Everyone said yes, they went into the house to sleep, and after You's mother and the third sister cleaned up, the third sister went to rest.

At three o'clock in the afternoon, Xiao Ming woke up and called everyone to get up, everyone yawned and slowly got up.

After getting up, I washed my face and sobered up, and the army looked at my watch, it was already half past three in the afternoon, and looking at the sun outside, it was no longer so sunny.

The third sister sat there and guarded, Xiao Ming immediately told his sister that now he was going to the street to find the village chief to understand the situation, and the third sister nodded and said okay.

Xiao Ming took everyone out, walked a path, passed through a small bamboo forest, Xiao Ming smiled and said to them: "This is bamboo, our family's basket, bamboo basket, are all made of this bamboo."

People in the village will also come here to cut bamboo and weave it, which belongs to the public use, and everyone is not greedy, and they cut as much as they want. ”

Everyone looked at the emerald green bamboo leaves, the breeze was blowing, and they felt so cool, and they said, "It's the same as the one introduced in the book, isn't it still edible?

Xiao Ming pointed to the small bamboo buds that had just grown next to him, with layers of bamboo shells on them, and looked carefully at the many black fine fluffs, and then said loudly: "This can be eaten."

Wear rubber gloves, chop with a knife, or dig with a hoe, and then peel off all the bamboo shells on it, so that the green bamboo shoots inside can be eaten. ”

After Xiao Ming finished speaking, he told everyone to go quickly, after passing the bamboo forest, there was a small river in front, there were ducks swimming in the river, and the river was a little green.

Everyone looked at it and asked, "Xiao Ming, is there any fish in here?"

Xiao Ming smiled and said, "It's been contracted to an individual, listen to what my mother said, there are fish in it." ”

After Xiao Ming finished speaking, he pointed to the front again, and then said loudly: "It's almost there, the place to catch the market." ”

Everyone looked at it and said yes, quickly walked to the front, and soon arrived on the street, there was a row of storefronts on the street, and saw that there were many uncles and aunts carrying rice, and everyone came to pay the public grain in the morning, and a few did not pay in the afternoon.

Xiao Ming took everyone to the village chief's office and saw that the village chief was weighing food for the villagers, and then wrote it down in a notebook.

Inside is a cement floor, piled up with a lot of grain, the uncle and aunt pick it up here and put it down, wait in line for the village chief to receive, there are two village chiefs, one is called there with a Taiwan scale, and the other is specially written with the name of the villager and the number is recorded.

Xiao Ming and they had to stand next to them, waiting for the village chief to finish their work before asking, listening to the village chief tell the villagers how many catties and how much is missing, and asked the villagers to go back and pick them up, and the uncle and aunt said yes.

After watching for a while, there were thirteen villagers here, and the army asked in a low voice, "Xiao Ming, how much grain does each person pay?"

Xiao Ming whispered: "Thirty to fifty catties, it depends on the situation, every year is different." There are five people in the family who have land, so they will pick twice, and I also listen to my mother. ”

Everyone heard it and said that it was like this, and by the time the village chief finished weighing the villagers, it was already half an hour later.

Xiao Ming waited for everyone to leave, and then walked over, and called Village Chief Huang and Village Chief He with a smile.

When the two village chiefs saw that it was him, they all smiled and said, "Xiao Ming, what are you doing here?"

Xiao Ming introduced the four classmates to the two village chiefs, and then said with a smile: "Village chief, my four classmates want to know about the current situation in the countryside, and I hope you can talk about it carefully." ”

The two village chiefs knew that Xiao Ming went to the city to study in a key high school, and these classmates were also from that school, so Village Chief Huang took three benches and told everyone to sit down.

Everyone said yes, and Village Chief Huang began to say slowly: As long as there is a piece of land contracted to an individual, as long as there is a piece of land and grain is planted, everyone will have to hand over the public grain, and how much will be paid each year?

If the weather is good and the harvest is good, everyone will pay about 10 catties more; if the weather is bad and the harvest is bad, everyone will pay less than 10 catties, and every village chief and secretary will go to check it.

So we would go to the town every week for a meeting and report all the details of each family to the town.

Now some villagers have gone out to work, and they have no land to farm, so they can only buy grain to pay, and pay if they don't buy it.

We went to the villagers to buy it, bought it and made it up, and when everything was over, we handed over all the list of grain to the town and asked the town to send a car to pull it.

After reading it, the leaders of the town will send a car to pull it away, and where to store it, the leaders will know that most of them may be pulled to the government's xx grain depot, and then there will be a disaster, and some of the grain will be sent.

After listening to this, Ji Xing said with a smile: "It's the same as our village, my mother said the same thing." ”

The five people listened attentively, and Village Chief He continued to introduce, We have about 30 provinces, how many cities and counties are in each province?

How many rural populations are in each city or county? All of them must be clearly distinguished, and the grassroots cadres in each village must truthfully reflect the specific conditions of their own villages, and the towns will send people down to inspect them.

If there is a mistake in the situation, the village chief will be interrogated again and again, and the village chief will be removed from his post. Therefore, when you become a grassroots cadre, you must work in a down-to-earth manner in order to do a long job and do a good job.

In the past, there were no part-time jobs, and the village relied on growing crops, and if there were villagers at home who were studying at university, they might not be able to pay so much tuition, and now prices are rising, so the villagers still hope to work to earn some cash.

Everyone nodded one after another, and Village Chief Huang continued to introduce that the rural areas of XX are generally low in culture due to the villagers' culture, so the quality of the population is also low, mainly the overborn population.

Most of the people born are more than the people who die, and the government is also a headache, and the staff is the most difficult to work.

Every year, a new group of staff members will be replaced, and in some villages, no one wants to do it, so they have to continue to do it, because if they don't do it well, they will be criticized at meetings.

So now the government is vigorously developing urban construction, allowing these young people in the countryside to go out to work, earn money to go back to the countryside to repair houses, and buy them in the city, depending on their personal situation.

To tell you the truth, there are still many villagers in the countryside who still have mud houses, and everyone wants to live in a new red brick house, so they can only rely on their own efforts.

There are many rural people in xx, and they can't all rely on the government to alleviate poverty. The government can only help some people who have no offspring in their families and cannot work.

Now the government can only do this for now, hoping that in the future, when the city is well built, the peasants will have less land to farm, and the payment of public grain may also be abolished.

And everyone will also pay a little retention every year, now it is only about ten yuan, every year is different, all will be handed over, and I hope that I will not have to pay it in the future.

Everyone nodded and said yes, Village Chief Huang and Village Chief He are both in their forties, and Village Chief Huang has been working in this village for more than ten years.

After hearing this, everyone stood up one after another, laughed and said loudly, "Thank you, village chief, we will." ”

The two village chiefs smiled and said: "I know that you are a key high school, a school that the xx government attaches great importance to, and the construction of the city and the transformation of the countryside in the future."

It's you young people, I hope you will work hard to build our country well, so that many countries in the world will look down on us. ”

The five boys reported their names one after another, I Hu Dajun, I Zhang Tianhong, I Ren Qinghai, I You Xiaoming, and I Yu Jixing, all raised their right hands.

The expression on his face was very serious, and he shouted to the village chief: "We are the successors of communism, and in order to build a beautiful country X, we will keep in mind the teachings of the village chief, shoulder the mission, and serve the people." ”

After the two village chiefs listened, they all said yes, everyone stood up, looked at the time, it was almost half past five, and the uncle and aunt picked it up again, Xiao Ming had to say: "Village chief, you are busy, we will go back first." ”

The two village chiefs smiled and said yes, and the five boys greeted each other before turning around and leaving.

The four boys said as they walked: "Xiao Ming, it seems that it is right to come to your house this time, we can see what we don't know, we will do it like the village chief said in the future." ”

Xiao Ming smiled and said yes, thank you for coming, and you can have such a righteous heart, xx will eventually become strong.

Everyone smiled and said yes, Xiao Ming immediately said: "Let's go back and get the tools now, put away the bamboo basket, and if we collect it today, we don't need to put it anymore." ”

Everyone smiled and said yes, walked quickly, and soon returned to Xiao Ming's house, at this time You's mother and third sister had already harvested the rice. Cooking in the kitchen.

Xiao Ming went to the kitchen to talk to his mother, took the basket and the basket, and went out with everyone again.

Walked very fast, and after a while, they came to the shore of the field, took off their shoes, Xiao Ming and they went down to the field, and Qinghai and Jixing were waiting on the shore.

This time they harvested less, and by the time they had all harvested the baskets, an hour had passed.

After counting the number, Xiao Ming saw eight, Tianhong saw six, and the army saw five, and everyone wiped the bamboo basket with straw on the bank of the field, but there was still a lot of mud on it.

Xiao Ming had no choice but to say: "We will carry our back to the river to wash it now, and we can use it later." ”

Everyone said okay, put on the four back baskets, and the two baskets on the back, Xiao Ming gave the fish basket to Jixing and asked him to carry it.

Take everyone to the river, it's a little far to the river, and after walking four paths, I finally arrived.

At this time, there was no one by the river, and there were no ducks in the river, so they should all go back.

Seeing that it was getting late, Xiao Ming asked everyone to put down the basket, take out the bamboo basket, pull up the trouser legs, and stand carefully on the edge of the stones in the water, don't fall into the water, because the water is a bit deep.

Everyone said okay, the army told Qinghai and Jixing not to come down, they just washed it, Jixing they said okay.

The three boys stood cautiously, holding the bamboo basket in their hands, and shaking quickly in the water, shaking small waves.

The mud was all washed in the water, and the surface of the water became dirty, until it was washed clean, and then he turned around and handed it to Qinghai and asked them to load it.

After dozens of bamboo baskets were washed, it took the three of them almost half an hour to put them all in the bucket and back basket, ready to go home.

Jixing looked at his watch, it was almost seven o'clock, Xiao Ming told everyone to leave quickly, because it was getting dark, everyone said okay.

I didn't bring a flashlight, I was afraid of the dark after a while, the road was not easy to walk, this time everyone walked very fast, fortunately, things were not heavy, almost all of them were running.

Xiao Ming led the way in front, telling everyone to hurry up from time to time, and the army walked behind.