Quincy's Quiet Contemplation Chapter 53

Everyone in Qipan Village can speak some political words, sing dozens of revolutionary songs, and carry out activities to cut the tail of capitalism. When it comes to reality, no one admits that they have ever exchanged cotton or cloth for food or sold it. Tofu, eggs, walnuts, and persimmons were not reported to others. Several meetings were held, but no one spoke at the meeting. Liu Xueren and Feng Xie were very anxious. Liu Xueren said: Why doesn’t this country produce a medicine that will make people’s hearts spit out secrets once they take it? ! One day, he came back from town with a few bottles of pills and told Feng Xie that the villagers should take them. Feng Xie asked what kind of medicine it was. He said don't worry about it and just promoted that people who take this medicine will tell the truth. Moreover, he gave each person a pill and carried a jug of water, asking them to take the pills and drink a sip of water in front of them. The villagers were very nervous, and most of them were discussing at home whether they should tell their story. However, before they could discuss it, their stomachs hurt and they had to go to the toilet. What came out turned out to be roundworms one by one. They came out and asked quietly in the alley. Everyone else has roundworms. When the meeting resumed, everyone still did not speak. Feng Xie called Liu Xueren out of the meeting and asked: What medicine did you take to eliminate the roundworms? ! Liu Xueren made a strong point and said, "It's just an anti-roundworm medicine. There are so many roundworms in the stomachs of people in Qipan Village that they can come out!" Feng Xie was so angry that he returned to the venue and waved everyone away. Liu Xueren had another sudden idea. He asked people in the village one by one to tell them what dreams they had had in the past seven days, claiming that he was conducting an investigation. After everyone said it, he wrote it down, and spent the whole night wondering what the dreams meant. He couldn't analyze it, so he came to Fenglou Town to look for me and asked: Do you think about it every day and dream about it at night? I said: That's not necessarily the case. He said: What does water represent? I said: According to the old saying, water represents wealth. He said: Where is the fire? I said: Fire represents prosperity. He said: What does it mean if your body is covered with lice? What does it mean if you step on Sh!t while walking? My parents have been dead for decades, and I dreamed that my father went out to get medicine again. What does it mean? There are also fights with people, holding in urine and being unable to find the toilet, wind blowing down trees, what is it when teeth fall out, what is it when a cat catches a mouse, what is it when you get married, and it is snowing in the sky, and there is something in the spring. I caught a fish, someone lent me my shoes, my clothes were suddenly torn, I burrowed into a stone, my intestines were visible through my belly, I gave birth to a child with no nose or eyes, I ate a nail, the sun turned red and hail fell, I was weaving. The mile shuttle is gone. He opened his notebook and talked endlessly. I said: If you can make the pigs, dogs, cats, and chickens in Qipan Village speak human language, every household will have no secrets. He said: I can't do this. I said: I can't understand it. He said: You can’t figure it out either? ! I said: Liu Xueren, let me tell you something: God is watching what people do! He said: What you said is right, God is watching.

But I really didn’t expect that Liu Xueren would use what I said to educate the villagers. Later, the tomb student told me that he went to Qipan Village to meet Liu Xueren and told him that my words were effective. The poplar trees in the village road all had eyes, some with three or four eyes, and some with ten or eight eyes. Then Liu Xueren scared the villagers: There are eyes on the poplar trees. This is the eye of heaven. Whoever does something shameful, God is watching! I laughed and said: As long as there are knots on the poplar trees, they will look like eyes. Tomb Sheng said: I have never seen the poplar trees in Qipan Village have eyes before. But just because you said that, the trees are really full of eyes!

However, no matter what Liu Xueren did, Qipan Village’s activities to cut the tail of capitalism were still difficult to make progress. Feng Xie said: We still have to kill the chicken to show the monkey!

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Killing the chicken to show the monkey, according to the custom, one has to choose a chicken among the landlords, rich, rebels and right-wingers, but only one family in the village is a landlord, that is, the nephew of the Cai Dong family who was killed by Commander Easton Kuang. The Cai Dong family is dead. He lost his family fortune, but died immediately after liberation, leaving behind a son who suffered from heart disease and had purple lips all year round. One rich farmer family was a seventy-eight-year-old man. One of his legs was so stiff that he could not curl up ten years ago. There is also a family who used to be teachers in a county middle school. They were sent back because they were labeled as rightists. They always walk with their heads down and cannot speak three sentences a day. These three households are really honest and can't find anyone else, right? Liu Xueren wrote down on paper the names of people in the village who had exchanged grain, done business, and gone out to do craft work. He asked Feng Xie to close his eyes and use a pen to stamp on the names. Whoever stamped on them was the one he stamped on. A woman named Ma Lichun. Ma Lichun is the most beautiful daughter-in-law in Qipan Village. She is very popular and never smiles or speaks to anyone. Moreover, Liu Xueren lives in the wing of her house. Liu Xueren said: Why did you poke her? ! Feng Xie also knew that Ma Lichun's problem was not serious, so he couldn't make up his mind for a moment. He took out a one-cent coin and said, "I'll toss it to you. If it comes out with the written side, she will be spared. If it comes up with the unwritten side, she will be spared." , that is her life. With one throw, it turned out to be a wordless side.