Quincy's Quiet Contemplation Chapter 28

When the measurement reached the end of the field, Ma Sheng stood in front of the stone tablet and said: Shuanlao, what is written on it? Shuan Lao said: "I dare to take the stone from Mount Tai." Ma Sheng said: Who are you blocking? If the Peasants Association comes to take a look, do you dare to accept it? ! He kicked down the stone monument with his feet and smashed it into pieces with the hammer he brought to drive the boundary stakes. Bai Tu said: It took ten oceans to transport this stele from Beishan! Ma Sheng asked: Is this land yours? Bai Tu said: It belongs to Wang Caidong's family. Ma Sheng said: Do you want to own land? Bai Tu said: I can only dream about it. Ma Sheng said: Then shut your mouth!

When it was dark, Bai Tu went back and told Wang Caidong about the farmer's association measuring thirty acres of land. Wang Caidong was eating in the yard with a bowl in his hand. He didn't say anything after hearing this. He put down the bowl and went to sleep. Yu Zhuo came out of the kitchen and said to Bai Tu: Don't tell him about the village, he knows everything.

Wang Caidong learned in the afternoon that the Farmers Association was surveying his family's land and smashed the monument of Taishan Shigandang. He didn't care whether the monument was smashed or not. What he cared about was what the next step of the Farmers Association's policies would be after the land was measured. , I heard from Yuzhuo that Baihe's wife was ill again and needed Chinese medicine, so I took the casserole for boiling medicine and went to Baihe's house to check on her health. The custom in Laocheng Village is that you cannot give away casseroles for boiling medicine. Giving away casseroles is equivalent to giving away illness, so you must borrow them yourself. Wang Caidong put the casserole under the tree in front of Bai He's house, and went to Bai He's house, but Bai He was not there. Instead, people from the village of Bai Shi's uncle's family came to the house, and asked how many years Bai He's wife and two children had stayed at her parents' house. . Baihe's wife asked Cha what he was doing. The man said, their hometown is determining class status. How many years have you three worked as long-term workers? Baihe's wife became impatient and said: I am my father's and mother's biological daughter. When my daughter returns to her parents' home, she will work long-term? ! The two sides started to argue, and Wang Caidong couldn't wait any longer and said: I heard that you are sick again? Baihe's wife groped her chest with her hands, coughing, coughing, until she couldn't breathe out. Wang Caidong said: I put the medicine casserole under the tree in front of the door. You can go get it later.

That night, Wang Caidong didn't sleep again. He sat on the kang and talked alone. Yuhuan had already fallen asleep. He pushed her to wake up and go cook. Yuhuan asked her what to cook in the middle of the night. He said that his father and mother When he came back, he sat on the cabinet lid. When Jade bracelet fell asleep again, he woke him up again and said that someone was digging a hole in the wall of the back room. Jade bracelet got off the kang to see if there was any hole there. After returning to the kang, Wang Caidong fell asleep, and Yuhuan was no longer sleepy. He kept listening to mice chewing on the box for the rest of the night.

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