Quincy's Quiet Contemplation Chapter 51

When Liu Xueren saw the apricot tree, he first tied a rope around the stone platform to prevent anyone from stepping on the tree trunk to cross the gorge. He then went down into the gorge to add soil and fertilizer to the roots of the apricot tree. He then used the rope to build a railing, built a pavilion on the stone platform, and erected a tablet in front of the pavilion. He personally wrote the story of the heroic apricot tree on it, turning this place into a revolutionary history education site.

With the revolutionary history education site in place, Guofenglou Commune issued a notice, and people from each village came to visit in batches. Lao Pi specially invited people from the county photo studio to take photos, and the county party secretary sent the photos to Kuang Third Commander. Although no one came, Commander Easton Kuang called the county party secretary to greet the folks in Qipan Village on his behalf. So, the secretary of the county party committee arrived in Qipan Village, and the secretaries of all the communes in the county also arrived in Qipan Village. All of a sudden, people from the Propaganda Department, the Cultural Center, and the newspaper and radio station were all here. The ballast road into the village began to be widened, telephone poles were planted from the top of the hill, electric lights, telephones and loudspeakers were installed in the village. One was set up on the roof of the village committee's office building, and another was set up on the poplar tree beside the pond. .

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Liu Xueren is a commune cadre stationed in the village, but he is actually responsible for the custody of Qipan Village. He and Feng Xie cooperate very well and are called golden partners by Lao Pi. They immediately implemented two measures, which Liu Xueren was inspired by Feng Xie's haircut and innovated. The first was to use the funds awarded by the county to provide the villagers with a set of clothes, which was to buy ready-made canvas from the county cement factory. Work clothes, these clothes are hung in the storage room. They are distributed to everyone every time they go to work in the field, and are put away when they come back from the field. The second is to prepare lunch on the ground. The village does not divide the potatoes produced on dozens of acres of land and stores them centrally. At noon, a large basket of steamed potatoes is delivered to the field. Each person has three potatoes. After eating, he will not go back and continue with the afternoon work. These two measures have been implemented for one month. The villagers are very happy and people in other villages are also envious. Liu Xueren said at the meeting: Let them be jealous. Not only does Qipan Village have free haircuts and clothing and food, but in the future we will also build uniform buildings. The new house is built with two floors, upstairs and downstairs, with electric lights and telephones. When I wake up one morning, oh, communism is coming!

However, people later discovered that as soon as they put on those work clothes, they changed. Their body and brain became numb. You had to work nervously, you couldn't come in late, you couldn't leave early, and you had to trot even when you peeed. It seems that the chickens, dogs and even mosquitoes have changed. As soon as it gets light in the morning, the chickens will shout with a long voice. In the past, the chickens could only shout twice, but now they shout non-stop. Then the trumpet is blaring, Liu Xueren is talking again, and everyone has to hurry up. stand up. Because they got up early, some people didn't wash their faces and kept their eyes closed. They walked along the crowd in a daze. If they walked slowly for a moment, the dogs following them would bark. The people next to them would give a chili pepper and say: Take one bite and you will wake up. Got it! I was hoeing or fertilizing the fields, working from one end of the field to the other, and my waist hurt as if it was broken in two. I had to sit down and smoke to relieve fatigue. But as soon as I sat down, mosquitoes came up to bite me. I couldn't stop it and started to bite again. I couldn't drive them away, so I had to stand up and work again, and the mosquitoes were gone. Finally, at the end of the sun, the steamed potatoes were carried in a basket. A canvas two feet wide and four feet long was spread there, with three potatoes on one base, three potatoes on the other, and a salt dish. They were all placed. , everyone sat on both sides of the canvas, peeled the potatoes and ate them with salt. Just after taking a bite, Liu Xueren shouted: Stop! The potatoes in Qipan Village are really good, they are dry and floury, but the crumbs fall off when you eat them, and you have to catch them with one hand. Liu Xueren said: Sing a folk song to the party---get up! The melody of "Sing a Folk Song for the Party" is soothing. I just took a bite of potatoes and my throat choked. I couldn't sing. I had to swallow it first, and the rhythm was irregular. Liu Xueren was a little angry and said again: Sing a folk song to the party---get up! Everyone started singing again, staring at the potatoes to see if anyone had taken away their own potatoes, or why are my three potatoes smaller than others? Three potatoes were not enough to eat. When I started to work again in the afternoon, I felt like there was a ghost in my stomach. This ghost was a starving ghost. Two hands kept scratching in my throat. I hurriedly said: Where is the water? I didn’t bring it. ? Two buckets of water were brought to the ground, and after drinking half of the bucket, the mashed potatoes in his stomach became so dilute that he could burp.