Chapter 17 Chapter Seventeen

The Lunar New Year passed peacefully.On the night of the fire, the militiamen guarding the warehouse were taken to the county and locked up.Comrade Wang had many reports to write, and Gu Gang was busy writing his script. He was still reluctant to give up the fire, but he still used it as the climax of the dam story. In his story, the engineer confers with the old farmer to build a dam that solves the annual flooding of the stream.But there is a landlord in this village. He has gone through the land reform and is still safe and sound. Due to the government’s leniency policy, he is also allocated more than an acre of land like others. He lives better than others, and often eats and eats behind closed doors. Drink, when cadres come to visit, they quickly put away the dishes and chopsticks.And the potbellied old man was still accompanied by a beautiful young woman.Probably his concubine, but it might be better to be vague on this point, because under the people's government, the concubine system should not continue to exist.Her main function was to lean her beautiful body on the table, and in the flickering light, to create a charming atmosphere for the secret meeting in the landowner's house.Her appearance and dress are similar to Yuexiang.certainly.It was summer, and instead of a padded jacket, she was wearing a wicker blouse.Although the clothes are wide, the straight strips can show the curves well.

A spy went to the landlord, asked him to participate in espionage activities, and gave him a letter of commission as a lieutenant general in the Kuomintang army.The landlord held a bomb happily in one dark night, and took his concubine to blow up the newly built dam.They were spotted, but luckily slipped away without being seen who they were. The spy came to him again, forcing him to make some real achievements.The landlord had no choice but to set fire to the government warehouse.This time he was caught on the spot, and his concubine, who was running closely behind him holding a small bundle, was also caught.They must be planning to fly away as soon as they get it.In addition to other valuable items, the small bundle contained his most cherished commission.

Gu Gang himself felt very satisfied.Everything is arranged very clean and compact.But it's a pity that there can't be a great fire scene at the end.That fire can't let it burn too big.As soon as one or two sacks of rice started to smoke, a guard ran around the corner, shouting loudly, "Fire! Fire! Someone set fire!" Too little vigilance.There must have been many newspapers angrily denouncing him, "Friend and foe indiscriminately abused the weapons of satire to attack the people's own organizations...beyond the scope of constructive criticism..." That film will probably not be banned—that It caught people's attention--it was just quietly removed during the screening, and its whereabouts have been lost forever.

A program that was scheduled to pay New Year greetings to the military family had to be postponed, because all the firecrackers were destroyed in the fire, and there was no time to go to the town to buy them.After the fifth day of the Lunar New Year passed and the small shops in the town opened, Comrade Wang went door-to-door to collect money. He collected a sum of money and went to the town again to buy some firecrackers. Early the next morning, everyone in the village gathered outside the village office.Those who participated in the parade lined up, the Yangko team lined up in the front, and those who carried the burden to send the New Year gifts lined up in the back.With the beating of gongs and drums, the yangko dancers began to twist.Men and women stood in two rows, regardless of gender, they all had thick rouge on their faces.In the cold gray morning light, the red cheeks were blindingly red.The bearer bent over and got under the pole, then straightened up with difficulty.The pale white swollen half pig dangled from one end of the pole.The cut off pig's head sits on a plate made of bamboo strips, and one or two small pink paper flowers are playfully tucked in the pig's ears.Other bamboo trays contained piles of pure white rice cakes, as hard as bricks, stacked high, with gold letters on them and paper flowers inserted.

Comrade Wang noticed that the two rows of Yangko twisters were very uneven, because many people were killed because of the grain grab at the end of the year.He gestured to Comrade Xiao Zhang, and Comrade Xiao Zhang stepped forward and said something to the elderly people standing around him.Those old men and old women smiled helplessly, and everyone pushed and shoved and squeezed into the Yangko team.Boss Tan and Aunt Tan are also included.Their aging faces were completely wrinkled, and with the half-frowning and half-smiling expressions they are used to, they also tried to twist the Yangko, swinging their arms back and forth, making joints rattle.

Comrade Wang turned around and found that Gu Gang had also come out and stood beside him.He pouted at Aunt Tan, who was dancing and twisted in front of them. "Sixty-seven this year," he said with a smile, "still so enthusiastic." "Sixty-eight! It's the new year!" Aunt Tan corrected him immediately, as if she was a little angry that he counted one year less. "Sixty-eight," Comrade Wang proudly repeated to Gu Gang. As soon as the gift-giving procession leaves the village entrance and reaches the fields, they stop performing the Yangko dance, and wait until they are approaching the neighboring village.Then those who carry the burden, the loads falling from their shoulder poles are always vertical and vertical, and they follow the trend and still walk with small steps.They moved forward slowly, along the winding track, across the brown plain, and walked towards the horizon.The big and small gongs continued to beat loudly:

"Chuck, choke, choke! choke choke choke choke! " But under the huge sky, the sound of the gong seemed to be covered with a cloth, the sound could not come out, and it sounded extremely weak. (full text)