61. Elections
August 15 is over, it is the busy season of autumn harvest, Li Manman has relaxed a lot this year, because Li Tianxue has officially stepped down, the work in the field is done by the husband and wife, Taotao, who is one year older, can already put ducks independently, Li Manman only needs to be responsible for housework. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
After harvesting rice, planting wheat, and handing over the public grain, the time has reached late autumn, and several persimmon trees on the platform are hung with red persimmons, like lanterns, attracting large and small birds to stop, in order to prevent persimmons from being pecked by birds, the four masters and Grandma Li take turns to guard under the tree.
Li Tianxue has not been at home for a while, he and Zhou Yuxin are eating and living on the dam, and they want to get the dam in place before the Chinese New Year. Li Manman is often the only one left in the family, and this time in previous years is the busiest time for Li Manman's family. Approaching the election, the pro-Li Tianxue faction often gathered at the Li family to discuss how to defeat the Zhu family in the election and win.
Li Tianxue's sudden resignation made some people unbelievable, and Li Manman often encountered people asking her if her father was really unwilling to be the secretary of the brigade. Li Manman gave an affirmative answer, and gradually no one asked.
Soon the day of the election came, as a party member, Li Tianxue took the time to rush back from the county, Li Manman, as a little tail, followed his father to the venue, along the way there were many people to greet Li Tianxue, especially the people who were attached to him before, they were still depressed some time ago, but today it is a spring breeze. It is said that Li Tianxue withdrew, and the miscellaneous surname is not able to compete with the surname Zhu at all, as long as the surname Zhu is in power, the miscellaneous surname may be treated unfairly, it is impossible to be such a performance, Li Manman was puzzled in his heart, looked up at his father with a calm face, and felt that there must be something strange in this.
The election meeting was held in an empty house in the brigade headquarters, and the total number of party members, young and old, was less than 100, and the house was about seventy or eighty square meters, which was enough to sit.
As soon as Li Manman entered, he was almost smoked out, the smell of smoke was all over the house, and many old men were smoking with dry tobacco pouches, and the strong smell of smoke made people's throats and eyes itch. Li Manman didn't care about hiding behind his father, he occupied a young age, his body was flexible, and he squeezed a few times to get to the window and nested.
I found a more comfortable position for myself to watch the play, Li Manman had the heart to look at this venue, in the middle is a rostrum made of several desks, covered with red cloth, which should be used for tablecloths, not far from the rostrum, it is also a square platform made of several desks, with several bowls on it, and each bowl is marked on it. Li Manman had heard his father say before that there were not many literate among the old party members, so he put a few bowls on the spot, each bowl represented a person to be elected, and each elector was given a broad bean, and whoever was elected would throw the broad beans in his hand into the bowl representing that person. At the time, I thought it was very funny, but now I can actually see it with my own eyes, Li Manman is very excited.
The room was noisy, and the rural people basically spoke loudly, thinking that it was so cordial, Li Manman had a loud voice, and often colleagues joked with her: "Xiao Li's lecture is so loud, I can hear your lecture downstairs!" Li Manman also wants to be as soft as those ladies, but it's too difficult to break the habits since childhood!
"En, En!" There was a sound of audition in the microphone, and the venue gradually quieted down, Li Manman stretched his neck to look at the rostrum, and a person sitting in the middle, white and clean, with a three-seven-point comb head, wearing a pair of gold-wire glasses, looked like he was in his thirties, and he was polite, and he should be a supervisor sent by the township.
"Okay, everyone is here, now I'll read the list, comrades who have arrived, answer yes!" Goldsmith took out a document from her bag and began to roll call.
The first name of "Li Tianxue" is Dad, Li Manman looked from the crowd, Dad actually sat next to Hou Qijia, this Hou Qijia is a distant relative of the Li family, Li Manman should call him cousin. Li Manman remembered that when he was in college, he was the secretary of the brigade in the village, at that time, the village had gone through two floods and became a mess, and it could be regarded as a critical order, mainly because the township also knew about these messy things in the brigade, Hou Qijia was just the right age, his qualifications were enough, and the background was hard, his aunt and uncle served in the city party school, and his aunt was still the principal, so he supported him to fight against the surname Zhu. However, at this time, Hou Qijia seemed to be the leader of the production team, and he had no qualifications, and Li Manman couldn't figure out why his father ran to sit there.
Just as Li Manman was thinking about it, the golden wire glasses continued to read the list.
"Hey, I'm here! What's the matter? When the golden wire glasses read Zhu Sangun, a tall old man with a dry tobacco bag stood up and asked blankly. Everyone looked at him and burst into laughter. "Three shots, this is a roll call, nothing! Just answer that! An old man next to him explained. I'm right here, what's the answer! The old man took a few puffs of his cigarette pouch and sat down slowly. Everyone laughed again.
The gold wire glasses looked at the messy venue helplessly, and waited for everyone to be quiet for a while, before continuing to read, in general, the older ones, when they answered, they were always strange, causing bursts of laughter, Li Manman also felt very interesting, and the younger ones answered decently.
After the roll call, the gold wire glasses talked about the benefits and seriousness of democratic elections, in short, it was very up-and-line, serious and serious, and everyone was unconsciously a lot more serious. A list of candidates was then submitted. There are four people in total, namely Zhu Changlu, Zhu Anshun, Li Yuanming, and Hou Qijia.
When Hou Qijia's name came out, Li Manman saw that the people on Zhu Changlu's side seemed to be very surprised, and among these four people, the oldest one is Zhu Changlu, Zhu Anshun is a muddy person, and his brain is basically not enough, Li Yuanming is very old, he is in his sixties, these two people are considered to be accompanied, and the surname Zhu should have felt that this election was a safe victory, but a Hou Qijia suddenly appeared, which was indeed unexpected. Li Manman had been observing Zhu Changlu and his henchmen, and when he saw that they were only taken aback, he relaxed. Thinking about it, Hou Qijia is a hairy boy in their opinion, there is no threat, and there is no need to pay attention to it.
After reporting the list, the golden glasses introduced the resumes of these people as usual, and then asked everyone to go to the table in the order of the roll call just now, and put the broad beans in their hands into the bowl of the representative candidates. At this time, the person who was sitting next to the gold wire glasses walked to the table where the bowl was placed, picked up the bowl, and first introduced the representative of each bowl, the bowl with one written on it, representing Zhu Changlu, the second bowl representing Hou Qijia, the third representing Li Yuanming, and the fourth being Zhu Anshun.
Li Tianxue was the first to come up and threw the broad beans in his hand into Hou Qijia's bowl. Seeing his father's actions, Li Manman's heart moved, and he vaguely understood his father's intentions, this was to push Hou Qijia out!
The process of throwing broad beans is serious and orderly, and people at this time still regard the right to vote in their hands very sacred, even if they usually don't care about the news on the radio!
After voting for broad beans, the next procedure did not sing votes, but counted broad beans, Li Manman glanced at his father, his expression was very calm, as if it was none of his business, Hou Qijia, who was sitting next to him, looked more nervous, and turned his gaze to Zhu Changlu's part, Zhu Changlu looked very relaxed, with a smile on the corner of his mouth, he was talking to the people around him, and he probably felt that the victory was in hand.
"Now announce the votes!" The gold-rimmed glasses picked up the microphone, looked around, and said seriously, the polite face really showed majesty.
The venue fell silent all of a sudden, and only the click of smoking was heard.
"Zhu Daxu Brigade, there are 105 party members, 105 should be there, 102 are actually 102, 3 abstained in absentia, the total number of votes should be 102 votes, Zhu Changlu, 36 votes; Li Yuanming, 11 votes; Zhu Anshun, 15 votes; Hou Qijia, 40 votes. According to the election law, Hou Qijia was elected as the secretary of the Zhu Daxu brigade! ”
Before the words of the gold wire glasses fell, there was a buzz in the venue, and a lot of noisy voices sounded. Especially in the area of Zhu Changlu, many people are asking what is going on, is there a mistake! Zhu Changlu's face was even more pale.
"Quiet, please be quiet!" The gold wire glasses turned on the volume of the microphone and shouted loudly, "This election is absolutely fair and just, and there are comrades who don't understand it can mention it after the meeting, but please cooperate with each other in the future and do a good job!" After speaking, he deliberately glanced at Zhu Changlu again.
After Li Manman knew the result, he didn't want to be smoked in the house anymore, so he quietly bent over and squeezed out of the house, stood in the late autumn sunshine, and laughed, Dad's hand is really wonderful!