That year the flowers bloomed 1981

Chapter 1058 Some people you can always trust

"Thanks to the Chengdu Federation of Literary and Art Circles for their support, thanks to Sichuan Film Studio for their help, and thanks to the Chengdu Third Hospital for sending a medical team to accompany us. Thank you."

Mu Yuning brought Xiao Duner back to the capital, and Li Ye and others were also ready to set off.

But before setting off, we have to hold a ceremony to thank all sectors of society for their support.

Li Ye usually hates this kind of formalistic behavior, but this time he asked his workers to cooperate patiently and act as supporting roles for the on-site filming crew.

Because of the conditions in the 1980s, it would have been difficult to do without cooperation from all parties.

Let alone anything else, a medical team accompanying them is not something you can afford just because you have some money.

Even medical oxygen was not as widely available as it would be decades later.

A few decades later, a convenience store will be able to get oxygen, but nowadays, let alone convenience stores, even rural clinics don’t have the conditions. Without formal unit documents, it is impossible for county hospitals to provide you with large amounts of medical oxygen.

As for the more than 200 elderly people in Li Ye's team, if there were no official assistance, no one knows how much suffering they would have suffered on the road.

Therefore, it was very necessary for Li Ye to bring Yang Yumin along. With the Propaganda Department taking the lead in endorsing, and Ergou and others actively participating, the team's support conditions have reached the first-class level of this era.

Of course, Fenghua Garments is not a stingy company. Before everyone set off, they gave each of the accompanying doctors and nurses a windbreaker and a newly launched jacket, with the main motto of "giving gifts before doing business."

They are here to help, not to be our own people who are paid. If we show them red envelopes or gifts beforehand and then give them afterwards, how can their mood be the same? If their mood is different, how can their attitude be the same?

However, after the departure ceremony, a comrade Wang from the Propaganda Department found Yang Yumin, and then found Li Yue and Li Ye together, and expressed different opinions on the issue of Fenghua Clothing distributing clothes.

"Manager Li, I'm not picking on you! You gave everyone a new set of clothes. I know you have good intentions, but this was caught on camera. It doesn't fit in with the purpose of our trip."

"We filmed relatives visiting graves, but it looked like a cadre meeting, so the publicity effect was not good."

Comrade Wang is Yang Yumin's colleague, and obviously knows Li Yue. He was a little hesitant when he said this, but he was very persistent.

Li Ye instantly understood what the other party meant.

These relatives of the martyrs who came to participate in the tomb sweeping came from all walks of life. Their original clothing and temperament were ordinary, but after being featured in the documentary, they fit the inherent image of the "masses" and "ordinary people" of this era.

But now Fenghua Clothing has sponsored the windbreakers, and when everyone put them on, they all have the same "fashion style", just like a group of people putting on a show. How can it look like grieving people who have lost their sons going to visit their graves?
Li Yue frowned, then said, "We didn't think this through. I'll try to solve it as soon as possible. Please bear with me."

"Don't be so polite. Yumin and I are old colleagues and we are family. If you feel embarrassed to tell them, I will just do the work."

Comrade Wang obviously understood Li Yue's difficulties. He had just distributed new clothes and now he didn't allow people to wear them. It was hard to say this out loud!

After Comrade Wang left, Li Yue was thinking about how to tell those old men and women! Li Ye smiled and said, "Let's give each of them a military coat and say they are for wearing on the road. Then, when the time comes, we can ask the photographer to be careful when framing and not let people wearing jackets into the camera."

"Alas, that's all we can do."

Sister Li Yue was also a little helpless.

She lived with Yang Yumin and understood some publicity rules. Since it was publicity, it had to be close to reality and resonate with the audience.

The image of relatives in this promotional video should be the same as in "The Garland under the Mountain" where Liang Sanxi's mother, wife and children traveled thousands of miles to the military camp.

Otherwise, why would Yang Huaihua want to take Xiao Duner to visit his grandfather's grave? It has a lot to do with the promotional image in the movie.

But now, because of what Li Ye called "product placement", they first distributed clothes but then did not allow people to wear them, making this tomb-sweeping event commercialized and formalistic. Li Yue felt a little ashamed.

However, when Ergou urgently allocated two trucks of military coats for distribution, the development of the situation surprised the siblings.

More than 90 percent of the uncles and aunts took off their fashionable jackets as soon as possible and carefully put them into the packaging bags that they were reluctant to throw away.

"It's a pity to get such nice clothes dirty on the road"

"That's right! But I got a piece of dust on it yesterday, so I wiped it with water, and it was magical, it was cleaned immediately."

"is it?"

"Really? If you don't believe me, try it."

"You don't have to try it. How can something that costs hundreds of dollars not be magical?"

"How much? A few hundred dollars?"

"Of course not. Look at the trademark. It's Fenghua. It's a brand name."

"Then I have to keep it well and wear it during the New Year."

"You are so old, why are you still wearing it during the New Year? Give it to Xiaoqin later! That child has only had a few new clothes since she was a child."

"You're right. I'm too old to wear this kind of clothes."

When these words reached the ears of Li Ye and Li Yue, the brother and sister did not feel that they were "scheming". They just sighed softly and were filled with emotion.

Li Yue said a little depressed: "So many years have passed, and everyone's life is still like this, reluctant to eat and reluctant to wear"

"."Li Ye also felt a little touched.

Just these two days when everyone was having dinner together, many relatives were very reserved and couldn't eat freely. They only ate the dishes in front of them. However, they had a huge appetite and ate a lot of staple food, and it was obvious that there was not much oil in their stomachs.

In recent years, Li Yue and others have become rich so quickly that they seem to have forgotten that this is a country that has not yet completely solved the problem of poverty.

Li Ye said softly: "Sister, when I was speculating with Brother Peng, I said that we should help the poor first. Now that we have become rich first, we must fulfill our promise.

Fenghua Clothing should start to engage in charity work. This is a troublesome matter, but we should start doing it now!"

"Okay, I'll discuss it with Hao Jian when I get back."

Doing charity work in the mainland is a very difficult issue to control. Fenghua Clothing has never had a formal plan before, but there are some things that we have to try.

The brother and sister discussed for a long time and decided on the first public welfare plan, which is that every relative who participated in the tomb sweeping can have a place in the scholarship or job.

If there are descendants who can get into high school, Fenghua Clothing will sponsor them to go to college. If there are those who are not good at doing questions, we can also find a job for one person. There are more than 700 people in total, so it is not difficult to operate and you can also accumulate experience.

Human nature is very complex. If these 700-odd places are resolved well, then subsequent public welfare programs can be expanded. If it is a thankless task, then we can only talk about it later.

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Li Ye had made a travel guide. It was still very cold along National Highway 318 in April, but because it was not the rainy season, there were fewer landslides. Even if it snowed in some places, everyone could get through it with united efforts.

But sometimes what you fear will come true. Zheduo Mountain did not pose a problem for Li Ye and others, but when they were about to reach Mangkang, the road ahead was blocked.

Xiao Zhu ran to the front and looked for a long time, then ran back panting.
He took a few breaths of oxygen after getting in the car, and then said, "Brother Li, the road ahead has collapsed. We can't go there tonight, or even tomorrow. What should we do? Should we wait here for the road to be cleared, or should we go back to Batang?"

Li Ye asked: "Did you ask the bus driver in front? What did they say?"

Xiao Zhu said: "I asked, they must have to wait here, because they don't know when the road will be open to traffic, and they don't know how long it will take. It may collapse again after a few hours of traffic.

Moreover, they have to consider the economic cost. It will cost a lot of gas to return to Batang, and the passengers may not be willing to pay for a hotel room."

Li Ye stood on the roof of the car and looked forward, cursing his bad luck in his heart.

It was already evening, it was pitch dark and the altitude was high. Young people like Xiao Zhu needed oxygen to run a few steps. What about the 200 elderly people in the team?
People who have never taken a long-distance bus have no idea what it feels like to sit for a night. Not only will your whole body aches, but the feeling of being exhausted is really torturous.

[It would be great if there was a Amap! ]

If this were decades later, a little hand would be able to find out where the road is blocked and where to stay by just dialing the phone. But now there is no village in front and no shop behind, and we don’t even know if there is any village nearby. It seems that there is no other way except to stay in the car.

But at this moment, Li Ye, standing on the roof of the car, saw a green military vehicle coming from behind the traffic jam, and it was slowly turning around after seeing the traffic jam.

"You guys wait here, I'll find a solution."

Without saying a word, Li Ye turned around in a van and chased after him.

The speed of the van was definitely faster than that of the Dongfeng truck. Li Ye caught up with the green truck in front after only a few kilometers.

Li Ye found an opportunity to overtake, stopped the car in the middle of the road, got out of the car, and waved his arms vigorously.

The truck stopped, and a driver with hair growing on his mouth stuck his head out and shouted angrily, "What are you doing?"

Li Ye hurried over and patiently explained, "It's like this. We are a convoy going to the snowy area to sweep graves. It's organized by the Propaganda Department. There's a traffic jam ahead. We want to know where to stay nearby. There are many elderly people in our convoy."

The driver was obviously a new recruit. After hearing what Li Ye said, he stood there with his mouth open for a long time, then turned to look at the co-pilot.

The old soldier in the passenger seat was sleeping with a hat on his head. He looked over coldly at him. Li Ye looked at his expression and felt that he was looking at a liar.

"You guys are going to visit the graves in the snowy area? Do you know how far it is to the Martyrs Cemetery in the snowy area?"

"Yes, it is because the journey is too long that it is difficult for these relatives to come. If it were not for our organization this time, they might never come."

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The veteran looked at Li Ye suspiciously, and pouted at the new recruit: "Turn around and take a look."

Li Ye didn't blame the other party for being suspicious. After all, few people would spend so much money to sweep the graves in recent years.

But when the other party returned to the traffic jam and took a look, he understood everything.

Nearly two hundred fathers and mothers in their sixties, how could this be a lie?

There are no blue lotus flowers that make the sound of "drip drip drip" these days. If it weren't for visiting the graves of relatives, who would set foot on this broken road?
Before the old soldier had time to meet Yang Yumin and others, he left a message to Li Ye: "Wait for me."

Then he kicked the new recruit into the passenger seat and drove off on the road at a rapid speed.

Looking at the truck that was running away like a rabbit, Xiao Zhu couldn't help but say, "Why does he look like he's running for his life?"

Li Ye said softly: "Don't worry, he will be back soon. There are some people you can always trust."

(End of this chapter)