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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 group of village gangsters were summoned by Li Yongjun to rush to show off. The young men who were a militia were 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 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. Yue Shangzhongtian, and the rest of the members went home to sleep a long time ago. No one was willing to say good things for these guys who were idle and hated on weekdays. Another group of good-fathers have always been the targets of bullying and extortion of these village pirates, and now they are even more busy putting in trouble.

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, so they are so cold all night long. They won’t really cause death.

"Put it down and 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 mountains today? Everyone is gathering now. I'm waiting for your order." Han Donglin, the secretary of the Youth League Committee, was a man with a long face. He was 37 or 38 years old. However, there were only a few intellectuals who had studied in middle school 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 is a document issued by the district to call on agriculture to learn from the Western Jin Dynasty. We must respond actively, burn Jinniu Mountain to break 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 the top priority is now in Kuoshantun? Or was Li Yongjun who gave Xue Xiang an answer.

Xue Xiang slapped his head and suddenly remembered that 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 he discussed was the matter of refining land and building land.

Li Yongjun finished speaking. Xue Xiang didn't say anything for a long time and looked up at Jinniu Mountain. But he saw the rising sun, and the lush forests bathed under a faint halo, peaceful and quiet, and birds flew in the forest. Orioles sang and swallows danced. A mountain wind blew, and what was blowing towards him was the footsteps of spring and the breath of life.

But who in front of you has the poetic and picturesque style of Master Xue? In an era when you can’t even have enough food, what to do about protecting the environment, embracing green, art and humanities, is it 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 our Kushantun is located in the area, with a large number of people, and a large number of labor force of 1,300 and 400. 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, our village is busy for a year and has to owe the commune's public grain." The answer was Han Donglin.

Xue Xiang looked at Han Donglin in this patchwork robe and continued: "How much labor does it take to burn this mountain to white ground?"

"Captain, our village is not limited to labor, but it is not limited to land! You don't know that in previous years, when other brigades were still busy, our village was already idle. Take the moment, it was the idle moon, and our village was locked up by Erdaopo. We can't go to the city to do side jobs like other brigades. It's not a solution for everyone to be so idle." This time, the team leader Zhong Yuan, a small team leader, was a good young man 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 three evils in the Kaoshantun were on the way to Kaoshantun with Ma Shankui. Ma Shankui seemed to have a hidden secret, but Xue Xiang only heard the two evils of "Three Tigers of the Cai Family" and "Locking the Sky Road". The last evil was only related to Jinniu Mountain.

On the afternoon of the same day when he arrived at Kuoshantun, he saw Ma Shankui off, and he wandered around the village. Especially Jinniu Mountain behind the members' houses, he even walked along the foot of the mountain. But he saw that the bushes at the foot of the mountain were lush and lush, densely packed, and could not see a trace of 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 walked through more than 400 families and walked around the foot of Jinniu Mountain, 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 simply didn't hide it 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 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 could not see the intention of Li Yongjun and Han Donglin getting closer. If the two were intentionally alienated, they would not have revealed the secret that Ma Shankui was not willing to tell easily. I am afraid that he would have been like another deputy captain Tie Yong, and he would have simply not show 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 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 son Cai Guoqing had a group of village gangsters and social tyrants. Kaoshantun was immediately shrouded by the Cai family.

After Cai Gaoli succeeded, Tieyong immediately surrendered to him from the old captain's command; 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 team in charge of the brigade's work. As the secretary of the Youth League Committee, he was just a seat, so what's the point?
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