Chapter 6 4(2)

The meeting was held that night to report to the township government about the fruits of the struggle.The content of the matter is quite complicated, and even the team members who are in the scene can't figure it out.It was mainly for a wall of food copied from Han Tingbang's house.Liao Yongsuo, a long-term worker of the Han family, went to the work team to inform the work team that there was a hollow wall in his house, and grain was stored inside.A copy, sure enough copied out a lot of rice flour miscellaneous grains.In the past two days, the cadres and work teams have been busy preparing for the division of land, and have re-classified the population of the village.Liao Yongsuo, a long-term worker, was from a very poor household, so he should be promoted one level higher than ordinary poor peasants, and the whistleblower should be promoted one level.However, because Li Xiangqian quarreled with Liao Yongsuo during the New Year's gambling one year, he couldn't help remembering his grudges, and said that he was not active on weekdays and didn't go to meetings much.He also said that although he was destitute, he was not "decent and destitute".As a result, he barely counted as a poor peasant and did not advance.

Zhang Li advocated that the copied grain should be included in the "fruit account" immediately and reported to the township government.However, Li Xiangqian refused to report it. He reasoned that it was the opinion of the masses. Two activists were picked up to make a fuss, and everyone must stay and share equally.As long as you say the points, it is not up to him to control more points, and these activists have to give them a little bit of sweetness, so they keep their mouths shut. When the land is divided, even if the cadres occupy it It's cheap, and I'm not afraid of them making trouble.

Zhang Li also guessed that this was his plan, but he didn't try to point him out.When I came back from the county that day, I knew that I was about to be transferred, so I cut through the mess with a sharp knife and immediately held a meeting of cadres. At the meeting, I said, "We are doing mass work. First, we must be discerning, and we must carefully distinguish between There are various voices among the masses. This time, it is said that the confiscated grain should be concealed and not reported. I think it is not the real opinion of the masses, but one or two bad elements making use of the backward thinking of the masses to make trouble. We have to Find out the source of this opinion and expose them to the masses.”

Li Xiangqian heard that there was something in his words, it was a kind of intimidation aimed at himself, but he was a little scared in his heart, and immediately decided to sacrifice the two activists, referring to them as "bad elements." At the peasant meeting that night, Zhang Li pointed out that it was wrong to conceal and not report, and at the same time tried his best to excuse the masses, insisting that this was not their original intention, and that a few bad elements were at work.Li Xiangqian also worked very hard to help him thoroughly investigate and find out the two bad elements who incited the masses.The two activists who were used were inseparable. If Li Xiang was bitten out, the only way to prevent him from retaliation after the land reform team left was to bow his head and confess his guilt.Naturally, the masses dared not say anything, and unanimously passed a resolution to punish the bad elements by tying them up and beating them up.

Zhang Li was eager to finish this matter before he left.Li Xiangqian has another matter, and he is eager to finish it before Zhang Li leaves.It was the landlord, Han Tingbang, who had been detaining him in the primary school, treating him as a piece of fat, waiting for his father-in-law to send money to redeem his life.But bargaining, the distance is too far, at first I sent a little money one after another, and then wrote to press, but there was no reply.It's not a problem to keep Han Tingbang and his wife there, sooner or later they have to be dealt with.But Li Xiangqian couldn't help but have some concerns before making the move.He is a smart person, and he has always been well aware that every time the government launches a movement, even though it encourages the cadres to "let go and do it" beforehand, as soon as they see the masses' resistance, they immediately come to "correct the deviation", also known as "cooking". Put raw rice in your hands, and turn your back on grass," making up for past mistakes.But the person who was killed cannot be brought back to life, and the confiscated property will never be vomited out again.The only remedy is to punish the cadres and sacrifice one or two lower-level cadres to buy people's hearts.In this land reform, those rich and middle peasants were promoted to landlords and sent to the county to be shot. Li Xiangqian was not responsible, anyway, Zhang Li made the decision here.Therefore, to deal with Han Tingbang and his wife, it is best to take advantage of Zhang Li's presence, and if something goes wrong, he can be pushed on him.

Li Xiangqian didn't show up himself, but secretly went to find some tenants of Han Tingbang and told them to go to the prison to make a noise, saying that the other landlords had already been shot, and that Han Tingbang was only cheaper, and he was unwilling.The last time Li Xiangqian listed those activists who spoke out, and later punished them, no one in the village knew about it, but the tenants like Han Tingbang.Ever since Tang Zhankui and the others were shot, they had already lost their courage. How could they dare to be stubborn? Naturally, one is one, and the other is two, whatever you say.

In the afternoon of the next day, Zhang Li was reviewing the results of the struggle in the primary school's teaching room, when he suddenly heard the shouting of the backward. "Damn, it's too cheap, that bitch!" "Everyone has taken revenge, just don't let us take revenge!" "Bring that bastard out and fuck him!" "Fellows! Folks!" It was Li Xiangqian's voice, pleading with a smile. "You go back first, and wait two more days for me to reflect your opinions. Anyway, don't worry, the opinions of the government are also the opinions of your masses!"

The more he begged, the more violent the disturbance became. "No way! The government is too lenient! It's too cheap, that's a bitch!" "When will the money owed to us be repaid!" "Bring him out, wait for us to ask him! If you don't get the money out, you'll kill him immediately!" Li Xiangqian was furious and ran to Zhang Li.Strange to say, as soon as he left and stepped in, the noisy voice over there immediately fell silent. "What to do, the tenants of Han Tingbang can't wait any longer, they want to bring their husband and wife out immediately, and fuck them vigorously."

Zhang Li put down the account book, turned a brush upside down and scratched his scalp, and stared at Li Xiangqian's face. "Those tenants of the Han family are making progress really fast." He looked at Li Xiangqian and smiled, "You remember that time when you asked them to get the land deed, they pushed and pushed, and they all slipped away. Why are they suddenly so active at this time. " Li Xiangqian also smiled. "Anyone who is as stupid as he is, should wake up now—seeing with his own eyes that the last two days' struggle meeting was so vigorous, and those landlords were shot, they also know that the world has really changed now, and it's their world now. !"

Zhang Li had no choice but to smile and nodded, then turned his face away, and said to a few staff members next to him: "Look, the masses have really stood up now! We shouldn't be afraid when the masses really stand up." , Don’t shrink back, be the tail of the crowd.” "Yes!" Li Xiangqian said hastily, "Let's do this. I'll go and find all the comrades. Let's all go and see and cheer them up." The staff members are all gathered in the elementary school.Zhang Li met them at the bottom of the steps, and gave them a lecture like a lecture, so that everyone had mental preparations before visiting the execution.

"We are not one-sided humanitarians. Chairman Mao said it well: 'Revolution is not about treating guests to dinner, or making articles, or painting and embroidery. It cannot be so elegant, so calm, gentle, and gentle. Revolution is the overthrow of one class over another. Violent actions by one class. Every village must cause a short period of terror. Otherwise, the activities of the counter-revolutionaries in the countryside must not be suppressed, and the power of the gentry must not be overthrown.” We must remember Chairman Mao’s words: “Correction must be excessive. Right, but right is not enough to rectify wrong.』” After his explanation, everyone felt a little shivering when they walked into the elementary school, and there was also a kind of childish curiosity, coupled with excitement, tension and mystery.They walked by the side of the classroom, where the primary school students were in class, the teacher read a sentence from the book, and the students in the room read a sentence, sitting on the bench and swaying their bodies, reading with rhythm.In the afternoon sun, the drowsy book made people drowsy.The working team members walked towards the back of the school, and heard the sound of books getting farther away. They couldn't help but feel a strange feeling, as if they were getting far away from the world they were familiar with. They all put on a calm face, solemn but not gloomy, and walked into the back yard.As soon as I went up the steps, I saw a thick hemp rope tied under the eaves.The rope hung down in the air, was blown by the wind, and swayed slightly, which made people palpitate when they saw it.There were a few tenant farmers standing under the eaves, looking at their appearance, they were a little panicked.That kind of atmosphere is like someone hanged himself here just now, and the body has just been untied. Everyone stood under the eaves and waited.Li Xiangqian and Sun Quangui also came.Immediately, a group of people dragged out a middle-aged woman from the firewood shed behind.It was Han Tingbang's wife, and she was almost full-term pregnant. She was wearing a dirty gray striped jacket and trousers, and her short-cut hair hung down her face. "You feudal and exploiting landlord, you don't know how to be afraid when you are about to die!" Someone in the crowd scolded: "I was too polite to you before, but you are asking for trouble, and you are going to be a reactionary one! If you don't confess today, I will kill you." Dog's life!" Although the woman has her head down, and although she is yellow and thin, she has a big belly of six or seven months, and she always seems to have an air of arrogance and unyielding, full of fat and brain. "Tie it up! Give her 'half a pig'!" Several activists commanded the tenants of the Han family to drag her to the ground, then tied her right arm and right leg together with the rope under the eaves, pulled the rope up, and her body slipped away. off the ground, high in the air.Then tie the hanging left arm and left leg together.And to that leg were bolted two heavy barrels. The woman groaned weakly, and sometimes seemed to be begging for mercy in a murmur, but because the front teeth were all knocked out, her pronunciation was unclear and her voice was low, and she didn't know what she was saying.A ray of sunlight slanted in from under the eaves, illuminating her upper body.A fly flew by in the sunlight, turning its whole body into gold. The fly circled around and landed on her nose, which was nothing but pus and blood. A large bucket of water was prepared beside her, and the two tenants lifted the bucket and added water little by little to the two buckets tied to her body. "Ouch! Ouch!" Her moans grew louder.Pain gradually brought life to her face.The fly flew away too, and it was golden in the sun. "Quickly tell the truth! Where's the money? Where's the jewelry? Where's it?" one activist asked loudly. "Ai yo! Ai yo!" He just groaned one after another, changing the tones, switching them over and over again, as if he wanted to find a moment of comfort in the various tones, so as to relieve the slightest pain. "Speak quickly! Let you go immediately! As long as you are willing to confess, let you go home immediately! Where is the money? Where is the gold? Where is the gold ring?" "No wow!" She panted, "Ai yo really not! Ai oh my god, it hurts me so much! I can't take it anymore!" One of her head was tilted down, and the muscles on her face were covered by the ground. The suction pulls down, and the corners of the eyebrows and eyes are raised, making her look much younger.The eyes also become very bright.His face seemed to be smiling.I don't know why, but after a certain level of horror and pain, there is a smile. The staff members stood by, trying to avoid being crowded together, so as not to seem afraid.It doesn't have to be fear in my heart.Seeing the pregnant woman with a big belly being hung there in such a strange shape, a person became like a fat rice dumpling, as if the last bit of human dignity had been stripped away, no matter who saw it, it was unavoidable. Feeling an instinctive shame. "How? Are you willing to confess?" "Oh, I'm wronged! Oh, what crime did I do in my previous life to die so miserably in this life!" "That's death? It's so easy!" Li Xiangqian stood beside him with his hands behind his back, and couldn't help laughing. "Come on, everyone, come on!" Sun Quangui said, "Today we must break through her stubborn fortress!" "Ah..." Suddenly I heard a long-drawn-out scream, the voice was so sharp and clear, as if it came from nowhere, I didn't know who it was and where it was? There wasn't much water left in the bucket on the ground, so it should be lighter, but the tenant was carrying the bucket to pour water, but he couldn't hold it still, his hands softened, and a lot of water splashed on his feet. "Speak! Tell me! Is there any gold?" The activist asked even more forcefully. "Yes! Yes! Oh, please spare me! There is a gold ring!" "Where's the gold ring?" "There's a gold ring! Ouch! Ouch! Spare me, my lord!" "Where is it? Tell me!" "Can't remember──oh! Put me down and let me think──" "I'll let you down!" "In the wall! In the wall!" "Nonsense, I have already copied it in the wall, and even copied a needle!" "That's gone!" she gasped. "Okay, don't say it—don't say it—you're asking for trouble, and you're reactionary to the end!" The wrists and ankles were tied together, and the pig hair rope gnawed deeply into the swollen muscles.The groan was too low to be heard. "Fuck his grandma—passed out!" Sun Quangui said. Li Xiangqian said, "Damn it, pour water on her face." The tenant picked up the underground water bucket, lifted the bottom of the bucket, and all the remaining water splashed on her face. The water barked all over the place.On the tip of the greasy hair hanging upside down, water dripped drop by drop. "Ai yo! Ai yo!" Gradually, her moaning like a sigh resumed, only the breath was out but not in, and her eyes were slightly opened.On that shiny, wet face, only the eyes were dark. "Quickly confess! Or I will come again! ──Damn, there is no water?" It happened that a primary school student slipped out of the classroom and squeezed into the crowd to look around.The man called Cang Ta by his name: "Hey, Geng Xiaosan, go get a bucket of water!" The child was frightened and ran away with a wipe of his head. "Puppy legs" the man cursed. "I'll go, I'll go." Another man picked up the bucket and walked down the steps. "Ouch! Ouch!" the woman moaned, but her face gradually turned gray and peaceful.Two more flies came and bit the pus on her nose.Beads of sweat stand out on her forehead.Big ones.The flies were also stinging at Namo brilliantly, without moving. Liu Quan put his hands in his pockets, clenched his fists unconsciously, and his arms felt sore from tension.He wanted to change his position, but his arm was numb and he couldn't move.I could only let my fingers crawl on my body, and crawled out of the pocket bit by bit. "Why don't you come, I'll take a look," the activist said impatiently.He walks down the steps.The elementary school student was not willing to go far, and squatted in the yard to play, lifting a big stone in the shade of the wall by an inch or two, and caught crickets under the stone.The activist suddenly changed his mind, walked over in three steps and two steps, and bent down to lift the stone.Scared the kid away again. "Damn it, fuck him today!" The man carried the moss-covered stone up the steps, and with a bang, threw it into the bucket hanging under the woman, splashing water everywhere.Everyone couldn't help shouting in an uproar, and the woman's sharp cry could not be heard in the chaos. Then there was a silence, and in that silence a strange soft and heavy sound could be heard, like the mooring of duck webs in shallow water.The torn body was still hanging there high, but a pool of crimson blood flowed out, slowly rippling in the underground pool, and gradually melting in the water. The bucket was still spinning in the air.The woman's body also fluctuated slightly, but she seemed to be completely indifferent, becoming detached.A head was hanging upside down, and the breeze stirred her damp and greasy hair. "Damn, she's too cheap! Come on, untie her and carry her out!" Only Li Xiangqian remained calm. Activists and tenants flocked to untie the rope.Liu Quan noticed that Huang Juan's face was very pale, looking around with absent-minded eyes, just looking for him, he walked up quickly and held her elbow from behind. "Come on, let's go out and see how they deal with Han Tingbang. We can't spare him!" She followed him out numbly, passed the double courtyard, and left the primary school.Liu Quan didn't think about where to go, he just wanted to escape, to a place where no one was around, and come back after calming down a little.They crossed the road and went into the fields.They were amazed at how bright the sun was outside.Although the sun was warm, a gust of autumn wind blew up, but it was cold.The sun was about to go down, and the birds were busy, and they could be heard chirping everywhere.The pale yellow field stretches to the end of the sky, looking at nature makes people feel relieved. Huang Juan suddenly tugged at his arm. "Look what that is for," she said softly. In the field, a mule cart was running across and across, going back and forth in circles, as if it had no definite purpose.In the eyes of people like them who don't understand farming, they don't know what kind of work it is. They just find it very strange to see it often galloping over the sawn stumps in the field.From a distance, some people stood on the track and watched, and shouted, but they didn't know what to shout. There was something dragging behind the car. At first Liu Quan thought it was a plow, but it turned out to be a long gray and black package.His series of discoveries followed one another very quickly.There is a person behind the car.I heard that there is a punishment called "rolling the floor", so it is like this.This person must be Han Tingbang. Liu Quan and Huang Juan stood there staring blankly.The mule cart was rampaging like a car with broken parts, as if it could rush towards them crazily at any time. Huang Juan turned around suddenly, pulled him away.Her fingers were hard forks, hard and cold. They probably didn't notice it at first, but now they saw a tree stump on the ground, and some gray-black rags were hooked on the rough surface of the cut.It was obviously torn from Han Tingbang's clothes.There were some off-white things stuck to the strip of cloth again, not in pieces or strands, probably skin. On another tree stump hung a bunch of soft, sticky red and fresh things, like ripped intestines. They walked quickly until they reached the earthen dike, turned a corner along the earthen wall, and walked another part of the way.Then they stopped, pressing their backs against the wall.I don't know what it feels like in my heart, as if my whole person has been hollowed out. The slanting sun was shining directly on the face, and the ghastly red sunlight shone on the loess wall, creating an indescribable bleakness. They leaned against the wall without moving.Then Liu Quan suddenly realized that they were still shaking hands.He pulled her hand over, but she didn't seem to feel it, and after a while, she turned her head and looked at him. Liu Quan suddenly hugged her.She buried her face in his chest, and he pressed her face hard against his body.He hugged her so tightly that there was no gap, to shut out the terrible world around him completely. "Yellow silk," he said softly. Then he added, "I'll never forget you." She didn't move or make a sound.Then she suddenly raised her head and looked at him, then turned her face away. "You talk like we'll never see each other again," she said. "Okay, then forget about you, okay," he said with a smile, "I'll forget about it as soon as I turn my back." Although her face was turned away, he could see her cheeks protruding round and knew she was smiling. He kisses her.The terrifying world finally receded like an ebbing tide, leaving them alone in the void. "When are you leaving?" Huang Juan said, "Are you leaving tomorrow?" He didn't answer, just hugged her tighter. Her cheek was pressed against his breast pocket, and she could hear some papers in the pocket making a slight crisp sound. "what is this?" "Your letter. ─ I don't care to send it. Once it is sent, it will be gone." "Then you take it to Shanghai and post it." "Won't people in your family find it strange to see the postmark in Shanghai?" She sneered and laughed. "Are you afraid that I won't write to you in the future?" "You always have to wait until you receive my letter and know my address before you write. Do the math, how long will you have to wait." The dead grass at the base of the wall rustled.A burst of returning crows croaked and flew across the red sky. "The day I saw you for the first time, you remember, everyone was singing in the truck," Liu Quan said, "I just listened to your voice." "I have a bad throat." "Your singing voice is higher than usual, but it's also very nice." Huang Juan lowered her head and pressed her forehead to his chest, giggling. "Why are you laughing?" "I didn't sing at all, I just pretended to open my mouth." For some reason, both of them couldn't stop laughing. "We were all a little hysterical," Liu Quan said. Like all men, in the face of great terror, he thought first of all of his own safety.He hugged her, and at this moment he knew that there is an absolute sense of security when only two people are together, other than that, there is no other security in this world at all.As long as she is with him, he can endure anything and find a way to overcome any suffering.He must take good care of her, of himself, and they must try to get through this brutal time. So he made a decision, which was so simple that it was almost ridiculous, as if it was a very mundane idea of ​​"making progress".He must perform well at work, hoping to be promoted step by step, and when he becomes a regiment-level cadre, he will have the right to marry. "Huang Juan. I'm going to the south, maybe I'll come back soon, maybe I won't come back for a while," he said, "Anyway, within a year or two, I'll have to figure out a way. We're going to work in one place, and we'll never be apart again." .” She only caressed his face and hair, looking at him bewilderedly. "Looking at what?" he finally asked. "Is your hair freshly shaved?" She smiled and said, "No wonder it looks different." "It was shaved in the county yesterday." "It's kind of rustic." She bent his neck and kissed his hair vigorously. Even though he was intoxicated like this, half of him was alert.It seemed to hear someone's voice on the other side of the earthen wall.They parted quickly.Someone walked over talking all the way. Liu Quan and Huang Juan immediately turned around and walked slowly along the base of the wall.When we walked to the end of the earth wall, we saw the main road when we turned a corner, and the co-op on the side of the road had already lit up the lamps.Seeing the lights, they bewilderedly realized that it was already dark. Someone was waving at the window of the cooperative and shouting: "Liu Quan! Liu Quan! Comrade Zhang is looking for you! The fruit account has not been settled yet." Liu Quan had no choice but to walk in.Once inside, there is no way out.That night, because Liu Quan was going to leave early tomorrow morning, he should go to bed earlier, but he showed great enthusiasm for work. He accompanied Huang Juan and other team members in the cooperative, and the abacus ticked and ticked for most of the night. account. He went back to the elementary school to pack up, and he was woken up by Zhang Li not long after he fell asleep.It was still dark, and the school clerk brought a lamp, and after a hasty breakfast, he set out on the road.Li Xiangqian and Sun Quangui also came, rushed to carry their backpacks for them, and reluctantly sent them off for a while.Zhang Li gave another word of advice before breaking up. The sun has not yet been unearthed.The sky is full of streaks of orange red light pink clouds, the sky is very high and vast, but the dark ground looks very flat.There was a trembling and swaying rooster crowing from far and near, as if smoke from cooking was rising in all directions, curling up on the horizon. As Liu Quan walked all the way, he couldn't help but look into the dark field from time to time. When he saw a tree stump protruding from the ground, he seemed a little terrified.Whether there are still flesh and intestines hanging on it, naturally it is not clear.The birds at dawn were chirping happily.It must have been pecked clean by birds. He looked at it like this, but he noticed a black figure squatting in the field, and vaguely saw a woman digging yams in the field.He didn't know why, but his heart suddenly moved.I have walked a long way, and I looked back again.The sky gradually brightened, and the squatting human figure seemed to shrink a lot, but it became very clear.Isn't it Erniu? Liu Quan continued to walk forward.The mule cart road gradually sank, and the dirt banks on both sides gradually obscured the view.Wet with dew, the soil smelled slightly earthy.The land on both sides keeps rising and rising, shutting them in the dirt-smelling corridor.The land of horrors, shut out at last, out of sight, perhaps never again, he felt suddenly boundless attachment to. He said to Zhang Li, "You take a step first, and I'll go and relieve my hand before I come back." Zhang Li walked in this ditch and never saw him. He runs back.He ran out onto the plain, turned behind a tree, and looked for a while toward the road.No one was spying on him. Er Niu seemed taken aback, and saw a man in uniform running towards her from a distance.Instinctively, she pulled the tattered blouse over her chest, half stood up, as if she was about to run away. "Er Niu! It's me!" Liu Quan called her name for the first time. "How are you? Are you okay? I've been thinking about it." Erniu squatted down to dig sweet potatoes again, indifferently. He stopped in front of her to watch her digging in the mud with her fingers. "I'm leaving right now and I won't be coming back." He said this after being silent for a while. Erniu still didn't say anything, but raised a hand, inserted her fingers into her gray and tangled hair, and combed it with difficulty.Then, as if he came to his senses again, all the dirt in one hand was wiped on his hair, so he lowered his hand again. "I'm very worried about you," Liu Quan said. She seemed to have forgotten again, and combed her hair with her fingers again. With her head lowered, all ten fingers were inserted in the messy hair, and she combed slowly. "Er Niu, you..." He wanted to say "Do you hate me?" But he thought it was too boring to ask.Of course she hated him.On the one hand, he felt intuitively that she didn't hate him very much. "Tell your mother," he went on, "that I'm gone, and I feel very sorry for not being able to help you." The sun came out, shining yellow on the treetops. There are small jujubes on the branches, with sharp ends, and the blue color is slightly yellowish red.In the past, she laughed at him for not knowing the jujube tree. If he hadn't seen the jujube on the tree, he still wouldn't know it. He stood under the tree in bewilderment, not knowing what to say. "Er Niu," he said again, "you are still very young. Don't be discouraged at such a young age." Er Niu slightly shook her head.That may also mean not to be discouraged.But immediately she shed two lines of tears, raised her dirty hands, and kept wiping her face with the backs of her hands. Liu Quan stood there without making a sound for a long time. "I'm going," he said at last, "you take care of yourself." Erniu suddenly raised her head, nodded slightly to him, and smiled.Two of her white teeth were knocked out, and a black hole was exposed in front of her. That smile made people feel shocked and had a terrible feeling. Liu Quan turned around and left.He walked very fast, but the leaves of the jujube tree rustled and fell to the ground in formations, and he slithered along, always running ahead of him.