In the land reform, there are clear policy boundaries for dividing class elements. Jiang'an County stipulates that the per capita cultivated land is more than three mu, and the main source of livelihood (more than 50%) comes from the exploitation of landlords; 1.5 to 3 acres of cultivated land per capita, with a small amount of land rented or employed, and part (up to 25%) of the source of subsistence comes from exploitation, which should be classified as rich peasants; If the per capita cultivated land is less than 1.5 mu, and a small amount of exploitation should be classified as rich middle peasants.

Since socio-economic activities are in a dynamic state of flux, all data are taken as averages of the three years prior to the land reform.

In the year of the land reform, the Jiang family of nine people had 14 acres of land, with more than 1.5 acres of cultivated land per capita. However, according to the dynamic average calculation, three years ago, the Jiang family bought eight acres of land and bought six acres of land for one and a half years (during this period, another person was added), according to which the per capita cultivated land was converted into 1.2 acres; In the first two years, the source of subsistence was all dependent on the labor of Wangfa's father and son, and the employment rate was less than one year, and the conversion rate was 15%, which was a "small amount of exploitation", and should be classified as a wealthy middle peasant.

The decision on how to calculate and decide lies with the land reform task force.

Three members of the Pailou Village Land Reform Task Force. Captain Xu Qihu, young man Xiao Li Xiaowang is less than twenty years old. Xiao Wang graduated from high school, Xiao Li and Li Chengjun studied in junior high school for a year, and he was definitely an intellectual at that time. They have just graduated from the county training camp.

Xu Qihu is less than thirty years old. Although it is a tiger in its name, it does not have the majestic appearance of the king of beasts, but it has a bit of a lewd image of a jackal - the eyes on the knife face are as sharp as a cone, there is a long scar on the right chin, and he bites his lower lip aggressively. Regardless of cold or summer, he wears a gray military hat to show off his history as a soldier.

His father was a farmer in his early years, and in his spare time he ganged up with others to sell illicit salt from the seaside, and when he was three years old, he was shot and killed by anti-smuggling smuggling teams. He is lazy and temperamental, and his body is often beaten by his stepfather to be bruised and purple, he eats without a meal, and wears tattered clothes and exposed flesh. One day, after being beaten by his stepfather, he packed up his clothes, packed up his luggage, and left home with his back. Stealing stepfather's precious copper hookah when he left.

None of his relatives wanted to take him in: first, he was taboo to take his father and mother's "hard life", for fear that he would also be "killed"; The second is that this child has a strong temper and is disobedient, and he can't bite his lower lip with his upper teeth at every turn, and he looks disgusting. The distant bachelor uncle took pity on him and took him to help the owner feed the cattle, and said that he would only take care of the food and not pay for it.

Ended wandering and begging, three meals a day, the wind does not blow and the rain does not rain during the day, and there is a cover at night, but Xu Qihu does not work well: when the forage is not mixed evenly and the cow is not allowed to drink, the cow will lose fat in half a month. What's even more annoying is that the owner has an explanation, no matter what, he has to get up and pee at night, he is afraid that he will be too lazy to be cold, and the cow will pee on the bedding. In the morning, the proprietor saw that the cow was shivering from the cold, and the belly that had been soaked in urine for a long time was leprosy, and it was bloody on the stake. On Chinese New Year's Eve, the maid cooked two fish, and after the sacrifice to Vesta, there was one less in a blink of an eye. When I asked him, he said that the cat had run away, and in the middle of the night my uncle saw that he had taken it out of the bucket and ate it deliciously. After the New Year, the owner sent him away.

Twelve-year-old Xu Qihu wandered and begged again, and was soon taken in by a group of bandits, who were in charge of stepping on the sentry and spreading the news. He is small and clever, bold and fast-paced, and is deeply appreciated by the bandit leader, and he is rewarded a lot of money for eating and drinking spicy food, and he is happy and happy. During this time, he was arrested by the government once, he refused to recruit an accomplice, and the officer raised a knife and pretended to kill his head, and he was cut off in the right jaw and blood flowed from his head. He pretended to be dead and fell, and escaped by breaking the rope in the middle of the night, leaving this inch-long scar on his chin, which became a permanent memorial of his unyielding loyalty.

The crockpot will inevitably be broken, and robbing homes is not a long-term occupation after all. Later, the government exterminated this bandit, and the bandits scattered. Xu Qihu was imprisoned again, and he was only fifteen years old that year.

He was locked up in the same number as the squad leader Song of the military region. Song Ban was shot in the thigh and captured, and was beaten to the point that his skin and flesh were open and dying. Xiao Qihu fed soup and water to win his trust, and he often talked about the truth that the poor people united and turned over to seek liberation. Squad leader Song's wound was better and he was able to move a little, and he got an iron nail from nowhere, and groped for the crack in the bricks at the foot of the wall of the cell in the dead of night. began to hide from Xiao Xu himself, Xu Qihu pretended not to know; Later, the clever Xiao Xu looked out for him, and took the initiative to replace him to rest and help pick it, and the progress was greatly accelerated. The thick wall of four bricks finally cut through a hole, and after two days of hard work, it is estimated that people can get out.

On that day, the atmosphere was suddenly tense, and the prison guards handcuffed a prisoner who had colluded with others in an attempt to abscond, threatened to report to Shangfeng to be shot, and announced that the informant would be punished lightly. Xu Qihu was in a daze for a while and thought to himself: It's hard to say whether you can escape by digging open the hole in the wall, and if you catch it, you will definitely die, why don't I ......

That night, three prison guards rushed into the horn like wolves, searched out iron nails from under the pillow of the Song squad leader, and found the bricks cut at the foot of the wall, and dragged him out of the door to correct the law. Xu Qihu was released after dawn after the whistleblower. Before the execution, squad leader Song's eyes were like two sharp swords, and he gritted his teeth and scolded him, "Little beast!" For many years, my heart trembled when I thought about it!

Xu Qihu wandered for months without a place to stay. Later, he had an idea, and found the district team where the Song squad leader was before his death, and signed up for the army as a bitter and bitter orphan. He concealed his experience of being a bandit, and only said that he was hungry and was arrested for stealing baked cakes, and he fed soup and medicine to the Song squad leader in the trumpet, and how to be educated to have the consciousness to join the army. also made up a story of Song squad leader snatching and escaping from prison and being killed. Who would have thought that this fifteen-year-old boy was a shameless whistleblower?

After Xu Qihu joined the army, he dared to fight, but the bandits' habits were difficult to change, and he often violated discipline. As soon as he returned to the rich man's house to collect grain, he hid an ingot, and hooked up with the fat girl of the helper, and the troops transferred to think that he had deserted. When the matter was revealed, the captain wanted to fire him, and he confessed his mistake with a handful of snot and tears, and handed over the gold ingots he had in his private possession.

He "plopped" and knelt down: I am homeless. If you drive me away, the stubborn army will capture the strong man within three days. The captain remembered that he was brave in battle, and remembered a big demerit for him to make meritorious service. After 12 years as a soldier, he only served as a platoon deputy before he was transferred, and the "little ghost" who was later than him was already the regiment commander.

The land reform task force is in charge of class-based elements, and the land is divided into agricultural tools and floating wealth.

Another struggle will end, and it will be dark. Xu Qihu broke away from Xiao Wang Xiaoli, and Jiang Wangfa and his son brought it into the west hut of the village office. After a few sneers, he politely asked the father and son to sit down and talk.

Xu Qihu has something to say: Your family is so rich that you are oily! I bought two fields in three years, and I can't compare to any of them today. After a pause, he asked, "It's going to be divided into parts, what are you going to do?"

Jiang Wangfa cried with a sad face: What is rich, Captain Xu! I bought a few acres of thin fields with frugality, and I owed a lot of debts to pay off......

His son Jiang Qingyu listened to Xu Qihu's voice and realized what the other party was planning, so he cautiously asked tentatively: Captain Xu, there is a policy at the top of the group, and the government has the final say?

Policy dead people live. Policies are not implemented by people? Xu Qihu's eyes flashed with a sly light, and he paced in the darkness with his hands behind his back: it was not the government that had the final say, it was the people in power in the government who had the final say.

Captain Xu, the scene of my family was dug out of the soil by the sun above my head, and it was picked out between my teeth...... Lao Wangfa pleaded bitterly.

Xu Qihu looked out of the door, the courtyard was as silent as death, he closed the door and lit the kerosene lamp.

The kerosene lamp flame illuminates the scar on Xu Qihu's face. He lowered his voice and inspired: Policy is a strip, not a thread. If you press down, you can draw rich middle peasants, and if you lift up, you can draw rich peasants, and it is not impossible to draw landlords! But...... Why should I help you with such a big thing?

The air froze, and the black smoke from the kerosene lamps flowed upwards.

Lao Wangfa stopped crying poor. Jiang Qingyu was so stunned that he didn't know what to say.

Xu Qihu was impatient, pulled out the pocket watch in his pocket and glanced at it, and yelled at Jiang Wang, who was pleading hard: What kind of poor are you crying, you are poorer than me? Buy a field and buy a big cow, and the gold bars and gold ingots may be hidden for many miles! You have the money to buy a coffin, but you don't have the money to grab medicine to eat! Go ahead and go home and think about the bargain! ”

When he was about to go out, Jiang Wangfa was still begging Captain Xu to raise his hand, but Xu Qihu broke off and shouted, "Get out!" Jiang Qingyu broke out in a cold sweat.

The father and son stumbled home, the two smoking pots flashed and flickered, and sighed and sat for half a night.

Wangfa understood that Xu Qihu wanted to cheat him out of money. But ignoring it is not good to ignore it, and now he holds the sky in Pailou Village; Let's do it, what about gold bars and gold ingots?

Qingyu said ruthlessly: Father, it's a blessing or a curse, and you can't avoid it. I don't believe in unreasonable! Tomorrow I will go to the township and ask about the policy. **As soon as he sat in the world, his surname Xu dared to come nonsense, so he didn't learn from the Kuomintang?

Never! Jiang Wangfa said: The ancients said that it is better to offend ten gentlemen than to offend a villain, and the little ghost must always be sent when he comes to the door. He knocked the cigarette pot on the sole of his shoe and made up his mind and said: Give him a few pieces of jewelry that Le Sheng's mother married, but beg him not to be difficult for me in the future.

Father, I heard that the surname Xu is going to settle down in Pailou Village. The days to come will be long, this time let him taste the sweetness, how can he get the door when he is greedy in the future? The country is so hard to fight for a long time! Jiang Qingyu expressed his worries.

This family event is still the old man's decision: look at the front first, take a step and look at the step. The old man instructed his son to give Xu Qihu a silver hairpin, a pair of gold earrings, and a gold-filled ring tomorrow.

The rooster crowed three times, and the father and son went to bed. Wangfa tossed and turned and couldn't sleep, sighing one after another. The old man regretted that he shouldn't have bought the Zhou family's land at the beginning, and he didn't have the six acres of land he bought later, and he was sure of the middle peasant component, how could he cause this trouble?

He hated Zhou Monkey very much, the neighbor has been for thirty years, you old thing is afraid of land reform and field division, and lure me into the bait with a cheap price, which is not shallow!

I only blame myself for not being educated and ignorant of the world, and I was the two "second-rate" people in my family last week! I don't talk about Qingyu when I'm old, and I want to train my grandson Lesheng into a cultural person......

Thinking of his grandson Jiang Lesheng, Lao Wangfa's heart warmed. Last year, his son Qingyu left home to go to the city to eat rice, and he held the invitation card of "Your Parents' Taiwan Photo" and went to Pailou Primary School to participate in the parent-teacher meeting. Principal Jiang Lepu said to him: Daddy, there are more than 100 students in the fifth grade of the school, and my Lesheng brothers are talented. You have to cultivate it carefully, don't waste this good material.

Wangfa old man's heart was in turmoil. Get up and take out an oiled paper bag from the crack in the rafters of the roof, take out the contents of the bag, approach the window and write a few words with a pencil in the moonlight, take out an empty medicine bottle from the pillow and stuff it, and bury it at the foot of the wall next to the bed. After doing all this in an extremely mysterious way, he seemed to have a thought, went to bed and fell asleep in a daze.

At noon the next day, Jiang Qingyu saw Xiao Wang Xiaoli leave the village from a distance, hurriedly wrapped three pieces of jewelry in an old handkerchief and tucked them around his waist, and entered the village office in three steps and two steps. I saw Xu Qihu alone, as if he was waiting for someone. He took out his jewelry bag and whispered: Captain Xu, these are a few things for the child's mother, give it to your Xiaofeng. That's all, no more.

Xiaofeng is Xu Qihu's new wife Gou Xiaofeng.

Xu Qihu broke away from Xiao Wang Xiaoli at this time, just waiting for the fish to take the bait. Seeing Jiang Qingyu looking around and hurriedly walking, he knew that last night's lecture had been effective. He took Jiang Qingyu's things and checked them, put them in the drawer without saying a word, and waved his hand to urge him to leave quickly. Jiang Qingyu turned around and swore an oath: The conscience of heaven and earth, this is all there is to my family. Xu Qihu snorted and hurriedly closed the door.

After living to be forty years old, Jiang Qingyu did this kind of thing for the first time, which was really difficult to disobey his father's fate, and it was more uncomfortable than eating dead flies.

A catastrophe has struck. The resulting tragedy lasted for three decades.