Chapter 7 revenge incident

Hu Yumin, whose great-grandfather was a bandit, was escorted by two cadres from the factory in Xi'an where he worked, and sent back to his hometown of Bangzijing Village for labor reform.His wife and his two children were placed by Mrs. Bangzi in the yard where wheat straw was stored at the entrance of the village.After that, two more people were sent back. One was a college student studying in Lanzhou, and the other was a manager of a company in a county in southern Shaanxi.Although they wore "hats" with different names, when the old lady Bangzi received them, she always comforted them with these words:

"You are all from Bangzijing Village. You are working outside. You don't want to win the poor and lower-middle peasants of our village. You are doing anti-Party activities! Now it's good, you all come back to Bangzijing! You are back... Do a good job in reforming through labor..." Every morning, in front of the petition stand outside the brigade’s office, the line of people standing here to plead guilty has expanded. There are no longer the two lonely figures of the new landlord Hu Zhenwu and the old landlord Hu Datou, but there is already a line.The composition of this formation has also diversified.The peasants in Bangzijing Village saw that they were no longer the five-category members of the rural model in the pure black trousers and coats, but mixed with blue and gray. Although the clothes were tattered, they were uniforms.The heads that are all bowed down are not all the bare gourd heads of the old and new landlords in the past, but the heads of working people with long hair.

According to the requirements of the superiors, the old lady Bangzi supervised them to plead guilty every morning at first, and then handed it over to the militia company commander for execution. People are honest and not honest, rules are not rules. Standing in front of them, she listened to them speak one by one, talking about the routine tasks that were repeated every day.In the past, they were all prominent figures in Bangzijing Village.Disdain to call the old landlord Hu Datou, the new landlord Hu Zhenwu, from the village head to the team leader, has always been the one who speaks from the most conspicuous place in Bangzijing, and now the old lady Bangzi is watching and repenting!Those people in tattered uniforms used to do great things all over the world and earn wages. The old people and their families they stayed in Bangzijing Village lived a life obviously superior to that of ordinary farmers; they returned to Bangzijing during the holidays, The new clothes make the men, women and children in the village envious.When they met her, they just said hello and passed, not taking her into the corner of their eyes.Now, all the leading figures in Bangzijing Village are crawling in front of her—a village woman's half-liberated little feet.A word from her might cause them to shed many unpaid sweats.

"The five types of elements build the embankment!" She told the militia company commander, and these people were called to the river beach, where they carried stones and pushed sand carts on the beach where frogs were sunburned, and worked from morning till night. Sometimes, looking at these people twisting their waists and legs, and looking exhausted, she felt pitiful for them.Yes!A finger that has never touched Shanggeta is so thin, how can it be strong?It is light and nimble to hold pens and document papers with thin fingers, but it is too weak to hold shovels, dig sand and carry stones.She wanted to send them to do some less labor-intensive light work, but she was afraid that the rebel leaders would say that she sympathized with the counter-revolutionaries, so she gave up.On second thought, let them sweat a little, put in a lot of effort, and endure a little hardship, and let them experience it for themselves. They should know what kind of hardship farmers suffer in their daily lives.Don't go back to the village like you used to, and put on a superior face of a worker who earns a lot of wages!

Hu Xuansheng returned from demobilization from the army. The old lady Bangzi was standing at the intersection, and saw him coming to the intersection, wearing a grass-green military uniform with his cap badge and collar patch removed, and carrying a yellow-green quilt like the one worn by the army.He greeted several peasant men and women without stopping, and walked past the old lady Bangzi, pretending not to see her, or as if he had never known her, walked straight through, and walked into the middle of Bangzijing Village Hu Dajiao's Tumenlou has gone. The old lady Bangzi knew in her heart that he hated her.Three days have passed, and this Hu Xuan student has not come to report, and his intention is very clear.Any demobilized soldier in Bangzijing Village would have to report to the highest leader of the village within three days after returning to the homeland, and she would instruct the captain to arrange a way for them to survive.Work points are not something that can be earned casually.Not only did Hu Xuansheng not come to report, but he also didn't see him bring sweets and cakes to visit relatives and friends like other demobilized soldiers.The second day Hu Xuansheng returned to his hometown, he went to work in the fields to earn work points.He loves work points so much?Does his father, Hu Dajiao, love work points and not understand the world?

He held his breath, Mrs. Clapper guessed.She wanted to instruct the production team leader: Don't give him work points!Since you didn't report to the current leader of Bangzijing, and didn't say hello, who knows who you are?Your household grain relationship has not been settled in Bangzijing, can you earn work points casually?She felt that the reason was very sufficient, but she finally did not give such an order to the production team leader.She was a little guilty, a little afraid of causing trouble, and finally held back her breath. On a field dirt road with no forks to follow, Mrs. Bangzi and Hu Xuansheng met head to head.She waited for him to speak first, to greet her.She is the leader of the leadership team and an elder, so she can't greet him as a junior, it would be degrading and dignified... But what if he still ignores her?She was always a little guilty, thinking that she should say hello to him, and calm down, here in the river beach field, whoever speaks to the other first, no one will see... Hu Xuansheng raised his head, stepped forward, and walked away from her without slowing down at all. Walked over, with a face full of arrogance, this arrogant guy!

Now it is clearly confirmed that Mrs. Bangzi's hidden worry in her heart: he hates her.Angrily, she told the two officers of the army about the complicated historical situation of his parents, which made him lose the possibility of being trained by the company as a seedling. He was neither promoted nor joined the party, and returned to Bangzijing Village to serve The crops are coming... No wonder he doesn't hate her!Some people hated her deeply, such as that Hu Yumin who kept silent on the surface; that fat manager of some company in some county, no matter what he thought in his heart, always stung her to report the results of the transformation, with a smile on his face.This Hu Xuan is very blunt!The hatred is on the nose, just for her to look like.She thought about it again and had to be patient. Hu Xuansheng was different from that group of people. He didn't have a "hat" on his head, so it was hard to touch...

After about half a month, all was well, and the old lady Bangzi felt relieved, how dare he do anything to her?On this day, Hu Xuansheng finally came to the door in person. "This is a letter of introduction from the army to the brigade. This is the household food relationship. This is the regimental relationship..." Hu Xuansheng stood in the yard, neither smiling nor annoyed, as if explaining the procedures to a stranger. "Sit in the room." The old lady Bangzi said politely. "Is there nothing wrong?" Hu Xuansheng looked as if he was going to leave immediately.

"Don't worry." Mrs. Bangzi stuffed the letter of introduction from the group organization back into the opponent's hand.He was transferred from the regiment branch of Bangzijing village to the army when he joined the army, but now he has changed his form and transferred back from the army to the regiment branch of Bangzijing village.She said, "You go to the secretary of the Communist Youth League to establish a relationship with the Communist Youth League." Xuansheng stuffed the form into his trouser pocket and started to leave. "Choose a baby." The old lady Bangzi thought about it, no matter what, the tense atmosphere should be eased on the surface.She pretended not to refrain from anything, and said with concern, "You are back, you need to help our village more with work, old lady, I have no education..."

Hu Xuansheng stopped, turned around, and walked back to the courtyard from the door, with a disdainful mockery rippling from the corner of his grinning mouth. "You were educated in the army and performed well." The old lady Bangzi cheaply comforted the loser.Although she is not used to congratulating the winners, she can generously comfort the losers, saying, "Our team is busy with revolutionary production! We need you young people!" "Need me?" A ray of doubt flashed in Hu Xuansheng's eyes, "Are you telling the truth?" "Ah! When did the old lady coax you?"

"Director Huang, since you've reached this point, I can't help but want to ask you a question—" Hu Xuansheng said in a cold voice, "Have you made any conclusions about the history of my father and my mother?" ?” The old lady Bangzi was stunned.In the calm tone of this young demobilized soldier, one can feel the long-suppressed and suppressed anger; in the eyes covered by the disheveled hair, there is a cold light of hatred; The calm, on the contrary, made his anger of resentment and hatred even more deep and unrepressible, like a gust of wind passing by in the silence before the rainstorm fell, with cold air, penetrating directly into the old lady's bones. "Your father is a poor peasant, and your mother is also a poor peasant. This is unambiguous." Mrs. Bangzi said bluntly, without sloppiness at all. "There is no such thing as making a conclusion!" "Where do you start to say that my mother is a runaway landlord lady?" Obviously, after thousands of times of thinking and weighing, Hu Xuansheng took what he wanted to say in a calm manner, biting the key point, "I want to ask for clarification." "That's something someone exposed on the big-character poster." The old lady Bangzi pretended not to care, but still explained kindly, "The opinions of the masses! We must treat them correctly, and believe that the masses believe in the Party!" "I don't care about the opinions of the masses." Hu Xuansheng said, "If someone, in the name of the party and the masses, takes these harmful rumors as facts and puts them in my file, I will become a son of a soldier and a fugitive landlord. ... I will be blamed for the rest of my life!" "We... didn't... treat you like this." The old bangzi panicked, everything was no longer a secret, and it seemed difficult to deal with, "Don't... carry the burden of thinking..." "How can I not carry a burden?" He rolled his eyelids and stared closely at the old lady Bangzi's eyes.He wanted to say, the conversation you gave to the cadres transferred from the army ruined the future of my life, and told me not to carry the burden of thinking!He endured it for a while, and continued to talk about the issue he wanted to talk about a long time ago, "I only have one request, to investigate the history of my parents and my mother, and draw a conclusion. If the evidence is convincing, I will be considered as the son of a fugitive landlord. I deserve it!" "We sent people to Henan, but we couldn't find out..." "Then we should find a way to investigate!" "It's not easy..." "Just saying 'it's hard to handle' won't solve the problem. I've been blamed!" "Crowd opinion! Treat it correctly..." "What's the 'opinion' of the 'people'!" Hu Xuansheng finally couldn't help but said loudly, "My father owed a bad debt to the Song family in Hebei, and he had no choice but to sell a young man to pay back the money. You call him a soldier! Whose family has a way to survive and is willing to risk their lives for money? My mother’s family is in Henan. She was so poor that she was starving to death, so she sold it to the wealthy family as a maid. Work, I saw the rich man beat a poor girl half to death and locked her in the firewood room. He took pity on the poor man and rescued her, and the two of them fled back to Shaanxi... Who in our village doesn't know, which one doesn't know? Don't you want to think about it? Well, because my father is a poor man, can he seduce the lady of the landlord's family? You..." "I told you a long time ago that it was written in the big-character posters for the masses!" The old lady Bangzi couldn't handle it anymore, and just reluctantly repeated the very broad policy words she had learned, "During such a big movement, the masses... It is inevitable that some unrealistic words will be written on the big-character posters..." "Hmph! Let me tell you—" Hu Xuansheng sneered helplessly, "If someone puts up a big-character poster saying that you don't have a baby, it's when you're a girl, and let the wild guy mess it up...Can you treat it correctly?" The old bangzi shivered, her eyes became foggy and dark.Such vicious insults spit out from the mouth of a junior, like a pot of feces and urine poured on her face, she was choked so hard that she couldn't open her mouth, her lips trembled, her eyes turned black, her brain was buzzing, and she almost fainted. "Anyway... I've been blamed for the rest of my life... What's the point of living!" Hu Xuan turned around sullenly, with vicious revenge in his eyes, as if he would spare everything, he was exhausted, ready to go. "You put your mother's stinky fart!" The old bangzi suddenly woke up from the heavy blow, jumped forward a few steps, spit a mouthful of saliva on Xuansheng's face, and cursed, "You're a shit! " Hu Xuansheng wiped the spittle from his nose and face, and smiled coldly: "Look at you... now you can't 'correctly treat the opinions of the masses', right?" The old bangzi was even more impatient, and as soon as she dropped her hand, she slapped Xuansheng's face. When she raised her hand again, she was grabbed by Xuansheng's big hand as strong as a cast iron pliers. She stretched out her other hand and pinched The buttons caught Xuansheng's neckline, and the buttons broke off one by one. Hu Xuansheng didn't expect to fight. He just wanted to curse a few words to vent his anger. He suddenly regretted it. Fighting with an old woman is so boring. He shook off her grasping and flirting hands, and was about to get rid of it. Unexpectedly, the old lady suddenly lay down On the ground, hugging his left leg with both hands, crying loudly: "Help——" Hu Xuansheng didn't expect such a entanglement, he didn't dare to fight, how could an old woman resist his fists?She couldn't get rid of it and couldn't get rid of it...Suddenly, there was a piercing pain in her calf-she bit him.The young man was in unbearable pain, and when he heard her bluff crying, he burst out with anger, raised his other foot, and kicked at the buttocks of Mrs. Bangzi—— This kick may result in the life of the clapper old lady, and lead to a fatal case. At least, the kick may cause the clapper old lady's skin to rot and fracture.Fortunately, a person rushed in from outside the door, rolled and crawled and fell in front of the two of them, just at the critical moment, he hugged Xuansheng's just raised leg wrist.Unexpectedly, Xuansheng lost his balance and fell in the yard. The person who came was Hu Xuansheng's father, Hu Dajiao.He had already spotted some abnormal expressions from his son's words and deeds, and secretly monitored his son's every move, for fear of causing trouble.His scheming was not in vain, and he just rightly prevented a possible disaster... This matter was handled in a timely manner, and within three days, Hu Xuansheng was arrested by the county police military control committee, and the nature was determined to be class revenge. As soon as the jeep that arrested Hu Xuansheng drove out of Bangzijing, the villagers poured into the small yard of Hu Dajiao's house like a flood.The women comforted the women from Henan who were crying hoarsely, the men comforted Hu Dazuo who was moaning and covering his head with his hands, and whispered to that blind bangzizui...it was too much! "Ah! This bangzizui, I don't know what nonsense people from outside are talking about..." "Don't expect to hear a single auspicious word from her!" "The people above all listen to her nonsense reports... she is the one to talk nonsense about all the good things she is talking about!" The peasants in Bangzijing Village all raised their children, hoping that their children would live a better life than themselves in the future, and they would at best go to the outside world to do some business.That is not only the actual benefit in terms of pure economic benefits, but more importantly, it marks the glory of being a parent in educating children!Although they themselves did not intend to join the Communist Party in Bangzijing Village, and they always squeezed towards the corner during meetings, and even lagged behind; but almost all of them sincerely hoped that their children would be in school, in the army, in factories, or in units that cannot remember their names. Here, active work, progressive thinking, it is best to join the Communist Party, to be able to promote cadres... The new social concept formed since liberation is: Party members and cadres are outstanding elements in every corner, synonymous with good people, everywhere Respected and loved! Now, the fathers and mothers in Bangzijing Village have to think about it: If their children join the army (or serve in active service), go to school (or are already in school), and work in Xi'an or other provinces, they must join the party and make progress. , still has a continuous relationship with the current leader of Bangzijing Village!Even if you go to the remotest corners of the earth, you still have to have the old clapper to prove to your unit whether the old and young ancestors of the family and even the previous generations whose bones have been turned into muddy water are good people or bad people!Which family has no mistakes and mistakes in several generations?The old lady Bangzi really worried them!More than just sympathizing with Hu Xuansheng's misfortune?Can a blind woman who longs for poverty expect to say good things to your son and daughter?Don't think about it! So, in the courtyard of Hu Dazu's house, there was a lot of chatter and chatter, and all the bad luck and disasters of everyone in Bangzijing Village in the past few years were firmly connected with the old lady Bangzi.The existence of Mrs. Bangzi obviously poses a potential threat to all the villagers: as long as she is alive, as long as she still holds the "red log" (seal) in her hand, they will be afraid... who can guarantee that? Won't the ominous clapper-like sound knock on the top of my head?