Zheng Zeru's inspection trip in the No. 1 Middle School is very short, almost a glimpse, there is nothing substantial, even so it is enough to make the leaders of the No. 1 Middle School very happy, it is said that the Education Bureau also attached great importance to it, and the funds for the maintenance of the school building in the No. 1 Middle School have been pressed and not approved, and this time it was approved immediately.

The most proud is Director Sun, just because of Secretary Zheng's sentence "Not bad." Let her flutter for a few days, and feel that her career suddenly brightened, and the positions of principal and director of education are not far away.

But a month later, Director Sun was unlucky, she was first beaten into history, a rightist hidden in the people, and later arrested by the public security organs, sentenced to 15 years in prison, and sent to the Salt Lake Farm for reform, Director Sun died after a few years, and before he died, he kept writing a letter of appeal, saying that he was wronged, and he was an excellent people's teacher Yunyun who was received by Secretary Zheng, of course, this is all an afterthought.

……

A new grave was erected on the bank of the Huai River, and the tombstone was engraved with the name of the owner "Chen Nan." and the date of birth and death.

Hongyu came to the grave almost every day, she owed this son too much, she couldn't make it up before she was alive, and she always had to make up for it after death, this poor mother came to the cemetery with her own dumplings and a bottle of wine, put a lunch box of dumplings, a pair of chopsticks, and a wine glass, and said softly: "Child, my mother made dumplings today, and your brother ate twenty, how many can you eat?" Let go of eating, and my mother will wrap it next time. ”

Suddenly, Hongyu noticed that there was someone behind her, and when she looked back, she was a girl in her twenties, with a ponytail, Lenin outfit, very beautiful, and the words Jiangdong University were written on the red school emblem on her chest.

"You're Xiao Nan's friend?" Ruby asked.

The girl held a bouquet of white chrysanthemums in her hand, shook her head and said, "I...... I was a colleague of his, so I came to see him. ”

Hongyu said, "Child, my colleague has come to see you." ”

Jiang Feng whimpered, which seemed to be Chen Nan's answer.

On the highway in the distance, a Volga car was quietly parked, and Zheng Zeru, the first secretary of the provincial party committee, sat in the car and looked at the old and young people in the cemetery, with mixed feelings, he wanted to go to the grave to put a stick of incense, but his identity did not allow this.

"Let's go." Zheng Zeru said.

The Volga drove away from the river, and the autumn wind rose again, and it was bleak.

……

Chen Nan is gone, life will continue, Chen Zikun originally wanted to tell the old man to return to his hometown, but the youngest daughter of the Chen family, Chen Jiao, graduated from high school and was admitted to the Chinese Department of Peking University, for the convenience of his daughter's life in Beijing, he still went to Beijing, since the death of his son, Liu Ting's spirit was close to collapse, and it took a long time to recover in the nursing home before he improved slightly.

Xia Xiaoqing went to Jiangbei to live with her children and grandchildren, Lin Wenjing accompanied her daughter to Beijing, Jianbing still lives in Shanghai, she converted to Buddhism, eats fasting and recites Buddha every day, and lives a very pure life.

Since then, Chen Yan is the only one left in the huge mansion at No. 10 Fenglin Road, and she does not go home to live during childbirth, and often stays in the laboratory of the medical school, or spends one night in the single dormitory of the hospital, so as not to affect her work.

Finally one day, the cadres of the Provincial Administration came to the door and asked to take back the right to use No. 10 Fenglin Road. ”

The cadre was very embarrassed and said: "New China, how can there be any of your family and my family, the land and real estate are all state, these small buildings on Fenglin Road are all public property in the province, and they are registered, if you don't believe me, I will show you the documents." ”

Chen Yan said: "But the house was built in the twenties, and New China was not established at that time." ”

The cadre said: "The houses on this street are all the property of the Kuomintang enemy, and they have been confiscated and confiscated. ”

Chen Yan said: "Then I don't understand, the people living on this street are all rebel generals and meritorious heroes, are they enemies?" ”

The cadre couldn't say that Chen Yan had to leave in a huff.

The matter was reported to Zheng Zeru, the first secretary of the provincial party committee, who instructed the special affairs to take care of the rebel generals, and the Chen family's house could be retained, so the house where Yan Su's family lived at No. 8 Fenglin Road next door was taken back and distributed to Ma Yunqing, the new deputy secretary of the provincial party committee.

Chen Yan watched the new neighbor move in her garden, the hostess was very foreign, young and beautiful, directing the workers to move things, the little nanny took the child to play in the backyard, the little boy looked very cute, ran to the fence, and looked at Chen Yan with a pair of bright eyes.

"Hey, who are you?" The little boy asked.

"I'm Dr. Chen, what's your name?"

"My name is Ma Jingsheng."

"Were you born in Beijing or Nanjing?"

The little boy didn't answer Chen Yan's question, looked at the Chen family's big house and more spacious garden, and suddenly turned around and shouted, "Mom, I want to live here!" ”

The hostess is very busy, how can she have time to take care of her son.

Ma Jingsheng asked Chen Yan: "What level of cadre is your father?" Why live in a big house? ”

Chen Yan said: "Because this is originally my family's house." ”

"You're a liar! You're not a high-ranking cadre! Ma Jingsheng suddenly lost his temper, spat at Chen Yan, and then ran away, just as his mother came out of the house and saw this scene, she didn't apologize to Chen Yan at all, grabbed her son into the house, and glared at this side fiercely when the door was closed.

With such a neighbor, Chen Yan didn't want to go home to live.

……

Jiangbei, Kushuijing Commune, Nantai County, Yang Shugen, who has been promoted to secretary of the county party committee, came here in a gas jeep, and as soon as he entered the gate, Li Huazi, the secretary of the commune, greeted him, and enthusiastically held Yang Shugen's hand and said: "Secretary Yang, all of our members have been looking forward to your guidance for a long time." ”

Yang Shugen wore a blue cloth tunic, a peaked cap, and two pens pinned to his pocket, shook hands with Li Huazi very reservedly, and said: "Our Kushuijing Commune is a red flag for the county's agricultural production, and it is my hometown, if it weren't for the busy work in the county, I would have come last month." ”

Li Huazi said: "Yes, yes, Secretary Yang leads the work of the county, and there are many opportunities." ”

Yang Shugen turned his back and said: "The central government has called for a new upsurge in agricultural production, and our commune cannot be left behind. ”

He gave a thumbs up.

The cadres and the masses all laughed, and their faces were full of pride.

Li Huazi said: "It's still early, I'll accompany Secretary Yang to go for a walk." ”

Yang Shugen said with interest: "Okay, let's go for a walk first." ”

The farmland near the commune site was growing well, and the peasants were ploughing the fields with white towels wrapped around their heads.

Yang Shugen happily waved to everyone and asked Li Huazi: "How did the masses react when the Senior Society was established?"

Li Huazi said: "That is absolute support, absolute approval, all the major teams have opened a big canteen, no money for eating, running into communism, the people's motivation is not yet post, and the work is more energetic than before." ”

Yang Shugen nodded frequently: "Very good, very good." ”

Li Huazi looked at the sun and said, "It's noon, Secretary Yang, let's eat, try the food in our big canteen." ”

Yang Shugen raised his wrist and looked at the Innaco Swiss watch on his wrist, which was still the work supplies assigned by the organization when the floating wealth was divided, and the hour hand pointed to twelve o'clock, it was indeed time to eat.

Kushuijing Commune is the former Kushuijing Township, and each brigade is the former village, and each village has opened a large canteen, and the whole village eats together, but the chickens, ducks, cows, and sheep in the villagers' homes, including the fields, have become collective property.

A large canteen was also opened in the commune station, the courtyard was full of tables, chairs and benches, and there were four large cauldrons in the window.

The staple food is white-flour steamed buns, which are as big as a child's head, and they are not enough to take, and the wheat kernel porridge is also full, and hundreds of people are moving together in the yard, and the sound is the same as that of the feedlot.

Yang Shugen, his secretary, and the driver of the gas car were arranged to eat in the house, and the meal was the same as that of the masses, and Li Huazi took the women's director of the commune to sit with him, and everyone ate very happily.

The driver is a demobilized young man, the amount of food is very large, the big steamed buns have eaten one after another, and he has to get them, Yang Shugen glanced at him, Li Huazi hurriedly said: "Open to eat, manage enough, our commune under the wise leadership of the party has a bumper harvest every year, and the grain is almost full of tunzi." ”

The women's director chimed in: "Yes, the pigs are fed with fine grains. ”

Li Huazi coughed dryly, stopped the women's director from talking nonsense, and said, "Secretary Yang, do you have any important instructions for going to the countryside this time?" ”

Yang Shugen said: "Okay, you Lao Li, I can't hide anything from you, I do have something to ask you for help, now the whole country is setting off a wave of steel smelting, and strive to double the steel output next year, catch up with or surpass the United Kingdom, our county can not lag behind, both to grasp agriculture, but also to grasp industry, both hands must be hard, to contribute to the country." ”

Li Huazi was a little stunned: "Steelmaking, we farmers won't do that." ”

The women's director asked ignorant of the current affairs: "Isn't there a steel factory in Beitai, why do you still need us to make steel?" ”

Yang Shugen said: "It is far from enough to rely on large iron and steel plants, how quickly and well the province can build socialism, it has to be done by the whole people, the central government has put forward the principle of focusing on the small, focusing on the soil, combining the soil with the ocean, and the small soil group from the soil to the sea, and making steel in the way of mass movement, I don't believe it, we working people are mobilized, and they can't compare with the rightists who drink foreign ink in the Beitai Iron and Steel Plant!" ”

Li Huazi said enthusiastically: "Secretary Yang, what you said is too good, after listening to your words, my motivation is enough, I didn't say it, please give an order to Secretary Yang, where you point, all the members of our bitter water well will hit." Secretary Yang, I will give you a military order, I don't dare to say anything else in Kushuijing Commune, the steel output is definitely the first in the county! ”

Yang Shugen nodded with satisfaction: "I knew that you were right to find Lao Li." ”

After the secretary of the county party committee left, the Kushuijing Commune immediately launched a large-scale steel-making campaign, with Li Huazi as the commander-in-chief, almost overnight, he erected three one-cube earthen blast furnaces in the township, found dozens of flat cars, transported iron ore and coke, and began to make steel.

Who knows, after the furnace is opened, the light is flowing through the tumor, let alone steel, even iron can't be smelted.