Chapter 3: There Is Only One Truth
Since Wang Defa made a choice between continuing to have a son and an accountant, this also stimulated him to intensify his work in order to enrich his own pockets in the uncertain days in the future.
He felt that this should be taken for granted, and he made up for what he had lost in a way that harmed the interests of others, fulfilling the saying "people do not destroy for themselves". Now for Wang Defa, it is not only a matter of destroying heaven and earth, but also a matter of cutting off children and grandchildren, and it is not a big thing to do, so it is reasonable for him to choose to take risks.
The land registration and verification work of each household is over, and on the surface, under Wang Defa's black-box operation, the whole team is happy, but under the bright side there is a hidden crisis. Although Wang Defa has many years of accounting experience, he still thinks about these things a little simply.
People can coax people, but God doesn't coax people. Whatever cause you buried, you will get what kind of effect. Time flies, and it's the autumn harvest time of the year. All over the river are busy figures wearing three vests to cut wheat.
Wang De's family has too few male laborers, and every year he asks outside to help collect five or six acres of wheat, and then hires someone to pull it to the team's field. It's still good to have money, even if there are few men in the family, the work is no worse than what other people do, if you can really add another son, Wang Defa is definitely a winner in life.
Wang Defa's family has a piece of land, and next door is the land of the fool Lao Wanjia. Lao Wan is stupid, sometimes it is also a situation, you have to say that he is really stupid, no one can cheat a penny from him, if you want to say that he is not stupid, he knows that he is all over the world to fight birds. Wang Defa was caught by Lao Wan.
Mai Kezi traveled south and north to cut wheat, and practiced an extraordinary skill - to visually measure the harvest of wheat. And most of the wheat customers have this skill, after cutting an acre of land, look at the pile of wheat, who has more production and who has less production, they have a number in their hearts.
Lao Wan sat on the ridge in his field, drinking cold white and eating pancakes, and the wheat customers invited by Wang Defa were also resting on the ridge. People who work in the fields have a habit, that is, if they want to work, they will work together, if they want to rest, they will rest together, and they can still talk while sitting on the ridge, all of which are the same.
One of them was eating dry food, looking at the wheat piles piled up by Lao Wanjia, and then looked at Wang Defa's family and said: "Alas, Lao Wan, the wheat in your field has been in arrears this year!" ”
Lao Wan didn't react to the situation with the cake in his mouth. Mai Kezi said: "Look at your accountant's family, it is the same as your family, and this is a lot more grain than your family." ”
Lao Wan seemed to understand, put down the cake in his hand, and ran over to the old father who was cutting wheat in front of him. babbling and saying, Lao Wan's father also came to Maike and started chatting.
Maike told him, "Is there any difference between looking at the wheat pile of Accountant Wang's house and the wheat pile of the other family next to yours?" Lao Wan's father looked left and right, as if his family's wheat pile was small, and the gap in this harvest was too big.
Lao Wan's father said: "It may be that our family's land is not harvested, and the growth is not good this year." ”
Mai Kezi smiled and said: "I see, the land of the three of you is the least of your family, the land is less, the harvest must be less, is it possible that the three plots of land together are still different in water and soil?" "Mai Kezi said that it is Mai Kezi, who has experience in going south and north, and he has broken the essence of the problem in one sentence.
Lao Wan and Lao Wan's father looked at their own land, and then looked back at Accountant Wang's house, and they didn't think there was any difference. Lao Wan suddenly said stupidly: "Our family's land is less than theirs!" Mai Kezi only smiled when he heard it, but didn't speak, Lao Wan's father seemed to remember last year's re-registration and registration.
After accounting Wang and the captain measured the land of his family, they said that the actual area of the land of Lao Wanjia was larger than the registered one, while the two plots of land next door to the left and right were small. Lao Wanjia is also honest people, and there are very few who can read and write, and the accountant is what he says.
After the measurement, Wang Defa asked Lao Wanjia to move the ridges on both sides by one centimeter. Lao Wan's father remembers very well that when he moved the ridge, Accountant Wang and his neighbors on the other side all helped. Could it be that there is something wrong with this ridge?
This question brought trouble to Wang Defa. Although Lao Wanjia is not very literate, Lao Wan's father called his nephew who was eating a public meal in the county seat. told his nephew about the situation, and then said with a sad face: "The land is the life of the family, if this land is really less, but it is fatal, this is it, the eldest nephew, you are literate, and you also eat the emperor's grain, I will find a tape measure, or let's go to the field and measure it, you can help my uncle calculate whether there is an acre of this land." ”
Since the nephew came, he also wanted to clarify the matter for his uncle, so he and his uncle happily took the tools and went to the field. One acre of land, with a ten-meter tape measure, my uncle and nephew and the stupid Lao Wan measured it for half a day.
When he returned home, his nephew lay on the table and said to his uncle: "This piece of land is only 8 points, not enough for one acre!" ”
Lao Wan's father sat by the kang and didn't speak, Lao Wan yelled stupidly, and his nephew also understood in his heart that his uncle was being bullied. But after all, he was a public official, so he said to his uncle: "Uncle, you see this is the case, this matter, I think you should go and talk to Accountant Wang first, and ask him if there is a mistake, work, anyone can make mistakes, if it is really a mistake, with Accountant Wang's work consciousness of more than 20 years, he will definitely deal with it for you." ”
Lao Wan's father nodded and said, "At noon, you stay, let you cook and eat, you go again, I will go to Accountant Wang's house." Then without looking back, he went straight to Wang Defa's house. The stupid Lao Wan also followed behind, you said he was stupid, he might also be worried about the old father's temper, so he could have a companion anyway.
Lao Wan's father thought a lot about how to tell the accountant about it all the way, he lowered his head and looked at the road, thinking about it over and over again. When he raised his head, he had already arrived in front of the team's shop, he went in and took a bottle of wine, strode in his arms and continued to walk towards Wang Defa's house.
The chimney of Wang De's house was smoking, and it was estimated that it would be time for lunch, and when he walked to the door, Lao Wan's father turned around several times, but he didn't muster up the courage to step into the threshold. There was a person coming home from the field at the door, looking at Lao Wan's father, he asked, "Lao Wan's father, looking for Accountant Wang, why don't you go in?" He stepped in as soon as he was ruthless.
"Accountant Wang, Accountant Wang, I'm Lao Wan's father!" Entering the courtyard, Lao Wan's father shouted loudly. Wang Defa heard the shout and came out, Lao Wan's father took the wine in his arms in his hand, and nodded to Wang Defa to say hello.
Wang Defa was a little surprised to see Lao Wan's father, but he was surprised that he didn't think of why he came at all, let alone that he came to him for local affairs. Wang Defa said politely: "What wind blew you to my house, go, sit in the house." ”
Lao Wan's father entered the house, put the wine on the table and stared at Wang Defa. is the same as not entering the door for half a day, Lao Wan's father will be speechless for half a day.
"Come on, what are you doing with the wine? If you want me to make mistakes in my work, I am an accountant, and I can't drink alcohol, so I can't make mistakes in accounting. When you go back, take it back, I don't want it. Wang Defa saw that Lao Wan's father didn't speak, so he spoke first.
Wang Defa's woman has already begun to bring food from the kitchen, and Lao Wan's father feels that if he waits any longer, he will have no chance for a while. After squirming for a long time, he spoke.
"Accountant Wang, it's this, just the piece of land next to my house and yours, it's indeed a good piece of land, but the food is far worse than your family's. Some Mai Kezi said that my family's land is less than yours's, and you also know that I am a person who can't pretend to be a person in my heart, so why don't I come and ask you, what is the matter with my family's land, will the area be less? After saying this in one breath, Lao Wan's father calmed down a little. He didn't dare to look at Wang Defa, and waited for the accountant to give him an answer.
"Less land? This land was only measured last year, captain, I, you are all on the scene, one acre of land, you will never be wrong. Wang Defa said very firmly, and the fake has been turned true by him.
Lao Wan's father didn't know how to ask questions when he saw this, but if the land was all one acre, the gap between the grain harvest in his field and the accountant's land was too big, which was too contradictory.
He is a real person, what do you say: "Accountant, it's this, I also think there should be no problem, but this harvest is too bad, so I called my nephew over, at noon the two of us took a ruler to measure, my house next to your family's piece of land, not one acre, only eight points." The two divisions are gone. Did you make a mistake last year and ask me to shrink the ridges next to your two families on both sides, and did this shrinkage shrink my land? ”
Wang Defa was completely blinded by Lao Wan's father's words. When measuring the land last year, the family next to Lao Wanjiadi on the other side was also like Lao Wan's father now, and came to Wang De's house with a few bottles of wine. They stepped into Wang Defa's house, one wanted more benefits, and the other wanted to know what the truth was.
After all, Wang Defa has worked in the accounting position for so many years, and he has never seen anything in the world, and he thought about Lao Wan's father's question and how to deal with this matter as early as when he was doing it.
"Lao Wan, you have to believe me, when I measured the land last year, you were also on the scene, captain, me, and you all drew a charge after confirming it!" Wang Defa knew how to put pressure on Lao Wan's father.
Lao Wan's father believes in Wang Defa and his nephew, and he believes in his nephew more. "Accountant Wang, this is it, why don't we go and measure the land again, you call the captain, and I also let my nephew who knows a few words together, if it is indeed an acre of land, then I have nothing to say, if it is really two points less, then I have to move back the ridge that was moved last year!" You have to admit that Lao Wan's father is still very clear in his thinking when he is in a hurry.
"Re-measuring? Do you think the country is your home? Last year's measurement results have been reported layer by layer, and if you re-measure, you have to re-measure them all. You can't make such unreasonable demands just because your own land is not collected. Wang Defa was obviously also poked at the pain point by Lao Wan's father.
Looking at Accountant Wang's righteous explanation, Lao Wan's father was also speechless for a while, and he didn't know how to reply, so he turned his head angrily and left, leaving a sentence: "Accountant Wang, you have lunch, I won't bother." ”
The problem now is that the public says that the public is justified and the mother says that the mother is reasonable. After Lao Wan's father came out of Accountant Wang's house, he asked the wheat customers in Sichuan one by one, asking them if they felt that which land was good and had a high yield and which land was not harvesting. Seeing that some people were so interested in their experience in harvesting, the wheat customers also told him about the families who they felt that the land did not match the harvest.
Lao Wan's father began to contact these families, and they learned how to measure together, but the results were surprisingly similar. These families all moved the ridges of their own land last year, and the reason is that after re-measurement, they found that they had more land and had to reduce it a little. The problem is becoming clearer and clearer, this may not be the result of a mistake or mistake, it may be the work of the captain, accountant Wang and other officials. These people, who have discovered that their land is strange, have begun to plant mines for Wang Defa, which may explode at any time.
Although Lao Wanjia is an honest and responsible person in the team, he can't bear this kind of deprivation because he takes the land as his life. He gathered everyone together and discussed how to get the word fair back.
In the busy season of wheat, in the field of the brigade, each family has already pulled the wheat cut from the field to the designated position of their own house, the tractor has already begun to grind the field with a stone mill, and some people have tried it and used the thresher to quickly harvest the wheat. Everything seems to be unharmed, but the undercurrent is turbulent, and it is only a matter of time before it erupts.