Before the people's communes withdrew from the big stage of history, the people's communes and the village-based production brigades were not only the relationship between the upper and lower levels of economic organizations, but also the relationship of administrative subordination.

Therefore, Chaijiawu Village, corresponding to Changhe Commune, is also called Chaijiawu Production Brigade.

Han Zhankui is the branch secretary of the Chaijiawu brigade. However, he likes the village people to call him the village party secretary, because the village party secretary always sounds bigger than the brigade party secretary.

Although he is over fifty years old and knows the destiny of heaven, if you want to talk about this Han Zhankui, let's say that in Chaijiawu, that is, in the entire Changhe Commune, it is a famous master.

Han Zhankui was born in 1929, and at the age of 20, he was pulled by the Kuomintang to become a strong man, and on the battlefield of the Huaihai Campaign, which is what the Kuomintang called the "Battle of Xu Beng", he was incorporated into the 110th Division of Liao Yunzhou's 85th Army. Later, Liao Yunzhou led his troops to revolt, and the 110th Division to which Han Zhankui belonged was broken up and reorganized, and he was integrated into the East China Field Army with his troops, that is, the Third Field Army of the Chinese People's ~ Liberation ~ Liberation Army.

The unit to which he belonged was the 27th Army of the Ninth Corps of Sanye, and this unit went all the way south to prepare for the mission of liberating Taiwan. Later, when the Korean War started, in response to the call of Mao ~ Lord ~ Xi and obeying the order of the Central Military Commission, the 27th Army marched from Fujian to Dandong, crossing the Yalu River with high spirits, preparing to participate in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea.

But Han Zhankui contracted malaria on the eve of crossing the river, and he could only leave the team to recuperate on the spot. When his malaria was cured, half of the war to resist US aggression and aid Korea was completed, and later Han Zhankui obeyed the arrangement of the troops, retired from the army and returned to his hometown to choose a farmer.

After Han Zhankui returned to Chaijiawu, he immediately became the object of the organization's attention, joined the party in the line of fire, and became the captain of the militia, and finally became a labor pacesetter for farming and production, and also entered the provincial capital Hangzhou to be received by the deputy director of the Provincial Revolutionary Committee.

Therefore, Han Zhankui, who was less than forty years old at the time, became the secretary of the Chaijiawu Brigade, and from Chaijiawu to Changhe Commune, no one objected at all.

In a blink of an eye, this brigade secretary has also been the secretary for more than ten years.

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In the middle of the night in April, if the wind blows, it is still a little cool.

Han Zhankui went to the toilet in his clothes, and after inspecting the live creatures in the duck and chicken coops in the yard, he was ready to go to sleep at the closed courtyard gate.

Who knew that at the door, there were three uninvited guests, Yu Accountant and Lao Wu at the entrance of the village.

Han Zhankui hurriedly called the mother-in-law who had just fallen asleep to boil water to make tea, and then led the three of them to the hall.

As soon as the three of them sat down, Han Zhankui asked, "Fourth, why do you come to my house without sleeping at night?"

The fourth is the fourth uncle of Mingwa in Han Chunfeng's mouth, also surnamed Han, called Han Zhanshui. In the countryside, usually a village will have a little bit of kinship, Han Zhanshui and Han Zhankui are still uncles and brothers who have not come out of the five suits, and they are the fourth in the family, so Han Zhankui is used to calling him the fourth child. Even if it is Han Chunlei and their family, they can actually get close to Han Zhankui and their family, but they are not so close.

In Chaijiawu Village, Han is the surname, and almost half of the family is surnamed Han. Most of the other small surnames were in the fifth or seventh year, when the state wanted to build the Xin'anjiang Hydropower Station, so the people in the villages and towns where the Xin'anjiang Reservoir was to be submerged had to be relocated. These migrants from the Xin'an River Reservoir were dispersed to nearby counties and cities, and Chaijiawu Village, which is adjacent to Chun'an County, was naturally assigned the quota for resettlement of migrants.

Calculating, these dozens of families in Xin'anjiang have been settling down in Chaijiawu for more than 20 years. Being able to merge immigrants and local natives into one village, and the proper governance is also thanks to Han Zhankui, the secretary of the brigade.

"Branch secretary, we're looking for you to talk about something. Hey...... What is the situation with your face, who scratched it?"

As soon as Han Zhanshui said this, Yu Accountant and Lao Wu at the entrance of the village found that Han Zhankui had three more blood scars on his face, as well as sporadic blood stains, which seemed to have just been scratched.

"Ahem......"

Han Zhankui was smoking the cigarette in his hand, and when he heard Han Zhanshui ask, he coughed violently twice, looking a little embarrassed.

At this time, Han Zhankui's wife walked in after making three jars of tea, and after distributing the enamel jar to Han Zhanshui and the three of them, she glared at Han Zhankui fiercely and teased: "Yo, are you still embarrassed? I think you will dare to make eye contact with Mao Yuzhen's fierce mother-in-law in the future, it's been a month, and if you don't give me those two catties of white flour to come back, the old lady is not finished with you!"

"You mother-in-law, why don't you have any consciousness of the families of revolutionary cadres? I said that I have nothing to do with her, you don't believe it!"

Han Zhankui is the secretary of the brigade, how can he be ridiculed by his daughter-in-law in front of the villagers? The old man was so angry that he threw the cigarette roll directly to the ground, "I told you a long time ago, that flour originally belonged to someone else, how can I accept the benefits of others as a revolutionary cadre? Even if she doesn't take it back, I have to return it to their family." ”

Han Zhankui's daughter-in-law sneered, "Han Zhankui, I think you are thinking about Mao Yuzhen's mother-in-law, right?

"Don't take the brigade secretary as a cadre, you know a ball, you know, this Chaijiawu inside and out, without me, the brigade secretary, can you do it?"

Han Zhankui glanced at Han Zhanshui and Yu Accountant, as if he was also talking to the three of them, and he had already pushed his mother-in-law out as he spoke, "Mao Yuzhen is a forty-six-year-old lady, how can I take a fancy to her? What problems have you seen with my life style over the years? Okay, we men talk about something, you go to sleep quickly, go to sleep." ”

Got rid of his scolding and scolding wife, Han Zhankui sat down in a decent manner, and asked, "Fourth, what are you doing with me in the middle of the night?"

"Hehe, let's come to the branch here, also... It is also related to Mao Yuzhen. Han Zhanshui said.

Han Zhankui was startled and frowned, "It has something to do with this mother-in-law again?"

Years of experience in fighting with Mao Yuzhen told him that as long as he got involved with this mother-in-law, it was nothing good.

Han Zhanshui smiled dryly, "Yes, it has something to do with her." Yu Accounting, you are a cultural person, you have a sharp mouth, or you and the branch secretary. ”

Accountant Yu is just 40 years old this year, and he is one of the people who settled in Chaijiawu 20 years ago, and his education level is relatively high. Because he has some culture and a bit of ink, he married the daughter of a local family when he immigrated and has been working as an accountant in the brigade. When he was young, he had a dream that he would one day be able to go to university. Two years ago, the country resumed the college entrance examination, and Yu Accountant still wanted to participate in it and realize his college dream. However, as soon as he finished talking to his family, he was pasted by his daughter-in-law's big-eared melon seeds, scolding him for being wolf-hearted and wanting to go to the city to live with the women in the city after taking the university entrance examination.

After making trouble for so many times, Yu Accountant also gave up the idea of taking the college entrance examination and studying in college.

Accountant Yu swallowed his saliva, and slowly told the story of how they followed the Han family to fry jelly beans and went to various villages to exchange jelly beans for rags these days. He didn't hide it, he told the details one by one, and even a few times in order to make the Han family unable to collect the rags, they coaxed up the tattered price, obviously two taels of jelly beans can be exchanged for a bunch of rags, they would rather draw three taels, because there is a profit difference anyway. In addition, the three of them do this business together, there are many people who can do things easily, and they can go back and forth to several villages at the same time in a day, forcing the Han family to be restrained step by step.

By the time he finished speaking, Han Zhankui was already dumbfounded.

Then Han Zhankui looked at the three of them with disdain, "This... This... You don't know how to be authentic! When people, orphans, and widows buy and sell to make a living, you also follow the trend, and even cut off your beard!"

Accountant Yu laughed dryly and explained, "Branch secretary, don't underestimate this business, there are many ways to make money." ”

"No matter how much money you make, you can't do this, folks, if you do this, you will cut off the livelihood of several people. ”

Han Zhankui disagreed with his words very much, and said repeatedly, "Especially you are an accountant, it's just that the fourth and old Wu's ideological consciousness can't keep up, you are a brigade accountant, and you are also a leading cadre in the village, and you are also studying revolutionary ideas every now and then, why are you still involved in this kind of thing?"

Accountant Yu smiled awkwardly.

Han Zhankui looked at the three of them and asked, "Then will you come to me tonight to report this matter to me?"

Lao Wu, who had not spoken, suddenly said: "Uh, branch secretary, let's do this, at the beginning, we wanted to do it secretly a few times and then stop, but I didn't expect this business to come so quickly, so I couldn't help but keep doing it." What, today I heard from the nephew of the Zhanshui family that the old man of the Han family is inquiring about this business done by several of us. Eh, you also know that Mao Yuzhen's mother-in-law is not easy to mess with, let her know that we have done this behind our backs, and how many of us can have a peaceful birthday? So, I came to find a branch secretary today, just to let you ......"

"Damn, you don't want Lao Tzu to be a peacemaker for you, to talk about peace, right?"

Han Zhankui was so shocked that he stood up from the stool like a conditioned reflex, waved his hand and shook his head again and again, "No, I won't do this, you already know that Mao Yuzhen is not easy to mess with, why do you want to cut off other people's livelihoods?"

"Branch secretary, I don't like to hear what you say, we are all uncles and brothers, I will say whatever I have. Han Zhankui also stood up and said, "This business is not unique to her Mao Yuzhen, why did she do it, we can't do it? Besides, she is opportunistic, she keeps doing it, and the people in the village will report her sooner or later!"

"Who dare?"

Suddenly, Han Zhankui seemed to have been stepped on by the tail of a tiger, and became furious, "Since we were little devils, we have never been a traitor, let alone betrayed our fellow villagers. It's so easy for her to pull up a few older babies from a woman's family? What kind of speculation is this? In the past two years, the state policy has also been good, and who doesn't raise a few chickens and ducks. Who hasn't planted a few ridges of land on the mountain to secretly plant some vegetables? These are not allowed to be planted and distributed collectively according to regulations, right? But have you done it, haven't you counted it in your heart? I still want you to ...... accounting?"

As he spoke, Han Zhankui stared at Accountant Yu and said word by word, "Don't think I don't know, in the past few years, at the end of every year, you have helped write couplets in various villages nearby, how many millet pickles have been exchanged for a couplet, who in the village has reported you?"

Saying this, Accountant Yu lowered his head first, a little panicked.

"You really have to help with that book this time, Mao Yuzhen, this mother-in-law will definitely not be good about this. ”

Lao Wu was quick to start, and said almost beggingly, "Last year, he opened the head of the second pillar in our village, and two or three strong men couldn't hold her. You said that she wanted to come to the door and settle accounts with us, so what should we do? For the long-term peace and stability of Chaijiawu, you must be the one who is a peacemaker!"

Han Zhankui was also afraid of Mao Yuzhen's troubles, and couldn't help but shake his head and sigh, "If you want this fierce woman to rest her mind, it's difficult, it's difficult, have you seen her Mao Yuzhen suffered a loss since she killed a man?"

"Who's crying?"

Suddenly, Accountant Yu pricked up his ears and looked outside the hospital.

Someone was crying.

The crying grew louder and louder......

In the middle of the night, this crying is miserable, infiltrating!

Vaguely, there are still words in the cry, it is a woman who is crying and expressing her grievances!

Be......

"Mao Yuzhen!"

"It's her!"

"Damn, it seems like you're crying outside my yard?"

Hearing Han Zhankui say this, Accountant Yu and Han Zhanshui couldn't sit still, and subconsciously looked at each other.

From each other's eyes, each of them read their feelings at this moment...... Eh, what a panic!