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In the summer of 2003, SARS was raging and our high school was closed for three days. At this time, the news of my grandmother’s serious illness came, I followed my mother and my uncle, who had just returned to Gansu from Beijing, to visit my hometown more than 30 kilometers away.
The village of Laozhuang, where my home is located, is a unique village, at the junction of two counties, the village is surrounded by sand and water, surrounded by cliffs and long valleys and streams. Under the village there is a cloud gorge reservoir, the reservoir side of the stream and ravine, the flow of water tantalizing. Almost every summer and winter, I have to go to the village to live for a while.
That day, our car just arrived at the reservoir, just in time to meet a group of villagers walking in line, I lay on the car window to watch them, the leader of the group ordered to urinate on the edge of the reservoir, they did not shy away, while unbuckling the trouser belt to pull out the “things”, while watching our car with indifferent eyes passing them, a stream of foul urine shot into the reservoir, stirring up layers of white water.
When the car arrived at the entrance of the village, I found that someone had set up a barricade with a bowl of wooden rafters, blocking the main road into the village. My uncle asked me to get out of the car together to move the barricade, the team immediately became excited, they yelled like hunting, rushed from all sides, each holding a wooden stick or iron weapon, fierce and fierce as our car surrounded.
In my memory, the people of Laozhuang Village are friendly neighbors, not closed at night, in contrast, this scene does not seem to be true. Uncle did not know the reason why they blocked the car and was very angry. But his mother tugged his sleeve to keep from causing trouble.
Seeing the uncle, the “hunters” have put down their “weapons”. The leader, however, paid no attention and announced to us, “All those who want to enter the village will be isolated and checked, their temperature will be taken, their blood will be measured, and they will be observed for 15 days, and they can enter the village only if they do not have any adverse symptoms.” The reason was that “SARS has broken out in the country, and the news says that people are dying every day, so we must take strict precautions in Laozhuang village.” Therefore, “the young people of the village organized themselves and set up a ‘self-defense team’ to protect the village. There are trespassers, the ‘self-defense team’ will take coercive measures.”
I learned afterwards that the leader was called Xingba, in his 40s, and was the village butcher.
We found it puzzling – there were only a few thousand infected people in the country, so did they need to be so sketchy? But no matter what we said, Xingba just refused to let us into the village. My uncle said nothing with an iron face, and my mother kept pleading, explaining to the people surrounding us, and using my grandmother’s serious illness to gain sympathy.
Many of the “self-defense team” were afraid of losing face, or worried that they would have to ask uncle for help in the future, so they pretended to smoke or something else and slipped away.
We thought they had acquiesced to our entry into the village, so we turned around and got into the car. Xingba suddenly pulled out a triangular steel knife, standing in the middle of the road, a posture of a man in front of the gate, a man can not open. The steel knife was so creepy that I didn’t dare to look at it with my right eyes.
“The plague can be transmitted with a breath, not to be taken lightly, the safety of more than 200 households and more than 1,000 people in the village, there is no room for selfishness”, not to mention the uncle “is back from Beijing, Beijing is a key epidemic area, it is not possible to say that you are now carrying the virus on your body.
The uncle called the village clerk, who handed cigarettes to Xingba, said good things, and came up with a compromise: “For the sake of the old man who is very sick, let’s give him a break. Get the barefoot doctor to come and examine them on the spot, if there is no fever, runny nose, cough, red rash and other symptoms, let them enter the village.”
Xingba still disagreed and glared up at the bull’s eye and said, “Quarantine first, then check.” He waved the triangular fine steel knife in his hand a few times in front of the branch secretary’s eyes and said, “This is about the safety of the whole village, and now we must listen to our ‘self-defense team’.”
The uncle was furious and grabbed Xingba’s collar, and the “self-defense team” immediately took up their “weapons” and warned the uncle, but their threats were very weak – they all knew that the uncle was an armed police officer and a disciple of a famous martial arts master in the county, and they were no match for a real fight.
Xingba, however, put a knife against his uncle’s jaw and said, “I’m doing this for the whole village, not for me alone. If I don’t agree, no one will enter the village! It must be quarantined!”
The uncle suddenly raised his right hand and held Xingba’s wrist, he was very strong, the muscles on his arm bulged, the two drummed their strength and neither refused to give way, the standoff lasted for a minute or so before the uncle let go of his hand.
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The “isolation” Xingba said, is to live in the village entrance of the earth kiln “observation”. There were many people who were quarantined during that time, and the earthen kiln was supported by simple bed boards and simple living utensils.
The village barefoot doctor came and did not find any suspected symptoms of SARS in the three of us. The village clerk kept mediating, and the villagers passing by helped to mediate, so Xingba spared us the pain of quarantine for 15 days, but asked us to stay in the kiln for one night before entering the village, to “disperse the virus molecules carried by us.
We had to stay in the kiln. My grandmother was very sick and did not dare to add anything to the family, so my uncle took it easy and did not care anymore.
That night, my brother-in-law sent a bedding, the village secretary and many people in the village with cigarettes and meat and wine, came to the kiln to drink and chat with my uncle, early summer in the village of Laozhuang at the entrance of the earthen kiln, lively night.
In my uncle’s later narrative I learned that Xingba and his age, the two had competed for a place in the army, and finally he was selected, Xingba did not go into, and then their paths in life would be very different, so Xingba has always had a grudge against him.
Xingba is the villain of the village, but is also a celebrity in several nearby villages. Surrounded by thousands of families, butcher but only one of him, killing pigs, cattle, sheep, donkeys and dogs …… In addition to killing, he has killed everything.
The villagers said: Xingba never use people to help kill pigs, he has a set of homemade special tools for killing pigs – a sharp short hook and that I saw in the daytime hard triangle steel knife. When he was asked to kill a pig, he would take off his clothes and wear only a leather apron, no matter how cold or hot it was. Killing a pig is almost a personal show belonging to him, according to the rules, the host family to prepare two bowls of soju, he first applied a bowl to his body, and then craned his neck to drink the other sea bowl, and then left hand holding a short hook, the right hand carry triangle steel knife, the blade is as thin as a cicada, sharp, into the pig pen, the pig seems to recognize it, stand up on their own but do not dare to escape. Xingba will hook the left hand into the pig’s throat, the right hand very fast steel knife fend into the pig’s neck four fingers, steel knife fend very deep, and then pulled out when the pig has been lying on its side, blood flowing, can not move, the whole process less than 5 minutes, the onlookers are amazed smacking their lips.
In addition to killing pigs and selling meat, Xingba also buys medicinal scorpions and opens a scorpion buying station, where villagers from several nearby villages will go around the mountains in the summer night with blue scorpion lights to catch scorpions and sell them to Xingba. It is said that he is now very rich and is a wealthy man in the township.
The villagers said that a few years ago, a circus troupe from the south had a car accident when passing the provincial road on the village beam, a car pulling a tiger overturned into the pine forest, the cage broke and a tiger came out, biting the villagers’ cattle and eating half of the cattle body, also Xingba cooperated with the county forest police to capture the tiger, the township government also rewarded him, the township party secretary personally awarded him a certificate and 500 yuan bonus.
The village clerk said that in the past few years, every general election, Xingba to run for village cadres, but ultimately not elected because of the number of votes, he also bribed the election, sent gifts to many family members, but his person has been criticized by the villagers, people do not want to give him a vote.
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The reason why the people of Laozhuang Village talk about the “plague” is because of a fatal crisis more than a decade ago.
The disease started with headache and nasal congestion, and after a few days, his body became feverish, with a high fever of 40 degrees, pain in the joints, a long runny nose and a cough that could bleed, and he finally died. Later, Wu’s wife and daughter died of the same disease. The “old Simone”, who wore birthday clothes in the village, was also infected by them and died soon after. The village doctor said that the disease was called “dengue fever”, which made the villagers panic for a long time.
“After the outbreak of SARS, it was only logical that the people of Laozhuang Village should be cautious when talking about the old story.
The number of infected cases in the big cities of Beijing and Guangdong grew, many factories stopped working, and more than half of the young people in Laozhuang Village were working outside, so some people chose to go back to their hometowns to escape the disaster. There was a precedent of dengue fever, and everyone was afraid that these people might bring the virus with them, but most of the families had workers outside, so the villagers had to keep their mouths shut out of selfishness.
However, Xingba stepped forward at this time and organized some unemployed people in the village to set up a “Self-Defense Team for SARS Prevention and Control”.
When it comes to this “self-defense team”, villagers who come to chat are all gnashing their teeth, saying that it is now the biggest piece of heartache hanging over the people of Laozhuang Village.
Almost all of the people involved in the “self-defense team” are the village’s “harmful slag”, the economic situation in those years was very good, the young people who took the right path, either well planted apples, pepper, or go out to work in factories, the income is very good. The rest of these people, most of them are lazy or scoundrels, idle all day long, either playing cards or wandering around. These people are usually not treated by the village people, is a marginal group, some of them are still regular visitors to the police station.
Xingba gathered these people with money, every day with good wine and meat hospitality, smoking a pack of tens of dollars of good cigarettes, drinking more than a hundred dollars of good wine (at that time, most villagers smoke two dollars of cigarettes, drink six or seven dollars a catty of loose wine. . Xingba promised them that the “self-defense team” will be funded in the future, to give the members of the salary, promising to start a “farmers’ cooperative” to develop industry. These “harmful scum” are treated with courtesy, thinking that there is money to be earned in the future, every day can eat and drink spicy, so they are committed to follow Xingba.
The “self-defense team” was established, and Xingba had his own “soldiers”. The villagers all knew that he was nominally “fighting SARS”, but actually wanted to “seize power” and realize his political ambition of “participating in politics”. As a matter of fact, from then on, Xingba had to bring people from the “self-defense team” to forcefully participate in the decision-making of all village matters.
Xingba took the “self-defense team members” and set up a simple office in the courtyard of the village committee and hung the sign of the “SARS Prevention and Control Command”. They are well organized, set up rules and regulations, more than two dozen people “three shifts, five plus two, day and night”, sleeplessly squatting, patrol.
This kind of fuss has made the villagers suffer a lot, to go to town to buy a vegetable, back and forth have to take the body temperature. At first, the “self-defense team” also let the township doctor to measure the temperature in accordance with the regulations, within a few days, the “self-defense team” began to take the temperature of the villagers by hand, qualified or not is their say, want to retaliate against anyone, said “not qualified “, immediately isolated.
After tasting the sweetness, the “self-defense team” of those who are not recognized by the villagers, the “harmful scum” of the eyes, more wanton oppression of the masses, and even arbitrary levy.
The villagers were forced to give them their hard-earned money under their violent coercion. For those villagers who did not want to donate, the “self-defense team” either displayed a list at the entrance of the village, or provoked trouble and violence, or worse, threw bricks and smashed glass into the yards of these villagers in the middle of the night. At that time, people’s awareness of the law is generally weak, but also worried about the aftermath of retaliation, lack of courage to resort to the law, kind-hearted Laozhuang village people will suffer from bullying, dare not speak out in anger.
Later, the Interpol also forced the village committee to allocate funds for the “self-defense team members” to pay salaries and run a public canteen. If the village committee did what he wanted, it would be done smoothly; if not, someone would make trouble, or go to the township or county to sue, or incite a few villagers to make trouble, making the “two village committees” very passive. The village clerk was forced to threaten, had to allocate part of the already small office funds to the “self-defense team”.
In this way, Xingba became the leader of the village in the true sense of the word. He also got drunk many times and used his alcoholic strength to force the village clerk to “step aside and give way”, and often took on the role of “the emperor of the land”, pointing to the villagers passing by and saying to his “team members”. “Look, these are all my people!”
Later, the other villages of the wandering men also followed the example of Laozhuang village, built a “prevention and control group” or “joint defense team”, called different, the nature of work are the same, many villages have caused some large or small security incidents.
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A night in a tuyao, in the chat passed quickly. The next day, the morning light, the three of us will pack up into the village.
The more we went to the village, the more the sour smell in the air was thick. The village support explained, “A month ago, someone said ‘vinegar can kill the SARS virus’, and a small stove was lit in every house in the village, and the vinegar was boiled day and night. “
Not a few steps, we saw many places in the village piled up sitting villagers smoking together, even some women and children are also smoking openly. I clearly saw my uncle and mother look suspicious, but they did not ask questions, I also did not say anything.
When I arrived home, my grandmother had not been fed for many days, her birthday suit was already on, and the carpenters were stepping up their time to make the birthday wood. My aunt said that the village elders came to the house every day to prepare for the last ride of my grandmother. My mother, uncle and I knelt beside my grandmother and cried several times.
Some of the people who came to visit grandma also smoked cigarettes, one after another, and the room was choked with smoke. The sick grandmother was also choked, and the neighboring grandmother shouted at her ear: “Close your eyes and take a few more puffs, and you won’t get the plague.”
Even a few children who had just arrived in the courtyard, squatting in a circle, actually also put the cigarette butt together, the cigarette butt brightly, chattering and laughing.
Uncle then asked the reason why everyone smokes, the folks scrambled to explain to us that “smoking can prevent SARS” and that “older smokers with more than 10 years of experience will have a protective film on their lungs and will not be infected”. My uncle then jokingly handed me a cigarette and asked me to learn how to smoke it, but my mother slapped it away.
Not long after, the “self-defense” team entered the door with sprayers on their backs and started spraying 84 disinfectant, even on our table, bed and walls, ignoring our grief. My grandma was choked and coughed a few times, and my uncle got angry and picked up the door stick and fought with the “self-defense team”, but the neighbors rushed to pull them away, saying that the “self-defense team” was spraying 84 from house to house, twice a day, and everyone was used to it, and that the spraying was for a fee. The spraying is charged, “1 yuan a time”.
My uncle drove the “self-defense team” out and warned them that if they dare to spray again, they will break his legs. Several villagers kept advising uncle that “it is better to offend the gentleman than the villain” and not to fight with these people, who would secretly retaliate. But uncle did not listen.
The next morning, we found the family’s big yellow dog missing, and a dead cat thrown over the door. After a few days, the skin of the big yellow dog was taped to the outside wall of grandma’s house. Uncle looked for Xingba for this, but Xingba refused to admit it.
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After a few more days, it rained twice in a row, and something big happened in the village.
Wu Zhong, a neighbor, called his uncle and said his stupid son had a bad cold and wanted to borrow his uncle’s car to send him to the hospital in the county. But brother-in-law blocked not to go, saying: “You do not go, his son may be ‘SARS’, a few days ago Wu Zhong secretly asked me to ask for Banlangen it, said the village doctor has been sold out, who does not know that Banlangen is the cure for ‘SARS’? “
Uncle was shocked and hurriedly stopped his brother-in-law, saying, “Don’t talk nonsense, this will let Xingba know, to cause chaos.”
Uncle still ready to drive Wu Zhong son to the county, before going out, his mother forced him to put on a white mask.
It was raining particularly hard that day, and shortly after my uncle left, there was a sharp cry from next door, and we all ran to see that it was Wu Zhong’s son who had broken his heart. The child was born with cerebral palsy and grew up sickly until he was 5 years old. Wu Zhong’s family is poor, but also did not treat the disease, the fever, as usual, did not take it seriously, only to eat a few tablets of fever-reducing drugs, but no effect, delayed for several days, ready to send to the hospital, found that people have died.
I do not know who leaked the news. Xingba with the “self-defense team” of more than 20 people, soon surrounded the old house of the Wu Zhong family. Xingba’s gloomy face, ignoring no one, went straight to Wu Zhong. The village secretary wanted to stop him and shouted “What are you doing?”, but before he could get close, he was pushed out several meters away.
Xingba lifted a shoe sole covered with yellow mud foot, towards Wu Zhong’s face flew over, Wu Zhong was instantly kicked to the ground. The uncle quickly held Xingba by the waist to keep him away from Wu Zhong. Xingba cursed: “Wu Zhong, I’ll skin you! Do you want to kill the whole village? Your son has ‘SARS’ and you dare not report it, I will kill you!”
Xingba suddenly broke away from his uncle’s hug and turned around and kicked him in the body, and he was kicked back two steps and stood still, and then Xingba lunged at Wu Zhong, and the “self-defense team” swarmed on him, punching and kicking him. Uncle went forward to help Wu Zhong to relieve himself, was squeezed into the crowd, several “self-defense” people seem to be with the same appointment, immediately surrounded uncle, they seem to be good words, but in fact deliberately bad, uncle’s arm was held tightly by them, can not force, and soon by the chaotic crowd hit many punches and kicks.
I rushed to call out to people, dozens of people came from the left and right to pull the “self-defense team” away, Wu Zhong and uncle have been beaten head bleeding, in a terrible state.
The village clerk brought in several respected village sages to persuade, the “self-defense team” did not use violence again, but Xingba proposed four conditions: First, Wu Zhong must be the son’s remains for deep burial treatment, the grave must be sprinkled with lime disinfection, the coffin must also be covered with a layer of lime, sprayed with disinfectant water, by The “self-defense team” to supervise the implementation; Second, the village of Laozhuang isolation, prohibit all people and animals to enter and leave the village, so as to avoid “virus outflow”; Third, the “self-defense team” to carry out household-by-household and person-by-person mapping, once The third is the “self-defense team” to conduct a household-by-household, person-by-person survey, once found to have a fever, cough, red rash, must be isolated to the village entrance of the earthen kiln, sent to watch, family members pay 20 yuan a day to watch, if they dare to escape, killed on the spot; fourth is to dance a big god, for the village of Laozhuang pray for the blessing of the disaster, the cost borne by Wu Zhong.
Wu Zhong just to refute, a few “self-defense” people and jumped to fight, the village secretary had to again from the mediation, said the cost of the “village two committees” to bear, all according to Xing Ba said to do, things have calmed down.
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After the burial of Wu Zhong’s son, the square in front of the village committee held a big dance, but not many people went to watch. Everyone was trembling – the village is so big, there are inevitably colds and fevers, or other diseases, the “self-defense team” divided into four groups, door to door, house to house to check, but any suspected disease, are to the village entrance to the earth kiln isolated. Some people clashed with the “self-defense team” and fights broke out every day.
Xingba threatened and intimidated villagers every day on the village loudspeaker, demanding that those with suspected symptoms must come to the “self-defense team” to “turn themselves in”, otherwise they would be found out and the “self-defense team” would bury them alive.
My uncle lay at home for several days, not saying a word and looking very frightened. Fearing that he would go out and cause trouble, my mother had my brother-in-law put two locks on the door.
After three days of house-to-house inspection, the conflict between the “self-defense team” and the villagers became deeper and deeper. The villagers who did not cooperate were threatened with violence, and they were dragged to the village where there were many people to beat them up and make an example of them, and some of the “self-defense team members” went to the homes of villagers who had problems with them and took personal revenge, deliberately smashing and destroying them. Some villagers clearly did not have a fever, but the “self-defense forces” people measured the temperature exceeded the standard, forcibly arrested people in isolation, but also to their houses spray disinfectant, the yard sprinkled lime powder disinfection, and each disinfection is charged.
In just 3 days, the village entrance kiln was filled with villagers who were isolated.
Perhaps the villagers’ weakness and bullying had encouraged the “Self-Defense Forces”, and some of them even started to take over the land by force. One guy, nicknamed “Old Turtle”, saw a piece of “feng shui land” at the bottom of the hill and wanted to build a house on his own home base, so he got someone to enclose the land. But that piece of land is part of the family’s own land, the five households to seek his theory, they were beaten up, and threatened to kill the five households. The matter was finally sued to the village committee, but the village clerk also took the “self-defense team” can not help, so they had to find another piece of abandoned land to the five households to cultivate, the matter finally ended.
Seeing the profitability, other “self-defense team members” have followed suit, some to their own forced land, some bachelors bully men and women, some in the village to open a casino, illegal enrichment.
When the rural land contract law first came into effect in March of that year, Xingba saw the news on TV news and started forcibly “contracting” land with his men to start a “farmers’ cooperative. He cajoled the villagers that it was a national policy to “contract” the best piece of land in the village at a very low price, the villagers naturally did not agree, and Xingba led people door-to-door to coerce and entice, many villagers had no choice but to sign the contract.
Seeing their domineering appearance, many elderly people in the village could not help but sigh: it’s just a plague, how did people become like this?
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After we stayed in the village for a while, people began to come to the village every night to drink and chat with my uncle, and my mother had to make dishes several times a night, and they would close the door to the house after they had served the food and wine, saying that they would not let us know. I heard my mother say that these people were all my uncle’s hair children, people who fought, skipped school and caught long bugs together.
Later, my mother was afraid that my uncle would cause trouble, so she secretly lay down at the window and listened a few times, only to learn that they were lining up to find an opportunity to clean up Xingba.
Before they could implement their revenge plan, a thorny issue came up in front of the whole village: the news of Wu Zhong’s son’s death got out, and as blackmail spread, the village was rumored to have “atypical pneumonia” and Laozhuang Village was called “atypical village” or “plague village”. or “plague village”. The township government reported the situation to the county health bureau and the epidemic prevention station, and the county health bureau sent a few doctors in protective clothing to the village to conduct a door-to-door inspection. The entire village was examined by villager groups, and the medical examination office was located in the village elementary school.
In fact, during that time, the TV news said that SARS had been controlled and there were no new infected patients nationwide. And our school had been closed for nearly two weeks and was ready to resume classes, informing students to return to school in time. But I was isolated in the village of Laozhuang and could not leave, and was as anxious as an ant on a hot pot.
Once I heard about the medical examination, my uncle took the initiative to take our family to go first. After the physical examination, he took advantage of the chaos to send my mother and I to the bus station in the town street, he told me to hurry to school, saying not to delay school – but we have not gone into, we received a call from my brother-in-law, grandma passed away.
So we turned back to the village again.
The house was in a mess, and the villagers came to help, setting up the hearse, making the grave, making mourning clothes and shoes, preparing tobacco and wine for the guests. At this time, Xingba but with his hands down to the home, grinning a mouth full of black teeth, informed us: “special times, and the heat of the day, the crowd gathered easy to infect ‘SARS’, the funeral must be simple, hurry into the coffin tonight buried, if something happens, your family can not afford! “
Uncle grief and anger, finally could not stand it, rushed up, rushed to Xingba’s face and punched several heavy punches, Xingba immediately jumped like a thunderstorm, to “self-defense team” to call someone. Uncle and Xingba fought together, both learned a few days of kicks and fists, fists and kicks, no difference.
Soon the crowd was aroused, a few of uncle’s hair led, dozens of villagers swarmed up, copied the guys, saw the “self-defense” team people to fight, both sides immediately into a ball, many usually seem honest farmers that day like crazy, tearing the “self-defense” team Many peasants, who usually seemed to be honest, were like mad that day, tearing at the “self-defense forces” and beating, cursing and biting them. The sticks were broken several times, many villagers were injured, and almost all of the “self-defense” team were beaten and bleeding.
Xingba first saw so many people dare and “self-defense team” against, his mouth is still threatening the villagers, threatening that they are for the good of the village, and got the permission of the township government, “who dare to resist, call the police station to arrest people! But the villagers went crazy and rushed towards Xingba, beating him until he couldn’t get up.
Later, someone did call the police, and many police officers came to the police station to relieve the siege. The police took away dozens of people, including my uncle. The villagers gathered, each family sent a representative, in several hand tractors, followed in great numbers to the police station, and collectively proved to the police that everything was started by the “self-defense team” led by Xingba, and that even in a fight, it was Xingba who started the fight, and the others acted in self-defense.
In the end, the police took the lead in the fight and punished all of them with a public order punishment of 50 strokes each. After understanding the situation in the village, the police also released the people isolated in the kiln, the matter was designated as “illegal detention”, requiring everyone to testify to the specific person. This time, the villagers backed off a bit, no one dared to come forward to prove the Xingba gang’s illegal behavior, fearing that the “self-defense team” will retaliate in the future.
My uncle spent the night at the police station, took a statement, was fined, and was released the next day. Xingba was detained for a few days and released, not severely punished, but the whole person was much depressed.
Shortly after we left Laozhuang Village, the Ministry of Health announced that there were zero cases of SARS nationwide, and the battle against SARS ended victoriously.
Postscript
After the end of SARS, the “self-defense team”, “prevention and control group”, “joint defense team” and other messy organizations that had been established for more than half a year all ceased to exist because they no longer had a name and were all in collusion. After this farce, life was back to normal. After this farce, life returned to peace, and the villagers cherished the quiet and peaceful life.
More than 10 years have passed since the story took place, and Laozhuang Village has long been a different place. My relatives have all moved into the city and lived in buildings. Most of the villagers’ children went to work in the city and seldom came back, and the village was cold and quiet. But I heard from the villagers that over the years, Xingba was still relatively rampant in the village, but his style of action gradually changed from hard violence to soft violence.
Around 2010, the village road construction, accounting for Xingba’s arable land, he repeatedly squatted in the township government, to the county stalking, petition, coercive township chief over the standard compensation for his saplings, personal profit of tens of thousands of dollars; 5 years ago hardening of small lanes, he led his family to sit in front of their own home, blocking the construction team’s machinery can not move forward, coercive construction team will also harden his family’s yard. In order to intervene in the project, he invested in the river to open a gravel plant, want to set up a construction team, responsible for the implementation of the village drinking water project, but due to the lack of labor in the village, coupled with those who had followed him “self-defense” most of them go out to earn a living, finally had to give up.
Recently, I went back to my hometown and saw Xingba again, who is nearly 60 years old, and he was quite easy-going and no longer a brute. He has closed the sand and gravel factory, still doing the business of “buying earth scorpions”, but also part-time “president” of the temple of the mountain gods, the village held folk rituals, he is the overall person in charge, and finally in the altar of the gods to achieve their own one call to the “political ambition”. The “political ambition”.
According to the old supporters, from last year, after the special struggle against black and evil continued to penetrate the countryside, the village of those “harmful scum” even the sound of talking is small, the village is now not to mention fights and brawls, even the sound of quarrels are rarely heard. It is a pity that the number of people in Laozhuang Village is getting smaller and smaller. He expects that the rural revitalization strategy being implemented will bring Laozhuang Village back to a vibrant and civilized village.
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