Notes on Mangniu Village

Early in the morning, the villagers in Mangniutun just went out after dinner when they heard a terrible news: Ma's cow was drugged!

Everyone was shocked when they heard it: Ma Er raised thirty or forty scalpers! Did they all die of drugs? I couldn't help running to see what had happened.

From a distance, I saw a lot of people gathered at the door of Ma Er's house. When I looked closer, a smell of blood came to my face and hit my nostrils.

When I walked to the door, the scene was really terrible!

I saw a yard full of cows, big and small. Some people were bled; Some cows have their heads cut off and thrown aside, their eyes still open; Some were skinned and hung on the courtyard walls, and bones and meat were also unloaded into eight pieces and piled on the ground paved with snakeskin bags. There are still some cows lying under the wall of the cowshed, dying. The yard was full of blood, which flowed into a river and a small ditch outside the door.

Ma Er's wife, Yan Xia, stood at the door of the room, her eyes already crying into peaches. Ma Er sat on the stone pier next to Yan Xia, holding a cigarette in his hand. He didn't take a sip for a long time, drooping his eyelids and staring blankly.

In the middle of the yard, the man wearing a leather jacket with his hands in his pockets was a cattle dealer called by Ma Er, and several people led by the cattle dealer were busy killing cattle and bleeding.

The yard was full of onlookers, men, women and children. One by one stare big eyes, a sigh, enough to explain the tragic degree at that time.

Some people can't hide from this scene, just take a look, then just visible and run out of the yard, squatting outside the wall and vomiting. There's another woman, dizzy with blood. As soon as she entered the yard, she fainted at the gate. A group of people rushed around, some screaming and some pinching people.

More people are watching, whispering, whispering.

Someone said, "Who did this? It is really willing to go on, too vicious! "

Some said, "There is no injustice or enmity, which is immoral!"

Some said: "Even a small festival, you can't take it out on dumb animals! What happened to the animals? "

At that time, conflicting views, say what all have.

More than 30 cows were cut down uniformly, which was a coincidence for anyone who saw it. Even if you have an infectious disease, you are not so happy. How can you have a background? That's good, but it's only a night's work, except for poisoning, which is not so fast.

A few years ago, when there were many cows in the village, there were indeed evil spirits poisoning the cows, but the criminal gangs have been brought to justice and have never heard of such a thing again!

Xia Yan stretched out his hand and pulled Lamar Er's head: "Well, report the case quickly!"

"What's the use of reporting? Can you find clues? " The second horse threw the cigarette butt on the ground and stepped on it hard.

"You can't eat dumb losses like this, can you?"

"What if I don't mind?" Ma Er is getting impatient.

"What? It is also necessary to rectify it! " Yan Xia said and cried again.

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Ma Er couldn't hold back his wife's endless muttering, and finally dialed the telephone of the police station.

The police station was not slow to get out of the police, and it took less than half an hour to get to Ma Er's house. Director Ji and several policemen explored around the cowshed and found no other useful clues except a few worn-out broken bottles and cans.

Ma Er is in a hurry. If it is not handled in time, the loss will be even greater when all the cows fall to the ground. Now some cows are still breathing and bleeding. How to deal with the extra money?

Director Ji understood Ma Er's idea and said to him, "We'll extract something from the cow's stomach later and go back and test it. Where's your cow? It's time to deal with it. "

So, there is an opening.

The name of Mangniutun is not in vain, and there are many people who raise cattle. There are two or three hundred households in the village, and few households don't raise cattle. Even the school's private tutor keeps two cows at home as a sideline. However, there are fewer cows and more foster mothers. As the saying goes, "one cow gives birth to one cow, five cows in three years" has become the experience of local people to get rich. A small mountain village with more than 600 people has raised more than 700 scalpers, one per capita.

Raising cattle makes people have money in their pockets. They plant ten acres and twenty acres of corn a year, and then raise three or five yellow cattle. They don't have to leave home for work, and their lives are quite rich.

County leaders discovered the phenomenon in this village. The county magistrate personally went to the village to inspect the cattle raising situation of ordinary people, and also took a reporter to write a report called "Taking Cattle to Run a Well-off Society", which was published in the provincial farmers' newspaper. Now the small mountain village is famous and has become a famous professional demonstration village for cattle raising in the county.

Under the advocacy of the county government, cattle raising in Mangniu Village soon spread to all towns and villages in the county, so this small mountain county became a demonstration county for cattle raising.

The vigorous development of cattle industry has driven related industries, and the cattle trading markets in various towns have emerged as the times require, so there have been some cattle dealers specializing in yellow cattle.

Raising more cattle is both a good thing and a bad thing. As soon as I entered the village, the streets and corners were full of cows, and the eyes were full of cow dung piles. Walking on the village road, you can accidentally step on cow excrement, and the air is filled with the smell of cow urine.

The emergence of scalpers has activated the market. The price of cattle is in their hands, and ordinary people are often not as good as them. Cattle dealers ride motorcycles and swagger in and out of villages, knowing about the situation of cattle raising in each village. Once you know who has scalpers to sell, they will flock to you like flies smelling blood, so you have to find out sooner or later. Otherwise, it will be endless, wandering around the cattle farmers' homes all day.

At the beginning, you can basically abide by the rules and operate according to the rules. Gradually, a few lawless people, no longer satisfied with the normal price difference, began to think wrong.

It is said that some cattle dealers actually go out to find targets in the name of watching cattle. Their technology is very negative. They put on rubber gloves and covered them with cotton gloves soaked in medicine, pretending to look at the cow, touching its back with their hands, and then pretending to leave regretfully without patting or touching it, pointing around and bargaining with you, deliberately lowering the price and saying the wrong thing.

Cattle that have been photographed with gloves will feel itchy at first and can't help licking them often, and the result will gradually be poisoned. They may also sprinkle medicine on the corn stalks or even throw it into the cow trough, which is impossible to prevent. They also look for people who are greedy and cheap in various villages, give them some sweetness to tip them, and then come to the door and buy scalpers at a very low price. This technique can be described as running people's ancestral graves and inserting cigarette butts-immoral and smoking, completely immoral.

At first, people didn't know it at all, thinking that cattle had an infectious disease. Watching a family of scalpers get sick, calling a veterinarian can't cure it. In order to minimize the loss, there is nothing we can do in the face of the low price given by the cattle dealer, so we have to admit that killing is better than dying.

This phenomenon spread to all parts of the county, causing heavy losses to the cattle industry and a sharp decline in the number of yellow cattle in various places. In the past two years, the number of cattle in Mangniu Village has dropped from more than 700 to less than 70.

This phenomenon has attracted the attention of the local government, and the county leaders ordered the public security department to make great efforts to investigate and deal with it. After half a year, we finally cracked several criminal gangs and arrested some illegal cattle dealers, thus curbing the evil momentum.

However, after this near-bankruptcy blow, the people's enthusiasm for raising cattle has been exhausted. Coupled with the shrinking bull market, the price of cattle continued to fall. Raising cattle is no longer the way people choose to make money. The former cattle village has become a cattle-free village. Ordinary people began to leave their homes and embarked on a long road of going out to work.

In addition, in the prosperous years of cattle industry, the vegetation on the mountain was seriously damaged due to overgrazing. The forestry department began to restrict grazing and asked farmers to keep them in captivity. This means that it is necessary to increase capital and manpower investment and increase the cost of raising cattle, which is one of the reasons why ordinary people no longer raise cattle.

In those years of cattle raising craze, Ma Er didn't follow suit, and there wasn't even a hair at home. He is busy with one business all the year round-dumping cement.

Since farmland has been graded to households, people's lives have become better, more and more people are building houses, and the demand for cement has also increased greatly. At that time, the county cement plant was still a collective management model, and cement was not easy to buy under the output. Farmers should invite people to buy cement through the back door. Ma Er saw this business opportunity, borrowed money to buy a four-wheeled tractor and began to pour cement.

Ma Er is a hard-working man with a strong physique. The village is 80 miles from the county seat. Every day, it gets up early and runs twice. Pull two tons at a time, earn fifteen dollars per ton and sixty dollars a day. At that time, the average person worked for five or six dollars a day, and his income was still considerable.

Mala Cement never uses stevedores, and all the loading and unloading is done by itself. Ma Er is not tall, he is an axle worker and full of energy. He carries a 100 kg cement bag with one arm on each side. He is relaxed and fast. When I got to the car, I threw my arm up and got a bag of cement on the car. Unloading is faster, and you don't have to smoke two cigarettes.

In order for Dora to run fast, Ma Er modified the tractor and added tires and engines. Originally, it pulled two tons, and this time it was increased to three tons.

Later, the cement plant was contracted to individuals, and the cement output was greatly improved. It turned out that farmers entrusted people to buy cement, but this time it became a cement factory to sell cement at home.

At the beginning of the new year, the cement factory was short of funds and began to sell cement at low prices. Ma Er ordered hundreds of tons at once, which not only earned the freight, but also earned the price difference, and the daily income was only tens of dollars.

After several years of hard work, Ma Er has been unable to get tickets. Because it is a big cement seller, every Spring Festival, the owner of the cement factory will drive to give Ma Er a gift.

With money, people will inevitably be willful and do whatever they want. Ma Er invested in the supply and marketing cooperative in the village, making hardware electrical materials, daily necessities and selling cement. This can be a common saying: the richer a person is, the more money he can make.

Rich people stand tall, some people listen, and there are more and more flatterers. Who has big and small issues in the village? Ma Er is a character at the scene. Inevitably, there will be a handful of dishonest old ladies around you.

Ma Er will always be a person who loves to talk and laugh. He is always joking with the old ladies, and he often can't control his mouth, so he can walk out of anything. But when it comes to joking and laughing, you can't do it if you want to be serious. Ma er is still a serious person. He didn't gossip with anyone. His mind is full of money. However, women are jealous. Yan Xia was a little unhappy when she saw the old ladies in the village clinging to their husbands. People come to the store to buy things and don't like to entertain others. Is it okay to do business like this? Besides, she is not the only seller in the village.

Ma Er saw that the business in the store was depressed and knew that the problem was Xia Yan. He knows Yan Xia's character very well, just like kicking him away, he explodes. So, let Yan Xia go, he can only think about new business.

His supply and marketing cooperative used to be the old village Committee in the village, next to the largest house in the village-the cinema. There have been no movies in the village for a long time. It has become an empty house and has been idle. Later, the town opened a gold mine in the ravine, rented a cinema, and built many cement pools to soak ore. But after a few years, the gold mine turned yellow and the house was empty.

Ma Er stares at the cinema every day. I think it's a pity that such a big house is empty. It's close to my shop, and I have to do something with it.

At this time, the local cattle fever has passed for many years, and there are only a few cattle farmers in the village. After years of depression, the price of yellow cattle began to pick up gradually. Ma Er has decided to buy a house to raise cattle!

Ma er is still relatively strong in doing things, and he will get a lot of money if he does it. I bought a cinema, demolished the cement pool inside, covered it with yellow sand more than half a foot thick, covered it with cement floor, and installed two rows of cow troughs. After everything was ready, I bought 20 cows from Inner Mongolia at once and hired my wife's maiden nephew to help me feed them.

In addition, Ma Er subcontracted 30 mu of land and planted big corn. A cellar was built in the yard. In August, the connecting rod with the rod was cut back, and then it was cut with a grass cutter to make green storage feed.

Xia Yan's unmarried nephew is Haitao, a bachelor in his thirties. People are sincere, illiterate, and not lazy. They never use Ma Er's command to do anything at any time every day. Ma er doesn't mistreat him either. He provides food and shelter. His salary will be paid together at the end of the year and returned at ordinary times. Some pocket money.

A year later, a dozen calves landed and the stock became more than 30. Ma Er looked at a circle of cows, big and small, and his heart was full of joy.

Ma Er stopped driving to pull cement and concentrated on raising cattle. Because my son has grown into a big boy, didn't finish high school, and learned a driver's license. Ma Er bought a big truck and gave the work of pulling cement to his son. A truck has pulled dozens of tons, and the business is getting bigger.

Being rich is a good thing, and it can also make people envy or even envy. Ma er is not a fool. He is very picky about the people in the village camp. Whoever has an affair, big or small, will never help and will borrow a lot of money.

However, people are such things. Some people think that Ma Er's brave words are right. Who made you rich?

Of course, this is a personal idea, and most people still admire Ma Er.

A whole circle of scalpers was knocked down, which was a big loss. Although Ma Er is rich, he is also angry in his heart. I haven't eaten for several meals, and I don't feel hungry. He couldn't sleep at midnight, so he thought about it. But I couldn't figure it out after thinking about it. He doesn't think he has angered anyone. Whatever you need, help if you can. Never called. I can't help but sigh: this man is really hard to pay.

Nothing happened at the police station. When I call, I can't say anything ugly. It is only said that the test result is indeed poisoning, but the whereabouts of the murderer are unknown. Ma er simply stopped counting on it and knew that he was unlucky.

The cow is gone and Haitao is dead. Ma Er vaguely felt that this silly boy was a little abnormal, but he couldn't say anything. Maybe he was too busy and suddenly stopped working. There happened to be a stevedore pulling cement for his son, and he was going to let Haitao go up because of something at home. However, Haitao is gone!

Ma Er discovered that something was wrong. Ma Er didn't come over for dinner last night and didn't meet this morning. Ma Er guessed that he might have gone back to his home, so he was anxious to make a phone call. As a result, he said that people didn't go back. Where did the boy go?

When Ma Er wandered around the cowshed, he finally found the problem.

When the town was leaching ore here, the family dug two wells, one for discharging waste water and the other for leaching ore. After Ma Er bought it, he only filled the sewer well, but the water intake well was unwilling to fill it. Some people may say, isn't raising cattle just water? You can buy a submersible pump and just press the button when using water. How convenient!

Ma Er dare not use the water from this well. Ma Er heard that potassium cyanide is used to soak ore, which is also commonly known as pheasant medicine. It's said that it's quite overbearing, and it's fatal to meet a little bit. So after buying the theater, we paved more than half a foot thick yellow sand, hit the cement floor, made a thick cement cover, and covered the manhole cover so tightly that most people could not move it.

Ma Er walked into the cowshed and found that the manhole cover had been opened! He had an ominous premonition. He shone a flashlight into the well and saw a man floating on it! If it's not Haitao, you don't have to look closely to know who it is.

Ma Er forgot his sadness, and hurriedly asked his son to find a ladder, go down to the well and pull Haitao up with a rope. People are soaked in wells!

Someone died. Call the police. The police will come soon. During the whole inquiry, I couldn't make a judgment immediately. I also searched Haitao's house for other evidence. Finally, a piece of paper was found in Haitao's luggage roll, on which a few lines were written askew:

Sister and uncle:

All because I didn't listen to my uncle. There was no electricity or water that day. I tried to save my strength and give the cows water from the well. I didn't expect the cow to be really killed by medicine. I've caused you a lot of trouble, and it's too late to say anything now. I can't afford it, and I'm ashamed to see you. Don't hate me.

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After reading the letter, Xia Yan burst into tears: "Tao Zi, are you stupid?" You didn't mean it. If the cow dies, we can't let you pay for it! "

The police have now taken water samples from the well and taken them to the county for testing. Before the results came out, Ma Er was taken to the police station for custody.

The death of Haitao made Ma Er regret it very much. In fact, he didn't believe it in his heart. It's not a well at all, and after more than ten years, well water can still be toxic and so overbearing, otherwise he wouldn't have bought a cinema to raise cattle. It is precisely because of this idea that the well was not filled at the beginning. The reason why the cover is covered is mainly to prevent small animals from falling in. But he still told Haitao not to drink cattle with the water in the well, so he bought a tricycle and went to the well house in the east of the village to pull water.

The day before the cow died, the electricity did stop for a day, so Ma Er asked Haitao to drive three rounds to the Beida River to pull water and drink the cow. At that time, just in time for the delivery truck to deliver goods in the store, Ma Er didn't go with the truck. I didn't expect this Haitao to be lazy, so it happened!

Ma Er regrets to death. Why didn't he fill this well in the first place? I didn't expect this difference to be cast? Today's big mistake seems that, somehow, tragedy has already been doomed.

If we say that the sudden death of two cows in Majia is a big news for Mangniu Village. Then, Haitao's death sounded the alarm for the people in Mangniu Village.

Actually, Ma Er didn't think about it when he bought the cinema. But he never expected such a tragic result. He really underestimated this thing called potassium cyanide. After much deliberation, he felt that he couldn't stop there and had to tell the town. So, he drove three rounds and went to the town in one breath.

However, after more than ten years, the leaders of the town have changed several times. No matter who they are looking for, Ma Er returns home dejectedly and sulks. After he recovered, he calmed down and thought that this would not work and he had to find a good reason. But what to do, he has been in the dark. He knows that it is not so easy for ordinary people to sue officials.

San Ji in the village died, only less than fifty years old. People in their fifties and sixties have walked several times in recent years, which makes people sigh and has many regrets and doubts.

Some people say that the human body is too chaff, not as good as the older generation.

Some people say that the older generation eats things, although coarse grains are green food! What do people eat now? How is it healthy to eat food with pesticides and fertilizers all day?

Some people say that people are under great pressure now, and they will panic if they don't make money for a day. Can they live longer?

After listening to these comments, Ma Er couldn't help pumping a little soul. Yes, the village has been a little abnormal in recent years. Thinking about it, he suddenly had a tingle in his mind: Could this be related to groundwater pollution?

He dare not jump to conclusions. After breakfast, he went to the police station again and got the test results of well water from Director Ji. Sure enough, the water contains a lot of potassium cyanide!

However, this result did not attract the attention of the villagers, but made Ma Er more determined in his judgment: since potassium cyanide can penetrate into the water intake well, can't it penetrate into other wells farther away for a long time? He told his thoughts to some villagers and immediately caused a great sensation in the village. For a time, everyone was talking about a topic: no wonder so many people died in the village in recent years. It turns out that we are all taking poison slowly! The family members of the deceased are even more indignant: "People can't die in vain like this, they have to find a place to talk about it!"

So, Ma Er contacted several families, drew up an indictment, signed it door to door, and then complained to the county government from the village committee and township government.

However, after a long time, there was no result. Ma Er and several people found the county, and no one paid attention to them. Looking for the county magistrate, the county magistrate is also vague.

After consulting with several people, Ma Er simply went straight ahead and continued to look for it, throwing the complaint into the city government.

This time, it quickly got the attention of the city. The mayor instructed the relevant departments to investigate the matter, and finally reached a conclusion to confirm the truth of the report by the masses. So a general order was issued, requiring the county and township governments to deal with this matter as soon as possible, compensate the families of the deceased under the age of 60, compensate farmers for economic losses, and solve the problem of groundwater pollution as soon as possible.

After receiving the general order, the county government specially convened an enlarged meeting of the Standing Committee. After research, it is decided that: 1. The leaders of the township government blindly develop the economy and cause serious consequences of environmental pollution, which is really caused by ignorance of science. But considering their good intentions, now they have retired and left their jobs, and they are no longer held accountable. Second, limited by the financial resources of the town, it is impossible to pay huge sums of money to compensate the villagers, which is in line with the local actual situation. The civil affairs department has designated the families of the deceased as low-income households and issued subsidies as pensions every year. Three, by the county, by the water conservancy bureau, environmental protection bureau and county water company to undertake the implementation, to install tap water in the village, to solve the problem of villagers' safe draught.

Some people say that this is due to Ma Er, but the people are still in the dark about Ma Er's cattle raising accident. It is hard to say how many families have suffered!

Ma er also got a certain percentage of remuneration this time. In this regard, he was very satisfied and said with deep feelings: "We must thank our government, sympathize with the suffering of our people, and do practical things for us, so as to solve the major events related to our people's life, survival and life.