HPDBC Chapter 1162 Yongan Election
Chapter 1162 Yongan Election
Chapter 1162 Yongan Election
Amid the snoring sounds, the Zhao family's diners arrived earlier than usual.
And to celebrate Wang Meilan's promotion to director of the Women's Department tonight, Xie Sun, Lin Xiangshun and others, like Wang Qiang, all came with food.
Xie Sun was determined to kill the big geese. She held one goose in her left hand and another in her right hand.
The ten ganders she had bought for the dinner party had all been eaten by everyone. Today, Mrs. Xie Sun was determined to celebrate for Wang Meilan and even caught all the female geese.
“Sister.” Wang Meilan saw this and hurriedly stopped him, “It’s still here to lay eggs in the spring. We’ve worked so hard to feed it until now, it’ll be a waste if we kill it.”
"Oh! It won't be wasted if we all eat it." Xie Sun pinched the goose's head with her wrist and twisted the goose's beak. The goose flapped its wings and kicked its legs, but could not make a sound.
Xie Sun smiled and said, "Sister, you will be the leader from now on. We must prepare some delicious dishes for dinner. Let's have fun together."
"What leader?" Wang Meilan smiled and waved her hands, saying, "Just a director of women's affairs."
"He's also a cadre." Liu Lanying came over with a thin hemp rope, tied up the goose's wings and claws, and then said to Xie Sun: "Mom, I'll throw this goose out of the house first, and we'll kill it when we come back."
Today, Yong'an Village is electing cadres. Although they and their daughter have nothing to do with it, Xie Sunshi and Liu Lanying are going to cheer for Wang Meilan, which is commonly known as watching the fun.
Seeing that the two geese were doomed to die today, Wang Meilan couldn't help but think of her donkey. It was not just an obsession, but the key was that whenever she wanted to kill the donkey, someone would stop her. The more she couldn't kill it, the more Wang Meilan wanted to kill it.
But just when Wang Meilan was thinking about the donkey, Lin Xiangshun and Xu Chunyan came to her door carrying donkey meat.
Lin Xiangshun pulled out a whole donkey rib from the sack, and Xu Chunyan pulled out a donkey thigh. The meat was deep red in color and all lean.
"Second aunt." Lin Xiangshun smiled at Wang Meilan and said, "Yesterday I was delivering something to the upper section, and I heard them say that there was a donkey in their section that was pushed down the slope by the sled and had its leg broken by a stick. They wanted to kill the donkey, but I was in a hurry to leave, so I asked them to leave the meat for me."
"Second auntie." Xu Chunyan held the big donkey leg in both hands and said with a smile, "Let's cut the meat off the leg and chop it up to make dumplings. After that, we'll stew the ribs. We'll celebrate in the evening."
What she said was similar to what Xie Sun said.
"Hahaha..." Wang Meilan was happy. At this moment, the athletes' march sounded from the loudspeakers in the village.
Immediately afterwards, Zhao Guofeng's voice was heard from the loudspeaker, and he summoned all the villagers to a meeting in the compound of the village headquarters.
"Let's go!" Wang Meilan smiled and waved her hand outside the house, saying, "Let's go to the meeting and come back to prepare dinner."
Men, women, old and young responded one after another and came out one after another. Except for Zhao Youcai, Zhao Weipeng and the children, everyone else went to the village headquarters for the meeting.
At the same time, a sidecar motorcycle drove into Yong'antun.
The person driving the motorcycle was Zhou Da Kui, and the person sitting in the shoulder bag was Li Ruhai.
Riding a motorcycle down the mountain in such a cold weather, everyone was so cold that they had to drink water. Li Ruhai and Zhou Dagui's faces were red from the cold and their noses were running.
"Stop, stop." Li Ruhai was too cold to bear it and had no choice but to go down the mountain. As soon as he entered the village, Li Ruhai hurriedly stopped Zhou Dagui.
Zhou Dagui stopped his motorcycle, sniffed a few times, and then asked Li Ruhai, "Can I take you there?"
"I can walk these two steps by myself." Li Ruhai rejected Zhou Dagui's kindness and got out of the sidecar.
When his army-hooked leather shoes touched the ground, Li Ruhai looked at the familiar mountain village and said with emotion: "I, Li Ruhai, have finally returned to my hometown."
"You kid!" Li Ruhai had just finished speaking when Zhou Dagui complained, "You didn't take the shuttle bus last night, so you had to make me take you back again."
Li Ruhai smiled faintly and said nothing. He didn't come back last night because he was afraid that his family would ask him to canvass votes for Wang Meilan.
If he hadn't come back, no one would have told him that Wang Meilan was going to run for the women's director position.
Ignorance is not a crime. Under such circumstances, no one could blame Li Ruhai for taking the position of director of the Women's Department.
"Uncle Sun, are you going home?" Although Li Ruhai had a good relationship with Zhou Da Kui, he was more familiar with Zhou Da Kui's wife Sun Yongrong, so he didn't care that Zhou Da Kui should call him uncle, but instead, he called Zhou Da Kui uncle from Sun Yongrong's perspective.
"Ah, I'm going home to rest for a while." Zhou Dagui said, "I'm going back to the forest farm in the afternoon. Can you come with me?"
"I won't go back." Li Ruhai responded with a smile. In the entire Yong'an Forest District, only the director of the trade union, Su Jinbao, knew about his candidacy for the women's director.
But even without the collusion, Li Ruhai was confident that she would win the position of Women's Director. Once elected, she would have to start working as soon as possible.
With confidence and longing in his heart, Li Ruhai sneaked around the village.
There was no corner where he went, for fear that someone would see him coming back.
When Li Ruhai sneaked to the gable of a house, he heard someone say at the corner: "They are all in the meeting, let's..."
"Hmm?" Li Ruhai paused. He recognized the voice as Wang Dalong's.
Li Ruhai looked up and his eyes suddenly lit up.
The family's surname was Sun, but Sun Da Xia died of illness two years ago, leaving behind a pretty widow named Jiang Xiaolan and a son. In the past few years, Wang Dalong helped them, otherwise the mother and daughter would not have had an easy life.
Then, a woman said, "Stop making a fuss. The child is at home."
At this time, Wang Dalong was squatting on the side of the Sun family's firewood pile, while Jiang Xiaolan was standing in front of the firewood pile, looking around.
"Oh, I forgot." Wang Dalong said in annoyance: "Today is Sunday."
Having said that, Wang Dalong reached out, pulled Jiang Xiaolan's hand, and held it in his palm.
"We were in such a hurry yesterday." Wang Dalong said with a wicked smile, "I was in such a good mood, and I left in such a hurry."
"Yes." Jiang Xiaolan pulled her hand back, acted shy, and whispered, "The sudden rain can't soak the ground thoroughly."
There is an old saying: The weather in July and August is like a child’s face, changing in an instant.
Sometimes a cloud comes over and it starts to rain heavily, but the rain stops after a few minutes.
Although this sudden rain was heavy, when the sky cleared after the rain, the ground was not wet.
Hearing Jiang Xiaolan say this, Wang Dalong chuckled twice, but saw Jiang Xiaolan running back to the yard.
Wang Dalong crouched and moved behind the big willow tree before getting up. Looking around and seeing that there was no one around, he pretended nothing had happened and left.
Just as Wang Dalong left, Li Ruhai walked out from the corner of the room. The child murmured, "The sudden rain can't water the ground thoroughly? It doesn't rain in the middle of winter. What is Jiang Xiaolan saying?"
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To the sound of the cheerful athletes' march, men, women, young and old from Yong'an Village gathered in the village compound in the cold wind.
Although the conditions are difficult, there are still benches.
The meeting had not yet begun, and men and women gathered in groups of two or three to chat.
Wang Meilan was not in a hurry to sit down. She was taking Zhao Jun around to get close to people.
"Mom." Suddenly Zhao Jun gently pulled Wang Meilan and said, "My uncle Ma and his friends are here."
"Oh!" Wang Meilan turned around and saw Ma Dafu and his family coming together.
"In-laws! Mother-in-law!" Wang Meilan went over with a smile. After saying hello to Ma Dafu, Wang Meilan and Wang Cuihua held hands tightly together.
"Mother-in-law." Wang Meilan leaned close to Wang Cuihua's ear and whispered, "Before the election of the women's director, you have to vote for me."
"Mother, what you said is unnecessary." Wang Cuihua said with a smile: "Who are we following? Not only do I vote for you, but my daughter and daughter-in-law will also vote for you."
Six people from the Ma family came at this time, and Ma Ling's elder brother and sister-in-law also came. However, the election of the women's director is different from the election of the public security director. The election of the public security director is a vote by the whole village. As for the women's director, only women participated in the vote.
Wang Cuihua, Ma Ling, plus Xu Xiaoqing, means that Wang Meilan has three more votes.
Wang Meilan held Ma Ling with her left hand and Wang Cuihua with her right hand, and they found a bench to sit on.
As soon as they sat down, Jin Xiaomei appeared behind Wang Meilan, leaned over and whispered in her ear: "Sister-in-law, I told Sister-in-law Liu that she and her daughter will definitely vote for you."
The Mrs. Liu that Jin Xiaomei mentioned is her mother-in-law Han Qiuyan, and the girl she is referring to is Li Baoyu's fiancée Liu Mei.
Wang Meilan's eyes flashed with joy when she heard this, and she did a simple calculation in her mind. She voted for herself, and then Jin Xiaomei, Zhao Ling, Xu Chunyan, the old lady, Wang Cuihua, Ma Ling, Xu Xiaoqing, Han Qiuyan, and Liu Mei, which made nine votes.
Although there were more than a hundred women in Yong'an Village, only about 70 or 80 of them came to vote. Most of them had a good relationship with the Zhao family, such as the wives of Wei Jin, Wei Tie, Chen Dalai, and Lin Xiangshun's sister-in-law.
Wang Meilan calculated based on her usual popularity and estimated that she would have at least forty or fifty votes.
This is not Wang Meilan's brain. In Zhao Jun's previous life, when Wang Meilan left, all the men, women and children in the village except Zhang Zhanshan's family showed up. Even Zhang Zhanhe and Xu Guohua followed her up the mountain. What kind of popularity is that?
Just when Wang Meilan was feeling confident and thinking about what to eat and drink tonight, a "click" sound came from the loudspeaker and the athletes' march came to an abrupt end.
When a meeting was held in the village, there was no stage. An ordinary table served as the podium, and an enamel basin was placed on the table as a voting box.
Behind the table, the village head and public security director Zhao Guofeng is on the left, the women's director Han Qiuyan is on the right, and in the middle is the Yong'an Forest Farm Trade Union Chairman Su Jinbao.
After Su Jinbao made a few simple opening remarks, the Yongan election began. First, the election of the director of public security was held. Su Jinbao held the list and smiled faintly, saying, "Guo Feng is the only one who has signed up for the director of public security in our village. If everyone has no objection, Guo Feng will be re-elected!"
As Su Jinbao finished speaking, the audience burst into applause. Zhao Guofeng was a really capable person. No matter who had problems in the village, he would do his best to help.
Zhao Guofeng clasped his fists to the crowd, then took a step to the left and bowed slightly, and the applause from the audience became even louder.
After the applause died down, Su Jinbao said with a smile: "Then let's elect the director of women's affairs next."
Su Jinbao glanced at the list, his mouth curled up slightly, then he looked up and said with a smile: "There are many of us running for the position of Women's Director, including Wang Meilan, Sun Yongrong, Wu Dongxia, Song Guizhen..."
Su Jinbao paused when he read this. He looked up and said, "Li Ruhai."
"what?"
"Who?"
The audience was in chaos, and Zhao Guofeng and Han Qiuyan on the stage were also stunned.
"Like the sea!"
"Ru Hai is back!"
At this time, the voices of several women stood out. Everyone looked back and saw Li Ruhai, wearing a marmot hat, a black cotton jacket, with his collar open to reveal a matching Zhongshan suit, and a pair of army-hooked leather shoes, standing there waving to everyone.
"No?" someone in the crowd shouted, "Why does Li Ruhai have to get involved in the election of the women's director?"
As soon as the man finished speaking, a woman responded on behalf of Li Ruhai: "Why the hell do you have to care? We women vote, what the hell do you have to do with it?"
The women in the mountains are very tough, and the men dare not provoke them easily unless there is something serious.
The man who had raised the question shrank his neck slightly. The woman next to him pulled him and said, "No one is saying anything, why are you making a fuss? Are you trying to make yourself stand out?"
Amid the astonished gazes of the crowd, Li Ruhai clasped his fists, smiled, and slowly walked into the crowd.
"Brother Su." Auntie Wu Dongxia stood up and shouted, "Can I withdraw?"
"Hmm?" Su Jinbao was slightly startled, looked at Wu Dongxia and asked, "You don't want to choose?"
"Don't choose." Wu Dongxia said, "Just cross me out."
As soon as Wu Dongxia finished speaking, Sun Yongrong stood up and shouted, "I'm quitting too."
"And me." Next came Song Guizhen.
There were five candidates in total. With the arrival of the last one, Li Ruhai, three people withdrew and only two people were left to run for election.
"There are only two of us left." Su Jinbao said, "Wang Meilan and Li Ruhai, let's put it this way, you wealthy daughter-in-law, you stand up and say a few words first."
"That..." Wang Meilan was a little confused. She spent the whole day either thinking about food and drink, or thinking about spending money, and also worrying about her troublesome Ergudong. She was not prepared to speak.
In a hurry, Wang Meilan did not let down her guard. She slowly stood up and looked around, and said nervously, "Well... I won't say anything. Anyway, we are sisters, aunts, etc. If you all trust me, just vote for me."
After saying that, Wang Meilan nodded slightly and then sat down quickly.
As Wang Meilan sat down, Wang Cuihua and Ma Ling beside her, and Zhao Ling, Xu Chunyan and others behind her all applauded.
"Li Ruhai." Su Jinbao called Li Ruhai and said, "You can say something too."
As soon as Su Jinbao finished speaking, Li Ruhai stood up under the angry gazes of Li Dayong, Jin Xiaomei and Li Baoyu. He had deliberately found a position far away from the Zhao family camp.
Li Ruhai cleared his throat, and then his little face showed an anxious look. He lowered his head slightly, raised his left hand high, and waved it in the air, saying, "Comrades! Women comrades! There are bad people among the people! I just came back this morning and saw a pair of adulterers having an affair."
At this point, Li Ruhai straightened his back, spread his hands out, shook his hands and asked: "What do you call this? What do you call this? This is called adultery! This is harming women and destroying families!"
As he spoke, Li Ruhai raised one hand to the sky and shouted, "This is something we cannot tolerate!"
"That's outrageous!"
"Who the hell is this?"
The crowd was talking about it, but they didn't care about any harm or destruction, they just wanted to see the fun. In the Northeast dialect, everyone's brains were sharpened, just waiting to see the fun.
"Women comrades!" Li Ruhai waved his hand and said, "We cannot tolerate this and cannot turn a blind eye. If we cannot unite today, it may be our turn tomorrow if it is her whose family is destroyed today."
As he spoke, Li Ruhai looked compassionate and said, "I have been in our village for so many years, and I have heard a lot of such things in the surrounding villages. What can the old woman do if the old man is having an affair outside?
I've heard of people who endure humiliation in silence, but do you hold your anger in? I've also seen people who go back to their parents' home. They say their parents are so old now, and they can live their own lives. Can they always let them worry about them? "
After Li Ruhai said this, people started to talk about it again. Some women even had red eyes.
At this time, Li Ruhai struck while the iron was hot and said, "There are even more stupid ones. The old woman was so angry that she drank medicine or hanged herself. I say, isn't this a tiger? Isn't this just giving others a nest for nothing?"
After hearing what Li Ruhai said, the women were filled with indignation, gnashing their teeth and cursing.
"Comrades women!" Li Ruhai raised his arms and shouted, "We must unite to protect ourselves and the vast majority of women comrades!"
"Good!" Wu Dongxia and Sun Yongrong, the two sworn enemies, stood up almost at the same time and clapped their hands hard to cheer for Li Ruhai.
Then, there was thunderous applause.
Amid the applause, Li Ruhai clasped his fists around him, and when he faced the Zhao camp, he saw his father, mother, and eldest brother glaring at him. Zhao Jun and others were looking at him coldly. Li Ruhai quickly turned around and sat down.
After the applause died down, Su Jinbao came out and said a few polite words, then asked Zhao Guofeng and Han Qiuyan to give invoices to the women present.
The ballot was cut into small pieces of manuscript paper and then passed around between three pencil heads. Since many women were illiterate, Su Jinbao stipulated that those who wanted to vote for Wang Meilan should tick the box and those who wanted to vote for Li Ruhai should circle the box.
Jin Xiaomei gritted her teeth and ticked the box on her paper, then showed her results to the old lady and Zhao Ling next to her.
They all saw Jin Xiaomei's helplessness, but there was no way to comfort her, so they could only smile at her.
After all the ballots were collected, Su Jinbao called out the votes, and Han Qiuyan monitored the voting. Su Jinbao picked up a ballot, took a look at it, and handed it to Han Qiuyan, saying, "Yes, it's Wang Meilan's."
Han Qiuyan took it and looked at it, then said, "One vote for Wang Meilan."
As he spoke, Han Qiuyan took a piece of chalk and drew a horizontal line under the three words "Wang Meilan" on the small blackboard.
At this time, Su Jinbao had picked up the second one, took a look at it, handed it to Han Qiuyan and said, "It's still Wang Meilan's."
Han Qiuyan took it, looked at it and said, "One vote for Wang Meilan."
After saying that, Han Qiuyan drew a vertical line under the horizontal line.
The next three votes were all checked, all for Wang Meilan. Soon, a "positive" was written under Wang Meilan's name on the blackboard. There was nothing under Li Ruhai's name.
This time, the Zhao family's group all smiled. Jin Xiaomei was so happy that she put her hands on Wang Meilan's shoulders and shook her gently.
But three minutes later, Jin Xiaomei stared at Li Ruhai with eyes like knives, while Wang Meilan clenched her hands and her face turned ashen.
On the small blackboard, there are two positive characters under Wang Meilan's name, which means ten votes.
Li Ruhai's name has twelve correct characters.
(End of this chapter)