The farmers who were preparing to pay for their documents to let the militia inspect a field were throwing farm tools and running from all sides. The children who had been waiting for a long time were laughing and flying this way, and the pickup truck was surrounded in a flash.
"President Gao didn’t eat, did he? I have zongzi here."
"Eat eggs! I have boiled eggs here!"
"President Gao, this is your son. City children are just different. They dress really well."
"Hello, folks, hello, classmates."
Fang Lexian pushed the door first and nodded to the enthusiasm, while smiling and introducing, "My wife Ruan Shimei directly called Amei, my son Yu ‘an’s nickname An ‘an. It’s very kind of you to make me embarrassed."
A woman in her thirties saw that Ruan Shimei seemed to be a little depressed and couldn’t help asking, "Is there something wrong with President Gao Amei? If not, go to the clinic and let Dr. Zhang have a look."
"carsick. She’s a little carsick. Just take a rest."
The headmaster, like the village head, priest and doctor, is the most respected person in the village. How can the militia let them block the headmaster at the entrance of the village and clap their hands? "Make way, and take the dumplings aside. The village head and priest are waiting to get a dinner for President Gao."
Follow the militia who trotted ahead to lead the way and drive into the village to meet more people.
The village chief is short and thin, in his fifties, wearing a Sam Browne belt and an American pistol. The priest is in his forties, without wearing a black robe, and there is a cross hanging on his chest. Two respected people show great welcome to the arrival of the headmaster’s family. Dr. Zhang is flirting with a village girl with a big braid and warmly invites them to the village for dinner.
I don’t know how many bowls of rice wine I drank, and I don’t know how Li and Life Day moved into the school dormitory.
When I woke up, the sun was setting, and my wife sat in a daze at the table as if she were playing and laughing with the village children outside.
"They can really drink one bowl after another. Oh, they haven’t been drunk for so many years. They have a headache."
Du Shimei turned around and said coldly, "Don’t you dare to drink if you haven’t been drunk in the liberated areas?"
If you are drunk, you will talk nonsense. If you leak something, you will be in danger of losing your head. I can’t dare to drink for those years. I hardly drank at all.
Fang Lexian scratched his head and said awkwardly, "Ah Mui’s past is the past. Don’t be good. Let’s get back together."
"Shou is dead, A Qing is dead, four uncles are dead, six uncles are dead … The people who drank our wedding banquet died and dreamed of them every day. How can I get back?"
Du Mei was so emotional that she burst into tears.
This is the life-and-death business. Fang Le first took a deep breath and clasped his wife’s hand and said, "The Amei war is so cruel. Their position is right. My position is as right as mine."
"What’s your position? You are a traitor!"
Here we go again. How bad it is to be heard by outsiders.
Fang Lexian stared at her eyes and asked, "How did Brother Feng die and be buried alive by one of our own? Because his grandfather and his father saved him more than 40 acres of land, he was your cousin and you grew up watching him until we met him, and he continued to support your family."
Is he a bad guy? Is he an enemy? No! Not only has he never done anything bad, but he has also helped the Viet Cong more than once, and he has even saved the district party committee’s memory. Chen Wenjiang ordered that a catty of public grain should be paid and a lot of money should be paid. How much can people give you when you want it? "
My cousin died unjustly, engaged in land reform in the liberated areas, and was killed like my cousin. Thousands of Du Mei’s heart was like a knife, and she kept crying.
Fang Lexian took a deep breath first and then said, "You asked me what my position is. My position is to let all people live a peaceful life like those villagers outside, without worrying about being caught saying the wrong thing, not to mention earning some money through hard work but becoming the object of repression."
Du Shimei choked with confidence. "That’s … that’s what happened after the deviation was corrected when the dough figurine was executed."
"Deviation is the end of a deviation?"
Most of the people sent to the South Ministry to carry out the lurks have a bloody feud with Fang Lexian. He hugged his wife tightly and cried, "I never told you that my family died before you crossed the alliance."
Du Shimei asked, "What?"
"My family used to be a river restaurant, where my father cooked and my mother was responsible for greeting the guests. Although the place was small and there were four tables, more than one guest could sit outside, but my food tasted good and my business was always good, not only for food and clothing, but also for me to read.
One day, a few guests came to the store. They sat at the table by the door to eat. My restaurant was not in a good position. Most of them were regular customers. My mother talked a lot and always liked to talk to the guests. Nothing happened that day. They left after eating.
A few days later, they came again. My mother chatted with them again. My father watched her chatting enthusiastically and simply cooked her own food. My mother didn’t notice that someone accidentally bumped into my father’s food behind her and spilled it. When a guest was helping them wipe oil stains, my father and my mother found that they had guns. "
"What happened later?"
"I came back from the outside a few days ago and found that they were bleeding in the shop. The murderer was a knife with many wounds … Later, I learned that my father found them with guns that afternoon because of my fortifications and went to find a neighbor to help, and the neighbor was in the police station.
Just that night, two of the people who went to the store for dinner were arrested by the police and confirmed that they had crossed the Union. A few days later, they were shot by the French and ran away. That was my parents’ informer, so … so it was a pain killer. "
It turned out that her parents-in-law died like this. Du Mei was silent for a long time before she asked, "You … you … how do you know?"
"The murderer was later caught, and he voluntarily confessed that he was not the only one who started it, but they organized revenge."
"Sorry about …"
Fang Le first helped her wipe her tears and said solemnly, "No, you said these things to tell you their position. They may be right, but on the whole, they are really wrong and badly wrong. What is the revolution to make everyone live a good life?"
How are the folks in Mangshan Village? You also saw that every family has enough to eat, chickens, ducks, pigs and sideline businesses. Children have a good income, and they have a place to see that there are not so many exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes, and they don’t pay any public grain. Life is much better than that of farmers in the liberated areas. It’s common in six villages and provinces. What’s the good day, but do you have to toss about it? "
"There are no exorbitant taxes and levies here, but Xining does not catch able-bodied men here."
"Then have you ever thought about what happened in Xining in the years of 55, 56 and 57 when there were not too many exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes, and what could be done to live and work in peace and contentment without grasping the able-bodied people?"
Fang Lexian asked a rhetorical question, pulling her to persuade and continued, "The reason is very simple. North Vietnam wants to overthrow the people sent by the Saigon government, pull teams in the past, engage in land reform, ambush the national army, and maintain the rule. In the end, it is the people who are unlucky."
Besides, does the exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous fees collect less than the national army? It’s just a different way to catch a strong man and solve the problem in the south. It’s hard to say who is right or wrong, who is just and who is unjust. "
"We are national unity and national independence"
The wife’s "poisoning" is too deep. This ideological work is hard to do. Fang Lexian sighed and patiently persuaded, "Is Amei’s national unification the same as two people living together? The social system in the north and the south have different lifestyles. I like the lifestyle of Soviet Russia. I like freedom to come to the north. How good it is to come to the south according to their own wishes as in 1954? Why do you have to get together?
Because of national independence, the French have long since left, and Americans can’t see what this place has come to do is to resist the expansion of the Soviet-Russian camp
It’s the same root. It’s too urgent. Why do you have to fight and kill? Who can make the people live a better life than the economy? Have you studied in North Vietnam? Are the farmers there better than the south? No, don’t say that you can’t compete with Mangshan Village. Even the farmers in the liberated areas are not as good as those in previous years, and they even starve to death.
Chapter two hundred and thirty-nine Mang Village
Compared with the rural Mangshan village in the liberated areas, it is a paradise.
Living at home is inseparable from rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and tea. When passing through Dishi, the "special husband" bought a lot of cars and back rows in the city. When he couldn’t stay in the dormitory, he found that there was a shop in the village. The shop opposite the village office (village department) was a big Chinese store. From the day of life to the price of fertilizers and pesticides, it was not more expensive than in the city.
The "special husband" is not the only person in the village who owns or can drive a car.
The youngest daughter of the village chief, who is in love with Dr. Zhang, pointed to the truck unloading guy in front and said proudly, "Nan Ge is my second brother-in-law, and the car shop is his home. If you want to take Ann to Dishi and President Gao doesn’t have time to send you, you can give him a lift."
Du Shimei was surprised and couldn’t help asking, "You … Your second sister married a Chinese?"
"What’s wrong with Chinese? Dr. Zhang is also Chinese."
Ruan Shilian felt that she didn’t look back at her like a city bumpkin. She asked in surprise, "Ah Mei, don’t you watch movies? You should have watched movies. Now who still pays attention to that? You can get married if you like. You have married in and married in the past. There are so many like my second sister and South elder brother."
The liberated areas are not even accessible, so how can we watch movies?
Du Shimei touched her nose without embarrassment and asked perfunctorily, "Does your brother-in-law often go to Dishi?"
"It’s not always to go to the gate of the village office at 5: 00 a.m. every day and leave on time, and come back at 11: 00 p.m. on time, whether it’s windy or rainy."
"What do you do every day?"
"His family wants to replenish onr’s stock and others want to go to the city to do small business. Otherwise, who will plant so many vegetables, raise chickens and ducks and sell so many eggs and ducks to? If you want to burn gas, you can’t ride back and forth in his car for nothing. One person has four things and four more. You and Ann are different from them. You don’t give money for the car, but you can sit in the front and don’t squeeze behind like them. "
You can also earn villagers a ride by buying goods. It’s like a big city bus every day. You have to be angry that Chinese capitalists really know how to do business.
From the store and the second floor building behind the store, we can see that her second brother-in-law’s family is definitely the richest man in the village, and her family is not simple. At lunch, the priest said that the village chief’s eldest son, that is, her eldest brother, seems to be a major battalion commander of the 3 rd Division of the Puppet Army. The troops stationed in Da Nang rarely come back at ordinary times.
From the way his father talks at the dinner table, the villagers’ attitude towards his father can tell what position his father has in the village, which is simply uncompromising
Unexpectedly, his family not only supported the puppet government in Saigon, but also married rich Chinese capitalists. Du Mei could not help but feel a burst of disgust and asked casually, "Where is your elder sister, Fourth Sister? Is your elder sister married?"
Ruan Shilian’s mood suddenly became a little depressed and she was silent for a long time before she whispered, "Elder sister died and her hometown was killed by Yue Meng. Eldest brother said that one day she would go back to her hometown to help her revenge."