In the following time, they trained according to Long Zaiyuan's arrangements.
Although there was no more actual practice competition, everyone felt that they had gained a lot and were full of confidence in the competition.
The improvement of their mental outlook is obvious to all. Even the "Jiu Mengzi" Long Lisheng was envious. He shamelessly came to their door and wanted to practice with them: "I can play as a substitute, pass the ball or something. If it doesn't work, I will move it for you."
Water, staring at the scoreboard..."
In order to persuade Long Xiaochuan, he even went to the extreme, saying that his family had been poor since he was a child, and his neighbors looked down on him, etc.: "I really want to live a good life now..."
Long Xiaochuan looked at the wine bottle that was always in his hand and smiled: "I'm sorry, I've already signed up."
Long Lisheng knew this was an excuse, and immediately changed his face and left bitterly, shouting that one day the team would need him and Lei Village would need him.
When Long Xiaochuan saw him turning around to leave, he suddenly became mischievous: "Of course Lei Village needs you, and we need you very much now. Come on, come and harvest rice with us."
Glutinous rice is one of the specialties of Lei Ming Mountain. It is the daily staple food of the villagers in Lei Village and the basis for their survival.
It is not convenient to carry out mechanized harvesting on the terraced fields, so villagers generally use the "rice-breaking" technique, which is to put a copper piece on the finger, which is called a harvesting knife.
During harvesting, only the ears of rice are cut, handfuls of rice are gathered into the ridges, bundled and carried down the mountain.
Harvesting rice every year requires a large number of manpower, and many people from Leizhai who work outside will leave their money-making business and come back to help, so Leizhai becomes more and more lively as the harvest season approaches.
The rice is so densely planted that there are a lot of mosquitoes hidden in the rice waves. The harvesting process is very hard, but everyone has a smile on their face. This is the good mood brought by the harvest and the joy from the heart.
For farmers in the Qandong area, eating new rice is as happy as celebrating the New Year, so eating the New Year is their most important day of the year after the Spring Festival.
During this time, Yu Yan traveled to the mountains and countryside, and her main job was to prepare for the cultural and entertainment celebrations for the June 6 Eating Festival.
"Village Ba" is just one of the events of the New Food Festival, but this year's Chi Xin Festival is unique because "Village Ba" has been upgraded to a national-level event.
Because this is bound to attract the attention of netizens from all over the country and receive huge traffic blessings.
Traffic means wealth, so as early as a month ago, the 11 administrative villages of Leiming Town were quarreling over the hosting venue.
Shangquan is the seat of the town government, Yucun has both scenery and convenient transportation, Dongliu has the largest population, Xiliu, Huaqiao and Houwu also have their own characteristics.
However, Yu Yan wanted to set up the hosting venue in Leizhai, and even went so far as to make a fuss with other comrades in the village work team.
Her original intention is good. Leizhai is a poor village. It adheres to the principle of getting rich first to drive wealth later and should be supported. However, this is the first competition for "village ba" to be promoted to a national level event. Every detail must be perfect. How can
Maybe it will be arranged in Leizhai where transportation is inconvenient?
We can't let the other ten administrative village representative teams all ride motorcycles and drive walking tractors to Leizhai, right?
What's more, there are groups of relatives and friends going to each village in the competition. There are twenty to thirty thousand people in total, and the space of Lei Village cannot accommodate so many people.
Everyone argued for several days, and finally the leader decided to stay in Yucun.
On the day the news was released, Shi Zhenxing was so proud. Not only did he broadcast on the loudspeaker for a day, and the WeChat group was refreshed, he also put on new clothes and walked around the village for half a day, euphemistically calling it "checking for deficiencies, filling them in, and then improving."
All residents in the village are required to clean and tidy their yards.
Everything he couldn't stand, such as firewood piles, chicken coops, cowsheds, pig pens, etc., were demolished and replaced with greenery and landscaping.
This incident would have triggered public dissatisfaction, but because hosting the "village ba" would bring a lot of income to the villagers, everyone supported the demolition work, as if anyone who didn't demolish it would drag down the whole village.
Shi Zhenyue's food stall has been placed outside the basketball court for many years, and the awning has aged tables and chairs. According to the current standards of beautiful countryside renovation, it is really unsightly and must be demolished and renovated immediately.
However, she refused to obey Shi Zhenxing's leadership on the grounds that her family was in a difficult situation and could not afford the rectification, which caused considerable conflicts.
Shi Zhenxing was afraid that the villagers would gossip, so he spent his own money to buy a set of rain gear, tables, chairs and benches, etc., and forcibly demolished the old food stall.
Because of this, Tian Sihai went to Shi Zhenxing's house to extort money and took 8,000 yuan before he gave up.
Compared with the upcoming "Village Basketball" competition, these are trivial matters. What the participating village teams are really concerned about is the competition grouping issue.
Among the 11 administrative villages in Leiming Town, the strength of Yucun is one level higher. No matter who they meet in the first round, they will most likely be eliminated. So everyone discussed for a long time and finally decided to give Yucun a bye in the first round and draw lots for the remaining 10 teams.
If you catch a pair, the winner advances to the next round, and so on.
Shi Zhenxing was so happy and strongly advocated that the competition be divided into five days: "It is too tiring for athletes to play two games in one day, and no one can bear it."
His wishful thinking was that for every team that competed, relatives and friends from the village would come to cheer for them. Then they would eat, drink, and buy souvenirs, and the money would flow into the pockets of the Yucun people.
Therefore, the longer the game lasts, the higher the village's income will be.
But everyone thought it would be too long and would delay working and earning money, so they finally decided to change it to two days.
On the first day, there was a simple opening ceremony in the morning. Ten teams except Yucun competed against each other, and five of them were eliminated. In the afternoon, including Yucun, a total of six teams competed against each other, and three of them were eliminated.
The next morning, the three teams played a round-robin match, and the championship, second and third place were determined based on their wins.
However, people in the village felt that the round-robin match was too cumbersome, so they simply drew lots. One team got a bye, and the other two teams competed. The winner competed with the team that had a bye. The team that won the last game was the champion!
Yu Yan attended the decision-making meeting because her previous home stadium site selection proposal was not adopted. She felt that according to the methods discussed by the village party secretaries, this event was both serious and funny, seemingly formal but also childish.
But the leader has repeatedly emphasized the need for stability and reminded the farmers to respect their wishes. She can only be a good meeting recorder, and she can arrange whatever arrangements are told...
The day before the opening of the competition, she notified each village to send representatives to Yucun to draw lots. As a result, entire teams of people from 10 villages came together and saw 70 or 80 people crowded into a small conference room.
For a moment, she felt that she had taken it too much for granted. With the old and small basketball court in Leizhai and its daily reception capacity, it was really difficult to host large-scale events.
The lottery process is very simple, just pick five team captains and draw lots. If you catch a piece of paper with the name of a village, you will compete with the team of that village.
When I heard that Yucun received a bye in the first round, not only did everyone have no objections, but they all breathed a sigh of relief.
Long Xiaochuan went up to draw lots on behalf of Lei Zhai. Yang Yaye, who was walking behind him, was very nervous and kept muttering: "Brother, please don't draw Huaqiao, otherwise it will be difficult for me to do it."
Long Xiaochuan smiled: "Please, with your IQ... I want to regret the marriage for my sister."
"Ah? What's wrong?"
"You're already standing here, do you think your Huaqiao's name will be in the box?"