This season, it would be completely different if we were in the village.

Children in the streets and alleys would unbutton their cotton-padded jackets at noon, run around with their arms open, chase and play, and they would run to the canals and rejoice until lunch time, when everyone was sweating profusely.

Run home.

Ma Xiaole often did this when he was a child. He would run to the alley in front of his home until noon. Because there was a pigsty in front of every house, he could always smell the pig shit that was heated by the sun. Now I think about it.

I thought, compared with the stench in the sewer at the door, it is really much more intimate.

While sighing, Ma Xiaole returned to the office, asked Wu Yihong to take the printed documents, packed them in fifteen bags, wrote the names of each village, and prepared to run around with Lao Wang in the afternoon.

After preparing these, Ma Xiaole looked at the time and saw that it was almost time, so he went to the cafeteria to eat. However, he had no appetite. Although Liu Shuying said that she would get him some delicious meatballs and hairtail slices, the thought of Zhuang Zhongxin coveting Liu Shuying's talent

The peeping look made me uncomfortable, and coupled with the stench of sewerage I smelled at the entrance of the compound, I felt so foggy that I couldn't eat anymore.

Ma Xiaole simply went to the cafeteria and brought the food back to the dormitory. If he wanted to eat, he would take a bite. If he didn't want to eat, he would lie down and rest for a while.

After walking through the arch, there is a different scene in the backyard of the family. At first glance, I thought I was in a farmyard. Many family members had nothing to do, so they turned the backyard into their own small vegetable garden, peppers, eggplants, cucumbers, tomatoes, and every opportunity was used.

Plants were planted everywhere, but because they were quite neatly done, they didn't look messy. This was not the case before. It was a mess. When the county leaders came to inspect, they criticized it. Zhuang Zhongxin got angry and had all the vegetable gardens dug up and planted.

But some old ladies in the family courtyard were not willing to do so. A dozen people made an appointment to go to the building to make noise together, knocking copper basins and iron buckets, making the whole office building look like an earthquake. Zhuang Zhongxin really couldn't do anything.

I compromised and asked them to make the vegetable patch more orderly.

"Ouch, Xiao Ma, why did you bring the rice back to eat?" Mrs. Xia, who was bending over to break up the pepper seeds, straightened up and looked at Ma Xiaole, who looked dull, and asked.

"Oh, I don't feel like I have a good appetite. Bring it back and eat it slowly." Ma Xiaole looked at Mrs. Xia's wrinkled face and felt a chill in her heart.

Mrs. Xia is Wu Yihong's mother-in-law, a little old woman with a ghostly spirit. Ma Xiaole once heard Wu Yihong say that the little old woman was always on guard against her at home, as if guarding against thieves. Of course, she was not guarding against her stealing anything else.

But the man. However, although the little old woman was very guarded, Wu Yihong's natural thief nature could not be guarded against. Moreover, the man who stole later, Feng Yishan, was a high-ranking man anyway, so Mrs. Xia knew it well and kept silent.

Be silent.

"Young man, it's important to do your job well. Don't mess around. Otherwise, you won't have any hope of doing your job." Mrs. Xia's dry eyes shot out a cold gaze, which made Ma Xiaole's spine tremble for a while.

Chill.

Ma Xiaole pretended not to hear, lowered his head and left, but he thought about it in his heart: Mrs. Xia said this for no reason. Since it was not for no reason, she must be suspicious of his relationship with Wu Yihong.

There is even a certain degree of certainty.

Thinking of this, Ma Xiaole felt even more upset. This old lady Xia was a well-known archer in the courtyard. She weighed things and knew which ones were lighter and which were heavier. She could often find out the trouble accurately in one go! If she was better than Zhen, I don't know what happened.

If you mess with him sometimes, it will be painful to the core.

After entering the dormitory, Ma Xiaole completely lost his appetite. He put the food on the table and went to bed. He felt very unhappy and couldn't think about some things. In the past, in Xiaonanzhuang Village, he was a idle little farmer who was happy all day long. , but now that I am working as a secretary in the township government, why do I have something to worry about every day?

Ma Xiaole slept in a daze until two o'clock in the afternoon. Ma Xiaole got up and washed his face. Feeling a little hungry, he ate a cold rice and even cold meatballs. After eating, he wiped his mouth and walked to the office building. Go and prepare to ask Lao Wang to go down together.

Arriving downstairs from the office, Wu Yihong happened to be looking for a mop in the storage room. Ma Xiaole saw it and felt it was necessary to talk to her about Mrs. Xia, so she opened the door and went in.

Wu Yihong was just rummaging around with the mop in the pile of brooms and didn't notice anyone coming in. Ma Xiaole went over and patted her mop, which scared her so much that she shivered and screamed "ah".

"Director Wu, what's wrong with you? You're so startled." Ma Xiaole turned around and looked outside the door, worried that someone might be passing by and overhear. That would not be a good thing.

When Wu Yihong saw it was Ma Xiaole, she immediately became excited, "Oh, Xiaole, why are you scaring people like this and touching them! It makes them lose their minds."

"What did Director Wu say? I just wanted to say hello to you and nothing else." Ma Xiaole closed the door and said, "There is something very important that I have to tell you."

"I'll listen even if it's not important. Just tell me." Wu Yihong twisted her body and shook her head.

Ma Xiaole ignored her flattery and asked eagerly: "How does your mother-in-law treat you?"

"What's going on? She's the same without her." Wu Yihong said nonchalantly, "We can't talk about going together, and we can't talk about going together. You just look at me like that when you get home all day long, so you just follow me. A bunch of cuckolds were given to her as if they were hers."

"That would be a serious problem!" Ma Xiaole sighed and said seriously: "I went back to the dormitory this noon and met her by the vegetable garden. She was talking in a subtle way, as if she was giving me some hint. Is it you? Was it exposed at home?"

"She is suspicious of anyone she sees me with!" Wu Yihong said, "Xiao Ma, don't worry, it's okay. We are quite restrained and do whatever we say. You see, I am with you now. There’s nothing going on in this compound!”

"It's nothing, but if someone insists on telling it, I'm afraid it won't be good. After all, we have such a thing, and it's not practical to mention it!" Ma Xiaole thought for a while and said: "Director Wu, please If not, let’s just act like it for a while, don’t have too close contact, and avoid the limelight.”

Wu Yihong had no choice but to agree to this proposal because she also had some scruples.

Ma Xiaole nodded and said yes, then went back to the office, picked up the documents and went to find Lao Wang. Now that he was using the car, he no longer had to report to Wu Yihong.

Lao Wang took Ma Xiaole and started to wander around the villages again. Wherever he went, he was naturally treated with great hospitality.

However, Ma Xiaole refused one by one, and his mind was definitely not on this now. Of course, the benefits of not accepting the hospitality were not small at all. There were a lot of local specialties, but he was not interested and let Lao Wang handle it. Lao Wang also You're welcome, and everyone who comes is welcome, so the benefits are quite substantial.

This time, Ma Xiaole was not ambiguous at all. No one else had a share except him and Lao Wang. In his words, this matter was dispensable. However, Lao Wang disagreed with this and said that this was an old rule for many years. Everyone knows very well that uneven opening does not seem to be good.

Ma Xiaole dismissed this and said, what are the old rules? No matter how old the rules are, they are not made by human beings. When they work, there are rules. When they don’t work, there are no rules. Lao Wang saw that he couldn’t persuade him, so he let it go.

, it’s none of his business anyway.

In the end, Ma Xiaole took his share of things to the canteen and told Liu Shuying that these things were sold to the canteen. Anyway, the canteen usually had to go to the street to buy the materials. Of course Liu Shuying had nothing to say and gave it to Ma Xiaole at a high price.

money.

Lao Wang was jealous, so he took his share and sold it a few days later. He counted the bills and happily walked to Ma Xiaole's office. He said that he had a good mind and would definitely be the mayor of the township in the future.

Ma Xiaole liked to hear this and was happy after hearing it, but after being happy, he felt worried. Of course it would be good to be the township head, but how can he become the township head? How can he be promoted to an official position if he doesn't do something? Just talk to Liu Bian

It's a great thing, but the villagers in Shagang Township are still weird. No matter how the village mobilizes, they just don't respond.

why?

The reason is that the establishment of a kiln factory in the township made the villagers feel cold.

Ma Xiaole learned from the village party secretaries of each village that when the kiln factory was set up in the township, it was said that anyone who contributed money or effort could make a profit. The villagers believed it, because this was the call of the township government! So at that time, the rich villagers

Participate in the stock ownership, and those who have no money will go out to work, digging mud and cutting bricks all day long, hoping to make a lot of money and be happy! Unfortunately, the kiln factory was not completed well, and there was no loss in the first year.

Winning means preserving capital, and the villagers endured it, always thinking that things would get better and better. However, they did not expect that after a few years, there was still no improvement, and later they simply closed the door. It was good this time, and the money the villagers paid was in vain.

Later, the villagers saw that it couldn't be justified, so they asked the villagers to go to the kiln to take the unsold bricks home as compensation. The villagers couldn't sell the bricks even if they took them back, so they simply built

As a result, all the villages in Shagang Township suddenly changed that year, and many houses with red bricks and blue tiles suddenly appeared! Those who didn’t know better thought that Shagang Township was getting rich.

Because of this incident, the villagers no longer believe in government projects.

Faced with this reality, Ma Xiaole was anxious. However, Feng Yishan would ask him about the situation from time to time, saying that the factory building of the agricultural machinery factory had been vacated, and he would start the wicker weaving project when there would be a groundbreaking ceremony. After all, this was also Shasha.

This is a major event for Gang Township. The people can benefit from it and the township government can also make money. Everyone is happy!

Ma Xiaole nodded frequently every time, saying that it was, and that some things at the grassroots level were being implemented quickly, and it would not be too late to start after they were implemented. Feng Yishan said yes, but it couldn't be delayed for too long, and it was almost summer, half a year.

It's all gone, and there's no movement at all.

For the first time since entering the township government compound, Ma Xiaole felt that there was nothing he could do. As far as the current situation was concerned, even if he begged his grandfather and grandma to go to various villages to mobilize, it would be good if at most dozens of people could agree, but this

Dozens of people are useless and far from enough for the plan.
Chapter completed!