Chapter 143 Qian Gaoyun’s New Opportunity
Xie Yun looked at his tanned brother and his smile widened.
Their family is living a good life now. The two workers earn a combined salary of more than 60 yuan, which is enough to easily raise a child.
Zhang Ruifeng and Xie Yun both had quotas. Xie Shen didn't, but as a member of the brigade, he was supposed to receive a share of food. He only needed to settle the bill with the brigade at the end of the year. One person's food rations didn't cost much.
Comrade Wang Qingli grows vegetables in the front yard, cotton in the backyard, and raises pigs, chickens and rabbits. She is grateful for Xie Yun's help and comes to check on the livestock and poultry at home every once in a while to ensure their healthy growth. She also does her best to give feeding guidance and allows Xie Shen to participate in her scientific feeding experiments.
Normally, Xie Shen wouldn't have to work cutting grass for the pigs, let alone help out in the vegetable garden during his vacation. But he persisted, never missing out on any opportunity to earn work points. He just didn't eat the vegetables in the garden and bring them home anymore, as he used to.
Whenever the siblings mentioned their previous experience of stealing vegetables, they would just say "hehe" and look very embarrassed.
Xie Shen was even busier than Xie Yun and Zhang Ruifeng, constantly on the go. He had chores to do, his own plot to tend, pig grass to harvest, and even garden work to do—for a ten-year-old, the workload was definitely substantial.
But because he was now well fed and had a balanced diet, and because Xie Yun had added some spiritual spring water to the water tank at home and occasionally fed him some concentrated spiritual spring water, he was growing taller and his growth was very gratifying.
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The infrastructure construction work in Qushui County has entered a period of vigorous development.
Xie Yun's workload suddenly increased dramatically.
After all, there were too many things to do, and more things to record. She was not only in charge of a brigade now, she was in charge of the entire Taoyuan Commune!
In order to reduce her burden, Xie Yun organized a small training class in Taoyuan Commune. Two people were selected from each brigade to learn from her how to keep work records.
She gave these people two identities: brigade correspondent and county annals recorder.
"Now is an important stage in the development of our Qushui County. After this period of hard work, I believe that the overall appearance of our Qushui County will undergo earth-shaking changes, and the old appearance will be replaced by a new one. This process must be well recorded.
What we need to do next is to use the pen in our hands to record the development process of Qushui County. In the future, this will be the history of Qushui County. Our descendants will be able to see through our records how their fathers and grandfathers worked hard to create a good life for them.
Therefore, I need everyone to work together and learn how to keep records. If the content of your submissions is suitable, I will help you submit them for publication. If the content is not suitable for submission, I will edit a "Taoyuan Monthly Report" and distribute it to each brigade, so that all members can see the latest changes in our Taoyuan Commune through your records. It will be published once a month, and your articles will be signed with your names.
Xie Yun briefly told them the importance of doing a good job of record keeping, and also gave a few case studies, analyzing the basic elements that a qualified work record should have. As for the rest, he asked them to go back and practice more, consolidate their knowledge, and consult more with the intellectuals in the brigade.
What she didn't expect was that these guys gave her a lot of surprises. For one thing, they made a concise work record and a long one, which recorded various details and gossip in detail. Xie Yun was almost happy to death after reading it. It was not much different from watching gossip on the spot.
With the help of these guys, Xie Yun felt relieved. She didn't have to run around. She just needed to select the appropriate content from the content they submitted, help edit it, and submit it. She would then edit a monthly report at the end of the month.
Xie Yun applied for a room from the commune and hung a sign on it that read "Editorial Department of Taoyuan Monthly". She did not usually work there, but stayed in the offices of Secretary Li and Director Zhong. Occasionally, correspondents came to see her and they would discuss work in that room.
The prizes for the submissions were given to the right people. Xie Yun also helped them apply for some prizes at the commune, including a notebook, a pen, and a certificate. For those who performed particularly well, a letter of praise was published to the brigade, which was read over a loudspeaker as a spiritual recognition.
Everyone was very happy with this whole thing.
When Xie Yun saw this situation, he started a selection process for advanced individuals. At the end of each year, each brigade would select five people who had outstanding performance in all aspects. After evaluation by all members, the one with the highest votes would win. Each brigade would write down the advanced deeds of these advanced individuals and report them to the commune, which would commend and reward them.
The commune will then report the situation and strive for more honor and rewards for everyone.
As soon as this document for evaluating advanced workers was distributed, the work enthusiasm of the members of each brigade was raised to a higher level.
Now that Xie Yun had more free time, she had more time to study the materials Qian Daguang sent her, and develop and extend them on that basis.
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In mid-September, Xie Yun received news that the county was going to organize a literary and artistic propaganda team in order to enrich the cultural life of the people.
Two actors from the provincial song and dance troupe of the cadre school served as artistic instructors for the art propaganda team.
Xie Yun immediately thought of Qian Gaoyun.
This guy can sing, dance, act, and even write scripts. Isn't this a job opportunity tailor-made for her? While being an all-purpose assistant in Liushu Village is not bad, for her, joining the art and cultural propaganda team might be a better opportunity. She's still young and beautiful.
Xie Yun found Qian Gaoyun and told her the news.
Qian Gaoyun's eyes lit up, then dimmed again. "I'm not going. I want to stay in the countryside and start a revolution."
Xie Yun: “…”
This blockhead is so annoying!
She advised, "Revolution can happen anywhere. Why are you picking and choosing where to start a revolution? You should go to the place where you are most needed. That's the only way to bring out your greatest value. Do you understand?"
We have too few people here who are good at singing and dancing, and the masses' amateur cultural life is too poor. We need outstanding young women like you to enrich everyone's spiritual world and convey the leader's spirit and will in a form that the masses like and understand."
Wang Qingli wasn't as polite as Xie Yun. She practically poked Qian Gaoyun's head with her finger and said, "Clear your mind. This is such a great opportunity, why don't you grab it! If I had learned as much as you, and had an opportunity like this before me, I would have accepted it without hesitation. Even if this opportunity hadn't been presented to me, I would have taken the initiative to grab it and give it a try. You actually want to give up? What are you thinking!"
Yue Zheng said, "First of all, you have to think about what you like. Gao Yun, do you like farming, or do you like singing and dancing? I know you can do both well. You are good at farming and teaching students, but is this what you like? If what you like is singing, dancing and performing, you should seize this opportunity and not let Binbin down.
Having the opportunity to do what you love and realize your dreams at the same time is a blessing that many people dare not even think about.”
Qian Gaoyun lowered her head and said, "I do like singing and dancing, but I said I wanted to make a career in the countryside."
Xie Yun asked her, "What do you mean by a career?"
Qian Gaoyun: "..."
She doesn’t know either!
Wang Qingli said, "You haven't thought it through, have you? I think you're just confused."
Yue Zheng smiled and said, "My words are a bit blunt, but the truth is there. You haven't figured out what kind of career you want. Besides, taking root in the countryside doesn't necessarily mean working in the fields. Once you join the art propaganda team, you can perform for the farmers more often and become an artist for them. You can sing and dance while serving the farmers. Isn't that the best of both worlds?"
Qian Gaoyun opened her wide, innocent eyes, looked at Xie Yun, Wang Qingli, Wang Qinghong, and Yue Zheng, and asked, "Is that so?"
They said, “Yes!”
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