Super first-tier cities: Starting from village committee secretary

"What, you want to elect me as the village party secretary?"

Inside a two-story red-brick building in the center of Mountain Bear Village, Xiong Xu, who was eating, almost spat out the food in his mouth.

What did he just hear?

His father actually told him that the village committee wanted to elect him as the village party secretary!

"Our village is poor. Several poverty alleviation cadres have come, but none have been effective. Now I hear people say that technological enrichment is popular. You are a top student from a science and technology university, you are from this village, and you are the son of me, the current village party secretary. If you don't become the village party secretary, who will?"

Xiong Jingchun, who was sitting opposite him, said with imposing authority.

Xiong Xu glanced at his mother, Zhang Qin, who was watching the show from the side, and said helplessly to Xiong Jingchun, "Dad, you can't play like this. I've already found a job with a monthly salary of over 10,000."

"Mom, please advise Dad. I really can't be this village party secretary."

Xiong Xu's face was full of refusal.

If Mountain Bear Village were a wealthy village, Xiong Xu might consider it, but since the start of the poverty alleviation campaign, Mountain Bear Village has been labeled as a poverty-stricken village, and it hasn't been removed even now in 2023.

The reasons are simple: First, the location is remote. Generally, villages are at most four or five kilometers away from the township center, or ten kilometers at most. However, Mountain Bear Village is a full eighteen kilometers away from the superior township, Shiguang Town center.

Second, Mountain Bear Village is a typical bowl-shaped village. Except for the central basin, which is a plain, the surrounding seven or eight kilometers are all large and small mountains. These mountains are all rocky mountains, unsuitable for farming or planting trees, only weeds. The whole village relies on raising livestock for a living. Because there are many people but little grassland, there is a lot of competition for resources, so people don't starve to death, but they can't expand the scale of breeding and get rich.

Third, the transportation environment is poor. Until now, the road into the village is still the dirt road from thirty or forty years ago. The road is narrow, and the road surface is full of potholes. Even SUVs have to scrape their bellies.

What is a poor mountain with treacherous waters? This is it.

In Xiong Xu's view, Mountain Bear Village has no hope of getting rich. The road to wealth has been blocked.

Fish farming?

The village doesn't even have a river, only a two-meter-wide mountain stream, which sometimes dries up. Moreover, the plain area of the village is so small that there is not enough land to dig a reservoir. If only a pond is dug, it can only earn one or two thousand yuan a year. Relying on this little money to make the whole village rich?

Dream on.

Zhang Qin didn't speak, silently picking up vegetables.

Xiong Jingchun continued to say, "You are a party member, and your ideological awareness should not be so low. Now is the time when the whole village needs you. You have to go even if you can't. Don't forget that your tuition was raised by the villagers back then. Otherwise, where would you be today? People must know how to repay gratitude."

"Old comrade, you are good at moral kidnapping."

"Who said that repaying gratitude must be staying here as the village party secretary to repay gratitude? Can't I venture out and repay gratitude after making a lot of money in the future?"

Xiong Xu was unwilling to stay in Mountain Bear Village no matter what.

"I'm not discussing with you, I'm notifying you. Tomorrow is the election meeting. You go up there for me. Whether you can do it or not, serve one term first."

Xiong Jingchun's attitude was even tougher than Xiong Xu's.

However, Xiong Xu was not disgusted with Xiong Jingchun's tough attitude, because he knew why his father's attitude was so tough. The Xiong family had suffered many disasters for three generations. Take Zhang Qin as an example. She contracted leukemia seven or eight years ago, and the medical expenses amounted to more than 600,000 yuan. The Xiong family couldn't afford it. When the villagers learned of the news, they actively sent money, not even letting the Xiong family pay it back.

Xiong Xu's deceased grandmother had a stroke. Several villagers carried her for eighteen kilometers to the town to take a bus to the county hospital.

Overall, the Xiong family has received too much kindness from the villagers. Great kindness cannot be repaid, let alone small kindnesses. As the saying goes, a drop of water should be repaid with a spring. Xiong Jingchun has been repaying gratitude all his life. As his son, Xiong Xu will naturally be required to repay gratitude, especially since Xiong Xu has also received help from the villagers.

The reason why Xiong Xu is unwilling to stay is not because he is ungrateful, but because he has his own way of repaying gratitude. His way of repaying gratitude is to work hard outside, achieve a career, and then return to repay gratitude after success.

In Xiong Xu's view, this way of repaying gratitude is much more reliable than being a village party secretary.

"Headache."

Xiong Xu put down his chopsticks and rubbed his temples with a helpless expression.

His father is so tough, it's really not easy to handle. After all, Xiong Jingchun has high blood pressure. If he gets angry and goes to the ICU, it will be even more difficult to deal with.

"Son, try it first. If it really doesn't work, then resign," Zhang Qin advised in a gentle tone.

Xiong Xu sighed as he looked at the two elders in front of him, "Okay, I'll give it a try."

Just try it. If it really can't be done, then resign. This will also give Xiong Jingchun an explanation. Anyway, he has worked hard. If he is not the right material, there is no way.

"Eat."

Xiong Jingchun got a satisfactory reply and started eating happily.

Xiong Xu didn't feel like eating. He took his mobile phone and returned to his room, called the Southeast Asian international company that had recruited him, and said that he couldn't go due to an accident.

When he hung up the phone with HR, Xiong Xu's heart ached.

A monthly salary of 18,000 yuan, with full five insurances and one housing fund, and four days off for every three days of work.

How many recent graduates can find such a high-paying job?

Forget it, who told Xiong Jingchun to be so tough?

"Pighead, I can't leave. My father asked me to stay at home to be the village party secretary and lead the whole village to get rid of poverty and become rich."

After finishing the call with HR, Xiong Xu made a WeChat video call to his girlfriend, Lin Yuanqing.

In the video, Lin Yuanqing was wearing a light blue pajamas and a pink hairband. Although she didn't wear makeup, she had a delicate inverted triangular oval face, a high and straight nose, and big eyes. She looked very beautiful and attractive even without makeup, and also had a mature and sophisticated aura.

Lin Yuanqing was eating in her rented house. When she heard Xiong Xu's words, she immediately said with a surprised expression, "Be the village party secretary? I didn't hear it wrong, did I?"

Xiong Xu lay on the bed, raised his arm and supported the back of his head, and smiled faintly at Lin Yuanqing in the video, "If your ears are not deaf, then you didn't hear it wrong. I have already turned down the job. Starting tomorrow, I will be the village party secretary, the top leader in the village."

"Laugh to death."

Lin Yuanqing took a bite of rice and chewed while laughing without caring about her image, "Listening to your tone, you seem to be very happy. Oh, I remember, you are a fan of officialdom. This can be regarded as fulfilling a dream."

"Hehe."

"I call this facing life with a smile. What can I do? The old comrade has issued an order, and my dear Comrade Zhang is also standing on his side. If I rebel, can I still go back to this home?"