After repaying wages to all the faculty and staff in the town, Chen Huai made a decision and returned to the town, he still informed Li Feng and others.

Everyone knows that the faculty and staff have complained a lot in the past two years. The teaching quality of Meixi Town and the town primary school has declined significantly in the past two years, which has a lot to do with this. Except for a few cadres in the town, most of their families are in Meixi Town. Their children or grandchildren may study in the town primary school and junior high school. They all hope to improve the teaching quality of the school from the bottom of their hearts.

In the past, there were no conditions, and everyone was living a tight life and there was no way to do things well.

Now there are some conditions. Meixi Iron and Steel Plant is undergoing strong revival and other economic work, under the auspices of Shen Huai, has been streamlining it step by step. Everyone is even confident that they will do the two major events of building bridges and roads next year and raising funds for building houses next year. They are naturally very optimistic about the financial situation in the town next year, and some things naturally seem urgent.

As long as the year-end bonus for administrative personnel is not less than last year, even if it is less this year, there is nothing unacceptable.

Most of the cadres in the town welcomed Chen Huai's decision.

He Qingshe didn't care that it was already four o'clock in the afternoon, so he called people to start the work.

All schools have almost been on holidays. Even if there are people on duty in the school, they may not be the principal. If you call first, you will send someone to drive a motorcycle and look for it.

The advantage of Chen Huai as Party Secretary is that he is in charge of the overall situation and the specific matters can be left to others. At night, he held five tables of work meals at Zhuxi Hotel and gathered the heads of each school to hold a mobilization meeting. Chen Huai showed his face and said a few words, and even if he finished his errands.

Only then did Zhang Xiuyun realize that Du Jian had left Meixi Town today. These days, he ran around for their family Chengming's affairs. This young man, who seemed to be only twenty-four or twenty-five years old, is already the head of the entire Meixi Town.

He Qingshe and the heads of various schools and financial staff overnight calculated the repaid wages of faculty and staff, and the next day the finance department will be allowed to pay the money to various schools, and then distributed it to faculty and staff through the school, so that everyone can have a good New Year.

Meixi Iron and Steel Plant continued to improve in January, with the production of rebar and other steel in January reaching 7,000 tons and monthly sales reaching 23 million. As the price of rebar rebounded slightly before the New Year, Meixi Iron and Steel Plant's profit in January was a little higher than in December, reaching 4 million.

Of course, Chen Huai did not take over Meixi Steel Plant until mid-October, and until the end of November, Meixi Steel Plant was still rectifying its production sequence. It took only two months to double its output and restore its profitability. The losses for the whole year could not be eliminated.

Meixi Iron and Steel Plant is still in a loss every year, so naturally there is no dividend to pay to the town.

The distribution method for year-end rewards for management and front-line workers will be promulgated at the same time before the staff meeting is held.

However, the situation in the first year was a bit special. The steel mill suffered losses throughout the year. However, after the new management team was formed, Meixi Steel Plant achieved profitability far exceeding people's expectations. It is unreasonable not to give rewards.

Chen Huai temporarily convened He Qingshe, Li Feng, Guo Quan and other town leaders, as well as Wang Kangsheng, Xu Xiting, Qian Wenhui, Zhao Dong and others from the Steel Plant for a meeting, and finally decided to spend one million to pay year-end bonuses to the management and front-line workers of the steel plant.

Front-line workers, team leaders and ordinary supervisors, all pay one to three months of salary as year-end rewards; if there are still 400,000 left, they will be distributed according to coefficients within the management team, and almost every person can receive a year-end reward of 20,000 to 40,000 yuan.

By the end of the year, in addition to maintaining normal production operations, the work on the outside has almost stopped, making it seem leisurely and the finances will be even busier by the end of the year.

On the town government, He Qingshe was busy repaying wages to all the teachers and staff in the town, inspecting the holiday safety work of primary and secondary schools in the town. Li Feng was responsible for comprehensive management. Seeing that the assets were nothing to do until the end of the year, the joint venture to establish Ziluo Home Textiles was temporarily stopped and delayed until after the year before continuing negotiations. It seemed that nothing happened to Chen Huai, but the party secretary had to take charge of the overall situation. Even if Chen Huai tried hard to push the matter out, He Qingshe, Li Feng, Huang Xinliang and others were all used to asking him for instructions, reporting, and discussing if he had something to do.

The town leaders who have been idle at the end of the year will also go out and visit the five-guarantee families from house to house to comfort the elderly and widows in the town nursing home.

In addition to double the condolences (after actually doubling, there is only one hundred yuan in condolences in addition to grain and oil New Year’s goods), Chen Huai also has to be responsible for visiting the five-guarantee families in Xuetangqiao Village.

On the 26th day of the twelfth lunar month, it snowed heavily and it did not stop from morning to noon. It was snowing from time to time, making people unable to open their eyes.

The snow on the road turned into mud, but in the fields and on the roofs, it was already covered with white space, like a thick quilt.

In Shen Huai's impression, he never remembered that there had been such heavy snow in Donghua in winter. The weather forecast said that the snow would continue for a long time. When he came out of town at noon, he was worried that some dangerous houses could support it.

Accompanied by Huang Xinliang and Chu Qiang, Chen Huai also had to visit the last villager group. Due to the rain yesterday, it was snowing heavily today since the early morning. The Niba Road down the village sidewalk was trampled into mud pits for people. Chen Huai and others parked the car on the sidewalk of the village and walked in from the edge of the relatively dry wheat fields.

"There is Old Man Kou's house ahead." The village party secretary tried hard to come over and helped Chen Huai hold an umbrella to block the snow.

Chen Huai was wearing a ski shirt inside and a rain-proof jacket outside. He was not afraid of the snowflakes hitting his body, but it was not easy to drive the Party Secretary of Xuetangqiao Village to the side, and he also asked him to lead the way in front.

Chen Huai knew that Kou Xuan was discharged from the hospital today. Although her injuries did not heal completely, no rural people liked to spend the Spring Festival in the hospital. Even if they were hospitalized after the Spring Festival, they would have to be discharged from the hospital before the Spring Festival.

On such a snowy day, Chen Huai didn't know if Xiao Li went to pick Kou Xuan up and was discharged from the hospital. Anyway, Xiao Li spent all day in the town health center after the holiday, so Chen Huai and Chen Dan ignored her.

Old Man Kou's house is a thatched hut thatched in the earth wall, which looks extremely shabby. A thick layer of snow has accumulated on the roof. Chen Huai is worried that such a simple house can withstand the pressure of snow.

The old wooden door was covered, and Xiao Li could hear laughter inside. Her orange bicycle was placed against the wall. Chen Huai couldn't help but smile bitterly and shook his head: It was so snowy, she didn't even think about how to go back later.

The village party secretary ran over and knocked on the door. Xiao Li opened the door and saw Chen Huai. He was stunned for a moment and asked, "Chen Huai, why are you here?"

Chen Huai reached out and rubbed Xiao Li's head, and smiled and said, "I'm not here to pick you up, how can you go back later?" Xiao Li stuck out his tongue embarrassedly.

The village party secretary didn’t know what the relationship between Chen Huai and the beautiful girl in front of him, but seeing their relationship with her, they must have been a relative. When they saw Old Man Kou poking his head out, he said, “Old Man Kou, Secretary Chen from the town has gone to greet you for a New Year…”

Old Man Kou hurriedly walked out and said to Chen Huai: "This is really true. It's the New Year. Secretary Chen, you are also a busy person. Why are you here to wish us a New Year?"

Chen Huai knew that Old Man Kou was a solid person and spoke very directly. He smiled and said, "Party members and cadres are the public servants of the people. We must first ensure that the people can have a good New Year. Only those who are public servants dare to sit at home and wait for the New Year..."

When I walked into the house, there were two dirt houses, the main hall doubled as a kitchen, mud floor, a stove and a table, and a copper hookah was placed on the table. There was also a small bed in the corner, which I thought was where Old Man Kou slept.

The bedding on the bed was patched, and cotton wool was exposed, and the one laid down was hay. The main hall had a north window, no glass, covered with plastic cloth and newspaper, and a mouth was broken, and the cold wind blew in. The temperature inside and outside the house was about cold, making people feel no warmth.

Chen Huai walked into the inner room with his head low. Kou Xuan lay on the bed and had not sat up yet. He seemed to be both embarrassed and sad because the embarrassment at home was exposed to outsiders. His little face was red and tears were in his eyes.

The little girl no longer had a swollen face like when she first met her. Her fair face and straight nose bridge were a bit thin. In addition to being a little thin, she was quite pretty and had big eyes and bright eyes, but she looked too sharp...

Chen Huai looked up at the roof and the earthen wall supporting the beams. He had no time to take care of the girl's emotions. He didn't care what the village party secretary said, Huang Xinliang and Old Man Kou said in the main hall, he turned around and went out and walked around the back of the house.

Huang Xinliang and Chu Qiang saw Chen Huai’s reaction strangely, chased him out and asked, “What’s wrong with Secretary Chen?”

"With such a big blizzard, the weather forecast says it will be the whole night, and this house can't afford to eat!"

"..." Huang Xinliang and Chu Qiang were stunned.

Chen Huai didn't explain anything to Huang Xinliang, and Chu Qiang said to the house, and said to Old Man Kou: "Donghua hasn't encountered such heavy snow today for many years. I'm afraid you can't afford to eat in this house. Today, Kou Xuan and you still have to live in the town. I'll ask the car to take you away. At least you have to wait for the snow to stop before you can come back..."

"It's okay, what can it be done when it snows?" Old Man Kou shook his head and said, "This house is only suffering when it rains."

Donghua is located in the south, and is a formal and classic building. When designing, the snow protection standards are far lower than those in northern towns.

In the south, Linhai, if you want to say that the typhoon passes through, the government will move quickly when the people move, but they are very careless in preventing snow disasters. Even Huang Xinliang, Chu Qiang and others do not have the vigilance and awareness of preventing snow disasters.

Chen Huai was a industrial management background and received training in disaster prevention and safety than any ordinary official. How thick snow can this roof withstand? Chen Huai's eyes can roughly estimate that this is obviously not the ability that Huang Xinliang, Chu Qiang and others have.

The snow really needs to be as the weather forecast says, and it will not stop tomorrow morning. If the house is provoked, it may collapse.

Chen Huai was also scared and sweated. The town found out that there were hundreds of special dilapidated houses similar to Old Man Kou's house. If he hid in the office today, he would not have the special attention to preventing snow disasters...
Chapter completed!