Chapter 53: The Past of Sister Yue Bai (2)

As for Zhao Jinming's courage, it was no bigger than a mouse's. Scared by Yue Bai, he didn't dare to move anymore, licked his lips, and let go of Yue Bai.

Old Zhao tried all kinds of methods, and finally found the director of teaching at the County No. 1 Middle School through someone, brought a lot of mountain goods, and added a red envelope to send his son to No. 1 Middle School as a boarding student. After only half a semester, Zhao Jinming actually passed the exam to the City Finance School, studied for three years, and returned to Suxi Township. He first worked in the Finance and Taxation Office, and later established the Rural Foundation, becoming the first director of the foundation.

Zhao Jinming, who returned to Suxi, couldn't wait to find Yue Bai. The two hadn't seen each other for more than three years, and they didn't know how much they had to say. Besides, he had changed from an ignorant teenager to a young man. He ran to Yue Bai's house excitedly. Yue Bai's family had no impression of this young man. After interrogating him for a long time, they knew he was the son of Old Zhao from the township government, so they happily killed chickens and caught fish to entertain him. They called a five-year-old child to go to the village to call Yue Bai back.

Yue Bai had just served as the women's director for a year, following the village head's butt every day to find pregnant women to have ligation, making all the women in the village look at her as if they saw the King of Hell. They didn't even say hello when they met. Older women were not polite at all, often pointing at her behind her back, saying that this thousand-knife product would have no anus if she gave birth to a son.

The men in the village were willing to see her. Yue Bai liked to wear tight clothes and liked to twist her hips when walking. Yue Bai let her hair down, pinned a hairpin on the back of her head, and her hair rested on her chest, full of charm.

When men saw her, they would make a few jokes. Yue Bai was not old, but she was not afraid of jokes. An old man stared at her with lust and said, "Yue Bai, yours is so big, aren't you afraid of suffocating your husband?"

Yue Bai would smile brilliantly and say, "If there is milk, there is a mother, why don't you call me mother first?"

The old man would blush, lower his head, and walk away amidst laughter.

Young men who saw Yue Bai would generally be too nervous to speak, pretending to walk past her, breathing in the fragrance on Yue Bai's body. This situation was more common, and the village militia battalion commander Zhao Deliang was one of them.

Zhao Deliang had never been a soldier, but he could shoot. First, he shot bird guns, then he went to the township for a week of training, shot a real gun once, and came back to be the militia battalion commander. Zhao Deliang's uncle was the village head of Laoyingzui Village, Zhao Banxian.

Zhao Banxian's becoming village head also had a reason. Originally, he was a wanderer who looked at faces and told fortunes, walking from village to village to choose days for people to bury and build houses, occasionally helping children to drive away evil. He accidentally met a cadre in the county, helped him read his palm, and said that this person was extraordinary and would surely flourish in the future. Sure enough, not long after, the cadre was transferred to the city to be a big official, who was the current Organization Department Minister Huang Shan. Huang Shan specifically asked Zhao Banxian what requirements he had. Zhao Banxian smiled and didn't speak, and finally pretended to be helpless and said, "If you want to help me, let me be the village head."

This small requirement was not a matter at all. Huang Shan came to the county to inspect, the government arranged a reception, and asked Huang Shan if there were any other people to get together.

Huang Shan said, "I am the only one here, you just leave a seat for him next to me."

The county didn't dare to neglect, and didn't know who was coming, so they waited in fear and trepidation. Finally, they waited for Zhao Banxian. Some people knew him and asked him privately what relationship he had with Minister Huang. Zhao Banxian smiled unfathomably.

After a meal, he didn't mention Zhao Banxian's affairs at all. Minister Huang was about to return to the city. Before leaving, he said to the county magistrate, "Old Zhao is still reliable. It's just that his identity is not very good. An ordinary commoner eating at the same table with the county magistrate, the influence will not be very good."

The county magistrate understood, and not long after, he personally went to Laoyingzui Village and promoted Zhao Banxian to be the village head.

After becoming the village head, Zhao Banxian not only didn't lose his old business, but wanted to eat alone. Anyone who looked at faces and told fortunes like him was not allowed to be active in Laoyingzui Village. He arranged for his nephew Zhao Deliang to be the militia battalion commander, and he took him with him wherever he went, actually fearing that someone would shoot him in the back.

Not allowing others to do it was not a big deal, but he actually increased the price by half. Originally, choosing a day for someone could only collect five yuan, but now it was at least ten yuan, and he had to add a pack of cigarettes and two bottles of wine.

The people of Laoyingzui Village knew it was useless to argue with him. He was a cadre personally selected by the county magistrate, and they couldn't help it.

It happened that Yuebai was unhappy. The cause of the incident was that Yuebai's little niece cried at night, so she invited Zhao Banxian to drive away evil. Zhao Banxian had a wife at home, whose face looked like it hadn't been washed for years, covered with a layer of gray. Suddenly seeing Yuebai with bright eyes and white teeth, he was immediately amazed. He tried every means to strike up a conversation, but Yuebai didn't even look at him, so after the ritual, he asked Yuebai's brother for fifty yuan.

Fifty yuan was almost the oil and salt money for a rural family for three months. Yue Bai's brother didn't want to give it, so Zhao Banxian pointed at Yue Bai and said, "It's okay not to give it, you choose one of two roads."

Yue Bai's brother asked what the two roads were. Zhao Banxian said slowly while packing up his things, "One road is that your family will do one hundred compulsory labor this year, and the mountain ponds and big roads in the village must be repaired."

Yue Bai's brother felt aggrieved. Fifty yuan for one hundred compulsory labor was too uneconomical, so he asked what the second road was.

"The second road is that your wife will immediately go to the township hospital for ligation. If you delay one day, you will be fined one thousand."

The road was even more impossible to walk. Yue Bai's brother had two daughters and was pregnant with one. He secretly asked someone to take a B-ultrasound, and it was a boy. Now going to have an abortion and ligation was more terrible than wanting his own life. Both roads were impassable, so Yue Bai's brother's eyes were red with anxiety, and he wanted to cry.

Zhao Banxian said, "Two roads, you choose one to walk, I don't have time to accompany you."

Yue Bai's brother grabbed Zhao Banxian and begged, "Village head, is there a third road?"

Zhao Banxian was waiting for this sentence, deliberately procrastinated for a long time and said, "There is another road, I'm afraid you can't be the master."

Yue Bai's brother patted his chest and shouted, "As long as you say it, I will definitely be the master of my family's affairs."

Zhao Banxian pointed at Yue Bai and said, "The village women's director is old, and many things can't be done. If your sister comes to be the village women's director, everything will be easy to talk about."

When Yue Bai's brother heard this, he suddenly became half a head shorter.

His sister was spicy by nature. When she was a child, she was engaged to a boy from the Zhao family. Although there had been no movement, his sister had always refused matchmakers. When it got serious, she would resist with death.

Zhao Banxian wanted his sister to be the women's director. Anyone could see his thoughts. If he sent his sister into the wolf's mouth, his conscience as a brother would not be able to pass.

He didn't dare to express his position, smoking old dry tobacco with his head down. Zhao Banxian saw that he didn't dare to express his position, knowing that this matter had to be decided by Yue Bai herself, so he deliberately said to Yue Bai, "You'd better help your sister-in-law pack up quickly, and go to the township health center this afternoon."

Yue Bai stared at Zhao Banxian's old bark-like face and said word by word, "If I become the women's director, everything else will be written off?"

Zhao Banxian nodded affirmatively. Zhao Deliang, who was standing by the door, was even more excited, his nose tip red.

Yue Bai said, "That's good, I promise you."

From that day on, Zhao Banxian took Yue Bai and Zhao Deliang to shuttle through every corner of Laoyingzui Village every day. ===== CHAPTER 54 =====