Chapter 12 A change of fate triggered by a rainstorm

At five o'clock in the afternoon, the bucket was full of fish. The largest grass carp weighed more than three catties, and the largest one was two-finger-wide crucian carp.The three returned with a full load, and when they reached the sidelines, Hou Haiyang stopped and said, "Guard Wei, take some back." Wei Guan spent a pleasant afternoon with the two teachers, and the most interesting thing was learning a few words of English with Teacher Qiuyun.He kept talking about "three medicines, bye bye". What amazed him the most was that "goodbye" actually read "bye bye" in English, and "bye bye" in Bashan dialect means a lame person. Thinking of this , Wei Guan couldn't stop laughing.

"Mr. Hou, my uncle pulled the net, and the family couldn't finish the fish." When Wei Guan left, he deliberately said "bye" loudly. Qiu Yun stopped and said, "I'm going to Changzhen to buy some things." Hou Haiyang returned to the courtyard with the bucket in hand.Before arriving at the small courtyard, he played tricks and picked two pumpkin leaves and put them on the bucket so that no one could see the fish in the bucket.Hou Haiyang couldn't explain why he did this. It seemed to be to prevent Li Suan from gossip, and to avoid the cold eyes of Zhao Hai with a hooked nose, but when he thought about it seriously, he really didn't need to be so sneaky.

When I arrived at the small courtyard, there was no one in the courtyard. I walked past the teacher's door, and heard the sound of the radio and the sound of poker falling on the table. Fishing in the afternoon is undoubtedly a pleasant thing, and he likes to be with Qiuyun from the bottom of his heart.On the surface, this girl is a cold beauty who rejects people thousands of miles away.After getting in touch with people, you will find that she is actually a cheerful girl, lively and generous, with curiosity and cute clumsiness about strange things.While sitting at the table drinking cold water, he subconsciously compared Lu Ming and Qiu Yun. In all fairness, Qiu Yun, who came from the city and graduated from a university, felt more novel.When he realized that he was comparing Qiu Yun to Lu Ming, he quickly put the thought behind him.

The fish in the bucket kept swimming, and one fish broke through the pumpkin leaf and fell to the floor, jumping up and down. Qiuyun walked into the small courtyard with a plastic bag, went straight to Hou Haiyang's room, and said, "I'll make braised fish later. This is watercress, sugar, and some ginger and garlic." Hou Haiyang smiled and said, "Then I can enjoy the delicious food." Qiu Yun stood at the door and said: "You have made a contribution in the afternoon, and I will leave the dinner to me. I don't like to dissect the fish. You dissect the fish, and I will be in charge of the final processing."

Hou Haiyang said: "You are the chef, and I will be the prick." "What is a pier?" "Dunzi is a helper for the master chef, cutting vegetables and dissecting fish is the work of Jiaozi." Two young men and women stood in the corner of the bungalow and started cooking braised fish. Sure enough, Qiuyun wasn't bragging, she was not familiar with the countryside, and fishing by the small river was the first time a young girl got on a sedan chair, but she was no stranger to the kitchen.Hou Haiyang’s fresh boiled fish at noon is Yeluzi, while Qiu Yun’s braised fish at night is from Sichuan cuisine with a long history.

"Slow down, don't laugh." Seeing Hou Haiyang gobbled it up, Qiuyun laughed at first, then felt a little uncomfortable, and asked, "Is your financial situation difficult?" Hou Haiyang didn't hide his embarrassment, and said, "The school didn't pay wages, and the money I brought from home was about the same, so I bought these outfits and prepared to be self-reliant." "If you need money, I have it." "I tried my best to support it, and I couldn't make it through, so I opened my mouth again." The two were sitting in Hou Haiyang's front room eating, Qiu Dafa came over smelling the fragrance, he stood at the door and said with a smile: "Mr. Qiu, Mr. Hou, are you starting a business?"

Qiu Dafa said it unintentionally, but Qiu Yun heard it intentionally and explained: "The river is full of water, and a lot of fish have washed in. Teacher Xiao Hou's students brought some fish." Hou Haiyang greeted: "Teacher Qiu, come in and taste some fish just picked up from the river." Qiu Dafa hurriedly waved his hands and said, "You guys eat, I've eaten." Yellow braised fish, the bottom of the tongue produces fluid.Back in the room, Zhao Hai, Li Suansuan and others gathered around to play cards, Qiu Dafa stood watching the battle with a smile on his face, and said, "I can't tell that Mr. Xiaohou is very capable. He can not only turn over tiles in the house, but also bought a honeycomb stove. Start your own business. I went to his side just now, and he and Qiuyun made braised fish, which is delicious in color and fragrance."

Li Suansuan said: "Mr. Xiao Hou is young, I think he was seduced by a vixen, what a pity, he is a handsome young man." Zhao Hai sneered: "Eating a meal together is a seduction. Is it because we have an affair by playing cards together?" Li Suansuan said: "Is Zhao Hai also fascinated by that vixen, and he wants to help her talk." Zhao Hai is a relatively "angry" person among the school teachers. When Qiuyun appeared in the school, he His heart was struck by a bolt of lightning. He often sat facing the door when playing cards. Whenever Qiu Yun walked in front of the door, he would quietly watch with his eyes.At this time, his thoughts were unintentionally broken by Li Suanlian, and he said sharply: "Li Suanlian couldn't get along with Mr. Zhang before, and every day he said that Mr. Zhang liked to take advantage of petty advantages. Now he has conflicts with Mr. Qiu. I think Comrade Li Suanlian You have to do a self-examination, whether everyone is sorry for you, or you have a problem."

Li Suansuan was so angry that he threw the cards on the table and said, "You guys are all perverts, and your bones will soften when you see a beautiful woman." Zhao Hai raised his most distinctive hooked nose and said: "Qiu Dafa, you come and fight." Qiu Dafa has always been a good person, never offending others, he sat down when he heard Zhao Hai's greeting.Zhao Hai asked: "I heard that the school will be equipped with TV sets and video recorders, and you will keep the keys?" Qiu Dafa apologized and said with a smile: "I have a key for the storage room, but the video recorders must be locked in the cabinet. Explain that without the consent of the school leaders, no one can use the TV or video recorder. Only on Friday afternoon during the political study, some teaching videos can be played.” Recently, in order to promote the use of audio-visual education, the Maodong City Education Committee distributed a TV to each central school machine and a video recorder.After hearing the news, the teachers in Xinxiang School were very excited. They could finally watch TV. In Xinxiang, where the spiritual life is extremely barren, this is a big event, and everyone is looking forward to it.

Zhao Haidao: "It's better to have a video recorder, we can rent some Hong Kong series to watch." As soon as this discussion came out, everyone was happy, and they forgot about Hou Haiyang and Qiuyun having dinner together. After Qiuyun came to Xinxiang School, she has always hated the poor food of the school catering group. She exhausted all her skills for this meal of braised fish.With braised fish, she ate two bowls of rice steamed in a honeycomb oven, and she still couldn't get enough of it. "There's a little more, add another half bowl." Hou Haiyang put the last half of rice into Qiuyun's bowl.Qiuyun poured some fish soup into the rice, smelled the aroma, and complained, "I'm afraid I'll grow up fat if I eat like this."

"It's okay, just eat and exercise more." "Okay, I can't be too lazy in the future, otherwise I really don't have the courage to fight." Hou Haiyang heard her strange choice of words, and asked: "The courage to fight, do you have any plans?" Qiu Yun said: "The reason why I went to Xinxiang school is complicated. I thought life in the countryside would be easy, but I didn't expect It is not a pure land. I have been reviewing and preparing for the postgraduate entrance examination next year." Hou Haiyang said: "What if you don't get into graduate school?" He thought of his experience of not being able to go to Radio and Television University, and said, "If the school doesn't allow you to go into graduate school, what should you do?" Qiu Yun was very firm: "Why are you not allowed to take the postgraduate exam? Why don't you let me take the exam? This is my right. If I am really not allowed to take the exam, I have to take the exam even if I resign. I am an English major. As long as I don't take the postgraduate exam Education or other majors are very advantageous. You have good conditions in all aspects, do you want to stay here for the rest of your life?" Hou Haiyang was stunned by this question, thought for a while, and said, "I really can't think of anything I can do to change my destiny." "Then why do you want to learn English?" "I don't know either. Let's learn first. If you don't overwhelm yourself with a lot of skills, it will always be useful." Qiuyun herself is an English major, and her understanding of English is very realistic. She originally wanted to persuade Hou Haiyang not to spend too much time on it, but she retracted her words, after all, in this small closed environment , something to do, is better than playing around all day long. After eating and chatting for a while, Qiuyun returned to the dormitory.At the door, Li Suanyou happened to come out. The two had been tearing their faces apart for a long time, and they didn't speak, pretending that each other didn't exist. Vice-principal Wang Qin walked around the reception room after dinner. When he was reading the newspaper, he saw a letter on the ground. He picked it up and saw that it was addressed to Hou Haiyang.She took the letter, walked around the campus, and came to the teacher's courtyard. "Here is your letter." When Hou Haiyang saw the letter, he thought it was from Lu Ming, and immediately became excited. He tried his best to control his emotions, and when he took the letter, he saw the beautiful handwriting, which was written by a girl, but not by Lu Ming, but by his sister.He was a little disappointed. Although his sister was close, what he most wanted to receive now was a letter from his girlfriend Lu Ming. "Is it your girlfriend's? Are you still in Beijing?" "My older sister is studying at university in Beijing." Wang Qin was very interested in Hou Zhengli's situation, asked a few questions carefully, and said, "I heard that your grades in junior high school were also very good. There was no problem in the county No. 1 middle school. It's a pity that you didn't go to university." Hou Haiyang said : "Grandpa was seriously ill at that time, there was no other way but to study in the middle school." "I knew you before you came, and there was a plan to be assigned to the village primary school." This was the first time Wang Qin took the initiative to talk about it. He paused here, adjusted the topic, and said, "I heard that you After picking up the tiles, don’t do it like this in the future, the roof is very slippery, it’s hard to fall down.” After some exchanges, Wang Qin became even taller in Hou Haiyang's eyes, even though she was just over 1.5 meters tall. After seeing off Wang Qin, Hou Haiyang sat by the bed and opened the letter from his sister. "Brother, don't sink into Xinxiang. Today's society is developing very fast, which can be summed up in the words 'changing with each passing day'. In Shanghai, there is a man named Yang Huaiding. He made a lot of money in stocks. What happened, he made a million in stocks, brother, it is a million! Your annual salary is at most three thousand, let’s say four thousand, it’s only 40,000 in ten years, and only 400,000 in one hundred years. You do the math , as a teacher in Xinxiang Primary School, it takes two hundred and fifty years to earn one million... There was a slogan in the past, called Shenzhen in the 1980s, and Beihai in the 1990s. I followed my classmates to Beihai this year and saw the great construction The scene made my blood boil, I will not have to work after graduation, I will go directly to Beihai to start a business... I will go to Beihai during the holidays..." After reading his sister's letter and remembering what Qiuyun said, Hou Haiyang felt even more heavy.The room was extremely stuffy, and he felt quite irritable, so he wandered out to the school playground and walked indiscriminately.He didn't walk like a walk, but walked briskly all the way, turning in circles on the playground. After turning around a dozen times, I was already sweating profusely.Returning to the dormitory, carrying the bucket to the toilet, just as he walked to the door, he heard a "boom", and then Zhao Hai came out with a hooked nose.When Zhao Hai saw Hou Haiyang carrying the bucket, he just nodded slightly. Hou Haiyang didn't care, took off his clothes, and started pouring cold water on his body. At this time, the sound of water came from the women's toilet next door.The toilets for men and women in the teacher’s courtyard of Xinxiang School are very strangely built. A square hole similar to a skylight is opened on the wall in the middle. In Hou Haiyang’s eyes, this square hole has no meaning at all, but it is inexplicably exist.While taking a bath, the sound of watering from the opposite side came from time to time. Hou Haiyang suddenly realized a problem. When he entered the door, there was a "boom". This sound could only be made by jumping from top to bottom. He walked to the Under the square hole, there are not too obvious footprints on the half-person-high partition wall of the toilet squat pit. "It's so despicable. Zhao Hai actually stood on the partition wall and peeped at the girl opposite to her taking a bath through the square hole. Who is the girl opposite?" Hou Haiyang made such a judgment, and extremely despised Zhao Hai's character.Three times, five times, two times, took a shower and went out, then stood in a dark corner of the yard, waited for a while, and saw Qiuyun appearing under the street lamp with a bucket.Under the streetlights, she was slender, and her appearance was more beautiful than in the daytime. "Damn it, Zhao Hai is watching Qiuyun taking a bath." After fishing and having dinner together, he felt that he and Qiuyun seemed to have an old friend relationship. At this time, his old friend was peeped, and he was very angry, and his chest surged looking angry. He was almost going to tell Qiu Yun about it, but peeping was just a reasonable guess, and no one would admit it.Moreover, it would be very embarrassing for Qiuyun to shout about this matter. Sulking back to the bedroom, he took out his sister's letter.My sister's letter is like a ray of fresh air, bringing the wonderful stories that happened outside to this remote town. The more exciting the outside world is, the more helpless the reality of Xinxiang School becomes. "Qiuyun is just a girl, and she can go through the process of taking the postgraduate entrance examination. What reason do I have to be so depressed, wasting my youth and wasting my life in Xinxiang School?" Hou Haiyang wrote in his diary Such a passage. Ye Lai, dreaming, Hou Haiyang stood on the small partition wall of the toilet by himself, peeping in through the square hole. Opposite, there was a vague naked woman, at first it was Lu Ming, and then it turned into Qiu Yun.At this time, I heard a person yelling loudly from behind: "Hou Haiyang, what are you doing?" Hou Haiyang woke up in shock, only to feel that his lower body was still bulging and very unrestrained. After a flash of white light, there was a series of thunder outside, and the sky seemed to be torn into pieces.The raindrops seemed to be pouring out of the foot basin, and the ground was washed and trembled. The overhauled house actually withstood the heavy rain. There were only three leaks. After catching it with footbaths and washbasins, the house was very safe and the ground was not wet. "The desert around the grass is vast, so I don't fear the snow and frost..." He successfully picked up the tiles, and stood at the door happily watching the rain. Qiu Yun was also awakened by the thunder, and reflexively picked up the washbasin and looked up. The roof was as stable as a mountain, and there was no rain falling. Li Suansuan's sound of getting up and cursing came from the back room: "What a dick, it's raining again, Dai Youming is dead, Wang Qin is dead, Liu Qingde's son, what kind of dick house did you build!" The rain was too heavy, she The flurry of hands and feet did not stop the rain from falling to the ground, and the ground soon became wet.She finally gave up trying and stood by the door.When it rained heavily in the past, the outer room would also flood the Seventh Army, but today the situation is a bit different, the inner room was raining moderately, but the outer room was silent. Standing at the door, Li Suanlian said angrily, "Hou Haiyang is also an asshole, he only knows how to help a vixen pick up tiles." Usually she just called Qiu Yun behind her back as a vixen, but today she blurted out. Qiuyun naturally hated the word "fox spirit" very much. She got a good deal today, so she kept Li Suansuan's provocation in her heart for the time being, and did not attack. The rain was getting heavier and heavier, and water began to accumulate in the small courtyard. The teachers were awakened by the heavy rain and stood on the aisle one after another.Liu Youshu was seconded to the town government and still lives in the teachers' dormitory. He originally stood in the courtyard to watch the excitement, but when he saw the rain was getting heavier, he became anxious, put on his shoes and ran towards the town government. Liu Youshu ran into the raindrops, Zhao Liangyong said, "Youshu, where are you going? There is thunder outside." Liu Youshu didn't look back, and said, "There is a flood control duty in the town, I have to go." Facing the heavy rain and thunder, he came to the town government office out of breath. Le Bin, secretary of the town committee, stood at the gate wearing rain boots, surrounded by a dozen or so town government cadres.Some of these cadres are on-duty cadres, and some cadres live in the town government compound and are not on duty. They also came to the compound when Secretary Le Bin greeted them. Le Bin looked up at the sky with a heavy face, turned his head and asked: "Old Wang, did Mayor Jiang answer the phone?" He said he was going to the county to do business." "Who is the leader on duty?" "Secretary Liu." "Where did he go, why hasn't he come?" "A few village party chiefs came over for a meeting yesterday afternoon, and had dinner at the food group in the evening. Secretary Liu was drunk and probably wouldn't be able to wake up." Le Bin's face was very ugly, and he turned his head to the cadre standing in the doorway and said: "The comrades who can take the initiative to come are all good comrades. It is raining heavily today, so we must go to the village to have a look. We will divide into four groups and go to the village. Put on the flashlight and stay safe." Liu Youshu and Lao Wang are both run by the party and government, plus Lao Cai from the agricultural office, the four ran towards the five villages with one foot high and one foot low.The fifth village is Caijia Village. There are quite a lot of people with the surname Cai in the whole village.The Xinxiang River passes through Caijia Village. If the river overflows, some villagers will be flooded.Judging from the situation of the whole town, Caijia Village is the village most likely to be flooded, so Le Bin went straight to Caijia Village. The four stumbled to the house of the party secretary of Caijia Village, and knocked hard on the door for a while before the secretary's wife opened the door.She knew Le Bin who had eaten at home, and said, "Secretary Le, it's raining so hard, come inside." Le Bin said loudly: "Is Lao Cai here, come with us." Lao Cai's wife said: "Drunk, I drank in the town, drunk like a dead ghost, can't wake up." Le Bin dodged his feet and walked forward again.When I was by the river, I heard the river roaring and flowing down. I shone it with a flashlight, and saw that a large piece of water had already overflowed the river bed. The four climbed up the mountain, walked for seven or eight minutes, and arrived at the village chief's house.The village chief's wife stood at the door, opened her mouth and shouted, "I've gone to the village." The village refers to the village office, which is the village primary school.In the town, the best house is the primary school, and the primary school will reserve two or three houses as the offices of the two committees of the village.In Xinxiang, the village primary school and the village office basically overlap. After sliding down the hillside and turning a few turns, the four of them arrived at the village chief's office.Except for the drunken village party secretary, the members of the two committees in the village were basically present. Le Bin walked over along the way, understood the basic situation clearly, and said without any fuss, "We mobilized separately and asked all the villagers along the river to come to the village. This rain started, and I don't know when it will stop, and we will definitely continue." water." He said to the village director: "Old Zhang, you are the most familiar with the distribution of people in the village. If you arrange it, evacuate people immediately, and don't take anything at home. The most important thing is to evacuate people." After the division of labor, village cadres, some basic militiamen, and public security activists moved along the river.Le Bin couldn't sit still, and was led by the village party secretary Lao Zhang to the river. Knock on the first one, there is an old couple sitting on the bed.Le Bin said: "The water is rising, go to the school quickly, or you will be flooded if you don't leave." The two old people reacted very slowly and did not speak for a long time.Lao Cai became anxious and shouted: "Second Aunt, you don't have anything in this house. It's raining so hard that you haven't stolen it. You won't lose it at home. Go to school quickly." The two old people pulled out of the house and let the two old people walk to the school by themselves. While walking, I met villagers who were taken away from their homes by the town cadres. They dragged their children, some even led pigs, and walked towards the small village with valuables. Seeing the villagers voluntarily leave the house, Le Bin felt a little relieved. He grabbed a middle-aged man and said, "I'm from the town. Is there anyone else?" The middle-aged man said: "Most of them have come. There is also a big courtyard at Zhujiawan, with seven or eight families. I haven't seen anyone from the big courtyard." Lao Cai was familiar with the terrain and knew that to reach Zhujiawan, he had to go through a section of the river. Now that the water is flooding, it might be dangerous. He said to Le Bin: "Secretary Le, most of them have come out, let's go to another direction to have a look." .” Le Bin's face was covered with water, he gritted his teeth, and said in an undeniably serious tone: "We can't give up one place and go to Zhujiawan." The village director Lao Zhang walked to the front, Lao Wang followed, Le Bin came third, Liu Youshu followed closely in Le Bin's footsteps, and Lao Cai walked last. The group came to Zhujiawan. Liu Youshu looked at the terrain. Zhujiawan is located in the bend of the river. It is a rare piece of flat land. The river has already overflowed and is approaching the house. A few people entered the river bend, and the villagers had already gathered together. They were located in a small river bend, and they could see the water rising every year, so they didn't care. Le Bin said loudly: "The town received a notice from the County Flood Control Office that this year is a once-in-a-century heavy rainstorm. The terrain here is low-lying and unsafe." He is not a local cadre in Xinxiang Township. Many villagers don't know him. The shouting is very indifferent. The village director Lao Zhang said: "Secretary Le of the town has conveyed the county's notice to everyone. Let's leave quickly. If we don't leave, it will be too late." Only then did the villagers know that the person in front of them was the secretary of the town.A villager was unwilling to leave, saying: "The water rises every year, and we are fine here." Director Zhang said loudly: "Secretary Le said that this year is a torrential rain, and the water will definitely rise. Come with us now and stay in the village for one night. If you don't leave, we will not be responsible for drowning." The villagers discussed for a while, and the roar of the river not far away was a little different from the past, so they followed the arrangement. On the way to the village, the villagers walked to the front, with Le Bin and his party behind. The torrential rain continued, and the river swelled 7 feet. The once docile river became manic. After passing the last section of the river bank, the villagers can stay out of danger.Le Bin breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that the villagers were all walking towards the hillside.Suddenly he heard Liu Youshu's roar, he turned his head and saw that the river bank he had just walked had collapsed for a while, and Liu Youshu was standing just in front of Peitaan bank, if he crossed half a meter later, the consequences would be disastrous. Liu Youshu ran two steps quickly to get out of danger. His face was pale, and he pointed to the river with a trembling voice: "Director Cai is behind me." In the dark night, everyone hurriedly walked in a mess, but Le Bin didn't notice Lao Cai. Hearing Liu Youshu's words, his expression changed suddenly, and he said, "Lao Cai is behind you?" Liu Youshu trembled slightly, and said with certainty: "Director Cai must be behind me, we just said a few words." Le Bin still had a little fantasy, and ran to the team to look around, and Lao Cai had indeed disappeared.At this time, the torrential rain became even more rough, hitting the ground with a rumbling sound, and the river gradually rose, the sound of the water mixed with the sound of the wind, like countless trains moving at the same time, a formation that had not been seen for many years.The villagers all realized that if the town and village cadres hadn't persuaded everyone to leave, they might have suffered disasters. "Director Cai" "Lao Cai." "Director Cai." Everyone stood in a safe place and yelled loudly towards the river. Everyone knew in their hearts that the water was so strong that if they really fell into the water, even the white stripes in the waves would have no chance of surviving. When Lao Cai fell into the water, many people stood on the aisle of Xinxiang School. The heavy rain caused many buildings to leak. Zhao Liangyong looked up at the dark sky and sighed: "When it rains, the river will flood, and I don't know how many houses will be torn down. Man will conquer the sky, it's ridiculous." Teacher Liu was weak and put on a long-sleeved shirt.The heavy rain caused water leaks in the house and wet the bed, which made her very angry. She kept scolding Liu Qingde, accusing him of neglecting his duties and not doing the maintenance work in time. Zhao Hai fanned the flames from the side: "The school authorities ignored the teacher's life and death, saying that the house was going to be renovated during the summer vacation, but it didn't. Tomorrow, we'll go to Dai Youming to petition. If the school doesn't agree to compensate for the damages, and doesn't agree to repair the roof right away, Let's go to the town, to the Education Bureau. I'm afraid that some people will talk fiercely and dare not go." Li Suansuan said: "We will all go tomorrow, and those who don't go are traitors and sons of bitches." While speaking, she kept glancing at Qiuyun's bed, insinuating, and said: "Young people these days are terrible. They only value sex and despise friends, and they only do it for some vixens, and they don’t want to do it for us old women, and they will definitely suffer in the future." Qiu Yun slept on the bed, heard Li Suansuan's words clearly, several times The first time she wanted to fight back, she knew that as long as she fought back, it would involve Hou Haiyang who was purely following Lei Feng to do good deeds, so she held back. Like Mrs. Xianglin, Li Suanlian stood on the aisle and told every teacher standing on the aisle that Hou Haiyang only helped Qiuyun pick up tiles. Zhao Liangyong said something fair: "Teacher Hou is purely helping, and has no obligation to help you pick up the tiles. Besides, have you clearly mentioned it to Teacher Hou?" Li Suanan argued: "I told him, and he agreed." Zhao Liangyong said: "When Mr. Hou is picking up tiles, you are playing cards. If you don't take the initiative in your own affairs, it is unreasonable to blame Mr. Hou." Li Suansuan said angrily: "Old Zhao, we went to Xinxiang together, is your butt sitting crooked?" Zhao Liangyong laughed and said, "I'm just telling the truth." Li Suan said: "Tell the truth." It rained until dawn and didn't stop.At six o'clock in the morning, the principal Dai Youming, the vice principals Wang Qin and Liu Qingde were called to the town government office.At seven o'clock, the three of them came back with heavy faces. The listless teacher heard a shocking news. Last night, Director Cai of the Agricultural Office died in the line of duty.According to the requirements of the town government, the school suspended classes due to the heavy rain, and the teachers of the central school formed three groups to inspect the school buildings in the village primary school. During the flood fighting and emergency rescue, Hou Haiyang followed the vice principal Wang Qin to trot through the villages in Xinxiang Township.After the heavy rain, there were common problems in the school buildings in various villages in Xinxiang. This made Wang Qin very anxious. After the inspection, he did not go back to school and went straight to the town government. In the courtyard of the town government, seven or eight small cars came, and there were wreaths at the door.Director Cai of the Agricultural Office died in the work of evacuating the masses. The county attaches great importance to it. Zhang Dashan, deputy secretary of the county party committee, presided over the memorial service on behalf of the county party committee and county government. As soon as he went up to the second floor, he saw Liu Youshu coming down the stairs in a hurry, saw Wang Qin and Hou Haiyang, thought they were also here to attend the memorial service, and said: "Principal Wang, the memorial service is about to start, you all have to go to the meeting on the fourth floor room." The conference room was solemnly arranged, Liu Youshu followed Le Bin, and Le Bin lowered his head to talk to Liu Youshu from time to time. Hou Haiyang also had the opportunity to stand behind Le Bin, but when he saw Liu Youshu with a serious face, he felt very uncomfortable.Wang Qin was familiar with many lesbians in the town government, so he put his heads together and began to talk about topics that lesbians cared about.Hou Haiyang was a newcomer, and he didn't know anyone except the busy Liu Youshu, so he stood beside Wang Qin, and the words of the women went straight into Hou Haiyang's ears. "Liu Youshu is the first college student in Xinxiang Township, and he can behave in the world." "This kid has a bright future. He participated in the evacuation of the masses with Secretary Le, and he will definitely be promoted in the future." "I heard that the establishment will be transferred, and I will be officially transferred to the government." All kinds of information reached Hou Haiyang's ears, and he thought, "Liu Youshu won the competition and was transferred to the town government. With his junior college diploma, fairly good ability and work attitude, he might soon become a It is not impossible to be transferred to the county government. However, I was not seconded to the town government, so I could only teach in Xinxiang School. Now that I have offended Liu Qingde, I might be sent to the village school to teach one day. No matter where I come from On the one hand, I can’t see any hope of changing the status quo.” Thinking of these problems, Hou Haiyang was filled with envy, and became even more dissatisfied with his state, as if there was a fire burning in his heart, making him restless and solemn. Becomes faint in the eyes. When Zhang Dashan, deputy secretary of the county party committee, was speaking, Hou Haiyang remembered the past and his eyes lit up. When I was studying in a normal school, when I was talking with the dormitory at night when the lights were turned off, Sha Jun, a city resident, often released news, including news about Zhang Dashan.Only then did Hou Haiyang know that Zhang Dapao, the commander of the third battalion under his uncle Hou Zhenhua, stayed in Bashan as the county magistrate.Of course Zhang Dapao is already a historical figure and has retired for a long time, but his son Zhang Dashan is also an official in the county. At this time, looking at Zhang Dashan who is 1.8 meters tall, he had a sudden thought: "If I went to Zhang Dashan and said that Hou Zhenhua was my cousin, what would his attitude be?" Then he thought again: "After so many years, Hou Zhenhua never came back, and I don't know if Zhang Dapao's son will still remember the past decades ago." Hou Zhenhua's troops liberated Bashan, but the large force left Bashan immediately, and stayed in Bashan for a short time. Zhang Dapao stayed there because of serious injuries.Hou Houde once guessed that Zhang Dapao should have a good relationship with Hou Zhenhua, but guesses are guesses, no one knows the truth.As a family of scholars, Hou Houde has a very strong self-esteem, and he basically has no thought of going through the back door of Zhang Dapao. The eldest sister Hou Zhengli once mentioned this matter, and Hou Houde had a lot of concerns: "First, whether Hou Zhenhua and Zhang Dapao are in the same army is just hearsay, and no one has confirmed it. If Zhang Dapao doesn't know Hou Zhenhua, he will rush to find it. It's very embarrassing. Second , What is the relationship between Hou Zhenhua and Zhang Dapao? We don’t know. During the Cultural Revolution, Zhang Dapao walked through Maicheng. These things are hard to say.” At that time, Hou Haiyang raised his doubts: “Why didn’t my uncle come back?” Hou Houde said: "Before liberation, your cousin's uncle was a Communist Party member, and the family had a hard time. Especially one or two years before liberation, several families with Communist Party members in the village were persecuted. Your grandfather made several tombs, and there are real ones. There are fake tombs, I guess your cousin saw these tombs when he went back to his hometown, and thought that there was no one in the Hou family, so he didn’t want to come back. Of course, these are all my speculations.” "Where does that uncle work now?" "I heard that he worked in Guangdong and was knocked down during the Cultural Revolution. I'm afraid he has retired long ago. Your cousin is also 80 years old. I don't know if he is still here." Thinking of his cousin Hou Zhenhua's heroic figure across Lingxi Province, and looking at the deputy secretary of the county party committee in front of him, Hou Haiyang felt a surge of passion. "...May the hero rest in peace." Zhang Dashan's father was from Shandong, and he spoke fluent Mandarin since he was a child. His last words uttered from his chest, making the room buzzing. Hou Haiyang's thoughts kept circling in his mind: "Zhang Dapao is my uncle's subordinate. At that time, there was an extreme shortage of talents. My father was also considered a literate person. Why did he stay on Erdaoguai and refused to see him?" Zhang Dapao? Even if Zhang Dapao doesn't know Hou Zhenhua, at most he finds the wrong person, and there is no loss. If Zhang Dapao is really Hou Zhenhua's subordinate, then the time, place and people will be right, and everything will be in place." He could not wait to ask his father Hou Houde face to face: "Why did you It's just so stupid and noble, how could it be possible to be a living, what kind of scholarly family, just deceiving yourself and others." At this time, Hou Haiyang had an idea in his mind, he wanted to find Zhang Dashan and tell him that his uncle was the regiment leader Hou Zhenhua.When the memorial service ended, Le Bin, Jiang Dabing and others surrounded Zhang Dashan and walked to the third floor, and Liu Youshu followed behind him solemnly. Hou Haiyang was about to catch up, when Wang Qin sent a message: "Mr. Hou, let's go to the teaching office to tell the situation of the village school. Your notes are very detailed. You can tell Director Zhang of the teaching office later. This is an urgent matter. It’s also a big deal, if we don’t tell the town, maybe there will be another heavy rain, the school building will collapse, and we will become sinners.” When inspecting the school buildings of the village schools in the morning, Hou Haiyang took a notebook in his hand and drew the general shape of each village school, and marked the damage.This method is concise and clearly expresses the damage caused by the rainstorm.Wang Qin is good at thinking in images and is not sensitive to space and numbers. She is very interested in Hou Haiyang's drawings. When she went to the town government to report the damage caused by the heavy rain to the village primary school, she attracted Hou Haiyang. Hou Haiyang had no choice but to follow Wang Qin to the Education Office to report the damage to the school building. After the report was over, Wang Qin discussed with Director Zhang of the Education Office for a while.During their discussion, Hou Haiyang kept thinking about how to get in touch with Zhang Dashan naturally. He envisioned several scenes of encountering Zhang Dashan by chance in the toilet and waiting in the aisle.While thinking about these issues, he heard the sound of cars outside. He went to the window and saw several cars leaving the town government yard, including Santana. "Did Zhang Dashan leave without lunch? How could this be?" Hou Haiyang looked at the dust raised by the car, full of doubts and regrets. After Wang Qin finished talking with the leaders of the teaching office, he took the sketch drawn by Hou Haiyang and wanted to report to the third floor.The two walked to the stairs, and she said, "Mr. Hou, you go back first, I have to report to the leader." Hou Haiyang watched Wang Qin walk towards the leader's office, but he did not leave, and turned to the party and government office.There are four desks in the party and government office, three men and women are sitting in the office, no one pays attention to Hou Haiyang. "Excuse me, is Liu Youshu there?" After asking twice, a man raised his head from behind the table and said flatly, "Not here." "Excuse me, where did he go?" "have no idea." The cold reception was like a knife, which hurt Hou Haiyang's self-esteem. He suddenly understood his father's choice. He was not in a hurry to find Liu Youshu. Walking downstairs, I happened to meet Liu Youshu going upstairs. Hou Haiyang greeted: "Teacher Liu." Liu Youshu looked up to see Hou Haiyang, and said, "It rained heavily yesterday. I heard that the village school was severely damaged." 刘友树的态度很正常，不卑不亢，可是侯海洋刚才受了冷遇，便觉得对方有了些官腔，道：“村小都是老房子，还有土墙，下了暴雨，不少都有危险。” 刘友树道：“乐书记有意逐步改造村小，只是镇里财政困难，得编些钱才行。” “昨天暴雨，县委张书记今天就来了，很快啊。”侯海洋有意将话题朝张大山身上引。 刘友树道：“新乡是小镇，难得来县级领导，原本想留张书记吃顿饭，结果张书记接到电话，急着赶到县里开紧急会。” 得知张大山离开了新乡，侯海洋很失望，他准备回家一趟，详细向父亲问一问张大炮和张大山的事情。 巴国方言，夏天水牛滚澡的水坑。