Amidst the snoring of "Hang Bang", the Zhao family's diners arrived earlier than usual.
And to celebrate Wang Meilan's promotion to Women's Director tonight, Xie Sunshi, Lin Xiangshun, and others, like Wang Qiang, all came with ingredients.
Xie Sun was sure to kill the big goose. She had a goose in her left hand and a goose in her right hand.
The ten male geese she bought for a treat before were all destroyed by the crowd. Today, Xie Sun wanted to celebrate Wang Meilan and even caught all the female geese.
"Sister." Wang Meilan saw this and hurriedly stopped her: "There are still eggs left in the spring. It's hard to feed them until now. It's all in vain."
"Oh! If we all eat it, we won't go blind in vain." Xie Sun pinched the goose's head with her wrist and twisted its beak. The goose flapped its wings and kicked its legs, but it couldn't make a sound.
Xie Sun smiled and said: "Sister, you will be the leader from now on. We have to arrange some hard dishes for the evening. Let's have fun together."
"What kind of leader?" Wang Meilan smiled and waved her hand and said, "Just a female director."
"That's a cadre too." Liu Lanying came over with a thin hemp rope, tied the wings and claws of the big goose, and then said to Ms. Jie Sun, "Mom, I'll throw this goose out of the house first, and we'll kill it when we get back."
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Today, Yong'an Village is electing cadres. Although they have nothing to do with them, Xie Sun and Liu Lanying are going to cheer for Wang Meilan, which is commonly known as "watching the excitement."
Seeing that the two big geese were going to die today, Wang Meilan couldn't help but think of her own donkey. This was not just an obsession, but the key was that whenever she wanted to kill the donkey, someone would stop her. The more she couldn't kill the donkey, the more Wang Meilan wanted to kill it.
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But just when Wang Meilan was thinking about donkeys, Lin Xiangshun and Xu Chunyan came to the door carrying donkey meat.
Lin Xiangshun pulled out a whole donkey ribs from the sack, and Xu Chunyan pulled out a donkey thigh. The meat was dark red in color and was all lean meat.
"Second Aunt." Lin Xiangshun smiled at Wang Meilan and said, "Yesterday I was delivering things to the work section above. I heard they said that there was a donkey in their area. It was running uphill with a sledge, and its legs were broken by sticks. They wanted to kill them after it was over.
That donkey, I'm in a hurry to leave, so I'll ask them to leave some meat for me."
"Second Aunt." Xu Chunyan held the big donkey leg in his hands and said with a smile: "Let's cut off the meat from this leg, chop it, chop it and make dumplings. Let's eat the ribs when we're done. Let's celebrate tonight."
What she said was similar to what Mr. Xie Sun said.
"Hahaha..." Wang Meilan was happy in her heart. At this moment, the conference march played from the loudspeakers in the village.
Immediately afterwards, Zhao Guofeng's voice came from the loudspeaker, and he summoned the entire village to a meeting in the village compound.
"Let's go!" Wang Meilan waved her hand to the outside of the house with a smile and said, "Let's go to a meeting and prepare dinner when we come back."
Men, women, old and young responded one after another and filed out. Except for Zhao Youcai, Zhao Weipeng and their children, everyone else went to the Tunbu for a meeting.
At the same time, a motorcycle with a sidecar drove into Yong'an Tun.
The person driving the motorcycle was Zhou Dakui, and the person sitting in the backpack was Li Ruhai.
Riding a motorcycle down the mountain on such a cold day, we were so cold that we drank. Li Ruhai and Zhou Dakui's faces turned red from the cold, and their noses ran down.
"Stop, stop." Li Ruhai couldn't stand the cold any longer and had no choice but to go down the mountain. As soon as he entered the village, Li Ruhai hurriedly stopped Zhou Dakui.
Zhou Dakui stopped the motorcycle, sniffed a few times, and then asked Li Ruhai, "Can I take you to a place?"
"I can just walk these two steps by myself." Li Ruhai refused Zhou Dakui's kindness and moved his legs out of the sidecar.
The moment the military hook leather shoes landed, Li Ruhai looked at the familiar small village in the mountains and sighed: "I, Li Ruhai, have finally returned to my hometown."
"You kid!" As soon as Li Ruhai finished speaking, Zhou Dakui complained: "You didn't come back with the commuter bus last night, so you had to force me to take you back again."
Li Ruhai smiled faintly and didn't say anything. He didn't come back last night because he was afraid that his family would ask him to canvass votes for Wang Meilan.
If he doesn't come back, no one has told him that Wang Meilan is running for women's director.
Those who don’t know are not guilty. Li Ruhai won the position of Women’s Director under such circumstances. Others really can’t blame him.
"Uncle Sun, are you going home?" Although Li Ruhai had a good relationship with Zhou Dakui, he was more familiar with Zhou Dakui's daughter-in-law Sun Yongrong, so he didn't care about calling Zhou Dakui uncle, but followed Sun Yongrong's argument and called Zhou Dakui uncle.
"Ah, I'm going home to take a rest." Zhou Dakui said, "I'm going back to the forest farm in the afternoon, can't you go back with me?"
"I won't go back." Li Ruhai responded with a smile. Only the union director Su Jinbao in the entire Yong'an Forest District knew about his candidacy for women's director.
But even if there is no series connection, Li Ruhai is still confident that he will win the position of women director. Once he is selected, he will have to get into work as soon as possible.
Just like this, with confidence and longing in mind, Li Ruhai sneaked around the village.
There is no corner, no matter where he goes, for fear that others will see him coming back.
When Li Ruhai sneaked under the gable of a house, he heard someone at the corner saying: "They have all gone to a meeting, the two of us..."
"Huh?" Li Ruhai paused, and he recognized that the voice was Wang Dalong.
Li Ruhai raised his head and his eyes suddenly lit up.
This family's surname is Sun, but Sun's big chin died of illness two years ago, leaving behind a pretty widow, Jiang Xiaolan, with a son. Thanks to Wang Dalong's support in the past few years, otherwise the two of them would not have an easy life.
Immediately afterwards, I heard a woman say: "What a fuss, the child is at home."
At this time, Wang Dalong was squatting on the side of Sun's firewood pile, and Jiang Xiaolan was standing in front of the firewood pile, looking around.
"Oops, I forgot." Wang Dalong said angrily: "Today is Sunday."
Having said that, Wang Dalong stretched out his hand, took Jiang Xiaolan's hand, and held it in his palm.
"I was in such a hurry yesterday." Wang Dalong said with a bad smile: "I was in good spirits, so I left in a hurry."
"Yes." Jiang Xiaolan withdrew her hand, making a shy look, and whispered: "The heavy rain can't soak the ground."
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Sometimes a cloud comes over and it rains heavily, but it stops within a few minutes.
Although this kind of heavy rain is heavy, when the weather clears up after the rain, the ground is not wet.
Hearing what Jiang Xiaolan said, Wang Dalong chuckled twice, but saw Jiang Xiaolan running back into the courtyard.
Wang Dalong moved to the big willow tree and then stood up. When he looked around and saw no one around, he pretended to be nothing and left as if nothing happened.
Just after Wang Dalong left, Li Ruhai walked out of the corner of the room. The child murmured: "The heavy rain can't water the ground thoroughly? It doesn't rain even in the winter. Why did Jiang Xiaolan say this?"
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In the cheerful march of the conference, men, women and children from Yong'an Tun gathered in the Tunbu compound despite the cold wind.
Although the conditions are difficult, there are still benches.
At this time, the conference has not yet begun, and men and women gathered together in groups of twos and threes to chat.
Wang Meilan was in no hurry to sit down, she was leading Zhao Jun around to get close to him.
"Mom." Suddenly Zhao Jun gently pulled Wang Meilan and said, "Uncle Ma and the others are here."
"Ouch!" Wang Meilan turned around and saw Ma Dafu and his family coming together.
"In-laws! In-laws mother!" Wang Meilan came over with a smile. After saying hello to Ma Dafu, Wang Meilan and Wang Cuihua held hands together tightly.
"My mother-in-law." Wang Meilan leaned into Wang Cuihua's ear and whispered: "You have to vote for me before I choose the female director."
"Mother, what you say is superfluous." Wang Cuihua said with a smile: "Who among us will follow whom? Not only will I vote for you, my daughter and my wife will also vote for you."
Six people came to the Ma family at this time, and Ma Ling's eldest brother and sister-in-law also came. The election of the women's director is different from the election of the health care director. The whole village votes together. As for the women's director, only women participate in the vote.
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Wang Cuihua, Ma Ling, plus Xu Xiaoqing, which means Wang Meilan has three more votes.
Wang Meilan held Ma Ling with her left hand, and Wang Cuihua with her right hand. They found a bench and sat down.
As soon as they sat down, Jin Xiaomei appeared behind Wang Meilan, leaned over and whispered in Wang Meilan's ear: "Sister-in-law, I told Sister-in-law Liu that she and my daughter have decided to vote for you."
The sister-in-law Liu mentioned by Jin Xiaomei was her biological mother Han Qiuyan, while the daughter mentioned was Li Baoyu's fiancée Liu Mei.
Wang Meilan's eyes flashed with joy when she heard this. She did a simple calculation in her mind. She cast her own vote, and then Jin Xiaomei, Zhao Ling, Xu Chunyan, the old lady, Wang Cuihua, Ma Ling, Xu Xiaoqing, Han Qiuyan, Liu Mei, these were the nine
Voted.
Although there are hundreds of women in Yong'an Tun, only seventy or eighty people came to vote. Most of the people here have good relations with the Zhao family, like Wei Jin, Wei Tie, Chen Dalai and others.
His wife, Lin Xiangshun’s sister-in-law, etc.
Wang Meilan calculated based on her usual popularity, she could get forty or fifty votes even if she said little.
This is not Wang Meilan's brain. In Zhao Jun's previous life, when Wang Meilan left, all the men, women, and children in the village except Zhang Zhanshan's family were present. Even Zhang Zhanhe and Xu Guohua followed him up the mountain. What kind of popularity is that?
Just when Wang Meilan was confident and thinking about what to eat and drink tonight, a "bah" sound came from the loudspeaker, and the march of the conference came to an abrupt end.
When there is a general meeting in the countryside, there is no stage, just a table serves as the rostrum, and an enamel basin is placed on the table as a voting box.
Behind the table, the village chief and security director Zhao Guofeng is on the left, the women's director Han Qiuyan is on the right, and in the middle is Su Jinbao, chairman of the Yongan Forestry Farm Union.
After Su Jinbao made a few simple opening remarks, the Yong'an election began. The first step was to select the security director. Su Jinbao took the list and smiled lightly and said: "Guofeng, our village security director, is the only one who has signed up. If we all have no objections,
Guofeng has been re-elected!"
When Su Jinbao finished speaking, the audience burst into applause. Zhao Guofeng was a real person. No matter who in the village had trouble, he would do his best to help.
Zhao Guofeng clasped his fists at the crowd, then took a step to the left and bowed slightly. The applause from the crowd became even more enthusiastic.
After the applause fell, Su Jinbao said with a smile: "Then let's elect a female director next."
As he said that, Su Jinbao glanced at the list, twitched the corner of his mouth slightly, then raised his head and smiled: "We have many comrades running for women director, including Wang Meilan, Sun Yongrong, Wu Dongxia, Song Guizhen..."
After reading this, Su Jinbao paused, looked up, and then said: "Li Ruhai."
"What?"
"who?"
The audience immediately went into chaos, and Zhao Guofeng and Han Qiuyan on the stage were also confused.
"Like the sea!"
"Ruhai is back!"
At this time, the voices of several women were particularly prominent. Everyone looked back and saw Li Ruhai wearing a marmot hat and a black cotton-padded jacket. He opened his clothes to reveal a Chinese tunic suit that matched his pants. He was wearing a pair of military hook leather shoes.
Standing there waving to everyone.
"No?" someone in the crowd shouted: "When choosing a female director, why is Li Ruhai getting involved?"
As soon as the man finished speaking, a woman responded to Li Ruhai's question: "What the hell do you care about? We women vote, what's your problem?"
Women in mountainous areas are fierce, and men would not dare to offend them unless there is a serious matter.
The man who had questioned just now shrank his neck slightly, and the woman next to him pulled him and said: "People don't say anything, why are you making such a fuss? Is it obvious to you?"
In the astonished eyes of everyone, Li Ruhai clasped his fists, smiled, and slowly walked into the crowd.
"Brother Lao Su." In the crowd, Lao Qi's aunt Wu Dongxia stood up and shouted: "Can I quit?"
"Huh?" Su Jinbao was slightly startled, looked at Wu Dongxia and asked, "You don't want to choose?"
"No choice." Wu Dongxia said, "Pull me out."
As soon as Wu Dongxia finished speaking, Sun Yongrong stood up and shouted: "I'm quitting too."
"And me." Followed by Song Guizhen.
A total of five people ran for election. With the last person, Li Ruhai, arriving, three people withdrew and only two people were left to run.
"We only have two people left." Su Jinbao said: "Wang Meilan and Li Ruhai, you are a wealthy wife, please stand up and say a few words."
"Um..." Wang Meilan was a little confused. She was either thinking about eating and drinking, spending money, or worrying about her troublesome Ergudong. She was not prepared to speak.
In her haste, Wang Meilan didn't lose too much. She stood up slowly and looked around, saying nervously: "Well... I won't say anything. Anyway, you all have to trust us sisters, aunts and so on.
If you follow me, vote for me."
After saying that, Wang Meilan nodded slightly, and then hurriedly sat down.
As Wang Meilan sat down, Wang Cuihua, Ma Ling beside her, Zhao Ling, Xu Chunyan and others behind her applauded.
"Li Ruhai." Su Jinbao greeted Li Ruhai and said, "You can also say a few words."
After Su Jinbao finished speaking, Li Ruhai stood up under the angry gazes of Li Dayong, Jin Xiaomei, and Li Baoyu. He had just found a position far away from the Zhao family's camp.
As Li Ruhai cleared his throat, a look of urgency appeared on his little face, and he lowered his head slightly. Li Ruhai raised his left hand high, waved his hand in the air and said: "Comrades! Women comrades! There are bad people among our people.
Now! I just came back this morning and I saw a couple of dogs and a man and a woman having sex."
At this point, Li Ruhai straightened his back, stretched out his hands, waved his hands and asked: "What is this called? What is this called? This is called breaking shoes! This is harm to women, this is damage to families!"
As he spoke, Li Ruhai raised one hand and pointed to the sky, shouting: "This is something we cannot tolerate!"
"That's outrageous!"
"Who the hell is this?"
Everyone was talking a lot, but they didn't care about any harm or damage, they only knew that there was fun to be seen. In the Northeast dialect, everyone's brains were sharpened, just waiting to see the fun.
"Women comrades!" Li Ruhai waved his hand and said, "We cannot tolerate it and cannot turn a blind eye. If we cannot unite today, it will be her who has her family destroyed today, and it may be our turn tomorrow."
As he spoke, Li Ruhai looked pitiful and said: "I have been in our village for so many years, and I have heard this kind of thing all the time from villages ten miles away. What can I do if the old man breaks his shoes outside?
I’ve heard of people who swallowed their anger, how about holding it in? I’ve also seen people who went back to their parents’ homes, and my parents are already so old. How can we live by ourselves and let our parents worry about us all the time?”
As soon as Li Ruhai said this, everyone started talking again. Some women even had red eyes.
At this time, Li Ruhai struck while the iron was hot and said: "There is something even more stupid. When I got angry, I drank medicine and hanged myself. I said, isn't this a tiger? Isn't this a waste of time to free up the nest for others?"
After hearing Li Ruhai's words, the women were filled with indignation, gnashing their teeth and cursing.
"Women comrades!" Li Ruhai raised his arms and shouted, "We must unite to protect ourselves and the majority of women comrades!"
"Okay!" Wu Dongxia and Sun Yongrong, the two bitter enemies, stood up almost at the same time and clapped their hands desperately to cheer for Li Ruhai.
Then, the applause was like thunder.
Amidst the applause, Li Ruhai clasped his fists around. When he faced the Zhao family camp, he saw his father, mother, and eldest brother glaring at him angrily. Zhao Jun and others looked at him coldly. Li Ruhai quickly turned his head and sat down.
When the applause died down, Su Jinbao came out and said a few words, and then asked Zhao Guofeng and Han Qiuyan to give invoices to the women sitting there.
This vote was cut into small pieces of manuscript paper, and then passed around with three pencil stubs. Since many women were illiterate, Su Jinbao stipulated that if you wanted to vote for Wang Meilan, you should tick it, and if you wanted to vote for Li Ruhai, you should circle it.
Jin Xiaomei gritted her teeth and ticked her piece of paper, then showed her results to the old lady and Zhao Ling next to her.
They all also saw Jin Xiaomei's helplessness, but there was nothing they could do to comfort her, so they could only smile at Jin Xiaomei.
When all the ballots were collected, Su Jinbao sang the votes and Han Qiuyan supervised the voting. Su Jinbao picked up a ballot, took a look at it and handed it to Han Qiuyan, saying: "It belongs to Wang Meilan."
Han Qiuyan took it and took a look at it, then said: "One vote for Wang Meilan."
As he spoke, Han Qiuyan took a piece of chalk and drew a horizontal line under the word Wang Meilan on the small blackboard.
At this time, Su Jinbao had already picked up the second one, glanced at it and handed it to Han Qiuyan and said, "It's still a hook, it's still Wang Meilan's."
Han Qiuyan took it, looked at it and said, "One vote for Wang Meilan."
After saying that, Han Qiuyan drew a vertical line under the horizontal line.
The next three consecutive votes turned out to be all ticks, all for Wang Meilan. Soon, on the small blackboard, under Wang Meilan's name, there was already the word "正". But under Li Ruhai's name, there was nothing.
This time, everyone in the Zhao family camp had smiles on their faces. Jin Xiaomei even happily put her hands on Wang Meilan's shoulders in front of her and gently shook them twice.
But three minutes later, Jin Xiaomei stared at Li Ruhai with eyes like knives, while Wang Meilan clenched her hands and looked ashen.
On the small blackboard, under Wang Meilan's name, there are two correct characters, which means ten votes.