The Story of Qingfeng Village

Chapter 60 Finding the Li Family

The next day, the villagers gathered at the village committee again.

The autumn grain has been harvested, and there is no farm work to do, so everyone is free.

After breakfast, I went out of the house one after another to come to the village committee.

If you have something to do, you can help with it, and if you have nothing to do, it’s also good to chat. There are so many people, and the day passes quickly.

In the shed, Yao Dad, a carpenter, has already set up a formation, and is stepping up to make a sign. The red letter on the white background of a sign that has been completed reads: Qingfeng Village Branch Committee, Taiping Township, Communist Party of China

Another signboard of the Qingfeng Village Committee of Taiping Township is being painted.The white background had already dried, and black paint was painted on the words. A villager was dipping a small brush in the paint and painting the words little by little.

And Yaodie is working on the third piece: the evening school for farmers in Qingfeng Village.

Zhu Xia: "It's amazing, Father Yao, you actually carved these characters bit by bit with stamps."

Yao father: "Hey, I know this stupid skill.

I heard that it was all printed or sprayed in the city, so I don't know how advanced it is. "

"You are the real craft."

"What kind of craftsmanship, it's an old-fashioned thing, it's not fashionable anymore."

In the past, when there were many people in the village, some people hired carpenters to make furniture, especially those who were going to marry a daughter-in-law. They had to prepare the dowry early, such as beds, cabinets, boxes, barrels, tubs and so on.

Later, when young people went out to work, who would use the old-style furniture in the village?They are all new-style furniture in big cities. Even the elderly who stay in the village use porcelain basins, plastic basins, and stainless steel basins. Who still uses heavy wooden barrels and wooden basins.

Yao's father is almost unemployed, and few people ask him to make furniture. He only makes some benches or bamboo wares occasionally and sells them in grocery stores in the countryside.

Such a shame for such good craftsmanship.

Zhu Xia felt a little regretful.

"Dad Yao, I want to ask you something, do you have any contact with Uncle Li's family?"

"Uncle Li? Who?"

"It's the former village party secretary Li Fumin, Uncle Li."

"Oh, they, no. They haven't been back for several years. They must have made a fortune outside, so why go back to this poor corner?"

"No one in the village knows where they are?"

"do not know!"

"Then who is planting his land?"

Dad Yao glanced at Zhu Xia: "It's your second uncle's house."

"Oh……"

When the villagers had almost arrived, Wang Jinfa asked, "Who knows the contact information of Li Fumin's house? Tell me, so I can inform them to come back and discuss the land occupation for the repair of the base station."

"do not know."

"No need to contact you."

"Their family didn't contact you, the village director, so how could they contact us?"

Zhu Yan: "Second Uncle, I heard that your family grows their land. Have you not contacted me?"

Uncle Zhu: "Big sister, Li Fumin gave me the land to plant when he left. He didn't know how long he would go, but he was about to harvest it, and we couldn't leave the land unused in the future, so let us plant it, regardless of the planting. What, all the harvest belongs to me. Director Wang, you also know about this, and I have nothing to hide."

Wang Jinfa: "I know I know. I didn't say anything? Farming is a good thing. What I'm talking about now is to let them come back and sign an agreement to receive compensation. Don't drag it too far."

Uncle Zhu: "I know, but I don't know where they are? I thought they didn't say they would come back every year, but they had to come back every other year to check. I still kept the food, and I was going to give them some. It would never be in vain It’s their land. But you can also see that it’s been several years, and no one from the Li family has come back.”

Wang Jinfa: "I don't believe it anymore, no one really knows the whereabouts of Li Fumin and Li Qiang.

You all think about it carefully, and ask those of you who are working outside, has anyone seen Li Qiang. "

Generally, when villagers go out to work, they like to form gangs.Even if you don't do the same job, if you are in a city, you will be in contact with fellow villagers, so you can take care of everything you encounter.

A villager said: "Don't you have the phone numbers of the migrant workers in the village? You can call them one by one and ask."

Those who went out to work would call the landline of the village committee, and then either ask Wang Jinfa to forward the answer, or ask him to call his family members to answer the phone.So Wang Jinfa kept a record of their phone numbers so that the family members could call them when they needed to find them in an emergency.The family is old and young, and most of them can't remember the phone number.

Wang Jinfa: "Hey, look at my memory."

Everyone laughed: "Director Wang, are you dizzy from work, are you looking for a hat while wearing a hat?"

"I'm going to call and ask one by one. I don't believe that no one knows."

Wang Jinfa went into the office to hold the landline and make a call.

Here Uncle Zhu frowned and thought for a while, then pulled Zhu Xia aside and said, "Sister, I remember that when your brother Zhu Hui came back during the Spring Festival last year, he said to give me his old mobile phone, hehe, how can I use it?" Come, but he really left it to me.

I still remember that he mentioned it at the time, saying that he met Li Qiang once.

I asked him at the time, did you ask where Li Qiang was?

I asked, and they said where the fish were raised.Alas, I am old, and I can't remember what he said?
I just said why don't you ask when he will come back?I still have something to tell him.

Zhu Hui said that he could call later if there was anything to talk about. I remembered their number in my cell phone.

Big sister, do you think this number is in that phone?How to take it out?

I don't understand either.

If I hadn't mentioned the phone call just now, I couldn't remember it. "

"Oh, my second uncle, you really thought about it in time. That's great, I don't have to worry about not finding Li Qiang."

"Do you want me to go back and get the phone?"

Zhu Xia: "You don't have to go get it. If it's stored in the old phone, it might be in Brother Zhu Hui's new phone. I'll call Brother Zhu Hui right now. Just ask him to tell us Li Qiang's number. If No, it’s not too late to go back and get my phone.”

"That's it... Hehe, it should be faster. You young people are still quick-witted and quick-witted."

Zhu Xia walked into the office and said to Wang Jinfa: "Director Wang, if you call my cousin Zhu Hui, he may know Li Qiang's phone number."

Xiao Guangwei, who was looking at the document, raised his head, "Oh, great, how do you know?"

"What my second uncle said, he remembered."

Wang Jinfa: "These uncles and uncles, if you don't force them, you just won't know."

Zhu Xia: "For the elderly, it's inevitable. Director Wang, please call quickly."

Seeing that Secretary Xiao and Zhu Xia were looking at him earnestly, Wang Jinfa felt that when he held the microphone, he had weight.

He hurriedly found Zhu Hui's phone number in the notebook.

Xiao Guangwei: "Old Wang, you have done a good job. Give me these phone numbers later."

Wang Jinfa was about to ask what he wanted for a share?The phone went through.

(End of this chapter)