Xu Hui didn't mention the matter of catching loaches, I don't know if he was embarrassed to open his mouth or what.

Zhang Laohan began to prepare dinner, and Xu Hui consciously said to Xiao Mu: "Xiao Mu, it's almost time, I should go home too." ”

got up and was about to leave, Xiao Mu grabbed Xu Hui and said, "What's the hurry, just eat at home, although the food is not so delicious, but you can still put it down." ”

Zhang Laohan also rushed out and said: "You kid, it's true, grandpa and I are all cooking, there is not much more than one person, just stay here to eat." ”

But Xu Hui still didn't agree, and politely refused the invitation.

After Xu Hui left, Zhang Lao said to Xiao Mu: "Look at Xu Hui, no matter what, I won't eat at someone else's house, you learn to be a little bit, don't be very casual." ”

Xiao Mu smiled slightly.

After a while, a bald middle-aged man came to the house, with a very thick voice, and walked in with a shout.

"Lao Zhang, Lao Zhang is here, what are you doing?"

Zhang Laohan walked out with a disgraced face, wiped the water stains on the hem of his trousers and said, "Secretary, why do you have time to come to the house, is there something wrong?"

He enthusiastically went back to the house and brought a chair for the secretary and asked him to sit down and drink water.

The secretary hurriedly said: "No, no, Lao Zhang, I came to tell you that I will have a meeting in the village playground at 8.00 tonight, don't pull the water pipe." ”

Zhang Laohan replied and said, "Oh, oh, good secretary, you must go on time." ”

After saying that, they left in a hurry, and they didn't leave anything to eat, they were busy with official business, they were also very tired, and they had to run around after a day's work, informing every family.

The sky gradually darkened, Lao Fu and Wan Rong came back from work, and Zhang Laohan brought the hot meal to the table.

During the meal, Zhang Laohan looked full of worries and frowned.

The old man saw that Zhang Laohan had something on his mind and asked, "Lao Zhang, what's wrong, it seems that you have something on your mind." ”

"Hey, the secretary came to the house just now, saying that there is a meeting tonight, and the village is going to pull the water pipe. ”

Pulling tap water is beneficial to the people, which should be a happy thing, but it makes Zhang Laohan so brain-burning.

Wan Rong said: "Isn't this very good, you won't have to carry water in the future." ”

Although this is the case, such a large project must require a lot of money, so the shy Zhang Lao will be sad.

"That's good, but we don't have any money. Zhang Lao said earnestly.

Xiao Mu on the side was eating calmly, but in fact, his heart was already extremely uncomfortable.

After eating, Xiao Mu followed Zhang Laohan to the playground for meetings in the village.

The playground is in the center of the village, and from the playground, you can see the entire village, except for the one that is not in the main village.

It seems that this playground has a little history, the rough bluestone has been polished to a round and shiny, on the left is a farmer's house, and on the right is the family's cattle pen and pigsty.

From time to time, the smell of animal manure wafted from time to time, and the field was full of people, who looked tired.

The villagers are talking about laying water pipes, but most of them are supportive.

This is, the director and the secretary came over.

"Come on, come on, let's all come around. The villagers formed a circle.

There was silence for an instant, listening to the secretary's speech.

"Ahem"

Xiao Mu coughed a few times and rubbed his eyes from the surrounding dry smoke.

Zhang Laohan immediately said: "Don't move, listen to what people say, you can also learn something." ”

"Brothers and sisters, the support of the state has come down, in order to improve the infrastructure of our village and improve the living standards of the people, so ......" the secretary stood in the center and talked endlessly about the project.

"Let me know if you have any suggestions or opinions on this. ”

Immediately there was a lot of discussion, and everyone said that it was going to be a storm.

Someone said: "The water intake point is so far away, how long can it be dug by manpower, it is estimated that it will take a month." ”

Another person said: "Alas, my family has no people, and it is difficult to ask for money without money." ”

Sure enough, as long as there is something, there will be complaints every time, no matter how good the policy is, people are two-faced, and no matter what they say, it is reasonable.

The director said in a righteous manner: "This is the poverty alleviation policy given to us by the state, our village finally got this project, we have to cherish it, you open your eyes and see that several villages next door have not won it, you are content, this project has to be done no matter what." ”

After a pause, he said: "Are you thinking about you, are you tired from working every day, you still have to get up early in the morning and go to such a far place to fetch water, and it is not enough, you are tired and tired of working with so much water, aren't you tired? ”

Listening to what the director said, it seemed that he was right, and the discussion was quiet, and almost everyone expressed their support.

After deciding, I began to discuss how to do it and how much manpower and material resources each family would contribute.

However, the national policy is really good, and there is almost no need to contribute any financial resources, just manpower.

The water intake point is set at a mountain stream more than ten kilometers away, which is a no-man's land, and the water source is very clean.

And Zhang Laohan's family was assigned to the last one, because if the entrance of the heavy village was laid directly into it, I was afraid that the gap would be too big, as long as Zhang Laohan's family boiled the water, I was afraid that the whole village would be cut off.

After some discussion, the villagers decided that each family should have one person, and the youngest and strongest must bring their own tools in order to improve efficiency.

Since it was far away, I didn't eat at home at noon, so I had to prepare my own lunch.

Of course, there were many contradictions in the course of the meeting, and some people were not satisfied, but it was difficult for everyone to reconcile, and they could only obey the majority.

The two-hour meeting was finally over, and the villagers began to disperse and go home.

Xiao Mu took Zhang Laohan's hand and said, "Grandpa, why did they have a meeting just now like they were arguing, so loudly. ”

This is not strange for Zhang Laohan, almost every meeting is like this, it is impossible to have a unified opinion, and it is inevitable that there will be arguments.

So he said to Xiao Mu: "You kid, what are you doing with this, this is not a quarrel, this is called expressing opinions." ”

"Oh!"

"Then it was said at the meeting just now that there will be one person from each family, who will go to our family?"

Zhang Laohan thought for a while, "Let's let your uncle go, he has a lot of strength, I'm old, and when the time comes, people will say that your uncle is young and strong, and he works at home but doesn't help the village." ”

At that time, Xiao Mu didn't really understand why Zhang Laohan said this, and he didn't understand why the village names said this, which was very incredible.

By the dim light of the flashlight, the two groped their way back home.

The old man has already fallen asleep, Wan Rong doesn't know where he went, so he probably went to the village to play again.

The old man hurriedly asked Zhang Laohan, "What's the matter, how is the discussion?"

"Oh, let's go to bed first, I'll talk about it tomorrow, I'm a little tired. ”

The old man didn't ask any more questions, and went to sleep quietly.