The Jinshan County Committee of the Communist Youth League is about to convene a county-wide congress to sum up the work of the past few years and conduct a general election of the leading group. Niu Yuehong was also unexpectedly included in the list as a candidate for regimental cadres.

The secretary of the county Youth League Committee is called Pan Jiangang, a professional soldier who has been demobilized from the army, and his eyebrows reveal perseverance and majesty, and he speaks and acts vigorously and resolutely, and has the pride of a young man. He has been observing Niu Yuehong for a long time, and thinks that she is quick to do her work, and she is a well-spoken broadcaster, and she does not have the squeamishness of ordinary girls, she is a good seedling who can do things and has courage. He is also a candidate for secretary of the Youth League Committee this time, so he especially hopes to include Niu Yuehong in the new leadership team.

One day, Pan Jiangang found Niu Yuehong to talk to him.

Niu Yuehong was not very enthusiastic about group activities when she was in middle school, and she did not join the Communist Youth League. After arriving at the commune radio station, he joined the regiment under the education of the village chief for the needs of work. She now saw that the secretary of the county Youth League Committee was talking to her, and to be honest, she was not mentally prepared to be a League cadre from the bottom of her heart, so she excused herself and said: "Secretary Pan, you should find someone else to do it." I'm so busy with my work, I can't get out of it. ”

Pan Jiangang said solemnly: "Everyone in the county knows that you are Secretary Zhao's future daughter-in-law. You should understand what kind of family Secretary Zhao's family is? Secretary Zhao is the secretary of the county party committee, his lover is the leader of the people's shopping mall, and his son is a revolutionary soldier. Their daughter-in-law said that she should also be a popular and dedicated cadre. If you want to be worthy of this revolutionary family, you have to be right, and you have to be right. ”

Niu Yuehong's eyes widened in surprise, and she listened carefully to the truth that Pan Jiangang said. She pondered in her heart: He is right. No matter what, I can't hold back the county party secretary's family, at least I should be a small cadre, so that people often say that I am the right person.

Niu Yuehong said with a smile: "Secretary Pan, thank you for your encouragement to me, then you will teach me more in the future." ”

Pan Jiangang saw that Niu Yuehong finally relented, and couldn't help but feel sincerely happy about his successful lobbying. He said cheerfully, "No problem. You're so smart, you won't be able to do it in a few days. ”

Just two days before the opening of the Youth League Congress, Niu Yuehong's name was removed from the list of candidates and replaced by a girl in the archives of the county party committee.

Niu Yuehong felt very disappointed when she heard about it, she didn't want to be a cadre of this regiment, but she was finally moved by Pan Jiangang's words, but she killed Cheng Cheng on the way.

Pan Jiangang found Niu Yuehong to talk to again.

His mood seemed very angry, but he said helplessly: "The list of candidates has been studied and approved by the meeting of the Standing Committee of the County Party Committee, and the county magistrate Xia found me in private and said that Xiao Niu is the object of Secretary Zhao's son, and it is not suitable to be a candidate for League cadres, which will create a bad impression on people, as if the Zhao family has taken the party power and League power of the county into the hands of their own people." Are there still few husbands and wives, fathers and sons, and fathers and daughters in our county who are cadres together? I don't understand why I can't get along with you. ”

Niu Yuehong remembered that people had usually discussed some contradictions in the work of Secretary Zhao and County Magistrate Xia, so she wondered if she was involved in their rights and wrongs. She asked Pan Jiangang's opinion and said, "Otherwise, I won't choose this time?"

Pan Jiangang shook his head resolutely and said, "You retreat halfway, you can only prove to everyone that Secretary Zhao's words can't count!"

Niu Yuehong asked anxiously, "What should I do then?"

Pan Jiangang rolled his eyes and said with a smile: "You find an opportunity to report the situation to Secretary Zhao and see his opinion." ”

Niu Yuehong nodded and agreed: "Okay, I'll go to Xiao Zhao's house after work today." ”

After getting off work, Niu Yuehong went to the market to buy a few vegetables and apples and came to Zhao Qingsong's parents' house.

The old couple warmly welcomed Niu Yuehong.

Chen Xiufang and Niu Yuehong were busy in the kitchen for a while, stir-frying a few dishes and steaming rice.

When the meal was ready, Zhao Guangming put down the newspaper in his hand and came to the table to start eating. While eating, he chatted with Niu Yuehong about work.

Niu Yuehong saw that Zhao Guangming had been talking for a long time, but she didn't talk about the re-election of the Youth League Committee. She deliberately guided the topic in this direction: "I think Pan Jiangang has been quite busy recently. ”

Zhao Guangming picked up the conversation and said: "The Youth League Committee is about to hold a general meeting, he is the secretary of the previous session and the candidate for the next term, he must be very busy." Xiufang, serve me another half bowl of rice, tonight's dish is delicious. ”

Niu Yuehong hurriedly stood up, took the bowl in Zhao Guangming's hand and said, "Auntie, you can eat." I'm here to serve food to my uncle. ”

Niu Yuehong took the opportunity to hand Zhao Guangming a job bowl, and said tentatively: "I heard that the county party committee is going to redetermine the candidates." ”

Zhao Guangming asked strangely: "Why do you want to re-deconfirm? The list of candidates has already been studied and decided. ”

Niu Yuehong lowered her eyelids and said aggrievedly: "County Magistrate Xia asked for a replacement. ”

Zhao Guangming's hand slapped the table and said, "The collective decision of the organization, what power does he Xia Changgeng have to overthrow it?"

Due to Zhao Guangming's mainstay and resolute opposition, the topic of studying the second list of candidates was stillborn.

Niu Yuehong was successfully elected as the deputy secretary of the Youth League Committee at the county's Youth League Congress and became a veritable Youth League cadre.

Niu Yuehong's work enthusiasm is very high, in addition to doing a good job in the work of the radio station, but also to spare a lot of time to assist Pan Jiangang to do a good job in the work of the Youth League Committee, various activities are also in full swing, to give everyone an excellent results of the answer sheet, has been praised by the majority of League members and the county party committee.

Jinshan County is located in a huge intermountain basin, the terrain is low-lying, the groundwater level is very high, the soil salinization is serious, the growth of crops is greatly restricted, and the grain output hovers in the last place in the province all year round.

Zhao Guangming, secretary of the county party committee, is determined to change this situation. He led the county leadership group to visit and study in other places, and brought back a good way to control soil salinization: digging a four-meter-wide and two-meter-deep alkali drainage canal on the edge of a piece of farmland, and draining the salinity in the soil into the channel through groundwater, so as to reduce the salinity content in the soil.

The county party committee issued a call to the whole county to build a battle to drain alkali canals.

The Youth League Committee actively responded to the call, mobilized the vast number of League members to devote themselves to the fiery work, organized and set up more than a dozen youth commandos to go to the countryside, set up green tents in the fields, erected colorful flags waving in the wind, and the high-pitched labor trumpet spread to the clouds.

Niu Yuehong also participated in the general battle. She moved the radio station to the labor site, and in a simple tent, she broadcast labor news and the proposals of various teams in an impassioned tone, and broadcast the list of advanced producers who emerged in the course of labor, thus arousing the great enthusiasm of the young people for labor.

In addition to broadcasting, Niu Yuehong will also carry a shovel and join the labor army to dig ditches. She was sweating and covered in mud after a while. Because she had hardly done farm work at home, coupled with the girl's fine skin and tender flesh, several large blisters soon grew on her palms.

Pan Jiangang is the head of the Youth Commando Team, responsible for patrolling the construction site, conveying instructions, and coordinating the overall work. When he walked to the construction site of the Youth League branch, he saw Niu Yuehong also working hard with a shovel in the crowd of laborers, and hurriedly ran over and grabbed the shovel and pulled her back to the tent.

Pan Jiangang said earnestly: "Little Niu, do you know what your combat weapon is? It's a radio and a loudspeaker. Don't look at it, it can only make sounds, and it can't dig up a spade of mud, but the motivation to encourage everyone to burst out is incomparably huge. Your position is here. Propaganda and agitation are also combat effectiveness!"

When Niu Yuehong heard Pan Jiangang say that his work was so important, she immediately found her own value in her heart and laughed happily. She stroked the blisters on her palms as she enjoyed the honor.

Pan Jiangang quickly dragged Niu Yuehong's hand, took a closer look, took off the pin on his chest, took out his lighter and lit it, put the tip of the needle on the flame to moxibustion, and then grabbed Niu Yuehong's arm and quickly pierced the needle tip into the blister.

Niu Yuehong screamed in fright.

As a clear liquid flowed out of the eye of the needle, the large blister quickly deflated.

Pan Jiangang said with a smile: "It's okay." Don't be afraid. Be careful not to get water on your hands, the skin of the meat is dry. It doesn't hurt at all now, does it?"

As Pan Jiangang spoke, he deliberately put Niu Yuehong's palm on his mouth and blew to amuse.

Xia Changgeng, the county magistrate, also came to the labor site to visit the majority of league members. He turned around a long time and didn't see the commander-in-chief Pan Jiangang, so he asked, "Where is your Secretary Pan?"

Someone pointed him to a tent with the "General War Radio Station" plastered on it.

Xia Changgeng strode towards the radio station. As soon as he walked to the door of the tent, he happened to see the scene of Pan Jiangang and Niu Yuehong getting together, and immediately stopped, did not disturb them, and quietly retreated.

Ten days later, the vigorous battle to build and drain the alkali canal ended successfully. The total length of the county's alkali drainage canals has reached 31 kilometers. Young people get together, eat together, live together, work together, have the opportunity to understand and contact each other, form a deep friendship with each other, and also promote several pairs of lovers, which can be described as a joy and joy.

However, there was no pair of lovers that Xia Changgeng hoped for. Niu Yuehong is still the daughter-in-law of Zhao Guangming, secretary of the county party committee. Pan Jiangang also found his crush soon.

The effect of the alkali drainage canal was immediate, and the soil of agricultural land in Jinshan County was completely improved. In the summer of the following year, the county's crops were growing well, with a large bumper harvest, and grain production greatly exceeded the record high. Jinshan County has become a major agricultural grain producing county in Hexi Province and has been commended by the Provincial Party Committee.