From Chief to Ball

But after all, the purpose of his coming to the stage is to talk about rural issues. This is just a speech before the report, and the time limit has reached the limit.

The host of the meeting still rang the copper bell vigorously, and many people below shouted: "Give him a few more minutes."

"Yes."

"Isn't there a lead time that can be extended by up to 5 minutes after a vote? We agreed to give him another 5 minutes."

Hai Lang smiled bitterly at the people below, shook his head and said: "No matter how much time is needed, these things have nothing to do with what I want to say. It's just that more and more people saw us today, hundreds of people People represent thousands of people and tens of thousands of people behind them, but some people can't see it. I can't see the future, and I can't see the present we see now. For some reason, I feel a little sad."

"I completed my studies at the Peasant Movement School in Nan'an at the end of [-]. At that time, the miners' petition had already happened, Wang Sanzhuo had been stabbed to death, and the first batch of immigrants in Dahuangcheng had already begun to take root. At that time, I I went to work in a county far away from Mincheng as a "glass window sales and installation and simple carpentry and kerosene lamp seller". At that time, I was given a leather notebook, a rough quill pen, and a few pieces of soap. Two sets of clothes, a wooden box, plus four books, and a sum of public funds."

"When I went, it was another of the thirteen people who sent me off. When I arrived near the county, I said no need to send me off. He was also in a hurry to go back and complete the course of simple geometry. At that time, he didn't think about it. We may not see it in the future.”

"I remember that it was also autumn. At that time, the county was harvesting rice. The place was very remote and there were many mountains. He said; 'You said that there are so many mountains in this place. One day in the future is really like the future we heard from Chen Jian. Such railroad tracks like those in the mining area and the steam-powered cars displayed in the academy appeared, this place is not easy to build railways'."

"It turned out to be the last sentence I said to him. To be honest, I have seen the model and the track in the mining area, but I haven't seen that kind of deduced car until now."

"I took it as a joke at the time, waved to him and went down the mountain. He held a broken ruler and frowned for a long time, and he didn't leave even after I went down the mountain. Who would have thought that I would die after a few years I know that he was in a shipwreck on the ship going to the Great Wilderness City, and he was supposed to go to the Great Wilderness City to preside over the allocation and measurement of the wasteland after the freedom of contract workers."

The sound of the waves was a little choked, and he took out a very old leather notebook and unfolded it, and began to tell the story of his activities in the countryside.

"Going down the mountain..."

The voice was very light, very light, and the venue became very quiet.

The stories he told gradually turned into picture scrolls, which spread out in front of everyone's eyes little by little, and made everyone finally understand why he put the party certificate and matches together.

Chapter 87 A young man came to the village ([-])

At this point, that's a story of many years.

In a village near a small closed county town far away from Fujian, a young man who had just turned 20 came one day, carrying a large wooden box and wearing a very ordinary short shirt.

When a person who went to the market in the county came back, he took him to the village along the way and asked for a few copper coins.

Earlier, a group of special market-goers appeared in the market in the county seat. They bought a courtyard in the county seat and claimed to be the seller of some company.

People who go to the market don't know what the company is, but this company sells a lot of strange and good things.

Bright small mirrors, glass that rich families can afford, a kind of lamp oil called kerosene, and a wide blue cloth with a color like the sea. It's something weird, and the kids love it.

The people who went back from the market chatted with the young man who went back by car. The young man was very talkative, saying that the company sent him to this big village to be a sales point, selling some cloth, collecting some bristles, or small bags for women. objects or something.

Along the way, I asked the driver how his life was, how the harvest was, who was rich in the village, how much he rented for a year, and so on.

It seems that he is from Fujian city, but the driver of the car can easily chat with him, swearing a few words from time to time.

After arriving at the village, with the guidance given by the magistrate, he rented the house of a local poor man to live in. The poor man can still charge a few copper coins a year. Sometimes the newcomer claims to be a carpenter and sells People who buy things also buy some wine to eat, anyway, there is a shelter from the rain on the four walls of the house to sleep.

This poor man is too lazy, he is so lazy, he spends his money as a part-time laborer, and likes to play Pai Gow to gamble on big and small things. If he wants to pound rice, he will pound rice, and if he wants to carry grain, he will carry grain. Some money is not done.It is said that his hands are not very clean, and he likes to steal. If he has a little money, he will drink some yellow soup, and sleep after drinking.

The newcomer wanted to chat with this poor man, but the conversation was not speculative, and he lost interest after chatting for a few words.

Just in time, a family member got a big stomach disease, and the whole family died, so they bought this small house from the relatives of the family and moved away.

In less than three months, it became a small grocery store. Occasionally, people from the county company came to deliver goods, and by the way, there was a half-hearted doctor who could treat people here. It can't be cured, and minor illnesses are okay.

The most important thing is that this small grocery store also sells salt, and it is official salt and has a note approved by the business official. Sometimes, if someone is really tight, he can borrow some interest-free money from here. It became the busiest place in the village.

The goods in the grocery store are very good, the only bad thing is the soy sauce, but this soy sauce is half the price of the usual ones. I know it is not a good product, but in order to sell well in the countryside, the soy sauce is salty. Obviously, the soy sauce in the soy sauce All the private salt that has not been taxed is used, but it is also very popular.

There are quite a few well-to-do households in the local area, and they also use a lot of things like glass, oil lamps, and blue cloth.No matter how the glass window is installed, others dare not touch it, for fear that it will be broken and they will be accompanied, so the newcomer will come forward to install it.

On weekdays, if there is something in the family, the newcomer will also help. He is a carpenter, but his craftsmanship can only be said to be passable, but he can do things like change the rafters.

People in the village are used to this coming and going.This person is usually generous, and the children are able to teach a few words when they are learning characters.

Ordinarily, such a character shouldn't appear in the village, and he is obviously someone who has seen the world as big as Mincheng.But this person didn't like to deal with those rich families. Except for buying and selling bristles and goose feathers, he rarely went to the homes of those rich families.

On the contrary, this man is willing to deal with some tenant farmers and poor people, and he can talk to each other. When the farm is slack, he gathers in the small grocery store to listen to the young man tell stories.

At first there were two people, but later there were more.The long-term mill workers, tenants, day laborers, and occasionally three or two pungent women.

The more and more stories were told, most of them were about the beginning of the founding of the country. Many people were fascinated by the land ownership system of the Xinkeng people at the beginning of the founding of the country.

Later, he talked about his company, the Mexican Party and other things.

The miller's evaluation of this man is that he has a lot of brains and knowledge, but he is also quite cunning.Many times he knows something clearly, but he doesn't say it, but leads others to say it.Talking to him, it's easy to get angry, and every three to five days, I have to scold a few words, of course not scolding him, but scolding those who deserve to be scolded.

Half a year later, a murder case occurred in the village. A big landlord was hacked more than 20 times with a sickle when he was going out, and died.

The murderer was a newcomer who didn't expect it at all. He was a poor man from the same family he lived in when he first came.

After the poor man killed someone, he cut off his head, and when the sheriff came to arrest him, he cut two more people, and the poor man was also killed on the spot.

This is a big deal in the village.

That night, the long-term mill workers, tenant farmers, and day laborers rarely cursed, but a group of people bought two knives of paper and burned them at the intersection.

After listening to so many stories told by young people, these seven or eight people who often listen to stories also told such a story.

"This man turned out to be quite hardworking. At first we all thought that he is a bachelor now, and his family is not old, let alone a woman, let alone a child. He will be like this for the rest of his life, and he may die someday. Isn't he a fool? Day by day?"

"Did you ever think that this is not the case at all. Now think about it, there is a story in it. You have told us so many stories, and we will give you another story."

"When this man was diligent back then, he had a younger sister. Later, he changed his brother-in-law with the one in the neighboring village. The one in the next village married her sister, and he married his brother-in-law's sister. That is to say, since he is his brother-in-law , and his brother-in-law’s brother-in-law. Isn’t this just saving some money, it’s all about making do with life, and when someone dies in the future, someone will provide a bowl of food and throw out paper money.”

"The woman he married was pretty good-looking, but in the end, people fell in love with him. He is a renter, and people say that you let me sleep for a night after you marry a wife? This is not forced, you love me I wish, I didn’t let you sleep and I didn’t say you have to shout and kill, but don’t rent the land.”

"In fact, it's all like this, and everyone is used to it."

"His wife went there for three to five days and rented a good piece of land to plant. Can you tell me not to go? Of course, the problem is that if you don't go, the land will not be rented to you. No one said that you have to rent it forcibly." land?"

"It's nothing to be ashamed of. Whose relatives haven't had such a thing? They've been used to it for a hundred years."

"After the woman came back, the menstruation didn't come. I think she was pregnant. My wife's tongue said that she also picked it out with her hands and washed it with water after she came back, but this thing is not guaranteed."

"I was pregnant, and his woman said, look, we don't want this first child, I will definitely give you your seed. Coincidentally, she is pregnant, and she can't help it. It's just a coincidence."

"In the end, I found a stable woman. I used a hook to hook it out. It didn't catch enough to bleed. After bleeding for a long time, I died. If a person dies, don't even think about reproducing his seed."

"Then that person changed."

"After burying the woman at home, this man began to eat and be lazy. He muttered and talked to himself every day. Later, he didn't grow much land, and worked part-time all day long. He ate what he had, and he didn't eat If you want to go steal a carrot."

"It's going to take... well, eight years."

"Thinking about it now, there must have been a sign of this. A few days ago, someone from his sister's village came with a message. His sister's child died of diphtheria, and when his sister buried the child, he was bitten by a mad dog and died too. gone."