Chapter 1374

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Protagonist:

Li Xiulan

"Secretary He, Village Chief Guo, Director Li, Xiao Hua and I will be presiding over the Changjiang Village Committee's poverty alleviation work from now on, please give us your guidance!" Lin Aijun stated her purpose.

Lin Aijun stated her purpose.

He Zhixiong said with a hearty laugh:

"Isn't this the Top Scorer? How come you've come back to the village to develop? What a waste of talent!"

Guo Dafu asked with a smile:

"Couldn't find work in the city? Insisting on squeezing into the village? A university student from my neighboring village, only a second-tier university, he went to develop in the city, heard he now makes over ten thousand a month in salary."

Li Jiandi said:

"This work is very hard, and the salary is very low, you mustn't run off after just a few months."

Hearing the three of them speak like this, Wang Xiaohua's face showed a somewhat helpless expression, and he hurriedly said:

"Rest assured, I won't. I've made up my mind to take root at the grassroots level."

Li Jiandi, however, said:

"You stationed village cadres, before coming which one didn't say exactly that? The last university student who came for poverty alleviation, worked less than a month before clamoring to leave, result was he ran off before even completing a year's probation period."

Guo Dafu said:

"Rural conditions are arduous, very few people can endure the loneliness."

He Zhixiong said:

"You two say a few words less, the Top Scorer wants to work for however long he wants to work, it's just coming to experience life anyway!"

Then he said to Li Jiandi:

"You go take out the village committee's poverty alleviation archives, show them to the Top Scorer, he needs to understand clearly first, how many poor households our village has."

Li Jiandi went inside to search through the archives.

Then he took them out and said to Wang Xiaohua:

"This is the entire Changjiang Village Committee's poverty alleviation archives. Our village committee has a total of eight natural villages, currently 1,123 households, poor households number 56, monitored households 9, marginal households 23."

Wang Xiaohua inquired: "What are monitored households, marginal households?"

Lin Aijun explained:

"Monitored households are originally poor households who, through the Poverty Alleviation Office's support, have now shaken off poverty, but there is a possibility of returning to poverty, families needing regular monitoring. Marginal households are families hovering on the edge of poverty, who could fall into poverty at any time, but don't yet qualify to be listed as poor households."

Wang Xiaohua nodded, suddenly realizing:

"That is to say, our work is not only to provide support to poor households, but also to do certain work for monitored households and marginal households..."

Additionally, Wang Xiaohua had already begun analyzing the situation in his heart:

Monitored households are this few, does this indicate the poverty alleviation effect is poor, not many families have shaken off poverty? If so, is it because the work is difficult to carry out, or because of other reasons?

Lin Aijun nodded:

"Correct, poor households need help, monitored households and marginal households also cannot be ignored, otherwise it's pressing down the gourd and the ladle floats up, impossible to eliminate impoverished households."

He Zhixiong spoke at this time:

"Not that I'm discriminating against those poor households, speaking the truth most all have hands and feet, they're just lazy and gluttonous. It's only in this day and age, encountering a conscientious government, that they get helped; otherwise they'd have been left to fend for themselves long ago!"

Lin Aijun smiled:

"Secretary He, don't speak like that, the work we should do still must be done."

He Zhixiong said:

"I didn't say not to do the work. The work that should be done still has to be done, but I must also be allowed to vent a few complaints!"

Li Jiandi chimed in:

"Exactly, exactly. Aijun younger sister you don't know, last month we distributed the poverty alleviation piglets to those 56 poor households. This month we went for a return visit, discovered some ate them, some sold them. Even the ones being raised were raised skin and bones! Truly mud cannot support the wall! Only one or two households managed to raise the poverty alleviation pigs well! Truly angers one to death!"

Towards this kind of phenomenon, Lin Aijun had long since seen it so often it was no longer strange.

So she could only smile, had nothing to say.

Wang Xiaohua heard this, but kept this matter in mind.

Then he proactively said to Lin Aijun:

"Aijun sister, how about you take me to visit those poor households? Perhaps I have a method to change the status quo."

Lin Aijun at Wang Xiaohua's naive idea couldn't help laughing out loud:

"Our Poverty Alleviation Office has worked so many years, no great effect. You can change the status quo? But even if you didn't mention it, I'd still have to take you for a visit, after all this is the work procedure."

Thus Lin Aijun rode the motorcycle, carrying Wang Xiaohua toward Shanwei Village.

Today not much time left, will first visit Shanwei Village's 7 poor households.

The remaining 49 poor households, later will take Wang Xiaohua to visit.

Wang Xiaohua and Lin Aijun arrived at Shanwei Village.

This Shanwei Village, as the name suggests, is at the tail of the mountain, a place even more remote than Shangou Village.

Most families here have already moved out to live elsewhere. Those left behind are either left-behind elderly or poor households.

Lin Aijun, familiar with the route, drove the vehicle to Shanwei Village's village center. Going further in, the motorcycle would be hard to drive.

So she stopped the motorcycle, then led Wang Xiaohua on foot to the first poor household.

"This poor household is a large-age single man, named Zhao Futian, 65 years old, never married, no children, home bare of all possessions. Bank account savings only several hundred yuan. Lives day by day on the poverty alleviation funds the government distributes. This fellow raised a Daya. Every time I come I get chased by the dog. Wait a moment we must be careful, hurry and find a stick."

Lin Aijun's words had just fallen, still hadn't found a stick yet.

"Woof woof woof!!"

A burst of dog barking came over.

Wang Xiaohua looked up and saw a big yellow dog rush out from a dilapidated mud-brick tile house ahead, lunging at Lin Aijun and Wang Xiaohua!

"Ah! Don't come over!"

Lin Aijun screamed in fright.

Then she turned and fled!

She didn't want to be bitten by a dog!

Wang Xiaohua was also startled by this big yellow dog, but he didn't run.

Instead he stared straight into the big yellow dog's eyes and let out a loud shout:

"Dead dog, looking for a beating, are you!"

Seeing Wang Xiaohua's imposing manner, the big yellow dog immediately stopped its footsteps.

Although it still bared its teeth, still looked ferocious, still barked, it didn't dare to lunge over lightly.

Wang Xiaohua kept staring at the big yellow dog's eyes, picked up a brick from the low wall beside him, and made a move to throw it.

As a result, that big yellow dog immediately chickened out.

It hurriedly ran back home to hide, hiding in the house barking, no longer daring to be as fierce as before.

Seeing Wang Xiaohua's small stature yet such courage, Lin Aijun couldn't help but look at him with new eyes.

"You're actually not afraid of dogs, I really underestimated you, but you'd better take it easy, if you get bitten you'll need rabies vaccine shots, and rabies vaccine shots, you have to pay out of pocket!"

Wang Xiaohua laughed:

"Rest assured, dogs are best at reading people's expressions, as long as you're fiercer than it, it won't dare to bite you lightly, besides, don't I still have this brick in my hand? If it dares to lunge, one brick to its dog head and that's it."

Lin Aijun however chuckled:

"You'd better not do that, if Zhao Futian turns around and extorts you on the grounds that you injured his dog, you'll be in a whole heap of trouble."

Wang Xiaohua said:

"We're here to help him, he wouldn't do that to us, right?"

But no sooner had the words fallen than at this moment a person and a dog walked out from inside the dilapidated house.

It was none other than Zhao Futian!

Seeing Wang Xiaohua and Lin Aijun arrive, Zhao Futian didn't show any welcome, instead his face darkened, and the first sentence he spoke left Wang Xiaohua and Lin Aijun both dumbfounded.

"You scared my dog, you have to pay compensation!"

Even with Wang Xiaohua's steady temperament, encountering this situation, he was still incomparably stunned:

"No way, this is blackmail already?"