"How's the preparation going?" Qi Tianxiang slowly paced to the side of the crowd, looked at a large rain cloth on the ground with a dazzling array of food and utensils, and playfully appreciated: "Yes, it's a bit of a picnic, and it's a pretty luxurious picnic, do you need me to help you anything!" ”

"No, we're pretty much ready." While Liu Peng was busy, he looked at Qi Tianxiang and replied respectfully: "You sit and rest for a while, and it will be fine immediately." ”

"Where's the croaking chicken? Why can't you see her shadow? When it's time to work hard, you can't see her figure. Qi Tianxiang looked around, as if he was looking for something, and said dissatisfiedly: "Attitude determines action, what kind of world view you have, what kind of outlook on life you have, and what kind of behavior you have." ”

"Sit down, you, you've exhausted Beibei to death today, don't criticize if you don't understand the situation." Yan Li glanced at Qi Tianxiang dissatisfiedly, and said with a gentle smile: "Don't you go to borrow my brother and sister-in-law again, this is already the third trip." ”

"Yes, running round and round, my granddaughter is exhausted." Zhang Wanfen said distressedly: "I just said that there is no need to be so troublesome, how good it is for the family to get together and have a lively meal." It's all a bad idea from my eldest grandson, and it's inconvenient to come here. ”

"Grandma, you don't understand, this is called returning to the countryside, escaping from the hustle and bustle of the city in time, and looking for a tranquility and leisure in the natural landscape." Liangliang looked at Zhang Wanfen's cherished eyes and complaining words, and said to Zhang Wanfen with a playful smile: "This is a fashionable new way of life, and such physical and mental relaxation is a rebellion and protest against urban life." ”

Liang Liang spoke, turned to look at Qi Tianxiang, and said harmoniously: "There is a division of labor between our three juniors, Sister Beibei is responsible for purchasing and transportation, Brother Liu Peng is responsible for the preliminary preparations, as well as specific operations, and I am responsible for the overall coordination." ”

"That is, there are no specific responsibilities, no responsibilities have to be borne, or more simply, nothing has to be done, I don't know if my understanding is correct, Comrade General Coordination." Qi Tianxiang looked at Liangliang angrily, and said bluntly: "Have you ever thought about it, this car pulls people over, and after a picnic, you pull people back one by one, has the time cost been calculated?" Have you estimated the security risk? What kind of precautions are in place, and what level of protection are there? ”

"Comrade Lao Qi is still experienced, and he has seen such a serious problem, he should really give him the position of general coordinator to sit, and I will just be a young man who burns a fire." Qi Tianxiang's cross-examination made Liang Liang speechless for a moment, and it took a long time to react, looking at everyone and sighing faintly, he said: "This leader is difficult to do, and it is even more difficult to adjust the public voice, and it is too difficult to consider the impact of private use of public vehicles, the transportation convenience of comrades, and the safety and transportation costs." ”

Liang Liang's confession of self-pity caused everyone to laugh, Liang Liang was easily relieved, squeezed his eyes at Qi Tianxiang, and said naughtily: "I'll go over there with my grandmother and discuss the issue of fishing and health with Yan Lao!" ”

Looking at Liangliang who was about to flee quickly, Qi Tianxiang couldn't help but smile, then smiled at Zhang Wanfen, looked at Liangliang's back with his grandmother leaving, and only turned around for a while, looked at Yan Li with a knowing smile, and then slowly walked to Liu Peng, who was burning charcoal, sat down slowly, and asked gently: "Come back and prepare to stay for a few days?" How's Mom? ”

"I will leave in the next two days, and the city agricultural department will come to take some technical information, and the education committee will have some supporting funds for college students and village officials, and they also need to come back to go through the formalities, and they will go back after they are done." Liu Peng stopped what he was doing, looked at Qi Tianxiang seriously and said: "Mom is also very good, recently there have been more things in the mutual aid cooperative, so I quit the job of cleaning the commercial building, I am not very busy now, and my health is very good." In fact, Xiaobei went to pick up her uncle and aunt just an excuse, mainly to pick up her mother. ”

Yan Li also walked over slowly, sat down next to Qi Tianxiang, looked at Liu Peng gently, and said with concern, "Is mom satisfied with Xiaobei?" This girl is good, but she is a little squeamish and willful. ”

"I'm so satisfied, I see Xiao Bei kiss me more than I am." Liu Peng replied with some jealousy: "Originally, I was the center at home, and my mother revolved around me, but now when she appears, my mother doesn't even look at me." She is much more than me, Mother Qin, Mother Qin's sweet name, coaxes her mother into confusion, and she is not diligent, as long as she goes to the house, she rushes to do everything, either mopping the floor or cleaning up the house. In your eyes, she is a squeamish and willful girl, but in the eyes of her mother, she is a good daughter who is diligent and can run the house. ”

Qi Tianxiang listened to Liu Peng's words with satisfaction, glanced at Yan Li with a smile, and said to Liu Peng: "As the old saying goes, nephews are like uncles, and nieces are like aunts, it seems that this is true!" ”

"Look at you, in front of the child, is there such a cheeky person as you?" Yan Li's white face flew a touch of crimson, raised her hand and gently slapped Qi Tianxiang, and said to Liu Peng with a smile: "Don't listen to your uncle's nonsense, as long as Xiaobei can be good to the old man, everything is good, the key is for you to do a good job of coordination." ”

"My aunt is right, and I think the same way, as long as I can be good to my mother, I don't care. But what my uncle said is very right, Xiaobei is really like her aunt in this regard, virtuous, sensible, and understanding. Listening to Beibei, my aunt was a well-deserved school flower of the college back then, arrogant and cold, and since I met my uncle, it was like a completely different person. Liu Peng looked at Yan Li with a smile, looked at Qi Tianxiang again, and said enviously: "We just want to learn like our uncle and aunt, and strive to be a fairy couple like you." However, she is still in the probationary period, and we must set strict demands on her, and it will take another year for her to enter the party, and we must prevent opportunistic elements with bad motives from infiltrating the party. ”

"Who is behind the slander of the leader? With such an awakening, I don't want to make progress. After the majestic voice, Yan Xiaobei walked over quickly, stared at Liu Peng with her eyes wide open, and said loudly: "One set in front of you, one set behind your back, how can such two sides and three knives become the backbone of the masses?" ”

As Yan Xiaobei spoke, she still turned her face to Qi Tianxiang unrelentingly, looked at Qi Tianxiang sternly and said, "Comrade Secretary, you don't care!" ”

"No matter what, I'm such a big secretary of the municipal party committee, I can't take care of many major things, and I still need to take care of the housework of a small village official." Qi Tianxiang glared at Yan Xiaobei with a tiger face, and said briefly angrily: "These problems are to the neighborhood committee, they are responsible for family conflict mediation, or find the street." ”

Qi Tianxiang's words caused everyone to laugh, Yan Xiaobei blushed, glared at Liu Peng fiercely, pulled Yan Li's arm, and kept shaking coquettishly: "Auntie, you don't care, they are bullying me together, you have to uphold justice!" ”

"What the secretary of the municipal party committee doesn't care about, my provincial federation of trade unions can't control it, it's separated by several layers! Let's listen to your uncle's advice and find the street to solve it! Yan Li looked at the delicate Yan Xiaobei affectionately, sighed deeply helplessly, and casually pointed to Yan Bonian by the lake and said to Yan Xiaobei: "You can go to your grandfather to reflect, where is the secretary of the party branch of our family, see if he is in charge of the old man." ”

Yan Li, who has always been gentle and elegant, said such words at this moment, which not only surprised everyone, but also made the laughter even more enthusiastic, Yan Xiaobei seemed to have no choice but to ask Sister Qin for help. Pretending to be pitiful and aggrieved, she looked at Sister Qin, and said sadly: "Mother Qin, won't you help me talk?" ”

Sister Qin stepped forward, took Yan Xiaobei's hand, and said with a smile: "Good, let's not cry, go to work with Qin's mother, as long as we get to work, there will be no grievances, and we will forget about it." ”

Sister Qin's words relieved Yan Xiaobei's encirclement, and she obediently followed Sister Qin to the lake to wash vegetables, and the intimate expressions of the two mothers-to-be made Li Hongxia's expression a little embarrassed and a little wooden.

Qi Tianxiang keenly caught these expressions, so he gently touched Yan Li beside him with his elbow, signaled to her the change of Li Hongxia, saw that she nodded slightly, then slowly stood up, and smiled at Yan Yong, who was walking towards him, and said, "How is the harvest over there, old man?" Is there another big fish on the bait? ”

"With our big baby Liangliang by his side, he can't finish those words of hush and warmth, he can still fish with peace of mind, it seems that our brothers are blessed with peanuts and rice at noon." Yan Yong teased without yin or yang, looked around, nodded and said with satisfaction: "Don't say it, it's really good to find this place." ”

"Yes, there are mountains and rivers, and the greenery is also good, although it is far away from the city, but there are still some fresh and simple mountains!" Qi Tianxiang echoed Yan Yong's words, also looked around, and said with emotion: "If there are mountains and rivers, there will be aura, and there will naturally be wild taste, and naturally there will be a place to attract people in the city." ”

"That's the mood of your literati, the old peasants are not so detached, when the traffic is inconvenient, the isolation and poverty here is famous in the city, the so-called 'there are women who do not marry Nanmen, suffer and starve and think of their fathers', is the true portrayal of the early years here. Entering the city, let alone going to Hezhou City, or going to Zhonggong Town for a walk, it is like the New Year. Yan Yong looked at the surrounding mountains with a sigh, and said to Qi Tianxiang: "The lofty mountains and mountains seem to be beautiful scenery now, but in the past, it was difficult to block the action. Nowadays, with the opening of highways, especially the continuous expansion of the urban area, especially the increase of private cars, the distance between here and the city is gradually getting closer, and the farmers are not so calm. It's just that with the thinking of business and management into life, the simplicity of the past is gone, and they have all become shrewd businessmen. ”

Yan Yong's words surprised Qi Tianxiang, especially the melancholy look on Yan Yong's face, which made Qi Tianxiang a little puzzled, so he laughed and teased: "Why are you so familiar with this place, and what's wrong today, the words you say are so unfathomable?" ”

"It's also a feeling!" Yan Yong saw Qi Tianxiang's doubts, took out a cigarette and handed it to Qi Tianxiang, lit the fire and took a deep breath, and said with emotion: "I am really no stranger to this place, when I was in the police station before, there was a police officer's house here, and when the farm was busy, a few guys from our police station who had a good temper had to come over to help do some work." At that time, no matter what I did, the family was the same as treating the distinguished guests, what to take out, it seemed that if we didn't take out the last thing, we were sorry, and as if we had done something wrong, more than 20 families in the village came to say hello and talk, not to mention relatives and friends, everyone got along like relatives, which one! ”

Yan Yong said, sighed deeply, and said slowly: "It's been decades since I left the police station, and this old guy is still working in the police station. Telephone, walking around on holidays, and later retired due to illness, he died not long ago, I am an old man, and I am also in charge of the province's police officers' pension and aftermath work, so I participated in the handling of the aftermath. The daughter-in-law and children are still reasonable, according to the standard of the death pension of the police, they did not put forward too many non-trivial demands, but which of his younger siblings and relatives did not forgive, put forward a lot of conditions, all of which were outrageously scary, and did not agree not to do the funeral. The purpose is to ask for money, to ask for more money, and not to read the pension regulations at all, nor to look at any documents, is to ask for money in vain. How good and kind and simple the mountain people used to be, but they were both ignorant and stubborn, so that the old man's daughter-in-law and children were so helpless that they even knelt down and begged them to stop making trouble, and there was no way, and finally it reached the point of detaining a few troublemakers, why do you say this? When it comes to money, I don't talk about any family affection and reason. ”

"The death of a retired police officer due to illness has nothing to do with death in the line of duty! Not to mention the extent of declaring martyrs! Even if you declare a martyr, there must be a process and time! It's not hard to see why! Why doesn't it make sense? Yan Yong was a little angry, his dark face was full of doubts and puzzles, and he said puzzledly: "Ignorance is not terrible, what is terrible is that it is still dressed in the cloak of justice, is it true that there are many people who must grasp justice?" And he has also mastered modern scientific and technological means, shooting videos and uploading them to the Internet, it seems that the Internet is the court, and black and white can be reversed. Damn, in a fit of anger, I even made trouble, and I arrested him when the video was disseminated, and I had the ability to sue me, all of which were honest. ”

"This is not your boss's character! How did Yan Zexin become the king of Yama. Qi Tianxiang looked at Yan Yong in anger, and said with a smile: "Reasonable, reasonable, unreasonable, reasonable, reasonable, can you use your hall chief dancing knife and gun to charge?" Who do you think you are, Zhang Yide on the Yang Bridge, and Lu Zhishen who uprootes the weeping willows? ”

"That's it! You listen to what Tianxiang said, in the past, the old saying 'I'd rather fight with someone who understands than say a word to a foolish person', this is all obvious truth. Although Li Hongxia was talking to Yan Li, she had been quietly paying attention to the conversation between Yan Yong and Qi Tianxiang, and when she heard this, she came over, took Qi Tianxiang's words, and counted Yan Yong and said: "Seeing that he is unhappy, I persuaded him, and he is still anxious with me, which makes many people inside and outside me." ”

Yan Li, who came with her, saw Li Hongxia's eyes red as she spoke, knowing that she had thought of something else, so she glared at Yan Yong fiercely, and softly comforted Li Hongxia and said, "Don't be like him, my brother is a donkey temper, he is now in menopause, it will be fine in a few years." ”

Yan Li's words made Li Hongxia laugh, glanced at Yan Yong deeply with pity, and said with a slight sigh of relief: "He is a donkey temper, and he wants to get angry at every turn, but it is for me, to Beibei and Xiaowei, he has no temper at all, and when it is serious, there is no principle at all, except for doting, that is, tolerance, when do you see him being high-minded, especially to Xiaowei." ”

"That's not because you kissed him, he was angry with you, and he was also the master who bullied the weak and feared the hard." Yan Li smiled and said to Li Hongxia: "You will be more powerful to him in the future, if he is angry with you, you will not let him eat, see that he is still arrogant." ”

Li Hongxia knew the intention of Yan Li's words, so she smiled slightly and sneered at each other: "It's not okay not to let you eat, you are usually like this to Tianxiang?" ”

Li Hongxia's words stunned Yan Li, and after a while, she glanced at Qi Tianxiang and said: "People don't get angry, and they know how to hide it, they have two faces at work and work, I don't know what it's like in the unit, and when I return to my family, I am a scholar and a gentle professor." ”

"That's because Tianxiang knows how to love you, no matter how much you have been wronged outside, you won't show it when you come back, or how can you be a fairy partner?" Li Hongxia regained her natural demeanor, and said enviously to Yan Li: "This is Yan Xiaobei's name for you!" ”

"Let's go! This woman will never be as good as ours in her mouth. Yan Yong gradually calmed down, and said with a smile to Qi Tianxiang, "Why don't we drink it first?" ”

"Come over for a barbecue! Come and try the girl's handiwork. Yan Xiaobei shouted loudly, holding the already grilled flying meat skewers in her hand and said, "It's too late." ”

"I've seen a thick-skinned person, but I've never seen someone with such a thick skin, it's obviously Liu Peng who is operating it, and it has become her craft." Yan Yong, Qi Tianxiang and the others slowly walked to the front of the oven, sat on the ground on the list, and said to Liu Peng: "Since she is a craft, you can come and sit and watch her operate." ”

"Hey, how can you call your daughter like this, are you my own father?" Yan Xiaobei took the meat skewers and distributed them to everyone, glared at Yan Yong with dissatisfaction and said, "If you want to do this to me again, I will run away from home." ”

"If I don't do this to you, won't you run away from home too? Who have you been saying hello to for a few months? Who knows where you are except your uncle? Yan Yong counted happily, but he was eating the meat skewers with relish, "Grandparents and your Hongxia mother, as well as your Qin's mother, everyone is in a hurry, you know?" ”

"The statement is seriously inconsistent with the facts, it's not that I don't call, it's that the regulations don't call, and this is an important part of the training exercise, although I didn't call home, there is an organization department to inform my family of the situation, making it clear that we are exercising, not missing." Yan Xiaobei said sharply, glanced at Liu Peng, looked shy and complaining, and said: "There are people who say goodbye without saying goodbye, and they have been gone for several months, and they have not disappeared, knowing how I came over in those months, there is no news from home, and I am in a hurry." ”

"The beacon fire lasted for three months, and the family letter was worth 10,000 dollars. Guanshan is heavy and flying, and the wild goose does not know how to worry. Thoughts flow quietly like a river, and the lovesickness is endless. Qi Tianxiang ate meat skewers, squinted at Yan Xiaobei and Liu Peng and joked: "First everyone and then a small family, first for others and then for themselves, first for the public and then for private interests, this is the basic requirement of this short training, a person who can't control his children's private feelings, can't give up his emotional entanglements, can serve the people wholeheartedly, can dedicate sacrifices to the public and selflessly, do you believe these?" I don't believe it anyway! ”

Qi Tianxiang said, turned to Yan Xiaobei, and asked solemnly, "Do you really know nothing?" Just like the organization department keeps your family informed about the situation, who in the family doesn't know where you are and what you're doing? And isn't there someone who often informs you about the situation at home? Didn't someone send you a photo to pass on the situation? You yourself don't see each other for a day, how can we solve it for you? Tell me about it. ”

"It turns out that those photos sent to me were arranged by you, Uncle Secretary, you are really interesting." Yan Xiaobei looked at Qi Tianxiang deeply, bowed to the ground with her fists clasped together, and said in an exaggerated voice: "The little girl has thanked the secretary and uncle, and she will repay her after the great grace." ”

"This is a bow again, and a fist salute, at first glance, it is our croaking chicken, the dog's tail continues to mink, nondescript, and laughing generously." Yan Bonian walked over with a smile, glared at Yan Xiaobei dissatisfiedly, and teased everyone: "But looking at this action and style, I can see that this girl's waist is good." ”

Yan Bonian's words caused everyone to laugh for a while, and it also made Yan Xiaobei's face flush with shame, and she could only stare at her from a distance and protest: "My name is Huanxi Bird, not a quack chicken, if you say that, I will ignore you." ”

"It's about to take a leadership position, and it's like a child." Zhang Wanfen counted Yan Xiaobei with a smile on her face, and said to everyone: "When will my precious granddaughter be more stable and mature!" ”

"It's better this way, to keep a moment of childlike innocence, to have an innocence, to always be as clean as a mirror, that's the greatest success." Yan Bonian looked at Yan Xiaobei appreciatively, and said earnestly: "Not only Beibei, Liu Peng, but also Liangliang, we must strive to make our hearts like pure water, our bodies like strong pine, clean, and innocent, so that it is simple and happy to live." ”

Yan Bonian's words were sincere, as if he was speaking to a few young people, and as if he was specifically speaking to a few middle-aged people, but in Qi Tianxiang, he clearly heard Yan Bonian's prompts, and more implications.

Qi Tianxiang was secretly happy in his heart, and deeply thanked the lake fishing and the family picnic.

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