Huanglian Village is really far away, Shan Chun and Teacher Xia set off at half past eight, and when they met Shi Qingwei in the village, it was almost eleven o'clock. I heard the announcement on the township radio that today the township was going to the countryside to inspect the poor households and the drought situation, and the secretary of the Jiuzhi branch and the secretary of the regiment branch and militia company commander in the village were waiting at home, and the village chief was going out for something.

The village department does not have an office, so it comes directly to the Jiuzhi Shu's house.

"Yamatsuki, are you here?" Jiuzhishu greeted Shanchun with a smile when he saw it.

"Township Chief Zeng said that there was something wrong and asked me and Teacher Xia to come." Yamatsumi replied.

"He used to be the head of the township, and it doesn't matter if he comes or not. You're here for the best. We take a few sips at noon. "Because of the events of that day, Jiuzhishu admires the doll official of Shan Chun very much.

"Maybe I'll have to trouble you in the future, Jiuzhishu." Yamatsumi said.

"What's the trouble. Squeak when something happens. I'm like that, I don't like to twist around, I like to go straight. "Jiuzhishu is really a straight person.

"Township Chief Zeng said that he became the deputy township head, and there were too many things, so he asked me to stay in your village." Yamatsumi remembered the words of the village chief that day.

"Oh, that's good. Welcome. The nine books were full of faces.

"Did the township party committee decide?" Teacher Xia asked.

"No, it's just that Township Chief Zeng told me, and no one else said." Yamatsumi said.

"Oh, not necessarily." Teacher Xia said.

"To be honest, we didn't have much contact, just once that day, but we both had a taste. I would like you to come to our village and stay in the village, but this village is too far away, and I am afraid that you will be too tired. The Nine Branches said.

"This is at the mercy of the leader. Let's take care of today's matters. "Yamatsumi's words are correct.

"Okay, you'll see how it goes." Jiuzhishu may want to take the mountain tsubaki test.

"We divided into two groups to go to the group to check on the situation of difficult households and drought. Take last year's form book, focus on verifying the specific new changes and new situations that your village has mastered, and then listen to the opinions of the villagers. Yamatsumi said.

"That's good, I'll go all the way with Lao Xia, and you and Chen Tianan all the way. We went all the way to four groups, and we tried to finish it in three hours, and we had dinner at my house at noon. That is, are you afraid of hunger? We usually have lunch at two or three o'clock in the afternoon, but today it's late, and after doing this, it's almost three o'clock, let's run faster, hurry up. "Jiuzhishu thinks that the past surveys and statistics are not all in the house to listen to our village say, today this mountain Tsubaki is going to be real? I thought about it, but I liked this sincerity in my heart, so I arranged a division of labor line.

Lao Xia was on the side and wanted to speak and stopped.

"Okay. We're going all the way through it, and we're going to have to keep a count of the drought. I think that in addition to the contents of the township statistical table, it is also necessary to understand and record the water source situation of each group, and find out whether there is a water source, where the water source is, how much water there is, what methods can be used for irrigation, and how many problems can be solved. Yamatsumi said again.

"This baby is good, thoughtful." Teacher Xia looked at Shanchun, thinking that Xiu'er should be doing these jobs, how should she do it?

"That's good, why didn't I think of it." The Nine Branches said.

"There will definitely be some ways to come out of the township statistics, and we don't care if we don't solve the problem, we will prepare first, and then we won't panic." Yamatsumi said.

Huanglian Township is the same as Luohan Township, it is also a township at the junction of Tiancheng and Yongchuan, Huanglian Village is far away from the township government, and Tongyong is connected to a village, the mountain is relatively higher than the other squares, and the ditch is deeper. From the handle rock, the Tiebei Village and Shilong Village passed in front are relatively flat, but Huanglian Village is connected to the deep hills of Chongqing, and it is indeed a relatively poor village. The economic situation of the whole village is much backward compared with other villages, and it is 76 kilometers from Huanglian Village to Puzi, while it is only 32 kilometers to a county seat in Chongqing, which is much closer than to Puci County.

The four groups walked down, and Yamatsumi focused on the investigation and statistics of the situation, and also went to check two water sources along the way. Walking to the farthest three groups, it was Chen Tian'an, secretary of the regiment branch and commander of the militia company, and saw that Chen Tian's family had a paralyzed mother, his father had passed away for more than ten years, he was the only son in the family, and the family was very difficult.

"How old are you?" On the way back to Jiuzhi's house, Shan Chun asked that he felt that he should care about his subordinate, the secretary of the village Youth League branch.

"I'm twenty-eight years old." Chen Tianan replied.

"Oh, married?" Yamatsumi asked.

"What a marriage? Look at my family, who wants to marry me? Chen Tianan was a little indifferent.

"No, it won't." Yamatsumi didn't believe it.

"Really. When I was a soldier, others introduced a few, and when I heard that I was in a soldier, they all said okay, and when they met, they also said okay. I'm like this, I can see it. Chen Tianan smiled at Shanchun.

"A handsome guy." Shan Chun really thinks that this Chen Tianan looks okay.

"But when people look at the house, hehe, the whole dead are gone. I wanted to stay in the army for a few more years, first, to find a mother-in-law, and second, to have the hope of being promoted at that time. But my mother suddenly fell ill and was paralyzed, so I had to come back to take care of my mother. Now, I have taken off my military uniform, and no one looks down on me as a person. Chen Tianan spread his hands.

"This can't be done, the secretary of the regiment branch and the commander of the militia company can't even find his wife, so where can he do it." Shan Tsubaki felt kinky in his heart, but he made a joke in his mouth.

How many heroes are crushed to death in a poor word.

"Your family is not in difficulty, is it?" Shan Chun did not see Chen Tianan's name on the roster.

"No, there is only one place for each group, and if I evaluate it, people can't rate it." What Chen Tianan said is also true.

"I think the house just now is much better than yours." Shan Chun felt that although Chen Tianan was a village cadre, he should also be assessed as a poor household according to the degree of difficulty.

"It should be, but I am a cadre in the village, and I can't judge him if I don't judge him." Chen Tianan said helplessly.

"Oh, that's right. That bachelor, only fifty-two years old, can't support himself? Yamatsumi asked again as he looked at the roster.

"He doesn't do any work, the fields are not good for planting, and the chickens, ducks and livestock are not raised, so he looks to the government for relief, and it is no wonder that he is not poor. He is a well-known Chenjiagou second leper. Chen Tianan knew that the whole village was not satisfied with this, but there was no way, this was a scoundrel.

"Look he's not a leper." Yamatsuki questioned.

"We all call people here who are good at eating, not greedy for work, and who owe money everywhere to eat and drink." Chen Kai'an explained that in fact, this is how people are called in rural areas.

"Isn't that the government raising him?" Yamatsumi asked.

"The government's relief money can't support him, he still owes a little credit everywhere, he still rubs a little food everywhere, and there is always a production point in the field, so he lives like this." Chen Tianan further said the situation of this two lepers.

"What should I do with such a lazy person, can I get relief?" Yamatsumi thinks it's not okay for these lazy people.

"I don't know, maybe I'm old, a bachelor, and I'll be like this then." Chen Tianan smiled bitterly.

"You can't be like that." Yamatsumi said sharply.

Chen Tianan was stunned for a moment, but did not speak, and the two walked silently.

"How's it going?" At the dinner table, Yamatsumi asked.

"It's okay, it's time to verify, and the drought and water sources have also been understood, and they have all been counted." Teacher Xia said.

"Here, have a drink." Jiuzhishu held the wine bowl, and when he arrived at a full bowl, he drank the wine.

"Just this bowl, forget it after turning, we have to rush back to the countryside." Shan Chun took the wine, took a sip and handed it to Teacher Xia.

"What are you going back to, it's almost three o'clock this time, just stay here with me, and go back tomorrow." The Nine Branches said.

"Oh, no. I'm going back, and I'm going to report back tomorrow morning. Yamatsumi said.

"It's not that person, I don't keep him yet, we can afford to vote, so I keep you." The Nine Branches said to Yamatsuki.

"Thank you Jiuzhishu for looking up to my mountain tsubaki, but not this time. Next time I have time to come and stay with you for a few days. Shanchun remembered that Uncle Wei and Uncle Li said that the township cadres who went to the countryside and didn't eat dinner had a bad relationship with the village cadres, and no one invited them to eat, and he was grateful for the hospitality of the nine branches.

"Then it's decided, I won't keep you today. Lao Xia, you are the same. You know who I am, and that's how I am. "The nine branches of the book are no longer left.

"Yes, yes." Lao Xia smiled.

"Lao Xia, although you are just a broadcaster, few cadres can surpass you in your ability and ability. You're a celebrity in our township. A good word in one hand, a good article in the other. Your daughter was also admitted to the cadre this time, and she was assigned to Guanyin? Jiuzhishu asked again.

"No, it's in Fenggao." Yamatsumi said.

"Xiu'er, it's in Fenggao, the women's director. You know? Lao Xia looked proud.

"Oh, congratulations." Yama Tsubaki had heard of this name when he took the exam in the prefecture, but this time Yama Tsubaki didn't read the distribution documents, and he didn't know the specific distribution location of these people, but he only found out on the phone yesterday.

"What is there to congratulate, it is a thousand-day cadre, not a rural hukou." Lao Xia was a little unhappy.

"Alas, in these days, one household registration has divided people into two levels, which really restricts us rural people. Tian Anwa was also a victim. The Nine Branches said.

"What do you mean?" Yamatsumi asked.

"He is a soldier, he is excellent in all aspects, and he is finally ready to be promoted, and one of the two people is mentioned, and it is not bad to say that it is a baby. But compared to Tian'an, it is a little bit worse, but the people are from the city, and they finally mentioned it and became an official. Tian'an came back, so poor that he jingled, a mother has been paralyzed for a few years, and his baby is twenty-eight years old and can't even get married. We here, people his age, the dolls are all in elementary school. You say, isn't this the hukou that killed his baby? The Nine Books were a little resentful.

"Don't talk about me, people are fate." Chen Tianan took a sip of wine with a smile and passed the bowl to Jiuzhishu.

"Also, people, they have to accept their fate, but they are unwilling to accept their fate, contradictions, and pain. If you care about him, a thousand days will be a thousand days, and I don't believe that this account can still card you back to the countryside to repair the earth. Jiuzhishu took a big sip and passed the wine bowl in front of Shan Tsubaki.

"I didn't think about it that much, let's take it one step at a time." Yamatsumi picked up the bowl and took a sip.

"Where did the village chief of Chaozhan go?" Lao Xia saw that a few people were excited, so he wanted to pull the topic away.

"Oh, Village Chief Wang has gone to Qingliu." Chen Tianan said.

"Why?" Lao Xia asked.

"Didn't his youngest daughter graduate from high school last year and came back to substitute teach in our village, but I didn't hear the news about the cadres here and didn't get the test. Someone told her that her protégé was a person from Qingliu Street in the county seat, and she went to the object today. The Nine Branches said.

"Oh, marry on the street, that's a good thing." Lao Xia said.

"A good thing? I heard that the baby was released from labor reform, repairing locks and keys on the street, and there is also an eye that was blown up in a fight in the past, and now it is a dog-eyed pearl. Chen Tianan said.

"As far as your baby talks a lot, Lao Wang came back to listen to you say this, and he didn't scold you to death." Nine beckoned.

"In these years, there are still few beautiful girls in the countryside who marry disabled people in the city, and there are still few prisoners and old bachelors, not to mention her. It's a lot, this Wang Tingmei, what a good little girl. Lao Xia sighed.

"Wang Tingmei? My classmates? Yamatsumi shouted.

"Your classmates?" The Nine Books asked.

"Yes, I graduated from Nanjin High School last year. There is a female classmate in the class named Wang Tingmei. Yamatsumi said.

"That should be, she also graduated from Nanjin High School last year." The Nine Branches affirmed.

"Oh." Shan Chun's heart was sour, is it for this Wang Tingmei's classmates or for these rural sisters?

"Don't talk about that, drink." The Nine Books greet everyone.

"I don't see any trees on this mountain." When the nine books were sweet, Shan Tsubaki remembered the hard wood.

"We have a lot of people and little land, and there are rocks everywhere, so there are a lot of trees." The Nine Books replied.

"Is this the case in the whole town?" Yamatsumi asked again.

"In the whole township, there are only a little more trees in Hualiang Village and Shuizhu Village." Teacher Xia said.

"What kind of trees are they, are they hard-rooted?" Yamatsumi continued to ask.

"Most of them are cypresses, and some of them are nanmu trees. Other hard-rooted timbers are also available, but the total amount is not large. Teacher Xia replied.

"Are these trees expensive now? Do ordinary people sell? Yamatsumi asked.

"Trees are expensive, in the past few decades, trees were cut down everywhere, and they were bare, except for the state-owned forests in Hualiang and Shuizhu, the trees in other places are still small, some have just become forests, and there is some heartache to cut them down and sell them, and in recent years, the forestry has been tightly managed, and it is not allowed to be cut, and it is necessary to cut down the certificate." Chen Tianan replied.

"Oh." That's right.

Shan Chun felt that the pole factory wanted to be yellow.

"Sister Liu, do you have anything to eat?" Back in the township, the canteen was closed, Uncle Li went home, there was no food, and Shan Chun came to Sister Liu's kitchen.

"You haven't eaten?" Sister Liu came out of the kitchen.

"Didn't eat it." Yamatsumi said.

"Nine Books Didn't Entertain Dinner?" Sister Liu asked again.

"No, we finished the work, it was late, it was past three o'clock after dinner, and it was too late to rush back, and Uncle Li was not there." Yamatsumi said.

"Are you still serious, can you do it for so long?" Sister Liu didn't believe it, and felt that ordinary township cadres went to the village to do these things, and they all sat in the house to do calculations and statistics, and it took so much time there.

"We set off at half past eight, and it was almost eleven o'clock when we arrived in the village, so we didn't delay at all." Yamatsumi explained.

"Oh, you went one by one?" Liu Xuemei's guess was correct.

"Yes." Yamatsumi said.

"No wonder it's been so long." Sister Liu understood.

"What if you don't go one by one?" Shan Tsubaki asked, is his own method really too stupid?

"I don't know, anyway, someone else sat down in the village office and finished the work." Liu Xuemei didn't want to say it thoroughly.

"Oh, then they have enough work experience to get the job done, and I can only do it in a stupid way. Learn more from them in the future. Yamatsumi said honestly.

"Stupid way? Learn more from them? Whether this method is stupid or not is difficult to say, it depends on how the leader thinks about it. It's right to learn more from them, and it's up to you not to do the same thing as them. Sister Liu said as she came out with eggs and noodles.

The road in Huanglian Village is so far and difficult to walk, is it possible to change? Should the lazy and lazy households in difficulty be relieved? If the village cadres are indeed poor, should they be assessed as poor households? Chen Tianan really wants to be a bachelor for the rest of his life? Wang Tingmei's husband who is about to marry is really so unbearable? Xiu'er's father, Mr. Xia, really looked down on recruiting cadres in his heart, so why did he let Xiu'er take the exam, why was his face so embarrassed when he said that Xiu'er became a cadre?

Today, I walked more than 60 miles of mountain roads, and I was tired, and I thought about it and went to sleep. In the dream, Shan Tsubaki saw Sister Jun again, how could Sister Jun's husband also be a blind cripple.

Yamatsumi wept in her dreams.

"Sister Liu, today's work report meeting is not open?" It was nine o'clock, and when Yamatsumi saw that no one was calling for a meeting, he came to the office and asked.

"There are still some people who haven't come back, and the secretary and township chief haven't come back either, and they won't open until they come back." Sister Liu replied.

"When is that going to open?" Yamatsumi asked again.

"I'm afraid it won't be able to open in the morning, let's watch the afternoon." Sister Liu said while busy sorting out the documents.

Shan Tsubaki put the work notebook back in the bedroom, came out of the door, and stood under the big yellow cypress tree at the entrance of the street, this tree has some history, Hua Yan cloud cover, hundreds of square meters of shade, in the township government this one hundred and fifty meters long street, it is a very landscape. Under the tree is a small two-story brick and wood building for the newly renovated food station. The food station is what it is now called, and it used to be called a killing shop, which is where pigs are slaughtered. The meat that is killed is nine dimes a pound, and the meat ticket is seven cents a pound, and a pig is killed a day, and the meat has already been sold out. Killing the line to go up, is a line of twelve supply and marketing cooperatives of the two-story building, brand new, on this street is very bright and abrupt. Upstairs is the staff dormitory, and this year to have such a staff dormitory, it is also the envy of all the staff in the entire township, including the government and the school. The twelve rooms on the ground floor are all façade rooms, the department stores of the supply and marketing cooperatives are all in it, the façade room is a red lacquered wooden door, during the day, all the doors are pulled down and placed on the side of the door, so that the various goods in the department store glass counter in the façade can be seen at a glance. Cigarettes, alcohol, shoes, jackets, clothes, pants, towels, toothbrushes, soybean oil, and vinegar are among them. Only pesticides, fertilizers, kerosene, etc., are in a row of blue-tiled houses made of four or four stones on the side of the highway above. Opposite the agricultural materials store is the township health center, a color of four or four stone made of seven small green tile houses. On the right side of the government gate, there is a row of small green tile houses with three bays, which is the livestock station. Directly above the government street, more than 10 meters high on the side of the mountain is the grain station in the township, there are round warehouses and square grain depots, all of which are blue tile buildings made of four or four stones. Below the government street, about ten meters lower is an old street, except for a four-four stone blue-tiled roof building at the entrance of the street, which is a cooperative store, all of which are blue-colored wooden structure blue-tile houses, and the street is less than 200 meters long. Township primary school, with primary school and junior high school, is located about 1 kilometer away from the township field outside the Tianba gate on the side of the mountain.

The whole building of Huanglian Township is just like what Uncle Wei said, the urine is bigger, and the urine can walk through the street, which is not false at all.

This Huanglian Township is full of stones, otherwise how could the government, supply and marketing cooperatives, cooperative stores and the surrounding scattered people's houses all be made of four or four stones?

It's all right this morning, Shan Tsubaki walked from unit to unit, and finally stood under the early elm tree in front of the livestock station.

The mountains are high and there are many stones, and rabbits do not build nests. This is a phrase that has been circulated among the masses and is familiar to Yamatsuba. This shows that the natural conditions of Huanglian Township are quite poor in this era when agriculture is almost all industry, and no crops can be grown on the stones, nor can trees grow.