During this time, many people in Caojiazhuang were discussing this matter.
In the past, whoever served as the village director or village party secretary was the same to them.
Because after those people were elected, nothing changed at all except putting money into their own pockets.
But their understanding of Cao Shujie is different.
This guy can make money in the village, and they don't expect to earn as much as Cao Shujie. They think it's fine if they can just pick up some sesame seeds.
Many people are really afraid of poverty, but if there is a hint of development and making money, they are willing to give it a try.
Cao Shujie refused to let Cao Shuchao and others help lobby, but Cao Shuchao, Cao Jianjun and others were still working secretly.
Go to this one today and have a chat, and tomorrow go to that one to have a chat!
In the village, this is a normal exchange, there is nothing fishy about it, and the only topic discussed is how to make money so that the family can have enough food and clothing.
Let the family members who are working outside come back, so that when the family needs money for medical treatment, they will no longer suddenly find that they cannot get it, and some avoidable tragedies may even occur.
This time, even Cao Jianlong, who was about to run for village party secretary, personally came out to canvass for votes.
Not only to canvass votes for himself, but also to canvass votes for Cao Shujie.
In this aspect, Cao Jianlong didn't hide it at all. He opened it up so that everyone in Caojiazhuang could understand his thoughts.
Moreover, Cao Jianlong also promised everyone that if he and Cao Shujie can be elected, they will work hard to bring good development to the people of Caojiazhuang.
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Summer vacation is coming, and Cao Huifang, who is studying at Yiling University, is back again.
This summer vacation, she plans to come back to help her brother sell kiwi fruits, and her classmate Deng Miaoshan is coming with her.
Several other students did not come.
As graduation approaches, they all go home to find relationships, prepare for work, or continue to take postgraduate entrance examinations, choosing their future paths based on their own circumstances.
For people like Deng Miaoshan, whose family is in good condition, she is not in a hurry to think about work or further education. For her, this is just a multiple-choice question, nothing more.
In addition, Deng Miaoshan came over and wanted to see how the kiwi fruits they planted were doing and whether they would have a good harvest next year.
But what they didn't expect was that when they arrived at Caojiazhuang, when Cao Huifang excitedly told her brother that she wanted to help him sell kiwis, she heard her brother say lightly: "Fangfang, the kiwis have been sold out a long time ago. Come back."
It’s okay to play for a few days.”
"I also left some food for myself, you go and try it."
"Sold out so quickly?" Cao Huifang couldn't believe what she heard.
She said: "Brother, I remember last year, didn't it take a long time to sell it?"
Cao Shujie nodded: "Yes, you also said that was last year, but this year is different!"
Seeing her brother's serious words, Cao Huifang thought of something and asked, "Is it my sister-in-law who posted the video again?"
Other than that, she couldn't think of any link that could attract such a large amount of traffic.
"Hey, you are smart." Cao Shujie said.
When Mengmeng saw her aunt coming back, she was so frightened that she turned around and ran away.
After finding Xiaobai, the pug, she hugged Xiaobai directly in her arms, regardless of Xiaobai's hard struggle, and threatened to kill him and eat his meat if he didn't help her.
Facing this little devil, Pug Xiaobai was helpless and couldn't resist at all!
He gave Cao Huifang a few "woof woofs" meaningfully, and that was all.
Deng Miaoshan saw the internal fight between her aunt and nephew, which she found very interesting.
She is an only child, and she is destined not to enjoy the intimacy that this level of relationship brings!
"Mengmeng, come here." Cheng Xiaolin saw her daughter like this and quickly called her over.
"Sister-in-law!" Cao Huifang called her sister-in-law politely.
Cheng Xiaolin asked her: "Fangfang, are you on holiday?"
"Well, we just had summer vacation, and I was thinking of coming back to help." Cao Huifang said.
She then pointed to Deng Miaoshan, a good sister in the same dormitory, and said, "Sister-in-law, there is also Shanshan who also wants to help."
"Oh, I don't need you. Come in and sit down quickly. I'll give you this year's kiwi fruit to try." Cheng Xiaolin was very enthusiastic.
She turned around and went to the storage room to get the kiwi fruit she had stored.
Because there is no ice cellar, these kiwis cannot be stored for too long. They can only be placed in a cool and ventilated place to extend the storage time.
Deng Miaoshan felt a little embarrassed.
But Cheng Xiaolin was deeply impressed by this girl who had come with her sister-in-law three times, and kept making her eat.
"Fangfang, aren't you preparing for the postgraduate entrance examination? How are your preparations going?" Cheng Xiaolin asked her.
The two of them usually chat, but not much.
Cao Huifang nodded: "Sister-in-law, I have been preparing for exams in school recently. I don't think the problem is big."
"Then study hard and wait until the postgraduate entrance examination is over before taking the Ph.D. examination. Our family will try to get a Ph.D.," Cheng Xiaolin said.
She means it.
For this sister-in-law, Cheng Xiaolin really wishes her well.
"By the way, there's one more thing I almost forgot to tell you."
Cheng Xiaolin said: "Your brother plans to run for village director, and the election will start on the 22nd."
"Ah!" Cao Huifang was surprised. In her impression, her brother was so careless that he didn't look like someone who would run for office!
"Sister-in-law, is my brother stimulated by something?" Cao Huifang felt that there must be a reason for what happened.
Cheng Xiaolin didn't know this either. She shook her head and said, "Your brother has good intentions and wants to do something for the village."
Cao Huifang thought about it carefully, is her brother such a great person?
"Auntie, you said something bad about my father, I'm going to tell him." Mengmeng's sharp eyes looked at the expression on her aunt's face. Her intuition was surprisingly accurate, and she felt that her chance for revenge had come.
Cheng Xiaolin didn't expect her daughter to have such sharp eyesight. Seeing that her daughter was about to start a family fight again, Cheng Xiaolin became very angry.
She raised her palm and landed it on her daughter's butt. The slap was not serious. Mengmeng laughed and didn't take it seriously at all. She stuck out her butt, shook it towards her mother, and said, "Mom, please hit her again."
its me."
"Try hitting me again, and I'll tell dad you to hit me." Mengmeng also issued her final threat.
But this time she really threatened the wrong person. Cao Huifang turned her head and closed her eyes without even looking at him.
Deng Miaoshan was a little confused when she saw the cute little villain.
She wondered: "Why does this child still let people beat her? Didn't she ever think that someone would actually hit her?"
"What a sin!"
In Deng Miaoshan's mind, she was mourning for Mengmeng. Several crisp sounds of slaps falling on her butt were heard, followed by the sound of Mengmeng crying loudly.
After Cao Huifang and Deng Miaoshan came back, they did not stay at home all the time. They even went to the mountains to have a look together.
After arriving here, Cao Huifang discovered that her brother had cut down all the old kiwi fruit trees.
The felled fruit trees have not yet been transported away, and they are all lying on the ridges of the fields, their leaves falling on the ground, and the roots of the trees that have been chopped down and have not been treated are still exposed.
Broken branches of some fruit trees before they fell were scattered on the ground.
"Brother, what are you doing?" Cao Huifang felt heartbroken.
Their family's food and clothing expenses, as well as the money for their brothers and sisters to go to school, and the down payment for her brother's previous purchase of a house in the capital, were all earned through this orchard. Why was her brother willing to cut it down?
"Fangfang, these fruit trees are dead and can't bear much fruit anymore. Besides, I have some new ideas and want to test them from this area." Cao Shujie explained to his sister.
Cao Huifang still couldn't understand, but her brother said that the matter of cutting down these old fruit trees had been discussed with her parents in advance, so she stopped losing her temper.
"Brother, I heard from my sister-in-law that you are running for village director. Why do you want to be that big official?" Cao Huifang complained about her brother.
Deng Miaoshan was listening to her roommate's sister saying this, and she wanted to pull her to stop her from saying a few words, but it didn't work at all. Cao Huifang opened her mouth like a machine gun, and it didn't take long for her to finish all her words.
Cao Shujie was not angry either. He looked at his extremely puzzled sister and said, "Fangfang, you don't understand. Your brother is called Da Ze Jian Ji..."
"Brother, what do you want to tell me about how to achieve great things and benefit the world? Let me tell you, it's all bullshit. Some people say it to brainwash people. How can you believe these nonsense?"
Cao Huifang said loudly: "If there really is such a person, there are so many rich people in the world, and it won't be your turn to stand out!"
"Fangfang, you are right. There are many rich people outside, but none of them come from our Caojiazhuang. Who would care about our place?" Cao Shujie patted his chest with a smile and said, "Others
Not to mention, your brother doesn’t have much ability, but he really wants to try it this time. At worst, nothing will happen in three years, and I’ll let someone else do it.”
"But if you don't do well, someone will gossip about you." Cao Huifang was worried for her brother.
Hearing what his sister said, Cao Shujie paused in his movements. He looked at his sister Cao Huifang, then at her classmate Deng Miaoshan, and said, "Fangfang, you are right, but the problem is that Caojiazhuang has become dependent on the mountain.
If it only needs water, no matter how poor it is, how can it be poorer?"
"No matter how bad I do, can I be even worse than I am now?"
"Okay, I think you are too determined to pull the three donkeys back." Cao Huifang shouted.
She asked her brother: "Brother, where do you plan to start next?"
"What kind of development will drive our village's economy?" Cao Huifang asked seriously.
Cao Shujie has been thinking about this issue. When his sister asked, he said, "I'm good at it!"
“Plant and breed!”
"We don't have other resources here, but we grow a lot of kiwis and apples here. I'm thinking of promoting this area first," Cao Shujie said.
"Hey!" Cao Huifang smiled.
She said: "Brother, you haven't become the village director yet. Don't we have many kinds of kiwis and apples in our village now?"
"Yes, but they also make money, they just don't make as much as me!" Cao Shujie didn't want to say more.
But he still said to his sister: "Fangfang, don't think that earning hundreds of thousands a season, only one or two million is considered making money!"
"We only earn 50,000 to 60,000 to 70,000 to 80,000 a season. That's all money earned!" Cao Shujie stood up and hit his sister on the head with his earthy hand: "Don't let your eyes grow to the top of your head. Just look at the sky."
!”
Cao Huifang was trained by her brother and had no temper at all.
Seeing that her brother was very mature, stable, and not anxious at all, Cao Huifang suddenly felt that she didn't know her brother well enough.
Or the understanding is not comprehensive enough.
…
Deng Miaoshan stayed in Caojiazhuang for one night and left the next day.
Before leaving, Cheng Xiaolin said that she would stay a few more days, but she came here and did not help at all. She felt that she was still causing trouble for her classmate Cao Huifang's family.
After Cao Huifang came back, she was responsible for looking after Mengmeng for the next few days. Cheng Xiaolin was finally free to go up the mountain to do her own things.
Seeing her husband and several people neatly cutting down the old kiwi trees on the mountain, Cao Shuchao was driving a tractor with a rotary plow to clear the land again.
Cheng Xiaolin found it very interesting, so she filmed this scene, thinking that this time she could try to shoot a set of videos of fruit trees from before planting to the final fruiting.
"Honey, come here." Cao Shujie waved to her after seeing her.
"What's wrong?" Cheng Xiaolin wondered, but still walked over quickly.
"I will start planting new fruit trees in a few days. I will have to graft them at that time. Please record them for me and I will compare them to see the difference." Cao Shujie said to her.
Cheng Xiaolin didn't know anything about these things, but that didn't stop her from following instructions.
"Okay, I will shoot how you tell me to do it," Cheng Xiaolin said.
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In the constant busyness, a few days flew by.
During this time, the current village committee committee members in Caojiazhuang were busy with pre-election work.
People canvassing for votes abound.
The accountant, the village women's director, the security director, the deputy village director, etc. It can be said that all kinds of ghosts and monsters make their debut, which makes people laugh.
Until the last moment, you never know who else is hiding their little thoughts and thinking of having a hand in such a big thing.
But Cao Jianlong is a good person, he handles things very steadily and considers all aspects.
Until July 22nd.
The courtyard of Caojiazhuang Village Committee was full of people.
Eight large-sized fans fan from several different directions to the highest setting. It won't work otherwise, it's too hot!
Caojiazhuang was not originally a wealthy village and had no money to build a large collective meeting room. Otherwise, it would be more comfortable to have an air-conditioned room.
The official election will be held soon, and the people of Caojiazhuang are also very curious about what the results will be today.
At this moment, in the office of Caojiazhuang Village Committee, Cao Jianlong, Cao Zhengyin and others are here, holding a final small meeting.
Cao Jianlong's eyes didn't stop. He didn't see Cao Shujie, so he was a little anxious: "Where is Shujie? What time is it? Why can't this kid come over?"
"Hey, I seemed to have seen him just now. I'll call him and ask." Women's Director Lu Ping said.
Cao Jianlong got angry when he heard the word "like". He said loudly: "Don't tell me 'like', it must be yes or no. Call him immediately and ask him to come over quickly."
