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  Chapter 27 Let's Swing the Oars

   One hundred yuan!

  Fifty!

  Oh my god, the courtesy of the whole village is probably not so much, right?

  The villagers were all dumbfounded. After a long time, Zhang Pole, who was loitering outside, muttered: "The cadres in the county and the commune are rich."

  Liu Qingshan was taken aback at first, but when he thought about it, he quickly understood:

   "Thank you to the county government and the commune government for your encouragement. I am really worthy of it. That is something that every Chinese should do, and there is no need for rewards."

  Zheng Hongqi was slightly taken aback: Oh, this young man is not simple.

  So he said with a smile: "My fellow countrymen, Comrade Liu Qingshan, you helped the foreign guests when you were in the provincial capital, and won honor for our country, and even our Bishui County and Qingshan Commune. It's a good job!"

  Zheng Hongqi clenched his fist and continued: "So after research, the county and the commune gave Comrade Liu Qingshan a material reward. Everyone said, should it be?"

"should!"

   Around, there was naturally a roar.

   For such a good thing, Liu Qingshan just followed the procedure and was polite, of course he would not really refuse.

  He was humble again, and thanked all aspects of training, even the leaders of the commune, the village party secretary, and the team leader uncle, all of them were brought along, making everyone happy.

   Finally received the cash and certificate, and then holding the certificate, took a group photo with County Mayor Zheng, Secretary Sun, the old party secretary, Captain Zhang and others.

   That's right, a reporter from the county also came along.

  Hearing the crisp sound of clicking, Liu Qingshan couldn't help but feel moved: I was worried about where to find the camera, didn't this come to my door?

  Letting the guests to the house, the family members were both nervous and excited. The county magistrate came, and I felt really honored, but I was a little worried about the bad reception.

  Even Da Zhangluo was stupefied, he didn't know what to do, he had never received such a big leader.

   Still Liu Qingshan took his time, first introduced his family briefly, then asked the eldest sister to light cigarettes for the guests, and the eldest brother-in-law to pour tea for the guests.

   "The bride must smoke when she lights up!"

  Secretary Sun clicked his lips cheerfully and asked Liu Jinfeng to light the cigarette.

   Zheng Hongqi took a look, and followed suit. As a result, he coughed so much that he didn't smoke.

  However, he still sent blessings: "Ahem, congratulations, work hard in the future, and get rich as soon as possible."

   Unexpectedly, Gao Xuexue was a one-track mind. After pouring tea to the guests, he said: "I can't work well, so I don't know how to do farm work."

   One sentence left the room cold, and the atmosphere was a little awkward.

  The eldest brother-in-law's EQ still needs to be improved!

  Liu Qingshan quickly explained with a smile: "My brother-in-law is a writer. He just wrote a novella and contributed it to Harvest Magazine. The writing is very good, not worse than Lu Yao's life."

   "Don't dare, the gap is still very big, I have to continue learning."

   Gao Wenxue pushed up his glasses. It wasn't because he was humble that he suddenly became able to speak, but because he thought so in his heart.

   "Oh, good, good, our Bishui County is going to produce a great writer."

   Zheng Hongqi looked at Gao Wenxue, and it was different immediately. In this era, writers and poets are definitely respected and admired professions.

  So, he talked about literature with Gao Wenxue.

  This is Gao Wenxue's old line of work, and it sounds like a lot of treasures, and the mouth is endless, and the embarrassment just now is gone.

  Liu Qingshan finally got away, dragged that reporter Liu outside, stuffed two packs of cigarettes in his pocket, and then expressed that he wanted to borrow a camera to take pictures of the couple.

  The reporter comrade also readily agreed.

   It's not that two packs of cigarettes are more effective, but that someone who can become a reporter has at least some good eyesight. Obviously, County Magistrate Zheng values ​​the young man in front of him more.

  Of course, such a valuable item as a camera is definitely not safe to hand over to this half-child. Therefore, Reporter Liu helped to take pictures.

   There is no way, Liu Qingshan can only look at the seagull camera with greedy eyes, thinking in his heart that he must buy one in the future.

   Cameras in this era are absolutely costly. The cheapest Lucky film costs 14 yuan a roll.

  The cost of developing is 14 to 5 yuan per roll, which is basically a worker's monthly salary for one film.

  Took a few photos, made an appointment to pick them up later, followed Zheng Hongqi, Sun Hongtao and others, got up and left, no matter how Liu Qingshan's family tried to keep them, they refused to eat.

  The cadres of this era are very principled, and Liu Qingshan has no choice but to send the guests to the car and wave goodbye.

  After the guests left, the villagers became active again, and Zhang Luo was overjoyed, and waved his arms: "Let's eat!"

  The bustling banquet finally started. Four tables were placed at Liu Qingshan’s house, three tables were placed at Grandpa’s house, and four tables were placed at the front yard branch secretary’s house.

  The first group were mainly children from the village and elderly people. The children were impatient and stopped eating when they were full.

  Da Zhang Luo was in charge of arranging the seats, while Er Biaozi and the others served the dishes with generous plates on their shoulders.

  In the wooden square plate, more than a dozen plates can be stacked at a time. Basically, one person can serve two tables.

  The first thing to serve is cold dishes: croquettes and the like, there is also a plate of braised pork head, and a plate of stewed dumplings made with potato starch, commonly known as noodles, dipped in soy sauce, delicious and chewy.

  The stove outside the house crackled and started cooking, and for a while, the tempting aroma filled the entire small mountain village.

"Really tasty!"

   "Okay, this food is hard enough!"

   "This old Liu family is grand!"

   "That's right, didn't you see that the county magistrate is here..."

   Everyone praised while eating.

  From the table, you can tell whether the family is stingy or a lot.

  As for Liu Jinfeng and Gao Wenxue, they toasted at the table, starting with the elders first, and when it was the little one's turn, they were all satiated.

  Liu Qingshan was in charge of helping his sister and brother-in-law, and followed behind with a wine bottle, talking a few words from time to time.

   "Shan Xing'er, eat more, put the meatballs back and eat them slowly."

  Liu Qingshan stuffed a small packet of oil paper to Shan Xing.

  The little girl smiled at him, like a small flower blooming: "Thank you Brother Qingshan, I'm full, so I won't take any more. There are still so many people who haven't eaten."

  What a sensible little guy!

  Liu Qingshan patted her little head lightly: "I don't care about this, it's a task given to me by Sifeng, and I must complete it."

  As soon as she heard it was Sifenger, Shan Xing smiled again, two big dimples appeared on her small face, and then she packed the oiled paper into her pocket.

  Gao Wenxue, on the other hand, looked at Shan Xingniang with mixed feelings: "Yuzhen, you should also eat more."

The three educated youths who came here together at the beginning are in different situations now: that **** who was heartbroken ran away, Qian Yuzhen had mental problems, and he was the only one who reaped real happiness. Sorry.

  Qian Yuzhen's complexion was a little pale, she nodded silently, then lowered her eyes, staring at Shan Xing beside her, her eyes gradually became dull.

  Liu Qingshan tugged at his brother-in-law's lapel from behind, signaling to leave. After all, for Qian Yuzhen, the scene in front of him was also a kind of excitement.

  Gao Wenxue could only sigh inwardly, and then went to the table on the kang to toast.

  The people sitting on the kang are all the older generation in the village, holding small wine cups and drinking slowly.

   At this moment, a burst of singing suddenly floated over from the table on the ground:

   "Let us swing our oars, and the boat pushes away the waves..."

  It is obviously a very cheerful song, but it feels creepy to people's ears.

Liu Qingshan followed the prestige, and saw that Qian Yuzhen was holding a chopstick in her hand, tapping lightly on the rice bowl, she had a weird smile on her face, and she was humming softly, as if she was falling into a certain situation. among fond memories.

  Maybe, it was with that scumbag, riding a small boat and paddling on the lake, right?

  Little Shan Xing was holding her mother's arm tightly with her little hand, shaking it, and in her big eyes, the teardrops were like pearls with broken strings.

   "Create a crime!"

  Grandpa Kidnapper raised his hand and slammed it down on the table. If he had a gun in his hand, he would have shot that inhuman dog with one shot.

  The crisp snapping sound also made Qian Yuzhen's body tremble, and she gradually came to her senses.

  Looking around, there were all kinds of complicated and incomprehensible eyes of people, and Qian Yuzhen obviously realized what happened.

  She stood up and smiled apologetically at Gao Wenxue and Liu Jinfeng: "I've finished eating, let's go first, everyone eat slowly."

  Passing by the couple, she whispered again: "I wish you happiness."

   After finishing speaking, she smiled sadly, and led Shan Xing out of the house. Her back seemed so thin, so lonely...

   "He Jiakang, don't let me see you again!"

  Gao Wenxue gritted his teeth.

  He Jiakang is the third educated youth.

   Seeing the originally joyful atmosphere gradually covered with anger and sadness, Liu Qingshan also felt panicked: This He Jiakang is really not a thing.

  However, he didn't want to affect everyone's interest in drinking and eating because of this incident, so he also yelled.

   "The old and young men in Jiapigou are all **** good men, and we will never let that He Jiakang go. Let's not talk about that today, everyone continue to drink!"

   "Yes, drink!" The old branch secretary also held up the wine cup to advocate, and the atmosphere returned to lively.

  By the time Liu Qingshan's family and those helping people had dinner, it was already the third call, and the time was already past two o'clock in the afternoon.

   After toasting for a round of wine, Liu Qingshan saw that the eldest brother-in-law was still not in high spirits, so he decided to enlighten him:

   "Brother-in-law, there is anger in your heart, but your fists can't vent this anger, what should you do?"

  That He Jiakang was not in front of him, he was thousands of miles away, so of course he couldn't hit him with his fist.

  Clenching his fists, Gao Wenxue suddenly felt his heart move: "Qingshan, I understand, I want to use the pen in my hand to express the anger in my heart, and severely criticize He Jiakang and his ilk!"

   That's right.

  Liu Qingshan successfully led Gao Wenxue’s train of thought. It happened that the eldest brother-in-law’s "Little Fenger" had just finished writing, so let’s continue to write "Mountain Apricot".

  Yes, it is written from the perspective of Shan Xing, a poor child, and it must be more realistic and touching.

  Gao Xuexue's mood improved obviously, and he ate several bowls of rice in one go. When he was full, he was able to write vigorously.

   Seeing him put down his chopsticks, he went out, Liu Qingshan hurriedly greeted: "Hey, big brother-in-law, what are you doing?"

   "Go home and write a manuscript."

  Gao Wenxue replied without looking back.

  Liu Qingshan helplessly spread his hand at the elder sister: I knew this nerd must be thinking about a new novel now.

   "Come back to me, this is your home!"

  Liu Jinfeng was also angry and laughing, and chased after him, holding Gao Wenxue's arm and pulling back.

   Seeing this scene, Liu Qingshan shook his head regretfully: Eldest sister, according to your temper, you should pull your ears. Could it be that that is my patent...

  (end of this chapter)