Chapter 164
Xia Juhua also thinks that working in the canteen is good: the supply and marketing cooperative collapsed in the previous life, and the commune was just renamed as the township government, and the work there is stable. Even if working in the canteen makes Wang Caixia a bit of a waste of talent, she has to make a living first, right?
Upon learning that Wang Caixia was willing to work in the cafeteria, Secretary Zhang felt that this female comrade was worthy of being Xia Juhua's friend. She was able to recognize the situation and humble herself. Such a person could not be defeated by the slightest difficulty.
Since both parties were satisfied, Xia Juhua did not need to be involved in the transfer process. She returned to Ping'an City first, and Director Lin took Wang Caixia to the county town. The supply and marketing cooperative was a directly managed unit, and the commune could only give the developer a transfer letter instead of a transfer order. Only after the county supply and marketing cooperative agreed and affixed its official seal could it be taken to the Red Star Commune for processing.
If Wang Caixia only worked as a handyman in the commune canteen, there would be no need for such a complicated process. However, this would not guarantee Wang Caixia's continued working years and would even affect her future retirement salary. It would be safer for her to go through the normal procedures.
Director Lin personally brought Wang Yue Caixia to handle the formalities. The new secretary Tang was a little surprised: "It seems that Director Lin really values Comrade Wang Caixia and has a good relationship with the Red Star Commune."
Director Lin ignored the strange tone in his words and gently placed the transfer letter in front of Secretary Tang: "It is mainly because Comrade Wang Caixia has a good reputation among the members of the Red Star Commune and has been recognized by everyone that the commune leaders took the initiative to transfer her to work in the commune."
Secretary Tang looked unhappy: "We are a unit directly under the regional government. Transferring people to the local government would be too much trouble for them."
Wang Caixia was a little anxious, but since both of them were leaders, she had no place to speak and could only listen. Director Lin was not intimidated by Secretary Tang: "In fact, there are precedents in the supply and marketing system. Many capable comrades were appreciated by leaders and entered the government to engage in administrative work."
Secretary Tang's face turned even uglier: "Director Lin knows so many things."
"It's not that I know a lot. It's mainly because there are advanced figures in the supply and marketing system. Everyone is happy and the news spreads quickly." Director Lin smiled and looked at Secretary Tang: "Comrade Wang Caixia was able to work in the Red Star Commune because she is practical and capable. Such capable talents are also the support of our supply and marketing system for local construction."
"Director Lin is right." Secretary Tang laughed dryly, called the office, and asked someone to come and take Wang Caixia to get the seal, leaving Director Lin to exchange opinions: "Since we are talking about the Red Star Commune, I heard before I came to Pingde that their Ping'anzhuang Brigade has done well in sideline production. Director Lin is also the discoverer of their sideline products and has always had a good relationship with them, right?"
Secretary Tang's thinking was quite divergent since he was transferred from Wang Caixia to Hongxing Commune and thought about the sideline business of Ping'anzhuang Brigade.
Director Lin didn't know what he was up to, so he said cautiously, "We all know each other because of revolutionary work, not because of personal relationships. Besides, our supply and marketing cooperative is to serve the masses. At that time, I worked at the Red Star Supply and Marketing Cooperative, and the masses I faced were local farmers. Ping'an Village's sideline business is unique, so we have more contact with it, and we are just more familiar with it than others."
"So that's how it is." Director Tang said with a long tone: "Then they are more familiar with it than me, a newcomer. Now the textiles of Ping'anzhuang Brigade are also a major feature of our supply and marketing cooperative. I, as the secretary of the supply and marketing cooperative, have been here for such a long time, but I have never conducted an on-site inspection and gained experience. I am somewhat derelict in my duty."
Director Lin felt uncomfortable with this, but he couldn't figure out what was wrong, so he said, "The secretary has just taken up the post, and it will take some time for him to get familiar with the work. Everyone can understand that."
Secretary Tang groaned in disapproval: "Everyone supports my work and understands that I need time to take up my new position, but that's no reason for me not to be lazy. So, Director Lin, tomorrow I plan to personally go to the weaving group of Ping'anzhuang Brigade to conduct an investigation and research. You will be in charge of the supply and marketing cooperative for the time being."
Even Director Lin, who was kindhearted, felt angry after hearing Secretary Tang's last words - he was originally the director of the supply and marketing cooperative, so how could he become a temporary person in charge? However, Director Lin's upbringing prevented him from expressing his dissatisfaction immediately. Secretary Tang seemed to be unable to see his expression and directly asked to send him away.
Director Lin returned to his office angrily. Just when he wanted to call Xia Juhua to remind her to prepare well and not let Secretary Tang pick a fight - Secretary Tang's tone just now showed that he did not really have a good impression of the Ping'anzhuang weaving team - Wang Caixia knocked on the door and came in.
When she found out that her seal had been stamped and her file had been obtained, Director Lin asked, "Are you going back to Red Star Commune now?"
The two were old superiors and subordinates, but Director Lin didn't even say a word to ask her to stay. Wang Caixia looked at him with some confusion. Director Lin had no expression on his face. He had already stood up, glanced at Wang Caixia and said, "Then I'll see you off." Then he led the way out of his office. He saw a figure only three steps away from his door, but in the opposite direction, as if he was going to the toilet. He couldn't help but sneaker.
Wang Caixia saw it too, and followed Director Lin without asking a question. After the two of them went downstairs, Director Lin whispered, "Go back and tell Captain Xia that Secretary Tang will be visiting the Ping'anzhuang Brigade tomorrow."
"Then won't you go with them? I heard from Juhua that she has never met your new secretary." It would be better to communicate with a secretary who has never had any contact with Ping'an Village if Director Lin accompanied him.
"The secretary has arranged for me to be in charge of the supply and marketing cooperative temporarily. You don't need me to accompany you. Please tell Captain Xia." Director Lin looked at the people coming and going around him and directly told Wang Caixia the reason why he could not go to Ping'anzhuang.
How was this different from her situation at the Red Star Supply and Marketing Cooperative? Wang Caixia felt that she had implicated Director Lin, and said with shame, "Director, why don't you call Juhua yourself and tell her? I'm afraid I can't convey the message clearly."
Director Lin directly rejected Wang Caixia's good intention: the policies of the upper level are often good, but it is inevitable that there will be crooked-mouthed monks below, who will go too far and recite the scriptures distortedly. Now that chaos is being corrected everywhere, whether Secretary Tang is a crooked-mouthed monk or not, we will know after arriving at Ping'an Village.
The most important thing is that he believes in Xia Juhua and thinks she can handle Secretary Tang. Don't forget that the weaving team of Pingan Village is not just making money for itself. The foreign exchange they earn accounts for almost one-third of L Province. If Secretary Tang really dares to do anything to the weaving team, not to mention the provincial supply and marketing system, the regional supply and marketing cooperative will not let him succeed.
Xia Juhua also thought so, so she let the members of Ping'an Village do what they were supposed to do, and she herself stayed at the construction site of the instant noodle factory, and did not stay in the brigade headquarters waiting for Secretary Tang to arrive.
What's funny is that Secretary Tang did not come to Ping'an Village the next day as he said. Instead, he showed up at the Ping'an Village production team three days later. He probably wanted to surprise Xia Juhua.
The result was unexpected to himself: although it was the idle time of winter, there were not many people walking on the smooth village road of Ping'an Village Production Team. In other villages, people were leaning against the wall and chatting because of the bright sunshine, but in Ping'an Village, there was not a single person to be seen. Only the faint sound of people laughing could be heard from the entrance of the village.
"Ha, the Ping'an Village production team is really different from other villages." Secretary Tang was not in a hurry to ask someone about Xia Juhua's whereabouts. Instead, he pushed his bicycle and walked slowly on the village road.
This was the first time Secretary Tang had seen a village road paved with asphalt. Nowadays, except for some villages near provincial or national highways that have a highway in front of them, the rest of the rural areas often have loess roads. How could they be as clean and tidy as the streets in Ping'an Village?
Although the yards on both sides of the street look a bit scattered, the three distinct village roads are paved with asphalt along their own routes, and finally converge on the main road at the entrance of the village. Even if there are no yards along the street, there are small paths paved with broken bricks connecting the yards. It can be imagined that even in the rainy summer season, you don't have to worry about stepping on mud when walking on such a road.
What is even more surprising is that there is no livestock excrement commonly seen in rural areas on the road. When walking, I always look at my feet and worry about dirty my shoes. If you don't step on dirt or animal feces when you go out, is this still a rural area?
The person who came with Secretary Tang was a junior clerk in the purchasing department of the county supply and marketing cooperative. His surname was Li. He had been to Ping'anzhuang twice before with Director Lin. After listening to Secretary Tang's comments on Ping'anzhuang, he told Secretary Tang:
"The Ping'an Village production team is indeed extraordinary. This road was built by their members with their own collective funds. Because Xia Juhua was the team leader, this road was not only built to Ping'an Village, but also to another production team to the west, where an asphalt road was built."
"Raising funds to build roads?" Secretary Tang heard this for the first time. "How can we ask members to raise funds to build roads? Isn't this a discredit to our government? Are they dissatisfied with the Transportation Bureau and are using the method of raising funds to build roads to imply that the Transportation Bureau is not doing anything?"
Officer Li had no time to retract the smile that had just appeared on his face. He looked at Secretary Tang with some embarrassment, who had a strange way of thinking. He to regret why he thought that began to Ping'anzhuang Production Team with Secretary Tang to inspect it was a good job.
He was not convinced that Director Lin, who worked in a country supply and marketing cooperative, was so lucky to be promoted to the county supply and marketing cooperative, and directly became the purchasing section chief and then the director of the supply and marketing cooperative. He even hoped to cling to Secretary Tang's thigh, and it would be best if he could replace Director Lin.
But it doesn't mean that Li Keyuan didn't understand the attitude of Pingde County and even the supply and marketing system from top to bottom towards Pingan Village or Xia Juhua. Logically speaking, Secretary Tang came from the regional supply and marketing cooperative, and he should know very well that the regional supply and marketing cooperative would respond to Xia Juhua's every request - after half a year, Xia Juhua's youngest son was recruited to work in the regional supply and marketing cooperative, and he also took his wife and children's household registration with him. The regional supply and marketing cooperative directly allocated a unit house to him. This spread throughout the supply and marketing system, right?
Secretary Tang was pushing the cart towards the village entrance where the laughter was coming from, and he didn't notice that Officer Li, who had just introduced the situation to him, was already several steps behind him - he had already seen the laughing group, and he also saw clearly why those people were laughing so loudly.
They are building a house!
At the end of 1977, when members of many rural areas were still unable to get enough food, members of the Ping'an Village Production Team were actually building new houses. And not just one: from the beams that had already been laid on the ground, it could be seen that they were building at least two new houses, and each new house had beams for not only the main house, but also the east and west side rooms.
The main house, facing south and back to north, had four walls that were almost finished, and they were actually made of green bricks! There were also a lot of green tiles piled up next to the beams, and it was obvious that they were not building an adobe house, but a brick and tile house! !
Secretary Tang was shocked again and sighed softly: "The members of Ping An Village are really rich."
As a result, after he finished sighing, the voice of Li, who used to answer the phone very promptly, did not ring immediately. Secretary Tang finally turned around and found that Li was looking at the person who was building the house with his mouth wide open in surprise.
Secretary Tang felt much better knowing that he was not the only one who was shocked. He coughed and said to Li, "What's the matter? Have you never seen a house being built before?"
Officer Li was awakened by the shout and shook his head instinctively: "I've seen it, of course." But he had never seen two brick and tile houses built at the same time.
Secretary Tang had a look of contempt on his face, but he quickly calmed down, parked his bike aside, and took Li to the yard of Liu Erzhuang's house: "Fellow villager, are you building a house?"
Hearing the unfamiliar voice, the people who were building the house paused their work and looked at the newcomers. They found that both of them were pushing bicycles and dressed like cadres. The owner Liu Erzhuang wiped his hands and walked over to them quickly: "Hello, leader. It's not that the children in the family have grown up and it's time to look for a daughter-in-law. The old house is no longer livable, so we have to build a new one."
"We're building a new house and we're also considering a daughter-in-law, so it's going to cost a lot of money." Secretary Tang was surprised by Liu Erzhuang's polite greeting, and he started talking to Liu Erzhuang with the same smile and amiable manner.
Liu Erzhuang was only polite enough to say hello. When he heard Secretary Tang's sigh, he just laughed twice without thinking of how to respond. Seeing that the cadres had started a conversation with Liu Erzhuang, everyone continued to do their work, but stopped joking.
Li Daya had already brought the water over and asked Liu Erzhuang with her eyes about the identity of the visitor. Liu Erzhuang nodded slightly and asked Secretary Tang to sit down.
Secretary Tang was very down-to-earth. He did not mind the dust in the yard. He sat down on a wooden stool with a swagger and chatted with Liu Erzhuang like any other cadre who had gone to the countryside.
Hearing that Liu Erzhuang was the captain of the Pingan Village production team, Secretary Tang thought it was no wonder that he greeted him so politely just now. His eyes lit up and he asked, "You said you were doing a good job as the captain, but someone took your place?"
Liu Erzhuang quickly shook his head and refused to admit it: "No, no, you may have heard it wrong, leader. I didn't let someone take over my position. I made a mistake. The members felt that I was not worthy of being the production team leader, so they voted me out."
"Members can also elect production team cadres?" Secretary Tang felt that the affairs of the Ping'an Village production team were beyond his understanding in every aspect.
Liu Erzhuang had to explain to him that the production team leader actually led the members to work, and only those who were capable and could increase the income of the members could be recognized by everyone, and everyone was willing to have such people as production team leaders. He made a mistake and felt sorry for the members, so he took the initiative to resign as production team leader, and the Ping'an Village members chose Xia Juhua as the team leader.
Secretary Tang nodded thoughtfully and asked, "Even though you corrected your mistakes, the members didn't re-elect you as team leader?" The revolution allows comrades to make mistakes, but it also allows comrades to correct their mistakes. After correcting their mistakes, they are still good comrades.
Liu Erzhuang smiled innocently again: "Even if I correct my mistakes, my sister-in-law is more capable than me. It was she who led everyone to the good days of Ping An Village. I am convinced by her, so why should I be re-elected as the captain?"
Secretary Tang naturally didn't want to hear such a lack of ambition. He asked Liu Erzhuang, "I heard that even if the Ping'an Village farmers were idle, they would go to the vermicelli factory to work. But these people don't go to the vermicelli factory to work and earn money, but come to help you. It seems that you have a good relationship with the production team. If the team leader is re-elected, you should be elected, right?"
Liu Erzhuang shook his head like a rattle: "That's impossible. Everyone in our production team is busy as they build an instant noodle factory. These are all relatives of my wife and the third daughter-in-law. They are here to help me. They are not members of our production team."
Secretary Tang heard that Liu Erzhuang really supported Xia Juhua, so he lost interest in talking. He stood up, brushed the dirt off his butt, and shook hands with Liu Erzhuang with a smile: "Thank you, fellow villager. I won't disturb you from your work. By the way, where is the weaving group of your production team? I heard there are many new products. I want to see them."
Liu Erzhuang was really honest. He didn't seem to think that Secretary Tang's request was unreasonable. He pointed directly in the direction of the weaving group, which was now the powder leaking room, and said, "See? It's about twenty steps ahead. The big yard in front of it was our production team's powder leaking room. Now it's the weaving group."
Secretary Tang was surprised that he could not hear anything even though he was so close. He heard that the weaving team in Pingan Village was made up of rural women. In his impression, rural women were good at gossiping about other people's affairs. If so many rural women gathered together, wouldn't there be quarrels every day?
Now looking at the yard twenty steps away, it was so quiet that it didn't seem like anyone was inside, so Secretary Tang wanted to find out what was going on. He pushed his bicycle, said goodbye to Liu Erzhuang, and went straight to the weaving group with Li Ke, who had been silent the whole time.
They were walking so fast that no one noticed him leaving. Li Daya approached Liu Erzhuang and asked, "Is this the man?"
Liu Erzhuang nodded heavily: "It should be him. He always wants to stir up trouble when he talks. He doesn't look like a good person. Have you asked someone to tell my sister-in-law?"
Li Daya looked at Secretary Tang's back as he was about to enter the weaving group and spat silently on the ground: "Why are you still saying those old things to him? I asked Zhigui to deliver a letter to my sister-in-law. Wenjing was here just now, so I asked her to tell her mother."
Hearing that Zhao Xianzhi's daughter had come to help again, Liu Erzhuang glanced at Li Daya and asked, "Why does she always come to help?"
"You are asking nonsense." Li Daya scolded Liu Erzhuang angrily, "You are dealing with this dog-like thing right now. Besides, if the girl comes to help, I can still push her back. Wouldn't that be an slap in the face of Xianzhi? What, you still don't want to do it?"
Wen Jing was as her name suggested. She did not inherit Zhao Xianzhi's quick tongue and bad temper. She was a pretty and quiet girl. Liu Erzhuang had a good impression of her, but he was afraid that he would not be able to handle it if he became a relative of Zhao Xianzhi.
Unfortunately, looking at Li Daya's expression, it was clear that she was very optimistic about Li Wenjing becoming her daughter-in-law, and Liu Erzhuang felt very depressed.
Zhao Xianzhi, who didn't know that Liu Erzhuang didn't want to be his in-law, was now looking at Secretary Tang with a wary look on her face: "Do you want to visit our weaving group?"
Secretary Tang gently pulled his collar and smiled at Zhao Xianzhi: "Yes, I heard in the county that the Ping'an Village weaving group is doing well and has produced many new products, so I wanted to come and have a look." He was dressed like an official and had stated that he was from the county seat. He also knew that they had new products. The rural woman in front of him should welcome him with a smile, right?
Who would have thought that Zhao Xianzhi's expression not only did not ease, but her eyebrows were all wrinkled together, and with her high cheekbones and raised eyes, she looked like she was not easy to talk to. Not only that, Zhao Xianzhi also sneered, and the amazing thing was that when she sneered, the corners of her mouth were turned down: "Humph, you really are making a big investment."
Secretary Tang couldn't laugh anymore: "What's the cost?"
Zhao Xianzhi's whole body was filled with contempt: "Don't you know what you are investing? You are jealous of our Pinganzhuang weaving team and want to secretly learn our skills and style? What's the matter? You pretended to be poor and couldn't get into the weaving team several times before, and now you pretend to be an officer and want to trick me into letting you in?"
When Li heard Zhao Xianzhi questioning Secretary Tang, he hurried forward to defend him: "Comrade Zhao, don't you recognize me? I was in your weaving group last time with Director Lin."
Zhao Xianzhi looked at Li Keyuan carefully and said, "Have you been here before? Why don't I remember? Besides, if you had been here with Director Lin, you would have known that our weaving group earns foreign exchange for the country, and we don't allow people to see our new products, so as to avoid being stolen by others."
Secretary Tang and Li were both speechless by Zhao Xianzhi's powerful logic. They knew that if they didn't get through Xia Juhua, they would never get into the weaving group. Li saw that Secretary Tang didn't say anything, and realized that he felt that he couldn't put down his face in front of a rural woman, so he had to speak up himself: "Then Comrade Zhao, if you don't believe it, ask Captain Xia to come out. She must know me."
Zhao Xianzhi glanced at Li Keyuan with even more disdain: "Those who wanted to steal our new tricks told you the same thing before, but they disappeared as soon as you let them go. Hongcui, go call Captain Liu and tell him that someone else wants to steal our tricks again. Have him bring the militia to arrest these two people and take them to the police station."
Secretary Tang looked at Li with a snort of anger and said, "Where's the introduction letter? Let her see if we're here for a visit or if we really want to steal their stuff."
Li Keyuan was about to cry. He and Director Lin had never needed a letter of introduction when they came to Ping An Zhuang, so he didn't think of getting one this time. Secretary Tang had emphasized his position in the supply and marketing cooperative as soon as he arrived, making Li Keyuan feel that he was much more powerful than Director Lin. So Director Lin could enter the place whenever he wanted, but Secretary Tang needed a letter of introduction? He couldn't even produce one.
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