Chapter 11 eleven

In Wang Cai's processing plant, Secretary Ma carefully watched the operation, and at the same time asked Wang Cai about the preparation process, production status and sales issues.Listening, he was so happy that he patted himself on the head.His head was shiny and fleshy, without a single hair.This is a kind-hearted leader, not only has no hair, but also no beard, known as "monk secretary".This "monk secretary" holds many meetings, manages many things, arrests many people, and seeks many people, but there is not much sleep time.Although he is a "monk secretary", because of his courage, insight, courage and strategy, all grassroots cadres in the county are afraid of him.He immediately said to Secretary Wang:

"There is such a powerful person in your commune, why are you so silent?!" Those eyebrows were still kind, but the questioning made Secretary Wang speechless. Wang Cai said: "It's all thanks to the support of the commune! I'm the only one who started doing it. We're farmers, and we haven't worked or been in business. We're trying to make a living." Secretary Ma said: "I just want to try to make money. The current farmers can eat enough to eat just by relying on the few acres of land, but they can't live a very good life. This is the development of the trinity of agriculture, industry and commerce! In some places in the south, people are so successful. It’s an incident. I thought we didn’t have such a foundation in the mountains, but you broke through first! Wang Cai, I have to thank you!”

"Thank you?" Wang Cai cried out. "I want to thank you! Everyone in the county can learn from you. Let alone a few hundred households or a few thousand households, even a dozen households will be great! How many people are there in the factory now?" "Eighteen people." Wang Cai said. Secretary Ma said: 1 "There can be more." Gou Sheng interjected and said: "We still need to buy a baking machine to make bread and snacks! We are working on rules and regulations such as get off work and rest time and post responsibility system, and we must gradually get on the right track! Don't look at our manager's appearance, but the stomach is full of water. Is it? No, it's style, technology, and talent!"

Secretary Ma asked: "Who's the manager?" Gousheng said: "It's Wang Cai!" Wang Cai hurriedly kicked Gou Sheng, and Secretary Ma laughed: "It's a talent, it's a talent! I really can't tell if it doesn't show itself. As soon as I received the report, I was so happy that I went to the deputy secretary and the county magistrate to read it all night. The report is well written. You What level of education is it?" "Didn't graduate from middle school." Wang Cai felt embarrassed. "Ha, that report is well-founded and quite literary!"

Wang Cai didn't dare to say that the report was written by Er Bei. He peeked at Secretary Wang's face. Secretary Wang was smiling at him, patted him on the shoulder, and said: "Wang Cai, Secretary Ma is supporting me. Work hard. If you have any difficulties in the future, you can go directly to the commune to help me! Why don't you always come?" Wang Cai laughed too: "It's all because I'm worthless, I can't walk in front of people." Wang Cai's daughter-in-law had already set up a table for the Eight Immortals in the courtyard, and the table was filled with all kinds of crisp candies, inviting guests to taste it in a pleasant voice.At the gate of the courtyard, a group of people crowded there, or climbed on the wall, pointing and discussing who is Secretary Ma, and finally saw a monk's head clearly, sitting on the same stool with the little Wang Cai.Someone said:

"Hey! Wang Cai and the secretary are on an equal footing!" Seeing the commotion outside the door, Wang Cai yelled for everyone to come in.Those people did not dare to enter. When the people behind pushed, the people in front unconsciously leaned forward, and the front feet came in.When one leg comes in, the body comes in; when one comes in, eight, ten, twenty, thirty, all come in.Wang Cai knew all of these folks, but for a long time, although the threshold here was not high and there were no vicious dogs, they refused to come to this courtyard.When he came in, he looked around, making a fuss while watching.The dog left and the bald man were frivolous and carried away, introducing this and that.He also took the halva for outsiders to taste.Baldy said:

"I just said, the king is not someone who is waiting for nothing, he can turn the river into a storm! How about it? Come or not? If you want to come, I will let you go through the back door!" "Can this be done?" the men asked. "Why not? Secretary Ma is the secretary of the Communist Party and the secretary of socialism. He came to pay New Year's greetings to Wang Cai, representing the party and socialism! Do the math, who is the richest person in this town right now? Wang Cai. Who is the most powerful? Isn’t Wang Cai?!” This is Gou Sheng’s answer. Bronchitis squeezed over and said:

"Brother Dog Leftover, do you want me?" "You?" Gou Sheng said, "This needs to be researched and studied. Not everyone in our factory wants it. It depends on whether the health is good or not? Is it unhygienic? Is it a trick? Is it petty theft? Are you talking to Han?" Are you running, sir?" bronchitis says: "People go to high places, but water flows to low places. What's wrong with you?" As he spoke, he took out a bunch of firecrackers from his arms and stood at the gate to set them up.He bought these firecrackers specially for the Han family, but they set them off in front of Wang Cai's house.

The person who came with Secretary Ma to pay New Year's greetings was the communications officer of the Propaganda Department of the county party committee.In the end, he wanted to take a photo of Secretary Ma and Wang Cai.Wang Cairen was in a downturn, and he had never been in a photo studio in his life, so he felt embarrassed right now.Secretary Ma said: "Wang Cai, take a photo. Since the third year of junior high school, I have been running around the county to pay New Year's greetings, and I am willing to take a picture with the master. You work hard. This summer, the county will hold a representative meeting of self-employed and professional households. The people of the county I also want to dress you in red and flowers."

Wang Cai stood with Secretary Ma in a serious manner, but Wang Cai's daughter-in-law pulled Wang Cai over and said: "Is that the only oil-stained clothes you have? Go and change into a new padded jacket!" "This one is good!" Wang Cai said while going to the workshop to get an apron that was worn during production, and said, "This is even better. I can wear whatever I do. Next year, I will make a set of work clothes." Secretary Ma didn't leave the town until three o'clock in the afternoon.But the discussion in the town continued for three days.People talked about it at home, and they still talked about it when they met in the street.Three days later, there were four more people who asked to join the processing factory, and of course they were all carefully selected by Wang Cai.At the same time, the county sent a group photo of Wang Cai and Secretary Ma, which was very large.Wang Cai's image was not good-looking, and the grease stains on his clothes were invisible, but he didn't smile, his mouth was tightly pursed, his hands were unnaturally clasped on his front, and he took a sharp look.Rather like a shy child.

Wang Cai cherished this frame of photo, and spent three yuan to buy a glass mirror frame to install it.The middle hall was originally arranged by the youngest daughter, and it was full of calendar pictures with beauties' heads. Wang Caiquan took them down and only hung two frames: one is the professional household approval certificate, and the other is the group photo.Daughter-in-law said: "That painting is so beautiful, red and green." Wang Cai said: "What do you know? This is a guarantee, our backer!" As a result, members of Wang Cai's family began walking up and down the town street with their heads held high.When people ask about the processing plant, their mouths are like trumpets, talking about their products, their income, and their plans; the speaker is crazy, and the listener is stupid.Only then did the king find out, and he was furious at home: "What are you so arrogant about? You talk loudly and take up space, what do you look like? What are we proud of? What are we showing off? How capable? How capable? We are able to get to where we are today, thanks to this situation and this society. .If there is no such things, your father still only earns six divisions of labor a day? Even if the processing plant is set up, it will collapse again! !No one can show any disrespect in front of the old man of the Han family!" As Wang Cai said, he was so sad that he wanted to shed tears, and he couldn't explain the complicated feelings in his heart.From then on, the family members calmed down and stopped boasting vindictively outside.Of course, what Wang Cai said was to his family members. The family members did not mention it to the outside world, and outsiders did not know about it, especially Han Xuanzi.That day, after the commune cadres sent Secretary Ma away, Secretary Wang and Zhang Wugan came to participate in the "send-off" at Han Xuanzi's house.When they came, the guests had already finished their meal and left the table.Erbei and Baiyin were not there, so they gave away the borrowed tables, chairs, benches, pots, pans and bowls.Er Bei Niang set up wooden boards in the yard, spread four or six big mats, and dried the leftover rice in the big ring pot; there was too much rice, and too many people walked, and nearly half of it was left.Seeing Secretary Wang and the others entering the courtyard, Er Bei Niang held her hands together and shouted: "Secretary Wang, Zhang Wugan!" His voice trembled and he couldn't continue.Secretary Wang asked: "Where's Old Han?" "Sleeping." Er Bei Niang said, "He was drunk and fell asleep before he left." The two entered the bedroom, Han Xuanzi heard the noise and was about to turn over, the two tried to persuade them to sleep, but the old man still got up, groggy, but wanted to prepare meals and drinks for them again.The two could not refuse, and after eating and drinking, Han Xuanzi said: "I specially left a bottle of Fenjiu, come, let's drink, I know you are coming. You can trust me, and I can trust you too!" The two refused to let the old man drink any more, but Han Xuanzi insisted that he was not drunk.After drinking three cups, Han Xuanzi was speechless, Secretary Wang and Zhang Wugan were speechless, and the three of them just drank sullenly.or just: "Drink!" Responded: "drink." Just drink it. Er Bei and Bai Yin returned the things and came back, and after a long time tidying up in the yard, only then did they know that Dad was drinking with Secretary Wang and the others in the main room, and felt strange: for many years, they always drank three times and four times while drinking, guessing orders The puncher, why is he drinking dumb wine today? Erbai Niang said: "You go to toast Secretary Wang and the others, and you dare not let your father drink any more; if you drink too much, you will lose your temper at night. The family is in trouble again, and you have to go to Baigou tomorrow!" Er Bei walked into the main room and toasted Secretary Wang and the others. Seeing that his father's eyes were straight, he said: "Father, you don't dare to drink anymore, let me accompany Secretary Wang and Zhang Wu." Han Xuanzi said: "I'm fine. Go and call Ye Zi, I have something to tell her." Ye Zi went to fetch water from the spring, and when she came back, Han Xuanzi said: "Yezi. How many guests will you entertain tomorrow?" Leaf said: "Didn't you tell Dad? There is no one there, and no one from the village is entertained. My family has one seat; here we go to my family to have two seats, and there is no one else." Han Xuanzi said: "Listen to my father, we have a lot of food left today, tonight, you take this food In the past, I would stay for a few more seats tomorrow, or I couldn't finish the rest.Erbei, go to the village and call more people, and everyone who can go tomorrow will go to Baigou!" According to the custom, after the "delivery", the wedding ceremony will be held at the man's house the next day. At dawn, the new son-in-law will lead a helper to the woman's house to set off firecrackers, bring gifts, and carry boxes and cabinets.Then the bride, dressed in red and wearing flowers, goes to the husband's house to worship the heaven and the earth, the ancestors twice, and the husband and wife to each other, and then enters the bridal chamber and sits on a new mat, competing all day and night without eating, drinking, or peeing.Then there was the beating of suona, gongs and drums, and then the meal with messy cups and plates—of course, Ye Zi and Sanwa belonged to the ceremony after the marriage, so all procedures would be canceled and reduced, and the hospitality in his family was purely symbolic.But Han Xuanzi tore up the previous agreement after drinking, and made another big fuss.Ye Zi listened to his father; the third baby had opinions but dared not express them; the second baby was also dissatisfied, but immediately forgave his father; full of infinite sympathy, he came out to tell his mother, and his heart was still sour.Niang said: "It's all up to your father, or it will really break his heart." "It's all because Dad made fun of himself!" As soon as he went out, for some reason, Er Bei burst into tears.When he invites people in the village, some of them naturally agree to go, but there are also some who politely refuse, that bronchitis, shouted: "I have to go to work tomorrow!" "Go to work?" Er Bei was also confused. "Go to work in a processing factory!" Erbei stared at him steadfastly, with two fists like hammerheads raised at his waist, but he didn't hit or scold him, just smiled and left. When Bronchitis was at work the next day, Wang Cai suddenly announced that he had rejected him.