When Yun Suji saw them walking away, he stood up and patted the dirt on his butt. The guards behind him had already caught up.
"Chief, are you okay?"
"I'm fine." Yun Suji said, "Look at this cadre, he is quite impressive."
The guard said: "Isn't this the case in the countryside? If you don't have a bit of authority, who will listen to you!"
Yun Suji said nothing. He had been a local agricultural technician for several years and spent most of the year in the countryside. His wife was the daughter of a small landowner. He knew that what the guard said was generally correct.
"Let's go into the village!"
The standard villages are all built according to a unified model and are uniform. Since Qiongshan belongs to the yellow zone, there is no need for military defense, so the standard villages do not adopt the fortress earth building style designed by Mr. Wen. However, in order to facilitate public security management, the village is still closed.
In the outermost circle of houses, walls are built between the houses to connect them together, leaving only four entrances from the east, west, north and south.
Yun Suji walked into this standard village. There was a wooden sentry box at the end of the village. There were several women sitting outside, holding the soles of their shoes and talking. Hearing that their accents were from Shandong, he nodded secretly.
Just as he was about to enter the village, a woman asked: "Comrade, which village are you from?"
Yun Suji stopped and saw that the woman who was asking the question was in her mid-twenties, tall, with a slight numbness on her oval face. Her blue cloth coat was carefully rolled with a circle of red edges. Although it was old, it was neatly tidied up.
, said: "I am here from the county to do business."
"Is there a way to lead?"
"Yes, yes." Yun Suji took out a letter of introduction from his pocket, and the woman took it and looked at it, turning it over and over. Yun Suji knew that she was probably illiterate because of the way she paired the official seal.
The naturalized cadres in the county said that the literacy rate in this village is over 80%, which seems to be very high.
After a long while, the woman handed back the letter of introduction: "It's printed correctly. You can come to the village."
Yun Suji praised: "The security here is quite tight."
Several women glanced at him but said nothing. It was the woman who asked for a letter of introduction who spoke: "There is a rule in the village: strangers must have a way to come in and out."
Yun Suji originally wanted to say a few words to them, but he fell silent. They all just sat down to collect their shoes. Seeing that Yun Suji couldn't talk to them, he had to ask about the whereabouts of the village office.
"Follow the road to the east and you'll arrive when you see the big banyan tree." The young woman said.
Yun Suji thanked him and walked towards the village.
The roads in the village are clean, without any garbage and debris. The walls are not white, but they are clean. There are no urine stains or feces in the corners. Slogans and slogans are painted on the white walls along the street: "Today"
If we don’t plant red flowers and grass, we will go to the mines in Sanya tomorrow”; “One person steals wires and the whole family goes to labor camp”; “If the sanitation is not good, the whole family is put on display”; “Women don’t relax enough, men have their feet bound”; “Fight across the strait and liberate the whole country”
China"... Yun Suji saw many slogans like this when he went to the countryside on weekdays, and didn't take it seriously. However, the cleanliness of this village was beyond his expectation - it was comparable to the best model villages in Lingao.
Level.
There were not many people on the street, and most of them had probably gone to the ground. A few who saw him quickly hid on the side of the road without saying a word.
Yun Suji felt a little strange and walked straight into the village office. There was a big banyan tree outside the village office, which had probably been there for a long time. Under the tree was a stone mill. Yun Suji knew that such a place was where villagers gathered to talk.
It was a busy time for farming, but there was not a single villager there. Yun Suji felt even more strange.
The village offices in this standard village all look the same, with a bulletin board outside the door and various notices posted on them. Yun Suji stopped and looked at them, most of which were the latest policy notices. The Yishui County Printing Office printed standard notices.
There were some rough papers written with ink and ink, all of which were village affairs. Yun Suji took a look at them and saw that the latest one was a notice of labor service for each family. There was also a detailed list at the back: how many people in each family had their names and surnames?
It's very detailed. There is also a newspaper reading column next to it, with yesterday's Lingao Times posted on it.
Just looking at this bulletin board, it’s not very common in rural China in the 21st century, let alone the 17th century.
Yun Suji secretly wondered, this level of grassroots governance! Or is it a "relatively advanced village"? What does the most advanced one look like? He walked in and saw that it was very neat inside. It was like a courtyard.
It is flat and tidy, with three main rooms used for offices, and side rooms on the left and right, which are locked and roughly used as warehouses.
Two village cadres were playing chess in the village office. The two of them got into a fight over a chess move and did not see Elder Yun enter.
Yun Suji waited for a while, but no one spoke to him, so he asked during the quarrel: "Who is the village chief?"
The two village cadres looked up and saw that he was wearing a bamboo hat on his head, a double-breasted gray cloth cadre uniform, dark blue homespun trousers, and straw sandals on his feet. At first glance, he looked like a man who often went to the fields. Although they didn't recognize him, his accent sounded like he was from home.
He has the southern accent of a Huamin cadre, but has some northern accents.
Judging from the clothes, the old village cadre thought he was sent by some village to deliver the letter, so he lazily asked: "Which village is he from?"
Yun Suji replied: "In Lingao County."
The village cadre still asked: "What are you doing here?"
Another cadre was about to lose the chess game and urged on the side: "Let's move quickly!"
Yun Suji was a little impatient and said: "You are very busy! Let's talk about it later when we are free!" He threw his backpack on the steps and sat on it to rest.
The first cadre saw that something was wrong with his words, so he stopped his chess and came over to talk. "I wonder where this distinguished guest is coming from?"
Yun Suji also saw that he was a cadre of the village, but he deliberately asked: "Where is the village chief?" He answered with a red face. Yun Suji was about to give him the letter of introduction when suddenly there was a commotion outside.
I heard someone shouting outside: "Village Chief Fan! Chief Fan!"
The village chief frowned, pushed the chessboard, and said, "Let's go take a look first. Yuanhu doesn't know what to do with it." He didn't even bother to greet Yun Suji and walked out.
Yun Suji didn't say anything, quietly stood up and stood by the window and looked out, only to see that there were seven or eight people in the courtyard, including men and women, old and young. The first one was the one who beat Old Man Meng just now.
A young cadre, with his front shirt open, revealing the white sweatshirt underneath, and his hands on his hips, he looked very majestic.
Behind them were several young men, holding sticks and hugging a middle-aged man. The man was wearing a homespun jacket and was tied tightly with ropes. He had a look of fear. Behind him was a woman, crying and trying to get close to the man.
Beside him, he was pushed and pushed by several young people.
At the end was a little girl of eleven or twelve years old, wiping her tears and following shyly, with a woman supporting her.
Yun Suji wonders what caused this fuss?
Just as he was thinking about it, he saw the young cadre saying loudly: "Village Chief! Yan Laowu has bound his daughter's feet again - his wife's feet are still bound when there are people around, and now they are bound for his daughter again."
! This is to fight against the central government and to restore the remnants of feudalism! It must be rectified and rectified! Look!"
As he spoke and waved his hands, several young people carried things in front of the steps: a disemboweled rooster, bloody, a few broken bowl pieces, and a ball of foot-binding cloth - all things needed for foot-binding.
Yun Suji thought to himself that this young man had learned slogans well, but his temper was not very good.
Village Chief Fan frowned: "Lao Yan, how many times have the county's propaganda team come here about foot binding? Let's not talk about your wife's feet. She has had her feet bound all her life, and she can't get used to walking without them. We fellow villagers
You just turn a blind eye. You bind your daughter’s feet behind your back like this. It’s obvious that you don’t take the instructions of the county and the central government seriously!”
When Yan Laowu heard that he "didn't take the instructions of the county and the central government seriously", he was so frightened that his legs went weak. He knew that the "Australian chief" hated this the most, but if girls didn't bind their feet, he, Yan Laowu, couldn't think of it.
Come out - in his common sense, only those who live in poor households or are begging for food do not bind their daughters' feet. As long as there are people who stutter at home and there is farming, there is no one who does not bind their daughters' feet.
When he was at home, he also heard from knowledgeable people that Nanman women who grew rice did not have their feet bound. He thought it was a fantasy, but he didn’t expect that when he got to Nanman territory and just learned to plant rice, the chief
They are not allowed to bind their feet.
It is not allowed to bind feet, and those who are bound must be loosened. Yan Laowu panicked. According to his common sense, a woman going out without binding her feet is equivalent to going out without wearing pants. Moreover, when a husband and wife are making out at night and their feet are not pinched, he can't mention it.
Get up...
Seeing that my daughter is already twelve years old, she can't bind her feet if she doesn't have them bound. Although girls in this place don't have to worry about getting married, those who don't have their feet bound as a gift must be lighter. Yan Laowu and his wife worked together and secretly bound their daughter's feet.
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For fear that the village would find out, Yan Laowu did not ask his daughter to go out or let anyone come to his home. Unexpectedly, her daughter could not bear the pain of binding her feet and was crying at night. People heard her coming and going, and the news reached the ears of militia captain Liu Yuanhu.
Gone inside.
Militia captain Liu Yuanhu was an orphan: he lost his parents before the mutiny. Before he could support himself, he was a wild boy begging in the countryside of Dengzhou. He started herding cattle for the landlord at the age of thirteen and could do any crop work.
He also has a lot of strength. The master likes his ability and strength, and always said that he would have a maid for him to win his heart. Before the big pie in this picture was realized, the master's family was killed by the rebels, and he himself
He was also tied up with a rope by the rebel soldiers and almost died in the rebel army.
The elders rescued him from the pit of death, and made him, an illiterate man, a cadre and a human being. In Lingao, he opened his eyes and knew how a real person lives, and what the Australian world is like.
What does it look like? And the leaders want to turn the world into a world like Australia. In Ma Niao's agricultural office, Du Wen instilled the consciousness of "serving the Senate and the people" into his mind, so he
He has become a person who is not afraid of anything, and values "the instructions of the Senate" above all else. (To be continued.)