Chapter 60 Fundraising
In the "11.24" magnitude 8 earthquake centered on Bashan County, K City, there was no major disaster in Datian Village, except for the collapse of several earthen houses and thatched houses in the village, one of which injured an old lady of a Wubao household.
On the day of the incident, several village cadres in Datian Village immediately inspected the situation, Xu Rongguang stayed behind to deal with the disaster, and the rest hurried to the county party committee.
On the afternoon of the second day, Zhou Cheng, the village party secretary, held a mobilization meeting of the villagers in the conference room in the village.
More than 1,000 people from 100 households in Ota Village sent representatives from each family to attend.
The meeting room is at the west end of the village entrance, not far from the office building of the village committee.
It is said to be a conference room, but in fact, it is a simple shed built with snakeskin paper and bamboo poles, and this place was originally a wheat field.
Zhou Cheng first made a statement about the disaster situation in all provinces, cities and counties in Huaxia this time, his expression was solemn and sad, his voice was low and powerful, and his words were extremely infectious.
Next, he gave a detailed account of the damage in various parts of W Province, where Ota Village is located, and focused on the casualties.
As is customary, the last is the moment to launch a fundraiser.
To this end, Zhou Cheng also specially wrote a speech.
"On November 24th, the mountains and rivers suddenly changed color, their homes were destroyed, and tens of millions of people were killed in an instant...... As the villagers of Datian Village, the sons and daughters of Huaxiaguo, and a member of society, we have the obligation and responsibility to reach out and help those homeless compatriots in the disaster area......."
The presentation was one of intimidation and impassionedness.
When the villagers in the audience heard this, they began to talk about it one after another.
Seeing this, Liang Xuetao couldn't help but have a sneer at the corner of his mouth.
The fundraising, to put it bluntly, is actually a task assigned to the cadres of the village committee.
Every province, city, county, and village has a target for donations, and they are distributed layer by layer, and they must raise a certain amount of donations to complete the task.
If it can't be completed, either the political performance will be added to the burden, or the hole will be plugged out of your own pocket.
In his previous life, he participated in this kind of fundraising activity a lot, and I heard that some public institutions simply deducted their salaries directly, and they didn't have to spend that to engage in fundraising and disaster relief activities.
As he was thinking about these things, he saw several village committee cadres bring tables and chairs to sit down, holding pens in their hands, and looking at the villagers with fierce eyes.
This posture is obvious, and it is waiting for someone to come forward to donate.
Xu Baosheng, the old man of the Xu family, had the highest consciousness, and when the fundraising book in Zhou Cheng's hand was opened, he first wrote the amount of his family's fundraising - 1000
Next, people came forward one after another to donate.
Liang Xuetao donated a little less than the amount of Old Man Xu - 800
After the meeting, he went home and took the money and handed it over to the village committee's finance.
It happened that Zhou Cheng was also in the financial office, with a black jacket and white shirt, standing tall and smiling at him.
Liang Xuetao thought about it, simply took out the money in the wallet, clicked it, a total of 3,250 yuan, erased the change, and handed it over: "This money does not need to be named." ”
Zhou Cheng nodded, and said with great emotion: "Do good deeds without leaving a name, okay, there should be more conscious people like you in our village." ”
Liang Xuetao listened and couldn't help twitching the corners of his mouth.
Zhou Cheng also knew that his words were a bit high-sounding, but as a cadre of the village committee, there were some scenes that had to be said.
In fact, he appreciated Liang Xuetao's behavior from the bottom of his heart, not really as he praised - how noble the other party's character was, but because he felt that the other party was low-key and quite similar to his own style of life.
Liang Xuetao left the village committee office building and returned home not long after a call came from Datian Village.
Almost immediately, every household turned on the television.
Compared with Zhou Cheng's remarks at the conference, the scene of the disaster area transmitted by TV is more intuitive and shocking.
A total of 12 cities and counties in China have experienced natural disasters of varying degrees, such as earthquakes, landslides, and mudslides...... One of the most appalling was the fact that a coastal city was completely submerged by the tsunami.
That night, Xu Yaoguang and others came to the door one after another and chatted with Liang Xuetao about the disaster for a long time.
Early the next morning, Liang Juan went back to work at J City Hospital.
Liang Wen and Liang Dou stayed at home due to the severe traffic jam on the provincial trunk road leading to S City, almost to the point of complete paralysis.
The next day, the village committee issued another notice of power rationing.
Due to the remote terrain of Datian Village, water and electricity cuts are commonplace, and everyone is accustomed to this for a long time and does not care.
In the next few days, Liang Xuetao ran around the surrounding counties, and purchased some kerosene, alcohol and all kinds of medicines, until there was not much money left in hand to stop.
After more than half a month, the disaster situation in Huaxia has not only not been alleviated, but has become more and more serious.
The reasons for this are: First, the large and small disasters in various provinces, cities and counties have continued, and earthquakes and floods have occurred frequently.
The other is that the aftershocks in the disaster area are continuous, and the main road leading to the disaster area has repeatedly occurred landslides and debris flows, which has caused great interference to the disaster prevention and rescue, and the government is helpless to do so, so it can only use airdrops to send manpower and materials to the disaster area.
At the same time, a large area of the world has suffered from natural disasters of varying degrees, among which the western part of country M has almost completely fallen due to volcanic eruptions, tornadoes and other events, the east coast has also suffered several tsunami events, and country J has completely swallowed up the sea...
Most of these situations were told to Liang Xuetao secretly by Zhou Cheng in private, and the 28-year-old village party secretary was busy all this time, and his expression became more and more serious.
In contrast, Ji Xiaolong, the master of the village, lived a very comfortable and comfortable life, and soon after the earthquake, his previous remarks were completely translated, and for a time he was regarded as a guest of honor by every family, as if he had become a sweet spot in the eyes of the villagers.
He is a master who can climb up the pole, and he often takes advantage of this great opportunity to talk about the scriptures and the past with some old people in a pretended manner.
Mrs. Liang also invited him several times.
Once, it happened that Liang Xuetao was also there, so he listened to a few words on the side.
At the beginning, Ji Xiaolong also chewed the words and said a hexagram, and by the way, he praised a few words of Mrs. Liang, but later the more he talked about it, the more mysterious it became, and he actually made up a plot of a scholar and a fox fairy in Liaozhai and took it out to coax people.
Liang Xuetao listened to the ridicule, and after thinking about it again, he felt that this was very good, and he should use him to make a fuss and make his mother happy.
On December 20, the village committee once again received a notice from the higher authorities that Datian Village began to cut off water and electricity.
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It's a bit of a cardin, it feels like a running account, and after thinking about it for a long time, I really feel that there is no plot to amplify.