On the day of a market day, a prosaic, gray-drenched town on China's North China Plain is bustling with visitors from all directions, crowding the narrow, cluffy street full of stalls. 【Leaf*Child】【Yo*Yoo】

In a tea shop with an oilcloth parasol on the street, a group of men in sweaty short coats and dusty trouser legs pulled up to their knees are drinking large bowls of tea, smoking dry tobacco sticks, and chatting about the new things around them.

"I heard that the second dog in Xiaowan Village was arrested, why not?"

A middle-aged man with a lean swar, small eyes and big ears winked mysteriously at his companions around him.

"Which two dogs?" Someone asked.

The middle-aged man squinted: "It's the nephew of the sister-in-law of the east of the village, who often comes to our village to transport things, driving a rubber ** car, pulling a jujube red horse, majestic." ”

"It's him......"

The crowd began to talk about each other.

"It's a pretty young man, he doesn't look like he's doing something bad, why did he catch it?"

"That's what you say, why can't you do bad things if you're beautiful?"

"Let's listen to what the third uncle has to say."

"Yes, third uncle, you can tell us about it."

The middle-aged man known as the "third uncle" saw that his words had achieved an effect, nodded with satisfaction, and sighed with regret: "The second dog is good at everything, but his temperament is too straight, two days ago, someone came to the township, saying that the county issued a requisition order to requisition his horse, he didn't do it, and the people used the strong, so he did it. ”

"And then?"

The curiosity of the audience has been aroused by the third uncle, and it is obviously impossible to be dismissed by just these three words.

"Later? Sister-in-law Ma asked me to find a relationship with him and get the second dog out, so I found the old grandson along the small river and asked his son to intercede as a policeman, guess what? ”

"What's wrong?"

"People offered 3,000 yuan, otherwise they would be transferred to the procuratorate, and the public prosecution would be brought up, and the sentence would be more than ten years, which was considered light, and said that military law acted during the war, and there was no way to go to prison if you wanted to, so you either threw it to Siberia to build a railway, or threw it to Nanyang to repair fortifications, and no one collected the body when you died."

Everyone was amazed and looked at each other: "Three thousand? That's too tricky, isn't it? We have been plowing our crops for ten years, and we can't save them without eating or drinking. ”

"What then?" Someone asked.

"What else can I do? Let's make up, at the end of the month, it's not enough, and the two dogs are finished. ”

The third uncle shook his head, indicating that he couldn't go on, grabbed a cigarette stick and gagged his mouth.

The audience sighed in dissatisfaction until another tall and stocky young man took over.

"What is that, my uncle's family originally had two big mules, and they were first-class in their work, and they were requisitioned for one last year, and they had to take the remaining one away two months ago, saying that the former one had been killed by the Russians, and they wanted to make up for the rest. My uncle was in a hurry, and he had to fight with them when he picked up the hoe, and my grandmother and aunt finally stopped him, so he didn't cause trouble. ”

Another small young man beside him said disdainfully: "Hey, what's that, don't talk about us, Daxing Farm over there in Huaishupo, in the name of an official demonstration, is amazing?" In the past, there was no need for live animals to prepare the land, either the big iron ox that spewed smoke, or the four ** trucks, which were very majestic, and the eight lambs who drove the iron ox to drive the truck took away the souls of the big girls and little daughters-in-law in the nearby villages. ”

"How about now? The Iron Bull pulled it away, right? The truck is gone, right? Crying and shouting to borrow livestock from us, not to mention that my family's mules have already been requisitioned, even if there is, I don't borrow as much forage as I want."

The third uncle, who was unwilling to be lonely, interjected: "I know that Daxing Farm not only uses iron cattle trucks, but also sprinkles yield enhancement drugs and insecticides into the field, I don't understand, people need to take medicine when they are sick, this land is good, feed so many medicines, can the food that grows still be edible?" ”

The little young man corrected with a smile: "Third uncle, it's not called yield enhancers and insecticides, it's called chemical fertilizers and pesticides, chemical fertilizers are much easier to use than our manure, and pesticides kill pests, but the price is not cheap, and you have to ask someone to teach you the first time." However, the scale of the farm, and the official brand, can afford to spend this money, and can afford to hire special technicians, don't look at the cost, an acre of land can yield five or six percent more than us - but since the war, I haven't seen them use chemical fertilizer. ”

The third uncle pouted; "So what? He only has a few thousand acres of land to raise a hundred people, we have to feed a large family with ten acres of land, I have to have hundreds of acres of land, and I also go to the whole iron ox to serve. ”

The little man joked: "If you want to have hundreds of acres of land, it has already been changed by the land, open you a white strip and eat fart." ”

The third uncle was so angry that he stomped his feet: "Bah, you dead mouse, don't look down on that white strip, our village relied on this white strip to do business in the city, and now it is developed, you can't even think about it that day." ”

The small young man known as the "dead mouse" crooked his mouth and said: "Yes, I heard that the Wang Daguan next door to you and Li Dahu in the west of the village are better than foxes." As soon as the land reform came, hundreds of acres of land became white, and then the 100 acres that I kept were also sold, and I went to the city to run any industry, and I was forced to hang myself in a few years - this day, I really can't think about it. ”

The third uncle was angry, slapped the table and said: "What are you talking about, there is no land reform, you still have to work long hours for Li Dahu now, the grace of Emperor Taizu Wu of this dynasty is something that cannot be forgotten in several lifetimes." ”

The dead mouse squinted and said: "Yes, I can't forget it for a few lifetimes, but I have to pay it all off in this life, I see, this time I have to lead the mules and horses, and the next time I have to lead people." You are not afraid to be a soldier, and you can understand that you will die. I was afraid that I would be dragged to work in a place where I didn't know where to go, and I heard that the food was not even as good as livestock, but I had to do the same work as livestock, and when I died, I would give my family a certificate of honor, plus a few bags of grain. The certificate of honor will not be issued, not necessarily, as for the food, the dog officer who handles it must scrape away most of it......"

"Also, do you think that all the animals we were taken away were really transported to the front and called for the army? I'll tell you the truth, I've seen it with my own eyes, saying that it was a requisitioned livestock for the army, and in a blink of an eye it was sold to a cattle dealer. I knew one of the dealers earlier, and when I went up and asked, he said that almost half of the cattle collected by the dog officials were sold in this way, and they shared the money with their own people. When the requisition period expires, it will be said that the cattle are dead on the front line, and you will be asked to make up for it, and if you can't make up for it, you will pay for it, and if you don't pay for it, you will be arrested-everyone knows what is going on, but no one dares to say it, and no one at the top will take care of it."

The third uncle listened while smoking the dry tobacco one after another, and at the end, he slapped his thigh and said indignantly: "That's all a good thing done by the corrupt officials below, wait, catch up with Emperor Ming'er to send a young man down, don't think about any of these bastard bastards."

The dead mouse snorted and sneered: "Come on, since ancient times, how many blue heavens have there been?" How many good emperors are there? It's better to go to the temple and burn a few more pillars of incense, and ask the Bodhisattva to bless such a disaster from falling on yourself. ”

The tall and sturdy young man who had been silent for a long time interjected coldly: "It's better to rely on people than to rely on people, it's better to rely on people than on yourself, I farm and pay grain, borrow money to repay debts, I haven't done anything wrong, and I don't owe anyone, whoever wants to provoke me, I will fight with him." ”

When the third uncle heard this, he hurriedly put down the cigarette stick and patted the young man's shoulder: "Dazhu, it's good to talk about it, don't really come, your old Li family is all up to you now, if you want to have three long and two short, how can your mother live." ”

Dazhu was short of breath all of a sudden, so he had to lower his head again, take a sip of dry smoke, and kill time with a sip of tea.

Everyone was quiet for a while, and not long after, someone provoked a new topic, this time it was about a village "broken shoes" and hooked up with whom, who and other gossip news that everyone liked, and soon, the humble tea shop broke out without scruples with all kinds of original yin words, so that the big girls and little daughters-in-law in the past couldn't help but cover their faces and ears, and walked around the road.

In stark contrast to this group of simple and lively men, the guests in the corner of the tea shop wearing top hats and long robes did not talk much or smoke after sitting down, but just drank tea, as if they were listening to the unscrupulous conversations of their neighbors.

At their feet were several mules loaded with parcels tied to the stumps, much like the usual horse-gang mule teams that walked in the inter-county countryside, and around the mules stood several men dressed as sturdy mule workers, but they did not look like they were tending to the mules, but more like they were watching the inside and outside of the tea shop with a wary eye.

Suddenly, a mule worker approached one of the long-robed riders and whispered a few words in his ear, and the long-robed man, who looked taller and more powerful than the mule worker, turned his head respectfully and whispered to the slender white-faced boy wearing sunglasses beside him, "The emperor ...... Boss Huang, it's time to go. ”

"Master Wu, have you written it down?" The white-faced little student known as Boss Huang has a female voice, which sounds a bit like reading a drama at first glance.

"My memory is not very good, but you can ask Wu Jun and Wang Yiyang when you go back, they have been going around for a few months, and they should have a lot of information."

Master Wu said, glanced around, and all the long-shirted guests hugged the "Boss Huang" and got up, and the mule workers also untied the rope one after another and led the mule to follow.

Just before the backs of this group of people disappeared into the sea of people, the third uncle, who was participating in the "broken shoes" competition in various villages with relish, suddenly discovered something and slapped Dazhu on the back.

"Look, the mule that follows Mr. Cheongsam doesn't look like Wu Jun's big face in Xiaowan Village?"

Da Zhu hurriedly stood up and looked at it: "That's not Wang Gouyu from our village-Wang Yiyang, he didn't have a home in Beijing, how could he be here?" ”

The third uncle also hurriedly got up: "No, I asked you to look at Wu Jun, you saw the dog at a glance, look over there, is it Wu Jun?" ”

Dazhu was excited, dropped the cigarette stick and chased after him, shouting while chasing: "Wu Da face, Wang Gou left, I am Dazhu——"

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