The lad soon returned, and of course there was no cotton without a ticket.

Zhou Lanxiang hurriedly put down the enamel jar and thanked him, and left in the young man's frowning brows.

After leaving the headquarters of the struggle brigade, she continued to walk in the direction of the commune. The winter in the Northeast is too cold, the wind blows on the face for a while, and the wood freezes, and the padded jacket on the body is thin and old, which can't stop any wind at all.

This cotton jacket and cotton pants were made of cotton when Grandpa Han was there eight years ago, and the best lint and new cloth were used when they were made. She is skillful, her clothes are thick but not bloated, and she is beautiful and warm when she wears them, and I don't know how many little girls I envy.

She has been particularly cherished over the years, every year to disassemble and wash, although the cotton is old, but also fluffy and soft, it stands to reason that it is better than the old cotton jacket that others have not dismantled and washed for several years.

But she was stupid, when she first got married, she took out half of the cotton in her cotton jacket and cotton pants and added it to Wang Manchu's cotton clothes!

Later, Xiaoshan grew too fast, but there was no cotton at home for him to add to his cotton clothes, so she pumped the cotton in her cotton clothes again, and now only a thin layer remains.

Later, she wore such a torn cotton coat until more than ten years later when she went to the city as a nanny, and the host family saw that she was too pitiful and gave her an old cotton coat, and she took off the torn cotton jacket.

Thinking about this, Zhou Lanxiang felt complicated and unspeakable, and unconsciously walked to the town where the commune was located.

It is said to be a town, but in fact, it is just a small street of dozens of meters, and there are hundreds of families living around.

At present, there are only the most basic units such as the commune compound, the supply and marketing cooperative, the food station, the health center, the post office, the veterinary station, and the commune middle school in the short streets of the town.

The houses are also brick and tile bungalows, and most of the houses behind the residents are still adobe houses.

Zhou Lanxiang walked down the small street where there were no people to the gate of the commune, the house of the commune was a row of green and red brick houses like their brigade headquarters, but looking at the bigger and brighter houses, the wall was painted with a big slogan of "the people's commune is good", and a red red star was hung high on the simple iron gate that was not closed all year round.

Compared with the various brigade headquarters, which are generally empty and empty, the biggest difference in the commune compound is that there are people in each room, there is also a row of bicycles parked in the courtyard, and there are several donkey carts and ox carts tied to the cattle shed next to it.

Zhou Lanxiang stood at the door for a while, and took advantage of the fact that no one was paying attention to put another report letter in her hand into the mailbox at the door, and on the envelope of this letter, in addition to the three big characters of "report letter", the words "received by the leaders of the Red Star Commune" were also written.

After the most important thing was done, Zhou Lanxiang walked into the gate of the commune. The commune was full of people, no one paid attention to her, and she didn't ask, she went straight into the foyer and knocked on a small window next to the foyer, on which hung a small sign that read "Communication Room".

A thin black man wearing a big black cotton jacket with wrinkles on his face pulled open the partition on the small window and glanced at Zhou Lanxiang condescendingly: "Who are you looking for?" What's the matter? ”

Seeing the patched shabby clothes on her body, he pointed his nostrils at her, lowered his head and took a sip of hot water from the large enamel jar with porcelain in his hand, and the old man didn't bother to raise his eyelids to Zhou Lanxiang.

The public family in this era was the object of envy, especially in the eyes of the peasants. Therefore, the peasants who came to the commune to do business unconsciously lowered to the third class, and even revered the porter of the commune.

After a long time, the concierge of the commune, who always dealt with the peasants, was more arrogant and domineering towards the peasants than the real state cadres.

Zhou Lanxiang was very calm: "I am looking for the women's director of the commune, and I want to write a letter of praise to the cadres of our brigade." ”

When the old man heard this, he became interested, and finally put down the big tea jar and looked Zhou Lanxiang up and down: "This is fresh!" Which brigade are you? What about the letter of commendation, show it to me. ”

Zhou Lanxiang didn't care about his unreasonableness and the contempt and ridicule on his face, her attitude was very good, and she asked what to say: "I am from Mopantun of the Red Flag Brigade, and I want to write a letter of praise to Comrade Ma Yinghua, the women's director of our brigade." My mother-in-law bullied me, and I was going to starve to death, but it was Sister Ma who helped regulate us and did the work for me and my mother-in-law's family. Now that my mother-in-law has figured it out, she said that she would not bully me in the future, let me thank Sister Jiang, and let me bring white flour candy dry food to Sister Jiang! ”

As he spoke, he took out two white-flour sugar triangles wrapped in drawer cloth and showed them to the black-faced old man, looking like a rural stupid daughter-in-law who was heartless and real.

The old man was even fresher when he heard it, and he pushed the door out and asked Zhou Lanxiang a few questions, and the more he listened, the more interesting it became, and several commune cadres also gathered around to watch the excitement.

To say that the most lively thing in the commune is the house of the Women's Federation, where there are women crying and wanting to hang themselves and wipe their necks every day, among which the conflict between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law accounts for a large part of the work, and it is also the most difficult work to do.

In the end, the problem was solved, either either either the parties were dissatisfied or one party held a grudge against the women's director. As Zhou Lanxiang said, both parties are satisfied, or the mother-in-law asked her daughter-in-law to send white flour dry food and write a letter of thanks, it is really the first time!

Even Director Zhao of the Revolutionary Committee of the Commune came over with a smile on his own paper cigarette in a big cotton jacket and a cigarette in his mouth, Zhou Lanxiang was the leader of the commune who didn't know this five-short figure, and then answered the question of a small officer next to him: "I don't know how to read, I can't write a letter of thanks, so I wonder if there are many cultural people in the commune, can you write one for me, write bigger, and stick it at the gate when the time comes, so that everyone can look at it!" ”

The onlookers laughed for a while, although they thought that her idea was cola, but there was no malice, Director Zhao's stubby fingers were holding his big cigarette like a small chimney, and he had already shouted loudly at the house of the Women's Federation: "Women comrades will wait for a while to open again, come and see, this is the result of the women's work in our commune, everyone study and learn together!" ”

More than a dozen capable women cadres suddenly poured out of the office of the Commune Women's Federation, which had been closed all along, and the middle-aged female cadres in the lead were wearing gray Lenin suits, with short ear-length hair and glasses.

Director Zhao pointed at Zhou Lanxiang and smiled heartily at the female cadres from the city: "Sister Jiang, you just came to our commune to inspect the work, and you met someone who came to write a letter of thanks!" Even I wonder if it was arranged in advance! ”

Sister Jiang, who wore glasses and short hair, smiled first, and spoke very crisply: "You can't arrange it in advance, if it weren't for the carriage going to the countryside that broke down in your commune, I would have gone to Erdaogang now!" ”

The two of them had a brief conversation, and Zhou Lanxiang understood, this eldest sister Jiang should be a woman cadre in the county who was going to Erdaogang Commune to squat, but she didn't expect that the carriage that went to pick her up broke so bad that they Red Star Commune, and caught up with the female cadres of the various teams of Red Star Commune to come to the commune today to study the spirit of the superior documents, so she came over to investigate by the way, which can be regarded as an inspection work.

Zhou Lanxiang was quickly taken to the office of the Women's Federation, and Sister Jiang asked Zhou Lanxiang to tell everyone about her situation in detail.

Zhou Lanxiang pulled Ma Yinghua and didn't let go, looking very afraid to speak in front of people, trusting and relying on her. Sister Jiang asked Zhou Lanxiang to sit with Ma Yinghua, and comforted her a few words, telling her not to be nervous.

Zhou Lanxiang slowly talked about her family.

When she was a nanny in her previous life, in order to coax her employer's children to sleep, she learned a lot of ways to tell stories, and knew that she had to be detailed and slightly picky about the main ones, and what details to focus on for the people who listened to the story.

didn't hide it at all, and in the middle of the conversation, some people couldn't sit still and slapped the table and cursed!

In the end, Zhou Lanxiang only said that her mother-in-law would not be difficult for her in the future, and asked her to thank Sister Ma. She came to write a thank you letter to Ma Yinghua, of course, there has to be a result.

Everyone sighed and admired Ma Yinghua's work ability, such an old Diao woman can let her persuade, it is really unusual!

In the end, Zhou Lanxiang pretended not to understand anything, and recklessly begged Sister Ma to help her write a letter of praise, Sister Ma looked capable and shrewd, but she didn't have a shelf at all, so she really wrote it herself, and helped Zhou Lanxiang write a warm thank you letter to Ma Yinghua and posted it at the gate of the commune!

When Sister Ma wrote a letter of thanks, almost all the cadres of the commune gathered around and asked the superior leaders in the county to write a letter of thanks, what a great honor it is!

The smiles on the faces of Director Zhao and Sister Zhu, the women's director of the commune, were so bright that they couldn't suppress it!

Zhou Lanxiang looked at the letter and pasted it, took out the sugar triangle and pushed it to everyone, of course people wouldn't accept it, so she pretended to be very nervous and excited and hurriedly said goodbye and went home.

Along the way, she went to Aunt Zhao's house to sit for half an afternoon, and only returned home when she saw that it was getting dark.

As soon as she entered the house, Wang Xu, Ma Guyu, and Wang Wufu followed, and asked what she did in the commune, Zhou Lanxiang said a lot about the situation of the commune, which commune leader she met, how good the leadership attitude was, and what cadres in which office of the commune, so that Wang Xu's eyes, who had never even been to the brigade headquarters in their lives, were so frightened that they almost stumbled.

Zhou Lanxiang went around and around, but she didn't directly say what she said to the commune leaders.

After talking for a while, seeing that the servants were about to sweat, Wang Wufu couldn't help but ask directly, and Ma Yinghua finally entered the door.

As soon as she came, the three of Wang Xu's family were weak and scared, and they found that Zhou Lanxiang had really gone to the commune! I really saw the leader of the Commune! I also saw the big leaders from the county!

Wang Xu's legs trembled.

Zhou Lanxiang no longer talked about this topic, but talked about Wang Manho: "Mother, I have been raising this body for so many days, Manchu can't work hard for you anymore, carry him back and I will serve!" "Anyway, if she doesn't say it, they'll definitely bring it up right away.

Wang Xu did have this plan, of course, he quickly agreed.

Zhou Lanxiang then threw out another question: "Mother, although it looks like it's going to be divided, but it hasn't been divided, last time you gave me the grain and said let me sit in a small confinement to make up for it, I didn't save it, I don't have anything left to eat these days, you come back with a full hoard, you give us another bucket (about 12 catties) of grain, we are young, don't want fine grain, you can give sorghum or millet and corn, we can deal with it until the grain is divided." ”

Wang Wufu jumped up with a snort, pointing at Zhou Lan's fragrant face flushed, but when she saw Ma Yinghua sitting next to her, she held back the words when she came to her mouth.

Now it's not just the problem of the women's director of the brigade here, this loser has already stabbed that little thing at home to the commune and even the county! If there is another errand today, their family will have to suffer!

The three of them all remembered what Wang Dajiang instructed during the day today, and now they must stabilize Zhou Lanxiang, if she really makes a fuss, it is not only a matter of the family being investigated by the brigade and the commune, but also affects Wang Manyin's recommendation to go to high school this year!

So Wang Xu's heart was so angry that he didn't dare to scold a word, and finally held back a sentence: "I'll take care of it, you can take care of your body!" "She takes care of her, eats her, Zhou Lanxiang doesn't even think about taking a grain from her anymore!

After speaking, he was probably too angry, he didn't care about anything with his legs, and went out with Wang Wufu and Ma Guyu holding on to the wall.

Zhou Lanxiang's heart was relieved, she couldn't help but laugh, and when she turned back to face Ma Yinghua, she had to pretend to be bullied, and the corners of her mouth trembled: "Sister Ma, I really want to take good care of Manho, but why don't you say that my mother-in-law won't let us live a good life......