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" habits. He violates the foot-binding policy and is originally the village's " "People with poor feet", his wife's problem has not been solved yet, and the daughter's problem has arisen. Liu Yuanhu jumped when he heard it, and took a few militiamen to find Yan Laowu. 【Read full text】
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 it upon 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 all of them were well-dressed and in good spirits.
I saw Village Chief Fan coughing and said: "The spirit of the Senate has been 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 pursued this matter, and she binds her daughter's feet again. It's impossible to cure him - 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 weakened and they were already kneeling on the ground. He kept kowtowing and asked for mercy, saying, "I don't dare to bind my feet anymore."
Yun Suji was secretly amused. I thought that the village chief was really good at pretending to be powerful. Now he became more and more interested in seeing what the village chief would do.
I just heard Village Chief Fan wave his hand: "In that case, follow the old rules. Third Aunt, wrap him up!"
A middle-aged woman squeezed out of 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..." "
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, then white, then red. It was really uglier than coming to a meeting holding in a piece of shit. Seeing the third aunt bending down to take off his shoes, he jumped up like a cramp and frantically tried to grab his shoes. Liu Yuanhu shouted: "Seize him!" Several militiamen started to grab Yan Laowu. He grabbed it and pressed it firmly, and took off his two shoes.
Yun Suji was wondering when he saw the third aunt's hands and feet were nimble. Half-kneeling on the ground, he held Yan Laowu's black foot, put his right foot on his knee first, and put some alum wine into the crack of his foot. Put the five toes tightly together, and bend the chest with force like a bow, that is, wrap it with strips of cloth; only two layers have been wrapped. Just take the needle and thread and sew tightly: one side is tightly wrapped, and the other side is tightly sewed. There were four militiamen holding Yan Laowu tightly beside him. Two militiamen held his feet, unable to move at all. Until the wrapping is completed. I felt like my feet were burning with coals, and there were bursts of pain. Feeling hurt and ashamed, I started crying.
Yun Suji was shocked to see it. He really didn't expect that the village chief had such a skill.
"Let him wear this pair of 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 a knife, 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 also at fault. Yuanhu, beat her forty poles! Don't take off your pants. You are a woman, so you should 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, the big shoes still had their feet bound inside, stuffed with cotton, so he immediately took off all the foot bindings.
"Yuanhu, you take a pair of foot shackles, put Yan Laowu on the stone mill, and lock him for three days. Ask everyone in the village to 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 only care about your own happiness, and don’t care about the life or death of your daughter-in-law. Is that right, everyone?"
Everyone is right.
Village Chief Fan shouted at Yan Laowu's wife again: "I've been showing you two's '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 binding your feet! Take your daughter and go back quickly."
Yan Lao's fifth daughter-in-law didn't care about the burning in her buttocks, kowtowed and got up. Her daughter hurriedly 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, his impression of Village Chief Fan and Liu Yuanhu was not very good, but it didn't seem that easy to summarize them as "simple and crude". Let's just say that today's foot-binding matter is quite peasant-like. The name of this advanced village is well deserved.
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. The letter read:
"Yun Suji, the technical instructor of Tiandihui and the veteran, 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 promoted me to serve. The kindness of the chief to my farm is greater than the sky. You haven't used it yet. Let’s have lunch, I’ll ask someone to prepare it right now!”
Yun Suji said: "Don't be polite. Let's not be busy eating. 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!"
When the village cadre saw that he had a rustic look on his face 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 is a refugee from Zhejiang. He was originally a shop clerk. He is a good abacus and a well-rounded person. He is the village chief's "strategist" and the village chief obeys his words.
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 can't 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 facial features 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. All our ledgers are in full."
"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, "There are people from the county. ?"
"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 call the leaders of each group to see the leader. By the way, you quickly go and take care of Liu Yuanhu and ask him to lead the militia to keep an eye on those old guys. Now, 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. Stacks were placed on the table.
"That's not all. Chief, which kind 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 tents alone were piled up on a table, and they weren't all there! Regardless of the style of writing, the actual level of the naturalized civilian cadres is that we have to thank the cadres for their effective education for not being used as wipers.
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 flipping 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 many 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 an organized manner, and the data came 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 up first."
The village chief took the opportunity to ask: "What does the chief want to eat for lunch? There are chickens, ducks, fish, shrimps, and vegetables." (To be continued...)
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