Chapter 6 Chapter Six

On this day at the end of February, the market day on Liu Street was unprecedented.There are as many traders coming from the four townships as there are fallen leaves in the pagoda tree forest in autumn. The warmth of spring has overwhelmed the sky, the willows have sprouted buds, the tung trees have no buds and leaves, but the trumpet-like pink flowers fill the sky.A warm scent filled the air.The rakes who went to the market picked or carried them on their backs, some unbuttoned their dark chests, and some simply took off their padded jackets and hung them on his luggage. Wearing them alone is no longer common. The white homespun shirt and the black brain oil on the collar add a warm smell of dirt to the fresh air.There are crowds of people on the street, Ximen Road and Xiangdu Road are blocked, and even Jingwei Hutong is full of businessmen who buy and sell poultry and agricultural by-products. Noisy, noise, and bargaining sounds flood Liu Street. In the sky above, the red banner of the inspection team for the division of villages and towns in the welcome area was raised like a turbulent wind and rattle.

The inspection team arrived at Liu Street during Jisheng at noon. Three cars stopped at the gate of the village committee, and unloaded their luggage into the reception room specially made out. Then, a deputy county magistrate accompanied F to start questioning and discussing with Liu Street. Sampling inspection, from population to taxation, from the development of township enterprises to the per capita income of Liu Street, and from the population density of the Ralou Mountains to the distance between each market town, the village head Qing gave answers one by one.Director Li, who is also the team leader, asked for materials and made records. Finally, Director Li led everyone to the street to see.

The village chief asked, should we evacuate those who go to the market? The county magistrate said that the more people the better, the more prosperous it is. The village head said, what do you have for lunch? The county magistrate said that they should be clean and rich, and they should all eat local specialties. Pheasant, hare, scorpion, grasshopper, snake.Ask again, do you have a dog whip? The village head said that dog whips and money were all prepared. The county magistrate was very satisfied and said that this was done, and the transformation of villages into towns was probably done in nine out of ten cases.Team leader Li walked at the front of the street. The county head and the village head whispered a few words at the end, and then rushed to the front to accompany the comrades of the inspection team.A group of people walked past the market crowd, looking at shops, restaurants, bazaars, and agricultural and sideline products.Team leader Li is one year older than the county and one year younger than the village chief Qing. He is young and capable, without the big belly that officials usually have. Mandarin with Anhui accent.Director Li went to an old man who sold greenhouse vegetables and asked, is the current policy good?Director Li said he knew who Deng Xiaoping was? The old man said he knew, he was a little guy.Director Li said, do you want to change Liu Street into a town? The old man said that it would be fine if it was changed, and there would be a special person to manage the taxes, so there would be no need for Zhang San and Li Si to collect taxes.

Director Li said that it is unexpected that the people here have such a high level of consciousness and know a little bit about politics and economics.Director Li also looked at the footwashing house and the beauty salon, asked the waiter's place of origin, whether they were locals, what time did they open at night, and visited several township enterprises and individual enterprises, and returned to the village committee at one o'clock in the afternoon. Will go to dinner. After the meal, we studied the issue of transforming villages into towns.Thinking that everything was going to be a matter of course, Director Li took out the official seal, and the on-site work was over. Unexpectedly, from 2:10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., Director Li hadn't taken out the official seal.During the study, the village chief Qing and several township cadres were outside the door, and only the county magistrate was in the room to observe. At 5:35 the magistrate came out of the house.When he came out, the county magistrate's face was covered with a layer of mist, and he said, "Damn it, things went wrong."

The village chief's face turned pale, what's wrong? The county magistrate said that he did not expect that there was a village in the neighboring county on the Palou Mountain that wanted to be converted into a town. It was less than 20 miles away from us in a straight line. According to the regulations, the distance to the new town should not be so close. The village chief said that there is no such thing as a county without borders. The county magistrate said that only a mountain range affects each other's economic development. The village head is in a hurry, so what should I do?

The county magistrate said that I did my work and asked the inspection team to stay here overnight, and the rest will be handled by you. What did the village head say, county head, please explain clearly, as long as the village can be transformed into a town, I have no problem even if I am put in a shift. The county magistrate squinted at the village chief Qing, and asked me what you want to do. I know what you want to do. Can you be the mayor if you are so confused? can you put ——Is the economy of this town invigorated? The county magistrate reprimanded him, spit on the ground, rubbed his feet again, and said, didn’t I tell you that Director Li is a divorced person, and he can’t take care of housework? Do it, it's better to send Director Li a nanny than anything else.After saying this, the county magistrate went into the room with some dissatisfaction to accompany directors Li to study the matter.

The village chief was stunned in the compound of the village committee. The village head immediately thought of Jinlian. The village chief sent someone to find Jinlian in no time.Jinlian is in Wang Nai's tea house on the street of the village.Jin Lian has been coming to Wang Nai's tea house since last night. At that time, she heard Yue'er's newlywed screams in the yard, and she really wanted to take a kitchen knife into the house and cut Yue'er's throat. Cut it off, I want Yue'er's blood to be sprayed on the marriage bed like a faucet, let the second child float in the blood, looking at Yue's face that is still convulsed and twitching without a throat, kneeling pale in the pool of blood, begging She, begged her to be merciful and let his second child live in this world.Say let me live in this world, you let me do whatever you want me to do, let me be a dog and follow you day and night.Jin Lian really walked into the kitchen, and really held the kitchen knife in her hand. The moment she picked up the kitchen knife and was about to go out, she thought of her second child whose shoulders were as wide as the door panel, and Yue'er's waist and waist. The stone roller is as round.She put the kitchen knife gently on the chopping board again, washed her face with the water in the water tank, went to the upper room to look at the dwarf-like figure of the boss, and listened to Yue'er's exaggerated and bursting happy cry, she Grabbing the portrait frame of the eldest man, he came out and smashed the glass window of the second eldest's bridal chamber forcefully. With the crisp sound of the glass falling to the ground, the moon stopped screaming immediately, and the world became quiet.

Jin Lian walked towards the outside of the gate. The tranquility flowing on the street is as moist as drizzle, and the wedding cannon paper that explodes during the day is as soft as cotton underfoot. The moon was setting and the stars were sparse in the sky, the streets and alleys were empty, and someone’s dog, who was kept at home during the day, stood alone on the street at that time, looking endlessly at the night sky.Jin Lian glanced back at the signboard of her boutique, and walked towards the east end of Ximen Road with cold steps. Jin Lian went to Wang Nai's tea egg house.Wang Nai said Jinlian, you must want to open up more, how can you be happy in everything in life.

Jin Lian said that I didn't do anything to offend his elder brother, and when he died, I took care of his second son to get married.Grandma Wang said that the second child and Yue were your matchmakers? Jin Lian said who made the village chief's wife my cousin. Wang Nai said that the second child and the moon are not far away.Jin Lian said that they were crazy good, and I came to you because they were crazy.Wang Nai said Jinlian, you should go to another family.Jin Lian said, I married Liu Street because I liked the excitement of Liu Street. Now that Liu Street is going to be changed into a town, it will become more and more prosperous. If I marry, it will not be a loss for my whole life, so I don't want to marry.Brother Yun was sleeping next to them, and they kept talking until dawn.

When she woke up from the bed the next day, Grandma Wang said Jinlian, you are the sister-in-law, you should go back and cook for the second child and Yue'er for a day.Jin Lian said, Grandma Wang, she's just getting married and making out, I'm actually getting in the way of her business when I go back, you let me stay here for two days to teach Brother Yun how to recognize more words.Grandma Wang sold her tea eggs, Jin Lian taught Brother Yun to write, taught him to write Zhao Qian Sun Li, wrote about the beginning of human beings, nature is good, and wrote that Beijing, Zhengzhou, and Luoyang are all good places. The village chief came, and led the deputy village chief, accountant, members of the economic committee and women cadres.It seems that except for the second child, all the cadres of the village committee have come.They stood in front of Wang Nai's tea house, talked to Wang Nai, humbly squeezed into Wang Nai's room, sat on the bed, sat on the stool, or squatted on the threshold.Wang Nai said, Jinlian, the village chief has something to do with you.Jin Lian stood there half dazed and half surprised, and Brother Yun held Jin Lian's hand in a daze.The women's cadre held Brother Yun affectionately in his arms.The village chief said, Wang Nai Liu Street will be converted into a town, and I will build you two houses in the most prosperous area. In addition to selling tea eggs, you can also sell tea water, rent out military chess, chess, etc. There, install a public direct-dial payphone in the house.Grandma Wang said, I'm over seventy years old, and I have nightmares every night, I'm afraid I won't be able to wait until that day.The village chief said that Jinlian asked you to wait until you did, and now it is up to Jinlian whether Liu Street will be changed or not.

All eyes fell on Jin Lian's face. Jin Lian's face turned red like a fire. The village head said, sit down, Jinlian. Jin Lian rolled Brother Yun's notebook in her hand and said, Uncle, I've been sitting all day, I'll stand for a while. The village chief said, it has been a long time since you went to chat with your cousin. Jin Lian said, the second child sees the sky looking for Yue'er, so the whole family can't pile it up at your house. The village head said, relatives add relatives, and you should go to your cousin every day, because there is not a day when she does not miss you. Jin Lian said, Uncle, what do you need from me? The village chief lowered his head and wiped his face with his hands in embarrassment. ——I really can’t say it, I’m afraid you will scold me if I say it. Jinlian said, ——Is it because of the second child and Yue'er? They are doing well. A shadow passed over the village head's face, ——I don't care if they die, I only care about the affairs of a village, I only care about the matter of changing Liu Street into a town, I just ask you Jinlian to do me a favor for Liu Street. Jinlian said, ——Uncle, you are joking, Liu Street has been changed to a town, how can I help you. The mayor said, ——Director Li in the district disagreed with changing our Liu Street into a town, but Director Li’s house lacked a nanny. If you let him go to his house in Luoyang to help for a period of time, he agreed to change our Liu Street into a town. Jinlian said, ——I can't burn the food eaten by the city people, and I can't wash the clothes worn by the city people. The mayor said, ——You go to the village and people pay you wages. You can ask for one thousand, two thousand, or three thousand yuan a month. Jinlian said, ——It’s a lot of money, but I have that boutique, so I don’t need money to spend. The mayor said, ——You are helping thousands of people in Liu Street, and thousands of people will thank you for helping. Jinlian said, ——I'd better not go, the boss just died half a year ago, I'm a widow, and I value filial piety, so I shouldn't go to other people's homes. The mayor said, ——You go, you go to the village and treat the boss as a martyr, and erect a monument in front of his grave. In the future, you will be a family member of a martyr, and the village will take care of you no matter what. Jinlian said, ——I have to go back to my natal home. I haven’t been back to my natal home for several months. I want to go back to my natal home for a while. The mayor said, ——If you don’t go, you will offend the whole village. If you offend the whole village, how will you still live in the Liu family? If you go, you will maintain the whole village. Who in the whole village doesn’t respect you? Even my village head I have to respect you too. Jinlian said, ——Whether to go or not? I heard from my brother's second son. If he said he would let me go, I would go. Then someone brought the second child.The second child has been maintaining social order all day long, for fear that during the inspection team's stay on Liu Street, there will be a fight on the street because of the common short catty and surreptitious behavior. If there is a lawsuit, it will be brought to the village committee.When the trouble came to the village committee, he ran into Team Leader Li of the inspection team. At that time, Team Leader Li had a bad impression of Liu Jie.Not to mention changing the village into a town.When the second child came to the tea house, the sun was already approaching the west mountain, and the people who went to the market began to go to the homes in all directions one after another. They all looked tired and dusty, and those who had heavy shoulders when they came came had light shoulders now. Yes, those who are light on their shoulders have become heavy on their shoulders.The squeak of the pole resounded brilliantly in the setting sun, and the footsteps were messy and loud, kicking past Nanny Wang's house like a team of horses returning to the circle after a day's running. As soon as the second child came, he knew what was the reason, and stood at the door of Grandma Wang's house. The blood-red sunset turned his dusty face into light brown, like an old wet red cloth covering his face. superior.Seeing Jinlian, his red wet cloth became more and more red, as if it had been dipped in dyed water. Jinlian said, ——Second child, the village committee asked me to go to Director Li's house in Luoyang to serve him. The mayor said, ——Not serving, but helping for a period of time. Jinlian said, ——Second child, do you want to go? The second child raised his head and blurted out, - go. Jinlian said, ——Think carefully before deciding whether to go or not. Second child said, - don't think about it.What is there to think about? This is for the tens of thousands of people in Liujie, and for the generations of Liujie, how can I not go. Jinlian said, —You still think again. Second child said, ——Sister-in-law, what else do you have to think about? You should go, just for our family, for your future life in Liu Street, and for my future. Jinlian said, ——You really let me go? Second child said, —Of course I let you go. Jinlian said, —But you let me go. Second child said, ——You go, I will stand up to the sky falling. Jinlian decided to go. That night, Jin Lian was led by the village head and poured a few glasses of wine for Director Li at the dinner.Director Li asked a few questions about the village chief after meeting them, such as who else is in your family? Did the man suffer from JL disease? Did he leave no children behind? For example, when you asked what disease your man had, both Jin Lian and the village head said it was a cerebral hemorrhage. As for why he had a cerebral hemorrhage at a young age, it was inconvenient for Director Li to ask, and no one explained much.All in all, Director Li heard that Jin Lian said that she was willing to go to Director Li's house to help, and that it might be a blessing for us country people to be able to go to Director Li's house to help, Director Li said, I will not live in your Liu Street tonight I went to the village in the neighboring county overnight to prevent their village from being converted into a town. I had to do some ideological work and have a good talk with their village committee. The village chief said, Director Li, thank you for the tens of thousands of people in Liu Street. After Liu Street is transformed into a town, we will put a statue of you in the street garden. Director Li said that we are all party members and cadres of the party, and no one should engage in personality cults and erect monuments.Say you make a statue of me there, and I will immediately stamp the official seal of the village reform on the report. The village head said, "Jinlian, you can take Director Li's car and go away tonight. After going to Luoyang for a while, when I come back, I will lead the residents of the whole town to the side of the road to welcome you." Jinlian left overnight.Jin Lian did not take a small sleeping car with Director Li, because Director Li really wanted to do ideological work in a village in a neighboring county, where he was going to take back what he had said.The deputy county magistrate specially arranged a luxury Santana for Jinlian, and asked her to wait for Director Li in the county guest house first.After the deputy county magistrate accompanied Director Li to leave, the car stopped in front of Jinlian's house, under the signboard of Jinlian's fashion store.Jin Lian went home to pack her luggage and the clothes she was supposed to bring. Naturally, she also needed some pocket money. After Jinlian finished tidying up, it was already nine o'clock at night. She came out of the house and saw the village chief, Lao Er and Yue standing under the eaves lamp in the courtyard. They were respectful, as if what they were waiting there was not her Jinlian, but the county magistrate, the governor, and Director Li who was in charge of township and regional planning in the region.When Jinlian went out, she slowed down her steps at the door, and the second child hurried forward to take her luggage in her hand, and said in a low voice, sister-in-law, the village head promised to give us the farmer's market at the village head of Wang's Hotel Yes, and promised to let me go to the party school for further studies in half a year and come back to be a deputy mayor.Jin Lian didn't look at the second child, just said that's good, and went to the village head.Yue said behind her father, sister-in-law, please go.Jin Lian said, Yue'er, you and your second child can live happily ever after, the boutique at the door is actually a cash cow.The village chief said, you can go to Jinlian with peace of mind, I will let Yue'er or someone else open the fashion store for you, and make a good account. When you come back and open the account book, you will be shocked by the income. Talking to the door. The scene outside the gate really startled Jin Lian.In any case, she never expected that the lights on the street were bright and resplendent. All the street lights, the door lights of the houses facing the street, and the hall lights were all turned on. The colors were so colorful that even the sky was colorful and green. It seems that tens of thousands of people in Liu Street have come out of their homes, all the old and young are crowded in front of Jinlian's house. Looking east from the steps, I can't see where the end of the crowd is; In the garden in the middle of the street where the roads intersect, people stand head to head, shoulder to shoulder, and even the edge of the brick pond in the flower bed is full of people.Everyone didn't speak, and everyone focused their eyes on the door of Jin Lian's house and on Jin Lian's body.Jinlian could hear people's breathing, and the sound of people's eyes meeting each other.She glanced over the quiet crowd, and saw that standing in the front were the cadres of the village committee, and in the back were respectable people who were known as bosses and managers in Liu Street, and their bosses' wives. The daughter-in-laws and aunts who have become princesses, followed by the service staff of various stores, halls, and business departments, and ordinary villagers in Liu Street. Jin Lian wanted to see Wang Nai and Brother Yun among the villagers in that circle. She moved her eyes slowly from here to here, and slowly moved over again, but there was no sign of Wang Nai and Brother Yun. .The village head had already opened the door of the car with his own hands. He said, Jinlian, who are you looking for? Jinlian said, no one.He also said that the village head, Liu Street was changed into a town, and he really wanted to find a lively piece of land for Wang Nai to build two houses, and he wanted Brother Yun to go to school.The village head said Jinlian, if I don’t count what I say, am I still a human being? How can I do the work in the town in the future. Jinlian walked to the front of the car. The second child put her luggage on the car, and Jin Lian held the door and looked into the crowd, as if she refused to get in the car unless she saw something. Following her gaze, the village head scanned the crowd, turned his head to look at Jinlian and said, Jinlian, please, on behalf of the tens of thousands of people in Liu Street, please.As he spoke, he bent over and bowed to Jin Lian.Then, Lao Er, Yue and the officials of the village committee all bent down and bowed to Jin Lian.Afterwards, those high-ranking and respectable people, layer by layer, round by round, were infected and as planned in advance, they all bowed towards Jin Lian. After Jin Lian saw them straighten their backs, all eyes looked at her sadly and beggingly, and Jin Lian's eyes became moist. Jin Lian also got into the car. The crowd slowly made a way for Jin Lian like moving mountains and seas.Jinlian was taken away by that shiny luxury car.