In fact, "bad seeds" like production team leader Lin Jianguo are not uncommon.
The power of the production team leaders in this era was very great.
Moreover, it is almost impossible for other cadres to check and balance the power of the captain.
Such an unbalanced power will naturally give rise to many bad phenomena.
Like Lin Jianguo, he treated the entire production team as his own "kingdom" and controlled and intimidated the villagers through the distribution of work points and food.
They even used various means to seize the production team's public property and food for their own use.
His methods were actually not very clever, and there were villagers who wanted to report him to the commune.
but……
Lin Jianguo's authority is too great, and his methods of bullying people scare away villagers who want to report him.
In the previous life, it was not until half a year later that Liu Rumeng’s father Liu Guopeng came to Linjiagou after being rehabilitated.
At that time, Liu Guopeng repeatedly emphasized to all the villagers in the production team on the production team radio that as long as they came forward to report and expose the truth, he would guarantee that they would not be retaliated against and would also reward the whistleblowers greatly.
Even so, no villager dared to stand up.
Don’t they know that Liu Rumeng was forced to death by Lin Jianguo?
Why would a female educated youth from Shanghai jump off a building after being caught stealing grain?
However, they were all intimidated by Lin Jianguo's tyranny and dared not tell the truth.
In the end, it was Lin Huowang who returned to Linjiagou and, after hearing about this incident, found Liu Guopeng and told him the truth.
It is obvious that in such a special period, the power and authority of the production team leaders and commune directors at the top of the grassroots power reached a certain level.
In this life, Lin Jianguo will not be caught and shot by Liu Guopeng again, and perhaps he can live longer.
However, Lin Huowang can guarantee that he will live in endless regret and fear for the rest of his life.
…
"Awang! That's Accountant Zhang. Why... does he look crazy?"
Following the shout from deputy captain Lin Shuisheng, Lin Huowang looked forward.
Sure enough, the production team's accountant Zhang Debiao was seen with disheveled hair, standing in front of the burned house, laughing and crying, muttering something.
"I should have listened to Awang earlier..."
"Rat plague! There really is a rat plague!!"
"Damn you Lin Jianguo, I believed your lies! You deserve to die..."
…
A group of people walked up to Zhang Debiao. His son and daughter were crying and shouting while hugging his legs.
Zhang Debiao was facing the ruins, his mind completely confused.
In one night, the plague of rats destroyed everything.
Zhang Debiao felt that this was retribution!
My mother is gone, my wife is gone, my house is gone...
Why should we unite with Lin Jianguo?
Why don’t you listen to Awang’s advice?
These thoughts kept mixing together in Zhang Debiao's mind.
"It seems he has gone completely crazy! There is no hope for him."
After observing for a while, Lin Shuisheng also shook his head.
After leaving five kilograms of corn flour for Zhang Debiao's two children, they went to check on the situation of other disaster-stricken families in the village.
Time and resources are limited now, and they cannot stay in one household for too long.
Lin Huowang didn't say much during the whole process.
But I couldn't help but feel a little soft-hearted, especially when I saw the losses and damages in some villagers' homes that could have been avoided in advance.
However, because they firmly believed Lin Jianguo's words and refused to take measures to prevent the rat plague, they ended up with such a fate in vain.
"Awang, what's wrong with you?"
When they returned to the production team, Lin Shuisheng noticed that Lin Huowang was in a bad mood, so he asked about it in time.
"Uncle Shuisheng, what if we had tried harder yesterday?
Try to convince more villagers, or even call on other villagers to help those villagers who have not built rat-proof ditches to dig them.
Wouldn’t they have died and the house wouldn’t have burned down…”
Lin Huowang sighed and said.
"Oh! What was I thinking?
Awang, you are still too kind!
As the saying goes, good words can hardly persuade a damned person.
They should be responsible for their own lives.
We told them that there was a rat plague and that they needed to take precautions and how to prevent it.
They still don't listen, what the hell is this?
You are heading towards the underworld and are about to be written into the King of Hell's book of life and death. Who can you blame?
Besides, they often ridicule and laugh at you, and almost all of them stand on Lin Jianguo's side.
Listen to me! There is no disaster without casualties.
People like them should die so that our production team can become better and more united."
For Lin Shuisheng, he has been accustomed to seeing dead people since he was a child.
From the Anti-Japanese War to the War of Liberation, and then to the three years of natural disasters.
Every natural disaster or man-made disaster results in massive death toll.
In this large-scale rat plague, only a few people died in the entire Linjiagou Production Brigade, which is a blessing in disguise.
"That's right! We will do our best to save as many people as possible."
After hearing what Lin Shuisheng said, Lin Huowang felt relieved.
Time rolls forward. Compared with my previous life, my efforts have saved most people.
This is the Linjiagou production brigade!
Lin Huowang now also urgently wants to know the disaster situation of the other twenty or so production brigades in Hongxing Commune.
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