On his first day as the new village chief, he encountered a nerve-wracking incident. That morning, a black Mercedes-Benz sedan sneered and stopped on the cement sundeck in front of the village committee, and two people with particularly eye-catching demeanor and bodyguards went straight to the village committee.

As soon as the approachable person entered the office on his front foot, the man who looked like the boss and the bodyguard stepped in on his heels.

The person who looked like the boss saluted a very non-standard but somewhat funny military salute, bowed down and said, "Big brother, little brother is happy to you!"

The approachable person raised his head, took a closer look, and turned from surprise to joy: "Yo, Shanmu, when did you come back?"

It turned out that the person who looked like the boss was called Shan Mu, a native of Changlong Village, who went south to Guangdong with his family five years ago, and now works as a manager of the development department of a real estate company in Shenzhen, and is said to be very respected by the boss.

Shan Mu hugged his fists and said: "I arrived in the county seat last night, and I just entered the hotel and met the people in our village who said that you were elected as the village chief again, so I didn't dare to delay, and I went straight to you early in the morning to congratulate you!"

The approachable person disagreed: "What is there to congratulate, Sesame Official, it's not rare for you to give it to you!"

Yamaki said: "I don't have that charm, let alone the courage, I don't dare to hope for it!"

Yamaki introduced the bodyguard-looking person to the approachable person: "Oh, let me introduce, my assistant Xiao Wu." ”

The approachable person gave a seat, and while he was busy pouring tea, he spoke: "There is a typhoon in Shenzhen?"

Shan Mu sat down and didn't react: "No, when I came back, the sky was blue and cloudy, the sun was shining, and the weather was very good!"

The approachable person said again: "It's strange, there is no typhoon, you can run back?" It's been five years, your kid has returned for the first time, you don't want your hometown, but you have to come back and take a look!"

Yamaki said: "I'm not busy, my parents have my brother and sister-in-law to take care of, I'm relieved." I give two thousand yuan a month to the two old-age pension, the two old people are happy, every time they talk on the phone, they ask me to work hard, don't worry about the family, the family is good!"

The approachable person said: "Okay, your kid is rich, he finally didn't forget his parents, and he knows that giving money to his parents is considered filial piety." However, when I came back for the first time in five years, I had to see my parents first. ”

"Didn't I say I was going to congratulate my eldest brother first?"

"If you're going to be okay, will you come back from Shenzhen to congratulate me?

"He is worthy of being the village chief, and his eyes are poisonous. I'm not going to beat around the bush, to be honest, I really need you to do me a favor when I come back this time. ”

"Let's be straight, what's the deal?"

Shan Mu hesitated for a moment and smacked his tongue: "I urgently need a large number of young and middle-aged laborers to participate in Shenzhen real estate development." Big brother, you are the head of a village, can you mobilize the young and middle-aged people of our village to get out of the closed mountains and go south to Shenzhen to dig gold, where a year of hard work is the income of our Changlong Village for ten years. I can sign a long-term labor export contract with the village committee, and I can also sign a minimum annual income guarantee agreement with every villager who goes with me. ”

This was not sudden for the approachable, he had expected it. In the past, in order to increase the income of the villagers and improve the living standards of the villagers, he also proposed the "going out" strategy to the villagers, which was supported by some villagers, especially male villagers, but was unanimously opposed by the women of the whole village. Women don't let go, how dare men run away from home, so the approachable "going out" strategy just hung on the verbal and died, the villagers of Changlong Village still maintain the ancestors' sunrise and sunset farming methods, and live a tight and miserable life.

Shan Mu muttered while sipping tea: "It's difficult, it's difficult, it's hard to be stuck at home; Chinese farmers need everything that the city has, which is a huge demand, and it is also the point of future economic growth, and it is also the road to new life for our farmers. ”

The approachable raised his contemplative head and stared at Yamaki, apparently attracted by Yamaki's words. He cocked his thumb and praised him: "You kid, the outside world has made you smart!"

Seeing hope, Shan Mu hurriedly said, "Big brother, have you been to Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou? Although you are the head of the village, you have been to the county seat of our county at most, and you know what the outside world is like? You don't know at all, you are a frog at the bottom of a well. Let me tell you, the outside world is like, like heaven, the paradise where we Changlong people dream of living beautiful immortals. Our Changlong Village is simply incomparable with the outside world, you look at what we live in, what we walk, and then look at what our villagers eat and wear. Village chief, I'm ashamed to say it. ”

Yi Approachable sighed and said, "Then what's the way, the ancestors brought us into this big ravine, if we want to change, there is also a process, take your time!"

"Village chief, you can't slow down, if you slow down, you will be ashamed of your ancestors, and you will be ashamed of your descendants. You have to think of a way to let the villagers go out quickly, this is the only way for the villagers of Changlong Village to get rid of poverty and become rich. ”

"It is not so easy to go out, and there will be a series of social problems, such as the husband and wife have gone out, what should the elderly and children do? The men have gone out, what should the mother-in-law do? The young and middle-aged people who know how to farm have gone out, what should the responsible fields do? In case one party goes out, the marriage changes, what should the family do? and so on, these are all issues that I, the village chief, should consider. ”

"I can give you a week at most to think about it, and if I can decide in a week, I will sign as many contracts with the village committee and individuals as I want. For more than a week, I could only regretfully give up Changlong Village and give the opportunity to others. ”

The approachable person hesitated for a while before saying, "That's it, I'll give you an answer within a week." ”

In the afternoon of the same day, Yi Jinren presided over the first meeting of the new village committee, at which in view of the current economic situation and the current situation of the people's living standards in Changlong Village, three measures were put forward to strengthen the collective economic strength and improve the living standards of the villagers: First, develop characteristic agriculture with tobacco leaves, white lotus, and autumn peanuts as the main products, and set up characteristic agricultural cooperative associations; second, encourage villagers to develop integrated planting and breeding industries; and third, encourage surplus labor to transfer to cities and developed coastal areas. If any villager wants to go out, he can apply to the village committee within three days, and the village committee will implement the receiving unit and organize the labor export in a unified manner in the near future.

After the meeting, Yi Jinren personally served as an announcer and broadcast the three measures to all the villagers. He knew in his heart that the implementation of these measures would inevitably cause a storm in Changlong Village, so that Changlong Village, which had always been calm, would no longer be calm, and even fluctuated.

Sure enough, when the sun was approaching the western mountains and the dusk was shrouding Changlong Village, almost all the young and middle-aged men in the village gathered at the village committee and submitted an application to the village chief to go out to work. The approachable person was stupid, embarrassed, and panicked. Let the young and middle-aged men of the whole village go, and the mother-in-law will definitely pick his skin and cramp his tendons. Therefore, he attached another requirement to the masters, the application must have the signature of the mother-in-law, and the mother-in-law will go.

Arrangements should be made for the support of the elderly, the education and support of the children, and the leasing of the responsible fields. Obviously, on the one hand, he is looking for steps for himself, shifting responsibilities, and reducing his own troubles; on the other hand, he is really thinking about maintaining family harmony, and the mutual support of family members is like a ligament that ties a person who leaves home at one end and a person who guards the family at the other.

Seeing that more than half of the week has passed, there is not even a shadow of the villagers who actually submitted their applications. However, I kept hearing from the villagers that either the husband and wife of the east family quarreled, or the daughter-in-law of the west family went back to her parents' house crying. The approachable people did not take these things to heart, and always said that it was difficult for the officials to cut off family affairs, whether they quarreled or beat them, and left it to them! However, he began to have doubts in his heart, whether it was the villagers' homeland that could not be separated or whether the husband and wife were really inseparable? He did not know, so he decided to visit the villagers to find out the real situation.

Changlong Village has seven villager groups, including dragon head, dragon belly, dragon tail, dragon foot, dragon beard, dragon heart and gentian, which are distributed along one river, two ridges and two mountains, and are typical of the "land of fish and rice" in the south of the Yangtze River. The leading group is the leading group in the economy, culture and living standards of Changlong Village, and it is also the most active radical group of the villagers. He decided to visit the leading group first, because in Changlong Village, as long as the leading group decides, other groups will definitely respond in groups, which has been a habit formed for hundreds of years.

Under a centuries-old ancient camphor tree at the head of the village of Longtou Group, a large group of mothers-in-law sat around, and Luo Xifeng sat in the middle. Looking at the formation, they looked like they were having a meeting. The approachable wanted to dodge, but they had already discovered it, so he had no choice but to face it with his head held high.

Luo Xifeng stood up, all the mothers-in-law stood up, their eyes gathered, applause rang out in unison, and the village chief who greeted them like a **** who came suddenly was approachable.

Approachable is extremely shocking and extremely sensible. Such a joyful welcome scene gave him an intuition that the three measures decided by the village committee to strengthen the collective economic strength and improve the living standards of the villagers were supported and embraced by these mothers-in-law. Sure enough, Luo Xifeng's first sentence confirmed the correctness of his intuition. She said: "I welcome Village Chief Yi to inspect the leading team, and I also support Village Chief Yi's three measures. Just now, the mother-in-law representatives of our seven groups exchanged views, and they believed that under the current situation, we should all emancipate our minds and keep pace with the times, and we should not drag those who should go out and not stop those who should be put in. Village Chief Yi, you give a word, when to leave, we mothers-in-law can set off at any time. ”

"As long as the formalities are completed, I guarantee that the first batch of migrant workers in Changlong Village will be able to set off in three days," Yi said. ”

In the following period, the village committee became as lively and busy as a street market, writing applications, signing contracts, and working for three days, and the first batch of migrant workers finally left their homeland as scheduled amid firecrackers and sonorous gongs and drums. Half a month later, the second group of migrant workers stepped on the special car and slowly drove away from the long queue amid an inseparable cry. A month later, the last group of gentlemen who had deep feelings for their hometown couldn't bear to abandon their beloved mother-in-law, but they had to leave their hometown for the sake of their livelihood.

Changlong Village, a small mountain village that had been divided for centuries, began to become restless. The gentlemen are all gone, and with the tide of reform to the gorgeous and colorful world, all the mothers-in-law, the elderly and children are left. The approachable people jokingly called themselves "the king of mothers-in-law", "the king of children", and "the president of the old people's association".