After dinner, after Li Rui washed the dishes and chopsticks, the two really changed the bed, and replaced it with Li Rui going to sleep on the fire kang in the West House, and Ling Shuyao going to sleep on the wire bed in the hall.

After the two fell asleep, Ling Shuyao couldn't get used to sleeping on the wire bed, so she tossed and turned, making the wire bed squeak. Li Rui slept with light ears, and the voice outside could be heard clearly, and he couldn't help but shout, "If it really doesn't work, change it back." Ling Shuyao thought of the big scorpion she saw just now, and it hurt like a pinprick on her buttocks, how dare she go back to sleep on the earthen kang, and hurriedly said, "No, no, you sleep, I won't move." ”

Next, Ling Shuyao really didn't move again, and forcibly maintained a posture, but after lying in one position for a long time, she couldn't feel strong, so she wanted to change her posture again, but she was afraid of provoking Li Rui's questioning, so she could only continue to carry it hard, and finally she couldn't help it, so she got up and went out to relieve herself.

These days, before going to bed at night, Ling Shuyao didn't dare to go to the thatched house, for fear of being stung by a scorpion again, it was really "once bitten by a snake, and three years afraid of the well rope", I wanted to prepare a urinal in the house, but I was afraid that the sound of urinating would be embarrassed by Li Rui, so I could only retreat and run to the open space next to the pigsty in the courtyard to excrete.

This time too, she quietly opened the old wooden door, tiptoed out, to the pigsty side of the open space, took off the autumn pants to release the water, after the convenience was over, looked up and saw the starry sky, all of a sudden to the idiot, before in Qingyang City, often can not see the stars, at night the sky overhead gathered a layer of fog, black pressure fog, even the moon don't want to see easily, where have I seen so many so bright stars stunned for a while, sleepiness hit, yawned, and then went to the north house.

She touched the house, reflexively closed the door, I don't know why, maybe it was the reason for being sleepy, her brain was a little blurry, she forgot that she had switched places with Li Rui, walked into the West House, came to the kang, sat on the kang with one butt, got on the kang with one leg, picked up the quilt and drilled in, and the next moment she was already lying next to Li Rui.

However, she soon found out that something was wrong, because the pillow was in the wrong position, she reached out and touched the left and right sides of her head, touched the side of the pillow, leaned over with her head, and moved her body in that direction, so inevitably, she finally touched Li Rui's half-naked body.

"Hey, who is this?" she was still a little confused in her head.

Li Rui has not been asleep, and he also found it when Ling Shuyao got into the bed, but he didn't understand the taste for a long time, and he didn't know what she was doing here, whether she took the initiative to sleep or got in the wrong position and waited for her head to hit her, and finally couldn't help it, and asked "You"

Ling Shuyao was taken aback, sat up from the quilt all of a sudden, and exclaimed, "You" Li Rui said, "What are you, you have already changed the bed, you forgot" Ling Shuyao was so ashamed that her face was flushed, she got up and jumped down from the kang, and fled back to the outhouse in a gloomy manner, lying on the wire bed, her heart was pounding, and her heart said that it was too big tonight, if it was spread out, saying that I, Ling Shuyao, drilled his quilt at night, how could I still have a face

The next morning, Ling Shuyao wanted to tell Li Rui not to talk about last night's embarrassing things everywhere, but it can be seen that he was like no one, and he didn't say a word about last night's incident, so he didn't say anything more.

On this day, Li Rui, together with the village cadres, convened a mobilization meeting for poverty alleviation work in the village, intending to convene all the villagers to listen to the meeting, and take the opportunity to explain to the villagers the importance of carrying out this poverty alleviation pilot activity, so that the villagers can have a preliminary understanding of the poverty alleviation work and lay a solid ideological foundation for comprehensively promoting the poverty alleviation activities, but the number of participants in the meeting is very small.

In the past few days when Li Rui has been in the village, he has learned that there is a large market in the village every Tuesday and Friday, which is similar to a temporary trade market, from the production of daily necessities to all kinds of fruits, vegetables and vegetables, which is similar to a small temple fair. On the day of the big market, almost all the villagers go out to stroll around the big market, which is also their main leisure and shopping activity. To his great dismay, the number of participants in the mobilization meeting was less than one-tenth of the number of people who visited the big market.

There are too few participants, and there is no point in convening this conference.

But Li Rui did not cancel the meeting easily, but took the opportunity to take this time as a good opportunity to rehearse, and talked to the villagers who participated in the meeting bitterly, and finally made his mouth dry, and before the meeting ended, he told the villagers that the conference would continue to be held tomorrow, and called on them to call all the neighbors and neighbors after they went back, and there would be small gifts when the meeting was held tomorrow.

At this point, he thought of the problem that the Chinese people love to be greedy for small and cheap, and planned to attract the attention of the villagers to the mobilization meeting through small gifts.

After the meeting ended, a thirty-five or sixteen-year-old man found Li Rui and asked, "You are really here to help the poor this time" Li Rui smiled slightly and said, "Is there still hypocrisy?"

Wang Tiekui, the village party secretary, asked with a cold face, "Hu Liquan, what are you doing?" The man named Hu Liquan said, "What's the matter, the city leaders came to the village to help the poor and held a poverty alleviation mobilization meeting, can't I come and listen to it?" Wang Tiekui said, "But the conference is over, you hurry up, go, don't make trouble for the city leaders." As he spoke, he waved his hand and bombarded him. Hu Liquan said: "I ask the city leaders about poverty alleviation, and you can't control me about what you do." Wang Tiekui snorted: "I can't care about you, you go out and ask, I can't care about who is the biggest in the village, you are really the opposite." ”

Hu Liquan ignored him and asked Li Rui, "Big leader, I want to ask you some questions about poverty alleviation, are you free?" Li Rui smiled and said, "If you are free, you can ask." Hu Liquan said, "Then you go to my house and sit down, I'll make you tea, let's have a good chat." ”

Wang Tiekui shouted, "Hu Liquan, what do you want to do, do you want to kidnap the city leaders" Hu Liquan glared at him and said, "You are the village party secretary who is really lenient, I will ask the city leaders about the problem, what is the matter with you, you should not be in charge, and you should not be in charge." Wang Tiekui was sarcastically ridiculed by him in front of Li Rui, his face couldn't hold back, and asked, "What do you say, what do you mean by not caring about what should be managed, and you can't care about it, you explain it to me." Hu Liquan snorted and said, "What have you done in the village, you know it in your heart, I don't bother to say." Wang Tiekui blushed with anger and said, "Hu Liquan, you must tell me clearly today, what I have done in the village, if you don't explain it to me, I will find a place for you to make it clear." ”

Li Rui coughed and said, "Wang Zhishu, I don't think Brother Hu has anything else to do, you don't have to worry about this matter, I'll go to his house to sit down." It can be seen that Brother Hu is a person with ideas, and our poverty alleviation this time is to find a person with ideas like Brother Hu, first set up a model, and when he gets rich, it will also drive the common prosperity of the people in the village. Wang Tiekui pursed his lips and said, "He and his Hu Liquan family can get rich, and my surname is written backwards." ”

Hu Liquan said, "Your surname is Wang, and you are still Wang when you write it upside down, hum." Wang Tiekui blew his beard and glared and shouted, "Well, if you can get rich, my name will be written backwards." Hu Liquan snorted, "This is what you said, the city leaders will give a witness, see if I get rich another day, your name will be written backwards." Wang Tiekui said, "You don't give me nonsense, let me tell you, the city leader is busy with work, you don't delay his time." Hu Liquan didn't let me go at all, and said, "You stopped me from letting me talk to the city leaders, this is delaying the precious time of the city leaders." ”

Li Rui interjected with a smile, "Okay, Brother Hu, let's go, let's go to your house and talk." ”

Hu Liquan led the way in front, and Li Rui walked to his house with Ling Shuyao.

Wang Tiekui looked at the three of them into the distance, with a heavy look on his face.

When he came to Hu Liquan's house, he invited the two to sit down and instructed his daughter-in-law to make tea and pour water.

Hu Liquan's family is a typical peasant in a mountain village, and their home is halfway up the hillside to the west of the village, and their family does not even have a courtyard wall except for an old adobe house, so they use tree branches to build four simple fence walls, and the walls are covered with loofah seedlings and gourd seedlings. At this time, the loofah and gourd have fallen seedlings, the leaves have withered and yellowed, and countless old loofahs and gourds are hanging on the fence wall and the ground.

As for the inside of the old adobe house, it is even more dilapidated, and when you enter the house, you can see that the roof beams and rafters are scorched black by the smoke of the earthen stove, and the corners of the roof are hung with cobwebs, and the webs are full of oil smoke. On the right hand side of the house is an earthen kang, on which lies an old man, Hu Liquan's old mother. Facing the door against the wall is an old-fashioned cabinet, most of the patent leather on the surface of the cabinet has fallen off, and there are countless wormholes. No one wants such a cabinet even if it is thrown into the garbage. Apart from this cupboard, there was a large round table and a few rudimentary wooden stools, but apart from that, there was not a single decent piece of furniture. There is also a room to the west, which is supposed to be where Hu Liquan and his wife stay, with a dirty curtain hanging on the door. There were no tiles on the floor of the house, not even cement, just gravel paving.

Sitting on the wooden bench and seeing the dilapidated environment in the house, which can no longer be described as simple, Li Ruizhi thought that he had returned to the old society, and he was very shocked in his heart, he really couldn't imagine that today in the 21st century, there are still people living in this kind of house. To put it mildly, even if the dog in the city is raised, the kennel where it lives is better than this house.

He and Ling Shuyao glanced at each other, and both of them could see the shock and pity in each other's eyes.

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