Chapter 167 Detour (two chapters in one)
After Fan Jianguo went back and thought about it, he decided to go to the director of the freight office to discuss this matter.
If he doesn't give the order, no one below would dare to approve it.
I went back and bought two bottles of good wine and two packs of good cigarettes and went straight to the director's house to block him.
Anyway, his train is at twelve o'clock at night.
This knock was on the door of the freight office director's house.
"Who is it?"
"Sister-in-law, I'm Xiao Fan, here to see Director Yao."
The door opened, and the wife of the director of the freight office stood at the door and glanced at Fan Jianguo. Especially when she saw what Fan Jianguo was holding in his hand, she felt a little unhappy.
Someone delivered something to her door, but her man asked her to kick the person out.
The problem is that I know in my heart that since my man said this, it means that this matter is not easy to handle.
As a good wife, she has to do it well no matter what.
"Xiao Fan! Your brother Yao is not at home. He is on a business trip. You see, I am busy at home alone and cannot receive you. Please come another day. It will probably take a week for your brother Yao to come back."
Fan Jianguo was just about to say something nice, but the other person closed the door.
He withdrew his hand from the door and thought to himself that it looked like the other party was determined not to help him and would not even give him a chance, which meant that any words of easing the situation would be of no use.
What should he do now? He can't transport the 5,000 kilograms of grain in his hand. And if this continues, how will he transport the wood from the forest farm back?
A lot of things can be wasted in a week.
Fan Jianguo was so anxious that he was scratching his hair.
If the grain cannot be transported, what will we do next?
Fan Jianguo had no choice but to go back and call his friend.
Since this approach was blocked, he tried to find another way.
If the supply and marketing director doesn't give the carriage to him, he will have to give it to someone else.
The station is not dominated by one company, so will the other companies’ requests for carriages not be approved?
Then he had no choice but to ask someone else to come out and exchange approval documents for each one.
I have to say that Fan Jianguo has a really quick mind.
After making a few phone calls, I immediately found the director of one of the foreign trade bureaus.
Without saying a word, he sent his section chief to get the approval slip and put the 5,000 kilograms of grain on the carriage.
The name used to communicate to the outside world was the name of their Foreign Trade Bureau, so the freight station naturally did its job honestly.
They generally cannot afford to offend the Foreign Trade Bureau. This kind of foreign trade unit has great power and has connections with all the big and small bosses in the city.
A freight station at a railway station naturally cannot cause trouble for the Foreign Trade Bureau.
Besides, there is no reason to offend others.
Fan Jianguo successfully obtained the delivery note from the freight station.
When you arrive at the destination, just take the delivery note to pick up the goods.
He thanked the other party for a long time. It was a mutually beneficial relationship for everyone. The other party asked for a lot of wood from him.
Only then did Fan Jianguo go home, pack his luggage and prepare to go see his niece.
Of course he had to bring some things with him. This time he had an important mission. Not to mention his own shopping list, he also had to pave the way for Jiang Xiaoxiao.
The child is young, so as his uncle he must be clear-headed and prudent.
When Mrs. Fan and Mr. Fan heard that their son was going to see Xiaoxiao, they were surprised.
Both of them were anxious.
Jiang Xiaoxiao had been in the countryside for more than half a year, and they had no news at all, except for the two letters she wrote at the beginning to report her safety.
After the mountain was blocked by heavy snow, there was no news at all, and the two were particularly worried about the child.
The main reason is that I’m afraid that the children can’t stand the hardship in the countryside. Besides, it’s very cold there.
When they heard that their son was going to the farm where their granddaughter lived, the old couple naturally packed a lot of things and asked Fan Jianguo to bring four full bags.
Fan Jianguo looked at the four bags with a bitter face. If he had known this, he would not have said anything. Looking at the bags he had, it really looked like he was visiting relatives.
Looking at the eager eyes of the old couple, he had no way of refusing, so he had to carry the four bags and take the train.
Before leaving, he asked the old couple to call Jiang Xiaoxiao Production Brigade.
He also told Jiang Xiaoxiao the time when his 5,000 kilograms of grain would arrive at the station. At that time, he would have to ask their forest farm to send a car to pick up the grain, which was not a small number.
I can deliver the food to their place, but there is no way to deliver the food to the forest farm.
The forest farm leaders will have to figure out the rest themselves.
Jiang Xiaoxiao was so excited when she received the call. She was just worrying about not having a good excuse, but she didn't expect her uncle to send the food directly to her.
Although it seems that these 5,000 kilograms of grain can only solve the food problem of the people in their forest farm.
However, the food in her space cannot be taken out openly.
This requires a train bill of lading. We have a train bill of lading.
Who would still doubt it?
A powerful uncle fell from the sky.
Jiang Xiaoxiao was so happy that she couldn't stop smiling the whole day.
Li Dahu didn't go out today because the north wind started blowing again here. Once the whistling wind starts, it will be so cold that it can freeze people to death.
Hearing Jiang Xiaoxiao talking about something at the train station that seemed vaguely related to food, I immediately pricked up my ears.
The county has already started a meeting to let them save themselves.
What kind of self-rescue is that? How can they save themselves?
Even if we barter, what can they give us?
I just picked some mushrooms, black fungus, hazelnuts and so on in the mountains in the summer, but what food can I exchange for such a small amount? It is not even enough to pay for a railway station to transport a railway car.
As the production team leader, he was naturally worried.
There are quite a lot of people in their 12th brigade. Now, adding up, there are more than 500 educated youth this year alone.
These are all mouths, they need to eat.
Although the food rations were distributed, they were all eaten up between the Chinese New Year and the beginning of spring.
After a while, the soil here will really thaw, and then we will have to go out to work.
But without food, what do you want them to do?
In previous years, the county would always allocate grain at this time of year, but this year due to the severity of the snowstorm, the county provided relief to other production teams and farms.
Their farm was actually ranked last because it suffered the least from the snowstorm.
In some places, because of this snowstorm, houses collapsed, people were crushed to death, and many people were even frozen to death. In comparison, they are considered lucky.
At this time, they cannot cause trouble to their leaders, but if asked to save themselves, they really have no ability to do so.
"Xiao Xiao, I heard there was food on a train. How did you get the food?"
As soon as Jiang Xiaoxiao hung up the phone, Li Dahu grabbed her and asked her.
"Captain, you know the situation in our forest farm. We have been running out of food for a long time. Our farm manager Guo went to the county to attend a meeting. After that, he came back and told everyone to save themselves. The county approved a special approval. No matter what method you use, you can find a way to exchange food for it.
You know I came from northern Beijing, so I contacted my family. My uncle is the director of a sales department at home, so I asked him to contact them to see if he could exchange wood for food.
Unexpectedly, he actually managed to get it done. The grain has been loaded onto the train now. If nothing goes wrong, the grain will arrive in a few days. My uncle will also come with the train, and then we will load the wood back with it.
I know our farm is also out of food right now, why don’t you discuss it with our farm manager and come up with a way to distribute some of the food so that we can get through this difficult time first.”
She knew clearly that there were thousands of people working on the farm and she couldn't just watch them starve to death.
But how to distribute the grain and how to return it later were matters between the farm manager and Li Dahu and had nothing to do with her.
All she had to do was get the food out.
Li Dahu was excited, "Just your words will do."
Jiang Xiaoxiao turned around and took Li Chengwu and his brother to Shibalipu. Li Chengwu didn't know where to go, but his father said it!
They did whatever Jiang Xiaoxiao asked them to do.
Li Dahu knew what Jiang Xiaoxiao, a female educated youth, could do.
Designation can't be a bad thing.
Besides, Jiang Xiaoxiao is a promising girl with great abilities. She can get food. Even if she is a little reckless, Li Dahu will protect her.
Jiang Xiaoxiao brought two sacks with her when she went there.
Li Chengwu and his brother were carrying sacks, and they probably knew what was inside them.
It must be food.
The quantity and the smell, they could smell the fragrance of rice and wheat through the sack, which made them all greedy.
The last time Jiang Xiaoxiao gave them rabbit meat, but this time Jiang Xiaoxiao brought them food!
What a character!
But to whom?
This is the question in their minds.
Jiang Xiaoxiao went straight to Liu Guoqing's house.
Liu Guoqing is fifteen years old. His family is having a hard time. Now his parents have passed away and his younger brothers and sisters are all dependent on him.
My parents just passed away and our home is now penniless.
Coupled with this year's snow disaster, Liu Guoqing sat there worried. What could a 15-year-old kid do?
He was so worried that his brows were furrowed like an old man.
He looked worriedly at his brother and sister who were dying of hunger.
This can't go on.
He could starve to death, but he couldn't let his younger brothers and sisters starve to death.
He promised his parents that he would make sure his younger brothers and sisters survive.
It is easy to promise, but difficult to do.
Look at the house at home.
Yesterday, Hu Tou Die from the village came. He brought three brothers with him at once. Hu Tou Die’s family is considered a bully in the village.
The family is strong and powerful.
(There are many boys in the family. Three brothers each have four sons, which means there are 15 grown men in total. In the countryside, this is a strong army and horses, and they are confident when they quarrel.)
They said they would exchange a bag of cornmeal for three rooms.
He originally disagreed. Their family had spent a lot of money on building the house. It was built by his parents with great effort. It was the result of his parents' hard work for a lifetime. Now it was just a bag of cornmeal, and Hu Tou Dad was not afraid of being embarrassed when he talked about it.
This is intentional.
This is taking advantage of the opportunity.
Besides, he is not stupid. Why does Tiger Head’s father want three rooms?
It's just bullying them because they have no adults. Once they move into this yard, it would be strange if you could drive them away. After a long time, who knows, the remaining house in the house may not even be theirs.
For this reason, Liu Guoqing did not agree.
I didn't dare to agree.
But looking at the aggressive look on Tiger Head's face, he knew that he was not done yet.
Who knows what else might happen.
He is just a half-grown kid and I am afraid he can't protect the house.
No one in the village dares to mess with Hu Tou Die and his people, and the village chief will not protect them.
After all, the other family is strong and powerful, compared with their own weak family, it goes without saying who the village chief will side with!
He was very worried and didn't want to agree.
But looking at my younger brothers and sisters, I couldn’t just watch them starve to death.
He gritted his teeth and made a secret decision in his heart to go find Hu Tou's father tomorrow and agree if he was asked to do so. He would get over this hurdle first.
If there is really no other option, he must do what he promised his parents even if he has to take his younger brothers and sisters to beg for food.
As I was thinking about it, someone knocked on the door.
Liu Guoqing opened the door.
"Village head, Party secretary?!"
The village chief and the party secretary are not the kind of people who come to visit. For a family like theirs, the village chief and the party secretary don’t like to come to visit.
He quickly let the person into the house.
This has to do with Jiang Xiaoxiao. When she arrived at Shibalipu, she did not go directly to Liu Guoqing's house. Instead, she took Li Dahu and a letter of introduction from Secretary Wang, on which the county's official seal was like an imperial edict, and went directly to the village chief.
When the village chief saw this, he treated them as county officials.
The highest level of hospitality.
Be polite and serve tea and water.
Especially Jiang Xiaoxiao's demeanor and the clothes she was wearing, she really looked like a county official.
"Village head, we are from the county's armed forces department. We have come to express our condolences to the family of Comrade Liu Baoguo in your village. We are very sad to hear that Comrade Liu Baoguo has passed away. Comrade Liu Baoguo was a good comrade of our revolution and worked hard for the victory of our country.
Now we heard that Liu Baoguo and his wife passed away, and we came to express our condolences on behalf of the armed forces. Here are 300 kilograms of food and 50 yuan as a token of the county's kindness. And Liu Baoguo's comrade-in-arms is Wang's uncle.
Secretary Wang said that the families of these old revolutionaries must be taken care of specially. From now on, Secretary Wang will allocate funds to the three brothers every month and they must be taken good care of. We cannot watch the descendants of the revolution suffer. "
Jiang Xiaoxiao naturally knew that what Liu Guoqing and the others needed was the village's shelter.
Without the protection of the village chief and the party secretary, Liu Guoqing, a young boy now, could not withstand the bullying of the bullies.
If someone just moves their little finger, Liu Guoqing and his men will have to leave.
She gave gifts and money, but it only treated the symptoms and not the root cause.
Once they leave, maybe nothing will fall into their hands, and they may become jealous, which may bring disaster to them.
But it’s different with a village chief and a party secretary.
The most permanent solution is for the village head and the party secretary to take the initiative to protect Liu Guoqing and others' future living issues.
It’s better than her repeated help.
Sure enough, when the village chief heard this, he immediately responded.
"Comrades who have worked hard in the county, we are also very saddened by the death of Comrade Liu Baoguo. We will definitely do a good job in the follow-up work of taking care of the military families and ensure that they are not treated unfairly."
Liu Baoguo had participated in the War of Liberation and could be considered an old revolutionary.
But he's no longer in the team.
But according to the information, he is still a soldier.
Jiang Xiaoxiao naturally knew all this, which is why she dared to use the official document from the Armed Forces Department to make a fuss.
Thanks also to Secretary Wang.
Secretary Wang gave the letter of introduction without saying a word. Knowing that Jiang Xiaoxiao wanted to protect the weak, Secretary Wang guaranteed that he was willing to be the tiger that Jiang Xiaoxiao used to bully others.
No matter who asks, he won't reveal the truth. It's just a reputation.
Secretary Wang admitted it.
Otherwise, there is no way you can get this kind of thing.
Jiang Xiaoxiao was grateful to Secretary Wang from the bottom of her heart. Secretary Wang helped her with many things from beginning to end.
I owe you a favor.
I have to find an opportunity to repay Secretary Wang.
Otherwise I really can't get over the hurdle in my heart.
Upon hearing this, the village chief and the party secretary personally brought people to Liu Guoqing's home.
First make your purpose clear.
Liu Guoqing was in tears.
This is timely rain.
Someone in the family will starve to death.
This food can save the lives of the three brothers.
Almost fell to his knees.
Holding Jiang Xiaoxiao's hand, my eyes were filled with tears.
Jiang Xiaoxiao looked at the child. The fifteen-year-old child had a sad face, like a little old man. She patted Liu Guoqing's shoulder soothingly.
In the future, Liu Guoqing will have someone to protect him. He will not need to be separated from his family, nor will he need to join the army and leave his family early.
This time she will let Liu Guoqing take a different path.
"Liu Guoqing, if you have any difficulties in the future, go to the county to find Secretary Wang, and he will help you solve them. Study hard, and you will receive a special subsidy every month. Take good care of your brothers and sisters, take care of yourself, and be a useful person to the country! Remember?"
Jiang Xiaoxiao was afraid that he would give up halfway again.
It is also to strengthen Liu Guoqing's backing in the minds of the village chief and the party secretary.
Liu Guoqing nodded vigorously.
This sister is so gentle, her words ignited his hope in life.
Jiang Xiaoxiao stayed for a while before leaving.
Li Chengwu didn't know why Jiang Xiaoxiao did this, but his eyes were filled with tears as he watched.
That kid is much more pitiful than him.
Look at the two children in this family. They are even more pitiful. They are pale and thin due to hunger, and their parents have passed away. It is so tragic.
At least he has his parents to protect him, so Jiang Xiaoxiao will definitely do good deeds without leaving a name.
I guess it was Secretary Wang who asked Jiang Xiaoxiao to do it.
Liu Guoqing cooked a pot of porridge for his younger brother and sister. It was the first time that the three siblings fell asleep after eating their fill.
When Hu Tou's father got the news again, he found out that the county had actually sent people to visit Liu Guoqing and his family, and even the village chief and the party secretary were there to accompany them. What a great honor this was.
I originally thought he was just an orphan, but now I know he has a backer. I didn't hear what the village chief said about someone in the county protecting him.
Secretary Wang!
Is that an ordinary person?
Anyone who can be associated with Secretary Wang must be a powerful person.
They also send money every month. This is a subsidy from the government. Is that the kind of treatment that ordinary people can get?
Even the village chief is considering whether to apply for hardship allowance for the three children. It would be a waste not to do this favor.
Didn’t that cadre tell Liu Guoqing that if he had any difficulties he could go to the county official Wang?
Of course he knew Secretary Wang, he was a distinguished person.
Even the village chief is afraid of this man, so Tiger Head Dad would not dare to do anything wrong!
Those who wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to cause trouble immediately stopped.
I dare not come to my house.
Liu Guoqing and his younger brother and sister really lived a quiet life.
No one in the village bullies them, and the village chief even applies for hardship allowance for them, with this money and the remittance slips sent to them every month.
Few people in the village bothered the three siblings.
With monthly subsidies from the county, they completed college smoothly. Liu Guoqing became a teacher in the county, and his younger brothers and sisters also took different paths.
This time there was less suffering and separation waiting for them.
Of course, that money was sent by Jiang Xiaoxiao on a monthly basis.
Liu Guoqing only found out about this later, but he never understood until his death why Jiang Xiaoxiao helped them, whom she had never met before.
But Jiang Xiaoxiao helped the three of them for no reason.
(End of this chapter)
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