Chapter 30 Gu Yuehuai is also a technical talent

Gu Yuehuai stood outside the courtyard of Huang Fengying's house and called out, "Is anyone there?"

"Hey! Here she comes!" A voice came from the house. After a while, Huang Fengying, dressed neatly, came out of the house with a thick stack of newspapers in her hand. I don't know whose house she was going to mobilize again.

"Hey, Comrade Gu, how come you have time to come to my house today?" Huang Fengying was not as annoyed as before when she saw Gu Yuehuai. She even greeted him with a smile. However, when she thought of Chen Yin's matter, she became hesitant to speak.

She was also a little afraid of Gu Yuehuai's sharp tongue. If she knew that Lei Dachui had convinced the branch secretary again and released Chen Yin, and changed the punishment of canceling her work to seven days of weeding without work points, she would probably make trouble again.

Gu Yuehuai half-closed his eyes, chuckled and asked, "Director Huang, what do you have to say about this expression?"

Huang Fengying raised her hand to push her short hair behind her ears, leaned close to Gu Yuehuai, and whispered, "Chen Yin asked Lei Dachui to release her yesterday, and the punishment given to her by the team has also been reduced, but you also know that Lei Dachui is the captain of the militia, so we have to give him this face."

After she finished speaking, she saw that Gu Yuehuai looked calm and could not help but comfort him: "But don't worry, the team will not let you suffer in vain. I have a job here, I don't know if you are willing to do it. If you do a good job, it won't be a problem to earn 20 or 30 work points a day!"

"Oh? What kind of work?" Gu Yuehuai cooperated and showed an interested expression.

Huang Fengying smiled mysteriously, and suddenly turned her eyes to the colored pencils in her hand, and said with understanding: "This is my Xinxin, right? That girl took the portrait you drew for her home, and I was really shocked!"

"Xiao Gu, why didn't you tell me earlier that you have this ability? Our team is in need of technical talents like you!"

Huang Fengying said angrily, with a familiar tone in her voice.

"Director Huang, you're joking. How can I be considered a technical talent?" Gu Yuehuai showed an embarrassed expression. Although it was a bit eye-catching with her round face, at least it was not as disgusting as before.

Huang Fengying's tone was full of warm smiles: "I have seen your paintings, they are really good! Why are you not considered a technical talent? Recently, the agricultural movement of learning from Dazhai has been called for, and the commune requires all brigades to carry out the movement in an all-round way."

"Premier Zhou said that the Dazhai spirit is 'self-reliance and hard work', but we ordinary people don't understand it. We have to write it down and draw it! Let everyone see it all the time, we must be self-reliant, not borrow money from the country, and not ask for things from the country!"

"You know our brigade's animal husbandry, right? It's a few rows of adobe houses. It would be even better if we could add some propaganda posters on the walls!"

"If you want, we can do it today! How about it?"

Huang Fengying kept talking and was the first to bring up the purpose of Gu Yuehuai's trip.

Yes, she borrowed colored pencils and drew portraits just to get the job of drawing propaganda posters in the brigade. In her previous life, this job was done by people assigned by the commune, and the brigade had to pay and issue tickets, making the already struggling brigade even more stretched.

Learning agriculture from Dazhai is about how the people of Dazhai in Taihang Mountains transformed Hutou Mountain and fought three battles at Langwozhang, transforming the rocky ravines into terraces for growing crops. In the first two transformations, the repaired terraces were destroyed by floods.

However, the people of Dazhai did not give up and worked hard in the ice and snow for an entire winter, and finally completed the task.

The people of Dazhai used their own hands to transform the poor mountains and bad waters and created 80 acres of good land. The improved conditions prompted a continuous increase in grain production in the entire village. During the disaster in Dazhai, they refused state aid and relied on their own efforts to produce and save themselves.

The spirit of learning from Dazhai in agriculture is the most outstanding symbol of the qualities of farmers in Country Z.

She was able to take on the task of helping the brigade paint propaganda murals about learning from Dazhai in agriculture. On the one hand, this allowed her to reflect her own value, and on the other hand, it allowed her to demonstrate her extremely high political awareness. Not only could she earn work points, but she could also improve her reputation in the brigade.

Thinking of this, Gu Yuehuai said righteously: "Director Huang, look at what you said. It is my honor to be able to use my abilities to add luster to the team. Let's do it! Let's do it today!"

Huang Fengying was delighted and clapped her hands, saying, "Okay! Let's go to the brigade! Go and tell the director of public security!"

Having said that, she hurriedly pulled Gu Yuehuai towards the team.

The office area of the Dalaozi Production Brigade is located in the breeding area, which is where the production team raises livestock.

As soon as you enter the door, you see a row of adobe houses, all painted with white lime powder on all sides, which looks quite decent.

Further in, there is a large yard full of wooden stakes. The livestock are tied to the stakes during the day and locked in fences to be fed hay at night.

The smell in the breeding area is not very good. It is a mixture of tobacco, sweat, and animal manure, which is very unpleasant.

Huang Fengying hurriedly dragged Gu Yuehuai into an adobe house, where there was a large kang (a heated brick bed) with a small table of indecipherable color at the head of the kang. On the table stood a kerosene lamp with a blackened glass lampshade. In addition to these, there was also an old abacus, a stack of account books, several pens and other office supplies.

This is the team’s office, and also where members hold meetings and record work points.

When Gu Yuehuai and Huang Fengying entered the room, there were two people talking together. One was the branch secretary Wang Fu, and the other was a little unfamiliar, a middle-aged man wearing glasses and looking very elegant.

He is the public security director of the Dalaozi Production Brigade, Wang Peisheng.

The position of public security director is not an idle one. His usual tasks are to handle letters and visits from the public, support the tasks and activities assigned by various political and legal departments, as well as militia, conscription and emergency work.

Wang Peisheng is an educated youth who went to the countryside in 1962. He is also a party member and one of the few intellectuals in the brigade.

Wang Fu glanced at Huang Fengying, then at Gu Yuehuai, and said nothing. He sat on the kang and smoked a cigarette.

All the meat in his house was exchanged by this girl, and he hasn't even eaten a few bites!

"Director Huang? What are you doing?" Wang Peisheng had a good temper and was not angry at Huang Fengying's sudden intrusion. Instead, he looked at Gu Yuehuai curiously. He had been in the brigade for so long that he naturally recognized this girl from the Gu family who had a bad reputation.

Huang Fengying said in a loud voice: "Director Wang, doesn't the commune want us to develop activities to promote the agricultural learning from Dazhai? We need to paint propaganda murals on the wall outside our brigade. There is no need for the commune to send people. Xiao Gu can do it!"

"What? She can do it?" Wang Fu had an expression of disbelief and a look of doubt in his eyes.

Wang Peisheng's eyes lit up slightly, and he sat up straight and said, "Oh? Tell me in detail."

Huang Fengying didn't keep anyone in suspense and told them everything that happened yesterday. She also pointed at the colored pencils in Gu Yuehuai's hand and said, "If you don't believe me, let Xiao Gu show you one on the spot. If the technique is good enough, we can use it, okay?"

Wang Peisheng pondered for a moment, then nodded and said, "Okay! If you draw well, I will give you this job. I will give you 25 work points a day. What do you think?"