In March 1979, a major event happened in Xingxinghe Village: the re-election of the village committee!

Under the chairmanship of Lu Yongde, the father of --- Jinling, the secretary of the brigade, a villagers' meeting was held on the bank of the Happy River. On the banks of the Happy River, a few worn-out wooden planks are built on more than 20 fast stones, which are counted as a rostrum; There are four long tables on the rostrum, and there are five people sitting on the table: in the middle is Zhou Zhancai, secretary of the Party Committee of Hongqi Township, that is, Donglai's brother-in-law. This was the first time he had attended a meeting of the village committee since he took office. He felt a heavy burden of responsibility. Before taking up his post, Jiang County Magistrate ---, Jiang Feng's father, instructed him to do a good job in Hongqi Township and become a banner for the county's townships and towns to implement the joint production contract responsibility system pilot. Considering that he is a "new official", he has not yet revealed his relationship with Yuhuan to everyone. On both sides of Secretary Zhou sat three candidates for the village party secretary: Lu Yongde, Lu Youguang, and Ning Fugui. Needless to say, two years ago, because he exposed Lu Youguang had historical problems, Lu Youguang was isolated and censored, and Lu Yongde replaced Lu Youguang as the branch secretary, this time he wanted to be re-elected, of course, he also had a "selfishness": his son Jin Ling was not admitted to high school, if he was taken down, he wanted to "hereditary" to Jin Ling, but his uncompetitive son went to do business in other places; Besides, after two years of quarantine and review, although it was finally announced that "there is no historical problem", it is not so easy for the branch secretary to "recover on its own", it is up to the villagers to decide; After graduating from junior high school, Ning Fugui almost didn't get admitted to high school, and in the past two years, he worked as an accountant in the village committee, and did a lot of good things for the villagers, especially blocking Lu Yongde's evil road of "speculation", Lu Yongde wanted to "open" him several times, but he didn't succeed, because he had a certain prestige among the villagers, but there was a "weakness" ---- was a foreign surname.

The Happy River is very lively today, like a market, and most of the villagers have brought small horses; Some simply spread old paper under their butts; Of course, there are also a few naughty children riding on the fork of the willow tree on the bank of the Happy River.

Lu Yongde is basically confident in this election, because he has "done enough work" in the past two days--- more than half of the village has received his "benefits"; Secretary Zhou of the Commune sat down at his house at noon today! The only thing that makes him a little worried is Ning Fugui, this kid can be said to be the master of water that can't be splashed, besides, he has not "bought the hearts of the people" in the past two years。。。。。。

Speaking of which, Lu Yongde can also be regarded as a "resourceful" person, a bit like Ma Zhiyue in "Sunny Day", full of "twists and turns", he can jump from a civilian to the position of "village party secretary", without two hits, it is really unimaginable.

In 1958, the whole country set up "public canteens," and every household had to hand over not only iron pots and iron tools, but also all grain to the public, and not a single grain of grain was left at home. However, Han Donglai and his mother kept an eye on it, secretly dug a cellar at night, hid two bags of grain in the cellar, and covered the mouth of the cellar with a large water sludge--- even the outer road of the village chief at the time was not revealed for many years.

The next day, the authorities sent people to go door to door with the village cadres to conduct a detailed search. It's so dangerous to say, at that time, there was a very fine cadre, when he walked up to Da Shui Yu, knocked on it, and jokingly asked Donglai Niang: "It won't be a tunnel down here, right?" Who knew that Donglai's face did not change and her heart did not beat and said: "You really know how to calculate, there are dead people hidden below!" The man waved his hand wryly: "Don't say it's so scary, let's go!" ”

Unexpectedly, the next day, someone was sent to search, and it was met that Donglai's mother was cooking porridge for her hungry daughter Yuhuan, and Donglai's mother had nothing to say. As a result, the grain was confiscated, and the village chief who had been in the village for many years was also taken down, and Lu Youguang, who was the militia company commander at the time, took over. Some people suspect that it was Lu Youguang who informed, but in fact, he was wronged, and the person who really made him bad behind his back was Lu Yongde. He accused the old village chief Lu Chang for many years in order to take his place, but he didn't expect to be "taken over" by Lu Youguang, so he fanned the flames everywhere, saying that Lu Youguang used unbright means to make the old village chief "carry the black pot". I wanted to use this method to "pull Lu Youguang off the horse" again, but I didn't expect that after Lu Youguang became the branch secretary, he did a lot of good things for the villagers, and as a result, his position became more and more stable. It was not until later that his younger brother Lu Yongping became the "director of the * committee" of the commune, and through the "black history" of the whole light, he became the village party secretary. Although Lu Youguang was "restored" for a few years later, with his "superb wisdom", he was still "honest".

"Villagers of Happy Village, everyone pay attention, the meeting is about to start, please be quiet!" Lu Yongde paused, then muttered a few words to Secretary Zhou sideways, then looked at his watch, and pulled the fixed microphone towards him: "Villager comrades, now I announce: The Xingfuhe Village Committee re-election meeting will start now!" Next, let us welcome our Secretary Zhou's speech with the warmest applause! ”

The audience burst into applause.

"Comrades villagers, comrades members!" Secretary Zhou picked up the porcelain jar and snorted: "The main purpose of convening everyone to hold a meeting here today is to re-elect the village committee. Why re-election? Because our next step is to implement the joint production contracting responsibility system! That's what it takes to be led by people with energy and brains. Of course, this is up to the villagers to vote for the election, and I hope everyone will keep their eyes open and elect a leader who can really lead everyone to a better life. Secretary Zhou then introduced the three "candidates" sitting on both sides of him: "This is Comrade Lu Yongde, the current branch secretary, and this is Comrade Lu Youguang, the old branch secretary of our brigade; This is Comrade Ning Fugui, who worked as a village accountant not long ago, don't look at his young age, but he graduated from middle school, and he is also the one with the highest level of education. Considering that everyone doesn't know much, I thought of a way, there are three bowls here, each bowl is glued with photos of these three people, everyone can also see, there are corn kernels next to it, who everyone trusts, put corn kernels in whose bowl, do you remember? The following should be in harmony with the words: "I heard it." The naughty child in the tree also hurriedly slid down the tree to join in the fun.

"Let me say a few words," Lu Yongde half-draped in the old army coat, stood up, and made a "report" like a township cadre: "Villager comrades, Secretary Zhou's speech just now is so wonderful!" Secretary Zhou not only spoke well, but also very concerned about the suffering of our Happy River Village, this morning Secretary Zhou also came to my house, carefully asked about the life of our Happy River villagers, so I was very moved! When Zhou Shu heard this, he frowned and motioned him not to talk about this, Lu Yongde immediately changed the topic: "I believe that everyone has a scale in their hearts, what you have in your hand is not a corn kernel, it is a sacred vote, I will explain it to you again, this bowl is me, everyone remember; The second is Lu Youguang, and the last one is Ning Fugui, okay, I announce the start of the election! ”

But there was no reaction from the audience. Secretary Zhou is a person who understands, he stood up and said to the three "candidates": "Let's go, let's avoid it." ”

Lu Yongde reluctantly left the scene. He understands that in the past few days, he has been doing mobilization work in the brigade, as long as he is at the scene, the villagers are embarrassed not to vote for him, but he didn't expect Secretary Wang to ask him to leave the scene: alas, let it be fate!

An hour later, when Secretary Zhou led them back to the rostrum, the villagers had already cast their "votes" and waited for them to come back to announce the results.

"Let's nominate three literate people to count the corn kernels in each bowl." Secretary Zhou proposed.

"I propose that three teachers from our school count it!" Chunhua raised her hand and said.

"Good!" Secretary Zhou applauded: "Then there are three teachers!" ”

The three teachers quickly walked to the rostrum, and it only took more than 20 minutes to count the number of corn kernels in each bowl and write them on a piece of paper.

Secretary Wang took the note and glanced at it, Lu Yongde stretched out his head to take a look, Secretary Zhou hurriedly turned over the piece of paper with "voting results" and put it on the table, Lu Yongde had to sit down in disappointment.

"Villager comrades, today's voting results are in my hands, it represents the wishes of the villagers of our happy village, next, I will announce the voting results," Secretary Zhou took a sip of water from the tea jar and cleared his throat: "Lu Yongde 90 votes," Lu Yongde thought that he was elected, stood up excitedly, and saluted everyone: "Thank you fathers, old and young people, I will definitely live up to everyone's support for me!" ”

"Lu Youguang 146 votes." Lu Youguang also stood up and greeted everyone; Lu Yongde realized how funny his actions were just now, and at the same time, he was very disappointed in his heart, and in order to hide his frustration, he subconsciously picked up the teaglass.

"Ning Fugui 560 votes." After Secretary Zhou finished speaking, Ning Fugui stood up and bowed to everyone.

Ning Fugui stood up, and was about to express his position, Secretary Zhou also stood up and patted him on the shoulder, and at the same time looked around the audience: "Now I announce that the new party branch secretary of Happy Village is Comrade Ning Fugui!" Secretary Zhou took the lead in applauding, and the audience applauded again; Lu Yongde was so angry that he drank water, and suddenly, he stood up nervously and shouted, "I'm against it!"

Suddenly, the people stopped applauding and cheering, and hundreds of pairs of eyes shot at Lu Yongde. Secretary Zhou's deep eyes also swept around his face in confusion, as if asking, "Why?" ”

"Folks, most of us have the surname Lu, why should a person with a foreign surname surnamed Ning be our guide?" Lu Yongde's experience as a "village cadre" in the past few years has also created sharp teeth: "Is there no one in our happy village?" ”

Secretary Zhou was holding the tea jar, but he didn't drink water, and careful people could see that his hands were a little trembling, and he couldn't sit still anymore: "Folks, let me say a few words." Today, we have elected Comrade ---Ning Fugui, a village cadre who can do practical things for you, through the hands of each of our villagers. The reason why he was chosen by everyone is that he must have done a lot of good things for everyone and truly represents the public opinion of the villagers. I would like to ask Comrade Lu Yongde, which article of the state says that a person with a foreign surname cannot be a village cadre? Secretary Zhou turned his face to ask Lu Yongde, Lu Yongde lowered his head, holding the teacup with one hand, and groping with the other hand on his upper body, I don't know if it was to hide his embarrassment, or to find a cigarette to smoke.

"I think, most of us have seen a movie, called "Sunny Day", most of the people in this village are surnamed Ma, only a few people are surnamed Xiao, according to some comrades, this branch secretary must be surnamed Ma to be reasonable, but in the end everyone elected a young man with a foreign surname Xiao Changchun to be their party branch secretary. It can be seen that whoever does things for everyone, no matter what his surname is, the people will support him and approve of him, and everyone says it is right? ”

"Secretary Zhou is right, we trust Ning Fugui!"

"Wealth is the secretary, we can rest assured!"

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"Okay, next, I will invite Comrade Ning Fugui, the new secretary of the Party branch of Happy Village, to speak!" Secretary Zhou sat down.

"Fellow fathers, fellow villagers! Thank you very much for your support to me, and I would like to bow to you again. Here, I will make a statement in front of Secretary Zhou. In the next step, our village committee will lead everyone to actively respond to the call of governments at all levels, implement the contract responsibility system of joint production, and strive to double the grain output within three to five years, completely get rid of the poor hat, and become a real happy village! As soon as Ning Fugui's words fell, the audience had already applauded and screamed!

After Ning Fugui finished speaking, Secretary Zhou made a brief concluding speech and finally announced the end of the meeting.

After the meeting, Secretary Zhou was present, and Ning Fugui "formed a cabinet" for the village committee, with Lu Youguang as the village head and Lu Yongde as a member of the village committee.

"There is also a militia company commander, an accountant and a women's director." Lu Youguang said.

Ning Fugui held his chin and thought about the candidates for the three positions.

"I suggest that Lu Chunhua be the women's director and accountant." Ning Fugui thought of his old classmate.

"No," Lu Yongde glanced at Lu Youguang: "There are two village cadres in a family, and the masses will have opinions!" ”

"What article of the state does not allow two village cadres to appear in one family?" Secretary Zhou asked rhetorically.

"This 。。。。。。" Lu Yongde opened his mouth and stammered, and his mind turned: "Since this is the case, I will not avoid relatives in my virtuous manner, and I suggest that my son Jin Ling be the commander of the militia company." ”

"Didn't Jin Ling go to the south to do business?" Ning Fugui commanded his army.

"His home is still in Happy Village, so he is eligible to be elected." In the past two years, Lu Yongde has also learned to talk about "policy provisions".

"Then let's wait until he comes back." Ning Fugui said decisively.

Secretary Zhou suggested that Comrade Ning Fugui should first serve as the commander of the militia company, although Lu Yongde opposed it in his heart, but he could not say a reason for his opposition---- and the new village committee was born.