Chapter 710: A Dead Face
None of us thought that the innkeeper would be able to say the word "dead", and this boss must not be simple......
At this time, I saw Uncle Li frowning and said, "A dead face, why can't we see it?"
The innkeeper smiled and said, "Of course you can't see it, but I can see that those people are full of bad luck, and the two fires on their shoulders have long been extinguished, and they must have recruited something unclean to get on the bus! ”
As soon as I heard that the innkeeper knew a lot, I asked him if he was a local here? The owner smiled and said that he was a native and had been farming at home before opening this inn. Later, he engaged in tourism here, so he changed his house to the current homestay.
So I asked him, "Then who taught you how to see things?"
The innkeeper waved his hand again and again and said, "I really don't know how to see things, it's just that I have been weak since I was a child, and it is easy to see these unclean things...... But this ability to occasionally see the bad luck in people has been there until now. ”
When Uncle Li heard this, he whispered to me, "This guy is born with yin and yang eyes, so he can see those things......"
I nodded to him, and then asked the innkeeper, "Since you can see these things, tell us if anything scary has happened to this pear tree ditch before?"
When the innkeeper saw that the three of us were interested in these things, he made us a pot of tea, and then said with a mysterious face, "If you like to hear such stories, then I have quite a few here, do you want to hear that Widow Li committed suicide by throwing herself into a well, or do you want to hear that Wang Erzhu was killed by lightning?"
When I heard it, it felt like a story about rural eroticism? So I hurriedly said to him, "Forget it! Are there any stories that are a little older and quite sensational at the time?"
When the innkeeper heard me ask, he frowned and said, "I want to think about it...... Not to mention, I heard my second uncle tell me such a thing, it happened when I was in the seventies, but this story is a bit long, I don't know if you are interested?"
As soon as I heard that there was a door, I said excitedly, "Okay, it just so happens that we are fine in the evening, shall we buy a few packets of peanuts from you, and have some beer, and we will talk while we eat?"
When the innkeeper heard me say this, he immediately said, "All right!" and got up and went to the counter to get a few packets of drunkard peanuts and a wad of beer.
In the innkeeper's own words, he is also a rare guest like us, and today he will tell us about the historical event that happened in Lishugou back then......
According to the innkeeper, this incident should have happened in the early seventies, because he was not born at that time, so it is not clear what year it was, which was later told by his second uncle.
At that time, Lishugou was a small village in the mountains, and there were few literate people in the whole village except for an old Chinese medicine doctor surnamed Gong. But later, the intellectuals went to the mountains and the countryside, and a group of intellectuals from the city were inserted into their Lishugou brigade.
At that time, Lishugou was too poor, and every house was small and dilapidated, so there was no way to accommodate so many educated youths, so the village simply repaired a dilapidated warehouse that was about to become a dilapidated house, and then separated it from it and used it as a dormitory for these educated youths.
Although these educated youths were arranged from above, their rations were not allocated. Therefore, if they want to have food, these young intellectuals have to go to the fields and farm with the people in the village. At first, these educated youths from the city couldn't do any farm work, but after a long time, they could do everything......
Although these educated youths are all from the city, their family composition is different, and one of them, Ma Yanyan, is the daughter of a big capitalist, so she has no status among these educated youth. The male intellectuals are okay to say, especially the female intellectuals who live together, they always gang up to bully Ma Yanyan.
One year, there was a severe drought in Lishugou, and the grain production in the field was reduced, and every household did not receive much rations. Rural people know how to eat food and eat it according to their calculations, and when the ration is low, they will drink porridge at a meal, how can they make do with it until the next year.
However, these educated youths were very anxious, only cared about the present, refused to drink a thin meal, and within a few months they ate all the rations distributed to them by the brigade. Now that they were going to run out of food in a few days, they knew what it was like to be hungry......
Among the educated youth, there was a girl named Hu Xiaomei who was the captain of the female educated youth, and she thought that it was impossible to go on like this, so she went to Liu Wangtian, the village party secretary at the time, to borrow grain.
But when Hu Xiaomei went for the first time, she was blocked by Liu Wangtian, after all, no one has any surplus grain! If more of the grain in the village is distributed to the educated youth, then some people in the village will be hungry!
Although Hu Xiaomei was angry, there was no good way, who let them eat up the food first? After she came back, she went to Liao Sijie, the captain of the male educated youth, to discuss and see where else she could go to get some food.
As a result, the two went to the township to beg around, but no one could pick out the extra food in their mouths, and finally had to return to Lishugou on an empty stomach. Who knew that when all the educated youths were hungry and their eyes glowed blue that night, Liu Guitian, the village accountant, found Hu Xiaomei.
Accountant Liu told Hu Xiaomei that in fact, the party secretary's family had surplus grain, because the village party secretary's family made wine, so he saved some old grain from previous years. As long as he agrees to take it out for the educated youth, he can make do with it until tomorrow if he saves some food.
Hu Xiaomei knew that Accountant Liu would not talk to him about this at this time for no reason, and since he was willing to tell him about the food in the branch secretary's house, he would definitely put forward any exchange conditions.
So she asked Accountant Liu directly, how could she let the branch secretary lend them the family's grain reserves, after all, when she went to borrow grain for the first time, the branch secretary simply refused herself.
Accountant Liu smiled when he heard this, and then whispered a few words in Hu Xiaomei's ear. Hu Xiaomei's face suddenly changed after hearing this, and she blushed and didn't know what to say.
This Accountant Liu saw Hu Xiaomei's reaction, and said indifferently, "It's okay if you don't agree, anyway, it's just the two of us now, no one will believe you if you say it, but if you can do it...... The branch secretary can say that he will guarantee that your food rations will be enough until next year's food! Think about it yourself!"