[417] Rural

Xiaoqiang's decision to distribute liberated shoes and socks to each migrant worker reached the prime minister. Suddenly a comrade in the government affairs yuan jumped out and scolded Cao Xiaoqiang for not knowing the suffering of his superiors, and making good claims to increase costs, and it is a big cost, the market price of a pair of cloth rubber shoes is two yuan and six, which is equivalent to the monthly salary of a female migrant worker!

However, the premier was unfazed and said at the meeting: "I see that Comrade Cao Xiaoqiang's inspection has achieved very good results this time, and he has truly experienced the difficulties of the grassroots and the hardships of the working people.

From the very beginning, Comrade Xiaoqiang personally participated in the main grasp of the work of controlling Huai, and he said that it was necessary, which means that it is very necessary.

However, I think he is still a little conservative and scruples, and I support Comrade Cao Xiaoqiang's opinion, but I think the number of socks should be increased, and two pairs should be issued every month. Anyone who has worked knows that socks are the most expensive to wear, but if you don't wear socks, you will hurt your feet and cost shoes. ”

There was silence at the meeting, and the comrades who had previously raised their opinions immediately shut up.

Some comrades immediately pointed out that without investigation, there would be no right to speak, and since the central authorities had sent Comrade Cao Xiaoqiang to investigate, it was necessary to fully trust the comrades on the front line and make timely adjustments to the policy.

The prime minister's absolute support for Cao Xiaoqiang is now visible to the blind.

At the meeting, some cadres complained with tears and laughter: "That's the secretary of the chairman, the prime minister and the commander-in-chief, you and he are working against it, and you have to hit three bags on the head when you go out with a word, this brother is really efficient in offending people......

In order to treat everyone equally, all the water conservancy projects that are being launched at this time in the country have also been implemented in accordance with this subsidy standard.

Xiaoqiang dared to open this mouth, mainly considering that the factory wholesale price of Jiefang shoes in 2011 was only 12 yuan a pair, and the socks were only five cents a pair, and the cost was not high.

Probably in order to completely dispel Xiaoqiang's attempt to wander through the DPRK to participate in the Korean War, the chairman's telegram came down, asking Xiaoqiang to continue to stay in Anhui and conduct in-depth research on the current situation in the rural areas.

No matter what the chairman thinks, after Xiaoqiang received the message, he understood it this way anyway.

He pinched his fingers and calculated, in this poor of the poorest provinces, until the prime minister came to inspect, and probably after returning to the northern capital with the prime minister, he would start the mission again, and he really didn't have time to go to North Korea to show a small face during this time.

"Well, then I'll stay a little longer in this place where poor birds don't...... Alas, I miss the sugar gourds, popsicles and soda in the northern capital! The ghost place in Anhui is too hot in summer, and the poverty on the land boundary makes me feel as if I have returned to the Stone Age...... The poor people in the anti-Xun headquarters don't even have an electric fan......"

Xiaoqiang made up his mind and left immediately after grinding the time.

However, if I stayed in the guest house all the time, blowing this electric fan specially moved from the mayor's office, it was really unreasonable.

Xiaoqiang then took Dongzi and soaked in the engineering headquarters.

On this day, the engineering department was going to survey a small reservoir, and Xiaoqiang pondered that this was a good opportunity to play in the mountains and rivers, at least it was better than staying in the headquarters to watch the progress of the project by guarding the drawings, so he offered to lead the team himself.

In recent years, the water conservancy project personnel were all mud-legged, and the leaders from the central government wanted to go down together, and they did not take much care of them, but only brought a few more soldiers to strengthen the defense work. Because the countryside is mountainous and the roads are not easy to walk, everyone takes a tractor together.

After these days of use, all the construction workers are full of praise for the adaptability of the walk-behind tractor, saying that this thing is better than the American jeep, not only excellent off-road performance, but also can pull goods and people, it is really an excellent means of transportation.

Xiaoqiang climbed into the tractor bucket, sat on the edge of the car frame, saw Li Xiuying sitting in front of him, and said with a smile: "Li Xiuying, you will learn to drive a tractor so soon!" ”

Li Xiuying is wearing a blue single cloth gown with a Chinese-style loop today, which is much better than the previous off-the-shoulder homespun labor clothes. It was probably because of the wear and tear of the carrying, only a large patch of gray cloth was nailed to the shoulder, and the rest of the place was not very old.

"Hello chief."

Li Xiuying turned around, threw the tenacious and shiny braid of scissors on her tightly bulging chest, and smiled shyly. Early in the morning, her face was washed cleanly, and in the sun, on her cheeks that had not opened her face, the fine hairs had a soft and healthy halo.

"It's my master who opened it, and I sat next to it to learn. This is a good method that Minister Qian came up with, if you learn it alone, it will be a waste of oil! Learn this way without delay. ”

Xiaoqiang nodded: "It's a good way." ”

The group of the survey team was crammed into three tractors and marched along the dirt road in the countryside towards the countryside. Bringing the cool breeze of summer to blow on the face, it makes people happy.

Xiaoqiang was very excited at first, humming a song in his mouth. But within an hour, I felt a little upset and couldn't stand the birds.

"Dongzi, kettle."

Dongzi, who was sitting opposite Xiaoqiang, hurriedly took one from the two army-green kettles that straddled left and right on his body, unscrewed the lid and handed it over.

Xiao Qiang took a sip, and the water smelled of plastic with a bit of spout, which was not very good.

"Master Liu, are you almost there?" Xiaoqiang asked the tractor driver in front of him.

"Report chief, it's almost here, and there is Lizhuang Village in front of you."

Li Xiuying, who had been carefully watching the driver operate the tractor, turned around and said, "Chief, my family is in Lizhuang Village." ”

"Oh." Xiao Qiang replied, he didn't know what Li Xiuying wanted to say.

Li Xiuying added: "My father and the village chief have prepared a meal, and they will eat at my house at noon. ”

Xiaoqiang will be overlooked, and said with a smile: "Okay, what do you eat at noon in the village?" ”

Li Xiuying pulled on the railing and half-twisted back from the front row, and said to Xiaoqiang excitedly: "Yesterday, the village killed a pig, except for the ones sold to the engineering team, but I picked up a lot of good meat and left it behind, and put it in the well to cool." ”

Dongzi said proudly: "I often eat meat in the northern capital, the key is to burn it well, and the fat to be burned ......"

Xiaoqiang kicked Dongzi and scolded: "You foodie, remember to help people when you look back." ”

Dongzi hurriedly said, "Yes." ”

Li Xiuying hurriedly said: "No, no, how can I let you work, then how can I do it." ”

Xiaoqiang said to Xu Jie, the leader of the survey team: "Everyone will go to the village to eat later?" ”

Xu Jie's face was dark, and he was wearing a white round-necked old man's shirt, with the big red letters of the Committee for the Control of Huai printed on his chest.

He said to Xiaoqiang: "Well, every time I come down, I eat at the villager's house, and the team pays five cents per person to the village according to the head of the family." ”

He didn't talk much along the way, thought for a while, and asked softly: "Secretary Cao, you have met Chairman M in the Northern Capital?" ”

Xiaoqiang glanced at Xu Jie with a smile and nodded.

Xu Jie's eyes suddenly gave birth to a light of envy, but before leaving, the leader had warned him not to ask questions, this was discipline, and Xu Jie knew that he had to abide by it. So he had to suppress his curiosity and carefully observe this mysterious leader from the northern capital.

The tractor drove all the way to the reservoir construction site, it was already nine o'clock, Xiaoqiang calculated, and it took two and a half hours on the road.

After listening to the report of the construction personnel, Xiaoqiang checked the relevant construction sites, and then it was time to eat.

The workers on the construction site ate a temporary canteen, and the food of the survey team fell in the village, so Xiaoqiang and his party took a tractor to Lizhuang Village.

Under the reception of the village chief, I came to Li Xiuying's house in the village, which is a thatched house with a concave layout, with a wall made of loess and straw, and a thick new thatch on the roof, no courtyard wall, and the open yard is patched together with stones and embedded in the mud, and it is very clean.

In the open yard, under the big trees, four square tables have been set up. Everyone sat down and didn't say anything polite, so they started eating, the brown rice burned by the farmer's firewood stove was very fragrant, but the pork was burned very badly, and the white fat was three fingers thick, but there was no soy sauce, so that Xiaoqiang lost his appetite when he looked at it, and he didn't touch a chopstick.

However, the food of the survey team was very delicious. Xiaoqiang saw that Li Xiuying was not there, and thought that she had probably gone into the house to eat.

Captain Xu Jie quipped: "Village Chief Li, you are amazing this time, you brought out a big meat, we used to eat it, but it was all steamed buns and pickles." ”

Li Songhe, the village head, is only forty according to reports, but he looks like an old man in his sixties, with a wrinkled face. He smiled and held the big bowl, and said while eating: "Isn't this a notice from the headquarters, saying that the leaders came to inspect the construction site together today and asked us to prepare some meat." Oh, leader, why don't you eat meat? Come on, come on the big one. ”

Li Songhe said, and sandwiched the biggest piece of fat meat for Xiaoqiang from the big bowl on the table, which was white and shiny.

Xiaoqiang hurriedly pushed it away and said, "I've had a stomach trouble for the past two days, and I can't touch the greasy." Dongzi eats. ”

Dongzi hurriedly took the meat from the village chief with chopsticks, bit it in his mouth and chewed it, and he was addicted.

"That's the flavor of my hometown, no soy sauce, white meat, chewy, and it's all oil." Dongzi obviously liked the tone.

Xiaoqiang has never had the slightest confidence in Dongzi's taste, he wiped his sweat and said, "This capers are delicious, let's eat." ”

Li Songhe saw that the chopped capers were very popular with the leaders, and hurriedly shouted: "Xiuying, Xiuying, hurry up and go to the widow Wang, take more beans and cut them, so that the sesame oil is mixed, the chief likes to eat this." ”

Li Xiuying hurriedly ran out of the house and said, "I know, I'll go." ”

Xiaoqiang started to sit on the tractor in the morning, and he was tired of sitting, so he got up and said, "I'll go with you." ”

"Hey." Li Xiuying agreed.

"I'll go too." Dongzi Road.

"You eat well." Xiaoqiang commanded.

Dongzi sat down and continued to eat.

Li Xiuying led the way, and Xiaoqiang followed closely behind her.

The dirt roads in the village were potholed, and the midday air was filled with the faint smell of wood stove smoke, mixed with the strange smell of animal feces and the rotting smell of rot.

Xiaoqiang wrinkled his nose and lost his appetite even more.

He just wanted to leave that awkward table, where everyone probably thought that he was delicate and looked down on the fat, but he couldn't explain that he had no malice, and that he was just a picky eater.

"The beans were pickled by the king's widow, and she pickled vegetables to sell them in the city." Lee so-young explained.

When he arrived at the thatched house of the widow Wang's house, Xiaoqiang saw five large jars at the door, covered with heavy wooden covers, and the wooden covers were thickly covered with straw and waterproof broken reed mats.

Xiao Qiang was pondering where his feet in leather shoes were poking in a less pickled place, when a little girl came out of the low thatched hut, she looked like she was about seven or eight years old, sallow and thin, her hair was scattered and yellow, and she had a braid behind her head, which was hastily tied with a string of unknown color. A pair of small feet without socks, kicking and dragging a pair of tattered gray cloth shoes from nowhere, with bare toes in the front and heels in the back.

When the widow opened the pickle jar, the thin boy leaned in, stretched out his hand and took a pickled bean in the jar, stuffed it into his mouth and chewed it.

When the widow saw this, she took the pickled bean from the child's hand and threw it back into the jar, and slapped the girl on the thin arm.

"Starving ghosts are reincarnated, don't you want money for salted salt! This is to be sold for food. ”

The little girl didn't seem to feel any pain, but timidly turned behind the widow Wang and hid, poking her head out and licking the salty water on her hand with relish, revealing the dirty, bony back of her neck. Occasionally raise the pair of big eyes and glance at Xiaoqiang and Li Xiuying.

Li Xiuying blushed and said, "Aunt Shuixiu, don't beat the locust flower, what does the child know, isn't she hungry." ”

Wang Shuixiu was silent, picked out a handful of haode pickled beans from the tank and stuffed it to Li Xiuying, and said to Xiao Qiang, who was wearing a brand-new 65-style green military uniform, in a panic: "Let the chief laugh, the child is not sensible, and he will know how to eat." These pickles were ordered by the construction team, and if they were short, I would be sorry for the government. ”

Xiaoqiang saw that the widow Wang was about thirty years old, but it was estimated that she should be less than thirty years old because of the old age of the peasants. In appearance, she is pale and thin, her newly cut short hair is not neatly draped behind her head, because of her thinness, her shoulder bones are obviously prominent, and she is on her shabby clothes, and her washed white green cloth shirt is patched on her shoulders like Li Xiuying as usual, and the hem is also tattered and scattered with fragmented threads.

Xiaoqiang said casually: "Sister, don't get in the way, don't scare the child." ”

As he spoke, Xiaoqiang took out a handful of White Rabbit toffee from his trouser pocket and handed it to Huaihua:

"Your name is Sophora Flower, right? Uncle invites you to sugar. ”

Huaihua timidly glanced up at Wang Shuixiu, and saw that her mother did not stop her, so she turned her emaciated, sallow, and sick little face to Xiao Qiang, and looked at Xiao Qiang's fat white face with a low voice, lest she be rejected, and silently stretched out a trembling little hand to him.

Xiaoqiang was distressed, stuffed the toffee in her hand, stepped forward to pick her up and said, "Let's go, go to dinner with my uncle." ”

The child had a milky smell, and Xiaoqiang didn't care.

Li Xiuying hurriedly said: "Aunt Shuixiu, I'll send Huaihua back after eating." ”

Wang Shuixiu was a little panicked and shouted loudly in the back: "After eating, tell her to walk back by herself, no need to send ...... Chief, the child is heavy, tell her to come down and walk by herself, don't press you...... Xiuying, Xiuying, you told the chief not to stain his clothes......"

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