Chapter 40 Three old men in Xujiayuan

A farming proverb says: "The great cold is about to end, and the rapeseed will go to the field." Seasons are silent orders for agricultural production, and vegetable planting is especially important. Xujiayuan, a professional vegetable production team, prepared to repair all the nurseries for raising summer vegetable seedlings when the great cold season came. The glass is shining brightly, and the bed is covered with a nutrient soil mixed with horse manure, chicken manure and human manure, just waiting for the seeds to be planted. The old man Xu Changlin, the leader of the two-person nursery team, rode his bicycle back to the nursery in the evening, braved the cold wind of March 9th, entered the round door of the earthen wall, untied the white cloth bag from the hanger, and pushed open the doors of the three tile-roofed houses. The wooden door, the footsteps are so agile that it looks like a young man.

It's so warm inside the door!The flames on the anthracite stove were whistling, and his only team member, an old man from Heishan, was squatting beside the stove, washing rapeseed, so serious, he was really a real person!Regardless of whether the team leader is present or not, he will do whatever work he should do, without being instructed by others, and will never be lazy.The old man Changlin looked at the dark square faces of the team members, and said affectionately: "Dude, it's done! The seed station will take care of the few kinds of rapeseed we want to try!" "That's good!" Heishan smiled and sincerely cared for the team leader, "Quick, come to the stove first, it's very cold today."

Chang Lin put down the cloth bag containing the new variety of rapeseed and walked to the stove, picking off cotton gloves and warming himself by the fire.The flames reflected his skinny face that was red and red from the cold, and he was extraordinarily energetic.he asks: "'Dwarf Zao' tomato seeds are sprouting!" Montenegro happily replied: "Fuck!" "Good luck!" Chang Lin's old man said with enthusiasm in his tone, "If the weather is fine at noon tomorrow, let's lay out the seeds!" But Heishan told him: "The law and order came several times a day today, looking for you!"

"Didn't you say anything?" "No!" Heishan said coldly, "You know, that man has nothing to say to us!" The old man from Montenegro has a straightforward temper and has no secrets about his trusted team leader. He bluntly stated his guess after serious consideration: "I think he wants to drill into the nursery! This year the vegetable area has expanded, the team leader Qunwa said the day before yesterday However, I want to add one more person to our nursery, and three people will work on the seedlings. I'm sure the spirit man caught the wind, don't believe me, look..."

Before Heishan could finish speaking, Ji An himself asked kindly from outside the door: "Brother Changlin, are you back?" With a dry tone, Ji An walked in the door. The old security man looked completely idle, sitting casually by the stove, smoking dry cigarettes in front of the flames, asking questions openly, with a detached demeanor. The old man in Changlin still saw the meaning in the eyes of the old man in security: it's not just chatting!It's just that it's hard to speak because of Hei Shan's presence!The eyes cannot deceive people. After chatting nonsense for a while, Chang Lin was a little impatient, and said directly: "I heard that you have been looking for me a few times today, what's the matter?"

"It's nothing! Nothing!" Zhian said, and glanced at Heishan, "I just came to the nursery to see how the preparations are going, the seasons are not forgiving! This is about one summer vegetable for next year, half a year's income for members, It all depends on Miao Miao..." Montenegro stood up and walked out without saying a word.He saw that the law and order was hindered by his face-to-face, and it was difficult to speak, so he automatically made room for them to talk to the group leader freely.The old man Changlin fully understood the meaning of Zhigangzi Heishan's move in his heart.

Sure enough, as soon as Heishan went out, the detached attitude of the old security man disappeared, and he inquired in a very cautious tone: "Brother, I heard that there is someone to be added to the nursery?" Chang Lin admired secretly in his heart, Montenegro guessed right!He pretended not to care and said: "Qunwa said this before, I told him that there are many things to do in spring, labor is tight, and there is no need to add people to the nursery!" "Brother, you can think of something wrong! To save labor and labor, you need to be able to save, but you don't dare to save the key points!" The public security objected, and he was shrewd. He talked about the reason that the nursery should be filled with people, "Nursery, where is the key? The mouth of the string..."

"No way, no way!" Chang Lin smiled lightly, indicating that the problem is not that serious, "I'll come up with a plan, I'll be busy with Heishan, and I can handle it," Zhi An was a little disappointed, unable to hide the gloomy look in his big flexible eyes, and asked unwillingly, "What did the captain say? You don't want to add anyone?" "The captain hasn't spat out yet!" Chang Lin said with a smile. "Look and see! The cadres are still thoughtful, not as strong as your brother!" Zhian said loudly, his eyes brightened again with the light of hope, "It is no small matter to expand the vegetable area to a hundred acres this year! I’m afraid that I’m going to share one more person’s work points, so what’s the point of exhausting you and Montenegro?”

It is said to praise the captain, but in fact, even the two of them are incidentally involved, what a talkative person!At this moment, he dare not hurt anyone, he is sober enough!The old man in Changlin looked at the law and order, pursed his lips and smiled, and said lightly: "Actually, the area of ​​vegetables has expanded, and the field is more labor-intensive. The labor is really tight." Ji'an pondered for a while, and finally asked: "I wonder if the captain has ordered him?" "have no idea." "Hi!" Zhi'an sighed, with a distressed look on his face, "It's not that brother worshiped under your sect today, we have this little technology, and we really brought it to the loess? The past few years were messy, but now the world is in chaos. Lie! We also want to roll up our sleeves!"

"Okay! Okay!" said the old man Changlin, "Your skills are really good!" "I didn't blow it!" The law and order got excited, "Our Xujiayuan, except for your brother, we don't obey anyone! If your brother is not here, I still don't want to come!" He slipped his lips, smiled again, and forced himself to speak politely, "The Black Mountain homeboy is honest, but he has a stubborn temper and is difficult to work with! It's okay!" A few years ago, the old man Changlin was drawn to the experimental station set up by the brigade, and Xu Zhi'an was in charge of the nursery in the brigade.Captain Youqun sent another helper, Heishan, to public security.Everyone saw that the gray-haired old security man wore clean clothes, a white coat and gray trousers, and had a short gray and white beard growing up prematurely. He often sat under the shade of willows by the well in the nursery, catching The three-foot-long long-pipe dry pipe is a leisurely way to enjoy the cool air.The old man from Montenegro pouted his buttocks, watered and fertilized, and was so busy that he lost his shoes and hats.The old security man just instructed him to finish what to do and what to do after he got down.The old man from Montenegro didn't care, he held on to the idea of ​​"you can't earn the work points in the team for nothing", no matter what the team leader did, he did what he should do!He can't control the law and order. He is the team leader and his skills are higher than him. Besides, the discussions among the members made Montenegro feel at ease: We must be honest about the collective affairs, and the members have eyes!It was just that after the absurd incident of putting mustard seeds into the field as cabbage seeds that year, the problem intensified, and jokes spread throughout the ten-mile vegetable area of ​​the commune, not to mention the comments and criticisms of members of Xujiayuan.In a rage, the leader of the group of friends waved his long arms: "Dodge, avoid, avoid! Avoid far away!" The old security man was withdrawn from the nursery in despair.Youqun forcibly pulled the old man Changlin back from the brigade's experimental station from the brigade captain, and pushed into the brigade's nursery.The security old man is so embarrassed!If Hei Shan was withdrawn with him, he would feel better; if he kept Hei Shan, he would put all the responsibility on his gray-haired head!

A person who has the ability to do things well for the group seems to be looked down upon more by the members of the team than a person who has little or no ability at all.In terms of cooking skills, people say that Xujiayuan has "two half-capable people", Xu Changlin and Xu Zhi'an, and Montenegro is only half of them.The old man Xu Changlin is well-known.As for the old man Xu Zhi'an, once he lost his position in the nursery that the vegetable farmers respected, and started to do the same rough farm work as ordinary members, he was even less diligent and honest than ordinary members.He spends his time doing those jobs that require less effort but more work points, especially during the year when he tried out political evaluations on the team, he became a gossip material that everyone talked about behind his back, and some people said he was a "four heads" Members: Going to work at the back, rushing to the front after work, watching the sun while working, judging workers and playing with their tongues. Over the past few years, the prestige of the old man is getting worse day by day, and getting worse every year. Nickname, which almost replaced his first name. Now, Xu Zhi'an formally asked him to enter the nursery.Needless to say, one can guess what Montenegro's attitude is!The level of the leader of the group is not easy to handle. Thinking about it, he said: "This matter has to be determined by the captain!" "I heard that the captain asked you to choose someone! He will send whoever he likes and who can work with him!" Zhian said. Changlin smiled.The law and order found out everything!He thought about it again, so what if he accepted him?He is nothing more than lazy, greedy for work points, and selfish; if he pushes him further away, then the situation of law and order in Xujiayuan will be very difficult.He said happily to the security: "That's it, I will tell my friends what I mean, it's not a big problem!" "Brother will never embarrass you!" Zhi An patted his chest, "Ask people from Xujiayuan to see if I, Xu Zhi'an, are a bear!" Seeing the old man Xu Zhi'an's back disappear from the round hole, Xu Changlin turned around.Hei Shan, who was also concerned about security and whether he could enter the nursery, quickly entered the house: "How is it? I don't think so?" The old man Changlin nodded to show that Heishan was right, and then asked: "What do you think we should do about this?" "Me?" Heishan heard the meaning of Chang Lin's words, and Stubborn Dou'er burst into temper, "If you want to ask me, we have something to say: he will come in today, and I will come out tomorrow! That's it." "Uh uh uh! How can this be?" Chang Lin smiled, "This man has lost all his prestige in the team these years! We don't understand him anymore, what should he do? He always has some skills!" "I can't hold a tricky character in my eye socket!" "With the two of us dragging him to do it, don't be afraid!" "You are not afraid, I am afraid! I have tasted hot pepper!" "Let's try to help him cure laziness and become a good member!" "I can only guarantee that I will do a good job for the team!" Hei Shan said, "Want to change the law and order? I don't have that ability! I still say the same thing: he comes today, I'll leave tomorrow..." Having said that, I can’t say enough, but to the great surprise of the old man Changlin, after only one night, the first sentence Heishan came to the nursery the next morning was: “If you agree with the law and order, let’s let it go.” If he comes, I have no objection." Chang Linpu blinked his eyes, looking at Heishan's somewhat embarrassing black square face and black beard. How did this honest member who never flirts or lies changed his attitude overnight? "Last night, the security guard came to my room and said..." Oh oh!Chang Lin understood, Xu Zhi'an, who has two thin lips and is well versed in worldly affairs, would spend a lot of spit on persuading a solid-eyed Black Mountain! When the team leader Youqun heard that Changlin had chosen Ji'an, the middle-aged man's square face was quite surprised!Eyes opened to the forehead: "Ah! My old uncle, why did you choose this one? Oh! Your uncle has water in his eyes!" He often joked with the old man Changlin, and he always spoke casually. Changlin had expected it a long time ago, and he was not as polite to him as he was to Heishan. He slowly pulled out the pipe of the dry pipe from his mouth and said, "He is lazy in the nursery, so you get him out; you can't clean the weeds in the field, you can't do it." His work points were deducted; the plow was rough, and you took the cattle away... Xu Zhi'an is still Xu Zhi'an when you withdraw and change; wherever you throw this burden, it will bulge out. The dignified captain, Communists, it’s not good to change a selfish old man, don’t you think you’re also a worthless one?” "Ah, it's my fault?" Youqun yelled, but his tone softened, "Okay, I hope there will be no more mustard greens planted everywhere! I hope that a diligent old man can be cultivated in the nursery! Thank God!" The old man Xu Zhi'an has entered the nursery. For the first time, the three old men sat by the fire to discuss matters, discussing the arrangements for the day's livelihood.Both the old team members and the new team members are assigned by the team leader to ensure that no one chooses the weak and avoids the important.Changlin smiled amiably, and arranged for himself and the members of the Montenegrin community to place seeds in the nursery, and let the old security man wash the pots and jars of dozens of rapeseed seeds that were soaking and accelerating germination. After the division, Heishan didn't say a word, but the old security man said: "Brother Changlin, Zi'er has always been Deshan Wunong (he doesn't call Heishan in person, to show respect), he is familiar with it, let me go with the members!" Chang Lin originally thought: When Zhian just came, don't go to the members of the commune, because the members of the commune had a lot of sarcastic remarks about Xu Zhian's entry into the nursery.Since the law and order said so, that's fine! The worry of the old man Changlin is worry after all, and the old man of law and order is an old man of law and order after all.He carried bottles and jars containing sprouted rapeseeds of various varieties and distributed them to the male and female commune members scattered in front of each nursery, pointing out to them the variety, the depth of the seeds buried in the soil, the distance between rows and plants. For the size, he specially warned: "Don't put the skins without sprouts in! If you put in a seedling, you will miss a seedling! If you miss a seedling, you will lose ten catties of persimmons! It's worth 50 cents!" Chang Lin was squatting by a nursery, demonstrating trench digging to several young men and women. Hearing the excessive exaggeration of law and order, he felt a little funny: Even if the nursery lacks a seedling, it will definitely not lose one when transplanting to the field. Click!Beyond the actual rendering of things, it always gives people a certain false feeling.Just look at the eyes of the commune members around the law and order, some of them took the seeds and walked away. It’s okay if you don’t harvest ten catties of persimmons; : "Uncle Zhi'an, you have to be careful, don't send me the mustard seeds! We are not a professional team of mustard greens..." The laughter spread from one side to the other, and Zhi'an blushed.Chang Lin stood up immediately, and said harshly to the young man: "Young man, don't expose your shortcomings!" Everyone looked at Chang Lin and whispered. Changlin thought about it, in terms of production technology, speaking and doing things, and even appearance and clothing, the law and order are no worse than those in Montenegro!As stubborn as a jumping bean, Montenegro, who can overwhelm people with a single angry word, is just as good: being honest with the group.Regardless of whether the cadre is present, he will do what the vegetable technology requires. It is required to dig one foot deep, never to eight inches. Broken baby's respect, if anyone talks to this stubborn old man, he has to weigh the weight of his words.But to the old man in security, you can openly say any nasty words, so that he and his family will not be afraid to hear them.Ever since the figure of the security old man in Zhou Zheng appeared in the nursery, the village's rumors rushed over. The unanimous guess was that the quota management and work group system were implemented in the team.The technicians in the nursery will get two points of preferential treatment for skilled workers every day! "He saw this delicious dish!" Everyone's discussion may be the answer to finally solve the mystery of the old man Changlin.But he thought, even so, it's nothing!Communist Party members must unite and educate people! Fortunately, law and order doesn't care about those lukewarm remarks, he seriously asks for operational skills.His brisk footsteps, dry tone, and demeanor tell people that he is both knowledgeable and responsible, and he is not afraid of other people's gossip.It was like this for several days. "The new daughter-in-law works three days!" Heishan said with a distrustful smile. The old man Changlin also smiled, but didn't say anything. In any case, the hard work and sense of responsibility shown by the public security to the collective cause are always beyond reproach.During the whole week of laying out the seeds of the morning vegetables, the old man of security was the same, he came early and left late, he said what he had to say, he did what he had to do, and he would seriously criticize whoever made a mistake!There is no gossip in the nursery, and there is no gossip in the village alleys.The old man of law and order smashed all the disgraceful comments about him with his actions, which was very powerful. The old man from Montenegro smiled, and admitted to the old man Changlin embarrassedly: he left the words "the new daughter-in-law works three days" in the air. But Chang Lin said, "Dude! Not sure. This is an old daughter-in-law!" The seeds of the three batches of summer vegetables are put into the beds in stages. The first crop of morning vegetables has grown cutely. Between the two fat cotyledons of cucumbers and zucchini, a yellow-green true leaf has emerged, like just now. The hatched chicks have a thin layer of down embroidered on the lavender leaf stalks of the tomatoes. In a few days, the seedlings will be separated into beds and thinned out. After breakfast, when Chang Lin came to work in the nursery, he pulled a shelf cart.Zhian asked, "What are you doing with the cart?" Chang Lin said: "The Hewan team sent a message saying that the grass thatch ordered for us has been finished and asked us to pull it." "Then let the little tractor take a trip!" Zhi An said. "The tractor is pulling manure on the field!" Chang Lin said. "Then ask the team leader to send members there!" Zhi An said, "This is not a job in our nursery!" "Forget it!" Chang Lin said, "Spring plowing is busy, let's hurry up and get things done!" Law and order no longer objected.Montenegro said: "Let's go!" The two old men pulled the car on the road, and Heishan quietly told Chang Lin that when there are members working in the nursery, the law and order is the same; when there are no members working in the nursery, it is different.That's all, especially when the old man Chang Lin was away several times, leaving him and them alone, the old man of security could sit down and eat eight cigarettes in one day!This person is this! "Take your time! Don't worry!" Chang Lin said, "Talk about him where you need to talk!" Chang Lin's embarrassment is that when he is present, the security guards are always diligent, so it's hard to talk about it. A storm of sows breaking into the nursery happened suddenly. The warm sunshine bathes the Sichuan cuisine area in mid-winter, and the frozen ground thaws.The old man of law and order removed the grass thatch from the glass of the hotbed, and the white glass under the sun dazzled the eyes. After the water droplets on the inner wall of the glass evaporated, a square of green seedlings stretched their arms and kicked their legs in the sun, and they were very happy. up. Sprinkling water had to wait for a while, and the old security man sat against the wall in the sun to warm himself up.Changlin and Heishan went to pull the grass thatchzi, leaving him alone to guard him. He felt that his muscles and bones were loose.The winter sun shone on his face, so gentle and comfortable, and the skin that was blown tightly by the cold wind in the early morning was very ironed, and the eyelids of the old security man were squeezed so hard that they couldn't be opened with a stick... At this moment, a sow pushed open the wooden fence on the round door with her long beak, and entered the nursery.Since the beginning of winter, it has probably never tasted the sweetness of tender grass again!A green plant made it salivate.This stupid guy ignored the layer of glass on the seedling, swallowed it with his long mouth, and with a "crash", the glass shattered.The sow fainted from fright, turned around and ran away, and suddenly bumped into the glass of the other nursery, with another "crash", she fell into the nursery by herself, ran around in fright, and finally came out of the other nursery. When a frame of glass jumped out, all the glass in this nursery was shattered, and the lovely zucchini seedlings were ruined. When the old security guard woke up and jumped up, the sow had already rushed out of the doorway with her tail between her legs.Standing in front of the unmanageable mess, Ji An's legs were weak, staring at his eyes, he squatted down and couldn't get up.His original reputation was not high, how could he withstand such a blow!It was too late to cover up the scene, a group of commune members who heard the sound poured into the round hole... Don't mention how the people in Xujiayuan Village and the landowners smashed and scraped the old man of law and order, how ugly it is! When Changlin and Heishan pulled Cao Tengzi back, Captain Youqun was already waiting impatiently in the nursery.When the old man Changlin saw the dark appearance of the group of friends, he predicted that something would happen.Before he could stabilize the car, Wohuo's captain pulled the old man's sleeve and came to the nursery where the accident happened. "Ah!" The old man Changlin felt numb as if he had been hit by a brick on the top of his head. "What's wrong!?" Black Mountain's hair stood on end, his fingers trembling. "Zhu Gong!" Youqun said breathlessly, "I said earlier that this traitorous old man is unreliable, you..." "What does he do when the pig is arching Miaomiao?" Chang Lin asked. "Sleep!" Friends group said, "Lean on the woodpile and bask in the warmth!" "Alas!" Heishan patted his thigh angrily, turned around and left. "Change, change!" Youqun said, "I'll give you another member." "Of course it's easy! There are so many members in Xujiayuan!" Chang Lin said, "Where are the security guards?" "He still has the face to show it here!" Youqun said, "If you ask him to come, he won't have the face to come!" Seeing the irritable look of the captain, Chang Lin also became angry: "Don't be irritable! Something is going on, you are so irritable, did you eat explosives?" "I'm impatient? Today I'm called Zhugong Fang, tomorrow I'll call Yang Niang Fang, and this year's vegetables can still be grown?" Youqun said sadly, "We signed a contract with the vegetable company. If we can't complete the task, let me sit on the wax!" "But if you lose your temper, will the spoiled seedlings grow?" Chang Lin said, "Calm down, Captain!" After dinner, the dim moonlight shone on the cold village alley, and the cold wind made the branches rustle.The old man Changlin folded his sleeves and came to the door of the old man of security. Inside the room came the sound of the youngest son of security playing the banhu, and he recognized that it was the bitter tone Adagio in the melody of Qin opera.When he crossed the threshold with his feet crossed, he suddenly heard the police yelling irritably at his son: "What are you creaking! Ella, go to the river beach!" His son retorted in the opposite room: "You have done something shameful, blame me Hu Qiner!" The old man Changlin wanted to laugh and entered the door. The six buildings on the opposite side are neatly tidied up. Due to the unflattering personnel, few township party members usually come here to gossip.The security old man was sitting on the kang with his back against the wall, his face was listless, and he looked surprised and ashamed when he saw Chang Lin coming in.The security wife was pouring tea and passing cigarettes again, and her hands and feet were flustered. Changlin sat on the edge of the kang and asked casually, "Why didn't you go to work later?" "Go to work?" Ji An was taken aback, and said regretfully, "I... have no face... go!" "Oh! Your skin is so thin!" Chang Lin laughed, "Go to work first tomorrow!" "Oh! I... I'm sorry... your brother!" "I'm sorry for the collective!" Chang Lin said, "We all work for the collective, so I'm sorry!" "I'm sorry for the collective!" Zhian repeated Chang Lin's words uncomfortablely, and then said, "How much the team will pay, money, we have nothing to say!" "Compensation? Do you have a lot of money?" Chang Lin said with a smile, "Think about it, there is something more valuable than that money!" Zhi An stared at Chang Lin blankly. "A member's sincerity to the collective!" Chang Lin said. Ji An blushed and said, "I love work points too much..." "I love work points too! Who doesn't love work points? If you don't love work points, why should you live?" Chang Lin said, "There's nothing wrong with loving work points!" The law and order were secretly surprised. Xu Changlin, a member of the Communist Party, said that he loves the society like home, but he also said that he loves work points?He couldn't help but said, "Your elder brother's words speak to the heart, and they are words spoken by peasants to peasants." Changlin said: "I only love work points, but don't love the collective. The collective is rotten, so what's the use of more work points? That year our team's friends group was kicked out, and the 'traffick' was in power, and the labor day was worth 30 cents. , you have worked for a year, and the work points are quite a lot, and the result is owed to the payer!" The shrewd old man in law and order heard that the "traffick" was the captain that year. He couldn't get up in the morning, read newspapers, memorize quotations, and conduct political appraisals.Thinking of this, he couldn't help but blush, and said, "Brother, what you said is the truth!" "Collective affairs are not done well, the land is not growing well, income does not increase, and work points are empty! No matter how much it is, it is useless!" Changlin said, "The work points recorded in the book are our income and our hard work for the collective. !" The words have already reached the root of the law and order, and he is uneasy.When the team leader and his friends criticized him, he dared to contradict him; when the members of the club made trouble, he blushed; but when the old man Changlin talked about the truth that these children understand, he felt ashamed. "In addition to the 'four pests', the central government issued another 60 articles for the sake of great production development and a better life for farmers!" Changlin told the public security policy, "We have to fight for the country! If the country wants to develop greatly, we Not providing food for the city will affect the major event of realizing the four modernizations! It’s not just that we earn a few less work points!” "Yes! That's right!" Ji An nodded, expressing his acceptance of the group leader's propaganda, "I will conduct a review for the members!" The security wife, who had been listening to the conversation, interjected: "I think it's fine! Anyway, everyone knows this shit! Hit yourself, so as not to be beaten by others! It's not a mistake to know your mistakes and correct them!" Afterwards, Xu Zhi'an "hit himself" at the club members' meeting, and the old man actually shed tears, which touched the club members and the captain's friends.On the contrary, no one mentioned the matter of the pig arching the zucchini seedlings anymore. The tense and meticulous work of "plowing the nursery" has begun. It is necessary to dig out the delicate and slender babies cultivated in the greenhouse one by one, and then move them according to different thicknesses to plants with only glass and bitter seeds but no seeds. Exercise in a cold bed with artificial heating.Xu Zhi'an seemed to have changed his temper a lot too. He seldom spoke, just worked with his head slumped, and squatted down. Youqun passed by the nursery and asked Chang Lin: "I haven't seen anyone how is it?" Chang Lin said with a smile: "You call the black mountain guy to say." Heishan smiled honestly: "This time, it seems to be true!" Youqun also smiled innocently, as if it was a compliment to the old man Changlin, but also to express his guilt. A few days before the traditional Spring Festival, the New Year festive atmosphere in the countryside is getting stronger day by day.The Xujiayuan was divided. Except for one or two families where the men worked in the city and the women were not in good health, every household divided the money. A string of male and female commune members who went out with baskets to carry the purchases for the New Year.Farmers are sloppy with the New Year's Day in the Gregorian calendar, and they still maintain a strong festive mentality of seeing off the old and welcoming the New Year for the Lunar New Year. On the twenty-eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, the commune held a meeting of heroes to reward those outstanding members who have made outstanding achievements for the people on all fronts of the production team. Waking up early in the morning, my wife put on the new clothes that Ji An would only wear when visiting relatives during the Chinese New Year. When I went out, my wife stretched the folds that were not ironed, which caused my daughter-in-law to purse her lips and smile in the doorway. Zhi An walked into the round door of the nursery, saw that the old man Changlin had just come from the other side of the nursery, still wearing the same clothes and pants with mud and Saturn sticking on them, he felt that he was wearing too new and felt unnatural. "Ah, it's neat to wear!" Chang Lin said with a smile. "The old woman is male, call me..." Zhi An laughed and spread his hands. While talking, gongs and drums came from the village, and the young people dragged and pushed the three old men onto the road.The sky is so blue and the sun is just turning red.On both sides of the gate of the commune, dozens of colorful flags were planted, and big slogans were pasted on the walls.The few gongs and drums that came earlier set up a venue in the square outside the gate, and competed for bronze wares!Xujiayuan's gongs and drums team joined the competition as soon as they arrived, leaving their welcome representatives behind. Zhi An followed Chang Lin into the commune yard, facing the wall with the honor roll posted, surrounded by a large group of young men and women watching, before the old security man saw his name, Secretary Luo of the commune walked up to him, and greeted him happily Say hello: "You three seedling experts are here! I was looking for you just now! Let's go and drink water in my room first." Secretary Luo's house was very simple, with a table and a bed, and quite a few small stools. There were six or seven stools around the stove, and the floor was covered with dry cigarette ash. Probably people often came to sit here.Ji An stood up and took the water poured by Secretary Luo, always feeling a little cramped.Look at Chang Lin, he is casual, Secretary Luo handed him water, he didn't even move his body.Montenegro just roasted the tobacco leaves on the stove and kneaded them into the cigarette pack.Secretary Luo has been in the commune for several years, and he has never spoken to Secretary Luo.Once, Secretary Luo went to work in Xujiayuan, and the lunch was sent to Zhi'an's house. He took his meal early and slipped out the back door into the alley. "Is this old man new to your nursery this year?" Secretary Luo asked Chang Lin, pointing to the law and order. Chang Lin said: "Xu Zhi'an, Wu Miao is a good player. He was not born a few years ago. This year, he will mobilize his enthusiasm!" After listening to the law and order, I feel so comfortable!Changlin didn't talk about the messy things we did in the past few years, but only said "not born"!That's a good point.Ji An admired Chang Lin from the bottom of his heart for what a good old man he was. "Okay! Bring out your skills and do a good job of cooking!" Secretary Luo looked at the law and order and said, "It's a lot of pressure! The city's policy this year is to turn suburban villages into non-staple food and vegetable bases, and to ensure that the new Long March army Sufficient non-staple food supply is of great importance! If your seedlings are doing well and the vegetables are growing well, my pressure will be relaxed, and I rely on you!" "Don't worry! We understand!" Chang Lin said, "The 'Gang of Four' will not make trouble, and the policy will be implemented! Don't worry!" The old man's heart was pounding, but he couldn't say a suitable word. "Your seedlings are growing well this year! You are the best in the society! This time, tell me about your experience!" Secretary Luo said, and someone called him out. The old man Changlin said: "Secretary Luo told me just now that the presidium was selected for the opening ceremony and asked our Wumiao group to select a person." Montenegro said, "It's you." Changlin said with a smile: "I said, the three of us, when it comes to the improvement this year, we still count on law and order. Montenegro, what do you think?" Montenegro still smiled honestly: "Yes, that's right!" Ji An really panicked this time: "No, no, no, I can't do it!" No way, there is no way, two of the three people supported, and the law and order could not refuse, and said in a panic but sincerely: "Brother Changlin, Brother Heishan, I understand what you two mean, you are pushing me to go to a higher place Many years ago, alas..." Ji An was suddenly moved and almost burst into tears. "Go up, go up! Go up." Changlin said enthusiastically, "Go up to the rostrum, and let all the heroes and role models of the whole society see. The old man of security in Xujiayuan will be another person from today on!" Zhian asked naively like a child: "Where is the rostrum?" "At the front of the venue! Sit with the leaders of the commune!" Chang Lin said, "We all sit under the stage..." "Ah, ah..." Zhi An was so excited that his gray beard trembled. He had never been through such an occasion in his life!He felt that he was really a new life, ascending to a new world! In the commune compound, the joyful singing on the radio stopped, and the person calling the meeting called for the delegates to gather in the auditorium!The meeting is about to begin. The three of them walked out of Secretary Luo's room, stuck in the den, and walked towards the newly decorated auditorium...