Chapter 28 27 "Buying and Selling Fruit"

Since the comrades from the working group arrived in the village, the primary school has become even more lively.There were more fights and complaints, and someone inside would often be heard shouting: "Down with the small feudal landlords!" So some children cried.Hu Ligong went to teach singing once. This song was very popular with poor children. After the class, he would sing happily: "The landlord oppressed us. How many years have we been oppressed?... Let's unite to settle the accounts and settle the accounts. Forget it..." The crisp child's voice resounded in every corner.When they huddled together and played in groups, one or two of them would be naughty, deliberately bumping the shoulders of the children of the landlords who were usually well-dressed, and intentionally insulting them.And those children started screaming, and the teachers had to settle these disputes frequently.Teacher Liu never scolded these poor children, at most he said: "It's no use looking for them, they can't take this responsibility." He also comforted those children who have become weak now: "You have to work hard in the future Live by yourself, be a good citizen, and advise your parents, or you will be beaten sooner or later..." But Teacher Ren is not like this, he looks at the children without socks with threatening eyes, he dare not Scolding them loudly, he only said in a low voice: "Don't get excited too early, watch the 'central' army come, and deal with you bastards one by one!" Some children were frightened by him and dared not be naughty anymore, The child quietly went to sue Teacher Liu again, but Teacher Liu took all this to heart and didn't say it right away.Teacher Ren also hinted at those children in a persuasive and sympathetic tone, hoping that they would take all these meanings back home.Not only does he appear to be busy at school, he also goes to visit after school.He went to several landlords' homes, said a few lukewarm words, aggravated the uneasiness of others, and then gave them some hope and some courage.The world will not be like this for a long time. The rich will never end up suffering in the Communist Party.But the Communist Party can't beat Chiang, and even if it wins, it can't beat the United States, and sooner or later they will be wiped out.He himself was not rich, he was an intellectual of the declining middle class.But he has sympathy for those rich people, and he is willing to run for them, hoping to fatten himself up between the teeth of those people.He doesn't like the poor and is jealous of those cadres who work for the poor.He hoped that the land reform would not be successful and that there would be trouble, at least not well.

In the evening when old Dong came back from Liyu, Ren Guozhong went to Li Zijun's house again, which was Li Zijun's last house.The porch is very high, there are two or three steps as soon as you go up, and the gate covered with iron sheets is ajar.He rushed in all the way, and when he turned a corner, two dogs suddenly barked wildly at him from the empty corridor. Fortunately, they were already tied to the post with a large iron chain.He quickly stood in the courtyard and called "Brother", but no one answered, and it took a long time before Li Zijun's eldest daughter Li Lanying came out of the upper room.The eleven-year-old girl had just returned from school, and her face was still stained with ink. When she saw that she was a teacher at the school, she stood upright and asked, "Are you looking for daddy? Dad's not at home."

"Where's your mother?" Ren Guozhong searched around, and saw several children's clothes and trousers hanging on the lead wire in the yard, and a woman's corset made of bright red silk.There are two large sieved fruit slices drying outside the east room. The little girl hesitated for a moment before saying, "Mother is in the backyard." Ren Guozhong already understood it in his heart, but he still wanted to go in and have a look. At this time, the little girl ran down the steps and turned left quickly.She walked in front and said, "Mother has something to do." Seeing that there was no way to stop him, she yelled: "Mother! Mother! Someone is looking for you, Teacher Ren is here!"

A plump woman in her thirties came out of the hay-stacking room in a hurry, her face was still full of panic and uneasiness, but she smiled and said, "Who am I? Go back to the room and sit down." Go." There were some grass hanging all over her floral blouse and hair. "Sister-in-law! It's useless for you to hide the red deed in the haystack!" Ren Guozhong teased her with bad intentions. This woman used to be the daughter of the richest man in Wujiabao. She had been serving maids and servants since she was a child, and she was the famous Bai Jun.She was taken aback when she heard Ren Guozhong's words, but she immediately calmed down and replied with a smile: "The red deed, I took it out and put it in the drawer a long time ago. Are you here to get the red deed? Yes! As long as the peasant association promise you."

"We're not here to get the red deed. Sooner or later someone will come to get it." Ren Guozhong gave her another wink that he couldn't tell what it meant. She did not lead him to the upper room, but to the east room.There is a large kang in this room, and two cauldrons are placed in front of the kang.On the opposite side of the kang stood two cupboards for bowls, like a grocery store, full of jars of oil, salt, soy sauce and vinegar, all polished and polished.She scooped a spoonful of water in the water tank with a shiny copper spoon, and poured it into a flower porcelain basin to wash her hands, her hands were covered with dirt.Ren Guozhong smiled again and said, "Oh, look at those rich grandmas of yours!"

Li Zijun's wife is a strong woman, she can't do anything in her natal family, she only knows how to embroider grass and play with flowers.After marrying into the Li family, life was pretty good for the first few years.But Li Zijun is a big smoker, and he plays with money. He has a lot of rent, which is not enough to spend, and he has to sell some land every year.One year, Qian Wengui persuaded him to become a false boss, while others accumulated wealth as a boss. He was a big shot, but he was tricked by others, and he sold another 100 acres of land and a house to pay off the money.The central government begged for help, and gave Qian Wengui a large sum of favors, and it was hard to get rid of this job.In the past two years, their income has been quite high, and their family can afford to hire long-term workers.It is much more convenient to hire someone to cook, carry water, and travel around the city.But his wife disagreed. Seeing that the world was wrong, she persuaded him: "There is only such a small amount of land, and you don't have money. People in the village are looking at you, so stop shaking." cook.It turned out that she only saw a few traitors in the village, and she was afraid that they would cheat Li Zijun out of his money, so she worked harder and did it herself. In the hands of the husband, I grab some and save some private houses, because I am afraid that the future will be difficult.After liberation, seeing Zhang Yumin and the others gain power, she knew that things would be more troublesome, so she pretended to be poor even more, refused to hire people, and saved money on food and clothing.When I met the village officials, I always greeted them with a smile, saying that Li Zijun had quit smoking, that he was in poor health, that his four children were young, that his husband was unreliable, and that he did not know how to live in the future.The children she taught were smart, never offended anyone, and did their homework well, but they all knew in their hearts that they would never sing songs at school or talk about meetings when they got home.She hated Qian Wengui's group, and Li Zijun was bullied by them, but she was even more afraid of Zhang Yumin and the others.Sometimes she specially made something to treat Zhang Yumin, she knew he liked to drink, but the man who used to be their long-term worker put on airs, didn't show her face, and left without drinking at all.

Half a month ago, she went back to her natal home, and the Wujiabao was also in a turmoil. Her brother Wu Ziqiang ran to Zhuolu City, but was chased back by farmers, and even the century-old red deed was taken away.Now the six relatives are in the same luck, the water in the big river flows eastward, and there is no way to stop it.As soon as she came back, she asked Li Zijun to hide in Zhangjiakou for a while.She stays at home alone, she is a woman, so Zhang Yumin and the others come to make things difficult for her?Try to say more good things, beg for help, and you can always block it for a while.But it was futile for Li Zijun to think about going, and he couldn't stay outside for a long time, and he was not a man of means. He thought that there were not many enemies in the village, so he stayed next to him and wanted to see the wind.He was in the orchard during the day and came back by chance at night.The woman tries to hide a box full of jewelry and clothes all day long, and a jar of grain in the west, always trying to bury everything in the ground.A heart hangs in mid-air, day in and day out, I can't hope that the sun will set, and I can't hope that the sun will come out again.Sometimes I have to go out and look around, inquire about some news and tell my husband to go.

After washing her hands, the woman took the key to open the door of the south room.The three south rooms are full of utensils and food tanks, and some large and small baskets of unknown contents.This was originally a beautifully painted house with flowers all over the kang wall, but it was covered with dust and was not crowded, and a layer of reed mats was nailed to the windows, so that others would not see that there were so many treasures in it. Therefore, there is not a ray of sunlight coming in during the day, and it is full of some kind of smell.The woman hastily measured half a bowl of white noodles, and hurried back to the kitchen to accompany the guests. She knew that Ren Guozhong was just a double-faced snob, but she knew that she could always hear something from him. "Hey! There are so many white noodles, you can eat all the good ones, and if you don't share your property, who else will share it with you!" Ren Guozhong followed her back to the kitchen, saying deliberately.

"Let's do it together, with such a little family property, it will be over sooner or later, what are you happy about? There will be no share for you!You guys are at school, did you hear anything? " "I didn't hear anything, I just heard that there will be another liquidation. It is said that those who were not liquidated last year will have their turn this year. This year's special is to eliminate the feudal and exploitative landlords!" The woman was startled again, but she didn't even stop kneading the dough, and continued to ask: "What is a feudal exploiting landlord?"

"It's clearly written in the newspaper on the blackboard, and it's just referring to you renters! It's going to be wiped out." The woman's heart was cold, and her hands stopped.Just as I was about to ask how to eliminate it, I heard the dog barking again in the corridor of the south room, followed by the sound of scolding the dog.The woman knew that some of the fruit sellers for them came to have dinner again. He stretched out his head and said, "Well, it's not the right time. You have worked too hard these two days. Let's bake some cakes tonight. Haha, it just happened to happen. Teacher Ren, he said that we have too much food, we are jealous, and we want to share our production. Okay, food grows on the ground, who eats it the same? Both the left and the right are our own people, ha..." With her laughter , came in three tall men, whose faces could not be seen clearly, and seemed to have their shirts open.

"Go and sit on the kang, let me light the lamp." This tender hand, holding a high lamp, sent it to the kang table, wiped a match and lit it.The red and yellow lights danced on the plump face, and the eyes became more flexible and clear like a pool of water.A man sat on the kang to pull up the bellows, and the woman said politely: "You have a rest, you have been running for a day, let me come, there is boiling water in this pot, drink some first!" Ren Guozhong felt that it was boring to see this woman courting those suffering fools, so he asked, "Where is Brother Li? When will he come back?" "I can't tell when he will come back," but in her After hesitating for a while, he went on to say, "Are you just buying and selling the fruit? Then you go to the garden to find him." "What kind of fruit business?" Ren Guozhong had just doubted it, and then he understood. He glanced at the three people and quickly replied, "It's just for this matter. You don't need to find him. You can tell him when he comes back." .It's getting late, I'm going back!" He ran away without waiting for the woman to say anything.At the door, he met several children who had just returned home, and each of them held two fruits in his hand. He asked them, "Is your father still in the garden?" The children didn't even look at him, they replied casually: "He is, Dad is still here."