Chapter 26: Playing the hooligan "Teacher Daohua, you are also from our...
"Teacher Daohua, you also came from our commune..."
"From Lijiazhuang."
"Our commune is poor. Did your father tell you about this?"
“Lijiazhuang is even poorer.”
"Our commune is also carrying out reforms today, but no matter how many times we try, we just can't make any progress."
"Lijiazhuang has not been changed either."
"This reform..." Seeing Li Sanzhu about to interrupt again, Zhang Qingshan got angry.
"Li Sanzhu! I say a sentence and you follow it. You are telling me a crosstalk."
Li Sanzhu felt that he was indeed getting too cocky. He would not have dared to speak to the secretary so casually before. Alas, there was nothing he could do. His daughter was too capable.
Their commune is actually not too remote. There is a dirt road at the foot of the mountain, but there are no buses running on it. Instead, it is filled with coal trucks, and the air is dusty every day.
There are also many young and strong people from nearby communes working in the coal mines in the mountains. It is dangerous, but it makes more money than farming.
Farming in their broken mountain area is almost non-existent. There is no mountain spring water, so they can only carry water to irrigate the fields manually or rely on the weather for food.
It's fine when the weather is good, but once there is a natural disaster, the whole commune will have to pay the bill collectively.
"Comrades, you are suffering!" Zhang Qingshan began to play the emotional card.
"But we really don't have anything here except people."
Zhang Qingshan panicked and said, "No, no, no, we can't do human trafficking."
Huh? Li Daohua was stunned. How did it suddenly turn into human trafficking? Are grassroots cadres so wild at this time? How dare they think of this?
Seeing her like this, Zhang Qingshan realized that he had misunderstood her, and smiled awkwardly: "I have read your book, the one called "Dong Le's Success Studies", and I was deeply impressed by the human trafficking in it..."
Oh, there is indeed such a part in the success story. When Dong Le ran away, he took his family with him. It’s not because he loves his family so much, but that family is also a kind of resource, a free resource.
While on the run, Dong Le sold his wife and daughter to local human traffickers in exchange for more resources for his escape. Otherwise, with his funds, he would not have been able to make it to America.
Along the way, he sold his wife, daughter, brothers and even himself.
Li Daohua also wrote vaguely about what these people will encounter after being sold. They can deceive themselves, there is not much danger in being sold and become slaves, or they can directly follow Li Daohua's hints and enter the world of the Golden Triangle.
Zhang Qingshan was not a young student who had never seen the world. He knew that the more chaotic the place was, the less people were treated as human beings.
"We have plenty of people here, and plenty of strength, but there's no place to sell our strength."
The side businesses of each production team are basically no-cost businesses, and there is no labor cost.
Li Daohua had never thought about this kind of thing, but when she looked down and saw her slightly wet shoes, she suddenly remembered it.
"I see there are sheep herders here."
"Yes, the production team's sheep, you didn't raise them in Lijiazhuang, but the production team next door did."
"So after you kill the sheep, what do you do with the sheepskin?"
"Usually, they are recycled in slaughterhouses. No one here knows how to tan leather."
Generally speaking, places with a large population but underdeveloped technology are more suitable for labor-intensive industries.
"Well, I think we can find someone to learn the craft of tanning leather, and then use the sheepskin to make shoes. Such shoes are warmer. As far as I know, they are selling well abroad."
If you talk about this, Zhang Qingshan will no longer be sleepy.
Before this, Zhang Qingshan had never thought about foreign exchange. This kind of thing was too far away for their remote little commune.
They can't even earn RMB, let alone foreign exchange.
"What kind of shoes are they?" Zhang Qingshan had never seen shoes made of sheepskin.
Li Daohua briefly explained the production principles of snow boots. It is actually very simple. The biggest difficulty is the sheepskin.
With a skeptical attitude, Zhang Qingshan returned to the commune and went to several places before finding an unused tanned sheepskin. The other party had originally planned to save it to make a sheepskin mattress.
After returning to Lijiazhuang, I asked a village lady to make a pair of snow boots for me according to what Li Daohua had told me.
This pair of snow boots is actually not up to standard. The sole is made of a thousand-layer sole, which is too thin and does not match the thick upper layer.
But it doesn’t matter, you can add another layer of Thousand Layer Outsole and treat it as a thick sole.
"These shoes..." I wouldn't say they look good, but they are pretty ugly anyway.
This sheepskin is from the little white sheep raised in the village, and it can be used to make white snow boots.
In the countryside, white shoes are not only ugly but also impractical. Wearing them in winter is not a way to live.
Li Daohua made some simple decorations, and it looked better than before.
The soles of the shoes were made by Lin Jinfeng for Li Daohua when she was at home, and now only Li Daohua can wear them.
Li Daohua didn't hesitate to try them on. They were really warm and warmed up very quickly, unlike cotton shoes which heated up slowly.
Because they are made of leather and fur, there is no need to worry about waterproofing. The snow here can easily turn into snow water, and ordinary cotton shoes will get soaked if you are not careful.
Every year it often happens that people get their shoes wet and put them on the stove, which results in big holes being baked in them.
Such a loss is also heavy for a family.
"When you put it on... it won't be so ugly. Hey, if you could wrap it with a layer of red velvet, it would definitely look good and you can wear it at a wedding." Lin Jinfeng recommended.
Red velvet paired with snow-white fur, this is a classic color combination, and Li Daohua chose white.
"Such warm shoes should be sold further north to colder places."
Although he didn't know if it would work, since it was recommended by Li Daohua, Zhang Qingshan chose to believe it.
Of course, he is not a fool. The commune has a great god like Li Daohua, so how can he not make good use of him.
He was going to report to his superiors, saying that the author of the reform trilogy had shown them a way to make snow boots, and asked the county to support it.
They have been certified, and it would be unreasonable not to support it.
With this thought in mind, Zhang Qingshan didn't care about the upcoming New Year holiday and ran directly to the county to ask for support.
Of the several pairs of snow boots that were made, he left one pair for Li Daohua and took the rest away to show his leaders. This was an international fashion that could earn foreign exchange.
She didn't expect that she could get a pair of shoes, so that when she sits at home to write manuscripts, her feet won't be numb from the cold.
Writing manuscripts in winter is really a life-threatening task. Even if Li Daohua wrote on the stove at home, she was still so cold that she kept stamping her feet.
Li Sanzhu and his friends were very supportive of Li Daohua's creation. As soon as they saw her start writing, they would definitely go up to argue with anyone who made a noise outside the house.
Their rice flowers are used to earn foreign exchange for the country. What if they delay important matters?
"You are going to submit this manuscript to Peking Literature, right? Alas, we can't buy Peking Literature here." Li Sanzhu felt a little regretful.
The original manuscript is the original manuscript, and the typed work is typed work. They are different, so he wanted to collect all of Daohua's works.
So far, he has collected a very complete collection, all of which was helped by Ouyang. Ouyang also brought them a copy of the newspaper in which Li Daohua published his article for the first time.
Speaking of which, Li Sanzhu couldn't be more satisfied with his son-in-law Ouyang. He has good looks, a good job, and good character. There is no one who can compare to him in the surrounding area.
"If we don't submit our works to Peking Literature, we won't be able to buy them. So let's try submitting to October." October, founded in 1978, is also a national publication.
This novel of hers was written specifically for her fourth uncle, so he had to see it. There was no point in reading it if he couldn't see it.
"This is good. I've seen this and heard the secretary talk about it."
Li Sanzhu stayed at home these days and did not go far away. One reason was that it was the end of the year and there was no important work, and the other was that his bicycle was taken away by Li Fengshou and his friends.
It was agreed that there would be eight days, four days for each of them, and Li Fenghuo was going to ride a bicycle to the blind date.
The news that Li Daohua was a great writer had spread to several nearby brigades. Since she had no brothers, no one could target her, so they targeted her cousin.
Even Li Fengshou, whose father died early and who is only eighteen years old this year, has a matchmaker coming to propose marriage to him.
Even if Li Fengshou's mother said that Li Fengshou would join the army after the New Year, it could not dampen everyone's enthusiasm.
After putting up the couplets on New Year's Eve, Li Sanzhu called Li Daohua aside and asked them whether Ouyang Yuan would return to his home after the New Year.
Logically speaking, on the second day of the Lunar New Year, Ouyang Yuan would be the one returning to his parents' home since he married into the family.
"I didn't expect you to come back for the New Year. Actually, you can spend the New Year in Beijing with Ouyang's parents."
Li Daohua then remembered that they had not told Li Sanzhu and the others about Ouyang Yuan's family affairs.
After listening to what Li Daohua said, Li Sanzhu remained silent. There were also educated youth who went to the countryside and abandoned their wives and children, but they did not expect that this would happen to their in-laws.
"Then you should go back while you have a long vacation. Your mother-in-law has gone through such a thing, and we don't know what will happen to her."
Li Daohua nodded. Ouyang Yuan knew the specific addresses of his mother and sister, but he had never been there. It would probably be a bit troublesome if he went there for the first time.
The feelings between people are mutual. Ouyang Yuan is good to their family, so Li Sanzhu and others naturally feel sorry for Ouyang Yuan.
Ouyang Yuan's sisters are also in Henan Province, but not in the same city as their home. It takes four or five hours to get there by bus.
"Then we'll go later, and then we'll go directly back to Peking from his mothers' place."
It just so happens that Li Daohua can ask about the story of Ouyang Yuan’s parents to enrich “Reborn: One Life, One World, One Couple”.
When Li Sanzhu mentioned this during dinner on New Year's Eve, Ouyang Yuan was stunned for a moment. He actually wanted to go back and see his mother, but this time when he came back, Li Daohua was so distressed that it took her several days to recover.
He was worried that taking Daohua back to see his mother would cause trouble on the way, so he originally planned to go back by himself to see her and then come back to Peking with Li Daohua.
"Daohua is your daughter-in-law. This ugly daughter-in-law will have to meet her parents-in-law one day. Not to mention that our Daohua is so outstanding, she is not afraid of meeting her parents-in-law...
You haven't told your family about marrying into the family, right? You'd better tell them."
Although he was worried about changes, Li Sanzhu felt that he still had to discuss such a big matter with his family.
During the Chinese New Year, Li Daohua strolled around the village for the first time. Since she came back, she rarely strolled outside because of the snow.
Children in the village rarely have firecrackers, and the few who have firecrackers are the objects of everyone's flattery.
When they saw Li Daohua, the older children looked at her with awe.
They knew that Li Daohua was a great writer, and their parents had reinforced this knowledge with brooms at home.
In order to verify whether their children are great writers, their parents even ask them to write on the spot, saying that they want to show their works to great writers to see if they have the potential to be writers.
How can they write? Their school doesn't train their writing skills at all.
Some cunning students secretly memorized the text in the textbook in order to get away with it.
As a result, he was discovered at Ouyang Yuan's level and was severely beaten in front of everyone.
After this series of attacks, Li Daohua became the nightmare of all the children in Lijiazhuang.
When they saw her coming, the children ran away, fearing that they would run too slowly and be caught by the great writer.
Some parents have already used Li Daohua to scare their children, saying that if they don’t go to sleep, the great writer Li Daohua will catch them and make them write essays all night without letting them sleep.
The child dreams of not writing anymore, not being able to finish writing, and not being a writer anymore...
"Oh, our great writer is going out. I thought that since you have become a great writer, you would not want to talk to us rough folks."
After saying that, several people who gathered together laughed. There were both men and women, all young people in the village. Many of them had been beaten by Li Daohua when they were young.
They just like to get together and give people nicknames. They say Li Fengshou is a fatherless child, and when he was beaten by Li Daohua, they say Li Daohua is a crazy woman and no one wants him.
At this time, when people say that Li Daohua is a great writer, they also use a sarcastic tone.
Li Daohua faced the sunshine, squinting slightly, like a little brat.
With her hands in her pockets, she slowly approached, step by step, wearing her newest snow boots.
"Do you have a job? How much do you make a month? Do you have a house? Have you found a partner? How much does your partner make a month?"
Suffocation, none of these people could answer these questions.
When they were in school, they were just as ignorant as Li Daohua and dropped out soon. Now they are all in their teens and twenties.
If nothing unexpected happens, they will be honest farmers like their parents, and when the wave of reform and opening up comes, they will go to the city to work like countless helpless migrant workers.
"You... don't think you're great just because you're a writer. You're just a crazy woman, a crazy woman!"
"Do your parents know that you don't work all day and just hang out with other people like a gangster?"
In this day and age, it is not a good thing for men and women to get too close to each other. It is easy for people to gossip about them, and once they are discovered to be doing something inappropriate, they will be doomed.
"Who, who is a hooligan! Stop talking nonsense!"
The girls' faces turned pale. They had been playing together since they were young and had never thought about such things. After arguing a few words, they all ran away.
The girls have all gone home, and these boys are not afraid of Li Daohua.
"Are you still not leaving? Are you waiting for me to call you a hooligan?"
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