"I'm going, there is such a backward guesthouse. I have to take a hot water bottle to the bottom to fill the hot water in the evening. Can such a plastic bucket of water take a shower?" Zhao Ruiping knocked on the door of Zhang Yinghua and complained.

"I heard from the waiter that the people who come here basically go to the river next to take a shower. When I came, I saw that the river water was really clear, just like the well water." Zhang Yaohua said.

"It's a pity that I didn't bring swimming trunks." Zhao Ruiping shook his head.

"It's all night. What swimming trunks should I wear when I take a bath in the river? Just wear shorts. I'll go later, will you go?" Zhang Yaohua asked.

Zhao Ruiping hesitated for a moment and agreed: "Just go, I've grown up so old, I haven't taken a bath in the river yet. Zhang Yaohua, what does your family do? My family originally arranged a job for me, and I wanted to experience life in the countryside. Besides, with this experience of going to the grassroots level, I will also make such a contribution in my resume in the future. I thought that relying on family connections, I would get some money and achieve some political achievements. When I was promoted in the future, I would have such a brilliant contribution. But there is still a shortage of water in this mountain valley, so what can I do?"

Zhang Yaohua smiled and said, "Aren't you here to experience life? What can you experience if you don't come from such a mountain valley? Although it's poor, the air here is good and the food is clean. The meat we eat in that small restaurant today is different from what we eat in the city, right?"

"That's. Here are pure natural, non-additive green organic foods." Zhao Ruiping nodded.

Zhang Yaohua said again: "Besides, the village is not actually short of water, but lacks maintenance of water conservancy facilities. As long as there is water in the village, the farmers' water use project will be solved, and the crops will be planted, and the problem of eating will be solved. Why is a village with more than 1,000 people now having a problem with eating hundreds of people? There must be a reason, right? If you can get the funds, these problems may be solved. Poor here is poor, poor, but white paper is good, and articles are written on the white paper. If you write it casually, it is all works. Others write random paper, and no matter how you draw it, they are graffiti."

Zhao Ruiping woke up from a dream and slapped his head. He felt much better: "Yes, why don't I have that much? Let me tell you that my family has a little bit of a problem. This time I'm allocating here mainly because I don't want to use it because of a village official. At that time, I'll go to get some money for our two villages, which will definitely be exciting than those who go to better villages."

"Okay, thank you in advance." Zhang Yaohua said.

"What are you grateful for? So many college student village officials, we are only two of us in this poor mountain valley. We are brothers now, and we will be brothers from now on." Zhao Ruiping put his shoulders on Zhang Yaohua.

Although I am not familiar with the place, it is not difficult for two people to find the place where they bathe in Tianbaqiao Town when they walk by the river. There is a wharf under Tianbaqiao, which is made of large strips of bluestone, because women used to wash clothes here and the stones were completely polished. Now they use washing machines at home, and this wharf has become a place where children play in the water. In the evening, men also come here to take a bath.

"Do you really go down and take a shower?" Zhao Ruiping felt a little embarrassed.

It’s not true, why are you doing this far? It’s better to take a bath here than to carry a bucket in the guesthouse and take a bath in the bathhouse.

"That's right. That bathhouse is so smelly. You can't go in at all." Zhao Ruiping felt scared even after thinking about it.

"Why are you thinking about so much?" Zhang Yaohua said, taking off her clothes, putting her phone in the clothes, and then putting it in a conspicuous place.

Zhao Ruiping also followed suit and jumped into the water with Zhang Yaohua.

"Oh, it's so cold!" Zhao Ruiping jumped into the water and exclaimed.

"The water here is a spring water flowing from the mountains. Even if it comes during the day, the water will be cool. Are you two from other places?" asked a middle-aged man.

"Yes. Come and play for a few days. The air here is so good." Zhang Yaohua said.

"There is only air left here. Alas, you will definitely not get used to it after staying for a few days."

"That's not necessarily. We might have to stay here for a year or two." Zhang Yaohua said.

"Are you here to work? Which unit? I am from Seed Station." The man said.

"We went to work in the village." Zhao Ruiping said.

"Oh, are you new college student village officials? I heard that you were divided into the poorest two villages. The people from the town government are really bad enough. Even though you knew that you came down to the gilded ones, they actually threw you into the mountain."

"Brother, what do you call me?" Zhang Yaohua asked.

"My name is Wu Jianjun. I used to be a seed station, but now I have done it myself, so I will sell seeds. If you need seeds in the future, you can come to me. I will definitely give you the best seeds." Wu Jianjun smiled.

"Don't buy seeds from Wu Jianjun's house, his seeds are not good. He has been married to the house for many years, but he has not been happy yet." Someone shouted loudly on the side.

Wu Jianjun was not angry either: "Zhu Yuanpeng, my seeds are not good, so why is your son exactly the same as me? When it comes to this, I feel sorry for you."

Wu Jianjun smiled and said to Zhang Yaohua and Zhao Ruiping: "That guy is my neighbor, Zhu Yuanpeng, he just likes to joke, but he is pretty good. But don't take care of his business. He runs a pharmacy and specializes in selling fake medicines."

"I'll go, if you can't cure your infertility, just say I'll sell fake medicine." Zhu Yuanpeng swam over and smiled loudly.

"You are right upstream, the water is not very deep. Don't swim to the middle. Don't look at the water being very smooth. In fact, the water flow in the middle is very fast. It's very dangerous to accidentally get to the middle." Wu Jianjun said.

"It's okay, we just come here to take a shower." Zhang Yaohua said with a smile.

When Wu Jianjun and Zhu Yuanpeng walked away, Zhao Ruiping said, "Hey, the people here are still very simple."

Zhang Yaohua smiled, "Simple is simple, but no matter how simple a person is, he will have a cunning side."

Zhao Ruiping nodded: "I know this. The water quality here is so good, there should be a lot of fish, right?"

"It should be. You can go fishing in the river when you have time. But it sounds bad to make people say it out. Others think we are not here to work, but to take a vacation." Zhang Yaohua smiled.

"As long as I do my job well, I don't care about that much. By the way, when are you going to go to the village?" Zhao Ruiping asked.

"Let's go down these two days. It's not okay to live in the town all the time." Zhang Yaohua said.

"Well, I just worry that I don't even have a place to live in the village." Zhao Ruiping said pessimistically.

Zhang Yaohua knew that this situation was true, but when he was a child, he lived in a poor mountain village. Even if he encountered this situation, he could get used to it. However, it was difficult for people like Zhao Ruiping who lived in the city since childhood.

The next day, Zhang Jiaohua and Zhao Ruiping went to the town and proposed to go to the village to see where they would work next.

Zhu Qingdong was not surprised by their performance. When the young people first came, they were full of enthusiasm and positive performance. However, after working in a difficult environment in the rural area for a while, their passion would slowly become cold. Zhu Qingdong estimated that these two young people would run back crying and crying.

"Okay, you are so enthusiastic about your work, which is very good. I hope you can achieve results in the village. There are no telephone numbers and no mobile phone signals in Yingpan Village and Bendou Shu Village. So, I can't notify the villagers to pick you up. I'll send you there." Zhu Qingdong said.

After walking a fairly flat road, I came to the bumpy road.

"This road is barely accessible on sunny days. On a rainy day, even such old jeeps cannot come in. The roads of these two villages are so long, and the town has not raised so much money to build roads. People cannot even eat enough, and it is even more impossible to spend money to build roads. As the saying goes, to get rich, build roads first. Now Yingpan Village and Benwushu Village are poorer and poorer, and the more they cannot build roads, the poorer the roads. The surrounding villages are gradually becoming richer, and only these two villages are getting poorer." Zhu Qingdong said.

Yingpan Village is adjacent to the two villages of Bendou Shu Village, and is located on two branches on the same road. It is three or four kilometers from the fork to Bendou Shu Village, and it is also three or four kilometers from Yingpan Village.

"Today I will go to Yingpan Village first, have dinner in Yingpan Village, and then send Xiao Zhao to the bent Shu Village. I will arrange you both before I will go back to the town." Zhu Qingdong lit a cigarette in the car and asked Zhao Ruiping and Zhang Yaohua if they had eaten. Zhao Ruiping took the cigarette without hesitation and started smoking. Zhang Yaohua didn't answer it, and he didn't care about the two of them smoking.

The village party secretary of Yingpan Village Gu Baishui greeted the vehicle and smiled and said to Zhu Qingdong: "When I woke up in the morning, I heard the magpies shouting on the eaves, and I knew that a distinguished guest was coming. It happened that a pheasant was gathering in the mountains today. You are so lucky."

"Secretary Gu, I came here today not for your pheasant, but for sending talents to your village. These are all college student village officials arranged by the city for you. They are specially coming to your village to lead your village to make a fortune." Zhu Qingdong introduced Zhang Yaohua and Zhao Ruiping to Gu Baishui.

"Mayor Zhu, are you kidding? In this situation in our village, if the superiors don't allocate funds, they won't even have enough food. No one you send to. Besides, who can live in our village in this situation?" Gu Baishui smiled. Obviously, from his attitude, he was not optimistic about Zhang Yaohua, the new village official.

"Anyway, if the above arrangement is to be made, I can only implement it. You can arrange for Comrade Xiao Zhang to live in your village first. You can't lead your Yingpan Village to become rich, maybe Xiao Zhang has a way?"

"What's the solution? You guys sit down first. I'll go and help my wife make some vegetables." Gu Baishui shook his head and walked into the kitchen.

Gu Baishui's house is a six-row brick and tile house, which is already very bright in the village. Many of the villages are wooden houses. Some houses are not covered with tiles, but tree bark or thatch.

"Xiao Zhang, don't worry. Although Secretary Gu is not very supportive of sending village officials from above, he is still very good and enthusiastic. If it weren't for him in Yingpan Village, he wouldn't be able to do his job at all. Now the village committee team in the village is the only one in the village. Now you are down, the first thing is to build the village committee team and strive to build the village committee team so that you can easily carry out the work. Of course, this is what the above said. If we say it privately, when you go to the village, try to establish a good relationship with the village and try not to cause trouble to the village. You have also seen that we are so poor here, but we can't afford to make trouble. Old Gu is also afraid of trouble. But if you have any choice and can get funding, you can do whatever you want. Do you understand what I mean?" Zhu Qingdong said very directly.

"What Mayor Zhu said is exactly what I want to say. It is not easy for you to come down. Our village can be responsible for what you eat. But don't mess around. Our family cannot afford to make trouble. If you can get funds for our village, all the people in our village will thank you." Gu Baishui said.

Gu Baishui was actually a test. He wanted to know how much money the village officials sent this time could bring to Yingpan Village. Zhu Qingdong knew the above policies of the village officials and sent college students to come down. He did not just want to help the poor, but to strengthen the construction of grassroots organizations. When the village officials had the greatest task, they established a village committee team. Then they led the villagers to get rich. There was no funding support at all. Unless the college students to come down, the village officials themselves had the ability to get funds. However, those who were related had long been sent to the best village. How could they be allocated to Tianbaqiao Town?

Although life in the mountains is simple, the food is still very fragrant. The pheasant meat is fried with pepper, which is fragrant and spicy, making everyone sweat. The medicinal wine prepared by people in the mountains has a faint medicinal fragrance. The wine is very soft and tastes special when you drink it.

Originally, Gu Baishui planned to arrange Zhang Yaohua to live at his home, but Zhang Yaohua wanted to be more free. Finally, he lived in a dilapidated house in the village primary school. There were too few children in Yingpan Village, with less than ten people in one grade, so he could not start classes. A few years ago, Yingpan Village primary school was removed. The children in the village had to go to school and got to go to Zhongba Township Central Primary School more than ten kilometers away. A little bit older kids had to start boarding in the primary school. They only went home every Friday and had to go to school on Sunday afternoons. Or they were early on Mondays and walked more than twenty miles to school.

The small village house was empty, but it had been abandoned for several years and the situation was not good. Gu Baishui said that after dinner, he went to the village to ask a few people to repair a house that was not leaking for Zhang Yaohua.

The situation in the bent Shu Village was similar to that in Zhang Yaohua. Zhu Qingdong had to return to the town before dark, so after dinner, he didn't sit for a long time, so he sent Zhao Ruiping to the bent Shu Village.

"Zhang Yaohua, I'll go there first. I'll come to find you another day. It's just that this road is a little too far." Zhao Ruiping patted Zhang Yaohua's shoulder.
Chapter completed!