Quincy's Quiet Contemplation Chapter 32

Baihe was allocated six acres and sixty-six acres of river beach land to Zhang Gaogui's family. Zhang Gaogui was buried in the land. He measured it and found that the grave occupied one-third of the land. He asked the farmers' association to exchange land for his family, but no one changed it. Zhang Gaogui's wife heard about it. , proposed to exchange the land left for her, but Ma Sheng disagreed, saying that the land left for Zhang Gaogui's wife was a slope. How could the slope be exchanged for good land in the river beach? Ma Sheng did not agree to change because he wanted to make Shuanlao look bad because Shuanlao had Zhang Gaogui buried in that field. Bai He pestered Shuan Lao and said that if he couldn't change it, he would give him another three points of land. But after all the land is divided, where is the land left? Bai He scolded his son in front of the slave laborer: Bai Shi, you are so focused on being a deputy mayor that you won't even get a share of your father's land! Shuan Lao had no choice but to ask Zhang Gaogui's wife to level the grave. Zhang Gaogui's wife said: My family has given away so much land, and we can't even keep a grave? Shuan Lao said: I told you not to bury it there, but you insist on burying it. Now this land belongs to someone else's family, how come your family's grave occupies one-third of their land? ! Zhang Gaogui’s wife said: Then give him three points of my slope land! Bai He said: I am a good land, I don’t want the sloping land. Zhang Gaogui's wife shouted: Gao Gui, Gao Gui! Why do you want to die? Birds fly from the sky and cast shadows on the ground. When you die, you don’t even get a grave? ! Ma Sheng yelled: What is your name? Your family is a landlord! Zhang Gaogui's grave was eventually leveled, and only a stone was planted as a mark so that he could find his way during the Tomb-Sweeping Day memorial ceremony.

The land reform in Laocheng Village was over. Shuanlao and Ma Sheng went home and slept on pillows for three days. When I woke up, Ma Sheng told people in the alleyway: These peasant association cadres can tire people to death! I wonder if anyone makes spicy sausage soup? Bai He bought a pair of pig intestines from the market and made them at home, but Bai He closed the courtyard door again and was knocking on the door. Liu Bazi came to call Ma Sheng, saying that Xing Zulu and Xu Shun were fighting! Ma Sheng said: Go find Shuan Lao, he is the chief director! Liu Bazi said that Shuan Lao was at the scene and could not solve the problem. It was Shuan Lao who let the horse die. Ma Sheng said: Doesn’t he keep his word? ! But he still followed Liu Bazi.

The thing is that Xing Zulu was allocated four acres of river beach land and three acres of slope land, and Xu Shun was allocated five acres of river beach land and five acres of slope land. The land of the two families was close to each other. Xu Shun proposed to the farmers' association that he only had five acres of slope land, so he simply gave it to Xing. He asked Xing Helu to give him two pieces of land on the river beach. Shuan Lao obtained Xing Zhulu's consent, and the two families made adjustments, but after the adjustment, there was a conflict over a tree. This tree was a walnut tree, and it had just begun to bear fruit. Xu Shun went to pick walnuts, that is, walnuts that could reach half a cage. Xing Zulu also went to pick walnuts. Xu Shun said that when the land was given to him, the tree would belong to him. Xing Zulu said that now that the land belongs to me, the tree should belong to me. Shuan Lao went to mediate, but no matter how he tried to mediate, he was so angry that he said: Are you two still human beings? Xing Zulu said: I am wearing human skin, do you think I am human? Shuanlao said: Do you think human skin is easy to wear? Are you fighting over these walnuts? ! Xu Shun said: Shuanlao, I am a poor peasant, and as a peasant association cadre, you should protect the interests of poor peasants! Xing Zulu said: I am also a poor peasant! Xu Shun said: My father has poor peasants in his hands, and you became poor because you lost your family through prostitution and gambling. Xing Zulu rushed forward and punched Xu Shun. The two started to fight, but Shuan Lao couldn't persuade him to stop, so he just stood there and said, "Let's fight, let's fight!"

Ma Sheng left. When he asked why, he said to Shuan Lao, "Isn't this matter difficult to deal with?" ! Shuanlao said: How to deal with it? Ma Sheng said: Just wait! I went home and got an ax and chopped down the tree in front of Xing Zulu and Xu Shun. After three, seven and twenty-one cuts, the walnut tree was chopped down. Xing Zulu didn't say anything, and Xu Shun didn't say anything either. There was no quarrel or fight. But after the walnut tree was cut down, water flowed from the stump, and the water flowing out was red, like blood.

Bai He ate three meals in a row of spicy soup and fat sausage, and then plowed the ground and sown wheat seeds. After a rain, seedlings sprouted in other parts of the six-acre riverbank, and not a single seedling sprouted even in the leveled graveyard. I sowed wheat seeds again and poured a load of urine on them to add fertilizer, but still no seedlings emerged.