Sixth, the new official takes office

In the afternoon, the sun withdrew its faint light, as if afraid of the cold, and hid in the clouds as thick as cotton tires. On the path between the trees on the east side of the village walked slowly two young people, they were walking and chatting, this is Li Minqiang and Yang Xiujuan.

"Xiujuan, do you think I can be selected tomorrow?"

"Yes! You can! ”

"So sure?"

Yang Xiujuan raised her head and said, "Of course, you must have confidence." As long as your determination to lead everyone to get rich remains unchanged, you will definitely take off the hat of poverty in our village. ”

"I have been away from our village for more than eight years, and I have a process of re-understanding some people and things in the village.

"It's incumbent on you, as long as you like me."

"Why can't I look down on you?" Then he changed his words and said, "Xiujuan, I have to thank you." You cleared up a case for me and cleared everyone's misunderstanding of me. ”

Yang Xiujuan said: "Thank you, this is what I should do." However, this case is not over yet, and it has not yet been clarified who wrote the letter to Uncle Daejeon, why did he do this? ”

Li Minqiang pondered for a moment and said: "I think someone is deliberately creating contradictions, making me stink, making me unable to stand in Shagang Village, and trying to squeeze me out." ”

"You don't go to work in the city, and you even blow your daughter-in-law, why? Isn't it just to make Shagang Village rich? Some people are just blind and make trouble for you, which is simply infuriating. I'm going to have to find out who wrote the black letters. ”

"Do you have a goal?"

"I've already estimated it."

"We can't guess, we have to have evidence." Minqiang said seriously.

"I'll get the proof. Brother Minqiang, don't worry, I have to find out. ”

Li Minqiang said happily: "You are also a person who will not give up until you reach your goal!" ”

Yang Xiujuan pursed her lips and smiled, "I didn't learn it from you." ”

"What I learned?"

"Ahh I've loved your strength since I was a kid. Her face turned red and her heart pounded.

Neither of them spoke, and there was silence. Xiujuan likes Minqiang from the bottom of her heart, but she feels that what she said is too straightforward.

Minqiang also likes Xiujuan very much through several contacts, and he is also moved. It's just that Xiujuan already has someone else in his heart, and he doesn't dare to think about it. The two walked forward with their heads bowed.

At this time, the silence was interrupted by the cries of magpies in the trees, and the two of them raised their heads in unison, looking at the two magpies chasing each other in the tree, Xiujuan spoke: "Look how happy this pair of magpies is." How nice it would be if we could be like them! ”

Li Minqiang didn't understand what Xiujuan meant when she said this, so he didn't continue the words, looked at the sun that was about to set, and said, "Let's go back." ”

"Hmm."

"You go first, I'll go again."

"Are you afraid that the people in the village will see the two of us gossiping together?"

Li Minqiang did not answer.

Xiujuan said: "I'm not afraid of what you're afraid of, I'm still a big man." ”

Li Minqiang still smiled and didn't squeak, and the two continued to walk forward. Walking to the edge of the village, the two went home.

Late at night, the phone rang, Dong Datian got up from the quilt in a daze, and muttered, "Who is this, I still call in the middle of the night" and picked up the phone: "Hey, who?" Oh, it's my brother-in-law! What's the urgency? What! Oh, I see. ”

Dong Datian put down the phone and pulled Lin Caifeng, who was already asleep, with his hand angrily: "Wake up, wake up, why do you sleep like an old sow." ”

Lin Caifeng sat up, Datian glared and asked, "Let me ask you, what did you do before going to bed?" ”

Lin Caifeng rubbed her blurred eyes and said unhappily: "What are you staring at me!" The hottest is no more than the stove, the closest kiss is no more than two people, I can still go out and do bad things for you! It's not like I'm going to get you a vote. ”

"What's the matter?"

"Twenty dollars each."

"What are you doing?"

Lin Caifeng said: "What's the matter! ”

Dong Datian was anxious: "If you go on the front foot, people will call Secretary Tian." You're really not enough to accomplish and more to lose. ”

Lin Caifeng was dumbfounded.

The next morning, the results of the re-election came in.

Tian Yongsheng stood up and said: "Now let me announce the results of the election, Comrade Li Minqiang has 25 votes, Comrade Dong Datian has 12 votes, Comrade Li Minqiang has more than half of the votes, the election has taken effect, and Comrade Li Minqiang has been elected secretary of the party branch of Shagang Village. ”

The audience gave a standing ovation.

After Wang Wensi learned the election results of the party congress, he collapsed like a ball with a knife, he was really afraid of something.

It was already late at night, Wang Wensi sighed, and lay on the kang in horror and couldn't fall asleep, despite taking sleeping pills. He got out of bed, put on his clothes, went to the hall and turned on the electric light, lit a cigarette, and circled around the room like a scorpion on one leg. He is thinking about the terrible future, Li Minqiang has become the master of Shagang Village, I can no longer raise my head in Shagang Village, let alone have a bright future, and there will be no good fruit to eat, so I will become meat on the board, let people slaughter it at will.

Zhang Guilan got up to relieve herself, walked out of the inner room and muttered in a low voice: "What are you going around if you don't sleep in the middle of the night, you can't live if you don't become an official!" ”

Wang Wensi glared and scolded: "You know a fart!" ”

Zhang Guilan muttered in a low voice, "Then you can turn around" and returned to the inner room boringly.

Wang Wensi leaned back on the sofa, and thought of some of the things he had done since Li Minqiang came back, and connected the series of things that happened, I am afraid that the hat of the party member will not be kept. This matter also involves his own son Wang Xuewen, can he still keep his job? Maybe his object will have to blow too. It's over, it's over, it's completely over.

Wang Wensi's brain was buzzing, and he spun around the room with his hands behind his back. He was scared, almost scared to death. But I regret it, I feel that what I have done is some stupid things, not only did I lose my wife and soldiers! Alas, I knew why I had to do it today! Ahem, it's too late to regret it. What can we do in the face of the current situation? can only grind teeth in the nest and hold a grudge, which cannot be revealed. Cough! Cross the river with your eyes closed and leave it to your fate.

Wang Wensi was sick, and the illness was not light, so Wang Xuewen sent him to the town health center in a platoon car.

The old secretary Mu Qinglin leaned on the quilt at home, Li Minqiang sat next to him on the edge of the kang, and the new and old secretaries were talking softly and slowly.

Mu Qinglin said: "From now on, Shagang Village will be handed over to you." ”

"Uncle Lin, I'm ......"

"Listen to me first. Uncle, I'll tell you the truth, Secretary Tian proposed that you take over this class, but I didn't agree at the time, mainly because I was worried that you wouldn't be able to stay in our village, and I was also a little worried that you couldn't hold back the stubble when you were young. Now that the leaders of the town have taken a fancy to you, everyone has voted for you again, the leaders value you, and everyone trusts you, you can't say anything at this time. You've got a good brain, and you've got the ability to do that. From now on, you have to grit your teeth, stand up, and make a show. ”

"Uncle Lin, I remember your words. I just came back and don't know much about the situation in the village, and I don't have any experience in rural work, so you can help me! ”

"I'm sure you're better than I am. Isn't there a saying that blue is better than blue? ”

"What do you say our village should do first?"

Mu Qinglin pondered and said: "First of all, we must do a good job in the unity of the team. The team must be twisted into one force. I didn't do a good job in this area, and it's too late to regret it now that I think about it. You don't go my way, especially to have a good relationship with Datian, he didn't become a secretary, he may be a little unhappy in his heart, it will get better slowly, I understand him, he is a straight person, and the two of us are not less bumpy, in fact, he has nothing in his stomach, and you don't mind too much about some things. The good things that the secretary and the director do together will be easy to do. ”

Li Minqiang said: "Please rest assured, Uncle Tian and I will cooperate well." ”

Mu Qinglin continued: "I believe it. There are thousands of threads on the top, a needle at the bottom, and all kinds of policies at the top have to be implemented through the village cadres, and the village cadres are directly facing the masses. Especially in our village, there are still a lot of things to do, and the village is not as good as other villages in all aspects, and some people are still very poor. How can it be difficult to make every family in our village rich! There's a lot of work to be done. I can't do it, it's up to you. ”

"I'm going to talk to Uncle Datian and listen to his opinion."

"Well, it should be so, after all, he has been working in the village for several years, and he still has experience. Wen Si, you also have to talk about it, I have always been unpredictable about him for so many years, but he still has a good brain. It is said that Daejeon discussed with him, Daejeon was the secretary and he was the village director, but the ideas of the two of them did not materialize, and he probably had some ideas. ”

"I think Xiao Yulin is quite capable, and he is also very unique in looking at problems and analyzing problems."

"Well, this young man is good, very smart, I have always valued him, and he will definitely be productive if he is cultivated well. and Yang Xiujuan, a high school student, very thoughtful and talented, she is a probationary party member, and she should be turned into a regular in two months. ”

"I heard that there are a lot of fruits in our village, but the sales are not very good, is it feasible for us to set up a fruit processing factory?"

"I've thought about it too, but it requires a lot of money, and we don't have the financial resources! Then there's a technical issue. Seeing those second-class dealers harming everyone, I was anxious. Alas, it's hard to move an inch without money! A few years ago, I set up a glass fiber reinforced plastic factory, but the results got worse and worse, so I had to contract it to individuals. I can't get some other opinions, and I haven't been able to do it yet. ”

"I'm going to spend the committee tomorrow, and the branch committee members will talk to each other, talk about ideas, and unify their thoughts."

"Well, that's how it should be."

Li Minqiang was about to report some of his preliminary ideas to the old secretary in detail and listen to his opinions, but when he heard the sound of dishes and chopsticks in the outer room, he knew that Aunt Lin had already prepared dinner, so he said: "Uncle Lin, it's not early, let's talk about it later, I may not be able to trouble you, you still have to help me." ”

"What's the trouble or not, it's all for work."

"I'll come back to you if there's something."

"Well, I can't send you either."

Aunt Lin smiled and said, "Minqiang, let's eat something here."

"No, I'm leaving, Aunt Lin."

Li Minqiang came out of Mu Qinglin's house, thinking as he walked: What do Dong Datian and Wang Wensi think? What's going to happen at tomorrow's ward committee meeting? His heart was up and down. He went home and happened to pass by Dong Datian's door, and when he saw that it was not too late, he entered Dong Datian's house. Lin Caifeng is hugging Chai He.

"Aunt Tian!"

"Ahh Minqiang. ”

"Is Uncle Tian at home?"

Lin Caifeng hugged Chai He and said: "Oh, my heart hurts, I said it was a heart attack, he rolled on the kang in pain, and my father's shouting scared me." ”

Li Minqiang was taken aback and said, "Hurry up and send it to the hospital, I'll go in and have a look." ”

Lin Caifeng hurriedly stopped and said, "Don't go in, he just fell asleep after taking medicine, don't disturb him, wait until he gets better, okay?" ”

"That's okay, you tell Uncle Tian and let him recuperate, and the affairs of the village are up to us."

"If you don't keep him, you can't watch him suffer, can you?"

Li Minqiang nodded: "Well, then I'll go, and I'll come to see him tomorrow." ”

"You're busy. Don't sit down for a while? ”

"Don't sit down."

Li Minqiang left without looking back. As soon as he went out, Li Jianxin greeted him with a bucket.

Li Minqiang asked: "Do you still go to fetch water when it's dark?" ”

Li Jianxin said with a smile: "When I was about to cook, I found that there was no cooking water in the water tank." Is Uncle Ota at home? ”

"At home, sick."

"Sick, what's sick?"

"Heart disease."

Li Jianxin smiled contemptuously and said, "It's really a lame man's ass, and this heart disease is also contagious?" Shaking his head, he picked up the bucket and walked away.

Li Minqiang thought as he walked: The two unsuccessful candidates are sick, how can it be such a coincidence? It's definitely in the mood. I just want to change the backward appearance of Shagang Village, I never thought about being a secretary, I can be elected because of everyone's trust in me, is it my fault? Since everyone trusts me, I can't live up to their hopes for me, and I will do my best to do my job well. You can't let your emotions affect your work. I, Li Minqiang, am not a person who bows to difficulties!

After the election, Dong Datian returned home dejectedly, and without even eating lunch, he pulled the quilt and covered his head and lay on the kang. He never expected that the duck, which was almost cooked, would fly again. After working hard in the village for so many years, I was defeated by a newly arrived Li Minqiang, and even Mu Qinglin threw me aside and recommended Wang Wensi, I have conflicts with you, and I often bump into each other, but that is also for work! ”

He turned over while lying down, and continued to think: When did I sneak and play lazy and slip at work, and let me preside over the overall work of the village for a year, there is no merit and hard work, right? It should be my turn in order, too! Isn't this a denial of my work? How else do I stand in front of people? What a shame!

At this time, there was a sound of footsteps from the courtyard, and he sat up and looked out of the window to see that it was Caifeng back. He lay down on the kang again.

Liu Caifeng entered the house and said unhappily: "I met Zhang Guilan on the street, and I didn't like to answer when I talked to her, and I didn't know where to offend her." ”

Lin Caifeng's words made Dong Datian think of Wang Wensi again, he kept saying that he would not participate in the election and withdraw from the candidate, why didn't he retire? If he withdraws, won't the votes he got in the first election be mine? So I passed the first vote, and I still need to vote a second time? He's playing me like a monkey too! The tree is afraid of peeling its bark, and people are afraid of being sad, Dong Datian's heart is cold.

Lin Caifeng comforted: "You always sigh, no matter how big an official is, you won't be a lifelong official, if you want to open a little, your body will be sad, and no one will feel sorry for you." ”

Dong Datian tilted his neck and said, "Hmph! Didn't they look down on me? Okay, I'm not the village director anymore, save worry, no official and light, clean up our few acres of land, let them hire another master! ”

Lin Caifeng hurriedly waved his hand and said: "This is not good, you are a skewful person, people will say that you are not a secretary and make a fuss, and the reputation of being an official is not disgraceful!" ”

"Alas," Dong Datian sighed. If there is any way, just swallow your anger and take a step at a time. Don't they all think that you can be strong? I'm going to see where you can go. Do you think the officials in the countryside are so easy to be! There are many crooked things. The water supply project is about to start, every household has to pay a household fee, everyone knows that dogs love and people are greedy for money, and it is more uncomfortable to ask the people to take a money than to cut their flesh, I want to see how you collect this money!