Zhou Yang knew that Li Fengnian didn't want him to worry about this matter, nor did he want him to have a head-on conflict with Chen Jianying over this trivial matter.
After all, the Chen family's influence in Babaoliang Village is so intricate that half of the village is related to them. If Chen Jianying is offended, there will inevitably be a lot of trouble in the future.
Although it won't affect anything, the toad crawls on the feet and doesn't bite, but it hurts people!
But Zhou Yang knew that the hatred between himself and Chen Jianying was not because of the few words of rancor just now, but because of Li Youwei, Bao'er and the entire Li family.
The hatred between them is not a small verbal dispute, but a real blood feud involving multiple lives.
In his previous life, Zhou Yang left Babaoliang Village in July 1975 and returned in September 1978.
At that time, Li Youwei had just passed away less than a hundred days ago.
In pain, Zhou Yang immediately investigated the cause of Li Youwei's death.
He knew Li Youwei. Although that girl was cute and silly, she dared to love and hate, and had a strong will. If there was no special reason, she would not commit suicide, let alone take her daughter with her.
After all, she loves Bao'er so much and regards her as her heart, how could she be so cruel!
He wouldn't know it unless he investigated, but once he investigated, he found out a lot of secret things, including all the unscrupulous things that Chen Jianying and the Chen family did to the Li family.
According to the results of Zhou Yang's investigation, Li Youwei and the Li family tragically died in a natural disaster.
Just the second year after he left the Babaoliang Brigade, that is, in the autumn of 1976, Yunshan County encountered a heavy rain that was rare in a century.
The heavy rain lasted for three days and three nights, causing the water level of the Baofeng Reservoir upstream of the village to exceed the warning line, and cracks appeared in the dam due to disrepair.
As the second largest reservoir in Yunshan County, Baofeng Reservoir not only plays the role of flood control and discharge, but also plays an important role in farmland irrigation for dozens of villages upstream and downstream.
Once the dam of the reservoir is destroyed by the flood, hundreds of millions of cubic meters of water will rush out, and dozens of villages downstream will be in danger of being flooded.
This is no longer a problem of submerged villages, but a major crisis involving the lives and deaths of tens of thousands of people. If it is not handled properly, the consequences will be disastrous.
After the danger emerged, Li Fengnian, as the village party secretary, made a prompt decision and ordered people to evacuate people and livestock from all villages downstream despite the rain.
At the same time, he personally mobilized thousands of young people from seven or eight surrounding villages to defend the embankment, and all four sons of the Li family also asked him to take him to the embankment and devote themselves to the rescue and protection of the embankment.
However, the danger was discovered too late, and the flood outlet was blocked by sediment and debris washed down from the upstream, making it impossible to release the excess floodwater.
In the end, the levee was not saved.
When the embankment collapsed, Li Fengnian and his four sons were on the embankment. As a result, all five of them, father and son, were washed away by the flood.
At the same time, sixty or seventy young men and women who participated in flood fighting and disaster relief were washed away by the flood. Together, they became the first victims of this major disaster.
When the flood receded, people only found Li Guoqiang with two broken legs on a crooked-neck tree.
The bodies of Li Fengnian and his three sons were recovered four days later.
Suddenly, there were four more coffins in the Li family, and four new tombs on the hill ridge at the east end of the village!
A flood completely destroyed the Li family. The once prosperous family declined almost instantly.
On the contrary, Chen Jianying's family became awesome.
After Li Fengnian's death, the position of the village party secretary was naturally vacated. Under Chen Jianying's multi-faceted efforts, he successfully took over Li Fengnian's position and became the village party secretary of the Babaoliang Brigade.
After Chen Jianying became the village party secretary, the first thing he did was to suppress the Li family.
In addition to resenting Li Fengnian for taking the position of village party secretary, Chen Jianying also resented Li Fengnian's unwillingness to marry him.
Chen Jianying has three sons and two daughters. The second son Chen Gang and Li Youwei are similar in age, so Chen Jianying intends to marry the Li family.
Therefore, Chen Jianying mentioned this matter to Li Fengnian many times after the two were working.
But Li Fengnian knew that Chen Gang was not a serious person because he had all kinds of food, drink, prostitution and gambling, so he simply rejected him.
Soon after, Li Youwei married Zhou Yang, who came from the city.
Later, Chen Jianying wanted Li Guoqiang, the fourth son of the Li family, to marry Chen Shuang, the fourth daughter of his family. It turned out that Li Guoqiang despised the tall and thick Chen Shuang and instead had feelings for the slender Zhong Na from the next village, so Li Fengnian rejected Chen Jianying again.
Being rejected by the Li family twice in a row made Chen Jianying feel that Li Fengnian simply looked down on their Chen family, and the grudge turned into a deadly feud.
When Li Fengnian was alive, Chen Jianying was relatively restrained.
He didn't need to hide, but at most he could only contradict him a few words, and he didn't dare to do anything too extreme. After all, Li Fengnian was now the village party secretary, specifically in charge of him, the captain of the production team.
But after Li Fengnian died, this guy made no secret of his dissatisfaction with the Li family, and even openly retaliated.
After the accident, four of the five men in the Li family died, and the remaining Li Guoqiang was paralyzed in bed. All the food and drink for the dozen or so people in the family, old and young, fell on a few women.
As a result, Zhang Guiying and Li Youwei, who were in poor health, had to work in the fields with their daughters-in-law and sisters-in-law to earn work points.
Life is hard. After all, the whole family is either a child or a paralysis. If they don't work in the fields, they will have no food to eat.
In order to retaliate against the Li family, Chen Gang shamelessly used his power to deliberately target orphans and widowed mothers like them.
He assigned them the hardest and most tiring work in the team, and deliberately gave them less when calculating work points, completely ignoring that Li Fengnian and his three sons sacrificed their lives for rescue and disaster relief.
In less than half a year, Zhang Guiying's body collapsed, and she passed away after a few months.
Immediately afterwards, Li Jianguo's eldest son, Li Hu, the grandson of Li's parents, went to the river to fish without telling his family in order to improve the family's life and to get some meat for his younger brothers and sisters.
However, they did not expect that the upstream reservoir would suddenly open to release floodwaters. As a result, the 9-year-old child disappeared forever into the vast river, and not even a body was found.
Later, the Li family's two newly born children, who were only two years old, died due to long-term malnutrition and lack of money for treatment due to illness.
Unable to bear the blow, the third sister-in-law Wang Lixia went crazy, while the second sister-in-law Sun Lu took her child back to her parents' home. The burden of supporting the family finally fell on Li Youwei, her eldest sister-in-law, and her fourth sister-in-law.
The tragedy of the Li family is not over yet. It is Chen Jianying's son Chen Gang who really drives Li Youwei to a dead end.
Like his father, Chen Gang had been holding back a fire in his heart after knowing that he was rejected by the Li family.
When Li Fengnian and several stupid, big, black and thick Four King Kongs from the Li family were around, he naturally did not dare to have evil intentions. Those few were reckless people and dared to be ruthless when beating people.
But now that the Li family is in trouble, Chen Gang naturally has no scruples and comes to pester Li Youwei five times.
Even once, this bastard almost dragged Li Youwei to Baomi Field and occupied it. Fortunately, the villagers heard Li Youwei's shouts and rushed over, scaring him away this time.
The year Li Youwei drowned, Baoer went to the hospital and was diagnosed with a terminal illness because of frequent nosebleeds.
She first went to the capital to look for Zhou Yang, but could not find him.
When she returned to Babaoliang Village, she was pestered by Chen Gang again.
At that time, Chen Gang had been widowed for more than two years, and he felt very passionate when he saw that Li Youwei was still as fresh and healthy even though she had given birth to a child.
But Li Youwei still looked down upon him and rejected him again.
In anger, Chen Gang immediately gave Li Youwei an ultimatum. If she did not agree to marry him, he would make it impossible for the Li family to survive in Babaoliang Village.
Faced with her husband's abandonment, the deaths of her parents and brothers, her daughter's serious illness, and the persecution of the Chen family, Li Youwei, an already fragile woman, finally collapsed.
Then, one evening after work, she held her daughter and plunged into the reservoir in the back mountain. Her dazzling life was finally fixed at the blossoming age of 24.
It can be said that without Chen Jianying and Chen Gang, the life of the Li family would be difficult, but it would not be unbearable.
Therefore, both Chen Jianying and Chen Gang deserve to die. Immortality is not enough to quell the anger in Zhou Yang's heart!
After Li Youwei committed suicide, Li Guoqiang, who was paralyzed in bed, completely exploded. He wrote twenty letters in succession, reporting Chen Jianying, Chen Gang and his son to the commune and the county.
However, his reports were suppressed by the Chen family and did not make any waves until Zhou Yang's return.
After learning about these things, Zhou Yang was angry, angry and regretful. He personally wrote to a higher-level department to report what Chen Jianying and his son had done.
Subsequently, under the full investigation of the relevant departments, Chen Jianying, Chen Gang and his son, and the protective umbrella behind them were uprooted, and this matter was finally concluded.
It's just that this ending is not a happy one. His little wife will never come back, and this has become Zhou Yang's lifelong pain!
