Lao stayed in Xintang Village that night. He has not returned for many years, and his hometown son is long gone. The old man Li Youde asked his grandchildren and daughter-in-law to clean up the new house and asked Li Lao to live in.

Li Lao said with a smile: "This is not good, it will make the young couple hold a grudge for a lifetime." Brother De, just arrange a place to live, just have a hard bed. ”

When Li Lao was young, he marched and fought, and sleeping in the open was commonplace, and when he was extremely tired, he could sleep in the pile of dead people. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he entered the city, and the officials were high-ranking and noble, and they still slept on a hard bed. It's just that now that I'm older, it's naturally not good to be placed like this.

Fortunately, there is no need for a virtuous old man to worry about this matter.

Now there are so many county and township cadres, such a village of hundreds of people, how can there be no place for Li Lao to sleep?

Seeing that Secretary Liu nodded slightly, Fan Shuhong immediately went to the side and summoned the cadres of Qing'an County to make emergency arrangements. In the end, Li Lao and the secretary were arranged at the home of Li Wufu, the village party secretary.

Arrange Secretary Long and Secretary Liu at the home of the director of the village committee.

Li Lao was very satisfied with this arrangement, nodded frequently, and said to Long Tiejun and his father: "Old Long, Comrade Jincai, you two will work hard tonight to accompany me, an old man, for one night in this remote mountain village. ”

Unconsciously, Li Lao's name for his father has changed, from the regular "Comrade Liu Jincai" to the close "Comrade Jincai", and the father and Long Tiejun glanced at each other, both of which were overjoyed.

"Oops, I haven't been back for decades, and tonight, I happened to have a good family meal with the villagers......"

Li Lao was quite interested. Said with a sigh.

Long Tiejun and his father both nodded again and again. Said: "It should be in the place." It's time to have a good cheer for homely ......."

Fan Shuhong heard this. Place your hands behind your back and make a gesture. Wang Weisong, the county magistrate, understood. Sneak out immediately. Find the secretary of Baili Township, the head of the township and the director of the Xintang Village Party Committee. I made some arrangements in detail. Several people immediately split up.

At night. Xintang Village Branch Secretary Li Wufu in the house of the Ditang. A 100-watt incandescent lamp was hung temporarily. The whole hall is brightly illuminated. Inside the hall. There was a surge of people. A bunch of people sat around Li Lao, Long Tiejun and Dad. Next to the three of Li Lao. They are all older and older people in the village. The younger ones sit in the back. Two low tables are put together in the middle. It's full of peanuts, melon seeds, candies and the like. Li Lao and several other cadres and old people in front of him. Tea was served.

"Five Blessings. village for several years. How are the folks doing? ”

Li Lao asked with a pleasant face.

Li Wufu is very young, but he is in his early thirties, a demobilized soldier, and the new leader of Xintang Village.

The situation of Xintang Village is similar to that of Liujiashan, both of which have been bred for hundreds of years, and most of the people in the village are related to each other. Li Laodi's immediate family members no longer live in the village. There were twenty or thirty people crowded into the hall, and before that, those who had really met with Li Lao were a few elderly people such as Li Youde, and most of them were playmates in their youth. As for the hometown people who went to the capital to find Li Lao a few years ago, they rarely saw Li Lao in person, and they were generally received by secretaries and other staff, stayed for a day or two, walked around the capital, and then sent some car travel expenses and sent home politely. This is also no way, at that time Baozhou was poor, Qing'an County was even poorer, or every villager who dialed into Beijing, Li Lao personally met with it, but it was amazing. The courtyard is going to be turned into a guest house.

But in the past few years, there have been significantly fewer hometown people who have come to Beijing to ask for help from Li Lao. It seems that it is still benefiting from the economic development of the hometown and the improvement of the living conditions of the villagers. It made the secretary and other personal staff secretly relieved.

"Uncle, now that the village is richer, everyone's life is much better than in previous years. If in the past, there was a happy event at Uncle De's house, how could it be so lively? ”

Li Wufu replied with a smile.

"Didn't you hear that this old man of mine was coming back, and he deliberately made it for me to show the land?"

Li Lao asked with a smile, but his eyes swept over the faces of the cadres one by one very sternly, and finally fell on Li Wufu. Fan Shuhong and the others felt a violent beat in their hearts. Although there is not much deception, Li Lao's status is too high, and the grassroots cadres still can't help but feel uneasy.

Li Wufu was very good at talking, and replied with a smile: "Uncle, we have great courage, and we don't dare to coax your old man." Besides, the banquet can be prepared temporarily, and the scalpers can also be pulled from other places temporarily, and these big tiled houses will not be built for a while! ”

This last sentence was extremely convincing, and Li Lao's sharp eyes immediately became kind, and he smiled and nodded.

"Wufu, I heard that you were demobilized from the army, the young man is very good. Then tell me, how did the folks' lives get better and better? ”

Li Lao asked with great interest.

"Build roads, raise cattle, and engage in side jobs!"

Li Wufu replied succinctly.

Long Tiejun said with a smile: "You, Comrade Wufu, are really like gold." Tell me how to get it? ”

Li Lao smiled hehehe: "People from the army don't have many words. I like to do practical things. ”

Li Wufu glanced at Fan Shuhong. Although he is only a small village party secretary, he still demands progress politically, and now the secretary of the municipal party committee and the secretary of the county party committee are here, but it is a golden opportunity, and if he performs well, he may be able to end up with a good future.

The secretary of the county party committee gave him an encouraging look.

Fan Shuhong is a reliable person, since he has the courage to arrange such a happy event to invite Li Lao to participate, naturally all aspects are very thoughtful and meticulous, and the people who are called to talk to Li Lao today are also selected, and there is not a single thorn. Otherwise, if one or two discordant voices come out, wouldn't it be a shot in one's own foot?

For Li Wufu, Fan Shuhong is still very relieved.

"Uncle, let's talk about building roads first, this is the top priority that our city and county have made great efforts to grasp over the years, the roads are impassable, no matter how good things are, they can't get out, and they can't get in, so I feel panicked."

"What kind of cultivation is this way?"

Li Lao asked.

"The county allocated a part of the funds to build the road to the entrance of the village. The roads in the village were raised by ourselves and built by ourselves. After the road was built, the village became much more lively than before. It is convenient for everyone to go out, and the flow of materials is also smooth. ”

"Well, that's a good idea......

Li Lao nodded.

"Raising cattle, that is our county's 'rejuvenation strategy', Secretary Fan said, this is a big policy formulated by experts in the province! Your old man also knows that the cattle in our Qing'an County are famous in the whole province, with fast fat growth and delicate meat. ”

Li Lao said with a smile: "Qing'an beef is indeed very famous. When I was on the Long March, I crossed the grassland and ate yak meat, hehe, it was hard and astringent, compared to

An'an yellow beef came, the taste was too far away, at that time, I waited with the chief and the whole country was liberated, and I invited them to eat our yellow beef in Qing'an County. ”

Fan Shuhong took the lead in applauding, and the applause was overwhelming.

"Elder Li, your words are worth more than any advertisement...... I didn't think of the name of our yellow beef in Qing'an County, and during the Long March, the chiefs knew it. ”

Fan Shuhong said excitedly.

The chief in Li Lao's mouth, what kind of person is that?

"Uncle, this time your old man went back to the capital and brought dozens of catties of homemade five-spice sauce beef in our village, please try it, okay? It can be regarded as a return to the wish of the year. ”

Li Wufu struck while the iron was hot.

"Okay, okay, secretary, write down this matter, dozens of catties are too much, three or five catties is fine...... Remember to pay ......"

Li Lao was in high spirits.

The secretary nodded in agreement.

The old man Li Youde said with a smile: "What do you pay for the local products you make at home?" The head of the central land can see the things in our mountains, and it is the sky and the earth. ”

"Hey, Brother Youde, don't you want me to make a mistake...... This is discipline, and it is not allowed to take a stitch from the masses......"

Li Lao smiled.

"Wufu, you go on, I really want to hear more about the new things in my hometown."

"Yes, uncle. Let's raise cattle, we still have concerns at first. Qing'an beef is famous, we have more mountains and less land here, and just planting rice is not a way. But there are too many cattle, and we are afraid that we will not be able to sell them, and besides, everyone is also tight, and there is no money to buy calves......"

Li Lao frowned slightly and said, "Hmm, this is indeed a problem, so how is it solved?" ”

"The county finance allocated some funds and encouraged us to go to the bank for loans to form a scale, and the sales were arranged by the county. A large meat processing plant was built in the city. ”

Li Lao thought for a while and said to Fan Shuhong: "Secretary Fan, how big is the scope of this cattle breeding land?" ”

"Li Lao, the development of Qing'an County's characteristic aquaculture industry is a grand strategy for the revitalization of Qing'an's economy proposed by Secretary Liu when he was mayor. In accordance with the requirements of the city, we have selected 126 administrative villages suitable for beef cattle breeding in 17 townships in five districts of the county, and carried out unified deployment. The county has set up a special beef cattle products sales company to manage the sales of beef cattle and meat products in a unified manner. After several years of development, has formed a certain scale, at present, our beef cattle and beef products, has been sold to more than a dozen provinces and cities across the country, the net income of the villagers has increased several times than before, no, many families have built new houses, young and beautiful girls, also willing to marry......"

The hall burst into laughter.

Li Wufu then smiled and said: "That's it, otherwise, can the three dogs marry such a smart wife?" ”

The three dogs are the grandsons of the old man Li Youde who got married today.

Li Lao's slightly frowning eyebrows stretched: "Well, if the unified management is good, the unified management is organized, and it will be chaotic...... However, Secretary Xiao Fan, your beef cattle products sales company must be strictly managed, do a good job, and do not fight the farmers' ideas! If you have power in your hands, if you don't supervise it well, something will go wrong. ”

Li Lao is worthy of being an old discipline inspection cadre, and he can see the possible hidden dangers at a glance.

Fan Shuhong was deeply impressed and nodded again and again: "Elder Li taught too correctly, the lack of supervision of power is indeed prone to problems."

The year before last, there was a deputy manager of the sales company, who embezzled ** and deducted the payment of farmers, and was found out and sentenced in the audit action deployed by the city! ”

Li Lao snorted: "Do it right, ** elements like this must be severely punished!" Otherwise, the people's sense of trust in the party and the government will be weakened, and this is a matter of principle that is a major issue of right and wrong, and must not be underestimated. ”

"Yes, yes, Elder Li taught too correctly......"

Including Long Tiejun and Dad, all the cadres nodded frequently.

Li Lao took a sip of the tea in front of him and said, "Come on, come on, everyone eat peanuts and melon seeds, don't be restrained......"

Dad smiled and grabbed a handful of peanuts and handed them to the crowd behind. Seeing this, Fan Shuhong and the others hurriedly grabbed the melon seeds and peanuts on the table and handed them to the crowd behind. For a time, laughter filled the small farmhouse courtyard.

"Wufu, in addition to raising cattle, what other way do the villagers come from?"

Li Wufu said: "Uncle, when we are not farming, we also engage in side jobs, mainly planting medicinal materials such as honeysuckle and Tianqi. There are also a few juniors and girls in the village who work at the Tengfei Industrial Corporation in Xiangyang County and earn wages. ”

This statement is consistent with what Li Lao learned about yesterday in the high-tech zone.

"Young people, it's good to learn more skills."

Li Lao agrees with this.

"Uncle, now that life in the village is getting better and better, everyone feels that there is a head start......

Li Wufu said.

"Yes, yes, uncle, we have a better life now, and we all have to thank the party and the government for their good policies......"

Someone in the back crowd chimed in.

Li Lao said with a smile: "That's good, that's good, I'm very happy to see that the days in my hometown are getting more and more prosperous." ”

The big guy was encouraged, and he was even more excited, and he talked nonsense, all praising the current good policies, and the cadres in the county and township doing things for the people, etc., Li Lao smiled and couldn't stop nodding.

Seeing that the night was getting darker, my father raised his wrist to look at his watch, and nodded slightly to Long Tiejun opposite. Long Tiejun glanced at the secretary. The secretary understood, stepped forward and whispered a few words in Li Lao's ear.

Li Lao smiled: "It's okay, I'm happy today, it's okay to talk for a while." ”

Li Wufu was shrewd and knew that he couldn't affect his uncle's rest, so he glanced at Li Youde and a few other old men. Li Youde and several old men stood up and said goodbye to Li Lao.

"Hehe, you see I forgot about this, there are a few virtuous brothers, they are old, they should rest early......"

After a while, the crowd gradually dispersed.

Long Tiejun and his father both stood up, and Long Tiejun said, "Elder Li, rest early." ”

Li Lao smiled and nodded: "Well, okay, you have also worked hard for a day, and you should rest early." ”

After Li Lao rested, the secretary handed his father a list and said: "Secretary Liu, tomorrow we will hold a symposium of representatives of laid-off workers. ”

Dad took a look, and the corners of his eyes jumped a few times.

These are a few "petitioning professionals", and it seems that other people's homework has also been done sufficiently!