Countercurrent 1982

Chapter 127 Village Party Secretary

Duan Yun pushed the cart and followed the tall young man into Ma Junying Village.

Compared with the gear factory area, this village is horribly poor. There are large cave dwellings under the slope in the distance. Judging from the dry firewood and farm tools piled up at the door, they should all be inhabited.

There is a well at the entrance of the village, which obviously looks old. There is a black wooden pole at the intersection, and two wires go straight through the center of the village.

Following these two wires, Duan Yun saw another row of old bungalows in the center of the village at a glance. From a long distance, Duan Yun could still vaguely see the writing on it: Village Committee of Majunying Village.

Under the leadership of the tall young man, Duan Yun entered the gate of the village committee.

A native dog tied to the door kept barking when it saw Duan Yun, and after being scolded by the tall young man, it obediently lay down on the side.

"Father, someone is looking for you." After pushing open the wooden door of the village committee, the tall young man shouted into it.

"Who is it?" An old man walked out from the side room of the village committee, wearing a gray-green forward hat and a sheepskin jacket, his eyes were cloudy and full of energy.

"Ah, you are the village party secretary." Duan Yun greeted the old man with a smile on his face.

These days the village party secretary is undoubtedly the top leader in the village. Although he and the village director jointly manage the village, the secretary is a member of the party after all, and the party's leadership of the masses has always been the foundation of state power. Work, but because there are relatively few things in the village, most of the time I don’t care about it. When encountering some major events in the village, I still have to discuss with the branch secretary.

But most of the people who can be the secretary of the village chief in the village are from families with the same surname in the village. In addition, the more males in the family, the more powerful they are in the village, and the less people dare to bully them, the more likely they are to become the secretary of the village chief. , is also an important source of the rural preference for sons over daughters and the difficulties in family planning management.

"Are you..." the old man looked Duan Yun up and down, and asked suspiciously.

"Father, the gear factory is here to recruit workers." The tall young man said.

"Ah, it's from the gear factory..." The old man took another careful look at Duan Yun. Although he was still a little dubious, he still showed a smile, and politely said to Duan Yun, "Go into the room and tell me."

"Hey." After Duan Yun heard the words, he followed the old man into the house.

The interior of the village committee is very simple. On the opposite wall is a portrait of the leader. A long table is placed in the middle of the room, with seven or eight chairs beside it. It is obviously a place for daily meetings.

"Drink water." The tall young man picked up the thermos pot on the table, rinsed the teacup with boiling water, then filled it and placed it in front of Duan Yun.

"I'm Xu Fugui, the secretary of the village party committee. What's the name of this little comrade?" The old man asked Duan Yun politely.

"My name is Duan Yun, and I'm a worker at the Red Star Gear Factory." Duan Yun replied politely.

"Ah, Comrade Xiao Duan, I heard from my son just now that you came to our village to recruit workers?" Xu Fugui looked directly at Duan Yun and said.

"It's not that the factory is recruiting workers, it's that I want to rent a house in your village." Duan Yun raised his brows and said.

"What do you mean? You're lying?" The tall young man immediately lowered his face when he heard the words, and shouted at Duan Yun.

"Get out! Do you have a place to speak here!?" Seeing this, Xu Fugui left with a straight face and scolded his son, who turned around and left the room upon hearing this.

Seeing his son going out, Xu Fugui's face suddenly softened, and he asked Duan Yun: "Ah, Xiao Duan, don't worry about it, my son has no knowledge, he is just a jerk, if you have anything to say, just say it." .”

"It's like this." Duan Yun smiled slightly, and said to Xu Fugui: "Actually, I just want to rent two bungalows in your village, as long as they can keep out the wind and rain. I don't know if there are any vacant houses in your village?"

"There are a few small rooms..." Xu Fugui pondered for a moment, then frowned slightly and asked Duan Yun: "I heard that the employees of your gear factory have dormitories, why do you rent a house in our village?"

Xu Fugui is obviously an old man, and immediately felt that Duan Yun must have other plans for renting a house here.

"I'll make it clear. In fact, I'm renting a house in your village. I mainly want to build a small workshop here." Duan Yun paused, and then said: "I used to do electrical repairs in the factory area, and recently assembled The antenna sold well, and the demand was huge, so I found a few more helpers, but there are few houses in the living area of ​​the factory, and there are too many people working, so I want to rent a house in your village to set up a small workshop ..."

Duan Yun knew that there were many people in this village, and even if he wanted to hide the matter of the workshop, he couldn't hide it, so he simply had a showdown with Xu Fugui.

"You... you're speculating..." Xu Fugui's face suddenly became ugly after hearing the words.

"It's not speculative. I'm also an electrical repairer. I rely on handicrafts for a living. I don't set up a stall or sell them in the market. They are all custom-made and processed by private people. The materials are all bought from formal channels..." Duan Yun explained.

"That's right..." Xu Fugui nodded when he heard the words, and then said: "Actually, there are two old cave dwellings behind our village, with a courtyard outside. The cave dwellings are still complete, and they can still be used for living, but there is one thing. I have to make it clear to you in advance that the family got leprosy before, and the whole family died, so after almost ten years, no one dared to live there..."

"Okay! Then Secretary Xu will take me to have a look, as long as there are no major problems, I will rent it!" Duan Yun replied very simply.

The local rural people are superstitious, and no one dares to live in haunted houses with strange illnesses or abnormal deaths, but for a staunch atheist like Duan Yun, naturally it doesn't matter.

And although the cave dwelling is not as good as a bungalow, Duan Yun originally didn't intend to rent this house to live in. He just wanted a place to store equipment and materials, and there is a yard outside the cave dwelling, which happens to be where he can work, so Duan Yun naturally can accept.

"Then if there is no problem with the house, how long and how much do you plan to rent?" Seeing that Duan Yun really wanted to rent a house, Xu Fugui asked.

In fact, Xu Fugui felt that Duan Yun's business might be illegal, so he deliberately disclosed to him about the former owner of the cave just now, in order to make him give up the idea of ​​renting a house, but he didn't expect Duan Yun to agree so happily, which was somewhat beyond his control Unexpectedly, I immediately started talking about the price with him.

"The price is easy to negotiate, but I have one condition." Duan Yun said.

"What conditions?"

"I'll just connect the wires to the two cave dwellings. Some of my equipment must use electricity. I wonder if Secretary Xu can let the electrician in the village connect the cave dwellings with electricity?" Duan Yun asked seriously.

(End of this chapter)