After the villagers took back the rice, the village chief announced the news on the loudspeaker.

"Attention villagers, now broadcast a notice, now broadcast a notice. Although there are no programs on TV now, we have all heard from the radio that natural disasters of different degrees have occurred in various countries around the world in recent years, such as tornadoes in country H, floods in M, tsunamis, and so on. ”

"Our country has also experienced cold winters and droughts in the past two years. In order to help the people through this difficult period, the state has distributed relief food to the people in the disaster area for two consecutive years, but the affected area of our country is too large, and the treasury is in a big and empty day, and the country has only been in and out for two consecutive years, which has made the country's grain depot empty, but now the people in many parts of our country still have no food to eat, what should we do? ”

"It is said that one side is in trouble and all sides will support, and now is the time for us to show love and help our compatriots. This year, the state has unified regulation and control of grain throughout the country, and all peasants who farm land must hand over grain according to the number of acres of land, and hand over 200 catties of grain per mu. ”

"Tomorrow, the government will send people to the village to collect grain, everyone is ready in advance, when the time comes, we will have to support the work of the country, we will take as much as we want."

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I listened to the news playing on the loudspeakers and was not surprised at all. We've known about this for a long time, but I'm worried about the delivery of food tomorrow.

"Old Jiang, did you say that everyone will pay the grain tomorrow?" I asked Jiang Zhi, who was resting next to me.

This year, except for a few of us. Other people's harvests are not good, the best yield per mu is more than 600 catties of rice, and the lowest is more than 300 catties per mu.

"This question is not a question of whether everyone wants to pay it, but a question of whether people will accept it. Do you think the state will let individual people not pay food? Jiang Zhi asked me rhetorically.

"It seems that if there is no one who does not pay, then others will not be willing to pay the food. Everyone is watching with their eyes open. "This is human nature, if others don't pay food. Then I won't pay it either.

"So, don't worry, some of the people who will come to collect the grain tomorrow are asking everyone to hand over the grain obediently. It's just that if it doesn't work, a few soldiers will go to the village with guns, and everyone will obediently hand over the food. ”

No one in the village has seen much of the world, and there is a deep-seated sense of reverence for the police and soldiers. Usually there's a fight or something. As soon as they say that they want to call the police, they are honest, so if the grain collector really brings a few policemen or soldiers, it will definitely be very good.

"Then shall we pay it?" They are afraid of soldiers with guns, but we are not afraid, and if we don't want to pay it, no one can take this food.

Jiang Zhi thought for a while and said, "Deliver, how can you not pay it, our harvest this year is good." There is no need to fight against the government for the sake of this food. Besides, didn't you listen to the village chief? When one side is in trouble, we will also do our part for those compatriots who are living in dire straits. ”

"You can pull it, to put it in a high-sounding way, how much of that grain can reach the people in those disaster areas, there are a lot of moths in the government, and the grain collected must not be peeled layer by layer first." I don't like the style of government officials, that is, cockroaches, no matter how many times they are cracked down, those corrupt officials are still like Xiaoqiang, everywhere.

"Now that you know what kind of work style is in government, you don't need to think about those useless things. The land belongs to the state, and we always have to pay some rent when we plant the land of the state, and as for the whereabouts of these rents, it is not something that ordinary people like us can care about. Tomorrow, we will hand over the food we should pay, which can be regarded as fulfilling our obligations as citizens, and we should not worry about the rest. "Jiang Zhi's idea is very clear, the land belongs to the state, since the country has let everyone lend a hand at this time, then even if we rent the rent of the land, we will hand over the share we give, and we will not have the rest.

That night, the village chief was very busy, busy going to various villagers' homes to do work. to ensure that tomorrow's food can be handed in smoothly.

Early the next morning, as soon as the smoke in the village had risen, the sound of a car entering the village was heard, and after a while, the loudspeaker sounded again, informing everyone that the government was coming, and everyone should hurry up and hand over the food.

Our family prepared food yesterday, which can't be hidden, the government has been looking forward to it for half a year, and at the beginning of spring, the army was specially sent here to maintain social order, just to ensure that the peasants have a stable environment, a variety of food, how can it be that everyone does not pay food at this time, so there is no need to struggle, we can't twist our arms and thighs, we still have to pay.

Jiang Zhi, Li Shanqing, and Li Cheng loaded 2,000 catties of rice into three tricycles, and prepared to push them to the grain collection point at the gate of the village committee.

On the way there, the second brother-in-law and the eldest brother-in-law gathered, and on the way, they kept encountering villagers pushing carts to hand over food.

Although everyone had to hand over food, their mouths were full of complaints.

"You said that you haven't handed in food for decades, why is it that the worse it has been these years, the more moths the government has produced, and this still doesn't let people live." Villager A said.

"That is, this harvest is not good, and the right ones can survive until next autumn's harvest, which is good, the country will take away half of the grain with one mouth, and this year will have to eat bran vegetables." Villager B also feels that the future of next year is worrying.

Villager C was in a very good mood and said to them: "This matter, if you think about it the other way, your heart will be strong." We should think it's good, the state still leaves us half of the grain, and we can add two more scoops of water when we cook porridge, so that no one can starve to death. What if the state wants all the food in the field? If you don't resist, people have rifles and cannons, and we can't resist any of them. All, now people need 200 catties of grain per acre of land, and if they don't kill them all, let's steal the fun. ”

Listening to the words of these villagers, I was deeply moved. There are two sides to everything, depending on how you think about it, on the surface it may make you angry, then you can think about it from another angle, maybe that will make you feel a lot more comfortable. Is this the so-called Ah Q spirit?

Tashan Village is very small, and the village committee is in the middle of the village, so in the midst of the villagers' conversation, we walked to the village committee after a while.

I saw several green military trucks parked in the compound of the village committee, soldiers with guns standing next to them, a large scale with a landing scale in the middle of the courtyard, and a set of seats next to it, a government clerk was sitting on a chair, and a thick book was placed on the table, which should be used to record the situation of the villagers handing over grain. There were also a few people standing next to the weighing, presumably in charge of weighing and loading.

We arrived not too early, and when we arrived, there were already several peasants standing in the courtyard of the village committee, and when the people who had just entered the courtyard full of complaints, they all shut their mouths, presumably because of the deterrent effect of the little soldier with a gun in the back.

The village chief is really a good comrade of the revolution, last night he did the work of the villagers in the east and west, and it was really effective, and today everyone brought in grain.

The man who sat behind the table saw that there were already a lot of people and grain in the courtyard, so he discussed it with the village chief, and the grain collection officially began.

As a result, there was a problem, the village chief stood in front and announced to the villagers that they had started to collect grain, but no one went up to hand over the grain first, everyone stood in place and watched each other.

We too, when we came in, we stood at the base of the courtyard wall, and we wouldn't move forward at this time.

The village chief saw that it was not good to stand up like this, so he wanted to step forward and mobilize again, but the government official sitting behind the desk stopped him.

At this time, I looked at this man carefully, he was about 40 years old, he was relatively good-looking, he came today wearing a pair of suit pants and a half-new white shirt, seeing his ironed straight white shirt, the first thought in my mind was that he actually had a washed shirt when there was such a lack of water.

I saw that the government official stood up from his chair, straightened his white shirt, put his hand into a fist next to his mouth, coughed, and then said to everyone: "Hello everyone, I am the director of the office of our county government, my name is Yuan Quan, and I came to our village today to collect grain for the country."

You may not want to see me now, in fact, I don't want to meet you in this situation, but I am a ** party member, in this kind of national crisis, I should stand up and serve the country, even if it is annoying, I still have to say what I should say, and I still have to do the work that should be done.

I know that everyone must have very opinions, but you must know that now is the most difficult time for our country, all parts of the country have been affected by natural disasters of varying degrees, everyone in this ravine, living and working in peace and contentment, may not know the changes in the outside world, then I will tell you, the A virus that was prevalent a while ago should know, is it not terrible, as long as you are infected, you will definitely die, in this virus, Our country has lost many more people, but it is much smaller than the number of people who have starved to death in the affected areas.

Now the number of people dying of hunger in various cities has been rising, and the state has repeatedly taken out grain from the country's granary in the past two years to provide disaster relief, but the area of the country affected by the disaster is too large, and the number of people affected by the disaster is too large, and the grain in the treasury can be said to be a drop in the bucket. Ensure that our farmers' spring ploughing can be carried out normally.

As the people of our county, you must know that Cathay can live and work in peace and contentment, and only under the protection of the state can we live and work in peace and contentment, and have enough food and clothing.

Now, we must give full play to the spirit of support from all sides when one side is in trouble. Together, we can get through this together. I believe that natural disasters are merciless, and people are merciful.

I hope that you will lend a helping hand to the country and the people affected by the disaster. (To be continued.) For mobile phone users, please go to M. to read. )