In a barracks dormitory in Majiaobao, Tan Xiaoqin silently looked out the window at the playground. The trees around the playground were already as tall as one person. When she and the villagers of Yanchang Village came here to plant trees, the saplings were only
A child of seven or eight years old is so tall.
It was winter now. Although the leaves on the trees were green, they looked gray. The vegetation was not as lush as in other seasons. The playground was empty, and she felt empty in her heart.
She will be twenty-four after the Chinese New Year. Tan Xiaoqin thought silently, feeling inexplicably terrified.
Tan Xiaoqin has never read any books, so she cannot recite sentimental poems, but her mood is the same as that of well-fed literary girls in ancient and modern times, full of melancholy.
At the age of twenty-four, all the women in the village have already become mothers of several children at this age, and even if they have no children, they are already married. If any daughter is still waiting for marriage at this age, she is a true old girl.
Since Tan Xiaoqin entered the training class of Ma Niao Nong Institute and became a women cadre, she has become familiar with many "Australian principles". When the elders trained indigenous students like them, they not only used words but also put into practice the concepts of modern civilization.
Spread it to them. Therefore, she knew that twenty-four years old was still a "good time to be young and strong" for women, and it was the time to "do their careers." She still remembered that Chief Du said to them sincerely: "You have caught up.
In a good era, when I was fighting like you, I could only stay at home, study, and write articles. I couldn't do any specific things, let alone work alone like you! You guys in the new era
Women cadres must cherish this opportunity!"
That's true. Tan Xiaoqin has been promoted since "Cong Long". She has been promoted from the women's committee of the small Yanchang Village. Now she is the chief of the Industrial Economics Section of Chengmai County. Due to her young age and seniority,
Also from the Agricultural Lecture Center, she has been included in the ranks of "key training". During this Northern Expedition, the organization department dispatched cadres from all over Hainan to prepare to go north to accept power, and she was among the first batch selected. It is said that she will be
Entrusted with important responsibilities, he might become a county magistrate.
Her father and her relatives are all very excited. The Tan family has been a poor person who has been carrying water and drying salt for many lives. Now there is a "county grandpa"! Although she is a girl, she is from the Tan family after all. So-called
When a person attains the Tao, a chicken or a dog can ascend to heaven, the elders of the Tan family still have this thought.
But her mother had different ideas from the men. Before she was selected into the cadre training team going north, she had a vacation to go home to visit relatives. After a lot of noisy compliments, her mother pulled her into her room and asked her in a low voice:
What to do about life-long events?
"...You are not young anymore. Now you are a real old girl. If you want to get over it, you will only be used as filler at this age."
The reason why I say "in the past" is because there are too many young and powerful men in Lingao who have no wives.
"...Your father, your uncles, and others are all eager for you to be promoted. Among the people in the Tan family who want to be officials, you are the fastest to be promoted. They all point to the fact that you are prosperous and it will be good for everyone. They don't think about you.
Are you planning to remarry at thirty when you spend so much time year after year? Girls can’t afford to wait, old age and old age are worthless! Don’t think that your mother doesn’t know what your father is thinking. He is counting on you to be an official and chief.
When we meet, if there is a chief who would like you to become a child - he doesn't even think about it. If the chief wants to marry someone to be a child, he has to marry someone younger. Can he want someone older?"
What she said made Tan Xiaoqin's face burn. In fact, it was not only her father but also her uncle who had this idea. She herself also had such thoughts for a time. But in the end, no leader took a fancy to her. To say that she was the most respected and liked among the elders,
There is only Chief Du, but she is a woman.
Then her mother started to talk to her about a deal. She said that the child of a relative of her mother's family, who was also twenty-eight years old, burned boilers on the Lingao City Railway - in Lingao, this was an authentic "skilled job" and the income was quite high.
considerable.
"...The family is very happy, and they are fair-faced. My mother has watched this child grow up. His parents are not picky, and the two families are still relatives. You won't suffer if you marry him..."
In fact, she was a little excited at that time. In the past few years, she had been working as a cadre outside, and she was getting older day by day. Even if she had no thoughts in her heart, the hormones in her body always reminded her of her physiological needs as a normal woman, especially when she was alone in other places.
Working, those long nights, sleeping alone in the dormitory will inevitably feel empty, lonely and cold. Besides, the man's conditions are also quite good: naturalized skilled workers are very popular in Lingao's marriage market.
But when I thought about the conversation at the Organization Department, my superiors had already made it very clear: No matter male or female, they cannot get married before departure, and female cadres cannot get pregnant. Anyone who violates this will be suspended and sent to a "study class" for "re-education."
Tan Xiaoqin doesn't have much interest in county magistrates or other things. But "violating discipline" is a big deal to Tan Xiaoqin. Needless to say, the consequences are very serious. Not to mention her personally, the whole family, and even the entire Yanchang Village cannot bear it.
In the end, it didn't work out. My mother sighed in disappointment, and she felt very bad in her heart.
"I don't know when I can come back." Tan Xiaoqin thought about her lifelong events, and Gu Ying couldn't help but feel sorry for herself.
"Xiao Qin, what are you talking about?" The door of the dormitory opened, and in came Lu Cheng, her roommate whom she met during this training camp. According to the content of the training camp, she guessed that this Lu Cheng had gone to the mainland.
Her job after graduation was probably similar to hers.
Lu Cheng is younger than her, but very mature. She is even more strict in her work. Tan Xiaoqin heard that she originally worked in the finance and taxation department - no wonder there are people who are not commensurate with their age.
"It's a holiday these days, why don't you go shopping in Dongmen City?"
The training session ended yesterday. Starting today, the cadre training team going north will have a week off. The team members can go home and take a look, or buy some things they need after landing on the mainland. Then they will enter a battle-ready state and be ready to go at any time.
"I'm too lazy to go." Tan Xiaoqin said boredly, "I don't want to buy anything. Besides, everything I need is given away."
"Don't you want to go home and have a look?"
"My home is in Ma Niao. You can get there just by walking out of the base gate." Tan Xiaoqin didn't want to say that she would inevitably have to listen to the nagging of her parents and other elders when she went home. She had been a cadre for several years, and she had no respect for the Tan family.
Peace already feels very strange, and I even feel impatient.
"It's so convenient for you. When I go home, I don't have to take the subway, but I have to transfer to a carriage." Lu Cheng took out a bag of things wrapped in wide leaves, "I bought melon seeds and just roasted them. Let's eat them."
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The custom of eating melon seeds was also initiated by the chief minister of Australia. In the past, few people in Lingao ate melon seeds - it was a pastime of the wealthy and leisurely class, and most people did not even have enough to eat. Now that living standards have improved, in return
Snacks like melon seeds became popular in Huamin.
The two of them sat on the bed and started eating melon seeds. In order to change the topic, Tan Xiaoqin asked: "What caused such a big fuss last night? I think the ambulance has arrived."
Lu Cheng is the trumpet of the training team. He is well-informed about personnel and knows a little bit about everything.
"A man from the Fourth Squadron committed suicide," Lu Cheng knew as expected. "I didn't want to go to the mainland, so I hid in the training ground during self-study at night and stabbed my instep with a bayonet for training. I said it was the bayonet that fell and stabbed me - this is also
It was so fake that there was no need for a doctor to see it. The nurse immediately said it was wrong. The wound was all healed before the wound was stitched at the health center..."
"This is serious, I should be fired from the public office."
"Not only will he be fired from his official position, I heard that he will also be exiled to the south to do hard labor." Lu Cheng sighed, "His family members are all confused now - I heard that they have only been married for half a year. His wife didn't know why she cried when she found out.
Sample……"
Tan Xiaoqin's heart moved, and after a while she lazily said: "So that's it, no wonder he was confused for a moment."
"Who says otherwise," Lu Cheng said, "A great future is ruined..."
"He is quite smart. He thought of using self-mutilation to escape. Last time, the guy from the second team cried and shouted and refused to go without saying anything. The whole family ran to the chief's door and knelt down to cry and beg. That would be called stupid.
"
Since the start of the training team, there has been an undercurrent among the cadres who have been mobilized and selected to go north. Although most people are eager to try the upcoming mainland strategy and hope that they can jump over the dragon gate, there are also many people who have a negative attitude.
Attitude. It's not that they doubt whether the Senate can win, but they are unwilling to leave their families and familiar environment. They are even more afraid of losing their lives in the mainland strategy-this good life has not been around for a few years.
So since the class started, there have been people who pretended to be sick, people who deliberately failed exams, people who looked for connections to find connections to become senior members, people who asked their wives and children to come to the training team to cry for help... and so on.
"My horizons are shallow." Lu Cheng said, "My father also told me that there is nothing to worry about in a big girl's family, so it is better to live a peaceful life as a small cadre. I don't even bother to tell him.
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Neither of them continued talking. Every naturalized cadre in the cadre training team going north knew that this move to the north would be the beginning of the Senate's "capture of the world", not to mention what they, the ministers of the Chonglong, would do like this in the future.
Let's just say that at the moment, everyone who comes to Guangdong will be promoted to at least one official level. When the entire province of Guangdong is finalized, it will be possible for them to become a small clerk in Hainan, or a village chief to become a county magistrate - there are a lot of official positions waiting for them.
For these people, most of whom were hungry and in ragged clothes a few years ago, catching up with such an opportunity is a blessing that cannot be achieved in several lifetimes! The senators changed dynasties and sat in the Dragon Court, and they, the naturalized citizens, were all
A meritorious minister, not to mention his own, even the wealth of his descendants is guaranteed. (To be continued.)