Farewell to those commune members, Luo Xuan continued on his way to Red Star Commune.
Along the way, there are quite a few short-distance shuttle buses between the county seat and Hongxing Commune, and the frequency of buses is much denser than in earlier years.
Those drivers who saw Luo Xuan walking on the road were well dressed and had a good temperament, so they had to slow down when passing by Luo Xuan.
Then the conductor hung outside the car door, patted the car body and asked: "Comrade, it's sent to Red Star Commune, can you leave?"
This kind of service attitude is really much better than before!
A few years ago, when Luo Xuan took the shuttle bus to the county seat, how could these conductors care whether the pedestrians walking on the road wanted to take the bus?
Anyway, it's the same for them to take one more passenger or one less, and it won't affect their wages.
And now,
After these years of development, it seems that these people have begun to have a certain sense of service.
As the old saying goes, "If you're not afraid of being slow, you're afraid of standing still."
As long as their ideology is slowly improving and they are becoming more and more advanced, that is a good thing.
Walking slowly along the way, Luo Xuan would stop and chat with the person for a while when he met someone or something that was slightly interesting to him.
It wasn't until he reached the fork in the road that bordered the Da Laojun Mountain Nature Reserve that Luo Xuan stopped and walked straight to the restaurant on the side of the road.
As soon as he entered the door, a girl who looked very smart and capable stood up behind the cashier. She asked Luo Xuan with a smile, "Comrade, are you preparing to eat? Or are you passing by and want to come in for a glass of water?"
The hotel is not large, but the signboard is "Red Star Commune Catering Service Branch 5".
Luo Xuan clearly remembered that when he was working hard in the mountains, how could there be any restaurants here?
It seems that the location of this restaurant is indeed a bit strange.
Luo Xuan said, "I feel a little thirsty after walking here. Can you give me a glass of water?"
"OK."
When the cashier heard that Luo Xuan was speaking Mandarin, she automatically switched to Trump, "Please wait a moment, I'll go inside and get you some water."
It's not lunch time at this time, maybe the waiters and management cadres in the catering service are still resting behind.
It is possible that there is only one cashier on duty in the front hall.
After Luo Xuan sat down, after a while, when the cashier came out again, there was another married woman with a good figure and a calm temperament behind her.
"Director Ye, this guest is passing by because he is thirsty, so"
The cashier placed the glass filled with water in front of Luo Xuan while introducing the situation to her leader.
Before she finished speaking
"Brother Luo Xuan?!"
"Ah, is it really you?!
"
The young woman's originally calm face suddenly showed a look of ecstasy, "Brother Luo Xuan, why are you back? Why didn't you say hello when you came?"
Miss Ye Wan almost threw herself into Luo Xuan's arms, "Hurry, hurry, sit inside, brother Luo Xuan, I haven't seen you for a long time, you are still the same?"
Miss Ye Wan can be regarded as the first girl with whom he has had an intimate relationship since his rebirth.
I remember back then, Ye Wan was just a skinny rural girl carrying a basket and preparing to run away in a panic.
Over the years, under the careful training of Ji Xuyuan and Chen Xiaoduan's mother, Miss Ye Wan's overall quality and overall image have undergone earth-shaking changes.
At first glance, there is no obvious difference between her and the young female cadres from work units in the city.
When she entered the office, Ye Wan hugged Luo Xuan tightly, then kissed her and let go, "Brother Luo Xuan, thank you for having you!"
Of course Luo Xuan knew what Ye Wan was talking about: If he had not softened his heart and rescued Miss Ye Wan from the hands of the militiamen, and brought her home to feed her and give her something to drink.
It is very likely that Miss Ye Wan either committed herself to a rough farmer or married an old widower just for the sake of food.
Even
Because in that period, under special circumstances, big girls were really worthless, and 10 kilograms of grain could be exchanged for one.
Based on how skinny Miss Ye Wan was back then, she probably wasn't even worth 10 kilograms of food.
If that were the case, how could there be this young woman with outstanding temperament and charming charm in front of me?!
If I hadn't taken Miss Ye Wan to the deep mountains and entrusted Ji Xuyuan to teach her cultural knowledge and expand her thinking.
If it weren't for Chen Xiaoduan's mother, she would have taught Ye Wan step by step how to behave in the world and taught her high-level human sophistication.
How could she, Ye Wan, have such a happy ending like today?
But now Ye Wan is married, a wife, and a mother.
So even though she was extremely grateful to Luo Xuan, she could only express her feelings instead of being polite.
A kiss or a hug is enough to express her inner gratitude.
"Sit down and talk."
Luo Xuan pulled up the chair and asked Ye Wan with a smile, "Mr. Ji Xuyuan asked Chen Xiaoduan to write me a letter saying that you were married. How are you doing now?"
Ye Wan blushed, "My life is pretty good now. My partner works in a machinery factory and is taken care of by Director Liu. My partner has become the deputy director of the workshop.
How should I put it, he doesn’t have much ability, but he is very kind to us and my mother. He neither smokes nor drinks. After work every day, he comes back to help with housework."
"That's good."
Luo Xuan asked her, "Why did the commune catering service set up such a restaurant here? Can there be business?"
Ye Wan walked to the door of the office, stretched out his head to take a look, and then closed the door, "Now that the living standards of the villagers have improved, normally, this hotel can also do some business for people coming in and out of the Big and Little Laojun Mountains.
However, in fact, whether this hotel is profitable or not is secondary to the fact that this is not the focus of this hotel’s work.”
Luo Xuan frowned, "Could it be used as a message?"
"Um."
Ye Wan nodded, "Because in the Big and Little Laojun Mountain Nature Reserve, members often bring farmed chickens, ducks, geese, pigs, cattle and sheep and other live animals for sale.
In addition, the fruits and vegetables grown in 'that village' are of good quality and in large quantities. As time goes by, some people will start to become curious about the situation in the nature reserve."
‘that village’,
It refers to the village that was established in the mountains of Xiaolaojun due to severe food shortages in the past during difficult times when people could not survive outside the mountains.
This village is extremely wealthy now.
However, because this village cannot be made public, Ji Xuyuan has not given the village a serious name until this moment.
——You know, once this village has a serious name.
If it is exposed in the future, it will fully prove that Ji Xuyuan, including the old party secretary, knew about the existence of this village from beginning to end.
If there is no name, then it can be deduced that it is a settlement formed spontaneously by a bunch of blind people. In this way, having a name and not having a name are completely different issues.
Since the village has no name, insiders who know the situation refer to each other as "that village".
So as not to give anyone anything to say.
Luo Xuan smiled slightly, "So if anyone wants to go into the mountain to find out what's going on, they will definitely pass by your hotel. Then how do you inform the nature reserve to make early preparations?"
"Call! Now Xiaolaojun's production brigade, including the nature reserve office, are all equipped with telephones."
Miss Ye Wan pointed to the crank phone on the desk and smiled, "If you feel that the other party is not the kind of person with ulterior motives, he just wants to go in and take a look out of curiosity.
Then we will call Captain Bu Yaoming and ask him to find a way to stop these people who want to go into the mountain to take a look."
"If Xiaolaojun Production Team 8 did not stop people due to negligence or other reasons, there will be a checkpoint for Zhou Dawa and his three brothers at the entrance to the nature reserve as a second interception net.
.”
"Even after they enter the deep mountains, there are still packs of wild wolves that serve as a third interception net."
"Even if they fail to stop them, when they arrive at the nature reserve office, there will be old party secretaries there who will try to drive them away."
Ye Wan explained in a low voice, "But if you encounter someone of unknown origin, I feel that it is targeted. I want to go to the village in the nature reserve to find out the situation."
"Then we won't make phone calls, mainly because we are afraid of leaking secrets."
Ye Wan said, "In the backyard of the hotel, we keep more than 10 homing pigeons, which will be exchanged with the pigeons in the reserve from time to time in order to keep communication open at all times."
That village is located deep in the mountains and old forests.
Because they have a lot of bird droppings to use as fertilizer, the crops they grow, including fruits and vegetables, grow particularly well.
And the quality is also top-notch.
"That village" is very wealthy. In addition to no shortage of fertilizers and plenty of land, there are several important reasons:
Their grain seeds are all optimized by Luo Xuan using spring water in the space, and their yield and disease resistance are inherently high.
In addition, these villagers, regardless of men or women, have all experienced great hardships, and all of them cherish the hard-won peace and prosperity in front of them.
So these people work extremely hard and work very hard.
There is no need for Ji Xuyuan to supervise, let alone urge, all the villagers go to work in the fields at dawn every day, and do not go home until dusk falls.
This is completely different from the work of the production team members outside the mountains.
The villagers in "that village" truly regard every fruit tree and crop in the collective as their most cherished treasure.
Now that there are so many favorable factors, it is not easy to suffer poverty.
Besides, the village is self-sufficient, and all harvests belong to the village collective.
Therefore, after many years of accumulation, it is reasonable that the village is extremely rich.
Now in the village, not only are there flocks of chickens and ducks, and countless cattle and sheep, but there are also mountains of food, and there is no way to finish them all.
According to Ji Xuyuan's careful calculations: even if all the villagers eat with open stomachs, they will definitely not be able to finish the existing grain reserves in the village in less than three years.
[Actually, it was the same in the late 1970s. Everyone ate three years of old grain before digesting the previous grain stocks.]
In order to deal with the excess grain, the village chose to vigorously develop the breeding industry and strive to convert a large amount of grain into poultry, eggs and meat.
This is much more convenient and faster than selling the grain directly for cash.
When that village sells these poultry, eggs and meat, they often use the name of "Zhengxing Brigade Breeding Farm" and directly let the "Zhengxing Brigade Collective Slaughterhouse" and "Meat Joint Factory" digest all these things.
Clean.
As for the money sold, for Luo Xuan, this is a matter of left hand and right hand.
Currently this village cannot be exposed.
So Ji Xuyuan, who was thoughtful, came up with this idea: use Fatty Gu, who is the person in charge of the catering service club of Hongxing Commune.
He applied to the commune and opened such a hotel at the intersection of the Big and Little Laojun Mountain Nature Reserve.
In name, it is “in order to satisfy the mountainous people’s increasingly high pursuit of food, and to facilitate the wedding and funeral needs of the people of the Xiaolaojun Production Brigade who have made outstanding contributions to the economic construction of Hongxing Commune.”
In fact, this hotel serves as the first barrier to protect the secrets of the nature reserve.
After all, catering services carry the title of state-owned enterprise.
As the person in charge of the hotel, it would be safer for Miss Ye Wan to observe everyone's actions, make insinuations about everyone who enters the mountain, and find out their true intentions.
As for the village located deep in the mountains, what is the future way out?
In fact, this is simple. According to Luo Xuan's idea: after the village is reopened, the collective wealth accumulated in that village will be used to open a collective enterprise outside the mountain.
By then,
All the villagers in that village can move out of the mountains in the name of resettlement.
From now on, that group of people will become employees and shareholders of this company.
If you meet a very few people who are really unwilling to leave the land or the village.
Then let's wait until the big inspection and let them be converted into ordinary production team members in an open and honest manner.
However, since no one knew the future direction, Luo Xuan could only hide this plan in his heart for the time being and did not dare to tell outsiders.
Luo Xuan, who was relieved about what was going on in the mountains, declined Ye Wan's invitation to have dinner, and took advantage of the fact that it was still early in the morning to sneak back to Hongxing Commune.
In the Red Star Commune.
There are too many people worth caring about: Fatty Gu from the catering service company. I haven’t seen him in so many years. I wonder if he has lost a few pounds?
There is also Liu Fugui. This guy's current level is not low. It is said that he is even more arrogant than the county director. Nowadays, anyone who wants to see him must make an appointment in advance.
Liao Xianming, director of the commune, has worked conscientiously and diligently for so many years, and now he is no longer young.
I don’t know how much more white hair has been added to his head?
On Hongxing Street, the most important person is Dr. Tuo Haili, who is now famous, and everyone says that she has superb medical skills.
That girl who loves money as much as her life is said to have given up her position as an attending doctor at the district health center and actually went back to the clinic of the Zhengxing Brigade to become a "barefoot doctor" with no official position and little salary.
