In the countryside in the 70s of the last century, labor production was still carried out in the form of production teams. It was an age of material scarcity, and everything was scarce, even a nail was precious.
I was 15 years old in 1970, still in junior high school. One day when I came home from school, my mother told me in a panic that my father had been taken away. I was confused at the time, so I quickly asked my mother to speak slowly. I later learned that another production team had lost a cedar tree, and they suspected that my father had stolen it, so they arrested my father and interrogated him.
Many people may not understand now, why do you have to work so hard and even lynch when you lose a cedar tree? At that time, mountain forest resources were a very large wealth, many trees on the mountains have been cut down almost, large areas of mountain forests are bare, and it is very rare to have trees. The role of the fir tree is very large, not only can be used as a lot of furniture, the most important thing is that it can be used as the beam of the house, because it is strong and corrosion-resistant, so any collective or individual regards the fir tree as a treasure.
This cedar tree was specially kept by another production team, and it has been kept for more than ten years, and it has been reluctant to cut it down. But when I woke up, I found that the tree was gone. So they started asking questions one by one, and finally they heard someone say that my father often went there to cut wood, so they became suspicious of my father.
I asked my mother if my father had stolen the tree. My mother cried and said to me, "Your father is such an honest man, how could he go and steal that tree?" If he really stole it, then he had to take it home, can I still not know? But there is no one at home. ”
After listening to my mother's words, I grabbed my kitchen knife and ran to the production team angrily. When my mother saw me pick up the kitchen knife, she panicked all of a sudden, and she cried and shouted behind her: "What are you going to do, you are going to die, you have to die, how can I live, you must not be impulsive." "I was so angry that I didn't even pay attention to what my mother was saying, and just ran forward.
My mother saw that I was like a stubborn cow, so she hurried to my production captain and explained the situation to the production team leader, who was also afraid that something would happen, so she brought a few villagers and rushed over.
After I came to the production team that lost the tree, the other villagers saw my kitchen knife and quickly ran over to ventilate it, and in an instant, many villagers surrounded me with things. Their captain yelled at me, "What do you want to do? Want to **? Don't rely on a kitchen knife in your hand, we're afraid of you, we have more guys than you. Besides, if your father stole something, he should be punished. ”
I yelled back, "Why do you think my father stole your tree, and what evidence do you have?" If you arrest someone without getting a handle on it, you are slandering. ”
A young man on the other side stood up and said, "Your father often goes to the opposite mountain to collect firewood, and often passes by us, and I have seen it several times, and your father must have taken a fancy to this tree and has always wanted to beat it." ”
I asked, "You just saw him walking this way, but did you see him stealing the tree?" ”
As soon as the young man was asked by me, he said a little unjustifiably: "I didn't see him stealing, but he is the only one who walks this side often, not him, who else?" ”
As soon as I heard what he said, I became angry, and I said angrily: "Since you didn't see it, it's slander, let my father go quickly, otherwise I will let you go around without eating." ”
At this time, their captain spoke again, and he said slowly: "Young man, don't be impulsive, you must not know how high the sky is and how thick the earth is, otherwise you would not have said such arrogant words." ”
I was so enraged that I lost my mind, and I grabbed my kitchen knife and rushed to them to make a cut, when our captain arrived with the villagers and grabbed me.
The captain calmly said to me: "Come on, don't be impulsive, I understand your feelings, but your approach will not solve the problem, but will intensify the problem." You listen to what your uncle said, now that everything here is handled by me, I will definitely give you a satisfactory result. ”
At this time, I calmed down, put down the kitchen knife in my hand, and was taken to the side by the other villagers. The captain then communicated with the captain of the other party, and finally the two sides reached an agreement, that is, to allow the people of the other party's production team to go to my house to search for things, if there is no search, then immediately release the person, and also to carry the sedan chair to send my father back; If something is found in my house, then it will be brought back, and my father will be locked up for a few days, in order to make my father suffer.
Then all the men in their team poured into my house and searched my house inside and out, in the front room and in the backyard, but found nothing. They were not reconciled, thinking that my father had hidden the tree somewhere else, so they expanded the search area, not only to search the foot of the mountain, the ditch, and the pond in my village, but also to dig up the recently renovated soil to prevent my father from burying the tree in the ground.
After such a careful and careful search, it was ultimately in vain. So they fulfilled their promise and let my father go, and they actually carried my father back with a chair, and by the way, they also gave me a pound of pork to make up for my father.
After my father came back, my mother quickly asked my father if they had beaten him, and my father said, "They didn't do anything to me, they just kept asking if I stole the tree and hid it in **." They didn't make me hungry or thirsty, and when I was hungry I had food to eat and water to drink when I was thirsty. I saved a day's food for my family, and now I have a pound of pork, which is a good deal. ”
We didn't expect that after such a big turmoil today, my father could still say such humorous words, which made the whole family laugh at once. Since my mother and I hadn't eaten yet, my mother hurriedly went to wash the pork and cook, and soon a large bowl of fragrant pork was served on the table, and my mother asked my father to eat a little too, and my father said that he had already eaten it, and told me to eat more pork to grow my body. I hadn't eaten pork in a long time, and I immediately devoured it.
Although this matter has come to an end for my family, the production team that lost the tree is still working tirelessly to find the whereabouts of the tree. After searching for a while, they finally found a clue. It turned out that it was stolen by a villager from another village, and his family was building a house at the time, but there was a beam missing, so he started the idea of the tree.
After discovering the clues, the people from the production team also sent someone to his house to confirm it first, and finally confirmed that the tree was theirs, so they asked the owner to return it, but the owner of the house was not afraid of boiling water and said: "Now that the house has been built, you can't tell me to tear down the house and take out the tree, right?" Otherwise, you see what is valuable in my house, and you will take whatever you think is valuable. ”
But the people in the production team didn't buy his account at all, they said: "If you steal something from us, you have to pay us back, and if you don't dismantle it yourself, then we'll do it." So they went back and called a large number of men, all with shovels, hoes, and other tools, and demolished the house that had just been built, and took down the stolen cedar trees.
The owner of the house was dumbfounded, he didn't expect that these people really started to tear down his house, so he rolled on the ground. The gang didn't care if he rolled or not, they picked up the tree and left. So this person went to blame the people in the village for not helping him out, and also said: "People from other villages have been bullied to the doorstep, so let others bully them, the people in this village are really not united at all, and it is going to make people laugh when they spread it." ”
But the villagers all know that he is the kind of person who is not clean on weekdays, and now that the evidence is ironclad, it is really difficult to help him get ahead.
This is the rural past of the 70s of the last century, which may seem a little strange now, but it really happened in that era.
I am Uncle Zhou, a person born in the fifties of the last century, I have lived in the countryside all my life, I love the countryside, I like to write some rural past, the level is limited, but I will definitely persevere.