allonlinenovel Chapter 255 Is there anything happening in the village that I don’t know?
Chapter 255 Is there anything happening in the village that I don’t know?
By December 57, the first five-year plan for the development of the national economy in Jiangcheng District was successfully and overfulfilled.
The total industrial output value increased by 1.9 times, urban construction, science and technology, education, culture, health, sports and other undertakings have made great progress, the year-end balance of urban residents' savings deposits increased by 2.56 times, and people's lives have improved significantly.
As early as September, the central government passed the "Forty-Article Agricultural Development Program (Revised Draft)", which was actually a program for a great "leap forward" in agriculture.
Afterwards, most provinces and autonomous regions across the country held meetings of party cadres at all levels to convey and implement the spirit of the central conference and actively prepare to launch a high tide in industrial and agricultural production.
On January 58, 1, the Jiangcheng Municipal Committee responded to the organization's call and convened a meeting of district and township cadres in the suburbs. The task was to combine the rectification of work styles and the great socialist debate, break the "conservative thinking", and organize a great "leap forward" in agricultural and sideline production.
It was required to "launch a campaign to produce 1,000, 100,000 catties of rice, 100 catties of lint cotton, and 10,000 catties of vegetables per mu".
Under this slogan, the production of livestock such as pigs, fresh fish, and peanuts must be increased significantly.
After the meeting, all districts and townships actively participated in the campaign to increase production, and the industry and commerce in the city were not affected for the time being...
Today is New Year’s Eve, February 2th.
Zhou Rong has received several letters from Zhou Chuanyi, asking her to return to Zhoujiawan to celebrate the New Year.
She also wanted to discuss ideas about "leap forward" with Zhou Chuanyi, so she arranged the work of the cloth shop and clothing store early, and took three days off when submitting the annual summary report to the street office.
The summary report highly praised the director of the subdistrict office, and Zhou Rong's vacation was approved smoothly.
In order for Zhou's mother to spend the New Year with her family, Zhou Jiahua and Zhou Jiafu each took three days off from their work units, and on the 28th day of the twelfth lunar month, they brought their wives and children back to Zhoujiawan with Zhou Rong.
Zhou Chuanxiang and his family traveled together with Zhou Rong and his friends.
There were more than a dozen chickens in the chicken coop at home. Zhou Rongyuan wanted to find a maid to help feed them every day. When Ma Erya found out, she took on the job.
Ask Zhou Rong to lock all the doors and give her the key to the front door.
Zhou Rong agreed and put some millet in the living room for Ma Erya to feed.
There are no valuables in the house. All the valuables have been put away by Zhou Rong in the space, so there is no need to worry about thieves.
Zhou Rong had replaced the box that belonged to Zhou's mother a long time ago. Currently, it was just an empty box placed under the bed. If Zhou's mother needed it, she could just secretly replace it...
Zhou Rong was worried that Zhou Cai was being bullied on the farm, so he would visit her every weekend and bring her some food to improve her diet.
Zhou Cai learned that everyone was going back to Zhoujiawan to celebrate the New Year this year and didn't want to stay in the city alone, so she asked the farm manager for three days of leave.
Zhou Cai was beautiful, and many of the farm cadres and those who went to the countryside with her wanted to pursue her. The farm director's youngest son Yu Jie was one of them.
In order to please Zhou Cai, Yu Jie asked his father for help and did not let Zhou Cai work in the fields. Instead, he arranged her in the warehouse, responsible for registering the farm tools borrowed every day.
The job was easy, and some girls who were given special care almost all worked in the warehouse, resulting in serious "redundancy".
They all have someone to protect them, and no one dares to raise any doubts.
Whether Zhou Cai is there or not has no effect.
Yu Jie was born with a cleft lip, and was often laughed at for being ugly. He was afraid that if he confessed his feelings rashly, Zhou Cai would reject him, so he never dared to express his feelings.
I thought that once Zhou Cai saw his good side, she wouldn’t mind his appearance anymore.
The farm manager Yu Xingquan knew what his son was thinking. He also had high hopes for Zhou Cai as his "daughter-in-law", so he readily approved a vacation for Zhou Cai and also gave her ten pounds of cured fish and meat, saying it was a welfare of the farm.
The other two girls in the warehouse also took more than ten kilograms of cured fish and meat when they asked for leave to go home a few days ago. Zhou Cai thought that everyone had a share, so she thanked Yu Xingquan and went to Zhou Rong's house with her things without thinking too much...
On the 28th of the twelfth lunar month, Zhou Rong and his party returned to Zhoujiawan.
From the moment they entered the village, there were children in the village shouting excitedly: "Sister Darong/Aunt Darong is back!"
Upon hearing the sound, the villagers quickly put down their work and waited on the road leading into the village.
When Zhou Rong appeared, they all greeted him warmly.
"Darong, welcome back to Zhoujiawan!"
"DaRong, you look better than before!"
"Darong, you've lost weight. I'll bring you a chicken later to replenish your body."
"Darong, come to my house for dinner tomorrow. I fried a lot of meatballs this year. Come and try some."
"Darong, my family has a new grandson. Please help me choose a name for him when you have time. Let him share your blessing!"
Zhou Rong was a little overwhelmed by the enthusiasm of the villagers, and whispered to his father: "Dad, is there anything happening in the village that I don't know about?"
Father Zhou: "Don't you often communicate with Chuanyi and others? Didn't they tell you?!"
Zhou Rong: "No, he just urged me to come back for the New Year, nothing else."
Father Zhou: "How can I know something that you don't know? I'll ask your uncle later."
Zhou Rong: “Yeah.”
Zhou Chuanyi and Zhou Chuanjing heard that Zhou Rong had returned and were waiting for her on the road.
Zhou Chuanyi squeezed into the crowd and said with a smile, "Finally, you are back. I have asked someone to clean up your mother's house. The quilts have been washed and dried. You can live here without worry."
Zhou Chuanjing: "If you need anything, please report to the village and we will solve it."
Zhou Rong: "Thank you, Uncle Chuanyi and Uncle Chuanjing."
Zhou Chuanyi: "What's there to thank me for? Go home and have a rest first. We will come to see you tomorrow."
Zhou Rong: "Okay."
Zhou Chuanyi did not lie. Zhou's mother's house was indeed clean and tidy, without any musty smell. It did not look like it had been uninhabited for two years. There was even a jar of rice in the rice jar.
Mother Zhou muttered, "Zhoujiawan seems to have changed now. I have lived in Zhoujiawan for more than 20 years, and I have never seen people as warm and hospitable as they are today. If people hadn't changed, I would have thought I had come to the wrong place."
Father Zhou: "I feel the same way, especially their attitude towards Darong, which is totally different from before!
If you don’t know, you might think Darong is a senior leader from the province who came to inspect the countryside!”
Cao Dayun, who came to call Zhou's father and others to his home for dinner, said, "Don't worry, come to my house for dinner, and I will tell you the reason."
Mother Zhou looked at the dozen people in her family and said with a smile, "It's not appropriate for our big family to go to your place for dinner. We brought some food back. We also have rice at home. Let's cook it ourselves. It will be ready soon."
Cao Dayun: "Chuanguo expected you to come back in the next two days, and the food is ready. Just now, I heard someone shouting that you were back, and immediately asked me to cook. The second brother's family also came to help cook. It should be almost ready by now.
"Old Five's family, I just saw them. I've already invited them to my house for dinner. Old Four is also there. We're all brothers. Don't be polite with us. Put down your luggage and come over together. It'll be fun!"
Zhou's father and mother couldn't resist Cao Dayun's enthusiastic invitation, so they had to take the whole family to Zhou Chuanguo for dinner...