() When Lu Yang passed the No. 1 bridge at the factory gate, the bell rang for the end of get off work.
Carrying the setting sun that had already faded into the mountains, Lu Yang rode on the factory road beside the Longquan River, passing the factory hospital and factory bathhouse along the way, and went straight to the Yaoquan Township government headquarters.
Yaoquan Township was only established in the mid-1980s. At this time, it was still the old foundation of Yaochuan Village. It was a main street of several hundred meters, with a row of bungalows on both sides, and the two-story office brick buildings of the township were squeezed in the middle, and the factory area was paved with cement pavement.
The road turns in front of Yaoquan Township and leads to the Hong Shipyard family area in the east. On the other side of the township, the road heading north to Nanlong County is only paved with a layer of gravel. When it rains, it is flooded with mud and water.
Lu Yang stopped at the intersection and turned east to reach his home in a few minutes.
But thinking that there was no one at home, Lu Yang turned his bicycle onto the west road.
Behind the office building in Yaoquan Township is the department store, library and auditorium of the factory.
Although the department store occupies a large area, there is only one store on the main street that is open for business. There are very few goods. The sales lady inside seems to have been constipated her whole life, and she always wears sweaters with a stern face that she will never finish.
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The so-called library has two floors, but only one room on the second floor has some outdated old books for lending. The other dozen rooms are where you can play cards and chess. They are euphemistically called employee activity rooms. In fact, each room houses a relative or child of the leader.
When called administrators, most of the time they are the people who invite friends to have fun inside.
Opposite the library is the People's Square and the Great Hall, which are of course mini versions.
Here, there are too many memories of Lu Yang's childhood. He was pushing the station in the square, and the sadness of Yan's return floated in his heart.
The auditorium doubles as a movie theater. I was so scared when I watched a ghost movie here at night when I was in elementary school that I didn't dare go home and go to my second grandpa's house to squeeze into bed with my fifth brother.
I pestered my parents to buy roller skates, and I ran to the People's Square to show off in high spirits. I jumped and fell to the ground and fractured my bones for three months.
I was curious about what the top of the auditorium looked like, so I sneaked up and could not get down, causing the fire truck to be dispatched.
And, with her...
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Lu Yang felt a dull cramp in his chest. He took a deep breath and smiled.
Everything will be different.
After walking around the department store, you can see a row of shops behind it.
This place was originally a department store warehouse. Later, the department store's business was not good, so the warehouse was divided into small rooms and rented out.
After the opening up, the market economy came to life, and local medicinal materials became more and more famous outside. Every year, more and more self-employed people came here to purchase medicinal materials, and some local farmers completed their primitive accumulation and started selling medicinal materials.
Most of this row of small shops are rented by drug dealers, and of course some people rent them to do food business.
Lu Yang pushed the cart and passed one by one. He soon saw the familiar small shop. It was less than ten square meters inside and was full of cooking utensils and cutting boards. There were also two tables and eight benches outside. Usually there were two
Only one familiar figure was sitting in front of the chopping board.
"Boss, three liang of pickled cabbage noodles, no chopped green onions."
"Okay!"
The voice was old and the silver hair was from an old man in his sixties. When she looked up and saw the guest, her face suddenly showed surprise.
"Hey, Yangyang, why are you here? Come on, come on."
The old man's name is Wang Qingmei. She is Wei Hongcheng's wife and the adoptive mother of Lu Yang's mother, Zhang Shufen. Lu Yang's relative was called his second grandmother since he was a child.
Lu Yang parked the car, rushed into the store, hugged Wang Qingmei, and spoke in an exaggerated tone.
"Grandma, I'm hungry!"
In the past, seniority was important. Under the education of his parents, Lu Yang always called his second grandma, but he decided that from now on he would be his grandson.
Because some feelings can never be repaid in a lifetime.
"Okay, Grandma will cook it for you!"
Seeing her second grandson, whom she had not seen for a while, Wang Qingmei was in a good mood and went to cook noodles quickly.
Lu Yang watched his grandmother's movements quietly, and the warmth in his heart curled up like water vapor in a pot.
To him, Wei Hongcheng's family is not related by blood, but they are more than blood relatives.
When Lu Yang was a child, his parents were busy with work. Wang Qingmei raised him before he entered kindergarten, and he had a deep relationship with her.
Later, Lu Jiangan had an accident, and Wei Hongcheng's family also worked hard to take care of him. They even took the initiative to lend a hand when the Lu family was in the most difficult financial situation.
Wei Hongcheng served as party secretary in Yaochuan Village for more than 20 years. He only retired after the commune was abolished a few years ago and Yaochuan Village and several other villages were merged into Yaoquan Township. His only raised son is Lu Yang's uncle.
He left a few years ago. The grandchildren of the Wei family have not clung to a few acres of land. In addition to growing their own medicine, the eldest brother Wei Zhihao has a stall in the Chongshan City medicinal materials market, and the second brother Wei Zhiwen is responsible for purchasing medicinal materials locally and transporting them there.
However, during this period, due to some misunderstandings and changes in the local situation, the two parties had less contact with each other.
The misunderstanding came about because of some old millet and rotten sesame seeds.
Wei Hongcheng was a good friend of Zhang Xingshan. After Zhang Shufen was brought home, he liked it very much, so he discussed with Zhang Xingshan and arranged a baby wedding for his second son and Zhang Shufen.
However, the second eldest son of the Wei family passed away due to illness in the 1970s, and the eldest son of the Wei family got married very early, so naturally no one mentioned this matter again.
But a few years ago, someone in the factory spread some relevant gossip to Lu Jiangan's ears. After this incident spread, the relationship between the two families became more awkward, and the relationship was not so close.
Lu Yang also found out about this later. In addition, when he entered junior high school, his thoughts were somewhat vain and shallow. The Lu family had an urban registered residence, while the Wei family had a rural registered permanent residence. Students who borrowed rural registered permanent residence in the children's school were looked down upon, especially Lu Jiang.
After An became the deputy director, he even avoided paying New Year's greetings at the beginning of the year.
Later, the two families became far apart, and as a result, the two old men passed away one after another when Lu Yang was in college, and they never saw each other again.
As for the change in the local situation, it is related to the relocation of the Red Shipyard.
The fact that a factory with thousands of employees was moved away at once was a huge blow to the local economic interests. Therefore, the government of Nanlong County has always been very negative, and the government of Yaoquan Township naturally has its own opinions.
Especially regarding land acquisition compensation, when the Red Shipyard was founded, the whole country was in a chess game. Zhong Yang decided to build a factory here. Naturally, no one dared to say anything. The local villagers moved away obediently without spending a penny from the factory.
This supports revolutionary construction, and our consciousness cannot be lowered!
But now that we are leaving, it is already a market economy. Should we express it?
In fact, the Red Shipyard also knew that it was in the wrong. After all, in addition to the initial land acquisition, the factory later occupied a lot of cultivated land for various reasons. For example, the People's Square and the Auditorium were built in the past seven years, and there were no formal procedures at that time.
But first of all, it has a long history, and the person in charge cannot be found at the beginning. It is completely a mess. Secondly, the factory really has no money, and even wages are often not paid. How can there be money to compensate.
I had no choice but to fight and drag it out until finally a big mess broke out.
Lu Yang was no longer in the old factory at that time, so he heard about it.
Yaoquan is very rich in natural resources. In addition to medicinal materials, there are also many local mineral deposits. Especially due to the terrain, there are many small open-pit mines.
In this era of market economy, mining supervision has been loosened, and the first local mining bosses have become rich.
The Red Shipyard occupies a large area, spanning several villages in Yaoquan Township. There are many mineral spots in it that have long been coveted by local bosses.
After the relocation of the Red Shipyard, due to so many years of administrative planning chaos, the ownership of these mining sites became very controversial.
The biggest contradiction is between Banpo Village on the other side of the factory area and Yaochuan Village on the other side of the family area.
Because they feel they have suffered a loss, the villagers of Banpo Village will soon organize themselves under the instigation of thoughtful people to cause trouble at the gate of the township government.
At first, these villagers just stopped the relocation convoy from leaving and quarreled with the villagers of Yaochuan Village who felt they had been harassed. Later, they became more and more agitated and developed into violent activities. At that time, employees of Yaochuan Village and Hong Shipyard were killed and injured, and women were also killed.
dirty.
With such a big mess happening, the local government was naturally unable to contain it, and changes in officialdom followed.
Although Lu Yang's parents were fine in the county hospital at the time, Wei Zhiwen, the second brother of the Wei family, unfortunately lost his life in this conflict.
"Yangyang, come on, let's try Grandma's craftsmanship."
A steaming bowl of pickled cabbage noodles interrupted Lu Yang's thoughts.
The largest sea bowl, a few vegetable leaves are piled with hand-rolled dough balls. The bowl is also topped with a few large pieces of bacon, sprinkled with homemade sauerkraut, and topped with bone soup that has been simmered all night.
I haven't even eaten the bowl of noodles in front of me yet, but the aroma is already pervasive, making my mouth water.
Lu Yang couldn't wait to pick up the noodles with chopsticks and swallowed them in his mouth. Tears almost came to his eyes as he chewed the taste in his memory.
"It's hot, slow down, be careful not to burn it."
Wang Qingmei sat aside and happily watched Lu Yang eating noodles.
No old man can watch his children eating the noodles he cooked without laughing.
Soon, more than half of the content in the sea bowl was reduced. Lu Yang raised his head and smiled with satisfaction.
"Grandma, I can't eat anymore, please help me eat."
"You kid, you have big eyes and a small belly, so be good, I'll eat it."
Seeing Lu Yang, whom he hadn't seen for a long time, rarely act coquettishly, Wang Qingmei was so happy that she ate the noodles with Lu Yang's chopsticks.
When he was almost finished eating, Lu Yang started chatting.
"Grandma, is business not doing well?"
It was dinner time at this time, but there were no customers in the store at all. Lu Yang also knew that firstly, this season was not a good time to collect medicinal materials. There were very few pharmacists coming and going. Secondly, many employees from the Hong Shipyard left, and the remaining
Wages are often not paid, so of course there are less people to eat out, just to talk to each other.
"It's not good. There are fewer people. It doesn't matter. It won't be open for a few more days."
Wang Qingmei still had a smile on her face.
"What's wrong?"
"This store is going to be taken back by the department store."
"Yeah."
Lu Yang didn't know why this happened, after all, he didn't care about this at all in his previous life.
"grandmother."
"Um?"
"Where's the third sister? Why didn't you see it?"
The third sister is the third eldest in the Wei family. She is five years older than Lu Yang. She was very close to her when she was a child. After graduating from junior high school, she helped Wang Qingmei in this small shop. You can see her all the time.
"She went to the county seat to find your brother Liu."
"oh."
Girls in rural areas get married early, and the third sister also got engaged to a family in the village early. Considering that the third sister is twenty years old this year, the wedding should be held soon. Of course, it is still early to get the certificate.
When he thought that that pretty figure would become the wife of a strange man, Lu Yang felt strange, a bit like a child whose most treasured treasure had been taken away.
Lu Yang told Wang Qingmei that he planned to go to Wei's house to see his second grandpa. Wang Qingmei was naturally delighted and said, "Okay."
The Wei family is not far from the People's Square, only a two-hundred-meter walk.
Lu Yang left his bicycle at the shop. After taking a few steps, he saw two familiar figures coming towards him.
