"He's enjoying himself here and doesn't want to leave." Li Xu smacked his lips, then explained, "I'm unhappy because the campaign is about to be rolled out across the country."
"You overestimate him. He's just a petty man who's only interested in wealth and fame. How can he compare to Liu Chan? As for the full-scale deployment, we've already been prepared for it, and we have countermeasures. You don't need to overthink it."
Since the Central Committee issued the "First Ten Articles", the programmatic document of the Four Cleanups Movement in May, many places have carried out pilot work on the Socialist Education Movement in accordance with the instructions.
Unlike the first batch of pilot sites such as Tang County, they do not have specialists, which means that this matter is the responsibility of local officials.
As grassroots leaders, some, like the leaders of Tang County, just get by with their work, while others want to gain merit through this.
This led to many violent incidents such as fights, beatings, forced kneeling, and even deaths.
In response to this phenomenon, the central government issued the "Ten Articles" document in July.
Unexpectedly, the issuance of this document made the situation worse.
Those who want to make a contribution will strike harder, while those who don't want to make a contribution will lie flatter.
Then the central leaders discovered this phenomenon after inspecting some places.
In September, the contents of the "Last Ten Articles" were modified and issued again.
One of them is quite important, saying that some grassroots leaders are practicing double-dealing, saying one thing in public and another in private.
Now the problem is serious. Not to mention people with discerning eyes, even those without discerning eyes can see that it is only a matter of time before this movement is fully implemented.
The leaders of Tang County also prepared for the worst and took a series of measures, such as speeding up the pace of settling accounts and dealing with loopholes that had not been fixed before.
Therefore, Liu Gang felt that there was no need to worry about this matter.
Li Xu nodded and said nothing more.
When the car drove out of the supply and marketing cooperative, we saw a group of people dragging several people who were tied up and parading them through the streets.
There was no change in Li Xu's expression, but Hu Yitong, who was sitting next to him, kept cursing.
This left him speechless. "Brother Yitong, you've been scolding me for over a month, aren't you tired yet?"
This parade takes place every day and has lasted for more than a month. Those paraded are from the five black categories, commonly known as landlords, rich people, counter-revolutionaries, bad elements, and rightists.
Actually, there is nothing we can do about it.
This activity is now being carried out everywhere, and Tang County has to do it.
However, the leaders of Tang County were sensible and did not kill them all with one blow. Instead, they screened the landlords and rich peasants, singled out those with good character and who had not done anything bad, and made a symbolic gesture, and then left them alone.
The rest were the ones who were seriously paraded through the streets. Slapping and being forced to kneel were commonplace, and they were not allowed to commit suicide.
Because the leaders were worried that if they died, people from higher up would come to investigate, and Tang County couldn't even find enough people to do the job...
Hu Yitong acted excited and replied, "When I was resting at home, I often went to scold these bad elements. I could scold them for most of the day and I didn't feel tired at all, let alone this."
Hearing this, Li Xu couldn't help but feel a chill in his heart.
I want to say something, but I don’t know where to start. In the end, I can only sigh from the bottom of my heart.
That night.
Li Xu had just finished his meal when he heard Sun Xiu say, "Xiao Xu, Xiao Feng's wife's grandfather passed away. You go over to see him tomorrow. We won't be going."
Li Xu paused while eating, raised his head and asked, "Is the grain distribution in the countryside today?"
"Um."
"Okay, I'll go there tomorrow morning."
A few months ago, Li Qingxi's grandfather divided the property among his sons, and since then, his health has been getting worse and worse.
Everyone originally thought that he would not survive the last month, but unexpectedly he was holding on to his last breath and refused to die.
Later, some people said that the old man wanted to wait until the grain was distributed so that he could leave more food for his children and grandchildren before he died.
It seems to be true now.
The next morning, Li Xu arrived at the Xiawan Brigade.
With the help of villagers, he found the Li family's residence.
When he walked into the main room and saw the scene inside, he couldn't help but stand there in a daze.
Isn’t it the slack season for farming now? Why are there only eleven people in the room?
And among them, Du Feng and his wife and Du Sen accounted for three.
Seeing him come in, four young men with white cloth tied around their bodies and white hats on their heads walked up to him and bowed to him.
Li Xu quickly helped them up, saying, "My condolences."
After the four of them returned to their seats, Li Xu whispered to Du Feng, who had come up to him, "Brother Feng, who is the gift money for?"
The reason he asked this was because he didn't see anyone keeping accounts in the room, nor did he see any account books on the table.
Du Feng did not answer, but pulled him out of the door, walked a distance, and then said, "Give the gift money to my father-in-law."
"Give it directly?"
"Um."
Hearing this answer, Li Xu was a little confused.
Although the gift money belongs to whoever it is given to, it belongs to that person.
But under normal circumstances, the accounts are recorded first and then divided later. This is the first time Li Xu has seen it being given directly.
After thinking about it, he asked his doubts.
Du Feng explained with a helpless look on his face, "My father-in-law had just passed away yesterday, and he and his brothers had a quarrel. Then he said he didn't want to be involved with these people anymore, so he decided on this matter."
"Ah?" Li Xu exclaimed, "Why are they arguing?"
"Before he died, the old man had said that if he could get the grain, he would divide it among his sons, and he even set the distribution ratio. Although my father-in-law got the smallest share, he still got something. However, his brothers refused to acknowledge it. They said that if he hadn't proposed dividing the family, the old man wouldn't have died, so he had no right to share the grain. Then my father-in-law started arguing with them."
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