Chapter 277 Villagers' Meeting (1)
"Attention, all groups of villagers! Attention, all groups of villagers! This is the Xiaowan Village broadcast room. After you hear the announcement, please send a representative from each household to gather at the wheat field in front of the village committee..."
"Attention, all groups of villagers! Attention, all groups of villagers! This is the Xiaowan Village broadcasting room. After hearing the announcement..."
Lin Zhou was sitting in Tian Xin's yard, pinching beans with a basket of them, when he suddenly heard her voice coming from the loudspeaker on the telephone pole at the door.
He was stunned and looked up at the yard.
No one is seen!
Wasn’t it here just now?
Where are the people?
He immediately put down his work and walked towards the door, talking on the phone as he walked.
Li Aiying also came out of the kitchen at this time. Seeing him making a phone call, she took off her apron and called out to him, "Stop calling! She should be at the village committee!"
"Is something wrong, Auntie? I thought it was her voice coming from the speaker just now!"
"Yes, I guess there will be another notice! I have to go!" Li Aiying took off her apron, hung it on the small hook at the kitchen door, and hurried back to the room to change clothes and shoes.
When she reached the door, she remembered that the rice that had just been steamed in the pot was not ready yet. She turned around with an apologetic look on her face and walked in front of Lin Zhou.
"Lin Zhou! I'm so sorry, the meal isn't ready yet and I have to go out again. If you're not in a hurry, just stay home. I'll be back soon! Xinxin is probably busy today, so if..."
"Where are you going? Mom!"
As the two were talking, Tian Xu came in from the door with a schoolbag on his back and interrupted Li Aiying.
When he saw Lin Zhou was there, he excitedly threw his schoolbag into the room, turned around and ran over: "Brother, when did you come?"
"I've been here for a while!"
"Oh!" Tian Xu responded, then turned to Li Aiying and said, "Mom, the teacher said she'll be visiting soon. Hurry up and get ready. I'm going to do my homework first!"
"Brother, please leave later today. After you finish your homework, you can take me for a ride!"
"Okay!" Lin Zhou responded.
After saying that, Tian Xu ran back to the room.
Li Aiying was in trouble.
What should I do? Should I go to the village committee or wait for the teacher to visit my home?
This teacher hasn't come all year, so a sudden home visit must be about something! I wonder what trouble Xiaoxu has gotten into at school again?
But if I don’t go to the village committee, what if something happens and I get delayed again?
Alas... She frowned and sighed!
"I'll go!"
Lin Zhou suddenly spoke up: "Didn't they say that each household should have a representative? I'll go to the village committee, and you stay home and wait for the teacher!"
"Ah? Is this...appropriate?" Li Aiying hesitated.
"There's nothing inappropriate! I'll go take a look. If there's anything, Tian Xin is here too, I can just ask her!"
After saying that, without waiting for Li Aiying to react, he walked out the door and drove away.
By the time Li Aiying caught up with the car, it had already turned the corner at the alley and headed towards the main road.
"Oh! This young man..." Li Aiying shook her head towards the alley entrance, with a slightly relieved smile on her face, and turned into the house.
Lin Zhou drove along the main road toward the village committee. Tian Xin's voice played on the loudspeaker all the way. A large number of villagers emerged from their homes, joined the crowd on the main road, and marched in a mighty procession toward the village committee.
Most of these people are heads of households, that is, mostly men, and only a small number of them are elderly people and women.
The cars that had been parked on the wheat field had left, and now it was filled with people. The villagers who had arrived early sat on the small stools they had brought from home and looked up at the village committee door.
At the front of the crowd stood a row of tables covered with red cloth, on which lay a microphone and several teacups.
Lin Zhou parked the car on the side of the road and followed the crowd to the entrance of the village committee.
"Come, one by one, sign here first and then go over!"
The person who was shouting was Li Dongmei. As the director of the Women's Department, her task today was to assist Tian Xin in registering her information. The villagers who came to the wheat field for a meeting were the ones she wanted to question.
"Everyone, please fill in your name, age, home address, and annual income. Don't make any mistakes!"
Li Dongmei shouted as she handed the form to the person signing: "Here, there's another one. Read the contents first and then fill it out after you've read it carefully!"
"No need to look, I know everything!" The villager who was signing took the form and signed his name and fingerprint without saying a word. Then he passed the pen to the next person and went to the threshing floor.
"Come, one by one! Don't be in a hurry!"
More and more people came, and the signature line became longer and longer.
Lin Zhou followed behind, slowly moving forward with the crowd. Fortunately, the person in front signed quickly, and it was his turn in a few minutes.
"Name, age..." Li Dongmei repeated this sentence habitually and pointed at the form for him to sign.
He bent down and filled in his information one by one.
"Lin Zhou...whose family are you from?" Li Dongmei glanced up at him, frowned, and then pointed to the column for household information: "Fill in your father's name here!"
"ah?"
"Are you married?"
“No…no!”
"No, that means the household hasn't been divided yet! Fill in your father's name!"
"Oh...Is that so!" Lin Zhou suddenly understood and couldn't help but smile awkwardly. Then he quickly wrote Tian Xin's name in the household head column solemnly.
"There's another one. Take a look at the content first and think carefully before filling it out!" Li Dongmei handed over another form.
This is a questionnaire titled "Online Store Business Plan Intention Letter." Below it are five questions: annual household income, whether any family members have regular jobs, whether household expenses and income are balanced, whether there are other sources of income, and whether there is any intention to open an online store.
Lin Zhou read through the items one by one, but did not sign, and handed the form back to Li Dongmei.
"What's wrong? Why don't you sign?" Li Dongmei was stunned. She took the form and glanced at the household head column. She said to him impatiently: "Go, go, take your dad..."
Before she finished speaking, she froze, staring at the two powerful characters on the form several times. After confirming that it was "Tian Xin", she turned her gaze to Lin Zhou and looked him up and down: "Who are you?"
"I'm... Tian Xin's friend. Her father passed away, and her aunt is busy, so I'm here to fill in. Let's not fill this out! She should know what's going on!"
After Lin Zhou finished speaking, he handed the pen to someone behind him, nodded at the dazed Li Dongmei, and turned to go to the wheat field.
"Xinxin's...friend?"
"You don't know?" The villagers who followed behind looked at Li Dongmei in a daze and explained with a smile: "The young man came here last time and donated computers to the online store. Have you forgotten?"
"People often send Xinxin back home, don't you know? Last time I saw him shaking hands with the factory director at the factory! I guess he is Xinxin's boyfriend!" said another person in the team.
"Subject?"
Li Dongmei screamed in shock, attracting the attention of those around her. She quickly covered her mouth and whispered, "When did this happen? How come I don't know anything about it?"
"You work with Xinxin all day, and you don't even know this?"
"I don't know!" Li Dongmei shook her head, handed over a form, and returned to her previous repetitive phrase: "Read the content first, think carefully, and then fill it out!"
"What's there to consider?" The man filled out the form in two strokes and passed the pen to the back.
Before leaving for the wheat field, she turned back and complained to Li Dongmei with a smile: "You are such a bad mother. You still don't know about such a big thing that happened to your child!"
"Indeed!" The person who followed also complained.
The signing process took more than an hour to complete in a tense and orderly manner. By the time everyone sat down on the wheat field, the sun had already set.
Under the guidance of Tian Fushun, a group of leaders came out of the village committee and sat in the front seats.
Tian Xin stood behind Tian Fushun, flipping through the stack of well-rated questionnaires one by one.
The wheat field was silent, and everyone held their breath, waiting to hear what the superiors had to say.
"Hello, fellow villagers!"
Tian Fushun took the microphone and looked around at the densely packed crowd sitting on the wheat field: "I called everyone here today because I have something to ask you..."
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