It's the middle of April, and I've gone from not getting out of the greenhouse every day, to not necessarily going in once a day. Everyone knows my character very well, and they didn't express surprise at such a change in me, and Qu's mother even showed me an expression like you should be.

I see that everyone is so confidant, so I simply threw all the work in the greenhouse to the eldest sister, the second sister and Weiwei, and I was a hands-off shopkeeper myself.

I calculated the time of the beginning of spring, it should be soon, but I don't know the exact time. Every day, I listen to my eldest sister and them whisper in my ear about how the rice seedlings in the greenhouse are doing, what "the rice seedlings have grown", "the sister-in-law said that the temperature is low, the rice seedlings should not grow", "we can't water tomorrow, and now we have to maintain the state of dry breeding" and so on.

They all found their own joy in planting rice seedlings, and even Li Cheng kept his hands on his books, flipping through books every day to see how the rice fields were planted.

Before you know it, at the end of April, the weather has begun to change slightly.

Spring is coming, and although it is a little late, it is still here.

From the end of April, the temperature starts to rise. The sun hangs high in the sky, but it is not as cold as a few days ago, but it makes people feel the warmth of thought. Within a few days, the thick snow on the ground melted into ice water and penetrated into the ground, and the world was no longer white, and the mountains and forests behind the village took off their heavy winter clothes and became vibrant.

The villagers of Tashan Village had been hiding at home for several months, and at this time they all walked out of their homes in parts. On the road, I saw the neighbors all smiling and greeting each other, and the parents gave short greetings.

Winter goes to spring. It brings infinite hope to people.

Just when each family was preparing for some matters of spring ploughing, the village chief sent a child to inform them from door to door. In the evening, in the compound of the village committee, a meeting is held, and every household is required to send someone to participate.

This is the first time for our family to participate in this kind of group activity, and we must support it, so our family is Jiang's father Qu dad and our two families with 5 children.

On the way to the village committee, a few children ran away, and Jiang Zhi and I didn't care. The children have been suffocated for more than a month, and they can only play at home all day, and finally the weather is better. I can finally come out and run wildly, of course, I have to have fun.

The village committee is a large compound with a long row of houses in the middle and a sign on the roof. It reads "Tashan Village Committee". There are small wooden signs hanging outside each room, "Family Planning Office", "Finance" and so on, and I see that this is quite complete.

A long table was placed in the courtyard close to the house, which seemed to be the position of the village chief, and there were many long benches placed below, and there were already many villagers sitting on it, chatting in twos and threes, and seeing us come in. He lowered his voice and looked at us with a scrutinizing look. I think it's probably because our family has been a bit high-profile in the past month.

As soon as he came back, he took the house back with a tough attitude, and then began to freeze ice cubes in a big way, and planted upland rice in the greenhouse at home more than a month ago. It is estimated that everyone will have to talk about these unusual practices of our family.

We ignored the inquiring eyes of the villagers, and when we saw the young brother-in-law who had come early, we moved a bench and sat together.

After a while, basically everyone in the village arrived, and when the village chief walked to the long table in front, the people below applauded their faces, and it was estimated that everyone was crazy at home, and this time there was a chance to see people, so they were extremely excited.

The village chief was very stylish, stood behind the long table, raised his hands to the height of his chest, thought that the villagers pressed it, saw that everyone was quiet, sat down, and announced the beginning of the meeting.

"Everyone's quiet, let's have a formal meeting.

At this time, everyone was summoned, and it was already said that it was best for each family to send a representative, because this time there were several important things to say.

The first is that the weather is good, our village is going to start preparing for spring ploughing, although the field is still too muddy, and there are no people to enter, but we should raise seedlings at home.

Originally, our village planted late this year because of the weather, but this weather is good, so we must hurry up and plant rice as soon as possible.

In addition, no matter how much food there is or how little food there is at home, it is not allowed to sell grain. Two days ago I went to the county, our county is an agricultural county, so I survived this snow disaster, we don't know, many cities outside have no food, after the weather is better, there are people who want to buy grain from our county, but with this snow disaster, we should have some sense of worry, you say that if this year's harvest is not good, or this winter is still so cold, what can we do if we have no food in our hands? ”

"Village chief, what if someone is greedy for money and sells the grain secretly?" A villager raised this question meaningfully, alluding to last year's Chen Cuihua family.

"Greedy for money? What kind of money are you still greedy, now you take the money outside, but no one sells you anything, and now you are going to exchange things for things. What kind of stupidity do we have to be, exchanging food for money that no one likes to ask for now. If there are really people who don't believe in evil and sell for money, then I'm sorry, if you don't have food to eat, we big guys don't care. ”

Chen Cuihua, who was sitting below, was a little stunned when she heard the village chief say that the money was not good now, and then asked the village chief again in disbelief: "Village chief, is the money outside really not good?" ”

"I went once, but I didn't meet a seller who was willing to take money, and they all exchanged things."

"Ah~, what can I do, aren't all the old money in my family turned into waste paper?" Chen Cuihua slid off the bench and began to cry when she reached the ground.

I heard some villagers talking about how miserable she was crying now than when her parents died, so I hurriedly covered up and hid behind Jiang Zhi and laughed secretly, this is really not an ordinary person.

The meeting was interrupted by Chen Cuihua's crying, the village chief was very impatient, watching Chen Cuihua patting the ground again, and said to the man standing behind her who only knew how to rub his hands back and forth: "Chen Dasheng, can you be a little manly and take care of your daughter-in-law?" ”

Chen Dasheng stood there a little helpless. I don't know what to do.

The village chief looked at him very helplessly, and said to Chen Cuihua, who was sprinkled on the ground: "What are you crying about, what are you crying about, what are you making trouble." I didn't let you sell grain at the beginning, but you had to sell it, and now you have no face to cry, I want to cry back to your house and your son to cry. ”

The village chief saw that he had no effect after he finished speaking, so he said to her again: "Okay, you should keep your mouth shut now, if you are crying." Just let a few people send you back, and you won't have to attend the next meeting. ”

This sentence worked on her, Chen Cuihua said: "Why don't I participate." ”

said. The crying in his mouth stopped.

The village chief saw that Chen Cuihua had stopped, so he continued the meeting.

"Where are we?" The village chief made Chen Cuihua cry a little confused, and he didn't know where he was talking.

"No one is scarce of money, and they can't sell food." A villager below gave the village chief a wake-up call.

"That's right. Just don't be greedy for money and don't sell food. The village chief patted his head and remembered.

"Let's talk about the second thing. The second thing is also about our spring ploughing. There are now two tractors in our village, in previous years, if you want to borrow it, it is a hundred yuan a day, and the oil is prepared by yourself. 10 catties of rice a day, if there is something to rent. After the meeting is dismissed for a while, I will go to Lao Lu Na to make a record, let's arrange it in the order of first come, first served, and when the time comes, the province will fight because of who uses it first and who uses it later. After the village chief finished speaking, he picked up the big tea cup on the table and took a sip.

When the village chief finished talking about the first thing, everyone didn't have any ideas, and when the second thing was said, everyone started talking about each other.

"Why do you need food? I don't have much food in my family. ”

"That's good, it's cheap."

"Now the gas station is still open, and you can buy diesel."

After listening to the various discussions of the villagers, I thought to myself, is this considered the village chief to be politically conscious and keep pace with the times?

Although the weather is good now, and some industries in the country have resumed production one after another, most people are now tormented by the snowstorm that has just ended, and they don't recognize grain but money. The village chief also exchanged the money for grain.

"The third thing is the electricity problem in our village. Yesterday I went to the county, found the relevant leaders, I want to ask, our village has stopped electricity, can it be repaired in the near future, I think about our spring ploughing when there is electricity is much more convenient. ”

When the villagers heard that it was a problem of repairing electricity, they all applauded, "For the village chief, it's time for them to fix the electricity for us." ”

"It's been a few months of blindness, and now that the weather is good, it's time for us to fix it."

"Everyone, be quiet, listen to me first, listen to me first. I told the county leader about the situation in our village, but the county leader also said that the county is not in a position to repair the electricity in the surrounding villages and towns, and if we have to repair it now, he can think of a way to find a few technicians, but our village has to bear the cost by itself. The village chief also looked helpless, seeing that spring plowing was about to begin, and it was too inconvenient to have no electricity.

"Why do we still have to pay for it ourselves, it wasn't like this before, shouldn't it be managed by the state?" Some villagers were a little unhappy when they heard the village chief say that they would have to pay for the repairs themselves.

"Everyone has to understand this, this year our whole country has suffered a snowstorm, don't you know, there are old nose people dead in the city. Either starved to death, or were eaten, you think about it, people are hungry and start eating people, what a serious situation it must be. Thanks to the fact that the people in our village did not sell their grain last year, we were able to survive this snowstorm. The county leaders said that there are only a few maintenance workers, and if they are platooned, our village will not be able to get electricity for another two months, and if we agree to bear the cost, let them repair it for our village first. ”

After hearing this, some villagers asked hesitantly: "Village chief, if we bear the expenses ourselves, how much will our family have to pay?" ”

The village chief explained in front: "People don't want money now, they want food, and they need 1,000 catties for a use, our village originally had a total of 47 households, and after the old Jiang family moved back from the city, it became 50 households, and our 20 catties of rice per family is just right." ”

When the sister-in-law heard this, he retorted to the village chief and said, "Village chief, you have miscalculated, even if you add my sister-in-law's family, there are only 48 households." ”

The village chief slowly picked up the water cup and took another sip of tea and said, "Isn't it now divided into three families?" Then you have to count three. ”

"Then how can it be counted as three, they are ......" The little sister-in-law heard the village chief say this, and wanted to argue with the village chief.

Jiang Zhi grabbed the little brother-in-law and said to the village chief: "Okay, even if it is three, no matter what we pay in the future, it will be counted as three families." ”

As soon as the village chief said that the number of households had changed from 47 to 50, we understood that this was the last time he offended the village chief, and he wanted to treat us.

Lao Li's family looked at us with some schadenfreude and smiled after hearing this, thinking that we were going to suffer a loss again, and they were also relieved.

But it's better for us, we don't care about the food, we think it's good for us to be separated.

"Okay, now all 50 families are represented. If it's all here, let's raise our hands and vote on whether to connect the electricity or not. After all, this is not my business alone, it is everyone's business, everyone has the right to decide, for the sake of fairness, the family will send a representative, if more than half agree, we will collect the grain, immediately repair the electricity, if the majority do not agree, then we will wait. Okay, now if you agree to hand over the grain and repair the electricity immediately, please raise your hand. ”

The villagers below all asked each other, some raised their hands when they finished speaking, others shook their heads.

The final statistics showed that 41 households agreed to pay for food and early electricity repair, of which our family accounted for 3 votes.

The village chief announced in front: "Okay, since most people have agreed to hand over the grain, then we will collect the grain at 8 o'clock tomorrow morning in the compound of the village committee. Okay, adjournment. ”

As soon as the village chief announced the dismissal of the meeting, several families rushed to find the village chief and Lu Guoan, a big family in the village. We were still a little confused here, and my sister-in-law explained to us: "This is to use a tractor to queue up, and there are only two in our village, one for the village chief's family, and one for Lu Guo'an's family." ”

I pulled Jiang Zhi and said: "Let's rent a tractor for a day, our family has a lot of land, we have already finished plowing the paddy field, let's transplant the rice seedlings at home, the rice seedlings in our greenhouse are really a little crowded." ”

"Okay, I'll go to the line." Jiang Zhi agreed with what I said.

"So where are you going to?" I asked Jiang Zhi, who wanted to leave, as I pulled him.

Jiang Zhi smiled when he heard my question, "Of course it's the village chief, let's be familiar with him." Don't be careful. ”

I rolled my eyes at him: "When have I been careful, I'm just afraid that he will be careful, and it's not good to make us a little bad." ”

"Don't worry, he has been the village chief for so many years, and he still has this amount of belly, or he doesn't know where he is going to go."

In fact, as Jiang Zhi expected, when Jiang Zhi and the village chief said that they wanted to use his tractor in two days, the village chief agreed with a smile on his face. In fact, our family doesn't have to queue up, and other people's appointments are made at the earliest in late May, and our appointments are two days later, so there is no conflict. (To be continued.) )