Father's Land Mother's River

Chapter 177 The village official takes office
Liu Xiaonan was temporarily appointed as the village head of Liuzi Street, and he officially took up the post when the big cherries were ripe.

Song Ge's news was very well-informed, and it was useless for Liu Xiaonan to unilaterally block the news from her.Following in Liu Xiaonan's footsteps, she rushed to Liuzi Street to do an exclusive live interview report.

There was no ceremony, so Guan Deyu led Liu Xiaonan to meet with several members of the village committee and asked him to talk about his ideas.Two of them are still his classmates in junior high school, and they warmly welcome him to join, hoping to bring new changes to Liuzi Street.

Guan Deyu asked Liu Xiaonan to speak to all the villagers.Liu Xiaonan spoke into the microphone, and his voice echoed over the village through the loudspeaker: "Dear fellows, I am Liu Xiaonan, the rural child you watched and grew up with. Starting today, I officially I am temporarily serving as the village head of Liuzi Street. I don’t participate in the affairs of the village, I only do one thing, and that is to remove the hat of the impoverished village of Liuzi Street.”

Liu Xiaonan looked back at Guan Deyu and Song Ge, Guan Deyu nodded, and Song Ge smiled appreciatively.He went on to say: "Our Liuzi Street has mountains, rivers and rivers, dry fields, paddy fields and mountains, and convenient transportation. We should not wear the hat of a poor village. My initial idea is that the development of Liuzi Street The characteristic rural industry has turned Liuzi Street into a big cherry planting base and a vegetable and fruit distribution center. If you have any ideas, you can also communicate with us, and we will discuss together. There is only one purpose, that is, we will work together to become well-off. Thank you !"

Short and powerful, this is considered a formal inauguration speech, with a long way to go.After the meeting, everyone was busy with their own business, and Liu Xiaonan went to the mountain to pick big cherries together with Yu Songge.

The production of those [-] large cherries will double this year, and the price will increase, but even so, the supply is still in short supply.Liu Xiaonan has already made reservations in advance, and merchants who made reservations late had to find another place of production.

In order to keep her mother from being overworked, Liu Xiaonan originally planned to transfer the family land and the cherry orchard to her uncle Liu Zhitai, leaving only the vegetable garden for her mother to exercise.My mother refused and insisted on keeping the cherry orchard and three acres of paddy fields.

Liu Xiaonan knew that this was the idea in her mother's bones, and she was reluctant to transfer the land to others.He didn't force his mother, he obeyed his mother's wishes, and at worst, he hired someone to help her farm and manage when the farming was busy, as long as she was happy.

In the cherry orchard on the back hillside, the ripe big cherries and people's smiling faces complemented each other, and the joy was so lively that the growers invited their relatives to help them pick.

Afraid that his sister-in-law would be in a hurry, Liu Zhitai and Liu Erya closed the small shop and first helped Jiang Changling pick.The addition of Liu Xiaonan, Guan De, and Yu Songge greatly accelerated the progress of picking.

Song Ge was helping the picking indiscriminately, while befriending Jiang Changling: "Ma'am, did you hear what Xiaonan said just now?"

Jiang Changling was not idle at all, and put bunches of big cherries into cardboard boxes one after another. She said, "Is it so loud, can I still hear it?"

Song Ge stopped, tasting the big cherries one by one, teasing the old lady intentionally: "Ma'am, you can enjoy the happiness without having to work so hard."

Jiang Changling bent down and picked up a whole box of big cherries and said, "People in the farmyard don't have a happy life. As long as they can move, they have to work in the field."

Guan Deyu hurriedly took the cardboard box from Jiang Changling's hand, put it on Liu Zhitai's agricultural vehicle, turned around and said, "My sister-in-law's point of view is exactly the same as that of my elder brother. Anyway, I don't have much land by myself, so I will help my sister-in-law. "

Song Ge asked again: "Ma'am, are you happy that Xiao Nan is taking up the post of village head?"

"Why am I happy?" Jiang Changling picked up an empty cardboard box, put it in front of her and said, "Since the school was built, how many people have gossiped about him in the past few years? The affairs of the village are not easy to manage, and money and effort are not appreciated. He's trying to be brave. I hope he never goes back to Willow Street."

Guan Deyu said: "Sister-in-law, after all, there are only a few people who gossip, and most people will definitely appreciate and support Xiaonan."

Jiang Changling said: "A piece of stinky meat spoils a pot of soup. My son has been featured in newspapers and TV. Why let those people chew his tongue?"

Liu Xiaonan smiled at Guan Deyu and Song Ge, and said to her mother, "Mom, don't complain, I believe that sooner or later, everyone will understand me."

Jiang Changling curled her lips and said nothing more.

Near noon, everyone went down the mountain one after another, and sent the picked cherries to the distribution market for sale.Liu Xiaonan went home to make lunch and asked her mother to follow her uncle to sell cherries.The old man will be happier when he sees the fruits of his labor turned into cash.

Walking on the mountain road, Song Ge asked Liu Xiaonan, "Is there really someone gossiping about you?"

Liu Xiaonan said: "Before some people said that I bought people's hearts, I don't know what kind of conspiracy I was trying to do. After my father passed away, some people said that it was retribution for having money to burn. In short, I can't see the good of others."

"Why is it so vicious? Especially insulting a deceased person. This is completely different from the rural people I understand."

"Why am I not like this? I always think that hard work and kindness are synonymous with farmers, but a small number of people insult the word farmers. They used to be the beneficiaries of the big pot. After the land was contracted, they showed their original shape, hating the rich and hating the rich. I don’t want to contribute myself, this is a countercurrent.”

"You should fight back appropriately, and you can't let this countercurrent affect the overall situation."

"Don't go to bed because you're afraid of peeing on the kang? Don't you plant beans when you hear rabbits? Don't you have children when you hear wolves?"

Song Ge smiled and said, "What kind of vocabulary do you use? Vulgar and vivid, I have to write it down."

Liu Xiaonan said: "This is the vocabulary of farmers, so there is no need to fight back. In the words of your journalists, if a dog bites you, can you bite the dog back? I remember it was in the winter of [-]. I just graduated from high school and returned home. Household farmers, the village was on fire, and the haystacks were set on fire one after another. The people whose haystacks were set on fire at home were furious, looking for the possible arsonists they thought to take revenge, and they also became arsonists. Everyone burned red At a glance, haystacks were set ablaze every night, and the township sent people to live in the village but failed to stop the momentum of arson.”

Song Ge was surprised: "That scene is really terrible. How did you eliminate the crisis later?"

Liu Xiaonan said: "My father came home from the mine. In the winter, he asked me to copy calligraphy on Mr. Guan's stone tablet. At that time, Mr. Guan's stone tablet was still lying on the ditch as a stepping stone. Although I I didn't understand my father's intentions, so I squatted on the stone tablet and copied it, and my hands and feet ached from the cold for several days."

Song Ge interjected: "The villagers thought of the remnants of their ancestors on the stele, calmed down their anger, and the crisis was invisible. Therefore, you, a temporary village chief, don't care about personal honor or disgrace, and won't let some noise disturb your sight and hinder you. your footsteps."

Liu Xiaonan looked at Song Ge in surprise, for she could guess her own mind at such a young age.This elementary school girl is not simple, and she doesn't just have a beautiful skin.He said: "Since then, Uncle Guan Deyu asked me to remember to come back every Spring Festival and write Spring Festival couplets for everyone. I think my father and uncle are all for this purpose, and the legacy of our ancestors cannot be lost."

Song Ge sighed and said: "Some people say that you gave up the great career that is at your fingertips, but you just want to be a village official who is not thankful for your efforts. Your brain is sick, and you are still seriously ill. In my opinion, it is not good to be able to do this village official well." So easy, so simple."

Why not simply say that Gu Yu said it?Liu Xiaonan said: "Everyone has their own position, and I'm just a commoner."

Song Ge smiled and said, "You, a self-proclaimed little commoner, amaze a big reporter like me."

Back home to make lunch, stewed kidney beans and potato ribs in an iron pot, with cornmeal pancakes on the side of the pot, Song Ge said that she wanted to eat typical farm food.Liu Xiaonan asked Song Ge to add firewood to the stove, and he mixed a cold dish of cucumber jellyfish skin and egg shreds.

Song Ge squatted in front of the stove door, adding cut dry branches to the stove.She suddenly thought of a question, stood up and said to Liu Xiaonan: "Through this period of contact, I seem to have found the crux of Liuzi Street's backwardness. There are times and places, but people's thinking is rigid, including Uncle Guan Deyu. Still stuck in the past thinking mode. Convenient transportation, but blocked information is also one of the fundamental reasons.”

Liu Xiaonan stopped the kitchen knife in her hand, looked at Song Ge, and encouraged her to continue: "Your analysis is very thorough."

Song Ge picked up half a cucumber on the chopping board, bit it and said, "You, a temporary village official, can only be a leader and guide, not a full-scale nanny. You have to stimulate their subjective initiative, not the big Take care of everything, you have to let them find the market by themselves, and decide planting projects according to the needs of the market. This will get twice the result with half the effort, otherwise, everything depends on you alone, and you will be exhausted. It is better to teach people to fish than to teach them how to fish."

"Any good suggestions?"

"Do you think this is feasible? Now is the age of information explosion. You can find markets on the Internet, you can contact customers, and you can grasp the new developments in rural development and new technologies and new projects. Our newspaper office has several obsolete computers with small memory and nothing else. The problem is that it can be used in rural areas. I got it back and set up a website for Liuzijie Village to teach the members of the village committee how to use computers so that they can decide on the planting projects and development direction of the village according to market demand. .You just need to grasp the general direction and provide the necessary technical support and financial support.”

Song Ge looked very excited, looking at Liu Xiaonan with blazing eyes.Liu Xiaonan said: "It's a young man with active thinking, why didn't I think of it?"

"It seems like you are much older than anyone." Song Ge retorted, and she said, "If you agree, I will go back in the afternoon and come back with a computer tomorrow. You can ask Uncle Guan Deyu to apply for a broadband network, and you can connect it operate."

Liu Xiaonan said, "Let's do it this way. First, I would like to thank you on behalf of the villagers of Liuzi Street."

Song Ge said: "Don't think I have a deep relationship with Liuzi Street, think about it for what?"

Liu Xiaonan didn't dare to think about it, but just thumped on the chopping board, patting the garlic with the side of the kitchen knife.

Jiang Changling went home. The big cherries picked in the morning sold for more than 1 yuan. She was very happy.In front of Song Ge, he counted out 5000 yuan, handed it to Liu Xiaonan, and asked him to pass it to Meng Xiangxiang, saying that the mother-in-law gave it to his daughter-in-law to buy clothes for her and her grandchildren.

Of course Liu Xiaonan had to accept it, and her mother would be very upset if she didn't accept it.

After lunch, Song Ge returned to Bincheng, and Liu Xiaonan went up the mountain with her mother to continue picking big cherries.Jiang Changling said to her son: "It's quite interesting, I thought Reporter Song would stay at our house."

Liu Xiaonan said: "Song Ge returned to Bincheng to do important things for the village. After returning, she really will stay at our house for a few days."

Jiang Changling said, "What if I'm not welcome?"

Liu Xiaonan said: "It means that you can't trust your son, it will make your son lose his head, and it will be difficult to do things in the future."

The next morning, Song Ge came back with three desktop computers.Liu Xiaonan asked how much she spent, and he would pay for it.Song Ge said proudly: "It's free. I told our leaders that it would be disposed of as waste, and it should only be used to support the development and construction of the countryside."

In the afternoon, after installing the computer and debugging it, Song Ge started to make the webpage of Liuzi Street website, with real pictures of Liuzi Street cherry orchard and vegetable and fruit distribution center, and Liu Xiaonan added a comprehensive text introduction of Liuzi Street to the web page.

Next, Song Ge began to train the members of the Liuzi Street Village Committee, allowing them to master the basic operation and use of computers.

Liu Xiaonan made delicious food for Song Ge in different ways, he deserved her affection for Liuzijie, and he would accompany her for a walk around in the evening.Jiang Changling knew through Guan Deyu that Song Ge was really working for the village, so she smiled at him.

In the early morning, the air is fresh by the river, and two people run along the river.Song Ge was wearing a white short-sleeved sweatshirt and started running passionately, full of youthful breath and vitality.

Tired from running, the two walked and talked.Liu Xiaonan said: "I am born in the 25s, and you are born in the [-]s. You are [-] years old this year. I have a suggestion. You should learn from your senior sister. At your age, she is already a mother of two children. Career and family balance.”

Song Ge panted slightly: "Don't always hit me with senior sister, you can't get married just for the sake of getting married, right? You have to find someone you love to marry? It's a pity, I don't love the person who loves me, but the person I love is he not love me."

"There is a ten-year age difference between us. It seems like a century has passed. What loves me and what I love? In the eyes of your generation, has the word love become so complicated? I really can't figure it out, then Just find someone who loves you and marry. Like me, this is the most successful typical example before your eyes."

"Forget it!" Song Ge stared at Liu Xiaonan provocatively: "Do you dare to say that you don't love senior sister? If you really regard senior sister as a relative, can you give up everything for true love?"

Liu Xiaonan said: "In my personal dictionary, there is no word 'true love'. All love has a reason, a purpose, and a purpose, and it cannot stand any scrutiny. Think about it carefully, don't you This principle."

The flame in Song Ge's eyes went out: "Senior, why are you so cruel?"

Song Ge trained the members of the Liuzi Street Village Committee for two days. After she returned to Bincheng disheartened, Liu Xiaonan also decided to return to Bincheng.Song Ge is right, he can't do everything, he can't be an all-round nanny.

The vegetable and fruit distribution center is operating normally, which has driven surrounding farmers to plant summer melons and fruits such as big cherries and cantaloupe. He should let go in due course.

Liu Xiaonan went to say goodbye to Guan Deyu.Guan Deyu told him that Guan Xiaoyun had called, and she was going back to China in two months, hoping that he would do something about it so that Guan Xiaoyun and Dong Xiaojun could remarry, after all, she still had a child.

Although it was difficult, he agreed.

(End of this chapter)