Chapter Ninety-One: Returning to His Hometown
At six o'clock in the morning, the decoration of the wooden house was officially completed. From the outside, this original black and decaying house has been transformed from an ugly duckling to a swan overnight: a black and white tiled façade, an exquisite sky attic, colorful doors and windows, and a blue-tiled roof with flying eaves and arches...... Some villagers who got up early and didn't know walked over and saw this small villa-like house suddenly standing in this place, and they were all dumbfounded, rubbing their eyes, wondering if they had seen it wrong, or if they were still in a dream.
The celebration platform on the sun-grain flat has also been erected, which is built with five layers of wood on top of each other, with a red carpet and small colorful flags hanging on it.
There are two large pillars erected in front of the platform, and a large banner is hung between the columns: "Warmly welcome the anti-corruption and anti-crime hero Sneer Xiaotian to return to his hometown", and a couplet is also pasted on the column:
"Cold water and cold streams, hard to cold heroes full of blood
Laughing at the sky and laughing, laughing at the traitor in vain"
Although the reconciliation is not very neat, it has also won the unanimous praise of Duan Simin, Liang Qi and other town leaders, and they all praise Leng Jida for doing things, and in such a short period of time, he actually made the banners, small buntings and couplets well, which shows that the traditional culture of Lengxi Village is still very well maintained and is worth carrying forward.
Duan Simin went to the pig pen and cattle pen of Sneer's house to take a look again, and saw that there was only a skinny boar in the pig pen, and the cowpen was empty, his brows furrowed, and he said to Leng Jida: "You go to someone's house in the village to see, there is a big fat pig dragged over, drive the cat-like thin pig in the pen to another place to be locked up, and in addition, lead a big yellow cow to his cow pen and lock it up." Make it clear to the villagers: the pig and the cow are rented by the town government, and each pig or cow will be subsidized with 20 yuan a day. ”
As soon as this sentence spread, several villagers immediately drove their pigs and cattle over, scrambling to say that their pigs were fat and strong, and asked the town government to rent their pigs and cattle.
In the end, Duan Simin made a decision: simply rent two pigs and two cows and lock them up in the pig pen and cattle pen of the sneering Tianjia, and strive for the reputation of "hard work and prosperity" for the hero's family.
Duan Simin finally inspected the house and the celebration platform, and felt that everything was ready, so he hurried to the town government with the town cadres - there, there were already three village folk bands gathered there, waiting to beat gongs, drums, and cannons to welcome the county leaders and anti-corruption and anti-crime heroes......
In the county seat, the staff of the county party committee and the county government are also very busy at the moment: deploying vehicles, preparing speeches, arranging entourage, contacting the party and government leaders of Lei Gong Town, and filling in the materials and certificates of meritorious service for Sneer Xiaotian......
After discussing with Zou Yuli, He Yuelong decided to arrange the trip according to the highest specifications: two police cars opened the road, the traffic police stood guard on the road, the public security personnel accompanied to maintain order, the welcome flags and banners were hung in front of the Leigong Town Government, and all the party and government cadres of Leigong Town went to the fork in the road three miles away to greet them collectively......
Of course, the reason He Yuelong told Zou Yuli for doing this is that Xing Lihua, chairman of Jinghua Company, is an important figure who has repeatedly explained to the provincial and municipal party committees and governments that they want to receive ceremoniously, so no matter what kind of high standard it is, it is not excessive. In fact, what he really wants to please in his heart are Sneer Xiaotian and Su Xiaodan - one of these two people is the New Year's friend of Secretary Du of the Provincial Party Committee, and the other is his goddaughter......
At 9 o'clock in the morning, Gu Zhenmin and Qiu Guangrong made several phone calls to the directors of several police stations along the way, asking them to send out all police forces and stand guard on the road from the county seat to Leigong Town.
There, Xing Lihua's Rolls-Royce and Mercedes-Benz were already lined up and waiting there, Sneer Xiaotian sat in the Rolls-Royce with his father and Gu Liming, and the others sat in other cars. Gu Zhenmin and Qiu Guangrong drove away, turned on the police lights and sirens on the car, and chirped all the way, leading the convoy behind them to Leigong Town......
Leng Jidao sat in the front passenger seat of the Rolls-Royce Phantom car, and kept looking curiously at the flashing colorful instruments in the car, feeling both novel and excited.
Later, he saw uniformed policemen standing straight on both sides of the road as he crossed the town, saluting the people in the cars. While he felt incomparably honored, he sighed in his heart: Damn, this is simply more majestic than the travel of a national leader!
When he was about to reach the three-way intersection near the town government, there was a sudden deafening sound of firecrackers, gongs and drums in front of him. I saw that all the cadres of the town government were standing respectfully on the side of the road, and three folk bands dressed in colorful clothes were desperately blowing trumpets, beating gongs and drums, and sounding bells. In addition, more than 20 women and children held flowers tied with red silk, standing on the side of the road and waving them, shouting "Welcome, welcome, warm welcome!"
Ning Qing grew up in Hong Kong, and had never seen this kind of welcome with Chinese characteristics, so she couldn't help but be very interested, and her eyebrows danced in the car, and she asked the driver to stop the car several times, and wanted to go down and take a few photos with her mobile phone. The driver saw that the police car in front of him did not stop, and drove past the middle of the welcoming crowd with a roar, and he didn't dare to stop, which made Ning Qing depressed!
The convoy stopped inside the town hall. Since there is no road to Lengxi Village, the group can only walk.
Secretary He and County Magistrate Zou were very interested, and the two of them actually grabbed the front and walked side by side with the sneering father and son who led the way. Secretary He kept asking Leng Xiaotian about his studies at Capital University, and also asked him what his plans were after graduation and whether he was willing to return to his hometown to develop.
Sneering said that he had this wish in his heart, and he might have to ask Secretary He to take care of him and help him at that time.
He Yuelong hurriedly agreed with a smile.
After forty minutes of travel, the group finally arrived in the village.
Leng Jidao walked in the front, and when he came to the door of his house, he couldn't help but be dumbfounded: What's the matter? I haven't seen him for a few days, why did my house suddenly disappear?
At this time, Leng Jida, the village party secretary, walked over with a smile, climbed his shoulder affectionately, and said, "Brother Jidao, congratulations on giving birth to a good heroic son!
Leng Jidao is most concerned about his house now, and asked anxiously: "Dazhishu, where is my house? Are you demolishing it while I'm away? Who started this house? Do you want to occupy my homestead?"
Leng Jida smiled and said: "Brother Jidao, this is your house! Who is so bold as to rob your homestead? That won't be killed by the town government? Don't worry, your house was not lost, but it was renovated last night. How's that, it's pretty good!"
Leng Jidao walked into the room in disbelief, and saw the color TV, refrigerator, telephone, and Simmons bed in the bedroom, and was so surprised that he couldn't speak!
Seeing him stunned, Leng Jida walked over and pulled his shirt, and whispered: "Brother Jida, I beg you something: you are now very face-saving in front of the town leaders." You see, the furniture here was all moved from my house to give you a façade. Just now, Secretary Duan rented two pigs and two cows from several villagers' homes and put them in your pig pen, and the rent for each pig and cow is 20 yuan per day. I have so many pieces of furniture, and I can't put them in vain for a few days here! You can tell Secretary Duan: My furniture is rented at the price of pigs and cows, and each piece is rented for 20 yuan a day.
As he spoke, he looked at Leng Jidao with flattering and eager eyes.
Leng Jidao hadn't fully woken up from the shock, and he didn't fully understand Leng Jida's words, so he nodded indiscriminately, smiled Leng Jida happily, and kept saying: "Thank you, Brother Jidao! Thank you, Brother Jidao!"
At this time, Secretary He, County Magistrate Zou, Gu Liming, Xing Lihua, Ning Qing and others were all looking left and right around this chic house, admiring while watching.
Secretary He said: "It seems that our heroic father is still a skilled craftsman, and he decorates a wooden house so beautifully and with so many characteristics, it is comparable to a small villa." ”
Gu Liming said: "The mountains and rivers here are beautiful, and building such a wooden house in the middle of the lush forest and bamboo cultivation is indeed a unique charm, rare, rare! When I get old in the future, maybe I will come to Lengxi Village to settle down, and I will also build a wooden house like Xiaotian's house, read books in it every day, and then go around the nearby mountains and streams, that is really a fairy life!"
At this time, the villagers had already gathered on the platform of the sun-grain flat, and they were all pointing and talking about what kind of merit Sneer Xiaotian had made, and invited so many big leaders over.
Soon, the town's cadres and folk bands also rushed over. Seeing that the preparations were almost complete, County Magistrate Zou stepped onto the celebration platform and announced in a loud voice: "Distinguished guests and friends, I hereby announce: The celebration meeting and award ceremony for the meritorious service commendation of student Sneng Xiaotian will now begin! Next, we have invited Comrade He Yuelong, secretary of the county party committee, to give important instructions, and everyone applauds and welcomes it!"
In a burst of warm applause, He Yuelong stepped onto the celebration platform with a spring breeze on his face, took the wireless microphone from the hand of the county magistrate Zou, and began to make a passionate impromptu speech.