Chapter 10 Account of the Three Women

There was a rumor in the town that the working group of the county party committee wanted to confiscate "Sister Fu Rong's" rice tofu stall and her man's butcher's knife.No one knows where this wind came from in the first place, and there is no need to ask.And people's interest in spreading new news is like a bee Like butterflies want to pass flowers and pollinate in spring, it is out of a kind of nature and instinct.They often add oil and vinegar to this new news, adding more branches and leaves, making it suspicious and muffled, and the more it spreads, the more strange it becomes, until another new rumor is produced and the target is shifted.

The winks and whispers of the neighbors created a kind of pressure and an atmosphere of panic for Hu Yuyin and his wife.This made Hu Yuyin very anxious, and also scared her man Li Guigui into a daze.Gui Gui's face was dull, and she didn't even want to serve a bowl when she was having breakfast.No wonder politicians use public opinion as a weapon, and they always create public opinion first and release rumors when they want to do something. "Grandfather! Their men are like the pillars of a house, and they can support them when the sky falls! When something happens to our family, you are not as good as a woman, and you can't even pick up the bowls and chopsticks?" Hu Yuyin said to her useless man. Annoyed and angry and hated.

"Yuyin, I, we probably didn't expect that in the new society, private houses are not popular. A few years before the land reform, didn't some new rich households tighten their belts to buy land, land, and mountain farms? Later, they became landlords and rich peasants..." Gui Gui said suspiciously with eyes full of fear. "In your opinion, what should we do?" Hu Yuyin gritted her teeth and asked. "Before the working group comes to the door, let's quickly find a way to sell this new building...even if it's cheap for three or two hundred dollars...we can only live in this rotten wooden house..." Gui Gui looked at Said evasively.

"Fart! It's useless!" After hearing the man's idea, Hu Yuyin became furious, and poked the tip of the chopsticks in her hand, making two red marks on the man's forehead. "Landlords and rich peasants are collecting rent and lending money, and hiring long-term labor to engage in exploitation! Which one have you exploited by being a butcher? Which one have I exploited by selling rice and tofu? Selling a new house! You can only live in a rotten wooden house! Thanks to you man, you can speak out! Catch to death Catch work, the handle of the mill for pushing rice milk is too small, the bottom of the rice tofu pot is scratched through, and the fingers are all short. You open your mouth to sell a new house! God, other men can fight all over the world, my family A man can't even hold a new house..."

Li Guigui reached out and touched his forehead, thin beads of blood leaked from the marks of the two chopstick heads on his forehead.With tears in her eyes, Hu Yuyin realized that her anger was not serious or serious... When the ghosts started fighting, she heard some rumors, encountered some troubles, and she also went mad, and no one was worth the money! She and Gui Gui has been married for eight years, and she has never had a loud voice or blushed.Because she has no children, she pours all the motherly love of a woman into a man, and even the weakness and fearfulness of a man has fostered her feelings of protection and love for him.Gui Gui is both her husband and her brother, sometimes absurdly thinking that she is her own baby... But now, the man's forehead is bleeding! She quickly put down the bowl and chopsticks, stood up and went around, holding the Touching Gui Gui's head: "You, stupid thing, you don't even know how to cry out in pain."

Instead of getting angry, Gui Gui leaned her head against her chest: "It doesn't hurt too much. Yuyin, I'm just talking casually about selling new flats. I will do whatever I want. You are my home, my house... As long as you are here, I am not afraid of anything... Really, I am not afraid of being a beggar..." Hu Yuyin hugged the man tightly, as if she wanted to protect him from an invisible evil force, she shed tears unconsciously.Yes, the world of a country woman who runs a small stall is just that big. She is a man's life, and a man is her life.It is for this that they live, and it is for this that they work hard and work hard.

"Yuyin, don't think that I'm always a mouse... Actually, I'm not small. If you ask me to kill someone for our new building, I'll use the butcher's knife... My hands are used to With the knife, you are quite strong..." Gui Gui closed her eyes and muttered as if dreaming, unexpectedly uttering such lawless words. Hu Yuyin quickly covered Gui Gui's mouth: "I'm going to die! Look at what crazy things you've said! It's a crime to think about such a thing, but you can still say it..." As he spoke, he recited Body to wipe tears. "Yuyin, Yuyin, I'm telling you to listen to me, I'm telling you to listen to me... If I don't really want to kill someone..."

"But you, either sell the new building, or risk your life... Now there is only a little rumor in the town, which scares you like this... If something really happens in the future, how can you stand it?" rise?" "Zuo is nothing but death. Besides, what else can we do?" The word "death" that Li Guigui said casually made Hu Yuyin's eyes sparkle.She really wanted to raise her hand and slap the man in the mouth, but she couldn't drop her hand halfway.It was as if a mountain suddenly crossed her eyes and was about to press down on her. She felt the seriousness and urgency of the matter.She is a person who is soft on the outside and strong on the inside, and immediately made up an idea in her heart:

"I'll go find Li Guoxiang and ask her, the leader of the working group, whether it's true or not that the rice tofu stalls and pig knives were confiscated... I think that most of the work comrades sent by the superiors, like Director Lao Gu, always Those who came to take charge and speak for us ordinary people..." Li Guigui looked at his woman with admiration.Every time something happens, a woman is always more assertive than him, and more cunning than him, and can deal with it.In this two-person family, the positions of men and women are originally reversed. Hu Yuyin tidied herself up and thought about what to say to the female group leader, so as not to arouse people's resentment, or to leave no words for others.She was about to go out, but there was a woman asking in a pleasant voice outside the door:

"Hu Yuyin! Is Hu Yuyin in the house? Isn't today the fair day!" Hu Yuyin hurriedly went out to greet her, and she saw that it was Li Guoxiang, the leader of the team with a smile on her face.She really knows it! She hastily welcomed the guests into the house.Li Guoxiang is a little more handsome than when he was the manager of the restaurant last year, and the wrinkles on his face are less.Comrades at work, who don't work hard, live a happy life, become a golden girl at the age of thirty-three, and still don't look old.When Li Guigui saw that Team Leader Li didn't bring anyone under him, and he was kind, his heart was hanging, so he fell down halfway.He hurriedly sifted tea and served peanuts and melon seeds.At this moment, he gave his woman a wink and smiled shamefully.After setting up the tea tray and cups, he said "Leader Li, please sit down", took out a hoe from behind the door, and went to the small vegetable garden.

"When your lover meets a stranger, he's like a wild husband. He can't win if he walks away?" Team leader Li Guoxiang asked with a half-smile, taking a sip of tea. "He is worthless." Hu Yuyin blushed, and while persuading Team Leader Li to peel peanuts and eat melon seeds, she thought in her heart: You unmarried old girl, you probably don't know the difference between men and women. But the "wild husband" and "wild husband" can also speak. "Today, on behalf of the working group, I came here to visit this new building. By the way, I will talk to you individually about two things. Don't worry, we are acquaintances and businessmen..." Li Guoxiang said and arrested A handful of melon seeds stood up. Hu Yuyin's face turned pale, and her head became tense.The female team leader probably came today because those who came were not kind, and those who were kind did not come.She came to see the new building, and it was never a personal interest.But Hu Yuyin still cheered up, and with a smile on her face, she led the female group out of the old inn and opened the red-painted gate of the new building.After entering the door, Li Guoxiang smelled a smell of new wood and paint.The female team leader looked at the hall, the wing room, the kitchen, the miscellaneous room, the pigsty in the backyard, the chicken coop, and the toilet one by one, and kept praising "not bad, not bad".Then I stepped on the ladder and went upstairs to see the spacious and bright bedroom. There were large wardrobes, high-post beds, chests of drawers, desks, round tables, and armchairs. The whole set of furniture was brand new, and the paint glowed maroon. The four walls of snow-white powder walls are reflected in a beaming tone.Li Guoxiang didn't praise "not bad, not bad" any more, but nodded with his mouth closed, showing a look of surprise and emotion.Hu Yuyin has been paying attention to the changes in the expression on her face, but she can't figure out what the female team leader is thinking and hiding in her heart.Finally, they opened the floor-to-ceiling windows and stood on the balcony to see the scenery of the mountain town.Li Guoxiang leaned against the railing, like a chief standing on the reviewing platform.Standing at the height of the balcony, she could see clearly the surrounding old black earth brick houses, crooked stilted houses, cedar bark houses supported by slanted piles, and this new building that stands out from the crowd. The dire disparity between the rich and the poor. Back in the bedroom, Li Guoxiang sat down at the desk.The desk is placed as a window, and the earth-painted tabletop is like a mirror, which can clearly illuminate the figure.Hu Yuyin stood beside him.She saw that the female team leader had spread out the notebook on the desk, and unscrewed the cap of the pen in her hand. "Sit down, sit down first. Just the two of us, let's talk..." At this time, Li Guoxiang seemed to be the owner of the house, and greeted Hu Yuyin to take a seat. Hu Yuyin pulled a square stool and sat down.In front of the female team leader who was holding a notebook and holding a pen, she couldn't help but feel a sense of inferiority.Therefore, it is better for the female group leader to sit on a chair with a backrest, and it is better for her to sit on a square stool. "Hu Yuyin, our county party committee working group came to the town to carry out the 'Four Cleans' movement. You probably heard about it." Li Guoxiang said routinely, "In order to carry out the movement, we have to analyze the political and economic conditions of each household Find out. You are neither the first nor the last. To tell the truth to the working group is to tell the truth to the party. Do you understand what I mean?" Hu Yuyin nodded.In fact, her heart was foggy and she didn't understand anything. "I did a preliminary calculation for you here, and I'll ask you to implement it yourself. If there is a discrepancy, you can bring it up." Li Guoxiang said, looking at Hu Yuyin with her black and white eyes. Hu Yuyin nodded again.She felt in a daze that this would save trouble, so that she would not have to figure it out herself.If the female team leader told him to do the math, he might be in a panic.And the attitude of the female team leader is also considered good, she doesn't seem to be admonishing those five types of elements, her eyes are like knives, with a sharp edge. "From the second half of 1961, Furong Town began to change the Banyue Fair into Wutian Fair. That is to say, the sixth fair in January, right?" Li Guoxiang looked at Hu Yuyin again. Hu Yuyin still nodded, but did not make a sound.She didn't know why the female team leader was going so far, as if she wanted to turn over some old case. "Until the end of February this year, it will be two years and nine months in total," Li Guoxiang continued, but her eyes stayed on the notepad, "that is to say, it will be thirty-three months in total. One hundred and ninety-eight fairs, right?" Hu Yuyin was stunned.She didn't nod again.She began to feel that she was on trial. "You make about 50 catties of rice and tofu for sale in every fair. Some people say that this is a sideline business for the family, so we don't care about that for now. You can sell about ten bowls of rice tofu for a catty of rice. Your price is not high, and the quantity is small. It’s relatively full. This is called small profits but quick turnover. Your ingredients are spicy, the utensils are clean, and the oil and water are relatively thick. So you are welcomed by some customers. You sell five hundred bowls at a time, which is fifty yuan. More or less. On the sixth day of January, your monthly income is 300 yuan. Of the 300 yuan, we will leave some room for you. After eliminating the cost of 100 yuan, it is not too little, right? The net income is two hundred yuan! By the way, your income has reached the level of a provincial chief. For twelve months a year, your annual net income is two thousand four hundred yuan! Two years and nine months, the accumulated net income Six thousand six hundred yuan!" Hu Yuyin never expected that the female team leader would calculate such a detailed account for her! Her income has reached the level of a provincial governor, with a total of 6,600 yuan! My God, my God, I I've never calculated it like this before... What a thunderbolt! She felt as if she had been struck by lightning. "Small business, I have never calculated accounts like this... I live in a daze, I have earned a little money, and I can afford the cost of this new house... Team Leader Li, I have a hawker business license for selling rice tofu, and I have obtained government permission. breaking the law..." "We didn't confirm that you broke the law and engaged in exploitation!" Li Guoxiang still had a half-smile on his face, "Isn't there a red paper couplet posted on your door, 'give socialism red fortune'? I heard this The couplet was still written by Qin Shutian, a member of the five categories. Don’t be nervous, I’m just here to find out and implement the situation.” Hu Yuyin's expression suddenly changed from panic to numbness and indifference, her eyes were fixed on the floor, and her lips were pursed tightly.Li Guoxiang didn't care about her attitude, nor did she care whether she said anything or not. "There is another situation. Gu Yanshan, the director of the grain station, will give you 60 catties of rice from the rice mill to make rice tofu raw materials for you, right?" Li Guoxiang's face became more and more serious. As in interrogating a woman who behaved improperly. "No no! That can't be counted as rice. It's the scraps of the rice mill, the head of the broken rice mill. I have to sort out the sand from it in every dike, and sift out the chaff, weeds, and soil. Moreover, the old director of the broken rice mill does not only criticize Give me one, many units and individuals in the town bought it to feed pigs... I also bought it to feed pigs at first, and then I started a small business..." Upon hearing that it was related to the old director of the grain station, Hu Yuyin It's like waking up from indifference and numbness, and pleading loudly.Lao Gu is a good person, even if he breaks the law, he can't implicate others. "That's why I only counted 50 catties of rice and tofu for you in each fair. It's enough to remove 10 catties of chaff, sand, barnyard grass, and soil. I left some room for you. Besides, people buy broken pieces The head of the rice grain is fed to fat pigs and sold to the country, but the head of the broken rice when you buy it is turned into a commodity and fed to customers!" Team leader Li Guoxiang's words produced power, and Hu Yuyin was immediately stunned.Then, the female group leader stabilized her voice again, and continued to read the accounts in the notebook and said: "Six fairs in January, sixty catties per fair, two years and nine months, one hundred and ninety-eight fairs. That is to say, Gu Yanshan, the director of the grain station, granted you a total of 11,880 catties of rice! This is What number? Of course, this is another question. Although it has something to do with you, it is not mainly your place..." After calculating the accounts, team leader Li Guoxiang wrote a line in his notebook: "After checking with the rice tofu vendor Hu Yuyin himself, it is correct." Then he left.Hu Yuyin sent it to the gate.She felt like a pot of oil was frying in her heart, and she didn't even say a polite word like "Leader Li has a snack before leaving". In the evening, Hu Yuyin told Li Guigui about the 10,000 catties of rice and 6,600 yuan net income that Li Guoxiang, the female group leader, had settled with her.The couple were terrified, as expected, just like the wealthy old man facing the second land reform.But the rich and old men in the old society have become the five types of elements. Instead, they stink dog dung to the end, so they are not afraid anymore.Hu Yuyin and his wife had saved some money in the new society, so should they be reclassified as new landlords and rich peasants? so far.Hu Yuyin and Li Guigui couldn't sleep a wink every night.They decided that they were just a life of living in a rotten wooden house.Although living in a rotten wooden house is afraid of thieves, it seems to have a sense of political security.They don't think about conception or whether they want to be pregnant, but secretly rejoice that they have no offspring.Otherwise, the children will follow the adults and become members of the fifth class, and that would be a crime.