"Second Uncle" article / Wang Yanping

The second uncle stood on the stone at the mouth of the village, and asked us to give him a dozen little farts to pick fruits to eat at the bottom of the ditch, knowing that these fruits were all from the yellow rich man's family on the beam on the other side of the ditch.

The second uncle claimed to be our rich man, but everyone knew that he was a poor egg, he was a bandit who came down from the mountain, because he had a rabbit robbery, and everyone in the village knew that they did not want to argue with him, and they also found him a cave in the east of the village and let him live.

The second uncle sat on the stone at the head of the village all day, wiped the barrel of his gun with his sleeve, and mixed with us little farts, what he was most proud of was to tell us that he used to be in the mountains, robbing the family and robbing the house, robbing the rich and helping the poor, he said that the Yellow Rich Man's house he did not know how many times he came, even the Yellow Rich Man's backyard little wife's belly pocket, he knew what it was like, before and the mountain brothers often went to the Yellow Rich Man's house to rob, robbed a lot of gold and silver jewelry, grain furniture.

We little farts don't know that the sky is high and the earth is thick, listening to the experience of the second uncle, thinking that we are bandits, and we are also very angry, so when we pick the fruit, it is also a matter of course, and we also gave the fruit to the second uncle. The second uncle gave the fruit to the people in the village, and the people in the village praised him for being very good, and then the people in the village accepted him.

On this day, the second uncle asked us to fence the orchard at the bottom of the ditch, saying that this orchard belonged to us, and the orchards produced were all from the village, so the people in the village were boiling, taking hoes and sticks, and the servants of the Yellow Rich Man's family were not vegetarians, holding a sickle and an axe, and the Second Uncle grabbed it with a stick, and a bullet hit the Yellow Rich Man's housekeeper, the big tiger, and after the big tiger fell to the ground, the other house slaves ran away, and we occupied the Yellow Rich Man's orchard in Donggou.

What the second uncle admired was that he gave all the orchards to the villagers, and every year the fruits produced were brought to him, and he still sat on the stone at the head of the village.

Many years later, we little farts grew up, and he led us to a cave with a lot of guns, each of us had one, but there was no bullet, he said, no bullets, only robbery, so many years he had a bullet, that is, the one that killed the big tiger, but since then everyone has obeyed him.

He sat on the stone at the head of the village and commanded us to take sides and walk in a similar manner. He asked us to occupy the land in the village, we felt that it was impossible, he pointed the gun at me, I told the truth, I suddenly believed that he had a bullet in the gun, and then we occupied the village land and distributed it to the villagers, and the villagers were very grateful to the second uncle.

Our little children, sitting on the stones in the village with the second uncle, watched the villagers cultivate the land, collect the grain, and then hand over the excess grain and hoard it in the broken cave of the second uncle.