Chapter 168

Guo Wei has one thousand mu of land in his hand, and he becomes as arrogant as an upstart.

The township party committee meeting was held for three consecutive days, and for three days, Guo Wei made reports with different contents. The contents of the reports were very clear about land prices, architectural patterns, construction units, and the persons in charge of various tasks. I sat next to him, listening absent-mindedly, thinking about how to go to Xue Bing's house and how to open my mouth to talk about Huang Weiwei.

On the last day of the meeting, Guo Wei proposed that all township cadres take a three-day holiday. Three days later, all cadres will cancel any form of leave and go all out to prepare for the relocation matters.

Guo Wei's holiday proposal did not arouse the enthusiasm of the cadres. Township cadres usually work three days and rest two days.

Suxi Township is located in the deep mountains, the terrain is dangerous, the outside world is surging, but Suxi Township is still calm. After the road and electricity were connected, the situation changed a little, and people began to go out from the road to work and see the port in the outside world.

Also, because people in the four townships and eight villages all have intricate relationships, if they are not uncles or sisters, even if there is a conflict, they will invite a few old people to mediate.

For thousands of years, Suxi Township has lived a life of working at sunrise and resting at sunset, without waves or joy. Plain and simple, just like the white porridge that the villagers cook every morning, without any new ideas.

The cadres have nothing to do, and most of them are half-farmers, so they spend their daily time at home, helping with farmland, or focusing on raising pigs and cattle. When Liu Quan was in power, the entire township government had no concept of holidays. If there was something, they would call, and everyone would return to the township government to handle things. If there was nothing, everyone would be busy with their own things, and no one would care.

When Zhu Shizhen was acting, he once wanted to restore the normal work system and also engaged in daily sign-ins for a period of time, but he could not withstand the boycott of all cadres, and finally it ended without a problem.

Guo Wei took office and made drastic changes. The work system is directly linked to wages. Those who are absent will have their daily wages deducted, plus a fine of three days' wages. Those who do not come to work for half a month consecutively will be dismissed directly.

As soon as the decree was issued, the whole township was in an uproar. Township cadres can have no enterprising spirit, but they cannot have this job.

What is this job? It is status, identity, and honor.

Although he is an ordinary township cadre, he is still a state cadre after all.

Cadres who can only mix days in Suxi Township are basically pitch black on top. Anyone with a little background would rather be an ordinary cadre in other townships than come to Suxi Township to seek a leadership position.

This is the consensus of all cadres in Chunshan County!

There are only two kinds of people who are cadres in Suxi: one is the cadre who was hit and exiled, such as me. When I came to Suxi, I was an alien, as if Suxi Township was the Siberia of Chunshan County. There is another kind, which is the native cadre, such as Liu Quan and Zhu Shizhen. Now the situation is different, the bird gun has been replaced by a cannon—the name of Suxi Township has appeared in the provincial newspaper.

It is said that the cadres of Central Province mentioned the name of Suxi Township at a Standing Committee meeting. This indicates that Suxi Township, which was like a pile of smelly dog shit, became a hot commodity overnight, and all cadres wanted to get a foot in, because as long as they stepped in, it indicated that the opportunity for promotion had arrived.

Cadres can have no enterprising spirit, but they cannot have someone damage their economic interests. For township cadres with many half-farmers, wages are their only symbol and pride that distinguishes them from other farmers. Therefore, after Guo Wei promulgated the work system, all cadres in the township came to work the next day.

Cadres who were used to being lazy suddenly came to work on time, feeling as strange as villagers. Some people didn't even know what to do at work. Some cadres didn't even have a place to work, so they could only run around in various offices like rats, spreading family gossip.

It is also because of the promulgation of the work system that the cadres are much more energetic, and they don't even have the enthusiasm to help at home in the past. They step on the sun in the morning to check in, and step on the sunset in the afternoon to return home. As leisurely as a god!

Some cadres asked: "Secretary Guo, the holiday will be cancelled in three days. What if someone is sick?"

Guo Wei smiled coldly and said: "If you are sick, see a doctor. It is best to be hospitalized. I will take care of colds and fevers. If anyone has any crooked ideas, my Guo Wei's eyes are not blind and my ears are not deaf. You can see for yourselves."

"One thousand mu of land, such a large place, who will build the house?" Some cadres raised questions with worry.

"If you don't build, it doesn't mean others won't build." Guo Wei said with murderous intent on his face: "If there is a phoenix tree, you are not afraid of no phoenix. I don't believe that our Suxi Township people only want to dig for food in the soil for a lifetime."

"I emphasize one sentence again!" Guo Wei turned to look at me and said: "The investment promotion work of the whole township is fully responsible by Town Mayor Chen. Tell everyone another good news, Town Mayor Chen has now introduced a mineral water factory. The water factory is next to the new township government, and after the factory is built and put into production, it will need more than five hundred workers."

The cadres exclaimed, and everyone cast their eyes on me.

I smiled and said: "The contract was just signed, it's still early."

The cadres laughed and said: "After Town Mayor Chen came to Suxi, everyone in the township likes to make money. Originally, your family exchanged an egg for a handful of salt from my family, but now eggs are eggs, and salt is salt."

Everyone burst into laughter, and someone said: "This is the economy."

The final outcome of the three-day meeting was that I was responsible for investment promotion, and Guo Wei was responsible for macro-control. I fiercely fucked Guo Wei's ancestors in my heart.

Just after the meeting, I sat down in the office, and a few cadres came in, smiling and saying: "Town Mayor Chen, let's introduce us to your investment promotion first."

"What ideas do you have?" I asked, throwing them a few cigarettes without raising my head.

"Secretary Guo said that the new township government wants to build a farmers' market. Town Mayor Chen, can you give us a piece of land? We want to build a small house in the farmers' market."

"The township government is not going to build family buildings? What are you building in the farmers' market?"

"Family buildings can only live in people, and farmers' markets can do business."

"You cadres, what business are you doing?"

"We don't do it, but our family members can do it, right? Our small wages are not enough to support a family."

"You cadres, thinking about doing business all day long, how can you do a good job?" I questioned them, but I didn't reject their ideas in my heart.

"Town Mayor Chen, you don't know. Although we are cadres, the life we live is not necessarily better than that of farmers. Think about it, just because we have the title of cadre, we don't have a single point of land under our name, and we rely on wages of a few hundred yuan a month, we can't survive."

I said indignantly: "Ordinary people don't have a penny of wages, don't they live well?"

"Isn't this the difference between ordinary people and cadres? Otherwise, why can't everyone be a cadre?" They laughed and lit cigarettes for each other.

"Let's do this, you wait first. The main building of the township government has started construction, and then consider the farmers' market." I said, issuing an order to evict guests: "I have things to do, you go and do the things at hand first. When the time comes, the township government will have a unified arrangement."

The cadres went out laughing and laughing. An older cadre walked to the door, turned back and smiled at me: "Town Mayor Chen, come to my house for dinner tonight, I'll ask your sister-in-law to get some game, and we'll have a drink?"

I shook my head and refused. I have been mixing with these cadres for nearly five years. As soon as they lift their butts, I know what color shit they will pull!

Seeing that the sky was getting late, twilight had shrouded the entire township government, the lights in the room were on, and I didn't know who lit a fire in the distance. In the vast twilight world, a smell of smoke drifted over, which immediately aroused a faint melancholy buried in my heart.

I have seen this scene for five years. I stood in the vast fields at countless twilight moments, watching the smoke and fire in the fields, feeling the joys, sorrows, and sorrows of the world.

The moonlight came up, filling all the space like milk. The heart calmed down instantly, eyes looking at the mottled moonlight under the moon shadow, nose smelling a wisp of floral fragrance, the heart was as clear as the moonlight, pure and transparent.

The insects in the grass called, and a crow flapped its wings and flew over my head, leaving a shrill cry. The crow calls, and someone is going to go! It is said that the crow can smell the breath of death!

My eyes captured the direction of the crow. After the crow called again in the distance, it disappeared into the night sky, and I could no longer see its trace.

Suddenly I heard a motor sound, and then I saw Guo Wei's headlights turn on, piercing the night sky like a sharp sword. With a roar, his car crossed the stone bridge at the entrance of the township government and disappeared at the corner of the mountain.

The music of "Homesickness" drifted out from an open window not far away, teasing my tears to flow out ungratefully, spreading on my face, flowing over my cheeks that were about to be crisscrossed with gullies, and my heart hurt inexplicably.

Withered trees, old vines, black crows, small bridges, flowing water, people! In this mountain filled with night, I am like a night bird that cannot find a nest, almost falling from the flying night sky.

Five years! I sighed, wiping my face covered with tears. My life has been closely linked to the land of Suxi Township. In five years, how much sorrow? And how much joy, all disappeared without a trace in this instant, only a faint melancholy left in my heart, which cannot be driven away!

After standing for a while, I smelled a smell of bacon mixed with smoke and fire, and my stomach grumbled. I knew I was hungry, so I pulled my legs to Pan Xiaoqin's supermarket restaurant.