don't get in your eyes in everything, once you get in, he will definitely fuck you up.Needless to say, this pond is the sun monster, the green grass and wheat straw poured into the pond, after a winter of fermentation, the stench can smoke away the birds and animals on the grass beach after the spring, but it is the best when it is pulled into the ground fertilizer.That’s not to mention, as soon as the spring started, the weather had not yet warmed up completely, and to collect grain, my father asked my father to bring a dozen people and two carriages to the Tibetan area to pick up wild manure.People in Tibetan areas don't grow crops, they have enough cattle and sheep to eat, half of the manure pulled by cattle and sheep is used as firewood for them to burn, and more than half of it has become the target of grain collection.The fertilization every two days took a full month, turning the big grassy beach into a dung mountain.Only then did people understand that if all the fertilizer is scattered on the ground, what will the next year's crops grow like?

This year, we planted a lot of medicines. At the end of last autumn, the barren slopes that people opened up under the mountains were plowed again, plowed, sprinkled with fertilizers, and they became good sunny slopes. When the pharmacist Liu Xicai left, he left behind A lot of seeds, but also one by one taught the method of picking grain seeds.All these made Second Master Shui excited. If such a day can last for three to five years, what Qingshiling will be like, I really can't imagine.However, at this critical moment, there was a peasant association in the gorge. The farmers' association started a disturbance in the Miao'ergou area first. No one would have thought that the rich man Hong in Miao'ergou would start it. It was originally a trouble of the poor, but he was the first to get involved.It is reported that one day before, Qiu Jiayuan secretly went to Miaoergou and stayed at the rich man's house.After Qiu's family left, Rich Man Hong was no longer the same. He changed from the previous decadent appearance, and suddenly became full of energy.Immediately afterwards, the storm was like a tornado, and it quickly rolled into the gorge.Xiao Wuzi from Xigou rose up and established a poor people's association in Xigou. More than 50 people gathered together, and rushed to He's house in Donggou.

The primary task of the peasant association is to mobilize the poor, to quarrel with the rich and the rich, to divide the property of the rich, to divide the land of the rich, and even, it is said, to divide their wives, mothers and children together. Lose.The poor don't need to activate it at all, as long as they can get something when they hear it, as long as they don't have to pay rent for farming after they hear it, you still need to activate it, and if you run slowly, you may not want it. The fire burned quickly, and when Second Master Shui heard the conclusive news, He Dakun and his son had already been tied up with a rope by Meimei, who rushed over from Xigou. this rope.Baochang Leng, a doctor of traditional Chinese medicine, came to stop him and said, "If you have something to say, talk it through, why don't you tie people up?" Sun Liu, who was too poor to afford medicine in Xigou, jumped out immediately: "Leng Baochang, how dare you stop me?" Revolution, I'll tie you up too." Chief Leng Bao flinched and said, "Oh, it's revolution, and I'll treat it as a beating gang."

The situation seemed to be extremely unfavorable to Second Master Shui. The helpers who stayed in the courtyard heard that someone had beaten the Donggou He family and the Zhao family to get a shovel, plowshare, rake, etc., and they all started to move, thinking that planting medicine is far worse than revolution. Come things quickly, if you can really share a mule or a carriage, it will be better than planting medicine for a lifetime. Second Master Shui didn't react at first, he did what he should do, and he didn't take these crap things in the canyon to affect him at all.One day the county magistrate Kong Jiexi paid a surprise visit, and the two chatted all night. After the county magistrate Kong Jiexi left, Second Master Shui almost fell into deep thought.According to his understanding, this was all caused by Ma Jiabing.Ordinarily, the Ma family's soldiers have been stationed in Liangzhou for some time. Liangzhou was originally his Ma family's territory. If you want to control anyone, you can't control the place well.This time when Ma Jiabing came back, he just took his own yard under his own name, and it didn't bother him at all.But this time Ma Jiabing seemed to have lost his nap, which allowed Gazelle to take advantage of the loophole.

Standing in the latrine and not shitting, raise some idlers!Second Master Shui hated him, he couldn't figure it out, he couldn't control himself with the barrel of a gun, what was in the gun, it was deadly gunpowder.No matter how good the gazelle is, can it still be a brazen head and iron arm?After listening to the county magistrate, Kong Jiexi, Second Master Shui realized that it wasn't that Ma Jiabing couldn't control him, it was that he hadn't managed it at all.The Ma family still doesn't understand how they rob themselves. They rob big households, money, official positions, and women.In this world, it seems that there is really no way, no wonder the gazelle dares to jump from the dark to the bright.

Don't be afraid to jump to the bright spot! Standing on Qingshi Ridge, Second Master Shui stared bitterly at the direction of Qingfengxia and Donggou. Although he couldn't find a reason not to be afraid, in his heart, he was really not afraid. I'm afraid it's not my second child!He once again strengthened his confidence in himself. When eating black rice, Second Master Shui got involved with his in-laws. I really can't see the origin of the dog's day, and this is a piece of shit, you dare to hold me with a shit bowl.Hmph, if you want to cheat on my second child, you are still far away.

It's also strange where it came from. Ever since there was a noise from the peasant association in Daxia, it's no longer the same.He doesn't look like he walks, doesn't talk like he looks like, and he doesn't even look like squatting in the courtyard to eat.Second Master Shui originally said something nice to him, but seeing him holding the bowl and not eating for a long time, Second Master Shui thought he thought the rice was too clear and watery, so he handed him half a bowl of noodles in his own bowl: "Eat Come on, my in-laws, I don’t feel comfortable eating the thick rice, but I still like to drink it clear.” In the usual way, Lai Lu would immediately take the bowl and pour the thick one into his own bowl without even saying a word, But today, I don't know where I came from, so I put down the bowl and said: "Second Master, don't you look down on people? Give me the leftovers, what have I become?"

Second Master Shui stared at the way he came from in surprise, not sure what was wrong with him, and it took a long time for Second Master Shui to suddenly realize. He smiled and said: "Hey, it's not mine, it's not mine, come on, don't you think it's going to change, in the future, I'm afraid it's my turn to eat your leftovers." If you stop here, I'm afraid you won't be able to argue, Second Master Shui has already gone to his courtyard with his bowl in hand.Unexpectedly, he came back and said: "Second Master, walk carefully, the road ahead is dark, Donggou, your in-laws, I heard that Hei fell down in a somersault yesterday, and he hasn't recovered yet. " Second Master Shui turned around with a slap, held back for a while, but couldn't hold back, howled like a wolf: "Look, what shit did you shit, do it again?" The way he came from picked up the bowl, just like how he tied the five sons back then, and walked away.This action of his deeply enraged Second Master Shui, who rushed over, aimed at his head and knocked half a bowl of noodles over.Lu Lu turned his neck and stared at Second Master Shui in shock. Before he could say anything, a word exploded in the courtyard: "Get lost!" That night, Shiliang knelt in Second Master Shui's room for half the night. It was not Second Master Shui who asked him to kneel, but he came to kneel by himself.The change of father's background has already caused Shiliang to be dissatisfied. He tried to persuade him several times in private, but his background just didn't listen.One mouthful of one revolution came, and the times turned around. It seemed that if the peasant association made trouble, it would really give him a way to make trouble in the Shui family compound. Second Master Shui didn't say a word. He hasn't uttered a word since he collected food and entered the door. His eyes were tightly closed, as if to drive away everything outside his eyes.When she knelt until midnight, Yingying refused, and rushed in to pick up some food: "Kneel, what are you kneeling for? I don't want to see you being so lowly. Kneel for those who are kind and righteous, and for this one whose heart is harder than a rock." , Kneeling in vain!" Second Master Shui couldn't bear it any longer, and howled like a wave of tears. On the grassy beach, under the starry sky, after waiting for half a night with sleeves on, I finally heard my son say: "Go, Dad, even if I give you a big bowl of red flowers, I can't handle it, you..." Yingying stared at Shiliang in puzzlement when the figure from the way had completely disappeared into the night: "What do you mean by that?" "You don't deceive people, you don't deceive your heart." Picking up the food, Zhong Teng said. After Shui Erye drove away a few unsafe helpers who wanted to go to heaven and earth, the representatives of the peasant association really came to the mountain. What made Second Master Shui dumbfounded was that it was none other than Xiao Wuzi who came here, and the other almost didn't let Second Master Shui goug out his eyes.The leader of the Donggou Farmers' Association is actually an idiot! When the old man entered the door, he said, "Second Lord, you look different every day on this mountain." The second master Shui replied angrily: "I see you change every day, and if you change again, you will become a fairy." The face of Lao Wu's smiling face instantly froze, and he said repeatedly on the way: "This time, we must kill Shui Lao Er's vigor, and we can't let him be arrogant anymore. No matter how arrogant he is, give him a revolution." After a while, he laughed dryly and was at a loss for words.Second Lord Shui sent Mrs. Wu to make some tea, and he said in his words: "Make some tea, this one is here today, but he has a string on his tongue." After talking for a while, the old five said again: "Second Master, I don't have much to say this time. It's just a matter. Right now, the peasant association is rioting everywhere, and the poor are only thinking of taking over the world from the rich. Do you understand the world, as the saying goes, thirty years in Hedong and thirty years in Hexi, the world should turn to the poor." "Five idiots, you have been around for a long time, what are you going to vomit. If you don't want to sit in the world, what are you doing in my room? I have the world in my room?" "Second Master, you can't say that. I'm afraid you can hear about the things in this gorge. The Su family in Donggou, the Zhao family, and your in-laws, the peasant association have all looked for them. They are a little proactive. , Some of them are still sleeping with a pillow in their arms. The revolution is not a day or two. The patience of us poor people is limited. Just when Xiao Wuzi and I were on the road, your in-laws have been dragged out by Sun Liu and others to show the public Yes. You know Sun Liu, if he makes a fuss, no one can stop him." What the old man said was right, at this time, He Dakun in Donggou was being tied up by five flowers, and the people brought by Sun Liu were escorting them around the street.Parading the streets is a new thing for Donggou people. After several lifetimes, no one has ever seen a long-term worker tie up a rich man with a woman's torn handkerchief on his head.It is said that the criticism meeting was presided over by a red-faced man sent by Miaoergou. The details of the red-faced man have become a topic of discussion in Donggou these days. The poor rise up.Some people also said that he was the bodyguard of the second son of the Qiu family in Pingyangchuan. The second son of the Qiu family is very powerful now. The Communist Party has sent him no less than five bodyguards.In short, the rumors reveal a message, as long as you follow the gazelle, you can do whatever you want in the future, and you don't have to look at the faces of the rich and powerful.After Lao Wu finished speaking and the tea was brought, Second Master Shui said solemnly, "Old Wu, I've been with you for half our lives, right?" "Second Master, I've been fighting you for most of my life. Roughly speaking, it's been thirty years since I came to Donggou." The fifth child was delighted, and took a sip of tea. Today's tea is really strong, the fifth child Drink it down, it really nourishes your heart.He is now the team leader of the Donggou Farmers' Association. Xiao Wuzi said that the Qingshiling Farmers' Association will be under his control in the future. Then, the 30 years of grievances and grievances with Master Shui will have something to say in the future. There is something to say. Second Master Shui took a look at the proud look of the fifth fool, and said in a more emphatic tone: "Five fool, my in-laws have ever harmed you?" "No." "The Su family and the Zhao family have harmed you?" Lao Wu thought for a while, then shook his head and said, "Not at all." "Then what are you trying to do!" Second Master Shui stood up abruptly, and glared at the fifth child angrily, "In other words, it's my second child who should tie He Daku with a rope the most! But my second child doesn't want to Binding, it’s not that I dare not, it’s that my second child is not confused about that. Who let the rope be tied down? Just relying on a leather bag and a stick to beg for food, Sun Liu, who is begging for food, can get my in-laws Tied up?!" "But they're a big family." The old man was stunned by Second Master Shui's aura. "Big household? What's wrong with the big household? Was it stolen, snatched, or was it given to him with closed eyes?" Because of his anger, Second Master Shui's body trembled violently, and his words became more and more serious: "The family business is Earning step by step, suffering, is earned by the sweat of several lifetimes, not tied with ropes!" "Then why can't the poor earn money?" Lao Wu retorted unconvinced. In a word, Second Master Shui stopped asking.That's right, why can't the poor earn money? He has never thought about such a profound problem when a living person has lived until now.If you lose in this life, you will be compensated in the next life, if you don’t pay it back in the next life, there will be the next life.In short, God has eyes. "It's hard to say, hehe, let me tell you, the poor are exploited, the rich are exploited, and the rich are exploited." "What do you mean by exploitation?" Second Master Shui had never heard of this term, and for a moment, Lao Wu's mind was led to his line. "Hey, I said you are behind, but you are still stubborn with me. You don't even know about exploitation. Is this exploitation just... just..." The old five was at a loss for words. Some of those new terms were memorized, and some were forgotten the next day.He could score eight or nine points for this exploitation, but it was a mouthful to say, and he changed his words: "Exploitation is rent collection." "You can also say that?" Second Master Shui was a little discouraged suddenly. Why should he argue with someone like Lao Wuhu? This person has known a matchmaker all his life. Even now, the land can’t be plowed, how many solar terms are there in a year, if you ask him, he definitely doesn’t know.Is it worthwhile to get excited with such a person?Shui Erye sighed, and said: "Go back, old five, go back and talk to your matchmaker. If the matchmaker agrees, you can support yourself." "Second Lord, I haven't finished my words yet. This peasant association is not a joke. Think about it, think about it again. If Sun Liu and the others come with a rope, I can't stop the fifth fool." This sentence irritated Second Master Shui.He shook the tea bowl in front of Lao Wupao and said, "Old Wupao, people who are human or not are trying to scare me. Today, do you mean to scold me? Sun Liu, Sun Liu has Feng Chuanwu Powerful? I, Shui Er, have never been roped? I have been roped by He Dadong’s house, I have been roped by Feng Chuanwu, and you want to scare me with a rope? Tell you, Wu Mu, the world is not tied with ropes , The big households are not something that people like you can tie down. The peasant association, I just realized what a peasant association is. You can divide the cattle and horses, and you can also divide the fields, including the money of the big households. If you can take it away, my Shui family once let you take it away, but there is one thing that you can't take away!" "What?" "Live life hard!" The fifth fool still wanted to reason, but Second Master Shui's hand was already pointing outside the door.Xiao Wuzi saw that the situation was not good, so he hurriedly dragged Lao Wupao out.This trip, the fifth brother was really wronged. He was here to teach the second son Shui a lesson, but he didn't expect to let the second son Shui teach him a hard lesson. The leader of the agricultural association really made him lose face. From the beginning to the end, Xiao Wuzi didn't dare to speak.If Xiao Wuzi opened his mouth, Second Master Shui didn't prepare anything for him, he just prepared two mouths.One, let him remember that he grew up eating the food saved from the mouth of a big family. Without a big family, the first one to starve to death was his little Wuzi.Another thing, Second Master Shui wanted to wake up this foolish ghost. Those who grew up eating food from the Shui family had to live a down-to-earth life, including the cattle and sheep raised by the Shui family, which were more stable than other cattle and sheep on the grassland! No matter how suffocated Erye Shui was, the turmoil of the peasant association became more and more serious. For several days in a row, the raging fire not only burned the entire canyon, but the flames even reached the remote Wanzhongtai.Since Sun Liuyi, a group of activists, started the bandit parade in Donggou, the peasant association's method of fighting people has become more and more simple.As for the distribution of the property of the big households, it seems that not too much has happened. It is said that there is discipline at the top. At this stage, the peasant households are first mobilized to awaken themselves and prepare for the upcoming national liberation. "I'm going to be liberated soon." The butler's old prong head shook his not-too-long weed beard, as if he was going to be the boss immediately with joy.Second Master Shui didn't say a word.These days, the behavior of the people in the courtyard became more and more abnormal, and it became more and more unbearable for Second Master Shui.After a while yesterday, the old butler, Prongtou, didn't say hello to him, and slaughtered a sheep that broke its leg on the cliff. return.If it was changed to the usual way, Second Master Shui would be so angry that he could be slaughtered if he broke his leg?My second child, Shui, also broke a leg, so take a knife and kill him.Shui Erye endured without saying a word, and silently tied the animals into the shed and put the farm tools back to their original places. The helpers were already happily carrying mutton noodles, and their exaggerated voices could choke people to death.Sister-in-law Wu fetched water, Second Master Shui washed his face, and Sister-in-law Wu asked: "Do you want to eat the mutton noodles that the butler told me to make?" Second Master Shui scolded angrily: "After eating the mutton, let's run around, go, Give me a bowl of soup." Soon, Mrs. Wu brought out the noodle soup.Only now did Second Master Shui realize that the noodle soup had been mixed a long time ago, and he blamed Mrs. Wu just now.His eyes slowly looked towards Mrs. Wu, which made Mrs. Wu tremble.Afterwards, he picked up the bowl, came to the backyard generously, and sat with the chatting and laughing helpers and the old housekeeper, the helpers hadn't woken up before they heard the sound of Master Shui drinking the soup When it rang, the sound was so loud that it was so powerful, it immediately overwhelmed the freshness of the helpers who couldn't eat a meal of mutton for eight lifetimes.Second Master Shui drank the first bowl, and then drank the second bowl. The more he drank it, the better it tasted, and the helpers ran away with the bowls one by one.After drinking the fifth bowl, he realized that behind him, he was squatting to pick up food, and what he was holding in his hand was also a soup mixing bowl. In the next few hours, Second Master Shui came back to the courtyard on the ridge, and heard Mrs. Wu say that the boss of Wanzhong Taishui has come. "What is he here for?" Second Master Shui was holding back his anger and had nowhere else to go, so he threw it on Aunt Wu whenever he had the chance, and every word he said to Aunt Wu seemed to be sprayed out of a gunpowder tube. "How do I know, people are in the house, you can ask yourself." Aunt Wu's mood is getting worse day by day, the number of people working is decreasing day by day, but the mouths to eat are increasing day by day.At noon, she sent away the representatives of the peasant association from Miaoergou. During this time, several Baojia chiefs came to the backyard. They were scheming and discussing the establishment of a maintenance association. Auntie Wu didn't have the heart to serve these people at all. But Battalion Commander Zhang, who just came back from outside, said that these people should be treated well, and these people were invited by him. The one you invited is very powerful. Where are you these days when ghosts are haunting the wall in the courtyard?I ran out to the refuge hall, didn't see each other for more than a month, and finally came, and five ghosts and six gods invited a yard, thinking that my Shui family is a housekeeper.Sister-in-law Wu cursed in her heart, but her subordinates did not dare to neglect, how to cook and how to cook.Her appearance made Gu Jiu'er on the side laugh straight away. If you want to say that for a while, Gu Jiu'er is the only one who has settled down, as if he is really determined to be a cook, and the noise outside is none of his business.Aunt Wu agreed with him in her heart, and scolded unforgivingly: "Smile, laugh, just know how to laugh, if I knew you couldn't do anything, I might as well not let you stay in the hospital." As he was talking, the dog suddenly ran over yelling: "It's not good, it's fighting, it's fighting." "Why are you crazy, who started the fight?" "Both old brothers, their heads were smashed." The dog's voice became more and more exaggerated. Aunt Wu dropped the rolling pin and ran to the upper courtyard.Sure enough, Shui Boss and Shui Lao Er twisted together, and Shui Boss really had blood on his head. "You prodigal son, big-headed ghost, you have known kicking and sweeping all your life, and you have nowhere to go after kicking and sweeping, and you think of me, Shui Erer?" Second Master Shui beat and scolded, and pushed Shui Boss out of the yard . After careful questioning, I found out that Wan Zhongtai's family was divided by the peasant association.In fact, it is not a peasant association. According to Shui Boss, it is the families who have done long-term labor for the Wanzhongtai Shui family. Wealthy families were divided up.Boss Shui saw that the situation was not going well, so he ran to communicate with his younger brother, and when he entered the door, he said, "Eat what you should eat, spend what you should spend, family business, it's a disaster to earn it." Second Master Shui scolded him angrily, Shui The boss was still not convinced, and the three words were not good, so the two wrestled together and started fighting. After finishing the fight, Second Master Shui stood under the courtyard wall and pointed to Boss Shui's nose: "You can't even protect your home, so you still have the face to come and talk to me?" "Aren't I doing this for your own good?" Boss Shui didn't care at all that the second child hit him, and in his heart, he was really sweating for the second child.Now that even Wanzhongtai is in trouble, can this peasant association spare the second child?He wiped the blood from his head and said: "Brother, listen to my advice, give what is due, give what should be given away, and now you still have a favor when you give it away, and someone will steal it, who do you turn to for favor?" "Dare he?!" "There is nothing to dare, brother, in this world, there is really nothing to dare." "I'll wait, I'll see who has long hair and bleeding dares to snatch my second child!" The second master Shui's words no longer refer to the boss of water, but seem to be speaking to the sky and the earth. Boss Shui sighed sadly, and expressed deep sympathy for his younger brother's stupidity: "Sooner or later, what's the point of holding on, when the time comes, you will know the good intentions of being a brother." What Boss Shui was worried about didn't happen right away. Second Master Shui still went to the field before dawn, and only returned to the hospital when it was so dark that it was impossible to see what was grass and what was medicine on the mountain.He also stopped urging the remaining helpers, and he could do it if he wanted to, or fall asleep every day if he didn't want to.But Dudu paid more attention to collecting grain than before, for fear that he would be lazy with the helpers.Fortunately, he got up earlier to pick up food and went to bed later than him. Weng and son-in-law, Yingying, Gougou and Wusao became the most patient medicine growers on Qingshiling.Brother Shui was very puzzled by this: "Why are you suffering? I have never seen such a rich man who wakes up at midnight and sleeps in the middle of the night. Are you a rich man or a long-term worker?" : "Just know who earns it, whoever earns it, no matter how much it earns, it's someone else's." Boss Shui's words were immediately retaliated against. Originally, after the quarrel and fight that day, Second Master Shui still left his brother Boss Shui in his own room decently, eating three meals a day, and eating whatever he ate.Unexpectedly, this morning, what Mrs. Wu brought was different meals.Shui Erye still made steamed buns soaked in butter, tea and sugar, but the ones passed to Mr. Shui turned out to be boiled water.Boss Shui uttered a few words, and seeing Second Master Shui swallowed and went to the field, he said bitterly: "Ruthless, ruthless enough!" The street parade continued. Apart from the big households, many Baojia chiefs in the village were also pulled out. The empty-handed poor people fought more and more courageously, and the braver they became, the more they wanted to fight.Battalion Commander Zhang, who was in charge of public security in Qingshiling, showed great tolerance for the looting and looting in the gorge in the late spring and early summer, and even turned a blind eye to it later.He once personally said to those Baojia chiefs: "We need to discuss with the county magistrate Kong Jiexi, we can't just let it go, the county government must come up with a good way to protect the safety and interests of Baojia chiefs." Within three days after speaking, Those Baojia chiefs who had been invited by him to the Shui Family Courtyard to have a meal with Mrs. Wu were all dragged out by the peasant association to fight.Battalion Commander Zhang even ran out every three days. He went for several days and couldn't figure out what he was busy with. At this moment, a group of people came to Xigou, and they dragged away the food under the eyes of Second Master Shui.It turned out that the Xigou Farmers' Association wanted to elect a group leader, and Xiao Wuzi and his colleagues jointly recommended the person who cut the hole, but Sun Liu and the others strongly opposed it.Sun Liu thought that Lai Lu and the second master of Qingshilingshui were in-laws, so they should be assigned to the big family, and it would be fine if they didn't go out to swim, how could he be elected as the team leader? Xiao Wuzi first had the patience to talk about policies with Sun Liu, saying that the peasant association is to mobilize those poor brothers who are exploited and oppressed, so that they can unite to fight against the reactionary regime, and finally overthrow the reactionary regime and establish a new regime.Sun Liu thought that Xiao Wuzi was talking too much, and said: "I don't care if the government is not in power. Anyway, this team leader is mine, and no one wants to compete with me." If Xiao Wuzi wants to do his job again, Sun Liu will become famous Now, I want to fight with Xiao Wuzi.Sun Liu is addicted to fighting people, and if he doesn't fight for a day, he will have nowhere to put his hands.Xiao Wuzi was secretly worried that something might have gone wrong when the revolution reached this point.But for a while, he couldn't find the crux of the problem, so he simply sent someone to collect Shiliang. He thought that many people in Xigou had planted medicine with Shiliang. Nine out of ten times it is settled. Unexpectedly, the first sentence of Shiliang made Xiao Wuzi tongue-tied. "My father is an honest man, he only cuts acupuncture points for others. I'd better leave it to others to tie up and punish people." The way he came from was stomping his feet in anger. He wanted to be the team leader wholeheartedly. Otherwise, why would he go to Xiao Wuzi's house every day?Seeing that Sun Liu is becoming more and more a figure in the ditch, the house has all the farm tools, such as a cart, a plow, a rake, and so on, and it is almost necessary to send He's family back and forth to pull the animals, but there are only two broken iron shovels in the yard. , He didn't get anything, how could he be reconciled? "Picking up grain, you can't say that. Although you are now the son-in-law of the second master Shui, you have been exploited after careful consideration. You forgot why Donggou forced you to carry coal on the kiln for three or nine days. What about it?" Xiao Wuzi took up his temper and enlightened him to pick up food.I didn't want to pick up the grain and said: "That's for wages. If you pay wages, you have to work. People don't order me for nothing." "Then I grazed cattle for five months, but why didn't I pay them? Isn't this exploitation?" "You let the family's two cows disappear, and you still have the face to ask for wages?" Shiliang stared at his father angrily. He really didn't understand why his father, who had always been a loner, suddenly became so enthusiastic about joining in the fun? The group leader of the Xigou Agricultural Association was finally let go because of disagreement.At night, the father and son sat on the kang, gathered food, and persuaded their father: "You should not get involved in those matters. I am thinking about leveling the sunken valleys in Xigou when you have time. The ditch also planted the medicine." "I'm not free!" The source said angrily, then pretended to be asleep. In Shiliang's heart, he suddenly became worried about his father. On Mangzhong's head after Xiaoman passed by, Sun Liu rushed up to the ridge with a group of people, saying that the gorge was burned all over, and that Qingshiling was still so dead, it must make Qingshiling turmoil.Battalion Commander Zhang was not around, his footsteps were always in a hurry, and even Second Master Shui could hardly see his shadow.The few soldiers who stayed behind did not dare to stop them because they were afraid of the power of the peasant association.This made it easy for Sun Liu and his group to rush into the Shui family compound.Shui Erye was still on the mountain at that time, and there was another pair of oxen in the backyard that could plow the land, but they had to be trained before plowing, and collecting grain could not be done, and it was obvious that they were still amateurs in handling livestock.Shui Erye had no choice but to put on a plow himself, and let the cattle practice stepping on the furrow in the rest field.Pian oxen are more temperamental than yellow oxen, and if they are not handled well, they will be transferred to the young, and then the pair of oxen will be useless, and they will not be able to drive them into the furrow for a lifetime. The old butler's face was shining brightly, whenever he saw people from the peasant association, the old butler couldn't restrain his excitement.He enthusiastically led Sun Liu and his group. First, they walked around the backyard, pointed to the empty stables and cowsheds, and said, "All the animals have arrived in the Tibetan area, and the grass in the Tibetan area is good." Sun Liu didn't seem interested in this, he said. "We're not here to look after the animals, we're here to discuss matters with Shui Lao Er." The housekeeper, Lao Yantou, heard that Sun Liu changed the name of Shui Er Master to Shui Lao Er, and said with a startled voice on purpose: "I said Liu Wazi , you don’t dare to be big or small, if my second master hears about it, I’ll take your skin off carefully.” "Your family's second master?" Sun Liu turned and stared at the old prong head. He was amused by the old prong head's numbness and ignorance, but he didn't want to laugh for the time being. He pointed to the two rows of warehouses in the backyard and said, "is there any food?" "How do you know?" The old man didn't evade Sun Liu's question at all, and honestly answered that there was indeed food in there, but he then emphasized: "Without my second master, I can't move a single grain." "What if the brothers from the Peasant Association borrowed it to start the stove?" Sun Liu said his purpose with provocation in his eyes.It turned out that Sun Liu always felt that the poor in Xigou were not very active. At first they had a good enthusiasm for joining the farmers' association, but after seeing that they were tied and fought all day without any practical things, their enthusiasm slowed down. Slowly faded.Some people even follow along during the day to join in the fun, and stealthily run around the big family's house in the dark to make amends.Sun Liu thought that if they didn't add fire to their enthusiasm in time, he was afraid that the fire wouldn't burn again in March and May, and Qingfeng Gorge would return to its original darkness.So he decided to start a stove in Xigou, that is, to set up a big pot in the yard of his house, and let activists come to eat every day.There is no one to worry about eating and drinking for free.In this way, the leader of the Xigou Farmers' Association doesn't have to fight any more. It's his grandson Liu's, and even the Farmers' Association will move to his house. "Liu boy, you can't do this." The one who spoke was Boss Shui, who was woken up by Sun Liu and his gang in a dream. He shouted this disappointing sentence before the old butler opened the storeroom. People's eyes flocked over.Boss Shui was a little uncomfortable, but he quickly calmed down: "What are you looking at? I don't know why. I am Boss Shui from Wanzhongtai. This Qingshiling is half as long as I am." "So, you are also half of the owner of this courtyard?" Sun Liu asked with a smile, he hated these blind people the most.Who is my grandson now?He is no longer the Liuwazi who was fishing for sticks with his leather bag in the past. He is the backbone of the peasant association in Qingfengxia, and he is someone who wants to overthrow the old world! Boss Shui nodded in a dignified manner, and at the same time imitated his younger brother Shui Erye and asked the housekeeper, Old Prong, to wait for him to smoke. "Tie it up!" Sun Liumeng was furious, and as soon as he waved his hand, someone who came with him took out the rope he had with him, and tied up Boss Shui with a few strokes. I don't dare to tie up the second child, and I dare not tie up your boss?Sun Liu hated in his heart, he turned around and ordered the housekeeper, Old Prong, to open the door, and he wanted to pack the grain himself. When Shui Erye heard the news and rushed up from the mountain, the carriage of Sun Liu's group was already fully loaded with grain, and they had reached the depths of the big grassy beach. "A bandit, it's a bandit!" Second Master Shui wanted to push him away, but Shiliang and Yingying grabbed him: "Father, listen to my advice, Sun Liu is not to be messed with." Sun Liu's act of blatantly stealing the grain deeply hurt Erye Shui. He didn't eat the black rice that day, and sat alone at the gate of the courtyard. He was waiting for Zhang Yingchang to come back, and he wanted to ask Zhang Ying personally. Master, where are you keeping me safe? Battalion Commander Zhang is really contradictory.During the period from the end of spring to midsummer, Battalion Commander Zhang was obsessed with more important matters. It was obvious that he would keep running back and forth between Liangzhou City and Gulang County. The scattered units of the National Army in Liangzhou adopted a policy of incorporation. Some who did not want to be incorporated ran back to find the original team before they were incorporated, and some abandoned their guns and returned to their hometowns to farm.Battalion Commander Zhang could neither escape nor go home to farm, so he could only bite the bullet and let Ma Jiabing be his stepmother.开春之后，古浪县的马鸿逵把他叫去，安当给他一个特殊任务，要他带上原来的几个人还有收编过来的几股力量，去横山一带打土匪。马鸿逵说的土匪正是疙瘩五他们，马鸿逵进驻古浪时曾跟疙瘩五交过一次手，差点让疙瘩五的人要掉命，他发誓上任的头件事就是把疙瘩五灭掉。张营长领命后，连夜找县长孔杰玺商量对策，迫于无奈，县长孔杰玺通知疙瘩五，让他们暂停一切活动，分散在横山一带听候指令。过后，张营长又找到司徒雪儿，发泄了一通心中的不满，眼下惟一能跟马家兵较劲儿的，就剩了司徒雪儿。可这女人自打仇家远丢下她返回西安后，人就变成了一片树叶，再也担当不起什么使命，整日里躲在学诚书院，把拂面而来的春风硬说成横扫一切的秋风，把绵软细密的春雨硬当成满天飞扬的落雪，样子跟傻了没什么区别。 暗中，张营长还有另一档子事要做。张营长的确是打入国民军内部的中共地下党骨干分子，他目前的职务是古浪县委委员，受孔杰玺领导。按照上级指示，要借马家兵交接的空，迅速建立一支地下武装，解放古浪乃至凉州的战役即将打响，国民党在这个时候换上兵强马壮的马家兵统管大半个西北，目的就是想借马家兵的力量阻止红军西进的步伐，因此从内部扼制敌人就显得十分重要。除了现成的疙瘩五这股力量，张营长把目标瞄向那些跟他一样接受马家兵整编的零散队伍上，这项工作做起来十分危险，稍有不慎，就会将自己暴露，那将对凉州和古浪的地下组织带来毁灭性的打击。还好，工夫不负有心人，眼下张营长的地下武装已悄悄壮大起来。 让张营长头疼的不是马家兵，而恰恰是自己人。仇家远领导的黄羊在这个春季的确干了许多事，农会掀起的风暴也迅速点燃了古浪的革命烈火。但是，他们错误地将斗争方向引到跟大户富户的斗争上，使得成立农会的意义有了根本性的变化。农会的目的不是对着那些大户富户，而是发动广大群众，跟国民党反动派做坚决斗争。为这事，张营长跟仇家远发生过激烈争吵，但仇家远根本听不进去。也不知为什么，重回凉州的仇家远显得比以前更加自负，自负中又透着一股急躁，像是急于要干出什么。这可不是仇家远的性格啊，张营长觉得，经历了这么多变故，仇家远应该变得更加沉稳，应该更能看到斗争的艰巨性与复杂程度，可偏是，仇家远把复杂性忽略了，他还无不得意地冲张营长说：“不让他们得点好处，他们能跟着你干？” 得点好处，难道革命仅仅是得点好处？还有，靠小恩小惠发动起来的这些人，能成为革命的中坚力量？ 张营长摇摇头，他感觉仇家远已偏离了方向。 一听孙六带人抢走了粮食，张营长愤怒了，大嗓门一扯：“跟我走！”院里留守的兵娃哗啦啦背起枪，跟上他就往西沟去。路上有个兵娃担忧地说：“营长，我们跟农会斗，会不会吃亏？”张营长暴躁地说：“就那个二杆子孙六，他能算农会？今儿个他要不把粮食乖乖送回来，老子敲烂他的头！” 等到了孙六家，张营长几个却看见另一番景致。一人高的篱笆墙围起的小院里，黑压压挤满了人，细一看，全是这阵子跟上孙六闹事的。只见他们个个摩拳擦掌，仿佛刚刚打了一场胜仗。孙六更是喜形于色，跟人们吹嘘他如何把水老二捆起来，这个在西沟人眼里充满神奇色彩的青石岭牧场主，到了孙六嘴里，就成了一个豆腐包，不但乖乖把粮食装在了车上，还差点跪下求他孙六。说的人唾沫横飞，听的人两眼发直，谁也不认为孙六是在太阳底下撒大谎，因为一车粮食就是最好的见证。心急者已在孙六院里支了口大锅，吆喝着看热闹的人快去拾柴禾，说打今儿起，沟里就不用再家家户户冒烟了，吃饭时只管夹着碗来，分享革命果实。 张营长等孙六说完，才挤进去：“你是孙六？” 孙六楞了一下，旁边的人抢着说：“他是我们的农会组长。” “水家大院的粮是你抢的？” 孙六一看张营长带了不到五个人，胆子正了，跳下他踩着的石墩子说：“农会就是跟一切阻挠革命的反动势力作斗争，谁阻挠革命，我们就打倒谁。” “对，打倒谁！”孙六的几个铁杆子兄弟跟着吆喝。 “给我把粮食送回去！”张营长正色道。 “你说送回去就送回去，那我成了什么？”孙六厚着脸，一副皮笑肉不笑的样子。 “送回去！”张营长啪地拔出了枪，几个兵娃也哗啦哗啦拉起了枪栓。 “吆嘿，你个刮民党，兔子尾巴长不了几天了，你还这么张狂？”孙六说着话，暗中给他的弟兄使眼色，就见这帮人暗暗散开，在张营长他们四周合成了一个包围圈。 “你送不送？”张营长也是让孙六逼上了，本来他就对孙六没好感，认定这是一个混进革命阵营的渣子，一个好吃懒做的乡间小流氓。偏巧孙六又抢了水二爷的粮，如果不把粮食要回去，真的没法跟水二爷交待。 “不送，你能咋？”孙六仗着人多势众，决计在西沟人面前露一会脸。 “啪！”没容孙六做任何反应，张营长一个扫腿便将孙六扫翻，等人们看清时，他已将孙六反剪着双手提了起来，枪，死死地顶在孙六头上。孙六吓得早已没了脸色，他那几个铁杆子还想动手，让张营长的人一个对付三个，全都放倒在地。 按说，这场插曲到此应该结束，张营长体面地把粮食拉回来交给水二爷，这场小风波就算结束了。谁知偏在这节骨眼上，篱笆墙外响过来一个声音：“放开他。” 喊话的不是别人，正是仇家远。仇家远刚刚跟司徒雪儿从凉州城赶来，本来要到青石岭去，一听张营长带人到了西沟，就径直赶了过来。张营长制服孙六的这一幕，仇家远完全看在了眼里。仇家远本来不想阻止，但又怕张营长真把孙六制服，会给沟里的革命形势带来不利影响。情急之下，喊出了那一声。 张营长一看是仇家远，犹豫了片刻，还是放了孙六。一放开，孙六就不是孙六了，他冲地上爬起来的兄弟喊：“给我把刮命党的枪下了。”那几个人一看来了靠山，顿时来了精神，毫不犹豫就扑向兵娃，双方再次展开搏斗。仇家远再想制止，就迟了。他总不能明着告诉大家，张营长是革命同志，不能下他的枪。再者，司徒雪儿就在他身边，他也怕暴露自己的真实身份。 小伍子急得双眼发红，他还从没遇上自家人打自家人的事，一时不知该帮谁又该制止谁。仇家远也意识到自己犯了错误，不停地冲械斗的人群喊：“住手，都给我住手！”孙六哪还能听得见他的话，冲院里看热闹的人大吼：“抢啊，把枪给我抢了，有了枪，往后，就没人敢欺负我们了。” 一听抢这个字，西沟人下意识地兴奋起来。仿佛他们活在世上，就专门冲这个字来的。况且这些天，他们真的尝到了这个字的甜头，不抢，粮从哪来，不抢，牛羊从哪来？不抢，不抢就得永远做穷人！一声抢啊，一院的人就扑向张营长他们，包括院外那些主意不定的，也都忽然间有了信心，跳进院里，就拳打脚踢地干将起来。 眼见着一场流血事件就要发生在西沟，仇家远一干人的脸都白了，小伍子甚至急的，要扑进来护住张营长。一匹马呼啸着从沟里飞来，远远的，一颗鸡蛋大的石子掠风而来，穿过黑压压的人群，不偏不倚打在了孙六头上，孙六妈呀一声，倒在地上。一股血冒出来，吓得人们顿作鸟兽散。小伍子的媳妇惊恐中朝沟里瞅一眼，颤颤地喊：“天呀，是英英，是英英来了。” 说话间，水英英已跳下马，收起炮肚，直奔院里。孙六还抱着头妈妈老子的呻唤，水英英一把提起他：“粮食哩，我家的粮食哩？” 在西沟，人们可能不怕张营长，可能不怕小伍子，但，见了水英英，没一个敢说不怕的。西沟这些人，一多半给水家当过帮工，剩下的一小半，也长年累月在东沟何家干活，对水家三小姐的厉害，不只是耳闻，不少人吃过她的嘴巴哩。这丫头要是惹躁了，能把你一把提到马上，让她的山风把你巅死！ 孙六结巴了几下，还是乖乖地头一歪，指着院里的粮食说：“在那哩。” Snapped!一个嘴巴搧过来。可怜的孙六，头上的血还没止住，嘴里的血又冒出来。 “你饿疯了是不是，饿疯了也得苦着去挣啊。抢，你连青石岭的粮食也敢抢！”骂着，又一个嘴巴搧过去。孙六一躲，嘴上没挨，鼻孔里的血却又冒出来。 四下围着的人慢慢往后退，因为他们看见水家三小姐已在捋自个的马鞭了，那马鞭的滋味，不比嘴巴好受。 院外面的仇家远终于松下一口气，幸亏水英英来得及时，要不然，今天这局面，就完全失控。他正要走上前去，冲水英英说句感激话，不料，司徒雪儿抢先一步开了口。 “好身手，英英小姐果然名不虚传。” 水英英本来是不想理仇家远的，一听司徒雪儿说了话，不得不转过脸来，学着司徒雪儿的口气，文绉绉道：“司徒处长过奖，我一个乡野女子，哪来什么身手，只是院里辛辛苦苦打下的粮被人抢了，咽不下这口气。”说着，扭过头，狠狠地剜了孙六一眼。 仇家远见机行事，指住地上躺的孙六骂：“吃了豹子胆是不，敢抢水家大院的粮，我看你活得不耐烦了！” 孙六结巴着，好像不明白仇家远为什么要骂他。张营长一步跨过来：“敢骂老子刮命党，老子一枪崩了你！” 司徒雪儿看到这，不动声色地笑了笑，走过来道：“算了，这事到此为止，我看双方都不要追究了。” 对司徒雪儿的态度，仇家远和张营长都暗自一惊。张营长还怕司徒雪儿要趁机对农会这帮人就地采取措施，心里一直捏把汗，听她这么一说，忙冲孙六喝：“还不快滚！” 水英英还不解气，又冲孙六等人骂：“你些个忘恩负义的，当年闹天灾到我家吃舍饭的时候，嘴咋一个比一个甜？吃不起药了到我家借药钱的时候，嘴咋一个比一个甜？你瞅瞅这西沟的窑洞，还有这院子，有几家不是我水家大院张罗者盖的。敢抢我水家的粮食，不怕老天爷抓头呀！” 骂够了，骂便宜了，才猛地冲小伍子喊：“还楞着做啥，不把马车吆回去！” 粮是追回来了，可水英英的心，却丢在了西沟。西沟孙六家院墙外司徒雪儿小羊羔般偎在仇家远怀里的那一幕，不知怎么就刺痛了她的眼睛，按说，她现在一心一意跟着拾粮过日子了，就不该对别的男人有想法。可，那一幕，真是挡不住地刺痛了她的眼。 这一夜，她破天荒地没跟拾粮睡一起。拾粮倒是想睡，自打那夜后，拾粮像是上了瘾，天天想睡，她呢，说句不害臊的话，也觉得睡好。但是这晚，她却全然没了睡一起的兴趣。 半夜时分，她起身，独自来到院里，院里风声大作，刮得四处响，她就那么站着，风把她的头发卷起来，衣服卷起来，眼看着要把她也卷走了，她依旧站着。她的一双眼死死地盯住峡口的方向，脑子里闪出一些最近在峡里很响的词，什么农会，什么革命，什么解放等等。她想不明白，这些词为什么会被叫响，原本风平浪静的青风峡，为什么一浪接着一浪，总也安静不下来？ 后来，她苦苦笑了下，她知道，风平浪静的日子永远过去了，兴许明天，兴许后天，更大的风暴将会来到。 这些话，还是前些日子她去平阳川，姐姐二梅亲口告诉她的。 算了，兵来将挡，水来土淹，大不了，再蹲一回地牢！正要转身时，一双手扶住了她的肩头。回眸一看，竟是男人拾粮。 拾粮将一件外衣披她身上，说：“风大，小心着了凉。” 不知怎么，水英英被仇家远搅乱的心，忽然又平静了、稳当了。她把身子靠过来，靠在拾粮怀里，一片温暖袭来，紧跟着，就有两只手环住了她。水英英闭上眼，半天，嘴里喃喃唤了声：“粮——” 抢粮事件深深刺激了水二爷，或者说，水二爷打这事上看出了危险。 按说，这是件小事，院里的人都这么认为，反正抢去的粮一颗不少原又拉了回来，跟孙六那号人，犯不着计较。 可水二爷不这么认为。 “大事，拾粮，这是件大事啊。”水二爷冲一次次进来劝他的拾粮说。 拾粮被水二爷说得直犯楞，尽管他心里也生气，可远没气到水二爷这份上。“你想想，就一个孙六，凭啥敢抢我的粮？你再想想，动上脑子想想，这里头，是有大文章的啊。” “文章？”拾粮越发不解。 “娃，世道变了，世道真的变了，这一回，你我怕是抵挡不过去。” “爹，你到底说些啥，我咋一句也听不懂？” “哼，你要是听懂，你就成高人了。”水二爷冷笑了一声：“又道，爹教你一句话，有时候大事反而是小事，甚至没事，往往这些不起眼的小事，反而藏着不少东西。你要学会从小事里看事情，看风向，你才能把世道看透彻。” 拾粮默默地站着，装出一副耐心的样子，其实，水二爷说的这些，早就在他脑子里过了千遍、万遍，所以装傻，是怕他一慌，这院就全慌了。 这院不能慌！ 但他又想不出不慌的法子，拾粮痛苦，拾粮很痛苦。 后来他说：“爹，天不会塌下来，就算塌下来，也还得拿药撑，我们只管种药，别的事，少想。” “药？娃，事情就出在药上！我思来想去，这药，不能再种了，再种，怕是种出大祸来哩。听我一句话，这药，不种了。” “不种？药明明在地里，咋能不种？”拾粮这次不敢装傻了，他从水二爷话里听出一股不妙。 “这不用你操心，娃，你看我的。”说着，水二爷腾地跳下炕，鞋一穿，就去棚里套牛。正是他费上心调教的那对犏牛。拾粮一开始还没在意，心想我倒要看看，他有什么好主意。等意识到不对劲时，水二爷赶着牛，已在地里犁起了药。“爹，使不得呀——” “使得！” 水二爷抽了一鞭子，一对刚刚学会踏犁沟的小犏牛便使上劲儿，狠命地拉着犁头，将大片大片绿油油的中药翻到了犁头下。 拾粮扑上来：“爹，使不得呀。”水二爷这次没给拾粮好脸色，照准他拦挡的一双手，就是一鞭子。拾粮疼得松了手，声音，还在地里响。水二爷心里恨道，你个木头鬼家的，等你把事情看明白，这岭上的草，怕都不长了。 顽固的水二爷这一天真像是犯了病，他喝叹着牛，以从未有过的坚定和果敢挥鞭行走在药地里，他的身后，哗哗倒下的，不只是辛辛苦苦种出来的药，更多，是他的恨，是他的泪。我让你们争，我让你们抢，我水老二给你们来个空喜欢，来个摸不着，让你们不把老子当人！ 院里，吴嫂跳着蹦子喊：“疯了呀，真疯了，水老大，快去拦挡住啊。” 水老大打屋里走出来，伸了个懒腰，那一绳子捆得他几天里睡觉转不过身。听见吴嫂的唤，目光往岭上一瞅，妈哟，他咋，咋……旋即，水老大兴奋了，燃烧了。仿佛，积压在心头的一大块不平瞬间让那一对犏牛犁个稀巴烂。“犁，犁啊！”他叫喊着，近乎手舞足蹈地跳进牛棚，套上一对老犏牛，也往地里去。 这一天，青石岭才叫个热闹。拾粮起先还一声一个爹，指望着水二爷出出气，就能停下来。没想，他越犁越欢势，越犁越坚定。水二爷这边还没挡住，另块地里，水老大又挥舞着鞭子，把一对老犏牛催得比马还快，仿佛他跟水二爷一辈子结下的怨，都凝在了犁头里。 天呀，这世界，到底咋了？ 吴嫂撵上来，狗狗撵上来，叫喊声响成一片。拦挡不起作用，狗狗索性也起起哄来，跳进地里：“毁，毁，毁还谁个不会！”她的双手乱舞，空一下实一下往掉里拔药。 惟一不急的，就是水英英。水二爷和水老大在地里犁药的时候，水英英就站在狼老鸦台东边的山梁上，地里的一切，她看得十分清楚。拾粮扑前扑后护药的那些个动作，惹得她笑出了声。“傻子，你真是个傻子。”笑完，水英英迈着轻松愉快的脚步，下山了。她打算去平阳川，她要跟姐姐二梅好好喧喧，上一次没喧透的事，这一次，说啥也要喧透。 山上还是一片疯，可怜的中药，辛辛苦苦种下的中药，居然成了水家一家子撒气的对象。 slow!水二爷这招，还真不是气昏了头做的。当天后晌，一匹快马便赶往古浪县城，第二天天明，县长孔杰玺便披着一身的露水站在了水二爷门前。水二爷刚刚吃完早饭，正准备去棚里套牛哩。县长孔杰玺将他拦腰抱住：“二爷，你先听我把话说完。” “不听！” “二爷！” “少叫我二爷，往后，你是你，我是我，我水家，跟任何人没关系。” “那好，你犁去，有本事你把一岭的药都给我犁了。”县长孔杰玺采用了激将法。 “姓孔的，你吓唬谁哩，我水老二是吓唬着长大的？我不但能把它犁了，还能一火把它全烧了。” "Second Master..." 岭上，犁了一半的药地埂子上，县长孔杰玺跟水二爷相对而坐。这是县长孔杰玺多年来第一次坐地埂头上跟人拉家常，而且拉的尽是大实话。县长孔杰玺先是将自己数落了一番，他怨自个没能照看好水二爷，净给水二爷添麻烦。“实在对不住啊，二爷。” “少来那一套，说句软话就能把人的心暖住？”水二爷耿耿于怀，并不领县长孔杰玺这番情。 “二爷，不瞒你说，我这个县长，不当了，当不住了。” 县长孔杰玺突地把话一转，说出了一个惊人的事实。就在两天前，马家兵总部对凉州各县的县府来了个大换班，名义上是实行军管县，县长由驻守各县的团长兼。实则，是在清除异己。县长孔杰玺不但丢了官，还担了个治县不严，匪患四起的罪名。眼下，他的日子难过着哩。若不是心疼这一岭的中药，他才没心思跑来挨水二爷的骂哩。 “你