Chapter 100: The Toiling Masses Are Tormented
This time, it's okay, there is another fifty yuan out of thin air, Leng Pengcheng doesn't know how to spend it, the fifty yuan at that time is a month's living expenses for a family of seven or eight.
However, Leng Pengcheng still thought of a trick, take it from the people and use it for the people, so he simply came to distribute it equally.
Ten dollars to buy cigarettes, specifically for everyone to smoke together.
Take another ten yuan and hand it over directly to the master, and occasionally improve the food for everyone.
Then divide ten yuan out, buy wine and drink it together, anyway, don't buy the kind with bottles or brands, just buy the lowest price bulk puree wine from Jiangxia County Distillery.
This kind of wine, with a high degree and a strong taste, is guaranteed to be refreshing after taking a sip.
Then put ten yuan on the secretary to help the needy people when he went to the countryside.
In the end, the ten yuan couldn't be moved anymore, so I kept it to buy delicious food for my son Leng Jun and the baby princess Leng Ling'er when I went home.
In less than an hour, the master had already set up dinner, Leng Pengcheng, the director, and the three deputy directors and secretary Xiao Wang sat around the table.
Looking at the big carp and scrambled eggs on the table, patting cucumbers, mapo tofu, and a plate of oily peanuts, Leng Pengcheng was so greedy that he snapped his mouth, and he happily asked, "Where is the master?"
"There's also a little fried meat, he will come when it's fried," Xiao Wang said with a smile as he stole a peanut and threw it in his mouth.
"Then wait, one person is missing, Lao Leng can't move chopsticks," the director smiled, put down the chopsticks in his hand and said.
"Old Leng, hurry up and send out cigarettes, let's wait for him while smoking," the other deputy director, pulled Leng Pengcheng to his side and sat down, and came to pick his pocket.
Leng Pengcheng smiled and took out two packs of 'Evergrande' from his pocket and threw them on the table, asking Xiao Wang to dismantle them and distribute them to everyone.
While everyone was talking and laughing, the master brought the last dish, and Leng Pengcheng hurriedly beckoned him to sit down.
Seeing that the people sitting there were all the big men in the commune, the master hurriedly said, "You drink, I'll go seal the fire." ”
Leng Pengcheng immediately left his seat, he grabbed the master and said: "What is sealed, if it is extinguished, it will be reborn tomorrow, there is not much else in our commune, just more firewood." ”
The master was dragged by Leng Pengcheng and glanced at the director again.
The director also smiled and pressed his hand towards the master: "Look at what I'm doing, there is no high or low between us, among these people, Lao Leng is the highest, we all have to listen to him, he asks you to sit, you can sit quickly." ”
Leng Pengcheng was happy: "Don't talk about seniority, we are all close comrades-in-arms, and we must always be close to each other." ”
"That being said, among those of us, although you are the youngest, you have the most seniority, of course you have to listen to you," the other deputy director began to pour his wine and said seriously.
"Drink, drink," seeing that the master had already sat down, the anxious director poured a glass of wine into his mouth before saying:
"I said Lao Leng, in your opinion, in the current situation, which direction should it go?"
When Leng Pengcheng heard this, he hurriedly grabbed a piece of fish meat, put it in the director's bowl and said, "Is it a glass of wine, and there is no door on the mouth!"
Sighing softly, the director said after another drink:
"I'm anxious, look at our people, they can't even eat enough now..."
If production is not resumed, food will be the most important thing for seven or eight billion people to eat and wear!" A deputy director also opened his mouth.
After Leng Pengcheng also drank a glass of wine, he looked at everyone and said:
"I'll tell you a story, there is a port, a big foreign ship came, to exchange fiberboard for our peanuts, at that time our peanuts, long ready, the port workers said, to unload the fiberboard for them, in order to load peanuts, but the foreigners smiled and said:
Even if you load the peanuts first, and when the peanuts are on the boat, the fiberboard will come out.
Our workers put peanuts on the ship in disbelief, but the ship was empty, and they couldn't even see a piece of fiberboard, and guess what would happen down there?"
When Leng Pengcheng speaks to the beginning, he always likes to leave a little suspense for everyone to make his conversation more dramatic and tempting.
Seeing that everyone was looking at him with expectant eyes, Leng Pengcheng smiled and said the answer:
"No one could have imagined that the cunning foreigner would pour peanuts into a large machine in the stern of the ship, which is an automatic thresher, and when the peanut shells come out, they are immediately transferred to the next heat treatment machine,
Then from that machine, after heat treatment, high temperature pressurization, and some chemical raw materials added to the peanut shell, turned into a brand new fiberboard, rumbling out.
In this way, the sinister and cunning foreigners, basically at zero cost, took away hundreds of tons of our best peanuts in China after thousands of selections, you say, angry people are not angry!"
"Can't we build this kind of machine?" Xiao Wang was really angry and asked indignantly.
Leng Pengcheng smiled again and said: "Yes, but this must be a matter of the future, it is because we are backward, so we will suffer a dumb loss, if we don't grasp production again, we will continue to eat this kind of loss in the future, until we lose to death!"
This real gossip really aroused everyone's hatred, and after the director raised his glass and Leng Pengcheng touched the wine glass, he said seriously:
"Lao Leng, when you go up in the future, first of all, we must make our country rich and the people strong!"
When Leng Pengcheng heard this, he was so frightened that he hurriedly used a small fried meat to block the director's mouth: "You can't talk nonsense, just drink a little more, I'm a little person, how can I be worthy of such a heavy responsibility!"
The director hehehe, hey, raised his glass again:
"I mean serious, among us people, only you are promising, first of all, reinstatement is just around the corner, come, I propose, for the sake of the old cold future, everyone toast together!"
The director's proposal was naturally supported by everyone, and a round of applause and the sound of changing glasses and lamps rose happily.
This meal of wine, until after dark, everyone was happy, Leng Pengcheng was in a good mood, drank a little too much, he estimated himself, how could there be more than a pound of liquor, down his stomach.
He was happy, and he wanted to get a good night's sleep with the strength of wine, but he didn't feel sleepy at all.
Looking at the bright moon outside the window, Leng Pengcheng thought to himself:
At this rate, reinstatement is a piece of cake.
I watch a play, and I am not afraid that my Leng Pengcheng will not have the day when Dapeng will spread his wings.
He remembered Mencius's eternal wise saying:
When the heavens descend on the people, they must first suffer their minds, strain their muscles and bones, starve their bodies and skins, empty their bodies, and help them to do what they do, and then move their hearts and endures to gain what they cannot.
It can really be said that fate has lived up to me, I have my own auspicious stars, and I will definitely realize my lofty ideals and ambitions.
That night, Leng Pengcheng only cared about setting his lofty ambitions, and had forgotten He Lingzhi completely.
It wasn't until a few days later in his office that he saw He Lingzhi again that he was amazed by this youthful girl again.
Since then, Leng Pengcheng has been swimming soundly in this wonderful dream of mandarin ducks and butterflies, this dream has been twenty years, and has not been interrupted until his end comes, although the dream has woken up, people have disappeared.
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That day, after Leng Pengcheng left, He Lingzhi entered his grandfather's room, and saw that his grandfather was holding a brand-new ten-yuan banknote in his hand, and he couldn't help but be angry when he looked at it carefully:
The old immortal grandfather is engaged in feudal superstition again and cheats people out of money, she snatched the treasure money in her grandfather's hand and asked loudly:
"You won't repent, right, are you going to hold a conference, pull you to the stage again, and fight fiercely, you are willing to be honest!"
"Dead girl, what do you know, do you know who the person who came to tell grandpa's fortune is who?" said the old man He, hurriedly came to snatch the money back, and quickly hid it in his pocket.
This ten dollars, but I haven't seen the biggest money in many years!
"Isn't it the deputy director of the commune, Leng, he came to look for me, and when he saw that I was not there, he chatted with you, you are a bad mistake of cheating money again," He Lingzhi continued to stare at his grandfather angrily.
"You can't blame me, they insisted on calculating it, Deputy Director Leng also said that it's okay anyway, just have fun," He Lingzhi was wronged by his granddaughter's lesson, and was busy defending himself.
"Then how about the fortune you told him?" He Lingzhi's tone immediately eased down, and he asked his grandfather curiously.
She doesn't believe in fortune telling, but she only believes in her grandfather's words, and sometimes she loses something and asks her grandfather to calculate it, and she can find it immediately.
"Nobleman, this person is a great nobleman, by no means comparable to ordinary people, I estimate that he will be reinstated soon, and he will soar all the way in the future!"
"Reinstated, what job will he reinstate?" He Lingzhi's curiosity grew.
"Say you're a stupid girl, you're still stupid, do you know what he was worth before?" Old man He asked his granddaughter proudly.
"The general head of the commune," He Lingzhi began to guess.
"Nonsense, he is the former county master of our Jiangxia County!"
"Oh," He Lingzhi nodded thoughtfully, she didn't expect that this Deputy Director Leng would have such a big background.
"You just said that Director Leng is here to find you?" Old man He asked his granddaughter again.
"Hmm," He Lingzhi woke up from his surprise.
"What are you looking for?"
"I'm a women's captain anyway!"
"Captain Fart, I don't know what the women's captain is, it's not like it's just a matter of withdrawing," Old Man He pouted and began to hit his granddaughter.
Being hit by his grandfather, He Lingzhi sighed softly and said, "So I'm going to enter D as soon as possible!"
"Well, what did Director Leng say?" Old Man He also felt that his granddaughter's idea was correct.
"He asked me to write the material and give it to him personally. ”
"Well, yes, girl, come on and behave well, as long as Director Leng is willing to call the shots for you, maybe one day you will be able to go to the commune to be the leader, and from then on you will eat official food and receive a high salary!"
"Grandpa, are you telling the truth?" He Lingzhi's eyes lit up, and he was so happy that he almost wanted to kiss his grandfather's old walnut face.
"You are young and idealistic, and you are willing to be positive, maybe..."
When He Lingzhi heard this, he immediately interrupted his grandfather's words: "Grandpa, don't say it, give me a hexagram, look at my future fortune, I don't want to stay in this ghost place where birds don't, and always face the loess with their backs to the sky!"
"Mmmm, okay, grandpa will give you a good calculation, your birth date is..."
Old man He pinched his fingers and counted the fortunes of his granddaughter, he naturally had to be extra serious, and He Lingzhi also waited with a solemn expression.
"Well, okay, good, my girl is also a golden life, and there will be big officials to do it in the future, we really want to fly out of a golden phoenix!"
Old man He's results came out, and this time he was really happy He Lingzhi giggled.
He Lingzhi was born in an ordinary peasant family, her father died early, and it was her grandparents and mother who brought her up.
Because the family is this only seedling, the next generation and the elders are very fond of her, since she was a child, she has developed a coquettish temper that she says, she wants to get, no matter what it is, she must get it, and if the family can't be satisfied, she will try her best to get it.
Therefore, He Lingzhi's temper is particularly stubborn, and there is a spirit of courage and never give up, when the production team sees her working, she is always not afraid of hardship or tiredness, and rushes to the front, so she becomes a team leader first.
After He Lingzhi became the team leader, her team did all the work very well, and not long after, the team mentioned her as the women's captain, this year, He Lingzhi was only 17 years old.
He Lingzhi, who became the women's captain, worked even harder, and she also submitted an application to the village department to join D.
After receiving He Lingzhi's application, the village department attached great importance to it and immediately reported the situation to the commune department.
Who knows, the heads of the commune department, which is about to be abandoned, laughed when they heard it.
In this way, He Lingzhi's application was thrown into the corner, and no one cared about it at all.
It wasn't until Leng Pengcheng came that he accidentally discovered this application, and then after learning about He Lingzhi's situation from the side, he felt that this was a good seedling and could officially consider absorbing her to join.
This time, on the way to fortune-telling, after accidentally meeting He Lingzhi, Leng Pengcheng's willingness was even stronger.
However, what is even stronger than this will is that Leng Pengcheng has been triggered by He Lingzhi's big watery eyes, sturdy body and red, youthful face, a certain gene deep in his heart.
Thinking of He Lingzhi's pretty appearance, Leng Pengcheng suddenly remembered an idiom again, called 'beautiful and delicious'.
It was this feeling of falling in love for the first time that made Leng Pengcheng's heart sink deeply, and it became more and more out of control from then on.