The three of them turned left and right and arrived at the gate of the Xu family. They called Xu Laowu and went to the team headquarters together.
Xie Yun's house and Xu Wumei's house are not far from each other, the straight-line distance is less than 100 meters, but if you actually walk there, it will take more than 200 meters.
The roads in the village are also bumpy dirt roads. There are protruding stones in some places and small sunken potholes in some places, but it’s no problem once you get used to it.
Not to mention Director Zhao was following behind with a flashlight.
When Xie Yun and the other two arrived, there were already quite a few people in the meeting room.
The sisters Wang Qingli, the parties involved, arrived early, and Xie Yun’s comrades from the training camp also arrived.
Xie Yun was very familiar with these people.
Xie Yun basically knew the other people as they were in the same team. Even if they were not familiar with each other and did not talk to each other normally, he roughly knew who this person was.
Those who came to the meeting were all the "iron girls" of Liushutun, and each of them was extremely capable.
In addition to the young people, there were two people who were a little older, one was nearly fifty years old, and the other was even older, with white hair, probably in her sixties, a grandmother's generation.
Some people may not be very familiar with the young man Xie Yun, but everyone in Liushu Village knows the deeds of these two people.
The woman, who was nearly fifty, was named Wang Huaqing. She was born in 1920. Her family was originally landlords and was quite wealthy in the late 1930s.
One day, Miss Wang Huaqing wanted to go to the market in town. Because she had bound feet, she had difficulty moving and had to take a sedan chair when she went out. As a result, when she arrived in town, she met Japanese soldiers, who smashed her sedan chair. Then, Wang Huaqing got out of the sedan chair, lifted her bound feet and ran away, running like a gust of wind.
No one knew what had happened that day, but the Japanese soldiers had no intention of killing her. Her two sedan bearers threw the sedan chair aside and ran away, but these two young bearers were not as fast as Wang Huaqing. They didn't come back until she had been home for a long time.
When Wang Huaqing returned home, she became angrier and angrier, thinking that her appearance as an escaper was very bad, so she instigated her father to fight the Japanese.
Landlord Wang loved his daughters very much. When he saw that his daughters were forced into this state and their feet were bleeding, and he didn't know what would happen when they went out in the future, he gritted his teeth and sent both of his sons out to join the army, and asked them to take money with them. He also organized a civilian armed force at home to fight the Japanese in the village.
Then, from landlord Wang to his two sons, everyone died. Landlord Wang's wife, unable to bear the blow, fell ill and died. Only Wang Huaqing, her eldest sister-in-law, and her son were left at home. The money was almost gone.
Later, her eldest sister-in-law remarried, leaving only her and her nephew.
When the class status was determined in 1950, the Wang family was classified as poor peasants.
Her family originally had a big house, and they had to be classified as rich peasants. Wang Huaqing made a prompt decision and donated the house to the village to be used as a primary school. Later, the aunt and niece lived in three inconspicuous adobe houses, just like other people in the village.
In 1956, her nephew was admitted to university and has lived in the provincial capital ever since. He is now married and has children there, and even the turmoil has not affected him. He has repeatedly tried to bring Wang Huaqing to live with him, but Wang Huaqing has refused.
She is now alone and makes a living by working. She is more capable than anyone else and is rated as a first-class laborer in the team.
She told others that it was hard to leave her hometown and that she couldn't adapt to the new environment at her age, but in fact, Wang Huaqing felt guilty. She always felt that she was responsible for the death of her father and brother and for the downfall of the Wang family.
So, she worked hard, saved money and sent her nephew to college, giving him a good life, while she herself stayed in the village, guarding her deceased family. She couldn't relax or be idle, otherwise she would think of the past and suffer sleepless nights.
Another old lady was called Zhou Dani. She was a genuine poor peasant. Her husband died early, and she raised four children on her own. Her eldest son went to the Northeast and never came back. Her two daughters were married, and her youngest son also had a wife and children. Everyone thought the old lady should relax, but she was still working on the front line in her sixties and was still a first-class laborer. She could walk several miles carrying a full basket of stones.
The old lady was also a kind-hearted and honest person. She was the type who would stand up for what she saw as injustice, and would even draw her sword to help.
Both of them are very prestigious female comrades in Liushutun.
Both of them were holding pipes in their hands.
When people are particularly tired or sad, they are more likely to develop the habit of smoking.
After everyone arrived, Director Yan announced the start of the meeting.
"Let me tell you all some good news. Qingli and Qinghong's housing plot has been approved. It's not very big, just three acres."
As soon as he finished speaking, Wang Huaqing smiled and said, "Well, you've set a precedent. In the past, applications for homesteads were always made by men, and we women had never applied before. And Zhang Guangzong actually approved it for you. Not bad, not bad."
Director Yan smiled and said, "He hesitated at first, so I asked him, 'Is the land collective? Are women part of the collective? Are Qingli and Qinghong members of our Liushutun Brigade? They have nowhere to live now. If you don't grant them housing plots, are you going to let them run off to the mountains and find a cave to become White-Haired Girls? If you, as the brigade leader, can't treat your members equally and fairly, then what's the point of being a brigade leader?'"
He then said to me, 'Aren't they still living at home?'
I mean, is that their home? Who has to pay rent to live in their own home? If Wang Qingxiang gets married and has children, do you believe An Fen and his wife can kick their two daughters out?
He actually said he didn't believe it!
What do you think of his brain? He doesn't even believe it!
Wang Huaqing said: "It's not that he doesn't believe it, he chooses not to believe it. If he believed it, he would have to approve the housing land and start this process. He thinks it's better not to believe it. That's why he said he doesn't believe it. How could he really not believe it? He's not stupid! Who is less clever than Zhang Guangzong?"
Xie Yun almost died of laughter.
When the team leader met Director Yan and Wang Hua for settlement, he met his rival. One said that a White-Haired Girl would appear under his management, and the other called him "old boy".
In fact, Wang Huaqing was about the same age as the team leader, who had once fought against the Japanese in the civilian armed forces under the landlord Wang.
After the death of Landlord Wang, he was the successor. During the civil war, he also protected all the villagers and no one was conscripted by the Nationalist army.
Director Yan smiled and said, "Sister Hua Qing is right. I thought so too. I told him at the time that if An Fen and his wife could push their daughter into the fire pit for 180 yuan, what else could he not do?
He knew it wasn't appropriate for Qingli and Qinghong to continue living at the Wang family's, but he felt he couldn't make the decision on his own. He later invited the branch secretary to discuss the matter. The secretary, a straightforward man, agreed to approve the land, saying that in the new society, women shouldn't be left without a livelihood. The brigade leadership team held a meeting, and everyone voted unanimously in favor of approving the housing plot for Qingli and Qinghong.
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