Chapter 20 A Rat Shit (Catching Bugs) Ask her to write a letter of guarantee, then...
Chapter 20 A Rat Shit
Feng Laosan was taken away by the police.
The members couldn't help but talk about it.
"I never thought it would be him. How disgusting!"
"Well, I should have thought of it earlier. If I'm lazy and sloppy in my thirties or forties and can't find a wife, then I'm just going through a side business."
"Who can I blame for not being able to find a wife? It's just his mother. Who would marry a girl from a good family to him?"
"Forget about the good family. Even Lai Di's mother is not willing to marry Lai Di to the Feng family."
"Even if Lai Di's mother wants to sell her daughter, she has to get past the women's director and the secretary, tsk tsk..."
The villagers often get off topic while talking.
***
Maybe it was because there was pork hanging, or maybe it was because a gangster was caught, everyone's enthusiasm for work was high, and they finished planting the rice fields in just half a day in the afternoon.
During the remaining time, the team leader arranged people to clean up the corners, replenish water where necessary, and level the fields where necessary.
Anyway, everyone was exhausted after working for so long, so the team leader announced before dismissal: "Brother Guo, take your men to the team's pigpen and pick out two fat pigs. We'll slaughter them and eat the meat tomorrow morning!"
The village butcher, Brother Guo, beamed. "Okay," he said. "I'll call my eldest son over later, and we'll go pick some meat together. We'll let the pig feeder go hungry tonight, and we'll kill them and eat the meat tomorrow morning!"
"Great~"
For the members, nothing is better than eating meat.
"Also," the team leader gestured downward, glancing around at the members, "as everyone knows, the hooligan who peeped at women a while ago has been apprehended. Come to the team headquarters for a meeting tonight."
Just have a meeting. Now after work every day, I either have a meeting or study. Anyway, the brigade office is brighter than home, so it’s fine as long as it doesn’t interfere with work.
***
It was rare that they got off work at around four o'clock in the afternoon. Yan Jiuru followed everyone else and first returned the wheelbarrow to the warehouse.
Wang Chunling, the custodian, checked each item and put it into the warehouse. When he saw something particularly dirty, he said, "Why didn't you wash the mud off the car? It's all dry now. We won't need it next time, right?"
"Put those baskets outside to dry them out first."
"Don't put the hoe in the warehouse when it's wet. Let the wind dry it, otherwise it will rust."
Yan Jiuru glanced at him, especially the bones of his legs and feet. Surprisingly, the man's leg and foot bones were intact. In other words, it was not an acquired disability, but a congenital difference in leg length.
There is only about two centimeters of difference between his two legs. If he pays a little attention, his walking will not be affected much.
Yan Jiuru touched his chin. No wonder Cheng Shijie said he climbed the mountain very quickly.
However, this matter has already been reported, so it is not a good time to intervene.
He didn't stay long. After delivering the tricycle, he returned to pick up Chen Yin and her son.
***
Yan Jiuru picked up Zhuangzhuang upright and let him lie on his shoulders. He protected him with one hand and grabbed the heavy wooden barrel with the other hand to carry it himself.
Chen Yin carried her son's basket in one hand and an enamel basin filled with miscellaneous items in the other, and the family of three walked home as the setting sun shone on the ridge of the field.
“Oh, oh~”
Zhuangzhuang had been lying in the basket for a whole day and was already bored. Now he was lying on his father's shoulder, with a wide view, and he couldn't help looking around.
“Oh, oh oh!”
Chen Yin took a look and used her free hand to wipe the saliva from her son's body with a handkerchief. She saw him pull one arm out of the swaddling clothes and wave it around wildly, as if to remind others of his new discovery.
"I think Zhuangzhuang is also a naughty boy. Look, he can even free his arm by himself."
Yan Jiuru smiled when he heard this and said, "How can my son be so quiet? When he grows up, I will teach him martial arts and boxing!"
Chen Yin laughed at him, "Then you have to learn a few more moves from grandpa. I heard that old man's kick is quite powerful."
"That's it."
As she was talking, Ruyue came running over from the edge of the field not far away, carrying a small basket on her back, along with a few other little girls. She snatched the basket from her sister-in-law's hand and said, "Hold it for me, big brother, sister-in-law, I'm going back first~"
Three or five half-grown girls, carrying wild vegetables or firewood in their hands, ran to the village.
Yan Jiuru looked at his little sister with pigtails on her head, cloth shoes on her feet, and neatly dressed. She ran with a bounce up and down. Well, at least his efforts were not in vain.
***
When I got home, Aunt Yan and Grandma Yan had already prepared dinner.
Chen Yin is still breastfeeding, so she has a light taste. She has a low-salt crucian carp and Chinese cabbage soup that was served in advance. The rest of the dishes are the same as everyone else's: stir-fried red amaranth, stir-fried water spinach with bacon, a bowl of egg custard, cold cucumber salad, cold-cut pork liver, and one or two homemade pickles that are indispensable on a farmer's table.
Ruyue and the third brother Rushong caught the crucian carp using a trap in the small river near the village. In addition to five or six palm-sized crucian carps, there were also some small miscellaneous fish. If there were too few, they would just chop them up and feed them to the chickens.
The pig liver was something Yan Jiuru got the night before last when he took the time to go to the black market to exchange for meat.
Otherwise, if you do such tiring work for more than a month without eating enough, you will get exhausted.
The staple food is a bowl of mixed grain rice and a bowl of two-grain steamed buns.
The whole family consists of strong laborers and teenagers who can eat. Although there is a table full of food, by the end, only a few steamed buns are left and everything else has been eaten up.
After dinner, Chen Yin asked Ruyue to look after Zhuangzhuang while she went to clean up the kitchen and asked her mother-in-law and great-grandmother who cooked to take a rest.
Yan Jiuru helped wash the dishes. The water used to wash the pots and dishes, which did not contain much oil, was poured into the泔水袋 and then taken to be mixed with pig feed.
There is nothing wasted in a farmer's home.
Aunt Yan came over and said, "We'll use the stove in your room to cook first. It should be just right for sleeping at night, neither too hot nor too cold. Jiuru, don't forget to remove the stove ashes later."
Although it is summer and it is too hot to sleep on the kang at night, we still have to light a fire every few days. One reason is to warm the kang, and the other is to prevent insects from hiding in it.
When the kang was burned, everyone ran away from the smoke.
Yan Jiuru went outside, brought a basket, and returned with a shovel to shovel out the stove ash. This stuff had to be cleaned up promptly, otherwise it would easily clog the chimney and make it difficult to burn. Furthermore, wood ash was a good thing for farmers: it fertilized the fields, killed insects, cleaned dirt, and could be used to make soap. It had many uses.
Every family saves it.
"Cluck, cluck, cluck, cluck, cluck~" Grandma Yan was feeding the chickens.
Ruyue chopped up the grass she picked from the field, added some chopped small fish, and mixed it with bran. It was exactly what chickens and ducks loved to eat.
Grandpa Yan and Father Yan sat in the yard tidying up the farm tools. The hoe and the hatchet needed to be sharpened, and a few new baskets needed to be made. The broom was a little bald, so they cut some bamboo and made another one. As long as there was a desire to work, there was plenty of work for the farmers.
***
"Sizzle~"
The brigade's loudspeaker rang again. Their village had no electricity, so the loudspeaker was battery-powered. However, these batteries were very valuable and were only used when making notifications. They were not used at other times.
"Comrades, comrades, please come to the brigade headquarters for a meeting, please come to the large unit for a meeting..."
In front of the simple gate of the brigade, on a low earthen platform, Feng Laosan was handcuffed by the police and held there, with his head lowered and his legs still trembling slightly.
The captain started by saying, "As you all know, today our militia and the public security comrades from the commune arrested a hooligan who was peeping at women.
This person is Feng Laosan from our village."
"Now, let's let Public Security Wu from the police station tell everyone."
Public Security Chief Wu was very majestic and he treated Feng Lao San like a little chicken.
He saluted first: "Serve the people!"
He glared at the crowd and said, "Feng Laosan has confessed his illegal and criminal behavior. He has been sneaking around for a few years now, looking for opportunities to peek into women's restrooms and watch women breastfeeding. I won't go into detail about the specifics.
What I want to say here is that his hooliganism has already constituted a crime. He will be escorted to the commune tonight and will pay the corresponding price for his actions.
I hope everyone will take this as a warning. In addition, female comrades should also pay enough attention to this.
Finally, I wish the great leader Chairman Mao a long life! "
Seeing her son about to be taken away, Feng Laosan's mother Jinhua was not happy.
At first she was a little afraid of the police, but now she can’t care about it anymore. The third child is about to be arrested. Who can she rely on?
She squeezed forward, crying and howling, "Old Third, my Old Third, we are proletarians, the poorest peasants, no one can frame you."
The captain glared at him and said, "What nonsense! What does his crime have to do with whether he has property or is the poorest?
So what if you can act like a hooligan just because you’re poor?
You are the poorest, how dare you say that?
Others can earn eight work points if they can't earn ten in a day, but you two mother together can't even earn ten work points in a day!
The fact that you have food to eat is thanks to the new national policies, otherwise you would have starved to death in the past few years."
"Who wronged him?! They held him down at the scene and still wronged him. If they hadn't wanted to catch him in the act, they would have arrested him long ago. He committed a crime himself, so who can he blame?"
"Isn't it all because of you, the mother? You just do all kinds of mischief all day long. After being the eldest son, you were the second son, and now you're the third son and can't find a wife, so you're still single. How can you not go astray?"
"I think the Japanese bombs didn't destroy the Feng family, but you alone can wipe out the entire Feng family."
This is a serious statement, but no one thinks it is wrong when it comes to Jinhua. It is just perfect!
"What do you want? Don't want to stay in Xinghua Village anymore? Fine, the brigade will issue you a certificate certifying you as lazy and selfish. Go beg for food."
Jinhua pursed her lips and muttered, "Who's begging? I'm not begging. Who has extra food to give to outsiders?"
"If anyone does this to this old woman again, this will be a ready-made example!"
The captain originally thought that with Yan Jiuru's previous achievement of helping the county police catch thieves, he would have a chance to compete for the advanced brigade this year.
As a result, a hooligan appeared and couldn't hide it, so he would definitely be deducted points.
"One bad apple spoils the whole barrel!"
The team leader's eyes were sharp and his words were blunt. "Originally, we had certificates of merit from the province and the county, and we were sure to be recognized as an advanced collective. We could get more pesticides and fertilizers at that time." Now we can't count on that.
The captain didn't need to say anything else. The women in front of him just spat at Jinhua and beat her up.
"Captain, let her go begging. We can't have this kind of scourge in our village!"
"Yes, who knows, he might do something bad someday, and then the whole team will suffer."
"Beggar woman!"
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