After Geng Furen, secretary of the Tianhe County Party Committee, saw Liu Shengli in the compound of the county party committee, he knew that Liu Shengli had not been admitted to the examination as soon as he saw Liu Shengli's gloomy face, so he complained to Liu Shengli and said: "You are a child, you were recommended by college a few years ago, and the county recommended you twice, but you didn't go, there will be no drama for you, and you will take the exam every year! Forget it, forget it, let's talk about this later! Cheer me up, I have something to look for you." Come, come, come to my office and talk!"

Liu Shengli didn't know what Geng Furen was looking for her, so he obediently followed Geng Furen into the office.

As soon as Secretary Geng sat down in the office, he asked, "Victory, did you catch the point of Baishuigou the year before last?"

Liu Shengli nodded: "It's the point of our county Youth League Committee, what's wrong, Secretary Geng?"

Geng Furen blushed and said unhappily: "Some people have reported that Baishuigou has blown a single wind and divided the land, but I don't know if it's true or not?

Liu Shengli thought for a while and said: "Secretary Geng, I think it's better to let Chen Tao lead the team, he is the secretary of the county Youth League Committee!"

Geng Furen waved his hand and said: "Chen Tao can't leave for a while, if you want to help the county party committee get an important material, you will lead the team." ”

Liu Shengli had no choice but to respond: "Okay, I'll go as soon as possible." ”

Geng Furen said: "Not as soon as possible, but today, let me go down today! Victory, now everyone's thinking is a little chaotic, and when it comes to emancipating the mind, all kinds of nonsense have come out, and I don't want to take the socialist road, how can I get it? ”

As soon as he came out of Geng Furen's office, he reported the situation to Chen Tao, secretary of the county Youth League Committee, and immediately took two officers of the Youth League Committee to Baishuigou and found Wang Huanhuan, the captain of the Baishuigou production team.

Wang Huan is two years younger than Liu Shengli, and he turned out to be the accountant of the Baishuigou production team, and he only became the production captain last year. This young peasant did not admit that he had divided the land, saying that hearing was false and seeing was believing, and dragged Liu Shengli and the two Youth League Committee officials to look around on the slopes in front of and behind the village, and kept muttering: "It's all nonsense, you can see for yourself, who divided the land? Where is there a mark? I don't want to think about it, the county grasps it so tightly, who dares to take the capitalist road? Secretary Liu, others don't know, don't you know? You and Chen Tao have led the working group a few times, and you have lived for several months!"

Liu Shengli asked: "Then why did someone sue it? If you don't report it, will Secretary Geng let us investigate?"

Wang Huanhuan said: "Do you still need to ask? It must be the class enemy who is destroying the good situation!" He smiled bitterly at Liu Shengli, and said, "Secretary Liu, my eldest sister Liu, you are a young man in the countryside, and you will always return to the city sooner or later.

Liu Shengli has always had a good impression of Wang Huanhuan, and he didn't want to delve into it, so he said: "Huanhuan, it's really okay, let's leave tomorrow and go back to report to Secretary Geng." ”

Wang Huanhuan was happy: "Okay, okay, Secretary Liu, then we will send you off warmly tonight!"

Liu Shengli knew that Baishuigou was a well-known poor team in the whole commune, so he said: "Forget it, Huanhuan, don't say goodbye, you have to go door to door to collect eggs, now everyone's life is not easy, I know." ”

Wang Huanhuan grabbed Liu Shengli: "Oh, Secretary Liu, you don't know the new changes in our Baishuigou, because of the unswervingly taking the socialist road and fully mobilizing the enthusiasm of the members and comrades to farm, our Baishuigou is much better today." Look how well the crops are growing in this field!"

Up and down the slope, the crops were indeed growing gratifyingly, which made Liu Shengli feel moved.

The meal was really good in the evening, with chickens and ducks, and rice wine. Wang Huanhuan and Wang Xiaoxin, the new accountant of the production team, enthusiastically persuaded Liu Shengli and the two officials to eat more, saying that the rice wine was brewed by themselves, and the chickens and ducks were raised by themselves.

Looking at the table of dishes, Liu Shengli and the two officers were a little stunned.

Liu Shengli said: "Huanhuan, Xiaoxin, I really didn't expect that this year will really make your life really good!"

Wang Xiaoxin said: "Secretary Liu, we have to thank your working group for this! You have conducted socialist education on us again and again, cutting off the tail of capitalism, and everyone's ideological consciousness has been raised upward......

Liu Shengli didn't believe it at all: "Xiaoxin, don't talk about falsehood, talk about something practical, what measures have been taken to arouse everyone's enthusiasm? I want to make a good report to the county party committee and ask Secretary Geng to organize some comrades to visit." ”

Wang Huanhuan panicked: "Don't, don't, Secretary Liu, don't go to report! As soon as you report, you will kill us! Secretary Liu, Baishuigou is the point that your Youth League Committee has caught, you are also half of Baishuigou people, you should not know whether our affairs are good or not? I beg you, brother!"

Liu Shengyi felt strange, so he stopped eating and asked the two officials to go around the village, only to find out the truth - Wang Huanhuan really divided the land in the team, and it was not the most recent one, but it was divided as soon as he became the captain last year, so life was better. According to Xiao Wang's sister, when the secret division of the field was divided, Wang Huanhuan led everyone to drink blood wine and swore a poisonous oath, and no one could tell the matter. Only then did Liu Shengli understand that Baishuigou had a better life, but it was because of the division of land and production.

So, on this night in Baishuigou, Liu Shengli lost sleep and thought again and again: The newspaper said that "practice is the only criterion for testing the truth." Since the practice of Baishuigou has proved that the production capacity of the land package can mobilize the enthusiasm of the peasants and improve the living standards of the peasants, then the county party committee should let Baishuigou try it. So, he got up overnight and wrote a report, deliberately not talking about the inside story of Baishuigou's secret division of fields, and only suggested to the county party committee that the production contract be carried out on a per-household basis.

Geng Furen, secretary of the county party committee, was extremely shocked after reading the report, and sharply rebuked Liu Shengli: "Liu Shengli, do you know what the nature of the problem of dividing land and guaranteeing production is? It is a question of taking the capitalist road! No matter how you emancipate your mind, you cannot emancipate yourself on the capitalist road! Where is your party spirit? I asked you to find out what Baishuigou did alone, but I don't want to, you didn't find out what Baishuigou did alone, but you came up with a plan for guaranteeing production! Let me ask you, Liu Shengli, how did you come up with this plan? Is there any connection to the solo incident in Baishuigou?"

Liu Shengli thought in his heart to protect Wang Huanhuan, so he bit his mouth and said: "My plan is my plan, and it has nothing to do with Baishuigou and Wang Huanhuan! My plan is only a hypothesis, and it is said that some places in Anhui and Sichuan are also exploring this aspect......"

Geng Furen was furious: "Liu Shengli, let me tell you clearly, unless we receive instructions from the central and provincial party committees, we in Tianhe County will not allow this kind of 'exploration' to engage in capitalism!"

Liu Shengli insisted: "But facts have proved that contracting the fields can arouse the enthusiasm of the vast number of peasants to the greatest extent and fundamentally solve the problem of eating in the rural areas, which is obviously a good thing!"

Geng Furen snorted: "Liu Shengli, now you said that you leaked your mouth, right? Just by saying this to you, I know that Wang Huanhuan, a pawn engaged in capitalism, has divided the land!" Geng Furen touched the phone in front of Liu Shengli and asked the switchboard to pick up the Fangshan Commune to which Baishuigou belonged, and find Lao Qi, the secretary of the commune.

While waiting for the phone call, Geng Furen said: "The socialist economic position in the vast rural areas of our province must not begin to collapse in our Tianhe County! The newspaper said that practice is the criterion for testing the truth, but it did not say that there is no need for a socialist collective economy! Liu Shengli, your problem is quite serious!"

Liu Shengli said: "Practice is the criterion for testing the truth, and it also includes the test of our current rural policies!"

Geng Furen was angry and anxious: "Okay, okay, Liu Shengli, I won't quarrel with you! You are an educated youth who will have to leave sooner or later! I only hope that before you leave, you will not cause me a big disaster, which will harm you and our county party committee!"

Liu Shengli choked and said: "I won't leave yet, I'll accompany you to the end!"

Geng Furen's table slammed: "Liu Shengli, I think you are crazy! You give me a suspension from now on for inspection!"

At this time, the phone was connected, and Geng Furen grabbed the phone and said: "Old Qi? Listen, let me immediately lead the team to Baishuigou! Check the single work! Move faster! Be stronger! Go in person, bring a few more militiamen!"

The Baishuigou production team jumped on the same day. Lao Qi, secretary of the party committee of Fangshan Commune, was a middle-aged cadre who was picked up by Geng Furen, and he did not spend the night carrying out Geng Furen's instructions, and after answering the phone, he rushed to Baishuigou with a group of armed militiamen in a truck carrying fertilizer. The truck drove until it reached the door of Wang Huanhuan's house before stopping, and the militiamen jumped out of the car and couldn't help but say that they arrested Wang Huanhuan first. Then, they put up slogans and loudspeakers everywhere in the village to create revolutionary public opinion. The slogans of the commune's female announcer full of revolutionary fervor immediately sounded: "Unswervingly take the socialist road!" "The wheel of history cannot be reversed!" "If you do not block the road of capitalism, you will not be able to take a step forward in socialism!" "Long live the dictatorship of the proletariat!" and so on.

Wang Huanhuan refused to admit that there was such a thing as dividing the land and guaranteeing the property, and Lao Qi ordered Wang Huanhuan to be hung up, slammed the table and smashed the bench, and said: "Wang Huanhuan, I am not afraid that you will not say it! If you don't say it one day on a dog day, I will hang you for one day, and if you don't say it for two days, I will hang you for two days! I still don't believe that the 38 households in Baishuigou are the same as your dog days, and they are taking the capitalist road with an iron heart! I still don't believe that this Baishuigou is not the world of the fucking Communist Party!"

Wang Huanhuan struggled to raise his head, pitiful, but very stubbornly quibbled: "Secretary Qi, you ...... Your old man has really wronged me and the villagers, how dare we divide the land! Liu Shengli, secretary of the county Youth League Committee, has just come to us to conduct an investigation. If you don't believe me, you old man can ask Liu Shengli ......"

Lao Qi said: "Don't mention Liu Shengli to me on your dog day, she has been quarantined and censored by the county!"

After hanging all night, Wang Huanhuan still didn't move, but kept wailing, saying that he was going to die.

Lao Qi said: "It's good to die, even if you die, it's a martyrdom for capitalism!"

Also on this day and night, Chen Tao, secretary of the county Youth League Committee, and Qian Yuan, secretary of the Fangshan Commune Committee, came to do Liu Shengli's work at the behest of Geng Furen. Chen Tao faithfully carried out Geng Furen's will, and kept asking Liu Shengli to recognize his mistakes and make a profound examination, but Liu Shengli quarreled with Chen Tao in a fit of anger. Qian Yuan didn't want to come, but he was worried that Liu Shengli would suffer a loss if he went down, so he took the opportunity of "doing work" to look at Liu Shengli, and also persuaded Liu Shengli in front of others, saying that the educated youth were going back to the city anyway, and they couldn't be honest with Secretary Geng Furen. As soon as the staff left, Qian Yuan immediately asked Liu Shengli, what should I do next?

Liu Shengli said: "You have to think of saving Wang Huanhuan and them, if you don't do it, you will die!"

Qian Yuan looked at Liu Shengli and sighed: "Shengli, you are all harming others! What do you say?"

Liu Shengli said: "Now, I have only one way to go, and I am looking for my sixth grandfather, Sun Likun, who is the deputy secretary of the provincial party committee! Qian Yuan, you can quickly find me! At this moment, it seems that he is still in our Yangshan City, and he is dealing with an unjust case......

Qian Yuan hurriedly said: "Okay, I'll go back to Yangshan first, if Secretary Sun is not in Yangshan, I'll go to the provincial capital immediately!"

Parting, Liu Shengli confessed again: "My sixth grandfather doesn't know you, you drag my mother with you!"

Qian Yuan responded again and again, turned around and left, and found a large tractor in the commune that night, rushed to Yangshan City, and dragged Sun Chenghui to find Sun Likun's room in the guest house of the municipal party committee early in the morning. Unexpectedly, Sun Likun had left Yangshan two days ago. Qian Yuan and Sun Chenghui had to take a long-distance bus to the provincial capital. When I arrived at the provincial capital, I learned that Sun Likun was still in the Yangshan area, saying that he was conducting an investigation in Tangquan County, which is adjacent to Tianhe. The two had no choice but to turn around and go to Tangquan County again. After such a toss, it was already evening when I saw Sun Likun finish talking about the situation......