Chapter 37 Educated Youths Go to the Countryside

【1】

Muyehua Village is big and has a lot to do, so Zhang Zhishu is very busy.

No, he just walked into the sesame field in the afternoon, holding a shovel, and with his head down, he was about to cultivate soil for the sesame seeds in the breeding base.

At this time, he suddenly heard Lao Li, who was looking at the phone, shouting: "Bright, come quickly!"

Zhang Guangming raised his head abruptly and asked, "What's the matter?"

Li Hongyun, who looked at the telephone, replied: "The commune has called, and let our village welcome in the most solemn way the leaders of the prefectural, city, county, and commune levels and the young intellectuals who have gone to the mountains and the countryside! They said that they were about to come to us, and that the cadres would eat, live, and work together with the educated youths to support the agricultural construction of our village! They also said that they would arrive in the afternoon. ”

"Oh, the cadres and educated youths are coming to our village, so our village has to welcome them in the most grand way! Okay! I'll go and get ready right away. Oh yes, Uncle Li......" Zhang Guangming said as he walked this way with a shovel. He walked up to Li Hongyun and handed him the shovel, "You bring the shovel to my house." I'm going to go to the village cadres to make preparations. After he finished speaking, he strode back to the village to find the village cadres.

He asked everyone to prepare separately, some went to find the gong and drum team, some went to find the Yangge team, and some went to make the little red flag.

Zhang Guangming wanted to pull a few beds from his home, so he asked his daughters to lay the floor for a few days, and said to the three sensible daughters: "When Dad is free, I will use our dry planks to make you a few new beds." The child was happy to help others, and readily agreed. Zhang Guangming pulled a few beds into the brigade's warehouse. He went to the supply and marketing cooperatives to ask Li Xiaoxiao for a few waste cartons, and spread them on the bed. Then, Zhang Guangming arranged the residence of the superior leader in the empty house of Captain Qin Dayu's son. The reason why the leaders came to live here is because there are many, many flowers and flowers and trees planted in this courtyard, which look beautiful. He and the village officials quickly cleaned the house.

Everyone hurriedly made all the preparations to welcome the guests. Zhang Guangming brought pen, ink, paper and inkstone from home again, and began to write welcome slogans. At this time, the branch secretary was happy. This is because the impoverished rural areas really need knowledgeable and educated personnel! It can also speed up the pace of development of our village! Zhang Guangming thought in his heart.

At the gate of the brigade, the gong and drum team stood on the side of the road and was eager to try, waiting for the secretary to give the order. The members of the village committee were divided into two rows of red flags, and the captain and the village director unfurled slogans, and on the red paper were written a few big black characters with vigorous and powerful words: "Warmly welcome the leaders to our village to guide the work! Warmly welcome the young intellectuals who go to the mountains and the countryside to participate in large-scale agricultural production!" Zhang Zhishu also taught the Yangge team a welcome song. When everything was ready, everyone was looking forward to the arrival of the educated youth.

【2】

A truck approached in the distance, and dozens of young men and women were tiptoeing, sideways, with their heads outstretched, looking at it with curiosity in their eyes. Zhang Guangming and the cadres of the brigade were immediately dumbfounded, they didn't expect such educated youths to come to the village. Zhang Guangming whispered to the village cadres: "Should we welcome so many people? Later, I will have to talk to the commune cadres that only five or six educated youths can be left, and the rest will be taken away!" Zhang Guangming saw that the car was getting closer and closer to here, so he gave an order, "Guys, let's beat the drums, beat the gongs, dance, and sing!"

Just listen: "Knock knock, knock knock." Knock, knock......

The young girl of the Yangge team in the village sang loudly: "The sound of gongs and drums shook the sky, and the light fan danced. Welcome to Makino to support the development of rural areas. Praise the young people with far-reaching ambitions and go to the countryside to rejuvenate agriculture and build their contributions. Praise the cadres for their ability to endure hardships and join hands with educated youths to make contributions!" The noisy sound summoned many, many old people and children in the village, and they ran out of their homes curiously to watch the excitement.

【3】

The truck with the canopy was getting closer and closer, and more than two dozen naïve and innocent young heads stretched out from the carriage, all of them with a pair of curious eyes, waving excitedly to this side, and the young people laughed and giggled excitedly, and greeted this side. "Hey, the folks in Makino Flower Village are so enthusiastic!"

Zhang Guangming smiled and said loudly: "Everyone clap your hands and welcome the arrival of the leaders and educated youths! They are adding bricks and tiles to our village!"

Everyone immediately burst into warm applause, and the members of the village committee lined up to welcome and shouted: "Welcome, welcome! Warm welcome!" They shouted and waved small red flags.

I saw Li Jianjian, the driver of the commune, driving from a big road in the middle of the village, and came to the crowd. As soon as Xiao Li stepped on the brakes, a cloud of dust and smoke flew out from under the car. Li Jianshe jumped out of the car first, followed by Qiu Weimin, a commune cadre, and several leaders who had been transferred from the car. Many young people chattered and laughed, and jumped out of the car. Thirteen boys with spring breezes came over, and thirteen fair-skinned and beautiful girls came over. The old people were smiling and applauding vigorously, and the children were all staring at them with curious eyes, looking at so many big brothers and big sisters, and they also applauded vigorously. The young men of the village beat the drums and gongs vigorously, but their eyes were fixed on the beautiful girls from the city, and they did not blink their eyes. The girls in the village twisted Yangge, while twisting Yangge, looked at the sunny and handsome young men from the city, and their faces were blushing. Zhang Guangming led the team members with smiles on their faces, and walked forward to greet the leaders very enthusiastically.

Qiu Weimin said with a smile: "Secretary Zhang, Secretary Li of the commune asked the superior leaders for instructions and assigned the educated youths from the city to Kai Village!"

"My name is Li Dali," this is the leader from the region.

"My name is Wang Xiaoshuang," this is a leader from the city.

"My name is Sunda". This is the leader from the county.

Qiu Weimin introduced them one by one. Zhang Guangming and the members of the team immediately warmly shook hands with the higher-level cadres one by one.

Qiu Weimin also said, "What about these leaders? They also asked to come to this village, which is called the poorest but most beautiful in the county, to stay together for a few months, to live in the village with the educated youth, and to eat and work together with the educated youth!"

"Welcome to all the leaders! Then you will work hard!" said the cadres of the brigade together.

The leaders replied:

"In order to support the large-scale construction of rural areas, we are not afraid of hard work!" Sun Da said first.

"This is the task given to us by the province, to go to the grassroots level to investigate the suffering of the working people, to work with them, and to change the lives of people in extremely poor and miserable areas. Wang Xiaoshuang replied secondly.

"Let's all contribute our meager strength to the large-scale construction of agriculture!" Li Dali, leader of the district party committee, said in his final concluding speech.

"Secretary Li also said that you are the most self-motivated, and he asked me to be responsible for sending the educated youths to your village safely. I'll hand them over to you now! You have to let them work well and take good care of them in life......" Qiu Weimin explained to Zhang Guangming.

"Hand over so many educated youths to me?" Zhang Guangming hurriedly pulled Qiu Weimin, deputy secretary of the commune, aside and whispered to him, "Deputy Secretary Qiu, you have to think about my village, originally my village is the poorest village in the county, and so many educated youths have come here to eat and drink at once......

"Then I'll quickly call Secretary Li and tell me about the situation you reflected. Qiu Weimin immediately went to the brigade office and called Secretary Li.

Here, Zhang Guangming greeted the higher-level cadres.

Zhang Guangming asked Gui Xiaobao to lead Qiu Weimin to the office, and as soon as he entered the office, he saw that the wall of this house was cracked, and there was a big hole in the roof, so he said: "No wonder we are singing the ballad of Muyehua Village everywhere here, it is indeed the poorest village in our county!" As he spoke, he dialed the phone number of Secretary Li's office and told Zhang Guangming about the situation he reflected. Secretary Li on the other end of the phone said, I know that Muyehua Village is the poorest, but when the educated youths asked me, where is the most beautiful commune in your commune, I said, Muyehua Village is the most beautiful. The intellectuals had to go to their village to see it. Let them take a look at the scenery first, and only leave the six educated youths from the provincial capital, and what about the rest of the educated youths? You let Li Jianshe take them back to the commune, and I will rearrange them. Qiu Weimin told Zhang Guangming what Secretary Li said on the phone, word for word.

"You have just come from this road, and when you go down that road, you will see the beautiful scenery of flowers and trees on both sides of the road. He also said to Deputy Secretary Qiu, "Secretary Li said that only six educated youths from the province are staying in my village? Then you can rest assured! Thank you to the leaders for leading these aspiring young people to support the construction of my village." Leader Qiu, you must take me to express my deep gratitude to Secretary Li......" The branch secretary patted Qiu Weimin on the shoulder and said with a smile.

【4】

The educated youths from the province are so curious when they see everything here. The three female intellectuals took advantage of the fact that Zhang Zhishu was talking to the leaders, and several of them whispered: "Alas, look there, those old people who came over are wearing different clothes from those in our city!" The eyes of the intellectuals immediately looked at the old people, "You see that they are all in shape, the old men are all wearing coarse cloth tops with patches and patches with plackets and buttons, and the old ladies are wearing coarse cloth patches with patches and plackets. ”

But some of the old men and old ladies smiled and showed a few yellowed teeth, and some of them didn't even have a single tooth. Some of them look like they're over 100 years old!"

A young woman pointed to the crowd with wide and beautiful eyes, and said, "Look how cute those little boys are!" The intellectuals looked for the boys. "Look there, there are quite a few boys standing in front of them out of the cracks, their shirts open to reveal their belly pockets! Some of them have rusty double carp jumping over the dragon gate on their belly pockets, some are embroidered with Luan Xiang Fengji, and some are embroidered with magpies and plum blossoms...... All of them are vivid and vivid, and you can see that the women of this village are ingenious!" The others nodded in approval of what she said.

Another girl said, "Look how cute the boys' hair is! Some of them have a little braid on the top of their heads, some have only a circle of hair on the top of their heads, and some have a totem in their hair...... A variety of hairstyles and outfits make these young people from the city feel new and interesting.

At this time, there were other girls who looked to be about six or seven years old, and eight or nine years old, and they all squeezed out their immature skinny little faces from the cracks of the people, stared at us timidly, and looked at us timidly.

The educated youths said curiously: "Look at how cute they are with different pigtails and various styles!"

"Some have cannonballs in the sky, some in ponytails, and some in small crooked braids. Some wore two small high braids. They wore all kinds of plastic flowers in their hair, and how cute their coarse cloth clothes were in patches!"

The old people and children showed rare eyes, clapped their hands vigorously, and warmly welcomed the arrival of the higher-level cadres and educated youths.

The female intellectual, who wore a high ponytail, whispered: "Eh, look at these young people in the countryside and those big girls, dressed in rustic clothes, they are really dressed as rural peasants." ”

Qiu Weimin said to everyone: "Secretary Li of the commune has decided to leave the six educated youths from the province behind, and the rest of the educated youths will all go back to the commune with Xiao Li's driver, and Secretary Li will make other arrangements." When the intellectuals from the province heard this, they jumped into applause and cheered: "Okay! reluctantly followed Li Jianshe into the car and left.

The village cadres hurriedly said words of thanks to the higher-level leaders and educated youths, and immediately arranged to solve the problems of food, housing, and labor for the group.