Life’s ups and downs, alcohol and money are nothing but karmic encounters. The life experience of Taoqu is a great good karma in Jingwen’s life.
Jing Wen 17 years old to the village of Taoqu, is the key period of the growth of the mind, during this period with the village of Taoqu folks, with the brothers and sisters, formed a good karma, Jing Wen’s personality and the soundness of mind and the formation of a decisive and far-reaching impact, but also for Jing Wen more than 20 years of school career to provide an indispensable help margin.
Decades have passed, Taoqu village of the old and young men and women’s life rise and fall vividly, as clear as yesterday, can long remain in the Tibetan knowledge of the people and things, must be the fate of things.
The first rich peasant that the youth met was a family of rich and poor peasants.
In January 1969, once the youth arrived at Taoqu Village, the team cadres took the youth to each of the old folks’ homes to identify the door, identify the people, identify the ingredients. The man was greeted at the door by a man named Yang Yongxiang, who looked 50 or 60 years old. From the lines on the facial features, should be very handsome when young, but now full of wrinkles such as knife-like, eyes dull, silent, back has been hunched, obviously the result of long years of hard work. The old lady, who was over 60 years old, with white hair and blind eyes, was sitting on the bed, and when she heard that the Beijing students had come, she quickly greeted everyone and said, “Come in and sit on the bed.
When the team cadres said that the family was a rich peasant, everyone naturally stepped back like the plague. Then the team cadres pointed to the man and said he was a poor peasant. Everyone stopped retreating and looked at the old poor farmer in front of them with respect. In a family, one is a rich farmer, one is a poor farmer, we feel very strange, but also did not look deep.
Two years later, Jing Wen became a breeder and lived in the breeding room with He Zhendang for a year, and He Zhendang told Jing Wen many things about the village. He Zhendang old man told Jing Wen, Yang Yongxiang is a foreigner, when more than 20 years old in the rich farmer as a long laborer, the rich farmer only a 40-year-old widow with a daughter, a lonely man and a widow, get together over time, the result is that the rich farmer’s widow recruited Yang Yongxiang into the superfluous. Of course, according to the village legend, there are many luscious episodes in the process of recruiting, is not the village people’s adding oil and vinegar is not known, this episode here not to say more.
Yang Yongxiang after the identity role did not change, still do his long work, a little work can not be less dry, but more dedicated than in the past, all the financial power of the family is still in charge of the mistress, and may not even have to count the money. It is said that the mistress is more than 20 years older than Yang Yongxiang, Zhiqing to the village that year, Yang Yongxiang was actually only 40 years old, but look at least 60 years old. At that time, the daughter of the rich farmer’s widow had already gotten married, and there were only two old people in the family. In this family there was no class struggle, only an old poor farmer and an old rich farmer, supporting each other to live a hard life, and more and more like husband and wife, so much so that in appearance it was already difficult to see the age difference.
Jing Wen, a guy who thought he was smarter than the peasants back then, only realized more than 30 years later the obsolescence of the class struggle theory and the rationality of the middle-of-the-road harmonious society theory. And more than 60 years ago, a harmonious society of class reconciliation had long been achieved in the home of a rich peasant widow and a long-time worker, Yang Yongxiang.
There is another rich peasant and poor peasant family of rich peasants in Taoqu village. Taoqu village has an old Shi Da name Shi Ziping, this person is more than 40 years old, robust, and large eyes, ears, large round, mouth large flute, the sky is full, square corner of the earth, really a good-looking man. Shi Ziping is the village’s first Hercules, can carry more than 200 pounds of crops from that ridge over a ditch to walk five or seven miles back to the field in one breath, all farming technology is also first-class. But the village people are quite disrespectful to him, calling him a public grandson, and Shi Ziping is not annoyed. The youths asked Shi why he was called a public grandson, and he said he was the oldest in the village, the grandfather of the old men.
The local custom is that the grandson can joke with the grandfather generation or above, but the uncle generation should be absolutely respectful. However, Yang Yongxiang was one generation older than Shi Ziping, but no one made such jokes with him. Later, in the absence of Shi Ziping, the youths asked the villagers about this matter, only to find that almost all the villagers of Taoqu village are disgusted and hate Shi Ziping, and it can even be said that Shi Ziping is the public enemy of Taoqu village, or at least was the public enemy.
Shi Ziping is originally from the north on the road Qingjian (?) He joined the revolution at an early age and was already an official cadre at the time of liberation, and was the leader of the land reform task force in the area during the land reform. In the process of land reform, Shi Ziping found that the daughter of a rich farmer in Taoqu village changed Lingzi beautiful and capable, outstanding character, so he fell in love with the girl wanted to marry her, but the girl’s family firmly disagreed. Shi Zhibing was furious and took out a pistol to the girl’s house to force the marriage, pointing the gun at her family and saying: you have to marry, or not, you live is my people, and die is also my ghost. Forced by a pistol, the poor peasant Shi Ziping married a beautiful and capable rich peasant daughter to change Lingzi, the whole a modern version of the forced robbery of the people’s daughter.
By the way, Jing Wen told his daughter about the revolutionary cadres Shi Ziping forced to rob the people’s daughter, so that Jing Wen’s old mother-in-law, a retired cadres identity, heard that the matter must be false, Jing Wen’s daughter thought it was true, the old lady was furious, that this is a slander party. Jing Wen had to shut up, fortunately the old lady does not go online, otherwise Jing Wen’s post also dare not send.
When the village of Taoqu folks Shi Ziping pistol threatened to rob the people’s daughter is not dare to speak, that year the mighty cadres Shi Ziping is how to fall and how to Taoqu village when the peasants became public grandchildren?
The old history in the successful completion of the land reform and robbery after marriage, assigned to Yan’an (?) work, because it is the old area to the old qualification of young revolutionary cadres, by the higher importance, was sent to Xi’an cadres training class to further training, after completing training will be reused. On the day the training course was completed, an undeserved disaster fell on Lao Shi’s head. In everyone’s luggage ready to leave, a cadre training class students found that the watch was lost, all students temporarily stay to find the watch, surprisingly found in the luggage of the old Shi watch. Old Shi cried out injustice, but to no avail, the case was hastily decided, was designated as theft, to be imprisoned, was reformed through labor, expelled from the party, expelled from public office, can only go home to become a farmer.
As the village of Yu Luohe in Qingjian County, his home in northern Shaanxi, was a bitter and drought-stricken place where he was not allowed to eat or drink, Lao Shi had to go to the affluent village of Taoqu and become a son-in-law to the family of a rich farmer, Chang Lingzi. As a result of the redundancy, the family composition as a rich peasant, the old history is a poor peasant.
When he entered Taoqu village with a box gun, he was so proud of himself that he thought he would be beaten back to his original shape today. The old and young men of Taoqu village remembered his bad behavior of forcing marriage with a gun, so they called him a public grandson.
In this poor interpersonal environment, Lao Shi not only put down roots in Taoqu Village, but also lived a very good life and was the richest man in the village. The old villagers commented that Lao Shi was a slippery person who could not be caught slippery. Old Shi is good at making good relations with the village leaders, his family’s beautiful wife, beautiful women (children) are out for his public relations, Jing Wen to the village’s first year, almost every time to the home of Captain He Zhengguo, can meet Old Shi’s women or aunt-in-law, the village folks have quite a few words about this.
Old Shi became the richest man in the village, not only because he was a cadre for several years to save some family money, but also because he and his wife are able to do the wife. In 1969, he made a seedling bed and succeeded in raising sweet potato seedlings, which earned more than 500 yuan that year, far more than the average farmer’s income for 10 years. After the autumn harvest, Jing Wen saw the usual image of an old cloth-clad farmer’s old Shi changed into a cadre suit, full of pride in the harvest, riding a shiny Flying Pigeon bicycle, (the era of Mercedes-Benz BMW ah!) Wrist with a Swiss brand-name “Inag” watch, wearing a white straw hat, to Sangbai town to catch a ride, said to be with a date, the village had a good person to Jing Wen identified Sangbai a certain aunt is the old history of a date.
In 1970, there was a “one hit three against” campaign, and the villagers of Taoqu Village, who hated and were jealous of Lao Shi, took advantage of other people’s hands to severely fix Shi Ziping.
Taoqu village of the He family of shrewd and calculating is dozens of miles around the famous, the nearby village of the villagers and even communal cadres are called Taoqu village people “He ghost”, the so-called ghost should be referred to Taoqu village of He’s master children have a delicate mind, the ghost of the ghost.
In 1958, the people’s commune was established, the implementation of the brigade accounting, Taoqu village at that time and Shuinan and Sangbai village a brigade. He ghosts calculated that the implementation of the brigade accounting means planting more land, more grain, but also to the Shuinan and Sangbae village grain, for nothing. So they went to the commune and made a big fuss, insisting on giving more than 500 acres of good land to Shuinan and Sangpai villages, so as to achieve the purpose of planting less land and sharing more food. The cadres of the commune were annoyed by the noise, so they had to accept the 500 acres of good land to Shuinan Village and Sangpai Village. A year later, the top of a paper order to change to small team accounting, Taoqu village He ghosts again want to take back the land, in the commune cadres support, people are determined not to return. The result is a year of laziness, lost 500 acres of good flat land. It is really a clever calculation of the organ, calculating their own.
“A fight three anti” campaign came, He ghosts do not do it themselves, inciting foreign devolved cadres Liu Wenli and young people down to rectify the old history.
The cadres were formerly public security cadres of Nanniwan Labor Reform Farm, who smashed the public prosecution and the law during the Cultural Revolution, saying that how can Nanniwan Revolutionary Holy Land run a labor reform farm? Nanniwan Labor Reform Farm was disbanded, cadres were sent to the countryside, and Comrade Liu’s family of seven was sent to Taoqu Village. Comrade Lao Liu lived in Taoqu village for two years before returning to his original unit, although not for long but was used by the He ghosts a personal vendetta.
Comrade Lao Liu, who was born a public security cadre and has long been engaged in a brutal struggle against criminals, listened to the He ghosts behind his back to expose the crimes of Lao Shi in 1960 when he “planed a small piece of land” to engage in capitalist activities, (in fact, at that time the policy call, everyone was “planing a small piece of land “or starve to death”), the righteous indignation, the old history of the capitalist road as a “fight three anti” campaign focus on the struggle. The village held a meeting on Lao Shi’s struggle.
Last time, the village people were all relatives of He Wenyu, a landlord, and He Tingyun, a rich peasant, in the struggle to clean up the class ranks, and none of them came to the meeting. This time, the struggle against the village’s public enemy, the public grandson, the foreigner Lao Shi, everyone had no psychological burden, the village’s young and old all came to participate, spoke enthusiastically to criticize Lao Shi. Lao Shi was reformed through labor, already a class enemy, there is no extra hat to wear, so in the economic punishment.
It was revealed that a donkey had died in the team while plowing a small piece of land, and Lao Shi was responsible. So he was made to pay for the donkey, and he had to pay 130 yuan for the whole thing. In that year, the value of a labor day in Taoqu Village was only 10 cents, and a full laborer could only earn 30 or less than 40 yuan a year, so 130 yuan was definitely a huge sum of money.
To be fair, if the donkey died of exhaustion is really Lao Shi’s responsibility, why didn’t he claim back then? The rotten accounts of more than a decade ago are now turning up, obviously taking the opportunity to make people whole. The most hateful thing now that I think about it is that the team is responsible for the recovery of 130 yuan from Lao Shi by the youth. The most important thing is that you have to order the killing and let others do the blood. The funny thing is that the young man was foolish enough to agree to this unethical thing.
When Lao Shi sent the huge fine of 130 yuan to the youth, Jing Wen happened to be in the kiln, saw Lao Shi is a look of extreme anger, but also desperately suppressed dare not show the look.
The old history of evil, now suffering from evil retribution, so the debt of that year will be paid off, right?
The old history of the original work in the team is a good hand, since then, lazy and slippery, not to contribute to the work, and is determined to engage in side business to earn money for themselves. The next year, Lao Shi engaged in a side business of weaving reed mats, and made a lot of money.
In the fall of 1972, his 18-year-old eldest son, Yisheng, suddenly fell into a coma with a high fever and went to the commune health center to see a doctor, but to no avail. A few days later, the team used a trolley to pull the unconscious Yisheng to the county town 90 miles away and sent him to the county hospital. He was diagnosed with polio at the county hospital, and after resuscitation, Yisheng was able to save his life, but was left with a crippled leg.
Yisheng was a good laborer, but in his youth, he was struck by a catastrophe and became crippled, and Yisheng had paid a bride price for his daughter-in-law. After this incident, Lao Shi suffered a major blow to his spirit, the person was immediately committed.
Since then, the old history has been in the county for his son to seek medical treatment, rent a house in the county to live, basically not too back to the village of Taoqu. Listen to the Taoqu village people said, in those years the old history in the county by doing small business for a living. That is a “cut capitalism tail” era, doing small business is to take the capitalist road of illegal behavior. Lao Shi’s small business was also done clandestinely. In those days, doing business in such a small and poor county and surviving the harsh political pressure, Lao Shi was indeed a remarkable person.
“After the end of the Cultural Revolution, in 1979, after repeated appeals, Shi’s theft case was rehabilitated and his treatment as an old cadre was restored, and his family moved to the county. Shi became the oldest retired cadre in Yichuan County with the highest salary and seniority. Because of his family’s good fortune, Shi’s son Yisheng, although disabled, still married a beautiful wife and aunt.
And with Shi Ziping together through 30 years of hardship, from the rich peasant’s old companion to change Lingzi, in the rehabilitated soon after the disease died, and the old Shi and the mutual suffering, when the suffering is over, but passed away. Woe is me!
By the way, the old poor peasant Yang Yongxiang’s aunt-in-law, the blind and white-haired old woman of rich peasant composition, was the mother-in-law of Changlingzi, a poor peasant revolutionary cadre Shi Ziping. Both generations of mothers and daughters recruited poor peasants to join the family, so it is true: rich peasants and poor peasants are a family.
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