Wang Chong trotted all the way back home, the hat and coat on his body did not play a big role, and he was soaked when he went to the roof of the second grandfather's house just now.

As soon as he entered the door, Wang Chong untied his hat and robe, and said: "This rain is like a scoop, I can't stop it for a while, and I will ······ later." Halfway through his words, Wang Zhong noticed that there was an extra person on the side of the stove.

"Han Meili? President Han? Seeing Han Meimei, Wang Chong was very surprised.

"Wang Zhishu!" Han Meili sat on the edge of the stove, her hair was wet, she only simply tied a ponytail, and the clothes on her body were all ginger red fruits.

"Why are you here?" Wang Zhong took the towel handed over by Jiang Hongguo and wiped his face and head. Han Meili said: "I came to your village to study!" Jiang Hongguo said: "Look at your wet body, you two will talk about it later, hurry up and wash first, change your clothes, don't catch a cold." ”

"Yes, yes, it's cold now, but don't catch a cold." Han Meili also hurriedly said. Gradually into late autumn, it is good that it does not rain, and the weather begins to cool down as soon as it rains, especially after another rain, it is easy to catch a cold.

"That's fine! I'll go wash first! Wang Chong gave an embarrassed smile, and said to Jiang Hongguo: "You boil some ginger tea soup!" ”

"Stay up!" While speaking, Jiang Hongguo had already turned over a suit of clothes from the back room and brought them to Wang Chong, who took the clothes and hurriedly went into the bathroom.

At the dinner table, after some conversation, Wang Chong learned that Han Meili came to learn from the experience because Maixiangling District was the only one in Maixiangling District this year that had not been harvested in advance, and it was also the only village in the county with a bumper harvest.

"There's nothing to learn here, it's just luck, we are just gritting our teeth and gambling, but luck, let's make the right bet." Wang Zhong explained.

"Grit your teeth and gamble?" Han Meili was very surprised. Wang Chongdao: "The meteorological observatory said that there was rain in some areas, but I didn't say all of it, and in recent decades, the microclimate in our Maixiangling area is different from that of the whole province, so I made the decision not to harvest in advance after discussing with several presidents in the village." ”

"We thought, anyway, it's all going to be lost, but it's a matter of how much, but the wheat in the field grows so well, and it's another bumper harvest year, if it's harvested like this, the big guys are not reconciled, we thought about it, discussed it for several days, and finally decided to give it a go." Han Meili said sincerely: "There is a loss in harvesting in advance, but if you don't harvest in advance, if you are really watered by a heavy rainstorm, the loss will be even greater, you can make this kind of decision, this kind of courage is not something ordinary people can have." Wang Zhong asked: "By the way, how much has your village reduced its output this year compared to last year?" ”

"About 30%!" Han Meili said with a look of regret and remorse: "When we harvested, it was when the wheat grains were ripe, most of the wheat was not ripe, and many of them were just shriveled empty husks. Wang Chongdao: "It's just a reduction in production once in a while, it's not a big deal, sum up experience, learn lessons, take a long-term view, wholeheartedly, and make concerted efforts to do a good job in production, which is better than anything else." Han Meili nodded thoughtfully: "It is worthy of being the secretary of the king's branch, it is amazing." ”

"It's time to eat." Jiang Hongguo brought the boiled vegetable dumplings to the table, greeted Han Meili and said, "President Han, you must be hungry at such a late hour, let's eat first." ”

"President Han, let's fill our stomachs first." Wang Chong also smiled and said, "Let's talk slowly when we're full." After dinner, it was still raining outside, and it was dark, so I couldn't lead Han Meili to visit the village, so the two sat on the kang to discuss, Han Meimei's every question, Wang Chong could always say a lot of simple and straightforward answers, and he could also give vivid examples, after talking for more than an hour, Wang Chong drank up a jar of water, Jiang Hongguo helped Wang Chong renew a jar, Han Meili realized the passage of time and ended the conversation busily.

In the gap between the two discussions, Jiang Hongguo had already cleaned up the wing, and immediately led Han Chunmei to the wing.

At present, the only one who can live in the family is the east wing, but fortunately, there are no books in the east wing now, and the books that Wang Chong bought before, what geographical miscellaneous records, and strange things were all put into the box by Wang Chong, and they were not placed on the bookshelf in a fair place.

Otherwise, Wang Chong really didn't dare to let Han Meili live in the East Wing.

"Sister-in-law, your room is really exquisitely furnished!" Han Meili looked curiously at the extremely exquisitely furnished East Wing, her eyes full of fine light.

"And desks and bookshelves!"

"I don't usually have any hobbies, I like to write a few words, read books or something, and the couplets in the village are written by me every year during the Chinese New Year." Jiang Hongguo didn't think too much about it.

"These hanging on the wall are all written by Wang Zhi?" Han Meili curiously walked in front of a pair of words and looked at it from beginning to end.

"Yes, it's all written blindly by me." Jiang Hongguo said with a smile. Han Meimei's voice then sounded: "Spring snow in Qinyuan!" ”

"The scenery of the northern country, thousands of miles of ice, thousands of miles of snow drifting, looking at the inside and outside of the Great Wall, only the remaining ......" can be read and stopped.

"The poem you read is one of my favorite words, what to say about the world, majestic, swallowing thousands of miles like a tiger or something, I am a cropper, I don't understand much, I don't remember very clearly." Jiang Hongguo said with some embarrassment.

"It's really well written, the words are good, the words are good, the words are good, and the words are good." Han Chunmei also praised with a smile. Jiang Hongguo said: "President Han, the bedding is here, if there is anything missing, you can greet me directly, don't see me, it's not too early this day, I won't disturb you to rest!" ”

"Sister-in-law, I'm really bothering you!" Han Meili said politely.

"The visitor is a guest, and when he says this, he will see the outside!" After a few words of greeting, Jiang Hongguo went back to the main house. Han Meili carried an oil lamp and looked at the poems and couplets hanging on the wall, although Han Meili couldn't recognize more than half of the words, but this did not prevent her from appreciating Wang Chong's calligraphy with both form and spirit.

In the main room, Wang Chong was telling Ziping and Zi'an a bedtime story, the two little guys were lying side by side, listening attentively, Jiang Hongguo smiled slightly and went into the bathroom.

At night, the two little guys were sleeping soundly, Jiang Hongguo was paralyzed, lying on Wang Chong's chest panting, and he was very tired.

"Be quiet, don't wake up Ziping and Zi'an." Wang Chong's voice sounded in his ears. Jiang Hongguo raised her head angrily and glanced at her usual eyes, and said in a low voice: "You are embarrassed to say." Wang Chong smiled and said, "I'm thick-skinned, what's so embarrassing." Jiang Hongguo was suddenly choked speechless by this sentence, and didn't know how to refute it.

"By the way, there have been a lot of things in the oil mill recently, and it will be autumn harvest and autumn sowing soon, and the affairs at home can only work hard for you." Wang Chong said with some emotion.

"What's the hard work, it's just such a thing at home, you don't have to worry, I can take care of it." Jiang Hongguo lay in Wang Chong's arms and said with concern: "It's you, you're as busy as a spinning top every day, and you don't have a break, but you have to pay attention to your body." ”

"It's okay, I'm in good health and energetic, besides, I'm a doctor myself, I know it in my heart, you don't have to worry."

"No matter how good your body is, you can't withstand such a constant toss." Wang Chongxiao smiled and didn't answer, and was silent for a while before he said again: "Recently, I may not care about going into the mountains to hunt, and after the autumn sowing is over, I will not be so busy, I will go into the mountains to hunt some game and come back, and make up for you and your sons." ”

"Hmm!" As the two of them talked, their voices became lower and lower. The next day, Wang Zhong handed over Han Meili to Ma Renlian for entertainment, turned his head and went to the oil mill, staring at the villagers to work.

Soon the autumn harvest will come.

"President Niu, where's the president's wife?" The villagers gathered in the field, holding various tools in their hands, Xiao Zhuan was not a big deal to see the excitement, and when he saw Niu boldly coming alone, Qiao Yue was nowhere to be seen, so he immediately asked.

"What president's wife, don't talk nonsense!" The cow said boldly and lightly.

"Ouch, President Niu, we're still humble······"

"Small turn!" As soon as the words of the small turn of yin and yang were spoken, they were interrupted by Ma Renlian: "The bold daughter-in-law is not feeling well, and she has already asked me for leave, don't be yin and yang weird here, with this kung fu, it is better to break a few more bags of rice." ”

"Village chief, I'm just joking with Brother Daring." Xiao Zhuan explained. Niu Daring also helped explain, and Ma Renlian didn't mean to pursue it.

"Okay, the people are here, don't delay, let's start quickly, finish early and finish early." Ma Renlian said.

"Okay!" Niu boldly looked at everyone, his old face was a little unbearable, but he still gave orders aloud: "Everyone is in place and start working." Niu boldly ordered, and all the members of the Murato Society moved.

Although Ma Renlian is the head of the village, in terms of production, he must also obey the bold management of the cow, without exception.

The work division system in Maixiang Village is somewhat complicated, in addition to the attendance, but also the efficiency of the work, when cultivating the land there is a scoring method for farming, when harvesting there is also a scoring method for harvesting, and when working in the oil mill there is also a set of scoring rules that are different according to the division of labor.

The two large societies in the east and west of the village are divided into eight groups, and the group leaders change every quarter, and at the same time, they are responsible for counting the attendance and work efficiency of the team members, and finally summarize them to the two presidents, and then the two presidents report to the village head Ma Renlian.

Ma Renlian will make the statistics of the work points, and then Ma Renli, the vice president of the Village West Society, who is also the village accountant, will distribute the grain collected in the village one by one according to the statistical work points and the annual output, and then distribute them to the villagers in a unified manner.

Nowadays, except for the land reserved by each family, all the land in the village is owned by the collective, and all the farm tools and livestock in the village are also discounted into the community and collected by the collective.

The work division system of Maixiang Village is based on the principle of fairness and justice, based on distribution according to work, and aimed at bringing the strong and the weak to the weak, and also fully takes into account the old, weak, sick and disabled in the village, such as the elderly over 60, the dolls under the age of 10, the disabled, the paralyzed, and the seriously ill who cannot get up from bed.

In the evening, when he went home, Ma Renlian caught up with Niu Daring, who was walking in front, and after a few greetings, he went straight to the point: "Bold, now is the time to be busy with farming, since your Qiao Yue has asked for leave, there will be no work!" Niu boldly said: "I know! Thank you, vegetable buns. Ma Renlian persuaded: "Bold, it's not that I talk too much, it's okay when I'm not busy, but now is the time when the farming is busy, even the old people and children in the village are working together, and the second grandfather is more than sixty people, and he also follows us to the field every day, and has never asked for leave, your daughter-in-law is young, and it's a bit unreasonable to find an excuse to be lazy every day." Niu Daring's face was not very good-looking, and he reluctantly explained: "She is really not feeling well today." Ma Renlian sighed and continued to say earnestly: "It's okay to talk about these words, what's going on with your Qiao Yue, we all know it in our hearts, you also heard what you said just now, you have a high prestige in the village, although the other people in the village didn't say anything in front of you, but they didn't talk much in private, but everyone gave you face, and they didn't say much, but you are the president of the Village East Society, and you and your family have to play an exemplary role." ”

"Let's not talk about it from afar, let's talk about Brother Big Worm, he is the branch secretary of our village, and his son Ping and Zi'an are at the age of trouble, but aren't the two of them still the same to go to the ground." Niu Daring's face was as black as if he had just come out of under the stove, and he didn't have the face to reply to Ma Renlian's words.

"Even if we don't care about these, but the amount of our work is closely related to the amount of food we distribute, you are really good at work, but can you top two people alone? Can you earn more than two or three people in other people's homes in a day? There is only so much grain recycled in the field, and if others share a little more, you will share a little less, and you won't be unable to calculate such a simple account, right? ”

“······” In the evening, smoke rose from the chimneys of every house in the village, but Niu Daring's house crackled and quarreled, and the noise was so loud that even Wang Chong's family in the courtyard could hear it.

"Dad, Uncle Daring and Aunt Qiao are quarreling again!" A family of four was eating around the table of the Eight Immortals, and Ziping, who was standing on the small pestle, listened to the quarrel, turned his head to look in the direction of Niu Daring's house, and then pointed over there and said.

"Hurry up and eat your meal!" Jiang Hongguo hurriedly pulled his son's hand back. Zi'an also wanted to say something, but just met Wang Chong's gaze, and immediately buried his head in eating again.

After arguing for a while, the family stopped after eating.

"What's wrong with that?" Jiang Hongguo asked with a frown as she cleaned up the table. Wang Chongdao: "What else can it be, it must be because of Qiao Yue's leave today, when I came back just now, Renlian told me that he talked to him about it today." Jiang Hongguo reacted immediately, looked at the direction of the Niu family's yard, and sighed with some emotion: "These two people live together, and it's not a matter of arguing every day!" Wang thought for a while and said, "You look at the two of them, I will go to Renlian to discuss, I can't let the two of them be so noisy every day." Jiang Hongguo said with a serious face: "Go quickly!" Wang Chong walked to the front yard, and Ma Renlian was also standing in the courtyard, with his hands behind his back, tiptoeing in the direction of Niu Daring's house.

"Big bug!" When he saw the king come out, he hurriedly said hello.

"Have you eaten?" Wang Zhong asked.

"Just ate it!"

"Let's go out for a walk!" Ma Renlian heard Wang Chong's words, nodded and said, "Okay!" The two of them walked around outside, and after discussing it, they went directly to Niu Daring's house.

There was a kerosene lamp lit in the main house, and Niu boldly sat on the steps at the door of the main house, holding a cigarette stick in his hand, swallowing clouds and spitting out fog one by one, frowning, and his face was not very good-looking.

"Bold, why are you sitting here?"

"Big worm, Renlian?" Niu Daring immediately stood up: "I'm resting, why are you two here?" ”

"What about Qiao Yue?" The two looked at each other without answering, and Wang Zhong asked.

"Where's the house!"

"Shall we go inside the house for a while?"

"Please in the house, please in the house!" Niu boldly welcomed the two into the house, and Qiao Yue, who heard the voice, had already stood up and stood by the kang, a little cramped, but she barely squeezed out a smile on her face.

"Wang Zhishu, Village Chief Ma, you are here!"

"Sit down, sit down!" Looking at Qiao Yue's enthusiastic appearance, where was there a little bit of a bold quarrel with Niu just now.

The four of them sat on the kang, Niu Daring and Qiao Yue sat inside, and Wang Chong and Ma Renlian leaned outside.

"Brother Daring, sister-in-law, let's stop those false things, Renlian and I came here just for the sake of the two of you." Wang Chongdao.

Ma Renlian said: "Brother Daring, sister-in-law, these two people live together, although it is said that it is a fight at the head of the bed and at the end of the bed, but we have never seen such a quarrel with the two of you, you can't live this day?" Niu Daring and Qiao Yue glanced at each other, and immediately turned their heads in unison.

Wang Chongdao: "Comrade Qiao Yue, although it is said that Brother Bold is capable, and the work earned by one person can support the two of you, but he can only barely support him, how many family backgrounds do you have in your family, you all know in your hearts, we can't just look at the present, but also look at the future, when you have a child, only rely on Brother Bold alone, how do you support it?" Niu boldly bowed his head and didn't speak, but the slightly changed look obviously listened, Qiao Yue forced a smile and explained: "Aren't we two still childless!" Wang re-glanced at Qiao Yue, and did not break it: "Not now, it doesn't mean that there will be no in the future, these two people live a life, they can't always pinch and dry, and they can't always accommodate one person to another, the two of them pay attention to what you accommodate me, I accommodate you, today you let a little, tomorrow I take a step back, so that the days can go on." ”

"Aren't we having a good life, it's just our temper ······" Qiao Yue wanted to explain, but was interrupted by Wang Chong's loud voice.

"Qiao Yue!" After a scolding, I saw Wang Chong say sharply with a straight face: "I'm saving face for you now, taking care of Brother Daring's face, so I didn't break it, so I told you well, don't kick your nose in the face, your performance during this time, the big guys are all in the eyes, we all know it in our hearts, your words are just the mayor of Wanchun, do you still want to make us?" ”

"At the beginning, you were crying and shouting that you had to stay in the village, and the mayor of Wanchun approved the land and divided the house for you, since you took the initiative to apply to stay, then you should correct your position, you are now a farmer, not a daughter who does not touch the spring water."

"Seven or eight out of ten days of work in the field are you taking leave to rest, you don't even cook at home, you don't feed the pigs, you wait for Brother Daring to come back, Daring works hard outside all day long, and you have to serve you when you come back, everyone lives so close, you are blind when we are blind? It was not easy for us ordinary people to turn over and become the masters of the house, but you are good, pretending to be virtuous outside, but at home you are oppressing our president Niu by changing the law, do you plan to go back to the past and learn from those landlords and old wealth to exploit and oppress our peasants? ”

"I didn't! I didn't! Qiao Yue immediately panicked: "Wang Zhishu, I really don't have it." ”

"Do you have not to listen to what you say, but to see how you do it." Wang Chong said coldly: "Since you married Brother Daring, your performance has been getting worse and worse in the past few years, and Renlian also persuaded me, saying that you are a temporary lake, let me give you some time and let you change slowly, but I see your quibbly posture, and I don't realize my mistake at all." ”

"Let's work together to set up cooperatives in order to improve labor and promote production, but your performance is clearly to drag all of us and the country back."

"Wang Zhishu, I don't, I really don't mean it, I'm not feeling well, I'm really not feeling well!" Qiao Yue was completely panicked: "I didn't want to drag everyone's hind legs, I was really unwell······"

"That's it!" Wang Chong interrupted Qiao Yue's words: "Don't talk about these lake people, you are so complex, and your bold complexion is not as good as yours, and you are embarrassed to tell me that you are not feeling well." If you don't want to live with boldness, that's fine, I'll report your affairs to the district, report to the county, let District Mayor Wang, let Secretary Zhou and them come to see, what kind of virtue the people they left behind are, and you can see what Secretary Zhou and District Mayor Wang will do with you when the time comes. Qiao Yue was stunned and stunned for a while, before she hurriedly got up, knelt on the kang, and grabbed Wang Chong's sleeve: "Wang Zhishu, I beg you, don't report it, I promise to change, I promise not to be lazy in the future, you can give me another chance." As he spoke, he burst into tears, his face full of fear and panic.

Niu Daring also looked at Wang Chong in a daze, and even forgot to smoke the cigarette in his mouth, but he didn't expect Wang Chong's matter to become so serious in Wang Chong's mouth.

"Cow bold!" Wang Chong shook off Qiao Yue's hand, his face was as cold as ice, he didn't care about Qiao Yue's crying at all, but pointed at Niu and scolded boldly: "And you, how did you manage your daughter-in-law, when she was in our second society, she behaved well, she was scrambling to do any work, how could she ask for leave after marrying you, and try her best to avoid being lazy and not working." ”

"I ······" Niu boldly wanted to explain, but his mouth was long, but he didn't know what to say.

"What are you, Comrade Niu Daring, that's how you are the president? People who can't even manage their own daughter-in-law, how can they manage the dozens of people in our village East Society! I now have serious doubts about your abilities! ”

"I ······" Niu boldly opened his mouth, but lowered his head again, there was really no way to explain, because every word Wang Chong said was true.

Ironclad facts.

"Big bug, big bug!" Ma Renlian immediately sang with a red face: "How can it be so serious as you say." ”

"Recently, there are so many things in the village, it is an oil mill, and it is the autumn harvest, there are a lot of things, and the president of the village East Society is bold, not only to organize the members, but also to count the work, busy with the work in the field, it is inevitable that he can't take care of it for a while!"

"Besides, how hard he works boldly, he has done a good job as president in the past few years, these are obvious to all of us, we can't deny his credit because of his momentary negligence." Wang Chong said with a straight face: "Meritorious service is merit, passing is excessive, he is the president, didn't the village give him more food?" ”

"This country has national laws, and the family has family rules, when we were in the high-level society in the city, we all said it was good, meritorious service was rewarded, and if you made a mistake, you should be punished, how can merit and demerit be mixed."

"If you make a mistake, you must be punished, and no one can be an exception, including me, the branch secretary, and you, the village head."

"Yes, you're right, Bold and Qiao Yue did make a mistake, but this is the first time for them, we don't need to go online like this, we have to report this matter to the district and county!" Ma Renlian persuaded with a bitter face.

"We have to give the two of them a chance to correct themselves first!"

"Besides, the bold couple has just been interviewed by a reporter in the county and has been in the newspaper, this is not a glorious thing after all, if it is really stabbed, not only will our Maixiang Village not look good, but it will also be uncomfortable in the district and county, and we will deal with this matter internally."

"I am indeed at fault, I admit punishment!" Niu boldly stiffened his neck and said, "It's because I'm too used to Qiao Yue, and I didn't persuade her well." Qiao Yue was too frightened to speak at this moment, with her head down, with a pitiful look with low eyebrows and tears in her eyes.

"You're really wrong!" Wang Chong still said sharply with a cold face.

"Party secretary, you see that Daring is the president of our village east society, and now is the time when the farm is busy, if we make a big fanfare, maybe it will hurt morale." Wang Chong hesitated for a moment, frowned and swept over Niu Daring and Qiao Yue with cold eyes, and his speech was still cold: "Then what good ideas do you have?" Ma Renlian said: "You see if we can do this, it's not a big mistake to be bold after all, let's deduct his ten days' work and let him have a long memory, as for Qiao Yue!" Her recent performance is really too bad, and she doesn't have much work every day at school, so let's give her a demerit first, deduct a month's work, and let her have a long memory! But let's not make it public, and when the farming is over, let's report it, what do you think? ”

"There's some truth to what you're saying." Wang nodded again, finally relieved, and then looked at Niu Dadao sitting opposite and said, "Do you two have any opinions on the handling method that Renlian said?" ”

"I'm okay with that!" Niu Daring can't find a crack in the ground and get into it directly, where will there be any opinions.

"I'm okay with that!" Qiao Yue also hurriedly expressed her position.

"Punishment alone is not enough, you two have to show me a gesture too!" Saying that, Wang Zhong looked at Qiao Yue: "Especially you, Qiao Yue, you have read, but you should understand this truth, now is the time for us to work together to engage in production, if you are so passive and slack off, and drag our Maixiang Village back, next time it will not be as simple as deducting a month's work." ”

"Wang Zhishu, Village Chief Ma, I promise, there will be no next time, I will definitely change." Qiao Yue hurriedly promised again and again, for fear that Wang Chong would regret it.

"That's good, the punishment is the same as what Ren Lian said, but in order to calm the morale of the army, this matter will be announced after the end of the autumn sowing, and the two of you will have a good memory!"