In the middle of the night, the sun was half hidden in the sky, and all the clouds in the sky were dyed red, and the blood-red remnant sun sprinkled on the earth. More than a dozen people came in and out of the village committee one after another, and I, the fat man and Yingzi, I came early to find a corner to sit down. The interior decoration is very simple, a very long large table, which can accommodate about ten people, a large enamel tea jar filled with tea is placed on the table, and the wall behind the chair is hung with a portrait of ***, and the surrounding walls are all soil, which is mixed with a few straws.

The last time the meeting was held several years ago, when the government divided the land, every family gathered here, the scene at this time was no less than that year, the house was full of people, if a few people came to stack up.

We were originally in the corner of the wall, the space was not large, this crowd, it was quite uncomfortable, sitting was not able to sit, fortunately standing directly on the stool, at this time the room was noisy.

Uncle Lao patted the table, signaled everyone to be quiet, cleared his throat and said: "Folks, this meeting must have known that the hunting dogs in our village are almost dead, this hunting dog is an important helper for us to hunt in the mountains, without the hunting dog we will hunt a lot less, I want to ask the surrounding villages for a few fierce dogs, if they don't give it to us, they will buy it." ”

Uncle Lao Dong frowned again and said: "Village Chief Liu knows the quality of dogs, when the time comes, take a few young ones, go with you, as long as there are good dogs, no matter how much money you have to give me back, you don't know how to practice mastiffs, when the time comes, there will be dozens of them, and every family will get one." ”

Village Chief Liu's face was flushed, and he scolded: "Damn, you think this mastiff is a cabbage, and you can say a few whole ones." ”

These two people are like enemies in their previous lives, and the meeting is like a fight. In any case, the dog is the top priority, and the village can only earn a few centimeters by hunting in winter. And what exactly killed the dog, if it is said that it is a beast in the mountains, no one will believe it, because several hunting dogs are together, and there are no wild beasts in the mountains that will be afraid, even if they encounter a pack of wolves, they can't beat them and run away.

The blind mother-in-law from the village also came, and was supported by a man. What happened in the village was that she still heard about it, and after listening to the experience of the hunting team at the conference, she folded her hands and muttered in her mouth: "The mountain god atonements, the mountain gods atone, we are presumptuous and ignorant, please forgive us, we are willing to use the eight immortals to worship, and please calm your anger." ”

The old uncle pulled the blind mother-in-law and said: "What are you doing here, this is a meeting, don't bring your old ideas and old feudalism here, don't talk if you want to listen." ”

"You offended the mountain god, you will be punished, the death of the hound is just a warning, you do not follow the rules, go up the mountain to hunt before the time is reached, I am afraid that next time you will die." The blind woman's hands trembled and she continued: "At that time, not only will you suffer, but the people of the village will also be affected. ”

Uncle Dong was angry, you said an old man, you can't fight, and you can't talk too much, so he slapped the table fiercely and shouted angrily: "You...... Get out of here, and stop spreading rumors. ”

Although Uncle Lao Dong is the village party secretary, he still underestimates the ghosts and gods in the hearts of the people in the village, and the crowd whispers eagerly, saying everything, and these words seem to have changed their flavor when they enter the ears of Uncle Laodong, as if they are laughing at him. The enamel tea jar was still on the ground, and the tea splashed the crowd, and it was the first time for the people in the village to see the village party secretary so angry, and everyone didn't dare to speak again.

For a while, the room was very quiet, and only the heavy wheezing sound of the old uncle could be heard. The scene was very embarrassing for a while, the fat man stabbed me, and I still didn't understand. The fat man pulled me directly and stood on the big table, and the fat man posed on the side, which I understood. During the Cultural Revolution, we were Red Guards, and a program was rehearsed to promote new ideas, and everyone looked at us, Yingzi was anxious to scratch her ears and cheeks, and she didn't know what we were doing when she came up, and prayed in her heart that we wouldn't cause trouble.

I can't control it so much, I'm forced to get the ducks on the shelves.

I also posed and said in a deep voice, "Do you know why we won?" ”

"Why?"

"Because we have boiling blood, a rock-like will, to break old ideas! Break the old culture! Break the old customs! Break old habits! Sweep away all cows, ghosts, snakes, and gods. ”

"What should we do?"

"We should unite and fight against the old culture, we should pursue the truth of the matter, we should believe in science, and science explains everything we don't know."

"*** have said it, don't you believe it?"

I added: "Everything in this world belongs to our toiling masses, and the rich fruits of the proletarian revolution must be proved by practice and our blindness and ignorance will be swept away." ”

The silence below is terrible, everyone's eyes are shining, as if they want to eat people, I and the fat man are seen hairy, all this is really a little scary. Unexpectedly, Village Chief Liu clapped his hands, and the ensuing applause came in a swarm, shouting good. Don't look at what we say is not very good, but the body language is rich and can fully express our content, after many years, I didn't expect that my skills with the fat man are not regressing but increasing.

Everyone doesn't care what mountain gods are or not, since everyone is not afraid, they are still afraid of a fart, so they simply face it together. And the blind mother-in-law was even more divinely chattering, whispering in her mouth, and I vaguely listened to it. "The mountain gods sent evil spirits to punish human beings, and we are waiting for a catastrophe to come."

At this time, everyone was like beating chicken blood, around the table to discuss countermeasures, the blind mother-in-law stood there alone, and the person who helped her was gone, she saved the fat man's life after all, I quickly pulled the fat man and sent her home, along the way I was a little embarrassed with the fat man, and the blind mother-in-law did not say anything, saying that she did not hear, and beat me to death for my disbelief. I heard that when a person closes a door, he will definitely open a window, and this blind mother-in-law must be like a mirror in her heart.

Sent her home, said goodbye to her, and was about to leave, but was stopped, and the blind mother-in-law said, "You two will wait, I'm afraid that I, a blind woman, won't eat you, so sit down, and I'll go find something for you both." ”

The house was not big, and the things she was looking for were in the cabinet on the kang, and because she couldn't open them, she took out all the things, including a "compass", an object of my dreams. Although I saw it, I couldn't reach out to grab it, thinking in my heart that the compass was an object that was hard to find, and I must find a way to ask the blind woman for this compass.

Before I could think about it, the blind mother-in-law put two red signs in front of us, and I didn't know what material they were made of.