Chapter 44

Take office immediately

"Chen Lina is coming tomorrow, Jiefang, what do you think we should do?" Huang Huacai sat on the kang with his legs crossed, and because of the anxiety, he lit the cigarette pot.

Liu Jiefang was good at using shady tactics, and his most common trick was to deceive his superiors and hide the truth from his subordinates, to whitewash the truth, to curry favor with the leaders, and of course he only let women do the dirty work.

Sun Xiangnan was the warehouse keeper. To put it bluntly, he only put money into his own family. Of course, he only listened to the old lady in everything. But Sun Duoyu said, "Throw a nail and puncture her tire."

She and Sun Dabao were the same child. With Sun Dabao, Huang Huacai was content. But when Sun Duoyu was born and cried, Huang Huacai scolded him, saying, "You are redundant."

This is how Sun Duoyu got his nickname.

"Yes, yes, I get angry when I see her Hongqi sedan. That's the leader's car. If your eldest sister is alive, she should be driving the car. Put nails in it and burst her tires." Huang Huacai immediately gave a death order, "Throw the extra nails at us."

Sun Duoyu, like a short fat man, took a handful of large iron nails from the warehouse and prepared to puncture the tires of Chen Lina's car early the next morning.

"If you ask me, I'll have to prepare a basket of shit tomorrow, and when Chen Lina comes, I'll dump it out in front of the farm gate to embarrass her."

"Coal ash will be enough. If you throw feces, the security team will arrest you for uncivilized behavior." Sun Xiangnan said, glaring at the old lady.

However, their whole family is counting on the old lady to help.

Even if Chen Lina couldn't be driven away, after all, it was her first day in office, and everyone would still feel good if she made a fool of herself.

"Comrade Xiao Nie, I start work at eight o'clock and will be back to cook at 12 o'clock. Can you take care of these two kids?" Chen Lina asked Nie Weimin again and again.

Nie Weimin said timidly, "How many times do I have to tell you that I have done it before you believe me?"

"If you don't want me to go to work, I will stay home and take care of the three of you."

"Are you still the first owner of the base?"

"no."

"Isn't that the end of it? Don't worry, I can take good care of them." The emaciated little guy, sometimes like a sissy, sometimes full of masculinity, looks like he has seen through all of Chen Lina's vanity.

Chen Lina rubbed his head and he didn't object, so she patted his little butt. The little guy blushed immediately and turned around and ran away.

When we were about to leave the base gate, we unexpectedly met District Chief Gao's Shanghai-brand car.

He had just rushed over from the mining area with his secretary.

"Xiao Chen, you are also a college student in our Republic. You have ideals and want to do something. I understand that. In order to pave the way for you, I learned about the situation of the farm during this Spring Festival. I have to give you a shot in advance, but I am afraid it will be difficult to manage."

It was precisely because he was worried about the difficulty in management that District Chief Gao came specially to accompany her to take office, wanting to protect her.

"If you can't do it, there's He Min. He's reliable, down-to-earth and capable. I'll try to transfer him from Daqing. So, why don't you give it a try first?"

Well, if she can't get it done, the substitute will take over immediately and she will have to come back and eat chalk dust.

"The educated youth are easy to manage, but the difficult ones are the relocated residents. They are uneducated, savage, and only care about immediate benefits. Seeing that you are still young and a college student, they will probably embarrass you. The current situation is not good. The workers, peasants, and soldiers are the most important. You have to be patient and give in in everything. You have to talk to them properly. Do you understand?"

Seeing the farm gate in sight, Chen Lina put down the steering wheel and headed straight for the Baiyang River.

"Xiao Chen, shouldn't we go to the farm? Liu Jiefang still needs to hand over the work to you there."

"District Chief, I want to take you to see the Baiyang River, and then plan how to dig a canal to divert water from the Baiyang River and use it to irrigate the farmland."

"The Yang River is low and the farms are high. There is also desert along the way. It is a very difficult task to dig a canal. We don't have that much money to dig a canal."

"We can dig karez. District Chief Gao is from the Northeast, so I'm afraid you have never been to Turpan. You should go and see the karez in Turpan, which is the only underground canal water diversion project in the world. Turpan is hot, and the ground is dry and there is no water.

But the grape production is the highest in the entire frontier, not because grape cultivation does not require water, but because, as early as the Han Dynasty, the people there invented the canal, using underground canals to irrigate the land." Chen Lina said.

District Chief Gao exclaimed, and looked sideways at her, as if he had just met her the day before.

As a result, she took out another stack of letter paper from the hood and said, "This is the five-year development plan for the farm that I wrote. Please review it."

Genuine college students are different from those workers, peasants, soldiers, and red and expert students. District Chief Gao was impressed.

When they arrived at the bank of Baiyang River, District Chief Gao saw a group of shabby, but well-mannered middle-aged men wearing pens in the pockets of their Liberation jackets. Needless to say, they were all professors and experts who had been sent down to the countryside for reform.

After listening to Chen Lina's introductions one by one, he suddenly bent his waist a lot, stretched out his hands, and shook hands with these old intellectuals.

From experts in soil analysis to professors in grafting and engineers in seed improvement, a group of the "five black categories" with snow-capped mountains behind them and the Gobi Desert under their feet, Chen Lina's team to solve the problem of food and satiety for the mining area has begun to take shape.

In the farm, the day lily had a gray basket on its head. Sun Duoyu was hiding at the gate, with a group of onlookers behind him. The lively villagers were waiting to give Chen Lina a taste of her powers.

As a result, after a while, District Chief Gao's secretary Xiao Zhang trotted into the farm.

"Director Liu, the district chief has ordered you to rush to the Baiyang River immediately. He and the new factory director, Comrade Chen Lina, are waiting for you there."

"On the Poplar River, they don't come to the farm?"

"I don't know about that."

"Okay, hurry up and drive the tractor, and go faster. You will be leaving office soon, so you have to curry favor with District Chief Gao. Maybe he will appoint you as the director of another farm. Go quickly." Sun Xiangnan pushed Liu Jiefang.

Liu Jiefang trotted on his tractor and drove it through the gate of Mulan Farm. By the time Huang Huacai and Sun Duoyu came to their senses and were about to tell him to avoid the nails, he had already run over the nails and ran away.

Sun Duoyu watched the rumbling tractor go down the road and turn onto the Gobi beach where vegetation had just emerged. He shouted, "Mom, my second brother-in-law is lucky. He didn't get stabbed."

As a result, just as she finished her words, the tractor on the Gobi Beach made a hissing sound, followed by a bang, and the entire front of the tractor exploded, and a broken tire flew into the air.

If Sun Duoyu had read a few books, he would have probably understood that this is called reaping what one sows.

The new farm manager returned from the Baiyang River with a group of cattle shed experts and District Chief Gao. They did not enter the farm through the front gate at all, but entered through the back door.

Liu Jiefang looked dazed and walked with a slight limp. There was nothing he could do. The tractor had a flat tire and he was lucky to be alive.

Of course, he is the most useless among Sun's sons-in-law. If he doesn't pretend to be timid, he won't be able to get the position of the farm manager.

On the first day of the new farm manager's appointment, the most important task was to take over the warehouse and accounts. After all, the most important things for a farm are the warehouse and accounts.

Sun Xiangnan is the warehouse manager and is also in charge of the farm's accounts. The farm's accounts for purchasing seeds, fertilizers, and labor protection supplies are at least tens of thousands of yuan a year. To calculate this account, one must know addition and subtraction.

To this end, with the support of his sister Sun Zhuan'an, Sun Xiangnan went to Umayyad Elementary School to learn arithmetic for several months.

However, her account is basically a mess, and she has the final say.

Moreover, when it was time to settle the accounts, she was still busy scribbling and making corrections in the account book. The abacus made a clattering sound, and the more she calculated, the more confused she became.

It was not until the new manager entered the warehouse that she stood up from her old counter.

Liu Fang couldn't help but wink at her, asking her to hand the account book to Chen Lina. Only then did she pick up the key and the account book together.

It can be said that Sun Xiangnan, the warehouse keeper who used to always stand behind a high counter, with only her chin visible like a pawnshop owner in the old society, is now seen by many people for the first time in her true appearance.

I can only say that the girls in the Sun family are really ugly.

"Director Gao, please take a look at the account book first. I'm not in a hurry to hand it over right now," said Chen Lina.

District Chief Gao entered the farm through the back door today. To be honest, he has never seen the ugly things that happened through the front door.

However, based on the appearance of the educated youth he saw and the answers he heard from a few of them when he asked them a few questions when he came in, he was already very angry.

Until last year, the farm had been managed by Sun Zhuannan, who had just been transferred there. Because there was a man named Sun Dabao who was the best at making revolution on the farm, they almost avoided the entire farm and only wanted to focus on oil production.

Now it seems that they really mistreat these educated youth who came from big cities and were wholeheartedly and passionately determined to change the frontier areas.

However, he is the leader of the mining area, and Chen Lina is the new director. No one can manage things beyond their level, so today, he has to push Chen Lina out.

So he flipped through a few pages and said directly, "This account book is a mess. Comrade Sun Xiang, didn't you go to the Red Expert School for one year and be an excellent graduate? Look at what you wrote. A donkey is a donkey, and what is a horse household? Gloves are all in pairs, but why are you writing them one bite at a time? Where is the eight under the word "only"? Did you eat it? It's a rubbish book. I can't stand it. I want to ask you, how are you going to hand it over to the new director?"

"Leader, this is what our teachers at the Workers, Peasants and Soldiers School taught us. We are all sincere and we will do whatever the teacher says." Sun Xiangnan wanted to argue.

"So, is this 36 feet of cloth or 360 feet of cloth? What do all these circles mean?" District Chief Gao pointed at the account book and couldn't bear to read it any more.

Even if they are the family of a hero, they cannot be treated like this.

Chen Lina said directly, "Zhang Huaiwu and Wang Dewu are serious embezzlers. What they embezzled was only 360 feet of cloth. The leader said that once they are found to have embezzled public property, they must be severely punished. No one's intercession will work."

Zhang Huaiwu and Wang Dewu were corrupt officials who were criticized in the newspapers every day. Sun Xiangnan's face turned pale.

Chen Lina did not take the account book before she came out of the warehouse with District Chief Gao, and was greeted by a basket of coal ash at the door.

She was still young and nimble enough to dodge, so she escaped.

District Chief Gao was completely transformed from head to toe into a gray man.

"You bitch, you are a reactionary and a capitalist-roader. You robbed my daughter's baby, and you want to rob her director. Why don't you take my life? I tell you, I will die here today in front of you. You all just wait and see. The new director Chen Lina forced my heroic mother to death. She is a shameless bitch, a reactionary, and a Soviet revisionist." The old lady was cursing at him all the time.

Almost everyone on the farm gathered in front of the warehouse, crowded together.

Huang Huacai's low-class swearing, not caring about anything and throwing shit and urine at the pot, can be said to be exactly the same as myself in the future who accidentally falls and scolds passers-by, and whoever helps him up will be the one to suffer the consequences.

Of course, she also had a good idea. Chen Lina, you want to be the director, so I will put a few big hats on you first. Whether it is true or not, I will destroy your momentum first.

What a pity, Chen Lina can write plans to her superiors and act tough to her subordinates. She has never admitted defeat and has never been stopped by anyone.

She jogged a few steps, and everyone behind her started running. Huang Huacai followed behind, pointing, poking, and cursing.

As a result, when she reached the entrance of the underground nest in Sunjiazhai, she suddenly stopped.

Bending her knees, she picked up the white flour steamed buns that had been pecked by birds, either rotten or spoiled, or in good condition and then thrown away. Then Chen Lina turned around and threw them directly at the day lilies like raindrops.

"Old lady, I know you are the tyrant of Sunjiazhai, and the leader of the seven evil categories that are most hated by the workers, peasants and soldiers in this farm. You are a local tyrant. Others respect you for Sun Gong's death, but I won't, because I know that the reputation of a hero needs to be cared for and protected. I won't allow you, a feudal remnant, a yamen-like, stubborn local tyrant to tarnish her reputation again. I won't say anything else. I just ask you, the educated youth and the members of the commune, Three steamed buns a day, with sweet potato leaves and bean curd skins in them. Why can you people from Sunjiazhai throw big white steamed buns like this? 5859, have you never been hungry? Have you forgotten that you couldn't poop in 5859 and your daughter died of bloating? When you sit on the millstone every day and tell people about the experience of not being able to poop in 5859 and hitting your butt with a stick, these big white steamed buns are the heroic spirits of those ancestors who died of hunger, watching you.

Today, I will punish you, an old woman, on behalf of the workers, peasants, and soldiers, and the heroic spirits of the Sun Yat-sen workers."

She cursed and smashed things, and when she ran out of steamed buns she used clods of earth to pull them out, acting like a complete shrew.

After she smashed the things, everyone thought she was done, but she suddenly pulled a little girl out from the crowd, pointed at the little girl's thin Liberation shoes, knelt down, and took off the shoes.

The girl was an educated youth from Henan. She thought the new leader was going to steal her shoes, so she quickly covered her feet and said, "Leader, this is the only pair of shoes I have!"

As for Huang Huacai, she came over from her own door with a hoe on her shoulder. "I am the mother of a hero. I am not afraid of death, so why should I be afraid of a whore like you... I must teach you a lesson today."

Huang Huacai is not afraid of death today and is determined to make Chen Lina bleed.

Who knew that while she was carrying the hoe like crazy, the other party was actually acting out a sad drama.

Kneeling on one knee in front of the young educated youth, she looked down at the day lily and the cotton shoes that looked like two big roe deer. She even choked up, "Look at this child's feet, comrades. The local tyrants in Sunjiazhai wear big cotton shoes that contain at least a pound of cotton. However, we, the little revolutionary fighters who went to the countryside with the ambition to change the green mountains, have such big frostbite on our feet because we have no shoes to wear."

Immediately, several young educated youths burst into tears and stood in front of Chen Lina with their hands outstretched. "We will never allow you to bully our beloved director."

Dear Director, it’s so corny, but Chen Lina loves to hear it, because she naturally loves corny things.

District Chief Gao was stunned. Secretary Xiao Zhang said, "District Chief, why don't we mediate? It's not good for Director Chen to behave like this. After all, she is also a leader."

"What to stop? In the past, Yang Zirong fought against Zuo Shandiao and even disguised himself as a bandit. He had performed all the big dramas before, and the only thing missing is some shaman dance. To fight against the local tyrants, one must have the spirit of a bandit and be able to bend and stretch. I have always been worried that Chen Lina would not be able to take down the position of director and deal with these local tyrants. Now it seems that it is very good. She has to be the director." District Chief Gao had his head covered with coal dust, and he was itching to the point of going crazy.

"Down with Sunjiazhai and punish the local bullies." Someone in the crowd raised his fist.

The call was answered by hundreds of people, and everyone immediately shouted, "Down with Sunjiazhai, punish the local tyrants, and protect the heroic spirit of Sun Gong from being tarnished."

Well, in the blink of an eye, the literary struggle has turned into a physical struggle.

The old lady is very good at fighting. She fights people every day. Who would have thought that she would be fought today and she had not yet thought about how to respond? Who would have thought that Chen Lina was not done yet. She suddenly stood up again and said loudly, "Everyone doesn't know that this old lady is not only a local tyrant, but also withholds the support of several children of the laborers. The money that the mining area gives to the children is not replaced with milk powder to supplement the children's health, nor is it replaced with cotton to make cotton shoes for them. She is not even used to send the children to school as the grandson's last wish. Instead, the old lady saves it into a fixed deposit and uses it to make money for herself. She is no different from the landlord's wife in the old society. She is a blood-sucking worm.

I am now asking for the children's pension on behalf of Sun Gong and his three children. Please give it to me."

Well, one move after another, the old lady was so frightened that she couldn't even breathe. According to legend, Chen Lina, who could kill an old lady with a quarrel, directly gave Huang Huacai the heaviest blow, scaring her so much that she sat down on the ground with a thud. She looked exactly like Huang Shiren in the model opera, who was finally blocked by the masses and had no way out.

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"Brother, it's almost noon now. Will she come back to cook?" Erdan lay on the big iron gate of the base, waiting eagerly.

Nie Weimin said impatiently, "Oh, it's her first day, she'll definitely be busy, we just have to wait. If it doesn't work, I'll make you some lazy dumpling soup for lunch."

Under the scorching sun, there are three cement sculptures of workers wearing sheepskin jackets and carrying large shovels in front of the base. They were sculpted to commemorate the first barrel of oil produced from Base No. 1.

The three oil workers, waving their arms in the same way, with their strong fists, clenched teeth, and ferocious faces due to excitement, are lifelike.

Water was dripping from the Leifeng hat on the far left, making a popping sound as it fell on the ground. It was melted by the scorching sun.

When mom passed away, she gave one candy each to the eldest and second child, and three candies to Sandaner. As he was the youngest, of course he had to suffer a little more.

Sandan held onto the big iron railing and remembered his mother saying that she would come back after the three oil workers had disappeared.

The boy was holding a piece of candy for his mother and was staring at the three statues of oil workers. As he watched the shadows gradually disappear, he became very anxious. The candy in his hand was about to melt with sweat.

Finally, a ray of light flashed across the distant Gobi Beach. It was the reflection of the windshield of a car. The three children raised their arms and shouted, and ran away with joy. They looked exactly like the three oil workers opposite them.

As soon as we entered the gate of the base, Erdan, covered in dirt, wanted to get on the car like a dirty pig. His mother glared at him and the child became scared.

"There's no car for dirty kids. Just run behind and shake off the dirt first." Chen Lina said, and only let Sandaner get in the car.

Nie Wei's failure to supervise the people is an aggravated crime.

She drove away, and the two children ran after the car. While running, Erdan was still brushing the dirt off himself.

"Brother, please pat me, pat me." Erdan kept saying.

Nie Weimin was most afraid of dirt. He held his breath and patted his head, saying, "Mom said you were a goldfish with a three-second memory. I also think you have a bad memory. She told you not to play with dirt this morning, but you insisted on playing."

The car was running slowly in front of us, and suddenly it stopped. The window slowly rolled down, and Sandaner shouted from inside, "Brother, get in the car quickly. Mom wants you guys now."

Good guy, Erdan’s fat little butt was bouncing up and down, and he rushed forward in a 100-meter sprint.