Chapter 82 Five Good Educated Youth
The commune was quite efficient in handling matters. The old branch secretary handed over the approval slip, and the next afternoon, the projectionist from the county came to the countryside with his film projection equipment.
In order to show his importance, Wu Yongbing personally drove a bullock cart to the commune to pick up the people. After arriving at the village, he first treated them to a delicious meal.
That was the situation at that time. The eight major members had high status wherever they went, especially the projectionists who went to the countryside. They were treated like VIPs in the villages.
Because only if the projectionist is satisfied with the food in the village, will he be happy and not make trouble when showing the movie. Otherwise, he can come up with countless tricks such as tape jams, disc skipping, machine failure, etc. There is always a reason to prevent you from watching a movie happily.
However, unknown to some, this time the commune was in a hurry and the projectionist was not well prepared when he came down to show the movie, or maybe Kaoshantun was unlucky. In short, all the previous reception procedures were fine, but when the projectionist got the machine to the sun-drying field and set it up, and the open-air screen was opened, it was discovered that the projector had a problem.
Yes, there really was something wrong with the projector. The disc was stuck and couldn't spin!
By this time, several piles of firewood had been burned in the sun-drying field, making the whole field warm. The villagers of Kaoshan Village had brought their own benches and were sitting upright in a row. The children who usually jumped up and down and acted wild were now more quiet and obedient than the others. Even the members from other nearby villages who had received the news in advance and rushed to the field had already arrived. Everyone was eagerly waiting for the movie to start.
Who knew the machine would break down at this time!
The old branch secretary and Captain Wu thought that the projectionist was deliberately playing tricks on Qiao and wanted to use this opportunity to ask for benefits from the production team. After all, the projectionist has always been like this and he would use his position to take bribes almost every year.
The two old cadres were furious about this, but they had nothing to do with the projectionist, so they discussed it secretly and finally decided to grit their teeth and catch two old hens in the village as an extra reward for the projectionist.
But what the two men didn't expect was that before they could even promise the projectionist about giving away the old hen, the projectionist panicked first.
After discovering that the machine had broken down, the projectionist's face turned pale and cold sweat broke out on his forehead. He looked at his watch nervously while repairing the machine, and even glanced at the people around him from time to time. His expression looked extremely panicked and he was even more anxious than Wu Yongbing and the old branch secretary.
Wu Yongbing and the old party secretary suddenly felt strange. Before they could figure out what was going on with the projectionist, the villagers waiting in the sun-drying field were the first to notice something was wrong.
Because they were waiting to show the movie, the projectionist actually dismantled the projector that had just been set up. What does this mean?
The drying field was in an uproar. All the members, whether they were from the village or from outside, were collectively unhappy.
"What do you mean? Aren't you here to show us a movie? It hasn't even started yet, why are you dismantling the machine again?"
"Isn't this too slow? There's no need to keep us in suspense! Didn't the machine get inspected before we went to the countryside? We've been waiting in this drying field for so long, and it's been so slow for so long that it won't start up again. If we don't turn it on soon, it will be dawn soon!"
"That's right, what's going on with the commune? This year, our village is the first to hand in the public grain, but they just let us sit here and wait all night? Is this going to work?"
A group of villagers started to curse and some stood up from their stools in anger, as if they were going to fight with the projectionist if he didn't show the movie. For a while, the situation on the sundrying field was tense and a conflict could break out at any time.
The projectionist was so anxious that he was about to cry.
As a projectionist in the Propaganda Department of the County Cultural Center, his main job is to go to the countryside to show movies to the peasant comrades. In Qingshan Town, according to the schedule, this basically needs to be arranged after the autumn harvest.
It was the autumn harvest season in the countryside, and no village was willing to come to him to show movies, so he had been slacking off at the cultural center for about a month.
He originally thought he could rest for a few more days, and he had planned to take his partner to the park to row a boat. But who knew that work would come yesterday afternoon, as the Red Flag Commune submitted an application for screening.
But the projectionist was not in a hurry. He knew the Hongqi Commune, which had seven or eight production brigades. Once the projection work in the countryside began, he would not be able to return for at least a week.
So he thought about delaying it for two days and taking his partner out to play before making a decision.
As a result, early the next morning, when he was about to leave work secretly, he was called over by the stationmaster.
The stationmaster didn't know who had informed him in advance that some county leaders might go to Kaoshantun, Qingshan Town for an inspection that evening. It just so happened that they had received an application to go to Kaoshantun, so the stationmaster asked him to pack up and leave immediately, and make sure to get to Kaoshantun in the afternoon and prepare for tonight's movie screening!
Before leaving, the stationmaster repeatedly reminded him not to lose face in front of his leader and to do the projection work to the best of his ability to bring honor to him.
After receiving the notice, the projectionist dared not delay any longer and packed up his lunch and left without saying a word.
Although the stationmaster did not specify who the leader was who was going to conduct the inspection, the fact that the stationmaster attached so much importance to it and emphasized it so solemnly showed that this leader was of considerable background.
Moreover, going to the countryside for inspection so late at night, the itinerary and time arrangement sounded very strange. The projectionist was politically sensitive and immediately guessed that this inspection might be unusual.
This was a big deal. After all, he usually worked with rural peasants and had no chance to meet other leaders except the director of the cultural center. But if he could take this opportunity to show up in front of the leader and let the leader see his hard work and meticulousness in his work, maybe he could attract the leader's attention and even bring about a turning point in his career.
Thinking of this, the projectionist became nervous and expectant at the same time. He was only thinking about how to save face in front of his leader, so how could he care about the person he was talking to?
Even when he went to Kaoshan Village, he was very cautious and did not dare to slack off. When the village cadres invited him to dinner, he acted quickly and did not dare to delay at all. After the meal, he immediately ran to the threshing ground.
But he never expected that the plan could not keep up with the changes. He wanted to show the movie seriously this time and didn't plan to do any tricks like before. As a result, the chain fell off at the critical moment, and the projector went on strike when it was about to be turned on!
To make matters worse, just as problems arose in the projection work here, a group of people quietly walked into the village. Among them, the one who walked at the back with his head lowered and acted as a background board, who else could it be but the director of their cultural center?
Is there any need to guess who these people are who can make their webmaster act so respectfully and carefully with a smile on his face?
The projectionist had never expected that the inspecting leaders would come down so quickly. His mind buzzed and went blank in an instant. He was so flustered that he even forgot what to do next.
At this time, the cadres of the Kaoshantun Production Team were all focused on the dismantled machine behind the projectionist, and no one paid attention to anything else.
The other villagers in the village were not surprised at all by the arrival of a group of strangers.
Because this is an old tradition of the Red Flag Commune. Whenever the projectionist came to the countryside to show movies, the members of the surrounding villages who got the news would come specially to watch the movies. Basically, they would follow the projectionist wherever he was working at night.
So there were quite a lot of outside villagers, young and old, in the grain-drying field of Kaoshan Village at this time. When a group of people suddenly came, the people of the village didn't pay any attention at all.
When the old Party secretary and Wu Yongbing saw that the villagers were cursing and the projectionist had dismantled the machine and stopped, they immediately became nervous and pushed through the crowd to the projectionist, asking anxiously:
"What's the problem, comrade?"
The projectionist's heart was beating fast and he was at a loss. He never expected that after working in the projection field for so many years, he would make such a big mistake in front of his leader. The key point was that the more anxious he was, the more he couldn't find the specific cause of the machine failure. When he saw the director of the cultural center standing in the crowd with a gloomy face and staring at him silently, his mind was in a mess.
At this time, Gu Weidong and Ye Qingcai came late for their affair.
Gu Weidong had no interest in open-air movies. After all, this thing had basically been eliminated by the time he was reborn.
By the early 1990s, color televisions had become popular in many towns and even rural households. Various television programs emerged like mushrooms after rain, and DVDs were sold everywhere in the streets and alleys. Most people went to the cinema to watch movies, and it was rare to watch open-air black-and-white movies.
As for Ye Qing, she was somewhat curious about this open-air movie. After all, in her time, she had never seen this old-fashioned way of watching movies, so she found it very novel and wanted to experience it.
But she was so immersed in the creation of "Beginning of Autumn" in the afternoon that she couldn't extricate herself. Once she started to sort out the manuscript, she completely forgot about the time. She even ate a few mouthfuls of dinner in a hurry.
After finishing my meal, I revised the manuscript several times before I stretched my body with satisfaction, finishing today's creation.
Unexpectedly, when she looked up, she found that it was dark outside. She also heard Gu Weidong asking her if she wanted to go to the sunbathing ground to watch a movie. Only then did she come to her senses and ran out in a hurry, picking up her small stool.
I originally thought that we would definitely miss the movie if we arrived at the sun-drying field so late. However, when I arrived, I found that the sun-drying field, which should have been orderly, was as chaotic as a vegetable market. The open-air movie that the villagers had been looking forward to for a whole year had not even started yet.
Gu Weinan and Meng Jia, who had rushed to the sunbathing ground in advance to help reserve seats, were also joining in the crowd. When they saw Ye Qing and Gu Weidong coming, they waved to them.
"What's going on?"
Seeing that many villagers around were already carrying their stools and preparing to go home, Ye Qing felt strange and couldn't help but ask.
When Gu Weinan was mentioned, he was also very angry:
"This projectionist is so unreliable. He came to our place to show movies, but the machine he brought was broken. The projector was already set up, but it was taken down again. It's being repaired now. Judging from the situation, it probably can't be fixed for a while. I guess our village's movie show tonight is in vain!"
This made Ye Qing and Gu Weidong both stunned.
Seeing that the villagers were all filled with anger and disappointment, and the projectionist was in a flurry and looked completely disorganized, Gu Weidong couldn't help but frown.
After thinking for a while, he said to the three of them, "You guys play on the side for a while, I'll go see if I can help out."
Having said this, Gu Weidong pushed through the crowd and walked towards the projectionist.
Gu Weinan was immediately extremely surprised and curious: "My brother can also repair projectors?"
Ye Qing was also a little surprised.
But she suddenly remembered the way Gu Weidong adhered to the drawing of the Desert Eagle. He seemed to be very knowledgeable about the various structures and principles involved. He must have done a lot of research on firearms in private before his rebirth.
After retiring from the army for 18 years, he is still passionate about researching and studying firearms. So it doesn't seem so strange that this guy has taught himself or received further studies in mechanical maintenance.
With Gu Weidong taking action, Ye Qing was quite confident in him. This guy would never act on his own unless he was sure of something. Since he offered to lend a hand, he must be very confident in repairing the projector.
Sure enough, after Gu Weidong came over, he took over the repair work from the projectionist shortly and quickly began to troubleshoot the entire equipment.
Seeing that he was able to master the device after just studying it briefly, Ye Qing knew that today's open-air movie screening should not be a problem.
Just at this time, many furry children saw Ye Qing coming to the sun-drying field and came up eagerly.
During this period of time, with the help of the two young men, Ye Liming and Ye Shuguang, Ye Qing has gained a lot of little fans in the village. All the furry kids in the village have now spontaneously become her little brothers.
As her reputation grew, she began to provide enlightenment education to these children intentionally or unintentionally. Whenever she had free time, she would tell these little kids stories about five thousand years of history, covering Chinese, mathematics, history, geography, science, technology, and morality. Basically, she would tell them whatever she thought of.
The spiritual world of this era is extremely scarce. On weekdays, the biggest entertainment hobby of the villagers in Kaoshan Village is to gossip about the family affairs in the village or the surrounding families, the conflicts between sisters-in-law, and the relationship between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law. However, the content of these things is basically the same over and over again. In short, life is very boring and monotonous.
If this is the case for adults, it goes even further for children. Apart from running around the village to call for cats and play with dogs, they have no other entertainment activities. After a long time, the children themselves found it boring.
As a result, Ye Qing, the female educated youth, became a mudslide in the village. Wherever she was, there were always all kinds of interesting things.
From fishing and barbecuing to picking wild fruits and making jam, to petting wolves and listening to her tell those strange and novel stories, the children's spiritual world seemed to become fulfilled all of a sudden. The originally chaotic daily life was gradually replaced by Ye Qing's chaotic classroom.
Even though Ye Qing would set traps for these kids from time to time, give them all kinds of homework, make them recite random ancient poems and math formulas, and even occasionally conduct spot checks on their learning progress, it still couldn't stop these little guys from getting close to Ye Qing.
And this group is still growing. The age of the children has gradually increased from a few years old to some middle school students and even adults who come to listen from time to time.
Just like now, Ye Qing had just appeared in the sunbathing ground, and a bunch of little kids gathered around him, chattering away. They didn't even care whether the open-air movie could be shown today. They were just curious about one thing.
"Sister Zhiqing, did the Wisdom Family escape danger at sea?"
"How can they escape from a tornado? They will be blown up into the sky in an instant! Their boat will be torn into pieces!"
"Will Tiger Cub and Fat Bear die? And what about Lupi Monkey and Meimei?"
"Please tell us something, sister Zhiqing, please tell us something again, please!"
The children all had nervous and frightened looks on their faces, and they all stared at Ye Qing, looking forward to hearing the rest of the plot, but also afraid that the protagonists in the story would really get into danger.
Ye Qing: I felt like I saw her mental state when she was following an online novel and encountered the author breaking the chapter at a crucial point. She was so anxious that she jumped up and down and wanted to ask for the author to update the book eight hundred times a day!
No wonder those authors like to interrupt the chapters at random points. It turns out that seeing their fans going crazy for the later plots actually makes them feel secretly happy!
Yes, during this period of time, when Ye Qing had nothing to do, she would tell stories to the children to pass the time. As a result, for some unknown reason, a bold idea suddenly flashed through her mind.
Since she wanted to tell stories to children, and wanted to include everything from ancient times to the present, including encyclopedias, astronomy, geography, science, biology and all kinds of common sense, why didn't she just compile it into a series of stories?
Just like the old cartoons "Haier Brothers" and "Three Thousand Questions of Rainbow Cat and Blue Rabbit", knowledge is integrated into every story through the protagonist's adventures.
This way of presentation may be more vivid and easier for children to understand. At the same time, the story is more interesting and fascinating, allowing children to remember these knowledge points more firmly.
As soon as this thought came to his mind, Ye Qing couldn't help but want to put it into practice.
Perhaps it was because the progress of the novel "Beginning of Autumn" was quite smooth during this period, and Ye Qing began to gradually find some tricks in the matter of creation.
So she began to try to compile this special children's story series "The Adventures of the Wisdom Family" for children.
According to her outline, basically each story is a unit, and each unit will involve various knowledge points such as geography, humanities, history, and science.
However, this is still a special period, and her story has to be integrated with the current environment and cannot be too detached from reality. Therefore, a lot of ingenuity is still needed when writing the story. So after a few days, she has just finished writing the first unit of this series of children's stories.
Since she was not sure whether children of this era could accept this form of story, Ye Qing tried to tell the children this story while they were petting wolves in her yard during the day, in order to test the children's reactions in advance.
As a result, Ye Qing talked about how the protagonists of the Wisdom Family were out at sea and the trip came to an abrupt end after they encountered a tornado at sea, which made the children very anxious and they all wanted to know what would happen next.
In a short while, she was surrounded by the furry children, who seemed determined not to let her leave unless she finished the rest of her story.
Ye Qing had no choice but to take these naughty kids to find a place to sit in the sunbathing field, and then continue to move forward according to the story of the sea adventure she had just finished telling during the day.
As soon as she sat down, the children gathered around her automatically. Each of them sat quietly below her, turning a deaf ear to the noise around them and just listening to Ye Qing telling stories with their ears erected. Not only did they listen with gusto, but their childish eyes were also surprisingly bright.
Ye Qing was describing the thrilling scenes at sea in vivid detail, which frightened the children and made them immersed in the story.
As a result, at some point, the villagers who had originally planned to carry their small stools and ponies back home actually secretly put the stools down, silently moved closer to the children, and began to join in listening to the story.
Slowly, the encirclement grew larger, the villagers who had been swearing at each other stopped quarreling, and the entire threshing ground gradually became quiet.
In the empty venue, apart from the faint knocking sounds coming from where the projector was being repaired, the only sound that could be heard was Ye Qing's clear and melodious voice, which was slowly unfolding a wonderful and exciting world of adventure for children.
Outside the sun-drying field, seven or eight county and provincial leaders all looked very embarrassed after seeing the situation on the field.
Among them, the director of the county cultural center was the most embarrassed. On the one hand, he cursed the projectionist's ancestors in his heart, and on the other hand, he had to apologize repeatedly to the leader in the middle, saying that it was because of his management that the projectionist under him was careless in his work and caused such a serious projection error. After returning, he and the projectionist would make sincere and profound self-criticisms, etc.
Unfortunately, the big leader in the middle didn't pay any attention to what he was saying. All the old man's attention was on Ye Qing who was immersed in telling a story in the crowd.
If Ye Qing raised his head and looked over here at this moment, he would definitely be able to recognize who this person is at a glance.
"Leader, should we go and call Ye Zhiqing or--" Secretary Tian asked in a low voice.
Mr. Yang raised his hand to stop Secretary Tian's action, and then stood quietly in the crowd as an ordinary listener, listening with interest to this fascinating and tortuous children's story.
I stood at this station for more than half an hour.
It was not until Gu Weidong repaired the projector and the equipment finally operated normally and could project images on the big screen that everyone came to their senses.
Ye Qing also finished the first unit of her children's story collection at this time. Her drafts were declared exhausted. The subsequent stories only had a story line and outline. If she was forced to continue, she would have to make them up on the spot.
Seeing that the movie was finally playing normally, Ye Qing couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. She quickly said, "To know what happens next, please listen to the next episode" and sent the kids away. Then she couldn't help but look towards Gu Weidong and secretly gave him a thumbs up.
Elder Yang tilted his head and smiled at Hang Tingfang who was standing beside him:
"It seems that my previous worries were unnecessary. This little girl is about to have a great time here. Not only has she become friends with the local villagers and made her career as a village doctor very successful, she has even won over the naughty kids in this village. I think she is about to become the king of this mountain. Her life is much more carefree than ours!"
Such a relaxed and teasing tone really surprised Hang Tingfang.
The truth is that this old man usually appears in front of everyone with a serious and harsh image. Even though her old man and this man are old friends and the two families have been friends for decades, Hang Tingfang never dares to be presumptuous in front of this man.
This was the first time she saw this old man showing such a humorous side. Was it just because Ye Qing told a novel and interesting children's story?
This made Hang Tingfang's evaluation of Ye Qing rise to a higher level. It seemed that this little girl meant a lot more to Old Yang than she had previously expected.
She couldn't help laughing:
"Ye Qing is indeed quite surprising. Although he is young, he is definitely a leader among his peers in terms of both thinking and ability. Otherwise, he would not have been able to see the big picture from the small details of a cow's difficult birth and detect the enemy's quiet infiltration and crazy conspiracy."
When this matter was mentioned, Yang Lao unconsciously revealed a look of pride and pride on his face:
"This time, this child really made a great contribution. If she hadn't discovered it in time, if the enemy's plan had succeeded, the consequences would have been disastrous."
In order to protect this girl from being targeted by the Intelligence Bureau, he had been under a lot of pressure and had put in a lot of effort to save her. Unexpectedly, this girl was so competitive that she caught such a big fish in one move and exposed the entire power network hidden in the Great Northern Wilderness.
Because of this incident, the group of people who had been most vocal in opposing Ye Qing when he was guarantoring the child were completely silenced. With such a great contribution, all the doubts about Ye Qing naturally disappeared. Even he, the guarantor, felt proud and gained a lot of invisible benefits.
It was for this reason that the old man decided to go to Kaoshantun in person to see again this little girl who had caused so much trouble in just one month that a major earthquake occurred in the three northeastern provinces.
The projector finally worked properly. The projectionist timidly put the film reel on, and soon the familiar title of Jicheng Film Studio appeared on the big screen.
The video tape provided by the county cultural center this time was the Hubei opera "Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy". Needless to say, this movie is definitely very immersive for people from the Great Northern Wilderness. As soon as the song "Crossing the forest and the snowfield with my breath soaring into the sky" came out, the audience in the entire sunbathing field immediately felt as if they were in the scene and were all excited.
Ye Qing, who was sitting downstairs, also found it quite novel, but she had never seen a black-and-white movie with a modern drama performance like this before.
But she was so engrossed in watching that someone next to her pulled her clothes.
Ye Qing thought that some naughty kid hadn't listened to her story enough and wanted to chase her for spoilers and more details. She immediately shook her arms impatiently and muttered unhappily:
"It's really gone. Not even a drop can be squeezed out. I haven't thought about the rest of the story yet. I'll tell you when I finish writing it—"
As a result, before she finished her words, someone next to her tried to hold back her laughter and reminded her:
"Master, someone is looking for you."
Ye Qing was stunned and quickly turned his head to look in the direction Gu Weinan pointed.
In the dim light of the bonfires in the sunbathing field, she saw three familiar faces not far away, smiling at her warmly and kindly.
Ye Qing stood up suddenly, staring at the person who came with wide eyes in disbelief.
She would never have thought that in the middle of the night, Mr. Yang would suddenly appear in the remote mountain valley of Kaoshantun.
Without caring about watching any outdoor movies, Ye Qing immediately squeezed out of the audience seats and happily rushed to Mr. Yang. He happily greeted the old man, Secretary Tian, and reporter Hang beside him:
"What brings you here?"
It has been a while since Ye Qing last saw this old comrade since they parted on the train.
"Did you receive the pills I asked reporter Hang to bring to you last time? Did you take them?"
Elder Yang smiled and nodded: "I got the stuff, but I haven't taken it yet. I heard that you made the medicine yourself?"
Ye Qing also knew that due to the special status of Mr. Yang, they would be particularly cautious about what they took in. He estimated that after the medicine was received, a professional medical team would take samples for testing and make sure that the medicine was fine before taking it.
So when she gave the medicine to Hang Tingfang that day, she also listed the prescription and the process of decocting the medicine in detail. If it really needed to be tested and analyzed, it was fine. Anyway, no one could replicate the pill except her.
When Old Yang asked this, Ye Qing understood something. She guessed that there was no problem found with the medicine, but the medicine was not successfully prepared according to the prescription she gave.
She couldn't help but raised her eyebrows and laughed:
"I made it myself. The ingredients I added were the herbs written on my prescription. However, the cooking technique, temperature, and time are all essential. Only I can make it. Even if someone else gets the prescription, as long as they don't grasp the essence, it will be useless even if they learn from me for three years."
Mr. Yang couldn't help laughing immediately, and pointed at Ye Qing, feeling both amused and helpless:
"I was wondering why you were so generous. You gave me the prescription right away. I wonder if you were playing tricks on me!"
Ye Qing didn't think there was anything wrong with what she did. Her Chinese medicine prescription might look ordinary, but it was indeed a life-saving medicine that could cure diseases and save lives. If she didn't keep an eye out in advance, and someone really learned it secretly, the prescription might be taken away by others.
This is no joke. A prescription may not be very eye-catching in the next few years, but after a few years when policies are relaxed, it may become the key core for the development and expansion of a pharmaceutical company, and its value will be immeasurable.
In later generations, companies would fight each other in bloody battles to compete for the ownership of a cooling tea formula, let alone a medical recipe that could be passed down for hundreds of years.
The two exchanged a few pleasantries, and then Ye Qing noticed that there were several cadres in Zhongshan suits standing behind the three men. Next to this group of people, Wu Yongbing and the old branch secretary were trying to forcefully smile.
As soon as he saw Wu Yongbing's expression, he knew that the production team leader was frightened again. Last time, when such a large group of county leaders came, Wu Yongbing was so nervous that he stuttered when he spoke. This time, the people who came were obviously more powerful, and Wu Yongbing's mouth seemed to be sewn shut. He couldn't even fart no matter how hard he was beaten.
The corners of Ye Qing's mouth twitched involuntarily, knowing that he could not rely on these two production team cadres and had no choice but to do it himself.
Ye Qing was quick-witted and guessed why this group of people came to the countryside:
"Is the investigation of the poppy powder case over?"
Mr. Yang couldn't help but laugh:
"You react pretty quickly!"
As he spoke, the old man introduced the leaders behind him to Ye Qing one by one. After they exchanged greetings and shook hands, he continued to praise Ye Qing.
"This poppy powder case was indeed a huge conspiracy. Thanks to your timely discovery, we were able to avoid the mass death of oxen in the three northeastern provinces and save the Ministry of Agriculture from huge losses."
"And during this investigation, because of the solid evidence, a large number of problematic people who had been lurking for years were arrested. The commotion caused was quite big!"
"Even Zhongbeihai is paying close attention to this case. You did a great job!"
"Well, I'm here this time to give you a commendation and reward on behalf of the Ministry of Agriculture. After joint discussions among multiple departments, we're commending and encouraging Comrade Ye Qing!"
As he spoke, the old man handed Ye Qing a certificate.
This is a certificate of honor for "Five Good Educated Youth". At the top is the leader's portrait, and below it is written: I hope to raise the great banner of the Party higher and make new contributions to the people.
This certificate looks no different from an ordinary one. The only special thing is the red seal on it, which starts with the Chinese character "国".
Seeing Ye Qing staring at the certificate in a daze after taking it with both hands, Elder Yang deliberately lowered his voice and added:
"This certificate of yours was specially approved by the Ministry of Agriculture under the instructions of the Secretary-General's Office of Zhongbeihai..."
Ye Qing was stunned for a moment, and instantly felt that this light award certificate weighed a thousand pounds.
This is recognition from the highest level, which cannot be compared with ordinary material rewards. To exaggerate a little, it may even represent the highest honor of the entire educated youth group. It is unique in the country. How can she not be excited?
Ye Qing felt that when she returned home she would have to ask someone to frame the certificate and hang it on the wall of the main house. From then on, anyone who entered her yard would be able to see the eye-catching title of "Five Good Educated Youth" on the certificate.
Even if she has children in the future, she can still use this certificate to show off in front of her children and grandchildren. The weight of this thing alone is probably enough for her to brag about for the rest of her life!
However, in addition to this award from the highest level of Jicheng, it is clear that the provincial capital also made some representations this time.
After all, Ye Qing's contribution this time was not small, and he saved immeasurable losses for the three northeastern provinces, so the leaders who followed Mr. Yang came down with rewards.
It is estimated that Mohe, Bingcheng and Wusongcheng had reached an agreement together, and the three rewards were different. They were a lady's watch, a sewing machine, and a 14-inch Panda brand black and white TV.
These three items are all redemption coupons, which have been stamped and signed to complete all the procedures. You can redeem them directly at the department store.
These were big investments, after all, at that time most ordinary families could not even afford one of the three-wheel drive and one-horse, let alone own a TV.
It is estimated that in the whole Jiaotan County, the number of households equipped with televisions can be counted on five fingers.
However, when seeing the TV, Ye Qing couldn't help feeling embarrassed and at a loss whether to laugh or cry at the same time as being surprised and happy.
This TV was indeed the most expensive of the three prizes, but it was also the least practical, because at that time in the entire Kaoshan Village, only the Sun Valley Field had electricity, and the electric wires had not yet been pulled to every household. She relied on kerosene lamps for lighting every night, and could not even use electric lights, let alone install a TV to watch TV.
Seeing Ye Qing's strange expression, Elder Yang couldn't help but urge him:
"Why, you got so many rewards at once, you're so happy?"
Ye Qing looked at the old man helplessly: "No, I just took too big a step. There's no electricity in our village. If I take this TV back, I can only put it in my house as a decoration."
As soon as these words were spoken, the leaders in the provincial capital looked at each other, and immediately looked at the two representatives from Jiaotan County.
Well, the two representatives from Jiaotan County who came this time were the two leaders from the County Government Office and the Planning Bureau who came to express their condolences last time. These two were the ones who were fleeced by Ye Qing last time, so when they heard Ye Qing complain that there was no electricity in the village, they were immediately frightened and realized that they were in trouble.
Sure enough, the next second, I heard Mr. Yang asking:
"Kaoshantun still doesn't have electricity? Are there any difficulties? If there are any difficulties, you must report them to the higher authorities and find a way to solve them. If rural construction wants to develop, the infrastructure must keep up. Otherwise, isn't this just empty talk?"
The leaders of the county government office and the planning bureau quickly expressed their views:
"No problem. When we get back, we will urge the power department to handle the problem as soon as possible and ensure that Kaoshantun will have electricity before the New Year."
Ye Qing: Wait, it seemed like she just made a casual complaint just now. She didn't mean to divert resources from the county or make special arrangements for Kaoshantun.
The county government office and the planning bureau were almost biting their teeth: I'm afraid I believed your lies!
Wu Yongbing and the old branch secretary were stunned by the unexpected surprise. They never expected that happiness would come so suddenly!
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