Du Wen felt that she had lost face in front of her students today, and the boss was unhappy, so she couldn't help complaining about Dong Weiwei again: "Aren't you experienced in grassroots work in rural areas? Why don't you come out and say a few words."
Dong Weiwei became even more angry now, thinking that the idea of holding the conference was not mine. She wanted to say something in return, but she also felt that the captain and deputy captains would have a disagreement before the matter even started, and future matters would be impossible to handle. So she had to say:
"Let's see how many people come to register tomorrow. It's good to do this today. At least we have seen that things in this village are not simple. We can't be impatient."
So we called over the team members and the squad leader in charge of the security, and held a short meeting. It was decided that everyone would go to the village first tomorrow, try to establish relations with the local villagers, and find out the details of the village.
Touch. The security personnel are responsible for exploring the topography of the entire village and preparing for the subsequent construction of the earth fence.
The next day, as Dong Weiwei expected, very few Ding Zhuang came to the ancestral hall to register. Even Uncle Fu, who took the lead yesterday to express his intention to register, did not show up. Du Wen had no choice but to call the liaison officer Lao Sun.
Lao Sun is a migrant in the village. He fled from the mainland and settled here. Because he had no worries, Daolu Village made him a "liaison officer". Because he had to go to Bairen for meetings every month, he was very interested in time travel.
He knew the group well and was quite friendly to the group, but he also suffered some hardships for this. Because he said too many good things about the group, the party thought he was trying to make others look good, so they beat him up.
After killing the party sect, he felt proud, but because of the lesson learned last time, he did not dare to get too close to the work team.
Lao Sun had just returned from the field. Hearing that Captain Du had invited him, he hurriedly came to the ancestral hall. He probably knew what the female official wanted to ask, but it was just that Ding Zhuang refused to come to report. He was very embarrassed about this matter.
Because the situation in Daolu Village is particularly complicated.
The Thirteenth Village area is a "bandit area" registered with the county government. Yes, the national tax on royal grain can be paid here, but if you pay too much and pay too little, the government can't control it at all. It showed off its power when collecting the summer and autumn taxes.
If a yamen servant, a "food delivery man" or a "public servant" has no friendship with the Party, he would not dare to come here at all, otherwise he would be beaten to death.
Under this situation, the people in the Thirteen Villages area have complicated feelings towards the bandits: some people have benefited from the bandits for various reasons; some people have been severely harmed by the bandits, and their families have been destroyed.
There are also a few; the last one is naturally the "silent majority", the latter is the modern "soy sauce crowd". Although they have been harmed by bandits to some extent, they are still within the tolerable range.
But no matter what attitude they hold, the Party's gangsters in Thirteen Villages, especially in Daolu Village, still indirectly bring some benefits to the people here. Every time they go out to rob, they follow them to become "temporary bandits"
The villagers can all get some benefits, and even the farmers who hitch a bullock cart to transport the stolen goods can also get some things when they come back. Moreover, the locals have seen the brutality of the bandits and the incompetence of the government. I wonder what this group of "new officials" can do
How long to stay - they did kill the Dang family and the three kings under him, but after all, someone slipped through the net. If the bandits come back and settle old accounts - there are several members of the Dang family in this village, as well as some bandits
His family members are still there.
"Old Sun!" Du Wen asked seriously, "You are the liaison officer of this village. Please tell me the details of this village."
This young woman with a serious face made Old Sun feel more frightened than the soldiers outside carrying gunshots. It reminded him of the clerk who used to come to the village on errands. He also had such an "official face".
"The younger one is a migrant," Lao Sun said. "The details of the village are not very clear -"
"You have lived here for more than ten years, you should know something."
"I really don't know." Lao Sun blinked, with an innocent look on his face, "I am a small outsider. Although I have lived here for more than ten years, I have little contact with the local villagers. I only know superficial things, but I can't tell the details.
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Seeing the old man doing Tai Chi, Du Wen couldn't hold back her temper: "Just tell me what's on the surface."
"Cheng, Cheng, little one, just say it."
So he told him how many families there were in the village and where the land boundaries were. When he asked him which family was the big family, which family was the bandit, and which family had the most land, Lao Sun couldn't tell all the questions.
"...Who knows who has become a bandit?!" Du Wen couldn't help but got angry, "I think you want to protect the bandits!"
"You damn boy! Damn you boy!" When Old Sun saw the "female official's" eyebrows raised and her almond-shaped eyes wide open, and when he heard that "covering bandits" - this was a crime punishable by beheading, he was so frightened that he quickly knelt down.
Come down.
"The little one really doesn't know and doesn't dare to cover up!"
"No, no," Dong Weiwei quickly went up to help him up, "Old Sun, don't be like this, you are so young..."
“Youngster, I really don’t know——”
"Okay, okay, you can go back first." Dong Weiwei sent him out. Back in the hall, Du Wen was still sulking.
"What are you doing? The lesson you learned last night was not enough?"
"This old slippery man refuses to say a single word about the key things. I think he is deliberately trying to protect the bandits! He is a treacherous person!" Du Wen said angrily.
"You are still doing grassroots work!" Dong Weiwei couldn't bear it anymore.
"What is this other than grassroots work?!" Du Wen's voice was no lower than Dong Weiwei's.
"This is bureaucracy and yamen habits! Can you mobilize the masses like this?"
Du Wen suddenly lost her temper. Of course she was not afraid of quarrels, but this was not a BBS or a meeting, just a breakup. The executive committee and Ma Qianxu were waiting for their results. If this continued, when would Daolu Village be able to be solved?
? Not to mention that there are still twelve villages to investigate. If you volunteer to join the work team and fail to achieve results, how can you stand in front of Ma Qianxu in the future...
"Tell me what to do." She sat down depressed.
"Don't be impatient. Let's wait for the students who went to investigate the situation to summarize the situation." Dong Weiwei sighed. Logically speaking, they should go down alone, but this is the 17th century, and it is no longer easy for women to show their faces. I'm afraid they will go to the village to talk.
It's a delusion. Besides, they have nothing in common with the local people.
The second day, the third day... for several days in a row, the students were active in the village, "finding friends" and "making friends" according to the knowledge they learned in the workshop, so that the locals could slowly dispel their guard.
psychology.
Early that morning, a trainee named Liu Si in the work team went out after breakfast - he had already found a "friend" and was using the technique of "eating and working together" that Du Wen often said these days.
to build friendship.
This family lives in the east end of the village. It has a thatched roof and bamboo mat walls. It has not been repaired for many years. The bamboo roof trusses are a little crooked, making the house look crooked.
Outside the house, there is a fence surrounded by twigs of bamboo, covered with pumpkin vines. There is a naked child lying on the dirt playing at the door. When he saw him coming, he quickly got up and came over. The monkey was on him.
If he wanted to eat that sweet stone, Liu Si took out a small piece of rock candy from his pocket and gave it to him. After coaxing him for a while, he went into the yard.
He was familiar with the road, so he went to the shed to get a hoe without knocking or saying hello. After a while, the door of the thatched house opened, and a woman came out. She was thin and small, quite pretty, but she was a little sallow and skinny.
He was wearing a blue earthen cloth gown that was commonly worn by both men and women here. Although it was patched and patched, it was clean after washing. There was a wooden hairpin stuck in his head. He was carrying a rattan basket in his hand.
The two people seemed to be completely familiar with each other. Without even saying hello, they walked towards the fields behind the house together.
The woman was a widow in this village. Her husband's surname was Zhou, and everyone called her Widow Zhou. Widow Zhou's man turned out to be a small grain farmer. When the party broke out, her whole family was wiped out and all the food was stolen.
Fortunately, the woman was somewhat pretty, so she kept her by her side as a "Mrs.", which saved her and her son's lives. After a few years, the party got tired of it and threw her away again, leaving her alone.
A man leads his son to live a life.
Not long after the work team entered the village, Liu Si fell in love with Widow Zhou when he was "making friends" in the village. He was originally from a farmer's family and was good at crop work. He was also an active person who was eloquent and had many years of experience.
The wandering life also taught him how to speak eloquently - it was precisely because of this talent that he was sent to a training center for training not long after he came out of the quarantine camp and worked as a laborer.
Because of her relationship with the Dang Na sect, Widow Zhou was not popular in the village and was often bullied. In the past, because of the existence of the Dang Na sect, everyone had some scruples and did not dare to cause too much trouble.
The idea of playing against her - you must know that the party is very concerned about the women in his hands. He can reward a woman to his subordinates when he is happy, but if his subordinates touch any woman that he has not expressed that he can touch, there is a very good chance that he can touch it.
A disaster is imminent in 89.
As soon as the party was closed, the people who openly caused trouble for her had not yet appeared, but a group of idlers in the village who were unwilling to be left alone would inevitably throw bricks and tiles in front of her door and behind her house, or use the pretext of asking for water to tease her.
. Those families who were harmed by bandits did not dare to find the real bandits, so they took it out on her. From time to time, people would come to the door to criticize and throw a few broken bowls and jars. It made her feel uneasy.
Liu Si's appearance made the villagers immediately become polite to her again - she had hooked up with a man from the work team, and now the work team was not just an official in the village.
Liu Si helped Widow Zhou hoe the land, ate some steamed yam for lunch, and then went to tend the garden land with her. The land under Widow Zhou's name was not small, but she could not grow much by herself, so she had to share it with her husband.
As a member of the family, she doesn't have to think about rent, she just wants to be able to cope with the food shortage. In addition to planting two acres of land, she also planted some garden land and grew some vegetables, using melons and vegetables to make up for the food shortage.
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The two of them were weeding and building structures while chatting.
Widow Zhou desperately wanted a man to help her with the household and work, so as to avoid being bullied in the village. Liu Si had been married to Kuang for a long time. Although the relationship between the two was not a passionate affair, it could be considered a rapid development.
"Fourth brother, you should just take off your gray skin." During the break, the two of them sat under the cucumber trellis - it was very hidden here and no one could see it. This was the second time the woman mentioned this matter.
- She wanted to recruit Liu Si to join the family. This was also known as "recruiting a husband and raising a son" in rural areas.
"If you take off this skin, will you pay me?" Liu Si said with a smile.
"What kind of team member are you? How much salary can you get?" The woman slapped the soil in her hand and sighed, "In the past, the soldiers of the imperial court who came to suppress bandits were as poor as beggars. They robbed everything they saw, pigs.
Chickens, kill them as soon as you catch them - it’s like you haven’t eaten meat in eight lifetimes. A country warrior is just a man who earns a living and gets a few small coins. How good can you be if you work for an Australian master as a country warrior?"
Liu Si smiled - after several months of study in the rural training center, his horizons have been broadened, and his ambitions are naturally very big. But there is no need to say this to her now, lest he scare this little girl to death.
"Wearing this outfit will help you establish a family. Maybe I will be a cadre in your village in the future."
"What does it mean to be a cadre?"
"?!" Liu Sigang wanted to explain, but couldn't think of the right words and scratched his scalp.
"Are you just going to be the security guard or something?"
"That's right. That's what it means."
"Oh, I'm still the security chief. Our village's security chief, Chief A, has died four or five times in the past ten years, and none of them died easily. They all had their heads executed. When the government came, they said you were a bandit and a bandit.
If they come here and say that you betrayed your brothers, you will stab them one by one, and it will be too late to cry out for injustice."
"The party's head is already hanging out, why are you afraid of the government?" Liu Si dismissed it, "It can't be controlled here."
"What you said is correct, I'm just afraid that in the future-" the woman hesitated to speak.
"What are you afraid of in the future?" Liu Si asked carefully - isn't this what Chief Du wants to know about the people's sentiments?
"Although the Dang family is dead, his brothers are still alive. If it comes back, you will serve as a local warrior and security chief for the Australians, but you will not be the first to be stabbed? It will affect me..."
"It's just those bandits, what are you afraid of? We can kill them anytime and anywhere." Liu Si disagreed.
"Uncle Xin hasn't been caught yet." Widow Zhou lowered her voice a little more.
"It's fast. It can't escape the palm of our hands."
"Don't brag." Widow Zhou raised her eyes and looked outside the fence, "I heard that those families where weeds were falling are all secretly planning to find Xin Na Ri and start a new fight together.
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Liu Si's hair stood on end, this was important news: "Really?" he asked.
"There is such a legend in the village. Let's talk about Zhao Dachong and Xin Nachun. They are colluding with these families every day."
"Who are these two people?"
"Zhao Dachong's father is Zhao Haiqing from the party, and he will be killed by you this time. This stupid boy has a grudge and wants to take revenge.