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Chapter 227 Cents!

I haven't seen Yang Erbao for a while. Instead of losing weight, this baby has gained some weight. His skin was dark when he was in the mountains, but now his skin is white.

"Brother Cao, hehe!"

Seeing the silly smile on his face, Cao Rui asked: "You have been away from home for such a long time without bringing a penny with you. How do you manage to survive?"

"Brother, how can we, a living person, suffocate to death? Country people are strong and can work. Isn't it easy to just run errands in the county?"

Yang Erbao was an optimistic young man. Cao Rui asked about the situation. When he entered the county town, he found a job as an errand boy in a restaurant. He was honest and smart, and his boss liked him very much. He worked during the day and wrote love letters at night. He was full of passion.

Cao Rui invited him to go back, but he shook his head like a rattle and said nothing. He still wanted to find his own path.

Cao Rui didn't insist, but early the next morning, he received a call from Yang Erbao, saying that he wanted to take his car back to Qilihe.

Cao Rui went to the restaurant to pick him up. He told Cao Rui that Principal Ma called him yesterday and he wanted to listen to Principal Ma.

Cao Rui said: "That's right! You raise so many animals at home, and you just leave. My parents are very tired at home, and everyone is looking forward to your return!"

Yang Erbao lowered his head and said nothing. After getting in the car, he said:

"Brother Cao, can you go to the newspaper office again?"

Cao Rui drove the car to the newspaper office, and Yang Erbao went to find Guo Ling. When she came out, Guo Ling's eyes were a little red. When she saw Cao Rui, she was stunned for a moment, and then said in thought:

"Secretary Cao, can you lend me a moment to speak!"

Cao Rui and Guo Ling met alone, and Guo Ling said:

"Secretary Cao, Erbao is a good boy. Thank you for taking him back! But he still wanted to write a love letter and said he would send it to me from the town. This kid, doesn't he know that all this is meaningless? ?”

Cao Rui said: "Teacher Guo means..."

Guo Ling said:

"The girl from the mountains has come to the city. She is still a beautiful girl. What kind of place is the city? There are temptations everywhere. Compared with the mountains, it is a completely different world!

The girl is already on a completely different path from Erbao. Will she ever look back? Although childhood sweethearts and childhood sweethearts are beautiful, they are actually very fragile in the face of reality, so fragile that they cannot withstand even one broadening of their horizons..."

Cao Rui frowned and said:

"Teacher Guo, what do you think?"

Guo Ling said:

"Secretary Cao, please advise Erbao to feed the animals in the mountains with peace of mind. There is no need to write a love letter! Really, when I saw his love letter, I felt very sad and felt an inexplicable sadness..."

Cao Rui said:

"Okay, I'll try to persuade you!"

Cao Rui drove back to Qilihe. On the way, he thought about how he and Chen Fusheng drank that day. Both of them were drunk. Chen Fusheng also talked about Yang Erbao. He told Cao Rui that the female editor of the newspaper, Guo Ling, was from Huangtu Township. of.

After graduating from high school, she dated a partner in Huangtu Township, but then moved to the city. Her current husband was from the city, had a job, and pursued her hard. In the end, she settled down and became a full-fledged Yongping County person.

Chen Fusheng said slightly drunk:

"Cao Rui, Yang Erbao's love is very similar to Guo Ling's love when she was young. There seems to be a fateful connection! So for us writers, this is the best material!

You, Cao Rui, are from the city. You don’t know the suffering deep in the mountains. You don’t know that Yongping County is actually two different worlds..."

Cao Rui chewed on what Chen Fusheng said while driving. He was deeply touched.

Cao Rui's own personal experience is that the gap between urban and rural areas is too big. Yongping County and Qilihe are completely two worlds. Cao Rui couldn't adapt to Qilihe when he first arrived, especially at night. It was pitch black just after dark, and there was no sound around him. nothing.

What makes people more sympathetic than this is human thoughts and ideas. People in the mountains are closed-minded and backward in thinking, but they are simple and kind. Cao Rui has never been exposed to it before. He has been the secretary of the township party committee for a period of time recently. He really feels that the people of Qilihe In fact, they are the cutest and most worth cherishing.

Cao Rui once read a very thought-provoking saying: "The greatest evil in the world is bullying and harming kindness." Before he came to Qilihe, more than one person warned Cao Rui that poor mountains and bad waters breed unruly people.

After Cao Rui came, when he faced conflicts and problems frankly and finally solved them, he realized that the people in Qilihe were really not unruly people. It was our party members and cadres who failed to do their jobs and failed to do their jobs Come from the masses, go to the masses...

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The atmosphere of the Qilihe party and government team meeting was very warm and everyone was very encouraged.

Cao Rui said one thing, that is, the 7-meter hardening project of the ten-kilometer road from Qilihe to Taohuapu will be launched soon, and the bidding process will be launched immediately, so that the hardening of this road can be completely completed next year when the tea sales are huge.

Xu Aimin was the most excited. He is from Peach Blossom Pu. He walks this road hundreds of times a year. Generally speaking, the weather is good and he can walk on it. But when it rains, he really can’t walk on it. People jokingly call this road... The "cement road" in Qilihe is filled with water when it rains and is full of mud!

"Secretary Cao, I asked the commander of this road to be responsible for the quality of the road. I promise to ensure the quality of this road!" Xu Aimin said.

Cao Rui said:

"You are also responsible for the preliminary preparations. You are the big brother in the team. This road runs through four villages. These villages must convene a joint meeting. Each village committee and village branch must correct their thoughts and attitudes. We must ensure smooth construction and even more importantly, construction safety!”

As soon as the meeting of the town government was held, the news spread quickly as if it had wings. When the people of Qilihe Town heard the news, they smiled and rushed to report.

What the people in mountainous areas look forward to most is to build roads and bridges, because transportation separates the mountains from the outside world. People have treasures on the mountains, but they cannot transport them out, and there are supplies outside the mountains, but they cannot get in.

Cao Rui went to do research that day. When he arrived at Shitou Village, he happened to meet a family who was building a house. Everyone talked about the cost of building materials. Cao Rui was shocked to find that the construction price of a house in Shitou Village was nearly two times that of the surrounding counties. times.

Cao Rui asked about the price of specific materials. At that time, he talked about the price of cement. The price of cement in the county is 200 yuan per ton, but the shipping cost of one ton of cement to Shitou Village is more than [-] yuan. This is a transportation constraint.

Cao Rui made up his mind to build the Qitao Highway because he saw that it would not work unless this road was built. Without this critical road, the development of Qilihe would be impossible. No matter which industry was developed, there would be no way.

If the Qitao Highway is completed and the Qili River is on the main road of the Yonghuang Highway, it can be ensured that the road conditions from Taohuapu to the county seat are all quasi-fourth-class highway conditions. With this foundation, the next step is to develop tourism. talk.

Peach Blossom Shop, Peng Dakun is very depressed these days. He was not selected in the village cadre election, and he was no longer involved in village affairs, which made it difficult for him to adapt.

What's more important is that he used to like to contract small projects and bought himself loaders and dump trucks. When he was the secretary of the village branch, on the one hand, he could work on some projects in the village, and on the other hand, he had a wide range of social contacts. Running outside, he is well-informed and can foresee many project information.

So his business has always been doing well, but it has stopped recently. He used to be the branch secretary and felt he could do anything. But now he no longer has this reputation. People don't give him much face when he leaves.

"Da Kun, let me tell you good news. The Qitao Highway will be hardened soon! It is ten kilometers and seven meters wide. That is tens of thousands of cubic meters of concrete work. Good guy, it will cost millions!

Take advantage of it, if you can do this project, you will definitely make a lot of money! "On Taohuapu Road, he met Chen Jianbo, who told him the good news.

He was stunned for a moment and said:

"That's nonsense. This road has not been included in the county's plan. How can it be hardened? The county is so poor now that there is no money for the roads in the plan. It still wants to harden this road. How can there be such a beautiful thing?" Peng Dakun said, Although he is no longer the village party secretary, he still understands policy issues very well.

Chen Jianbo said:

"Dakun, you don't understand the situation when you say this. Secretary Yang in the village was called to a meeting just now! This is absolutely true. The new Secretary Cao in our town is a capable person. He said he didn't let him go at all. The county took the money, but he went directly to the province to call for the project!"

What the hell!

When Chen Jianbo was speaking, there happened to be a few people around him. After hearing this, they all exclaimed repeatedly. Chen Jianbo was serving in the village, so it was unlikely that he would talk nonsense!

"Oh my, if this thing can be done well, our life at Peach Blossom Shop will be much easier!"

"Isn't that right? I don't have to worry about not being able to go to town if it rains while riding a motorcycle!"

"In the future, when we sell tea, we can also buy it directly in the town. The price will be higher..."

The people were talking a lot, but Peng Dakun was in a panic. He had known Chen Jianbo for decades and knew what Chen Jianbo was like.

Chen Jianbo lacks decisiveness in doing things, but he is honest and reliable. If he talks to this extent, it can be sure that this project will be launched. Peng Dakun still hears the news through Chen Jianbo, which was unimaginable before.

Also, until now, several friends with whom he has been working closely have not contacted him, which made him puzzled and felt a little bad at the same time.

Construction projects require cooperation. One hero has three gangs. The person Peng Dakun had been working with before was Wei Bing from Qilihe. Didn't Wei Bing hear the news?

Peng Dakun held it in his yard for a long time. Finally, he couldn't hold it in any longer. He picked up the phone and called Wei Bing:

"Bingzi, I heard that the road from Qilihe to Taohuapu is going to be moved. Have you heard the news from the boss?"

"Uh... Lao Peng, this, I... that, etc., can we calculate the accounts at the end of the year, once a year? We don't know what the situation will be next year. At the end of the year, we should divide the money we should share..."