Chapter 2 1964--1969

The previous place name of the town's agricultural brigade was Li Bawan.The place of Li Bawan has a lot of legends.Li Bawan has been poor since ancient times.The reason for the poverty is said to be the prosperity of yin and the decline of yang in this place.The men here are lazy.They sang like this: "Eat eight bowls of rice, pick eight stalks, pass eight hurdles, and fall eight times." Li Bawan has his name.And the women here are amazing.What kind of "remarkable" law is, most people don't talk about it in person, and whoever tries to tell the truth may cause people's lives.

Legend has it that Emperor Qianlong went to the south of the Yangtze River and came to the ground of Li Bawan (it was not called Li Bawan at that time). title.It's just that the romantic son of heaven refused to admit it when he returned to the court, so that a dragon species had to follow his mother's surname Li.Of course, this is just a legend after all, no matter whether it is official history or unofficial history, there is absolutely no source.Playing dragons and phoenixes, the ones playing are phoenixes from Suzhou, and Li Bawan can't even touch them.However, it passed on extremely well.It is even said that a white silk belt bestowed by the imperial court has been passed down from generation to generation in Li Bawan, and it was not until the Cultural Revolution broke the four olds that it was copied out and burned.Although this kind of background made Li Bawan people inevitably suffer some embarrassment, but they still recognized it in their hearts and were somewhat proud of it.Otherwise, who would know about Bai Lingzi's belt?Since it is so true and false, there are always some reasons for things.At least it proves that Li Bawan's feng shui is beneficial to women.

Li Furong is a native of Li Bawan. Li Furong's nickname was "Huangmao" (after becoming the mayor of the town, no one calls her that name anymore), so she chose her similarity.When I was a child, my house was poor, and I had many daughters. When she was reborn, she almost drowned in the toilet. When she was a month old, she started drinking vegetable soup. She grew up like a yellow cabbage leaf.The breasts of people of her age are as high as wheat cakes, and her bosom is still as flat as a thin child. When I take a look in the bath, it is as flat as a washboard, and I want to cry.There are a few sparse yellow hairs on the head, and one braid is not as thick as other people's two braids.No one would have thought that she would become the parent officer of a town in the future.

When Li Furong was thirteen years old, she was told about him in the house.It must be dear, she is from another family.Therefore, before finishing Gao Primary School, the house asked her to drop out of school and come back to farm to pay off her child support debts.If nothing happened in the middle, once Li Furong married, she would be like countless living beings, living for the rest of her life, living and dying on her own, without anyone knowing.In the world, one more yellow hair is not too much, and one less yellow hair is never too little.Li Furong usually doesn't show anything special, but she does things very quickly: when she comes back from the field, she needs to cut firewood, cook, pick out pig vegetables, wash and wash, stay up all night until the cock crows, and the second The sky is working again, and it is no more late than others.Competent is competent, and if the mother does not grasp political ideas, no one will judge her as a model worker, and she will not be able to appear in newspapers and broadcasts.When working in the fields, Li Furong's most powerful feature is her open mouth.She dared to tear open a man's crotch and wipe cow dung inside with her old cousin who gave birth to a child. She never knew what to say in her mouth, string after string, like setting off a firecracker.It's just that dog meat buns are not allowed to be eaten. This kind of words can't be regarded as a serious word even if you say a lot of them. No one will take it as a matter of cost.

Suddenly, one day, a small van drove up to Li Bawan's house and walked down an elderly man.One can tell that it is a veteran cadre: a gray cadre suit with all the buttons unbuttoned, a pair of round-cut cloth shoes, and roving socks exposed.He came to look for Li Furong's father-in-law. It turned out that he and Li Furong's father-in-law had worked in the same family for a few days.At that time, he was a revolutionary, and he ran from the city to the countryside to avoid the limelight.Father-in-law Li Furong didn't know about this, and he never told his family about such a person.But this person will remember all his life that when he first arrived at that family's house, Father-in-law Li Furong gave her one and a half wheat cakes in the bowl.He is now a commissioner. He has just been transferred to this precinct. Within a few days of taking office, he took the time to go to the countryside to find people who have been through hardships with him.He had written letters many times before, but for some reason there was no response, but he never thought that the old man was no longer in this world.The old man died during the spring famine in 1960.People outside said he died of starvation, and family members said he died of fasting food disease (stomach cancer): He ate the porridge first, but he couldn’t finish it. Give it to the little one.Later, he simply gritted his teeth and refused to speak until he died.The commissioner was so sad that he stood on the grave of the old man for a long time, and he didn't leave until the county magistrate who accompanied him invited him.

A few days after the commissioner left, several cadres from the commissioner's office and the county government came, saying they were here to write typical materials for Li Furong.What is "typical material"?I don’t know, it’s a good thing to report to the broadcast, and there may be many unexpected benefits, such as taking a small car to the city for a trip, and having a table of “extra meals” with many cadres, at least Eight dishes and one soup (eat all the braised pork).Li Bawan was like a pot of porridge boiling. Li Furong was called back from the field, and she stood in the middle of her main room with muddy hands and feet, facing several upright cadres, she was dumb for a moment, as if there was a snake crawling on her back.It looked like he was in someone else's house, his hands and feet were not clean, and he was caught on the spot.After twisting the corners of the clothes for a long time, he suddenly turned around and used a broom to drive away the people around the door. Then he went into the kitchen and took out a stack of sackcloth bowls, poured tea for the cadres one by one, and dragged a three Bench with legs, sit down with your head down:

"What's the matter, tell me." "We were sent by the agency and the county to interview you. I would like to ask you to talk about the work you have done over the years." "Work? Isn't it just farming?" "Field farming is also revolutionary work. Please talk about why and how to do it." "There is nothing to say about how to farm. Who doesn't know how to grow the field, transplant rice seedlings, weed, and cut the grain? Why do you farm? Isn't it just for the mouth? Our rations here are 'seven labors and three'. If you don't work, you will can only divide rations

The cadres looked at each other: "We would like to ask you to talk about your ideological understanding." Li Furong stopped suddenly.She was very lively, her mind was spinning quickly, and she immediately realized that what she said just now was not "ideological understanding", and "ideological understanding" was what the cadres said in a meeting.She thought about it sullenly, but she couldn't think of a few words of this kind that could be connected. She couldn't help but hate herself for always holding the soles of her shoes in meetings.When she was very flustered, she saw the Spring Festival couplets on the open door panel that had begun to chip away, and blurted out:

"Standing in front of the house, I can see Tiananmen Square." "Okay." Before finding Li Furong, the special and county cadres first listened to the introduction of the commune and learned about a situation: Every year, the food supply in the spring famine is limited, but the rice in Li Furong's family can always be eaten with new grains.This has something to do with Li Furong, because she is the one who cooks.This situation made the cadres who came to sum up their experience very excited.What the Commissioner meant was to set up the model of Li Furong. Li Furong's experience is very simple. Every time he measures the rice, he grabs a few handfuls before cooking.

"How many?" The cadres quickly wrote down in their notebooks, and suddenly stopped, the nibs of their pens were still pecking at the notebooks. "Three." Li Furong rolled her eyes and rubbed her muddy feet that had started to crust. When this experience was officially published in the newspaper, the headline was "Saving Three Handfuls of Rice and Overthrowing Rebellion against Emperor Xiu".In Li Furong's later lecture notes, each handful of rice had its own mission: one to defeat imperialism, one to defeat revisionism, and one to defeat the reactionaries of various countries.

At the time when the melon and vegetable substitution was being promoted across the country, the newspapers clamored that fullness is harmful: there was a method of dieting, and this method had the meaning of world revolution in it, of course it attracted widespread attention. Li Furong first went to the county, then went to the province to introduce her experience, and then went directly to Beijing from the province.When he came back, he was no longer the "yellow hair" before. In the town, this matter is probably only comparable to the legendary Qianlong who went to the south of the Yangtze River to favor Li Bawan's ancestors.On the day Li Furong came back from Beijing, people from the town and Li Bawan's entire township crowded inside and outside the courtyard of the town government, and there was no breath of air in the dense crowd.The weather was fine that day, and the sun was very poisonous. Many people fainted on the ground after not being able to hold on for long.Several puppies fell from the wall, those who fell on the heads were scolded, and those who fell on the white ground broke their hands and took off their ankles.If you fall, just fall, and those who have not fallen will climb up one after another.After the incident, the town government spent hundreds of dollars just to repair the courtyard wall. Accompanied by the secretary of the county party committee and the county magistrate, Li Furong was brought from the county town to the town by jeep.When she got out of the car door, many people were disappointed.A thin and thin yellow hair, so lucky, I'm afraid the sky is blind. It is useless to refuse.This time Li Furong really became a weapon.As soon as she opened her mouth, her voice seemed to come from a tweeter. It was hard to imagine how such a small person could make such a loud voice.This is full of qi, and it is obtained by the true pulse.A few elders discussed in private, so they regarded Li Furong as a strange person.In town, these people are the best talkers. Standing on the steps of the town hall, Li Furong kept waving her two raised hands in front of the surging crowd.After a few floors, people can't see her body or face, but only those hands that scratched back and forth.That hand was the hand that Chairman Mao shook. Li Furong first became the women's director of the town, and soon became the mayor of the town.At the beginning, some people in the cadres didn't take it seriously, they always wanted to wait for her faults, watched her jokes, and gradually recognized her ability.She has a pungent style, and she does things in a hurry. She does what she says and stops when she says it.Many years of dysentery in the town (not real dysentery, but referring to difficult things), when it comes to her, they are all shaved off.For example, in the town streets, the problem of water from the eaves has been the most troublesome problem for cadres for many years: the houses in the neighborhood are next to each other, and if the gable is next to the gable, the problem is not a big problem.If the falling wall sticks to the falling wall, trouble will come.If the falling wall is high, the water from the eaves will naturally flow to the roof of another house, and this house will suffer from mold.They have suffered from mold for many years, and when they have money, they want to stand up, so they raise the wall and pour water from their own eaves onto the roof of the family that held them down before, and let that family bear the mold.This will lead to disputes.It is often the family that pokes at the newly built roof of this family first, and then the two families fight for their lives.Solving this kind of problem is generally based on historical materials, that is, what agreement the two families had when they first built the house, if not, the original appearance shall prevail.But the town has a history of at least several hundred years, who can tell what the original appearance is?The water from your eaves fell on my house in the past hundred years, and the water from my eaves may not have fallen on your house in the hundred years before this hundred years.Such arguing will never be clear. Li Furong cut the mess to the ground with only one method: check the composition of both parties, and whichever has a higher composition can only accept the other's eaves water.If the composition of the two families is the same, check with your ancestors or relatives.Li Furong didn't have any relationship with any family in the town within five servings, no one could say that she was partial.The method she used was a universally applicable class analysis method.This was taught to her by the commissioner who ate one of her father-in-law's wheat cakes.When I taught her, it was naturally not to solve the problem of water in the eaves, but to use it well. She is creative.During spring plowing, she launched the "Three Sacks of Manure" campaign, allowing the town's government agencies, shops, enterprises, institutions, and schools to pick up three bags of manure every morning and evening and send them to the production teams in Li Bawan outside the town; During the water conservancy work in winter, the "Three Stones" activity was organized in the same form as the "Three Bags of Dung", and each person sent three stones to the water conservancy site every day.As for why it must be "three pockets" and "three pieces", this is because of one, habit;These experiences were quickly promoted throughout the county, prefecture and even the province.Therefore, Li Furong's work ability was highly praised.When she was planning to transfer her to the county party committee, the Cultural Revolution came. As soon as the campaign started, the Commissioner was knocked out.The rebels posted caricatures of him and Li Furong "having sex with men and women" from the city to the streets of the town. No matter how hot Li Furong's mouth was, she stood aside for two years and hurriedly married a temporary worker of the town's moving company.It wasn't until the commissioner was liberated that Li Furong resumed her job, and was later transferred to the county to take the main responsibility.