The summer of July is not the hottest time of the year for Jiangnan City, which is close to the coast and has significant continental climate characteristics, but it is definitely not a cool month. If I use two words to describe it,
That is: hot and dry.
Yes, the sun is like a promiscuous woman, showing her passion to every passerby all the time.
And sometimes the wind is like blowing from an oven, it's very hot and there's no coolness at all.
In such weather, under the influence of the sun and wind, people's hearts are as easy to float as dust, and then some unexpected things happen.
In Jiang'an Village, Jiang'an County, a small county in the eastern part of Jiangnan Province, the atmosphere today was a little different from the past.
Although they are both in Jiangnan Province, this is a poor mountainous area in the east. Compared with central cities such as Jiangnan City, the economic level here seems to have remained at the early 1990s. Due to this restriction, the culture, education and other aspects are also
Quite backward.
Some people compare Jiang'an County to the slums in Jiangnan, and Jiang'an Village is the slums in Jiang'an County, which can be seen from this.
Despite this, Jiang'an Village is not an unknown place. On the contrary, Jiang'an Village is quite famous in Jiangnan Province and even the whole country. Because it is surrounded by mountains and the folk customs have always been strong. Because it is poor and closed, everyone has nothing to rely on.
Put aside worries, you can fight for life and fight for survival. It has always been the birthplace of struggle.
Whether in previous generations or in modern times, this village is a headache for those in power. Fights often break out in order to survive. At worst, it is a rebellion, at best, it is an uprising. In short, the people here are not good.
Provoking, being brave and fighting, unwilling to compromise.
But because of this, it has become one of the birthplaces of the Red Army in modern times. It has produced anti-Japanese war heroes and several generals, and it is quite famous. There is also a Revolutionary Memorial Hall in the center of Jiang'an Village, which displays some traces of these people.
, it can be regarded as an attraction. It also attracts many red tour groups organized from other places every year, making a small contribution to the local fiscal revenue.
Compared with the past, the villagers in Jiang'an Village today seem a little impatient. Many people are walking on the road in a hurry, without the leisurely atmosphere of the past.
In a farmhouse to the west of Jiang'an Village, a man wearing a coarse cloth coat and a pair of People's Liberation Army shoes on his feet heard a woman with a standard strong village woman's figure and yelled: "What? The village chief took our last piece
The land was sold?!”
The woman with an angry face nodded and said: "It's absolutely true! It was Lao Liu who told me. You know Lao Liu is not a big talker! What should we do now? Many people in our village have shares in that piece of land, and there is no cultivated land.
How will we live in the future?"
The man raised his thick eyebrows and said angrily: "Damn it, there are so many people from every household of ours, we all go to the capital to petition together!"
The woman shook her head and said: "It's useless. Since the land was secretly sold in the village, how many times have we petitioned, in the county, the city, the province, and the capital! Which time has it worked?! Either we were intercepted halfway or we met.
Those officials coaxed us to come back and stopped talking to us! Lao Zhang next door sold his house to pay for his petition. Two or three years have passed and he has not brought back any news! The child’s father, what are you still doing?
Is it useful to petition by letter?”
The man asked in confusion: "Are all those high-ranking officials just like those bastards like the village chief, accepting money from developers?"
The woman said: "I don't know about that. Anyway, you have to know that petitioning is useless. In the past few years, the land in our village has been sold one by one, and now this last piece of land was also sold the day before yesterday.
I don’t know what to do either!”
The man stood up quickly and rushed out the door.
"Dad, what are you going to do?" the woman asked anxiously.
"Go and argue with the village chief!" the man said without looking back.
On the way, the man suddenly noticed that many people were also rushing towards the village committee. After asking, he realized that everyone had the same idea: go to the village chief to argue!
So we walked together, and we exchanged words with each other along the way. We became very angry during the conversation, and we became even more determined that we would never let the last piece of land be sold like this!
Similar scenes happened in many families and on the roads. In just half a day, hundreds of people in the village spontaneously went to the center of Jiang'an Village - a majestic red five-story building next to the Revolutionary Memorial Hall - the village committee.
The location of the meeting.
The entrance of the village committee building.
Zhang Xiaosheng was eating melon seeds and watching TV. An island country movie was being shown inside, which made him feel very happy.
Working as a janitor in the village committee building is an ideal career for many villagers.
There weren't many things to do at first, just letting people and cars with work licenses pass, saluting village leaders when they saw them, imitating the soldiers on TV when they saw the leader, and occasionally helping to pick up some packages and newspapers. That was it for the whole day.
It's past.
The salary is really good. Thanks to the leaders of the village, in addition to food and accommodation, you can also get a salary of more than 2,000 yuan. This is much better than farming in the village and working in the city!
And in addition to these, some people who want to inquire about the village leaders' affairs during working hours and work with them should always be given some benefits? At least they can collect a cigarette, and when they are good, they can also receive a small red envelope!
I remember the last time those people who drove a coffin-shaped car seemed to have asked the developers of Rolls-Royce cars to come over. They seemed to have negotiated some project, and they gave themselves a big red envelope. After I went back and opened it, I found that there was a whole package inside.
Thousand yuan! I was so happy that I couldn’t sleep that night and kept thinking about building a new house next year.
Well, if the village chief hadn't been the brother-in-law of his aunt's cousin's second aunt, even if I had given him a few more soft-shelled Chinese cigarettes, I would never have gotten this good position!
Zhang Xiaosheng was rejoicing happily when he suddenly noticed a lot of people approaching on the road to the left of the building.
There were probably more than a dozen men and women! And some new faces kept appearing behind them. That one was Lao Chen who lived in the east, that was Aunt Lin in the west, and old man Zhang from next door was also here!
What's going on?!
Zhang Xiaosheng realized that something unusual might have happened.
He immediately called over two men in security uniforms who were also distant relatives of the village chief. He pointed to the outside and asked them to guard next to the big iron gate. He also pinned it on his waist and never used it.
The iron rod was also taken out.
Finally, those people came outside the iron gate.
"What are you doing? Don't you know this is the village committee?" Zhang Xiaosheng suppressed the tension in his heart and shouted.
"He's just here for the village committee! Xiaosheng, call the village chief out quickly, or I'll break down this broken door!" A tall man said angrily.
Another woman in red clothes next to her also said: "That's right! If we don't give our land back, I won't leave today!"
"Yes, yes! Call him out quickly!" Many echoes came from behind, and without exception they all had firm attitudes and angry expressions.
When Zhang Xiaosheng saw this situation, he knew that he couldn't get rid of it with just a few words. He quickly asked the two security guards around him to stabilize them first, and ran towards the building quickly. (To be continued...)
