CHAPTER XIII.2

On the night when Heiwa returned to the plains, it was snowing for the first time since the beginning of winter, and the strong northwest wind stirred the snowflakes like cotton wool to spin freely, beating the cheeks and eyes of the night walkers, and the sky and the earth were confused. When stepping on the fork in the road to Bailu Town, Heiwa's heart was hot, and she stood at the fork in the road and shouted to the other nine partners who were going and returning together: "Brothers! Let's blow a wind and snow on the plains!" The ten of them walked into the gate of the primary school in White Deer Town. Lu Zhaopeng was writing something under the kerosene lamp, and when he saw them coming, he jumped up and shook hands with them one by one: "Comrades, I can call you comrades now." I'm pinching my fingers and looking forward to your return!" On behalf of the ten people who were trained, Heiwa expressed her determination: "We have become the Ten Brothers of the Revolution. Our ten brothers are like ten wind gods and rain gods, blowing a strong wind and snowing heavily, and blowing a wind and stirring up snow on the plains!" Zhaopeng said: "Okay, the wind stirs up the snow! Your ten brothers are ten wind gourds, ten fire guns, ten suona trumpets, ten drums and ten gongs, and you will blow them and beat them in 98 villages in Bailuyuan to fan the wind and light the fire, set off a vigorous and earth-shaking rural revolutionary movement, and welcome the victory of the Northern Expeditionary Army to the north. The National Revolution is about to succeed!"

Heiwa and the other ten brothers returned to their ten villages to mobilize the masses and work actively according to Lu Zhaopeng's plan, each of them contacted ten activists in their respective villages, and held a ten-day "agricultural workshop" at Bailu Town Primary School. The work went well and it didn't go well, and two of the ten brothers went home and fell to their stomachs. Heiwa was very annoyed, and when she found one of them, she scolded her: "You are a bear bag, you are a soft egg!" You are a wax gun, you are a white iron spear that breaks when you touch it! The training of the month has learned the revolutionary truth, and the steamed buns of meat and vegetables that don't need money are white! You don't pay attention to righteousness, you don't keep your promises, and swearing an alliance is like drinking cold water. No matter how much he hurt or scolded, the brother squatted on the ground with his hands on his knees and his head in his crotch without saying a word, and Heiwa spat and spat away. He found the door of another brother, whose father was squatting on the threshold and smoking a dry cigarette, refusing to let the black baby in. The old man had a kitchen knife next to the cracked and flowering cotton nest, and said politely to Heiwa: "Heiwa, listen to me, no one dares to offend me in a single household." If you want to make trouble, even if you make trouble, my baby will never get in the way, if you pull my baby, my baby can't afford to make trouble. Heiwa endured the anger and squatted down to preach the revolutionary truth to the old man. The old man couldn't listen to a few words and refused to listen to it again: "What you said is good!" The older generations of my family are all pigs and chickens, and they use their claws to dig the soil with their mouths to find food, and they can't get anything else! If you want to pull my baby again, I'll wipe it on the neckβ€”" The old man stood up suddenly, grabbed the kitchen knife and held it in his hand. Heiwa opened her mouth and turned away without speaking. The old man jumped up and ran in front of Heiwa, stretched out the fist clenched in his left hand, and there were two silver dollars in his palm, explaining: "This is the money for rice." My baby eats other people's meals in the city for a month. We don't eat other people's for nothing. Heiwa riveted and spat at the silver dollar in the palm of her hand: "Leave for you, an old immortal coward, to buy a shroud and a coffin." Go!"

What annoyed Heiwa even more was that he couldn't mobilize it in Bailu Village, and he told the revolutionary truth he had heard in the "peasant lecture center" over and over again, but he couldn't arouse a response from the propaganda targets. Seeing that Lu Zhaopeng's training class had arrived, he only mobilized two people, one was Bai Xing'er, who opened a breeding farm, and the other was his woman Tian Xiao'e. The results of the other seven brothers were also uneven, some mobilized fourteen or five people, some seven or eight, and the least four or five, but they were all outstanding than Heiwa. Despite this, the brothers still revered him as the eldest brother. Lu Zhaopeng comforted him and said: "Heiwa, you are depressed, then I don't blame you." Our Bailu Village is the most stubborn feudal fortress in the original, and the county magistrate personally hung the golden plaque of 'Renyi Bailu Village'. ”

The first "workshop" started as scheduled. On the opening day, the gong and drum team of Hejiafang was invited. The gong and drum team of Hejiafang is a porcelain bean guy, also called a hard guy, which is majestic and shocking, but it is not the best gong and drum team in the original. The most prestigious gong and drum team in Bailuyuan is the crispy guy in Bailu Village, whose voice is delicate and tactful, and it sounds elegant and pleasant. Legend has it that an emperor of the Tang Dynasty went on a safari here, and when he heard the gongs and drums, he stopped and leaned on the horse as if he was drunk, so he decided to be the palace gongs and drums, and every time the royal worship of the heavens and ancestors and other grand activities, they had to enter Beijing to perform their skills. The leader of the gong and drum team in Bailu Village is Bai Jiaxuan, who beats the drum well, and the drum beat is the core of the entire gong and drum, and the soul is the conductor. The porcelain bean guy team of Hejiafang came enthusiastically, and the leader of the dragon flag was the boss of the He brothers who had planned the "Jiaonong" movement. The second child has become ancient. Boss He, with black and white mixed hair, and a white and black beard, walked to the school gate and planted the dragon flag and said to Heiwa: "Heiwa, what do you say?" Today's one is up to you. Heiwa said without thinking: "Knock on "Wind and Snow". Knock on "Ten Kinds of Jin'er" again. knocked on "Ten Jin'er" and then knocked on "Wind and Snow". Lu Zhaopeng, who was so busy that he was dizzy, trotted from the house to the school gate, held Boss He's hand with both hands and said, "You used chicken feathers to make trouble with the peasants at that time, let's beat the gong and drum to make a revolution this time." Boss He said, "You are more competitive than me: powerful."

Lu Zhaopeng specially invited Boss He to speak at the opening ceremony. After talking about the "Jiaonong" movement, Boss He said: "Babies, you compete with me. I'm nothing. I was just a blind county official at that time, and you want to turn the world upside down this time, and you will fight for me. Amid the sound of gongs, drums and firecrackers, the sign of "Preparatory Office of Bailu District Agricultural Association" was hung at the entrance of the school, with green characters on a white ground, and green is a symbol of crops. Heiwa was announced as the director of the preparatory department. He walked up to the podium and said only one sentence: "The wind stirs the snow!" We poor buddies are blowing a wind and snow on the plain!"

It was already late at night to send away Heiwa and other backbones of the preparatory office of the Zinong Association, Lu Zhaopeng felt very tired, stretched out his arms and yawned repeatedly, and was about to close the door to sleep, but Tian Fuxian pushed the door in and said, "Kill two sets." Lu Zhaopeng also suddenly became interested: "Okay, good! I've always been less interested in playing chess, so let's play 'wolf eats baby', or play 'daughter-in-law jumping into a well', okay?" They played a game of "wolf eats baby". In addition to these two games, Bailuyuan also has a more complex game of "correcting squares" similar to Go. All three of these games, in which squares are drawn on the ground, using stones and mud balls or branches and leaves as children, are popular in various villages, and ordinary people learn to be fascinated at a young age. Lu Zhaopeng had been reading since he was a child, and he couldn't grasp the fun and techniques of this kind of game, and it was not until recently that he learned it when he ran around the villages. Since Tian Fuxian became the secretary of the Bailu District Branch of the Kuomintang, he often played chess with Lu Zhaopeng, a member of the District Branch, and was even more happy to play the games of "correcting the prescription", "wolf eating the baby", and "daughter-in-law jumping into the well" in the countryside. Tian Fuxian held a long and thick Shifang cigarette at the corner of his mouth and said proudly: "Zhaopeng, look at you losing again!" I will be a wolf and you will be a baby, and my three wolves will eat up all your fifteen babies and eat all of them; You are a wolf and I am a baby, you only ate two of my fifteen babies, and the remaining thirteen babies killed three of your wolves; No matter how wolf or baby you are, you can't win!" Lu Zhaopeng was anxious and said: "Let's play 'daughter-in-law jumping into the well'." Tian Fuxian said with ease: "Okay! Just play 'daughter-in-law jumping into the well'. You're going to have to jump into the well a few times. It's not that I blow the atmosphere, you are higher than your uncle in terms of foreign knowledge, and you are more profitable than your uncle in terms of new nouns and foreign code words; Playing this trick in the countryside, you are still tender and tender!" Lu Zhaopeng drew a grid with chalk on the ground and said, "You are scary first!" Whether it's my little daughter-in-law jumping into the well or you, the old daughter-in-law, jumping into the well, let's see!" Chatting as we walked. Tian Fuxian asked: "Zhaopeng, I have something I can't solve, you let Mr. lead the students to write all over the village, I can unravel those words, only one sentence can't be solved, what does 'all power belongs to the agricultural cooperative' mean?" Lu Zhaopeng said: "That is very clear, I don't believe you can't solve it." Tian Fuxian said: "I really can't solve it." All the power belongs to the agricultural cooperatives, so what is the district department in charge of? Bailucang still doesn't care about it?" Lu Zhaopeng said: "This question was talked about at the beginning of today's 'agricultural class', what did you do? I greeted you a few days ago, and as the secretary of the district department, you were going to speak at the meeting, but you didn't come. Tian Fuxian said: "The county party department notified me to go to the meeting, but I didn't have time to tell you. Tian Fuxian did go to the Kuomintang county party headquarters, but he didn't get a notice of the meeting but went to find it himself. He didn't know how to deal with Lu Zhaopeng's invitation to open a "workshop". I went to the county under the pretext. Yue Weishan, secretary of the county party department, said: "You can't even cope with such a simple thing, can you still carry out the national revolution?" Secretary Yue talked a lot, but in the final analysis, it is just one sentence, ** inciting peasants to rebel is completely nonsense; But now that the KMT and the CCP are cooperating, we can't say that people are messing around; As the secretary of the district department, you must recognize in your heart that they are nonsense. Tian Fuxian came to Lu Zhaopeng to play the games of "wolf eating baby" and "daughter-in-law jumping into the well", in fact, he had already seen the big-character slogans smeared on the walls of various villages, and the most disgusting thing for him was the article "All power belongs to the agricultural cooperative". Tian Fuxian further asked: "Zhaopeng, since all power must belong to the Agricultural Cooperative, then I have to hand over the formalities to the Agricultural Cooperative. Lu Zhaopeng said: "This issue has not yet been studied by the Agricultural Cooperative. Besides, the agricultural cooperatives are still in the preparatory stage, and we will talk about it after the formal establishment. If you are the secretary of the district department, you should stand with the agricultural cooperatives, and if you stand together, there is no question of the transfer of power, but only the division of labor. Tian Fuxian was noncommittal, and his subordinates took a step forward and shouted proudly: "Zhaopeng, you should jump into the well again!" Jump, jump, down!" played three times in a row, and Lu Zhaopeng lost three times, all of which were cornered by the other party and jumped into the square symbolizing the well. Lu Zhaopeng said: "You are doing a good job. You're so proud, uncle! I'm going to win you one day, and I have to force you, an old daughter-in-law, to jump into a well!"

Heiwa successfully set off an unheard-of wind and snow in Bailuyuan. Heiwa disdained the two bear-wrapped soft eggs, and soon got acquainted with two hard guys who didn't care about life or death, and the Ten Revolutionary Brothers clenched into fists again. By the end of the 10-day "workshop," the 10 Brothers of the Revolution were expanded to 36 Brothers. When they swore an oath with a bowl of wine, an atmosphere of great power and intimidation was formed.

The first sign of the peasant association was hung by Boss He in Hejiafang Village, and it was still written in green on a white ground. Within half a month, nine of the 10 villages in the first batch of key development held meetings for the establishment of village-level peasant associations, and also hung up signs with green characters on white ground, but only Bailu Village remained deserted. Heiwa said angrily: "I can blow the wind and stir up snow on the plain, but I can't even pick up a single chicken feather in Bailu Village." Lu Zhaopeng looked confident: "We will finally besiege this feudal fortress." ”

The 36 Revolutionary Brothers, who played important roles in the peasant associations of each of the nine villages, sat in a classroom and listened to their leader, Lu Zhaopeng, give a summary of the first step and the second step of the work plan: "Comrades, we have opened up the situation. Comrades, the second step will certainly be smoother than the first, and we will have to take a bigger step to establish peasant cooperatives in 50 villages. As soon as these 50 villages hang up our signs with green characters on white ground, we will establish the headquarters of the Bailuyuan Farmers' Association. The 36 revolutionary brothers jumped from their chairs to the table in excitement, and one of the brothers said: "We have established a peasant cooperative, and we have to do something big, and people say that our peasant cooperatives can bully women by dismantling the footcloth!" This remark aroused an enthusiastic response from the thirty-six brothers, and even Heiwa couldn't help but say: "People are not afraid of us." Lu Zhaopeng corrected Heiwa's words and said: "We don't want people to be afraid. The crux of the matter is whether the masses are convinced or not. We are right to advocate that women cut their hair and enlarge their feet, and the ban on smoking and smashing cigarette guns and cigarette boxes has also won the support of the masses, and we have to do more things that the masses need to do. Comrades, let's talk about the biggest problem that the masses have complained about...... "Another brother said: "Let the masses be afraid of us or convince us that we can do practical things, and clean up the old sao stick monk in Sanguan Temple!"