Chapter 13 Burning the Mountain
"Bangbangbangbang", a dull sound of pounding the door pulled Xue Xiang back from his sleeping village. Last night, there was Feng Qingyuerou outside the window. He actually slept well all night and didn't even have a dream.
At this moment, Xue Xiang was woken up and looked at his watch. At about seven o'clock, he struggled to get up and opened the door and saw that there were many people crowding at the door, most of which were the superstructures of Koshantun who were scolded by him last night.
"Captain, the group of members of the community last night, oh no, that group of villagers were frozen. Their faces were all black and blue now. Should I put them down from the tree first? Then I'm afraid, I'm afraid of killing people." The person who spoke was the honest accountant Su Shunmin, wearing a ragged cotton coat, said something, and sucking the blue snot.
Last night, the village gang was summoned by Li Yongjun to show off a group of young men who were eager to show off. They stripped naked and left only a pair of shorts. They first hung for an hour, then put them down and tied them to the tree for a night and froze.
At first, these village gangsters were still tough and unable to resist. They were still cursing, but they were tied up with their hands half hanging in the air. The pain of the tendons of their arms was so hard to express. In a short while, they could not spit out a complete sentence.
The villagers cursed first, then shouted, then begged for mercy, and then cried, but they almost collapsed. The moon was on the sky, and the rest of the members went home to sleep a lot, and no one was willing to say good things for these guys who were idle and hated on weekdays. Another group of good families have always been the targets of these village pirates, and now they are even more busy with injuring them.
However, Xue Xiang estimated that the time was almost over. He knew that if he hung it down, the village puppets could not use any force without a month. This was not what he wanted, so he made everyone put the village puppets down and tied them to the tree to get frozen.
Although it is early spring nowadays, the mountains are particularly wet and cold. Fortunately, the villagers are all young and strong and full of energy. In addition, they have been used to the climate of Koshantun. They are so cold that they will not cause any death.
"Put it down. Ask the old ginger in the canteen to cook a pot of ginger soup and pour it into them." Xue Xiang agreed with Su Shunmin's opinion. These village gangsters will still be the main force in the canal construction later. How could they be so troubled so quickly?
When Su Shunmin got the order, he went straight to the northwest corner of the rice farm to rescue the "people".
"You came to block our door early in the morning. What important thing is there?" After sending Su Shunmin, Xue Xiang spoke to the cadres.
"Captain, aren't you going to organize the members to burn the mountains today? Now everyone is gathering, and I'm waiting for you to give orders." Han Donglin, the secretary of the Youth League Committee, was a man with a long face, at the age of 17 or 18, but one of the few knowledge points I've read in Kaoshantun.
"Burn the mountains! Why do you want to burn the mountains? Who gave the order?" Xue Xiang was puzzled, but he felt a bad heart.
"It was a piece of work in the district. I called on agriculture and the Western Jin Dynasty to make a response from Kaoshantun to burn Jinniu Mountain so that it could be chopped out of the land and build fields." Xue Xiang asked this, and everyone was confused: Yesterday, you came down with Director Ma of the commune and didn't know what Kaoshantun is now? Or was Li Yongjun gave Xue Xiang an answer.
Xue Xiang slapped his head and suddenly remembered when he arrived at Kuaihuopu Commune that day. The leaders of the district revolutionary committee happened to be having a meeting at Kuaihuopu, and what they discussed was the matter of refining land and building land.
After Li Yongjun finished speaking, Xue Xiang remained silent for a long time and looked up at Jinniu Mountain. But he saw the rising sun, and the lush forests bathed in a faint halo, peaceful and quiet, birds flying in the forest, singing and dancing. A mountain wind blows, and what comes to his face is the footsteps of spring and the breath of life.
But who in front of me has the poetic and picturesque style of Master Xue? In an era when I couldn’t even eat enough, I talked about protecting the environment, embracing green, art and people. That’s really a ghost!
Xue Xiang didn't know how to persuade everyone. At this moment, he could not speak with his fists, otherwise he would have become a reckless man. But from later generations, he experienced the gray sky and the ubiquitous waste gas, and he still cherished and missed the green mountains and waters. He asked him to personally order to destroy the green mountains, and he could not speak anyway.
"How much field can be created after burning this mountain?" Xue Xiang asked without answering.
"There must be at least six or seven thousand acres. Captain, you should know that the Kushantun is located in the area, with a large number of people, and a large number of labor force of 1,400 yuan. The per capita land is less than two acres. In addition, it is mostly dry land and poor land, and the yield is scary. Therefore, we have to owe to the commune's public grain for a year." The answer was Han Donglin.
Xue Xiang looked at Han Donglin in this patched robe and continued: "How much labor does it take to burn this mountain to white ground?"
"Captain, our garrison is not limited to labor, but we are not limited to land! You don't know that in previous years, when other garrisons were still busy, our garrison was already idle. Take the moment, it was the idle moon, and our garrison was locked up by Erdaopo. We can't go to the city to do side jobs like other garrisons. It's not a solution for everyone to be so idle." This time, the team leader Zhong Yuan, a squad leader in a small team, was a good guy in his twenties.
After hearing what Han Donglin and Zhong Yuan said, Xue Xiang was silent. He originally thought that everyone lived on the mountain and should have feelings for this mountain. He never expected that everyone's desire to burn mountains and build fields was so strong.
"This Jinniu Mountain is more than ten miles away, so it doesn't produce anything. The mountain goods and medicinal materials in the mountains are sold at the supply and marketing cooperative. It's a considerable income. It's not worse than the harvest in the fields. Why do you have to burn the mountains?" After a long silence, Xue Xiang asked this question that he had been holding in his heart for a long time.
At first, Xue Xiang heard that the Kaoshan Tun was on the way to Kaoshan Tun with Ma Shankui. Ma Shankui seemed to have a hidden secret, but Xue Xiang only heard the two evils of "Cai Family Hu" and "Lock the Sky", and the last evil was only related to Jinniu Mountain.
On the afternoon of the same day when he arrived in Kaoshantun, he saw Ma Shankui off, and walked around the village. Especially Jinniu Mountain behind the members' rooms, he even walked along the foot of the mountain. But he saw that the bushes were growing, the grass was lush and dense, and there was no gap in the gap. It was obvious that no one had stepped on it for years.
If it were one or two places, it would be fine. He finished walking these four families and walked around the foot of Jinniu Mountain for most of the time, but it was like this everywhere. It seemed that the members had not set foot on Jinniu Mountain for many years.
Xue Xiang originally planned to ask the good man Su Shunmin secretly, but he didn't know that before he could find an opportunity, the cadres in Kuoshantun all asked to burn the mountains. At this moment, he didn't hide his nature and asked directly.
As soon as Xue Xiang finished speaking, everyone sucked their breaths. In an instant, the scene was strangely quiet. Before, everyone was excited and complaining, and they all thought about the words and were ready to persuade the captain who had strong force and poor intelligence. But Xue Xiang had brought out the taboos that had been around for nearly twenty years of Kaoshantun, and how could everyone answer a word?
Seeing that everyone's faces were solemn, Xue Xiang knew that there must be a hidden story. He encouraged him: "It's okay, who knows, just talk about it. We are born to be not afraid of trouble. If there is a problem, it doesn't matter if we solve the problem. If we say it bizarrely. We will never do the trick of sinning people because of words."
After saying that, Xue Xiang took his eyes and swept over one by one, intending to encourage him. But he hadn't finished scanning the circle yet, and two of them spoke at the same time.
"Captain, if others don't say it, I'll always give it my best..."
"Captain, things are not that evil, I believe it is spreading rumor..."
The former spoke with the deputy captain Li Yongjun, while the latter was the brigade's Youth League Committee Secretary Han Donglin. Both of them spoke very quickly, and they opened their mouths and burst into a long list. When they realized that someone was bribing with him, they stopped together.
Xue Xiang looked at the two of them with a smile. At this time, when the sun came up, the golden halo just hit his face, and a slight smile was bright.
At this time, Xue Xiang couldn't see where he...
Li Yongjun and Han Donglin's intention to get closer. If the two were intentionally alienated, they would not have revealed the secret that Ma Shankui was not willing to tell. I am afraid that he would have been like another deputy captain Tie Yong, and he would have simply not shown up in front of him.
Xue Xiang guessed correctly. Li Yongjun and Han Donglin were trying to reunite. As for the two of them to be completely close to him, Xue, it wouldn't be the case. It depends on his ability. The first deputy captain Cai Gaoli has accumulated power for many years and is not a vegetarian.
It turned out that there were only five members of the management committee of the Kuoshantun Production Brigade. The old branch secretary and brigade leader passed away two years ago, and only four were left, namely the village branch deputy secretary, the first deputy captain Cai Gaoli, the deputy captain Tie Yong, the deputy captain Li Yongjun, and the village youth league committee secretary Han Donglin.
When the old captain was still alive, there were already signs that he could not suppress Cai Gaoli. After the old captain died, Kaoshantun completely became the world of the Cai family. Cai Gaoli had cousin Cai Gaozhi, his younger brother Guo Min was brave, and his lower son Cai Guoqing had a group of village gangsters and social tyrants. Kaoshantun was immediately shrouded by the Cai family and covered the sky.
After Cai Gaoli succeeded, Tieyong, the remaining squad members, immediately surrendered to him from the old captain; Li Yongjun was a straightforward person and looked down on him. He knew that his deputy captain didn't count, so he simply ignored the matter. As for Han Donglin, he wanted to surrender, but Cai Gaoli looked down on him at all. Tieyong was a member of the squad in charge of the brigade work. He was the secretary of the Youth League Committee, so what's the point?
In theory, one of the remaining members of the squad was subdued by Cai Gaoli, and the other two were turned into soy sauce parties by him. Cai Gaoli should be going well, but they didn't know that things were so evil. The old captain passed away for more than two years, but the society has not mentioned him as the captain for a long time. (To be continued)
Chapter completed!