Chapter 17: Self-Help

When the new house is on fire, the most tired person should be the uncle's family, and the uncle has to give a lot of things with a ceremonial surname to be considered a courtesy. But the problem is that Chen Weizheng has never even seen his mother, let alone his uncle, and the heavy responsibility of handling these ceremonial things falls on the shoulders of the people of Chen Village.

The Standing Committee of Chen Village was convened and the tasks were assigned to be implemented layer by layer, although the Eighteenth Master was not a national cadre, but this set was quite proficient in use. The first sentence ignited the joy of the whole village: "Ah Zheng said that this time he will not accept red envelopes for entering the fire wine, and each family will send ten catties and eight catties of new rice this year, and Ah Zheng's field has not been planted for two years, and there is no grain." ”

Rural people farm, there is grain but no money, even if a pound of rice is two yuan, ten pounds of rice is only 20 yuan, but if you really want to take out 20 yuan from your purse, it is more painful.

Uncle Baolong is responsible for making hair cakes. Originally, this was done by my uncle, which means that the family is rich, and there is no uncle's family, so I have to ask the uncle who ranks first among the uncles to be responsible.

Uncle Bao Liang makes glutinous rice cakes. The food that must be eaten when entering the fire wine is glutinous rice, which has the meaning of "intimacy" and "caring for each other".

Aunt Chen Xiaomei is in charge of wine and fruit. The fruit is the first apple, which means the peace of the house.

Chen Weijin, the eldest seventh brother who did not go out to work, was in charge of the brazier, burning a pot of prosperous carbon fire and moving it into the hall, which is the legendary fire.

The eighteenth old man prayed in person, lit candles and incense.

Bao Liangbo is in charge of procurement, Aunt Xiuhua is in charge of logistics, and Weilai is in charge of security. Wei Gang is in charge of outreach.

The person in charge of the general supervision is still Uncle Baolong, this old man, a pair of fiery eyes, and the items he inspects will basically not have mistakes or omissions.

According to statistics: there are six heirs, and three families have widows, and there are nine heirs who attend the banquet.

There are forty-seven of the Baozi generation, twelve husband and wife are working abroad, and one representative of one family, thirty-five.

Eighty-eight of the Uyghur generations have married families, and both of them are working abroad, and only twenty-seven are at home, deputies, twenty-seven.

The Chinese generation is still young, only Chen Huaqiang, the grandson of Uncle Baolong, has just gotten married and gone to Shanghai to work. The others also belong to the little boys.

There are a total of 12 tables for this fire banquet, all of which are arranged on the first floor of Chen Weizheng, and the sofa and coffee table in the living room are moved to the outside corridor, and five tables are arranged here. The dining room arranged four tables, and the eight immortal tables in the hall were carried out, and three tables were set up widely.

Eight tables are arranged in the village, one in the township, one in the county, one in the city, and one for the logistics staff who cannot be deputies.

The weather was a little cold, but fortunately, Chen Weizheng's hall had two five-horse air conditioners. Turn on the heating and have fun. For the first time, the people of Chen Village knew that they could also wear shirts and eat cold dishes in the village in winter.

Zhao Changfu from the county came and brought a table of people, a table of people Chen Weizheng didn't know, fortunately, Chen Weigang greeted him, and he was not rude. With Liu Dehou as a companion, these people were all cautious, trembling and frightened, and very happy. Since they did not receive the news that Chen Weizheng did not accept red envelopes, they all used RMB as gifts.

A group of people in the township are the most talented, and they have colluded with Chen Baoliang before, and decided not to give red envelopes, but to use physical gifts. Led by the enterprise office, proposed by the party and government office, and the finance office was responsible for transferring a local pig, 15 local chickens, and 25 guinea pigs to several farms in the township, and the expenses were paid from the township reception fee, which made the 10 participants at the township level very satisfied. In particular, their behavior of not eating white food with red envelopes made the leaders from the county secretly frightened.

The Standing Committee of the Ninth National Congress specially invited Old Man Chen to sit at a table, which was the chief of course. In the middle of the hall is the location of the nearest house Senjindai. Aunt Xiuhua is very eye-catching, from beginning to end to help the old man at this table divide the food and pour wine, she basically didn't eat at all, Chen Weizheng wanted to go for her several times, but she was pushed back. Baolong Aunt told Chen Weizheng that Aunt Xiuhua's job is very face-saving, and the people in the village are very envious, it doesn't matter if you don't eat a meal, but it is trouble for the old men to eat unhappily at a meal.

On both sides, Liu Dehou accompanied the county leaders, and the female minister of the county propaganda department, who was a college classmate with Chen Xiaomei, abandoned the leader and went directly to Chen Xiaomei's family table to sit down. The number of people at the county table was not enough, so he had to seconded Secretary Huang of the township party committee from the township table, and as a result, Secretary Huang immediately changed from sitting on the side and letting people pour wine to standing and helping people pour wine, painful and happy. Chen Weigang rose from the family table to the township table and accompanied the township leaders to drink.

After three rounds of wine, Chen Weigang, who was helping Liu Dehou pour wine, received a phone call and laughed on the spot.

It happened to be the New Year's Day holiday, and the children were all at home, Chen Weizheng did something that the whole village had never thought of. Let Weilai's sister-in-law be in charge, and lead seven or eight sisters-in-law to make a farmhouse buffet in the primary school. The main food is egg fried rice, the main drink is orange, yellow laoji, coconut water, the main dish is steamed sausage, ham sausage and dried tofu, and the non-staple food is biscuits and candy. Except for the staple food, everything else was taken out by Chen Weizheng in the space, which was enough for two hundred people, and the children and those who did not attend the banquet at Chen Weizheng's house could eat as long as they were free. As a result, all the men and women of all ages in the village were in place, and the leaders were Xiao Song, Xiaozhu and Huang Diandian. The buffet made Chen Weilai, who was responsible for maintaining law and order, and several brothers of the Uyghur generation tired enough, and choked with joy, and the lack of alcohol also made these buddies hungry enough.

Chen Weilai called Chen Weigang with a serious protest phone and solemnly asked for a meal and wine in the evening, and Chen Weigang smiled and told the leaders the story of what was happening. When Liu Dehou heard this, he sensitively realized that there were bright spots in this, and immediately asked Chen Xiaomei and the propaganda director of the county party committee to go out to have a look, and by the way, take a few photos to make a theme for the cultural construction of the new socialist countryside.

Chen Weizheng hurriedly took out a single-lens reflex camera and handed it to his aunt, and then took out a card machine and handed it to the director of the township party and government office, asking Chen Weigang to take him with him, and also add some achievements to the township. When Secretary Huang of the township party committee saw that Chen Weizheng could think of the work in the township, he was very happy in his heart, and sincerely felt that the pigs and chickens he sent were worth it.

The old three articles of the rural wine banquet, there are no new highlights, and at three o'clock in the afternoon, the banquet disperses.

The buffet at the elementary school had long since dispersed, and a few people who came back to learn about the situation told the situation that a group of leaders in the county would meet and decide on the spot to publicize it as a theme.

1. The students of Chen Village who participated in today's buffet were asked to write an essay on the theme of farmhouse self-service. Select excellent essays and report them to the Propaganda Department of the county party committee.

2. The Party and Government Office of Longshan Village collects and sorts out the materials and reports them to the Propaganda Department of the County Party Committee.

3. The Propaganda Department of the county party committee sent the propaganda press release to the city evening newspaper and the provincial newspaper.

Fourth, the county party committee will report Longshan Chen Village as a new rural pilot unit to the city and provincial levels.

On the 3rd of January, Liu Dehou was on duty, and at four o'clock, Huang Chenglong's family and Liu Dehou's family drove away, leaving the old man and his family in Chen Village. After drinking some wine at noon, the old man went upstairs to take a nap, Grandma Chen helped Aunt Xiuhua and others to clean up, and Chen Weilai put the furniture back in place.

In addition to the main meal, the wine is also reserved for dinner, and the locals also have a special meal called the washing chopping board, which is specially reserved for the staff, and the two tables are opened in the hall. Aunt Xiuhua is really the daughter-in-law of Chen Village, no matter how big or small, she manages everything, and Weilai and her gang will listen to her and let them do anything. Soon, dinner was ready under the support of Aunt Xiuhua and several other sisters-in-law.

Weilai and his gang were greedy, so they drank as soon as they opened the wine. Aunt Xiuhua didn't eat anything at noon, and she was a little hungry, just serving the bowl, she was toasted by Weilai and his gang, Chen Weizheng knew that he should respect these staff, so he also took the cup and said some etiquette words, toast, and everyone was happy.

At this time, Chen Weigang walked in with the blue lotus. Chen Weigang patronized and took care of the leaders at noon, basically did not eat, sat down with a glass of wine, then picked up a piece of pork belly, swallowed it, and then said: "Dog, people sit and I stand, people eat and I watch, and my cheeks are sour!" Everyone laughed. Blue Lotus looked at her fiancé with a little surprise, probably the first time she found out that this buddy could actually speak foul language.

Grandma Chen ate meat at noon, and wanted to eat some vegetarian food at night, so she made white porridge with sauerkraut, solved dinner with Old Man Chen, and walked a thousand steps after the meal.

Chen Weilai asked Chen Weizheng how he remembered to hold such a buffet in a primary school, and he liked those little things and broke them! I drank the drink until my face turned blue, and I pushed candy and biscuits into my pocket.

Chen Weizheng said with a smile: "Our family has built a fence and asked for pebbles, and everyone in the village has contributed, and those little brothers and nephews have all helped me pick up stones and make a buffet, thank them." ”

"It's too expensive!" Weilai's sister-in-law said: "I have calculated, I will use more than 30 catties of eggs alone, 100 catties of rice, a large barrel of oil, more than 50 bottles of drinks, and those other things add up to more than 1,000 yuan." ”

"As long as you are happy, the money will be earned after you spend it." Chen Weizheng said it very lightly.

"That's it!" Chen Weigang ate a few pieces of meat and came to his senses.

"I'm happy, my family Huajian, I've never seen him eat so much." Hua Jian is Wei Lai's eldest son, eight years old. Sister-in-law Weilai smiled and said, "Ran to me and asked me to rub his belly, and I still saw for the first time what it was like to be full." ”

"I saw the second grandmother, the ninth grandmother and the thirteenth grandmother, ate from here and went to the primary school there, picked up some food at the primary school, and went to the fifteenth grandmother's grave." On the side, a young man who was younger than Chen Weizheng and followed Chen Wei to engage in public security said. The second wife, the ninth grandmother and the thirteenth grandmother refer to the widows of the three generations.

"Wei Zheng, you may not remember him very well, he is Wei Cheng, the boss of the Twelfth Master Bao Uncle Zhong." Wei Gang said on the side. The twelfth master has two sons and three daughters, the eldest son Chen Baozhong, and the second son Chen Baoluo, Baoluo is the man of Aunt Xiuhua. The two brothers, Chen Baozhong and Chen Baoluo, each have two sons, named Cheng Qian and Qi Hou, Chen Weicheng, Chen Weiqian, Chen Weiqi, and Chen Weihou respectively.

"The ninth and fifteenth grandmothers are both married from the same village, speaking of which, the mother's family still has some relatives, and in the past few years, the three of them have always gone to help the fifteenth grandmother hang Qingming." Chef Chen Baoquan is the youngest son of the fourth master's family, already in his fifties, with a good cooking skills, and Chen Baoguo taught a master, after Chen Baoguo was killed, the title of the first chef of Chen Village fell to his head. This kind of historical surname thing is estimated to be known only to their age.

"Oh! It's hard for them to remember, thank them. Chen Weizheng said from the bottom of his heart.

"Wei Zheng, this time you don't allow everyone to give red envelopes, as long as the rice is a new thing. I'm afraid that there are more than 1,000 catties of rice in it, enough for you to eat for a few years. Seeing the newly moved four-story aluminum pimi warehouse in the corner of the kitchen, Uncle Baoquan said.

"I'm not short of money or rice, so it's better to ask for rice." Chen Weizheng is not short of rice, and the meters in the space are as many as tons, which is just an excuse. continued: "Everyone gave good rice, and today my aunt and they went back and took a few hundred catties back, and my aunt said that she would never have to buy rice again in the future." ”

Everyone laughed.

"Wei Zheng, how are you going to get those acres of land? Do you want to grow it yourself? Aunt Xiuhua asked.

"I can't grow it, I can't plant it, I want to rent it to someone else."

"Then it's better to plant for our family, your Uncle Baoluo bought a rice transplanter the year before last, and this year the Agricultural Bureau subsidized a small rice harvester, if you want to find more fields, it won't cost a few jobs anyway." Uncle Bao Luo used to be an apprentice in a farm machinery factory and would use agricultural machinery.

"Okay." Chen Weizheng agreed.

"How is the rent calculated?" Aunt Xiuhua is a anxious surname, and she can't wait to sign the contract immediately.

"I don't understand, the eighteenth master is in charge." Chen Weizheng is even more simple to the extreme.