Chapter 7 Chapter 6 The cracked heart needs nourishment

To be honest, the relevant departments of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection introduced Liang Yurun's deeds to me. After reading the report in "China Disciplinary Inspection and Supervision News", I respected Comrade Liang Yurun's deeds on the one hand, but at the same time, I had some doubts in my heart.The leaders of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the newspaper gave Liang Yurun the lofty title of "Secretary of the Common People".Perhaps it is precisely because this title has been away from us for too long, so once such a real secretary of the people comes out, I feel a little awkward.

The reason is actually not complicated. As some people said, the current cadres are good cadres if they are not greedy, but they are not greedy and they only think about the affairs of the common people, and they are full of emotion for the most basic, most ordinary, and least "return" valued cadres. For the sake of the farmers, it is indeed not too much in our reality, or it can be said that it is indeed too little. Whether to decide to write about Liang Yurun, even after reading the evaluation of him by the leaders of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and various media reports on him, I still can't make up my mind.However, through the Xia County Commission for Discipline Inspection, they obtained a videotape of Liang Yurun being transferred to be the deputy secretary of the Yuncheng Commission for Discipline Inspection more than a year ago, and hundreds of people seeing him off when he left Xia County.This tape gave me the idea that I must write about him.

I have never personally experienced that intense scene as shown in movies and novels.The truth in life is indeed often more touching than the truth in art.Judging from the shooting quality of that video, it is obvious that the cameraman went to the scene to shoot hastily, but it still does not weaken its touching scene effect in the slightest. At eight or nine o'clock on the day Liang Yurun left Xia County to serve in the Yuncheng Municipal Committee, he shook hands with comrades from the County Committee and the County Disciplinary Committee. Hundreds of people.As soon as the masses saw Liang Yurun's appearance, they blew gongs, drums and firecrackers, and banners and signs with the words "good secretary of the people" and "people of Xia County miss you" were held high like a forest.The crowd rushed towards Liang Yurun one after another, shaking hands with him and vying to take pictures with him.Liang Yurun, on the other hand, kept saying, "How do you know I'm leaving?" "Why did you come here so early after a few dozen miles from your village?" Red dates, eggs and plaques.At this time, a woman from an unknown village suddenly squeezed through the crowd, took Liang Yurun's hand, and kept crying, "Secretary Liang, you can't go, we won't let you go..." At this moment, I saw the Everyone was wiping away their tears, and shouted, "Secretary Liang, we won't let you go!" , this "big cadre" in the eyes of ordinary people couldn't help but shed tears.

The scene at this moment is extremely moving. I couldn't help crying while watching this video.Because I know this is not an artistic creation, but the people today are sending off a cadre whom they love infinitely.It is said that the cadres of the Commission for Discipline Inspection are "Iron Baogong", and Liang Yurun has handled no less than 200 major cases in the three years since he arrived in Xia County. In the face of those life-and-death struggles, he gave the impression of a "Bao Qingtian", Even when he was solving difficulties for the masses, he often appeared with a serious face of punishing evil and promoting good, but at this moment, he was crying like a child, and his chest was wet with hot tears, but he ignored it. It seems that he has completely forgotten the image of being a leader.

I saw a particularly conspicuous group of people in the picture at this time, and several of them were walking towards Liang Yurun carrying a huge frame, followed by a group of peasant women in brightly colored clothes.When they came in front of Liang Yurun, a man who looked like a village head first spoke enthusiastically on behalf of the whole village, and then presented the huge framed picture.Then the procession of women in bright costumes began singing and dancing.One can tell at a glance that this is a program written and performed by farmers themselves.The dancing postures are almost the same as we often saw 20 or 30 years ago, and the tunes are also from that era, but their serious performance of each move pushed the whole scene to a climax.I wrote down the content of the ditty they sang:

Later I learned that the lyrics were neither sung by celebrities nor written by writers, but by a nearly 50-year-old aunt in Shi Village, Peijie Town, Xia County.She not only wrote this song, but also pulled several village wives of the same age to compose and perform the song and dance called "Secretary Liang is a good secretary for our common people". Also because of this program that moved me so much, after I arrived in Xia County, I proposed to visit that Shi Village to see why the villagers there used such a grand form to sing praises to Liang Yurun. When I arrived in Shicun that day, I proposed that I would like to see the song and dance of "Secretary Liang is a Good Secretary for Our People" by the village wives, but the village wives readily agreed, and in less than 20 minutes There was a "special" performance just for me. The 4 women with an average age of over 40 years old sang and danced in front of me, a guest from Beijing, without any affectation. From the beginning to the end, they performed seriously, which made me deeply moved.

I know that in today's rural areas, except for people in their 40s and 50s and children who are still in primary and middle school, it is unlikely that there are any younger people.Young people are either working or studying outside.Most of those who stayed in the village to make a living farming were elderly people.People don't sing pop songs, they don't dance modern space dances, they still have the songs and dances of their youth 20 or 30 years ago.In fact, these things have long been forgotten by them. If there is no special reason, I think the farmers will never take out these things that even they themselves feel outdated.

However, the villagers in Shicun actually showed these outdated "housekeeping skills" today, because they really thought they were doing their best to do something that must be done.They are fulfilling a great trust from the whole village, and this trust is obviously to fulfill a wish, a wish that they cannot forget. This wish is a reverence and love for Liang Yurun. Our people are so good, they can support you and love you even at the cost of their lives when they think you are serving their fundamental interests.This is the relationship between us Chinese Communists and the masses of the people who are closely related by lips and teeth, and who are connected by flesh and blood in the past few decades.

The strong affection of the farmers in Shi Village for Liang Yurun is related to the prosperity of their fragrant vineyards. In this large village with thousands of people, there is a group of farmers who are unwilling to be poor.As early as the 1970s and 1980s, under the call of the party's policies, they began to declare war on the days of poverty.However, exchanging sweat for gold on the loess is not an easy task.The crux of the problem is the lack of water sources here, coupled with the increasing demand for drinking water for humans and animals, the original groundwater is also falling again and again.If you want to make a difference on the dry and cracked land, the possibility of leaving the water is almost zero. For more than 20 years, the people of Shicun have tried their best to drill the wells deeper and deeper. However, almost every deep well within 300 meters has no visible water, leaving the villagers with heavy debts and a worse life.

Since the 1990s of last century, farmers in the vicinity of Shicun began to plant vineyards. The special soil quality and sufficient water source have made some thoughtful farmers around them rich, and the people of Shicun have been sitting on pins and needles.At this time, the Xu brothers of the first villager group of the village returned to the village after earning money by working outside, and invested more than 100,000 yuan to drill a 320-meter deep well.Because this well was built by Xu's own family, and others need water, they can buy water for 30 yuan per hour to irrigate the fields.It is reasonable and legal for the Xu brothers to sell water from wells.The majority of the villagers in Shicun do not need it and cannot do it, and they feel distressed after using Xu’s well water. One word-expensive!

At the end of 1998, villagers in the fifth and sixth groups of the village discussed: raising funds to build a deep well, so as to end the history of buying water from Xu's.The villagers in the two groups responded enthusiastically. Those with money and those without money were preparing a fundraising plan for drilling wells and a share for the cost of cultivating vineyards.Time is the harvest of the coming year.Everyone raised more than 100,000 yuan, and invited a professional well drilling construction team to start digging the well vigorously.But as soon as the construction started, the Xu brothers ran over and yelled to stop. "It's illegal for you to dig wells here! Stop working immediately!" the Xu brothers said. "Illegal? You Xu's family can have a well, but our hundreds of villagers can't have a well? Why, do you have to pay for water at your house?" The villagers in the fifth and sixth groups replied. "Government documents clearly stipulate that any deep well used for irrigation cannot have two wells within 500 meters. Your well site violates the water law. You must stop working!" The Xu brothers are confident. The hundreds of villagers who want to dig wells are in a hurry: the well drilling team has been invited, and they are paid 500 yuan a day whether they work or not, and there is a contract.This is the first, and the second is that the spring of the coming year is approaching, and hundreds of acres of newly prepared vineyards will be a huge cost. Isn’t it all in vain if we don’t dig wells and have no water?no.Come up with an idea. The villagers went to towns and counties to ask if there was such a regulation in the "Water Law"? There is such a saying.The cadres of the water conservancy department in the town and county replied. The fifth and sixth groups of villagers didn't believe it: this land belongs to the whole village. Your Xu family can dig wells, but our hundreds of families organized collectively can't. What's the reason? hit!Why can't we take the groundwater left by the land master?The well-drilling machine rumbled again. "They are deliberate! Gou Ri is so poor and crazy that he wants to steal our golden rice bowl!" The Xu brothers waved to the men and women in the village: "If you want to grow a vineyard this year and make a fortune, you can give me five or six grapes." The derrick that the team was working on was smashed! I will reduce your water bill by 2 yuan for each household!" Good thing!Go, smash their derricks!The Xu family and the villagers in this group, holding iron bars and poles, marched out in a mighty manner.Seeing the situation, the drilling team under construction was so frightened that they dropped their work and ran for their lives. "Smash it! Smash it—" It was not easy, and the whole construction site was in a mess within a few minutes. When the villagers in the fifth and sixth groups heard the news and arrived, the Xu brothers and the villagers in the first group had already returned "victorious". "Oh my God, why are they so cruel, are they still letting us live? Woohoo..." The women picked up the fragments of broken pipes scattered on the ground, and cried bitterly. "It's too bullying! You bastards, we will fight them!" Some young and strong men felt the shame they had never experienced before. They folded their arms and rushed towards the place where Xu's family and the first villager group lived. "You can't do it recklessly, people will die in a fight! You can't go! Come back quickly—!" The cadres of Shicun arrived in time, and they dragged dozens of men from the fifth and sixth groups back after talking about everything. After the village cadres appeased five or six groups of villagers like begging a bodhisattva, they immediately called the leaders of the town government and asked to come to solve the problem. The town government did not dare to neglect, and called the county water conservancy department.Leaders and experts rushed over, and after on-the-spot inspection, they believed that the well locations selected by the fifth and sixth groups of villagers did not comply with the regulations of the Water Law.So the villagers were mobilized to re-select points. The villagers in the fifth and sixth groups quit, saying: "We raised the funds to dig the wells ourselves. If we can't get water in another place, who will pay? Also, the spring water will be opened soon this year, which will delay the harvest this year. Who will pay?" Come to pay us?" Someone quietly invited the drilling team back, and then started working overnight.But the work of digging a well cannot be hidden. The Xu family and a group of villagers over there knew about the well drilling just resumed.Holding butcher's knives and iron bars, they rushed to the well drilling site again. On the construction site where the sound of the machine was roaring again, five or six groups of villagers were already prepared this time. Dozens of heavily armed young and middle-aged men held wooden sticks and steel drills, and were ready for battle. "Stop work, stop immediately!" "Why? We are determined not to stop until we can't get water!" "Keep smashing!" "Dare you—?!" As a result, the red-eyed villagers on both sides pressed forward step by step, first they fought with mouths, then with hands, and then there was a fight with iron tools. "Hit!" "Fight!" On the dusty field, there was a sound of "ding ding bang bang" and cries of "daddy, mama"... "People from the Public Security Bureau are here!" "Help! Come and help—!" When the two sides were fighting, the public security police came after hearing the news, and under the command of the leader, they quickly separated the fighting parties.However, the two sides found that no one had won the slightest victory. The Xu brothers and the first group of villagers led by them were bleeding and fell to the ground.The construction site where the fifth and sixth groups of villagers worked so hard to dig wells was once again in ruins. "No more fights! What a good Shicun, the villagers who have lived in harmony for generations have been ruined by our generation? I beg you, please don't fight each other, this can't be solved Problem!" The village head and the village party secretary didn't know whether they were human or ghosts during that period of time. On the one hand, their superiors asked them to ensure that no accidents would happen, especially no life-threatening fights. Start drilling wells.But who else listens to them? "It's okay not to dig a well, you let the Xu family provide us with well water to irrigate the land for free." The villagers in the fifth and sixth groups said. "Give them free water? What did you say? Hmph, what are you thinking about? You pay them?" the Xu family said. The village cadres had nothing to do, so they had to go to the town and county to ask the leaders to come forward to solve it. Leaders have to come, but what problems can they solve?While insisting on continuing to drill wells, he resolutely refused to let it go.It's been really hard for the village cadres these days.The leader above patted his ass and left, but before leaving, he dropped a sentence that made the village cadres dare not close their eyes for a minute: You can quit doing big things, but you can't kill a person!Isn't this equivalent to an order to kill one's life and become benevolent? However, the red-eyed opposing sides have long regarded water wells as more important than life.In order to defend their respective rights to water wells, they have made a choice not to back down. "Team, Captain, if you go any further...you will die! Quickly find a way!" One day, Li Yinlan, the village representative, stumbled to find Li Xuedang, the leader of the sixth group, trembling even when he spoke. "Come on, let's go up there!" From this day on, Li Xuedang and Li Yinlan went to towns and counties almost every day.The experience of the two during this period of time could be written into a book independently.Li Yinlan is in her 40s, and she has the image of Guo Fenglian's "iron girl". She is the "women's captain" in the village group. It still enjoys such prestige among the sisters in this village.When I interviewed her, this "iron girl" said in tears that she has suffered all kinds of hardships in her life for decades, but she has never suffered from the hardship of running "Yamen"—— "At that time, people in the village were waiting for the start of drilling wells as if they were looking forward to the stars and the moon. The grapes that everyone planted in the crop fields were delicate, and they were most afraid of running out of water. The soil in our Loess Plateau was dry, and God couldn't even tear the water droplets." If they didn’t fall, the villagers were so anxious that they could only water the seedlings day and night, but they froze over the matter of digging the well, which seemed to kill everyone. When encountering such a major event, everyone went to find Li The leader of the school party, how to solve this difficult problem. Our villagers have been educated by Chairman Mao for many years. It’s not that we don’t understand the laws and policies above, but now things have changed. In a world, if you want to use water, the price will be as much as the people say. You can’t do anything about it. At first, everyone was angry, saying that this is different from the landlords before liberation? Now it’s called a market economy. Benefit, we have nothing to say. But we also have to eat! How can the loess grow out of the loess here without water? People use the "Water Law" to prevent us from digging wells. We have no choice but to ask our superiors Talk. You don’t know, it’s hard to find someone to do things now, it’s as rare as us women giving birth. Don’t laugh, really. In those days, I told Captain Li, don’t drag me to the county I ran away. I would rather endure the pain of having a baby than the pain of looking for a yamen. People in the village have been forced to the point where they have nowhere to go because of whether to dig wells. I feel that the government is reliable and can solve the following problems. The government is also our peasants' reliance! Who else can we rely on if we don't rely on the government? So, Captain Li and I were entrusted by everyone to run to towns and counties. We started to run to the town, and then felt that the town government could not solve our problems, so we ran to the county seat. You know that the life of farmers is not easy now, and everyone pooled money for us to go to the city to talk to the leaders. It is not easy! We and Captain Li was also reluctant to spend everyone’s hard-earned money, so he tried to save money. We farmers can’t starve to death at home. If we can’t do it, we can dig a handful of grass in the field for a while. But not in the city You have to spend money to make saliva, and a bottle of mineral water costs two or three yuan. Once I took an empty mineral water bottle and saw an outdoor faucet, so I went to fill a bottle. You don’t know what people say, say Why am I not as good as a beggar? People come to beg for food, and they say that I have to beg for water, and I don’t know how to say hello? I was told that I really wanted to dig a hole. They were right! Here we are It’s even more difficult for us at night. Even the cheapest hotels cost ten or twenty yuan, and we can’t afford it. We just find those corners to stay overnight. Captain Li, Brother Li, is a man and a party member. The patrolling policeman in the police station was looking for trouble, he didn’t dare to close his eyes all night long, and he was eight feet away from me. I knew what he was thinking. He was afraid that the night patrolling policemen would treat us as a man and a woman who didn’t do serious things. I was arrested. If he did this, wouldn’t it be worse for me to sleep alone! In the middle of the night, I am like a nocturnal wanderer in the streets and alleys, making others look suspicious, and we ourselves feel awkward. There is no way, Captain Li and I know that the villagers at home are desperate to fight with themWell, what suffering and sin can't be endured?To tell you the truth, Comrade Li, Captain Li and I ran around the county for more than 30 days. How much do you think we spent including the car fare and meals? 153 pieces!And I still have an account!Think about what life Captain Li and I lived in those days!We are farmers, and we can bear hardships and hardships, but we can't figure out why it is so difficult to find officials to do things nowadays.In those days, Captain Li and I went to several departments in the county every day. I don't know why those officials and cadres who are eating imperial food are so indifferent to our farmers' affairs.Once we heard that a leader was in the office, we went to block his door.It was a Thursday, and before we even showed up in his office, we were silenced, saying he had a meeting and had to leave right away.We said we were in a hurry, and it would take a few minutes to ask the leader to listen to the situation.The leader became impatient, waved his hand, and said to wait until the afternoon.We have to wait for the afternoon.But when he went to work in the afternoon, the leader came back, but he couldn't even speak clearly, and was helped into the room by several assistants.We thought something happened to the leader.On closer inspection, it turned out that he was drunk.No way, we just stayed at the door and waited for him to sober up.The leader didn't know how much he drank at noon, and when he woke up, it was already time to get off work.Seeing him staggering from the office to the bathroom, Captain Li and I seemed relieved to think that he should have time to hear about our affairs.Unexpectedly, this leader is really arrogant. Captain Li only said "our village..." and he waved his hands repeatedly, saying that I am still confused, and that you should let your village officials take care of your village's affairs.I pointed to Captain Li and said he was a village cadre, but Captain Li couldn't solve that problem.The leader raised his voice as soon as he heard this, and said to me angrily: "The village cadres can't take care of your own village affairs, so what's the use of asking us?"Go back, go back, didn't you see it's time to get off work?As he spoke, he packed up the purse on the table, stood up and drove us out of his office.Captain Li and I wanted to stop him from listening to what we wanted to say. At this time, a secretary-like person came over, pulled the sleeve of the leader, and said softly that something had been arranged at a certain hotel at night. .The leader nodded immediately after hearing this, got into the car with his purse in his hands without even looking back.Captain Li and I guessed that he really went to another hotel for delicious food and spicy food.But he is a leader, eating delicious food is considered a job, isn't it?Captain Li and I were thinking about your leader's delicious food and spicy food at night, but you should have to go to work the next day, right?You had a social event the day before, so you should go to work the day after, right?So I slept on the street with Captain Li for another night, waiting to see the leader at dawn.I'm not afraid of your jokes, I've always been able to eat and sleep at such a young age, no matter how hard I work during the day, I can still sleep soundly at night.But I didn't expect that because of Murakami's well drilling, I was so sleepy that I couldn't sleep during the few nights when I was begging to see the leader in the city.Thinking about how anxious the people in the village were waiting for Captain Li and me to come to the county to find the leader to solve the problem, my heart felt like it was roasting in the fire.Because we were waiting to see the leader the next day, Captain Li and I huddled under a corner of the gate of his office and slept in the open for another night.Captain Li and I couldn't sleep, he kept sighing beside me, I just looked up and counted the stars in the sky, the night was so long!It looks so long that I feel like I can turn my hair white overnight.I stared at the stars in the sky and counted, and then I felt chills all over, and I didn't know when I felt a ray of morning light on my face.I shivered, woke up, and saw that there was still no one on the street, but found a strand of silver-white silk covering my face. I pulled it with my hand, and the thread broke.I took a look: ah, I yelled!Captain Li next to me was taken aback, he hurriedly asked me what's the matter?I held the silver silk in my hand and cried sadly at him, saying Captain, why did my hair turn white overnight?Captain Li was also stunned, and said yes, I have never seen you Xiaolan with so many white hairs on her head before!Seeing that I was crying more and more sadly, Captain Li teased me, saying that I am still the captain, and after the well on the team is finished, I will give you a lot of money for every gray hair that you Xiaolan ran out of in the county this time. How about pouring water for an hour?I listened to what he said, neither crying nor laughing.Later, we finally waited until the time for the leader to go to work.I just don't understand why people are dying in a hurry. Once they get to the top, they are nothing when they get to those high-ranking officials. It's not as important as eating and drinking?Captain Li and I thought, it's understandable that your leader spent a whole day of socializing the day before and got very drunk, isn't it all the same now?But the next day, you should do some business and do something decently, right?People don't!As soon as I saw Captain Li and me, I started yelling, saying why are you hanging on?Said that even if you have urgent matters, you have to follow the procedures!I just asked what is a program?The leader gave me a sideways look, saying that you don't even understand the procedures, so you are yelling at me to do things?What to do?Hundreds of thousands of people in the county are looking for me like you, who should I do?Who will not do it for?Captain Li hurried over to make amends, saying that we came to see your leader according to the procedure, and the secretary in your office instructed us to come to your leader.The leader became even more angry when he heard it. What did he say to give instructions? It is obvious that the two of you are pestering the secretary to see me!And if you broke into my office without permission, how can I work if you are like the two of you?When he said this, Captain Li and I really tried to make amends to others as if we had done something serious wrong.When we realized that we should 'report' the situation in the village to the leader, we found that the leader had gone somewhere.Ask the people next door and they all say they don't know.When Captain Li and I were in a hurry, a well-meaning man came over to persuade us, saying that today is Friday, and I guess you won't see the leader again, or you can come back on Monday.As soon as I heard it, I slapped my legs and burst into tears, thinking that I would have to wait a few more days after turning around, isn't the sky going to collapse?The more I thought about it, the more I felt so wronged, the more I thought about it, the more wronged I felt, and I was out of breath from crying.What's annoying is that I was so wronged, but those cadres whispered that this woman must be crazy.Tell me, why are we farmers so worthless in the eyes of others?ah?I saw that the slogans of 'serve the people' were written on the gates of those institutions, but when it was their turn to serve the people, why did they act so virtuously?I can't figure it out..." Li Yinlan wiped her tears and stared at me, hoping to get an answer. I couldn't avoid her gaze.But I can only shake my head at the farmer.Because I know that this is a real chronic disease that does not seem complicated but is actually extremely complicated. At this time Li Xuedang took over the conversation. "One thing I still don't understand is why our party's good style in the past is not valued by some party members and cadres, especially those who are supposed to serve the people. I am almost 50 this year, and the party age is not counted. Short, I am an old party member in the village. I am the leader of the village group, the smallest and lowest official in the country, right? Of course, in the officialdom, no one will take us seriously, but in the village it is different, the villagers know everything Let me come forward, the weddings and funerals of the old people, the quarrels between husband and wife, the disputes between neighbors, there is no one who does not ask us to come up with ideas and find a solution. In recent years, everyone has seen that other places have become rich , I am still eating steamed buns, and I am anxious! Do you think we village cadres can’t wait? In the past two years, the villagers have learned from neighboring villages to grow grapes. The idea was also given by me and several other village cadres. Every household has put up the cost of pressing the bottom of the box, and a few households even put their children's school tuition fees on the purchase of grape seedlings, so the children had to drop out of school and stay at home. What are you doing? Isn't it because you can have delicious food? Eat it! Well, the grape seedlings are planted, but there is no water. A vineyard without water is like a fish on a stone slab. Can this not make everyone anxious! In 2008, I used the money I earned from part-time jobs to build a commercial well. To be honest, it was not easy for the family. I invested hundreds of thousands of yuan in the hope that I could recover the cost and make a profit. But the problem is that most people in the village even borrowed money for the grape seedlings. , Your well irrigation fee is so expensive, who can bear it? So everyone pooled in money to re-drill the well. Farmers don’t know how many methods! I thought that someone else can dig a well in the field, he is an individual, but we can’t do it together as a group. A well was drilled on a piece of land? It is useless to let the township cadres and county leaders say nothing. The reason of the villagers is very simple: Your Xu family drills a well to make money, and our hundreds of households work together to drill a well to get rid of poverty and become rich in the whole village. You owe it to the Xu family brothers. But we cadres are more detailed than everyone else. It is not unreasonable for the Xu family brothers to prevent everyone from digging wells in the area stipulated in the "Water Law"! But The villagers are numerous and powerful, and the interests involved belong to everyone. Hundreds of households, including of course the responsible fields of us cadres. When you get up, no one can convince anyone. The relevant departments in the township and county can't do the work. In this case, the two parties in the conflict can only solve it by themselves. There is no other way but to use force to see who is more capable and powerful. Big. For this reason, us sesame officials who usually don’t pay attention to them have become hot and sweet. And every time we report the situation to the higher authorities, the leaders exhort one by one from left to right: It’s easy to talk about anything. Don’t let anyone die! Your village cadres are all party members, right? You must use party spirit to ensure that no one is killed in the village! I know that the higher-ups rarely use such harsh words to order small rural cadres like us. Let us guarantee our party spirit. This is the last trump card that can restrain us. What do you say we have to say? One side is the interests of the villagers, and the other side is the organization's requirements. In those days, I reallyI don't know which side I should stand on.I went to the county court to ask someone to help resolve the dispute.The court actually appointed a judge, who was a woman.Our Xia County was poor from top to bottom, and the chief judge of the court went to the countryside to mediate, and he couldn't even send a car, so we rented her a privately driven motorcycle.Pick up early and drop off late, they are lesbians, and there are old people and children at home.But the chief judge stayed in Murakami for more than a month, and he still didn't solve the problem. He should quarrel and beat him.In the end, the female court chief said to me with tears in her eyes: "Captain Li, I really have no other choice. Please let me go back to the city!" 'I don't think they can do anything, let her go.As soon as the female judge left, the villagers and the Xu brothers started fighting again. Both sides were red-eyed, and they were holding shovels and sticks in their hands. Those guys would bleed like rivers.I didn't know what to do, I persuaded the left and right, and no one listened to my greetings. In the end, I had to stand in the middle of the confrontation and knelt down, begging them to take care of me, the old production captain of the year, and not to do anything.I said that if you want to do something, smash my head first, and then step on me.After saying this, I fell to the ground, motionless, lying there like a dead man-I was going to die that day.I thought that only by dying like this can I be worthy of everyone and my party status. I don’t think I can get anything else out with my ability, only this old bone that has been hardened by the sun for decades.Maybe I, Li Xuedang, have never begged like this in front of everyone, and everyone really slowly put down the things in their hands.But my kneeling did not solve the problem of digging the well!You must know that the solution to the well-drilling problem cannot be solved by kneeling alone, so I went to the county with Li Yinlan, who was recommended by the villagers, to ask the leaders to come forward to solve the problem.Just now Yinlan talked a lot about those things when we asked to see the leaders in the county, and it was really chilling to say.I also don't understand why some cadres and leaders are so insensitive to our farmers' affairs?Yinlan, a woman, couldn't stand other people's cold eyes, so she knelt down and begged someone to listen to what we wanted to say.But I didn't kneel, because I thought I was a party member, and I knew that most of the people standing in front of me were also party members.That's why I never once condescended to these people.I felt that if I knelt down to them, it would be a kind of defilement of my sacred identity as a Communist Party member.Because I think those Communist Party cadres who hang themselves high and don’t care when they meet the needs of the people are not worthy of the lofty status of Communist Party members.I would rather condescend and kneel in front of the villagers than those cadres and leaders who are also members of the Communist Party.True, I'm a farmer too, but I feel like I'll be sad for the rest of my life if I do that, unless I take the communist badge off my body. " Li Xuedang, a tough guy with strong bones, had tears in his eyes when he said this. "During the few days when I was begging for help in the county, I was really discouraged. I didn't expect that the words about caring for the interests of farmers that were chanted in the newspapers and on TV every day turned out to be just words from some people's mouths. That day and Yinlan saw it again. After I couldn’t see the cold face of the leader, I decided to go back to the village and make a final decision: I bought a coffin for myself. Aren’t you all going to work hard to dig a well? I am a village cadre and a Party member, the higher-ups asked me to manage everyone so that no one was killed. But I know that the well can't be drilled, and the grape seedlings in the field are drying up day by day. I, a party member and a sesame official, can't stop everyone. What should I do? When I thought about it, I stood in the middle of the two opposing sides when they made a move, let them step on me, and smashed the shovel and wooden stick on my head first, until they lost all energy in their hands... Writer He, what I said is all To be honest, I really only had this path at the time. But I didn’t expect that Secretary Liang would appear later. He really saved the whole village and me, Li Xuedang..." In Shicun's later stories, Liang Yurun became the protagonist again. Liang Yurun remembered that day very clearly. It was March 10, 2000. He was inspecting the work of a nearby township and county magistrate. "Beep——" the county magistrate's cell phone rang suddenly. "Hey, what's the matter?" "It's not good, the county magistrate. You have to find a way, something big is going to happen again!" "Don't talk incoherently, what's the matter!" The county magistrate was a little annoyed. "There is going to be a big accident in Shicun in Peijie Town! Hundreds of people have gathered and are about to go to Yuncheng!" "What are you doing in Yuncheng! Collective petition?!" "It may be something more serious than collective petitioning..." "Wait, let me think about it, don't turn off the phone!" The county magistrate said angrily at the head of the field with a gray face, "When will the world be peaceful!" Liang Yurun saw all this.He asked eagerly, "Magistrate, what happened?" When the county magistrate's eyes met Liang Yurun's, they lit up: "That's right, Lao Liang, you should go to Shicun as soon as possible. There's another commotion over there, with hundreds of people!" "Why?" “不知道。但肯定是难事，而且又是非你办不可的事！”县长将一只手重重地放在梁雨润的肩上，他把全部期待放在这位好同事身上。 梁雨润哪敢耽误，立即驱车前往。一路上，他又通知裴介镇的党委王书记。 经过约30多分钟，梁雨润出现在师村村口。 这时，师村村口那边，黑压压地聚集了一大群村民，他们敲着锣鼓，打着横七竖八的标语和横幅，正往停靠在路边的几辆大卡车上挤。再看看前面的几辆卡车上，几口涂着黑漆的棺材放在那儿特别叫人心悸。 “乡亲们，你们这是干啥呀？”梁雨润的车子还没停稳，他的双脚就已经踩在了地上。 “上运城！找市委书记去！看他们还管不管我们农民死活了！”有人过来冲梁雨润吆喝着让他让道。因为他们多数还不认识他梁雨润是谁。 “有什么问题可以向我反映嘛！用不着赶那么远到运城去啊！”梁雨润伸开双臂，拦在车队前面。 “你是谁？夏县的领导根本不管我们，他们也没有本事解决得了我们的事，你快让道！”有人在车上嚷嚷起来。 “对不起大家了，是我们知道得晚了些。现在我可以代表县委向大家保证：你们师村的事今天我们一定能把它解决好。如果解决不了，你们就朝我梁雨润脸上吐唾沫！” “啊，你就是梁书记啊！”师村的群众先是一惊，既而欣喜地向他围了过来。“梁书记，早听说你是个专办好事的'百姓书记'。你来了就好！” “梁书记来了我们就有希望啦！” “就凭他刚才那句话，我们信！” 顿时，正准备向运城进军的上访群众，纷纷转过车头，跟着梁雨润回到了村里。 “要解决问题，就得有解决问题的方法。”梁雨润面对数百名多日来为了打井一事，已被拖得疲惫不堪和愤愤至极的村民们，高喊道：“现在请你们选出几位代表，随我一起同许氏兄弟商量解决的方法，其余的你们好好回家休息休息，等待我们的消息！” 梁雨润在基本了解情况后的第一个思路是，希望许氏兄弟将他们原来的商品井能够让出来，成为全村共用的公共井，所需的前期投入甚至包括现在的井价可以商量出一个数目来，如果是这样的话，既可以消除双方争执，又可以立即进行全村葡萄地和其它农田的春灌。 但已经有几年稳定收入的许氏兄弟不愿就这样放弃对原来那口商品井拥有权。 “你们打井时所花了20多万元，村里可以将这笔费用一分钱不少地归还给你，同时你们还可享受一些特别的浇灌优惠价格，这不是挺好的嘛！”梁雨润苦口婆心地做工作。 “不行。那井是我们全家的心血，现在刚刚开始有些回报就卖出去了。我们不干。”许氏方面不让步。 “那你们愿意接受多少价才肯放弃对井的所有权？”梁雨润继续询问。 “不瞒你梁书记，现在就是100万元，我们也不卖那口井，因为它是我们致富的全部寄托。我们不能放弃……” “明白了。”梁雨润点点头，知道许氏兄弟已经不想着这步棋。“那么是否考虑另一种情况：你们允许第五、第六村民组打口新井，并且由他们向你们补偿因为新井的开发而影响了老井的那部分出水量的收益差价？” 许氏兄弟对这个第二方案仍表示不接受：“在500米范围内的再打一口井肯定会严重影响老井的出水量，而且也不符合水法规定，所以我们不同意！” “从道理讲你们许家可以不接受上面的两个方案，不过多少年来你们与第五、第六村民组的父老乡亲一直在同一村土地上劳作耕耘，应该相互体谅才是。”梁雨润仍不放弃耐心做思想工作。然而在利益面前，许氏兄弟坚决不放弃对老井的一切权利。 “谈判”的时间过了一个又一个小时。眼看“友好协商”又要落空，第五、第六小组的村民开始骚动，他们已经作好了充分准备——一旦梁雨润书记再解决不了问题，一是坚决集体上访到运城市委去，二是即使跟许家拼个你死我活，也要在已经开工的地点打井。 梁雨润非常清楚地意识到自己今天来到师村所面临的是一片难以迈过的沼泽地。要不为何几级干部和领导都躲在一边不愿沾这档子事儿。 面前的矛盾几乎是不可逾越的：许氏兄弟仗着《水法》的支持，在利益面前寸步不让；第五第六组村民眼巴巴地看着地里的葡萄苗在枯萎死亡，此井非打不可。what to do?这真是难坏了梁雨润。因为这既非反腐倡廉的正义决战，也非同明火执仗的亡命之徒的生死较量，这是一件普通的人民内部矛盾，一件农民之间的利益纠纷，然而如果不妥善解决好，一旦几百人之间动起手来，其结果绝非是小事！梁雨润从未感到自己的肩上有过如此沉重的压力。他不由走出村委会的小办公室，独自大步流星地走到宽阔的田野中间，他要亲自在两井现场看一看可以选择的第三种方案。 3月的黄河边，原野上仍然刮着阵阵寒风。可梁雨润只觉全身汗水淋淋。几百位村民上千双眼睛，此刻都在盯着他那时而移动，时而停下的身影。 梁雨润太明白身后的那一双双眼睛里此刻在流露和等待着什么。突然，他折过身来，又大步回到谈判桌前。 “如果把你们新选的井位挪到村东，我们也来个'东水西调'如何？”他向第五第六村民组的代表们发问。 这是一个全新的想法。村民代表们立即议论开了：可以倒是可以，但那得多花好十几万元吧？再说，多花那么多钱假如打不出了水咋办？是啊，村民现在凑的钱都快连老婆都要卖出去了，再集资怕是没招了。 梁雨润一听这些话，脸色顿时变了：是啊，村民们哪儿弄这么多钱来？真的将井位移动东边打不出水咋办？那时候村民们手中的铁铲和木棍可能不再是冲着许氏兄弟了，而是冲我梁雨润的头上来了！ 是啊，这可怎么办？村民代表们将所有的目光聚集到了梁雨润身上，会议室门口此时也早已挤满了一双双企盼的目光，他们同样集中到了他身上。 梁雨润感到浑身发热。突然，村民们见他又一次做了个习惯动作——将大手往桌子上一拍：“这'东水西调'所需要的钱，我负责解决！” "real?" “我梁雨润说话什么时候放过空炮？”梁雨润的脸又绯红起来，两眼瞪得溜圆。 “太好了！太好了！这下总算找到解决的办法了！” 村民们一齐欢呼起来。当大伙儿将这一拯救几百村民的喜讯奔走相告时，谁也没有注意他们的梁雨润书记则一头靠在椅子上久久没能动弹一下。 天不等人，时不等苗。村民们有了梁雨润的话，当下就开始移动井位，重新在村东的一片宽阔的地域上寻找井位。 “就这儿吧，看这里的风水还不错，能打出水来！” “不行，我们不能随便定井位，万一打不出水谁负责任？” “新井位让梁书记定最好。” 村民们已经吃尽了打不出水的苦，过去为打井，村上不知白白甩了多少冤枉钱！那每一口枯井，让多少村民流干了泪水，掏尽了甘苦！而今日此井又意义非同一般，毫不夸张地说，它真是紧连着全村上下几百人的命根根儿。道理非常简单，再打不出水，钱又没了。回头再跟许家兄弟争执，只有以命换水一条路可走！大伙能不提着胆儿议事？ 村民们便又一声高一声低“梁书记、梁书记”地将他拉到了他们认为可能有水的新井址，让他定夺这系着全村人命运的一铁铲。 梁雨润缓缓地接过一位村民递来的铁铲，手中微微发颤——虽然这一动作谁都没有看出，但他自己能感觉得到。 他明白只要自己的铁铲下土，就意味着自己的命运（包括政治的）会如此不经意地全都押在了师村这块土地上……眼前一片宽阔的田野，初春的微风吹拂着地面上那些枯黄的小草在萌发着嫩芽，梁雨润轻轻地蹲下身子，他仿佛感觉那些露绿的嫩芽在向他微笑。瞬间，他站起身，举起铁铲，用力地在地上一夯，说：“就这儿！” “好——立即开工！”李学党队长大手一挥，众村民马上甩开膀子干开了，他们又说又笑，师村上空顿时洋溢起一团团欢快和希望的景象。 “梁书记，您吃口饭吧！”这时，一位村民端来一碗热腾腾的白米饭，那上面叠着两个荷包蛋。 “哟，可不，都下午四点了！光忙着让梁书记为咱操心，连饭都没让梁书记吃一口！”李学党有些不好意思地朝梁雨润歉意地笑笑，非拉着他往自己的家里走。 此时已近夜间10点，师村东头的田野上正挑灯夜战，操劳了整十几个小时的梁雨润这才感到肚子在咕咕叫着。但他怎么也吃不下，碗中的饭没拨拉几口，便放了下来，然后对李队长说：“明天不是正好星期六嘛？你一早到县城来找我，五点钟吧，尽量早些。” “咋这么早？啥急事？”李队长有些不明白。 “钱！跟我一起去要打井的钱呀！”这回梁雨润的口气里听出了急躁。 李队长和身旁的一群村民听后，眼里顿时涌出了泪珠儿。 梁雨润是纪委书记，不掌任何财权。纪委又是个党组织机关，除了日常开支没有其它经费。再说夏县是个贫困县，即使是县财政局长的口袋里也是常常空荡荡的连教师的工资都往往要拖几个月才能发下去。到哪儿给师村弄十几万元钱呀？梁雨润清楚是自己把师村的难题揽到了自己头上，可回过神再想想自己向全体师村村民们许下的承诺，搅得他梁雨润自个儿一夜没合眼。能不急嘛！村民们已经在新址上开工打井了，每一天就得靠几百上千元钱支撑着才能往下一米一米地钻进。假如停停打打，费用就更大了。可钱从哪儿来呢？ 真是愁坏了这位纪委书记。自己的纪委工作不能耽搁，师村打井的经费也不能再延误了。无奈，梁雨润只好用周未时间，带着师村李学党队长外出找熟人乞求。而这回从来就讨厌看着别人提着烟酒串门送礼的纪委书记，也不得不同样提着烟酒等礼物，像孙子似的在那些熟悉的和不熟悉的领导面前、财神爷面前笑脸“献媚”起来。 李学党是跟梁雨润一起出去要钱的，他向我介绍起当时梁雨润为了他们村打井的那十几万元钱到处求人的情景：“你想，给我们村上要的钱都是只给不还的，谁能白白送你？梁书记在我们农民眼里也算是个不小的领导了，可没法子，为了能要到钱，他也只好在那些管钱财的人面前低三下四的。我们两人到省城太原求人期间，为了给村上省点费用，他和我一起住几块钱的地下室招待所，连馆子他都不肯进。而一进那些机关大楼，他又不得不装出很体面的样子。但我们是来向人家讨钱的，只好迁就着人家的时间，看着人家的脸色行事。有时梁书记和我在别人的办公楼一等就是几个小时，看到那光景我心里真过意不去，几次说梁书记，咱们回去吧，你心尽了，钱要不到我向村民们说明白。可他梁书记说啥也不干，说农民现在日子不好过，刚刚有点希望种上了葡萄，我们怎么能看着他们地里的葡萄苗儿干死呢？正是梁书记对咱农民的一片诚意感动了上帝，所以他前前后后总共为我们村筹资了整整16万元，满足了打井的所需。预期的钱是要到了，但梁书记的心并没有放下，因为假如钱都花出去了，井里不出水不就等于竹篮子提水嘛！我清清楚楚记得打井的那些日子里，梁书记不管哪一天工作有多忙，不是顺道到现场看一看进展情况，就是用手机给我打来电话询问。有一天刮起少见的沙尘暴，5米开外的人见不到影子。我正招呼着工地上的人躲一躲，梁书记却出现在我们面前，浑身上下像个土人似的。便说梁书记你咋这时候来了？他说他是怕刮这么大的沙尘暴，工地上会出什么事故，所以才从几十里外的地方赶来了。我们全村人无不为他的精神所感动。那段时间也真让人提心吊胆的。以往我们不管打什么样的井，一般到一定的深度，怎么着中间总会零零星星地见得到一点水，惟独这口井从第一米一直打到300来米一星点儿水的影子都没见着，你说谁不着急呀？村民们天天围在井台边瞅着，祈求着。你想，既然动工了，有没有水，钱是一样花的呀！梁书记其实比我更着急，一来他知道地里的苗不等人，二来说实话他也知道如果这口井再打不出水来，他再向人磕头要钱就更不容易了！所以梁书记和我们一样，越到后来越着急，恨不得像孙悟空一样缩了身子往井洞里钻下去看个究竟。也许是老天爷也被感动了，打到363米时终于出水了，而且是口旺井，每小时流量达50吨！这下可把全村人乐坏了！出水那天，村里的人都围在了井口处，那情景真叫人热泪盈眶。我们村上有位老人是参加过抗日战争、解放战争和抗美援朝的老共产党员，他已经有好长时间没有走出家门了，那天他从家里走了出来，在井口前，他手捧一掬哗哗流着的清泉，笑咪咪地对我说：共产党为人民服务的根本出发点还在！他还想活上几十年。老前辈这样的话已经多少年没有说了，我当时心里真的很激动，自然特别地感谢梁书记。后来村上的人一定要搞个新井灌溉仪式，说一为庆贺村上打井成功，二要谢谢梁书记。村民们纷纷自觉行动起来，大伙们像过节一样欢天喜地，尤其是妇女们，她们已经有二三十年没集体排过舞唱过歌了，这回她们在李引兰带领下，自编自演了好几个节目，等待在庆祝仪式上专门献给梁书记。可当我们一切准备就绪，向梁书记提出邀请时，他一听就表示不同意这么做。他说，眼下浇苗要紧，说啥就是不来出席我们的仪式。村民们不干了，说你梁书记不来一天，我们就不开灌一天。最后逼得他没法，只好来了……” 关于后来的开灌仪式和村民们自编自演的节目，我在日后的采访中看了当时师村请人拍下的录像，也看了李引兰她们的现场表演。正如我前面所言，虽然村民们排演的仪式和节目，无法与电视上的节目相比，但我仍然认为它是我多少年来所看过的一场最动人的精彩节目了。 那是当代农民发自内心深处对我们党和党的干部的一种最高的赞誉，它因此比任何明星们搔首弄姿的表演不知要强出多少倍！ 梁雨润在夏县当纪委书记的近3年里，从没有接受过别人的恩惠，包括由他主持处理过的几百起纠错纠冤案件的那些受益者送的任何钱物。但师村乡亲们自编自演的节目，他接纳了，并像我一样珍藏着这盘录像带——这具有特殊意义的录像带，就放在他办公室的书架上。他说这是他在夏县留下的最美好的记忆。 I think so too.对一个共产党人来说，还有什么比这更令人羡慕和荣耀的财富呢！