Back to the Red Age

Chapter 37 The Village Assembly
In the evening, after a day's work, the villagers who had eaten at home carried their own small horses or benches to the grain drying field at the center of the village.

Tonight, Hongliang Village will hold a village meeting.

A square table was set up on the grain drying ground. Li Hongbing, the village party secretary, and accountant Wang Wu sat around the square table. The three people's enamel tea jars were placed on the table. There was a thick teapot in front of Wang Wu. This notebook is his notebook, used to record speeches at village meetings.

Opposite the square table are the representatives of each household. They are all the people who call the shots in the family. They have to speak here. The expression on everyone's face is solemn, as if there is something important going on. Just wait for their decision.

As for the people sitting behind them, swaying around and chatting away, they were the villagers who came to see the excitement.

There are no entertainment activities in Hongliang Village. Apart from occasionally inviting people to show movies, the only group activity like the village meeting helps them relieve their worries and boredom.

So every village meeting, many villagers would come to watch the fun.

They did not seek the right to speak or participate in the vote by show of hands, but just wanted to be lively. Many of them brought fragrant pumpkin seeds produced in their own fields and roasted, or wild pumpkin seeds found in the mountains. Chestnut, if you chat with someone for a few words and have some snacks, your life will be so happy.

"Okay, it's almost time. Accountant Wang will count the number of people." Seeing that the time was almost up, Che Jianjian asked Wang Wu to count the number of people.

Wang Wu stood up and quickly counted the number of people.

"Report to the village chief and branch secretary that 108 households should be present in our village, but 108 households are actually present."

Che Jianshe nodded and motioned for Wang Wu to sit down.

"Today we are holding this village meeting to discuss Qin Fanglan's new house. Everyone must know about this, so next we will invite our village chief, Comrade Li Hongbing, to speak."

There was a round of applause, and the crowd watching at the back also cheered. When everyone saw that it was the youngest son of Li Hongbing's family who was causing trouble, they suddenly burst into laughter again.

"Quiet!" Li Hongbing picked up the enamel jar and put it down heavily, and the crowd gradually became quiet.

Only then did Li Hongbing start to speak with satisfaction.

"Before today's village meeting, we would like to commend Comrade Qin Ming again."

"As an ordinary citizen, Qin Ming's spirit of forging ahead at critical moments and bravely fighting against enemy agents is worth learning from all of us."

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The district superior had compiled Qin Ming's heroic deeds into a book and distributed it to each village for study. Li Hongbing took advantage of this opportunity to study the materials distributed by the superior.

"The honor of Comrade Qin Ming is the honor of the entire Qin family and our Hongliang Village. From now on, everyone must unite as one. If anyone corrupts Qin Ming and the reputation of our Hongliang Village outside, I will never let him know." I will be merciful!"

"Village chief, don't worry. We are not stupid. Now the girls and boys in our village go out to gain popularity. We will be the first to disagree with anyone who ruins the reputation of the Qin family."

"That's right, my third son-in-law came to our door tonight specially carrying pork, saying that he wanted me to match-match with their younger brother. Our Hongliang Village is beautiful now."

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Wang Chunhua moved her buttocks on the pony. She always felt that the village chief was holding back his bad temper. Wang Chunhua grinned, showing his yellow teeth. If the village chief dared to help the Qin family deal with their old Wang family, she would go to the village chief. The wife goes to complain.

Li Hongbing just banged and did not want to do anything to Wang Chunhua. He just looked at Qin Ming, who was surrounded by the Qin family behind the grain drying field, and said: "Comrade Qin Ming, come up and say a few words to everyone!"

This is a very formal invitation.

The pen in Wang Wu's hand moved quickly.Facing Li Hongbing's invitation, Qin Ming declined a few times, and then was pushed out by several hands from the old Qin family.

"My little brother, please speak up and bring glory to our old Qin family."

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"Since the village chief asked me to say a few words, let me just say it briefly. Under the leadership of Village Chief Li and Party Secretary Che, and with the efforts of everyone here, our village is getting better and better. Everyone needs to have enough to eat. , live a good life, and only then will you have the strength to fight against the enemy's bad elements..."

Qin Ming seemed to have said a lot, but he didn't seem to say anything, but every sentence was a high-sounding lie. The villagers were confused when they heard it. Although they couldn't understand it, it didn't stop them from feeling that Qin Ming was talking. These six boys in our family are very powerful. They can speak better than the village chief. It seems that they do have two brushes.

Soon, Qin Ming brought the conversation back to Li Hongbing, and then returned to the Qin family's crowd watching the fun.

"Thank you Qin Ming for giving us a wonderful speech." Li Hongbing was a little excited. This kid from the Qin family is really a good kid. He understands the general situation, knows how to advance and retreat, and can hold up the scene. He also knows not to overwhelm the guests and return the scene to himself. Their village is really going to have a capable person.

"The next thing we want to discuss is the Qin family's application for a new house because of their large population and insufficient housing."

"Now, raise your hands if you agree to the Qin family building a new house."

The people across the square table raised their hands, and the villagers watching the excitement also raised their own hands. This caused Wang Wu to make several mistakes when counting the number of people, until Li Hongbing reiterated that the people behind him were not allowed to cause trouble. The situation has improved.

"There are 108 households in Hongliang Village, and 106 households agree to the Qin family building a new house."

The two households with the smallest number are Wang Chunhua and Wang Dachui. Wang Chunhua is naturally not surprising. After all, she and Qin Fanglan are sworn enemies. It doesn't take a day or two for the two to oppose each other. However, Wang Dachui would jump out to oppose it, which is very puzzling.

"Wang Dachui, why don't you agree with the Qin family to build a new house?" As the village chief, Li Hongbing naturally wanted to ask.

"My water well is over there. The Qin family's new house will damage my water well. I don't agree with this." Wang Dachui frowned, "You are afraid of the Qin family, but I, Wang Dachui, are not afraid!"

"Wang Dachui, you are just messing around. The living standards of the You family have nothing to do with the Qin family's new house. If you disrupt the order of the meeting again, I will let you study discipline at the village headquarters for two days." Li Hongbing was angry. He just said that he would He gave support to the Qin family, but Wang Dachui jumped out to sing the opposite. Wasn't this not giving him face as the village chief?
Seeing that Li Hongbing wanted him to study, Wang Dachui did not dare to object anymore, but he was mumbling, obviously dissatisfied with this matter.

Li Hongbing didn't care about him. According to the principle of the minority obeying the majority, the Qin family's new house was almost unanimously approved.

"Congratulations to the Qin family. We need someone to build a new house. Please say hello."

"Fanglan, it just so happens that a few of our boys are at home with nothing to do. When are you going to build the foundation? I'll ask them to come over and help."

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Qin Ming sneered in his heart, thinking that whoever said it was indeed right: when you become famous, you will be surrounded by good people.

Qin's mother's popularity in the village cannot be said to be bad, but because of her fierceness, it is definitely not good. It was the first time that everyone was begging to come to their house for help before she even opened her mouth.

Qin Fanglan looked at everyone with a glowing face.

"Damn it, that place was my favorite, Wang Dachui. Why did I give it to your old Qin family like this?"

"Stealing my Wang Dachui's wealth, we can't just let it go!"

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(End of this chapter)