Chapter 6 Villager Meeting
After this commotion, in the small mountain village where it was only three o'clock in the morning, most people's homes now have lights on.
About ten minutes have passed since the discovery, and all the men in the village got up and started chasing him.
Everyone is holding a flashlight and various things in their hands, including hoes, shovels, and poles.
Since Zhang An was nourished by space, his health is much better than before.
Carrying a stick, he walked quickly on the road, and soon he caught up with the crowd.
Because Changqing Village is surrounded by a large river, if you want to run, you can only leave the village from the bridge.
You can also run towards the mountain behind the village, but running towards the mountain is courting death.
Dense trees blocked the way, and the road was not wide. With a slow-tempered old buffalo, he would definitely not be able to outrun the people behind him.
Zhang An looked along the light and saw three figures running in front of him. Good guys, a gang committed a crime.
On the opposite side, I saw a group of people chasing after me. I was so anxious that I kept whipping the old cow on the buttocks.
Originally, Lao Niu was quite docile, but he couldn't help being beaten all the time.
In the end, Lao Niu was sore from being beaten that he jumped forward with jealousy and ran forward wildly.
The person holding the rope couldn't hold on. If he hadn't let go urgently, he would have been dragged on the ground by the cow at this moment.
When several people saw this, they knew that they could not take the cow with them, so the three of them scattered and ran in three different directions in the woods.
This group of people is the most outrageous person Zhang An has ever heard of. Others have discovered that you stole the cow, and you were chased for so long with the cow.
Typically asking for money rather than life, if the big buffalo hadn't been beaten impatiently by them in the end and lost its temper, they wouldn't have given up.
If you were caught by the police station, the worst possible outcome would be a prison sentence, and you would still have public food to eat, but at least you would still be alive.
If you want to be caught by this group of people in the mountains, you will have to miss a few parts no matter what.
Not to mention more, your legs were broken first.
In Zhang An's memory, a few years ago, people from the Miao village next door had their pigs stolen, and were chased from dusk to dawn. Even if you left the pig and ran away, others would still chase you.
The stockade was full of seedlings. After catching someone, they would cut off their hands and feet on the spot and hang them at the gate of the stockade.
I will hang it like bacon for two days without beating you to death.
If the police station hadn’t been dispatched in the end, he might have been hung to death.
So stealing in the mountains is really a gamble with your life.
But it’s not surprising that this group of people are basically not normal people. They are either lazy and lazy, or they are bad gamblers who have separated their wives and children.
After calming down the furious buffalo at the head of the village, everyone returned to the village, but most of them probably couldn't sleep either.
Zhang An followed his father back home, and his mother Wang Fang breathed a sigh of relief in the main room.
Because it is dangerous to chase such a person like this.
Seeing that the father and son were back, she felt relieved.
Zhang An was not affected at all and fell asleep when he returned to the room.
When I woke up it was already bright.
After lunch, I heard the big loudspeaker in the village start to announce: Every household is asked to send someone to the sun drying field to hold a village meeting. . . .
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I called back and forth many times, and it took me more than ten minutes to stop.
Zhang An had not heard of this happening for a long time. In the past few years, he would only use it to notify the village of important events.
Nothing else, this thing is too loud. As long as it sounds, it can be heard not only from the beginning of the village to the end of the village, but also in the village next door. However, as conditions improved in later generations, when families in the village held banquets, they would often use it to notify people that it was time to come to the table for dinner.
Because whenever a banquet is held in the village, it will usually be held on the grain drying ground in front of the village hall. It is very large, and it is not a problem to place thirty or forty tables casually.
In Changqing, when village meetings are held in the village, men usually go. Unless the man in the family is not at home, the wives of each family will go.
After hearing the announcement from the loudspeaker, Zhang Jianguo got up and went out, bringing a bench with him.
No one knows how long it will take. If it takes a long time, it will be a bit of a wait.
Zhang An secretly guessed that it must be related to the bandits entering the village last night, and he happened to have nothing to do and followed him to listen.
After arriving at the grain drying field, after waiting for seven or eight minutes, the old village chief Zhang Jianwen saw that most of the people had arrived, and there was no need to call them by name, because the neighbors could tell who was there just by looking at them. Coming.
Even if there are a few families who may have something to do and no one is at home, it doesn’t matter if they don’t come. When the time comes, the neighbors next to them can just talk to them privately.
The village chief, Uncle Zhang, is a man in his fifties. He served as a soldier when he was young. When he came back, he could not change his job to the city due to household registration issues, so he returned to the village.
A few years later, when the Changqing brigade was renamed Changqing Village, after the brigade captain retired, everyone elected him to be the village chief.
As the saying goes, good iron cannot be hammered into nails, and good men cannot be soldiers.
I heard from the old man that when he was young, Uncle Zhang was just a fool, disobedient and fooling around.
Later, Mr. Zhang was sent to the army to stay for a few years. When he came back, he became a different person.
Uncle Zhang, who had no manners in the village before, now knows how to respect the elderly and care for the young after he comes back, and actively helps anyone who has something to do.
At the beginning, many people thought it was just a pretense.
But as the days passed, it was as if I had formed a habit, and I continued to help the people in the village.
As time goes by, people's hearts are revealed, and everyone can see clearly that no one can pretend to be like this for a day or two, but he can't stay like this for several years.
So there was a trend in the village. Any young man in the village who looked like a second-rate boy was sent to the army.
So later when everyone chose him for the village chief, they all chose him.
After becoming the village chief, he led the villagers to dig ditches for the rice fields and dig out the village's mountain roads.
So now Changqing’s Datian Bazi has a good harvest, and thanks to this, the road out of the village in Changqing used to be a little more than one meter wide, and now it can pass two carriages.
It is also because of the efforts of the old village chief that although the villagers in Changqing are not very rich, they are no longer hungry. From the beginning they ate corn rice to all the rice in recent years. The rice is gone.
"Everyone, old and young, also knows that last night, the cattle of Li Heping's family in our village were taken away by robbers. Finally, with everyone's help, they found them back. I would like to thank you all. We work together to help those around us
The main purpose of today's meeting is to tell you one thing. It turns out that we at Changqing have people keeping watch at night, and we guard the animals on the mountain when the corn is almost ripe.
But the robbers who have not come for so many years have come last night. Since there is a first time, no one knows whether there will be a second time. Therefore, starting from tonight, according to each village group, At first, one person from each household and a group would watch for one night.
That's it. If you have any opinions, you can express them now and discuss them collectively. ”
Everyone actually had a hunch when the village chief said this.
And everyone is not opposed to the vigil. From 12pm to 5am, there are ten people in each group, and everyone Let's chat and take a walk around the village before dawn.
So no one has any opinions, and everyone agrees.
"Since everyone has no objections, let's start tonight. At the beginning of a group, everyone goes back to charge the batteries of their flashlights at home. If there is something wrong, they can find someone else to change them privately.
Also, I would like to remind everyone that you should also wear an ear when you sleep at night and listen to the sounds by yourself. Don't be like Li Heping's family. Their cattle were taken away and they were still dreaming.
If Grandpa Zhang Er hadn’t seen it yesterday, I’m afraid he wouldn’t have been able to cry today. Okay, let’s go and get busy. Don’t forget the people keeping watch tonight. ”
(End of this chapter)