Chapter 19 Chapter 16 The Special Charm of Women

Countdown: September 1 Person in charge: Deputy Mayor Li Meigui Task: People go to clear the warehouse, leaving no regrets Before I arrived in Guzhen, I knew about Li Meigui. She is a famous female immigrant cadre in the Three Gorges Reservoir area, representing the image of tens of thousands of immigrant female generals. After seeing her in person, I was secretly a little disappointed, because in my imagination, such a famous female immigrant cadre should have a particularly tender personality, but she looks like a tomboy.Someone earlier introduced to me that Li Meigui is very good at doing ideological work on immigration. Some "nail households" in the town who can't even do the job with the mayor and secretary can obediently obey and move happily as long as they are in Li Meigui's hands.

"I was born like a boy with a special personality," she told me with a smile. "The voice is also born?" "No, no, it was done by immigrants." Li Meigui regained her feminine shyness, after all, she was only in her early 30s. "I heard that you used to be a family planning cadre in the town. How about it? It is said that family planning is the most difficult thing in the world. Compared with immigration, which one is more difficult?" I have been trying to find an answer to the above question. Li Meigui, who has worked in family planning for more than ten years and then transferred to immigration work, should have the most judgment.She answered me without hesitation: "Compared to immigration work, family planning work is nothing to worry about."

"Really?" I widened my eyes and smiled with doubt. Li Meigui immediately understood, and replied with these words: "Family planning work is indeed difficult, but there are very clear policy boundaries. After decades of propaganda and work, people all over the country understand what should be done, and it also has Relatively simple technical measures, such as contraception, sterilization, etc. But the work of immigration is completely different. You want to mobilize people to change all the living environment, all the way of life and all the basis of life in the past, and even go deep into the roots. The family’s ancestral graves have to be removed. This is definitely not something that can be solved and made up for by simple money and compensation. If it were us, we might be more confused than immigrants, and the work would be more difficult. But no matter how difficult it is, we must Do it, put the time for the construction of the Three Gorges there, and put the tasks of each of our resettlement cadres there..."

Yes, our female immigrant cadre Li Meigui was transferred from the post of family planning work by the town party committee to the post of solving "world-class problems" under such circumstances. This transfer almost killed her. It is said that women cry a lot.In fact, in the process of immigration work, men cry no less than women.Strangely, Li Meigui, a female immigration cadre, said that she hardly shed tears herself. Mobilizing immigrants requires meticulous ideological work and patient persuasion like a stream of water.Countless rigid male cadres had to restrain their rough voices in front of the immigrants and behave politely. They knew that to mobilize a family of immigrants to move out, shouting and losing their temper a few times would definitely be counterproductive.Male cadres thus changed themselves.

Transferring Li Meigui to enrich the strength of the immigration work, the town leaders wanted to give full play to the advantages of women's flexibility so as to gnaw away those hard bones. This is how Li Meigui was sent to the front line of immigration work. However, Li Meigui discovered that the thoughts and thoughts of those immigrants were far beyond the simple tenderness of women.A woman's tenderness also fails. In the first year, the immigration task assigned to Li Meigui was 92 households with a total of 362 people. Walking into that village on the first day, what Li Meigui never imagined was that none of the hundreds of villagers would talk to her. "Brother, why do they hate me?" On the way back to town at night, feeling aggrieved, she stopped by her brother's house to find the answer.

"Isn't it because you knew you were going to mobilize them to go to Guangdong!" said my brother. "Isn't Guangdong very good? Are they still unwilling?" Li Meigui was puzzled. "You cadres say yes, it's just a matter of words, can people believe it so easily?" Li Meigui tapped his head: "Brother, according to what you said, if we want to convince the immigrants, we cadres have to do a solid job?" "It goes without saying!" Li Meigui was thinking of a way while helping her brother cook.When she looked up at her own brother, a thought suddenly came to her: "Brother, your family is going to be relocated sooner or later anyway, why don't you sign up to go to Guangdong first this time, and I'll do the mobilization work with me later." Once the villagers of Guangming Village talk about it, let’s see what else they have to say. What do you think?”

"Not so good!" The elder brother never expected that this would happen, he threw the kitchen knife on the stove with a "bang", turned his head and went into the back room. "Brother, let me discuss it with you!" Li Meigui wanted to follow in, but was shut out with a "bang". The elder brother was so angry that he ignored her for three days, but Li Meigui seemed to have found a key to start the work, and came to grind with his elder brother again and again.The mouth is also much sweeter than before, and the hands and feet are naturally more diligent...

"Brother, you can't look at me as a younger sister! The immigration task is so heavy, and this year's relocation time is only a few days away. If you don't help me, who else will help me! Please, good brother dear brother! "Li Meigui followed her brother's ass all day long like when she was a child. "Is this what you're asking for? Relocation! I'm going to move to Guangdong as soon as I move, you know? You!" The elder brother was furious. "I understand, that's why I begged your brother to help me!" The younger sister did not show any weakness, and continued to be soft-spoken.

"You pissed me off!" The elder brother stomped his feet and said, "Okay, let me count the debt I owed you in my previous life." "Brother, do you agree?" Li Meigui shouted excitedly, "Long live my brother! Long live!" "Come on, it would be nice not to be mad at you." My brother couldn't help but smiled wryly. The next day, Li Meigui came to Guangming Village with high spirits and high spirits. Facing all the villagers, she said, "What else do you have to say? Guangdong is indeed a good place, much better than our Three Gorges. If you don't believe me, my brother is just a illustration."

The villagers looked at each other, not knowing how to deal with the small "female immigrant cadre" in front of them. No way, everyone went back to their homes silently.Some people began to think and move, while others closed the door, carried the package on their backs, and disappeared from there. Li Meigui didn't expect that there was another way to deal with her, and her throat was so anxious.I heard that one family went to a relative's house in Wushan, the county seat. "Let's go right away, to Wushan!" She rented a private motorcycle, got on the back seat and set off.

There is no light on the winding mountain road. It took 5 hours of turbulence to arrive at the county seat.In the middle of the night, how can you knock on someone's door casually?Li Meigui, who was hungry and hungry, had to cower in a cement pipe and wait until dawn... "What are you doing here? If you don't leave, I'll beat you to death!" The man found her, but in a rage, he grabbed an iron rod and wanted to beat her. Li Meigui herself never thought of why she was so calm: "You can kill me, but first, please prepare a big coffin for me, and two small coffins—the father of my two children died the year before last, so you beat me to death." They won't be able to live without me..." When the villager heard this, he softened immediately, and almost shed tears. "I'll go back with you to go through the moving procedures." The man lowered his head, dropped the iron rod, and said in a low voice. "Don't think that I dare not beat you because you are a woman! I will see if you dare to step into my house next time, just wait and see!" Another unreasonable villager said angrily to Li Meigui. "As long as you don't go through the relocation procedures, I will come to you every day!" Li Meigui replied without fear. Came again. Closed again. The person who came to the door had a calm smile on his face. The person who closed the door looked excited and angry. "I advise you not to do it!" "Why did I hit you?" In an instant, the man's fist fell from the sky.Li Meigui dodged, but still did not dodge, a heavy fist landed on her shoulder. "Ouch…" "No, hit someone—" "Who hit someone?" "Immigrant cadres! If they don't beat people, whoever beats them!" Hey, you are talking nonsense!Li Meigui's teeth "clacked" from the pain. The secretary of the town party committee found out, and seeing how tired his black and thin female subordinate was being beaten, he couldn't help but burst into anger: "It's too disgraceful! I ordered the police at the police station to handcuff the guy who beat me up and detain him for ten and a half months." !" Li Meigui hurriedly stopped her: "Don't, secretary, don't arrest anyone!" "Why?" "Just because they're immigrants. Or would it be better for us to go to work, what do you think?" The secretary stopped insisting, and said to Li Meigui sympathetically, "I have wronged you so much." "It's okay. As long as you can do the immigration work well, you will admit it even if you hit me twice." The secretary turned his head away, wiping the tears falling from his eyes. The next day, Li Meigui endured the pain in her shoulder and knocked on the door of that family again.Unexpectedly, this time she was greeted by smiling faces: "We all agree to go through the relocation procedures!" It was Li Meigui who was surprised. "Meigui, I'm sorry, I'm messing around, I shouldn't..." The head of the household who made the move that day was very embarrassed, but then he said quite proudly: "I will atone for my crime and mobilize more than a dozen villagers in the village. Alright, tomorrow we will go with you to the town government to go through the relocation procedures." These words made Li Meigui's face bloom: "If I had known this, I would have received a few more punches!" A humorous remark amused all the villagers. It is said that war makes women go away, but women are more likely to win wars.Immigrants cannot work without women, and women make it easier to solve the problem. In this year, the 92 households allocated to Li Meigui, with a total of 362 people, had all completed their immigration quotas, and none of them were left behind.At the end of the year, she was unanimously recommended as deputy mayor by the deputies of the National People's Congress.Li Meigui, who has an official title, works even more quickly and swiftly, so she gradually has the title of "Thatcher". Look at her strength: An immigrant drove a motorcycle out during the day in order to avoid the cadres talking to him, and then sneaked back home in the middle of the night.Li Meigui picked up a quilt, spread it in the living room of that family, and said: I will wait for you whenever you come home.Later, they really didn't go home, and hid in Tibet, playing "guerrilla warfare".Li Meigui also has a trick. She went to the surrounding villages and even in Wushan County, found dozens of friends, relatives, and old schoolmates when she was a child, and mobilized them all to act as her "informants" and set up an "intelligence network."As soon as she heard about this person, she immediately went there.In the end, it was the immigrant who claimed to be "no one can find me, and no one wants me to go". He was the first to board the ship to the place where he moved. "Meigui, some of the comrades who were originally scheduled to emigrate to Guangdong were exhausted and there was not enough manpower, so I decided to let you go with the team. It is now 10:30, and you go to the pier to board the boat at 12 o'clock." On the phone, The secretary of the town party committee said so. "Okay, I will arrive at the pier on time before 12 o'clock!" Li Meigui said. At exactly 12 o'clock, when the ship's whistle blew on the pier, Li Meigui, who was busy in the world, appeared, and what she brought to everyone was her unique hearty laughter. "Meigui, this is the last batch of relocation tasks this year. Basically all the cadres in the town have been used, but the work of clearing the warehouse has to be done quickly. So I decided to lead people to carry out the task and try to complete it within a month. You were in charge How about we find someone else to take over the resettlement work in that village?" The town party secretary gave another order. "No need, Secretary, it's not easy to change someone. I'm already familiar with the situation there, so it's better for me to go. Don't worry, I will try my best to complete the warehouse clearance and immigration tasks!" Li Meigui said. "Meigui, you have worked so hard. Please pay attention to your health! There are also two precious daughters at home." "I want it." Anyone who has been to the Three Gorges reservoir area knows that there are two tasks that are the most difficult. One is mobilizing immigrants to relocate, and the other is clearing the reservoir.There is no need to explain the former, but the latter means that all buildings, trees and harmful pollutants remaining below the 175-meter flooding line must be cleared out of the warehouse after the resettlement. This is called clearing the warehouse. When Li Meigui accepted this task, I arrived in the reservoir area for an interview.So we have a direct conversation—— "Our town is a big immigrant town, accounting for one-tenth of the migrants outside the reservoir area. The number is large, and the work tasks are naturally heavy. Take the matter of clearing the warehouse as an example, the pressure is enough. What are you clearing? I The specific tasks accepted are mainly two: toilets and graves. These are the two most difficult things. The immigrants left, leaving a lot of filth and underground harmful things that cannot be taken away. Toilets and graves These are the two most important cleanups. The Three Gorges Reservoir will start storing water at the end of June 2003, so cleaning up these toilets and tombs is a very urgent task. After accepting the task, I ran 10 days in 4 days. In a village, 225 toilets, 217 tombs, and 339 pig and sheep sheds needed to be cleared. At that time, I even arranged 4 people in the town, and they were all women. The standard for clearing warehouses is very high. The most important thing is not to leave pollution sources and harmful substances in the reservoir in the future. Don’t underestimate the disposal of these toilets and tombs. In fact, the process is very complicated. For example, to dispose of a toilet, at least 4 procedures are required: first, check and estimate how many Feces and filth, and then find someone to transfer these feces and filth beyond the submerged line. The third step is disinfection and compaction, which is the main process. The last is inspection, determination, and filing. "I have to participate in all the treatment processes on site, especially the first inspection and estimation. I also need to go to the toilet to measure the volume of residual dirt in person. When I do this work, it is always in summer. After a day , the stench is so bad that you can’t even eat. This kind of work is generally unwilling to do by old men, and it may not be done meticulously. The town asked me, a lesbian, to do it, maybe because it is more in line with the requirements of the superiors. ?The work of cleaning toilets and pig and sheep sheds is still easier than cleaning graves. I accepted the task of cleaning 217 graves this year. Everyone knows that Chinese people pay attention to filial piety to their ancestors. The work is many times more difficult than the ideological work of mobilizing immigrants! People have said that you need it for the construction of the Three Gorges of the country, so you can persuade us to leave our homes and become immigrants. The "countdown" card of construction is like a silent battle order, which hangs more and more tightly over the heads of us cadres every day. Can we not hurry up? So no matter how difficult the ideological work is, we have to do it. Almost every time we move a grave, I have to start a "tug of war" with the descendants or relatives of the grave owner. If it doesn't make sense, mobilize again, and mobilize again if there are repeated mobilizations. "This relative can do it, and another relative jumps out and you have to do the work. When dealing with an ancestral grave, the relatives who stayed in the village agreed. We were about to start digging the grave. Suddenly they told me that one of the deceased My son is out of town, and he is rushing back to burn incense for the undead. Speaking of which, the request is not out of the ordinary, but it is a lot of trouble for our specific cleaning staff. There are so many graves, and every grave is like this One thing on the left and one thing on the right, back and forth, when will it be cleaned up? But in order not to intensify conflicts, we have to deal with these special situations 100% patiently. That day, after people went to the grave to worship, we immediately started cleaning up and kept working It will not be completed until dawn. The superiors have special requirements for the disposal of tombs. If they have been buried in the soil for less than 15 years, they must be relocated above the 175-meter submerged line; Encountered many difficulties. Cleaning up old graves more than 15 years old means that the descendants or relatives of the deceased will never find a place to worship. So some people came out to obstruct, and the disturbance was very fierce. We I can only work calmly until it calms down. It is even more difficult to deal with new graves less than 15 years old. You have to choose a new burial site for someone first, and after the selection, you have to dig the earth and move the coffin. "This is tantamount to holding a funeral for someone again. The villagers had already suffered a huge emotional injury when the deceased died. If you dig out his coffin and bury it again this time, doesn't it mean that someone will draw a knife on the wound again?" I met such a family. The deceased was a teenage child who died of illness. At that time, the whole family was so sad that the only seedling died suddenly. A mentally ill man. In order to treat his wife and support his elderly parents, he suffered a work-related injury when he went out to work. The life of the family was miserable, and it was difficult to find money for medical treatment. The man always talked about it. He muttered: "If the first son survives, he can go out to work and earn money!" But his wish has been buried in the soil early. We will dig out their son who died 10 years ago and rebury it. Three generations of the whole family fell on the grave and cried, and even a hard-hearted person would cry at this scene. In order to bury this poor family in this tomb, several other lesbians and I almost included I finished all the work of relocating the grave. It was a thin-skinned coffin, which had rotted away in just over ten years. We used our own money to buy a new coffin for the deceased to bury, and finally gave the deceased’s relatives some comfort. At the same time, I also Reported the situation of this impoverished family to the town government, and tried to give them the necessary financial help." "I heard that during the process of moving the grave, you have to mourn for the relatives of the deceased? To be filial sons and filial daughters?" I asked. Li Meigui nodded: "That's a common thing. Everyone has ancestors, and everyone will inevitably encounter the death of a relative. As the family members of the deceased, they will be very sad. The people in the reservoir area have sacrificed a lot for the construction of the Three Gorges. The relocation has been excavated. As immigration cadres, we feel the same as them, so we have an extra task when clearing the warehouse: to share the grief for the relatives of the deceased emotionally. Don’t look at me as a woman , but his personality is very stubborn, and he doesn't cry easily, but in order to complete the task of clearing the treasury, I have to be a filial daughter for others, and cry for funerals. I couldn't hold back my tears. The reason is that the deceased was also a man, and the date of death happened to be the same as the day my man died, and there were two children left in the family. When I was crying for others, I couldn't help but think of my own misfortune My two daughters are twins. My husband suddenly left me when the family needed manpower and financial support the most. How difficult it is for a woman to take care of two 4-year-old children! Cadres, but our salary here is low, less than 400 yuan a month. How can I support myself and my two children?The worst part is that I still have to work!Later, the immigration and relocation work in the town started, and almost all the town cadres devoted themselves to the immigration work, and I was also transferred to do the immigration work.Everyone has task indicators. The town leader said I was capable and gave 92 households the task of moving out.I can give you a reference data, and you can calculate the workload of each of us immigrant cadres: I did the mobilization work of my own brother, and it took 5 working days, at least 50 hours of lip service.As for those nail households, you have to run at least eight times ten times.The Party Central Committee headed by General Secretary Jiang paid special attention to our Three Gorges immigrants and paid great attention to the fundamental interests of immigrants, so we required our work standards to be meticulous, with very specific and numerous regulations.In our actual work, we have to implement one by one. Even a small tree in the immigrant's house, a quarrel between brothers and sisters, and neighbors have to go ten or eight times to coordinate and deal with it.As for the countless forms and formalities that require the cooperation of immigrants to fill out, you, as an immigration cadre, have to help others!For example, to check whether you qualify for immigration according to the regulations, you have to look at your ID card, household registration booklet, marriage certificate, and birth certificate for your child. All kinds of documents are complete.Some immigrants do not want to move, you ask him for this certificate, he said 'I do not have a certificate'. With this sentence, you don't know how many times you have to run for him.If it is deliberately not given to you, you have to patiently mobilize him to take it out; if it is really lost or lost, you have to go to this department or other department to make up for it.You said you can't let the immigrants make up for it by themselves?In theory, of course it is possible, but he doesn't even want to be an immigrant. Can you let him do this kind of thing?You still have to run.Much of our time is spent doing this.The troubles that arise in the middle cannot be expressed in words.Some people have presented false evidence, and they may not be clear about it themselves, so you have to deal with these old accounts for him first.I remember that last year I had to reissue a birth certificate for a child of an immigrant family, and I went to the hospital, the police station, and the civil affairs department more than 30 times.If you run around like this day and night, immigrants may not buy your account.One family said that they would go through the procedure of moving out and canceling the account after completing the completion of the certificate. As a result, when I helped him complete the last certificate, he turned his face and denied his promise, and insisted that he refused to cancel the account.I am in a hurry!It was already August at that time, and there were only a few days left before the 'countdown' to the relocation time!In order to conquer this impoverished immigrant household, I had to do his job for 5 consecutive days, and I had no time to go back to my home in those days.In order to do a good job in the immigration work, one of my two children was handed over to my sister who lives in the county, and the other was kept by my neighbor's old aunt as a nanny. The nanny here is cheaper, but it costs 150 yuan a month!It's two-fifths of my salary!But even if I eat pickles every day, I have to find someone to watch the children!How about completing the immigration work of nearly a hundred households?The most unbearable thing for me is that I work day and night, get up early every day and feel dark, and I often can't even go home.Even if I sometimes go home to sleep, the poor daughter can't see me--usually when I come home, she is already asleep, and when she is still awake in the morning, I get up first to cook her some food, put the dirty After washing the clothes, he hurried to the immigrant village.Not to mention, sometimes in the middle of the night, after learning that a hidden immigrant appeared in a certain place, they left home in a hurry without even giving the child a warm quilt.That time I didn't go home for 5 days. On the evening of the 6th day, the nanny suddenly called me on the mobile phone and said that the child could not be found.My heart jumped out when I heard it!Feibu rushed home and searched everywhere, but he couldn't find the child.The little guy's name is Xiang Jin, and I yelled and yelled over and over again along the streets and alleys of the ancient town. My already hoarse voice was on fire, but I still shouted my daughter's name desperately, but I couldn't hear the voice of the child calling mother .I cried, crying so hard that I couldn't straighten up, couldn't walk... The more I thought about it, the more I felt sorry for the child. Since the age of 4, the child has lost her father, and as a mother, I have been away from home all day for many years. Apart from washing her clothes and cooking a meal, I have not given her any warmth.The more I think about it, the more sad I become, and the more I think about it, the more I can't wait to see the poor child right away. But only the darkness spoke to me and laughed at me. I yelled and walked, and fell to the ground without a trace of strength... Later, all the town leaders knew that Secretary Liu of the town party committee held a meeting in the county and called I called all the cadres in the town and asked them to dispatch to help me find my child, and they must try to find it.Everyone searched and searched, and walked towards the river involuntarily, because everyone heard from my neighbors that my baby knew that I was working in the village on the other side of the river, so they often waited on this side of the river to see when they would see my mother.At this time, my heart was broken, and only my cheeks were wet with endless tears... The child was finally found. Seeing that I hadn't come home, the little guy ran to a child's house.The well-meaning family knew that I couldn't go home often, so they took the child to bed early.Although it was a false alarm, when I saw the child, our mother and I hugged each other and wept so much that everyone present shed a lot of tears.Last year, when my child reached school age, one day the little guy put his arms around my neck and said delicately, Mom, take me to sign up for school.I think this is the first very important day for the child to come to the world, and I can't always meet her requirements, so I promised her that I would send her to school like other children's parents on the day of enrollment.The little guy was so happy that he danced and sang to me "Only Mom is Good in the World", which made me burst into tears.You said how miserable we immigrant cadres are!It made the children unable to get warmth and love. But I know that the Three Gorges resettlement is related to the progress of the entire Three Gorges Project and the image of the party and the country, so I also feel honorable and arduous to be able to directly participate in the work of millions of Three Gorges resettlement, so I put aside the gains and losses of myself and my family the back of the head.On August 30 last year, when I escorted the 362 immigrants under my charge to the emigration ship that was about to depart one by one, it was like a sunny day opened up in my heart.Because tomorrow I can take my child to school and sign her up!I thought it was a big deal at the time, a big deal for a child who has no father and hasn’t received a mother’s love for a few years. It’s a good thing if I can make up for it and satisfy her.But at this moment my cell phone rang. The secretary of the town party committee said that the two cadres who were escorted to Guangdong suddenly fell ill, and I needed to make some simple preparations and immediately board the boat and set off with the migrants.This is an order to the immigration cadre, and I cannot disobey it.It took less than two hours from receiving the order to when I got on the boat, and I set off without meeting the child.When the boat started, the immigrants cried one after another to bid farewell to their homeland, but I was the only one sitting alone in the back of the boat, silently crying the same fever for not being able to meet the only small request of my daughter Tears... More than half a month later, when I returned home from Guangdong, my child had already started school for a while. Because she was too young, unlike other children who were picked up by adults every day, the little one could not adapt to independent life, so she could not keep up with her studies. superior.In addition, when I came back, I started a new immigration mobilization work. The teacher sent her back after the child had been in school for less than two months.Helpless, I had no choice but to let her go to school one year later! "Writer He, what do you think I should do? This year she is about to sign up for school again, and our second phase of immigration work this year is heavier than previous years, and the work is much more difficult. Now the town has been booked, and I have to participate in escorting this year The task of immigrating to Guangdong. Now there are only three or five days. I don’t know how to tell my children. I am really not afraid of anything. No matter how heavy or tiring the work is, no matter how difficult the ideological work is, I will not shed tears. , but remembering that the child has never been taken care of, I can't hold back my tears..." Li Meigui started crying in front of me, a stranger I met for the first time, looking at her thin face, I felt very uncomfortable. taste. Yes, many people know how difficult it is for millions of immigrants from the Three Gorges to leave their hometowns, but who knows that our immigration cadres have created a satisfactory way for millions of immigrants, a satisfactory new home, and an environment that can "get rich gradually". All kinds of conditions, but silently sacrificing himself, sacrificing his family, and even jeopardizing the future of his children. "We are not afraid of anything, but we are afraid that children will be too busy with their work, which will affect their education, affect their schooling and job hunting, and that will delay a generation!" More than one immigration officer said to me like this if. What I feel is a price, a price that cannot be exchanged for money and honor.And this price has been paid more or less by almost all the cadres engaged in the Three Gorges resettlement work. Only the galloping Yangtze River will remember them, only world-class dams will remember them, and the party, government and immigrants will never forget them.