Chapter 38 37 The orchard is bustling

The people in Nuanshuitun asked you to tell me, and I told you: "Well, the gardens of the eleven landlords have been seen, and there are eleven, and the members of the Poor Peasants Association are there to guard."" Well, which eleven families are they? I’m afraid they will all be liquidated?” “They said they only picked those with leased land, and the rich peasants let him sell it.” “That’s impossible! Will the rich peasants not be liquidated?” "It's not possible to liquidate everything! If some households want to be liquidated, they can just pay the money at that time, which is easy." "That's right. If the whole village is blocked, the peasant association will only be busy selling Guozi, what reforms are going on, the land has to be divided!"

... After a while, the red-nosed old Wu came over again, beating the gong and singing.He reported the list of the fruit selling committee and some decisions of the committee. "Here! Ren Tianhua will be successful! He is a shrewd person who can take care of everyone. Look at how well he manages the cooperative. Any owner of the farm can pay the account. He can still make money without giving cash! " "Ha, Li Baotang is also a committee member. He is a member. He knows the land of the orchard better than anyone else. He has been walking around in the orchard for twenty years. He can't hide the number of trees in any family. He can estimate how many catties of fruit will be produced, and he will put all the good and bad in his stomach."

"According to the situation, it seems that the poor are in charge this time. Hou Zhongquan's son is also in his early years. Doesn't this make his old man very anxious!" People not only talk to neighbors in alleys, visit relatives to inquire, not only spread news outside cooperatives, but also go to fruit orchards; Fifteen rich peasants who once heard that they would block up the whole village’s fruit trees now all smiled, and they comforted each other and themselves: “Let’s just say, the Communist Party won’t make people live. Reason!" So the whole family set off to the garden quickly and picked all the ripe fruits, fearing that they would suffer losses if they fell behind, so they wanted to send out the fruits as soon as possible.

The eleven families that have been controlled also sent people to the garden. Some of them came to ask everyone to keep some of them, and some wanted to monitor the farmers to see what they could do, whether they would smuggle some small The children are also sent, and when everyone is in a hurry, the children will take some home, even if it is a fruit, they can't just give it away! When the earth just woke up from the thin morning light, in the solemn and cool orchard, there was a clear and clear laughter.The joy of these people overwhelmed the noise of the birds.Some small insects with armor that love to fly around in the morning breeze, wandering around restlessly.The thick leaves sway slightly on the stretched branches, and they can't hide the heavy fruits.There are still occasional flashes of dew in the bushes, just like the dazzling stars in the foggy night.There is a layer of hair on those red peels, or a thin layer of frost, which looks soft and moist.The clouds are rising, and golden rosy clouds pass through the gaps between the dense green leaves, and wisps of transparent lavender and light yellow light are reflected in the forest.The ladder is set up by the tree.People climbed up the ladder, and the fruit fell into the thick palms and baskets, and a fresh fragrance lingered in the transparent light.Whose garden is this!Li Baotang is here to direct.Li Baotang watched others plant fruit in the garden, and he has been planting fruit for others for twenty years. He was always quiet, silent, and kept working as if indifferent.I don't know that the fruit is fragrant and sweet, and what I hold is a clod or a brick, so I don't feel happy at all.But today, his sense of smell seemed to wake up together with the earth, as if he discovered this lush, lush, and rich environment for the first time, just like a beggar suddenly found a lot of gold coins, the fruits are all shiny, Blinking at him.Li Baotang directed the people and said, "This garden originally had a total area of ​​28 mu, with 70 gourd trees, 50 pear trees, 9 apple trees, 3 crabapple trees, 30 jujube trees, and 1 walnut tree. When Li Zijun’s father was around, there were still a lot of gourd ice. In the hands of his son, some trees were not cultivated, so they were cut down and reconnected with pear trees. Li Zijun has no other skills, but he knows how to grow pears. Tell us How to fertilize, how to catch pears, he learned from books. Unfortunately, there are only eleven and a half acres left. The five acres on the northwest corner were sold to Jiang Shirong, and the half to the south was given to Wang Zirong for a penny. I didn’t get it. The three and a half acres in Yangjing were sold well. It was bought by Gu Laoer, and the remaining seven and a half acres were sold to four or five families in pieces. These people can’t clean up, and only One and a half mu, and those with more than one mu are all dependent on the sky, and this year's settlement is finally good."

Some people specially take these baskets full of fruit to the place where the fruit is piled up.As people switch from one branch to another, the fruit gradually becomes scarcer and the leaves appear more.Some people couldn't restrain their joy, and threw the big fruit they picked to those who picked fruit from the neighboring tree. When the fruit was caught, everyone laughed, and when the fruit fell to the ground, the people below fought over it. After picking it up, some people put it in their mouths when they found it, and the people next to them must have shouted: "You broke the rules, you are not allowed to eat it, this fruit already belongs to the poor!" "Haha , can’t you eat it if it breaks, it doesn’t matter if you eat one of his Li Zijun’s.”

Some people also joked with Li Baotang, "Uncle Baotang, what are you talking about? Dividing Li Zijun's orchard broke your job as a gardener. Are you happy?" Quiet, not in the sun, an old man, sitting here all day smoking a bag of cigarettes, thirsty, as soon as he stretches out his hand, he can eat whatever he likes, Uncle Baotang—you can’t enjoy this blessing.” "Ha," Li Baotang suddenly became a talkative old man, and he replied with a smile: "No, we have had enough blessings, this time we should be given two acres of land, let us suffer too. The old bachelor has been at ease for decades. It would be better if we share it with a wife so that we can also suffer from women. Ha..."

"I heard that you are married to the fruit tree spirit in the garden. Otherwise, there are many beautiful girls in the village, and you have never looked down upon them. You have never invited a matchmaker to marry you. The fruit tree spirit must have fascinated you." Come on, they say these goblins like the old man!" There was a burst of laughter, and then another burst of laughter.There was a laugh here, and there was another burst of laughter there, and everyone became a good-natured person. Baskets of fruits are piled up into hills, and the sun shines on the tops of the trees, so there is no wind in the forest.Some people took off their small coats, ran around with bare arms, and wiped the sweat from their faces with towels, but no one said it was hot.

The more serious ones are Ren Tianhua's group of overweight people.They recorded the weighed fruit on the account without turning their eyes, and at the same time put it into the basket. Li Zijun's woman came after dinner.Her hair was combed bald, she was wearing a clean blouse, she was smiling all over her face, and she looked timid, showing her caution to everyone. No one paid any attention to her, and Li Baotang also pretended not to see her, but returned to his old-fashioned face. She walked shyly in front of Ren Tianhua, said with a smile: "Our garden is not big now, it's only eleven and a half acres. Uncle Baotang knows better than us, when does his father not sell a few acres of land?"

"Go back," said the tofu shop clerk who held the scales. "We work here and the poor are at ease. You have nothing to worry about. You have already sold a lot!" "Just let her stay." Ren Tianhua said. "Oh, our hole is still big, and Chunshang's wages haven't been paid yet..." the woman continued to grunt. Someone among the people picking fruit from the tree shouted: "Hey, who said that Li Zijun can only grow pears, but not gourd ice? Look, he has planted such a big gourd ice, it is really white and green. Tender and fat fragrant fruit!"

"Ha..." There was an innocent laugh from the nearby tree. The woman went to a place farther away and sat down.She looked at the tree, at the red treasure on the green tree.She thought: This is their property. In the past, if anyone wanted to go under the tree, she only had to look at them, and they would flatter and explain with a smile on their faces.Why don't these people know her now, but her garden is full of so many people, these people willfully climb her trees and trample on her land, but she is like an irrelevant beggar woman, who I will not give her a single fruit.Enduring the feeling of being insulted, she looked at the joy and arrogance of those people one by one.She couldn't help but thought with emotion: "Okay, even the old fellow Li Baotang is against us, and we've fed the dogs all the food for so many years! It really knows people's hearts!"

But no one sympathized with her. She is not a timid person. Ever since her natal family was liquidated last year, she felt that a storm was coming, and that the building was about to collapse.She often thinks of ways to avoid this sudden wave.She doesn't believe the world will go on like this forever.So she became generous, she often gave some old clothes to others, or lent some food to others; she talked with the hired workers and cooked them some good food.She also became kinder, often wandering the streets, chatting with cadres when she saw them, and inviting them to drink at home.She became more industrious, and she did all the work in the house, and often sent food to the fields, helped weeding, and threshed the fields.Many people who only know superficially say that she is good, and that Li Zijun is not successful, and some people will believe her words and think that her life is not easy-she also said that she will not sell land this year, so it is really hard to live!But in fact, she still couldn't escape the disaster, so she had no choice but to stand up and dodge in the wind and rain.She never revealed that there was an irreconcilable grudge between her and these people, how wronged she was!She only displayed a kind of feminine obedience to win their neglect and tolerance. Seeing that everyone's work has expanded again, she went further away, wandering around, reluctant to leave her land, and endured pain to look at the group of "robbers".That's how she cursed them. By noon, people had gone home to eat.The garden seemed much quieter.She walked back and inspected the trees. They were no longer beautiful, they had only green leaves, and even the half-ripe fruits had been picked.She walked past the hill made of red fruits again, how happy she should have been in previous years!But now she only looks at him with hatred. "Well, there are still people sitting under the tree watching!" She passed her garden and arrived at the foreign well. The water was gurgling, because at the place where the water spring protruded, a tile vat was overturned, and the water gushed out from the bottom of the vat. There is a small canal.The well was opened by their family, and later it was sold to Gu Lao Er along with the land.Gu Laoer never changed the path of the canal, that is to say, he never cut off the water source of their house.This small canal winds around the orchard, and it irrigates the fruits of the twenty or thirty acres of land in this area.She thought to herself: "Oh, it used to be a pity that this land was sold to others, but now I think it's better to sell it!" There was no one in Gu Yong's garden, and the fruit on the tree was densely packed, and some ripe ones fell to the ground.He doesn't have many pear trees, but the red fruits are very big. This man is willing to pay for fertilizer and flower work; but, he is not working hard for others.She felt that the three-and-a-half-acre garden was also under control, and she couldn't help being a little happy that Gu Laoer was included in their group. Hmph, if you want to sell fruit, anyone can sell it, and if you want to divide the land, let's divide it in a mess. But just when she thought this way, she heard a burst of laughter from a young woman.Then she saw a figure in light blue clothes swaying past, who is it?Searching in her mind, she came to a canal, and a willow tree was coming across from the canal, and fell on a pear tree on the other side of the canal.Most of the pear tree has died, leaving only one branch, but there are accidental clusters of pears on it. She understood who's garden was opposite, "Hmph! It's theirs!" She had already seen Heini in a light blue blouse, hanging on a big tree, looking down like a woodpecker. Nodding.The woods closed around her again like a big cage.The fruits spread behind her were like dense stars, the bright stars kept falling from her hand into a basket hanging on the branch.Suddenly she slid down the ladder again, and the white trousers fluttered even more.At this time, her second sister-in-law also jumped over like a rabbit in the field, snatched the basket, and her older sister yelled again: "Hei Ni! You are so playful!" Heini is a prisoner who has just been liberated.Her uncle once warned her: "No one in the village hates our brother, let's go out less and cause trouble less, you, a girl, don't listen to him, be careful of him, you can't stand right and wrong! After hearing what he said, Hei Ni resolutely refused to go to Cheng Ren, and simply replied to her second uncle, "If you want to force us again, we will sue Zhang Yumin." But no matter what, the family still did not let her go. Twist her tightly, preventing her from taking a good breath of fresh air.When they couldn't get rid of it, the sky suddenly cleared up. Today, the whole family was all smiling. When they heard the news that the eleven family fruit fields were controlled, there was no word Qian Wengui in it, and they all smiled heartily.The second uncle no longer paced up and down in the courtyard, he was lying on the kang, waving a black oil paper fan carelessly.My aunt ran from the east courtyard to the west courtyard, not knowing what to do.The women were all sent to the garden, and Qian Li went to find workers to hire animals.Heini felt the most relaxed, and she thought they would not force her any more.She quietly said to the second girl Gu: "Second sister-in-law, don't be afraid of our father, huh! He is now under the influence of our second brother!" Li Zijun's woman couldn't help cursing quietly: "What a son of a bitch, a vixen! Your Qian Wengui, who was cut into pieces by a thousand swords, licked the asses of the cadres by relying on his daughter. Just watch Our surname Li is easy to bully! You Communist Party, fart, you speak beautiful words; you are arguing about liquidation and revenge every day, guarding a traitor and bully but offering it on the table of the ancestors, and dare not move! Our family has more acres If you don't serve in the army and have no one to walk in the ditch, you will be in trouble. Damn Zhang Yumin, I will ask you this truth one day!" She couldn't watch it any longer!She ran back like crazy, but she saw many people who had lunch coming from the opposite side, and heard them yelling at their animals, so she turned around and rushed to the side again. She didn't want to see them again. These people, she hated them, and she was afraid that she would no longer be able to restrain her resentment towards them. This was the truth that she must never reveal.She was just like a beaten dog, with its tail between its legs, restraining its eyes of fear and revenge, and fled in despair. People gathered in the garden again and again.Hou Qinghuai led the transport team.Two carts with iron wheels were parked on the road waiting to be loaded, and Hu Tai's rubber wheel was also set there, and a mule was added.Gu Yong didn't want to follow the car and didn't come out. Li Zhixiang was assigned to stand here, holding the cable and holding a long whip.He has already started to smile, unlike the previous day's cringe, he feels that things are hopeful.A group of people came here from the depths of the garden with baskets on their shoulders.I only heard Hou Qinghuai standing on the front of the car and shouting: "Old man, get down! Go to the garden to pick up fruits, and find something to do! Alas, who told you to come!" This was said to Guo Quan on the iron-wheeled cart behind.The old man wore a shabby straw hat and an old blue vest, and without turning his back, he said, "No one asked us to come here, we came here by ourselves. We still have two semi-fruit trees on our own." Not yet. How is the old man, the old man is not doing anything?!" He suddenly saw the little man Yang Liang walking over with a basket of fruit, touched the mustache without realizing it, and said loudly : "Our old man can still lag behind, Lao Yang! Come to us! You need to be able to clean up when loading a car, and you don't need to use force, right?" "Oh! It's you! Have you sold your fruit?" Yang Liang rested beside the car, wiping the sweat off his face with his sleeve.Searching to the side again. "No, we are short, it doesn't matter if it's a few days late." Guo Quan bent over to take the basket that was brought up. Yang Liang remembered what they talked about that day, and asked, "Have you discussed it with your nephew? Have you made up your mind?" "What?" He stared at him for a while, then suddenly understood, and laughed: "Heh! That's it!Alas, others are busy all day long!You see, the boys think we are too old to work!Well, it’s okay, we’re getting old, so let’s do less and do our best! " Yang Liang saw a young woman standing beside her. She slowly lowered the heavy basket on her shoulders, but hurriedly shouted: "Uncle Guo, take it!" She is a thin woman with a black and red face, and her eyebrows and eyes are flying upwards.The hair was combed all the way back, and it was tied up in a high bun, which looked very refreshing.She only wore a white cloth men's vest, with two long arms sticking out. What was particularly eye-catching was that she wore several red fake beads on one wrist. "Hey, I got on the plane!" A young farmer who came over said with a smile, "You are really a representative of women, a donkey dung ball in the sheep pen!" The woman never showed weakness, turned her head and scolded: "Your mother didn't give you a good mouth!" "Yes! Our mouths are stupid, we can't sing 'Dongfanghong Sunrise', ha..." No one paid attention to the funny faces he made for everyone, but everyone laughed.Someone whispered: "Welcome to sing one!" "Hey! Look at you people! If you have the ability to speak at the struggle meeting! Don't let the Wutong God take your soul! If we are afraid, who will be human!" She turned around and walked back.She walked so fast and so lightly. "Who is it? This woman is not bad!" Yang Liang thought he had seen this woman before but couldn't think of her name, so he asked Guo Quan. Guo Quan also winked and replied with a smile: "The wife of the shepherd, named Zhou Yueying, is a famous pungent woman with thorns all over her body, but she is a woman who is not afraid of anything, and she screams louder than men when she starts. The deputy director of the women's association. All the people from their women's association are here today." "I carried a basket of fruit, and it was crooked and screaming, and I want to rule the roost!" "To rule the roost! No, something is missing!" So everyone laughed again. After a while, the car was piled high and tightly tied.Hou Qinghuai was triumphant, and shouted, Li Zhixiang waved his long whip, and the car started slowly.Three cars, one after the other.Behind the cart, there were a dozen mules and donkeys loaded from the garden, a long procession, the people who followed the cart, and those who escorted the animals walked on both sides, and some people leaned close to the roadside. The earthen wall stretched its head, watching the lively team.Some people didn't want to go back to the garden immediately, they crowded at the gate of the garden, pointing and praising.This is more lively than the dragon lanterns in the first lunar month, and more fresh and popular than the sedan horses to welcome relatives!At this time, Guo Quan was also standing against the wall, gently wiping his mustache, and seeing that the procession had gone far, he quietly asked Yang Liang beside him, "Is this all given to the poor?" Wen Cai also came to the garden, and his feeling was completely different from when he came here in the past.He had been dazzled by this deep woodland before.He thought this is really a place for reading!I also think it is the most beautiful recuperation place.He lingers among the boundless green leaves, and the fruits are like scattered flowers.He listened to the wind blowing the treetops and the birds chirping, he was very contented, and felt very reluctant to leave this scene.But today, he was attracted by happy people.They are quick and deft, they are relaxed and witty, they are busy but not chaotic, they are cautious but at ease.Normally, he felt that these people were clumsy, dull, and boring, but now they just became his own portraits.People greeted him when they saw him coming, but he couldn't say a word to make people laugh, or even attract attention.He saw Ren Tianhua, who was in charge of the command, mobilizing, patrolling, calculating, checking, and writing something.Whoever came to him and asked him, he sent them away together, and people left him with satisfaction.But he is still the same as in the locker room of the cooperative, without any special air or appearance, only showing that he is both modest and leisurely. Hu Ligong said more clearly: "Should we do this instead?" Of course, Literary Talent would also console himself: After all, this is just a technical and administrative matter. As for mastering policies, farmers may not be able to do it.But he couldn't help but admit the ability of the common people in this kind of scene, which he never thought of, and he couldn't help but admit that there was still a distance between himself and the masses.As for the reason, whether it is because he is superior to the masses, or because his views on the masses are incorrect, or simply because he is estranged from the masses, that is not very clear, and he is unwilling to give it much thought. They didn't stay here for a long time, so they went back and were busy arranging the things they discussed yesterday. The garden is still so lively, especially when the sun is setting, the old women are walking with canes.This is something I have never heard of!The fruit of the rich man's house was asked by the poor to look at it and take it to the city to sell.As more and more people participated, those who were a little scared at first, who seemed to be pregnant with something, didn't care anymore.Some who originally only came to watch the excitement, but they also started to fight.The river has already rushed up, are you afraid of splashing some water?Everyone has entered the water, everyone has a share, so there is no scruples. Now I am afraid that I will miss myself, and all the benefits will be taken by others!This incident excited the poor people in the village, as well as Zhao Delu and Zhang Yumin. They were satisfied with their persistence and their growing prestige among the masses. The villagers said that they did a good job.They naturally hope that it will go on like this, which is a good sign.They don't want anything too complicated and troublesome.