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Chapter 82 Yang Limin's Private Affairs
Han Hongbing saw the person clearly at a glance with the light of the stinky gas lamp, sat up from the blanket, and smiled in surprise:

"Hey! Lao Yang! Is it your company's turn to come to the construction site to express condolences or to perform duty?"

Xie Hushan also opened his eyes. Having not seen anyone for more than a month, Yang Limin looked a little paler than he did during the autumn harvest. He was wearing a military coat that he wore for night patrols. He smiled and made a hushing gesture to the two of them, and whispered:
"I just arrived after dark. I'm taking over the shift. Let's go to the duty room to talk. Don't disturb everyone's rest."

Following Yang Limin out of the shack, Han Hongbing realized something was wrong:

"Zhongping Duty Room? As a county cadre, shouldn't you be in the General Command's Duty Room?"

"Don't you understand? Old Yang saw us coming, so the organization relationship must have been transferred to Zhongping Commune." Xie Hushan said with a smile: "It's fast enough."

Yang Limin opened the door of the duty room and called the two people in:

"It's not easy for the higher-ups to transfer me, but it's much easier when the lower-ups respond that they need me. I made the arrangements half a month ago. By the way, the brick kiln will initially be assigned to the Yakou Brigade where your father-in-law is."

"Don't make a fuss, we're not married yet." Xie Hushan smiled, "And I've already found out that there's another production brigade at the construction site where the work points are even cheaper, the Yakou Brigade."

Yang Limin poured half a tank of water from a thermos and held it in his hands:

"Whether we get married or not is up to us. I have already coordinated everything. The current situation is that the second production team of Yakou Brigade is eager to cooperate with our third production team of Zhongping to start a brick kiln sideline business, but they don't take the risk. Even if you can't sell the bricks, they still want to pay you."

"Have you discussed the cooperation?" Xie Hushan was a little puzzled: "Why are you in such a hurry?"

"Let's not talk about cooperation yet. Let's talk about it slowly after the project is finished." Yang Limin picked up the jar and put it to his mouth. He looked at Xie Hushan and said slowly: "I have a private matter that I want you to help me with."

Xie Hushan stared at Yang Limin for a long time before speaking: "You go ahead."

"I will be on duty at the construction site for three days. If you and our team can win any honor at the construction site within these three days, I will share the credit." After saying that, Yang Liming forced a smile and drank water to hide his discomfort.

"You don't seem to care about these empty-headed people. What happened?"

"I was so busy with the brick kiln that I left a bad impression on the leaders of our Zhongping Commune. The leaders felt that good things should not be given to others in a hurry, and they should first consider the brigades under their own commune. There was no need to bother with cross-commune cooperation to start a sideline business. This sideline business was a bit too radical. The commune criticized me for being a bit impetuous at a meeting two days ago, so I feel a bit stressed when I see everyone these days." Yang Limin drank a sip of hot water and continued:

"But if I get the honor during my shift, it will relieve a lot of pressure and psychological burden. After all, so many commune leaders came on duty, but none of them took down the red flag. I got it right away. This shows that I am capable of doing ideological work among the masses. Even if I am impetuous, I still have my merits."

Han Hongbing said to Xie Hushan, "What else is there to say, Commander Xie, let's do it! If not for others, just for Lao Yang who has been with us in the autumn harvest field for so long, we must help him with this matter!"

"Isn't it enough if the honor is too small?" Xie Hushan asked.

Yang Limin nodded: "The bigger the better. If you can get an exclusive honorary title and be received by county leaders, I will accompany them during my shift. Then I won't be afraid of anything when I get back from my shift." Xie Hushan picked up Yang Limin's cigarette box, took out a cigarette, lit it, took a few puffs, and finally looked at him, nodded, and said lightly:
"Okay, it's just an exclusive honorary title. I'll help you get it done within three days."

"When the other people on duty in our commune said that you didn't even grab a single red flag, I guessed that you must be planning something big, so I rushed here to ask for help. By the way, here's the letter from your family. They asked me to bring it back when I went to see my grandma, along with a few pairs of shoes. You can take them later." Yang Liming smiled when he saw Xie Hushan's confident look, and then he took out a letter from his arms and handed it to Xie Hushan.

Xie Hushan opened the letter. Miss Taozi's handwriting was very childish. It was readable, but not beautiful.

The content of the letter was straightforward and simple, telling Xie Hushan that both his grandmother and she were doing fine, and asking him not to worry, but to work hard, take care of his health, and complete the project as soon as possible so that he could go home early to spend the New Year with his grandmother.

"Anything else?" Xie Hushan put the letter away, looked at Yang Liming and asked.

Yang Limin nodded: "Just this matter."

"Then let's go back first. We still have to work tomorrow, so you should rest early." Xie Hushan and Han Hongbing got up and went back to the shack to sleep. Yang Liming did not try to keep them. After all, they still had to work tomorrow and needed to rest early to replenish their energy.

After walking out of the duty room and walking a distance and losing sight of Yang Limin, Han Hongbing asked Xie Hushan:

"Thank you, sir. It's rare for Old Yang to ask us poor guys for help. Why are you still hesitating and taking such a long time to agree? Aren't you willing?"

"We must help him. Old Yang must have encountered big trouble this time. He was talking nonsense to us just now and didn't tell the truth, so I was wondering what kind of difficulties he had encountered." Xie Hushan said lightly.

Han Hongbing asked: "Is Lao Yang really lying to us? How do you know he is not telling the truth?"

"Old Yang is a top student. He can handle himself well in the county party committee office. But now that he has arrived at the commune, he doesn't know how to get along with the leaders. He has left a frivolous impression... He is really anxious and can't find a more suitable reason for the time being, so he came up with it to argue with us."

"Hey, according to what you said, Old Yang has been showing off again after more than a month of absence, and he doesn't tell the truth to his buddies." Han Hongbing was so angry that he said, "He still needs to be drunk. He didn't drink enough. Let's go back and deal with him!"

Xie Hushan lifted the straw curtain of the shack and looked at Han Hongbing before entering:

"Dealing with him is a matter for the future, but we have to help him get his job done first. This honor must be very useful to him, otherwise he wouldn't care about it. He just told the truth. He said he was under pressure, which is true, but I don't know what kind of pressure it is. We have been at the construction site and don't know what happened in the commune and the brigade recently. It wasn't mentioned in the letter from my family, so this matter should have nothing to do with ordinary members."

"I'll just wake everyone up at five in the morning and gather them. We'll follow your instructions. What do you want to do?" When Han Hongbing heard that he was going to have to do something big, he felt that all the tiredness in his body was about to disappear. He had been at the construction site for a month, but had not shown his abilities as a Zhongping militiaman. He always felt that something was missing.

Xie Hushan shook his head: "No, wait a little longer. I'll take a look tomorrow and figure out how to do it. It's been a month, and among all the teams on the construction site, only one exclusive honorary title, the Mountain Moving Commando, has just been born. It's much more difficult to get this than the Mobile Red Flag. The Red Flag is just the ordinary first place on the day. The county leaders don't have time to see it. If we want to do it, we have to be able to produce two days' worth of Mountain Moving Commando in one day, so that everyone thinks that the Zhongping Brigade is a group of monsters and completely shock the 14,000 people on the construction site."

"I've been thinking about what title our team should get if we have the chance. How about we try to break the other team's record of pulling two carts a day? We should strive to get the title of a mountain-opening commando team. It sounds more impressive than moving mountains."

(End of this chapter)