In 52 years, Lushi County set up a grave relocation team. It seems to be quite formal, in fact, it is to recruit a group of powerful bankers to go to the fields and move away the scattered graves. There are no requirements for doing this work, as long as you can take a shovel and dig a pit. But in fact, the recruits are all young and middle-aged men, who are young and weak, so they don't want it.

Because digging graves and digging pits is a physical work, people who have no strength can't do much work, and those who are in the way of doing it are still in the way, and the team can't support idlers, and another point is because the old grave in the field is heavy in yin, and the people who work must be men with yang energy, so that they can suppress the evil in the grave.

Later, because some people were reluctant to move their ancestral graves, whenever they saw the people of the grave removal team working, they said that they were driving the graves.

The salary of the grave team was calculated according to the number of graves dug by the individual every day, not only could they get cash every day to go home, but sometimes they could also give some food subsidies, which was definitely a good errand at that time, and it was many times better than digging and farming in the field all year round.

Because the treatment is better than farming, there are 100 people in the grave team at most, and there is a lot of money to be made. Some people are busy working in their own fields in the morning, and in the afternoon, they go to find the grave team that is working, and they can go to dig the grave together with the steward by signing a name.

At that time, there were many people working in the field, and when they looked at it from a distance, they thought it was ploughing the field, and when they got closer, they saw that they were digging graves. At that time, there was a saying that said, "Don't collect grain, collect the grave, don't plant the farmer, but plant the grave." ”

This kind of seed that should be read as a four-tone planting of the land, so why is it said to be a kind of grave? It's interesting to say, but I can talk about it in detail. The rules of the grave team are to pay according to the number of graves they dig, and those old graves have hardened for a long time, and no matter how strong they are, they can't dig a few a day.

Some people have many eyes and ghosts, and they take advantage of the fact that everyone else is sleeping in the middle of the night, so they go to the place where they want to work during the day, find a corner and dig a shallow pit, put some bones of large domestic animals such as pigs and cattle in the pit, to act as human bones, and then bury the pit with soft soil to build a small soil slope, and when they come to move the grave during the day, they rush to dig this grave, and the soft soil can be dug up in a few clicks, and the bones inside are picked up and put into a sack, and thrown on a human flatbed truck, and the money for that grave is in hand, which is a grave.

Because the management was not strict at that time, and the public money was spent, they all turned a blind eye, as long as they didn't go too far, it was regarded as work. The later sentence "do not collect grain and harvest the grave, do not plant the farmer and plant the grave instead" is also ironic. It's about those who plant graves, they are full of thinking about how to be greedy, but they have never bypassed that bend, think about it carefully, get up early and dig a pit to make a fake grave, and dig it in front of the steward during the day, that effort adds up, not much lighter than digging an old grave.

It is said that at the beginning of the establishment of the Lushi County grave team, counting those who had nothing to do to do odd jobs, the number was very large. It wasn't until the second half of 51 that the grave team changed, and the original daily salary became a monthly payment, and it was not fixed every month according to the grave's head, and there was no food subsidy, at most it was provided to the team members to live in the dormitory. If you don't complete the task this month, the salary will be less, if you dig more until the end of the month, you will give that money, the local farmers will honestly go home to farm, and it won't take long for the whole grave team to only seven people.

Those who used to be rich local rich people were also confiscated after the liberation of the country, and their fields and houses were also distributed to the local people. Although there was not enough to eat at that time, there was no need to worry about this sheltered place, and the grave team provided the only welfare dormitory, which the locals naturally looked down on, but the people from other places did not catch up with the division of land and land, and they could only make a living in the grave relocation team, at least they could have a place to live.

In the end, six of the remaining seven people were from other places, and they had also worked in the grave team for some years, and they were veterans.

There is a pair of brothers in the grave team, the third and fourth in the team. The elder brother of the brothers is called Li Fucai, and the younger brother is called Li Fude, and the two were porters at the old wharf in Wuhan before liberation, but they fled to Henan because of trouble, and later made a living in the grave team.

Porter is the name given to the old porter of goods, and the person who drives mules, donkeys, horses, and other livestock to help people transport goods in the interior is called a porter or porter. The life of this kind of porter is very difficult, going south and north, crossing mountains and mountains, sleeping in the open air, walking for more than ten days or months, years, all relying on two feet to make a living.

The workers who carried the goods on their shoulders at the Hankou wharf were also called porters, and these people relied on a pair of shoulders and a flat shoulder, and earned some money by working hard.

At that time, the goods from the slope of Shenjiamiao were mainly Chinese medicinal materials, each bundle had 300 to 500 catties, and the heaviest one was more than 800 catties. Sometimes, the porters had to stand naked in shoulder-deep water, carry their goods to the foreshore, and then carry them to the road along the river. When entering the warehouse, you generally have to carry 4 to 5 floors high, and you have to climb an eight-inch gangplank to pile it up on the top to get a joy. Huanxi is a bamboo strip engraved with the line number as a bargaining chip, after finishing the work, you can go to receive the salary with Huanxi, there is an old saying on the wharf for many years, called "a thousand years of flat shoulders, ten thousand years of baskets, the waist is hunched and hunched".

The two brothers of the Li family were working as porters at Baoqing Wharf at that time, and at that time there was a leader in Baoqing named Hu Yuqing, and there were thousands of porters under him, and he was the head of the black and red club of a famous local gang.

The head is the boss of the gang, and the money that the gang gets by collecting the porter's protection fee is mostly in the pockets of the leader, although the porter is the lowest in various industries, and the money earned is also the least, but there are many people who can't stand the bowl, and a certain force has been formed on the dock.

Among the many lines in the old society, perhaps the Jianghu atmosphere and gangster color on the dock are the strongest. The old wharf of Wuhan is not only full of gangs, but also has gangs within the gangs, and there are factions within the gangs, and the doors are strict and complicated. Gangs are different, the fat and thin of the wharf are different, in order to compete for the wharf with a large flow of goods, this gang often fights with each other, and each fight has to kill and injure many people, but as long as there is no big movement, the local government will not care.

When Hu Yuqing, the leader of the Black and Red Society, was young, he was just a gangster, he had been messing around on the streets, and he had never done any serious work. Later, when he came to Baoqing Wharf, he defected to the previous boss, he was not a porter, but played the role of a junior brother and a thug, because every time there was a fight between gangs, Hu Yuqing was at the front, and his hands were fierce and ruthless enough, but he was favored by the boss and promoted. When the previous boss was attacked by someone in a weapon fight, he cut off half of his head with a knife and died, Hu Yuqing was the most important person in his life, and naturally became the new leader of the Black and Red Society.

As soon as Hu Yuqing became the leader, he doubled the porters' share, which made the porters complain, the few dollars they earned every day were just able to make a living, and they couldn't even eat half full, but they didn't dare to object, if they didn't do this, they could only wait to starve to death, and they had to endure working on the dock to support their families.

Speaking of Li Fucai and Li Fude, the two brothers worked as porters in Hu Yuqing's territory, and the two of them originally owed a lot of debts, and they had to pay the money at the end of the month, and they couldn't take out a big word, so they hid at home and wanted to take the opportunity to fool the past, but the gangsters under the Black and Red Society, who specialized in collecting money, found them.

On that day, his younger brother Li Fude went to the street to buy two bowls of Wuhan's famous hot dry noodles, packed them in bamboo tubes and brought them back for dinner.

One of the thugs said to Li Fude: "Do you know that Lao Tzu has been looking for you for several days? Why didn't you pay the money? Why don't you want to do it here? Tell you, even if you don't do it, you have to pay this month's money, otherwise you will waste a dog's leg, don't you understand?"

Li Fude is a stuffy gourd, he usually doesn't talk much, he only works with his head bored, and when he was blocked by someone and asked for money, he didn't raise his eyes and replied, "No money." ”

The group of thugs, relying on their own black and red clubs, walked sideways when they went out, and when they were looking for porters to collect money, they saw which one was not pleasing to the eye, it was a punch and kick, and the porter didn't dare to fight back when he was beaten, and he handed over the money with a smile and had to say: "A few masters are tired, give some more to drink." ”

The porters are all inferior in front of them, who knows that this time when they meet a Li Fude, not only do they not give money but also love to ignore them, they scold and scold, roll up their sleeves and start beating people.

At this time, the door of the house opened, and Li Fucai came out with a smile on his face, nodded to the group of thugs and said, "Oops! Don't do it! Don't do it, don't do it, my brother has a bad brain, don't be like him, he has money! How can there be no money? It's all in the house, why don't you get involved and come in with me? I just saved up to buy a roast chicken, and I haven't eaten it yet! A few masters came to the house to eat. ”

When a few gangsters heard that this stinky foot man also bought a roast chicken, it just so happened that he hadn't eaten this bite for a long time, and he was very greedy, so he pushed away Li Fucai, who was standing at the door, and a total of four people entered the house.

Li Fude thought to himself: "The two of them used a lot of effort to buy two bowls of hot dry noodles, how can they have the money to buy any roast chicken." ”

But then, seeing Li Fucai, who was still smiling just now, turned his head and looked gloomy for a moment, and there was a strong murderous aura between his eyebrows, and he also understood at the moment that he couldn't hide today, and he couldn't live if he didn't kill them, so he followed Li Fucai into the house and closed the outer door casually.

After the gangsters entered the house, they looked for it on the table, and they had neither money nor roast chicken, so they turned around to ask, but they saw the two brothers of the Li family, each carrying a firewood knife, standing at the door with fierce faces, and the sturdy body that had been doing rough work all year round, coupled with the look of being like he was going to split them alive, he stopped the four gangsters on the spot.

Without waiting for them to react, Li Fucai slashed across with a firewood knife, and cut off half of the head of a gangster standing in the front, and the remaining half of the head was still on the body, bursting with blood, which scared the other three people into fart, and when his legs were weak, he knelt on the ground and begged for mercy, saying that he had an old mother and a child or something.

Li Fucai usually looks like a smile, but in fact, he is extremely fierce, seeing the three gangsters on the opposite side kneeling and begging for mercy, he didn't show mercy, and he chopped it down with a few knives, and immediately cut blood flying, and the walls of the house were full of blood red.

The two brothers chopped up four members of the Black and Red Society, and took their share of the money, escaped from Wuhan overnight, and went all the way to Henan with odd jobs, and later joined the local grave team, and also worked for many years.

The Li brothers are in the grave relocation team of seven people, ranking the third and fourth, and they also lived a lot of time in Lushi County, and every time they caught up with the villagers to collect food, the two of them also went to help, and the people nearby had a good impression of their brothers, and they all called them "the third and the fourth" when they met.