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Chapter 10 Wheeler

Luluzike was arrested by the police at the police station. The news came to Guiduwang Village together with Liming.The villagers did not know whether the news was true or false, let alone surprised. Guluzike is a common name for gamblers in the countryside.The people of Guiduwang Village call those who make tofu for a living Doufu Ke, those who do the unique work of bellows as Bellows Ke, those who coordinate between buyers and sellers in market towns as Yake, and men with bad manners. Calling a prostitute and calling such a woman a kiln guest.Calling a gambler a "guluzike" originated from a very ancient gambling tool.In the consciousness of the contemporary villagers of Guiduwang Village, Guluzike refers specifically to Wang Jialiu, and anyone who says Guluzike will know that it refers to Wang Jialiu.

Wang Jialiu's reputation for gambling is well known far and wide.The mahjong that was banned for many years after liberation and that the male and female villagers born later saw as if they were handicrafts was Wang Jialiu who did not know where to get it back.Beige, bone, small and exquisite, printed with dots of flower stripes and circles.The shape is like a brick that has been shrunk by more than a hundred times.So gamblers don't talk about playing mahjong at all, but use the jargon to say "moving a few bricks".Wang Jialiu couldn't find any opponents when he returned to mahjong, so he called a few good friends, taught them how to play mahjong tirelessly, and then sat around on the kang to play.Wang Jialiu's woman didn't expect this thing to be so evil at first, but it was just played like poker and chess, and she enthusiastically made tea and gave cigarettes to those who came to join in the fun!They started with a low-quality cigarette, then a penny and two pennies, and then developed from a dime to a ten-dollar bill, and then a lumpy ten-dollar bill fluttering down like a persimmon tree leaf.Wang Jialiu's woman has long been regretful, and the whole village is looking for Wang Jialiu's trace.Sometimes Wang Jialiu would not show up at home for three days or five days. She carried a kitchen knife and searched all over the village and street, threatening to chop Gou Ri's hands off.

Wang Jia, the guest of Guluzi, has mastered real kung fu by playing mahjong six times.As soon as he played mahjong, if he wasn't disturbed by the police from the police station and the woman with the kitchen knife, he could keep playing without eating or drinking a sip of water, let alone dozing off. The highest record was five days and six nights.I remember that night deeply. The wheat didn’t turn yellow until I entered the tunnel (built in preparation for the war), but when I left the tunnel, most of the wheat in Manchuan Manyuan had been harvested.When his woman struck at his neck with a scythe, he skillfully grabbed her wrist and twisted it behind his back, pushing her all the way to the gate, and then took out a thick bundle of money from his waist Stuff it into the woman's arms and say, see if you can make up for the wheat shaken by the wind?The woman was still overwhelmed by the bunch of brick-thick bills, and most of her anger subsided by itself.Wang Jialiu's gambling skills are profound, but his gambling skills are average. It is said that he does not rely on gambling skills at all, but depends entirely on luck.He wins and loses, and naturally there are joys and frustrations. He wants to gamble when he wins and wants to gamble even more when he loses.Regardless of the disrespect of the villagers, the persuasion of relatives and friends, the reprimand by the police chief, and the mischief of the most difficult woman, when you see the eyes of your gamblers, you will forget everything.His legitimate business is to kill pigs and sell meat. He buys live pigs from farmers and then sells them himself. He has accumulated at least 30,000 to tens of thousands of yuan in income, but most of them are donated to gamblers.He gambled the money in his hand and lost, and searched out the woman's passbook and gambled and lost.

The woman finally caught him once and dragged him home by tearing his ears. How much did he lose tonight?He was kind and smiling, neither lost nor won.The woman pressed and said that when I went to the casino, I naturally had money on my body. Since I didn't lose or win, the money should be handed over immediately.He still smiled and said that he didn't have a dollar at all, just to watch the excitement.So she stripped him of his clothes, searched the lining and the interlayer, and sure enough, she only found a few messy ten-cent notes.She was sure he had lost it all.The man Wang Jialiu jumped on the kang and under the table after being beaten, but she continued to chase and beat him relentlessly.Wang Jialiu had egg-like bumps on his head and face, and red blood marks were criss-crossed on his body.Wang Jialiu couldn't bear it any longer and pulled the door bolt open to escape.The woman caught up with two steps in a hurry, and a guy smashed on his leg wrist that hadn't crossed the threshold.Wang Jialiu fell to the ground outside the door with a thud, and flung off the cotton-padded shoe with the leg that was beaten in a hurry, and there were at least seventy or eighty RMB in denominations of ten yuan flying out of the shoe socket.Regardless of whether he fell to his death or alive, she quickly dropped the rolling pin to pick up the tickets.At this moment, Wang Jialiu had escaped like a golden cicada shedding its shell.He was not very uncomfortable, and there were still five or six hundred yuan hidden in the other padded shoe, so it was fortunate that it was finally preserved.He rushed to the casino again.

Luluzike has just entered the age of forty.His father is a butcher killer who laughs at Amitabha Buddha. He was born with a smiling face, but he has made a career of a white knife going in and a red knife coming out all his life.No matter how kind he is, he is a knife hand who kills after all, and he is a low-ranking person who cannot enter the ancestral hall of the Wang family.The descendants of the patriarchs who ate pork and drank pig blood were allowed to enter, but those who killed pigs were not allowed to enter.Wang Jialiu was born with a handsome face, with a handsome waist, handsome shoulders, handsome eyebrows, a handsome face, and a three-point smile. Anyone who sees him is willing to gossip.People say that this kid has inherited all the good qualities of the old butcher while getting rid of the old butcher's flaws, for example, there is no trace of Lao Tzu's watery eyes.Laozi can't enter the ancestral hall and Jialiu doesn't have to worry about whether he can enter the ancestral hall. The ancestral hall has already been converted into the office of King Guidu's brigade.

Wang Jialiu is handsome but has a bad fate.He had just graduated from high school for a year, but his graduation was postponed for a few years, which coincided with the endless Cultural Revolution movement.When he returned to Guiduwang Village, he participated in the "Learning from Dazhai in Agriculture" campaign.He is educated, can write and draw, and often helps the party branch to carry out propaganda work. The walls of the village and the streets are full of slogans, slogans and pictures he wrote and painted.His handsome eyebrows not only attract young men but also young women.He quickly became the leader of the youth, and soon replaced the overage League branch secretary and became an important role in Guiduwang Village.Although some gossip is unavoidable, the descendants of those who say that they are not allowed to enter the ancestral hall are actually talking about it in front of people, but in the end they cannot be discussed on the table because of the musty smell.What's more, Wang Zhishu, who is over 60 years old, pays special attention to Wang Jialiu, and clearly expresses his intention to train Jialiu to be his successor.Wang Zhishu and Captain Liu have been in harmony for decades, and no one can get rid of the other, and no one can subdue the other. The root cause of this situation is that the two surnames represent the two major surnames of Guidu Wang Village. .The old branch secretary was the first to feel threatened because he was more than ten years older than the team leader. He wanted to train a young man from Wang's surname to succeed him, so as not to lose power, so Wang Jialiu came here.Captain Liu Yaoming already understood the truth, but kept his face.The old party secretary said that he would start the work of cultivating successors, and he immediately expressed his support, and he proposed to train Wang Jialiu.

Liu Yaoming both loathes the cunning of the old party secretary and despises his stupidity.If Wang Jialiu is arranged as a deputy secretary, then he will be changed from one-half to one-third.However, at present, both the central government and the local government are clamoring to train revolutionary successors, and I can't be foolish enough to express resistance.Besides, Wang Jialiu's performance is well-known, and it would be foolish to express dissent.If he can't even maneuver around this point, how can he work with Wang Zhishu to this day? He had already observed Wang Jialiu and the young woman Wang Xiaoni flirting with each other.He didn't pay much attention to it at first, thinking that it was something for young people, but now he thinks there is an opportunity to take advantage of it.Wang Xiaoni is very lively, active, pungent and beautiful. She is the "iron girl" in the movement of Guidu Wangcun to learn from Dazhai.Her father, Wang mule, is a stubborn bear who eats raw rice and even chews grain ears. He has an old grudge with Wang Jialiu's butcher, Laozi, although the disputes over land before liberation have long since ceased to exist. The Butcher is dead and he still remembers his feud.He had already warned his daughter Xiaoni that unless Wang Jialiu became the successor and took advantage of power to kill him, he could only get married.Team leader Liu Yaoming calculated all these accurately, and then looked for a suitable opportunity or created the opportunity to achieve the expected goal.There are always opportunities.

The old party secretary went to the county for a meeting. The meeting focused on learning the spirit of the central government's instructions on accelerating the training of revolutionary successors at all levels. The meeting lasted for three days.The work of the brigade is naturally presided over by Liu Yaoming, and he is naturally on duty to sleep in the brigade office.For the first night, he slept on the kang in the office, thinking that after Wang Zhishu came back in three days, he would have more reasons to start the implementation of Wang Jialiu's appointment.The next night, as usual, he sat in the office and flipped through the newspaper, which was full of discussions and reports about the successor.Yu Jialiu came and discussed with him the issue of the youth commando team working overtime at night to repair the reservoir, and proposed that the youths want to buy a new basketball and must obtain the approval of the captain before spending.He greatly praised the enthusiasm of the young commando team to learn from Dazhai, and he signed the application for buying basketball without any hassle.He is straightforward and decisive, not as wordy as the old branch secretary.After he agreed to Wang Jialiu's request, he clicked his tongue and frowned again and again.Wang Jialiu thought he had regretted it and asked him what happened.He said that his old uncle was going to build a new house because he should go to help celebrate the foundation, but he just couldn't get away.Wang Jialiu volunteered to take his place on duty.It turned out that Liu Yaoming put on his jacket and went to his old uncle to lay the foundation, while Wang Jialiu slept in the brigade office on duty.

midnight.In the brigade's office, on the kang covered with communal quilts, Wang Jialiu and Wang Xiaoni are trying to fulfill their wish, and there are many more.On a spring night, the spring breeze filled with the smell of spring flowers and grasses blows into the room through the screen window, and the two young men and women who are very friendly and passionate caress endlessly on the common kang.They were lucky to get a rare opportunity and did not know that this was a trap set by Liu Yaoming. Later things evolved step by step according to Captain Liu Yaoming's precise design.Mule Wang was falling asleep when he heard a strange voice shouting outside the window: Old Mule, you are still sleeping!Your daughter is on the kang in the office... The old mule carried an ax and when he ran out of the gate, his back skirt was torn off by his wife, and he ran barefoot to the window of the old ancestral hall in the past and the current brigade's office window, and broke it with an ax The screen window scared the two men and women who were in love with each other out of their wits and ran away with their heads in their arms.And the old mule died of anger on the window sill before he could jump into the window.When the onlookers gathered around, they could only see Wang Jialiu and Wang Xiaoni's clothes, shoes, socks and rotten papers left behind on the big kang in the office... The situation was as out of control as broken porcelain.

When the old party secretary walked back to Guiduwang Village with a confident smile, all the theories and well-thought-out decisions he had learned in the county were shattered.Liu Yaoming calmly and humbly reviewed and blamed himself repeatedly, saying that he had neglected his duties.Wang Zhishu had no choice but to bite the bullet and save face for himself, saying that it was not a matter of dereliction of duty or not, but Wang Jialiu's self-explosion.Self-explosion is a fashionable term after Lin Biao died in Wendu Erhan. The worst is Wang Xiaoni.How many suitors with superior conditions were rejected by her like a passing cloud.Now, with desperate impatience, Wang Mule asks relatives and friends to find a place to stay for his humiliated daughter. Regardless of rich or poor, blind or lame, he doesn't care, he just asks for the farther away the better, and declares that once married, he will marry her. No more contacts, all as if the daughter is dead and there is no such daughter.The most beautiful, liveliest, active, most pungent "iron girl" in Guiduwang Village was finally married to the mountains. No one has ever seen what her son-in-law looks like. It is said that seeing her is better than seeing her.

Followed by Wang Jialiu.His ability to write and draw has not only ceased to be an enviable advantage, but has become a disgusting means to seduce people to do bad things, and his handsome features have also become the symbol of a disgusting hooligan.He was twenty-five years older and twenty-eight years older and hadn't seen any matchmaker matchmaking for him.He is finished, he is grayer than Guisunzi, he is grayer than the rich and anti-bad elements found in Guiduwang Village.The reason for this is that Guiduwang Village has a long history, honest folk customs, and a land of benevolence and righteousness!He was really useless in the village.One day, Captain Liu Yaoming quietly told him about a marriage. In fact, the experience of that woman was similar to that of Wang Xiaoni.A young woman from Tianjiazhuang, more than a hundred miles away from here, had a relationship with a cadre who went to the countryside to help with education.When Liu Yaoming was a cadre, he was familiar with the road, and when he got the news, he thought of Wang Jialiu.He felt an indescribable guilt towards Wang Jialiu, which might be a kind of comfort in his heart.Wang Jialiu had long since lost the basic conditions for choosing a marriage, and he desperately married the young woman who had lost her virginity, the woman who was now chasing around the village with a noodle knife to chop off his wrist. Many years later, when Wang Jialiu slept with this woman in his arms and had a son and a daughter, he thought of Liu Yaoming more than once.This person gritted his teeth in hatred and made him fall to the ground in admiration.Not long after the catastrophe caused by the affair with Wang Xiaoni, he knew what Liu Yaoming had done in it, and he wished he could use the pig-killing knife left by his father to stab the guy with a sharp face, and then end it with a single knife Myself, lest I feel the pain of a knife when I think of the current whereabouts of the lovely Wang Xiaoni.The reason why he still misses Guiduwang Village, which doesn't make him nostalgic, is because the two younger sisters and one younger brother left by the old butcher are both minors.When Liu Yaoming introduced this woman to him, he was more impressed by Liu Yaoming's character besides revenge and hatred.God!In contrast, can he dominate the power of Guiduwang Village with his own ignorance and superficial experience in the world?It's too far away!What comforted him was that although the woman Liu Yaoming introduced was not as good-looking as Xiao Ni, she was still considered a top-ranking woman. As for the relationship with a certain cadre who went to the countryside before marriage, he didn't have to worry about it at all.A quiet life satisfies him.The seductive body of this woman also gradually calmed his emotions.What happened later made Wang Jialiu experience another kind of pain and joy in life. In any case, Wang Jialiu never dreamed that Liu Yaoming would still make plans for his woman.In his opinion, Liu Yaoming is the most powerful person in Guiduwang Village. His scheming and calculations can be said to be unprecedented in Guiduwang Village. The old party secretary is not his opponent at all.But Wang Jialiu never thought that Liu Yaoming would have sex with women other than his mother-in-law.That person's knife-like face will never show great joy or resentment, that knife-shaped face will never see anyone flattering or disgusting, and that knife-shaped face will always help you solve everything for men, women and children in Guiduwang Village The seriousness and sincerity of the most difficult and trivial worries, you can only trust without a trace of suspicion. That year Liu Yaoming contracted the brick factory of the brigade and hired some young men and women from Guiduwang Village.Wang Jialiu couldn't find a job to make money for a while, and he didn't want to surrender to Liu Yaoming to make money.Liu Yaoming probably saw something and invited him to be a salesman, and asked his woman to be an accountant and timekeeper for hired workers.Things have changed since then. It was by chance that he came back from a construction unit in Xi'an that night. He originally said he would not come back because things changed.When I came back, I heard the movement and sound that he didn't want to hear outside the small window of Liu Yaoming's bedroom in the brick factory.When he smashed the window frame like the old mule, he had more scheming and restraint than the old mule.He left quietly. He ran away from the brick factory and ran home without disturbing the sleeping child and old woman. He quietly took out the old butcher's rusty butcher's knife and went straight to Liu Yaoming's house.He opened the door and told the half-old woman quietly that Liu Yaoming was drunk, vomiting and bleeding, and asked her to take care of the man.After he dragged the panicked half-old woman out of the village, he put the rusty-scarred blade of a sharp knife across the tip of her nose, threatening her to follow him and never make any fuss, no matter what she saw or heard. Don't speak or act without his instructions... He dragged her like a frightened pig under the window of the brick yard. She heard the choking and lewd voice on the bed from the window, and saw the knife blade on the tip of her nose, and she died of anger all of a sudden.Wang Jialiu cut off her belt with one knife, and then pulled down her pants on the steps under the window.She woke up quickly and couldn't bear it anymore, screaming and tearing up.Wang Jialiu pressed her firmly and said triumphantly, now you can shout, the louder the better... After a busy day, Liu Yaoming was in the brick factory setting up a plate of mutton with waxed sauce, a plate of beef with waxed sauce, two bottles of Xifeng wine, and invited Wang Jialiu.Sitting in front of each other, Wang Jialiu and Liu Yaoming felt calmer than ever before.He insulted Liu Yaoming more than Liu Yaoming bullied him, which made him feel much more cost-effective.He has no scruples but Liu Yaoming has a lot of scruples.He looked coldly at the thick bundle of notes that Liu Yaoming took out, forcing Liu Yaoming to shrink his hands and put them back into his pockets.Liu Yaoming is no longer a terrible batwing to him but a toad.He lifted the shadow cast by the invisible bat wings in his heart for many years.He got revenge for everything he wanted revenge and heartily.He didn't care about the price he paid at all, because he had already paid most of the price.For the first time, he felt that sitting opposite Liu Yaoming did not feel timid. The tacit understanding after drinking is to go their own way and forget the past.Liu Yaoming continues to contract the brick factory and earns more and more year after year.Wang Jialiu polished and polished the rust marks on the old butcher's butcher's knife, and started his ancestral livelihood with a white knife going in and a red knife coming out without a teacher.The woman relented after being coquettish and frightened, and followed Wang Jialiu to press the pig's leg and pluck the hair to sell the pork.The two bodies and hands were stained with the smell of lard, and they could not smell each other, but they showed relative tranquility and harmony. Wang Jialiu's life was better, and he had more money. His old mother died suddenly, and his high blood pressure caused him to fall and died.Wang Jia has six big sounders, eight or five musicians, and a puppet show. The film team of the commune shows movies for three nights in a row. The seven-inch thick pine coffin is the highest enjoyment among the elderly who died in Guiduwang Village.His two younger sisters are already married.The only regrettable thing was that my younger brother was adopted by a man who had no sons in front of the county town.Now, when he knelt for a long time in front of the new mother's grave, staring blankly at the old butcher's old grave with withered weeds juxtaposed with the new grave, a puff of yellow smoke suddenly appeared in his heart, permeating the top of his head. Bewildered.For a long time he was in a state of dazed unconsciousness. When Wang Jialiu woke up, he saw the stars dotting the sky.The stars are so vast and so illusory, so close and so far away from him, everything is clear and everything is hazy... He feels pitiful, ridiculous and very hateful.He thought Liu Yaoming was disgusting, ridiculous and very pitiful. the next morning.He took off the filial cloth from his hat and threw it in the corner of the kang, thinking that it was ridiculous to wear a white cloth for a hundred days to honor his mother.He didn't get on his bicycle and go from village to village to buy fat pigs.He wants to relax, he wants to take a fucking stroll.He stuffed more than a thousand yuan in cash into his waist and took a suburban bus to Xi'an for a stroll.In fact, he only stayed in Xi'an for half a day, and when he saw those young men and women in fashionable new clothes hugging their backs and kissing on the street, he suddenly thought of Xiaoni!Oh!It seems like a lifetime away, only a decade or so ago.He went to the mountains, but failed to find Wang Xiaoni, and finally found out the whereabouts of the lovely Xiaoni, who walked into his tomb on the wedding night.He wandered around the small town in the mountains for two or three days, and he was accompanied by Xiao Ni's soul... He returned to the city of Xi'an again. A table of wine and food could not be picked up, and he left in panic... He finally got his wish and returned to Guidu King Village with a pair of beige bone mahjong... Wang Jialiu is now digging out the toilet for the police station.All the chores and dirty work of the police station are left to the unlucky ghosts who are caught in it.When Wang Jialiu, a rogue guest, scooped up the foul-smelling filth with an iron spoon, he suddenly thought of all the bad deeds he had done in the past forty years, but he was helpless, just like people always want to walk a straight road, but in fact every step is crooked. Just as helpless.He is now waiting for the arrest vehicle of the County Public Security Bureau to take him into the detention center.The sheriff is busy with formalities for his arrest.In the afternoon, when the police chief came back to the office, he suddenly informed him that even though he had not corrected after repeated admonition and should have been sent to prison for labor reform, he would still be given another chance. Zhuluzike made a promise to the villagers Danbai. However, Wang Jialiu, the guest of the rooster, felt a little surprised. Taking the delivery truck of the supply and marketing cooperative, Wang Jialiu returned to the village committee office where the brigade revolutionary committee was many years before the former ancestral hall of Guiduwang village.Once entering the yard and then entering the house, the kang is still entrenched there.That earth kang that left him and Wang Xiaoni half the night and regretting all their lives! He heard the familiar voice that used to scare him, but now disgusted him.Hey!Liu Yaoming.Liu Yaoming is getting older and more mature, and the expression on Dao Tiao's face is more mature than ever.Liu Yaoming, the police chief and the township chief arranged the agenda for tonight's meeting.Liu Yaoming evaded letting someone else preside over the meeting, saying that he was too old to die.The police chief and the township chief agreed that he was the village chief and it was shameful not to preside over such a meeting.Liu Yaoming couldn't evade it at all and reluctantly accepted it.Wang Jialiu was squatting in the corner, his heart was burning up, what qualifications did Liu Yaoming have to host the meeting to criticize and educate Wang Jialiu?It's too late for his grandson to call me back and ask for peace!He suddenly jumped up from the ground and jumped to the face of the sheriff: "The chief of the police, the chief of the township, the chief of the township, the chief of the police... I have one thing to say. Anyone who has a nose and eyes in Guiduwang Village presides over this meeting. I will sincerely confess, confess and review. Only this... Liu Yaoming...is not qualified to host a meeting to criticize me..." The sheriff and the mayor stared together. The head of the township said: "You don't care about this matter, you just focus on self-criticism!" The sheriff said: "When are you not being honest!" Wang Jialiu, the guest of Guluzi, was anxious and decided to go all out: "I would rather go to prison and reform through labor. You will send me to the county detention center immediately, but I absolutely don't want to hear Liu Yaoming making irresponsible remarks in front of me again!" The township head seemed to sense something strange, and he gave the sheriff a wink and said kindly and patiently: "Don't worry, don't worry, what's the problem?" Guluzike wanted to rummage through Liu Yaoming's bag from the root to the bottom, and suddenly remembered that he had used a rusty butcher's knife to cut off the waistband of Liu Yaoming's mother-in-law's trousers. .If it gets boring any longer, it will give the township chief and police chief the impression of being unreasonable. Wang Jialiu, the rogue guest, changed his mind and said: "Liu Yaoming relied on his authority to contract the collective brick factory of Guiduwang Village, and the contract rent was as low as that of Bai Zhan. , you are the township chief and you are the police chief, why don't you just arrest me, Wang Jialiu, for gambling?" The township head suddenly changed his face and reprimanded him: "Liu Yaoming's problem belongs to Liu Yaoming. You are not the only one who has the final say on whether the contracting of the brick yard is reasonable or not. You are a gambler who has never changed after repeated admonitions. It seems that you are still messing around. It seems that there is no cure... Meeting Call the villagers for a meeting immediately!" The sheriff also said sternly: "It seems that you don't want to cherish this last chance I gave you?" Guluzike wanted to say something but said irrelevant words. He closed his eyes in a slump, and fell to the ground with a plop, muttering something in his mouth. No one could hear him clearly, and no one wanted to hear him anymore. What nonsense, just busy calling the villagers for a meeting. The villagers' meeting, which has been very rare in Guiduwang Village for the past few years, is decided to be chaired by Liu Yaoming in the end.
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