The director of the Mao factory stayed up late with Yang Chunshan and the others, and brought rice cakes from home for them to have supper. Lin Zhenhua remembered that his sister Xiaofang liked to eat this kind of rice cake from the countryside the most, so he saved two pieces from his share and asked the director of the Mao factory to wrap it in a piece of paper and prepare to take it back to Xiaofang to eat.

Yang Chunshan estimated that he would have to work all night, which naturally did not mean that he could do it all night. Because of Lin Zhenhua's help, the two of them worked in shifts, which was more efficient, and by one o'clock in the morning, all the work was done.

"Not bad, not bad." The head of the factory inspected the welded workpieces one by one and nodded with satisfaction. He was a little uneasy when he saw Lin Zhenhua replacing Yang Chunshan to burn electric welding, but now he saw that the quality of Lin Zhenhua's welding was not much different from Yang Chunshan's, so he changed his worry to stealing joy. This means that he was paid the wages of a large worker and a small worker tonight, but it was two big workers who came to work.

"Master Yang, your apprentice is good, you're about to leave the school, right?" Director Mao complimented Yang Chunshan.

"In this way, if you grind it again, you should be able to become a teacher." Yang Chunshan pretended to be plain and replied, but he was very happy in his heart.

"Here, this is six dollars, you take it. I don't have a lot of money, I'm sorry. ”

"Where, where, the director of the Mao factory is so happy every time he gives money, thank you."

"Next time, I'll trouble Master Yang again if I have something."

"No trouble, no trouble, you just have to talk about something."

Yang Chunshan said goodbye to the director of the Mao factory with a haha, and rode back to the Hanhua factory with Lin Zhenhua. As soon as he rode away from the scope of Xiaogang Commune, Yang Chunshan took out two tickets from his pocket and stuffed them into Lin Zhenhua's hand.

"Xiaohua, this is you." Yang Chunshan said, in fact, it is okay to divide the money after going back, but Yang Chunshan is the first time to bring Lin Zhenhua out to work, so he doesn't want Lin Zhenhua to be suspicious.

"Thank you, Uncle Yang." Lin Zhenhua took the money, took a look at it by the moonlight, and found that one of them was one piece, and the other was two, so he hurriedly said: "Uncle Yang, you took the wrong one, this one is two pieces." ”

"That's right, that's right, six dollars for the two of us, three dollars for each person, just right." Yang Chunshan said.

"Uncle Yang, I'm a small worker, I should take two yuan."

"You're not a small worker, you did no less than me tonight, you can be regarded as a big worker. It's good that the two of us are the same. ”

"No, no, no." Lin Zhenhua simply stuffed a dollar back into Yang Chunshan's pocket, "Uncle Yang, you brought me out to do things to give me a chance, how can I get more money." ”

"Hey, you kid. Forget it, when it's Sunday, let Aunt Wei cook a few dishes, and you can bring Xiaofang to eat at home. Yang Chunshan chose a compromise plan, the implication was that the extra dollar would be used as a meal for inviting Lin Zhenhua's brothers and sisters to dinner.

"Catch the thief!"

"Stop him!"

"Hit! Shoot him! ”

The two of them were walking forward when there was a sudden commotion in front of them. Through the faint moonlight, Lin Zhenhua could see that a thin figure came out of the field by the side of the road, trying to escape along the road. Several others shouted for the thief as they intercepted the figure from several directions. The man who fled was caught off guard and could not get out, he hesitated for a moment, then lay down on the ground with his head in his hands, as if he was to be slaughtered. Several of the thief's captors rushed forward, crackling and punching and kicking at the thief.

"What's going on?" Lin Zhenhua asked Yang Chunshan in surprise.

Yang Chunshan said: "It is estimated that I went to the field to steal the vegetables grown by the villagers, and let the villagers catch them." ”

"Fight like this, don't kill anyone?" Lin Zhenhua said, from afar, he could also hear the thud of his fists and feet falling on the thief, and his heart was beating terrified.

"It's not so easy to kill, but if you continue to fight like this, you won't be disabled." Yang Chunshan has some experience in this, and knows that the peasants beat thieves only to punish them, and generally do not hit them in fatal places. But if you are not careful, you will shoot a little harder, break your hands and feet, and even hurt your eyes.

"If you're disabled, it's a crime, right?"

Yang Chunshan asked in a surprised tone: "What is the law against a thief?" ”

"......" Lin Zhenhua was speechless, everyone's legal concept in that era was really like this, abuse of lynching was not a crime, and it could also have a deterrent effect. Compared to sending the thief to the police station, a violent beating is both convenient and effective, so everyone enjoys it.

"Uncle Yang, let's interfere in the past, thieves are also people, they are really disabled, won't people have no way to make a living in the future?" Lin Zhenhua and Yang Chunshan discussed.

Yang Chunshan is also very kind in his surname, and when he heard Lin Zhenhua's suggestion, he nodded and said, "Okay, let's go over and talk about it." ”

The two of them rode towards the group of people, and from a distance of more than a dozen steps, Yang Chunshan shouted: "What are you doing!" Stop it! ”

This voice was full of domineering, not only made the group of farmers who were beating people stop immediately, but even Lin Zhenhua was startled, and for a while he faintly felt that the middle-aged worker who looked honest and honest next to him might be the legendary police undercover agent, and he showed his true face at a critical time.

While speaking, the two people had already come to the group of people, Yang Chunshan got off the bicycle, put the car up, shone the flashlight on the group of people, and asked officially: "What's the matter with you?" Is it a crowd fight? ”

"No, comrade, we caught a thief and stole our turnips." A farmer replied. The two men he had seen were neatly dressed, their bikes looked quite new, and they had flashlights in their hands, apparently eating public meals. People who eat public meals, no matter what their occupation is, must be inextricably linked with the political axe department, such as public security, courts, etc., and this is not a person that farmers can afford to provoke, so when he answered Yang Chunshan's question, there was some respect and trepidation in his tone.

"You stole your fellow turnip, didn't you?" Yang Chunshan walked up to the thief and asked condescendingly.

The thief lay on the ground, hooked his body, and replied in a low voice: "That's right, I stole the turnips, and I don't dare anymore." Although he said words begging for mercy, there was no hint of pretending pity in his tone, but it only made people feel a deep helplessness.

"Why did you steal turnips?" Lin Zhenhua also stepped forward to help Yang Chunshan ask questions.

"I'm hungry." The thief replied simply, but those two words were enough, and what better reason to steal food than to be hungry? Lin Zhenhua felt a little sad for a while.

"What about the turnips he stole?" Yang Chunshan asked the farmers.

A farmer showed a cup-thick radish in his hand and said, "That's it, we chased him, and he threw it down, and I picked it up as evidence." ”

"Okay, okay, just a piece of turnip, it's just a matter of two cents. You fought and fought, and then you broke up like that. Yang Chunshan said, "In the future, you can't beat thieves, it's illegal to beat people, you know?" He unconsciously repeated what Lin Zhenhua had just said.

"What's the law against bad guys?" A farmer asked, the same question Yang Chunshan himself had just asked.

Lin Zhenhua had no choice but to step forward: "Fellow villagers, our country is a country with a legal system, and a few years ago, because the Gang of Four destroyed and smashed the public procuratorate and law, it led to social lawlessness. Now that the Gang of Four has been defeated, our country issued a new criminal law in July this year, and in the future, whether it is a thief or a murderer, the law will decide how to punish it, and beating a thief at will is an illegal act in itself. ”

"Comrade, don't scare us, according to what you say, you can't fight if you catch the Gang of Four?" A farmer retorted with self-thought cleverness.

Lin Zhenhua said: "Of course you can't fight. Don't you know that the Party Central Committee has set up a special court to try the Gang of Four in accordance with the law. The central authorities have also specially appointed defense lawyers for the Gang of Four, with the aim of ensuring the fairness and legality of the trial. Let's think about it, even the Gang of Four has to be tried fairly, let alone a thief? ”

Lin Zhenhua's words obviously frightened the peasants, and in an era without the Internet, people who can tell the high-level movements at every turn are quite mysterious. The peasants fell silent and did not dare to say more.

"That's right, now the state [***] is lawful. If you cripple someone, you will have to bear the medical expenses, nutrition expenses, and pensions in the future. "Yang Chunshan fox fake tiger power and began to scare these farmers. Unlike Lin Zhenhua, he knows that what farmers fear most is not breaking the law, but paying money, and the best way to threaten them is to warn them that they may have to bear economic losses in the future.

Sure enough, the peasants began to retreat, originally holding the mentality of not beating for nothing, but now they found that beating people was still risky, and who would take this risk for a small piece of radish.

"We didn't beat him much, we just educated him. Look, isn't he okay? The farmers argued.

"Alright, you all go back, and leave this person to us to deal with." Yang Chunshan said, "Anyway, you have already snatched back the radishes he stole, so go home." ”

The peasants did not want to be troubled, and turned away in unison. The peasant with the turnip in his hand threw half of the turnip at the thief and said, "It's all bitten like this, who wants it?" Then he walked away.