Chapter 49: A Reward for Valor

"At about 9:30 a.m. on August 1, 1980, coinciding with the festive moment of the August 1st Army Day, on the passenger shuttle bus from the county seat to Zaozhu Township and Yutian Town, when three criminally committed gangsters robbed the people's property with knives and threatened the people's physical and mental health.

Li Liang's heroic deeds show his noble character of loving the motherland and the people, as well as his fearless spirit of not fearing bloodshed and sacrifice to safeguard the safety of passengers' lives and property. In order to commend Li Liang's heroic behavior, the Party Committee, the People's Government and the Zaozhu Township Police Station of Hek County decided to award Li Liang a medal and a certificate of commendation, and awarded 50 yuan.

The Zaozhu Township Party Committee, the People's Government, and the Zaozhu Township Police Station of Hek County called on the vast number of cadres, workers, and people in the township to learn from Li Liang, sacrifice themselves for others at the critical juncture, serve the people wholeheartedly, and contribute to China's reform, opening up, and the four modernizations. ”

Under the leadership of Li Shuangqi, a team of 7 or 8 people, including senior party officials, township heads, police station directors and instructors, came to Li's house, and Li Liang was picking vegetables with his grandmother in the kitchen at this time.

Grandfather Li Chengxi is a retired teacher of the township primary school, and he usually acts in the township polder, and last year's youngest son Li Shuangcheng was admitted to Yangcheng Yixian University in a record, becoming a celebrity in the township, and these township leaders are very familiar with them. He saw his son come to his house with everyone and hurriedly beckoned everyone to take a seat. Dai Chengjun, the head of the township, took out a red-headed document stamped with the official seal of the township government and read out the opening paragraph of this article.

Li Liang listened to this and said solemnly: "Thank you uncles and uncles for your encouragement, I will, as always, maintain the style of sacrificing myself for others and acting courageously, love the motherland and the people, and strive for my country's reform, opening up, and the four modernizations for life!"

In fact, he had already seen Long Xiaoyun mixed in the crowd of leaders, and she was secretly squeezing her eyebrows at herself, with a wicked smile on her face.

The leaders did not come to eat rice empty-handed, they came with some fish and white wine, and Li Liang's grandmother and aunt hurriedly used these ingredients to make some more dishes. The meal was ready, Li Liang's grandfather, second uncle, 7 or 8 leaders and Li Liang took their seats, Long Shaoyun sat next to Li Liang, and everyone staggered. Li Hao and Li Yin did not enjoy this treatment, and the two of them opened a small table in the kitchen with their mother and grandmother.

During the banquet, Wei Yucai, a senior party official in Zaozhu Township, held a wine glass, touched a glass with Li Liang, who was drinking boiled water, and said: "Young man, it's very good, I respect you for this cup on behalf of my whole family, if it weren't for you, my niece would be in danger today!"

Only then did Li Liang understand why the township attached so much importance to it, and he was rewarded and given a certificate of 50 yuan for righteousness and bravery, and it turned out that Long Shaoyun's uncle-in-law was Wei Yucai, a high-ranking party official in Zazhu Township! Wei Yucai was about 40 years old, and the Sichuan character pattern on his brow looked very official.

Long Shaoyun returned to his aunt's house in the afternoon, his aunt was in a hurry, why was it afternoon, his niece had not yet arrived, and he heard that three robbers were caught on the urban and rural passenger bus, and he went to the police station to ask about the situation, and knew that his niece was robbed. Wei Yucai and his wife were in a hurry, if anything happened to this niece in his own jurisdiction, he would not have the face to explain to his brother-in-law. When Long Shaoyun returned home, he told his aunt and uncle-in-law about what happened to him on the bus, which inevitably exaggerated the danger inside, and intentionally or unintentionally raised Li Liang's image.

So Wei Yucai returned to his unit and urgently convened a short meeting of the relevant leaders of the party committee, the government, and the police station to characterize this heinous criminal incident that occurred on the passenger line, and in the name of the party committee and government, Li Liang and Wang Qingsong, who played a key role in the incident, commended them. The commendation for Wang Qingsong has already been sent to the Yutian Town Government, and the commendation for Li Liang is carried out directly at Li Liang's grandfather's house under the leadership of Li Shuangzhi and Long Shaoyun.

Before leaving, Wei Yucai patted Li Shuangzhi on the shoulder and said, "Shuangqi, your nephew is good, if you encounter any difficulties in the township in the future, just come to me." Recently, the township supply and marketing cooperatives have a new batch of fertilizers, and we have some apportionment indicators, you know, my family has no farming, and I am worried about how to use this index, if you need to, come to the party and government office tomorrow to find Director Wang, and he will do it for you!" As he spoke, he pointed to the middle-aged man who was standing aside and listening, "This is Director Wang." ”

Li Shuangqi gratefully shook Wei Yucai's hand and sent them back to the township.

At present, everyone in the village farms the land collectively, and each village can only get a small amount of fertilizer index, and the crops sprinkled with chemical fertilizer have risen exceptionally well and the yield is also high. The supply and marketing cooperatives' chemical fertilizer is currently a quota system, the amount is very small, but the demand of each village is very large, the supply exceeds demand, and the fertilizer apportionment index they distribute to the township leaders is a fragrant bait, which is given to the leaders as favors, and belongs to the 'strategic' materials that money cannot buy. Wei Yucai's words obviously gave this benefit to the Li family in vain.

At this time, Zaozhu Township has been brewing to package production to households, and there is news that the land will be divided next month, and every household will be short of chemical fertilizers. In addition, even if the fields are not divided, the crops in their own fields still need to use chemical fertilizers.

Everyone in the Li family was stunned by this unexpected surprise, Li Liang didn't care, he had never farmed in his previous life or in this life, plus the restaurant business was just right, and once the store was developed, the family's wealth was bound to rise sharply, so he didn't feel much about this good news.

Early the next morning, Li Liang's second uncle Li Shuangqi and his wife took the passbook of the Rural Credit Cooperative, and borrowed some money from Li Liang's grandparents, and the two pushed the family's cart to the township to buy fertilizer. The two went to the township to find Director Wang of the Party and Government Office, and Director Wang enthusiastically led the two of them to the Township Supply and Marketing Cooperative, and directly bought 16 bags of fertilizer in the warehouse of the Supply and Marketing Cooperative, each bag of 50 kilograms. The director of the supply and marketing cooperative, looking at Wei Yucai's face, gave an internal preferential price of 30 yuan for a bag, and 16 bags for 480 yuan. Now each bag of fertilizer on the market is 35 yuan, and 16 bags save 80 yuan, the key is that ordinary people can't buy it even if they have money. Li Shuangqi and his wife happily paid and transported the 800 kilograms of fertilizer home in two installments.