Chapter 21 toss and turn

In the peaceful countryside, the harsh reality is approaching step by step.On the one hand, during the Mid-Autumn Festival, there was a speech meeting of a certain thought group in the town. The speaker had a small conflict with the police on the spot, creating an uneasy atmosphere.Taiming didn't go to the lecture, but after three or four days, Liu Baozheng, who often came to the farm, came again this day. He was a country gentleman in his early fifties, wearing a neat suit, leisurely shaking his white hair. The fan entered the farm's office: 'How is Mr. Hu?busy lately?You didn't go to the last lecture, did you? ’ He made the opening remarks, and then went on to describe in detail the situation of the lecture, and the movement of the town before and after it.

’ The night before the thought group was going to speak here, a plainclothes criminal came to see me. He smiled mischievously and reminded me that when the speaker’s group came, my job A gesture of welcome.I heard that when the group arrived in Hsinchu, people on the street set off firecrackers to express their grand welcome.In order to avoid repeating this mistake, he came to me to do pre-work in advance.Because in my "Baolin", the Baomin listened to everything I said.The criminal police are also well aware of this situation, so come to my place and ask. Liu Baozheng said proudly, Taiming gradually felt unhappy after hearing this.This is because his attitude of being a bystander, with his arms not twisting his thighs, is clearly revealed, so Taiming is not happy.According to Liu Baozheng, among the speakers of the ideological group, Zhan seemed to be among them. If Lan also came to give a speech, he would like to see Lan, but he knew that Lan had been imprisoned for ideological problems before.As for Zhan, he was just a friend introduced by Lan, and there was no direct relationship. Taiming didn't want to go to see him specially. Just as he was thinking this way, Liu Baozheng said: "In that speech meeting, there was a "" During the speech, he applauded loudly. This guy is the hunchback who repaired the leather shoes. The hunchback was safe and troublesome at the scene, but the next day, he put the shoe repair tools on the side of the road and entered the noodle shop to eat noodles. Arrested and locked up, if you take the example of violating the police, you will probably be imprisoned for twenty-nine days. He continued to speak in this tone, and while Taiming was listening, he felt a burning dislike for Liu Baozheng in his heart.

Although Liu Baozheng looks like a country gentleman on the outside, his private behavior is quite suspicious.He once heard the words of the female worker, which proved that Liu Baozheng's behavior was unbearable.It goes without saying that he has relationships with other women. In order to be Baozheng, he goes to the police station every day, and even runs errands for the police's wives, and so on. Thinking about Liu Baozheng's incidents together, his despicable personality made Taiming feel that he was an annoying and despicable guy. After he left, the unhappiness Taiming felt remained in his heart like dregs. for a while.

In comparison, in order to carry out the doctrines they believe in, Lan and Zhan's spirit of being active without hesitation and danger can't help but make people feel their heroism.Contrary to them, Taiming thought that his own way of life was too futile and meaningless.After this introspection, Taiming's state of mind, which seemed to have temporarily settled down, continued to feel bitter annoyance, and the bitterness lingered for a long time.But he still stayed on Huang's farm to help out, and in this sense he was a loyal supporter of Huang.However, autumn and winter passed, the first month came, and the years of the farm passed. When it came to the settlement period in April, Huang's farm encountered great difficulties.Before this, Huang repeatedly borrowed from the sugar company, and boldly and forcibly adopted the policy of expanding the farm, so that he could barely support it. Unexpectedly, because of the sudden transfer of the agricultural director of the sugar company, the new person sent by Japan , Huang's working capital was no longer accommodating, and he suddenly fell into trouble.Although he asked the former director of agricultural affairs to clear it up, it didn't help.It was only later that I found out that this was decided by the company's top management, and it was not something that could be decided just by the wishes of an agricultural director.Because Huang has no reliable real estate, the company no longer recognizes him as a new financing target.

Not only that, Huang's farm lost more than 6,000 yuan from the first month to the spring. During the full two months from the first month, I barely paid the expenses on the due date, but because there are sugarcane fields in the high-dry area, the claws grow sugarcane, and due to the dry weather, the harvest per step is only 35,200 In addition to the drop in the price of rice, the price of cane sugar was determined to be only 43.60 cents per 100 catties, an average deficit of 150 yuan per Jia.As a result, there was a debt of more than 25,000 yuan to the sugar company.However, Huang still plans to expand another ten steps in the next year, so he plans to borrow from the sugar company.But now it is estimated that the advance loan will not be available, and it is really helpless.

Taiming couldn't bear to sit idly by and offered to provide Huang Zhoushou with his property as an emergency, but Huang refused: "Thank you!"I am very grateful for your friendship, but because of my friendship with you, I firmly cannot accept it. Huang's intention was firm, no matter how much Taiming persuaded him, Huang still refused to accept it.He has gone through the many and difficult ways of the world, and therefore does not want his friends to sacrifice even their property for him. 'Since your determination is so firm, it will follow your will.For the rejuvenation of the farm, I am willing to help you, but since I can't, I can only wish you continuous efforts! Taiming encouraged Huang, so he left the farm. There was nothing else he could do, but this was a turning point for Taiming.The working girls reluctantly saw him to the station, waving their handkerchiefs until the train was out of sight.

"They all worked with me and taught them what I have learned..." Taiming poked his head out of the car window and said goodbye to the women workers who were gradually receding away, feeling gradually sentimental. The shadows of the female workers, the station, and the village with farms disappeared in the distance of the wilderness in a blink of an eye. He suddenly found that the train was running at full speed in a boundless and undulating field of casuarinas. At the end, the distant sea flashed like a train. It's like running a race.