Note: This article is excerpted from Li Guang's previous book "Traces of the Heart" and has been deleted. The full text is about 6,000 words and will be pushed in three chapters. This article was written in December 1996.
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According to the oral accounts of Li Jiazhu's uncle and others.
"The old lady was 'pulled' in the ocean!"
One afternoon in the early autumn of the eleventh day of the Republic of China (1922 AD), the people of Chaopo rushed to the slope like water falling into a pot of boiling oil - they exploded.
"La gin", expressed in modern Chinese, is the kidnapping of hostages by the underworld, extortion of money, and always brewed by people who know the bottom of the matter.
(Photo: Li Xia)
Chao Chongpo, more than 500 dingkou, surnamed Li, the clan is very united. Dozens of miles horizontally, who doesn't know that there is a powerful Li Xianjie in Chaochongpo? Who dares to make such a fool?
The old lady is over the age of flowers, sickly and weak, the richest man in the village, moderate, and has a good reputation. Recently, the old lady and the two Ding went to Dayangnanxiang to visit friends, and when they came back through Guogai Ridge near Dayangxu, they were kidnapped by a group of strongmen, and ordered Ding to return and send fifty large silver dollars over, so that the connection is so clear, and the handover is clear, before they can redeem themselves and let them go, otherwise...
Li Zhenqiu, the son of the old woman, was shocked to hear that his father had been kidnapped, like ants on a hot pot, and rushed to help. Fifty large silver dollars, according to the market price of rice at that time, one large silver dollar per stone (150 city catties), can buy 7,500 market catties. Although he is the richest man in the village, he has a large amount of cash, and he also has to make a lot of money.
Early the next morning, Li Shounan selected seven strong men (two of whom were armed with pistols) to bring silver dollars to the rescue. The seven strong men arrived about a mile from the agreed junction point, stopped with guns, and the other five men fastened towels on their left wrists and continued to advance. Not long after walking, I connected with the strongman and walked a sheep's gut path along the foothills, and next to a remote ravine that was out of sight of the avenue, there was a half-truncated mud-walled thatched squatter. More than a dozen strong people, with an arrogant attitude, without half a polite word, it seems that after accepting fifty large silver dollars for granted, they have changed their minds - they must increase ten pieces in unison, and the delivery is clear within five days, otherwise, Hu Wei is ruthless!
The seven strong men turned around in ashes. After listening to the report, he suddenly felt that this was a bottomless pit of the bandit's appetite, and he was sweating profusely. After a few days of visiting, I asked Mr. Mo Junzhi of Wangtian Village to come forward and find his friends with prestige in the ocean to mediate, and finally led the old lady back at the rate of fifty large silver dollars. Mo Junzhi also understood and knew that the one who ordered the water was Jin Shengda! And Yubu went to the façade to tell Li Shounan.
Jin Shengda, who is it? Scum rushing towards the slope!
Since the beginning of Chaochongpo, according to the inner and outer positions of the concave and convex ditches where the village is located, it has been divided into three blocks: Chong Belly, Lingqi and Outer Village. Jin Shengda lived at the top of the outer village, in the few dilapidated and dilapidated houses by the ravine.
Jin Shengda, has a younger brother A Hua Qing, the brothers look similar, tall body, both have a bull spirit. They inherited their father's business, more than an acre of paddy land and a small amount of mountain forest and slope land. Jin Shengda once had a wife, and had a daughter Li Xiuying and two sons Shi Bao and Shui An (Jin Shengda Five Elements lack gold, Water An Five Elements lack water, so it is named Suppress. The names of the four men are all nicknames or milk names, and the real names cannot be verified). All because of Jin Sheng's gambling addiction, he lost all his land and family property. The daughter married early and married Shijitanggan 16. My wife is ill and has no money to treat her, so she has long since died. In the fallen house, A Hua Qing is more than forty, Shi Bao is over twenty years old, and he is still bare. A family of blue and male men. Shui An was young and spent all day fishing and catching clams, while the other three always worked long and short-term jobs in their villages or out to work for rich families. Shi Bao was born tall, strong and handsome, intelligent and alert, and once served as a bodyguard for Li Xianjie for a short time. Later, Shi Bao served as a soldier on behalf of others, and he was smart and alert, and he fled for a year and a half after joining the army, repeating it several times to earn service money. Jin Shengda and Ah Hua Qing have unclean hands and feet, but they are afraid of the strict village rules and clan agreements, and rabbits do not eat nest grass. But in the nearby villages, there are many bad deeds of his brothers. This time, Jin Shengda actually harbored tiger courage, colluded with bandits, kidnapped the old woman, and returned from the rank, and he would definitely be severely punished.
Li Xianjie, late Qing Xiucai, was then an inspector of Shangxukang District of Yulin County Government, and often went to the countryside to inspect the words and deeds of grassroots officials. The power is not small, the local reputation is huge, and Yu is the leading speaker in the village. In the middle of the outer village, a two-and-a-half-story courtyard building with a brick-fired exterior wall was built. The gate is made of five-millimeter-thick steel plates, with track wheels underneath, which are pushed back and forth and closed very briskly. The window grille is sixteen mm in diameter round steel and the waist sleeve is five mm thick with strip steel plates, which are embedded in the wall at both ends. The patio space and all window openings are tightly sealed with 12-gauge iron wire woven into a net. Patio, people can't fall; The window is open, and the hand cannot reach in. The ridge stringers, the roots are close together, tight, and thieves cannot get down. At every uneven and convex corner of the exterior wall of the second floor, there are vertical slit shooting holes. It's a castle.
A few days after the old lady escaped, she returned home on a business trip. When the Nanwen brother returned from the ranks, he immediately visited the door to tell the story of the old lady's robbery and consult how to deal with Jin Shengda. When Xian Jie heard this, he almost exploded in anger, indicating that he must be strict.
Jin Shengda went out to work, sometimes returning once a month. This time it happened to be the second day after returning home to the village to explore the wind. He pretended to be at ease, and said to everyone, in the heart of the mountain (far from the ocean, so that no one would suspect him. Tired from heavy work, come back and rest for a few days. People talked about the old lady being pulled in, and he pretended to be shocked, spat and condemned, and pretended to be like a bodhisattva. He knew there that when he stepped on the village, he was under close surveillance.
After dinner on the third day of Jin Shengdae's return, led by Xianjie, a meeting of important figures from the village and nearly ten young and powerful people was held in the "Wise House" (private school classroom). At the meeting, Shou Nan first explained the facts of Jin Sheng's crime, and then Xianjie analyzed the seriousness of the case and proposed a handling plan. Immediately after, the young man who ordered the meeting to go to the top of the village and drag Jin Shengda down from the "wise residence" for trial. In the face of the facts, Jin Sheng did not open his mouth, provoked everyone, tied him up, punched and kicked, and clubbed him, and finally Li Binan used an earthen firearm to shoot the garlic meat on his left lower limb, loosened the binding and let him go home.
Jin Shengda understands the herbal common sense of "stopping bleeding every hair, relieving pain every tuft". He endured the pain, bleeding all the way, climbed to the back mountain, based on his usual memory, with the diffuse shimmer of the moon that had not yet gone up the mountain, he found a large handful of medicinal green and came back to pound it. At home, ten-year-old Shui An didn't know what was going on, was terrified, and didn't dare to ask, silently watching from the sidelines.
The next day, just after dawn, he shouted that Er led several young and strong men to break into Jinsheng, tied them lightly, brought them a letter of dedication, and released them to the Yulin. More than ten days later, one day after dinner, Xianjie held a meeting of the whole village and announced that Jin Shengda had been shot in Yulin. He also said that one person commits a crime and one person should be dampened, and the grain will not be cut with grass, and the water will be taken under his door, and he will do the work of pouring tea and sweeping the floor.
Ah Hua Qing worked for many years in Guiping, and when she learned that her brother had been sentenced to death, she jumped up and swore to heaven that she would take revenge. He took out his savings for several years to sell the Beishi thieves, and set a plan for the Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first month, and wiped out the slope in one fell swoop. But the thief gang was afraid of rushing towards the slope, especially the power of the sacrifice of the rank, and the reverse sacrifice of the rank to snitch. Dedication was very angry. (above)
To know what happened, and listen to the next breakdown.