The Spring Festival is approaching, and the cadres who went to the countryside came back one after another to hand over the apportioned funds to the financial office. There are bills owed by the town government, IOUs for the town government, mutton, pork, and a small amount of cash. In short, the peasants take whatever they give, and they take whatever they can get. Most of the things they want to return are grain. . In those days, everyone was very busy, and Secretary Qiao arranged for her to collect the grain that these farmers paid back for apportionment. She was responsible for weighing and storing. The empty rooms in the corridor where they lived were used as warehouses. These empty rooms It is full of all kinds of different kinds of small miscellaneous grains.
Later, the leader contacted a grain dealer who replaced these various small miscellaneous grains with rice and white flour, and used rice and white flour to pay part of the wages of the cadres. Those of them who live in single canteens hand over all the rice and white noodles to the town canteen to cover the food expenses.
She is busy with the storage and delivery of these grains every day. During the interval between this work, she also went to the conference room to sort out the annual party affairs materials. The internal work of the development project was temporarily put on hold because of the acceptance of the development project The work has been postponed to the next year for acceptance, so whatever work is urgent right now, Jiang Cheng goes to the countryside every now and then, and when he comes back from the countryside, he is also sorting out these party affairs materials.
She lived a fulfilling and happy life in those busy days, and they returned to the warm and happy days before. Huang Juan was busy with financial settlement work every day, because she always made mistakes in this job, and she was always in the office at night. Working overtime, either checking to find mistakes, or reconciling accounts with the cashier Zhang Qingqiu, so she rarely disturbed their two-person world. Every time he came back from the countryside, he would take some change of clothes for her to wash, and he would carry and pour water for her. The two of them seemed to be living happily at home.
That winter was extremely cold, and the weather was still very bad. It was windy almost every day, and there was a severe sandstorm every now and then. Every night in such weather, they would sit around the stove and chat. Occasionally, there would be windless nights Braving the bone-chilling cold, they frantically went to dance in the newly opened ballroom in the town. Jiang Cheng danced gracefully and gracefully, leading her to spin lightly in the small ballroom, amidst the noise around her. In the sound, in the psychedelic neon flickering, they are intoxicated in the ecstasy of floating in the clouds. They ignore the noise around them, let alone the discussions of the boring people around them, and are intoxicated as if In the ballroom where only the two of them were alone, at that moment, she decided to marry him, and she would never refuse his proposal again, as long as he mentioned the matter of discussing marriage again, she would agree to him without hesitation, and she did not want to marry him again. Waited, didn't want to wait for a moment.
Beside the warm stove, he told her many stories about his family. He said that when he was a child, he was naughty and didn't like to study. Because of something happened at home, he suddenly became sensible overnight, and he started to work hard. study.
He said that his parents are also very honest people. His family is a single household in the village and has no relatives in the village. It was their family's turn, and every time this kind of thing happened, his father always accepted it and endured it silently. At that time, he was still young and didn't understand the suffering and hardship of his parents. One year, when he was in the fourth grade of elementary school, there was a poppi rogue in the village who was stalking and domineering, nicknamed Zhang Lai. A sheep of Zhang Lai's family died near his house. I don't know who killed it. The rascal insisted that his father killed him without any evidence, just because the sheep died near his home, Zhang Lai argued with his father, and then he could not help but say viciously that he picked the best sheep from his sheepfold. The fat sheep was taken away, but his father couldn't stop him, so he let Zhang Lai take the sheep away. After his mother found out, she went to Zhang Lai's house to ask for the sheep, and quarreled with Zhang Lai. Zhang Lai slapped his mother, and he Relying on the strength of the crowd, the whole family came out to quarrel with his mother, but the mother couldn't quarrel, so she was beaten again, and when she returned home, she burst into tears and scolded her father for being useless, and her father went to the village chief for comment, the village chief was Zhang Lai's uncle , first ignored his father, and later said that you did not kill the sheep, how could you agree with Zhang Laila to take away your sheep? Besides, why did the sheep die near your house instead of someone else's? The village chief clearly favored Zhang Lai, and his father sighed angrily when he returned home impatiently, and his mother kept criticizing his father for letting Zhang Lai pull away his sheep. At that time, people's legal awareness was weak and they didn't know how to call the police when encountering such things, and they subconsciously didn't want to report to the police to solve such things. Later, Zhang Lai became even more arrogant and threatened to take revenge on his family. His father was really angry. , discussed with their mother to find the only relative in their family who was an official to come forward for them. One of their father's cousins was the deputy head of another township far away from their home. This cousin was theirs. The oldest official among the relatives, his father bought a gift and took it to meet his cousin. His cousin who was the deputy mayor, after hearing what his father said, he warmly entertained his father and said a few words of persuasion and comfort. If he didn't, he sent his father back. They didn't help at all, so the parents could only swallow their anger. After suffering this loss, they swallowed this breath and let Zhang Lai be arrogant and arrogant in the village. It passed away, but one day in the middle of the night, a fire broke out in the firewood pile of their house, and the whole family rushed out to put out the fire. The neighbors were afraid of the fire, and their family also came out to help put out the fire, but because the fire was too fierce, the rescue could not be done in time , next to
He said that his heart is hardened now, like an iron wall. When he told these past events, his eyes were filled with flames of anger and hatred, his face was gloomy, and there was a murderous look between his brows. Clenched into fists, his body trembled with excitement, as if these things had just happened, he was still filled with righteous indignation and indignation.
This is the first time that Jiang Cheng has opened up about his family affairs. She can fully understand his feelings. Why is it not the case with her parents? It is an iron fist that is not afraid of death, and it relies on a large number of people and the protection of the umbrella of rights, otherwise, one can only swallow one's anger and muddle along.
Two days before the Spring Festival holiday, the town government paid two months’ wages and made up all the wages owed this year. The next day after they received their wages, the two of them got on the bus back to the county together and went back to their respective homes. While they were waiting for the bus in the county seat, Jiang Cheng took her to the amusement park to play wildly. That day, he seemed very happy. She found that he hadn't had such unrestrained happiness for a long time. It was a fine day, the sun was shining brightly, and the weather gradually warmed up at noon. On that day, there were only a few people in the playground. Most of them were parents playing with their children. There were only two young people, and they almost played all over. For all the amusement items, he always held her hand and refused to let go, as if he was afraid that if she let go, she would disappear out of thin air.
In the taxi they took from the amusement park to the station, he suddenly became silent, with a very sad and sentimental look, as if they were about to say goodbye to each other. The moment she saw her in the taxi, she saw his eyes. There seemed to be tears in the eyes, the car she was sitting in went first, and after the car started, he stood behind the car and waved his hands leisurely, and then ran after the car, she thought he had something to tell her, she asked the driver if he could stop , the driver said that parking is not allowed on this section of the road, and at this time, he also stopped and stopped running. The car drove faster and faster. He watched her until the car turned a corner, and he disappeared at the corner of the street. She looked at the back of the car window sadly, unable to let go of it for a long time, she felt as uncomfortable as parting from life and death.