"Hahahaha!"

In the office of the Menghai Town Party Committee, there was a lot of laughter, Guan Fei, Zhang Shengguo, Sun Yaohua, as well as Deputy Brigade Commander Yu Bohai, Civil Affairs Director Zhao Zhonghua and others were all present, chatting and laughing with a kind of cadres in the town, and bursts of laughter from time to time.

As a border crossing, Mong Hai used to be very lively for several years during the People's Party, and there were often aid convoys passing through it to the headquarters of the Menggu People's Party opposite.

Since the People's Army retreated in a disastrous defeat, the Wei Ding Army was very wary of the country and set up a blockade on the border, and Mon Hai's position as a material exchange center was gone forever and quickly declined. However, not long after, Guan Fei led the 291 Brigade to fight back and regain a lot of lost ground. Then he went to Hong Kong to open a company to make money and buy food.

Although the Menggu blockade is still in place, the supplies are traced more than ten kilometers from the Menghai Shunjie River, and they enter the defense area of the 291st Brigade by taking the mountain path.

At this point, Meng Hai once again became busy.

And it is far more lively and prosperous than when the headquarters of the People's Party was there!

The People's Party is a party that stretches out its hand to ask for things in the country: food, clothing, weapons, ammunition, medicine, ......, and it can be said that as long as the country has and is willing to give it, they want everything, and they are not embarrassed at all.

At that time, Meng Hai was a one-way street, and although there were many cars, Meng Hai himself did not enjoy much benefit.

But after the 291st Brigade came, the situation began to be very different.

At first, the border guards handed over the seized weapons and ammunition to the 291 Brigade, with a total of tens of thousands of guns, artillery, bullets and shells. Guan Fei considered that he only had 3,000 soldiers under his command and could not use so much for the time being, so after pulling away some of the cannons, he sealed most of the equipment in Meng Hai.

In order to improve the relationship with Meng Hai, he offered to rent a warehouse and pay rent to the town. Although the rent given is not high, it is also a windfall for the small town that lacks economic resources, and it has greatly won the favor of the cadres and masses of Menghai.

As the economic situation of the 291st Brigade gradually improved, Meng Hai also got more and more benefits from it: renting a grain warehouse, borrowing land for temporary storage of various materials purchased, renting a house to set up a foreign reception and propaganda station, and hiring people from the town to help build roads and maintain .......

In this process, Meng Hai and the 291st Brigade became more and more closely connected, and the two sides were as close as a family. In addition to being busy with farming, the masses in some towns will also cross the border to the 291st Brigade to build roads and level the land in the new city to earn some wages for part-time work -- the remuneration of one and a half catties of rice a day is also a great temptation for the masses in China.

However, Guan Fei brought all the team members of his family to Menghai today, not to strengthen the relationship between the military and the people, but to welcome people.

Just half a month ago, the 58,104 units of the 291st Brigade, which had always come to the door to submit their shopping lists, suddenly took the initiative to send someone over and politely asked if the 291st Brigade needed any help in the process of vigorously developing economic construction.

Guan Fei was surprised, but he also knocked on the side, wanting to find out what unit 58104 was doing. It's a pity that the people came to talk very tightly, and only vaguely said that the construction work of the 291 Brigade was done well, and the country was very appreciative, so I wanted them to ask if there were any difficulties that needed domestic support.

So what else to say, there must be many, many difficulties!

As soon as Guan Fei understood the general situation, he immediately began to complain. Judging from the fact that the food shortage is still relatively large and the number of teachers is too small, he has counted all the difficulties faced by the 291 Brigade, and he has not yet finished talking about the bubbles on his lips.

I don't know if it was his lion who frightened the visitor with his mouth wide open, but after the other party recorded all the problems in detail, he simply said "I know, we will respond to the specific situation", and then left in a hurry, without giving a positive response to any difficulties he said.

Half a month has passed since this happened, and there has been no response.

Guan Fei began to examine whether he was too greedy, made too many demands, and was about to put it behind, but last night the person came again, and brought a sentence: "The situation you mentioned last time has already been understood above." Some difficulties will be solved by the country, and there are still some situations that the country will send people to understand in detail before making a decision. Tomorrow at 9 o'clock in the morning, people from the capital will arrive, and it is best for your leading cadres to stay at home and receive them. ”

As soon as they received this news, the entire top brass of the 291 Brigade was shaken.

There are people from the country, and they are not counterpart units such as 58104 units, but people from the capital, and this is too big.

What is the capital, that is the heart of the country, and the people who come out of it are the core departments that are responsible for managing or assisting in the management of national affairs. What an honor it is for the capital to send people to the 291st Brigade for on-the-spot inspections to help everyone solve difficulties!

Zhang Shengguo and the others were so excited that they couldn't sit still at all, and immediately prepared to stop everyone for a day and organize a huge welcome team, which Guan Fei immediately refused. The people from the capital certainly showed that the country attached great importance to the 291 Brigade, and it was appropriate for the main cadres of the family to go to greet them. But he resolutely opposes this kind of thing to let everyone down from top to bottom put down their work at hand and engage in pure face-saving projects.

"Does the country value us because we can do things, can do things, and meet domestic expectations, or because we will please the country? Normal enthusiasm is etiquette, and letting everyone stop work to engage in this welcome ceremony is formalism, which will only make the country look down! Guan Fei rejected the issue in one fell swoop.

In the end, everyone agreed with Guan Fei's opinion, and tomorrow the work will continue as usual, and the main cadres will collectively go out to Menghai to greet them as a sign of respect.

The leaders of the 291st Brigade are still hairy young men, and they were just ordinary educated youths before they went abroad to join the People's Army. Even if they were in the city, they were all ordinary workers' families, and the biggest officials they had ever seen were none other than factory directors and the like. The news of someone coming from the capital had too much impact on them, and they couldn't control it at all.

Sun Yaohua was so excited that he couldn't sleep all night, and not long after falling asleep, he ran to Guan Fei's room and asked what clothes to wear tomorrow. It was easy to send away, and within half an hour, he came to ask how to talk tomorrow, and Guan Fei didn't sleep well all night.

It was easy to fall asleep in a daze, and was dragged out of the bed by Zhang Shengguo and others, saying that they wanted to hurry as soon as possible.

But when Guan Fei looked at his watch, it was only four o'clock in the morning!

He was so angry that he wanted to kick someone, but he was hugged by Sun Yaohua and others. Even Zhang Shengguo, who was usually the most solemn, had a worried expression, and a group of people worked together to forcibly put him in the car and rushed towards Meng Hai.

It was only during the hour in the car that he was allowed to take a nap undisturbed.

When the car arrived in Menghai, it was just dawn, and they also quarreled with Menghai's party secretary, town mayor and other cadres, as soon as they heard that they were coming to welcome the people from the capital, the town cadres were not calm, and they all gathered in the town office to wait.

In order to allow enough time to react, they also sent a car to lead the way, and when they saw the convoy coming, they hurried back to report in advance.

In this way, everyone put on what they thought was the best clothes, their hair was neatly combed, their necklines were tightly buttoned, and they gathered together, chatting without saying a word, absentmindedly waiting for someone from the capital.

Guan Fei sat in the far corner, hugging his arms, shrinking his head and dozing off, ignoring the tormenting atmosphere in the room.

Isn't it just someone, what a fuss!

The 291st Brigade, a poor and remote place, is definitely not a big person, most of them are just a small office clerk, come to see the situation and report to the above accurately.

In his own time, people were calm and calm about international and domestic leaders, and would make innocuous jokes about them. Of course, he, an ordinary person, has not really had the opportunity to meet with the top leader, and he may be at a loss if he really does. But just the fact that someone from the capital came from the capital couldn't frighten him.

In order not to be disturbed by others, Guan Fei simply used the biological auxiliary brain to put himself into a deep sleep.

At a quarter past six, there were still two or three hours before the other party came, enough for him to get a good night's sleep.

……

“…… Lao Guan! Lao Guan! Wake up! It's coming, it's been the capital! ”

Guan Fei was shaken violently and woke up from his sleep, and his visual signal gradually changed from pitch black to a blurry image, and quickly became clear.

"Ahh Sleep so comfortably! He stretched comfortably, yawned heavily, and more than two hours of deep sleep was enough to get rid of the fatigue of the night.

"Lao Guan, you still have the kung fu to stretch your waist here, everyone is coming soon!" Zhang Shengguo leaned into his ear and shouted.

Guan Fei Taishan's calm kung fu that collapsed forward without changing color made all the cadres present feel admired. But now is not the time to be calm, people are coming soon, and they are still stretching their waists slowly, and they seem to pay too little attention to the people from the capital.

"What's the panic, come on, doesn't that mean you haven't come yet?"

Guan Fei stood up, twisted his body that was curled up into a somewhat stiff body again, stretched out his hand and rubbed it twice on his face, and by the way, he used his cuffs to wipe the saliva that flowed out of his mouth when he fell asleep.

He turned his head sideways and saw that Zhang Shengguo, Sun Yaohua and others were all full of anxiety, their eyes were still full of bloodshots, and he shook his head with a smile.

I don't know if it's because I have a full sleep and go to meet people with more energy, or if I go to meet people like Zhang Shengguo and them, which is important. It seems that the news of people from the country is so shocking that they have all lost their square inches, which is like a high-ranking cadre who manages tens of thousands of cadres and soldiers!

"Let's go, let's get out!"

Guan Fei let go of his hands and feet and walked towards the road with high spirits, including Meng Hai's cadres who followed closely behind him.

Last time, at Guan Fei's suggestion, the 291st Brigade built a new dirt road around Menghai to avoid disturbing the rest of the masses at night. The people who came did not necessarily know that they had arrived at Menghai in advance, and it was possible to pass through that road, so everyone left the town and rushed to the fork in the road.

A liberation truck was parked at the intersection, and the driver was standing on the side of the road, poking his head into the road.

"Xiao Wang, where did you meet them, are you sure it's from the capital?" Guan Fei also put up a pergola and looked towards the road, but he didn't see anything unusual.

It's no wonder that it's also a mountainous area, with winding mountain roads. Although it is generally a straight road, the road is often obscured by mountain walls, and the view is not too far.

Others also stood on tiptoe and looked into the distance, equally to no avail.

"Absolutely! I drove out more than 20 kilometers, and I saw a long line of cars, from the beginning to the end, at least hundreds of cars! Such a large convoy cannot be someone else! After I confirmed it, I immediately turned the car around and rushed back as quickly as possible. Xiao Wang swore an oath, indicating that he really saw it.

"More than 20 kilometers, usually our large convoy drives on mountain roads, for safety, the speed is about 30 or 40 kilometers per hour. Normally, it would take them about forty minutes to arrive. But counting the time you have to rush back to communicate, it may be another ten minutes or so. Guan Fei quickly deduced the approximate time of the other party's arrival.

He rearranged his clothes and asked the guard Xiao Li, "Xiao Li, can you help me take a look, the clothes are neat?" ”

"Hmmm! But you just slept against the wall, and your hair was a little messy at the back, so I'll help you comb it. Xiao Li walked around him seriously, took out a small comb from his pocket, and helped him recomb the hair on the back of his head.

The others also felt that they had plenty of time and helped each other to straighten their clothes and hairstyles again.

The waiting time is always extremely long.

They waited and waited at the intersection, but they never saw the convoy appear, and some anxious cadres even climbed the trees and saw nothing.

Everyone else was extremely anxious, but Guan Fei was the most calm, with his feet not choked, holding his hands and waiting patiently.

"It's coming!"

Before a town official could shout, Guan Fei saw a hard-top jeep turning out of the curve at the corner of the mountain road in the distance, heading in this direction.

Before everyone could cheer, another Jeep turned the corner and appeared in everyone's sight.

Immediately after, the third, fourth, fifth......

Everyone's mouths were wide open, and they stared blankly at the more and more vehicles on the corner, like a long dragon, appearing from behind the curve little by little, and quickly coming in this direction.