Chapter 7 Clear waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets
On the other side, Ma Defu and Shui Hua sat silently on the kang. They looked at each other and could see the anxiety in each other's eyes.
"you……"
"Forehead……"
"You say it first."
"You say it first."
"Okay, let's talk first." Ma Defu gathered his courage and said, "Don't worry, dad will definitely convince your dad."
"Um."
Shuihua nodded shyly and hummed softly.
Soon, the scene became quiet again, and now the silence was louder than the sound.
It wasn't until the sound of the door opening was heard that the two of them looked away from each other and looked at the entrance.
Squeak!
The wooden door opened, and Li Jie and Li Laoshuan walked in. Seeing this scene, the two of them breathed an inexplicable sigh of relief.
Stepping into the room, Li Jie pointed to the bench next to him: "Li Laoshuan, please sit here for a while, I have something else to do."
"Uh-huh."
Li Laoshuan nodded hurriedly, then secretly glanced at his daughter, and then at Ma Defu who was sitting beside him.
"Defu, please say hello first, go to the village headquarters first, and come back later."
Afterwards, Li Jie gave another instruction to his son and left the house.
After Li Jie left, the three people present stared at each other, but no one could break the awkward atmosphere.
After a long time, Shui Hua glanced at her father quietly and let out a cry.
"dad."
Li Laoshuan turned his head and glanced at his daughter, who had a reserved expression, and answered casually.
"Um."
For a while, the scene fell silent again.
Li Laoshuan looked at his daughter and Ma Defu and didn't know what to say. If other factors were put aside, in his eyes, the two children were a good match, but their family was so poor that even his wife ran away.
.
In Yongquan Village, Shuihua's mother was not the only one who ran away. Principal Bai's wife also ran away because she couldn't bear the poverty here. In addition to women running away, even men also ran away. For example, Gawa's father
'Run'.
Although Gawa's father used an excuse to go out to work, he never sent a letter to his family after he left. This was no different from running away.
Shui Hua glanced at her father from time to time, and she didn't know what to say. Although she hated her father for taking her own decision and promising her to the Kushui Village next door, Li Laoshuan was her father after all. There was no relationship between father and daughter.
What an overnight feud.
Ma Defu also looked at Shui Hua's father calmly. In fact, he really wanted to ask now.
'Do you agree with the matter of Er and Shuihua?'
However, he didn't dare and was embarrassed.
In this way, none of the three people spoke, until a trumpet sounded in their ears.
"It's a meeting! It's a meeting! Let's have a meeting at the village committee. At least one person from each family will come, now, right away!"
"Go to the village committee for a meeting, let's have a meeting!"
Hearing the voice from the loudspeaker, Li Laoshuan pursed his lips.
"Well, I'm off to a meeting."
A few minutes later, the villagers came to the village committee one after another carrying small benches. Seeing that almost everyone had arrived, Li Jie took Zhang Shucheng and sat on the makeshift rostrum. It was said to be a rostrum, but in fact it was just a bench.
And an old long table.
Anyone who has been to the village committee knows that the scene must be a mess. Li Jie stood in front of the 'rostrum', patted the table and shouted.
"Quiet, quiet!"
As soon as he finished speaking, the scene was indeed quiet for a while, but some villagers were still whispering. What happened during the day yesterday had already spread throughout Yongquan Village. Everyone knew what the meeting was about today. It was nothing more than discussion.
Diaozhuang's matter.
"Everyone sit down, sit down, today we are talking about serious business, five squats, you quickly find a place to sit down."
After a while, seeing that the villagers had almost arrived, Li Jie coughed lightly and started his performance.
"Everyone knows that our Yongquan Village is poor. Why are we poor?"
"Why?"
"Because of lack of water!"
"Well, why do you ask the horse to shout for water, shout for water, shout for water? You have to shout for water when you are short of water."
"Because our land is short of water, whatever we plant will die. Except for corn, potatoes, and sweet potatoes, nothing else will survive."
"The wind blows away stones, there is no grass growing on the ground, and there is not a bird in the sky. It is true that no bird poops here."
"But, our place was not like this before."
"The land under our feet was the largest military base in the world in ancient times. The First Emperor visited here on patrol, Genghis Khan spent his final years here, and the First and Second Red Fronts met here."
"When it comes to this, our old party secretary knows best. He participated in the Long March back then."
"Really? Old branch secretary?"
Among the crowd, an old man in his seventies took two puffs on his dry pipe and nodded silently.
"It is said that we in Ning Province are trying to 'block the south of the Yangtze River'. This statement is correct when applied to Yinchuan, Shizuishan, Wuzhong and Zhongwei, but it is not correct when applied to us."
"No, that's not right either. It was used correctly here before, but now we can no longer afford to be called 'Shang Jiangnan'."
"Why?"
"Because at a glance, everything we see here is loess, and it doesn't have the flavor of 'Jiangnan' at all!"
"Of course, in history, the forests here were also patches of forests. There is a poem that says, the sky is blue, the fields are vast, the wind blows the grass and you can see the cattle and sheep. It is a little bit of a problem to use this sentence to describe our place.
Neither."
"But with the war, a large number of immigrants entered the mountainous areas, causing great damage to our environment here."
"The original surname of our Yongquan Village is 'Li'. Our ancestors of the Ma family came here because they fled. Here, I would like to thank the ancestors of the Li family for accepting the ancestors of the Ma family.
Otherwise, the ancestors of the Ma family would have died long ago."
"However, things are different now. We used to live in the mountains to avoid war, but now the country is peaceful and the people are safe. We can go out."
"At the same time, we also give this piece of land that raised us a rest."
"That's why the government formulated the 'diaozhuang' immigration plan, allowing us to go out to places where there is water from the Yellow River, to the Great Plains, and let us take root there. On the one hand, we can have enough to eat, and on the other hand, we can also let these people
A piece of land to rest for a while.”
"Folks, clear waters and green mountains are worth the price of gold and silver."
"Only when the mountains become green and the water becomes green, crops can grow in the fields and we can have enough food. However, if we don't leave, the mountains will not be green and the water will not be green."
At the same time, when Zhang Shucheng heard that "lucid waters and green mountains are mountains of gold and silver", he suddenly looked stunned and looked mesmerized.
This...this sentence is really good!
So vivid!
no!
Must be written down!
As soon as he thought of this, Zhang Shuli immediately opened his notebook and wrote this slogan in a few strokes.