Siheyuan: Why are you all here to see me?

One month before the Spring Festival in 1965, Li Gang personally introduced Lou Zhenhua. Taking into account Lou Zhenhua's contributions to the people and the country in recent years, the higher-ups approved Lou Zhenhua's application. Since then, Lou Zhenhua has become a glorious member of the organization.

When taking the oath, Lou Zhenhua's eyes were filled with tears. I never thought that I, Lou Zhenhua, would have this day. I felt a mixture of excitement, surprise, regret, enthusiasm, and all kinds of emotions, but most of all, excitement.

That night, Lou Zhenhua was drunk, crying, laughing. He was so happy today. If it weren't for his son-in-law Li Gang, he might have been arrested by now, and he wouldn't have achieved what he has today. Lou Zhenhua was grateful to Li Gang from the bottom of his heart.

Li Gang convened a meeting today. The meeting had three topics. The first was to summarize the various work reports this year. The second was to nominate Comrade Lou Zhenhua as the deputy mayor in charge of commerce, economy, and external relations (at the level of a director).

The third is to give a preview of the work to be carried out next year.

First of all, it took nearly three hours to prepare the summary report of this year's work. According to preliminary statistics, the population of Xinxing Town this year exceeded 60,000, with nearly 50,000 permanent residents. It is expected that the number will increase by 10,000 to 20,000 next year.

Second, there is the nomination of Lou Zhenhua as deputy mayor. Lou Zhenhua passed with a high vote. From today on, Lou Zhenhua is the deputy mayor in charge of business and economy. Lou Zhenhua sat down, his body trembling a little, trying his best to control himself.

The meeting continued in the afternoon. Li Gang proposed the work plan for next year. This was originally the mayor's business, but now Li Gang was asked to speak. After all, this Xinxing Town was established because of Li Gang. If there was no Li Gang, there would be no Xinxing Town. It was normal for Li Gang to propose something, and no one objected, including Mayor Hu, who had instructed him when Minister Yu introduced him.

You, the mayor, are just a title. The one who really has the final say in Xinxing Town is Li Gang, and the higher-ups only recognize Li Gang. You just need to be an executor and wait for future transfers. Don't have any conflicts with Li Gang. Minister Yu said this thoroughly enough, so Mayor Hu has no objection to Li Gang, and the two get along well.

Of course, Mayor Hu did not dare to resist. You have to know that the higher-ups had asked Li Gang to shoulder both the post of secretary and mayor. To put it bluntly, the position of mayor was given up by Li Gang. Why would you resist?

Li Gang said, "We are going to build a tape recorder factory next year. Deputy Mayor Lou, please keep an eye on this." Lou Zhenhua quickly stood up and agreed.

Li Gang signaled Lou Zhenhua to sit down and not to stand up to answer questions.

"Third, we need to build a cinema and a few more clinics. We should strive to have a clinic in every street. Each factory should also have its own infirmary. If there are not enough staff, we can recruit more.

In addition to a primary school in each street, I suggest building a few middle schools. Our Xinxing Town should have at least two or three middle schools, right?

Director Qi, can you set up a security booth at every major intersection or near a factory? We don't need too many people, five or six people will do? We can work in three shifts. If we don't have enough people, we can recruit some veterans or young people with clean identities and give them the title of auxiliary police. Can you try it?

Comrade Lao Qi's eyes lit up, "Secretary, your suggestion is great, why didn't I think of it?"

Everyone laughed. Li Gang continued, "After the New Year, the workers from the original bicycle factory who supported us should go back. Many of them are skilled workers and have learned how to assemble the speed bicycles. I wonder if we can keep some of them. In the old days, there was a saying that after learning the skills, one should work for the master for another three years. We are also their masters. It's not right for them to leave after they have learned the skills. So when the time comes, we can ask them if they are willing to stay in Xinxing Town as workers."

"We'll keep those who are willing, and let those who are not willing go back. If their factory director comes to ask for an explanation, let him come to me."

Then he talked about a few simple topics, such as building more parks, widening the roads, and making them as cement as possible.

Before the meeting ended, Li Gang suddenly had an idea and proposed to organize a Spring Festival Gala for Xinxing Town. All factories, departments and streets could participate. Li Gang also set up awards. The participation award was five kilograms of rice and five kilograms of flour. Three third prizes were awarded for an electric rice cooker. Two second prizes were awarded for a variable-speed bicycle. One first prize was awarded for a new tape recorder that was about to be put into production.

The winners of the first, second and third prizes will be awarded the title of spiritual civilization workers. Li Gang's proposal was welcomed by everyone. There was no Spring Festival Gala in that era. Li Gang created a precedent for the Spring Festival Gala.

The notice was sent out, and Xinxing Town was in an uproar. It was not for anything else, but just for these three prizes. They were too high. Even the third prize was a rice cooker, not to mention the first prize, a tape recorder. In fact, the price of a bicycle and a tape recorder is similar, but the Chinese people think that this product that has not yet been released must be better.

The meeting ended at 3:30 p.m. Li Gang did not build a town committee compound because he felt it was inconvenient for these leading officials to live so close to each other.

What do you mean it's inconvenient? It's you, Li Gang, who is inconvenienced. If there is a new town committee compound, how can you, Li Gang, sleep with others?

When I got home, I saw Qin Huairu was also at my house. Li Gang, why is Qin Huairu here?

Qin Huairu saw Li Gang coming back and said, "Xiao Si, you are off work."

Li Gang nodded. "Why are you here?"

Qin Huairu smiled charmingly, "I missed you, so I came to see you."

Li Gang was shocked when he heard Qin Huairu say this. What's wrong with Qin Huairu? Why did she say such things in front of Jingru? Isn't this going to cause trouble?

Qin Jingru: "I asked my cousin to come. I have known about your affairs for a long time. You still want to hide it from me. My cousin has admitted it today. It's not that I am pregnant now and can't serve you, and Sister Xiao'e can't come here all the time, so I asked my cousin to accompany you. You won't blame me, right?"

Li Gang didn't know whether to laugh or cry. Qin Jingru actually found a woman for him, and this woman was her cousin. He didn't know whether Qin Jingru was stupid or smart. However, Li Gang was really satisfied with Jingru's performance.

Since the meat is delivered to your door, it would be a bit foolish not to eat it.

Qin Huairu has been able to make ends meet since Li Gang gave her a set of gold jewelry. This time, her cousin asked her to help, and Qin Huairu was very excited. Xinxing Town is now a place of great feng shui, with high salaries and good benefits. Moreover, Li Gang is still building a large number of residential communities, just like when he was in the food factory.

Qin Huairu also wanted to move to Xinxing Town, so she wanted to take this opportunity to talk to Li Gang.

After a storm, Qin Huairu lay in Li Gang's arms.

Li Gang "Do you have anything to say?"

Qin Huairu: "How do you know?"

"Haha, you worked so hard just now, there must be something wrong. Tell me, I want to hear what it is that made you work so hard."

Qin Huairu said coquettishly, "You're so annoying. Actually, I also want to work in Xinxing Town and live in Xinxing Town. Can I sell the house there?"

Li Gang: "Sure. There are a lot of new residential areas being built here. Where do you like to live? Tell me. The same applies to work. Although the food factory's houses are not allowed to be bought and sold, you can donate them. It's up to you. Tell me when you've made up your mind and I'll arrange it for you."

Qin Huairu was very happy that Li Gang agreed to her request so readily. This was something Qin Huairu had not expected.

Why did Li Gang agree to Qin Huairu so readily? In fact, a widow, no matter how capable she is, is still a woman, with elderly parents and young children to take care of. She sleeps with a man just to live a good life. This is understandable. Since she is your mistress, you should give her some benefits! Otherwise, why would she let you sleep for free? Besides, money is really not important to Li Gang, so he agreed so readily.

Qin Huairu was very quick and moved here before the Spring Festival. She chose the bicycle factory as her job. Her house was in the workers' residential area of ​​the bicycle factory, which was newly built this year. It was on the first floor. Xinxing Town also had a primary school, and Banggeng was not far away. Qin Huairu and Jia Zhang were very satisfied.

Although the current salary is a bit low, only 33 yuan, it is enough for the family to live on, and Qin Huairu's family is not poor now. Qin Huairu plans to become a team leader or something. She dare not show off her relationship with Li Gang. You know, the director of the bicycle factory is Li Gang's brother-in-law. If she ruins Li Gang's reputation, Li Gang doesn't even need to say anything, someone will deal with her in minutes.

On the 27th day of the twelfth lunar month, at the Xinxing Town Cinema, which can accommodate 8,000 people, and if the aisles are included, it can accommodate 10,000 people, basically no problem. Li Gang was afraid of a stampede, so he only had 8,000 Spring Festival Gala tickets issued.

The tickets were very popular. Those who didn't get tickets were willing to pay for them, but who would sell them? Those who got tickets were happy, while those who didn't got tickets gathered at the entrance of the cinema, hoping to hear some noise.

Li Gang was full of evil taste and not only composed the finale song "My Motherland and I" for Li Fang and He Yushui, but also tricked Sha Zhu and Xu Damao to perform Teacher Chen's classic sketch "The Protagonist and the Supporting Actor".

You know what, after Sha Zhu shaved his hair, he really looked like Teacher Chen. At first, Sha Zhu was unwilling to play a supporting role. Xu Damao ridiculed him repeatedly, saying that Sha Zhu was destined to be a servant in the cupboard and did not know what a literary and artistic worker was. Real literary and artistic workers should not even play supporting roles.

When fighting the Eagle Sauce, you were not afraid of artillery fire and went to the front line to comfort our soldiers. You, Shazhu, are only suitable to be a servant, not a literary and artistic worker.