Chapter 102 Taking Office
Xiao Cailian took Lu Xiang out to show off.
Lu Xiang knew that her mother-in-law was still angry. Ever since she became a village cadre last time, many people had been saying sarcastic things about her.
Xiao Cailian was angry, and now she became more and more high-profile. When she became high-profile, others dared not to provoke her.
They went out for a walk and indeed received a lot of compliments, saying that Lu Xiang was pretty and that her in-laws were good to her.
"Are you willing to buy such expensive clothes?"
"The couple are both so good-looking. I wonder what their children will look like in the future."
Xiao Cailian was finally satisfied after hearing so many compliments.
Lu Xiang was going to start work officially the next day. Xiao Cailian also gave her some advice on how to work hard.
Lu Xiang was a little nervous after hearing her repeated reminders.
She couldn't sleep that night and tossed and turned in bed.
Not knowing what would happen tomorrow, she thought Fu Qinhui had already fallen asleep. But Fu Qinhui hugged her and said gently, "Why aren't you sleeping?"
"Did it bother you?"
"No!" Fu Qinhui looked at her seriously, with stars in his eyes.
Lu Xiang said: "I have to go to work tomorrow!"
Fu Qinhui jokingly said, "He's the only one in our family who is an official!"
Lu Xiang's ears felt hot when she heard his words, and the tension in her heart strangely disappeared. Then she said, "Go to sleep!"
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The next morning, Lu Xiang went to the village committee early.
When she arrived, many people had already started working, and she mainly followed the director of women's affairs.
The women's director took her for a walk around the village.
Although Lu Xiang was born and raised in the village, her activities are limited to the area around her home, and at most, the riverside and the mountains.
There are more than a hundred households in the village. Few have split up their families, and most are large, with many people in each household.
Taking Lu Xiang to visit each village one by one is also the rule in the village. Every cadre who takes up a post will familiarize himself with the entire village.
The two of them went from house to house. Sometimes when they met the elderly, they would chat with them. The director of the women's department was accustomed to her job. She was usually a bit serious, but she was very polite to the elderly.
Lu Xiang looked over and was shocked to discover that the village was really poor.
Except for a few wealthy families, everyone else lives in very dilapidated houses. These houses are so old that they look like they are about to collapse at any time.
Everyone was wearing tattered clothes. Everyone knew the village's harvest. At the end of each year, apart from the grain distribution, each family would only get a hundred or so yuan at most.
But each person may only have ten or eight yuan. Day after day, no one can afford to raise a child, nor can they afford the high price of the bride price.
The county has set up a primary school and a high school, which provide free education. You only need to pay a small tuition fee.
But most of the villagers did not go.
First, it costs money. Second, teenage boys can be used as laborers and girls can prepare to get married. For them, studying is actually a waste of time.
The women's director secretly told Lu Xiang that when Fu Qinhui was admitted to university, he had led a group of villagers to study. However, they were not cut out for it and eventually gave up.
Lu Xiang was a little worried.
It’s true that knowledge changes destiny! Now is the 1980s, and the world itself is changing rapidly.
If you are illiterate, you will have difficulty in making progress in the future.
The bottom line is that everyone’s concepts and awareness are too poor.
After returning, Lu Xiang saw it all and remembered it in her heart. When she returned, the village chief was drinking tea and reading the newspaper.
Seeing them return, the village chief asked Lu Xiang a few questions: "What do you think of the village?"
Lu Xiang said: "Too poor!"
The village chief's eyes suddenly lit up: "Yes, can you ask the county leaders to give some money!" For example, the neighboring Baijia Village received support from a policy of the county, and their village is now very rich.
I also bought a tractor!
But every time he went to seek funding, he was rejected by the county leaders, who said the county had no money left.
Lu Xiang was well-liked by the county leaders, who promoted her in the hope that she could contribute to the village.
Lu Xiang said, "It's better to rely on yourself than on others. Stand up on your own, and others will be able to help you! Otherwise, how can you ask for money from the county when you don't even know what you want to do?"
The village chief thought it made sense and asked her what she wanted to do.
In fact, the village chief just asked casually and didn't really expect to hear anything from her.
He had thought of many ways to solve the village's poverty, but none of them worked. Otherwise, the village wouldn't be so poor now.
Lu Xiang said, "We can build some greenhouses for vegetables and fruits and grow some off-season fruits!" Then she thought for a moment and said, "There are too few varieties of vegetables right now. We need to import some more!"
These were not Lu Xiang's sudden ideas.
I had thought about this a long time ago, but it was not fully developed in my mind. Today, I saw the real situation in the village. Most people can't even eat enough, and women and children have no protection at all.
Things that I couldn’t understand before can now be understood.
After all, she has a vision for the future.
Back in the 1980s, before the reform and opening up, the idea of going south to pan for gold or north to make money was completely impossible! It was better to work locally, first enriching your family, then the village. Accumulate more capital for yourself.
The village chief said, "Yes, there are two or three large places in the village that can be used for experiments just for you!"
The village chief also knew that starting over wouldn't be easy, so he said to Lu Xiang, "Do whatever you want. The village supports you 100%!"
Lu Xiang said: "I still need to investigate nearby and make a detailed report on both technology and resources."
The village chief felt more and more that it was a perfect decision to promote her.
Lu Xiang was about to leave. The women's director said to the village chief, "If you really do this, the villagers will say they support the mischief of a child." Some of the elders in the village already had some objections to Lu Xiang becoming a cadre. They knew these people well and would make a fuss for no reason. Seeing Lu Xiang's transformation, they were sure they had something to say.
Doing things in the village is not just playing house. Doing something out of line will easily lead to criticism, especially since Lu Xiang is so young.
The village chief said, "The county leaders are knowledgeable and they all think highly of Lu Xiang. I can't compare to them, so I'll just go with the flow." He thought for a moment and said, "The future is also the world of the young. Let her try her best. If she fails, it's nothing. It's just a harvest of two mu of land!"
The women's director was speechless. Then the village head began to say that it seemed to make sense, but he was worried about the villagers' reaction.
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