Rebirth in 1998 is also a kind of life

In the Miao village (village group) where Li Qiaoqiao lives, Zhang Mengping and Yang Zhu are sitting on the grass beside the village entrance, smoking and bragging.

"Yang Zhu, thank you very much!" Zhang Mengping said with some emotion.

"Thank you?" Yang Zhu looked at him in surprise.

Zhang Mengping tapped his shoulder lightly, and looked at him with contempt: "Fake it! If you hadn't greeted Manager Lu and Director Lin in advance, would they support me so much?"

Yang Zhu laughed: "You're talking about this, hey~ what else do I care about!"

He said, with a look of course: "Based on the relationship between you and me, in their eyes, you can be regarded as one of their own; the bamboo shoot processing factory and road construction are such big things, it is natural to entrust trustworthy people to supervise them." Row!"

Zhang Mengping curled his lips, and then looked at him with a strange look: "I don't even look at the list of candidates provided by Director Zhong, and directly appoint me to be the connection person, and take this as a prerequisite for signing the contract... I can I didn't think I had the ability to make the two company executives directly lose Director Zhong's face!"

However, thinking of Zhong Tao's stiff old face that was deformed to the point of deformation yesterday, Zhang Mengping couldn't help being in a good mood, and immediately abducted Yang Zhu in a very joking manner, and said slyly: "Honestly tell me, you Which beauty are you having an affair with? Manager Lu or Director Lin?"

Yang Zhu had black lines all over his head: "Which of your eyes can see that I have an affair with them?"

Zhang Mengping cut out: "Come on, if I don't have a leg, people will support me like this?"

Yang Zhu was a little speechless, and when he was about to tell him that he had a woman, a slightly hoarse child voice sounded beside him...

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"Officer Zhang...here!" A timid yellow-haired girl gave Yang Zhu a scared look, then mustered up the courage to walk up to Zhang Mengping, and handed out a small bag of black fungus.

This is the first time that Yang Zhu has seen a real "yellow-haired girl"—a thin and thin body. Although there are a pair of black pearl-like eyes on her dirty face, they are far from the one on her head. The yellowish dull hair is eye-catching.

From the dull hair and thin figure, it is easy to judge that this hair is not dyed, nor is it due to genetics, but is caused by long-term malnutrition.

Zhang Mengping touched the head of this little girl who was only about six or seven years old angrily, swept his eyes into the shrunken snakeskin pocket behind her, and said viciously: "Didn't you say that the road is dangerous? Why?" Going to pick up plastic bottles again!?"

The little girl showed no sign of being frightened at all. Instead, she opened the snakeskin pocket like offering a treasure, revealing several beverage bottles of different materials and a few pieces of waste cardboard: "I picked up 8 bottles today!"

"In this way, I picked up more than 30 bottles this week. I figured it out. When I go to the township street on the weekend, I should be able to exchange it for more than one yuan."

"With this money, I can secretly buy several pencils and exercise books, and this is my own money, even if my father finds out, he won't scold me!"

Seeing the little girl's proud appearance, Zhang Mengping was sad, and his tone became even more hostile: "Did you forget what happened to Xiao Lahai last year? Do you want to be hit by a car too!?"

After finishing speaking, she found something was wrong, then reached out to brush her bangs, frowned and said, "Did you fight with someone today?"

The little girl looked like she had made a mistake and was afraid of being scolded, and she said aggrievedly: "Obviously I discovered the bottle first, but Little Chazha from Wodang Village said he saw it first, and that it was his village. I'm not allowed to pick it up."

As she said that, the little girl looked at him weakly: "Officer Zhang, he was the one who grabbed it first and pushed me, so I got into a fight with him."

Seeing the little girl's frightened eyes, Zhang Mengping's eyebrows twitched a few times, and he said in a vicious voice, "If you want to buy pencils and exercise books, why don't you just tell me! You little girl ran so far to pick up the bottle, and you still have to follow me." Fighting!? Accidentally scratched your face, let me see how you will find your husband's family in the future!"

As he said, he rummaged through his pocket, but his pocket was cleaner than his face, and he was stunned for more than ten seconds without finding a single coin. Fortunately, Yang Zhu thoughtfully stuffed ten yuan into his hand, and then Give the ten yuan forward: "Here, take it to buy a pencil exercise book, and buy a bag of milk with the remaining money!"

After finishing speaking, he raised his hand fiercely: "The next time I come here, I will see you picking up bottles again, and I will make your ass blossom!!"

The little girl was not afraid of him at all, but she refused to accept the ten yuan, her hands were tightly behind her back, and she shook her head to the rattle: "Officer Zhang, don't give me any more money; Dad said you have no money, And the money you bought dried mushrooms from my house last time has not been used up yet, Dad!"

Zhang Mengping blushed: "Who says I have no money, my salary is high! Hurry up and take the money, buy some things to make up for it, it depends on how thin you are, you are more than eight years old, and you are not as tall as someone who is six years old high!"

Yang Zhu was shocked when he heard this, if Luo Bo didn't say anything, he really wouldn't have noticed that the little girl in front of him was already over eight years old.

The little girl curled her lips with disbelief on her face: "Father said that you are a good person. Although your salary is high, you have given us all the subsidy in a different way. At the end of the month, your pocket is cleaner than your face."

"Em also said that if you abuse good people like you, sooner or later you will starve to death!"

As he said that, he handed over the bag of wild mushrooms again: "Here, this is the morel mushroom I picked up today. I know you like to eat mushrooms, so I picked it up for you today!"

Seeing Zhang Mengping hesitated for a while, she still accepted her fungus. The little girl grinned happily and smirked for a while, but then became a little frustrated: "But now the fungus has just come out, and not many grow out, so I picked one up." There are only a few flowers in the morning."

Zhang Mengping snorted and rolled his eyes: "I'm not a pig, how can I eat so much, this is enough!"

After finishing speaking, he stuffed the ten yuan in the past: "Take it, this is the money to buy mushrooms!"

The little girl was in a hurry and was about to run away. Zhang Mengping grabbed her, first gave her a slight thump, and then said: "We are not allowed to take things belonging to the common people. This is discipline, you know!"

"Either, you accept the money and treat it as my money for buying these fungi; or, you take this bag of fungi back!"

The little girl was about to cry anxiously: "You are a pauper with no money in your pocket, what do you have to do!? It's just a bag of worthless fungi, what kind of discipline can you violate!? I don't know. Tell others, what are you afraid of!"

Seeing the little girl's tears rolling in her eyes, Yang Zhu couldn't bear it, and touched her head under the watchful eyes of the little girl: "Little sister, you can accept this money; today is different from the past, Zhang The cadres are rich now, not short of ten yuan!"

Hearing this, Zhang Mengping nodded repeatedly, pointed at Yang Zhu and said, "Do you know who he is? This is my brother, who came here with the big boss to invest. Thieves have money, and the bamboo shoot factory that will be built in the village is theirs!"

"And I contributed to this investment, and the unit gave me a huge bonus, and ten yuan is not serious at all!"

Speaking of this, Zhang Mengping had a proud face: "Hmph, when the bonus is paid out next month, I'll buy as much fungus as you pick up. I'm not short of money, old man!"

Hearing this, the little girl looked suspiciously at Zhang Mengping, and then at Yang Zhu, who was dressed as a city man. After getting his assurance, she took the ten yuan without any difficulty, and then looked Flushing red, he said, "When it rains, I'll go up the mountain to pick up mushrooms for you right away. I'll make up for the ten yuan worth of mushrooms before I come next time, no matter what!"

After finishing speaking, he dragged the snakeskin pocket that was bigger than her head and ran away clattering.

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Seeing that the little girl had disappeared, Yang Zhu said jokingly: "Luobo, it seems that you are very popular here. The villagers here are very close to you from old to young. Let’s settle down here.”

Radish curled his lips, then took out his wrinkled white skin soft Chuncheng, and gave one of the two remaining cigarettes to Yang Zhu: "What a mess, although I need to build a good relationship with the fellow villagers now, but Don't use those state-owned enterprise thinking to measure things here!"

As he spoke, he greeted a man carrying a large pile of dry firewood a few more times, and after rejecting the other party's invitation to dinner, he turned his head: "It is said that there are troublesome people in the poor mountains and rivers here in Zhenxiong, but Few of them know that although the fellow villagers here are a bit hot-tempered, in fact most of them are simple-minded, as long as you really treat them as friends, they will show their hearts to you!"

Yang Zhu shrugged: "So you committed an old problem and subsidized all your wages on them?"

Zhang Mengping shook his head, was silent for a while before sighing: "You really think I'm a simple person who doesn't care about my belly for the sake of face!!?"

"I know I look like a good person now, but I believe that if you really understand the situation here, you will be like this in all likelihood!"

Seeing Yang Zhu's vaguely disapproving expression, Zhang Mengping felt a little disappointed: "Forget it, if I have the opportunity to take you around the homes of these fellow villagers, you will know what's going on!"

Looking at the empty expression on Luobo's face, Yang Zhu remembered the yellow hair just now, and frowned, "Is the situation here so bad?"

Zhang Mengping smiled wryly: "Southern Yunnan is known as one of the poorest provinces in China; Zhaotong is known as the poorest area in southern Yunnan; in this Zhaotong area, Zhenxiong is one of the poorest counties in Zhaotong; Shu Township is regarded as the poorest township in Zhenxiong; and according to my visits over the past year, Xishahe Village can be regarded as one of the bottom villages in Shanshu Township.”

"So... the situation may be worse than you think!"

Yang Zhu recalled the situation of eating and living at Li Laozha's house for the past two days. Although it was difficult, he couldn't reach the level of poverty that Zhang Mengping said, right?

Hearing Yang Zhu's question, Zhang Mengping sneered: "Do you think that although the rice and vegetables you ate these two days are far from rich, they are full of oil and salt, so they can be swallowed at least?"

Yang Zhu nodded. Although the food these two days was a bit bland, there was at most a little shredded pork in it; but fortunately, the water quality here is very good, and the vegetables have a special flavor. To a certain extent, it can be regarded as It is a healthy diet close to nature, so he doesn't hate it.

Seeing this guy's expression of "the taste is okay", Zhang Mengping rolled his eyes, and then let out a mouthful of smoke rings: "Do you know that the rice, oil and vegetables for the past two days are all served by Li Laozha who walked 20 Many kilometers of mountain roads, I went to the streets of the country to buy them specially for you distinguished guests!"

"Don't think the food is bad, just the rice and the two taels of meat. If you didn't come, they would only dare to be so extravagant during the Chinese New Year!"

Yang Zhu had an incredulous expression on his face, just two pieces of meat, is that a luxury?

Zhang Mengping curled his lips: "Believe it or not is up to you. Also, the quilts you sleep on are the same. Although the quilt covers are original, the quilt cores inside are all new; otherwise, I will let you cover the quilt cores with chaff... ...I'm afraid you won't be able to close your eyes all night!"

Yang Zhu saw that Zhang Mengping didn't seem to be fooling himself, and was a little stunned: "It's so difficult...!?"

Thinking of some information that Zhang Mengping inadvertently revealed during the conversation with that little yellow-haired girl just now, Yang Zhu's expression became inexplicably gloomy: "Carrot, tell me about the situation here."

Looking at the rather serious expression, Zhang Mengping looked at the bag of fungi on the side with a complicated expression, and then suddenly asked: "That little girl just now, do you know why she is still so small even after she is eight years old?" ?”