Chapter 33 32 lost

Ren Guozhong's attempt to carry out Qian Wengui's suggestion and use the blackboard newspaper to inform Li Zijun failed, but Li Zijun's sudden escape aroused people's discussions.When Li Lanying brought food to the garden for her father, it attracted the attention of the old gardener Li Baotang.Baotang said: "Wu Gengtian is still here. The fruit seller left and didn't see him. Let's just think he went home. Lan Ying, didn't he go back?" The child kept shaking his head anxiously.People along the road saw the child running straight home like crazy.Someone still jokingly said: "Like a dead mother, she is going to the funeral."

Li Baotang also walked back to the village and told his nephew about it, and his nephew told his neighbors, and gradually the story spread.Some tenants were in a hurry and quietly went to tell the cadres.There are people squatting there again on the street. At the gate of the cooperative, there are often groups of people who don’t buy things. Some people say: “The landlords have run away, so why reform?” If it doesn't rain, there is still a rebel who doesn't use a knife or a gun?" Some people laughed at Zhang Zhengguo: "Brother Zhang, have your militiamen gone to ashes?" But some people whispered: "Li Zijun is a coward, and he can't bear to be frightened. Someone frightened him, saying that this reform should be reformed first, and he lost his composure as soon as he heard it." Another person also said: "We have heard these words, and the struggle starts from him. "In any case, everyone increased their resentment towards him: "Who said this kid is honest! Well, since he heard that reforms were going to be made, he has been hiding in the garden and selling fruits every day. He used to give a lot of money to secret agents , give it to traitors, give it to those rich people, he doesn't feel sad, now when he hears about reforming his land, he slips away! If you slip away, don't come back! If you go away, the monk can't go to the temple, see if you have the ability to keep it We don’t dare to touch you once you’re gone?” And someone went to the farmers’ association and said, “Maybe we took all the red deeds with us.”

The peasant association also panicked about this matter, and was about to send the tenants to get the red deeds.Guo Fugui's father, Guo Boren, was also called, and he sat on the kang in the cooperative without making any claims.Cheng Ren walked up and down the ground, pouring water from a porcelain pot from time to time, and asked, "Uncle Guo, how long have you been farming his eight acres of land?" Some tenants are still unwilling to get the red deed.The peasant association gave some orders, and they agreed verbally, but went to the fields by themselves.The peasant associations had to persuade them one by one.

Guo Boren flexed his fingers, calculated for a long time, and agreed: "Twelve years." "How much rent do you pay a year?" "The land we planted is landscape land, and the rent is not much. It used to be three dou per mu, but it has increased to four and a half dou in recent years." "Why do you want to increase the rent?" "The land is better than before. This land is next to the mountain. When I first rented it, there were many rocks and the soil was hard. We planted it and turned it twice a year. There was a lot of manure. I often picked some mellow soil for the pad, and the grass was hoeed. If you work hard, the harvest will be stronger than in previous years.”

Zhang Bugao, who came in from the outer room, saw Guo Boren's honesty, and couldn't help but said: "Then, according to you, the rent increase should be!" Guo Boren only looked at him a few times with his eyes. Cheng Ren continued to ask impatiently: "How much grain do you harvest per mu?" I can't make it." "Uncle Guo, how is your life?" "Nothing." He pulled out a smiling face. At this time, his son Guo Fugui came.Guo Fugui stood at the door, looked at his father, and said, "Father! In what year will we not have a famine? What kind of decent food do you eat all year round? Bean skin, bran, and bran can't be broken. The one on our kang The bed is a broken mat, and it can be made on your side, but not on our side. You still say that it is 'nothing', and the animals live better than you!"

"Well... see what you say..." As if blaming his son, he immediately swallowed his voice, his lips trembling uncontrollably. "Uncle, think about it, you go to the field with the stars on your back every day, and you come back home with the stars on your back, where did the grain you beat go? Others sit in the shade and don't move their hands and feet, and they eat rice Baimian, do you think it should or shouldn't?" "Oh, does the land belong to someone else!..." He looked at Cheng Ren with wet eyes. "Other people, if we didn't work for him as cows and horses, the fields would grow food by themselves? Our father is such a heart of cattle and horses. If he is asked to attend a poor peasant meeting, he will not go, saying Your back hurts. Now that Li Zijun is gone, what are you afraid of?"

"Well, the land belongs to others." "Other people, other people's land, you can't buy those acres of land with your 12-year rent!" Someone from the outside room also answered.At this time, there were a few tenants of Li Zijun standing outside. They had known for a long time that the land reform was to give the land to whoever planted it, and they had been waiting for the cadres to give the land.Now that I heard that Li Zijun had run away, I was worried that there would be nothing I could do if the red deed was taken away, so I huddled outside to listen to the transfer of the peasant association.Cheng Ren saw them and asked, "Have you all come?"

"No, some of them are afraid of trouble, and some are from their Li family, and they don't want to go." They agreed again. "One family, how about one family, and the rent is too short?" Zhang Bugao said again, he is an organization of the peasant association, and he is often anxious by himself, thinking that the common people are backward and easy to get angry. "Okay, just a few of you are fine. Go ahead and ask for it, and bring the land deed you planted yourself. If she doesn't give it to you, you can settle accounts with her, even though it is said that the peasant association sent you here." Cheng Ren got off immediately. Decide.He still emphasized the order of the peasant association. "If not, you don't want to leave, and ask them to hand over Li Zijun, do you understand?" Zhang Bugao also added.

"Yes, let's do that. Uncle Guo, let's go." "Well……" "Father, you're not alone. What are you afraid of? The peasant association called you!" Guo Fugui helped his father down. "Well, a bitch..." "Women still don't eat your blood and sweat?" At this time, the voices became chaotic, and the yard was crowded with a group of onlookers.They all stood on tiptoe, opened their eyes, and when they saw people coming out, they quickly stepped aside again.Zhang Bugao said loudly from behind: "Don't be afraid of that woman's trickery." He then said to Cheng Ren in a low voice: "The red deed must have been taken to Zhuolu County, send someone to the county to chase her."

"The peasant association asked you to go, but if you don't go, you won't be able to do it. Bring back the deed, and the eight acres of land will be ours!" Guo Fugui pushed his father into the group of tenants. A group of people rushed to Li Zijun's gate.The spectators stopped at a distance, and several of their tenants discussed it.Someone shouted from behind: "Aren't you afraid to go in? A bitch, what are you afraid of!" A few of them walked in lightly.Guo Boren was also pushed through the door by his son.The three children playing under the arcade were all stunned, looking at the crowd who came in.The sensible Li Lanying turned around and ran in, shouting sharply: "Mom! They're coming! They're coming!"

The dog tied in the corridor started barking. A few of them stood in the empty courtyard, looking at each other, not knowing how to speak.I saw the curtain in the upper room rang, and Li Zijun's woman came out.She was wearing light blue foreign cloth clothes, her hair was uncombed, and there were two piles of black hair fluffy on her temples.On that plump white and tender face, the most striking thing was the blush around the eye circles from crying, like applying too much rouge.On her chest, she hugged a red lacquer box.At this time, I don't know who called out: "Sister-in-law!" The woman suddenly ran down the steps, and lay down next to the evergreen porcelain flowerpot, tears streaming down her face.She choked up and said: "Masters, please raise your hands and take care of our girls. This is his father's... Oh, please accept it, it is a total of 136 and a half acres of land, a house, fellow villagers and friends, Who doesn't know. His father is also a worthless man, and we women can't rely on him. Now we are throwing ourselves in front of the old men. We have been friends for many years. We are feudal landlords. We should reform us. We have nothing to say. Please, old men For the sake of us as a woman, please take pity on our children, let's kowtow to the elders!..." She kowtowed to everyone.He held up the box again, tears streaming down his face.Li Lanying also knelt down beside her, and the two little ones wept in the crowd. The group of tenants who came valiantly did not speak at this time, looking at the woman lying on the ground, they still regarded her as a golden branch and jade leaf, who had never been tortured.Thinking of her usual small favors, I feel a little sympathetic to her current pity.No one went to pick up the box, they forgot what they were here for, and were completely anesthetized by the drama played by the women.Guo Boren sighed, turned around and retreated to the end of the yard. "Sister-in-law, speak up if you have something to say." The person named sister-in-law said again, probably a relative of hers, and maybe she didn't intend to get the red deed. The woman was about to stand up, but she pretended to be weak and sat on the ground. She just patted her daughter and said, "I haven't sent it to the elders yet." The daughter took the box, stood up, walked towards the crowd, and the crowd took a step back. . "It's all your father's fault!..." The woman began to cry again. In the crowd, someone has already left.Followed by a second one.So the team retreated slowly, only Guo Boren was left standing there stupidly, he wanted to say something, but he didn't know how to say it.The woman stood up and cried and said: "Uncle, sit down and go. Uncle knows us, and the days are not short. We are sorry for your old man, please bear with me, please be merciful, my mother Little by little repayment. Only blame his father, he left us alone and left. Our lives are miserable! Uncle, please bring this red deed to the peasant association, and ask uncle to say something nice to our girls , we are overborn under the hands of uncle!" Guo Boren also made a sad face and said: "Don't cry, we are all old tenants, easy to talk, this is because the peasant association asked us to come here. You should take the red deed by yourself, alas, you rest Rest, let's go too." Those who slipped out did not go back to the cooperative, but went to the fields one by one, or returned home.Cheng Ren and the others waited for a while, but no one came back, so they sent someone to inquire.Outside Li Zijun's gate, in the courtyard, the children were sitting beside the fruit drying sieve, with bright red and fresh fruits in their mouths, as if nothing had happened.The visitors thought it was very strange, so they had to go out to look for it again, and went to their house to ask. They just said flatly: "Li Zijun is at home. It's easy to say. A woman, dragging her children and crying, how can we be ashamed? We all see each other every day. Ugh.For the red deed, let the peasant association get it by itself. "