Chapter 14 13 Interview with Dong Guihua

Wencai sent Yang Liang to attend the meeting of the Village Women's Federation, and Yang Liang went to visit Dong Guihua early in the morning.He used to manage books in the government library of the border area. Although he was not very old, he was only twenty-five or six years old, and he did not go to any school. He only studied in elementary school for a few years. For a while, he read a lot of books.He not only loves to read, but also has a meticulous habit of using his brain, so on the surface he seems to be just a relatively quiet and ordinary cadre, but after getting along with him for a long time, he will feel that this is a person who is willing to think and has his own opinions. Hard-working youth.Although the work in the library has given him many benefits, he does not want to continue this work.He often wanted to do local work and go to district villages, because he had been to the village of Huailai at the end of last year to participate in the liquidation work of the village. The experience of more than a month gave him a lot of interest.He feels that the countryside is a big living library where he can read more practical books.These practical lives can inspire him and clarify his outlook on life, as well as understand the party's policies.In particular, what makes him willing to go is that there is the most simple feeling here, which makes his calm reason merge with the enthusiastic waves of the crowd, and makes him feel full of strength.He was originally from the countryside, and because he has been away from work for more than ten years, now that he returns here, he can understand these feelings better, which he cannot find in the management of books.So this time, as soon as he knew that the government was going to send some comrades to participate in the land reform work practice team, he tried his best to win this opportunity.How happy he is, he hopes to make some achievements and learn something during this visit!So Comrade Wen Cai assigned him to attend the women's meeting last night and asked him to find out about the situation of women. Although this made him feel that this job was not suitable and inconvenient for him, he accepted it happily.He understood that there were no lesbians among them, that women's work always had to be done by men.Take it easy, he thought.Taking advantage of the coolness of the morning, I went to inquire about the house of the female director.

He walked into the third alley at the west end of the village.The alley is very narrow, with earthen walls on both sides, and children's stools are scattered under the walls.There was a woman standing at the door of a house, topless, and two naked children leading her. The child's face was covered with eye feces and snot, and there were many flies.She saw Yang Liang approaching, but instead of going into the courtyard, she turned her face to look, and the child stared blankly behind her mother.Yang Liang was embarrassed to see her, but he had to say hello, so he asked, "Do you know where Li Zhixiang lives?"

The woman was not in a hurry to agree to him, and smiled as if she were an acquaintance: "Why don't you come in and sit down?" "I'll come see you later. Whose family do you belong to? What's your last name? Now I'm going to find Li Zhixiang." The woman still smiled so naively, and replied: "Come inside and take a look at our dilapidated house. We are the Zhao family, the village deputy's family. Zhao Delu, have you seen it?" "Heh! You are the deputy family of the village?" Yang Liang unconsciously looked at the half-naked woman. Her hair was disheveled, and there were streaks of black mud on her arms. The child seemed to have been drilled out of a mud pond.Yang Liang felt apologetic in his heart, as if he had something to do to their mother and child. He naturally touched the two children, promised her to come and see her in the future, and asked if Lao Zhao was at home.

So he ran away in a hurry.The woman said loudly from behind: "It's next door, in the yard next door." Li Zhixiang has already gone to the field.Dong Guihua also only wore a patched vest, stretched out her two scorched arms, and loosened the soil under the grape trellis in the yard.Seeing a customer in uniform coming in, he smiled restrainedly and walked out from under the shelf. "Have you eaten yet?" She didn't know what to say. "Not yet. Are you Dong Guihua? I'm here to see you." "Heh..." She came out from under the shelf. "Do you know what you are going to have a meeting tonight?"

"Understood. Well, we women don't have a beginning, and no one can tell." "No, it doesn't matter. If everyone doesn't like to have a meeting, we don't have to have a meeting. It's okay to find a few people to talk about it. What do you think? Let's chat now and discuss a way, okay?" Yang Liang sat on the dirt steps outside her house. "You haven't eaten yet, let's go cook something for you." She ran in despite his stop.When she came out again, she held a bowl of sorghum rice soup in her hand, handed it to Yang Liang, and said, "We don't eat well, there is nothing delicious, let's have a bowl of rice soup." At this time, she had already taken off the ragged vest, Changed the only white single shirt.He didn't talk to her about the Women's Association, he only talked about home affairs.At the beginning, she was still very restrained, always asking and answering a sentence, and then she started talking on her own.She was originally from Guannan, and she was also a suffering person.In the past, the husband was arrested by Japan and served as a soldier. After he left, there was no letter from him.She also has a son. After her husband left, the family couldn't make a living. They couldn't live on, and they suffered from famine. There was no way, so her father-in-law sold her to a businessman.She followed him and left her hometown. Later, due to bad luck, he died of illness, so she came here with a few fleeing famine.Now with Li Zhixiang, Li Zhixiang is also a poor man, honestly.As for herself, her body is not as good as before.But life forced her, and she still found time to sell shoes, but she couldn't make much money. They all did it for a few poor neighbors. They were all naked, and they thought the shoes bought on the street were not strong.Now she still misses the child from before, who should be more than ten years old.These words are usually useless, but somehow she looks at this little guy so affectionately.He patiently listened to her talking about this and that, and he even asked back and forth.Later she also asked him if he had any parents at home, and if he wanted to go home.It turned out that he had no mother since he was a child. He was an orphan, and his old father was also a farmer. He planted four or five acres of land at home, and he hadn't heard from him for several years.He ran out with his uncle to join the revolution.Wherever he goes now, that is his home.He was a poor man himself, and the poor man's home was his home.He is willing to live a good life for the poor, and his old father will have a good life.Listening to him, she felt sorry for him, and felt more and more amiable for him.She must go to make another hot meal for him.He refused, so she packed another bowl of cold sorghum rice for him. He ate very deliciously, and he was really hungry. He also praised the small dish of pickled radish well.This satisfies her.

He learned about the general situation of the women's federation in this village. It does not have regular members. When it wants to hold a meeting, it calls from door to door, and the majority of those who come are from the literacy class.There will be two directors of the Women's Federation, as well as organization and publicity. Everyone doesn't know what to do, and Dong Guihua will call for everything anyway.The actual work is in the literacy class, and the literacy class still has some achievements. It is considered the best in several nearby villages. Chunshang even performed the Bawang whip.But poor women don't have time to go to class, and they don't like to be whipped.At the beginning of the literacy class, I was forced to go to school, but I couldn't continue, so I had to do it casually. Most of the people who came were from better families.They don't talk at meetings, but they are happy to come to listen. Some are because they are young and easy to accept some new ideas;

She first told Yang Liang that women are not enthusiastic about the affairs of the village, and then she said that women really pay attention to the distribution of fruits, not to mention that the Zhang family has more, but that the Li family has less. The broom that sweeps the kang is happy.Women are afraid to speak during meetings, they are shy, afraid of making mistakes, and afraid of criticism from village cadres;Yang Liang said: "Aunt Li!" He called her aunt, "I think you are very talkative and organized. They chose you as the director and found the right person. Especially because you have suffered a lot, so Only then can we understand the sufferings of others. We are all poor people, and only the poor are willing to do things for the poor."

He told her not to hold the meeting, and she just had to go door to door to find those poor people, tell them the truth he just told her, talk to them about the family, listen to their grievances, and see who they have the most objection to in the village, The opinions of village cadres should also be expressed. Dong Guihua felt very comfortable in her heart, she felt that he was really right.At first, when he first came in, she was a little afraid of him, afraid that he would ask her to call a meeting and make a speech at the meeting, which was not easy for her to do.Now, all she had to do was "drop in," as he said.Just go and talk to someone, just as he talks to her, she is sure of this, and others will welcome her.She often went to the shepherd's wife when she felt uncomfortable, and they could talk.She promised him he could.Even she herself felt that her skinny cheeks were slightly red, and she thought it was because of the extremely hot weather today.

The sun was indeed very hot, and they sat on the shady steps, and slowly felt the fire-like heat coming from all around.He asked her repeatedly before standing up and going out.She escorted him outside, pointing him out to her neighbors.He remembered that he had promised to see Zhao Delu, so he went to the courtyard next door that didn't even have a door. The yard was small but messy, and there was no one there, so Yang Liang had no choice but to call Lao Zhao loudly.The naked woman she saw before turned out of the house, and she still greeted her very graciously.Yang Liang saw a young woman in the room who was dressed very cleanly and had her hair combed brightly.The woman seemed to be shy, and hid her body in the corner of the room, only sticking out a pair of snow-white face to visit.It was inconvenient for Yang Liang to go in and out, so he could only ask, "Where are the children?"

"Sleep." The middle-aged village deputy's wife said calmly, "Would you like to sit in the house? Our house is only one and a half small houses, and we can't even turn around. The two rooms on the south side are Our brother’s house is full of rags. Don’t you come in and take a look? His father will be back in a while.” She moved closer and whispered, “It’s from the village chief’s house. It depends on how he wears it.” How delicate. Well, we can't find a dress in shape." She herself swept her eyes over her bare arms and loosely drooping breasts. "In the village chief's house?" Yang Liang asked himself, but he didn't express any surprise, and only bid farewell to the good-natured hostess gently.When the woman went back into the house, she heard giggling immediately.