Chapter 21 seven and ghost

Party secretary Wang Qiushe sprained his foot under the high fence of the town supply and marketing cooperative, and was unable to leave the house for two whole months.When Director Li Guoxiang came to Furong Town to inspect the work, he stopped by the stilted building to see him, and said a few business-like words such as taking a good rest, recuperating slowly, and not being impatient.He only looked at his feet that were swollen as thick as a small bucket, and didn't even touch them, showing no concern or pity. "How did I sprain my foot? I was careless on my way early in the morning?" If it were another woman, Wang Qiushe might yell at her, reprimanding her for being heartless and cold-blooded.As the saying goes, "One night, a couple enjoys a hundred days of grace", let alone more than one night.What kind of ugly words and ugly things did you not say or do? But for the female superior, he felt that he had received a kind of "gift".The female superior came to see him once, and that was enough. Could it be that an upstanding member of the Standing Committee of the County Revolutionary Committee and the director of the commune would have a sore nose and red eyes like the women in the neighborhood? temperament and courage.I should practice exercises with her, and learn the skills of moving up and down and making friends with her.

That day, Wang Qiushe was limping around in front of the stilted building on a crutch, exercising his muscles, bones and blood, when Qin Shutian, a rightist in iron hat, came, holding a "criminal statement" in both hands, and bowed to him .He stood still leaning on his crutches, took a look at the "Confession", his round face was so surprised that it looked like an old pumpkin, his mouth couldn't close for a long time, and his eyes blinked: "What? What? You and the rich peasant widow Hu Yuyin applied for marriage registration?" Qin Shutian hooked his head and bowed his head, and answered politely: "Yes, Secretary Wang, yes." In order to ease the atmosphere, he asked respectfully, "Secretary Wang's foot is healed? Do you want me to go into the mountain to dig some trees?" Achyranthes knee, hanging horse pier?"

Wang Qiushe's brows were knotted on his fat face, his eyes stopped blinking, and narrowed into two small triangles.His views on this "iron hat rightist" are quite complicated.On that unlucky early morning, when he slipped and fell on the thin cow dung, it was Qin Shutian who carried him home from the alley, and even kept it a secret for him, and made up a story: the secretary of the brigade went to the field early to watch He Miao, stepped on the wrong foot, turned in the culvert, and was injured on duty.The brigade recorded him as a work-related injury and reimbursed him for medical expenses... But what about Hu Yuyin? For this young widow who still looks young and charming, Wang Qiushe once had some unreasonable thoughts in private.But the special relationship between him and the female director restricts him all the time.Worldly

The changes are so great, life is like a kaleidoscope.Such a wonderful woman, from the hands of a useless butcher, unexpectedly fell into Qin Shutian's black claws. "You guys, do you already have depth?" Diaojiaozhuo forced Qin Shutian with an expert look, as if he had seen through the other party's secrets and secrets. "This kind of thing, of course, cannot be hidden from Secretary Wang's eyes..." Qin Shutian smiled brazenly and said flatteringly. "Fart! When did you guys start, huh?" "I can't remember clearly. I confessed to my superiors. We clean the Qingshiban Street every morning. She is a widow. I have always been single, so I have this request from each other."

"Rotten baskets and poles. How many times have you done it?" "No... dare not, dare not. The superior did not approve, dare not." "Death is dishonest! Who have you deceived about this matter? What's more, that woman has no children, and she has delicate skin and tender flesh. Why didn't she feed you, an old cat?" Qin Shutian blushed slightly when he heard this: "The superiors don't want to make fun of us. Chicken matches chicken, phoenix matches phoenix... Can the brigade give us a certificate to let us register at the commune?" Leaning on a walking stick, Wang Qiushe limped to a blue stone and sat down. His brows were knotted again on his round and fat face, and his eyes narrowed into two small triangles.He looked at the "Confession Statement" submitted by Qin Shutian, and seemed to have encountered a policy problem: "Two members of the fifth category apply for marriage... Is there such a provision in the Marriage Law? It seems that only those who are over 18 years old are mentioned. Citizens with political rights... But what kind of citizens are you? You are the object of dictatorship, the scum of society!"

Qin Shutian bit his lip, and there was no flattering smile on his face, and he said very harshly: "Wang Zhishu, we, we are still human beings! No matter how bad or black, we are still human beings... Even if we are not human beings, we are considered roosters. Chicken mother, male goose, hen goose, we cannot be forbidden to marry!" Wang Qiushe laughed loudly when he heard it, and laughed with tears: "Mother, you are so good! Qin Qinzi, I don't treat you people like animals. The whole of China is a policy... Don't speak so harshly. Like this Well, this time, my old king will be lenient to you. I will study your report in the revolutionary committee of the brigade first, and then submit it to the commune for approval. But first I would like to say hello to you, the central government has issued a document, and it will be launched soon' A group of two dozen', a movement to clean up the class ranks, it is hard to say whether it will be approved or not!"

Qin Shutian was frightened and begged Wang Qiushe: "Secretary Wang, our business depends entirely on your leadership to come to the commune and say something... We already have, we have..." Wang Qiushe's eyes widened, and his crutches paused on the ground: "Yes? What do you have?" Qin Shutian lowered his head.He decided to reveal the matter. It would be better to reveal it sooner rather than later, so that Wang Qiushe and the others could have a bottom line: "We have that thing..." Sure enough, when Wang Qiushe heard this, he spat on the ground angrily: "Two dishonest guys! It's easy to change your country, but it's hard to change your nature. When you become a class enemy, you still sneak around... Go back! I'll call people tomorrow. Send you a pair of white paper couplets, and you go and paste them at the door of the Old Huji Inn!"

Standing under the low eaves, how can you not bow your head? Life is upside down, and lewd men and women dominate the fate of their love.The next day, the brigade headquarters sent militiamen to deliver a pair of blank paper couplets and handed them over to Qin Shutian.It was this couplet that Qin Shutian needed.He was overjoyed, and went to the Old Huji Inn to look for Hu Yuyin as if he had gained a glimmer of life.Hu Yuyin was lighting a fire at the door of the stove, and when she saw the white couplets, she burst into tears. It turns out that pasting white paper couplets in the town is a new custom that arose in the year when the "four olds" were swept away. It was a revolutionary measure taken because of its stink among the revolutionary masses.

"Yuyin, please don't cry. Let's see what is written on the couplet. It is beneficial to us and not harmful!" Qin Shutian unfolded the couplet while instructing, "The cadres of the brigade are shallow, and they have admitted our relationship in public. You can see that the upper line is 'two dogs and men', the second line is 'a black couple', and the horizontal line is 'ghost den'. 'A black couple', regardless of red, white, black, human nest, ghost nest, Anyway, the brigade announced in public that the two of us are a 'husband and wife', right?"

Qin Shutian is really clever.Hu Yuyin stopped crying.That's right, brother Shutian is a scheming person. With Hu Yuyin's consent, Qin Shutian scooped up half a spoonful of rice soup and pasted the white paper couplets squarely on the shop door. A pair of white paper couplets was pasted at the entrance of the Old Huji Inn, and the news immediately caused a sensation in the entire Furong Town.Adults and children alike came to watch the fun, and commented on the strangeness: "'Two dogs and men, a black couple', this couple is relevant and realistic." Old singles next year, cooking pot meals during the day and warming their feet at night!" "Do they have a banquet when they get married?" "They have a banquet, which one dares to come to eat?"

"Hey, it's the retribution of my previous life to be able to do this step!" The people in the town took this matter as the headline news, and they talked about it for half a month after work and dinner.Only Gu Yanshan, who still had the title of deputy director of the grain station, and a wine gourd hanging from his hip, came to the shop door to read the couplet twice, without saying a word. The comments of the neighbors reminded Qin Shutian and Hu Yuyin.On a night when everyone in the town closed their shops early, they prepared two bottles of wine, a table of more than a dozen meaty and vegetarian dishes, and put a piece of red paper under their wine glasses, as if they were going to perform a formality Like, drink a cup of wine.Although the commune has not yet approved their "statement of guilt", it is estimated that people will not be interested in the combination of people like them.To be really interested is to flatter them.Anyway, when raw rice is cooked and cooked rice is mixed with clean and turbid water, the brigade cadres and the neighbors in the town have already recognized it.Birds of a feather flock together.Nigger to nigger, no one gets in the way.Because of this, the faces of Hu Yuyin and Qin Shutian were also a little red and joyful... They were drinking a cup of wine respectfully in accordance with the ancient custom, when someone knocked on the door outside the shop door . The husband and wife were immediately scared out of their wits.Hu Yuyin was trembling all over, Qin Shutian hurriedly hugged her, as if he could protect her... The knock on the door was still ringing, but no one could hear anyone shouting, so Qin Shutian regained his composure.He bit Hu Yuyin's ear and said, "Listen, the sound is different. If the militia squad came to detain us, they would always yell viciously, kick, gun butts slammed, and door panels slammed... "Hu Yuyin finally settled down and nodded.A man is a man, he has his own opinions and does not panic. "Shall I open the door?" "Yeah." Qin Shutian bravely went to open the door, but was still surprised: it turned out to be the "Northern soldier" Gu Yanshan! He was holding a cardboard box in his hand, and a wine gourd was hanging from his hip.It was so unexpected.Qin Shutian hurriedly greeted him and locked the door.Hu Yuyin's face turned pale, and she invited Lao Gu to the table with a trembling voice.Lao Gu was also polite, and sat down regardless of whether he was up or down: "In the morning and afternoon, I saw you sneaking around, buying fish for a while, and weighing expensive meat for a while... I thought, I still want to ask for a drink of this wedding wine. Now everyone in the town thinks I'm a drunkard, okay? Drinking too much... I think, I think, you probably won't confess and confess me... And you, in my opinion, are not the kind of real-name five-type elements... Marriage and happy event, life for the rest of your life, at most Only once or twice..." After hearing this, the Hei couple burst into tears and knelt down in front of Gu Yanshan, kowtowing their heads.There are still good people in this world where "you live and die" at every turn.Human sympathy and charity are still not extinct... Gu Yanshan didn't back down, and smiled drunkenly: "Get up, get up, you are the old etiquette and the old rules. Do you want me to keep the matchmaker? In the past few years, I have been looking at the world with drunken eyes, and the more I look at it, the more sober I become. .Your matchmaker is actually the bamboo broom in your hand, the bluestone slabs on the street... It’s okay, tonight, I’ll come to make up the number, and I’ll admit it!” The black couple were about to kneel down again, Gu Yanshan quickly pulled them back, It's really like a wedding officiant arranged for them to sit down. "I also brought a small gift." Gu Yanshan opened the carton and took out four pieces of fabric, a car, a small plane, and a doll. "Don't be disgusted. Over the years, I have always given such a gift to people in the town to marry their daughters...you are no exception. I congratulate you on your early birth...since you are husband and wife, whether it is red or black, Evil roots and evil seeds always have descendants." Hu Yuyin's heart surged with heat, and she almost fainted...but she still controlled herself.She went to Gu Yanshan again, knelt down on both knees, sobbing and said: "Director Gu! You have to be worshiped by me alone... You have been wronged for me, for the leader of Broken Rice Valley... I have made you troubled and made you suffer... You, a veteran cadre who went south... If the cadres all Like you, the Communist Party is all people of your color, life is peaceful... Wuwuwu, Director Gu, in the future, you don't think I'm black, you don't think I'm cheap, in this life, I will repay you for being a cow and a horse... ..." Gu Yanshan also shed tears at this time, but he forced himself to be happy: "Get up, get up, be happy, and why are you talking about those things? Whether you are good or bad, you always know best... Come on, drink , drink! I don’t care about anything in the grain station now, so I’m going to have a few drinks tonight and have a good time.” Qin Shutian immediately rearranged the cups and plates.The couple toasted each other with a full glass of red wine.After Gu Yanshan leaned his neck and drank it, he took down his wine gourd from behind his buttocks (Qin Shutian and Hu Yuyin really regretted that they didn't prepare a bottle of white liquor during the day): "You guys are brown sugar water. The two of you drank Hemu Tianqin. I want to drink my Erguotou. It's fun and exciting!" You persuade me to respect, each person takes turns to drink, the three of them are very excited.Gu Yanshan drank so much that he blinked his eyes and raised his eyebrows, and suddenly suggested: "Old Qin! I heard that you were labeled as a rightist because of some "Xigetang", and Yuyin also has a good voice. Since the two of you are married tonight, let's Sing a few songs, celebrate, celebrate, be happy!" The benefactor's request, what else is there not to agree to? The husband and wife did not know whether they were drunk with wine or happiness, and they sang "Song of the Sedan Carrier" with a bright rhythm and a humorous tune: Bridesmaid, why are you crying? We carry the palanquin and you sit, The eyes are like lanterns for you, and the shoulders are like stools for you. Four people and eight legs, walking like a shuttle. Turn a corner, go up a slope, and peel off the skin on your shoulders. You smile, you have fun, The bridal chamber wants to drink you a glass of wine, call me bro first on the way... The seeds of life are extremely tenacious.On the granite ridges of the Wuling Mountains, a tree seed the size of a few camellia seeds often flies from nowhere.These tree seeds were scattered into the crevices of the rocks, almost without a small piece of soil like a fingernail. Only relying on the little moisture seeped from the rocks, they swelled, sprouted, and grew roots.What kind of root system is that? Like a dragon's beard and a tiger's claw, it penetrates mountains and breaks rocks, penetrates deeply into rock crevices, drills through rock crevices, and goes through all kinds of hardships to obtain the nutrients of life.The stems are drawn, the leaves are long, and the iron bones and green branches stand proudly.The wood is dense and hard as iron.People who see this kind of tree are all amazed at the miracle of life.When woodcutters encounter it, they often break the teeth of the chain saw, and the blade of the knife and axe. One month later, Qin Shutian and Hu Yuyin were transferred to the commune.At first, they thought they were being told to go through the marriage registration procedures.It's just that Qin Shutian had some experience and was extra careful, so he packed two sets of change of clothes in a coarse cloth bag. "Qin Shutian! You iron-hatted stone-cutter is so daring, you've done a good job!" As soon as Qin Shutian and Hu Yuyin entered the office, Li Guoxiang, director of the commune, slapped the table and scolded them sharply.The branch secretary of the brigade, Wang Qiushe, sat side by side with the female director with a face full of anger.He was accompanied by a commune cadre with a pen and paper in front of him. Qin Shutian and Hu Yuyin lowered their heads and stood with their hands down.Qin Shutian didn't know the beginning and the end, so he could only say repeatedly: "Leader, I apologize, I plead guilty..." "During the period of labor control, there was no law of the country, no eyes for the masses, openly cohabited illegally with the rich peasant Hu Yuyin, and retaliated wildly against the dictatorship of the proletariat..." the female director continued as if to pronounce a sentence.It turned out that last night, when Wang Qiushe came to report individually and ask for instructions on work, the female director asked in detail about the history of his sprained foot.Wang Qiushe then recounted how he came out of the side door of the supply and marketing cooperative early in the morning, slipped and fell on a pile of thin cow dung, was discovered by the iron-capped rightists who got up early to sweep the streets, and carried him back to the Diaojiaolou.He also said that Qin Shutian has performed well recently and so on. "I knew you were fooled!" The female director sneered and cursed, "Stupid thing! How wide is the alley at the side door with the high wall of the supply and marketing cooperative? No one has ever led a cow through that alley on weekdays. Do you shit far away or near the door? You used to spend the night upstairs in the sales department... You must have been caught by the iron hat rightists and set up this trap! You are as strong as a cow , simple-minded, missing a string of class struggle!" Wang Qiushe was humiliated by the hostess on the spot, wishing to tuck his round head into his collar.At the same time, he secretly admired that this female superior is stronger than him. "Class revenge! Tomorrow I'll send militiamen to catch epilepsy Qin and hang him half a pig!" Wang Qiushe's triangular eyes widened as he thought of being tricked by the rightists and suffering for more than two months. "If you want Wendou, you can't just think about touching the enemy's flesh." The female director said calmly with confidence, "Didn't he apply for marriage with Hu Yuyin and live together openly? Let's punish him first Breaking the law, cohabiting illegally! He went to reform through labor for ten or eight years, why didn’t we talk to the relevant departments in the county? When we went to the reform through labor team, I saw that he was still guarding the high and low walls of other people’s high and low walls!” So, Qin Shutian He and Hu Yuyin were sent to the commune. "Qin Shutian! Hu Yuyin! Is it true that you are living together illegally?" The female director continued to ask sharply. Qin Shutian raised his head and argued: "The superior, I'm guilty... We submitted a letter of guilt to the brigade cadres, and the brigade sent us a white couplet and recognized us as a 'black couple'... We thought she was Widow, I am an old single in my early forties, and I belong to the same five categories, we did not climb the wall to drill holes... The commune leaders will approve us..." "Fart!" Wang Qiushe heard Qin Shutian's words, so he slammed his fist on the table and stood up, "Shameless bastard! You are a rightist plus a gangster, a counter-revolutionary and a villain! Kneel down! Kneel down! Come on! I only saw your wolfish heart and dog lungs clearly today! Bah! Kneel down! Do you dare to kneel down?" Hu Yuyin pulled Qin Shutian.Qin Shutian has been a rightist for more than ten years. For the first time, he straightened his back and refused to kneel down or even bow his head.In the past, it was politics that ordered him to kneel, but today it is lust.Hu Yuyin seemed to understand what he meant, and she became more courageous.Wang Qiushe was furious, and ran over shaking his fists like hammers. "Wang Qiushe! If you want to fight or kill, I also want to say something!" Hu Yuyin blocked it at this time, her eyes were fixed on the Diaojiaozhuzhu, her face was firm and calm.Facing these eyes, Wang Qiushe froze for a moment. "How many years have we known each other? Isn't it the first time we have stood face to face like this? But I have never publicized your scandal... I will never publicize it in the future! I would like to ask today, is the relationship between men and women? Those who make it clear in the town, the elders and elders of the neighbors have seen it, approved it, and applied to the government for registration have broken the law, or those who make reports during the day and open the side door at night have broken the law?" "It's reversed! It's turned upside down!" For a while, even the mature and prudent female director, who has always been calm and stable, lost her patience at this time, and she lowered her identity and scolded like a shrew, "Reactionary rich peasant woman! Set up a street stall Mat whore! Goblin! Slut! See if I tear your mouth! See if I tear your mouth!" It's really out of order.Not to mention the art of struggle, leadership style, and policy level.Defiled a few feet of land in the commune office.But after all, Li Guoxiang gritted her teeth and calmed herself down. She was trembling all over, and blood was squeezed out of her fingers, so she didn't do it herself.She is a smart person. Deputy Commander Lin taught her: Power is the power to suppress.She decided to exercise the power of repression: "Some militiamen here! Get some wire! Strip off the rich peasant woman's clothes, and put up her two breasts with wire!" Hu Yuyin's normally developed breasts, the organs that motherhood relies on to feed offspring, have they been worn with wire? Readers can't bear to see it, and the author can't bear to write it.Anyway, more primitive and cruel punishments than this did happen in the land of China in the mid-to-lower period of the 1960s. In accordance with the strategic deployment of the superiors, when the commune's "one group, two strikes, and clean-up class ranks" campaign began, the black couple Qin Shutian and Hu Yuyin immediately became live targets for the campaign, a typical example of counter-revolutionary crimes.The sentencing meeting was held on the polding stage in Furong Town.Qin Shutian, a reactionary rightist and current anti-elementist, was sentenced to ten years in prison.Hu Yuyin, a reactionary rich farmer, was sentenced to three years in prison, and she was executed outside prison because she was pregnant.Many people in Furong Town who were familiar with their case secretly hid in dark corners and shed tears, including Li Mangeng and his woman "Wuzhuola".They are unstable, they don't know what they like and hate, and they don't know who we are.They don't understand that in peacetime, kindness to unarmed enemies like Qin Shutian is cruelty to the people.They don't understand that if Qin Shutian and Hu Yuyin are turned upside down and restored, the heads of millions of revolutionaries will fall to the ground, blood will flow like rivers, and corpses will be scattered all over the field.Qin Shutian will return to the stage to direct the performance of "Happy Song Hall", opposing socialism as feudalism, and the red mountains and rivers will change their colors to purple, blue, yellow, and green.Hu Yuyin will set up a rice and tofu stall in Furong Town every five days, exploit the blood and sweat of the fish and meat people, and then go to build a new building and become a new landlord and a new rich peasant. Qin Shutian and Hu Yuyin were detained on the sentencing platform, with a stubborn attitude and arrogance, and they did not cry.Over the past few years, they have been bullied, stinky, and slippery. They have been seen on all occasions, and they have become unrepentant diehards and the social foundation of the counter-revolutionary revisionist line.Qin Shutian refused to plead guilty and refused to bow his head.Hu Yuyin straightened her waist, showing her belly brazenly to the whole venue.Wicked! The judge is reading out the verdict.The Public Security Bureau is a family, highly unified, and fulfills one procedure.The militiamen have not been able to press their dog's head for a while. Hu Yuyin and Qin Shutian stood opposite each other, eyes to eyes, faces to faces.They did not speak, and it was impossible to make them speak.But their reactionary hearts are connected, and they understand each other's intentions: "Live, live like an animal." "Don't worry. There are many good people in Furong Town. They will survive, for the sake of our descendants."