Chapter 11 Four chickens and monkeys

That night, the county party committee working group held a mass meeting for the first time since it entered the town.The meeting is held in the field in front of the polder stage.The asthmatic gas lamp was repaired and hung in the middle of the stage, illuminating both the stage and the stage brightly white, and also made people's faces pale.The difference from the past is that none of the original prominent figures in the town sat on the stage. Gu Yanshan, the director of the grain station, Li Mangeng, the secretary of the brigade, the director of the tax office, etc., all took low stools or found a brick. Put a piece of newspaper and sit under the stage.Hu Yuyin and Li Guigui sat next to each other behind them, as if seeking support and shelter.Sitting on the stage were only the team leader Li Guoxiang and her two team members.The people in this town are very sensitive to this change. They are both novel and suspicious, and they all want to squeeze forward to have a look.Some people even made a big circle around and got under the stage to see where the "Northern soldiers" and Man Geng Party Secretary were sitting.

The difference between the conference and the previous ones is that Li Guoxiang, the team leader who presided over the conference, did not make an opening statement. Like the previous leaders, he talked about the good situation in the country and the country, the good situation in the province and the county, and the good situation in the town. The purpose of the meeting, a few specific issues; but first, a member of the working group read out three circulars from the province, prefecture, and county.The provincial notice is: A bad element in a certain place, out of the reactionary class nature of hating the party and the people, frantically resisted the "Four Cleans" movement, instigated and instigated some backward masses to besiege and beat the members of the work team. Fifteen years in prison.The report from the district is: A member of the commune party committee and secretary of the party branch of a brigade in a certain county has used his power to cover up the local, rich, anti-, bad, and rightists for several years. He beat the table and chair, refused to explain the problem, and had a very bad attitude. After research, he decided to revoke his internal and external positions in the party, expel him from the party, and hand over the masses to control labor.The report from the county party committee was: a small street vendor in a certain commune who had been a prostitute before liberation had engaged in speculation for a long time to make huge profits, used wine and sex to win over and corrupt local cadres, and tried to get away with it during the movement.After approval, this female vendor will be roamed throughout the commune to educate the cadres, party and league members...

As soon as the three announcements were read, it had a miraculous effect. For a while, there was no sound in the meeting place, as if a sudden snowstorm had come, and all the people attending the meeting were frozen to death.Gu Yanshan, Li Mangeng and other leaders who were in charge of the town on weekdays were all dumbfounded, as if they were dumb. "Bring Qin Shutian, a bourgeois rightist, to the stage!" Suddenly, a member of the working group shouted in a voice like ice and snow falling apart. Immediately, Wang Qiushe and a basic militiaman threw Qin Duzi onto the stage like carrying a cloth bag on the left and right.There was a commotion in the whole venue, and then it became solemn again.Qin Duanzi stood in front of the stage with his hands hanging down and his head lowered. The bright gas light made him unable to open his eyes.The light cast his slender shadow onto the ceiling, it was black and murky, like a phantom.

Li Guoxiang, the female team leader who had been sitting at the only Eight Immortals table on the stage, came up to the stage, brushed a few strands of messy hair on her forehead habitually, pointed at Tile Qin, and spoke with a pleasant and clear voice. The local official said: "This is the famous Qin Shutian in Furong Town, Qin Crazy. The poor and lower-middle peasants and revolutionary masses in the town's brigade know hatred for old landlords and rich peasants. But do you hate this class enemy? In particular, I would like to ask state cadres, Communist Party members, and Communist Youth League members, do you think Qin Shutian is fragrant or stinky? Such an old man, during the three-year difficult period, has become a popular person in Furong Town. Playing, playing and singing is very active. Every winter, I go to the members’ homes to ask for relatives and daughters, and do weddings and weddings. He is in the drum team invited. Every Spring Festival and Lantern Festival, the town’s brigade dances dragon lanterns and plays lions to celebrate the New Year. There is him on weekdays When we met on the road and in the street, how many of you greeted him and gave him cigarettes? How many of you have heard him tell stories about decay and decline, using the past to satirize the present? The dolls in your family How many elementary school students who have not been exploited and oppressed ever called him 'Uncle Qin' or 'Uncle Qin'?"

Li Guoxiang's voice was not high-pitched, calm and peaceful, speaking and asking questions in a reasonable and restrained manner.The air in the entire venue seemed to freeze, and it was so quiet that everyone in the venue held their breath.Gu Yanshan, Li Mangeng, and Hu Yuyin, who were sitting under the stage, began to feel an earthquake of a certain intensity. "There are many strange things, comrades, poor and lower-middle peasants, members of the commune!" Li Guoxiang continued to speak unhurriedly, as if he was chatting with others.Clearly, her art of fighting was successful.She is quite proud of her ability to control the crowd and control the atmosphere. "Not long ago, a small street vendor in our town built a new building. Some people pointed out that this building is more magnificent than the two largest shops in the town before liberation, 'Maoyuan Company' and 'Haitong Salt Company'. By the way In a word, how much money did this rice tofu vendor make over the years? Whose money did she earn? Where did she get the rice for making rice tofu every five days? Let’s not talk about it for now. There is a pair on the red-painted gate of the new building, who wrote it? Qin Shutian, please read it for everyone to hear."

Qin Zhanzi raised his head slightly, glanced sideways at the female team leader, and replied: "I wrote it, I wrote it... The upper line is 'hardworking couples make a socialist bonus', the second line is 'Shanzhen people add money'." People's Commune Landscape', Henglian is..." "This is a reactionary couplet, comrades!" Li Guoxiang waved at Epilepsy Qin, signaling him to shut up, and said in a slightly raised voice, "'hardworking couples make a lot of money from socialism', everyone smells this reactionary Is there a smell? How can socialism be a personal fortune? In the past, it was said that "a man will not be rich without windfall, and a horse will not be fat without night grass", but he put forward the deceptive reactionary slogan of "making a fortune", which is a disservice to the people's communes. The reaction of the collective economy! Now in Furong Town, the rich are building houses and the poor are selling land. What is the problem? Think about it carefully, comrades! There is also the second line "People's communes in mountain towns add scenery to the people's communes" is even more explicit What kind of family is the 'mountain town family'? Is it a decent poor and lower-middle peasant, or is it another family with a complicated background and a messy social relationship? According to reports, this family was slandered as early as the 1950s What is our rural policy and our class line, "the government relies on being lazy; the government doesn't care about production; the surplus is earned, the government criticizes"! Is this a general outdated or weird saying? Let this kind of people come to Adding to the scenery of the people’s commune? The people’s commune is a paradise, a paradise, and it is infinitely beautiful. How can private ownership add to the scenery of socialism? This is to change the sky! Comrades, this is anti-socialism and anti-Party. This reactionary couplet was written on big red paper and pasted in our town! Has the owner of the new building arrived? Don’t tear up this couplet, but keep it as a negative material, so that everyone can read it three times a day. Comrades Don’t underestimate writing and drawing, it’s often a weapon and a means used by class enemies to attack the party and socialism!”

Hearing this, Epilepsy Qin raised his head and looked at Li Guoxiang unconvinced.Wang Qiushe, who was standing aside and watching him, immediately slapped his neck hard and pushed his head down.Immediately, several backbones of the movement shouted in the audience: "Dianzi Qin is dishonest! Tell him to kneel down!" The entire venue hesitated for a moment before reacting: "No!" Qin Zhizi trembled all over, and looked at Li Mangeng, the secretary of the brigade in the audience, as if asking for help.Li Mangeng lowered his head, how could he bother to answer him.After Man Geng's branch secretary, "Sister Fu Rong" Hu Yuyin and her two were even more lost, looking around in panic.His knees were weak, and he fell to his knees with a plop.

"Qin Shutian, you can stand up." Li Guoxiang waved his hand to Qin Zizi unexpectedly.This is not surprising, the cadres sent by the superiors are always more policy-oriented. Epilepsy Qin stood up as he said.He resumed his original posture, facing the crowd with his hands drooping, bowing his head and pleading guilty.It's just that there are two distinct dust marks on his knees. "Qin Shutian, continue to criticize you now, and peel off your painting skin under the sharp eyes of the masses." Li Guoxiang said, "Don't the older generation in the town know the story of the hero in Liangshanpo? There is a hero named Shengshou Scholar Xiao Rang. Isn’t that right? This Qin Shutian is also a hero, and some of our grassroots cadres regard him as the “holy scholar” of the town’s brigade! Let’s take a look. On the hillsides and stone walls, there are written everywhere, "The whole party will do it, and the agriculture will be promoted." Long live the three red flags", "Food is the key link in agriculture, and steel is the key link in industry", "Taiwan must be liberated" and so on.Who wrote these large slogans?From the handwriting of these five types of molecules!Aren't all the hundreds of households in our Furong town all illiterate?Can't even find a person who brushes slogans?Whose prestige has grown and whose ambition has been destroyed?Qin Shutian, tell me, who assigned you these glorious missions? "

Qin Duzi shrank his neck and glanced at Li Mangeng's party secretary in the audience: "It's the brigade, the brigade..." "Stuttering, I have ghosts in my heart, forget it!" Li Guoxiang waved his hand, stopping Qin Shutian just enough.She mastered and adjusted the heat of the venue with ease.Then he asked an even more frightening question: "Qin Shutian! Now, in front of the poor and lower-middle peasants and the revolutionary masses, report your own class status!" "Bad element, I am a bad element." Qin Manzi said. "What a villain! Comrades, today the working group is here to expose a conspiracy." Li Guoxiang announced loudly and loudly like a loudspeaker at full volume: "According to the materials we have obtained from internal investigations and external investigations, Qin Shutian Not a bad element at all, but an extreme rightist who committed serious crimes and wrote reactionary musicals to attack the party and socialism. He changed from a rightist who was double-opened and purged to a bad element who engages in relations between men and women. Who did this good thing? The list of the five types of elements is in the possession of the County Public Security Bureau. This is a serious violation of law and discipline!"

At this point, Li Guoxiang paused.Like all experienced speakers, she always leaves a short gap to allow the audience to think and digest an extremely important issue, or to remember a certain incisive motto-style sentence. There was a buzz of discussion and exclamation in the venue. "Comrades from the poor and lower-middle peasants, comrades from the commune!" Li Guoxiang's tone dropped again, and he resumed his original local mandarin, "There are still many strange things in Furong Town. It's still this Qin Shutian, he still There is a special identity, the leader of the five types of elements in the whole brigade. That is to say, he is responsible for supervising the five types of elements in the whole brigade. Please see how much some of our cadres trust and value this rightist. Supervise It was originally the responsibility and right of our poor and lower-middle peasants to reform the five types of elements. However, a few of our individual cadres have handed over this responsibility and right to the class enemy. Comrades, what is the problem? This is a serious enemy. All these strange incidents happened in our town. Today, our working group took Qin Shutian out as a living target, a negative teacher, and a mirror, and turned the face of some of our cadres and party members into a mirror. Take a photo and see which side their ass is sitting on!"

Then, Li Guoxiang issued an order: shout slogans, and detain the rightist Qin Shutian!All the five types of elements and their family members and children left the venue. Amidst the deafening slogans of "Down with Qin Shutian", "Qin Shutian does not bow his head and plead guilty, he will die", "Leniency for confession, strictness for resistance", Qin Duanzi was escorted out of the venue by Wang Qiushe and another militiaman. The family members and children of the members also left the venue one after another.Afterwards, Li Guoxiang, the leader of the working group, gave a speech as the concluding remarks of the meeting: "Now that the class enemies have left the meeting, I would like to add a few words." She brushed her hair gracefully, and her voice was much softer, "The poor Comrades of lower-middle peasants and commune members, the vigorous, sharp and complicated class struggle is about to start in our Furong Town. Although we are carrying out the "four clean-ups" on the surface, the working group is ready to work with everyone and do our best to Go to the ground and join this struggle. Some of our party members, some cadres, and some members of the commune had a hard life in the past few years. Because of the lax policies, they made more or less mistakes of one kind or another. It doesn't matter. Our policy It is: admitting mistakes, pleading guilty, repaying compensation for corruption, washing hands and taking a bath, and repenting. What should some people do if they don’t turn back? Then they should be punished according to the seriousness of the circumstances, using party discipline and state laws. If there is collusion between inside and outside the party, and our poor and lower-middle peasants, cadres and the masses are insensitive and ignore it, then it will not be long before the party changes, the country changes color, and the landlord and bourgeoisie come back to power!" After the meeting ended, Hu Yuyin and Li Guigui returned to the Old Huji Inn, completely out of their wits and burned inside.They felt that a catastrophe had hung over their new house.They haven't even moved into this new building for one night, but it has become a disaster.Even if I continue to live in a rotten wooden house willingly, I still feel insecure.What makes the couple particularly sad is that it seems that in this campaign, Director Lao Gu and Party Secretary Man Geng will not be able to escape the slap of the female team leader. What protection is offered. Li Guigui was so frightened that he was trembling all over, he only knew that he opened his confused eyes and looked at his woman. After all, Hu Yuyin still had some ideas in her heart, she sat on the bamboo chair and lost her mind.Alas, if two people in a family are full of lice and cowards, and the mice are like cats, wouldn't they have to prepare a rope and find a short circuit? "Let's do this, things can't be delayed, maybe one night the house will be ransacked. I will hand over the money we have left to Brother Man Geng for safekeeping. It will be a disaster to put it in the house sooner or later..." Hu Yuyin's eyes Staring at the door, lowered his voice. "Man Geng? You didn't catch it. He seems to be guilty of Qin's schizophrenia... In the report of the female team leader, more than half of them came to him, killing chickens for monkeys to see..." Li Guigui reminded himself the woman said. "Not afraid. He is in the party. At most, he will be criticized a few times, admit his mistake, and write a letter of repentance. Are you afraid he can be treated like a demobilized soldier?" "Oh, I'm afraid of hurting others..." "He's my god-brother. We are alone, and we have only one reliable relative." "Okay. Don't wait for others to confiscate the rice tofu stall, and don't set it up yourself. Why don't you just go out to avoid the limelight. I have distant relatives in Xiuzhou, Guangxi, and I haven't seen them for more than ten years. The people in the town Nobody knows..."