After May 1st comes May 4th.
The building behind Wahou was not completed in time for May Day, but it was not delayed much.
I didn’t catch May 1st but I caught May 4th, both are good days anyway.
On the morning of May 4th, all the people in Wahou gathered in front of the newly completed building, waiting for the cutting ceremony to open the building.
At eight o'clock in the morning, amid the sound of firecrackers, Secretary Liang of the commune and cadres of the Jiangwei Brigade attended the ribbon-cutting ceremony.
After the ribbon-cutting ceremony, the brigade secretaries delivered important speeches.
The ribbon-cutting ceremony for the building was an important event, so Wan Feng stayed at home to join in the fun.
At this time, he was standing in the crowd, listening to Secretary Liang's speech which sounded like an ornate essay with one ear and one ear out with the other.
What is the bold statement that we must firmly adhere to the one center and two basic points and resolutely not waver, and what is the bold statement that we must carry out reform to the end.
After his speech, Secretary Liang took the lead in walking into the building and visiting each floor.
I don’t know what he is thinking. Even the commune government doesn’t live in the building now.
Following Wan Feng's instructions, Zhang Hai started to ask for this and that.
"The first floor is our office. Look at these old, shabby tables. You can't even see their original colors anymore. The commune should at least support us with some new tables and chairs, right? A sofa would be even better, and of course a thermos and cups would be a plus."
"This is the library. Wahou members come here to study in the evenings after a day's work. Since learning is essential, the commune should support and satisfy our members' tireless learning spirit. Shouldn't we at least have a few thousand books?"
"This is the recreation room. Members relax here after studying hard. We have table tennis, billiards, poker, chess, go, five-in-a-row, animal chess, flying chess, mountain climbing chess... The commune needs to support all of them. It would be even better if we could get a record player and a movie projector."
Secretary Liang appeared cheerful and amiable on the surface, but he was actually cursing in his heart.
Giving you some tables and chairs is good enough, but you still want a sofa? I haven't even found a sofa to sit on yet. Do you also want a thermos and cups? Do you also need a broom to sweep the floor?
Thousands of books? How much would that cost? No! At most, I'll give you 300 or 200, and you can pick up the rest yourself.
There's also a recreational room? Ping-pong and chess are fine, but what the hell is a movie projector?
Zhang Hai just said this. He also knew that the commune could not meet all the conditions, and it would be good enough if it could meet half of them.
Sure enough, after the visit, Secretary Liang gave important instructions.
"The tables and chairs commune can provide you with some of the supplies, the book commune can give you a few hundred books, a set of table tennis equipment, chess, checkers, go, etc. The commune can also provide you with a record player. You can just send a car to the commune to pick it up."
As for the other requests he didn't mention, they naturally remained silent and hopeless.
After visiting the building, Secretary Liang and the team cadres, accompanied by Zhang Hai, went to visit the various reform achievements in the depression. They toured the fish ponds, brick and tile factories, machinery factories, greenhouses, and orchards.
Secretary Liang looked flushed and radiant.
After all, this is a project supported by him. If it is completed successfully, it will be a great political achievement. He sees a good momentum.
Then, after having lunch with the team at noon, I listened to Zhang Hai’s overall plan for the Wahou team.
"Next, our rubber shoe factory will open. We'll also open a plastics factory and a cardboard box factory. If conditions permit, we'll also build a small hydropower station in the rapids area at the junction of the Inna River and the Shanhou Squadron to completely solve our electricity problem..."
The watershed that Zhang Hai mentioned is at the junction of Wahou and Shanhou. There is a narrow river channel here, which is the section with the most turbulent water flow.
Wan Feng once inadvertently mentioned that it would be ideal to build a small hydropower station here. Unexpectedly, Zhang Hai actually remembered it and boasted about it today.
Zhang Hai originally wanted Wan Feng to contact Secretary Liang, but Wan Feng did not agree considering that he was still a young boy. A teenager would not attract the attention of adults, so he decided to wait two years.
The next day, in order to avoid any further complications, Zhang Hai sent all three tractors from the brick factory to the commune, and spent the whole morning bringing back all the things the commune had promised to give.
It includes thirty sets of tables and chairs, a ping-pong table, several relatively intact bookshelves and about three or four hundred books of various kinds.
After some arrangement, the empty building finally had something to offer.
In the early 1980s, people were most hungry for culture, and there were often queues of people buying books at Xinhua Bookstore.
But the members of the commune rushed into the library like crazy, forgetting to eat and sleep to absorb cultural nutrition.
The few books provided by the commune are not enough.
Wan Feng asked Jin Guanqiang to pay attention to the scrap company and help buy all the old books if they appeared. On the other hand, he also invested 500 yuan and the team invested 1,500 yuan, and bought another 2,000 volumes of various books at the Xinhua Bookstore.
This time the team's library finally looked like a decent place.
Every night, the library was packed with people, and members were reading books and newspapers without sleep or food. Many people began to regret that they had not read enough books in the past.
After the building was completed, all the people who had worked on the first construction project naturally withdrew. The renovation of the team headquarters was nearing completion, and all the equipment of the shoe factory was moved into the renovated factory building.
The masters from Lifang Shoe Factory began to debug the machines. With practical operation, the teaching process was greatly accelerated.
All the seed drills produced by the machinery factory have finally been delivered, and the market feedback has been quite good.
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