Chapter 66: Rural Hatred, What Is It Like to Turn Away from Enemies (Part I)
After receiving the phone call, Zhou Ziyuan was a little nervous. The governor is coming to Lingang Town, not the vice governor, but the governor of Shangguan Liming. Referring to the tone of the official media, this is a major event in the life of the people of Lingang Town. It has been eight years since the last time the governor visited Ping'an County. In the past eight years, when the governor of the province inspected Ping'an County, people will think of the "kneeling under the snow" incident in Lingang Town. It was a winter day near the end of the year, and the sky was covered with goose feathers and heavy snow, spreading a thick layer on the ground. The governor and his entourage came to the homes of several poor households to "send warmth", and when they were about to return, they saw more than a dozen people kneeling on the snow in front of the car, and pieces of snowflakes fell on their heads, all of them becoming pulsatillas. The governor was not surprised, and strode forward to meet them, and helped up the several old men kneeling in front of him one by one.
Zhou Ziyuan's heart disease is a group petition such as "kneeling under the snow". The terrain of Lingang Town is gentle, the largest Ping'an River in the county passes through, and the abundant river water makes this place fertile and 10,000 acres, becoming the largest granary in Ping'an County. The Ping'an River flows from west to east, dividing Lingang Town into two parts, north and south. When it flows through Wangjia Village and Baojia Village, the river is the widest, about 50 or 60 meters. Wangjia Village is located in the north of the Ping'an River, the whole village has more than 3,000 people, and Wang Anshi's younger brother - Wang Anli, the Duke of Wei in the Northern Song Dynasty, is the ancestor. On the other side of the river is Baojia Village, which has more than 2,000 people, claiming to be the descendants of Bao Qingtian and Bao Zheng. According to genealogical records, the surname Wang migrated here in the late Southern Song Dynasty, and the surname Bao did not begin to settle on the south bank of the Ping'an River until the middle of the Yuan Dynasty. Thousands of people live across the river, and it is inevitable that there will be some bumps. In history, the surnames Wang and Bao have had several powerful clan fights, with countless casualties. Before liberation, the two surnames Wang and Bao did not intermarry with each other, and it can be said that the voices of chickens and dogs do not communicate with each other. This situation finally came to an end in the fifties of the last century, when the "Marriage Law" of the new China supported the boys and girls, and the powerful patriarchal law collapsed. With the emergence of two capable people, Wangjia Village and Baojia Village entered the honeymoon period. They are Wang Mingde, the village party secretary of Wangjia Village, and Bao Sanli, the village party secretary of Baojia Village. Wang Mingde and Bao Sanli were high school classmates, and after graduation, they joined the army together and went to Tianjin, and after being discharged from the army, they each returned to the village, and soon became the militia battalion commander of the village committee. After another seven or eight years, the two of them stepped into the post of village party secretary one after another. It was the mid-nineties, and there was a lot of noise everywhere. The most popular saying is that the village party secretary should be the leader of getting rich and well-off, and he will get rich first. However, most of the peasants in the village still stubbornly "dig gold in the soil" and engage in some greenhouse vegetables or other cash crops in addition to rice, which is called a variety of operations. In the countryside, people who have been soldiers have seen the world, Wang Mingde and Bao Sanli have nothing to do as village party secretaries, but they don't have much income, so they can't help but make some business. First he sold vegetables in a small way, then he raised ducks, then he raised pigs. In the end, they found that pig farming was not as good as selling pigs, so they made pig sales their main business. No matter what business you do, there is one thing that remains the same, that is, the close cooperation between Wang Mingde and Bao Sanli. They are classmates, comrades-in-arms, and village party secretaries, and they are all tied together for any good thing. Wang Mingde and Bao Sanli's pig sales became bigger and bigger, first tossing in Lingang Town, and slowly monopolizing the purchase of live pigs in the surrounding three or five towns. Later, they became the largest pig dealers in the county, and more than half of the pigs in the county were continuously transported to Guangdong through their hands. After a few years, they pushed their relationship one step further with the common desire of "going further" and became in-laws of their children. Just a few years later, they found out that it was the most mentally retarded decision. Who would have thought that marriage would be the beginning of turning against each other.
The story is very similar to the bloody plot in a romance drama, and the biggest difference is that this is real life. Bao Sanli's daughter Bao Jasmine lived happily after marrying into the Wang family, and became pregnant smoothly. The due date was approaching, Wang Mingde put out the "birth wine" with great fanfare according to local customs, and Bao Sanli drank red face, burped, and went home with a beer belly. A few days later, Bao Jasmine accidentally discovered that her husband Wang Manqiang's underwear had a long hair sticking to it, and a long hair dyed blue. There are quite a few fashionable girls in the village who dye their hair, but most of them are red. It's rare for anyone to dye their hair blue. Bao Jasmine meditated hard and thought of her junior high school classmate, Yang Ruolan from the neighboring village Yangjia Village. In Lingang Town, only this besuming woman dyed her hair red and blue. So, she thought of Wang Manqiang and Yang Ruolan's abnormalities, and the more she thought about it, the more suspicious she felt. She didn't alarm Wang Manqiang, and quietly found Yang Ruolan, ready to test it. Yang Ruolan is different from other girls, dare to love and hate, dare to act, and when she saw Bao Jasmine coming to the door, she felt that the paper couldn't hold the fire, so she immediately admitted it, and even said something about how she fell in love with Wang Manqiang and eventually became a lover. Bao Jasmine is soft on the outside and rigid on the inside, and when she gets home, she doesn't settle accounts with Wang Manqiang, she just picks up the pesticide and drinks it, and when the family finds out, it is too late to rescue, and she has a tragedy of one corpse and two lives.
As soon as Bao Jasmine died, how did she know what a big wave her death would set off in other people's lives! Bao Sanli can endure anything, but in the face of his daughter's unjust death, he can't help it anymore! In line with the philosophy of valuing harmony and treating people leniently, he tried his best to be sloppy, so as not to be seen by others as jokes, and made every effort to maintain the friendly relationship between him and Wang Mingde and even between Baojia Village and Wangjia Village. I remember one year when I sold pigs to Guangdong, I encountered robbers on the way back with the truck, and the money was robbed. Because it was not the first time he was robbed, he vaguely remembered that Wang Mingde divided the payment into two places at that time, and only one of them was robbed, but after Wang Mingde returned to the village, he insisted that all the money was robbed. Bao Sanli was suspicious in his heart, but he didn't want to tear his face more seriously, so he had to admit that he was unlucky. Since he became the village party secretary, whenever there was a dispute between the villagers of the two villages over irrigation water, he always mobilized the villagers to take a step back and settle the matter, so that the villagers scolded him for being "soft bones" behind his back, and even he himself felt that the villagers were not wronged. This time, he couldn't help it anymore, he had a son and a daughter, the daughter was smart and beautiful, he regarded it as a pearl in his palm, and now he was dead, how could he sit idly by as a father?!
The conflict took place after Jasmine Bao's burial. Bao Sanli must endure until this time, according to custom, the daughter who marries cannot be buried on the ancestral grave mountain of his family. Even if Bao Jasmine has a deep hatred with the Wang family, she must be buried on the ancestral grave mountain of the Wang family, which is the fate that Bao Jasmine cannot escape. Bao Sanli led dozens of strong men in his family to break into Yangjia Village, two miles away, and went straight to the home of the "little goblin" Yang Ruolan. There are only more than 400 people in Yangjia Village, and in the face of the menacing Bao Jiajun, most people choose to remain silent and watch. Behind these dozens of Baojia men are more than 2,000 people in Baojia Village! It has almost become a law that the big village eats the small village, and the big surname suppresses the small surname, which has rarely changed for thousands of years - unless there are big people in the small village. The final result was that Yang Ruolan's house was smashed to pieces, and the three big fat pigs in the pigsty were taken captive. After Bao Sanli finished venting, he took a group of people away.
No matter what, Wang Manqiang and Wang Mingde were unscathed. Bao Sanli is still enduring it, in front of his old classmates and old comrades-in-arms, he really can't tear his face. It wasn't until half a year later, when Wang Manqiang and Yang Ruolan's wedding was vigorous, Bao Sanli felt that if he didn't make a move, he would be a thousand-year-old turtle. Wearing the hat of the old turtle, what face do you have to summon three drinks and four in Baojia Village, and point fingers? That's the way it is in the countryside, and a lot of times, you don't have much of a choice.
Yangjia Village is adjacent to Baojia Village, south of the Ping'an River, and Wangjia Village is on the north of the Ping'an River. When Wang Manqiang's welcoming party passed by the road at the entrance of Baojia Village, a huge group fight quickly began. Bao Sanli came prepared, dozens of young and strong students were holding long sticks and short sticks one by one, and Wang Manqiang and his entourage were mostly red envelopes, candy, and firecrackers in their hands. However, this seemingly glamorous victory was only the beginning of bad luck for Bao Sanli. Things didn't grasp the right proportion, and it got a big fuss. Wang Manqiang had a leg broken, and the bride Yang Ruolan was beaten to a concussion. Wang Mingde was furious, I, Wang Mingde, am also a figure when I look at Ping'an County, how can I suffer this great shame! put the words on the spot: discount one leg of my son, you must break two legs if you package Sanli!
Bao Sanli was a little regretful and a little timid. He knows Wang Mingde too well, this person is rude and domineering, fearless, and unscrupulous. In the midst of anxiety, he and Wang Mingde's business for more than ten years was dismantled, and then he was dismissed as the village party secretary. He thought he had paid enough and that was the end of the matter. Unexpectedly, one evening a few months later, he was taken into a van without license plates on the road at the entrance of the village, and when he threw it out, both knees were shattered and his hamstrings were broken. However, after several twists and turns, the case eventually became headless. So far, Baojia Village has one less village party secretary and one more down-and-out old man on crutches to petition everywhere.
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