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Chapter 62 Boss Hong

Maqiao Dictionary 韩少功 982Words 2018-03-19
When I finished work, I saw a little calf on the side of the road. It had no horns and a round and plump nose. It was fluffy and grazing under the mulberry tree.I wanted to pull its tail, but as soon as I stretched out my hand, it seemed to have back eyes, and it slipped away as soon as it turned its head.Just as I was about to catch up, there was a sound of a cow bleating on the ground in the distance. A big cow stared at me and pointed its horns at me. After a while, I came to pick up the hoe with lingering fear. While picking up the hoe, I fed the calf some grass in a fawning manner. Just as I shook the grass bundle to its mouth, the big cow in the distance rushed towards me again, howling. .

Daniu must be the mother, so he fought hard with me.I only found out later that this old cow was called "Boss Hong" and was born with a notch in the ear, so people believed that it was the reincarnation of someone from Luojiang.The man named Boss Hong is a big local tyrant, and his wife alone has seven or eight houses.There is also a notch on the left ear.People said that he had done a lot of evil things, and God sentenced him to be a cow for the rest of his life, pulling plows and rakes for people and being whipped to pay off the debts of his previous life. People also said that Boss Hong was reincarnated in Maqiao, God really has a good eye.Back when the Red Army came to mobilize the peasants to attack the local tyrants, the people in Maqiao didn't dare at first. Seeing that the local tyrants in Longjiatan had also been beaten and had their heads chopped off, there was nothing wrong with them, so they were eager to try.It's a pity that when they established the peasant association, drank chicken blood wine, and made red flags, they realized that the opportunity had been missed: all the decent local tyrants in the vicinity had been wiped out, and only a few mice remained in the empty granary.They were not quite reconciled, so they inquired and inquired, and finally crossed the Luo River with a shuttle and powder guns, and went to the village where Boss Hong lived to make a revolution.They did not expect that the peasants there were also revolutionized, saying that Boss Hong was their tyrant and could only be revolutionized by them and not by people from other places; to divide.Doesn't the fat and water flow into the fields of outsiders?The peasant associations of the two villages negotiated, but failed to reach an agreement, and finally resorted to violence.People on Maqiao (not just Maqiao) thought that people on the other side were protecting local tyrants, that they were fake farmers' associations, fake revolution, and that they set up pine cannons and bombarded the village.The other side did not show any weakness, the gongs beat loudly, knocked down the door panels of the whole village, brought a few windmills to remove chaff, blocked the entrance to the village, and fired powder guns, beating the people who were hiding on this side. The leaves of the forest made a rustling sound, and the broken leaves fell one after another.

After the first battle, Maqiao injured two young men and lost a good gong. The whole team was sweating and starving for a whole day.They couldn't believe that the revolutionary awareness of the peasant brothers over there was so low. After much deliberation, they insisted that Boss Hong was conspiring there.This is how the deep hatred for Boss Hong was born. They are very satisfied now, things are fair and reasonable, God asked Boss Hong to carry the plow for Maqiao people, and died of exhaustion in Maqiao, which is considered to have paid off the debt.This summer, the higher-ups mobilized some oxen to open the tea plantation, and there were only two oxen left in Maqiao.After plowing the last mound of late rice field, Boss Hong fell asleep in the hot muddy water and never got up again.People slaughtered it, and found that its lungs were completely congested, almost every alveolus had burst, and it looked like a pile of bloody rotten flesh, thrown into a wooden basin.

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