Chapter 349 The North Wind Blows the Battle Drums (5)
Zhao Wen's introduction to Yu Yiying aroused Gu Xilian's interest. He stood on the ditch and watched Yu Yiying lead the donkey from the opposite side. He rarely shook hands with Yu Yiying and said: "
Women hold up half the sky.”
"Female cadres at the grassroots level, um, good!"
The face of the young woman from the Provincial Poverty Alleviation Office had long ago turned into a cat with a painted face. Even if she put on makeup lightly, it was now colorful. Yu Yiying unloaded the drinking water from the donkey.
, while delivering it to people in the province, he said: "The leaders should rinse their mouths first to flush out the sand in their mouths. Your Majesty, the environment in this place is not good, and the leaders have suffered."
The fat man saw Yu Yiying's rosy face and good complexion, so he gasped and talked to her: "Head of the township, how far is your township from here?"
Yu Yiying replied: "In the past, when the road was open, it would take more than an hour to ride a bicycle. Now, it will take at least about three hours."
Several people from the Provincial Poverty Alleviation Office were speechless after hearing this.
Zhao Wen was next to Gu Xilian and said softly: "Director, I think it is better for us to go back first and go to the nearest town of Shaquan. The conditions there are slightly better than Tuwa. I think comrades in the province,
I’m all a little tired…”
Gu Xilian was shorter than Zhao Wen. He glanced at Zhao Wen and said, "We are going to Shaquan, but we'd better go to Tuwa first."
"Because of Comrade Yu's determination to bring me water, I have to walk to the puddles!"
When Zhao Wen heard this, he frowned slightly and called Yu Yiying over and said: "Head Yu, Director Gu and other comrades from the province will be in your hometown soon. You ride on the donkey and leave early. Go back and make arrangements."
Take a moment and prepare a good reception."
Yu Yiying agreed, and Gu Xilian interrupted: "No! We are here to work. We don't want to do anything Gao Jieyuan sent us. Formalism is not allowed. This is Township Head Yu, you come with us and lead the way. I still have
I want to talk to you."
Yu Yiying agreed, looking at Zhao Wen, and seeing Zhao Wen frowning even more, Gu Xilian seemed to have spied something, while watching Yu Yiying letting the donkey go forward on his own, letting Yu
Yiying took the bicycle from his hand, and the others slowly walked towards the ditch.
When they arrived at the boundary of Tuwa Township, Gu Xilian saw the large pits that had sunk in the ground. He said to everyone thoughtfully: "How can we know the existing problems without taking a look on the ground?"
"In my opinion, our leaders should often go to the grassroots level to learn more about the real situation below, and make down-to-earth reports. Written reports are ultimately too empty."
"Hearing with the ears is false, but seeing with the eyes is believing."
Yu Yiying felt that Gu Xilian's words were directed at Zhao Wen, because Zhao Wen had expressed his intention not to let Gu Xilian go to Tuwa several times.
Several people gasped when they looked at the bottomless pit, and then the road became extremely slow. Gu Xilian kept talking to Yu Yiying, asking some questions about Tuwa Township.
The situation, and Yu Yiying also answered all questions, which made Gu Xilian very satisfied. Zhao Wen was left out in the cold, while Hu Jiaojie and Gu Xilian ignored him at all.
In fact, I couldn’t ride a bicycle at this time. The Poverty Alleviation Office cadre who had been riding in Hu Jiaojie’s car took the initiative to push the bike. Hu Jiaojie couldn’t refuse, so she asked him to push the bike and went to pick up the lesbian’s bike.
The woman came over, but the woman went over to pester Yu Yiying, asking Yu Yiying to teach her how to ride a donkey, and she quickly sat on the donkey's back. Yu Yiying was afraid of danger, so he tied the donkey's reins to the bicycle in front.
Later, she turned around and talked to Gu Xilian. Fortunately, Yiying's voice was loud and Gu Xilian could hear clearly.
Even so, when we arrived at the center of Tuwa Township, it was already night. The wind was blowing and the dust was flying. No one could be seen on the streets of Tuwa Township. Looking from far and near, there were not even a few lights.
The gate of the rural government's compound was wide open, and the dark houses and buildings were like grinning monsters, which made several people from the Poverty Alleviation Office feel very cold in their hearts.
Yu Yiying explained: "The village owes the electricity bill to the substation, and people may have cut off the power supply again."
"What? The township government still owes the electricity bill to the power management office?"
Several people from the province found it strange. They looked at each other and shook their heads secretly.
Yu Yiying ordered people to light more candles, then fetched water for everyone to wash up, and then invited people from the Poverty Alleviation Office to have dinner.
The dinner consists of two dishes, one soup, and plenty of steamed buns.
The dishes are fried bean sprouts and braised pork, one meat and one vegetarian, and the soup is egg soup.
The bean sprouts have a sour taste and are called vinegar bean sprouts. The braised pork is relatively fat. Maybe the chef's eyesight is not good and he can't see clearly due to the power outage. There is a bit too much salt in it. Fortunately, the egg soup tastes good, not bad.
tasty.
After finishing the meal, because there was no electricity and the candle light was dim, Gu Xilian saw that the people he brought were all in low spirits, so he said to rest early and talk about work tomorrow.
The visitors from the province went to their rooms. The bedding was new, but there was always an indescribable musty smell. The mattress was too thin, and it made people tickle when they lay on it, and it made a squeaking sound.
, as if a man and a woman were sleeping on the bed and doing that kind of thing crazily. The wind outside the house was blowing loudly, and the sound was like ghosts and wolves howling, echoing the sound of the house, and the music of the piano and the harp.
Apart from these, Tuwa was as quiet as if it had been abandoned by the whole world.
The people at the Provincial Poverty Alleviation Office were also tired. They knew that they had come to the countryside to help the poor and that difficult conditions were normal, so they finally fell asleep. But in the middle of the night, the young woman screamed and shouted loudly from the house.
Zhao Wen came out of the house first, ran to the woman and asked what was going on?
The woman from the Provincial Poverty Alleviation Office, named Zhang Ke, said in a trembling voice that something was crawling on her body, which scared her to death.
As soon as Zhao Wen entered the room where Zhang Ke was resting, he used the light on his mobile phone to shine and saw a few not-so-fat mice walking around on the ground. It seemed that mice on barren land were also thin. They saw their owner coming back.
, the shadow disappeared instantly.
Zhang Ke didn't take off her clothes at all. She asked Zhao Wen confusedly: "Deputy County Magistrate Zhao, do you think this rat will come again?"
Since it was a false alarm, the people who came over went back to sleep, but now everyone could hardly sleep anymore, enduring the rats that kept rustling through the house and gnawing from the attic.
Carrying things and listening to the wind outside the house, the people from the Poverty Alleviation Office finally endured it until dawn. They were cursing and cursing in their hearts, but they didn't know what they were cursing.
When he woke up in the morning, Gu Xilian found that the people at the Poverty Alleviation Office were all red-eyed and pale, and he knew that no one had had a good rest.
Zhao Wen asked Director Gu to give a speech to the staff in the township. Gu Xilian looked at Zhao Wen and said: "We are the Poverty Alleviation Office, not a cadre inspection team. I know that the cadres in Tuwa are working hard, so we disappeared.
, it’s better to go to the countryside as soon as possible.”
Zhao Wen looked embarrassed again and could only agree.
The meal in the morning was the same as last night, vinegared bean sprouts, braised pork, egg soup, and steamed buns.
It may be because it was getting brighter this time, and the chef in the cafeteria could see clearly. The salty taste of the braised pork was lighter, but when someone ate it, he discovered that there were several parts of the braised pork that had not been plucked.
It was clean and fluffy, dotted with red and white, and it was very graceful. So everyone looked at their colleague almost at the same time and refused to eat that plate of meat and vegetables again.
Yu Yiying, who accompanied Gu Xilian, ate happily. After a while, taking advantage of everyone's getting up, Gu Xilian asked Yu Yiying: "Head Yu is in good health and has a good appetite, but I can't survive."
Yu Yiying said: "Director Gu is still in good health..."
Gu Xilian felt that there was something in Yu Yiying's words, so he took the opportunity to ask her what she wanted to say just now, but Yu Yiying said it was nothing!
Gu Xilian frowned and said, "Zi Yu, don't worry, just say what you want. I'll take care of everything."
Gu Xilian pondered for a moment and said, "Tian Wenjing from Shuoba City is one of my students."
Tian Wenjing is the secretary of the Shuoba City Party Committee. When Gu Xilian said this to Yiying, he was implying that if a leader in Dawang County puts pressure on Yiying, Tian Wenjing will be Yu Yiying's backer.
Yu Yiying blushed immediately and hurriedly explained: "Director, you really misunderstood. In fact, it's nothing. I just haven't eaten meat for a long time, so I just took a few more bites. You must not
No misunderstanding, our county leaders are all very good, especially Deputy County Magistrate Zhao."
"I haven't eaten meat for a long time? What do you mean?"
Yu Yiying didn't want to say anything anymore. He hesitated, and Gu Xilian couldn't help but raise his voice: "No, less than, you must make your words clear to me today, otherwise, I will leave Tuwa immediately."
Zhao Wen saw Gu Xilian like this and walked over, but Gu Xilian waved him away. Yu Yiying said: "Director Gu, actually, our village has not paid wages for two months... so
,that's all."
"No wages have been paid for two months? The wages of civil servants are fiscal allocations. Who can be short of your wages?"
Yu Yiying explained: "Our county is poor and there are too many places that need money. In fact, we are still good...Today's braised pork meal was paid for by Deputy County Magistrate Zhao."
Gu Xilian said nothing more, got on his bicycle and left.
But the situation in the dirt was really beyond Gu Xilian's imagination. After riding the bicycle for a while, he arrived at a place that could only be passed by walking, not even a bicycle. Zhao Wen saw that Gu Xilian insisted on moving forward.
He put all the bicycles together, locked them with locks, and let Yu Yiying lead the way. Everyone filed forward slowly.
At this time, Mai Zhenghao, the county magistrate of Dawang County, called Tuwa Township and heard that Zhao Wen had taken Gu Xilian and his party to a rural village and did not hold a cadre meeting in Tuwa Township as usual.
When he turned back to the county, he frowned.
After a while, Long Renhai also called Tuwa Township Secretary Huang Yaoming. Huang Yaoming said that Director Gu and Deputy County Magistrate Zhao from the province had gone to the village and could not be stopped. Long Renhai asked Huang Yaoming to
Yu Yiying called and asked her to report on her work at any time. Huang Yaoming replied: "Secretary, there is no cell phone signal here at all. We can't contact them. I really can't tell where they are."
"Secretary Long, I have called the landlines of the villages below and told them where the people from the Poverty Alleviation Office have arrived, report them immediately without delay!"
After hearing this, Long Renhai hung up the phone and sat in the office, looking out the window in silence.
People from the Provincial Poverty Alleviation Office now felt like they were on the Long March. They walked over mountains and ridges, one foot high and one foot low. The key was that they walked for several hours without seeing a single family. There was not a single tree on the desolate yellow land.
tree, several people were thirsty, panting, walking around, and finally came down
At noon... When we arrived at one more village, the village cadres immediately started to prepare the meal. Everyone no longer cared about their status and image. They took off their shoes and sat cross-legged on the kang like others. After a while, a large bowl of rice was served, one bowl for each person.
There are eight poached eggs in each bowl, and the bowl is full of solid porcelain.
Zhang Ke slurped down the poached eggs and then realized that the soup tasted a bit bitter.
But this was just the beginning. In the afternoon, after Gu Xilian and others visited the households, the village arranged dinner, and they still served eight poached eggs, eight for each person.
After several people finished eating, there were only a few left in the bowl. Gu Xilian frowned, and everyone reluctantly chewed the eggs and swallowed them.
But unexpectedly, the breakfast the next day was still eight poached eggs per person. There were no other vegetables or condiments in the bowl. The soup still tasted astringent and felt bitter in the mouth.
Zhang Ke couldn't bear it anymore, so he asked Zhao Wen if he could eat something else.
Zhao Wen said: "There is no water here, we can't grow vegetables, and we don't have much food. Because of the tight economy, we can't afford meat. But chickens are easy to raise. Every family raises a lot of them. They run around all over the mountains and plains, and there are so many eggs."
Only this can be used to entertain leaders from the province."
Zhang Ke and Gu Xilian were silent after hearing this. Zhao Wen looked at it and said, "How about we ask the fellow villagers to fry or scramble some eggs for the leaders?"
"However, the cooking oil is not very good, and it is not rich. If it is really not good, let them boil a few eggs or make a few bowls of egg custard? But the taste of the egg custard is probably not much better, because in the water cellar
The water is made from precipitated rainwater, so the taste is inevitably a bit astringent.”
Zhao Wen's words made Gu Xilian and the others who were sitting on the kang speechless. Faced with the enthusiasm of the people here, Zhang Ke and the others found it hard to swallow the bowls full of poached eggs. Gu Xilian
Lian's face looked like cracked yellow earth.
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