Chapter 35 34 Liu Man complains

When the two of them walked back, they ran into Gu Changsheng's mother with her bun slicked back.With her little feet, she ran from door to door and told people: "Well, how about Zhang Yumin, these things are amazing! When we Changsheng joined the team, we spoke so nicely, and people turned their faces when they left." , promised to give us two stones of grain, but only two buckets, owed one stone and eight buckets of grain, and kept procrastinating, saying that we were not short of food, um, and always saying that we were middle peasants; middle peasants, um, then don’t be middle peasants. Soldiers are ready!

..." She said this string of words familiarly and was familiar to others. After she finished speaking, she then laughed: "Ha, I finally see the blue sky, and the person who came down this time is the most important thing!Comrade Yang said: "The middle peasants are also our own people, so they suffer the same and have benefits. The middle peasants have to suffer a little bit; Aunt Gu sent her son to serve as a soldier, and she is a member of the resistance. How can she deduct a lot of food from her?" 'Humph!Zhao Delu was not happy, and asked us to go to the cooperative to recite it. We said: "Master Zhao, let's recite it when Changsheng comes home!" Zhang Yumin said angrily, "I'll ask someone to give it to you!" 'Ha, our old lady has today too! "

People on the street also knew that the old woman was usually very talkative, stalking, and often annoying, so they knew it was wrong for the village cadres to give her less food, and they didn't want to talk.At this time, seeing that her problem was solved, she was also happy for her, and only advised her: "After you pay back your food, stop talking bad things about people in all directions." So she said again: "Don't think that Comrade Yang is small, He said, "Ms. Gu! It's a good thing that you dare to speak up if you have an opinion. Now you want the common people to speak up. Zhang Yumin is doing things for the common people. If the common people are dissatisfied, they should speak up." He. It's just that we are all from our own family, so we can't scold the street and hold prejudices, don't you think so?'Ah! We were stunned by him, so we had to say:'Oh, we women are wise, sometimes we don't pay attention to our personality. Attitude," he also said: "It doesn't matter, you can say whatever grievances you have." When we thought about it, he came here to settle accounts, and we always have trouble with cadres, so it's not shameful, so we even said, "No, no." La', this time we can feel relieved, there is nothing to fight for food, Zhang Yumin can't talk about middle peasants, right? Let's ask someone to send a letter to Changsheng, telling him to rest assured, saying that people in the district can take care of them As for us, we middle peasants are not afraid of anyone!"

There are also two people in the village who give the cadres a headache, one is Han Tingrui, the son of Han Laohan, and the other is Zhang Jidi, the brother of Zhang Bugao of the peasant association.Both of them are demobilized soldiers, but they are a little naughty.They often criticize the village cadres, look down on them, and feel that they don't respect them enough and don't have any preferential treatment.The village cadres said that they did not produce well, they were foolish, and they were afraid of listening to their sarcasm, saying that they would not be able to win against them, and their qualifications were not as good as others. .This time, for some reason, Han Tingrui and Yang Liang became good friends. He honestly went to the peasant association to help sort out the household registers, carefully investigate each family, and register the acres and other properties.He didn't even smoke a cigarette from the Peasant Association, and he brought a dry tobacco pipe and a fire sickle with him.Cheng Ren was not very willing for him to come to work at first, afraid that they would look down on him and be ridiculed by them, but later he was very happy, feeling that he had a helper.Zhang Jidi is also a very active person who likes to talk strange things.Now Zhang Zhengguo, the captain of the militia, came to him. Zhang Zhengguo said: "You and our militia have a lesson a day, and we will gather people when the time comes. You are an old soldier, and you have more experience in fighting than us!" Zhang Jidi once and Yang Liang had a conversation, and he knew that Yang Liang asked him to come here, but he was willing to show his hand and let everyone see that he, an old party member, is not a fake. Not enough, he was not incorporated into the branch, and I was very dissatisfied.) Then he said: "Okay! We don't speak well, please criticize!" From then on, he went to talk about combat movements and experience in guerrilla warfare every day, which was very vivid. It was very interesting for everyone to describe some of the battles he had gone through.Zhang Zhengguo also said: "Let's do the drill when we have time. I didn't invite you to brag about it earlier. It's really wrong. If there is a real war, you can do more than our captain!" Zhang Zhengguo is a solid man, so he immediately fell in love with him. Friendship, said: "The same surname counts as a family, so let's recognize brothers."

As a result, people in the village spread the word that the person who came this time could do something, so some people came to Yang Liang and Hu Ligong for some money disputes, land disputes, marriage disputes, and real estate disputes.The two of them picked some relatively simple ones and solved them, and slowly investigated some complicated ones.They also got to know a lot of people through these lawsuits, and became more familiar with the situation in Murakami, and their relationship with everyone was different.It’s not like the past few days, when every time we go to a house, the owner always greets politely: “Have you eaten yet?” or promises: “Land reform, we don’t know if it’s accurate or not, the directors are right. Poor people want to stand up!" They also smiled and said, "Welcome, we poor people do not support the Communist Party!" But it was limited to such a short conversation, so I didn't go any further.Now there is not so much politeness, they shout: "Lao Yang, we have a problem, you can criticize it!" Or they come close and whisper: "Come to our house for dinner, how many do we have?" Sentences whispered to each other...."

One day, Yang Liang came back from helping the common people weed in the fields. He had just entered the village and turned around an earthen wall when suddenly a slap slapped him hard on the shoulder.Yang Liang looked back and recognized that black man Liu Man.I saw his hair was very long, his eyes were round and round, and he was showing an anxious look. He was shirtless and wearing a pair of black cloth trousers. He said, "Old Yang! If you don't want to come and see us, we can wait and see." You!" Yang Liang agreed smoothly: "That's right, I didn't find your house, do you live here?" He immediately remembered who said that Liu Man's elder brother, Liu Gan, had also been a chief of armor. of.

"Come on, come with us. Our house is a bit dirty, but we don't bite people." He almost pushed Yang Liang to a small alley.Yang Liang also asked him: "Why don't you go to us?" "Hey," Liu Man took a deep breath from the bottom of his heart. He didn't speak for a long time. After a pause, he said, "This is our house. My brother is not here. Let's go in and sit for a while." Yang Liang followed him into a yard, like a long alley, where the east and west rooms were crowded together.Liu Man stopped in the courtyard and looked around, not knowing where to let Yang Liang go.

A woman suffering from burning eyes came out of the east room with a child in her arms. The child's eyes were also covered with eye mucus, and he couldn't open them. Flies flew out around his head.The woman said: "I don't know where I went all day, I still have food, have you eaten yet?" Liu Man ignored her, as if he didn't know her existence, he just said anxiously: "It's hotter in the room, Lao Yang, just sit here." "Is this your house?" Yang Liang walked to the door of the east house to look around, and then continued: "Are you still cooking in the house?"

The woman waved the fly on the child's head, and sighed: "Oh, I don't care about my home all day long, and I don't come back. We are too busy, the room is so hot, and we just come back with such a livid face. Sigh. , do you want to eat something?" At this time, another young woman walked out of the west room, also shyly walked over, and said timidly, "Third Uncle, come and sit in our room." Yang Liang followed him into the west room.This place is cleaner, and there are faded couplets and a picture of a beautiful woman pasted on the wall.The quilt on the kang was rolled up, and the kang mat looked new.There are two half-new blue cloth pillows with flowers embroidered on both ends.There is also a mirror and two vases on the cabinet.Yang Liang unconsciously showed a look of astonishment and satisfaction, he just wanted to praise.But Liu Man hurriedly said: "Lao Yang, don't look down on us, we were not such a poor family, and now it's okay to be treated poorly, I took a deep breath and felt so bored." Come on!"

Liu Man opened his round eyes again and looked at Yang Liang. Yang Liang sat down on the kang and replied, "Let's talk slowly. Our own family can't get through the wind. What are you talking about?" But Liu Man fell silent again, he didn't know what to say, he walked back and forth in the room, clenching his fists, and sometimes plucking his thick, bristling hair. His woman brought over a bowl of millet porridge, a plate of pickled vegetables, and handed Yang Liang a cigarette and a burning incense stick. She stood at the door and wiped her burning eyes with her hands, showing no scruples about others. Waiting for her man to eat.

"Liu Man, you can eat." Yang Liang called him. But Liu Man rushed to stand in front of Yang Liang, and said quickly: "To tell you the truth, from the day of the liberation of Danuanshuitun, we have been waiting, waiting to see the blue sky. Alas! Who knows that people have planted their roots again. You’re in the Eighth Route Army now, Lao Yang! We’ll have to see you this time, to see if you’re a persimmon picker!” "Talk slowly if you have something to say! Comrade, please take care of him, our second child is driving him crazy... Alas, you should eat this bowl of rice." Although the woman seemed a little afraid of him, she With her tenacity. "Yes, Liu Man, let's talk after you eat." "If you don't take it away, I'll hit you." Liu Man stood aside again, looking at his wife viciously.The woman didn't show weakness, she glanced at him, and complained endlessly, "Don't think about his troubles!" Then she turned around and left, and she could hear another sigh outside. "Liu Man!" Yang Liang said again, "Now is the time for us farmers to turn around. We suffered from other people's losses and oppression in the past, and now we have to settle accounts one by one. If the ground is broken on his head, the more he has to press him down, why do you have to pick soft persimmons? Don’t be afraid, if you have a grievance, just avenge your grievances, and the Communist Party will support you.” "Well! Lao Yang, you are right, things are not as you said, let me tell you the truth: you will not succeed if you keep listening to the cadres! The cadres are so stupid, they dare not offend others. What do you think, you have come here, you have been making trouble for a while, you don’t have to be afraid of anyone, you are going to leave. The cadres will not think the same as you, they have to stay in the village, they have to calculate whether they can fight or not People, they have to think about the way out. Well, Zhang Yumin was a guy before, but now he keeps avoiding us. We know that he is afraid that we will expose him. When we saw him, we shouted: "You fight against the League" Director, whose ass do you want to lick?' He wanted to hit us one day, um, it's getting in your way, so he just said: 'Liu Man, brother treats you well, are you going to tear me down?' He He treated us well, and even introduced us to be a party member!" "Party member?" Yang Liang felt even more strange. After he came to the village, he knew all eighteen party members, but he had never heard of Liu Man as a party member, so he asked him this question. "Well, we are still a veteran. We participated in the fight before the liberation. We ran for a while with a stick and a flag, and we were dumped this spring. It was Zhang Yumin who said good things, so he said that he would only stop for a while. From then on, things in the village We don’t have our share, and we have become a party member with wings①. It’s not because we are not convinced, it’s because they turned to Hu Cha, judged us to lose the lawsuit, and even went to the district to be criticized. Now, Lao Yang! We just want to bring this lawsuit back. We don’t want to fight for the few acres of land. We just want to fight for this tone. We want Qian Wengui to feel uncomfortable. Hmm! Qian Wengui, do you know?” Liu Man said so much in a fit of anger, and he didn't care if others understood or not, he always thought that others understood all these things, and even though he had a chance, he quickly expressed his grievances.After he said it, he didn't look relaxed, but like a soldier who just came into contact with the war, he was indescribably nervous, standing there looking at Yang Liang without looking at the beginning or the end. ① Non-(flying) party members. "Heh!" Yang Liang only breathed a sigh of relief. Liu Man rushed over again, yelling for a while.Sometimes his wife heard his piercing voice, fearing that he would cause trouble, and ran over to stand by the door to watch, only to see him beating his fists and feet, and there was no silence.Yang Liang looked at him peacefully, always saying: "Speak slowly, what else?" Until later, Liu Man was lying upright on the kang, and Yang Liang kept saying: "I understand. , I understand, Liu Man! Take a break, don't worry, let's find a way slowly." The woman came in again, stood at the door and said: "Oh, if comrades can help win this breath back, we This is the only way to survive! Our second child is a lunatic, now, you see him like this, he is not bad, alas, the root of this hatred can be planted for a long time!" Yang Liang sat with him for a while, seeing that Liu Man had gradually calmed down, he called his wife to bring some rice soup.Liu Man stood up to send him away, his eyes were as red as his wife's, and the surroundings looked moist, but he was very calm, he put his hands on Yang Liang's shoulders, and said loudly: "You are right! It’s raining and the ground is slippery. Everyone falls and climbs separately. You have to stand up on your own. You are even more right. The farmers in the world are one family. If they are not united, they will have no strength and will not be able to turn over. Lao Yang, you are our guide , but we are also loyal!"