A man with a middle-parted hairstyle following Secretary Wang in a Zhongshan suit saw that Secretary Wang looked very unhappy and asked hurriedly, "Do you still have pumpkins in your village?"
Captain Wang shook his head and said regretfully, "This is the last one! A spendthrift woman, only adding to the chaos!"
The captain's wife was about to roll her eyes, but fortunately she still considered her husband's face in front of her leader and endured what she wanted to say.
"Are there any more on the mountain? Didn't they say they were found on the mountain behind your village? You take us up the mountain, no, you take people up the mountain to pick a few more!" The man with the middle parting made another request.
"This..." the captain hesitated, "This giant pumpkin isn't that easy to find. Our team has wandered around Daqing Mountain many times and never found one."
The middle-parted man said impatiently, "Hasn't that been discovered? Let all your villagers go up the mountain and search everywhere. You'll definitely find it!"
The captain's face wasn't looking good either. "Didn't they transport a whole tractor full of pumpkins last time? We can't guarantee we'll find them even if we look for them again."
The man with the middle-parted hair also had a bad look on his face. If the man surnamed Wang agreed with what the secretary and the others said, would they still come to Wangjia Village?
"What? Don't you want to complete the order given by your superiors?" the man with middle-parted hair asked viciously.
"Xiao Kong!" Secretary Wang spoke kindly to Captain Wang, "Don't worry, Captain Wang. Section Chief Kong is also anxious to find a giant pumpkin to solve the food problem for the people in our county."
The man with the middle-parted hair quickly said, "That's right! Secretary Wang is right. Captain Wang, our Secretary Wang braved the freezing cold to come and inquire about the giant pumpkin. It's all for the people! You can't fail to support our work!"
The captain was also an experienced man. Seeing this, he nodded quickly and said, "Yes, yes, yes! I didn't say we wouldn't go up the mountain. The main thing is that we may not be able to find it even if we go up the mountain. If you still need our Wangjia Village people to go up the mountain, I will immediately send them all up the mountain to look for it!"
Secretary Wang waved his hands twice in the direction of Daqing Mountain, and everything was said without words.
"Okay! I'll go to the brigade office and tell everyone to go up the mountain! Secretary, do you want to go up with us, or wait at the brigade headquarters?"
Secretary Wang didn't say anything, and then the middle-parted man spoke again: "We don't have enough experience in climbing mountains, so we won't hold you back. We'll wait for you at the brigade. Hurry up!"
"Okay!" The captain agreed readily. He didn't want to keep acting and not do it well!
The Wangjia Village Brigade loudspeaker blared: "Attention everyone, attention everyone, all able-bodied men, gather at the foot of Daqing Mountain. We are heading up the mountain."
The people of Wangjia Village put down their work and gathered at the foot of the mountain in groups of three or four.
"What are you doing? Are you going up the mountain to find food again?" asked the little girl's father.
"I heard the county party secretary is here and asked us to go into the mountains to look for pumpkins!"
The crowd murmured.
The captain came from the brigade headquarters with a young man named Xiao Sun.
"Let me introduce you, this is Comrade Sun from the county. He's going into the mountains with us to look for pumpkins. Is everyone here? If so, we'll go up the mountain!"
After the captain finished speaking, he walked ahead, and the people behind him followed him up the mountain.
As he walked, Xiao Sun turned around and looked around. After a while, he asked, "Is this all the strong laborers in Wangjia Village? Isn't it a little too few? Captain Wang, you're not slacking off, are you?"
"Goudan's father and the others went into the mountains early in the morning!" someone said.
When Xiaoya's father heard this, he jumped up and down: "What? I was wondering why I didn't see them. Why didn't they go into the mountains and call me!"
Another middle-aged man laughed and said, "Who told you to run so fast? You disappeared after breakfast."
Xiao Ya's father slapped his thigh in frustration, wondering what delicious food these people had gotten this time when they went up the mountain.
When he climbed halfway up the mountain, Xiao Sun was a little out of breath. He usually worked in an office and his home was in the county town, so he didn't have many opportunities to climb mountains.
“Are we…are we there yet?”
"It's still early!" said the captain. "Big pumpkins usually grow deep in the mountains. We have to climb up, maybe even over this mountain and look at the mountain behind it!"
"Ah? Climb over this mountain?" Xiao Sun looked up at the mountain that was still halfway up, feeling extremely regretful.
If I had known this earlier, I wouldn’t have fought for this first place. Whoever is willing can come. I’m almost dying of exhaustion!
After climbing for a few more minutes, Xiao Sun, who was already feeling afraid, could not walk anymore. He held onto a tree, leaned against a big rock and sat down, gasping for breath.
"No, I can't climb anymore. You guys go and let me know when you find it! I'll just rest here for a while."
The Wangjiacun people continued on their way. Xiao Sun sat for a moment, then regretted his decision. He'd been working up a sweat while climbing the mountain. Now that he stopped, he started to feel cold.
Xiao Sun stood up and jumped a few times. He still felt cold. He looked around the woods, but no one from Wangjia Village was in sight. He figured it wouldn't be that soon.
"I don't know when I can find these old-fashioned guys. I'm freezing to death!" Xiao Sun complained tremblingly.
"Uncle!" A little girl's soft voice sounded behind him.
Xiao Sun looked back and saw a big black dog with a little girl of four or five years old on its back standing behind him.
The little girl is fair and tender, with a pair of bright eyes.
"Are you calling me?" Xiao Sun asked.
"Yes. Uncle, please be careful behind you!" Jiaojiao kindly reminded.
Behind him? Xiao Sun turned around and saw a venomous snake, most of its body wrapped around the tree, its neck stretched out, hissing at him.
"Ah!" Xiao Sun wailed and collapsed to the ground, scared out of his wits.
"I told you to be careful!" Jiaojiao said, patting the dog, "Dabai, let's go!"
The snake on the tree twisted its body and slid down from the trunk, circled around Xiao Sun, and finally coiled around him.
After a long time, Xiao Sun slowly woke up. When he opened his eyes, a triangular snake head stretched out to him. He screamed "Ah" and fainted again.
In the woods not far away, a group of people saw Xiao Sun fainted again and couldn't help laughing.
"Serves you right! You even called us country bumpkins! Bah!" Goudan's father cursed, "What the hell!"
"Let's go, let's go find Captain Grandpa and let Dabai take us to find something delicious!" Jiaojiao patted Dabai, "Let's go!"
"Okay!" When everyone heard about finding something delicious, their eyes lit up green.
At this time, Captain Wang and a group of people were wandering aimlessly in the mountains.
"Captain, this secretary doesn't look like a very good person! He's definitely not as good as the last county magistrate who came!" Xiao Ya's father commented.
"Of course, look at his eyes, they're almost growing out of his head! He's too lazy to even talk to us!"
"That's right, he even wants us to find him a pumpkin. Bah, why would we find him one?"
"But didn't County Magistrate Zhang take away all our big pumpkins? What's this Secretary Wang doing here?"
What's he doing here? He must be trying to steal the credit! And his purpose is definitely not as high-sounding as he said, for the people! He has eyes on his head. The people are not flying in the sky, how can he possibly be in his eyes?
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