Chapter 5 Waistboard and Brick Kiln
The reason why the village chief became the village chief was not because he sent rice, flour, grain and oil to every house during the voting, but because there were many people in his family.
When they heard that the village chief had been beaten, a large group of young and old men living under the same roof came and blocked the alley. Even the two officials from the village were squeezed out of sight.
What hoe, what dung fork, what red tassel gun...
However, the second brother was able to carry the tripod and removed the two wooden doors of the village chief's house. Like a bulldozer, he pushed a large group of people out of the yard alone.
Just then.
Bang!
After a muffled sound, the noisy scene suddenly became quiet.
I saw the old party secretary, who was rarely in charge of affairs in the village but was highly respected, holding a Hanyang-made pole, separated from the crowd, and came to the yard.
"What are you doing, late at night?"
"Go back to the old man and look for the donkey." Yu Yang answered truthfully.
The village chief, who was hung from the fan on the roof, stopped the other tribesmen from talking and said in a low voice: "Help him find the donkey."
"Did you find it?"
"Found it."
"Then it's all gone."
Wow, everyone goes back to their homes.
A conflict disappeared.
Yu Yang and the strong men either carried or carried away the large color TV, DVD, and home theater that Lao Yu left at the village chief's house.
When I arrived at the alley, I saw Uncle Six and his two cousins coming to help in the battle from a distance.
It's just that there are no family members outside, so the three of them hide a little far away.
Yu Yang understood this. After all, the village chief had many people, so if the three men rushed forward, they would be beaten.
"Let's go home."
Uncle Six was not embarrassed and complained: "Why did you start a fight with him?"
"After my father was arrested, the people in the village looked at me wrongly and couldn't straighten their backs."
"Then we can't use him to establish his authority. We have few people and we will suffer."
"It's okay. From today on, times have changed and there are more of us."
"???"
When Yu Laoliu heard this, he was a little confused at first, but when he saw three more technicians in the team, he suddenly realized.
He quickly took out his cigarette enthusiastically, and as he smoked it, he said, "Let's go and sit at home."
"Uncle Six, it's almost 11 o'clock."
"It's never too late for a good meal. We still have three big carps at home for your aunt to stew."
Yu Laoliu waved his hand unwillingly, and asked his two sons to open the canteen and buy a few snacks to go with the wine, while calling the strong men to go home.
By the way, he whispered in Yu Yang's ear: "They helped me tonight, so we have to smoke and drink well, otherwise who will help us next time?"
"That makes sense."
"This is called being sober. You should learn more from it in the future."
"You're right."
Yu Yang nodded repeatedly and motioned to his elder brother to use a donkey cart to take the large color TV, DVD, and home theater that had been moved from the village chief's house back to his home.
These things were originally bought by Lao Yu as gifts. Later, his house was ransacked and somehow they ended up in the hands of the village chief.
Although the appearance has changed a lot now, the function has not changed. It must be ours and cannot be wrong.
Not long after.
The sixth uncle's house held a banquet again.
Steamed carp, carp with soy sauce, braised carp with cabbage and tofu...
Cut salted duck eggs, torn small spicy strips...
Bean skin mixed with scallion oil, white fungus mixed with cold vinegar...
A box of liquor-Jingyanggang...
Yu Laizi, who was in the yard next door, heard the noise, opened the door and couldn't help but sniff.
"What's the condition?"
"You stewed chicken last night and stewed fish tonight. Can't you just make it through the day?"
…
The village chief's house.
After Yu Yang left, the yard became lively again.
The village chief's younger brother, cousin, uncle, etc. were all present.
"We can't let it go like this." The village chief said bitterly, "How dare you call me a foreigner when you eat everything inside and outside."
The village chief lit a cigarette and said, "There are foreigners, so we can't move around. Otherwise, those foreigners will give us a hard time, and even cause death. We will run away all night. Where can we find them?"
"You can't just do nothing, right?"
"We'll talk about it later."
The village chief didn't say anything.
Yu Jianjun's home was indeed ransacked by his men.
The reason why he did this was because after the flood, Yu Jianjun asked him to borrow money and stated the current situation of the brick kiln.
In short: Although the cave dwelling was destroyed, it was a trivial matter. It could be restarted by hiring a few masons to repair it. What the brick kiln lacks now is funds to buy charcoal, oil, and recruit people.
At that time, Village Chief Yu had no other ideas and even prepared money.
However, the bank was worried that Yu Jianjun would run away and sent Yu Jianjun to the detention center, which showed him another way out.
For example, a brick kiln owes the Agricultural Bank of China 200,000 yuan. As long as the Agricultural Bank of China changes the credit loan to a mortgage loan, it can take back the brick kiln. If the situation fails, the Agricultural Bank of China can file a lawsuit and ask the court to put the brick kiln up for auction.
Few people know the actual situation of brick kilns.
At that time, the family bought the brick kiln from the Agricultural Bank of China for 250,000 yuan. In this way, the Agricultural Bank of China repaid the loan, and the business staff who handled the matter could get an extra 50,000 yuan and share it privately.
And through this move, the brick kiln does not have to pay off other liabilities.
The family will take over the brick kiln, resume production this year, make back the investment next year, and make a profit the year after that.
Who wouldn't be tempted by this kind of thing?
For this reason, he led people to raid Yu Jianjun's home, hoping to put pressure on Yu Yang and his mother.
Now that Yu Yang has met a group of outsiders, they are looking for face again. I wonder if the brick kiln will be restarted next...
The village chief thought for a long time, picked up a piece of soft Chinese, and took his brother out.
…
The next day is the fourteenth day of the tenth lunar month.
Solar terms: light snow.
It's still dark.
The strong men who had been drinking and chatting happily the night before got up from the firewood pile and got busy.
The eldest brother cooked the pot, the second brother planted bean sprouts, and the third brother, the fourth brother, and the fifth brother continued to build a super large fire pit in the yard. Not to mention, this group of men with construction skills and civil construction skills astonished even Yu Yang, who had been working on projects for more than 20 years.
"The Ten Mile Camp will gather on the twelfth."
"Hangaixiang small gathering on the 13th."
"I have to go to the Buddha Temple today. There's a big gathering there."
Yu Yang folded his hands and counted the numbers, and then looked at the old almanac to make sure he was right.
Then he led the little donkey to the home of his distant cousin, Yu Laizi.
Knock on the courtyard door, drop five yuan, and ask the other party to help feed him.
Yu Laizi has a mule, a guillotine, a straw tank, a stone trough, a stack of wheat straw, corn stalks, and various accessories.
"Brother, has your mule been fed?"
"It's not bright yet, so I'm feeding you. What's wrong?"
"I don't know how to drive a cart yet, your mules are docile, why don't I put them on and train on them."
Yu Laizi was completely unwilling, but he looked at the five dollars in his hand, hesitated slightly, and nodded: "Okay, you can send it back as soon as possible."
"no problem!"
Yu Yang immediately took away the mule, which was as big as a big horse and had thick and strong limbs.
When I got back to my yard, I first hitched the wooden cart, then called my eldest and second brothers to go straight to my brick kiln.
With the third brother and others joining, the construction speed in the yard has been accelerated a lot.
The foundation pit, which is about 50 meters long and 30 meters wide, has been repaired.
It’s just that building a super large fire pit requires bricks to stabilize the flue.
Yesterday when my second brother was laying the fire pit in the main room, he had already used up all the red bricks supporting the tiles on the top of the tiled house.
Although the brick kiln in the brick kiln stopped producing after being flooded by floods, and the red bricks produced in the past were evacuated when creditors ransacked the house, some refractory bricks pulled from the cave were more suitable for supporting the fire kang.
The brick kiln is located in the north of Yujia Village, three miles away.
Ten miles further north is the Buddha Temple we are going to today.
So you have to be fast because you have to sell vegetables later.
"The question is, why am I cheating and still working so hard from dawn to dusk?"
"I only slept for three hours last night!"
"It's one hour less than not being reborn."
Yu Yang drove the mule cart and fell into deep thought.
After a while, we arrived at the brick kiln.
Because it was still dark, reflecting the bright moonlight, a prehistoric monster was crawling on the desolate and vast land.
It has a single horn that reaches the sky, and has eight front and eight back eyes, totaling sixteen black eyes.
If you stare at it, the blackness in its eyes seems to have a strange attraction, and the more you look at it, the more disturbing it becomes.
This is Lao Yu’s brick kiln.
This brick kiln originated from the Big Pot Rice period. It is a relatively advanced tunnel kiln and is a product of collective ownership. Due to the remote location of Shili Camp and the late dissolution of the commune, it underwent an overhaul in 1992.
It was during that overhaul that a series of problems arose in the brick kiln.
In 1995, the Shiliying Commune was disbanded and the collective assets were liquidated. The brick kilns that had been repaired and repaired were too high in value but could not be repaired, so they were forced to remain idle and not dealt with for the time being.
Later, the villagers discovered that Lao Yu had made some money by raising pigs. He thought that the villagers who had a stake in the brick kiln would come asking for money every day. With a thought, he transferred the brick kiln to Lao Yu and distributed the money.
There's nothing wrong with that.
The problem is that brick kilns were once collective assets. The bricks were excavated from river embankments. The rivers belonged to the state and the river embankments were managed by local collectives. It was normal for them to transfer from one collective to another.
But after Lao Yu took over the brick kiln, it was a private property. Because the time was too short and the relevant procedures were not completed, digging soil from the river embankment at this time constituted the crime of land theft.
Brick kilns across the country have emission problems, and naturally the emissions from Lao Yu’s brick kiln do not meet standards.
As for the villagers, the time and share of their participation in the shares were different, and the money they received was also different. Some of the dissatisfied people immediately stood up under the instigation of their creditors.
Therefore, the problems reported by creditors to Lao Yu should be taken seriously. They are all true.
Because of this, Lao Yu from another time and space spent three and a half years in a detention center.
It wasn't until the lawsuit was over and the court sentenced him to two years that he was released in court.
Well, I squatted for an extra year and a half.
This is the main reason why Yu Yang doesn't want to waste time on the brick kiln incident.
Another moment passed.
The eldest brother turned on the flashlight, and Yu Yang drove the mule cart into the cave dwelling.
Demolishing bricks requires skills, but the eldest brother and the second brother have mastered the construction technology and know everything about where to demolish and where not to demolish.
"By the way, a lawsuit is a lawsuit. The brick kiln is still in our hands. Should we restart the brick kiln?"
Hearing this, the eldest brother stomped on the ground, "It's been soaked in water. No matter how hard we repair it, we can't fix it."
"Isn't it just that the cave dwelling has been destroyed? Can't we just hire a few masons to repair it?"
"Let me ask you a very simple question."
"hold head high!"
"What will happen if the stone is cooked and then watered?"
"Isn't this making lime?"
"I asked you what would happen."
"It will crack!"
Yu Yang understood.
The interior of the brick kiln is subject to high temperatures all year round, and the foundation has been burned thoroughly and is extremely dry.
The floods poured in. Although it did not collapse on the spot, the water seeped into the foundation. The brick kiln was probably going to collapse!
Yu Yang quickly drove the mule away, turned around and ran away.
The elder brother waved the flashlight and said, "It's not that exaggerated. It still needs to be brewed. No matter what, we have to wait for the weather to get cold and the foundation will be frozen, and then wait for spring to thaw...and the brick kiln is built very solidly. At most, the chimney cannot be saved. By then it will Because the foundation collapses, cracks, or collapses.”
"That's it!"
Yu Yang's eyes lit up.
Although we never cheat anyone, the brick kiln is full of weirdness.
Since someone is trying to trick us, this brick kiln must be dealt with as soon as possible.
In particular, he never wanted to waste time on the brick kiln.
"It's time to bring this matter to an end."
The eldest brother already knew what was going on, "What should your father do?"
“While staying in the detention center, I can’t see anyone except my lawyer, and I can’t even write letters or make phone calls outside, especially since I live in a room with more than a dozen people.
Rather than suffer like this, it is better to go to jail for two years. Then we will go and check him out every three days, and then spend money to clear him up and give him a single room. "
"You are so filial."
(End of chapter)