Hearing her mother's words, Cui Jing said dumbfounded: "Mom, it's really not true. He is, yes..." Cui's mother put some shoe uppers that she was sewing in her hand and said, "What is it?" Cui Jing said, "Yes, yes...
"Cui's father knocked on the ground twice with his pipe and said: "Don't ask Xiao Jing, I have already thought of his identity." Cui Jing looked at her father with surprise. Cui's father smiled and said: "I'm old, I'm old.
It's a blessing for Xiaojing that I can still meet a noble person."
Cui Jing said: "Dad, have you met Cheng before...?" Cui's father nodded and said, "Just now you were fuming, and then I remembered that I had seen it in "Yunshan Daily"." Cui's mother looked at her husband, then looked at her again.
The daughter asked in confusion: "What are you talking about? Why can't I understand?" Cui's father had recognized Cheng Yiping, and Cui Jing didn't want to hide it from her mother anymore. She leaned over and whispered softly in her ear. Cui's mother was surprised and said
: "What, you said Xiao Cheng is the county party committee secretary?"
The air in the countryside was fresh, and the moonlight seemed to cast a silver-white gauze over Dawangzhuang. Cheng Yiping stood at the window for a while, then sat at the desk. He looked at the large-character header "About the whole world" written by himself on the manuscript paper.
"Implementation Plan for Unified Management of County Coal Enterprises", I picked up the pen, but I couldn't write it down. I had thousands of words in my heart, but I didn't know why. It just got stuck.
Feeling a little irritated, I stood up again and walked around the room. I walked back and sat down, picked up the pen, wrote a few lines, and then dropped it. I sat there for a while. Then I stuffed the manuscript paper into my handbag, picked up the bag and left the room.
The door of the wing room opposite creaked open. Old Li opened the door and Cheng Yiping said, "Come with me for a walk." Old Li didn't ask any questions, so he quickly put on his coat and followed Cheng Yiping out.
Cheng Yiping said: "Is Jiang Hao okay?" Old Li smiled and said: "I fell asleep and didn't spit out the wine that Uncle Cui toasted him!" The noise outside the house was naturally heard inside the house, and the living room door opened and Cui Jing and her family came out.
Cui's father ran down the steps and asked: "Cheng... Secretary Cheng, what are you..." Cheng Yiping was slightly startled, knowing that his identity had been revealed, he smiled and said: "Uncle, I'm going out for a walk."
Cui's father looked at Cui Jing and said: "This..." Cheng Yiping looked at the time and it was less than ten o'clock. Due to drought this year, rice was planted late in most areas of Yunshan County. Most of the villagers are still in the fields.
Li was busy watering the rice fields and said with a smile: "Uncle, I'm going to check on the irrigation situation of the farmland." Cui's father said: "Okay, wait a moment." He went into the house and took three flashlights and replaced them with new spare batteries.
He picked up the hoe and said with a smile: "Secretary Cheng, let's go!"
Xiaohua ran out of the house and said, "I'll go too!" Cheng Yiping smiled and said, "Okay, I'll take uncle to catch crabs in the river later." Cui's father wanted to scold Xiaohua, but when he saw that Cheng Yiping had already pulled Xiaohua
He closed his mouth with his hand. Cui Jing said: "Secretary Cheng, Dad, you come back early, I'll cook supper and wait for you." Cui's father nodded.
The lights of the village in the distance were dotted. Cui's father was carrying a hoe and leading the big yellow dog at the front. The little flowers were jumping and trotting in front of Cheng Yiping. Cheng Yiping was silent and didn't know what he was thinking about. On both sides of the dirt road, flashlights were shining.
As we swept past, there were green rice fields and two or three white greenhouses. In the field wells not far away, the water pump made a "buzzing" sound, and white water spurted out, flowing along the ditch to the field. There were figures in twos and threes shaking with flashlights.
It is the villagers watering the rice fields.
Cui's father put down his hoe and introduced: "Secretary Cheng, this is a well dug by the production team in the past. A water pump was used to pump out groundwater to irrigate the fields. This year's weather has been very dry and the groundwater cannot be pumped out. After everyone studied it, we decided to drill the well deeper.
It took half a month to finally come in handy." Cheng Yiping smiled and walked towards the well. "Hey, who are you?" Seeing someone approaching the well, a barefoot man carrying a hoe came over,
The flashlight shone on several people's faces.
Old Li frowned and said nothing. The man shined his flashlight on Cui's father: "Old Cui, who are they?" Before Cui's father could speak, Cheng Yiping said: "We are technicians from the County Agricultural Bureau, and we came to take a look at the drought relief situation.
The man looked at him and Lao Li suspiciously, and said angrily: "What's there to see? Don't move. Our house finally reaches the pump, so don't make trouble!" Then he picked up the hoe and walked to the field.
Seeing the man walking away, Cui's father said: "Secretary Cheng, the second boy of the Wang family just said something to you, don't take it to heart. There is a drought in my heart." Cheng Yiping smiled, and Cui's father went on to say that the wells are basically enough now.
However, every household had to line up to water the water. Cheng Yiping nodded. Looking at the white greenhouse not far away, Cheng Yiping asked: "The income from the greenhouse should be good. Uncle, your home has a covered greenhouse."
?"
Cui's father sighed and said: "One acre of greenhouse costs four to five thousand yuan, and we can't get it back in the first year. How many of us rural people have four to five thousand yuan? The third child in our family is already quite old, and he is with his brother.
I work in Shenzhen and save some money to build a new house. Nowadays, marriages in rural areas are also very particular, and the bride price is tens of thousands." Speaking of these, the wrinkles on Cui's father's forehead seemed to be deeper. Seeing the old man slightly agitated under the pressure of life
With his hunched back, Cheng Yiping sighed softly.
Several people came to a simple earth hut in front of a greenhouse and turned on the lights. In the earth hut, there was a simple bed made of hard wooden boards, covered with wheat straw and quilts, a broken wooden table and a three-legged stool. Cui's father said: "Cheng
Secretary, this is my nephew’s house. You sit here for a while, I’ll go over there and take a look.” Cheng Yiping nodded, and Cui’s father walked to the field with the hoe. Xiaohua said: “Uncle, the second aunt hasn’t returned yet.
Go home, the sweet potatoes in her shed are delicious, I’ll go get some. Just wait.” As he spoke, he ran out of the earthen house.
Lao Li picked up a wooden stick from the side and propped it under the stool. He shook it firmly and said, "Secretary, sit down." Cheng Yiping smiled, waved his hand, and lit a cigarette. A few minutes later, Xiaohua ran away again.
Returning to the earthen house, he held three sweet potatoes in his arms. He said happily: "Second aunt gave it to me. Uncle, give it to you!" He handed it to Cheng Yiping first, and then to Lao Li. Cheng Yiping smiled and said, "Leave one for grandpa.
Come, let's have one." Xiaohua said happily.
He grabbed the sweet potato from Cheng Yiping's hand. He wiped it with his sleeve, then dropped it on the wooden table a few times and struggled to break it open. He took a piece of sweet potato from Xiaohua and the two of them ate it sweetly. "Uncle, you are the county seat.
"He's a senior official here!" Sitting on the doorstep with Cheng Yiping eating melon, she felt that her uncle was not so difficult to get close to. Xiaohua asked curiously. Cheng Yiping smiled and nodded, and Xiaohua said enviously: "My mother took me with her during the Chinese New Year.
I went to the county town to buy clothes, it’s so beautiful, like a big garden, I want to go there when I grow up.”
Cheng Yiping patted her little head and said, "Then study hard." "Yes!" Xiaohua nodded vigorously. At this time, three men walked up the dirt road. The man at the front was in his thirties or forties, wearing a suit and leather shoes, and had a long hair.
He was shiny and didn't look like someone doing farm work. Cheng Yiping said to Xiaohua: "Xiaohua, get to know them and call them. Uncle wants to talk to them." Xiaohua said angrily: "I won't call him.
He's a big bad guy."
Cheng Yiping said with a smile: "What's wrong?" "Just him, lead someone to beat grandpa." Xiaohua's eyes showed hatred. Cheng Yiping was startled: "What's going on? Didn't grandpa call the police?" Xiaohua said: "He
The ducks raised in the river came out to nibble on the seedlings. Grandpa accidentally killed one, so he led others to beat him. I wanted to call Dad. Grandpa said, Ergouzi's family is rich and we can't afford to offend him.
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Cheng Yiping frowned slightly. This Ergouzi should be Li Quan, the second son of Li Dawang, the owner of the largest black coal mine in Dawangzhuang, whom Cui Jing mentioned today. The villagers call him Li Ergou. It seems that the living conditions are good. The two behind him
The brawny man must have been the little worker he hired. At this time, Li Ergou also saw Cheng Yiping and Xiaohua. When he saw one, one and one young sitting on the threshold, munching sweet potatoes affectionately and pointing at him, he immediately stared.
Eyes, "Damn it, little flower, you stole the melons from my field. If you don't learn well at a young age, you will become a thief."
Xiaohua stood up and shouted loudly: "You are the thief, my sweet potatoes were given by my second aunt!" "Bullshit! They must have been stolen from my melon shed! Damn it, your relatives stole my melons when they came over!" Turning around
He shouted to the two workers behind him: "Catch her and go to Old Man Cui to settle the score!" Hearing the argument, Lao Li came out of the house. Seeing that there was another man, Ergouzi cursed even more fiercely, "Mom
Yes, how many melons have you stolen from me? I must settle the accounts with Old Man Cui today!"