Now that the Senate has said "foot-binding is not allowed," he has become the most resolute anti-foot-binding person. Yan Laowu is a "literary boy" who has some "lotus addiction" hobbies and violates the foot-binding policy. He is originally a member of the village.
As a "household with small feet", before his wife's problem was solved, his daughter's problem was brought up. When Liu Yuanhu heard this, he jumped and took Yan Laowu out with a few militiamen. ▲∴,
Yun Suji had a clear view from behind the window. Seeing the old man trembling with fear, he felt somewhat sympathetic. He originally wanted to come out to smooth things over, but when he thought about the abomination of foot binding, he felt that Yan Laowu had brought the blame on himself.
, standing up on your own will hinder the work of the village. It is better to see how the village cadres deal with it first.
Before Village Chief Fan could speak, dozens of villagers watching the excitement had gathered from all over. Yun Suji saw that each of them was fairly well-dressed and in good spirits.
I saw Village Chief Fan coughing and said: "The spirit of the Senate was conveyed at the last meeting. Everyone knows it. Everyone has also expressed their determination: to be the first independent person in Qiongshan."
Foot-binding village. If the daughter-in-law does not let go of her feet, the man of that family will be punished."
All the villagers stood respectfully. After listening to Village Chief Fan's words, they all agreed: "Yes", "Yeah"...
Village Chief Fan puffed up his belly proudly and said: "Yan Laowu's wife still binds her feet secretly. The village has not investigated the matter yet, and she binds her daughter's feet again. If she doesn't cure him, it won't work - it's a state-owned and a family-owned business.
Family rules. The Senate is the emperor. If you dare not listen to what the emperor says, is it not a crime of deceiving the emperor? You will be beheaded."
Yan Laowu and his wife's feet were weak and they were already kneeling on the ground. They kowtowed and said, "I don't dare to bind my feet anymore."
Yun Suji was secretly amused. He thought that the village chief was really good at pretending to be powerful. Now he became more and more interested to see how the village chief would judge.
I just heard Village Chief Fan wave his hand: "In this case, let's follow the old rules. Third Aunt, wrap him up!"
A middle-aged woman squeezed out from the crowd. Her face was forced and she was obviously very reluctant. She came to Yan Laowu and said with a smile: "Laowu, this is an official job. Please bear with it..."
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Liu Yuanhu said impatiently: "Hurry up, hurry up!" Then he sat him down on a bench.
Yan Laowu probably didn't expect this. His face turned gray and white, then red. He was really uglier than coming to a meeting holding a piece of shit. When he saw the third aunt bending down to take off his shoes, he jumped up as if he was having a cramp.
, frantically trying to grab his shoes, Liu Yuanhu shouted: "Hold on!" Several militiamen started to grab Yan Laowu, pressed them firmly, and took off both shoes.
Yun Suji was wondering when he saw the third aunt's hands and feet. She was half-kneeling on the ground, holding Yan Laowu's mud-black foot, first put his right foot on his knee, and put some alum wine into the crack of the foot.
The five toes were pressed tightly together, and the chest was bent like a bow, that is, wrapped with strips of cloth. After only two layers of wrapping, they took the needle and thread to sew tightly: one side was tightly wrapped, and the other side was tightly sewed.
It was a tight seam. Four militiamen were holding tightly around Yan Laowu, and his feet were held by two militiamen, unable to move at all. When the binding was completed, he felt that his feet were burning like charcoal, with bursts of pain.
Feeling hurt and ashamed, I started to cry.
Yun Suji was shocked to see it. He really didn't expect that the village chief had such a skill.
"Let him wear these lotus shoes. They are very beautiful." Village Chief Fan said.
The third aunt bowed: "Lao Wu, I'm sorry, this is an official job." She picked up the pair of small shoes made by Yan Lao Wu's wife and put them on his feet - how could he wear them? Liu Yuanhu took out
Use the knife to cut open the heel and put it on Yan Laowu's "Golden Lotus".
Village Chief Fan said: "Yan Laowu is at fault in this matter, and his wife is at fault as well. Yuanhu, beat her forty poles! Don't take off your pants. As a woman, keep your dignity."
Liu Yuanhu agreed, and led his men to drag Yan Laowu's daughter-in-law to the ground, and beat her violently with a pole. Yan Laowu's daughter-in-law was heard begging for mercy, crying and saying "I don't dare" anymore.
After loading forty poles, Liu Yuanhu asked his third aunt to take off Yan Laowu's wife's shoes. Sure enough, her feet were still bound inside the big shoes, which were stuffed with cotton. He immediately took off all the foot bindings.
"Yuanhu, you take a pair of foot shackles, put Yan Laowu on a stone mill, and lock him up for three days. Let everyone in the village take a look at his little feet. You asked people to bind their feet, and you have a taste of it yourself.
, don’t blow out the lamp and just care about your own happiness, without caring about the life or death of your daughter-in-law. Is that right, everyone?"
Everyone is right.
Village Chief Fan yelled at Yan Laowu's wife again: "I'm going to show you two of your 'golden lotuses' on a stone mill, but you still have a daughter and a kid waiting to eat them, so I'll spare you this."
, no more foot binding! Take your daughter and go back quickly."
Yan Lao's fifth daughter-in-law ignored the burning in her buttocks and kowtowed to get up. Her daughter quickly came over to help her, and mother and daughter limped back.
Yun Suji had mixed feelings after watching this scene of "trialing the case". To be honest, he didn't have a very good impression of Village Chief Fan and Liu Yuanhu, but it doesn't seem that simple to summarize it as "simple and crude". Let's just say
Today's foot-binding matter is quite akin to peasant wisdom. The name of this advanced village is indeed genuine.
While he was meditating, Village Chief Fan walked in and bowed: "It's a joke, it's a joke. It's hard to do otherwise."
Yun Suji said: "It doesn't matter." Then she gave him the letter of introduction. Village Chief Fan took it and looked at it. What was written on the letter was:
"Yun Suji, the technical instructor and veteran of Tiandihui, is going to Qiongshan to inspect and supervise the grassroots agricultural work. Please contact Shihe..."
The village chief read the letter and his legs softened a little: "Dear boy, he is actually a chief!"
He let Yun Suji into the back room, said a few polite words, and then invited Yun Suji to his home for tea. He smiled and said: "Chief, I am from Laizhou. It was Chief Lu who saved my life."
, and he also promotes young people to serve in small fields. The chief’s kindness to small farmers is greater than the sky. You haven’t had lunch yet, I’ll ask someone to prepare it right now!”
Yun Suji said: "Don't be polite, don't be busy eating now, you can tell me about the situation in the village."
The village chief also wanted to talk about the clichés, but Yun Suji said: "This is a system and cannot be broken casually!"
The village cadre saw that he had a rustic look and was so uneasy in his words. He couldn't think of how to deal with him for a moment, so he said: "Okay, chief, please rest a while. I'll get you the village files!"
Having said that, he left the office to find the village accountant. The village accountant was a refugee from Zhejiang. He was a shop clerk. He was a good abacus and a well-rounded person. He was the village chief's "strategist" and the village chief obeyed him.
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He first showed the letter of introduction to the village accountant, and then talked about how rustic this person was.
The village accountant said: "I heard from Chief Liu a few days ago that there is such a person. You cannot underestimate this person! I heard from Chief Liu that Chief Liu has to discuss some things with him."
The village chief said: "Yes, yes! I remembered it when you said it. On that day when I went to Lingao County to hold a heaven and earth meeting to discuss the issue of scientific farming, the chief held a meeting first. It seemed that he was there, wearing blue.
The clothes and eyebrows are just like that."
The village accountant said: "I think we should socialize well and don't bump into him!"
The village chief walked out and went back and asked: "I invited him to my house for dinner, but he refused. He asked me to show him the files. What should I do?"
The village accountant became impatient and said: "If the chief wants to see the files, just show them to him. We have all the ledgers."
"But how can I show this to the chief now? There are dozens of forms, large and small, and more than half of them have not been filled out yet."
"Now is not the time for an inspection. Chief Yun is a cadre from the central government. He knows something... Show him what you have done and put it in a nicer way. Just muddle along." The accountant said, "Someone from the county is here.
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"Four guards have arrived, and they are all resting under the banyan tree outside the village hall."
"It doesn't matter. Forget it, you go get the files, and I'll sound the gong and ask the leaders of each group to come see the leader. By the way, you quickly go take care of Liu Yuanhu and ask him to lead the militia to keep an eye on those old guys.
Okay, don't ask them to come out and complain."
Yun Suji waited for a while, and the village chief came back with a smile on his face. He opened the file cabinet in the side room and took out the account. He moved piles of them on the table.
"That's not all. Chief, which ones do you want to see?" The village chief smiled and said, "I'll get them all for you."
"No need." Yun Suji secretly smacked his tongue. These accounts alone were piled up on a table, and that's not all! Leaving aside the clerical style, considering the actual level of naturalized civilian cadres, I have to thank them for not using them as wipes.
Cadre education has been effective.
Yun Suji asked: "How many families are there in your village and where are they from? How many people are there in total? How many laborers are there?"
The village chief was relieved to see that Chief Yun was just casually looking through various brochures. He quickly stood up after hearing his question.
Yun Suji said: "Sit down and talk, sit down and talk."
The village chief said: "There are eighty-four households here, and the whole village has 431 people. Most of them are from Shandong. There are also people from Shanxi, Zhejiang and Fujian. There are 192 laborers."
Yun Suji nodded: "You have a lot of labor in this village."
The village chief said: "Chief, there are mostly refugees in this village, many young and old, young and old."
Then he asked some other questions. Fortunately, the chief asked questions about paddy fields, dry fields, yields per mu, water conservancy, moisture conservation, and pest control. He could answer them in a logical and orderly manner, and the data came straight out of his mouth.
, it can be seen that Chief Yun is very satisfied.
Suddenly there was a sound of gongs and drums outside, and Chief Yun was startled: "What are you doing?"
The village chief explained that this was to inform everyone to come to a meeting and meet with the chief.
Chief Yun smiled: "Don't be so grand. I'll eat something to fill my stomach first."
The village chief took the opportunity to ask: "What should the chief eat for lunch? There are chicken, duck, fish, shrimp, and vegetables." (To be continued...)