The midday sun hangs high in the sky, giving people a feeling of dryness and heat. In the past, at this time, most of the people in Kuzhu Village were still busy working in the fields and mountains, but today is different, Liu Caifa's door is surrounded by a circle of people.

For Zhu Cailiang, the executive deputy mayor of the town, today's conflict came too suddenly, and he didn't even react, and the matter has irretrievably deteriorated to the extreme.

Yesterday morning, Zhu Cailiang used a farm truck to send 11 people from the old group to Kuzhu Village. Several village cadres did not seem to welcome their arrival, and Lu Guofu, the village party secretary, said coldly: "In the past few days, you are the third batch, and the people want to scold us for being Huang Shiren!" However, in the final analysis, when it comes to work, a few village cadres are not ambiguous. Except for Lu Guofu who accompanied Zhu Cailiang to command at home, the other four village cadres each accompanied two or three town cadres to the door. They started with the Beibian Village Group, where Lu Guofu's family lived, and collected them from house to house according to the list on the old arrears form. At the end of the day, although it was noisy, the progress was quite smooth, and a total of more than 6,300 yuan in cash was received, as well as two big fat pigs and more than 1,000 catties of rice to pay off the debt. Of the 37 old debtors in the North Village Group, all but four of them worked outside the village, and all of them paid their old debts to a greater or lesser extent. If he has a good attitude, he is allowed to pay only the arrears of the last one or two years. If he has an arrogant attitude, he will treat him as a "nail household", concentrate his forces, forcibly lead pigs, pick up grain, and settle the old accounts of the past years.

According to the plan, I will go to Nanbian Village today to collect the debt. Zhu Cailiang estimated that he could go home after lunch. There are only 17 old debtors in the Nanbian Village group, less than half of yesterday's number. In the beginning, the seizure process proceeded normally. The villagers in the south were even more financially difficult, and in order to pay off their old debts of 200 or 300 yuan, several villagers had to temporarily go to their relatives' houses a few miles or even more than a dozen miles away to borrow money, and the town cadres had no choice but to take a step back and limit them to pay it off by 4 o'clock in the afternoon. Although the village on the south side and the village on the north side are separated by a river, the mountains and rice fields in the south village are worse than those in the north. On several occasions, the villagers in the south secretly went to the mountains in the north to cut bamboo and dig winter bamboo shoots, but they were caught by the villagers in the north and beaten and punished. Over the years, the lesson of "if there are few people, they will be beaten" have made them deeply realize that hard fists are the last word! There are many pigs arching the wall, and many people are kings. Who doesn't want their family to prosper? For more than a decade, not a single household in the south has undergone sterilization for a purely female household, on the contrary, it is common for them to have a few boys at any cost.

Liu Caifa is the one who would rather go bankrupt than have a son. When she gave birth to her second daughter, she was fined $700 for insufficient interval between births. The third daughter was purely overborn, and the town had to pay a fine of 2,000 yuan, but he only had 800, and the matter was unresolved for a long time. Fortunately, Kuzhu Village is remote, and the town is not tight. He felt that his luck in the past two years was more bad than in previous years. According to the fortune teller, it is called "the year is not going well". Last year, his wife was pregnant again, and he made up his mind that no matter how he gave birth, he couldn't cut off his children and grandchildren in his own hands. I haven't studied for a few years, but I still understand the truth that unfilial piety has three nos. For this reason, he asked his wife to hide at his uncle's house in Hunan, and lied to the outside world that he was working to avoid the ring pregnancy test of the town's family planning center. This is not inexpensive. He is both a father and a mother, the eldest of his three daughters is nine years old, and the youngest is only three years old. I really had no choice, so I asked a lady in her sixties to come over to help, cooking, washing clothes, feeding pigs, and herding cattle. But the old lady still has a lot of miscellaneous things at home, running up and down at both ends, tired and panting. He saw it in his eyes, hurt in his heart, and secretly prayed: God forbid giving birth to a son! One afternoon, he was bitten by a green snake with bamboo leaves while chopping bamboo, thinking it was a small problem, and asked the local snake doctor in the village to apply a little herb. At night, he began to feel dizzy, nauseous, bloated, and vomiting. Then, he vomited blood. It was only then that he realized that this was a snake that demanded his life! Late at night, he was taken to the county hospital in shock by poison. After several twists and turns, he finally escaped death. But it cost more than 1,000 yuan, which put this poor family in a difficult situation. After being discharged from the hospital, he soaked in the mountains almost every day, working day and night, cutting trees, cutting bamboo, carrying trees and bamboos for others. After a few months, the person lost weight and darkened, earned seven or eight hundred yuan of hard-earned money, and sold some late rice, and finally plugged the hole in the hospital. He thought that if he had a son, he would have to spend some money on nutritional products. Several daughters are in poor health, and the doctor said that the nutrition has not kept up. Besides, my wife didn't have a good confinement a few times before, so she has to make up for it this time. The old man said that if you sit well in confinement, you will naturally get better when you are sick. He was even ready to go to Hunan to take care of his wife and children. But in the end, it didn't work, and his wife gave birth prematurely and gave birth to a daughter. This news hit him too hard, and he couldn't eat or sleep well for seven or eight days in a row. Neither go up the mountain nor go down to the ground, and are bored at home in a daze. After more than 10 days, he went to the post and telecommunications office to make a phone call and asked his uncle to give away his newborn daughter on the spot, so that his wife could return home as soon as possible. After his wife returned, the family planning specialist in the village immediately came to the door to investigate the "smuggling of births". His wife did not defend herself, and took out a few certificates of ring pregnancy tests issued by the local family planning service in Hunan from her pocket. The family planning specialist pinched the proof and looked at it for a long time, and said: "Prove that I will hand it over to the town for you, but your youngest daughter is three years old, it is best to take the initiative, if you run into it again to clean up, I can no longer hide it." ”

Liu Caifa was about to take the initiative to go to the town family planning to finish the matter of the superbirth, and the town cadres came to the door one after another. The first group to visit the site was the Land Clearing Team. Liu Caifa built a kitchen next to the old house last year, more than 30 square meters, so naturally he didn't go through any formalities. Several cadres opened the large tape measure to measure left and right, took out a calculator and calculated, 36 square meters, 15 yuan per square meter, a total of 540 yuan.

"How can I have so much money?"

"No money? That demolished the house. ”

"It's dismantled, how can I get food?"

"That's your business, we can't help it, who wants to demolish someone's house!"

"It's too difficult for my family, let's pay half."

"Even if you find the king of heaven, it is impossible to avoid half of it, if you are less than forty, pay five hundred, and if you don't pay it, you can only do it."

Liu Caifa thought about it, and slowly took out 500 yuan from the bottom of the box and handed it over. He calculated, and the entire family only had 1,800 yuan left.

Only a day later, the second group of town cadres came to the door again.

Liu Caifa had long been ready to be punished, but he didn't expect to be fined 3,000 yuan. He felt wronged, how could something that could be solved by 1,000 yuan rise to 3,000 yuan three years ago? The whole family can't earn 3,000 yuan by working hard all year round!

Zhang Qiang, deputy secretary of the town party committee, is not very old, but he has rich experience in rural work, and he is a powerful character of "a seven-year-old cub who has been herding cattle for eight years". Because his father was the head of the Civil Affairs Bureau, after he was discharged from the army, he was directly assigned to work in the Matsushita Town Civil Affairs Office. Two years later, he was promoted to director. Later, the county party committee selected the township armed forces minister from among the veterans, and when his father was about to retire to the second line, he put Zhang Qiang's selection as a bargaining chip. As a result, 25-year-old Zhang Qiang became the youngest head of the township people's armed forces department in Ping'an County. Three years later, he was reappointed as executive deputy mayor. Last year, when the cadres were adjusted, he was transferred to the deputy secretary of the party committee of Xiangyang Town. Over the years, he has moved a few towns and villages, gained a lot of knowledge, and fought many difficult "tough battles".

Before coming to Liu Cai to make a fortune, Zhang Qiang led the team to win a battle. They found an unmarried pregnant partner in the North Village group, and after a few rounds, they were fined 800 yuan. By the standards of the time, the penalty should not have been so much, but the subject of family planning had to terminate the pregnancy. Most of the subjects would rather pay more money to go through the procedures, which can be regarded as a concession.

Zhang Qiang initially estimated that he could fine Liu Caifa 3,000 yuan, but immediately lowered the target price from 3,000 yuan to 2,000 yuan after arriving at the scene. This is a civil structure bungalow covering an area of 70 to 80 square meters, and the foot of the wall of the house is 50 to 60 centimeters made of broken bricks and gravel, and the top is built with "adobe bricks". Apparently, the house was built in the sixties or early seventies. To this day, not many people still live in this low, damp "adobe house". Negotiating with this kind of impoverished family planning object, there are not many bargaining chips that can hold the other party, and even if you demolish the house, he will not lose much. Despite this, they still offered a price of 3,000 yuan, putting on a posture of a lot of money.

Liu Caifa squeezed out a smile and said, "Cadre, my family is too poor, and I gave birth to a daughter, and I only have five hundred yuan in my hand, so you can take care of it." ”

The cadres of Bao Village scolded: "Liu Caifa, do you treat us as food?" ”

"Caifa, your family is in trouble, we know. However, you are the third child, and five hundred yuan is definitely less. If you really want to solve the problem, you should hurry up and raise money, and then talk to Secretary Zhang. "Lu Guofu came forward and diluted the mud.

Liu Caifa frowned: "Secretary Guofu, you know the roots." My wife was treating outside, and I was bitten by a snake again and almost died, where is the money?! ”

Zhang Qiang took two steps forward: "Lao Liu, do you mean that you want us to help you?" ”

Liu Caifa said in a low voice: "No, no! Secretary Zhang, don't be angry, you really don't have any money. ”

Zhang Qiang patted Liu Caifa on the shoulder: "Lao Liu, you have been delaying this question for a few years!" If you don't solve the problem, you have to be sincere, tell a solid number, and don't make us too embarrassed. ”

Liu Caifa thought about it and didn't say anything for a long time.

Lu Guofu said: "Caifa, Secretary Zhang takes care of you enough, you speak." ”

Liu Caifa's eyes were blank: "That's a thousand yuan, I really don't have any money." ”

Zhang Qiang said: "Liu Caifa, Liu Caifa, do you want to solve the problem?" To be honest, we don't want to knock bricks and tear down walls, you forced it! ”

Lu Guofu was afraid that Zhang Qiang would give an order, so he grabbed Zhang Qiang: "Secretary Zhang, wait, I'll talk to Caifa again." ”

After speaking, Lu Guofu pulled Liu Caifa aside and whispered.

Lu Guofu came back and said to Zhang Qiang: "Secretary Zhang, his family is really difficult, he can only get 1,200 yuan, do you see if it's ......?"

Zhang Qiang interrupted Lu Guofu's words: "It's a shame that you are still the village party secretary, one thousand and two is too outrageous." Two thousand can't be less, not enough for them to borrow, we'll wait. ”

Liu Caifa said indignantly: "Two thousand, I can't die, if you want to demolish it, you can demolish it!" ”

Zhang Qiang waved his hand: "Okay!" Clear! ”

Clearance is the preparation before demolishing the house, forcibly evicting the people in the house to avoid death.

As soon as the cadres broke into the house, Liu Caifa's wife and her three daughters knelt down together.

Lu Guofu was so anxious that he sweated: "Secretary Zhang, you can't demolish it, how can you live if you demolish their family?!" ”

Zhang Qiang was stunned and said, "Lift up, help up!" ”

Zhang Qiang gently patted his forehead to calm himself down, and said to Lu Guofu: "Who wants to demolish the house, but he also has to give us the stairs and ask him to pay 15,000, and the matter is over." ”

Liu Caifa's hands trembled as he counted the money, and his eyes were full of tears. The Dragon Boat Festival is about to be celebrated, and there are only two or three hundred yuan left at the bottom of the box, how to live the day?

Murphy's Law says that if something is likely to go bad, no matter how small that likelihood, it will always happen. This well-known statement originated in the West also applied to Liu Caifa, and on the third day, another group of town cadres came to the door.

When the old arrears group was in the northern village to clear the township and coordinate the village to stay, Liu Caifa sat at home and calculated an account. His family was in arrears of 63 yuan in previous years, and this year he handed in about 180 yuan. It's all paid off, and there's not much left. Pay less, and you will be able to get by next month's Dragon Boat Festival.

After breakfast, Huang Shuilong, deputy mayor of the town, Xiao Li, Xiao Gao, and Lao Zhang, the accountant of the village committee, came to Liu Caifa's house. Lao Zhang finished reporting the numbers, and the problem came out. Liu Caifa's old arrears last year became 78 yuan, and this year's payable has also increased by 15 yuan, to 195 yuan. Lao Zhang said that because some villagers complained, Liu Caifa's youngest daughter's capitation fee was added.

At the beginning of the dispute, there was a strong smell of gunpowder, and Liu Caifa said angrily: "You still don't let people live?!" My daughter's matter was dealt with only the day before yesterday, why did she add a capitation fee?! ”

Lao Zhang said: "A few years ago, someone sued you, saying that we concealed your violation of family planning, and we had no choice but to increase your capitation fee last year. ”

Huang Shuilong took the initiative to take a step back: "Liu Caifa, your family is indeed in difficulty. Either the thirty yuan will be put down for the time being, and you can pay the rest of the money. ”

Liu Caiyang raised his chin: "How can I have so much money?" Besides, so many people haven't paid it off, why should I? ”

Xiao Li stepped forward, stared at Liu Caifa and yelled: "You say, who didn't pay it off!" Say! ”

Liu Caifa did not show weakness: "Anyway, someone didn't pay it off." ”

Huang Shuilong said: "Since that's the case, then I'll take care of your business today, and I don't care about other people's affairs." ”

Xiao Li said: "If you have money to pay, if you don't have money, we will start picking grain and pulling pigs!" ”

Liu Caifa stepped back, picked up the sickle from the corner of the wall, lay across the barn, and shouted: "You force me so much, it's a big deal, I think who has the ability?!" ”

"What a hero!" After Xiao Li finished speaking, he rushed up to grab the sickle.

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A few minutes later, Liu Caifa came out with a long gun, his eyes showed a fierce light, and he yelled: "Lao Tzu beat you corrupt officials and bastards to death!" ”

Seeing this, Huang Shuilong and Lao Zhang hurriedly pulled Xiao Li and Xiao Gao and ran.

After Zhu Cailiang heard about it, he took Liao Wenhua and Lu Guofu to Liu Cai to make a fortune.

Huang Shuilong looked panicked: "That guy has red eyes, it's too dangerous to pass at this time." ”

"You are the party, going will stimulate conflicts, it doesn't matter if we go, we have to open the gun early." Zhu Cailiang felt that it was not so strict.

When he came to the scene, Zhu Cailiang found that the actual situation was stricter than expected. As soon as they approached Liu's house, they heard a broken shout: "Who comes and kills whom!" Liu Caifa stood at the gate of his house, holding a long hunting gun in his hand.

Lu Guofu begged: "Caifa, don't do stupid things!" If you have something to say slowly, there is no hurdle that you can't get over. Put down the gun, Mayor Zhu is here. ”

Liu Caifa roared: "I was forced to suffer by you. Don't come over, whoever takes a step forward, I will kill whoever is dead, it's a big deal! ”

At this time, there were more and more onlookers. Zhu Cailiang asked Liao Wenhua to call Zhu Yuan's forest farm a few miles away, and asked the village cadres to invite Liu Caifa's mother.

After listening to the briefing, Tan Yangchun took out a cigarette and scattered: "Let's talk about it, how to get it?" ”

Liao Wenhua said: "The branch director is not afraid of a gun, and a hunting gun can still do a gun......"

Tan Yangchun interrupted him: "What do you mean, you still want to go in?" It doesn't matter if I'm the secretary or not, you don't know the lethality of the long gun, how many people have suffered? The police station is not here to do anything, but to prepare for the worst. Either let Liu Caifa's wife persuade him, saying that we will not hold him accountable and let him put down Chang Gong. ”

Huang Shuilong said: "He slashed Xiao Li, so forget it?" Whoever dares to do something next time, I'm afraid that next time there will be more people who will use guns and knives against us. ”

Tan Yangchun scolded: "You pig head, you don't understand my words!" ”

Huang Shuilong suddenly realized: "Oh, I see. ”

According to their plan, stabilize Liu Caifa first, and then control and bring him back to the police station when he gets closer. However, things did not develop in the direction designed by Tan Yangchun. Liu Caifa listened to the old lady's words and agreed to negotiate, but designated to talk to Tan Yangchun alone.

It was a dilapidated adobe house, and the hall was opaque and dark. Tan Yangchun was in the sun just now, and suddenly walked in, and his eyes were dark. It took a while before I saw a small beam of sunlight shining through the roof. He rubbed his eyes, only to notice that the sunlight had fallen on a puddle of water underground. It seems that yesterday's heavy rain leaked in. The house leaked on all sides and hissed. The hall was empty except for a black table of eight immortals and a few broken benches. His eyes were hot, and a sour feeling slipped through his heart, the officials forced the people to rebel. I can't help but feel compassion, I am also a bitter child, and some farmers are too bitter.

Tan Yangchun rose and fell and let Liu Caifa go. Liu Caifa promised to take the initiative to go to the police station to be dealt with in a few days. At the same time, the arrears of co-ordination and retention will be settled.

It was the first time for Yuan Jinpeng to experience such a fierce conflict scene, and he admired Tan Yangchun's calmness, composure, and sophistication from the bottom of his bones. The reason why Tan Yangchun decided not to arrest Liu Caifa was not only because he pitied him, but also because he saw his wife carrying a pesticide bottle in her hand, and her eyes were full of tears, and she was afraid of causing trouble. The reason why he insisted on Liu Caifa handing over the arrears of the overall planning and retention was that he was afraid that the people would say that the town government was bullying the weak and afraid of the hard, which would cause a chain reaction and that the work would not be able to be done in the future. Of course, he also felt that it was a failure to arrange for several groups of cadres to come to the door in turn to forcibly collect money, and that the same group of people should collect all kinds of arrears as appropriate. No matter how you say it, you can't drive people to a dead end! It's too hard in the countryside! The peasants are too bitter! Their own salary, the entertainment expenses of the unit, and the car fare, which one is not paid by the people for a penny?