During the summer vacation, Li Haoyu and Cheng Jiahui renovated their rooms according to their ideas. Chen Yuexin also came, and she was admitted to a school in the south as a doctor. I asked her to pick a house and decorate it as she wished, and told her that it would be her and her mother's room and that they could come and stay at any time.

My parents also live in Linshui Village, and my father-in-law and mother-in-law are happily planning to decorate their rooms, and they are as happy as children, turning the group of decorators around.

All the rooms, except for the kitchen master and living room that are really occupied or everyone wants to use for decoration, I only let the door be installed in the room that no one lives in for the time being.

Cheng Shaojie has become accustomed to my different way of thinking, and arranges everything at home with me.

I only plan to renovate the two westernmost rooms on the second floor for my own use, a large one-way room with a bedroom, and a large one-way room for a study and a living room, in fact, we only need to be this big place to live here.

Everyone was in high spirits because of the house, and I was like a bystander watching a group of old people and children having fun playing with the house.

Li Qiutong saw that I was calmly inviting them to eat and drink tea, and asked, "It's not that your family has been building a lot of buildings, why are you so idle?" ”

"I don't need to add bricks and tiles to the construction project, what do I have to do."

Li Qiutong squinted at me and said, "You really have the demeanor of a general, Mount Tai collapsed in front and did not move, what about your family Cheng Shaojie?" Don't you often go out to eat out in pairs, why don't you accompany him to trouble us lately! “

I stretched out my hand and shook it in front of Li Qiutong and said, "What is the double in and out of the dining out, it's just that the children and parents are not there, they don't want to cook and eat outside, isn't it time for the autumn harvest?" He's busy in the village! I haven't been back for a few days."

Yu Xinhui said: "Your family Cheng Shaojie is really good, what should you do with so much money, you look at our family Ding Guojun, how much money he has earned, he feels that he is amazing, and he has learned a bad problem."

"That's my good education, isn't it Mr. Li?" I said to Li Qiutong with a smile.

Li Qiutong pouted and smiled: "You are embarrassed to say something, who is Li Haoyu who gave you a good education?" Thank you Cheng Jiahui! In the final analysis, Cheng Shaojie himself wants to learn well, and Cheng Shaojie's bearing is really different from when he first met him, once I met him in the bookstore, and he was actually reading history books."

I pursed my lips and smiled: "During the summer vacation, I was talking about "Those Things in the Ming Dynasty" with the Cheng family and Li Haoyu, he said that it sounded strange and interesting, he was not interested in the crooked palace fighting scenes in the palace, and he was very interested in the stories of those fights and killings, so I guided him to find relevant history books to read, not to mention, he has now finished reading the three sets of books of Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong in February, and he is still a little long, he used to say that he would have a headache when he read such books."

Li Qiutong felt very good and said: "Hey, Lin Yi, did you have this kind of patience when you educated Li Haoyu at the beginning?" ”

I also laughed: "Then you can't blame me, Cheng Shaojie listens to me, Li Haoyu doesn't listen, he listens to Cheng Jiahui and you, what can I do!" ”

Yu Xinhui laughed on the side: "Jiang Xinya is not here, if she doesn't know how to ridicule you here!" ”

"She saw that you were so good to Cheng Shaojie, don't be angry!" Li Qiutong sighed, "No, Shaojie looks really pleasing to the eye now, unlike Zhang Minxuan, who has always been that self-righteous and has not made much progress, and I can't complain that Jiang Xinya wants to leave."

Yu Xinhui also sighed: "Jiang Xinya is gone, Hu Yali has a lot of entertainment and has no time to be with us, and now that the children are gone, I really feel that I am getting more and more lonely."

Thinking of Jiang Xinya, I felt very gloomy in my heart, but I said to Yu Xinhui with a smile on my face: "I will accompany you, and when you retire, you will live in Linshui Village, and we will be together."

The weather slowly cooled down, the work in the field was done, and the marriage between Mei Duo and Sun Linbing was also completed. After the new building was built, Cheng Shaojie and I rarely lived there except for holidays, and sometimes we were busy with work for ten days and a half and did not go back. Now that Mei Duo and Sun Linbing are married and moved in, there are finally young people coming in and out of the house every day, and the eldest sister Cheng Yanhua also stays at her parents' house every day when the weather is cold, and the eldest brother-in-law also comes.

Although the second sister Cheng Yanping and Cheng Yanling are very unconvinced, it is a pity that they can only watch it if they live far away, but they just say that the eldest sister's family has taken a big advantage.

When the winter slaughter was carried out after the freezing, a cow, two sheep, a pig, and a dozen chickens were slaughtered before and after, and the meat was not sold, and the frozen, scented, and pickled ones were hung up in a house.

Cheng Jiahui and Li Haoyu came back from the winter vacation and lived in Linshui Village for a period of time, saying that our family is like Shuibo Liangshan, no matter who comes to the uncle or uncle, they eat meat and drink wine in large bowls, which is really happy.

Cheng Shaojie asked me: "The house has also been cleaned up, the family is happy and lively, why are you not in a hurry to go back often, your parents and your parents spend more time in Linshui Village than you."

"They're happy that they're fun, so I'm not going to rush to join in the fun," I said as I lay on the couch watching TV.

Cheng Shaojie sat next to me and watched the archaeological program on TV and said: "Why do you love to watch this kind of grave-digging program so much, and watch this not mad person in the middle of the night?" ”

"What's so terrible about this, this is archaeological excavation is historical evidence, China's 5,000-year history is not just written on paper, these are evidence, it and history books have a mutually corroborating effect."

"Do you cops like watching this?"

I was surprised and said, "No, those young people who love to watch this".

"I heard you say, it's like you're looking for evidence in a case."

I thought about it for a moment and smiled and said, "It's a bit like what you say, if you're in a hurry to stay here, you can go back and drink with them tomorrow."

"Forget it, I'm still here to accompany you, we're all gone, you're here alone, I'm annoyed to stay with them now, there's nothing else to do with them except eating meat, drinking wine and playing cards, and it's not interesting to talk about some car and drink when you drink too much, let's go back together on the day off."

I smiled and said, "Okay, if you're idle, you can sweep the snow in the yard, didn't you say you like to sweep the snow the most!" ”。

Cheng Shaojie stroked my face with a smile and said: "No problem, tomorrow when the snow stops, the doorman likes people like me who learn from Lei Feng, and has a good attitude towards me, or I will go to the detention center to clear the snow for them."

I smiled and patted him and said, "you, there's still a shortage of snow plowers."

Cheng Shaojie laughed for a while, pulled me up from the sofa, sat down in front of him, and said, "I'm going to discuss something with you?" ”

I looked at him with a little surprise and asked, "What is so solemn?" ”

"The village is going to hold a general election this year, and someone in the village wants to push me to be the village director, what do you think?"

I looked at him and thought for a while and asked, "What do you want to do as a village chief?" ”

"I want to build our village well, our Linshui Village is close to the town, there is a lot of land, the natural conditions are very good, the people in the village are very active in thinking, life is still relatively rich, the village is built well, it is not worse than the city, and now the village director is also older, and his thinking can't keep up with the situation."

I laughed and said, "Are you still young?" I don't know much about the situation in the village, but I still know a little bit about it in general, didn't you say that Li Yanhong also wants to run for village director? I think that guy is good. It's not that you can't be qualified for this position, but have you thought about it, your current economic conditions are good, and you can do a lot of things that others can't do, but how to deal with your own affairs when you take office, if you continue to develop in the village, others will say that you are rich by the power of the village director, for example, you have contracted a large piece of village collective land in front of our house, and the income from planting corn this year is good, and everyone who knows knows that your contract fee is higher than others, but if you are the village director, will others say that? Moreover, the village chief is also an official, and you have to face such inspections, evaluations, and entertainment from your superiors, and you will be annoyed to death when the time comes."

"Then you don't agree?"

"I just put forward my own ideas, to be honest, although I am a civil servant, I don't want to be attached to power, and I am very skeptical about the quality of those leaders in the village and the township."

Cheng Shaojie lowered his head and smiled and said, "I also think you may disagree, you are a very strange civil servant." Then let's talk about another thing, Dong Youguang's contracted brick factory expires this year, according to the original contract he has the right of first refusal, but last autumn a brick factory worker fell off the kiln and died, now he has no money to compensate, let alone pay the next phase of the contract fee, I want to contract Li Yanhong also wants to contract, and now the village has the ability to contract almost the two of us."

"Is the contract fee expensive?"

"80,000 a year, 10 years at a time"

"Why do you pay for ten years, and the village director only has five years for one term, so it's not right for Yin to eat grain?"

"Dong Youguang paid it for ten years at the beginning, but at that time, the contract fee was low, and the brick factory was not so profitable."

"What rules and distances must be reasonable, unreasonable distances can be changed, and the change is reasonable and will be convincing, the contract can be signed for ten years, but the contract fee should be paid every five years, as an official, you can't eat and drink enough to be enough regardless of the people behind, whether it is you or Li Yanhong are born and raised in Linshui Village, you can't just do things for the present, but for the long-term interests of the village."

"You have a lot of truth in saying that, but if I make such a suggestion and then contract a brick factory, people will think that I am speaking for myself."

"There is this suspicion, but don't forget that Li Yanhong also wants to contract, and he also wants to be the village director. As long as what you say is reasonable, the common people can understand it, and Li Yanhong wants to be the village director, so he can't object to your suggestion, and since he wants to compete for the village director, it's not good for him to compete with you for the contracting right of the brick factory, after all, he can't put forward a charter that is beneficial to himself before he has run for the village head, and one radish can't be cut at two ends, and he has to let go of the other if he wants to."

Cheng Shaojie looked at me with half-squinted eyes and said, "If you are a calculator, it is not an ordinary calculus."

"I'm not stupid, I just don't want to worry about the strike anymore, this brick factory has been open for more than ten years, can it be opened for another ten years? You see, such a large piece of earth has been dug up, and now there is no grass growing, like a scar on the earth, how ugly, I think, if we contract it, while burning bricks and planting some trees and grass, and take good care of that place, it will also leave some shade for future generations to accumulate some virtue."

Cheng Shaojie held my hands and looked at me and said, "I grew up in Linshui Village since I was a child, and I don't think as far as you, an outsider, for the village. Still, your kindness is not only to people but also to things, how can you be a policeman? ”

I exclaimed, "What do you say! We policemen are the kindest, haven't you heard of using thunder to show the heart of a bodhisattva? As he spoke, he withdrew his hand.

Cheng Shaojie didn't let go, but pulled me into his arms with all his might, put his chin on my hair and said, "Okay, everything you say is right, everything you say is right"