Chapter 280 Do I look like a devil?
Before Luo Jiu nodded, he saw Feng Qi standing beside him and said in shock: "Marshal Feng!"
Feng Qi exclaimed, "Ah!" Luo Jiu greeted him warmly, "Hello, comrade village chief, what is your name?"
The village chief waved his hand, tears streaming down his face. He wiped his tears and said, "Leaders, please wait. I will find someone for you."
After saying that, the man ran away again.
Everyone was confused. Zhong Jialing couldn't help but complain: "What's wrong with the people in this village? Are they all long-distance runners?"
Luo Jiu said: "They don't see strangers often, maybe they don't know what to say."
Feng Qi: "Why is the old village chief crying? Is there something wronged?"
As everyone was talking, Lu Qingyun suddenly pointed to a place not far away and said, "They are coming!"
Luo Jiu stuck his head out and saw a crowd of people not far away. Hundreds of men, women, old and young were running towards him in the rain.
The enthusiastic villagers pushed Lu Qingyun aside in the blink of an eye. Luo Jiu was about to get out of the car. As soon as the door was opened, the old village chief immediately pushed it back, "President Luo, don't get out of the car. It's raining outside and the ground is full of mud. Don't get your shoes dirty."
He called on everyone, "Fellow villagers, they are the heroes who drove away the Japanese invaders and are our saviors. The leaders are here to see us, we cannot let them suffer, let's all work together to lift the leaders' car out."
"Okay!" Both the farm women and the farm men are quite strong, and moreover, many hands make light work. They crowded forward and lifted the cart up easily.
Feng Qi hurriedly said, "Let me go down. I'll help you carry it."
She opened the car door and was pushed back. She opened the car door and was pushed back, and was forced to sit in the car.
The villagers excitedly talked about their life after liberation, and the sound of the rain seemed to be muted.
Someone said: "We have overthrown the landlords and the whole village has been given land. Leaders, please rest assured. The rains are good this year and there will be a good harvest in the fall."
Some people said: "There is a school in the village now. Children can go to school for free without charging us any money. The government has really done a lot of good things for us."
The village chief smiled and held the car door. "Someone from the county came yesterday and said they were recruiting workers. After we finish working in the fields, the villagers can go to the county to join the construction team and build houses in the city. Leader, we are different now. We don't have to go hungry anymore, and no one bullies us anymore."
The old village chief became a little excited as he spoke, "I have been the village chief for more than ten years, and in the past two years I have finally been able to do something practical for the whole village.
Leader, please tell the higher-ups that there is no lazy or cunning person in our village. Everyone is willing to work. Please give us more work to do so that everyone can earn some money and buy rice and noodles and have dumplings during the New Year.
Our whole village is so poor that we dare not sit idle for a day."
Luo Jiu nodded repeatedly, "Okay, I'll take note. Write your name to me and I'll study it when I get back."
The old village chief excitedly took the paper and pen and wrote the name of the village and his own name on it.
Luo Jiu had just taken back the notebook when a basket of eggs was handed in. An aunt said, "You have worked hard. These are local eggs collected by our whole village. Take them and eat them on the way."
Luo Jiu quickly refused, "That's impossible. We have food. You can keep this."
Cheng Yaoyao also said: "You should save it for the children. The children are too thin and need to supplement their nutrition."
As soon as the egg was pushed out of the car window on this side, a baby was stuffed in through the other window.
The child's grandmother said, "This is a baby girl that our daughter-in-law just gave birth to. She hasn't been named yet. When she heard that the leaders were coming, she asked me to bring her over to you to show her so that she can get a taste of your nobleness. Dear leaders, please give our child a name."
The village chief said, "Oh my!" "The leader is very busy. Don't bother him with this matter. Hurry up and take the child back. He will poop and pee soon."
The child started crying just as he finished speaking. The four of them sat in the lifted car, listening to hundreds of people talking around them at the same time. Their ears were overwhelmed and their brains were about to explode.
Luo Jiu hurriedly said: "It's not a big deal, just give it a name, I'll give it to you right away."
She looked at the baby girl in the cradle and wondered what to name her.
Zhong Jialing touched the baby's face and said, "This child looks like me when I was a child, fair and clean."
Luo Jiu: "Then give the child a name."
Zhong Jialing suddenly had an idea, "Then let's call her Jialing. My parents picked this name from a dictionary, so it must be correct."
"Okay, okay!" Luo Jiu quickly tore off a page of paper and wrote the two words Jia Ling on it.
Amid the noise, she handed the child to the grandmother and said, "Let's name the child Jialing. These are the two words written on the paper.
She has the same name as our Foreign Minister. Minister Zhong said that this child looks like her and will definitely do great things in the future. Let her study hard and make contributions to the motherland in the future."
The old lady's eyes lit up when she heard this and she agreed repeatedly.
The villagers excitedly carried the carts and walked a long way without realizing it. They only put them down when the rain stopped.
Luo Jiu and others finally got off the car and waved goodbye to everyone.
They arrived at the next town in the evening and had just checked into the guesthouse when the mayor heard the news from the next village and was looking for them everywhere. He came to visit them in the middle of the night with a group of leaders.
After dealing with these people, Luo Jiu suddenly said, "We can't leave like this. It's too conspicuous."
Cheng Yaoyao was helpless. "How can you say this is ostentatious? We have been low-key enough and did not inform any local government in advance. It was an accident today that the village chief recognized us. There is nothing we can do about it. We have been in the newspapers since the Anti-Japanese War, so there will always be people who recognize us."
Luo Jiu said: "Once the news spreads, we will be greeted and greeted wherever we go. I am not afraid of anything else, but I am afraid that some officials will hold welcoming ceremonies for the sake of face, which will waste people's time and money. Let's think of a way to avoid exposing our identities."
Zhong Jialing said: "Then let's put on glasses and a mask and pretend to be a female student?"
Luo Jiu smiled and said, "Okay, we are female students anyway, so we can buy a few sets of student clothes and cover our faces. When people ask us about it, we can say that we are students from Peking and we are here to collect folk songs."
Feng Qi said dazedly, "Okay, I'll follow your instructions and pretend to be a student tomorrow."
Luo Jiu pushed her and said, "Don't wait until tomorrow. This mayor is really clingy. Even though we just sent him away, he will definitely come tomorrow morning. Let's leave overnight and change the direction so that they can't catch us."
Feng Qi wailed and sat up, "Do you still want to drive?"
Luo Jiu smiled and said, "You take the car, I'll drive!"
The next morning, they passed by the market and bought some school uniforms. The six of them disguised themselves and looked like a group of female students who had not yet graduated.
This time they drove into the mountains, and no one recognized them, but they encountered new troubles.
The six people arrived in Yi County and found the largest inn. Feng Qi walked in front to book a room with the owner. As soon as Luo Jiu came in, he heard the owner and Feng Qi arguing.
The shopkeeper: "You blame me for being long-winded? I won't find out clearly. What if you are bad people?"
Feng Qi said angrily: "What bad things can we, a few female students, do?"
The shopkeeper said: "That's hard to say. What if you are the hidden devils?"
Feng Qi slapped the counter, "Me? Like a devil?"
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