When I entered the yard, I saw that Mrs. Cao had been placed on the door panel. Several people were surrounding her, and a guard was doing cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Yun Suji asked: "How is he doing?"
The guard captain said: "We have been rescued. It's so dangerous!"
"When did you find out?"
"It's just not long ago," the guard captain said with lingering fear. "There's no sound at all! If you hadn't told me to take a look every hour, chief, probably everyone would be hard-core by tomorrow morning!"
When Fan Twelve heard that the man was not dead, his expression finally recovered a little.
Yun Suji nodded. At this time, a woman came in and brought a bowl of ginger soup to Old Mrs. Cao to drink. Seeing that her face turned red and she had probably regained her breath, she asked someone to carry her to the Lying down in the side room first. Two more women were called to look at her.
Mrs. Cao wants to "break the fish to the death". Yun Suji lit up a cigarette. He was not too surprised. In the old days, it was a very common practice: hanging directly at the door of the enemy's house, causing the enemy's family to be destroyed. The government did not care about suicide or suicide. If someone is suspected of murdering someone at their doorstep, even if they are cleared of wrongdoing in the end, they will end up ruining their lives and ruining their families.
Even in rural China in the 20th century, due to various disputes, it was not news that women broke into their "enemy's" house and drank pesticides. Even trivial matters such as quarrels and anger with family members may induce women to commit suicide. In China's suicide population survey, rural women have the highest suicide rate.
This is the rhythm that makes Fan Twelve and Liu Yuanhu look good. Yun Suji thought. He said to Fan Twelve, who was trembling all the way after him: "Go and call Han Daoguo and Liu Yuanhu. I have something to ask."
Fan Twelve responded and was about to go out, but Yun Suji stopped him again: "Call Liu Yuanhu's wife too."
Seeing Fan Twelve go away in despair, the guard captain asked: "Chief, do you want me to ask someone to accompany you?"
Yun Suji shook his head: "If he runs away, there will be nothing to ask. There must be something wrong with him." He ordered the guard captain to guard the door of Mrs. Cao's room and not allow her to come out.
After a while, Fan Twelve summoned everyone. Yun Suji asked each of them to come in for questioning. He is very familiar with grassroots work and can tell in a few words whether there are any shortcomings and whether the cadres are telling the truth.
Judging from his visits and discussions throughout the day today, Borang Village has no big problems but a lot of small ones. To use a cliche: "The general direction is good." As for the burden of village cadres eating more and occupying more, asking the villagers to work for them, and beating and scolding the villagers in a rough manner, it is not a big deal at this stage.
Yun Suji believes that there are only two things that can easily reveal the administrative capabilities of grassroots cadres: people's livelihood conditions and infrastructure. Whether grassroots cadres are dedicated to their work and how capable they are can be seen from this. From these two points of view. Borang Village has done quite well.
The county does provide certain financial support for the construction of infrastructure in model villages, but most of it depends on the villagers themselves investing in the work and materials. If the village cadres do not have a certain degree of appeal and work ability, it is impossible to achieve all this.
As for anti-foot-binding and improving environmental sanitation, they are not major issues related to people's livelihood such as food and clothing, but they are indeed related to people's livelihood. It is also an important criterion for testing whether cadres are serious about their work.
Therefore, he did not dwell too much on the details of village affairs, and simply asked about Mrs. Cao's affairs. Asked Fan Twelve: "I know that you came back from Shandong with Lu Yuanlao. You are also a tested old naturalized citizen. Please tell me what happened to Mrs. Cao's son's pension. ? Mrs. Cao keeps saying she didn’t get it, but did she get it?”
Fan Twelve said: "Chief! You have no conscience about this pension thing! We didn't hack her money. After her son had an accident, it was indeed Yuanhu who received the pension, and it was entered into the official account when he arrived in the village. This is all written down in black and white..."
Yun Suji said: "Since I got the money back, why not give it to her? Do you want it to go into the village's public accounts?"
Fan Twelve swallowed. Mrs. Cao's pension has been spent long ago. Fortunately, they had discussed this matter long ago, and Han Daoguo had found a policy basis at the beginning. So he was not too nervous: "There is a reason here. Mrs. Cao has no son. She has no grandchildren - this is an extinct household. According to the document from the Ministry of Civil Affairs issued to us by the county, this is called 'no heir'." "Social security households" should be fed by the village." He rummaged through the cabinet for a while and found a crumpled red-headed document, saying that according to the document, the land of extinct households would be managed by the village and people would be hired to farm it. The pension is managed by the village and reserved for major expenses.
Yun Suji took it over and looked at it. The red-headed document was genuine. It is true that the land is farmed and pensions are managed on behalf of the village, but there is a "may" in the clause that the pensions are managed by the village. In other words, leaving it to the village is not a hard and fast rule.
Yun Suji knew very well that Fan Twelve and the others were "extremely poor", not to mention the Ming Dynasty in the 17th century, but it was also common in rural China in the 21st century. Just one word "can" on the document can make a wonderful piece of writing. For villagers who are basically illiterate and semi-illiterate, how can they understand the mystery? But this is not the lower limit - Fan Twelve and others still take advantage of the policy loopholes and play word games, which is somewhat "legal spirit".
"Your definition of destitution is a bit far-fetched. The Cao family still has a daughter-in-law. You always know that there is such a thing as finding a husband and raising a family." Yun Suji shook his head, "That's one thing. Secondly, the pension is Mrs. Cao and Gai Feng have a share, so her share must be given to her."
Fan Twelve never dreamed that his daughter-in-law would also be counted as a share. When Yun Suji said this, he was a little panicked and said quickly: "Yes, yes, we don't have control over the policy."
"As for the issue of the extinct family, I don't care about it with you." Yun Suji said, "Gaifeng has remarried now, so we don't care about recruiting a husband to support her."
"I will arrange to send Gai Feng's copy to her tomorrow..."
"You also want to pay Mrs. Cao's money! If you don't know what the word 'ke' means, just ask Han Daoguo to explain it to you." Yun Suji smiled slightly and said seriously, "In addition, now we are paying social security on behalf of the farmers. There is too little rice for each household, 400 kilograms per person, which is only enough for rations," Yun Suji said slowly, "People still have to wear clothes, and even if they have vegetables in their own fields, they still have to buy salt; there are several families with small children. , and also eat some fish and meat... The contract farmers are taking too much advantage. I can’t say enough about the benefits of just this tax, don’t you think?”
Fan Twelve was startled, knowing that he couldn't hide this trick, so he quickly said: "Yes, yes."
"Go and call Gaifeng."
"Yes, I'll go right away!"
After a while, Fan Twelve called Gaifeng in. Yun Suji thought she was about 25 or 26 years old. She was wearing an indigo tie-dyed Indian cotton jacket. She was neatly trimmed and her appearance was ordinary. Although her skin was dark, her skin was plump and moist, and her face was flushed. , it seems that life with Liu Yuanhu is not bad.
Yun Suji noticed that she had a slight limp when walking. When she entered the house, she knelt down and said, "Chief," and then she bowed her head and said nothing. Yun Suji saw that there were still tears in the corners of her eyes, and thought that she would not be able to live in peace with Mrs. Cao's troubles.
In my heart I felt pity for her suffering, and she said kindly:
"Are you Gai Feng?"
"Yes, I am my slave."
"What's your maiden name?"
Gaifeng raised her head and looked at him, then lowered her head and said, "My parents died early. I don't know what my surname is. My husband's surname is Liu."
"Were you the daughter-in-law of Mrs. Cao before?"
Smelling this, Gaifeng's body trembled and whispered: "Yes."
"How did they treat you?"
Gaifeng lowered her head. Although Yun Suji couldn't see her expression, he could see the ups and downs in her heart from her slightly shrugged shoulders. After a while, I heard her whisper: "There is always a bite to eat."
He asked again: "Now that you are married to Liu Yuanhu, how does he treat you?"
Gaifeng replied almost immediately: "Treat me well! I am willing to be with him." She seemed to be afraid that Yun Suji would have anything to do with her and her ex-husband's family again, and added, "Whether it means eating chaffy vegetables or being beaten or scolded, I will Even if he is in jail, I will give him food and wait for him to come out!"
Yun Suji has completely understood that Old Yang's wife is telling the truth. But he was a little surprised, why did she mention "going to jail"? Then he smiled and said, "Who said he would go to jail?"
"Ever since you entered the village, someone has said this." Gaifeng whispered.
"Your husband has not committed any crime, so why does he have to go to jail?"
Gaifeng raised his eyes and looked at him, then lowered his head and said: "He is a sesame official, and he always does something wrong. He is usually very cruel to the villagers, and Village Chief Fan just uses him as a mallet. What happened?" It’s not like everyone pushed down the wall.”
Yun Suji nodded and said, "You are quite knowledgeable."
"I don't dare, slave."
"Liu Yuanhu has some problems with his working methods, but he still does a good job." Yun Suji said, "It's just a rumor that he's in jail. It's nothing like that."
"Yes, thank you Master Qingtian..." Gaifeng's tears were already rolling down his face.
"What's wrong with your feet? Did Liu Yuanhu slap your ass?"
Gaifeng shook his head and said indifferently: "This was left behind in the past. Four or five bamboo slats were broken off the lying stool. I crawled up to the kang that night."
Yun Suji was very sympathetic and said: "I have found out about your ex-husband's pension. It is wrong for the village to hold on to it. It will be distributed tomorrow! Logically, you should also have a share..."
Gaifeng shook his head and said, "I don't want this money."
"This is your ex-husband's pension. You have always been married to him. You deserve it both emotionally and rationally..."
Gai Fengjue said: "I won't touch anything from his family, whether dead or alive. Whoever cares about it will take it, and I don't want a penny."
Yun Suji nodded secretly, this woman is quite strong. He said: "Go out and ask Liu Yuanhu to come in." (To be continued.)
