Traveling through the ages with the hotel, being doted on by four brothers

Chapter 319: Being Soaked in Bitter Water

"What's the matter?" Xia Chan was confused. Secretary Mo actually needed her help? Could she solve a problem that even Secretary Mo couldn't solve?

"Come with me to the major production teams to understand the situation and see if we can find any way to increase the team's income. I am the leader of the commune, and I naturally hope that everyone in the commune can fill their stomachs and live a good life. Now that the conditions in Yong'an Production Team are so good, isn't it time to help other production teams?" Secretary Mo said.

"Sure, when do we leave?" Xia Chan naturally knew that Secretary Mo must have made preparations before coming to see her. It was impossible for him to come to her just with a plan. Leaders always have plans when doing things.

Moreover, accompanying Secretary Mo to visit various production teams is a good opportunity for me to tell Secretary Mo some annoying things and let him see how to deal with them.

Especially those who hit their wives with violence, those who favor boys over girls, those who are cruel to their children by stepfathers and stepmothers, and those who are in-laws who waste their daughters-in-law and don't treat them as human beings. These phenomena are common in rural areas, and Xia Chan hates them deeply. Now that he has the opportunity, he will mention them to see if he can help everyone.

A person's life is only a few decades long, which is already very hard. No one's life is truly easy. The only truly carefree times are a few years in childhood, but many people are deprived of these few years. Their whole life is like being soaked in bitter water.

Moreover, she, Xia Bin, Zhou Qizhi, Jin Pengfei and Jin Pengyuan suffered a lot in their old house when they were young. It is because they have been caught in the rain that they want to hold up an umbrella for more poor children.

Life is hard enough, and if you are bullied at home, do you still want to live?
"Then let's start from the production team opposite tomorrow. I'll wait for you at the intersection of the production team at nine o'clock." Secretary Mo said.

He called Xia Chan because he knew that these middle-aged and elderly people had old-fashioned ideas, so he had to listen to the ideas of young people. Maybe there would be some unexpected surprises!

The next morning, after breakfast, Xia Chan set out with a cross-body bag and the notebook and pen that the commune had rewarded him with. When he arrived at the intersection of the opposite brigade, he saw a man standing there waiting for him. The man was wrapped up as tightly as himself. If he hadn't revealed a pair of eyes, Xia Chan really wouldn't have known that the man was Secretary Mo!

"Secretary Mo." Xia Chan walked over and confirmed.

Secretary Mo saw Xia Chan carrying a bag with a notebook and a pen, and nodded with satisfaction, "Let's go!"

Afterwards, Xia Chan followed Secretary Mo into the production team. Xia Chan thought that Secretary Mo was going to take her directly to the team leader's house, but unexpectedly, he took her directly to the last row of the village and knocked on the door of the last house.

Soon a woman came to open the door. She looked like the daughter-in-law of the family. She looked at the two people in front of her who were wrapped up tightly and completely unrecognizable and asked in confusion, "Who are you? Who are you looking for?"

Secretary Mo pulled the gray scarf down a little on his face. The woman recognized him and widened her eyes in surprise. Secretary Mo said, "I will bring my secretary to visit the team. Please tell me the truth."

The woman was very nervous. "We must tell you everything we know."

Then the woman opened the gate and invited them in, asking them to get on the kang to keep warm. Xia Chan only opened her cotton coat a little, but did not take off her hat and scarf, because the production team was too close and she did not want to be recognized.

There are six people in this family, including grandparents, parents, and a pair of children. The daughter is the eldest, only twelve years old, and there is a seven-year-old son. There is no third child, which shows that the couple is smart and did not give birth to so many children to suffer. The poorer you are, the more children you have, and the more miserable you will be.

Seeing that they were very reserved and didn't dare to speak, Xia Chan grabbed two handfuls of melon seeds from her cross-body bag and put them on the table. Everyone started cracking the seeds, and they were no longer so nervous and restrained, and slowly started chatting.

They talked about their parents' retirement, their children's education, and the gossip in the village. Xia Chan wrote down whatever people said, and she did it very quickly. Secretary Mo was very impressed. This speed was faster than that of his secretary. He just didn't know if Xia Chan was willing to go to work in the commune.

Afterwards, Secretary Mo handed the situation over to Xia Chan, who had no choice but to ask about the situation in the village, asking everyone what wild vegetables were abundant, what wild fruits were delicious, etc., because if you want to help a production team develop, you must first understand their situation. You can't just make a suggestion and then ask others to act according to this suggestion!

Secretary Mo took Xia Chan to visit and chat with every family. They talked for about half an hour in each family, so it took them an entire morning to visit all the families living in the last row. Secretary Mo was quite angry.

Unexpectedly, after the last meeting, someone in the team below still made mistakes. Some were so bold as to not take the content of his meeting to heart. Secretary Mo did not plan to get angry so early. He planned to visit every household and then settle accounts with the team leader.

Moreover, some people who made mistakes were so scared when Secretary Mo knocked on their doors that they bowed their heads and admitted their mistakes and promised not to make mistakes again after being scolded by Secretary Mo, but Secretary Mo didn't believe them!

First, let them write a letter of apology, and then have them sign and seal it. These are all evidence.

Xia Chan accompanied Secretary Mo on his visits, and gave out a lot of melon seeds every day. This stuff is not cheap. The price has risen to more than ten yuan per catty in the "Crossing Mall", almost as much as a pair of shoes. Maybe it was because the New Year was approaching, so Xia Chan asked her brothers to help her carry dozens of kilograms directly from the black market when they were selling konjac tofu.

The days passed quickly in the busyness, and the annual winter hunting day arrived in the blink of an eye. This year it was Jin Pengyuan's turn to go winter hunting, so the task of packing Jin Pengyuan's things was given to his fiancée, Xiao Tiantian.

Xia Chan told her that it would take about twenty days for the winter hunting team to go into the mountains, so try to prepare eighty percent of the food that can fill the stomach, and only twenty percent of the other nutritional supplements and snacks will be enough.

You need to prepare a set of inner clothes and several pairs of socks and shoes, because it is freezing everywhere in the mountains and shoes and socks will get wet easily. You also need to prepare some straw paper, because the leaves will be frozen and you won't be able to use them when going to the toilet.

Just prepare other personal items.

With Xiao Tiantian in charge of these things, Xia Chan had a lot of free time. However, she felt lonely for no reason. When the four of them got married, she would be the only one left alone. They had people who loved and cared for them, so they probably didn't have the energy to take care of her affairs!
So she has to adapt to living alone in advance!

The visit to the countryside with Secretary Mo lasted for a full month and a half from the first day until the end. Xia Chan also handed in a thick stack of notebooks to Secretary Mo, and also gained a certain understanding of the many production teams under the entire commune.

The conditions in Yong'an Production Team were really good. Some production teams were so poor that they couldn't even afford patched clothes, but this was not something Xia Chan could handle.