Chapter 51 50 The Third Battle

Hearing the children's footsteps, he followed them to the street. The people on the stage gave each other winks, and everyone understood what was going on!People stood still and stretched their heads to look.The militiaman's face was even more tense, and he didn't speak.Zhang Yumin, Li Baotang, and Guo Fugui stopped in Taichung. Li Chang shouted slogans: "Down with bullies!" Watching and waiting, they were extremely quiet except when they shouted slogans. With a sound of "wow", the militiamen pulled the bolts at the same time under a light order, and the people became more nervous.At this time, only three or four militiamen escorted Qian Wengui to the stage.Qian Wengui was wearing a gray silk jacket and white bamboo trousers, with his hands cut back.He lowered his head slightly and squinted his eyes. Those two bean-like eyeballs were still staring at the crowd below.These two snake eyes, which were once frightening, still have lingering poison, suppressing many people's hearts.Two pointed beards deepened his viciousness, and no one in the venue spoke.

The chairman looked anxiously at the chairman, the old directors also looked at each other anxiously, they looked at Li Chang anxiously, Li Chang looked anxiously at the chairman, the chairman looked at the crowd, and the crowd looked at Qian Wengui, They still don't speak. The prestige of bullies for thousands of years has oppressed generations of farmers, and farmers have always bowed their heads under this kind of power.When they suddenly faced this force and stood in front of them, they were stunned, not knowing what to do for a while.Some were even more overwhelmed by the ferocious gaze, and they recalled the life that could only be tamed without being ravaged, and they hesitated before the storm.They were only temporarily silent.

At this time, there was only Qian Wengui standing at the entrance of the stage, biting his teeth and squinting his eyes. He wanted to subdue these rough people, and he was unwilling to be beaten down.At this moment, he is indeed still aloof. He and his power of conquering for many years have taken root in this village. Who can easily pull him away.People hated him in their hearts and scolded him just now, but when he appeared, people held their breath, and the hatred gave way again. This situation is like two roosters before a fight. Over time, Qian Wengui's power grew more and more, and it looked like he was about to win.Suddenly a man jumped up from the crowd.This man has two thick eyebrows, and a pair of shining eyes.He rushed to Qian Wengui and scolded: "You evil thief! You have ruined our village. You murdered for money without blood. Today is the day when we settle accounts with you. It's up to you. Do you hear me? , What’s the matter with you! You still want to scare people! No way! You don’t have a place on this stage! Kneel down! Kneel down for the whole village!” He pushed Qian Wengui hard, and someone below responded to him: “ Kneel down! Kneel down!" The two militiamen on the left and right pressed down, and Qian Wengui fell down, kneeling in a proper manner.Then the arrogance of the crowd rose, and the crowd suddenly gained power, so they became commotion again, and a child's voice shouted: "Wear a tall hat! Wear a tall hat!" Guo Fugui jumped to the front and asked, "Who will wear it for him? Who will wear it for him?" Wear, come up!" The audience shouted even more: "Wear a tall hat! Wear a tall hat!" A thirteen or fourteen-year-old child jumped up, took the hat and put it on his head, spit out a mouthful of phlegm, and cursed bitterly. Said: "Qian Wengui, you have today!" He jumped down, and some people laughed along with his scolding.

At this time, Qian Wengui's head was completely lowered, and his sinister eyes could no longer sweep over people's heads.The tall paper hat made him a buffoon, he bent his waist and legs in a humble way, he no longer has authority, he has become a captive of the common people, a prisoner of the common people. The man turned around and faced the audience. Everyone recognized him as the director of the peasant association, and he was Cheng Ren. Cheng Ren asked everyone: "Fathers! Look at him, how thin-skinned and white-fleshed he is, wearing a silk jacket before it's cold! Look at us, look at yourselves, we still look like this." Humans! Hmph! When our mothers gave birth to us, who wasn’t the same? Hmph! We raised him with our blood and sweat, and he oppressed us for decades by eating our blood and sweat. Today we want him to have money to pay off his debts. Life pays off, right?"

"Yes! If you have the money to pay off your debts, you have your life to pay back people!" "Let's not be afraid of him anymore. Today is the time for us poor people to stand up! Let's not talk about sympathy anymore. We are the director of the peasant association, and we were not active in the struggle in the first few days. We are not human, and we forgot the original! We are sorry Fathers and elders of the whole village. We would rather let you spit on us and beat us up. We have no complaints. Now that we have figured it out, we want to settle accounts with him. We have been hungry with our mother since we were young. What are we doing? For him To be a cow or a running dog? No, I want to tell you that he sent his wife to bribe us last night, look, what is this?" Cheng Ren opened the little white cloth bag.The contracts one by one fell down.There was another burst of yelling from below, voices of astonishment, hate, sympathy, and support all at the same time.

"Hmph! We are not that kind of people. We want to settle accounts with the cannibal pigs and dogs! We have only one heart, we are poor, and we will follow the poor and follow Chairman Mao to the end!" "Let us peasants unite! Completely destroy the feudal forces! " Li Chang also rushed to the stage and shouted.The crowd chanted after him. Zhang Yumin also stretched out his fists, and he shouted: "Cheng Ren is a good example for us who does not play personal relationships!" "The farmers in the world are one family!" "Support Chairman Mao!" "Follow Chairman Mao to the end!"

There was a roar on and off the stage. So people rushed to the stage, and they rushed to question Qian Wengui.Qian Wengui's wife was also crying, and stood behind Qian Wengui, begging everyone for mercy, saying, "Good men, please forgive our old man! Good men!" Her hair was messed up, and the flowers on her head were gone. It's gone, only traces of black ink can be seen in the sparse hair, just like an ugly actress on the stage, who just happens to be a pair with her husband.She had been his answerer all her life, and she was still standing in front of him, unwilling to separate their fates.

Telling one story after another, Liu Man led people to shout slogans in the crowd from time to time.Some people were in a hurry to ask, so they stood on the stage, knocked on him and asked, and the people below cheered: "Hit him, kill him!" Qian Wengui was overwhelmed, and thought that a good man would not suffer at the moment, so he could only say: "Good men, it's all our fault! Whether it is true or not, let's admit it, let's just ask everyone to be lenient!" The wife also cried and said: "Look at the face of our Eighth Route Army son, let him be lenient!"

"Damn it!" Liu Man jumped up, "We wronged you! You said you lied to our father to open a mill, is there such a thing?" "Yes, yes." Qian Wengui could only agree. "You dragged our eldest brother into the army, is there such a thing?" "Yes, yes." "My second brother drove you crazy, is there such a thing?" "Yes, yes, yes." "Have we wronged you?" "No no." "Damn! Then why do you say 'whether yes or no', you ask what wronged him? Damn, he is still pretending here. Tell you, we fight you, you pay us back Come, Dad! Give back to our eldest brother! Give back to our second brother!"

Shouted below: "Let him pay for his life!" "Kill him to death!" People rushed forward, yelling, "Kill him!" "Kill him!" A group of people are calling at him.I don't know who made the first move, but one person hit, and the rest rushed up, and the crowd behind couldn't reach them, so they yelled loudly: "Drag it down! Drag it down! Hit everyone!" People have only one feeling - revenge!They want revenge!They want to vent their hatred, the pain of being oppressed since their ancestors, the deep hatred for thousands of years, they concentrated all their grievances on him alone.They wished they could eat him.

Although there were people blocking him from both sides, they still couldn't help the people rushing up to the stage. They beat and cursed at the same time, and they really pulled Qian Wengui off the stage, so people swarmed up even more.Some crawled forward on people's shoulders. Qian Wengui's silk jacket was torn, his shoes were lost somewhere, and his white paper top hat was also torn, and they were trampled under his feet piece by piece. Min recalled Zhang Pin's last instruction. He jumped in the crowd and couldn't stop him. He had no choice but to lean on Qian Wengui's body and shouted: "If you want to be killed, take your time! We have to ask the county!" Get people out of the way quickly.People hated in their hearts, seeing Zhang Yumin protecting him, they were not convinced, and kept rushing upwards.Zhang Yumin has already received many punches, but he still has to say to everyone: "By God, one day we are worried that he will not be able to fight! Now everyone is going to beat him to death, why do we have no reluctance? I want to beat him to death and eliminate a disaster for our area, alas! It’s just that we don’t dare to do so because there is no order from above. Help us, let him take a breath, and slowly rectify him." At this time, a lot of people came to help him stop the crowd, and said: "Zhang Yumin is right, it's too cheap for him to finish it all at once, we have to let him suffer slowly." Many people turned around: "As for the murder, it's best to ask the county. If the county can not agree to the request of the people, it's okay to stay for a few days." But some people still refused to accept: "Why can't you kill him? The people want to kill him, what's the matter?" Can't?" Old Dong came out and asked everyone: "Qian Wengui owes you money, owes your life, can't you just kill him and pay?" The bottom said: "If you die, you can't pay for it." Old Dong asked again: "Look, how many punches can this guy withstand?" At this time, someone had already carried Qian Wengui back to the stage.He was lying there panting like a dying dog, and someone said: "Kill this dog to death!" "Hmph! He's going to die, so he won't be punished. Let's make him a grandson for a few days, okay?" Old Dong's face turned red with excitement, turning into a copper-colored face.He was born as a long-term worker. Whenever he saw someone like him who dared to speak and behave, he couldn't stop his heart from beating and was moved by joy. Someone replied: "Okay!" Someone also replied: "Cut the grass without removing the root, it will be a disaster!" "Are you still afraid of him? Don't be afraid anymore. As long as we are united like today, we will be able to subdue him. You can try to deal with him." "Yes, let's make a suggestion and ask him to make the whole village vomit, okay?" "it is good!" "Let's say confiscate his property and share it with everyone." "If he writes a guarantee letter, admits his mistakes, and opposes us again in the future, we will kill him." "Yes, ask him to write a guarantee letter, and ask him to write it himself." At this time, Qian Wengui got up again, knelt on the ground and kowtowed to everyone. His right eye was swollen and smaller, his lip was torn, blood was stained with mud, and his beard was drooping dirty. Not like it.He thanked everyone, his voice was no longer loud, and he stammered: "Good men! We kowtow to you, we were all wrong in the past, thank you for your kindness!..." A group of children imitated his tone quietly: "Good men!..." He was dragged to write the guarantee form again. He was already unconscious, but he couldn't help but pick up the trembling pen and write down line by line.The meeting discussed the issue of confiscating his property, confiscating all his property, including Qian Li's, but they had to keep Qian Yi's twenty-five acres. It's the regulations from above, he is a soldier of the Eighth Route Army!The common people have no choice but to forget. By this time the sun was already in the west.Some children couldn't bear the hunger and kicked pebbles behind the venue.Some women also sneaked home to cook. The presidium hurriedly urged Qian Wengui to write quickly, "Who can wait for you to take your time? Where are your usual skills!" When the presidium was reading the certificate of guarantee, people became nervous again, and everyone shouted: "Let him read it by himself!" Qian Wengui knelt in the center of the stage, wearing a torn silk jacket and no shoes, not daring to glance at anyone.He read: "We used to do evil in the village and oppress good people..." "No, we can't just write about us, we have to write about the bully Qian Wengui." "Yes, I want to write about the bully Qian Wengui!" "Read it all over again!" Qian Wengui read it again: "The bully Qian Wengui used to do evil in the village and oppress the good people. He deserved to die. Thanks to the grace of his relatives and friends..." "Fart your mother, who are your relatives and friends?" An old man rushed up and spat at him. "Keep reading! It's all the people in the village!" "No, we are some of his ordinary people!" "It's okay to talk about the uncle." "Speaking of the poor man, we dare not be the rich man! The rich man does it." Qian Wengui had no choice but to read again: "Thanks to the kindness of the poor uncle in the whole village,..." "No, you can't be called the poor man. Today is the time for us poor people to stand up. It's right to call you the old man." "Yes, it's called Master Turnover." "Ha... we are turning over today, ha..." "Thanks to the grace of Master Fanshen, we are left with the rest of our lives..." "What, we don't understand. We turn over and don't allow you to come up with this set of articles, so we might as well spare your life!" Qian Wengui was blocked by the crowd again. "Yes, save your dog's life!" Everyone echoed. Qian Wengui had no choice but to read on and said: "Keep our dog's life alive. In the future, we must change our past mistakes. If there is any lawlessness and opposition to everyone, we will be willing to be executed. The bully Qian Wengui established this guarantee and put it in public. On the third day of August .” The presidium asked everyone to discuss again, so there were no more opinions. Only a small number of people still felt that he was too cheap, and he should be given a few more punches. Qian Wengui was released in public and was only allowed to temporarily live in Qian Yi's courtyard. All his properties other than his fields were immediately sealed by the peasant association.How much is left for him will be distributed by the Land Evaluation Committee. Finally, the Land Evaluation Committee was elected, and Liu Man's name was called by everyone.Guo Fugui was also selected.Li Baotang did a good job as the chairman, and people elected him.Guo Quan is an old farmer who is most familiar with the land in the village, so he was also elected.He stroked his beard like two brushes and said embarrassingly: "You don't think I'm old, if you want us to do something, why don't we come!" They chose Ren Tianhua again, he is a good planner with a clear mind, without him, everything would be a mess.Hou Qinghuai can do the math, he is young, and he is not afraid of offending others. Someone suggested him, and he passed it.In the end, they also elected Cheng Ren, director of the peasant association.Cheng Ren was not bought by Qian Wengui, and resolutely led everyone to fight. They supported the director of the peasant association. At this time, the land reform has finally begun to take shape. Although people still have a lot of worries, they have finally passed a hurdle and pulled down the flagpole.They will continue to struggle and fight against the evil forces in the village, and they will settle accounts one by one.They will turn themselves over.They have strength, today's facts make them understand that they are powerful, their confidence has improved, Nuanshuitun is no longer the Nuanshuitun of yesterday, they cheered when the meeting was closed.A thunderous voice filled the space.This is an end, but also a beginning.