On the way back to the commune, I saw a man in gray clothes and gray pants from a distance. When he got closer, he found the man holding a burden. A cadre of the commune asked the man, "What are you doing?" The man replied, "Go to the small village above to buy a few logs, and pick them up in another commune to make a burden." The commune official said, "Oh, it was a beggar," and then shouted at the man to go away and warned him not to come again.

The man looked at the group, perhaps sensing that many of them were cadres, and said in a loud voice, "I don't dare to come in the future, I don't dare to come in the future", turned around and returned along the same road.

Speaking of the sale of wood in this small mountain village, the sound of the piano is clear. When he was in the village just now, Qinyin met Xiaoqing's brother Ah Gui, and when she saw Ah Gui sweating profusely, she asked him what he was doing. Gui said to prepare a few good pieces of wood and sell them to a buyer far away.

What Qin Yin didn't understand was why the commune cadres wanted to drive away a man who bought wood, why did he call him a beggar when he was obviously buying wood? Shi Wenyuan and Xin Liqing might have been equally full of doubts at this time, Qin Yin felt the doubt on the faces of the two of them.

After hesitating for a while, Qin Yin finally couldn't help it, so he asked the commune cadre: "Why did you drive away a man who bought wood?"

The commune official said: "It was not because he bought wood to drive him out, but because he was a foreigner." ”

"Why?"

"There's no reason, anyway, outsiders are not allowed to come to us to make money. ”

"Is there any other rule?"

It's not a rule, it's just a kind of consciousness. It has been passed down from generation to generation, and what everyone is familiar with and sees is either relatives or people in the same place. In everyone's consciousness, there are differences between "village people" and "people outside the village", "locals" and "outsiders", and it is normal for "village people" to exclude "people outside the village" and "locals" to exclude "outsiders".

"Then why call him a beggar?"

"There's no reason, anyway, whoever comes to us to do business is customarily called a beggar. ”

After listening to the answer of the commune cadres, Qin Yin, Zhong Gui, Xin Xian and several other people looked at each other.

Readers may think in their hearts that in a few years, or more than ten years, the idea of excluding outsiders and the commodity economy in the mountainous countryside has been completely abandoned. At that time, it would have been ridiculous to look back at such a thing! But there is no way, it is the end of the 70s, and many people's ideas and concepts have not been renewed, let alone a commune in the mountains

Back in the courtyard of the commune, Zhong Gui and Xin Xian went straight to the conference room, and the sound of the piano followed closely behind. In the conference room, the big red banner was hung with the words "Symposium on the Study and Implementation of the Spirit of the Third Plenary Session of the 11th Central Committee". There were also some village representatives gathered in the conference room, dozens of people gathered together, and Qin's father was also present as a representative of the small mountain village.

Xin Xian presided over the meeting, and he said that Comrade Zhong Gui, a high-ranking local official, worked tirelessly to inspect the mountainous areas, and the purpose was to help the people in the mountainous areas implement the spirit of the Third Plenary Session of the 11 th CPC Central Committee. For a long time, the mountainous areas have the largest population, the most inconvenient transportation, the most closed information, and the most difficult life, so it is all the more necessary to change their thinking and concepts as soon as possible. In the past two days, we have traveled to many corners of the commune, and what we have seen and heard is very important for the next decision of the party and the government.

Speaking of this, Xin Xian vaguely heard someone muttering, "We listen to the radio every day, and the news is still blocked?" Some people still muttered that it must be Qinyin's dereliction of duty, and the radio station did not spread more news. Xin Xian looked at the voice, and saw that Qin Yin was arguing with someone aggrievedly.

Xin Xian coughed, which was a signal to remind everyone to concentrate. Then he said, "You are not convinced by the news in the mountainous area?" Then, please raise your hand to those who have seen the car.

In the entire venue, except for the people on the rostrum, no one really raised their hands. Xin Xian said that there are cars running in the city every day, but you have never seen a car. Kotone's radio station can tell you that there are cars in the world, but you can't bring them here for everyone to see. Isn't this one of the occlusions?

Calm returned to the venue.

According to the meeting procedure, the second agenda item is for the villager representatives to speak, and the prefectural party committee and county leaders to answer questions on the spot. Some villagers raised some problems about the rugged mountain roads, the lack of water and electricity, and the lack of lighting. Xin Xian replied that this area will be prosperous in the future, so don't be too anxious.

Some villagers also reported that many communes in the county and dozens of production teams in the surrounding areas have suffered from drought over the years, and successive dynasties have not been able to solve the problem.

Xin Xian asked the secretary to record it and told the villagers that now that the world is under the leadership of the Communist Party, as long as it is a matter of the people, there is no trivial matter, even if it is a problem that cannot be solved by all dynasties, we will definitely solve it. The next step is to address this dilemma.

It was the turn of the father to speak, and the father said that everything is good now, but there is a little bit of it. What is it? It's that our poor men can't get a wife.

As soon as Father Qin's words came out, it immediately caused laughter.

Seeing everyone laughing, Qin's father smiled honestly, and then gave an example, saying that my eldest son is in his twenties, and the girls don't want to marry when they hear that they are from a small mountain village.

A representative of the village said, "Father Qin, what do you mean by this, tell the leader about this kind of thing, do you want to organize and assign you a daughter-in-law?" Haha

Xin Xian joked, there is no distribution for the daughter-in-law here, it is all up to you to fight for it. It drew laughter from the audience.

The representative of the neighboring village said that it is not difficult for you to ask for a daughter-in-law, and you can exchange your piano sound. Ha ha

Qin Yin was beside him, listening to his father's speech and the jokes of the villagers' representatives, and was so ashamed that he couldn't get into the ground like a mouse. I secretly scolded in my heart: Father, father, are you stupid? Ugly in public, how will you let your children live in the future?

The laughter continued for a long time. After a brief pause, Father Qin continued to speak. Qin Yin couldn't wait to cover his ears and steal the bell to really work, and quietly plugged his ears with his hands. But the subtle sound still reaches the eardrum.

Father Qin said, I mean, our village is in the mountains, the road is not easy to walk, travel depends on the legs, freight depends on the shoulder, down the mountain to sell agricultural products, stumbling along the way. If we can open a big road to our village, in the future, the small mountain village will be like other places, and the girls will be willing to marry, and my son will be able to marry a daughter-in-law.

The representative from the neighboring village said, "You didn't have a big road before, didn't you also marry a daughter-in-law?"

Father Qin said, that's different, the ancestral daughter-in-law is said to have come down from the fairy to earth, and my daughter-in-law was sent to the door by herself.

And it drew laughter.

The originally serious venue was filled with laughter by Father Qin's speech.

Xin Xian said, okay, everyone said and laughed, and now it is time for Comrade Zhong Gui to make a concluding speech.

The laughter in the room was replaced by applause. Only then did the sound of the piano relax and listen quietly.

Zhong Gui said straight to the point, this time I came to the mountains to investigate and investigate, and I saw and heard a lot of things, which boiled down to one sentence, that is: it's time to open the mountain gate!

Some representatives of the villagers whispered, "Where is there a gate in the mountain here?" Where is the mountain gate, why don't I know if I have been in the mountain for decades?

Zhong Gui obviously heard the discussion of the villagers' representatives, he raised his voice and said: The so-called opening of the mountain gate is not to open the tangible mountain gate, but to open the invisible and ideological mountain gate. Where is the mountain gate? Not on the mountain, but in everyone's hearts and minds.

This year, under the influence of reform and opening up, small self-employed people selling their own agricultural products have appeared, and young people selling vegetables in carts have appeared on the streets. More and more foreigners are coming to the provincial capital for tourism and investment.

The Shenzhen Special Economic Zone has set its goals and planning directions. People from all over the country will soon be gathering in the SEZs.

As for you, you seem to be ignorant of the pace of the outside world, except that the farmland has already started to be produced to households. On the way back from a small mountain village, you heard some cadres say that there is still a division and exclusion between "locals" and "outsiders," and that reasonable commercial transactions and circulation are regarded as "begging" and are exterminated. It's self-shutting down, it's resting on one's laurels.

How can we emancipate our minds in mountainous areas? Of course, we must constantly learn from the outside world, from more advanced and open provincial capitals, and even from the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone. Break the convention, break the long-standing rules and regulations in everyone's thinking and the shackles that are not suitable for development.

A few days ago, when I went to the provincial capital for a meeting, I saw a billboard in the distance that read: Fly to the motherland for a brilliant tomorrow. Today, with the help of this signboard, I would like to send a message to everyone: with the dream of soaring and prosperous in the mountainous area, fly to a more brilliant tomorrow in the mountainous area.

Zhong Gui's concluding speech won long-lasting applause on the field......