Chapter 9: Down with the landlords
"Wende, you're right, I'm so stupid, why should I kill myself?! I have to live well and see with my own eyes the moment when Liu Kuizhang, a beast, was struck by thunder from the sky! Liu Wenhua gritted his teeth and said, after some persuasion from Daddy Liu, Liu Wenhua regained the confidence to live.
"Dad, you are chatting with my second uncle, I'll kill a chicken, and your two brothers will have a good drink!
"Don't mind, Shang Zhang, I'll drink the wine another day, there is still something going on in the Liu family compound, I have to go back and deal with it!" Father Liu declined Shang Zhang's kindness, and then raised his legs and left the Liu Mansion.
"Father Renzhang, what's the situation in the Liu Mansion? Is Brother Mandarin okay? The family was waiting for Daddy Liu to eat, and Lady Liu poured the warm wine for Daddy Liu, and then asked about the situation of Liu's house with concern.
"It's okay, I didn't kill anyone, otherwise it would really be a pain for Shang Zhang's child!" Daddy Liu asked Mrs. Liu to serve a bowl of vegetables, took two corn tortillas and a white-flour steamed bun, put them in a basket, covered them with a cloth, and asked Zhizhang to send them to Liu's house while it was hot.
Liu Shangzhang is very sensible, since last year's land reform, he has never been to the Liu family compound, he is worried about the involvement of Liu Dad's family, this year, Liu Zhizhang or Liu Xinzhang every time secretly send something over, put it in the gatehouse of Liu Shangzhang's house, knock on the door and turn around and run, Liu Shangzhang deeply felt the kindness and righteousness of Liu's father's family, now in this world, the book of human feelings is like paper, those who have been helped by Daddy Liu Wenhua in the past, passing by the door of the house are twisting their heads, when Dad sweeps the street, these people are behind Daddy Spit Xingzi, "Bully, The bully" insulted, the eldest mother, the second mother and even their own mother-in-law finally couldn't bear all kinds of insults and criticisms, and successively parted ways with their father and abandoned this stormy home.
Liu Shangzhang often sleepless all night, staring blankly at the ceiling in a daze, he couldn't understand how the kind father became a heinous bully, he grew up beside his father since he was a child, followed him to the north and south, he had never seen his father do a hurtful thing, how many tenants in the village outside the village who rented willow house fields had paid the rent? Dad never forced them, not only did he not force them, but every year of the catastrophe, Dad reduced rent and interest, didn't they all kneel down with gratitude at that time? Why did the former benefactor become the 'Huang Shiren' of Shuangliu Village? Why did her mother-in-law Zhang Sanyan become 'Xi'er'? Absurd, ridiculous, unreasonable!
Night, cold, Liu Shangzhang sat next to his father, Liu Wenhua, who had been tossing for a long time, fell asleep after eating the white bun sent by the Liu family's compound, Liu Shangzhang stroked his father's thin and sallow cheeks, tears flowed down uncontrollably, he secretly swore that even if the whole world betrayed his father, he would never leave his old man half a step! Dad crisscrossed the shopping mall for the benefit of the township, but I didn't expect to suffer this bad luck in the ancient year, how bitter and difficult Dad's heart should be! Liu Kuizhang, who is hateful and can kill beasts, pretends to be public and private, uses the hands of the new government to retaliate, and steals by skill, he is the real bully!
Liu Kuizhang, the 'big man' who walked out of Shuangliu Village, can be described as a one-handed man in Huang County, full of benevolence and morality, in fact, a belly of male thieves and prostitutes, Liu Kuizhang's father Liu Wenxia is Liu Wenhua's own brother, during the Westernization Movement, Liu Wenhua seized the opportunity to sell his property to develop the Liangjia Coal Mine in Huang County, after years of painstaking management, successively opened wineries, factories and other industries in Yantai, Qingdao and other places, capital is like a snowball accumulating more and more, and then returned to Shuangliu Village to build a willow house and purchased thousands of acres of fertile land, became the richest man in Huang County in one fell swoop, Liu Wenxia saw that his younger brother made a windfall, and he was very jealous.
The opportunity came, in the thirteenth year of the Republic of China, the eldest brother Jiang Maosheng, who made a fortune in the east of the country, returned to his hometown in fine clothes, not seen for many years, Liu Wenxia was hospitable, and when the wine was hot, the two decided to partner to Zhaoyuan to develop a gold mine, the development of gold mines requires a large amount of money, Liu Wenxia began to sell his property in order to raise funds, including hundreds of acres of fertile land left by the ancestral industry, because the amount is too large, it is difficult to find a buyer for a while, Jiang Maosheng persuaded him to find Liu Wenhua, after all, they are brothers, Liu Wenxia is really out of line, so he had to go to the patriarch Liu Yanzu to discuss, Everyone in the village knows that Liu Yanzu and Liu Wenhua have a very good personal relationship, he wants Liu Yanzu to be a middleman, Liu Yanzu is also happy to see his brothers get back together, so he persuaded Liu Wenhua to help Liu Wenxia, so Liu Wenhua bought all of Liu Wenxia's family property at a high price, and gave him dozens of silver dollars, Liu Wenxia was moved to tears, he ran to Zhaoyuan with a huge amount of money and Jiang Maosheng to partner in the development of the gold mine, the money was invested, the gold mine was also developed, there were unforeseen circumstances in the clinker sky, Zhang Zongchang led the troops to come, After seizing Liu Yanzu's newspaper, he passed by Zhaoyuan when he returned to Jinan, and casually found a reason to seize Liu Wenxia's gold mine and took it as his own, but Liu Wenhua's coal mine in Huangxian County was safe and sound, Liu Wenxia suspected that Liu Wenhua set up a bureau, ruined his family, threw himself into a well and died in a fit of anger, and wrote a will to his son Liu Kuizhang before he died, to the effect that Liu Wenhua occupied the ancestral industry and forced himself to death by the hands of Zhang Zongchang.
Liu Kuizhang was young and vigorous at the time, carrying a kitchen knife to find his uncle Liu Wenhua theory, after the new patriarch Liu Daddy came forward to mediate, Liu Wenhua not only paid for the burial of Liu Wenxia, but also gave Liu Kuizhang some entanglement, Liu Kuizhang has since gone away, many years later when he returned to Huang County, he became the secretary of the Huang County Party Committee and the county magistrate, at the land reform conference in Shuangliu Village, Liu Kuizhang put on a face of righteousness and annihilation, weaving Liu Wenhua's ten evil deeds, and finally gave Liu Wenhua three big hats, bullies, landlords, counter-revolutionaries, And took people to copy the Liu Mansion overnight, the day of the raid coincided with the Mid-Autumn Festival, the Liu Mansion was brightly lit, and the people of the county party committee set up more than a dozen carriages, busy moving things, in the main house, Liu Kuizhang still chattered and asked Liu Wenhua endlessly, asking him to explain where the gold bars and silver dollars that occupied his house were hidden, "Where does your father have gold bars and silver dollars?" He has no money to open a gold mine, I bought your family's ancestral property at a high price, and the receipts are all written in black and white. Liu Wenhua argued.
"Liu Wenhua, why am I talking about it? You colluded with Zhang Zongchang back then, you asked my father to sell your ancestral business to you on the front foot, and you sent a message to Zhang Zongchang on the back foot, so that he could investigate the gold mine jointly run by my father and my uncle, and the receipts in black and white were just a means for you to hide from the world, not to mention the personal enmity between our two families, how much hard-earned money have you exploited when you opened a mine and set up a factory over the years? You have purchased thousands of acres of fertile land at a low price, hired so many long-term and short-term laborers, and many tenants in your own village and other villages who have rented your land to plant, and how much hard-earned money have you squeezed out of these toiling people? You, Liu Wenhua, are not only a profiteer, but also a bully who is powerful and profitable, and even more a counter-revolution who colludes with reactionary warlords to suppress progressives! And you have done a lot of evil things to bully men and women, look at it, what are the three women in this room crying? ”
After reprimanding Liu Wenhua, Liu Kuizhang set his eyes on Zhang Sanyan and persuaded him kindly, "Don't be afraid, Comrade Zhang Sanyan, I believe that in the face of right and wrong, you will distinguish between the enemy and me, Liu Wenhua is more than 30 years older than you, how did he occupy you back then?" You will boldly expose to the new government that on behalf of the government, I will definitely make the decision for you, give you back a free body, and completely draw a line with him! ”
Zhang Sanyan didn't speak, just cried vigorously, Liu Kuizhang said that he was tired, drank a few sips of water, and then squinted and stared at Zhang Sanyan, Liu Kuizhang and Liu's father were of the same age, and he also pursued Zhang Sanyan hard when he was young, but Zhang Sanyan's mind was all in the Liu family compound, and he didn't put Liu Kuizhang in his eyes at all.
Under the horse lamp, Zhang Sanyan cried so much that she was almost forty years old, but she was extremely well maintained, her body was plump, and she had a unique charm, Liu Kuizhang swallowed his saliva, and said earnestly to Zhang Shibao, the secretary standing beside him, "Shibao, your aunt has been oppressed for so many years, and her mind is a little numb, and now that she is liberated, you have to do her ideological work well, let her wake up as soon as possible, expose it as soon as possible, and leave Liu Laocai as soon as possible, so as to get a new life as soon as possible." ”
Zhang Shibao hurriedly said, "Secretary Liu, don't worry, I will take my aunt and Shang Zhang to the county seat when I go back, so that the two of them can completely draw a line with Liu Wenhua!" ”
"Secretary Liu, the things are packed, when will you leave?" When Liu Kuizhang heard the report below, he stood up and walked out, and when he walked to the door, he turned around and glanced at Zhang Sanyan meaningfully.
A few days later, Zhang Sanyan was taken to the county seat by Zhang Shibao in a dark night, the street lights of the county town flashed like stars, Sanyan sat in the jeep listlessly looking at the night scene outside the car, nephew Zhang Shibao came to the village to pick her up again and again, she refused because she was reluctant to do business, she knew in her heart that Liu Kuizhang's drunkard did not mean to drink, but today Zhang Shibao said that if she did not draw a clear line with Liu Wenhua, Liu Kuizhang would let her accept the criticism of the masses with Liu Wenhua as the landlord's wife, let her parade the streets, and threaten her even more poisonously. If he still didn't comply, he would punish Liu Shangzhang to go to the Liangjia Coal Mine in Huangxian County to participate in the labor reform, Zhang Sanyan was forced into desperation, so he had to follow Zhang Shibao into the city with hatred.