Chapter 7 Seven "Northern Soldiers"

It has been thirteen years since Gu Yanshan, the director of the grain station, wore an old sheepskin jacket and big-toed shoes, came to Furong Town with the southward army, and settled down to do local work.It is his northern accent, and now he does as the Romans do, and has changed to the local "Mandarin" that everyone in the town can understand.When greeting people, they don't call "hometown" but "Old Cousin".I am also used to eating whole bowls of five-jaw spicy, yangjiao spicy, and Chaotian spicy, as well as snake meat, cat meat, and dog meat.other students

De Wu Gao Wu Da, with sideburns on his face, a little bulging eyes, and fleshy cheeks, he looks a little fierce.When he first arrived, as long as he stood in the middle of the street with his hands crossed, the dolls would run away in fright.Even the sister-in-laws frightened the baby at night, saying: "Don't cry! The bearded soldiers are here to arrest people!" In fact, he is not a fierce person, and his temper is not bad.After the residents of the town got used to him, they felt that he "has a vicious look and a bodhisattva heart". At the beginning of liberation, he married once.The daughter-in-law, who is white, fat and rich, with a single black braid on the back of her head, is also from the north.But within half a month, the daughter-in-law left with pouting and tears in her eyes, never refusing to come back.I didn't hear that the couple had quarreled, and there really wasn't even a buzz of mosquitoes.How embarrassing and embarrassing it was for Lao Gu.He didn't blame the daughter-in-law, the reason was his own.He felt as if he had committed the crime of deceiving women, and for several months in Furong Town he dared not raise his head to meet people.The townspeople, ignorant at the time, thought he had lost some vital papers that must be recovered.When he was fighting guerrillas and drilling tunnels in the north, he once had flowers hanging on his thigh and contracted a nasty disease.Ladies who suffer from diseases of the same nature are treated and treated with medicine.But when a man suffers from this kind of disease, few people dare to mention it, and when it is mentioned, it will cause a lot of laughter and amuse people.What's more, at that time, guns often whistled in my ears, and grenades often exploded around me, burying your body with dirt, choking your mouth full of mud, and waking up in the middle of the night to check whether your limbs are still there.It is just to fight with your head to win the country and win the world, let's wait for a few years.Who is not carrying some kind of scars and pains in the revolution? Some combat heroes have guns on their bodies, and they don’t bother to take out the shrapnel ends.I originally thought that as long as I can survive to meet the victory and live a peaceful life, the disease will not be difficult to treat, and the problem will not be difficult to solve.The company instructor is a thick-headed, careful-minded person. (Alas, the instructor in the war years is the brother of the soldier, even the mother of the soldier!) Finally, he found the old platoon leader who was nearly twenty years old on the marching road. pain.When he went south and passed through Furong Town, he left him in this beautiful place and transferred to another place to work.But he was still ashamed to seek medical treatment, but secretly took more than a dozen herbal medicines, but it didn't work.This soldier who participated in overthrowing the mountains of feudalism had a feudal consciousness lurking in his head.Science wants to strip people naked in broad daylight, and let those men and women in white coats and big masks look left and right, pinch, touch, and gesticulate, just like watching a stallion .He couldn't accept this kind of "shame and humiliation".Later he heard people say that when a man marries a daughter-in-law, certain diseases will naturally get better.He weighed it for a long time before he made up his mind not to marry a local woman, but to marry a woman from his hometown. If it is not suitable, he can take a step back and at least not cause adverse effects in the local area...The development of things later proved that he had done something Safe thing, but also a negative thing.Because he shuts science out, science does not show him the kindness it deserves.He has been sending the woman living expenses to redeem the guilt of his conscience.

The neighbors in this town wondered about this matter for more than half a year before they realized the reason: Director Lao Gu had a disease that no virtuous woman could tolerate and was inconvenient to disclose.Later, some silly girls who were kind-hearted but not well-informed even offered him several introductions, but he rejected them one by one.Gradually, all the adults in the town reached a tacit agreement and no longer proposed to him as a matchmaker.As a result, the female manager of the state-run restaurant has been sending him frequent glances for the past two months, and his first attempt at coquettish has also hit a wall.Of course, no one learned the details from the female manager.

Then again, although Lao Gu is not good at "Zilu", he is popular.Most of the half-grown boys and girls in Furong Town now recognize him as their "father".He also likes these babies very much.Because there are often girls playing in his room, and boys are often rolling on the bed.Little books, lollipops, cars, airplanes, tanks, and cannons are all set up on a table and spread all over the floor.He also pays for books and textbooks on behalf of some dolls, and buys pencils, meter rulers and so on.According to mental calculations by several folk economists in the town, he spends more than ten percent of his salary on these "righteous sons and daughters" every month. Invite him to sit at the table and say a few words that are weighty and decent.He is also happy to send a moderate gift.Some families in the town even have elderly and dignified guests at home, and they are used to asking him to accompany them, and they introduce: "This is the director of the town, the old revolutionist who went south..." It seems In this way, the family can be glorified.As time goes by, the existence of Laogu plays a stable and harmonious role in the life of the people in this town.Sometimes the neighbors in the town will inevitably have conflicts about chickens, ducks, cats and dogs, and the saying that hangs in people's mouths is also: "Go! Go to Lao Gu and ask him to comment. I'm afraid he won't scold you. No wonder it’s a bloody sprinkler!” “Lao Gu is your family’s Lao Gu? He’s the Lao Gu of the whole town! As long as he cuts me off, I won’t, I’ll accept it!” Gu, on the other hand, is always willing to comment and settle cases for the neighbors, scolding them and persuading them.His principle is to turn major issues into minor ones, so as not to intensify conflicts and make things worse.If it involves money and money, according to the situation, it will be privately posted in the pocket.Therefore, both sides of the quarrel often come to apologize at the same time and thank him.If he occasionally went to the county to run errands or attend meetings, he would not return for a few days. When it was dark, people with rice bowls in the streets and alleys of Qingshiban Street would ask each other: "Have you seen Lao Gu?" No reply?" "Could it be that Chi is going to be promoted and transferred away?" "Then the whole town will put up a name card for the county government. Give him an official, and he won't be able to do it in our town?"

① There is no meaning of offspring. As for why Lao Gu took the initiative to propose to "Sister Furong" to grant sixty catties of broken rice to the rice and tofu stalls per fair, it is still a mystery.This incident later caused him great misfortune, but he never admitted his mistake and regretted it. "Sister Furong" later became a rich peasant widow, and his opinion of her has not changed, and it has been the same for more than ten or twenty years.This is something. The County Commercial Bureau issued a typewritten official document stamped with bright red seals to the Furong Town Fair Management Committee:

In Chayou Town, in recent years, small vendors have taken advantage of the country's economic difficulties to engage in speculative sales and profit from it.Many commune members abandoned farming and went into business, using first- and second-class materials purchased and sold by the state as raw materials, selling various raw and cooked foods without authorization, disrupting the market and destroying the collective economy of the people's commune.I hope that the Fairfield Management Committee of Nii Town will conduct a serious cleanup of the small vendors from now on.Illegal business operators shall be banned.The results of the cleanup will be reported to the county bureau.

1963 × month × day In the second half of the official document, there is also an instruction from the Finance and Trade Office of the County Party Committee: "Agreed." There is also an instruction from Yang Mingao, Secretary of Finance and Trade of the County Party Committee: "The issue of Furong Town is worth noting." It can be seen that this official document has a background. The official document was first sent to Gu Yanshan, the director of the grain station.Because there was no full-time polder management committee in Furong Town at that time, most of the committee members worked part-time, playing a balancing and regulating role in the market, handling related disputes, and also taking care of issuing "Temporary Business Permits" for vendors.Gu Yanshan is the chairman.He presided over and convened a committee meeting, attended by the director of the town tax office, the director of the supply and marketing cooperative, the director of the credit union, and Li Mangeng, the party secretary of the town brigade.The Director of the Taxation Office suggested: The female manager of the state-owned restaurant has been very enthusiastic about the fair management and street security affairs recently, should I invite her to participate.Director Gu said: Too many people smashed the boat, and the restaurant is under the jurisdiction of the supply and marketing cooperative. If the director of the supply and marketing cooperative comes, there is no need to bother her.

Gu Yanshan first read the official document.The leaders of the town discussed and speculated: "Needless to say, someone from this town has filed a complaint!" "The country is based on the people, and food is the most important thing for the people. It is always necessary to give a bowl of food to the small vendors!" "Some people get the state's salary and eat the state's food, and they don't care whether the people have oil, salt, firewood and rice, and they are full and hungry!" "Last time, there was a 'reverse mark', which made the chickens and dogs restless. This time, there is another official document, and the more it is, the more blurred it is!"

Only Li Mangeng, the branch secretary of the brigade, remained silent, thinking that everything had something to do with the female manager of the restaurant.The last time the female manager quarreled with Hu Yuyin, he saw it with his own eyes.Some time ago, he learned that the female manager was the flirtatious niece of Yang Mingao, secretary of the district committee.But this female working comrade is much older, her complexion is yellow, her skin is wrinkled, and her eyes are a little bubbly, which is far worse than before.It is said that she has not yet married and is still an old girl, and she probably devotes all her energy and thoughts to the revolutionary cause.A few days ago, the female manager and Wang Qiushe accompanied two public security officers to call the

The five types of members of the town brigade lectured on the handwriting.It can be seen that he is not just a carrot head of a restaurant.Afterwards, the public security officers arranged for Wang Qiushe, the owner of the hanging house, to be a security officer on Qingshiban Street, without even consulting the party branch of the brigade.This time, the County Commercial Bureau issued another official document... something strange! As for the female manager's additional learning through this official document, he didn't think about it.They all looked at the problem as it stands, and the committee members did not do too much analysis.

As a result of the deliberations of the committee members, according to the policy spirit of the central, provincial and local governments on opening up trade in rural bazaars, they felt that small stalls and hawkers should not be banned or banned, but should be allowed to exist legally.So it was decided that the tax office would be responsible for the re-registration of the small vendors in the whole town brigade and issue a temporary business license.Then write a report on the implementation of the official document and the policy basis, report it to the County Commercial Bureau, and forward it to the County Party Committee Finance and Trade Office and County Party Committee Finance and Trade Secretary Yang Mingao. The director of the tax office smiled and asked Li Mangeng: "The 'Furong sister' who sells rice tofu is your daughter-in-law. Do you agree with her brigade to continue to open a stall?" Li Mangeng handed a "loudspeaker" to the director of the tax office: "Business matters, no matter what's 'dry' or 'wet'. Yuyin went to the tax office to pay taxes, right? She also paid the lost work investment to the production team. Her husband and wife It is also very active to be a collective worker in the production team on weekdays. Our brigade believes that what she runs is a kind of family sideline business, which is in line with the party's policy, so we can issue her a business license." Director Lao Gu nodded towards Li Mangeng, as if he was admiring the brigade branch secretary for his ability to finish the meeting, Director Lao Gu and Man Gengzhi stood facing each other for a while.Both of them seem to have something on their minds. "Old Cousin, do you smell something fishy?" Lao Gu has a gentle temperament, but his mind is still sharp. "Director Gu, the wasp has crashed into the honeycomb, and life will be difficult!" Brother Man Geng said with a metaphor. "Well, as long as nothing else happens..." Lao Gu sighed, "It's often a mouse dropping that ruins a pot of soup." "You are popular in the town, and only by helping you can the town's affairs be supported. Otherwise, my sister-in-law Yuyin and the others will suffer..." "Yeah, your godmother is a weak family. With people like us here, I have to protect them to live a peaceful life... I will go to the city tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, find a few old comrades in arms, and think of a way to invite the female wasp Walk……" Falling in love with each other, the two broke up. At the end of autumn of this year, the female manager of the state-owned restaurant in Furong Town was transferred away, and returned to the county commercial bureau as section chief.The residents of the town breathed a sigh of relief, as if a leaden gray cloud hanging over their heads had been lifted. But how could the people in the mountain town know that on an autumn night when they were sleeping soundly and the streets were full of snoring, a handwritten report submitted by the county public security bureau was placed on the desk of county party secretary Yang Mingao.There was no light in the office, only a lamp on the desk was on.The lamp casts a circular halo on the glass.Secretary Yang Mingao sat in the rattan chair outside the lamp circle, his face was blurred.He contemplated the report for a long time, unconsciously turning the pencil in his hand, and drew a sketch of the "small group" on a piece of dark-lined official paper.When his powerful pen fell on the name of "Northern Soldier" Gu Yanshan, he wrote it on, typed a "?" and then erased it.He is hesitating and deliberating. The "clique" sketch looks like this: Rice Tofu Shih Tzu evil (Father is Qinghong gang, mother is prostitute, new bourgeoisie)? Rape Li Mangeng (Brigade secretary, serious Lost Class Standpoint) Gu Yanshan (Director of Grain Station, Corruption???) Qin Shutian (Reactionary Rightist) Director of Taxation (class aliens) After drawing, Secretary Yang Mingao picked it up with both hands and admired it for a while, then crumpled up the sketch and threw it into the wastebasket beside the desk.After thinking about it, and feeling uneasy, he picked out the ball of paper from the wastebasket, unfolded it, lit a match, and burned it. Under the circle of the desk light, he looked like a person who is exhausted and busy with daily affairs, with swollen eyelids and a tired expression on his face.After he had approved the material from the County Public Security Bureau, he could go to the balcony to exercise his body, turn his sore and stiff neck a few times, wipe his face, burn his feet, and go to sleep for three to five hours. up.He finally pulled out a sheet of paper and picked up his pen.This is a very heavy sum, and it is related to the lives and wealth of many people.He criticized carefully and carefully: Furong Town, at the junction of the three provinces, is located in a remote area and the situation is complicated. It has always been a blind spot for political work in our county. The term "small clique" should not be affirmed hastily, nor should it be easily denied or taken lightly.Relevant departments should pay close attention to it, and immediately report to the county party committee if they find any new situation. (Mengyuan’s Note: The “sketch of the small group” in the article is a “map” marked with lines, and it is replaced by a table here, as long as the reader understands the meaning.)