That night, Zeng Dashu and his wife arrived home a little late. They had prepared dinner and were about to eat it when they heard a knock on the door outside.
"Who is coming at this time?" Zeng Dashu frowned.
"I won't knock on the door if I have nothing to do. Let's go take a look." Meizi put down the dishes and wanted to go out.
Zeng Dashu said: "You eat first, I'll just go and take a look."
"Okay."
Not long after Zeng Dashu went out, he walked back quickly, "The Yamen asked me to come over and said that they had invited the village chiefs of several villages to discuss things together." He went to the stool and took a cotton-padded jacket and put it on, "I'll come over here. It will take more than half an hour to talk at least. You should eat and go to bed first. Leave the food on the table and don’t clear it away. I will go to Sister Wanjin’s house later and tell her to look over here.”
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He had no time to spare, and he lost a series of words while putting on his cotton-padded jacket.
Mei Zi didn’t want to hear him recite sutras, “I know, I know, just be careful.”
When he went out again, the government official who spread the news had already gone to Qiancun.
Zeng Dashu turned around and went to Wan Jin's house, said a few words of thanks to her, and then rushed to the county government office with a torch.
Halfway through, I heard footsteps behind me. When I turned around, I realized it was the village chief of the former village and the two cadres who had just delivered the message.
Zeng Dashu stopped and waited for them.
"Big tree, I knew it was you." The village chief of Annan Village smiled, "Let's go, let's go together."
The two of them entered a room in the county government office with the yamen servant, and there were already two people inside.
The yamen servant said: "You just wait here for a moment until everyone is gone before I come over."
"Hey, okay."
The two people who were sitting in the room also stood up and said hello when they saw them coming in.
Although Zeng Dashu had not interacted with them much, he had met them once or twice. He stared at the younger man and wanted to say a few words to him. But before he could speak, Yang Chunshan, the village chief of Annan Village next to him, asked: "Who else is missing?"
What Zeng Dashu originally said became, "The village chief of Anxi Village has not yet arrived."
"Don't stand around, everyone." Luo Qingyang, an old uncle from Luojia Village, said, "Sit down and talk. Anxi Village is far away from here, and it will take some time to get there."
Zeng Dashu looked at the room and saw that the layout of the house was strange. The arrangement of tables and stools looked like the canteen when he came to Beishan County to build the city wall.
Besides the long table and benches, there was only an empty bookshelf in this room.
However, there were tea and snacks on the long table. He didn't have time to eat dinner, so he made this trip again, just when he was hungry.
Thinking like this, his stomach growled unsatisfactorily, but no matter how he breathed in or pressed his stomach, he couldn't stop the cry.
He blushed.
Yang Chunshan asked: "Can the food on the table be eaten?"
"Yes." Luo Qingyang said, "It's just for us to eat. You haven't had dinner yet, right?" He pushed the plate in front of Zeng Dashu and Yang Chunshan, "Eat something to cushion your stomach."
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After eating half a plate of millet cake, Zeng Dashu was not full, but he was too embarrassed to reach out again.
Fortunately, everyone is here.
As soon as Meng Changqing came in, she smiled and said: "Thank you for making this trip." She sat down on the main seat before continuing, "Today is our first village chief meeting. The village chiefs of the five villages in the county are all here." Arrived.
You must have greeted each other before I came. In the future, as we get along with each other, we will become more and more familiar with each other.
Logically speaking, there are towns below counties, and villages and villages below towns. But our Beishan County has a special situation, with a small place and few people. Judging from the current situation, there is no need to divide it layer by layer.
All rules are set by people. As an official, I hope there will be fewer useless rules and systems, and everything should be based on actual needs. "(End of Chapter)