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Chapter 66: One-to-one thinking
"You can't solve this problem. You are nothing. You are just a small clerk who serves tea in the office. You'd better hurry up and think about taking time to do some work for your mother-in-law's family, such as washing clothes, so that she can marry her daughter to you as soon as possible." Xie Hushan flicked the ash from his cigarette and said to Yang Liming.

Xie Hushan knew that this guy had been making trouble in the commune during the past few days, staying in the team headquarters until late at night every night, and he must have been thinking about these things.

People like Yang Liming are not suitable to be officials. He is thoughtful and always likes to be strict with himself. He is always worried about the country and the people. With this kind of work attitude, he will probably work himself to death before he can even become the secretary of a commune.

Being the political team leader, the second-in-command of the production team, was not enough for him to worry about.

During the time that Yang Liming was stationed in Production Team 3, this pretty boy won unanimous praise from all the members of Team 3. That was because he didn't stay there for long. If he could stay until the end of the year to wait for the production team election, Ma Laowu would definitely be ousted and everyone would elect Yang Liming as the head of the production team.

He has a good temper, is willing to work hard, and has no airs. Although he is not proficient in farming, he can really help the team solve problems and is thoughtful. Now hanging on the wall of the third team's headquarters is a group photo of all members of the third team in front of a pile of corn. The photo was obtained for free by Yang Liming for the third team.

This guy contacted the county newspaper and asked the newspaper to send a reporter to interview Production Team 3. He wrote a news article and then asked the reporter to take a long-range group photo of all the members of Team 3 in the wheat field. After the photo was developed and hung in the team headquarters, members of other production teams came to visit.

What's more, this guy used his salary to ask reporters to help him buy film and took individual photos of the three teams of elderly people. In this way, when the elderly people really pass away one day, their family members can still remember their appearance and style when they were alive through the photos.

For this reason alone, the members of Team Three were deeply grateful to the political team leader. A roll of film didn't cost much, but just this roll of film made this guy and the image of the country he represented become more majestic and approachable in the hearts of the members of Team Three.

If he went to the commune today to help resolve the dispute over paying public grain, Xie Hushan didn't know whether other production teams would listen to his advice, but Ma Laowu from Production Team 3 would definitely be obedient and come back obediently. During the period when Yang Liming was the second-in-command, Ma Laowu was very happy as the boss.

Not to mention that when he heard that the brigade school was short of textbooks, proofreading draft books and the like, he took the time to go back to the county and beg for a batch of old textbooks, students' used exercise books, and an old mimeograph machine from those schools.

After school starts, it allows children to experience what it is like for children in the city to go home and do homework after school.

Han Laosan, Cao Ma, Daxiu and other students who received the news in advance had greeted Yang Limin many times before the holiday was over, and even gave him nicknames:

A fucking four-eyed sheep that lacks great virtue.

They also said that when they grow up and become higher-ranking officials, the first thing they will do is to remove Yang Liming from his post, saying that this person is a bad guy and a jerk who cheats people when he is an official.

From that long list of nicknames, you can tell how deep an impression he left on the children.

Yang Limin screwed the cap on the pen and said, "My girlfriend takes my clothes home and asks her mother to help wash them."

"Stop talking, let's change the subject. If those members of our team who work for my mother-in-law's family every day hear it, I'm afraid they won't be able to hold back and burst into tears on the spot." Xie Hushan said with a smile:

"As far as I know, many people in our team have asked Han Laogou how they can keep you here. They are all reluctant to let you go."

"I weighed myself when I went to the health center today and found that I have lost 14 kilograms since I came here." Yang Limin said with a smile, "I have been eating steamed bread for two months, I have to go back and have some steamed bread. I don't think my parents will recognize me anymore."

Xie Hushan took out a folded copy of the Bingyang Daily from his pocket and handed it to Yang Limin:
"Actually, I have learned about this. Our county has a campaign to help farmers and alleviate poverty. Young cadres go to the grassroots to help backward communes. If you don't want to go back and serve tea and water..."

Yang Limin took the newspaper and unfolded it. It did indeed introduce the action of supporting farmers and alleviating poverty in Bingyang County. After reading it, he put the newspaper down:

"Stop, stop. This activity is to send young cadres to those backward and poor communes to provide assistance. Our brigade is a harvest brigade and has nothing to do with this activity. What you are doing is retaliation. I just said that you should have been born in a poor brigade, and you are going to let me work in a poor brigade?"

Xie Hushan sat up straight and spoke seriously: "Why don't you study and come to work in Zhongping Commune? I tell you, it's more comfortable than serving tea and water in the county party committee office. You just distribute newspapers, clean, and write documents in the office, but you can do things at the grassroots level, while you can only sit in the office." "You also know the situation in our commune. Secretary Yin has been bullied by Han Laogou into a little wife. Now there are basically two pursuits in life. One, to retire alive, and two, to outlast Han Laogou. It's a kind of inaction. Under his leadership, you can definitely let go and do things that are truly beneficial to the people. Moreover, if you come, Han Laogou will definitely treat you as his own. Zhongping Brigade is your mother's family. If anyone dares not to listen to you and affect your work, your mother's family will definitely stand up for you."

"Didn't I tell you that to support agriculture and alleviate poverty, we should work in backward communes. It is impossible to come to Zhongping Commune." Yang Liming smiled and shook his head.

"First tell me whether you are willing to continue to go back and serve tea and water, and do odd jobs for the leader's home, or come to the grassroots to show your skills. If you are willing, I can help you think of a job." Xie Hushan asked.

Yang Limin stared at Xie Hushan's expression and laughed at first as if he was joking:
"What can you do to me, kid?"

But after seeing that he didn't seem to be joking, he rubbed his chin gently with his hand and slowly expressed his guess based on Xie Hushan's words:

"You came to me with a newspaper and talked for a long time. Actually, it's about the brick kiln. The cost of transporting firewood to Zhongping to open the kiln is too high. You want to find a poor commune near Xishan that is close to the mountains and forests to cooperate with, build a kiln on their land, and use their people, but the brick kiln belongs to the third production team of Zhongping."

“The cooperation between brigades in different communes to engage in sideline businesses requires the commune cadres to organize and coordinate. If I perform well in my field experience in Zhongping, win the trust of the masses, and can do ideological work for Team 3, and Team 3 has experience in sideline businesses and is willing to develop its style, I can cooperate one-on-one with a brigade with poor harvests to help them solve the problem of labor income for a group of members, and then tell the poor commune that Team 3 has this idea. Even if the county does not consider letting me go to help farmers and the poor, the other commune will have to ask the county to let me participate in this matter.”

"They are the ones who are eager to cooperate, so they mostly take the initiative to suggest that the organization put my relationship in Zhongping Commune, and focus on doing ideological work for the third team, so as not to let the third team go back on their word, and help them maintain this cooperation for a longer period of time, so as to support two parties at the same time. That is, I have a relationship in Zhongping Commune, but I am doing agricultural support and poverty alleviation work for the other commune."

Xie Hushan nodded and did not deny: "Otherwise you could have tricked your mother-in-law into working for you before you got married. It would have been a pity if you hadn't been born in a poor commune with such a brain."

"You are willing to invest for the Third Team. You have changed from eating alone to cooperation. Don't support the Third Team with your big appetite." Yang Liming said. He was a little tempted. Just like Xie Hushan said, returning to the office would be nothing more than serving tea and writing documents, but at the grassroots level, although he could not do anything big, he could do a lot of small things that truly benefit the people.

Xie Hushan said, "I know what you are worried about, so I am talking to you about it. To do this kind of thing, there must be commune cadres pointing the way forward. I understand that you may not care about the credit, but can the plan I mentioned help alleviate poverty and give people in poor areas some work to do?"

Seeing that Yang Limin was still thinking, he could not help but say, "If you think I am helping Team 3 to gain an advantage now, then when Team 3's sideline business becomes popular, it will be no problem for the furniture factory to be a poverty alleviation project. You will have the final say on who will be the factory director. Isn't this sincerity at least?"

Hearing what he said, Yang Liming, who had been thinking with his head down, suddenly looked up and looked at him suspiciously.

Xie Hushan's expression remained unchanged, but he cursed himself in his heart. He had said too much to fool the other party. This guy must be wondering why he was so generous. It was not a good thing for him to figure it out...

At this moment, Han Hongbing's mother, Aunt Han, shouted from outside:
"Hu San'er, are you in the team? Your grandma asked you to go home quickly because the matchmaker wants to find you a wife!"

His thoughts were interrupted by this shout, and Yang Limin smiled at Xie Hushan: "Are you going to find a wife today?"

"That's right. My grandma is waiting to have a grandson. I must help the Xie family expand in Zhongping Village. I'm going to see my future daughter-in-law first." After Xie Hushan said this to him, he stood up and answered outside. He quickly walked out of the team headquarters and walked a distance before he breathed a sigh of relief.

After hearing what I said just now, Yang Liming must have been frantically wondering why I was willing to give up the furniture factory. If he continues to think like this, he will probably wonder if I have other thoughts.

Fortunately, Aunt Han came to the rescue. She shouted that she was going to go on a blind date and get married, which helped Yang Liming to collect his thoughts and interrupted his guessing in a direction that he thought was unreliable, but was actually close to the truth.

It’s only been less than three months since the incident. How did my grandmother find a girl that she thought was suitable?

(End of this chapter)