After returning from the criticism meeting, Xing Baocheng felt very uneasy. [No pop-ups]

Xing Baocheng's family had only more than seven acres of land, which was far less than the number of "15 mu of land per capita as landlords" stipulated by the Baath Party. In summary, because his family still has to farm on tenant land, his family is at most a tenant farmer, and even a homesteader is very reluctant.

What revolution means, although he has read a few books, Xing Baocheng has long forgotten it, so he doesn't know the meaning of this revolution at all. However, seeing that the largest landlord in the village, the wealthy man Xing Dajie, who was also ranked number one in Qixia County, was hanged alive on a wooden shelf by that young descendant, Xing Baocheng also understood that the meaning of revolution and rebellion in the mouth of this Baath Party was not too much different.

The words of the poor being the masters of the house, to Xing Baocheng's ears, are just lies by the rebellious kings to fool the common people. Xing Baocheng, who has read the book, knows that except for the time of the Three Emperors and the Five Emperors, there is no reason for the common people to be the masters of the world. However, the Baath Party burned the account books and IOUs of Xing Daye's family, which was quite affordable for the common people.

The eldest master of the Xing family died, and several old and young masters of the Xing family were also slaughtered by the Baath Party, and this time the account books and IOUs were burned again, no matter what relatives of the Xing family came to collect everyone's debts in the future, everyone would not admit it.

In addition to the tangible benefits to everyone from burning the IOU account books, Xing Baocheng felt that he couldn't move the grain and cloth and other things that were distributed from the Xing family. These things are counted. Although every family has been distributed, if any relatives of the Xing family come back to investigate in the future, this matter cannot be denied. So Xing Baocheng had already thought about it, these things had to be kept, and they would be returned to others when they came to ask for them.

Xinggezhuang, like most villages in the last years of the Ming Dynasty, most of the families in the village are attached to the family of the big landlord Xing Daye, who is also the number one in the entire Qixia County. Ninety-nine percent of the people in the village are long-term tenants of Master Xing's family. In addition to a few close branch relatives of Master Xing, there are very few people like Xing Baocheng who have a few acres of land to plant.

Xing Baocheng can still keep seven acres of land by himself, not because he has relatives with Master Xing's family. Speaking of which, in Xing Gezhuang, all the families surnamed Xing have relatives with Xing's family, but Xing's grandfather has never collected everyone's rent and profits because of this relation.

The reason why Xing Baocheng was able to keep the land was because Xing Baocheng had some skills that no one else had. Xing Baocheng is literate and can also play a good abacus. This ability allows Xing Baocheng to be a part-time bookkeeper in Master Xing's Zhuangzi. Every autumn when the rent is collected, the family of Mrs. Xing, who is short of manpower, will ask Xing Baocheng to help. With this little face, Xing Baocheng's family only kept seven acres of land.

Of course, although there are still seven acres of land at home, although Xing Baocheng has the ability to write and calculate, and although Xing Baocheng can be a part-time bookkeeper in Xing's grandfather's house, these external conditions do not make Xing Baocheng's life much better than others.

There is an old mother who is over sixty years old, and there are four sons in their teens and twenties below, plus Xing Baocheng's two sons, and the seven members of the family can't eat at all by planting those seven acres of thin fields. So like everyone in the village, Xing Baocheng's family also had to share the land of Master Xing's family.

In the past 20 years, Xing Baocheng has a feeling that his seven acres of land have not only not increased his food income, but have become more and more a burden. Unlike those who don't have any land at all, their seven acres of land need to pay more and more imperial grain taxes. And because he has these seven acres of land, Master Xing will always send county laborers to his own head.

But even so, even if there are seven acres of land that are heavier than no burden at all, but as a person who has read books, as a person who feels that he should have a bit of identity than ordinary people, these seven acres of land are like Xing Baocheng's self-esteem, although it is very little, but it must be persevered.

Before Xing Baocheng and his father took his breath, he left ten acres of land for Xing Baocheng. Xing Baocheng married his daughter-in-law and sold three acres. Xing Baocheng, who is now forty-six years old, feels that he may not have a few years to live, so he firmly believes that he should pass on the seven acres of land to his four sons.

Unlike Xing Baocheng's self-feel, Xing Baocheng's four sons don't feel that their own home with seven acres of land is any different from other people's homes. is also not full of food, the same is to carry the work for the eldest grandfather's family, the same lives in a leaky grass house, and the same is in his twenties and still can't marry a daughter-in-law, so his own family will not be more noble than others.

Mrs. Xing's whole family was hanged, Xing Baocheng felt that this was a rebellion and was very uneasy, but Xing Baocheng's four sons, from Xing Daping to Xing Siping, felt very happy and relieved. Like all big landlords who monopolize one or even several places, Lord Xing's family can be said to cover the sky in the village. rampant in the township, this sentence is not used on the head of Lord Xing's family to wronged them at all.

In the entire Xinggezhuang, how can there be a family that has not sold their sons and daughters, knelt on the ground and begged for mercy, and was whipped to offer their daughters-in-law. Because they couldn't afford to repay the loan sharks, those who were forced to hang themselves in debt, and those who were hung on the beams of the house by the nursing home of Mrs. Xing's family, abound in the village. is the four Xing Daping brothers, and they are often whipped by Master Xing's family.

Unlike Xing Baocheng, who is in his forties and has completely adapted to and is used to this kind of exploitation and oppression, the four brothers of the Xing family, who are only twenty-two years old, have always wanted to slaughter the whole family of Mrs. Xing with their own hands in their hearts. So, when they saw the Baath Party fighters, who were also young people, try and execute the whole family of Grand Master Xing, the four brothers were just as happy as all the young people in the village.

When they returned home after the meeting, they saw their father frowning and silent, and the four Xing Daping brothers felt a little bored. Xing Daping didn't care what his father was thinking there, he said to his wife:

"Mother, just now the brothers of the Ba'ath Party said that if there are elderly people over 40 years old in the family, I will go to them to receive food and cloth according to their heads. Our grandmother and the two of you are over forty years old, and we can all receive food from the Baath Party. There was a lot of food just now, so let's have a good meal at noon today. ”

When Xing Wang heard this, he said to Xing Daping:

"Boss, the family has received a lot of food, but the food mentioned by the Baath Party has not yet been received, and now I don't dare to use the food casually. Steam a few good steamed buns for your grandma at noon, let's eat sorghum. Today, our family will cook some dry rice to eat, so that you brothers can have a full stomach. ”

Xing Baocheng listened to the words of his son and wife, and immediately became unhappy in his heart.

"I know how to eat all day long, and share the things of the eldest grandfather's family, is that what we can move? Now that it's moving, when the relatives of the eldest grandfather's family come back to ask you, what do you take to pay back people really think they can turn the sky upside down."