Zhou Yuxiang opened the door of the east wing and began to clean up diligently. The house was cleaned up, and the bed was made fresh and refreshing, so he called Lei Xiaobo over and said, "Assistant Lei, how about you take a look?" It's just that the house and the bed are a little smaller, and I have wronged you." ”

"No, no, it's already good. Lei Xiaobo didn't dare to look at her charming eyes, glanced at the room of about ten square meters, and said with satisfaction, "This is not much worse than a hotel room, it's great." In the future, I will trouble you here. ”

Zhou Yuxiang said: "Since you live here, you are a family, don't talk about foreign words." ”

Lin Changsheng said: "Yes, you're welcome. If you have any requests or comments, just let us know. ”

Lei Xiaobo took a suitcase and a black leather bag into the room and said to them, "After settling down, I will go to the village to take a look around and understand the situation first." ”

"Okay, come back early in the evening for dinner. Zhou Yuxiang said enthusiastically. Lin Changsheng also politely sent him to the gate of the courtyard: "Come back in the evening, let me introduce you to the situation in our village." ”

"Okay, thank you, Secretary Lin. Lei Xiaobo walked out of the Lin family's courtyard, his heart was warm, and he felt that the people here were still hospitable and kind, not "poor mountains and bad waters out of the people", but green waters and green mountains with good people.

Lei Xiaobo braved the scorching heat, carrying a small bag, and walked around the village road. Visits began one group at a time. In each group, he randomly walked into the villagers' homes, whether the stools were clean or not, sat down with their butts, and chatted with them. He took notes while chatting, and during the conversation, he learned a lot about the situation in the village and found a lot of problems.

Now, Lei Xiaobo saw that it was still early, so he walked to the village committee. When I arrived at the gate of Guo Fengping's courtyard, I saw that the door of the courtyard was open, but the door of the office on the ground floor was still closed.

The quiet village was shrouded in the first rays of morning light, and a few distant roosters and dogs crowed and shook the dew on the leaves.

"Sitting on the same bench, in order to narrow the distance between the heart, how much dirt is stained under your feet, how much truth is precipitated in your heart." Lei Xiaobo remembered that when the organization department was training college students and village officials, a leader said this sentence, which began to be practiced from the first day of registration.

After only two days of walking, the soles of the leather shoes on his feet wore off a layer, and they were so thin that they were about to wear out. College students and village officials with good family conditions all drive to their posts, so it is much more convenient for them to work. But my family is so poor that they can't even afford to buy a motorcycle, let alone buy a car. And this village, right? Poorer than my family, can you expect them to buy me transportation? Secretary Guo is riding a scooter. It's better to take steps instead of cars, just to exercise.

Thinking like this, Lei Xiaobo bent down, bent down his upper body, and walked up the mountain step by step. According to the distribution map of the whole village drawn by the Baidu map of the mobile phone, the top two groups on the hillside are the 123rd group.

There are not many trees on some of the slopes here, and they are bare, which is really a poor mountain. Lei Xiaobo still observed while walking, there were no such mountain beasts, but snakes still existed, so he tried not to walk on the side of the road when he walked. On the winding mountain road, there was not a single figure in sight, nor a car, only the acquaintance in the woods, screaming as if to cheer him on.

After walking for more than half an hour, Lei Xiaobo came to the group he had walked to yesterday afternoon, and when he walked further, he saw more than a dozen small and dilapidated houses scattered on the hillside. He checked it on the Baidu map on his mobile phone, and here are the twelve groups.

There was a dilapidated hut on the side of the road, in disrepair, with peeling walls and broken roof tiles. The door is open, indicating that there is someone inside. Lei Xiaobo walked in, and the room was black and hollow, and he couldn't see clearly.

"Is there anyone in the house?" Lei Xiaobo called out to the closed inner door inside.

After a shudder in the back room, the door opened, and out came an old woman, wrinkled face. She grinned at the toothless pout, looked at him with her hands over the pergola, and asked, "Who are you?"

Lei Xiaobo said: "I am, the assistant of the village party secretary, to come and see you." The old woman tilted her head and said, "Huh, assistant?" This family is really a family with four walls, except for a small stove for cooking rice and a square table for eating, there is nothing. The ground is uneven mud floor, and the convex parts are stepped on smoothly.

"How many people are in your family?" Lei Xiaobo walked to the door of the inner room, looked inside, and saw an old man with gray hair lying on the double bed inside, motionless, only his eyes were blinking. There was a foul smell in the room: a strong smell of medicine, a pungent smell of smack, and the smell of rotten flesh.

Lei Xiaobo only frowned slightly, then turned around and asked the old woman, "This is your wife, right?

The old woman looked him up and down and asked, "Whose son are you? Why haven't I seen it?"

Lei Xiaobo saw that it was so dirty that he couldn't fit his feet inside, and there was no place to sit, so he went to the dining table and took a stool and paused at the door of the inner room. The bench was full of dust, and he didn't wipe it, but sat on it. There were some potholes in the mud, one foot of the bench slipped and rolled down, Lei Xiaobo fell back coldly, then stroked his hand, screamed "oops", and fell down fiercely.

"Oh, this kid, did you hurt from the fall?" the old woman embarrassedly came up to help Lei Xiaobo, "This ground is uneven, and I haven't had the money to lay bricks." ”

The back of Lei Xiaobo's head hit the threshold, and the pain was a little numb. But he got up without patting the dirt from his body or wiping the dust from his hands, so he set up the stool, sat down carefully, took out his notebook and pen from his bag, and memorized it as he asked.

"I am the assistant of the village party secretary, and I have come to do things for the village. Lei Xiaobo said kindly, "What kind of illness does your wife have? Why don't you go to the hospital to see it?"

When the old woman saw that he really remembered and asked, she sat down on the edge of the bed, and before she could speak, her eyes turned red and she began to cry. She reached out the back of her rough hand to wipe away her tears.

Lei Xiaobo hurriedly took out the tissues in his bag and handed her two, and his heart was soft and ready to cry: "Auntie, don't be sad, what are you suffering, just tell me, I'll do it for you." ”

He knew that this woman looked old, but in fact she might not be sixty years old, and it was poverty and fatigue that had worn her so old, so he called her "auntie" by the people in the city.