At this point, that's a story of many years.

In a village near a small isolated county town far from Mincheng, a young man who had just turned 20 years old came one day, carrying a large wooden box and wearing a very ordinary short shirt.

When someone who went to the county seat to catch the market came back, he took him to the village and asked for a few copper plates.

Earlier, there was a special group of market catchers in the market in the county town, who bought a courtyard in the county town and claimed to be the sellers of the company.

The people who rushed to the market didn't know what the company was, but this company sold a lot of strange and good things.

Bright little mirrors, glass that large families can afford, a lamp oil called kerosene, and a wide blue cloth that is like the sea, and by the way, there are people who are in the county school when Mr. Enlightenment is taught, but he teaches some strange things, and the children like it.

The man who came back from the market talked to the young man who was returning by car, and the young man was very talkative, saying that the company had sent him to make a sales point in this big village, selling some cloth, collecting some pig bristles, or small items for women.

Along the way, I asked how the people who drove the car were doing, how the harvest was, who had money in the village, and how much they would receive a year.

seems to be a person from Mincheng, but the person who drives the car can easily chat with him, and scold a few words from time to time.

When he arrived in the village, he rented a house from a poor man in the local area, and the poor man could collect a few more copper plates a year, and sometimes the newcomer who claimed to be able to do carpentry and sell things also bought some wine to eat, anyway, there was a place to sleep in the rain on the four walls of the house.

This poor man is too lazy to be lazy, he is simply lazy to go home, he spends a few dollars as a short-term worker, and he likes to push a pai gow to gamble on the size or something. It is said that his hands are not very clean, and he likes to be a petty thief, and he will pour some yellow soup with a little money, and go to bed after drinking.

The newcomer wanted to talk to the poor man, but he was not speculative, and he lost interest after a few words.

Just in time for a family member to have a big belly, and the family died, so they took the house from the relatives of the family and moved away.

In less than three months, it became a small grocery store, and occasionally people from the county company came to deliver goods, and there was a half-baked doctor among the people who came, who could treat the people here, and the major illnesses could not be cured, and the minor illnesses were okay.

The most important thing is that this small grocery store also sells salt, and it is official salt and has a strip approved by the commercial official, and sometimes anyone who is really short of money can borrow some interest-free small money from here, and soon this grocery store has become the most lively place in the village.

The goods in the grocery store are very good, the only bad thing is the soy sauce, but this soy sauce is half cheaper than the usual one, I know that it is not a good thing but in order to sell well in the countryside, this soy sauce is salty, obviously this soy sauce is used in the private salt that has not been taxed, but it is also very popular.

There are a few wealthy families in the local area, and they also use a lot of things such as glass, oil lamps, and blue cloth. No matter how safe the glass window is, no one else dares to touch it, for fear that it will be broken, so the new person will come forward to give An.

Whoever has something to do on weekdays, the new person also goes to help, in the name of a carpenter, but the craftsmanship can only be said to be okay, but it can still be done by changing the rafters or something.

This has come and gone, and the people in the village have also gotten used to it. This person is usually generous, and the children can teach a few words when they are learning words.

It is said that such a character should not appear in the village, obviously a person who has seen the world like Mincheng. But this man did not like to deal with those rich people, and rarely went to the houses of those rich families except for buying and selling pig's bristles and goose feathers.

The man, on the contrary, was willing to deal with some tenant farmers and poor men, and could talk to each other, and gathered in the little grocery store to listen to the young man's stories in his spare time.

At first, there were two people, and then there were many. The mill's long-term laborers, tenants, short-term laborers, and occasionally three or two spicy women.

The more stories are told, most of them are stories from the beginning of the founding of the country, and many people are leisurely fascinated by the land ownership system of the new reclamation people at the beginning of the founding of the country.

Later, he talked about his company, the Mexican Party, and so on.

The miller's assessment of this man is that he really has brains and knows a lot, but he is also quite cunning. Many times he knows something, but he doesn't say it, but leads others to say it. When you talk to him, it's easy to hook up your temper, and you have to scold a few words every three or five days, not to scold him, of course, but to scold those who should be scolded.

After another half a year, there was a murder in the village, a large landowner was slashed with a sickle more than 20 times when he went out, and he died.

The man who killed was a newcomer who he didn't expect at all, a poor man from the same house he had lived in when he first came.

When the poor man had killed someone, he cut off his head, and when the sheriff came to arrest him, he cut two more people, and the poor man was killed on the spot.

That's a big deal in the village.

That night, the mill foremen, tenant farmers, and day laborers did not curse, but a group of people bought two knives of paper and burned them at the intersection.

I heard so many stories from young people, and these seven or eight people who listened to stories regularly told such a story.

"This man used to be very diligent. Originally, we all thought that he was a bachelor now, and there was no old man in the family, let alone a woman, let alone children, and this life was like this, maybe he would die one day. Isn't it a day of confusion? ”

"I thought it wasn't like that at all, but now I think there's a story in it. You've told us so many stories, and we've given you a story. ”

"When this man was diligent, he also had a younger sister. Later, he became the eldest brother with the neighboring village, and the neighboring village married her sister, and he married his brother-in-law's sister. That is to say, he is both his brother-in-law and his brother-in-law's brother-in-law. Isn't this also about saving some money, it's all about making do with life, and when someone dies in the future, someone will give a bowl of rice to eat and throw a paper money. ”

"The woman he married was good-looking, but he didn't get a fancy to it. He is a tenant, and people say that you marry a daughter-in-law and let me sleep for a night? This is not forced, you and I are willing, I don't let you sleep, and I don't say that you have to shout and kill, but you don't want to rent the land. ”

"Actually, it's all like this, and everyone is used to it."

So he went for three or five days, rented a piece of land and planted it. You say no, okay? Of course, the problem is that if you don't go, the land won't be rented to you, and no one said that you have to be forced to rent the land, right? ”

"There's nothing to be ashamed of, who hasn't had such a thing in their relatives? I've been used to it for 100 years. ”

"When the woman came back, the menstrual affair did not come. I think I'm pregnant, my woman's wife's tongue, said that after coming back, she also picked it out with her hands and washed it with water, but this thing is not guaranteed. ”

"When she was pregnant, his woman said, "You see, we don't want this first child, I will definitely give you a seed of yours." Coincidentally, she was pregnant, and she couldn't help it, so it was a coincidence. ”

"As a result, I found a stable woman, and made a hook to hook outward, and it bleeds without hooking. After bleeding for most of the day, he died. If a person dies, don't think about having another of his species. ”

"Then the man changed."

After burying the woman in the family, this person began to be lazy and lazy. Muttering day by day, talking to himself, and then he didn't plant much in the field, working part-time jobs all day long, eating if he had food, and stealing a radish if he didn't eat. ”

"It's going to have to be ...... Well, it's been eight years. ”

"Now that I think about it, it was foreshadowed. A few days ago, someone from his sister's village came and brought a message. His sister's child died of diphtheria, and his sister was bitten by a mad dog when she buried the child, and she also died. ”

"Now that I think about it, he was waiting for an opportunity, eight years. Not to mention pretending to be crazy and stupid, it just makes people think that he has lost his spirit, and no one will care that such a leper dog will take revenge. He and his sister grew up dependent on each other, and it is estimated that he is holding on to his last breath. ”

"Let's just kill people, the rich people are all related to each other, and his sister's life is not better, I'm sorry for his sister. Don't kill it, I'm sorry for my woman. ”

"This breath has lasted for eight years, and I guess he thought in his heart, and he lied to himself that he didn't want to take revenge, but he was afraid that his sister wouldn't be able to survive. Anyway, if he continues to live like this, he will definitely die before his sister, and when the soul sees him, the woman will be able to say why he didn't do it. Who thought that his sister was dead, and the other side was no longer vigilant, so he moved. ”

"Back then, it was not possible to do it, let people beat him, and the sheriff would arrest him and clean him up, whether he could come back alive or not was two different things. Besides, there are thugs in people's homes, even if they fight, they can afford to fight, even if the sheriff handles it impartially, at most, they will go to hard labor for two years each, and the thugs will come back with some money, but he can't. ”

"The matter of sleeping with the tenant's daughter-in-law is also a matter of your willingness from a legal point of view. From the perspective of national law, no one forced anyone, it was your own volition. If a woman dies, then you also find someone to hook the child out with a hook and die by yourself, and legally speaking, you can't blame others. ”

"As you said, the law is a tool for the rich to rule over the poor, and I think it makes sense when you say that. It sounds quite reasonable, but when you think about it, it's really unreasonable. ”

"What do you think he can do if he doesn't agree at the beginning? If you don't have land to plant, where can you go? To put it mildly, not to mention whether the city can accommodate him to have something to do, even if he goes to the city, there must be a fee, right? Besides, it's not allowed to move casually, he's not like you, don't say anything about the loose management in Mincheng, and the shopkeeper of your company has dealings with the big people in Mincheng, not to mention the road, salt can be sold, it's really different. ”

"Besides, the land is in the hands of others, and it is useless to reason. Logically speaking, everyone is reasonable, and it is not illegal, but is it right for you to say that it is not illegal? Whose law is this? Let's be reasonable, at the beginning, the national gold table said that the interest rent could not exceed how much, but the problem is that the rent is now 50%, you like to rent or not, I didn't force you to rent. ”

"Speaking of which, it is said that if you go to the capital, as long as you declare your situation, you can borrow an agricultural loan with the lowest interest. The question is, can we still abandon our families and run to the capital to borrow money? That being said, I don't know if there is any place now. ”

After listening to this story, the young man nodded, took out the notebook with the leather cover he carried with him and wrote something, took out another book, flipped through it, and said: "Yes, I won't tell a story today, I will read a passage of "Country, Law, and People" to everyone. The three shopkeepers of our company wrote it, which is very easy to understand, and it is not something difficult to understand. ”

From this day on, the nights at the grocery store are no longer just about telling stories, but about occasionally reading shallow pamphlets that promote hatred and injustice.

After the crowd dispersed that night, the new young man in the village wrote a line on a piece of paper that had been prepared for a year.

"Progress has been made. Apply for a portion of silver coins, a hand-cranked gin and improved long-staple cotton seeds, an iron honey centrifugal barrel, a portion of potatoes, squash and corn peanut seeds, and send a comrade who has practiced planting and breeding as soon as possible. If possible, please bring a few short guns for self-defense. Also, handing in the turnover and detailed bills for the previous quarter, I accidentally broke a bottle of kerosene, please deduct it from my work allowance. ”181129