These vicious incidents in rural areas, the people who commit them deserve to be shot.
Rural areas were once a scene of peace and harmony, but now some ill-intentioned people have reached their hands of evil into the countryside, turning rural areas into a foul mess and making honest rural people suffer unbearably. Village bullies can be said to be the greatest evil for rural people. These people stop at nothing in doing evil and have formed a small power group that beats people at the slightest disagreement. Those who are beaten often cannot get an effective way to resolve it and can only accept their bad luck. This further fuels the arrogance of village bullies, and some even rob people on the road. In some places they control the rural market, outside vendors cannot get in, the crops grown by rural people cannot be sold, and they take high fees from it. Of course, such people are not only condemned by everyone, but often also come to no good end.

In rural areas, village cadres are the highest officials that honest, simple farmers ever meet. A village cadre who does things, a leading village cadre, is especially important for rural areas. But some village cadres take the lead in doing evil and enrich themselves. They collude with some unscrupulous merchants and, without the farmers' knowledge, forcibly seize villagers' land, giving the farmers only a pitifully small land rental fee. Land is the foundation of rural people, and these village cadres who do nothing are truly more hateful than village bullies.
Theft in rural areas still happens often to this day. Some people always think about getting something for nothing, and after tasting the sweetness, they even develop into home invasion robberies. Some dog thieves use poisoned crossbow arrows to shoot and kill the dogs rural people use to guard their homes. In rural areas, some people have become rich through breeding, which draws the envy of these people. When what you are raising is about to mature, at night these people pry open the farm gates to steal and rob. Their methods are very skilled, so that you cannot hear a single sound, and the next day you see the gate wide open and everything gone.
Now rural people have gradually become richer, and some unhealthy trends have also blown into the countryside. Some people openly set up gambling games to cheat farmers out of their hard-earned money. Their operations are mobile: neighboring villages, old houses, the open fields. And they arrange people on duty at every road intersection to prevent anyone from raiding the gambling. They incite rural people to gamble, and they will not stop until they squeeze out your last bit of benefit, leaving you in debt to usury. Some people who get trapped in it turn a good life into a broken family, unable to return home.
Is this not the hometown in my memory?