The commune hall is too small to sit for so many people, so it can only be held outside, there is a stage on the street, which used to be built by the rich man in the town, and during the New Year's festival or the red and white celebrations, the troupe is invited to perform on it, and the common people can watch it for free, and after the liberation, it was changed into an open-air cinema, and the county's mobile screening team came several times a month to pull up the curtain to show revolutionary films, and it could also be used for mass gatherings when the movement was held.

Gong Dapeng is the former secretary of the commune, and he has some prestige among the people, it is not so easy for Li Huazi to do him, today he came prepared, and even the banners were prepared, and the two young men climbed onto the stage and hung the banners, with black letters on a red background: Kushuijing Commune Four Qing Criticism and Fighting Conference.

There were two tables and a few chairs on the stage, and Chen Yan jumped on the stage in a heroic posture and said, "Li Huazi, please." ”

Li Huazi was very angry, Chen Yan never called himself Secretary Li, but called him by his name, which made him feel very faceless in front of the villagers, he snorted coldly and went to the stage with his back on his back.

Comrade Chen Yan from the province presided over the meeting, and in the face of the more and more people gathered below, she went straight to the point and said: "Fellow villagers, members, do you still remember the time when the land reform was fought against the landlords? ”

The following chaotic response, land reform is the eve of liberation, only a dozen years ago, most people remember those days and nights of exhalation and revenge.

Chen Yan said: "After liberation, the landlords have been beaten, but a new exploiting class has emerged, grassroots cadres eat more and occupy more, oppress the masses, beat and scold members, and force people to die, which is no different from the landlords of the old society. ”

Li Huazi began to get nervous, it was originally a criticism meeting for Chen Yan and Gong Dapeng, but it inexplicably turned into a mass meeting to criticize himself, how to say this, he knew too well the power of the mass meeting, and the struggle was to kill people, he hurriedly gave his subordinates a look, and asked them to speak on stage to save the situation.

But it was too late, the mood of the masses had been mobilized, in the past they were afraid of Li Huazi's yin-wei did not dare to resist, today with the support of Chen Yan from the province, naturally fearless, competing to speak, Chen Yan pointed to a peasant and said: "This comrade came up to speak." ”

An honest middle-aged farmer came to the stage, timid, speechless, Chen Yan said: "Don't be afraid, it's not a big deal if the villagers say something wrong." ”

The peasant held back for a long time, and suddenly said: "My family has a family of five, and I didn't starve to death before liberation, but I starved to death in 60 years. "One finger at Li Huazi," took the militia and searched it, the cadres ate white flour cakes all day long, and the members couldn't even eat the bark, poor my three-year-old doll, sixty-year-old mother, starved to death. As he spoke, he wiped away his tears and wept bitterly.

Another young man jumped on the stage and said angrily: "I want to expose! Li Huazi not only robbed the grain, but also spoiled the women, and the widow of Liangjiazhuang jumped into the well because of the spoiled dog days! ”

The crowd was boiling and raised their hands one after another: "I want to expose, I want to expose!" ”

Li Huazi's face was blue and white for a while, and she wanted to run, but she found that there were young members standing around the stage with cold eyebrows, who were clearly thugs arranged by Gong Dapeng.

Suddenly, there was a ** shout in the crowd: "Down with Li Huazi!" ”

"Down with Li Huazi!" The roar of the crowd resounded through the heavens and the earth.

This kind of situation happened during the land reform, during the suppression of rebellion, during the three anti-five anti-rebellions, and when the anti-rightist was reversed, but it was Li Huazi who criticized others in those times, and today it was finally his turn to taste the taste of being criticized by the masses.

The members of the society have a deep grudge against these corrupt cadres, and today they just found a suitable opportunity to vent, and some people supported them to be afraid of something, and soon the masses were dissatisfied with verbal criticism, which evolved into a combination of fists and feet, and it was not only Li Huazi who was beaten, but also several of his cronies, accountants, militia captains, and canteen cooks.

Seeing that he was going to kill someone, Chen Yan hurriedly dissuaded: "Don't fight, everyone calm down." ”

It may not be useful for others to speak, Chen Yan's prestige is still very high, the crowd stopped stupidly, Li Huazi and his doglegs were beaten and their noses were blue and their faces were swollen, and they lay on the ground and hummed.

The meeting ended successfully, and the revisionists of the Kushuijing Commune were completely defeated, and although he was still nominally the secretary of the commune, Li Huazi's prestige was gone, and even the dogs in the town had to bare their teeth when they saw him.

Li Huazi was not seriously injured, but he was very injured psychologically, and he asked someone to send a letter to Yang Shugen in the city overnight to report what happened, but Yang Shugen was only the deputy commissioner in charge of culture, education and health, and the whip was out of reach, so he could only reply to persuade Li Huazi to forbear.

A few days later, late at night, Li Huazi was still tossing and turning in bed, he couldn't bear this breath, he had been a grassroots cadre for more than ten years, and he had finally established his authority, and once he was lost, this sense of loss was unbearable, and there was a serious political incident in which the masses criticized the secretary of the commune, and the county was afraid that it would not be able to protect itself.

He hated Chen Yan so much, just a stinky girl, and dared to ride on his head to show off his might, didn't she just rely on having a good father! Anyway, the emperor is far away in the countryside, so it's better to kill her, as long as you don't find someone else in this matter and do it yourself, the public security won't be able to solve the case.

Anger rose from his heart to the side of the gall, Li Huazi moved the idea of killing people can no longer be suppressed, he got up and found a sickle, sharpened it next to the wellhead, sharpened it quickly, put on clothes and went out, and went straight to the health center.

The moon was dark and the wind was high, and he couldn't see his five fingers, Li Huazi came to the wall of the health center with a shallow foot, spit on his hand, jumped to grab the wall and climbed up, climbed over the wall, and heard a dog barking as soon as he landed on the ground.

There is only one person living in the health center, the door is locked at night, and a puppy is raised for the purpose of nursing the hospital, Chen Yan does not sleep deeply, because sometimes there are patients who are seriously ill to seek medical treatment, but those who come to see the doctor will never climb the wall to come in.

"Who?" She shouted, hurriedly put on her clothes, felt the matches and kerosene lamps, and thought for a while but still did not light them.

Li Huazi didn't say anything, pulled out the sickle and touched it, and suddenly he thought of Chen Yan's watery face and slender figure, and the secret plan might as well change slightly, and it would not be bad to play before killing her.

The puppy lying on his stomach under the porch bravely pounced, and Li Huazi raised the knife and hacked the three-month-old straw dog to death on the spot.

The dog's screaming made Chen Yan understand that she was facing a vicious bad guy, she did not hesitate, immediately dragged out the box from under the bed, took out a double-barreled shotgun, opened the butt, and filled the chamber with two shotguns in the dark, this gun is still a gift from Mommy Yao Yilei to her, it has been a few years, it is said that in Nantai County in the twenties, Mommy used this gun to kill the warlord's rebels.

With a gun in hand, Chen Yan made up her mind, picked up her shotgun and said out the window: "If you don't stand still, I'll shoot." ”

Li Huazi said in his heart, stinky girl, you are quite good at bluffing, is grandpa scared, don't eat your set, he finally touched the doorknob, pushed hard, didn't push, and broke the glass on the door with the handle of the sickle, and reached in with one hand to touch the latch.

Suddenly, an orange-red firelight lit up in front of him, and a huge force slashed his face, and the hot feeling was like bathing in a blazing fire, Chen Yan shot.

Li Huazi was hit by a shotgun at close range, and more than a dozen lead bullets penetrated deeply into his body, and the whole person was pushed more than ten meters away by the force of the bullet, motionless.

Chen Yan was not sure that there was only one bad guy, she continued to hold a gun on guard, at this time the dogs in the town barked wildly, the lights were lit one after another, and the footsteps sounded, and the people who were awakened by the gunshots were worried about Dr. Chen's safety, and they rushed to the health center with their guys.

The gate was smashed, and Gong Dapeng said in a loud voice: "Doctor Chen, it's me, open the door quickly." ”

Chen Yan lit the kerosene lamp, held a lamp in one hand and a gun in the other, and went over to open the door, and the members of the club swarmed in with grappling hooks, sickles and axes, and more than a dozen horse lanterns were held high, shining on the bloody criminals on the ground.

The wounded's chest and face doors were smashed by shotguns, and blood bubbles were spitting out of his mouth, and there was only air out but no air intake.

"Isn't this Li Huazi?" Gong Dapeng said.

"Dog's day wants to plot against Dr. Chen." The members immediately understood, and spit hatefully at Li Huazi.

Chen Yan said: "Everyone help and put him on the operating table." ”

Gong Dapeng's eyes widened and said, "Doctor Chen, let him fend for himself, what are you doing to save him." ”

Chen Yan said: "Bad people can't be lynched, I will save him first, and then let the people's court sentence him for his crime, this is the right reason." ”

Dr. Chen's words were an order, everyone carried the bloody Li Huazi to the table, Chen Yan operated on him, but he was shot at close range, lost too much blood, and was unable to return to the sky, Li Huazi's heart stopped beating.

Chen Yan took off her mask and sighed, "It's a pity." ”

Gong Dapeng said: "It's a pity, this kind of person is innocent." ”

Chen Yan said: "I knew that I couldn't save it, so I pulled it out directly, but unfortunately I had to clean up the dirty table." ”

The crowd burst into laughter.

Li Huazi's godless dead sheep stared at the ceiling, dead and blind.

……

At dawn, the commune sent someone to report to the county, and the three-wheeled motorcycle of the county criminal police brigade carried several public security personnel to the commune suddenly, investigated the scene, questioned the masses, and the case was clear and clear.

The testimony of the masses, the footprints on the ground, the bloody sickle and the fingerprints on the hilt, and the corpse of the puppy are ironclad evidence, and no one can turn the case over.

When the news reached the region, Zheng Zeru, who was squatting in Jiangbei, personally gave instructions, asking political and legal organs at all levels to effectively protect the personal safety of cadres in the squatting area and escort the smooth development of the Four Cleanup Movement.

"The Chen family is not a fuel-efficient lamp, and Chen Zikun, the eldest daughter, is even more reluctant to let her shave her eyebrows, so hurry up and transfer her back to the provincial capital, so as not to make a big mess." Secretary Zheng said to the people below.