Chapter 18 Sifeng and Chicken

Wang Qiushe toured all over the county to give lectures, and taught the style and procedures of "early request for instructions" and "late report", which was very popular.Wherever they go, there are always firecrackers, gongs and drums to pick them up.The spirit becomes matter, matter becomes spirit, and there are banquets every day. He has never seen so many chickens, ducks and fishes in his life.Oily and watery, eating fine and greasy food, he really tasted the sweetness of learning and applying, live chicken and fish.As the saying goes, "the chicken crows, the fish jumps".When passing on scriptures and giving treasures, he also closely followed the Great Criticism Movement, denouncing and accusing Yang Mingao, the largest party in power in the county, and Li Guoxiang, the secretary of the commune, for their counter-revolutionary revisionist crimes.At that time, Li Guoxiang was "standing aside" to accept education and criticism from the revolutionary masses.The hostess turned his face and refused to recognize anyone, and the maid secretary gritted her teeth in hatred, hating herself for being blind and confused, and cultivating a bad embryo. "You deserve it! Shoot yourself in the foot with a rock!" Li Guoxiang blamed herself, "It was you who regarded him as the root, introduced him to the party, promoted him to be the secretary of the brigade, and planned to further train him to be a national cadre. A few-year-old single man, had the idea of ​​intimacy... But, after a lot of painstaking efforts, he fed the dog! He is not only ungrateful, but also revenge, crossing rivers and demolishing bridges, taking advantage of people's dangers to go everywhere to accuse his uncle and himself... Wang Qiushe, what a snake, a gangster The autumn snake about to enter the cave..."

At that time, among some cadres who stood aside and were under censorship, there was a popular ballad: "The phoenix that has lost its time is a lucky chicken. The phoenix is ​​not as good as the chicken when it loses its hair. One day the hair will come back, and the phoenix will still be the phoenix. The chicken will still be the chicken." This song, Li Guoxiang often recites it orally and keeps it silent in her heart, which gave her confidence and courage.After less than a year, Li Guoxiang really fulfilled this ballad.When the county revolutionary committee was established, Yang Mingao was combined as the first deputy director of the county revolutionary committee, and she became a female standing committee member, and still served as the director of the commune revolutionary committee.The beautiful feathers on Phoenix's body became plump again, and he regained his status as the king of all birds in the mountain.

As for Wang Qiushe, I'm sorry, the mud on the foot poles has not been cleaned, and he has not been promoted to a full-time lecturer who eats state food, receives state money, and rides state cars.It has been popular for one or two years, and one flower attracts a hundred flowers. The "Three Loyalties" activities of "requesting instructions early" and "reporting late" have been popularized in the county's commune teams and every corner, and a group of new ones have emerged. He learns and uses the pacesetters flexibly. When he recites the "Oath", the mandarin is not mixed with the local accent. The posture of waving the red book is more beautiful than him. He can also do quotation exercises and dance the loyalty dance.In contrast, he, the first pacesetter who taught the worship ceremony in the whole county, felt ashamed and completed his historical mission.Therefore, in the eyes of ordinary revolutionary masses and cadres, he is not as rare and precious as before.Soon, the superiors called on the representatives of the masses in the leading group of the "Three Combinations" to implement the "Three Non-Separations" and return to the original unit to grasp the revolution and promote production.He also returned to Furong Town and served as the director of the Revolutionary Committee of the Town Brigade.In this way, he became Comrade Li Guoxiang's subordinate again.Phoenix or Fenglai chicken or chicken.

People are afraid of taking regret medicine.This is the bitter fruit of life.A year ago, Li Guoxiang regretted cultivating the Diaojiao landlord, and a year later, the Diaojiao landlord regretted exposing and criticizing Li Guoxiang in some public places.Who is to blame for this? The big movement has been ups and downs, and it has gone back and forth, making the subjects follow the situation and turn over political biscuits... Sometimes Wang Qiushe really wants to bite off his tongue!How many times have I slapped my own mouth: "Stupid thing! Bastard! A villain is successful! Dog meat can't be used as a big platform! Who took you as a root, who sent you into the party, who let you go to the north to learn and visit They raise a dog that wags its tail, but you bite your master and your benefactor..." Wang Qiushe thought hard, and gradually understood that if he wanted to make political progress and improve his life in the future, he still had to get close to Li Guoxiang. , relying on Yang Mingao.It's like a pagoda, one level presses one level, and one level controls one level.He is not a wooden head, although it is sad to take regret medicine, but it is much better than those granite heads who do not repent until death.

Let's say that Director Li Guoxiang has a quiet place above the sales office of the Furong Town Supply and Marketing Cooperative.Once you enter two rooms, the outer room is for office and reception, a desk, a wicker chair, and a few bone row stools.On the wall are portraits of leaders, quotations in gold letters on a red background, and the full text of the "Old Three Articles".There are also treasure bookcases, Zhongzi desks, and a telephone.The whole room is dominated by red, which shows the identity and bearing of the owner.As for the inner bedroom, it is inconvenient to describe.We are not naive and curious Red Guards. We would not bear to search the privacy of a single woman in her thirties.After six o'clock in the afternoon, when the downstairs sales department closed and the employees of the supply and marketing cooperative returned to the family dormitory in the backyard, it was so quiet that ghosts would kill people.

Wang Qiushe began to come to this "director's residence" again and again to report and ask for instructions, and he always stopped at the door first to wipe his hair, clear his throat, and trembling.Li Guoxiang has been unwilling to receive him in private, so he has never been able to enter the door.He was not discouraged either, believing that as long as he was sincere, he would one day move the female director.Will a bunker be breached? "Director Li, Secretary Li..." On this day, he knocked lightly on the door again. "Who is it?" Li Guoxiang was smiling with someone inside. "I, I... Wang Qiushe..." His throat was a little dry, and his voice was a little knotted. "What's the matter?" Li Guoxiang's pleasant voice suddenly became cold and hard. "I have something to do..." "I'll talk about it later. I'm researching materials here, so I don't have time!"

Wang Qiushe returned to the Diaojiaolou unhappily, really careless about eating and drinking.Fortunately, he is still the "top leader" of a brigade, and there are team cadres who come to him to ask for instructions and report work, and members who come to report various situations to him, and there are still all day long; "There are also many, so his life is not lonely.A few days later, one afternoon, he made a conscious effort to get dressed. He first went to the town barber shop to have his hair cut, his beard shaved and his face trimmed.A "polyester card" was covered over the white shirt, the trousers were freshly washed, and the shoes were the pair of Gongnong brand pigskin shoes that were never changed in four seasons.He didn't go upstairs to the supply and marketing cooperative until everyone in the town had dinner and lights flickered in the windows.This time he made up his mind not to meet with Director Li, and he would not go back to Diaojiaolou if he said everything he had to say.

The ghost knows why, when he entered through the side door of the high wall of the supply and marketing cooperative, his heart was pounding, as if he was about to do something shameful, he tiptoed.Fortunately, he didn't run into anyone.He stood at the door of the "Director's Residence" before he raised his hand and knocked on the door: "Director Li, Secretary Li..." "Who is it? Please come in!" The voice in the room was very pleasant. Wang Qiushe pushed the door open and entered the room.Li Guoxiang is sitting at a round table enjoying a braised chicken.

"You? What's the matter? You've been here a few times recently, haven't you? Tell me what you have to say. There are a lot of guests this afternoon, and they seem to be from a drought-stricken area. They drank all three pots of boiling water." Li Guoxiang only glanced at him, and then focused on the braised chicken again.But this glance left a deep impression on Wang Qiushe, and felt that the female director was looking down at him, her eyes were full of sneer and sarcasm, but she still had the indifferent demeanor of a leader towards her subordinates. "Director Li, I, I want to make a thought report and review to the leadership..." At the critical moment, Wang Qiushe's tongue was a little disappointing and stuttered.

"Ideological report? Criticism? You are a well-known pacesetter in the whole county, and you are doing well everywhere!" Li Guoxiang looked at Wang Qiushe again in surprise, and the grievances immediately hit her heart like a hot water. He couldn't help but sarcastically said, "Secretary Wang, don't be too polite and flatter me too much. As the saying goes, a strong dragon can't beat a local snake. I'm afraid that as a commune cadre, if I want to curry favor with you, I won't be able to curry favor with you! My head Put on this little black gauze hat, and it’s still in your hands, so you can take it off whenever you want!”

"Director Li, Secretary Li...you just don't laugh at me, scold me, I'm ashamed to face others...especially to you...I'm a bastard, I've been complacent for a few days, and then I forgot my benefactor..." Wang Qiu Xie's head hangs down like an ear of overripe millet.He bowed himself and found a bone row stool to sit down, with his knees together and his hands on his knees, sitting upright. "Then why do you still come to see me? Are you so disrespectful and self-respecting?" Li Guoxiang seemed to have a little curiosity at this time, and asked with great interest while biting the chicken leg with a slanted face.As a leader, she is used to being humbled in front of her. "I, I... I have low education and low level, and I can't see the good situation... I only know how to shout slogans. I'm an ugly starling, and I can't learn the tongue..." Wang Qiushe tried to probe without knowing the depth, and watched carefully Look at the expression on the face of the hostess. "Speak up if you have something to say. I've always maintained that the speaker is innocent, and it's bad luck if you speak half-heartedly." Li Guoxiang glanced at him again.The hostess suddenly noticed that Wang Qiushe's appearance and clothes tonight were quite unobtrusive and not so annoying. "I confess to you as the director, I am a bad guy! An ungrateful guy! I'm sorry for your director, I'm sorry for the county secretary Yang... It was you and Secretary Yang who dragged me to join the party and be a branch secretary, like a person... But I, but I, also learn from others. I criticized Secretary Yang and you for yellow teeth and bad breath at the lecture meeting. You lead to deal with it..." Wang Qiushe was like a pond with a gap in the eye, with clear and muddy water rushing.When the past was brought up, bitter tears rushed down and fell on the floor with a ticking sound. "...I owe it to your director's painstaking cultivation...I'm sorry to my superior. I fell too hard...I just want to apologize to you and Secretary Yang and apologize...I really deserve to be applauded in front of you I retort a thousand times..." Li Guoxiang listened and frowned for a while, then sullenly.Wang Qiushe's crying and repentance seemed to have touched a certain lonely and lonely nerve deep in her heart, and awakened a few traces of warm tenderness... Her face was a little depressed, and she wiped the greasy hands on her hands with a handkerchief. , fell into the rattan armchair, looking limp and powerless.She was in a trance...but only for a few seconds, she sat up straight again, raised her brows, and still stared at Wang Qiushe with indifferent and contemptuous eyes: "It's all over! The past is over. It's because you have a good memory, I can't remember anything... I don't care. A few scoldings and criticisms are education and help to me. You mention it again and again, and you admit your mistake again. It's another self-criticism, I didn't ask you to do this...I'm not interested in whether you take any regret medicine..." "Director Li, I am sincere... I know that you are the most soft-hearted and willing to forgive others..." Wang Qiushe noticed that the female director was still using an official tone and rejected him thousands of miles away, so he felt a thump in his heart and squeezed His hands were sweating, and he felt a painful disappointment.But he can't stop here and retreat.You must say something attractive, so that the hostess realizes that she still has some use value... At this moment, he is very calm-headed.He recalled what he had heard some time ago that Li Mangeng, secretary of the brigade, and Gu Yanshan, a resigned cadre of the "Siqing" party, beat dog meat in the middle of the night. I scolded the street... By the way, I will present this "situation" first.Anyway, these days, if you don’t sue others, they still sue you. "Director Li, I would like to report to you some new trends in this town..." "New trend? What new trend?" Sure enough, when Li Guoxiang heard this, she turned her body and turned her face away, her eyes sparkling. "Qin Shutian and these five types of elements have been very dishonest recently." Wang Qiushe intentionally made a detour and reported, "The brigade ordered them to confess their sins early every day and repent later. They are actually better than poor and lower-middle peasants." Late! Now 80% of the whole brigade has participated in doing Zhongzi exercises and dancing Zhongzi dance. It is just some old men and old women who are stubborn and refuse to do exercises and dance. They would rather bow to the glorious image ..." "Don't talk nonsense. The five types of elements are dead tigers and snakes. The problem is some live tigers and snakes." Li Guoxiang narrowed his eyes and stared at Wang Qiushe.This cold gaze made Wang Qiushe tremble and feel cold.Li Guoxiang suddenly became interested, and decided to release a little bait to tease this "autumn snake": "As a revolutionary cadre, you can't just focus on those who are determined and wearing hats, but more importantly, those who are not determined." , wearing hats, mixing in with the crowd... the original characters in the town, Gu Yanshan and the others, what new activities do they have, huh?" Wang Qiushe couldn't help but feel tense, if the female director has already grasped the information about Gu Yanshan and Li Mangeng's fight against dog meat, and then report it by herself, wouldn't it be worthless?He gritted his teeth, and still bit the bullet and disclosed what he knew about the "Northern soldiers" and the relevant remarks of the former party secretary that night, embellishing them.It was also suggested that it was inappropriate for Li Mangeng to continue serving as brigade secretary. "Secretary Wang! You and I sit at the round table and have a drink with me!" To Wang Qiushe's surprise, Li Guoxiang was very interested in the information he reported, and immediately became more polite to him, and said Turning around, he took out a bottle of wine, two glasses, and a plate of fried peanuts from the cabinet. "Don't think that you men are the only ones who have huge numbers. Come on, let's compare and see whose face changes color first!" For this "mutation", Wang Qiushe was really dazzled and flattered.He immediately took the wine bottle from Li Guoxiang, sifted through the two glasses, and then sat sideways at the round table, looking at the female director respectfully and without blinking. "Come on! Let's drink this!" Li Guoxiang held the cup higher than his eyebrows very knowledgeably, and glanced at Wang Qiushe from the bottom of the cup.The hostess hanging on the feet also raised his glass, and glanced at the female director from the bottom of the glass.Then the two glasses touched each other, and each had a good time. "Here is this chicken leg. You have good teeth, bite it clean!" In order to show trust and intimacy, Li Guoxiang gave Wang Qiushe a half-bitten chicken leg.Wang Qiushe leaned forward and took it with both hands. "What's going on in the team and in the town?" the female director asked while admiring Wang Qiushe's greedy appearance of biting the chicken bone with satisfaction. "The town is very popular with temple demons. Especially in the past few years when great democracy has been implemented, carp, bighead carp, and jumping shrimp have all come to the fore... Your director didn't listen to the lecture, and you were expelled back home the year you caught 'Little Deng Tuo' The head of the tax office is now filing a lawsuit in the province or region, demanding that he be rehabilitated." Wang Qiushe lowered his voice, and glanced at the door involuntarily. "This is one. The former director of the tax office who was born as a bureaucratic landlord and stepped down from the 'Four Cleanups' turned the case over." Li Guoxiang opened his fingers with a calm face. "Another rebel regiment has been established on Qingshiban Street, Lishantou... I heard that the director of the supply and marketing cooperative secretly took the lead... They also want to ask Gu Yanshan to be a consultant, but Gu Yanshan is too drunk to be interested." "This is two. The new situation, the rebel corps, the mastermind is the director of the supply and marketing cooperative, Gu Yanshan is not interested." Li Guoxiang had already taken out the personal notebook and remembered it. "The boy from the rice mill at the grain station..." "how?" "Stole the credit union accountant's wife!" "Bah bah! Fuck your mother! Who wants you to report this!" Li Guoxiang hid back, her face turned red, and her hair was a little disheveled. "No, no, it was the wife of the accountant of the credit union who inadvertently told the boy of the rice factory that her husband was going to the county to sue your director..." "Ah, this is three. New situation, new situation." Li Guoxiang said calmly, "Look, a leading cadre can't cope with the situation if he doesn't follow the mass line and doesn't have a few eyeliners and earliners...you I have also grasped some trends, and I will tell them all, so that the leaders can coordinate and solve them.” "That's all for the time being." Wang Qiushe's tongue was no longer tied, and his behavior of drinking and serving vegetables was no longer so timid and servile.It seems that she has already taken a place in front of the female director. "Wang Qiu's pardon!" The female director shouted sharply with a spring on her face and cold brows. "Director Li..." Wang Qiushe was shocked, his calves trembled, and he stood up, "I, I..." For a while, he seemed timid in front of the female director again. "Sit down, sit down. You're good, you're good..." Li Guoxiang left the rattan chair and walked up and down beside Wang Qiushe, as if considering an important decision, "I want to clean up one by one... the backbone of your brigade How many guns does the militia have?" "An armed platoon." Wang Qiushe was puzzled and felt that the matter was of great importance. "Do you control this platoon?" Li Guoxiang asked again. "Don't tell me? I'm the brigade secretary!" Wang Qiushe patted his chest. "Okay! Don't let the bad guys take it away. From now on, no one is allowed to move without my order!" "I'll take my head as a guarantee, I'm only responsible to your director, and follow your director's command!" "Sit down, sit down. We don't need to be so nervous." Li Guoxiang put his hands on Wang Qiushe's shoulders.Wang Qiushe sat down obediently.He was distracted for a moment, and felt the softness and smoothness of the female director's hands. "The power is in our hands, so we have to fight with words. Only those who have no power in their hands think of fighting. Do you understand what I mean? Using swords and guns is the last resort... and Li Mangeng, we have to hold him, stabilize him, or let him be the secretary of the brigade under you. One of the core tasks of today's revolution is to prevent Gu Yanshan and the others from restoring power, regain power in the town, engage in class reconciliation, and promote The theory of productivity, human nature, and human touch... Do you understand what I mean?" Wang Qiushe really admired the insight and courage of the female director.His head twitched like a woodpecker. Li Guoxiang returned to the rattan chair opposite the round table and sat down.She leaned on the side of the rattan chair with both hands, and looked at the stilted building with her eyes unblinking, as if she was a little drunk: "Let's tell the truth, Wang Zhishu, I am very satisfied with your repentance and heart-to-heart. Let's let the past go. As the saying goes, there are three stakes for one fence, and three gangs for one hero. I am not a hero. But I need a few capable people under my command. I still want to test and test you... I am not making a wish with you, as long as you can stand the test, At an appropriate time, I can ask Director Yang of the County Revolutionary Committee to see if I can let you become the deputy director of the commune revolutionary committee out of production..." What a thunder!Wang Qiushe's heart trembled.Oh my god, I can't miss this opportunity, this god-given fate that will determine his fate for the rest of his life.In order to show his determination, he couldn't help but stand up, and fell to his knees in front of the female director with a thud: "Director Li, Director Li! I, I will be your heart-to-heart from now on...even if people say that I am a... I am your faithful..." Li Guoxiang was taken aback at first, then smiled with both emotion and complacency on his face, and his voice was inevitably a little intoxicated: "Get up, get up! It's not disgusting. You are a cadre, how can you be so hard? People saw..." Wang Qiushe didn't get up, but raised his face.His face was stained with tears like a tabby cat.The hostess felt hot in her heart, and couldn't help but leaned down and stroked his hair: "Get up, ah, get up. A big man...has a new haircut? It smells sweet. Your face is so hot . . . I'm going to rest. I'm a little drunk tonight. The days are long, please go back..." Wang Qiushe stood up, opened his obsessive eyes, and looked at the female director reluctantly, as if he was looking forward to some kind of hint or some order.