"Hedong is the capital of Bac Giang province and an old industrial city, with its abundant coal resources and continuous river water, the industry here has sprouted since the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, and has gradually developed and multiplied to this day.

Although many of the surrounding cities have experienced natural and man-made disasters such as famine, it has always been like a paradise, and people's spirits seem to be higher.

However, in recent years, with the depletion of resources, Hedong has also shown a dilapidated scene.

The city's construction history dates back to the mid-80s, when urban planning was considered a benchmark. But nowadays, many main roads have become potholes due to disrepair, and there are even bare stones in some places, and most of the residential buildings and office buildings on both sides of the street are still old-fashioned, and most of the two-story doorhouses along the street are made of lamp cloth and spray paintings. When night falls, the light box lights up, the light is dim, a scene from the 90s of the last century, old and dirty.

Even more terrible than the ruin of the city is the depression of people's hearts. Perhaps as a result of a long period of affluence, people here have become conformist and unmotivated, and the city has gradually fallen silent, and more and more enterprising and capable young people have begun to flee.

Seeing that it is being caught up by the surrounding cities, Hedong City is under increasing pressure and accelerating the pace of development and transformation, and the strategy of moving north to the east is launched in this context. In the plan of moving north to the east, the demolition and reconstruction of Luohe Village is very important.

According to the plan, in the next five to ten years, it will rely on finance, Internet and other industries to build a new area, the core of which is a CBD, including the construction of a two-way 10-lane ultra-wide road, high-end office buildings and large supermarkets. In order to attract enterprises from the province and other provinces, the local government also plans to relocate the city's best hospitals and schools.

The reconstruction of Luohe Village can be said to affect the whole body. It is related to whether the construction of the entire new city can be carried out as scheduled, and it is also related to whether Hadong City can achieve corner overtaking and return to the first position in Bac Giang Province.

Luohe Village is located in the southeast of Hedong City, with an area of more than 300 acres of cultivated land and more than 300 villagers. During the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, dozens of members of the Luo family moved here from Sichuan and named Luohe Village. In today's Luohe Village, there are almost 200 households in the Luo family, and they are still the number one surname. The surname Xu is second, with 100 households. In addition, there are foreign surnames such as Wang and Chen.

Of course, with the advancement of urbanization and the gradual increase in the number of villagers going out to work, today's rural areas are far from the traditional sense of the gentry society and clan society, and the surname is no longer the dominant structure of rural autonomy, and some rural talents with pioneering spirit and business acumen have gradually emerged and become the leaders of the village. The same is true for Luohe Village.

Speaking of the rural talents of Luohe Village, 37-year-old Xu Changlin can be regarded as the number one person. Xu Changlin's family is the second largest surname in Luohe Village. Although it was a large family, he himself was born into a standard small family. There are five brothers in his father, but he is the only one who gave birth to a single seedling.

What's even more unfortunate is that my father suffered from lung disease in his early years because of his part-time job and passed away early, leaving behind their mother and son. Not only that, in order to treat his father, the family spent the hundreds of thousands of dollars they had worked hard to accumulate, not to mention that they owed a lot of debt.

Since he was a child, his family was poor, Xu Changlin chose the path of most of his peers, and came out to mix in society after graduating from junior high school. As the saying goes, society is the best university, Xu Changlin gradually adapted to the rules of survival, and mixed like a fish in water: 10 years ago, a highway under construction passed through Luohe Village, and the stone and earthwork of the roadbed and bridge piers of the highway needed suppliers. Xu Changlin seized this opportunity to borrow 100,000 yuan from relatives and neighbors, and was stunned to contract the project and earn the first pot of gold in his life.

Xu Changlin, who tasted the sweetness from the project, was out of control, and contracted various construction site projects everywhere, and also opened a restaurant in the township, becoming a well-known and successful person in the local area.

Business and excellence, Xuchanglin's business is booming, and he also wants to show his strength in the village. In the general election of the village committee two years ago, Xu Changlin and Luo Jingchen ran on the same stage, and the villagers thought that Luo Jingchen's family was powerful and prestigious in the village, and there was no doubt that he would be elected, but he did not expect Xu Changlin to fight his way out of the encirclement like a dark horse, and finally succeeded in being elected.

Compared with Xuchanglin's grassroots beginnings, Luo Jingchen is more like a faith-like existence in Luohe Village.

In the early 80s of the last century, Luo Jingchen became the first high school student in the village - knowledgeable and well-written. At that time, whoever in the village had a red and white wedding event or obituary wedding card, he had to write it on his behalf, and if there was any difficult housework, he would also find him to solve it. Coupled with the huge family and the increase in seniority, over time, the villagers looked at him more and more sharply, and when they talked to him, they had to sit aside and call him uncle.

In the village committee team, the duo of Xu Changlin and Luo Jingchen is a peculiar existence.

37-year-old Xu Changlin is the director of the village committee, and 61-year-old Luo Jingchen is the deputy director; the elders and the younger generations are deputies.

Xu Changlin is a rookie in officialdom, he has been in politics for less than one term (three years), Luo Jingchen has been a village cadre for more than ten years, and his qualifications and prestige are above Xu Changlin. This is odd two.

As for the third peculiar, the first two peculiarities are not peculiar. Why do you say that? The Luo family and the Li family have always been at odds with each other, and this is an open secret in the village.

In the rural areas, a large number of people is the last word, and the Luo family is a big surname and has a natural sense of superiority; although the Li family has few people, it has also produced many capable people in recent years, and naturally does not want to be inferior to others. The big surname always wants to press the small surname everywhere, and sometimes he can't suppress it, so he can't help it, so he reasoned with his fists, so conflicts occur from time to time.

The villagers originally thought that the village committee was full of contradictions, but on the contrary, Luo Jingchen told the younger generations many times in public and private that family conflicts and public affairs are two different things. It doesn't matter who is the village director, the key is to be able to lead the villagers to get rich, if any of the Luo family members deliberately make trouble, he Luo Jingchen was the first to refuse. As soon as these words came out, none of the people of the same clan dared to disobey. And Xu Changlin also knew that his prestige was insufficient, so he tried his best to discuss everything with Luo Jingchen.

Because of this, the two have become a golden pair in the town, bringing a lot of benefits to the development of Luohe Village.

The year before last, in the first year of Xu Changlin's election as the village director, he rebuilt the road to the outside world through the whole village fund-raising, of course, the bulk of the money was still paid by him Xuchanglin. Last year, under the promotion of Xu Changlin, we selected a sanitation worker from among the villagers to be responsible for cleaning up the village, and the appearance of Luohe Village has been greatly improved. Among them, Luo Jingchen also played a big role.

The peasants are the most practical, and the criterion for evaluating good officials is very simple: whether they can bring benefits to everyone. Xu Changlin and Luo Jingchen have done so many things in the past two years, and they have naturally been recognized and supported by the villagers. ”