The Red Era: Living in Seclusion in a Siheyuan as a Boss

Chapter 435 "Corn Field"

The third team leader of the production team informed everyone at the members' meeting that evening that the county film team would come to show movies, and everyone was smiling.

Xiaodang, Wang Xia and several other female educated youth sat together, laughing and talking, their expressions filled with indescribable joy.

In these days, the nights in the countryside are particularly monotonous, and movie screenings have become the most anticipated event for the villagers, and can be called the "highlight" of the entertainment industry. However, such an opportunity is rare, and it may take a long time to come.

Because of this, whenever movie night came, the whole village was filled with joy. Even the female educated youth who came from the prosperous capital and had seen the world could not resist this pure joy and immersed themselves in it.

Du Haitao sat alone in a corner of the crowd, his face gloomy, his eyes occasionally stealthily glancing at Xiaodang and Wang Xia, thinking to himself: "Hmph, I'll let you guys have fun for a while, you'll cry later!"

Du Haitao gently pushed the rough-looking Du Saner beside him. The man had a beard, messy and greasy hair, deep wrinkles, and greasy eye mucus hanging from the corners of his eyes. He grinned, revealing a mouthful of yellow teeth, "Hey, nephew, who is the girl you are talking about? I think these girls are all pretty. How about I..."

Hearing this, Du Haitao's face turned furious. He suddenly bent his elbow and hit Du Saner's stomach hard, saying sternly, "I'm warning you, do what I say honestly, don't mess around, do you understand?"

Du Saner was threatened by Du Haitao, and a hint of ruthlessness flashed in his eyes, but then he turned to flattery and said to Du Haitao: "Don't worry, I will definitely listen to you, but you have to make sure that the girl..."

When Du Haitao heard this, he immediately looked around alertly. After confirming that no one was paying attention, he lowered his voice and warned fiercely: "Keep your voice down, you want the whole world to know?"

"Come with me!" Du Haitao said briefly and forcefully, pulling Du Saner quickly out of the venue and into a deep grove.

It was silent here, there was no one around, only the leaves swaying gently in the breeze.

Du Haitao's eyes suddenly became fierce, and he pushed Du San'er against a thick locust tree trunk, "Listen carefully, your mission is just to scare that bitch, don't play it seriously. If the educated youth really makes a mistake and the higher-ups track him down, do you want to taste the bullet?"

Seeing Du Haitao's fierce eyes, Du Saner was also afraid. In this village, he could not offend anyone but Du Haitao and his son.

What's more, Du Saner's family background is not clean. His grandfather was a notorious bandit named "Du Dabangzi" in his early years.

With the downfall of his grandfather, Du Saner's grandmother settled here with her son, intending to turn over a new leaf.

However, because his father came from a poor family, his marriage encountered many setbacks and he could only marry a silly woman, who was Du Saner's mother. This is how Du Saner was born.

When Du Saner was about seven or eight years old, his mentally ill mother lost control again.

One night in the cold winter, she quietly left home and disappeared into the night...When everyone found her, she was stiff and had died.

After that, Du San's father became addicted to drinking and couldn't extricate himself. Finally, after being drunk, he accidentally fell into a ditch and drowned.

The villagers talked about it privately, thinking that this was retribution for their family.

Du Saner, who lost both his parents, has suffered from cold eyes and discrimination since childhood.

Fortunately, times have changed and the new society has given him a glimmer of hope, so that he does not have to live on the streets or starve to death in the wilderness.

But as an orphan, Du Saner also developed a carefree personality.

He had been fighting, stealing, and peeping at other people's wives bathing since he was a child...

The villagers all ignored Du Saner, and Du Haitao was no exception. Sometimes they even brought people to bully him.

So, why did this pair of former enemies come together now? The story behind this has to start with an incident a few days ago.

A few days ago at dusk, Du Haitao had a few drinks alone at home. His thoughts involuntarily drifted to the past with Wang Xia. Furious and under the influence of alcohol, he decided to find Wang Xia and have it all clear.

So Du Haitao hurried to the female educated youth's cave, but unexpectedly found it empty and quiet.

It was already late, where else could the female educated youth go?

Du Haitao understood in his heart that these girls from the city always loved cleanliness. In this hot weather, most of them went to the river to take a bath.

Thinking of this, his heart warmed up. As a young man, he felt an impulse in his mind and a bold idea quietly emerged.

Taking advantage of the cover of night, Du Haitao quietly and silently arrived at the gurgling stream at the edge of the village.

Sure enough, bursts of laughter and joy could be heard faintly floating over the river, like the chirping of orioles and swallows, interweaving into the prelude to the night.

It was Du Haitao's first time to do a peeping thing, and he felt nervous and excited. He suppressed his heart that was about to jump out of his chest, and carefully lay down in the reeds on the shore and looked into the river.

Unfortunately, it was dark, far away, and blurry, making it difficult to see the details. However, the graceful figures of the women after they took off their clothes instantly ignited the passion in Du Haitao's heart.

His heart was pounding with excitement and he could hardly suppress his urge to imitate Zhu Bajie and jump into the water to dance and play with this group of "spider spirits."

At this moment, an unexpected discovery made Du Haitao's heart tighten - there was a figure lurking not far away.

This sudden situation made Du Haitao break out in a cold sweat and alarm bells rang in his heart.

He immediately thought of escaping, knowing that if he was exposed, the consequences would be disastrous, and even his father, the village chief, would find it difficult to save him.

Just when he was feeling uneasy, the figure moved and slowly crawled towards the clothes left behind by the female educated youth.

Next, the man picked up one of the women's underwear and sniffed it greedily as if no one was around!
This discovery made Du Haitao's nervousness disappear in an instant, "It turns out that we are from the same industry." Du Haitao showed a lewd smile on his face, and was about to leave quietly, but then he had another thought: "I have never had such close contact with Wang Xia's clothes. If this is Wang Xia's..."

Du Haitao was immediately filled with jealousy and decided to teach this audacious bastard a lesson.

"It's you, Du Saner!"

Du Saner was suddenly held down by a force. He was terrified and his face turned pale. He turned his head suddenly and exclaimed, "Ah! Nephew, why is it you?"

Du Saner and Du Haitao's father were brothers from the same clan, but the two families had never been harmonious since their ancestors.

Just imagine, one side is bandits and the other side is poor common people. With such a background, how can the relationship between the two families be harmonious?

"What are you doing here stealthily? Humph, are you doing some peeping?" Du Haitao's face was as dark as water, and he asked in a low voice with unquestionable majesty in his tone.

Du Saner was caught in the act and was extremely terrified. It was true that he dared to do dirty things, but that didn't mean he could bear the serious consequences.

Peeping at female educated youth is no joke. Once the commune finds out, Du Saner will be finished.

Du Haitao grabbed Du Saner and hurried away from the river. He just wanted to teach Du Saner a lesson and didn't really want to report him. After all, he himself couldn't explain why he appeared by the river late at night.

However, Du Saner misunderstood. He was so frightened that he suddenly knelt on the ground and begged for mercy: "Nephew, please have mercy on me. I will never dare to do it again..."

"As long as you are willing to let me go, from now on, I will follow your lead. If you point east, I will never go west."

Hearing this, Du Haitao's eyes flickered slightly, and a meaningful smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, "Du Saner, you said this yourself, don't go back on your word when the time comes!"

Du Saner was like a drowning man grabbing the last floating wood. He nodded desperately and promised repeatedly: "I will never regret it. I, Du Saner, have said something and it is irreversible!" But he secretly thought in his heart, "I'll get through this first, as for the future..."

Du Haitao thought for a moment, then he lightly kicked Du Saner's leg with his toes, "Come with me, let's talk somewhere else!" He turned around and walked up the mountain.

Seeing his attitude, Du Saner felt that this matter might be a big deal, but since things had come to this point, he had no choice but to give in.

So he gritted his teeth, climbed up from the ground, and followed with a gloomy face.

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Ever since the team leader announced that the movie would be shown in three days, everyone's hearts were on edge and they were still thinking about the movie while working in the fields.

There was no weather forecast at that time, and no one knew what the weather would be like three days later. The children were very anxious, and the adults were even more anxious.

The children were worried that if it rained, they would not be able to watch the movie at their doorstep.

What the adults were worried about was when to notify the relatives to come and watch the movie. If they notified them too early, wouldn’t it be a waste of food and wine if it rained and the movie didn’t show?
After all, no one was rich at that time, and inviting a table of guests was a big deal!
On the third day, the production team leader did not arrange any farm work, and the members did not go to work, but the children went to school as usual.

At three or four o'clock in the afternoon, after returning from the brigade primary school (each brigade had a primary school), the children did not go home, but ran directly to the production team's threshing ground (an empty space for drying wheat) to watch the adults bury fir logs and hang movie screens.

Only when two separate fir woods tied the four corners of the snow-white curtain tightly and hung it in the air did they disperse with smiles. Just after dark in the evening, the captain accompanied two projectionists with red faces and a smell of alcohol to an eight-person table.

The two projectionists opened several boxes placed beside the table, deftly set up the light bulbs, set up the projector, loaded the film, and fiddled with it.

"Swish!", a beam of light shot towards the screen.

"Please be quiet, please be quiet! The show will start now, the show will start now! Tonight we will show "The Battle of South and North", tonight we will show "The Battle of South and North""!
There was a lot of noise and chatter just now, but suddenly it became completely silent, and you could even hear the sound of a pin drop on the ground.

The air was filled with the pungent smell of alcohol, the pungent smell of "dried yam wine". The white beam of light connecting the projector and the screen was also surrounded by rising smoke.

The cigarettes were the very pungent "Fengshou" brand that cost nine cents a pack and the "Da Tieqiao" brand that cost 14 cents a pack.

Coughing sounds came and went.

After the movie started for a while, the children couldn't sit still and started playing, chasing and fighting, one wave after another.

The adults were drunk and talked fluently, one topic after another, talking about family matters without stopping.

In the end, few people were staring at the screen to watch the movie. No one could hear what was being said in the movie. Only the occasional sound of gunfire could be heard.

In the sky, a few stars were blinking, but they disappeared into the thick clouds at some point.

After a few muffled thunders, light raindrops fell from the sky.

However, there is still a little bit of the movie left to show.

The projectionist was anxious, "It's going to rain heavily, are you still going to watch it?" The first to respond were the children, "Yes!" The adults then shouted, "Let's just finish the show! We don't know when it will be our production team's turn to show a movie next time."

Xiaodang watched the movie for more than an hour and suddenly felt the urge to urinate, so he decided to go out to relieve himself.

However, it was late at night and she felt afraid, so she invited Wang Xia to go with her.

"Xiaoxia, please walk with me. It's dark here and I'm a little scared." Xiaodang said a little nervously.

Wang Xia laughed and teased her, "Blind! What are you afraid of? If you hide in the cornfield, who can see you? Hahahaha..."

"Go away, I'm not afraid of people, but what if a wolf comes out and takes me away?" Xiao Dang pretended to be angry and pushed Wang Xia.

The two stood up and walked out of the venue, laughing and joking, completely unaware of the greedy eyes following them closely from behind.

At this moment, the drizzle is getting heavier and is about to intensify.

"Xiaodang, let's take this piece of land! There's no one here, let's move quickly. I'm wearing thin clothes and I'm feeling a little cold." Wang Xia said while shivering.

When they went out in the evening, the weather was still hot and humid. Everyone wore short-sleeved T-shirts, except Xiaodang, who brought an extra jacket and casually draped it over her shoulders.

"Do you know it's cold now? I told you to bring more clothes, but you didn't listen. Come, wear mine first." Xiao Dang took off his coat and gently put it on Wang Xia's shoulders. Then, she went into the ridge of the field and found a secluded place to relieve herself.

"Xiaodang! How's the situation over there?" Wang Xia's voice came from outside the dark field ridge with a bit of anxiety. The dark night made her feel timid, and she couldn't help but raise her voice to call out.

"Wait a moment, my stomach suddenly feels uncomfortable. Ouch... It may be the shock of cold and heat that is causing pain to my stomach..." Xiaodang's voice was filled with helplessness. She had never expected that she would suffer from the embarrassment of diarrhea after having to urinate urgently. At this moment, she was squatting in the cornfield, dealing with this sudden inconvenience.

Wang Xia rolled her eyes when she heard this. "Humph! It's just like a lazy donkey pushing a millstone - lots of shit and piss!"

"you……"

With a "bang", Wang Xia's words stopped abruptly, and then she was knocked to the ground by a violent blow and lost consciousness instantly.

Wang Xia lay quietly on the ground, unconscious. At this moment, a dark shadow approached quietly and loomed over her.

The shadow was none other than the village's old bachelor Du San'er. He bent down and pushed Wang Xia, but when she showed no reaction, he couldn't help but sneer, revealing his yellow teeth, and whispered to himself, "Hey, this is so easy to do!"

Then, he stood up and wanted to leave.

Suddenly, his eyes were involuntarily attracted by Wang Xia's graceful figure, with smooth curves, like a moving painting.

For a long time, he had been envious of these youthful girls from the capital, often peeping at them from a distance, secretly fantasizing in his heart...

Du Saner couldn't help swallowing his saliva when he saw that the other girl was still in the cornfield.

He slowly extended his evil hand to Wang Xia's plump...

Then, Du Saner couldn't help it, so he picked up the unconscious Wang Xia and walked towards the grove in the distance...

When Xiaodang emerged from the cornfield, Wang Xia was nowhere to be seen. "Xiaoxia? Xiaoxia!" She called out repeatedly, her voice echoing in the empty field, but received no response.

A joking thought flashed through Xiaodang's mind, and she thought Wang Xia was teasing her again.

"Stop hiding, come out quickly, we have to go back!" She raised her voice, but the only response she got was the sound of wind and rain.

"Okay, since you're not coming out, I'll leave first." Xiao Dang said casually, but his tone could not hide his anxiety.

"I started counting, one, two, three..." When she counted to three, she called out again, "Xiaoxia, stop playing and come out!" However, the only response she got was the sound of even heavier rain.

Suddenly, a crack appeared in the sky, thunder roared, and then heavy rain poured down.

Xiaodang had an ominous premonition in her heart. She looked around, but saw only endless rain. Wang Xia's figure had disappeared without a trace.

In desperation, she could only grit her teeth and set out on the journey back alone.

"what!"

"Help!"

"Someone come quickly! Woo woo ..."

Just as Xiaodang was walking hurriedly in the rain with his hands tightly protecting his head, trying to avoid the sudden downpour, a rapid and weak cry for help seemed to penetrate the rain curtain and came from the woods not far away, clearly audible - it was Wang Xia's voice!

"Xiaoxia? Is that you?" Xiaodang's heart suddenly tightened, fear and worry intertwined. She hesitated for a moment, but then mustered up her courage, and although her legs were shaking with fear, she still resolutely ran towards the direction where the cry for help came from, stumbling.

Xiaodang was extremely anxious, with tears in his voice, and called out repeatedly: "Xiaoxia! Xiaoxia! Where are you? Respond to me quickly!" Before he finished speaking, he saw Wang Xia with disheveled clothes and tearful eyes, stumbling towards him, crying and shouting: "Xiaoxia, run away! There is..." Before he finished speaking, she was in front of Xiaodang.

Seeing this, Xiaodang's heart tightened. She saw that Wang Xia was soaked, her clothes were disheveled, and she looked extremely miserable. She was so shocked that she stood there in a daze.

"Hurry up!" Wang Xia's voice was almost a roar. She pulled Xiao Dang suddenly. The two of them ran wildly like frightened birds, desperately trying to escape from this place.

They only breathed a sigh of relief when they saw several flashlights coming towards them in the distance.

It turned out that Wang Xia was carried into the grove by Du Saner...

Just when Du Saner was about to achieve his evil intention, there was a sudden loud roar in the sky, followed by heavy rain pouring down, instantly shrouding the night in chaos.

This sudden change in the weather seemed like a turning point in fate, waking up Wang Xia, who had fallen into a coma. She opened her eyes and was horrified to find a dark shadow pressing on her, trying to strip her clothes off.

"Ah! Let me go!" Wang Xia's scream cut through the rain, full of helplessness and despair.

Du Saner was horrified when he saw this, realizing that his plan had been exposed. Facing Wang Xia's fierce resistance, he was in a panic and even tried to cover her mouth with both hands to stop the shrill cry for help from coming out.

However, on this stormy night, all struggles seemed so powerless.

Wang Xia's fear suddenly intensified. With her mouth covered, she struggled hard. Her hands groped around on the ground and luckily touched a hard branch. She then stabbed Du Saner without hesitation.

(End of this chapter)