Chapter 308: Dog-refusal and pairing up

A Hundred-Family Banquet tied together the two villages that were originally at daggers drawn.

The few people who followed Qian Youyu from Yuetang Village went back to the village and publicized the decision at the Hundred-Family Banquet. In Yuetang Village, Qian Youyu was the emperor, Qian Youyu was their clothing and food parent, and their hope. Qian Youyu's words were worth ten thousand words!

When the villagers heard it was Qian Youyu's decision, the voices that originally wanted to oppose it also fell silent. Everyone knew that in Yuetang Village, it was not scary to offend a thousand cadres, but offending half a Qian Youyu was a disaster. Qian Youyu could crush anyone in Yuetang Village economically, and could also crush any family spiritually.

All of this had stories to prove it.

There was once an outsider in Yuetang Village, surnamed Hu, a family of five who moved to Yuetang Village from a neighboring village during the land reform. Yuetang Village had a family temple, which enshrined a god passed down for generations. In those years, all places began to burn incense and worship Buddha again, so Qian Youyu called on all the villagers to worship and restore the incense, requiring every household to contribute money according to the number of people. The outsiders firmly refused, saying that the god enshrined in the family temple was the god of the Qian family, and it had nothing to do with their outsider surname. Spending money to worship someone else's god was meaningless.

Qian Youyu tried to persuade them with earnest words, saying that since your family had taken root in Yuetang Village, it had been two generations, so no matter what, you were a part of Yuetang Village. Besides the different surname, what else was not the same as the Qian family?

The grandfather from the other branch of the family stood up and started cursing. This man had been a down-and-out wretch back in the day, an idler named Hu Buli. He had pawned and sold the few acres of thin farmland left by his ancestors to others, and wandered from village to village as an itinerant doctor, scraping by on a meal here and a bite there.

By the time of the land reform, he belonged to the category of having no tiles on top and no land on the bottom, a typical destitute class. The opportunity had come, how could he let it go? Relying on a red-tasseled spear, he stabbed the landlord who bought his fields to death. With this performance, the working group regarded him as a treasure. You know, when attacking landlords, it was very difficult to mobilize the common people. Everyone was a fellow villager, and there was nothing evil about the landlord. Suddenly wanting to take a life, no one could do it.

Hu Buli had wandered in the rivers and lakes for many years, and his observation skills were sharper than ordinary people. He understood that this opportunity was once in a lifetime. So he was the first person to stand up and kill.

After he stabbed the landlord to death, the working group immediately arranged for him to be the vanguard captain of the land reform. With power in his hands, how could Hu Buli not perform? He led a few down-and-out people who were the same as him, and personally stabbed eight landlords in the surrounding villages to death.

Hu Buli was alone, and finally took a fancy to a landlord's concubine, who was beautiful and charming. Originally, he wanted to tie up the concubine and the landlord together, pull them to the peach forest, and stab them to death. But when they arrived at the peach forest, Hu Buli's heart moved, and he asked the landlord's concubine: "Do you want to die?"

The concubine was scared to death, originally closing her eyes to accept death, but now she seemed to see a glimmer of light to live. Naturally, she nodded like a chicken pecking at rice.

Hu Buli smiled gloomily and asked: "Marry me, are you willing?"

The concubine looked up and saw that Hu Buli looked ferocious, with a mouthful of buckteeth, a face like a knife, and deep eye sockets. At a glance, she knew he was a ruthless person. But living was better than anything else; as long as she didn't die, even if she had to marry a beast, she would nod without hesitation.

The concubine, with tears in her eyes, nodded hard. The landlord kneeling on the side looked up to the sky and sighed: "World affairs are like chess. Take care of yourself!" After speaking, he stretched his neck to accept death.

The landlord's words were very meaningful. The concubine was already pregnant at this time, but the time was short, and it couldn't be seen.

Hu Buli first begged the working group leader to release the landlord's wife, but the working group leader naturally refused. This man turned his gun and pointed it at his own throat and said: "If you don't release the person, I will die first."

The working group leader thought of his merit in following him, and he didn't want to kill more people, so he acquiesced to Hu Buli's request.

Hu Buli regarded it as a treasure, untied the concubine on the spot, kissed her in front of everyone, carried the concubine on his shoulder to the broken kiln, and without saying a word, cooked the raw rice into cooked rice.

Hu Buli married the landlord's concubine, and his class stance was not good, so naturally he couldn't continue to work with the working group. But the broken kiln was not a place to settle down after all, so he had to beg the working group leader again. The working group leader thought of settling him in the village, but the whole village disagreed, saying that he had killed people until his eyes were red, and he might kill all the class brothers one day.

The working group leader was helpless. It happened that Yuetang Village also had a landlord. The landlord ran away before the land reform, leaving behind an ancestral house, so he assigned Hu Buli to Yuetang Village, becoming the only outsider in the Qian family clan of Yuetang Village.

Hu Buli arrived in Yuetang Village, thinking of cutting himself off from his past, so he changed his surname and followed his mother who had been dead for many years, surnamed Gou. His name was Gou Buli. The villagers called him "Dog-refusal".

Dog-refusal's wife gave birth to her first son in the ninth month, named Gou Butong. The name was taken by the landlord's concubine, and she insisted on using this name. Only the concubine understood this matter; the child was the son of the landlord who was stabbed to death by the spear, and taking this name was to tell herself that the son was very different from the Gou family.

"Dog-refusal" relied on the prestige of his land reform in the past and wanted to suppress Qian Youyu, so he scolded him, and even took out the red-tasseled spear from behind the door, wanting to stab Qian Youyu to death.

Qian Youyu was naturally not afraid. He had plenty of ways to deal with such a rascal.

So with one sentence, he dismissed Dog-refusal's son from the construction team, and the next day, he dismissed his daughter-in-law. Dog-refusal's daughter-in-law originally cooked for the construction team and bought vegetables, so the oil and water were naturally abundant. Now, the two of them were swept out of the construction team at the same time, which was equivalent to the sky falling.

This was not the most powerful part. The powerful part was that Qian Youyu said that anyone who associated with the Gou family would be dismissed from the construction team.

In this way, the Gou family died out in Yuetang Village. First, the whole village looked at their family and would avoid them from afar, and then the vegetables in their vegetable garden were either eaten by cows or pulled out by people, and they all withered in the sun. Then the chickens and ducks raised at home would disappear for no reason, or simply be exposed in the wild.

Dog-refusal was still calm and ignored it. It wasn't until the old landlord's wife drank a bottle of pesticide and lay stiff in the house, and then the daughter-in-law abandoned her son and left with Qian Youyu's engineering team alone, that he panicked and collapsed. He wanted to beg Qian Youyu, but Qian Youyu ignored him. He had to learn from the old woman and sent himself to the underworld with a bottle of pesticide.

The Gou family was a living example! The people of Yuetang Village all understood that Qian Youyu was capable and could lead everyone not to suffer losses. The person who pulled vegetables and poisoned chickens back then was not Qian Youyu, and Qian Youyu did not instruct anyone to do these low-level things; they were all done spontaneously by the villagers. When Qian Youyu was about to be stabbed to death by Dog-refusal with a spear, the whole village stood together in hatred.

Therefore, when Qian Youyu wanted to take the houses on the agricultural trade street of Suxi Town to exchange for the land of Laoyingzui Village, no one had any objections. Instead, someone proposed a new idea, saying that it would be better for Yuetang Village to pair up with Laoyingzui Village, and every household would simply recognize a relative.

This proposal was quickly responded to. On the third day, the people of Yuetang Village came to Laoyingzui Village, strolled around the village, and looked for families to pair up with.

Qian Youyu naturally paired up with Yue Bai's family.

The families who fought at the construction site earlier had already known each other, so they paired up first.

As soon as the pairing activity was launched, Qian Youyu put forward a new idea, saying that every family that paired up could have a stall in the agricultural trade market, his construction company would guarantee it, and they could get a loan from the bank, and each family could receive 10,000 yuan of business capital.

Every household paired up, and finally only Zhao Dequan's family was left, and no family in Yuetang Village was willing to pair up with his family.

Zhao Dequan came to me for help with a sad face.

"Town Mayor Chen, the people of Yuetang Village have no vision. I am a village cadre, why is no one willing to pair up with me?"

I laughed: "You are a cadre, of course, only a cadre can pair up with you."

"Old Qian, that son of a bitch, found my sister-in-law Yue Bai to pair up with. He is a broken boss, and my sister-in-law is a state cadre." Zhao Dequan sneered sarcastically: "He is not afraid of climbing high?"

"This broken boss is much more carefree than a cadre," I said: "Whether it's climbing high or not, as long as your sister-in-law is willing, what does it have to do with you?"

Zhao Dequan smiled awkwardly, touched his thick hair, and smiled bitterly: "I can't be the only family that didn't pair up!"

"I can't force this!" I sighed: "Have you ever thought about why everyone doesn't want to pair up with you?"

"I think hair!" Zhao Dequan cursed without restraint: "These sons of bitches, don't they think, without me, Old Zhao, they would still pair up, pair up a fart."

I called Qian Youyu over and asked him to think of a way.

Qian Youyu touched his head for a long time before spitting out a sentence: "How about, Village Chief Zhao pairs up with the old Gou family."

The story of Dog-refusal was known to everyone in the surrounding ten miles and eight villages. Although Dog-refusal had long since rotted into a lump of mud, his murder was still used by some women to scare children.

Zhao Dequan thought for a long time before squeezing a sentence out of his teeth: "Fine, it's better than not having a pair." He went to find the son of the old Gou family happily.

Who knew that Gou Butong was unwilling, saying that Zhao Dequan was not loyal, and ran faster than a rabbit when something happened, and pairing up with him would make things worse.

It was Qian Youyu who came forward, saying that from now on, as long as the old Gou family paired up with Zhao Dequan's family, his wife would immediately return home, and the Gou family would enjoy all the treatment of the whole village.

This matter came to a successful conclusion. The two villages paired up and were relatives from then on, visiting each other according to the customs of relatives. It was the first time that a large number of outsiders appeared since the opening of Laoyingzui.

Seeing the situation of turning swords into silk, I was naturally happy. Just when I was proud, I suddenly received a notice from the county, asking me and Guo Wei to go to the city to attend the Three-Level Cadre Conference.

Only then did I come back to my senses. Guo Wei hadn't contacted me for a while since he went to Hengyue City, and I didn't know how he was doing.

Now that the meeting was about to start, without him, I really didn't know how to explain it. ===== CHAPTER 309 =====