When Gu Aiguo led his men back to Huaihua Brigade from the commune, Liang Fugui and Widow Zhou were not in the team.
The punishment for the two men was announced. The commune revolutionary committee removed Liang Fugui's title of deputy team leader and sentenced the two to twenty years in prison at the Beidahuang Farm.
It just so happened that the farm over there was going to be developed, so they were asked to devote their extra energy to building the motherland. They set off in two days.
The two men were now being paraded through the streets with their hands tied behind their backs. The members of the commune were a hundred times more crazy than those in their brigade. They threw rotten vegetable stalks, stones, broken shoes, etc. on their heads, and some even poured feces on them.
Gu Aiguo felt creepy when he thought about that enthusiastic and passionate scene.
As soon as Gu Aiguo returned to Huaihua Brigade, he knocked on the broken iron basin hanging on the banyan tree and called everyone to a meeting.
Three things were announced at the meeting.
The first was to announce the commune's punishment of Liang Fugui and Widow Zhou, and to order their families to send them clothes and food as soon as possible if they wanted to.
The second thing is that Liang Xiaoman's position as scorekeeper has ended, and a new scorekeeper will be re-evaluated and elected in five days. The commune leaders will come to inspect the position, and the educational requirement is at least a junior high school diploma. Those who are interested should prepare quickly.
The third thing is that their brigade is going to hold a one-month ideological and political meeting, four hours a day, starting at five in the morning and ending at seven, and starting at seven in the evening and ending at nine.
What the commune leaders meant was that the ideological and political education in Huaihua Brigade was not solid, which was why such immoral things happened. They had to curb such things at the source, and ideological and political meetings were essential.
As soon as Gu Aiguo finished speaking, Liang Fugui's eldest son and second son hurried home, intending to pack two better sets of clothes for Liang Fugui and bring him some dry food.
Zhao Zhaodi's face was stern, completely different from her usual self, who always put Liang Fugui first. If you ask her how she feels now, she just wants to eat his blood and drink his flesh! Her family has yet to marry, and now, burdened by his stain, she will probably be single for the rest of her life.
Liang Xiaoman ran away crying. Without her glamorous job as a scorekeeper, she would have to work like everyone else, busy from morning till night, and getting tanned in a few days. The most important thing was her marriage. If things went wrong, she might end up as an old aunt, or marry a man whose wife had died, or an old widower.
Looking at my hands which are whiter and more tender than those of the other team members, I couldn't help but feel sad when I thought that soon these hands would be covered with thick calluses and tanned like dry tree bark like those of the other team members.
She put a lot of effort into getting this job, but she lost it after only two years.
Zhou Dabao looked at Gu Aiguo trembling in front of him. He was confused, his mind full of what he would do after his mother was gone, who would earn work points for him, and who would wash his clothes and cook for him.
Gu Aiguo sent someone to inform his five sisters early in the morning, but a day passed and none of his five sisters returned. They only brought a message: "Since Widow Zhou sold them, they have no mother and no family."
The educated youth became excited when they heard that the scorers were going to re-evaluate them, but they became disappointed when they thought that the cadres in the brigade had no chance to meet them.
Except for Wang Xiaomai, they all graduated from at least junior high school, and several of them graduated from high school. They were confident that they could do the job of scorer better than the people in the team, but although their household registration was moved here, they were not eligible for this job because they were not locals.
The other members complained bitterly when they heard about the ideological and political meetings held every morning and evening. Most of them were blind, and the thought of standing in the brigade headquarters' threshing ground for four hours every day, listening to words they didn't understand, made their scalps tingle. It was more painful than killing them.
"God damn it, Liang Fugui and Widow Zhou, you're killing me. I fall asleep every time I'm in a meeting. Tomorrow you must supervise me and pinch me if I try to doze off."
"Four hours a day means so much work is wasted. I haven't planted the private plot at home yet. I'm just waiting for the spring planting to be over so I can plant it quickly."
"Can our brigade still get piglets this year? If we can't raise them, how will we eat meat at the end of the year?"
No matter how much you complain, what is coming will come.
Sun Lanhua waited until everyone else had left before she approached Gu Aiguo and asked, "Captain, does the commune leadership have any plans for the deputy captain position?"
Gu Aiguo glanced at Sun Lanhua and shook his head. "He didn't say anything. He just said that he would make a decision after Liang Fugui and Widow Zhou's affairs were settled."
Sun Lanhua quickly asked, "Is the deputy team leader directly appointed by the commune leaders? Or is he elected by everyone through a vote?"
Gu Aiguo shook his head again, "The leader didn't tell anyone about it, so I don't know either."
Sun Lanhua thanked Gu Aiguo indifferently and left disappointed. She had thought that after Liang Fugui was defeated, the title of deputy captain would fall on her old man.
If Liang Fugui, the deputy team leader directly appointed by the commune leader, had not committed such a big mistake, the commune leader should not have the face to appoint the deputy team leader himself again. They should have voted.
Thinking of her family's popularity in the team, she felt that her old man had a pretty good chance of winning. Thinking of this, Sun Lanhua walked a little more relaxed.
Gu Aiguo returned home, took the water Liu Jinhua handed him, and drank it up in one gulp. He was really busy today.
"Is the meal ready?"
He only ate two sweet potatoes and a multi-grain steamed bun today. When he was hungry, he relied on drinking water. Now, water sloshes in his stomach every time he moves.
Liu Jinhua: "It's almost time, Ling'er is lighting the fire."
Gu Aiguo, "Tell her to prepare well and seize this opportunity. If she misses it again, she will have to work in the fields for the rest of her life."
She's already such a grown-up girl, if she still doesn't know what's good for her, he has nothing to say. Just follow her sisters-in-law to work in the fields!
Liu Jinhua nodded. Even if the old man didn't say anything, she would still force the girl to prepare well, so that it would not be in vain for them to send her to study until junior high school.
Being a scorekeeper is such an easy job with a few dollars of allowance every month. If you don't put your heart into it, you are hopeless.
Thinking of Liang Xiaoman leaving in tears just now, Liu Jinhua felt secretly happy again. It's what she deserved! As expected, if something is not yours, you will lose it even if you have it. You have to be upright in your life.
After hearing what her father-in-law and mother-in-law said, Mrs. Gu's eyes rolled around. It seemed that she had to curry favor with her sister-in-law. When her sister-in-law became the scorekeeper, wouldn't her sister-in-law have to turn a blind eye if she slacked off secretly?
Gu Sannai looked at Chen Qiangwei who was humming a little tune contentedly and said, "I didn't expect you to be so good."
They actually defeated Liang Fugui and Zhou Guafu. These two families will never be able to hold their heads up in the team again. But they deserved it. It was their fault for having evil intentions. It would have been glorious to work hard and earn work points, but they had to mess around.
Chen Qiangwei smiled calmly, "What are you talking about, Third Grandma? This was clearly done by Aunt Lanhua and the others. I have nothing to do with it."
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