Chapter 78 The Six Encounters Between My Fifth Uncle (4)

The third time we met in the winter of the same year, after finishing an official business, I stopped by and went home again. At this time, our village, like any other village on the Loess Plateau, is undergoing various changes.Across the province, the mountainous areas began to implement the responsibility system earlier than the plains.The Party reviewed our decades-long agricultural policy with great boldness, and embarked on a fresh and inspiring reform.Farmers in the mountainous areas first responded enthusiastically to these reforms.This is because the poor living conditions brought to them by the multi-year colony-ant production method may be more serious than those in the plain areas.Therefore, it is already a matter of urgency for them to change this big pot situation.Of course, they never dreamed that such a major change in their lives would take place before.Everything is new and unfamiliar.It is for this reason that initial problems, or rather some degree of confusion, are unavoidable.At such a time, it becomes extremely important what kind of attitude and action the party's grassroots organizations and leaders in the countryside take in response to this historic change.

After I returned to the village, I saw that the party branch and the old secretary of our village had been carrying out this solemn work seriously and carefully.The allocation of land and other means of production, the benefits that each laborer and each family will obtain, and the obligations and responsibilities that they have to bear to the state, the collective, and other aspects of society are all clear and reasonable.Everything works in principle.Divided but not chaotic, methodical.I went to ask the branch secretary Laohou some information.He was illiterate, and he couldn't talk about anything high. He just said to me: "Accountability system, you have to be responsible!"

Needless to say, my parents and brother were extremely excited.They are planning what kind of pioneering work they will carry out on the land they cultivate next year. My father even said to me: "In the past few years, I have been worrying. If your younger brother gets married and starts a family, you must help him. It is useless to count on the bonus money that my father and son are in the team. Now it's alright, we If you work hard for a year next year, you might be able to get your brother's wedding gift right, so you don't need to be troubled. Your salary is not high, and you have to support your family..."

I was deeply moved by my father's words.It's not just that I was moved by his deep love for me, but that people like my father brought a kind of hope: the hope of being free to create on the land; wanting to use labor in exchange for great harvest And the hope of satisfying the dignity of one's labor!I realized that although I am now a cadre working in a big city, the light of life changes in this remote village also casts on me.When I come home this time, I think I must visit my aunt and uncle.When they heard that I was back, they had sent word several times for me to come.My parents also urged me to go to Zhangjiabao again and again.They said that my uncle and aunt were old, and they couldn't tell when I would come back, so I might not be able to see them.

So I got up and went to my aunt's house with my own gift and the gift my mother had prepared for me according to the folk custom.Instead of taking the easy road, I chose the rugged stone path by the Damascus River and walked towards Zhangjiabao.When I was young, I went to my aunt's house along this road with my mother, and every time it touched my heart like that.At that time, for a child in the countryside, most of his life was confined to his own village and his own village and his own home.Going to visit relatives in other villages is as fresh and interesting as going abroad... All this is so far away from me.The mountain road is rugged, the mountain road is winding, the land is ancient and quiet, everything is still the same as before.Now, I know that in this ancient and peaceful land, life is about to undergo some unprecedented changes...

My aunt and uncle welcomed me with tears of joy.I saw that the years had wrinkled their faces and made them look very old. "Oh, the responsibility system is going to be implemented. This is really a big event! I never dreamed of it!" My uncle talked to me about it as soon as we met.His mood seemed excited and restless. "You are a member of the public, do you know this is a temporary policy, or?..." he asked me. "I don't think it will be for a while," I said with certainty. "I don't believe you!" said the aunt. "Gao yes!" Uncle echoed his aunt's opinion.

This misgiving is understandable.People in our village also discussed this issue with me first.I try my best to tell them the central policy that I know and understand to reassure them.But they were still skeptical. This is the result of years of abnormal social life.The doubts of these people at present will take time and the development of actual production to dispel them.At present, they can only keep their doubts in joy. The party will use reality to prove its determination to reform and win the sincere trust of millions of workers. "How is your village now?" My uncle asked me.

I told him about the situation in our village. The uncle immediately said with emotion: "I know that Laohou, he is an old party member, reliable, and a good man! He can lead well!" "How's your village doing?" I asked my uncle. "My birth village? Sigh..." He sighed, "Your Fifth Uncle misrepresented the good scriptures of the Communist Party. But he recited those crooked scriptures quite smoothly!" "What's going on?" "Quickly divide It’s rotten! It’s exactly like the land reform. But the landlord is not the old Liu Guozhang, but the production team!” Uncle shook his snow-white head sadly.

"Isn't the policy clear?" "Your fifth uncle has your fifth uncle's policies! He often formulates local policies!" Uncle smiled melancholy.My aunt had already served the meal, so the conversation in this regard was interrupted. While eating the delicious glutinous rice noodles, I remembered the last time I met Uncle Wu.He had been so vehemently against accountability, but now he couldn't hold back.He can cover the sky with one hand in Zhangjiabao, but his slap is too small after all.They can't cover the sky of China. In the huge tide of social change, he and Gao Minglou in Gaojia Village are insignificant.Well, they now have accountability too.However, from my uncle's words, I can feel that they have their own way.

After dinner, a young man came. The young man said to his uncle with a sad face: "Uncle Zhang! What do you think about this? My Uncle Zhigao gave me some third-class land!" "Why?" Uncle asked with staring eyes. "He said there was no reason, so he gave me bad land, and even scolded my grandson of a rich peasant for his dog's tail..." The young man burst into tears. The uncle was so angry that his white beard trembled, and said: "Now the party's policy is clear! How can Zhigao do such nonsense!" "Uncle, can you tell him?" "You go back, I say!" The young man said a series of words of thanks and left.

I immediately understood one of Uncle Wu's "land policy", which is really outrageous.My uncle smiled wryly at me, and said that I would be alone for a while, he was going to feed the pigs——my aunt’s arm hurts these past two days, and she couldn’t lift the pig food bucket. It is already evening.I took a look around the kiln by myself, and the furnishings were still the same as when I came here before, without any additions.Apart from aging the old couple, the years did not bring any special joy and happiness. Moreover, my cousin was already the same size as my own brother and had reached the age of marrying a wife, which added a lot of worry to the two old people.How could they get thousands of dollars in gifts?Ordinarily, after the eldest cousin moved to another family, the uncle's family consisted of three people, two outstanding farmers, and the hard work of the aunt, this family can be rich and prosperous.But the result is that I can hardly even eat enough to eat every year.If they were bums, they deserved it, but what peasants they were!Throughout the year, I can't wait to use my head to cultivate the land.In order to earn more work points, the two male laborers, the two male laborers, dare not even go to a fair, measure salt and buy oil, and it is my aunt who walks to the city with her little feet. I think that as long as the responsibility system is implemented, my aunt's family is like our family, and their labor can create many times more value than it is now. Just as I was doing such random calculations, the door was thrown open. I am not the most uncle.At first glance, it turned out to be Uncle Wu! "Ha, I heard you were here at noon, and I was too busy to come to see you. This time you have to stay for a few more days!" Uncle Wu yelled after entering the door. "I can't stay longer, I'll leave tomorrow." I offered Fifth Uncle a cigarette. He took the cigarette, smoked it on the kerosene lamp, and then sighed and said: "The world has changed so much! It has only been half a year since we met last time, and it has been messed up! I heard at that time that I would do it alone, just like listening to a story Same, I thought it was nonsense, but now it is implemented!" "This is a responsibility system, not called doing it alone." I corrected him and said. "The nouns are different, but it's still not doing it alone!" Uncle Wu curled his lips disapprovingly.At this time, I remembered that the last time we met, Uncle Wu asked me to "do some work" for my classmate in the non-staple food company, so that his son could become a regular.But I haven't been "doing work".Now hurry up and say to him first: "Uncle Wu, I haven't told my classmates what you ordered last time..." "I don't bother you, you can't do it! Now that the policy is hardened, I'm afraid I'll have to come back sooner or later." Uncle Wu prophetically predicted his son's end. "However, it's a good deal to marry a daughter-in-law who doesn't pay for it after spending a few days in the public house!" Liao added. "Has your village started to implement the responsibility system?" I asked Uncle Wu. "Shouldn't you start? The above is very hard, how can we, ordinary people, stand up to it? Junwa, please take a good record in our village. You are a reporter, and you have great power! Report it to the above, the countryside is rotten, Capitalism has been completely restored! He said bitterly. He is still his old acquaintance. For this "person who adheres to the socialist road", I think he is quite ridiculous now. Before I could say anything, my uncle came in. As soon as my uncle put the pig food bucket on the ground, he asked Uncle Wu, "Why do you divide the governance of Qiancun into three places?" "Why?" Uncle Wu stared. "Why is the grandson of a rich peasant dancing? Although he is not allowed to enter the ranks now, is he about to sit on the same level as the poor and lower-middle peasants?" He is a rich peasant, is he also a rich peasant?" Uncle also stared. "Good brother! You have always been a person who has no position! According to what you said, redistribute all the land from his family to his family! It's all first-class land! Your old society hired Zhiliang to work for him, and you Now let Zhiliang get a job!" Uncle Wu said sarcastically. "Fuck your fart!" Uncle said to Uncle Wu in his capacity as brother and brother, if you continue to mess around like this, you will be out of luck!If you don't believe me, just wait and see! "The uncle roared. Uncle Wu blushed with anger because my uncle scolded him in front of me.But he couldn't speak to his brother, so he stood up resentfully, ready to leave. "Tomorrow, you will distribute the first-class land that belongs to Zhiliang to others! If you don't give it to others now, you will not be allowed to go there in the future, and you will eat what you have!" Uncle said unceremoniously to Uncle Wu who was about to get up .Uncle Wu looked at me, blushing even more. He turned his head and said to his brother begging for mercy: "I was wrong, just say it well, and I will change it. Scold me every now and then, I'm your son." !” After he finished speaking, he hurriedly shook hands with him, and then walked away unhappy. As soon as Uncle Wu left, I couldn't help laughing. Uncle also laughed, and said: "For such a person, you have to scold him! In the past few years, if I hadn't beaten him from time to time, Zhangjiabao would have been turned into a terracotta beach..." At this moment, my aunt ran in in a panic and said, "There's a fight in the breeding yard!" "Why?" my uncle said. "To divide things..." said my aunt. "Let's take a look." Uncle said to me. So I followed my uncle to the breeding yard in Zhangjiabaoqian Village. As soon as we entered the yard, we saw an extremely chaotic scene. People are crowded in the sheds to pull the animals—it is said that they are separated by paper eggs.Therefore, the lucky ones are laughing, and the unlucky ones are shouting and cursing.There was an old man squatting in a corner and crying loudly. In other places, collective things are divided according to the land policy formulated by Uncle Wu.If you can't tell the difference, you will rob, and then you will quarrel, scold, and fight.Even an ox rein has to be chopped into several pieces...Once the principle and correct guidance are lost, the selfishness of the peasants will be manifested immediately.Even if some things become waste, they have to be smashed, and each one is equally divided into one piece or one piece.If you can't use it, you can't use it!Anyway, I can't use it, and I can't ask you to use it! As a national cadre, I am no longer familiar with this situation.Because I saw that some people actually disassembled the walking tractors in the team, like dividing pork, and carried them away one by one.They said that the steel on the tractor is good, and it can be used to make old hoe.I immediately asked my uncle to call Uncle Wu.I myself started admonishing people who fight and people who break things.But these people don't pay attention to me at all.They said that the secretary made such a division, can you control it?Uncle came back angrily.He said he didn't find my Fifth Uncle. Just when my cousin arrived, he greeted me in a hurry, and then said anxiously to my uncle: "Dad! All the public kilns in my dad's team have been sold to private individuals at a low price..." "Then what are you doing?" You’re still a league secretary! You’re ashamed of your ancestors! You’ll have to wait and see tomorrow, half of the villagers will ask the Public Security Bureau to tie them up with rope!” said the uncle angrily instructing his son. "My fifth dad said that he would do it alone, so why do you want the public kiln? He is leading the team to dry some trees on the side of the road!" Although it was planted by the team, the road belongs to the commune! Just wait and see, as soon as the tree is separated, it will be uprooted within a day or two! Call a cadre, preferably a leader!" my uncle ordered my cousin. "How can I invite the leaders of the commune here..." my cousin muttered. "Tell me, Zhangjiabao beat and killed a few people, see if they come! Go! Go to your fifth uncle's house and ride his bicycle, and ask the people from the commune to come up overnight!" The cousin ran away... Two hours later, the secretary of the commune came in person.He was also obviously very angry with the situation in Zhangjiabao, and severely criticized Uncle Wu.The secretary of the commune asked the members of the commune to return their things, and whoever destroyed the production tools would lose money.He announced that the responsibility system of the Zhangjiabao brigade will be postponed first, and that the commune will send a special working group to Su to help carry out the work... Uncle Wu made a review to the secretary of the commune at that time, saying that he was low-level and had not done things well; It was also "in order to implement the party's line" and wanted to make this movement vigorous... This night of turmoil subsided like this. I was lying on the kang at my uncle's house, but I couldn't fall asleep.I thought, if I were the secretary of the commune, I would remove Uncle Wu as secretary tonight.But...he will still be the leader of Zhangjiabao. I thought of what he said about "making this movement a big one." He regarded everything as a movement.In fact, he is a kind of cadre trained by various "vigorous movements" many years ago, and he suffers from a kind of "sports" disease. So, I thought of the last time I met Uncle Fifth—it was the second time I met him since I saw him in childhood, and it was in such a special place, so it left a deep impression on me... …