Chapter 197 Leadership Talent

Since my mother came to take care of her during the confinement period, Lu Hehuan has no worries about food and drink, and she uses perfume when she sleeps. She is in good spirits every day, and she feels bright when there is some sunlight, and she thinks the world is beautiful.

She continues to read and write.

Fang Dihua doesn't allow her to read books for fear of hurting her eyes, so she lets Xu Xiaoyou read to her.

She writes on the ground with talc if she wants to write something, and Xu Xiaoyou is responsible for copying it into the notebook.

If Xu Xiaoyou thinks it is good, she gives it to Lin Shu, and asks Lin Shu to help send it out for submission.

Lin Shu thinks that some of the articles are really well written. Pregnancy, childbirth, and postpartum collapse may have given Lu Hehuan different experiences and feelings, making her writing a little heavy, but without losing the previous simplicity and brilliance.

From Lu Hehuan's personality, we can also see that she was raised by her family since she was a child.

A child who was soaked in love and grew up, even if she encounters setbacks and is emotionally upset and about to collapse, as long as she is fed and slept enough, she will be as brilliant as a sunflower bathed in the sun.

Her collapse is just an experience and a way of acting cute, not an irreversible injury and state in life.

Lin Shu sent several works to Yao Naiwen, who worked for the Municipal Federation of Literary and Art Circles and the magazine, and usually wrote and collected manuscripts.

After receiving Lu Hehuan's manuscript, Yao Naiwen helped to polish it and published it, and also sent twelve yuan.

There was no such thing as royalties in this era, but many things were just changes in name, and the essence remained the same. On the surface, there was no royalties, but there were other subsidies, rewards, etc., which were actually royalties.

Lin Shu asked Hou Bo and Lu An to pick up the royalties from the post office, pack them up, and let the children take gifts and go to Xu's house to see Lu Hehuan and the children.

Fang Dihua lived in Xu's house, and Lin Shu and Panpan Tiantian came to deliver things every now and then, sometimes sending rice, flour and meat, sometimes sending eggs, and sometimes sending prepared food. Of course

, so many delicious foods were not given to Xu Shihua and Xu's mother. Even if Lu Hehuan felt sorry for her husband and wanted to give Xu Shihua a few bites, Fang Dihua looked cold and indifferent, and Xu Xiaoyou mocked her, so Xu Shihua didn't have the face to eat.

Anyway, during the month when Lu Hehuan was in confinement, Xu Shihua became visibly darker and thinner, and Xu's mother even had a hunched back.

So what?

Lin Shu and Fang Dihua didn't care.

Today, almost all the children were here. Xiuxiu and Lu Ping came to see their aunt, but Lu Cuicui was nowhere to be seen.

A large group of children stood in the Xu family, and there was no room in the house. Lu Ping, Lu An, Hou Bo and other older boys sat in the main hall.

Lu Xiuxiu and Hou Ying went to see their little brother.

The child was very interesting now, with white and tender eyes, and looked at people with great concentration.

Lu Xiuxiu: "Aunt, what's the name of the little brother?"

Lu Hehuan: "Kuai Kuai, I want him to grow up quickly, eat and sleep by himself, and not bother others."

Everyone: "..."

Xu Xiaoyou liked this little brother very much, after all, she took care of him from head to toe. She looked at Panpan and Tiantian and said: "Look, Kuai Kuai's eyes are very similar to yours, big and round."

Xu Xiaoyou's eyes were almond-shaped and round, but Panpan and Tiantian's were big peach blossom eyes, curved inward and outward, with more lines and a beautiful arc.

Tiantian pointed a frame with her finger, "He is so small, but he actually has a nose bridge, well, he looks good."

She turned her head to look at Hou Wei, whose nose bridge was a little short.

Hou Wei immediately covered his nose.

Panpan took it off for him, "Your nose is not short, don't be afraid of people seeing it."

Little Kuai Kuai began to babble, blowing bubbles from his mouth.

Hou Ying loved children, and seeing that little Kuai Kuai had thick black hair at such a young age, she took a red hair rope and tied two small buns for him.

Xu's mother was still grumbling, "Children have to tie their arms and legs, and sleep on their heads. If you don't tie them up, do you think their hands and feet will be obedient? Children look good only when they sleep with a flat head. If they don't, they will have a flat back of the head, which is ugly!"

She proudly showed the flat head she made for Xu Yaoyao.

At first, she wanted to let Xu Shihua sleep on it, but Xu Shihua's grandmother didn't let her, so she didn't succeed, so she let her grandson sleep on it, and she thought it was perfect.

Fang Dihua mostly lets her children do what they like, without tying their hands and feet or letting them sleep with their heads bent. As long as their heads don't get deformed, they can sleep as they please.

All of her children have normal heads, especially Panpan and Tiantian, whose heads are particularly nice-looking, whether they have short hair or long hair tied in a braid, they are full and round.

Fang Dihua and Lin Shu are adults, and they never argue with others about these details, because flat or round heads are a matter of personal aesthetic preference, and it is not a matter of right or wrong, so what is there to argue about?

Are you arguing to get others to follow your aesthetic? Or are you attacking others' aesthetics?

Hou Wei was a child and didn't understand this. He immediately shouted, "How can a gourd be more beautiful than a gourd? Look at Xu Yaoyao's head, it's flat at the back, doesn't it look like a gourd?"

The children looked over and happened to see the gourd gourd that Hou Bo used to carry eggs. They laughed.

Xu Yaoyao was so angry that he burst into tears and stomped his feet to hit Xu's mother, "I don't want the gourd gourd head, I want the gourd head!"

Xu's mother tried to coax him, "The gourd head is not good-looking either, yours is the best looking."

Panpan immediately winked at Hou Wei, telling him not to bully others.

Hou Wei then said, "Your head is not ugly."

It's not ugly anyway!

Xu Yaoyao stopped crying, but he blamed his mother, "It's all your fault, it's all your fault."

His mother responded without any principle, "Yes, it's all your fault, it's your fault. Yaoyao is the best looking."

Everyone was speechless.

No child would be left untaught in the hands of Xu's mother.

Lin Shu took out the remittance slip and the 12 yuan and handed them to Lu Hehuan.

Lu Hehuan wondered, "Third sister-in-law, what?"

Lin Shu: "Xiaoyou showed me several of your works. I picked out the good ones and sent them to my friends in the city. He picked out the suitable ones and published them."

Lu Hehuan looked at Lin Shu in surprise, unable to believe it, his pupils dilated, "Really? Really?"

It is so difficult to publish a work these days. Not only do you have to write well, you also have to know editors or writers who can help recommend them. If a novice just sends it over, people will not even look at it.

She asked Xu Shihua to recommend her works, but he always said that her works were not up to standard and lacked connotation, and asked her to dig deeper.

She asked pen pals to help polish and revise her works, and tried to submit them. They also asked her to practice writing more and not to rush for quick success, saying that if she practiced her writing skills and wrote good stories, publishing would be a natural thing.

How come the third sister-in-law could just... find a friend to do something that they said was so difficult, and it was also so difficult in her eyes?

Originally, she thought that the threshold for publishing works was very high, and she couldn't reach it even if she stood on tiptoe. She needed to climb on Xu Shihua's shoulders and reach up hard to reach a little corner.

But now Lin Shu... helped her publish four small articles.

There is an essay and three short poems in it, all of which are the resentment and pessimism that came out of her heart when she collapsed.

When her mother came to take care of her after she had eaten and slept well, she felt that her writing was too crazy and full of complaints from a shrew, so she revised it when she was in a good mood.

She showed it to Xu Shihua, who took a quick look and said that it was just whining and too superficial to be published, and asked her not to write anymore.

She wanted to send it back to her pen pal to help revise it.

Unexpectedly, the third sister-in-law actually helped her publish it!

She felt confused. Was her writing really that good? Could it be published?

Why did Shihua and the pen pal say it was not good enough?

Did the third sister-in-law lie to her to comfort her?

Seeing her changing expression, Lin Shu knew that she didn't believe it, so she said, "In a few days, Yao Naiwen will send two copies of the magazine. I will send them to you after I get them."

Lu Hehuan nodded doubtfully, "Okay."

Suddenly, a wave of excitement surged in her heart. Could it be that her level has greatly improved and she can write articles?

Haha, could it be that she is also going to be a writer?

If so, she and Xu Shihua will be the same.

She straightened her back instantly, and the writer's state in her impression came over, wanting to make herself look more literary.

Lin Shu said to Lu Hehuan, "You can try to write some novels, short stories, medium and long stories are all fine, and you can submit them to the story club or anywhere else."

In her previous life, Lin Shu had met some members of the Poetry Association and the Writers Association, and gave Lu Hehuan very pertinent suggestions based on her own experience.

It is easier to stand out by writing novels, and occasionally write prose essays, your own feelings about life, etc.

This time Lu Hehuan listened.

When Xu's mother saw that Lu Hehuan had earned twelve yuan, she was very jealous and wanted it, but Lu Hehuan gave it to Lin Shu.

Lu Hehuan: "Third sister-in-law, this money is for you. It's the manuscript you submitted."

Lin Shu gave it to Xu Xiaoyou: "This is what you earned. You can use it to supplement the family expenses. The expenses will be high after having a child."

Xu Xiaoyou put it away obediently.

Xu's mother came over and said, "Mother-in-law, look, Hehuan is almost a month old."

The implication is that it is almost a month old, and no one needs to serve her like this anymore. Can you go back?

Fang Dihua said, "My daughter has to stay in confinement for two months."

Xu's mother was furious.

Lu Hehuan is a willful person. She has been in confinement for such a long time, and she is beginning to feel uncomfortable because her mother has been controlling her and not allowing her to wash her hair or take a bath. She thinks her mother is controlling her too much, and she wants her mother to go home so that she can take a bath and wash her hair.

Now it is the end of March, and the weather is getting warmer. She can still bear not washing her hair and taking a bath for seven days, but she really can't bear it for twenty days.

Especially in the first few days after giving birth, she was sweating all over, and her hair was as wet as if she had just washed it. She

can wipe her body with warm water and change her clothes every day, but not her hair.

She loves beauty and refuses to cut her long hair into short hair like Fang Dihua, thinking that it is too ugly.

She hugged Fang Dihua's arm with a drooling face and twisted it, smiling coquettishly: "Mom, the confinement period is too dry and I can't sit still. I want to go to work~~"

Fang Dihua glanced at her, not hiding her disgust.

When no one was waiting for her, she hugged her mother and cried loudly, thinking that her mother was the best. When no one was needed to serve her, she felt that her mother was too controlling and wanted her to leave quickly.

She glared at her daughter and said, "Then sit for 35 days first."

In fact, since more than ten days later, she didn't care about Lu Hehuan reading or writing, but just didn't let him use his eyes for too long to avoid hurting his eyes.

Lu Hehuan didn't argue with Fang Dihua anymore.

She used to be young and willful. As long as her family opposed her, she would jump up immediately like a spring.

Now that she is pregnant and in confinement, she has also experienced the darkest moment of collapse, and her temperament has naturally changed a little. She is no longer as selfish and willful with her mother as before.

There is another key factor. Now whenever she wants to complain about her mother's meddling, Xu Xiaoyou will immediately jump out and say to her, "Mom, grandma is doing this for your own good. Even if you have different opinions, you must communicate well and not lose your temper. Think about it, when you just gave birth to your baby and cried because no one helped you, who came to help you? It wasn't my grandma or my dad, it was my grandma!"

Lu Hehuan is now living a comfortable life. She has regarded those days of collapse as a black history. She feels ashamed when she thinks about it. When she heard Xu Xiaoyou say this, she immediately surrendered.

"I know, it was my mother and my daughter-in-law who helped. I remember you guys very well."

However, Fang Dihua did not take care of her for the full thirty-five days. When Lu Hehuan had been in confinement for thirty days, the electricity that everyone had been waiting for was finally connected!

Fang Dihua immediately packed up her things and went home.

She has never been a clingy person. She would unconditionally support the child when he encountered difficulties. Once the child was fine, she would keep her distance and let the child do whatever he wanted without bothering her.

Lu Hehuan was fine at this time, so she was naturally not worried. Didn't she just leave?

Lu Hehuan was a little disappointed and complained to Xu Xiaoyou, "Look at your grandma. She came and left as she said, without even any preparation."

If ordinary people want to leave after living in the daughter-in-law's house, shouldn't they tell her two days in advance?

In this way, the mother and daughter can be more intimate before leaving.

Xu Xiaoyou rolled her eyes at Lu Hehuan, "Mom, you are clearly eagerly looking forward to my grandma's departure, why are you so hypocritical now?"

Lu Hehuan laughed, "Okay, okay, I am hypocritical, I am wrong, I want to pack my things and go to the bathhouse to take a bath!"

Xu Xiaoyou: "Mom, it's almost the beginning of summer, the weather is getting warmer, who would be willing to spend money to go to the bathhouse? The bathhouses in the commune have closed long ago."

She went to boil water, and Lu Hehuan happily prepared to wash her hair and take a bath at home.

At this time, the commune's electrician team finally arrived at Lujiazhuang Brigade, and all the members of the brigade were very excited, especially Panpan and Tiantian.

They had used electric lights in the city, and now they would have electricity in their own home, so they were naturally happy.

Several children were running around the street, telling each other: "My second aunt has brought a team of electricians to bring electricity to our village! Hahaha, we finally have lights!"

"My second aunt is pregnant, you all have to be careful not to bump into her!"

"My second aunt brought us electricity while pregnant, we should be grateful to her."

"No one is allowed to bother my second aunt!"

Before, Jiang Weidong was worried that Lin Xia would be in trouble when she went to the countryside, and that she would be bumped into by some impolite people. As a result, after the children protected her like this, everyone in Lujiazhuang knew that Master Lin was pregnant and brought electricity to the village. How could they not be considerate?

Of course, they had to take care of Master Lin everywhere.

Yang Tao and his three electricians were obviously not good at speaking, but they kept saying, "Teacher Lin, take a rest," "Teacher Lin, watch," and they would rush to the front to direct the members to do anything they needed.

Lin Shu was happy for her second sister. She found that her second sister had a natural talent for leadership and could naturally gain the respect of the people below. It was not the kind of flattery forced by interests, but from the heart.

She took Lin Xia to her home for a meal and let the electrician team lead the team electricians to direct the members to work.

Some time ago, the commune had been laying electric poles and wires to the brigades below. Now the village is laying electric poles and wires, and the members pay to go to each family to pull wires.

The brigade paid for the poles and wires to be led to the village road, and each household only needed to pay for the wires, lamp holders, lights, insurance, electricity meters and sockets.

Even so, many families can't afford that much money at once, at least twenty yuan, and half of the families in the village can't afford that much money.

The members of Lujiazhuang are slightly wealthier. First, they have the support of the incense factory. Second, they have pig farms, which allows some families to avoid having to raise pigs and can sell them for money. Third, most of them bought rabbits from Lin Shu's family.

The ones caught last winter are also starting to give birth now. Those who sell small rabbits or directly sell rabbits for meat are also a source of income.

There are other side businesses in the village, and everyone has some extra income.

In short, with the help of these side jobs, the members of the Lujiazhuang production team have an easier time. Only the particularly poor people like Widow Sun need to borrow money from the team.

Those whose families are not poor but want to take advantage of the brigade and want to borrow money to provide electricity will be rejected by the brigade based on their work points.

Every company's dividends are limited, so how can I lend you money at will?

Every penny spent by the brigade is useful. Repaying loans from credit unions, buying fertilizers, seeds, and pesticides, paying for commune tractors to plow the land and cut wheat, etc., are all huge expenses.

If it weren't for the help of the incense factory, the brigade would owe a lot of money to the commune.

Lin Shu's family has a large house, consumes a lot of wires, and has many light bulb sockets, so they naturally pay more.

Her family only had eighty yuan.

This money was contributed by Fang Dihua from the public fund.

In order to install more household appliances in the future, Lin Shu and Lin Xia discussed and planned a more reasonable and complex line to avoid problems such as not being able to support high-power appliances or unstable voltage.

Of course, the sockets are not very useful now, and each room owner only needs to leave the connectors and install them only where needed.

At present, it is mainly used for the children to listen to the radio, and fans can be installed later.

It took another twenty days for the families in Lujiazhuang who wanted to have electricity to their homes to lay out the wires and so on, and the power could be turned on.

Everything was ready on this day, just waiting for the brigade to turn on the power!

The members were all at home staring at the lights above their heads, while the brigade cadres, Lin Xia and the electricians were guarding the brigade substation.

Deng Dababa carried a loud speaker and shouted throughout the village: "Everyone is ready to witness the great moment! Count down ten numbers to start the power on! 10, 9, 8...1, power on!"

The brigade secretary put on a ceremonial sense, raised his arm, and closed the switch. Immediately, a buzzing current rushed into the wires, shaking his hands, and he quickly let go and stepped back.

Lin Xia smiled at the secretary and said, "As long as you operate according to the regulations, there is nothing to be afraid of."

The secretary thanked her repeatedly.

See, his abacus has worked. Let Lin Shu select electricians to go to the county for training and study. Lin Xia really took extra care of the electricians in Lujiazhuang.

Most of the electricians in other brigades are not capable of doing the job alone, but Lin Xia said that the three of them are already capable.

During the training, Lin Xia was very strict with them, and often asked them questions, and tried to get them full marks in every test.

They learned faster than other electricians, and they digested the knowledge in detail.

Some electricians in the brigade played infighting and made trouble for each other, but the three of them not only did not fight among themselves, but were very united and helped each other in learning.

As the leader of the electrician team of Lujiazhuang Brigade, Yang Tao was determined to get an excellent assessment for the brigade's electrician team.

Not only did he have to get an excellent grade in the whole commune, but he also had to get an excellent grade in the county-level assessment!

The brigade secretary felt that it was thanks to Lin Shu's good vision. It would be hard to say if she had selected someone like Zhang Yongshun.

He patted the three electricians and said happily: "We will hold an inauguration ceremony for you tonight, do a good job!"

The three of them said in a proper manner: "Please rest assured, we will definitely fulfill our duties!"

Everyone left the substation and went to the village to take a walk and have a look.

As the power switch was closed, exclamations came from every household, "The power is on, the power is on!"

"Oh, this is electricity?"

"People in the city say that there are lights and telephones upstairs and downstairs. When will our village have this too?"

"Hey, hey, hey, everyone, pay attention, pay attention--" Suddenly, the three big loudspeakers on the newly erected electric poles of the brigade sounded, and the deep and solemn voice of the branch secretary came out.

The members were excited again. "Listen, the party secretary is speaking through a loudspeaker. It's so loud!"

"This loudspeaker can amplify sound. It's much better than Deng's loudspeaker."

"Members, pay attention, pay attention! Eat dinner early, and when the songs start playing, go to the brigade yard to hold a members' meeting, hold a ceremony to inaugurate the brigade electricians, and explain electrical safety knowledge." He

shouted three times in a row.

Comrade Lin Xia said that electricity safety should be put first, this is the top priority, if you don't talk about safety, your life is in danger!

Fearing that some members would not come to the meeting, the branch secretary shouted again: "Every family must have at least two people to learn, and one more person will be given three work points, and two more people will be given seven work points."

Every time the meeting was held, the members were not active, but they became very active when they heard that there were work points.

The Lu family, Panpan and Tiantian heard that two more people would be given seven work points, and they were anxious, "What if eight more people come?"

His family can have ten more people, how can they talk about work points?

Lin Shu smiled and said: "Don't be obsessed with money, four people from each family are enough to learn, and come back to teach their families after learning."

In this case, parents usually go to learn, and children and the elderly learn things slowly, and it's useless if they don't understand.

Naturally, Fang Dihua and Father Lu will go to the Lu family, and anyone else who wants to go can go.

Panpan Tiantian and Hou Wei will definitely go. Children like to join in the fun on this kind of limelight occasion.

In order to rush to the meeting, Lin Shu made dinner early.

Brother Lu watched his parents walking out and shouted, "Mom, there is electricity now, so why don't we work for a while at night?"

Even if the electricity bill is expensive, the money from making incense must be much more than the electricity bill.

Fang Dihua: "After work and after work, just give me a break. How do you show how hardworking you are?"

Brother Lu couldn't stay idle. If he wasn't allowed to work in the incense making room, he would water vegetables and hoe the vegetable fields. Anyway, there were so many people going to the meeting and there was no need for him.

Lin Shu, however, mobilized all the neighbors to go and listen. Sister Lin and her friends had lived in the city and were very familiar with this. The rural members who had their first contact with electricity had to go and listen.

The electrician's inauguration ceremony was very simple. The team leader made a few remarks to announce the electrician's appointment. The branch secretary handed them the keys to the substation and the electrician's office, and then asked Lin Xia to speak.

Lin Xia smiled and said, "You have to pay for using electricity, so everyone should save electricity."

The members below laughed, "We know."

"That's why I only have two light bulbs at home, no more."

"I no longer have to go around lining up at the supply and marketing cooperative to buy kerosene tickets, haha." "

It's convenient, one light bulb can brighten the whole room, which is much better than a kerosene lamp."

After everyone finished laughing, Lin Xia continued, "You have to pay attention to safety when using electricity. If you don't, you can get electrocuted!"

You have to tell them the most serious situation before they will take it seriously.

The members below started to chatter. Some were in disbelief, some were shocked, and some began to tell their own stories. "My aunt's family, my cousin's in-laws' family, a relative was electrocuted to death! Wow, it's true, he was blackened all of a sudden, like charcoal."

"Is it true?"

"Wasn't he struck by lightning?"

"Everyone be quiet and listen to the electricians explain the safety precautions for using electricity!" Deng Daba shouted, and the whole place immediately quieted down.

The three electricians began to take turns to explain. They did not recite the safety precautions dryly, but combined education with entertainment, vividly showing the consequences of illegal use of electricity.

For example, one person gave a lecture, and two performed, and they even danced a few Yangko dances in the middle.

Three quiet and slightly serious men danced the Yangko dance and told jokes with expressionless faces, which made the members laugh very funny. The whole audience laughed continuously, just like watching the straw-stage troupe perform opera in the past.

"Don't touch the light bulb, switch, wire... with wet hands. If you touch it, there will be a hissing sound-"

"What's wrong?" "It's burnt

!"

"If the wire is on fire, you must turn off the switch, and you must not splash water..."

"The wire ends are hanging on the ground, you must..."

...

After the electricians finished speaking, they held a question-and-answer contest. The electricians asked questions about the precautions for using electricity, and the members raised their hands to answer.

In this segment, Tiantian and Panpan defeated everyone. If they hadn't shown mercy, they would have won all the gifts prepared by the team!

There was a shovel, a teacup, a basket, a hoe, and a sickle...

Lin Shu sat down and watched the show. She poked Lin Xia and said with a smile, "Second sister, how did you train these three people?"

These three people usually spoke in a dry voice and were shy. They didn't dare to raise their heads when talking to her.

Then look at their lively appearance during the performance. They were completely different people.

Lin Xia smiled and said, "I didn't do anything to them. I just asked them to perform for each other during the training class in the county. One played the light bulb and the other played the switch. Whoever performed the most memorable and learned quickly would be given extra points. In order to get extra points, they all tried their best."

Lin Shu gave her second sister a thumbs up. It was good. This was a magic weapon to stimulate students.

Because the safety promotion was so interesting, the members were reluctant to leave after the lecture, and they urged the electricians to "do one more!"

The electricity safety promotion became a unique evening party.

When it got dark, the branch secretary turned on the big lights on the side of the yard. Although it could not illuminate the entire yard, it was brighter than the previous lanterns and kerosene lamps, and it flashed brightly under the starry sky on a summer night.

The lecture ended at nine o'clock, and most of the members were still not satisfied and asked to continue tomorrow.

Yang Tao shouted, "We will go to Houtun tomorrow. Each production team will take turns."

"After they take turns, we will go to our production team!"

"Yes, we love to watch! We come and listen even without work points!"

At night, Panpan's three children would walk from house to house before going to bed, so that the electric lights there could illuminate them. Because there is a custom during the New Year to use lights to illuminate everywhere, to illuminate the children to make them grow taller, to illuminate the livestock to make them grow stronger, to illuminate the chickens and ducks to lay more eggs, and to illuminate the pigsty to make them fatter. Don't they think that electric lights are more useful? On

the first day of electricity, of course they had to illuminate it!

After illuminating it, they went to bed, and their dreams were bright.

Unfortunately, they couldn't illuminate it the next day because there was a power outage! At this time, there was not enough electricity. Power

outages were common in the countryside. Two or three hours a day was good.

Although the electricity had been connected, the electricians' training had not yet ended, so Lin Xia still had to go to the county to attend classes. Lujiazhuang had entered a new round of wheat harvesting. This year, the wheat fields of Lujiazhuang Brigade were particularly well-done, with proper irrigation and fertilizer, so that the wheat fields grew very well, with each seedling strong and big.

Looking at the heavy golden ears of wheat, Secretary Qin and others who led the team to inspect the wheat situation in the countryside were very surprised and went to the fields to observe.

"It turns out to be true!"

Previously, the branch secretary went to the commune meeting to report that the wheat harvest on the northwest slope of his brigade would definitely be a bumper this year, but some people still didn't believe it and thought it was impossible.

The commune knew the farmland conditions of each brigade very well. The farmland had been producing less and less every year, so it would be good to recover the cost of wheat seeds.

It doesn't matter whether it's a mule or a horse, just take it out for a walk. Now that the wheat is ripe, everyone can see it, and no one can fake it.

The branch secretary, the brigade leader and others were so happy that they couldn't stop smiling.

Secretary Qin said to other team leaders, "It seems that the water turbine irrigation system is very useful. When you go to the brigades, you should also urge them to build water turbine irrigation stations."

At this time, Hou Jianwen came back from other production teams on his bike after inspecting the terrain.

Secretary Qin talked to him cordially and strongly affirmed the help of the technical team to the production of the commune and the brigade, "The increase in production is very obvious."

Hou Jianwen knew that this was not the time to be humble. He had to vigorously promote the concept of scientific planting, irrigation, and fertilization.

Good seeds, sufficient fertilizers, and adequate irrigation are the main factors for high production.

He is contacting the seed breeding base at the Qizhou Academy of Agricultural Sciences, hoping to buy a batch of better seeds for the brigade, not only wheat, but also corn, cotton, etc., hoping to improve the ability to resist drought, pests, and lodging.

Secretary Qin shook his hand and said repeatedly: "Good, good!"

Facts have proved the usefulness of water turbine pumps. Secretary Qin hopes that the technical team can vigorously promote it.

Hou Jianwen said: "We spent several months surveying the farmland and water sources of our commune and several neighboring communes. Many places are short of water and are not suitable for installing water turbine pumps." If you

want to achieve convenient irrigation, water sources are the first priority. If there is no sufficient water source, everything is in vain.

Some places in the province are relatively dry and drought-stricken. It is not an exaggeration to say that there is drought nine out of ten years. The water source is not abundant.

Lujiazhuang is a good place because a lot of water storage ponds, canals, and bays were dug in the past, so it can be self-sufficient in years with abundant rain.

There is another important reason. When the superiors organized workers to repair canals, the branch secretary led the members of the Lujiazhuang brigade to actively repair the canals leading to the outside of their brigade, and strive to connect them to the reservoirs on all sides.

In this way, when the superiors ordered the canals to be opened and water released in the dry season, they can receive water.

Even if some brigades blocked the flow of water, there would always be more opportunities for the waterways on all sides.

Because of this, their brigade has not been doing anything in recent years.

Some brigades were not good enough. I don't know whether the brigade cadres didn't consider it or the members didn't listen to the command. There were no canals connecting all directions, only a few isolated ponds in their own brigades.

What can they do?

Hou Jianwen told Secretary Qin about this situation. Secretary Qin found the section chief in charge of water conservancy in the commune and asked him to communicate with those brigades and let them repair the canals after the wheat harvest.

The section chief looked embarrassed, but he didn't refuse.

Sometimes it's not that they don't work hard, but some production teams are really difficult to deal with.

For example, the superiors organized voluntary labor, which is voluntary labor that does not earn work points or receive wage subsidies. Generally, it is for this kind of collective water conservancy construction, and their production teams are unwilling to send people.

No matter how the brigade cadres mobilized, they were unwilling to send people. Anyway, the law does not hold everyone responsible. If the task is not completed, the superiors will at most replace the brigade cadres and production team cadres, and it is not the fault of every member.

Every commune always has one or two production teams that are desperate. I don’t know whether it is for solidarity or special selfishness. They are afraid that other production teams will take advantage of them, and they are unwilling to participate in voluntary labor.

Secretary Qin said that he knew and let other brigades suitable for installing water turbine pumps start the operation first.

Yao Naiwen quickly recorded all that he saw.

He has been squatting in Lujiazhuang for several days.

He came to interview Lujiazhuang about the electricity supply, but just after the interview, he ran into the commune cadres who came to inspect the wheat, so he continued the interview.

He first interviewed Hou Jianwen and other technical personnel, followed them around, took a lot of photos, and interviewed the cadres and members of Lujiazhuang.

Finally, he came to interview the commune cadres.

Hearing that there were production teams that did not obey orders, he was very interested. "Mr. Hou, I will not go back to the city for the time being. I will stay in the countryside for a while. When you go to those troublesome production teams, call me along."

Hou Jianwen naturally agreed.

Song Bangyou looked at the group of people chatting enthusiastically with the commune cadres, turned to Song Youping and said, "This year you should stay in Lujiazhuang to supervise the wheat harvest."

Every year during the wheat harvest and autumn harvest, the commune would send team cadres to the countryside to help with labor, supervise the wheat harvest and pay the public grain.

Song Youping didn't want to come at first because the Lu family was not enthusiastic about her, and she felt that Lin Shu seemed to have opinions about her.

She thought that Lin Shu was jealous of her youth and beauty, and was afraid that she would seduce Lu Shaotang.

Of course, she didn't say it out loud, but just guessed it herself.

Now that Lujiazhuang has a bumper harvest, as a team cadre of Lujiazhuang, she can definitely exceed the wheat harvest task.

She nodded, "Okay."

Originally, the cadres of the commune who went to the countryside to work stayed at Zhao Meifeng's house, and there was an empty room in her house.

But now Song Youping didn't want to go, because Zhao Meifeng fed pigs and Song Changfu was the brigade veterinarian, and the two of them made the house full of the lingering smell of pig feces.

Song Youping wanted to live in Lin Shu's house.

Lin Shu's yard is now incredibly beautiful, just like a big garden, with colorful flowers everywhere, red and yellow flowers in every corner, and the fragrance is overwhelming.

The key is that her family makes mosquito coils, so there are few mosquitoes, and it is quite comfortable to live there.

Song Youping rode her bike to find Lin Shu.

Lin Shu was designing new clothing patterns for Lu Xiuxiu at home.

Although most people still wear blue, white and black, many young women in the city have become beautiful. They don't need to be too special. Even if it's light blue or green fabric, they want to make a nice shirt, dress or skirt.

Others just have simple, undesigned, tacky styles, but girls who love beauty want some changes, such as a waist, a nip, a collar, a little design on the cuffs, etc.

They originally thought that Han Yun and Li Xiaoru would only make a dozen skirts, but who knew that the orders kept coming in.

No matter what era, there are always wealthy families.

For example, Li Xiaoru, she is an only child, her parents are both high-paid and high-welfare, so her food, clothing and daily expenses are naturally very different from others.

Others can't make a set of clothes in two years, but she can make several sets a year.

The art troupe is full of girls with backgrounds and love beauty. One learns from another, and she brings a lot of orders to Lin Shu.

Her colleagues introduce each other, and word of mouth spreads, so naturally more and more people come to Xiuxiu to make clothes.

In addition to the city art troupe, there are also Qizhou Province Art Troupe and Drama Troupe.

This is not promoted by Lin Shu at home, but the orders attracted by Li Xiaoru and her colleagues when they went to Qizhou for a performance.

She and her colleagues are living signs.

The Qizhou Art Troupe and other city art troupes are also girls similar to them. They have some backgrounds and good family conditions. They all love to dress up beautifully. How could they not make beautiful new clothes when they see them?

You know, they are a special group who can openly buy lipstick, rouge and makeup. What's wrong with them dressing prettier than ordinary people?

That's as it should be.

With their word of mouth, the orders from Lin Shu are enough for Lu Xiuxiu to do.