More than half a month passed in the blink of an eye.

As we enter May, the days are getting longer and the weather is getting hotter.

Mr. Zhou was living in the Shen family, and he seemed quite happy to miss Shu. Tan's father tried to persuade him several times, but failed to persuade him. He said that he didn't want to go back to the capital. He said that it was boring to live alone, so he had to live with his grandson's wife and great-grandson.

The great-granddaughter lives together.

Whenever this happens, Father Shen happily tells Brother Zhou to live wherever he wants, and it doesn't matter how long he stays.

Tan’s father really couldn’t persuade me, and besides, I still have my mother, daughter-in-law and work in the capital, so I planned to go back to the capital in the next two days.

Before he could leave, a message came from the capital, telling Mr. Zhou not to go back.

When the enlarged political meeting was held, and the second week after Tan's father returned to the capital, Zhou Lixue came back from a meeting in the team and informed every household to hold a meeting in the evening.

After dinner, Zhou Haoran and Zhang Chunnuan went down the mountain to the ancestral hall of Shanjiao Village.

The grandfather and several other elders sat and listened to Zhou Lixue sighing for a long time. After he couldn't sit still, he asked:

"Shuanzi, what did you say when you went to the team meeting today? Tell me if you have any difficulties. Don't ask others to come to the meeting and just sigh by yourself."

Zhou Lixue let out another long sigh, looked around, and said, "Oh, Grandpa, this matter is not easy to handle!"

When the old man heard this, he became even more angry. He banged his cane on the ground several times, "You didn't tell me what it was, so you just said it can't be done. If you really don't want to tell everyone, then you can hold it in alone, my old man."

Ignore it, I have to go back to sleep!"

As he was about to get up and leave, Zhou Lixue quickly held the person down and sighed: "Oh, here's the thing. The brigade held a meeting today and said that there are new policies from above, and our village will have people coming again!"

During the meeting, when he heard that someone was coming from his village, Zhou Lixue thought of Chu Pan'er, an educated youth who was good at causing trouble.

As the saying goes: "Once bitten by a snake, you will be afraid of the well rope for ten years."

He was really scared.

Especially when he saw that the crops of other production teams grew faster and better than those of his own village, he felt uncomfortable.

If it hadn't been for that Chu educated youth causing so many things that delayed the village's spring plowing, the crops in their mountain village would have grown better than those in other villages!

When they heard Zhou Lixue said that someone was coming to the village, the villagers who were standing, sitting or squatting in the ancestral hall started talking.

Last year, there were only five educated youths in the village. Now the troublemaker Chu educated youth has got married and has no idea whether to live or die. Zhou educated youth has married Zhang Chunnuan, the little widow in the village. Now there are three educated youths living in the educated youth compound, one man and two women.

The villagers said that the land in the village is as big as a palm, and there are not enough people in the village to cultivate it, so they have to open up wasteland. The three educated youths are redundant, and the next people come to share the food!

"Brother Shuanzi, the team said how many people are coming this time! No matter how many people there are, our village won't have enough food to feed those city dwellers who can't work!"

"That's right, Brother Shuanzi, why don't you tell the team not to allocate more people to our village this time? We can't afford to support them if we have too many!"

"Let me tell you, just send those two female educated youths back to the team and let the team cadres rearrange them. Anyway, they can only eat but not work!"

"What nonsense! Those two female educated youths have been here for more than half a year. Even if they can't do it, they have learned all the work in the fields. If we assign a few newcomers, we still have to teach them. Let me see, let's tell the brigade

, let’s bring in a few educated youths from other teams, we won’t want the newcomers!”

"I think it's okay!"

"Just do it!"

The more Zhou Lixue listened, the darker his face became. He finally couldn't bear it anymore and said loudly: "You think I'm buying vegetables at the wet market, and you can still bargain for it?!"

The people below were all speechless when they heard this, but they just thought unconvinced in their hearts: Where is the vegetable market now? When you go to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy things, let alone bargaining, you still have to look at the salesperson's face!

Thinking of this, everyone looked a bit unhappy. It seemed that there was no way to discuss this matter.

"Uncle Shuanzi, just tell us, here are a few people, what do you want us to do!"

"Yes, yes, you say it and we can figure it out together."

Zhou Lixue raised his hand and pressed it down. When the ancestral hall became quiet, he cleared his throat and said, "There are not many people this time, just three people."

Hearing this, everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

It's okay to just have three people. Anyway, there are only three educated youths living in the Shen family's old house now, and it can still accommodate them. The most I can do is lend them some food, which is not a big embarrassment.

Zhou Lixue saw everyone's faces and continued: "However, the people here this time are not educated youths, but..."

He couldn't say the words "stinky old nine", so he could only start to make up for it elsewhere, "Anyway, there are three people. The superiors said that they made mistakes and were sent to our village for labor reform."

The last time the villagers in Shanjiao Village heard the term "reform through labor" was when Zhou Huacheng was assigned to Beidi to do labor reform. Now they are a little shocked to hear that someone has been sent to his own village for labor reform.

In the eyes of their elders, Zhou Huacheng was a good boy, capable, obedient and diligent. The reason why he was sentenced to forced labor was because of his bad luck and bad fate.

In the eyes of his peers, Zhou Huacheng is loyal and easy to get along with. If it weren't for Long Tiezhu, he would be the future production team leader of Shanjiao Village!

Based on this, the villagers who attended the meeting did not have a bad impression of the three people who were about to come to the village for labor reform.

The people in the village are simple and honest. Although they all have their own small thoughts, they are not bad at heart. The worst people they have ever seen were Long Tiezhu at the beginning and Li Dabai later.

The grandfather thought for a while and asked: "Shuanzi, do you know why those three people came to our village for labor reform?"

Zhou Lixue thought for a moment and replied in a low voice: "Grandpa, none of the people here should be bad people..." At this point, he hesitated for a while, then lowered his voice and continued in a smaller voice: "They are all

Literary people, two university teachers and a doctor."

Although the team did not explicitly ask the villages to select their own people, because Mr. Zhou was still in the village, the team did not assign any troublesome people to the villages at the foot of the mountain.

The grandpa was stunned for a moment, as if he didn't understand why educated people were sent down to a small village like Shanjiao Village in the mountains to undergo labor reform.

But he quickly came to his senses, glanced at Zhou Lixue, and then knocked his cane on the stone tiles on the ground, making a clicking sound. When the others calmed down, he said:

"Since they are assigned to our village at the foot of the mountain, as long as they don't cause us any trouble, then don't bully them, farm the land well, and work hard."

Hearing what the great grandfather said, Zhou Lixue finally breathed a sigh of relief. What the great grandfather said couldn't be more clear.

If the person who comes here works hard and doesn't cause trouble, then he will be treated the same as those educated youths. If the person who comes here is a troublemaker like that educated youth Chu, then there is no need to show mercy.
Chapter completed!