The information is excerpted from the Internet: original review Ma Minggao wolf password
Writer Li Yingbing's words: Ma Minggao has been known for his literary criticism in recent years, especially the recently announced Zhao Prize, whose award-winning work "Compassion and Sorrow in Qinghuan" shows his maverick compassion in the commentary. Ma Minggao's novel "Foundation" belongs to a narrative text with strong regional color, and after the predecessors of yam egg writers Zhao Shuli and Ma Feng, there is no doubt that Ma Minggao is a "post-Zhao" newcomer who belongs to the Jin army sequence.
The narrative of "The Foundation" comes from the authentic countryside, but radiates to the multiple layers of grassroots society. We see that the writer's gaze follows the foundation dispute of the horse bolt and petitions step by step, capturing the faces of all kinds of people in the government departments at all levels from the village, to the township, and then to the county, such as the village party secretary, the township secretary Wang, and the county magistrate Zhang, who are not simply conceptualized, but restored to the scene of social ecology, showing a kind of operation mechanism that is difficult to return, or even the ultimate consequences of inefficiency or even inefficiency in some related prevarication.
At the end of the novel, it is written that Ma Bolt chooses to blow up the building of the nouveau riche Erzhu, which pushes the entire plot of the novel to the extreme. In a novel of more than 10,000 words, the writer can capture the contradictory flashpoints of rural life, and can show representative characters and events in social life, highlighting his keen ability to capture the details of life and social insight. At the beginning, Ma Bolt still held back, trying to solve the foundation dispute through the public, and made repeated efforts to this end, but in the end it was not able to avoid the tragedy.
The five sections of the novel are very layered, and the clues are revealed step by step in the quiet unfolding, and the protagonist Ma Bolt is also walking step by step towards the abyss of fate. Why is that? Writers only show the fate of the characters in the novel, reveal social phenomena, and even raise social problems, but how to solve similar social problems is a dead knot that cannot be untied.
Therefore, the novel still has a sense of heaviness of reality when it reads. In terms of revealing the contradictions of social reality, this novel may have a certain transcendence compared with the gentle expression of the implicit "middle character" of the previous yam egg writers. The character of Ma Bolt suddenly reminded me of Jia Zhangke's movie "Destined", which already has a flavor similar to the "official coercion and civil rebellion" in "Water Margin".
The "foundation" issue that Ma Minggao wrote about is the fundamental problem on which the peasants depend for their lives, and it is also the foundation for the healthy and benign development of society.
This novel does not have the bright tail of "rule of law" in the movies "Qiu Ju's Lawsuit" and "I Am Not Pan Jinlian", or even because of this, the character of Ma Bolt can be called "this one". Of course, the treatment of dialects in the novel, as well as the description of related flashing characters, can be more in place, such as the image of the two pigs, and the related "shady" behind the operation of the two pigs, etc., if the pen and ink are appropriately increased, the presentation of the novel will have a more realistic three-dimensional sense and sense of depth. FYI.
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■ Ma Minggao
Ma Minggao, pen name Ma Minggao, Yiding. After graduating from junior college, he studied in Fudan University and Lu Xun College of Literature. Since 1981, he has been a teacher, and since 1994, he has successively served as the deputy director of the Propaganda Department of the Xiaoyi Municipal Party Committee, the chairman of the Municipal Federation of Literary and Art Circles, and the director of the Municipal Radio and Television Center. Chairman of the Municipal Writers Association. He joined the Chinese Writers Association in 2002.
He is the author of the novel "Trembling and Sighing", the short and medium story collection "Embarrassment is followed by the vicissitudes of life", the essay collection "The Journey of Life", "In the Dark Night, My Eyes Are Wide", "Scenery and People", the theoretical works "TV Aesthetics", "Ma Feng's Film Art Theory", "Embracing the Tenderness and Romance of the Buddha's Heart", the film and television script collection "The Wind in the Field", "The City and the People", the TV series "Liuzhen Drizzle", "Centenarian Hou Youcheng", "The Ballad of Loess", and the large-scale modern drama "Sour Zao Slope".
"Centenarian Hou Youcheng" won the National Excellent TV Drama Exhibition and Broadcast Outstanding Repertoire Award, "Sour Zao Slope" won the "Five Ones" Project Award of Shanxi Province, and "Liuzhen Drizzle" won the Golden Bull Award for TV dramas that farmers like to see. He was awarded the titles of "Cross-Century Literary and Art Rising Star" and "Top Ten TV Art Workers" in Shanxi Province. "Literary Daily" and "People's Daily" published a large number of literary reviews, which attracted the attention of the literary world. In 2016, he won the Zhao Shuli Literary Award for Criticism.
Above: Ma Minggao, winner of the Zhao Prize and writer of the Lu Academy's advanced research class, visits Zhao Shuli's former residence
One
From a distance, the horse heard a machine-gun-like sound, "crackling, crackling" sharp and violent. When he walked to his cave, he saw confetti all over the ground, like thousands of small pink flowers growing vigorously on the dry land in the hot summer. The horse leash finally woke up, and the second pig of the dog day really started! The mother-in-law ran out of the cave in a hurry and shouted, "Dad, you are back!" Ma Lian calmly put the hoe in front of the door of the cave, took a small stool, sat in the yard, stared at the round bull's eyes, looked at the firecrackers and confetti growing everywhere, your dog's second pig has a few stinky money, just let me be afraid of you, no way!
Hula hula ran out of the two floors on the west side, and the ping-pong ground was planed in front of the horse tether. Ma Shuan stood up suddenly: "It's reversed, it's really reversed!" More than a dozen men stopped their movements and stared at him. Ma Lian knows that these men are all niggers hired by the Erzhu Coal Washing Plant, you doglegs, you will do anything if you give money on that dog day! A dozen men stared motionlessly at Ma's angry face.
More and more people are watching the excitement. People were staring at the two floors to the west and muttering quietly. A woman walked out of two floors. The muttering of the people came to an abrupt end. The woman's breasts and belly were full, her pale face had a few ugly freckles, and the golden necklace around her neck shone brightly as her body twisted. She rightly shouted, "Don't do it yet!" I'll see what he can do with the old ghost. A dozen men pong and pong again. Faced with the scene of the hot work, Ma Bolt was stunned as if someone had taken out his brain.
The earth-shattering voice pulled back into his head. He ran to the middle of the men, his legs were weak, he lay on the ground and shouted: "Let's do it, clean up Lao Tzu first!" The mother-in-law of the Ma Lian family also ran over and sat on the ground and would rather die than give in. People laughed. The sound of a small four-wheeled tractor motor comes from far and near. People giggled and said, "It's going to be a good show." The small four wheels stopped. Two unkempt young men came running fiercely with shovels from the front of the car, and a dozen men were so frightened that they hurriedly fled. Seeing that these two descendants were coming straight towards her, the woman of the Erzhu family ran to them, put her head on his chest, and said, "Fight, fight!" The two juniors hurriedly pushed with their hands, and the woman sat on the ground dancing and crying. Amid the laughter, the woman's cry was dry and loud.
The two-story door creaked, and the two pigs swaggered out. He yelled at the woman, "You give me back!" The woman's crying stopped abruptly and looked at her man in a daze. The second pig glared at the woman and said, "If you don't go back, what are you still standing?" The woman patted the dirt on her body, twisted her fat waist and went back. The second pig waved his hand and said, "I'll do it tomorrow." A dozen men couldn't wait to pack up their tools and ran back to the two floors.
Two
In the evening, the horse tethered and returned home, and the foundation of the second pig's house had been smashed high. The horse was so angry that he ran over and kicked and pushed, and with a bang it fell apart and fell into a mess. The second pig ran out, pointed to the nose of the horse chain, and said: "Ma Lian, if you continue to mess around, you will compensate me for my wages, and now the state has promulgated a compensation law." Ma Lian said: "You two pigs are blind, how can you smash the foundation and build a building in my yard!" The second pig chuckled and said, "It's yours, who said it belongs to yours?" Let me tell you, land is the property of the state, not private property. ”
Ma Lian said: "Day by day, you will say, then I will go to your kiln to build a stove, you let me?" The second pig laughed again and said, "You dare! I think you're itchy and want to sit in the room! You are violating your personal rights. The horse laughed and said, "You have two stinky money on a dog day, and you can even fart!" With that, he sat down in a mess of rocks and stood still. The second pig said: "Horse tether, don't be ignorant of lifting." I'm telling you, it's not too late for you to get ten thousand. He said, "Don't dream! I look down on a few of your stinky bucks. The second pig smashed the horse leash and said, "I have built this building." I listen to the village committee, you have the ability to go to the village committee to report! ”
Ma Lian squinted and smiled, and said, "You don't dare to me?" I think his village committee can't be unreasonable, right? The second pig crossed his hands on his hips and said hurriedly: "You sue, you sue!" Ma Lian stood up and patted the soil on his body with both hands: "Sue it, I'm still afraid of you!" The horse walked away in a huff. The second pig looked at his back and smiled.
The horse ran to the Guan Gong Temple. The temple was dark, and there was no one in the village committee office. The bolt slammed the old wooden door shut and scolded, "It's all dead!" ”
It was already dark, there was no electricity, and there were already people who lit kerosene lamps to emit a thin and dim astringent light. The horse tethered the black road, and came to the door of the secretary's house with one foot deep and one foot shallow. The courtyard door of the secretary's house was closed all day, as if he was afraid of seeing people. The horse leash slammed hard against the heavy courtyard door. Soon there was a barking of dogs in the yard. Ma Lian was startled by the crazy barking of the dog, stopped slapping, stood far away from the courtyard gate, and shouted inside: "Is Secretary Zhang at home?" Is Secretary Zhang at home? The barking of the dog stopped. A small window opened in the heavy courtyard door, revealing a thin woman's face, and said, "Secretary Zhang is not here." With a smile on his face, Ma Lian asked, "Where did Secretary Zhang go?" The thin man smiled at him and said, "I've gone to the township government for a meeting." The horse leashed and asked, "Will you come back from the dark room today?" The woman said, "Not necessarily." Ma Lian wanted to ask something more, the thin woman was gone. The courtyard gate was pitch black.
The air at night was still full of excitement and irritability. Ma Lian's chest was full of defeat, and he cursed foul words in his heart. Seeing the village chief's house, Ma Lian stopped scolding. The village chief's house was brightly lit, and before he entered the courtyard gate, he heard the sound of laughter. Ma Lian cautiously pushed open the courtyard door of the village chief's house. A dog barked again. The horse was so frightened that he hurriedly retreated. "Ouch - isn't this Uncle Ma Lian?" The gentle and pretty voice of the village chief's woman floated in. Ma Lian hurriedly wiped the fine sweat on his head with his sleeve, raised his face, and saw that the woman of the village chief's family was already walking towards him with a smile. Ma Lian hurriedly asked, "Is the village chief at home?" "Yes, yes, the dead are drinking!" The woman of the village chief's family hurriedly put down the plate in her hand and enthusiastically raised the bamboo curtain to let him into the house. Ma Lian was flattered, and as soon as he entered the door, he smiled all over his face and said, "The village chief is so busy, the village chief is so busy!" ”
The village chief was drinking with the security director, his face was drunk and his eyes seemed to be open, his head was raised violently, and his hand waved softly, saying, "Is there something wrong with you?" You sit first, you sit first, and I will talk to Director Hou about the coal kiln. The security director was chubby, with his arms open, fanning the wind with his shirt, and smiling at the village chief. Ma Lian nodded at them and said, "Okay! The woman of the village chief's family glared at the village chief, and said brightly: "Look what it has become!" Drink this urine all day long, and use it for fart! The security director raised his plump pork liver face, glanced at the woman of the village chief's family, and said with a smile: "Look at how distressed my sister-in-law is, it is more uncomfortable than drinking it myself!" The woman of the village chief's family glared at the security director, smiled charmingly and scolded: "Sister-in-law's urine is all drunk into the dog's belly!" The security director laughed, laughed so hard that the fat body with red light trembled, and said, "Okay, sister-in-law scolded well!"
The village chief was obviously a little annoyed, and waved his hand softly again, and his eyes went to Ma Lian's face and said, "Ma Lian, what do you want to say?" Ma Lian said: "The second pig occupies the yard of my house to build a building, the village chief, you still have this reason?" The village chief raised his head and smiled. Ma Lian looked surprised, and stared at the village chief with round eyes. The village chief pointed to the horse with his soft fingers and said, "You, you! It's just that I don't know how to lift people. The second pig is a gentleman first and then a villain, and he will talk to you from the beginning. He said that he would occupy a little yard of your house and give you 5,000, but you said no. They said they would give you 10,000. You still say no. ”
Ma Lian looked at the face of the village chief, Guan Gong, and wanted to defend himself, saying: "Village chief, village chief, you don't know, he is too bullying!" The village chief slapped the table, stood up, and said, "What do you say?" Giving you 10,000 yuan is bullying you? Ma Lian looked at the village chief dumbfounded. The village chief shook his body twice, sat down on the chair and said, "Ma Lian, I know you are an honest man. You. It can't be a big climate! You don't have a backbone. I don't know who poured you ecstasy soup, you can't even look down on 10,000 yuan. The security director also smiled at the horse and said, "You are unlucky to be tied to the horse, and he will give you 10,000 yuan for the second pig, why don't you?" Money still burns hand? Fool, he has money, what do you mean by messing with him? Um, well, you've lived so long that you don't know that money can make ghosts grind? What can you do with him? Where does he go with the second pig, isn't he rich? Now where is not eating the plaintiff eating the defendant. The more he spoke, the more excited he became, and he slapped the table with his hand and said, "If he gives you money, you will go down." Don't be in vain. Anyway, there is so much money on Dog Day that I don't know how to spend it, so I don't know how to spend it, so I often go to the county seat to play with tender women on Dog Day.
If he wants to occupy your yard, he will occupy it, so what is the big deal! The horse was more and more angry, his hands kept trembling, he couldn't hold it back, and suddenly stood up and said, "He thinks beautifully!" Zhan Zhan Zhan, of course he is good, high-rise buildings, bright and bright to live the life of a rich man. I'm not a human being? Do you think, he and his two pigs will build a four-story building in front of my kiln, and they won't block my house in the dark? Your two pigs are rich, and my horse is not red-eyed. You have the ability to cover it elsewhere, and you want to build a few layers and a few layers. I don't care!
You build four floors in front of my cave, isn't that bullying? The village chief looked at the horse and smiled, and said: "You, you, you don't have much money on you, but the strength of the living is not small, huh, are you suspicious of the two pigs building a building in front of your cave, and the contrast is obviously cold?" The horse bolted his head and said, "Yes, yes, my horse is poor and can't afford to build a building, and my son can't do it?" I'm not afraid of running out of firewood to keep the green hills, and I'll build a building in five years! The security director stared at the horse bolt and said, "Yo! It's all your world? What do you want the village committee to do? What do you want the village cadres to do? The country's land resources, whoever wants to build a building, whoever wants to build a kiln, is too free, right? The village chief pushed the director of security and said, "Don't go too far, the problem is that now that the second pig has started construction, what can you do with the horse leash?" The security director also said: "That's it, the foundation of the second pig has also been smashed, aren't you an afterthought?"
Ma Lian was anxious again, and said: "He is a good pig for two pigs, don't look at my Ma Lian is decent and honest, I will sue him for the second pig of the dog day!" The village committee can't run to the township government, and the township government is not allowed to run the county party committee, so I don't believe that he can't sue him if he has a few stinky money! The village chief was annoyed, slapped the table and said, "Sue it!" Our village committee just doesn't care, you have the ability to sue you, I see what you can do with the horse! ”
"What's going on?" The woman of the village chief's family hurriedly came in and asked. The horse's face turned red, and he didn't speak. Guan Gong, the village head, looked at the horse and said, "I really don't know how to lift." The woman of the village chief's family pushed the village chief and said, "Did you really drink the wine into the dog's belly, what are you yelling about?" Uncle Ma is an old and decent person, what kind of temper do you play with others? Is this what you're capable of? The security director looked at the woman of the village chief's house, turned his head to look at the horse, and smiled.
The woman of the village chief's family patted Ma Lian's shoulder and said, "Uncle, don't pay attention to that dead ghost!" If you drink some urine, you don't know the southeast and northwest, just think he's drinking urine and letting out shit! The village chief stared at the woman's face and was still tigerish. The security director gouged out his ears and eyes with his thick fingers, and his eyes looked at the horse's tethered face and smiled. Ma Lian's hand holding the edge of the kang trembled for a long time, and when he saw the fat smiling face of the security director, he stood up and shouted: "I just want to sue, I will never give up if I can't sue the second pig!" He and the two pigs want to build a building in front of my cave, and my horse will never be surnamed Ma! ”
Three
The township government is in an inconspicuous place in the ancient street. The two-story building has a large courtyard, all of which are painted with green pigments very dazzlingly. I don't know from which day, there are quietly a lot of restaurants and stores here, fresh seafood, mountain and seafood, tobacco and liquor, non-staple food department store, hardware, aluminum alloy doors and windows are plastered with art words and Donald duck. People come and go, dazzling. The horse leashed and approached the township government under a round of hot roasting. The sound of stir-frying is clearest in a noisy mix. The aroma of all kinds of raw seafood penetrated into his nose, making Ma Lian, who had walked more than ten miles of mountain roads, feel very hungry. Ma Lian muttered in his heart, what the fuck, is this going to the township government or into the kitchen? How can this world become a food seller! No matter how late it is, everyone in the public family will be off work, and he has repeatedly warned himself to hurry. Ma Lian tried his best to eliminate the temptation and interference of the delicacies and delicacies on him, and hurriedly walked into the township government compound.
The township government compound was silent, except for a row of tall, thin and luxuriant trees in front of the two-story building. The horse leash wiped the fine sweat from his head. Raising his head, he read the words on the wooden sign at the door. Family Planning Office. General branch of the regiment. Finance Office. Statistics Office. Township enterprise office. The horse carefully lifted the bamboo curtain and knocked on the yellow door civilly. No response. After another room, carefully lift the bamboo curtain, and then knock on the yellow door in a civilized manner. No response. Walking to another room, I saw a girl wearing shorts and a short gown washing her hair. A strong smell of dew wafted out. "Looking for whom?" Half of his face was white and tender in a piece of wet hair dripping with water. Ma Shu snorted and said, "Find the secretary." "Not there." The girl said coldly, sat down at the phone, and combed her wet black hair with a comb.
Ma Lian smiled and asked, "Girl! Where is the person in charge of the land dispute? The girl gave him a beautiful back, and said coldly, "No." Ma Lian nodded modestly, and was about to ask, when he was startled by the fierce sound of the phone. The girl turned her face like frost and lazily picked up the phone: "Hey, hey." Absence. Uh-huh. The meeting will begin tomorrow at nine a.m. In the county guest house. Clear. The girl snapped down her headphones and said, "It's annoying! The tether stopped, and asked with a smile on his face, "Girl, what are they doing?" The girl continued to apply the grease and ointment, gave him a blank look and said, "I have all gone to the county seat, and today the township chief celebrates his fortieth birthday." Then he asked, "When will they return, good girl?" The girl said impatiently, "Who do you ask me?" Ma Lian put down the bamboo curtain with interest, stood up to the burning Guan Gong's face, and walked out of the township government compound. The horse's stomach-bound resentment had nowhere to vent, and he forcefully smashed a mouthful of thick phlegm towards the gate of the township government, cursed a foul word, and then sighed, and said to himself: "Eat! We can't treat our stomachs badly. ”
When he went to the township government for the second time, Ma Lian learned the lesson of the previous time, and as soon as it was dawn, he got up and left. The morning wind soaked the horse's tethered heart cold. He saw several unidentified clouds flowing in the sky. The beautiful scenery goes away with the wind, and the horse leash has no intention of taking care of it. When the sun was getting denser and denser, Ma Lian came to the gate of the township government.
Ma Lian saw a red car driving into the township government compound. He was convinced that the person sitting in the car must be the secretary of the township party committee. Ma Lian didn't know what the surname of the secretary of the township party committee was. Ma Lian heard his father say that there was no one in the township who did not know the secretary in the past, and the secretary worked in the village at a sky-high price to hold meetings. My father said that when he was a child, he also took a horse to the township government once, and the secretary led them to eat in the township government canteen. At present, very few people in the village know the secretary of the township party committee. Ma Lian still found out from the mouth of the village cadres that the current secretary's surname is Wang. The estimation of the horse leash is absolutely correct. He saw a fat man get out of the car. I went up to the second floor with my paperwork bag. The horse leash followed closely behind and also went up to the second floor. He saw the fat man enter the office with the secretary's office sign.
Ma straightened his clothes, thought carefully about what he wanted to say to the secretary, tried to calm his excited heart, walked to the door of the secretary's office, knocked on the yellow door civilly, and heard a heavy "come in". The horse leash pushed open the door and entered. The secretary smiled at him and said, "Sit down." The horse sat down and took out the Hibiscus King that had been prepared. Just as he was about to tear it open and pump it out, the secretary waved his hand and said, "Don't suck, don't suck." The secretary poured a glass of water for Ma Lian and asked, "What do you have to do, tell me!" The bolt poured out the words he had thought of in one go. The secretary waved his hand and said, "Don't talk about it, I'm clear." Lao Li is in charge of the land dispute, so that after he understands the situation, he will contact the county land bureau as soon as possible and deal with it quickly. You tell me? Ma Lian was suddenly full of confidence, as if he had seen the dawn of victory. Secretary Chao nodded with a smile and said, "Okay, I'll go find Lao Li." The secretary sent him out of the door, and pointed downstairs to him and said, "Lao Li is downstairs from the third room in the West." With a long sense of gratitude and excitement, the horse went down the second floor and knocked on the door of the third room.
Lao Li is a skinny man. As soon as I heard that the secretary had come to him, I agreed. Ma Lian still took out the box of Hibiscus King, took out one and handed it to Lao Li. Lao Li smoked a cigarette with taste, listened to the ins and outs of the matter, and after a while, he smoked the three hibiscus kings of the horse chain, and the horse chain was a little weak. Fortunately, Lao Li was also impatient to listen to it, and said: "The second pig is the pimple household in your village?" Okay, let's take a look in a few days and solve it for you as soon as possible. Ma Lian took out another hibiscus king and handed it to Lao Li, saying, "Okay, okay!" Lao Li said: "Don't suck, don't suck." The horse leash was stuffed into Lao Li's hand and said, "Suck it, suck it!" ”
The horse went home and waited for eight or nine days, but no one came. The foundation of the second pig grew in the sight of the horse. The horse's appearance is very calm. He knew deeply that one day the two pigs of the dog day would eat the head. The public would use a bulldozer to push it to a level, but the two pigs' rich eyes and arrogant roar always made the horse unbearable. So, all this stimulated his desire and passion to go to the township government quickly.
The sun crawls slowly across the sky, as hoarse and heavy as an ancient wooden wheel. The fields are silent. The horse was full of confidence in victory, and rushed to the township government without stopping. Ma Bolt went straight to the third room on the first floor to find Lao Li, but Lao Li was not there. Ma Lian climbed to the second floor to find the secretary again, and Secretary Wang was not there. He heard a buzz of talking, and walked a few steps east to see a meeting in the conference room. The horse leashed against the window pane and caught a glimpse of Secretary Wang speaking. Secretary Wang waved his arms from time to time, as if he was about to fight. He couldn't see Lao Li, and the window panes were covered by two large thick curtains, mercilessly obscuring Ma Lian's sight and desire, and he couldn't hear what they were talking about. Their expressions were also covered in smoke.
The meeting seems to be impossible to finish with today's TV series. Ma Lian couldn't hold back a little, and cautiously walked to the door of the conference room, pushed open the door and looked around, but he couldn't see Lao Li. In fact, Lao Li saw him, but he just lowered his head and remained silent. Ma Lian seems to have a spirit of thoroughness in his mind, and he is still looking for Lao Li everywhere. Lao Li glanced at it, was in a hurry, and hurriedly gestured to let him withdraw and wait. The secretary sensed someone looking at the door, raised his irritated face, and asked, "Who are you looking for?" Ma Lian hurriedly smiled and said, "Secretary Wang, I'll find Lao Li to do that." The secretary looked at the horse in a daze, patted his head with his hand, raised his dissatisfied face, and shouted, "What? Lao Li hasn't done it yet? What is the price of the whole day? Get out there and check it out! Lao Li's face burned, and he scratched his head and walked out of the conference room with a low face.
Ma Lian didn't expect Secretary Wang to have such a big temper. Based on the experience of the last meeting, he believes that Secretary Wang is a kind and kind person. Lao Li came out and ignored him, but walked downstairs with a fierce face. Ma Lian knew that he had made a big mistake, so he was busy following Lao Li to make amends. He clearly knew that Lao Li was the key figure in deciding the victory or defeat of this lawsuit. Lao Li still ignored him, entered the office, and snapped! As soon as the door was closed, he sat down on the chair with a fierce face and was silent. The horse smiled at him, wanting to speak but not knowing what to say. Lao Li glared at the horse leash and said, "Are you in a hurry?" Is the township government your horse tethered? Just do your family's business? Ma Lian smiled and said: "The foundation of the second pig has been smashed up Lao Gao Lao Gao, I ......" Lao Li impatiently brushed away the documents and newspapers on the table, and said: "You go to the County Land Bureau!" I can't do your business. Ma Lian was anxious and said, "Lao Li, you can handle it, right?" Lao Li was annoyed and said, "What do I count as balls?" Can I do something for you? You can't do this without going to the county land office! The horse leash stopped talking.
The experience of the township government made the horses restless and weak. When I returned to the village, the sky was already filled with an iron-blue twilight. Ma Lian took a small bench and sat in the yard, staring blankly at the foundation smashed by the two pigs, his eyes wet and speechless. After the last of the dark red sunset quietly receded, the fields turned black after a brief moment of blue gray. The horse walked into the cave, the night outside was as calm as water, but the air inside the cave was very tense. The mother-in-law cried sadly, her voice shrill and complaining. The expressions on the faces of the two sons were very excited, and they said: "Forget about the bag of explosives, why do you still ask the township government to do it?" The horse leash raised his indifferent face and said, "What's the matter?" I see which of you dares? His voice was like the echo of a thousand-year-old well splashed by falling rocks, dull and cold. The passion of the two stunned young people was extinguished, and the cry of the mother-in-law gradually faded away.
Ma Lian's eyes smashed into the darkness outside the window, and he held a word in his heart, sue! I'll go to the county land office tomorrow to report! I don't believe that this world can be unreasonable.
Four
The county seat is more than 40 miles away from the village. Ordinary people generally do not do any major things, and rarely enter the county seat. Since the spring of this year, the horse has been tethered into the county seat once. Watching the Lantern Festival literary and artistic parade performances, the city is full of buildings and people. The streets are crowded with people, and the upstairs are also people. To find the county land bureau in this street full of buildings and people, Ma Lian felt extremely worried. So Ma Lian got up earlier than he went to the township government. At night, my mother-in-law turned the alarm clock up to five o'clock. The next day, as soon as the alarm clock rang, the horse got up and went on the road.
When I walked to the township government, it was dawn, and the horses were squeezed into the bus to the county seat. Buses drive along narrow roads lined with countless coal washing and coking plants, and the eyes are covered in pitch black cinders. The horse tether seemed to walk through countless coal washing and coking plants, and the unpleasant smell he breathed reminded him of the two pigs. The sun hangs in the sky, radiating a brilliant light. The river was weak and thick like mud, and the sun could not fall into the river, but countless flies floated on the obscure surface. The tether tried his best to keep out the scenery outside the window, but they kept his eyes on it. Ma Lian closed his eyes, and his mind was full of thoughts on how to find the land bureau in the county seat.
Take a walk around the horse and ask. Ma Lian likes to ask the elderly. The young man's loose clothes and boring expressions made the horse bolt deeply suspicious, will they tell me the truth about this old man? The elderly are very enthusiastic, but unfortunately they are indifferent to the Land Bureau. An old woman told him it was probably in the second alley east of the city. The horse bolt ran to inquire for a while, only to find out that it was the Environmental Protection Bureau. Someone from the EPA told him it was in a second alley west of the city. The horse bolt ran to the west of the city again. In fact, the land bureau was very easy to find, and it was more than 11 o'clock in the morning when he got off the car, but it took a lot of trouble to find the county land office.
It took a long time to be busy upstairs and downstairs before I found a place to do things. There is only one young man in the office dealing with the homestead issue. He is about the same age as his second son, but his white and pure face has a thick beard, which makes people feel a little scared. Ma Lian hurriedly took out the box of Hibiscus King, took out one, smoothed out the wrinkled cigarette, and handed it over. The young man said, "No, no, no." But he took one out of the hard Chinese on the table and sucked it up, and asked, "What's the matter?" Ma Lian truthfully reported to the young man what he had reported to the township government. The young man nodded and said, "You see that we are very tight-staffed, and we have all gone to the countryside, and I am alone." You go back and write about your family, and give it to me. The horse looked at the young man and said, "I can't write this." The young man frowned and said, "Find someone to write, and when you see the written materials, we will solve it with the township government." Ma Lian said anxiously: "But the foundation of the two pigs has already been smashed, and they are about to rise to the second floor." The young man glared at the bolt and said, "Then what did you do earlier?" This also blames me? The horse drooped and lowered his head and was silent.
The streets are still full of restaurants, people and cars, and there is a smell of stir-fried vegetable oil. Horses strolling through the streets are boring. The sun was like a small round mirror sewn on the old blue cloth, illuminating the horse's whole body itchy and hot. Sweat leached silently, crawling all over his neck and back like a swarm of living beetles. Ma Lian felt a deep fear of the outcome of this lawsuit, and he didn't know where he should go. The horse had no choice but to go under a tree beside the street, and fanned the wind with his coat, and looked at the walking people boredly.
A young man with glasses looked at him and walked towards him. The horse tethered his face casually, and the foundation smashed by the two pigs flashed in his brain. The glasses said, "Uncle, you don't know me anymore?" I am the fourth son of the dog leftover family. Ma Lian nodded straightly, the fourth son of the dog leftover family on the dog day is so old! The glasses asked, "When did you come down from our village, what did you do?" The horse shook his head with a sigh and said, "It's hard to do things now!" Ma Lian reported the situation to the glasses as if he was reporting the situation to the township government. The glasses said: "This matter is easy to do, I will lead you to the county magistrate Zhang, who is in charge of rural work." "What? County Magistrate Zhang? Ma Lian's eyes widened, and he didn't believe it. The glasses said: "I work in the county government and work as a secretary for the county magistrate Zhang, no problem." As if he had found a savior, he said, "This is good, this is good!" The glasses said: "The second pig is too crazy, and he has become rich by drilling the country's policies, and he should not be unkind to the rich." Ma Xuan suddenly felt refreshed, and followed his glasses towards the county government compound.
The county government compound was very spacious, and the people who came and went were in a hurry, serious and mysterious, and there was no time to speak. The horse followed the glasses into a magnificent and imposing building. The floor is covered with shiny tiles. The horses walked cautiously, for fear that their shoes would stain the quiet world. The glasses led the horse into his office, poured the water, and said, "Uncle, you drink water first, rest for a while, and when County Magistrate Zhang comes at three o'clock, I will take you to him, County Magistrate Zhang is a good person!" Ma Lian was a little uneasy with excitement and said, "Okay." ”
At half past three, the glasses saw a tall man with glasses go up to the second floor and said, "Come, let's go." Ma Lian followed his glasses to the second floor, County Magistrate Zhang was thin, quite tall, and extremely kind to people. When the glasses introduced the horse to the county magistrate Zhang, the county magistrate Zhang stretched out his hand to shake hands with the horse leash. Ma Lian hurriedly wiped his hands with the placket of his clothes and shook the hand of County Magistrate Zhang. County Magistrate Zhang said, "Sit down." The glasses said: "Uncle, you sit with County Magistrate Zhang first, and I'll go out to do something." The glasses left, Ma Lian hurriedly took out the Furong King, the cigarette he smoked was wrinkled, he handed it to the county magistrate Zhang embarrassedly, and said, "You suck it, you suck it." County Magistrate Zhang smiled at him, took out the soft China from the drawer, took out one and handed it to the horse, and said, "Suck mine." Ma Lian blushed and said, "This and this, this and this, ......" County Magistrate Zhang said: "The same, the same, suck me!" Ma Lian trembled and took County Magistrate Zhang's cigarette and smoked it. He could rarely afford to smoke the Furong King, let alone Chinese cigarettes, but he couldn't see any difference between this smoke and the Red Flag Canal.
After listening to Ma Lian's explanation, County Magistrate Zhang immediately picked up the phone and dialed the number. Ma Lian looked at County Magistrate Zhang blankly, not knowing what to say to the phone. County Magistrate Zhang said: "Land Bureau, Director Li is not there? Director Wang is not here? County Magistrate Zhang dialed the number again, and it took a long time to get through, and said, "Is Secretary Tianming here?" Ask him to answer the phone. Secretary Tianming, I am Mingda. What's going on with the foundation dispute between your township horse tether and Erzhu's family? It needs to be resolved as soon as possible. Don't procrastinate. If necessary, let the Land Bureau go down and solve it together. I'll give the Land Office a call in a moment. Okay, that's it. County Magistrate Zhang put down the phone and said to Ma Lian: "You go back, in two days, they will solve it." Be sure to fix it! Ma Lian nodded happily. Ma Lian stood up to leave, but County Magistrate Zhang stood up, shook hands with him again, and sent him out of the door.
By the time the horses returned to the village, the red glow of the setting sun had disappeared, and the sky was becoming more and more gray and cloudy. Ma Lian heard his two sons arguing with the women of the Erzhu family. The horse was in a hurry, ran back to the yard, and roared the two sons home, saying, "This is the ability!" Seeing that the dogs left the four sons of the family, they all became secretaries to the county magistrate. The two sons looked at the horse leash in a daze, not knowing what their father was talking about. Outside the cave, the women of the Erzhu family were directing the black men who were working, and their voices gathered with a clear banner of wealth and pride. The two sons scolded out the window: "Insolent, you fuck × miles! The horse roared, "Shut your mouths! It's not that no one is dead in the public family, I think she can be arrogant for a few days! ”
Five
After waiting for seven or eight days, no one came to solve it, but the building of the second pig was growing wildly, and the horse tether really couldn't sit still, so he hurriedly went to the county government again. County Magistrate Zhang is not there, and even the fourth son of the dog remnant family is not there. Ma Lian sat patiently at the door of the county government building until noon, and there was no figure of the fourth son of the dog family. Later, he went to someone from the government office, and they said that Secretary Feng and County Magistrate Zhang had gone outside for a meeting. The horse asked, "When will I be back?" The person from the government office said: "Morning, study and inspect for half a month." Ma Lian looked at the people run by the government, and his heart trembled and he couldn't speak for a long time.
The horse walked on the street where people and cars were dazzling, but there was a feeling of emptiness in his heart. The sun overhead was shining brightly, radiating a dazzling light, but Ma Lian felt that he could not illuminate the restlessness and restlessness in his heart: Erzhu's building was rising in a tumultuous manner. Ma's eyes suddenly became astringent, and gradually moistened. He crouched under a tree by the side of the street, his head buried in his arms, and let out a whining sound like a bellows.
When the horses returned home, the dusk was unusually quiet. The perfect sunset sank slowly and solemnly. The western sky is rendered in splendor. The lights on the second floor of Erzhu's house in the west were bright, and the sound of drinking, fistfighting, and laughter sounded in bursts. The red car at the door of Erzhu's house is very clearly remembered, it was the car of Secretary Wang of the Township Party Committee. The mother-in-law of the Erzhu family twisted her fat waist, showing off her infinite conceit and satisfaction. "Erzhu, our township has to clean up the junior high school again, you can't help but take the lead in raising funds for teaching!" "Secretary Wang, don't be afraid, who doesn't know that Erzhu is a pimple household in our township, and he must take the lead." Erzhu laughed and said, "Drink! The voices were sharp and sharp in the quiet twilight, like a sharp knife, piercing the horse's heart one after another, and the joints of his body creaked. The horse sat in the kiln and was silent. His wife was so frightened when she saw him that she didn't say a word, but carefully lit a fire to cook.
The two sons came back suddenly. The yard was full of steel and timber from Erzhu's house, the small four-wheeled tractor couldn't get in, and the eyes of the two sons shot a vicious look. When he entered the cave, he saw the painful tranquility engraved on his father's face, and he hid his vicious gaze in his heart and became charitable and docile. The horse longed for the sky to get dark as soon as possible, and he was already suffering from it. The two sons were eating when they suddenly noticed that their father's gaze was as green as a wolf's eyes.
The sky was already covered with iron-blue night. The horse was silent and walked into the darkness as he carried out his final plan.
Later, the wind picked up, and the man didn't come back, Ma Lian's mother-in-law was anxious, urging the two sons to go out to have a look, and the two sons also felt that something was wrong, so they panicked and went out to look everywhere. Come back and say you can't find it. The mother-in-law of the Ma Lian family cried in a panic, crying so that the two sons were restless and helpless.
Suddenly, there was a loud bang in the west. Aunt Ma Lian's mother-in-law shouted sharply: "Go and call you big!" ”
Angel Yang's comments:
Ma Minggao recently won the Zhao Shuli Literary Award for Criticism, in fact, his novels are also written with a bit of "mountain bay" charm, but there is a new expansion. Ma Minggao's novel "Foundation" describes a social phenomenon that is very common today, that is, the issue of land ownership and economic disputes. Through these social phenomena, people have a greater glimpse into some of the deep-seated social roots. There are some problems that we simply cannot solve at the moment.
Such as the foundation laid by the two pigs in the yard of the horse's house. When Ma Lian said, how can you smash the foundation to build a building in my yard, the second pig's reaction was "laughing". Erzhu rightly said that land is the property of the state and is not owned by private individuals. Does the homestead in the yard belong to the individual, or does it belong to the state? And who is the state? No wonder the two pigs are so arrogant and strong as a cow, this is indeed a serious problem in front of us.
Erzhu is a typical nouveau riche in today's society. When the horse leashes reasoned with him, he would also say, "How dare you!" I think you're itchy and want to sit in the room! You are violating your personal rights. Such a "legal awareness" words. Erzhu was completely dismissive of the horse's questioning and resistance, and he claimed, "I built this building." I listen to the village committee, you have the ability to go to the village committee to report! "You sue, you sue!" looks rich and rich, and is unkind. Because he knows what the village committee means to a common person. To a certain extent, the village committee is the state.
The novel then narrates the fact that "the village committee is the state". Ma Lian looked for "Secretary Zhang of the Village Committee", "Village Chief and Security Director", "The Girl of the Township Government with Fat Powder and Ointment", "Secretary of the Township Party Committee", "Lao Li of the Township Government in charge of Land Disputes", "The Young Man with a Thick Beard in the County Land Bureau", "The Glasses Secretary of the County Magistrate", and "County Magistrate Zhang". But in the end, what Ma Lian saw was "the lights on the second floor of Erzhu's house, and the sound of drinking, fistfighting, and laughter sounded in bursts." The red car of Secretary Wang of the Township Party Committee parked in front of the door of Erzhu's house. ”
This is an updated version of "Qiu Ju's lawsuit". But the difference between the two is that the horse leash does not have the good "luck" of Qiu Ju. In the end, Qiu Ju raised her eyebrows; However, the horse leash disappeared from the world with "a loud bang in the west".
The novel is thoughtful, the language is vivid and lively, and it is full of strong regional colors of the Loess Plateau. In terms of character building, the author also performed very well. In just a short space, it has successfully portrayed many characters of all kinds from the countryside to the county government. But these are all tightly centered around the theme of the work, without the slightest sense of procrastination and congestion.
Above: Angel Yang, known as Angie Yang, is a Ph.D. candidate in architecture at Tsinghua University. He has loved literature since he was a child and has published several literary works. Wolf password public account editor.
Li Yingbing is a writer and critic. He is a member of the Chinese Writers Association and has long served as a tutor in the Popularization Department of the Lu Xun Academy of Literature of the Chinese Writers Association. He is now a professional writer of the Federation of Literary and Art Circles. Editor-in-Chief of Chinese Writers Network. He has published more than 6 million words of literary works, including the short and medium story collections "Gentle Zone", "Beauty Returns" and "Drunken Hibiscus", the novels "Wolf Code", "Running in the Rain", "Campus Information Express", and the long review "Talking about Novel Creation" and two collections of comments, etc., which have been introduced by CCTV Reading Channel. He has given more than 100 literary lectures at Peking University, China University of Political Science and Law, Beijing Normal University, Communication University of China, Beijing Wuzi University, Liaoning University, Northeastern University, Taiyuan Normal University, Lvliang University and other universities. "Gentle Zone" was launched in the "Chinese Short Story Exhibition" co-organized by "Dianchi" and "Novel Monthly", and was reprinted by many literary publications; "Running in the Rain" was selected as the "60 Chinese Writers" in the core column of the Beijing edition of "Sparks". The novel "Wolf Code" was grandly launched by Shanxi Publishing and Media Group Shanxi People's Publishing House, participated in the first Shanxi Provincial Cultural Fair Book Fair, won the Luliang City Five One Project Award, and held a new book conference in Beijing, and was selected into the Jin edition of excellent books, annual good book recommendations and other lists, and recently selected into the "Beijing Youth Daily" Xuetong Society's "Ten Famous Scholars Carefully Selected Winter Vacation Reading List for You", and in the "Literature and Art Newspaper", "City", "Masterpiece Appreciation", "Shenzhou", "Today's China Forum", "Hebei Daily" and other mainstream cultural media. In October 2016, "Running in the Rain" stood out from the shortlist of 14 films and won the first Zhang Ailing Literary Award, which has been hotly discussed.