On New Year's Eve, Wang Zhong and Shui Hua respectfully invited Li Laoshuan back to their home.
In the morning, we make porridge made from stick noodles, sometimes with pancakes, sometimes with steamed buns, sometimes with steamed buns, but without exception, we eat refined grains.
At noon and evening, it is usually noodles, noodles made with water splash, mutton, potatoes and radish stir-fried with sauteed seeds. The broth is rich and fragrant, and the noodles are chewy and smooth. Each meal is accompanied by two taels of wine, and Li Laoshuan is already fully aware of it. Selfless, he felt that even a god would not be willing to exchange this kind of life for him.
During the New Year, the couple approached Li Laoshuan again and discussed with him to let him move to Wang Zhong's house.
After the new year, Wang Zhong plans to take Shui Hua to the county seat to personally supervise and concentrate on the decoration team to fully open up the situation, and it is not limited to decoration. Wang Zhong also wants to pull up the construction team. If he stays here all year round, Yongquan Village has limited information, so it will definitely be difficult to accomplish this.
Li Laoshuan couldn't resist the couple, so he had to agree.
But he refused to sleep in the main room no matter what. Wang Zhong packed up the only guest room in the west wing and asked Li Laoshuan to move in.
Just after the New Year, Ma Defu ran back to school.
Debao led Shui Wang and Ga Wa, followed Wang Zhong and Shui Hua to the county town.
The three people in Debao are all only fourteen or fifteen years old. They are not very young, but they don't want to study. They only want to make money and live a good life.
The adults in the room left them alone.
Mai Miao also wanted to make money with Debao, but Teacher Bai refused at all and insisted that she stay in school and continue studying.
Mai Miao cried and fussed several times over this matter, dragging Debao to let Debao take her away. However, she still managed to persuade him to stop after a lot of earnest talk.
But now Mai Miao is studying in the county, even if she has to live on campus, Debao also said that if she goes to the county seat, she will visit her whenever she has time.
Wang Zhong and Shui Hua were busy with the decoration team. The financial aspect was naturally handed over to Shui Hua. Although Shui Hua had never been exposed to finance, he had studied in school. Although he could not finish junior high school, his grades were good. But he is very nice and smart, and now that the decoration team has just started, financial matters are also very simple.
Shuihua got started quickly and everything was figured out on the same day.
Li Laoshuan still stayed in the village, busy with things in the fields.
Wang Zhong and Shuihua would go back to Yongquan Village basically every weekend to cook some delicious meals for Li Laoshuan. Now that their family was well off, Shuihua also followed Wang Zhong to the county seat, and Li Laoshuan was alone without a companion. , I don’t know where I got two little local dogs, one person and two dogs, and they get along pretty well.
Li Laoshuan is a lazy person. In the past, he would cook and dig grass by himself and keep the house in order, so that he could lie on the kang and curse people every day.
This time Shui Hua followed Wang Zhong to the county and only came back once a week. Li Laoshuan could only do the work in the fields by himself.
Although Li Laoshuan is a bit too lazy to eat, he is at least willing to go to the ground.
If there is too much work in the fields and Li Laoshuan can't handle it alone, Wang Zhong and Shui Hua will also help.
But Shui Hua was restless. She followed Wang Zhong in the county to do finance and didn't have much to do. This girl couldn't rest and had no choice, so Wang Zhong asked her to cook for everyone.
It is easier to work on the stove than to go to the ground and dig grass.
As for Li Laoshuan, Wang Zhong did not leave her idle.
At Wang Zhong's suggestion, Li Laoshuan tried to plant corn and potatoes in the few plots of land assigned to him by interplanting corn and potatoes.
The land that Wang Zhong was assigned was not good land. It was barren and remote. Li Laoshuan was a little disgusted at first, but he couldn't resist the water splash, so he had no choice but to plant.
Although Li Laoshuan was a little lazy, after the land was cleared and corn and potatoes were planted, he was not idle. He fetched water from the ground as fast as the sky could. After all, for farmers, land is their lifeblood. At present, Li Laoshuan's daughter got married and suddenly gained more than ten acres of life, so he naturally worked harder than before.
In particular, Wang Zhong also has a water cellar. Although it is not large, it has a volume of almost twelve cubic meters.
When spring and summer come, Wang Zhong connects the surface water collection system designed on the roof, the courtyard, and the slope behind the house. The effect is very significant. When the spring irrigation is late, the winter irrigation water can still be stored.
In April 1990, Wang Zhong entrusted Wang Quanfu to help him buy a motorcycle, which cost more than 7,000 yuan. It was not that Wang Zhong did not want to buy a car, but that cars were too expensive now, and Yongquan Village was not open to traffic, so it was not as good as Motorcycles are convenient. Although they feel distressed, having motorcycles makes it even more convenient for Wang Zhong and his wife to return to Yongquan Village.
Time just stumbled to 1991.
The district issued a document to establish the Yuquanying Diaozhuang Immigration Area, and assigned quotas. The county assigned them to townships, and the townships assigned them to villages.
Yongquan Village was allocated seven indicators.
There simply weren't too many people to sign up, and just like in the original work, seven people from Li Dayou finally got it.
After only staying there for a few months, all seven of them ran back.
For this reason, Director Zhang of the Poverty Alleviation Office in charge of Diaozhuang immigration was severely criticized by his immediate boss when he was caught.
That day happened to be Friday. Wang Zhong and Shuihua took a pair of ribs and ten pounds of mutton and rode their motorcycles back to Yongquan Village to visit Li Laoshuan and the old party secretary.
I met two cyclists on the way.
"Isn't that Defu?" Shui Hua has good eyesight, and he grew up with Ma Defu since he was a child. He can recognize people just by looking at their backs.
Along with a roar, Wang Zhong drove up and caught up.
Ma Defu and Director Zhang also turned their heads and looked back when they heard the sound of the motorcycle.
"Defu!" Shuihua put one arm around Wang Zhong's waist and raised the other hand high, waving to Ma Defu and shouting.
"Defu, from your village?"
Director Zhang asked as the two stopped their bicycles.
Ma Defu's expression changed slightly, and his eyes became less natural. Even now, he still couldn't let go.
"He's from our village!" Ma Defu forced a smile.
"Be blessed!"
The speed of the motorcycle also slowly slowed down, and it stopped in front of the two of them. Shui Hua and Wang Zhong greeted Ma Defu.
"Wang Zhong, Splash! Are you going back to see your father?" Looking at the motorcycle Wang Zhong was riding, he could tell that this guy had seven to eight thousand yuan at least.
"Yes! Go back and see Shui Hua's father and the old branch secretary. Are you going back to the village too?" Wang Zhong asked with a smile.
"Yes! Go back to the village!"
Wang Zhong had no grudge against Ma Defu. As for him and Shui Hua being childhood sweethearts, that was all in the past. Wang Zhong had confidence in himself and Shui Hua's character.
"I heard from Uncle Shui that you will graduate this year. Which unit will you be assigned to work in?"
"just graduated!"
While introducing the two people, Ma Defu explained: "I was originally assigned to the Dao Agricultural Technology Station, but the Diaozhuang Office happened to be short of manpower, so I was seconded."
"This is Director Zhang of our Diaozhuang Office, my direct boss!"
Then he introduced the two people to Director Zhang: "Director Zhang, these are Wang Zhong and his wife Li Shuihua from our village."
"Are you Wang Zhong?" Director Zhang was a little surprised, with a happy look on his face. He quickly stopped the bicycle, walked forward, and stretched out his hand: "I have long admired your name!"
"I'm ashamed, I'm ashamed. It's just a bad name, but it can reach Director Zhang's ears!" Wang Zhong and Shui Hua also got out of the car. Wang Zhong stretched out his hand to shake Director Zhang's hand: "Director Zhang is run by Diaozhuang! That Diaozhuang Director Zhang is responsible for immigration?"
"Brother Wang Zhong also knows about Diaozhuang immigration?"
"How could you not know that Shuihua and I are both from Yongquan Village!"
"At the beginning, the head of my house said he wanted to sign up, but he didn't win over Uncle Dayou and the others!" Shui Hua also added.
"You also want to go to Diaozhuang?" Director Zhang looked at the two of them in surprise, his eyes full of disbelief.
"Director Zhang, let's talk while we walk?" Wang Zhong gestured with his hand.
"Okay! Talk as we walk!"
The two pushed the bicycle, Wang Zhong pushed the motorcycle, and Shuihua walked beside Wang Zhong, heading side by side in the direction of Yongquanrou.
"Do you really want to go to Diaozhuang?" Director Zhang asked again, looking at his expression and tone, he still couldn't believe it.
Shui Hua smiled and said: "Are you sure you want to go? In this mountain valley, transportation is inconvenient, there is no water, and there is no electricity! The population in the village is also increasing, but there is only so much land, and the products in the land are The number of outings is getting less and less every year, and if we don’t think of a way to do it, the days to come will become more and more difficult!”
"The government also took this into consideration, so it came up with the Diaozhuang immigration policy. It spared no effort to build so much infrastructure in Yuquanying, just to make our villagers rich." Director Zhang felt And get started.
Shui Hua nodded and said: "When we first said we wanted to build a village, didn't we say it would be on the Gobi Desert at the foot of Helan Mountain? Next to it is the Western Main Canal of the Yellow River. The flat sand and gravel land. If we clean it up, dig the canal, and water it, Isn’t that just a blockade in Jiangnan!”
Shuihua said with longing.
Director Zhang and Ma Defu looked at the splash in disbelief.
Director Zhang was a little excited and couldn't wait to ask: "Then why didn't you sign up in the first place?"
Shui Hua looked at Wang Zhong next to him and said: "At first we wanted to sign up, but uncle Dayou and the others were rushing to go. My head said that our family's life is easier than that of the villagers, and my head We have just returned to the village a few years ago, so there is no need to compete with the villagers for this bowl of rice. Let Uncle Dayou and the others go first, and we will sign up again when the opportunity comes next time."
"Hey!" Director Zhang sighed and said, "It would be great if Li Dayou and the others were as enlightened as you two!"
"What happened to Uncle Dayou and the others?" Wang Zhong asked knowingly.
"Alas!" Speaking of this matter, Director Zhang had a lawsuit on his forehead: "In the first few days, that Li Dayou from your village persuaded all the seven villagers in your village to come back. I tried to stop them no matter what. Don’t stop!”
"It seems that Uncle You can do this." Wang Zhong said with a chuckle.
Seeing Wang Zhong's expected expression, Director Zhang's heart skipped a beat and he couldn't help but ask, "Why do you say that?"
Wang Zhongdao: "Where is Yuquanying? Gobi Desert! Now Diaozhuang has just started, and all kinds of infrastructure are not yet in place. I heard that those who have passed Diaozhuang can only live in Diwowo first, and In the Gobi Desert, the wind is blowing all day long, from spring to winter, and I have an uncle like me who never sees a rabbit or an eagle. You talk to him about the future when you see the sky, but there is nothing in front of you. If you only make him suffer, it would be strange if he doesn't come back!"
Director Zhang was really surprised by Wang Zhong, "Do you know what Li Dayou said when I met them?"
"What did you say?" Ma Defu asked curiously.
Director Zhang said: "He said, honestly speaking, your government has a future. This future is good, and the future is good. But what is the future? The future has not come yet! When will it come?"
"This is almost the same as what Wang Zhong said."
"You know Li Dayou so well, do you know of any way to persuade him to go back?" Director Zhang asked.
Ma Defu and Shui Hua also looked at Wang Zhong.
"Then you are overestimating me. You know what you know. I have an uncle. If you say it is ugly, he is a bastard. As a junior, what can I do against him!"
"What should we do?" Director Zhang didn't know much about Yongquan Village, he was like a headless fly.
"Look for my dad!" At this time, Ma Defu suddenly said: "My dad is the acting village director and a well-known person in the village. If you find him, you can definitely get this thing done!"
"your dad?"
Wang Zhong shook his head: "If he behaves badly and refuses to go, can your father put a knife to their necks and force them to go?"
Ma Defu's words stopped and he opened his mouth, not knowing how to refute.
"Then what should we do?" Director Zhang's brows furrowed in anxiety.
"Okay! Stop showing off!" Shui Hua rolled her eyes at Wang Zhong, pushed him, and said, "This is a major event related to the future of our Yongquan Village. If you have an idea, just tell him!"
"Comrade Shuihua, what do you mean by Comrade Wang Zhong?" Director Zhang immediately changed his face and asked expectantly.
Wang Zhong said: "As the saying goes, one thing will bring another thing down! It's true that Uncle Dayou is a bastard, but it's not like there are no people in the village who can cure him. Director Zhang, when you go to the village, first follow Defu to find water. Uncle, ask Uncle Shui to take you to my uncle, who is the old branch secretary of our village. He has an uncle as his father. As long as you explain this matter to him clearly and my uncle comes forward, it will be settled!"
"That's right! Why didn't I think of that!" Ma Defu suddenly realized, "The old party secretary is an old party member. He also went through the Long March with the Red Army. He has high consciousness, knowledge, and prestige in the village. As long as he can be persuaded, this matter It will be easy to handle!"
When the old party secretary tried to treat Li Dayou, it was a one-time rule. If Li Dayou dared not to go, the old party secretary would have to drive him over.
"Okay! That's all said and done, let's go ahead. Shui Hua's father is still waiting at home!" With that said, Wang Zhong and Shui Hua got on the motorcycle and said goodbye to the two of them.
The roar of the motor sounded, and with a bang of the accelerator, the motorcycle galloped out like a wild horse, stirring up countless flying dust.
"Defu, are you familiar with Wang Zhong and the others?" Director Zhang asked as he watched the motorcycle go away.
Defu's eyes were also on the motorcycle, "Wang Zhong came back to our village the summer before last year. I was studying in the agricultural school at that time. I wasn't familiar with him and didn't see him much, but his wife Shui Hua was my classmate. "
"Wang Zhong in your village is a capable person!" Director Zhang nodded, pushed on the bicycle and said.
"He is really good. I heard my dad tell Debao that over the past year or so, he has led more than 20 young people from our village to do renovations and build houses for people in the county, and he has made a lot of money!"
Director Zhang nodded: "His motorcycle costs seven to eight thousand at least!"
"Just now, Comrade Shui Hua said that the couple also wanted to go to Diaozhuang! You said that their current conditions are not bad. They even bought motorcycles and there are ways to make money in the county. Why are they going to Diaozhuang?"
Director Zhang couldn't help but think too much. The purpose of Diaozhuang was to bring peace and let the villagers in Xihaigu and other ravines get rid of their poverty and live a better life. But now Wang Zhong and his wife are living a good life. , even big items like motorcycles, have nothing to do with poverty!
"I don't know!" Ma Defu didn't know Wang Zhong well, so naturally he couldn't guess what Wang Zhong was thinking.
"Forget it, don't think so much, let's go to your village first and get the business done before we talk about anything else!"
"Let's go!"
The two of them got on their bicycles and hurried towards Yongquan Village.
"Dad! We are back!"
Outside the courtyard, Shui Hua got out of the car first, pushed open the fence door, and rushed into the house to say hello!
"Shuihua, you're back!" The door to the main house was locked. In the west room, the door of the room where Li Laoshuan slept was open. Li Laoshuan, holding a cigarette pole, ran out happily. .
"father!"
Shui Hua held a rattan frame removed from the back seat of a motorcycle, which contained mutton and mutton ribs.
"Yo! Lamb ribs!" Li Laoshuan's eyes lit up when he saw the mutton in the box. He licked his chapped lips and swallowed.
Wang Zhong drove the motorcycle into the courtyard and parked it under the shed on the east side.
"How many days will you stay here this time?" Li Laoshuan happily took the rattan frame from Shui Hua and asked as he walked to the kitchen.
"I've been here for a while, isn't it the summer harvest soon?"
"That's a good feeling!"
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On the other side, in the village department, Ma Defu led Director Zhang to appear in front of Ma Huanshui. He was happy for Ma Huanshui and took Director Zhang to greet him for a while.
Director Zhang, however, had a hot-tempered temper, and his immediate boss only gave him three days to quickly explain what Wang Zhong said.
With Defu at his side to persuade them, Ma Huashui followed and led the two of them to find the old branch secretary.
In the afternoon of that day, Ma Huashui shouted through the loudspeaker, and at least one person from each household came out to hold a meeting.
After Shui Hua finished cooking at home, Li Laoshuan and Wang Zhong went to join in the fun for Diaozhuang.
Seven families, including Li Dayou, refused to go despite Director Zhang's rhetoric, and even showed signs of being blown away by the wind in front of the villagers.
In the end, just like the original work, the old party secretary stood up and spoke, re-registering, and those who are willing to go can go until the quota of seven families is filled. If there are fewer, the seven families who originally came back will be asked to draw lots. Just make up for it.
The old party secretary has a high prestige in the village, and his words are more useful than a horse shouting at the water pipe.
As soon as he spoke, no one in the village dared to disobey him. Even Li Dayou, the most clumsy person, did not dare to continue shouting.
"I regestrated!"
As soon as the old party secretary finished speaking, Wang Zhong was the first to stand up and say he wanted to sign up.
The old branch secretary looked at Wang Zhong with a pleased smile on his face.
"Chongwazi, you have to think carefully. Yuquanying is the Gobi Desert! The conditions are much more difficult than in Yongquan Village. It is windy all year round, and there are sandstorms from time to time. When the wind blows, there is a mouthful of sand. !”
If it weren't for the fact that Wang Zhong was kind to his father, Li Dayou wouldn't have bothered to talk.
"Uncle Dayou, I think Director Zhang and my uncle are very reasonable. The Yuquanying side is suffering a little bit now, but since the country is willing to spend so much effort on diaozhuang immigration and infrastructure construction, the future development prospects will be It’s definitely better than our mountain valley.”
"As for the wind, it just blows all year round, so what? The Yellow River Diversion Irrigation Project has already started. Now we have just suffered a few years in the past. We farmers, with our faces facing the loess and our backs to the sky, who has not suffered through hardship, as long as we prepare the land Well, once the house is built, within a few years, life will definitely be better than living in the mountains and valleys!"
"You have money, you can build a house, you have money to prepare the land, but what about us? Where do we get the money to prepare the land? Where do we get the money to build a house?" Li Dayou is still not convinced.
"Director Zhang has told me many times that you can work in the state-owned farm next to you or in the city!" Ma Defu said impatiently.
"What you said is easy, work and earn money..." Before he could finish his words, he was kicked out by the old party secretary.
"You are a coward. You have the nerve to argue with others. You just know that you are too lazy to do anything. You are afraid of this and that. If you talk too much, I will beat you to death!"
As he bent down to get his slippers, Li Dayou quickly ran away.
Anyway, his name has been reported, and the old party secretary has gone to Diaozhuang. How dare he, the son, not follow him.
In the end, naturally no one signed up. Except for Wang Zhong, Ma Huanshui and Li Dayu, the remaining four households had to draw lots from the original households.
Although they were a little reluctant, the old party secretary had spoken, and they didn't dare not go.
When writing Wang Zhong's name, Ma Huanshui reminded him specifically: "Wang Zhong, your decoration team's business has just picked up a little bit. Now that you have gone to Yuquan Camp hundreds of miles away, what will your decoration team do?" What should I do?"
Wang Zhong smiled and said: "Uncle Shui, our Yongquan Village cannot become rich just by working to earn money. Although we can make money doing decoration work for others, we can only make ends meet. The family can eat, Wearing clothes, seeing a doctor, and sending children to school don’t cost money. If the folks really want to live a good life, they have to find another way!"
Now is no different than the real world. Although people's lives are a little better than in previous years, they are not much better. Ordinary people in the city don't have much spare money.
"No matter what happens in the future, at least it's an attempt now!"
"As for the decoration team, it's almost on track now. As long as the folks are willing to work, it doesn't matter whether I'm here or not."
Wang Zhong came up with ideas and plans, not the contractor. Wang Quanfu was really responsible for the construction.
Fatty Wang has now left the furniture store to his wife, and is concentrating on the decoration team and the construction team. This fatty is from the north and has a close relationship with the county construction company, so he is never short of work.
This time, the more than twenty people Wang Zhong brought out have all been veterans for more than a year, and they came according to Wang Zhong's high standards from the beginning, and they have already mastered it.
Moreover, Wang Zhong has no intention of leaving Fatty Wang behind. This guy has some background, connections, and is smart, and the two of them have been working well together for more than a year.
"Just think it over yourself!" Ma shouted and said nothing more.
