Chapter 41 Going to the County for a Meeting
Secretary He is now a little annoyed with Comrade Li. At first he thought he was cold and difficult to get along with. Now he finds that he is not a good person and his words are not pleasant to the ear. After all, he is a leader and he doesn't even know how to be polite.
No matter from which aspect, Comrade Li is not good enough. He is a little worried about how to get along with him in the next few years.
Fortunately, the focus at the moment is not him.
Secretary He looked around the primary school, walked to where Zhou Xian had just stood, and made some marks on the ground.
"What's this?"
"I wanted to build a playground here, so I measured it and made a mark."
Zhou Xian didn’t know what the primary schools in the city looked like now, but she had visited the commune primary school that day.
The scale of the primary school in Taohua Brigade is definitely not as large as others, but they will try their best to get what the children deserve. Zhou Xian is very concerned about her children's studies.
However, it was the attitude of this male protagonist that made her feel a little out of place among the group of people.
If he wasn't the protagonist, with this attitude, he couldn't even stand here.
After all, the domineering CEO style wouldn’t work in this era unless it were for the male protagonist’s halo.
After talking for a while, Secretary He finally turned to the purpose of his visit. "It's like this. I heard that your elementary school has some kind of reward system, right?"
Speaking of this topic, Zhou Xian's expression became serious. He nodded to Secretary He and the others, "I didn't expect that this matter would reach your side."
"What's going on, Xiao Zhou? Tell us in detail. Don't make any mistakes."
Zhou Xian nodded and said, "In fact, this is also a way for our brigade to encourage parents to send their children to school. Although we have set up this primary school, when registering, many people want to send their boys to school and leave their girls at home to work."
Speaking of this, Secretary He couldn't help but sigh. In rural areas, the situation of favoring boys over girls is still quite serious.
The comrades in the Women's Federation have tried their best to publicize it, but it is still difficult to change this kind of thinking.
Zhou Xian looked at the leaders and said sincerely, "Dear leaders, our reward measures are for children who study well. As long as the children study hard, they will be rewarded. Even for the sake of those rewards, they will be willing to send girls to school."
After a pause, Zhou Xian said with tears in his eyes, "Especially when I see those children, they are all pale and skinny, but there is really a limit to what we can do. It is impossible to take care of every child, so we decided to give rewards to children who study well."
"Are these rewards provided by your team?" Li Dong asked.
"Yes, these rewards are all paid by our team. After all, they are children of our team, so we should take better care of them if we can." Zhou Jiefang said quickly.
After all, she is his daughter. When good news comes, Zhou Jiefang will definitely speak up for Zhou Xian. After all, if she says some things herself, the leader may feel differently.
Li Dong frowned and looked over, then said, "Director Zhou is quite thoughtful and thoughtful."
This made people feel uncomfortable for some reason.
Zhou Xian thought to himself, no wonder you are chasing your wife to the crematorium. If she were the heroine, she would not choose such a man.
"Vice President Li, you really praise me too much. The villagers of Taohua Brigade are related to me. Naturally, I want to help them, but my power alone is too limited."
As he spoke, Zhou Xian looked Li Dong up and down and said with a smile, "But I think Vice President Li looks very friendly. I think he can understand everyone's difficulties."
Li Dong frowned and looked at Zhou Xian. He was very displeased with her in his heart. What she said sounded a bit harsh to him.
However, Zhou Xian didn't care about his opinion. Now it was mainly a matter of a few leaders. Anyone with a discerning eye could see that Secretary He was not satisfied with Vice President Li.
But he didn't notice it at all. As expected of the male protagonist, he is quite conceited.
"Comrade Li, Comrade Xiao Zhou has good intentions." President Hu couldn't stand it anymore.
Although Comrade Xiao Li was transferred from the provincial capital, he shouldn't look down on them so much.
Although President Hu and Secretary He usually have differences on certain issues, they are in agreement when it comes to Li Dong's matter. He feels that this young comrade is really a bit tactless.
Even if you are from the provincial capital, you can't look down on others like this.
Secretary He asked about their situation and sighed, "You are really thoughtful for your children to go to school."
There are indeed many people who only send boys to school and leave girls to work at home, so it is difficult for them to come up with such a solution.
As for the quota for the educated youth to return to the city that they promised to help them obtain, Zhou Xian and others had just explained that this was to encourage the educated youth to come up with better teaching methods so that students could learn more knowledge.
Secretary He didn't think it was a big deal. The higher authorities would give out two quotas every year. In the past, there had been repeated incidents of educated youth causing trouble. When the quotas were announced, Secretary He acted as if nothing had happened and didn't even mention it.
If this were given to the educated youth, and they knew there was such a method, they would follow suit. That would be disastrous.
Now Zhou Xian is doing a really good job. If those educated youth are doing a really good job, there would be no harm in giving them the places to return to the city.
It is always happier to give it to educated youth who perform well than to troublemakers.
Therefore, Zhou Xian and his team didn't need to apply for the quota for the educated youth returning to the city. Secretary He spoke directly, "You can handle this matter on your own in the Taohua Brigade. Just one thing, you must select fairly and impartially. I don't want any injustice to happen because of the quota for returning to the city."
"Please rest assured, leader. We are ready to accept your inspection at any time."
Secretary He looked around again and was very pleased to see that the members of Taohua Brigade were in good spirits.
However, Director Ji took Zhou Xian aside and talked to her for a while.
Seeing that it was almost time for dinner, the few people stopped saying anything. Even though Zhou Jiefang and others tried to keep them, Secretary He and his group refused to stay.
Every household is not well off now, so how can they eat the food rations of their fellow villagers?
So a few people decided to go back.
On the way back, it was President Hu who took Li Dong with him.
Along the way, President Hu's face didn't look good.
Li Dong seemed to have finally realized that he was not very popular, so after arriving at the commune, he said, "I will buy a bicycle in a few days."
President Hu glanced at him without saying anything, but he laughed silently in his heart. Although they were the leaders of the commune, they received salaries and industrial tickets, but bicycle tickets were really rare.
Vice President Li's tone sounded as if he could get whatever he wanted.
Why did they transfer such a person to their commune? They don’t know whether it is a good thing or a bad thing.
However, President Hu didn't care. He just nodded randomly and pushed his bicycle into the commune compound.
They just rushed back to have lunch. They couldn't eat the food rations of their fellow villagers, and they also needed to eat.
On the other side, the Taohua Brigade watched several leaders leave, and the branch secretary couldn't help but come up to Zhou Xian and speak.
"Amaranth girl, what did Director Ji from the Women's Federation say to you just now? It looks like something good."
Zhou Xian also smiled and said, "Uncle, you have a good eye."
"That's right, your uncle's eyes are very powerful."
That matter was not a secret, so Zhou Xian did not hide it. "It's not a big deal. Our commune women's federation has the opportunity to go to the county women's federation to learn every month. Director Ji said that this opportunity was given to me and asked me to go to our county women's federation to learn from their experience."
When everyone heard this, they found it strange.
That was to go to the county town to study, and few people in their team had ever been to the county town.
Although Zhou Jiefang had been to the county town several times, he was happy that his daughter had this opportunity.
He immediately gave Zhou Xian a letter of introduction.
"Then you must study hard, girl, and don't let your leader be disappointed in you."
"Don't worry, Dad. I will try my best."
Zhou Xian laughed at that time, not because Director Ji asked her to study, but because she could go to the county town.
It would be great to go to the county town, then she would have a reason to take out the things in the system. "Oh, by the way, Dad, I heard there's a scrap collection station in the county. I'll go there and see if there are any textbooks or something. We really don't have enough textbooks in elementary school."
"That's fine. Go check it out. If it's available, buy it and come back to the brigade to get it reimbursed."
Since this concerns the children's studies, the accountant did not complain that the team has no money this time. After all, his own children will also benefit from this matter.
When it was time to go to the county to study, Zhou Xian got up very early that day.
There are limited buses from the commune to the county town, so you have to get up early.
Ge Guifen felt sorry for her daughter, so she got up early in the morning and cooked two eggs for her to eat on the way.
I was originally going to make some pancakes for Zhou Xian to eat on the way, but I ran out of time, so I could only stuff the eggs into her bag and give her some money. "I heard there's a state-owned restaurant in the city. Take the money and go to the state-owned restaurant to buy some big meat buns. Don't starve yourself."
Zhou Xian wanted to push the money back, but Comrade Ge Guifen stuffed it back into her mouth and whispered in Zhou Xian's ear, "Take it. Mom has money. Don't let yourself suffer when you are away from home."
Seeing this, Zhou Xian stopped pushing it. Afraid of missing the bus to the county town, she set off before dawn.
There were not many people on the road early in the morning. Looking at the dark path, I felt a little scared.
After detecting Zhou Xian's thoughts, the system suddenly said, "Host, you don't have to worry so much. Even if someone has bad intentions towards you, you don't have to be afraid. Don't forget that you have taken the body-strengthening pills. Not to mention one person, even ten strong men are no match for you."
Zhou Xian was no longer nervous instantly.
But I still asked, "Is one health-enhancing pill worth ten strong men?"
"That's a conservative estimate. A dozen or twenty more won't be a problem. However, according to the calculations of this system, the possibility of encountering so many strong men besieging the host is almost zero."
Zhou Xian: “…”
Forget it, she was worrying too much.
If she really encounters danger, she won't be the one who is afraid.
When Zhou Xian rode to the commune, it was already dawn. She parked her bike there and handed some fruit candies to the gatekeeper as usual.
"Xiao Zhou, you came to the commune so early."
"Yes, I'm going to the county women's federation for exchange and study today, so I have to come early to catch the bus."
"If you want to go to the county town, you have to go early and wait for the bus at the platform over there." The gatekeeper pointed to the platform in front of Zhou Xian.
Zhou Xian glanced in the direction of the platform and thanked the old man again.
She went to the platform and took out the lunch box from her bag. The eggs were still hot. Zhou Xian opened it and took a look. Since there was no one around, she looked around and bought a big meat bun from the trading mall.
There were other foods as well, but they were too eye-catching so they were not taken out. Instead, she drank boiled water which Comrade Ge Guifen gave her so that she wouldn't be thirsty without water.
Zhou Xian was chewing on a meat bun and eating a boiled egg when he felt choked and drank some water.
After she finished eating, she walked around in circles out of boredom for several times. During this time, a few people came over, all of whom were preparing to take a bus to the county town. It took a long time before she saw the bus to the county town slowly driving towards the platform.
The car was jerking around and wasn't going very fast. When Zhou Xian saw it, he couldn't help but wonder if the car had broken down along the way.
The car pulled up in front of her, right in front of her, and the door opened.
Zhou Xian was surprised for a moment, then got into the car and praised him, "Master, you are amazing. You parked the car really well, not bad at all, right in front of me."
The driver was holding the enamel cup beside him and preparing to drink some water. When he heard what Zhou Xian said, he couldn't help but laugh, and said with a proud tone, "That's right, after driving for so many years, you still don't have this little skill."
In fact, it was just a coincidence, but the driver didn't want to say it out loud, so he accepted the compliment.
Of course, he couldn't help but take a look at Zhou Xian. He just felt that this girl was a nice person with a pair of sharp eyes. He had been driving for so many years, and some people were envious of him and some said sour words about him, but this was the first time someone praised him for his driving skills, and he felt very comfortable.
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