This is the first reunion year since the opening of Qiu Village. Except for the second couple who could not come back due to special reasons, the rest of them have returned.
Qiuzhuang has also changed a lot. It is not only Qiu Jianshe's family who have built a blue brick and tile house.
Li Qingmei leaned on the car window and looked around, sighing non-stop, "Dad, we've only been away for a short time, and look at this part of our house. It's completely changed."
Neatly arranged vegetable greenhouses, as tall as the houses, and fenced vineyards. Large flocks of sheep ran freely in the alfalfa fields, where only grass stumps remained...
Qiu Jianshe was equally excited. Even if the outside world was a thousand times better, it was not as good as the warmth of the earth in his hometown. "Mom, let's not go out in the spring. Brother Jianjun said that the team has implemented the household contract responsibility system. He drew lots for our land, so it's not bad.
We can also raise some chickens and lambs, grow some crops, harvest some autumn radishes and alfalfa after the wheat, and save some winter grass for the sheep..."
"Let's talk about it later..." Li Qingmei didn't respond. She was reluctant to give up her small business.
Ever since her daughter Yuling's classmate named Bai brought some goods to her, she started selling them in the shop she had set up in her yard.
The fashionable clothes from Guangzhou were both very popular and in great demand, and she was having a lot of fun selling them.
Even the third daughter-in-law was eager to join in. She was thinking that if her daughter-in-law did the work, she would help. To be honest, she could earn much more than working at her own job.
Qiu Yuling was concentrating on driving and did not participate. As soon as she entered Qiu Village, Li Qingmei asked her to stop the car and said she wanted to get out and walk around.
"Mom, let me take a walk with grandma." Li Tunan also slipped down.
Qiu Yuling turned around and asked Qiu Jianshe, "Dad, do you want to go downstairs and chat with them for a while, or go back to the house first?"
"Dad, come down too. I saw your captain uncle. Go back to the house first. We will be there soon."
Li Qingmei had called her brother and sister-in-law in advance and had already cleaned the house. Now that she had gone in, she just had to settle the place and wipe it down.
Hearing this, she waited until her parents had gotten down and settled down before driving the car back and unloading the things.
She was just seeing them off today, as the factory was waiting for her to return for the year-end commendation meeting, so she couldn't stay for long.
On her way back, when she passed by the wall of the brigade office, Qiu Yuling stopped and went down to greet her uncles, aunts and sisters one by one.
"Yuling is back. We went to the captain's house to watch TV. I always see you on TV. You are even more imposing in person than on TV."
"Exactly, Yuling doesn't look like someone from our area, haha..."
"What nonsense are you talking about? Yuling grew up right under our noses. This is the prestige of being a cadre..."
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Everyone was talking at once, praising Qiu Yuling in various ways. She was no longer as shy as she was when she was little. She asked everyone one by one, "Does this person's arm hurt?" or "Is that person's leg feeling better?"
Qiu Jianjun also came over, and Qiu Yuling took the opportunity to ask about the team’s harvest this year.
"Thanks to Ling Ling Wa, our team was the first to arrange for a large work shed. In previous years, when winter came, everyone had nothing to do except stay at home.
Since we started planting in this greenhouse, every household has had a share, and everyone works on their own. The market arranges for a centralized purchase, and they come twice a week, and the fleet takes it away directly. Our team is doing very well now..."
His wife added, "And then there's the vineyard. Every household contributes to the work, and at the end of the year, the profits are divided among the households, regardless of age. Your uncle and the team members have discussed it, and even though your parents are not here, you should also have a share in the vineyard..."
"Why are you telling this to Lingling?" Qiu Jianjun interrupted his wife, not considering the occasion. What kind of achievement was he showing off?
Looking at the watch, Qiu Yuling realized that time was limited and she had no time to talk in detail. She could only say goodbye first, planning to visit the elders in earnest when she had some free time. "Uncle, I'm not often around the team, so I don't know much about it. I'll ask my dad to handle it himself.
I have a meeting this afternoon. It's the end of the year now, and I have to participate in many activities at the factory. I dare not delay any longer. I will make a special trip to visit you and your aunt when I get back..."
"It's okay, just go about your business. We're all family, so let's not talk about those empty formalities..."
High-level meetings can be held together, but for this factory-wide meeting, there are quite a few people from each branch, so it is impossible to organize it together.
Qiu Yuling could only go to each of them to show her support as if she was going to a party.
She watched four employee performances alone, clapping until her palms turned red.
Although all the workers looked cheerful, Qiu Yuling was extremely busy.
She now also serves as an advisor to the provincial party committee's reform group, providing professional advice and plans for the reform of the property rights system of state-owned enterprises in Wuhan.
Because she still had to look at relevant documents on the way, she had to let the driver drive while she hurriedly flipped through the documents behind him.
"Director, should we go directly to the city government or send you home first?"
"Let's go straight to the city hall. We'll just catch up with them during lunch. Let's go in and have a bite together."
Jiang Mingzhe, who was originally from the Agricultural Reclamation Bureau, was transferred to the Municipal Party Committee’s Finance Department last year. Although they were old friends, they had never had the chance to sit together, so they took the opportunity of a working dinner to catch up.
Jiang Mingzhe seemed to have known that she was coming. As soon as Qiu Yuling's car arrived, someone came to take them away.
"Director Qiu, our Director Jiang said you would definitely come today, and he was right. He asked me to wait for you early. I will take you to Canteen No. 3.
Brother Zhao, I have to drive this afternoon, I'll treat you to a drink later..."
Who would have thought that a worker who had not even graduated from junior high school, worked as a driver for Qiu Yuling for several years, was pushed around by others, went to college, and after coming back became an office director.
Although Qiu Yuling still drives for others when she comes back, her role is no longer what it used to be.
"Okay, I'll wait until the day when I don't have to go to work..." In front of his factory manager, he is Xiao Zhao, but outside, he has become Brother Zhao's driver. Now he has learned to take everything into consideration and is no longer like the young man before, who does everything in a daze.
"Director Qiu!" Jiang Mingzhe came forward from afar.
"You should still call me Xiao Qiu. I am still a junior in front of you."
"No way, you are a completely different person now. How can you still be mistaken for that Xiao Qiu? Haha." Jiang Mingzhe laughed after he said that.
Qiu Yuling is one of the few comrades who has not forgotten his roots. The fact that he was able to get this position at this critical juncture is related to her inadvertent recommendation.
Although she didn't brag about it in front of him, the news had already reached his ears.
They seemed to have only had a brief period of a superior-subordinate relationship, right? "...You were small back then, very steady, and very hardworking. You stood out from the crowd there, it was hard not to be noticed!"
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