Great changes in the countryside

Chapter 403 Cadres Take the Lead
Chen Yang conveyed Tong Siping's instructions.

"...Therefore, we must actively save ourselves. First mobilize the few families with motorized boats, and let's help them fish out the boats and repair them, so that we can communicate with the outside world."

Chen Shengmei said: "I will take care of this job myself, and my younger brother has a motor boat."

Cai Yuesong asked, "How to solve the problem of diesel? Without diesel, the boat can't run."

Chen Yang said: "My second brother has five barrels of diesel oil, let's use them first."

Chen Yuhua asked, "Yang, what are you taking this money for?"

Chen Yang smiled, "Going out to buy things in a motor boat must be very expensive. Our village has no money, so we can't steal it. I will take 1 yuan for the village to use. If it is not enough, I will think about it later." Method."

Cai Yuesong nodded, "I'll get some money later. Yang, you made a good start. At this time, we should stand up."

The others nodded.

Chen Shengmei said to Chen Yang, "Yang, you can arrange the work."

Chen Yang pretended to be polite, "Me? You are all leaders, so it's my turn."

Cai Yuesong pointed at Chen Yang with a smile, "It's not good to be hypocritical."

Tong Laogui said: "Yang, you can arrange it."

Chen Yang was no longer polite. He first handed 1 yuan to Tong Laogui, "Old boy, you will be responsible for the tasks of going out to buy things in the future. Accountant Tong and cashier Chen will take turns to cooperate with you."

Tong Laogui nodded.

"The branch secretary is mainly on duty at the village. Uncle Yue Song, Aunt Yuhua, you two will take a small boat to go around the village, collect the statistics of the personnel situation from door to door, and distribute the supplies sent by the superiors along the way."

After the temporary meeting was over, everyone got busy separately.

In the evening, the water level stabilized and finally stopped rising.

That night, six motor boats from the village were pulled out of the water.

Only two of them are still usable, and the bottoms of the other four are so damaged that they are basically useless.

For the remaining two motor boats, Chen Yang asked for overnight maintenance, and strived to be able to go out to purchase supplies tomorrow morning.

With so many villages and towns being flooded, the price of materials will definitely rise. If you go out early to purchase, you may be able to buy them, and the price will not be too outrageous.

The next morning, the water level didn't rise, but it didn't fall either.

It was also drizzling.

The two motor boats set off separately, one to the county town and the other to Wenqiao Street.

In addition to the boat boss and village cadres, there are seven or eight people each.

One was led by Chen Shengmei, Chen Fuman, and accountant Tong Yumei, and the other was led by Cai Yuesong, Tong Laogui, and cashier Chen Dongfu.

Chen Yang didn't close his eyes all night.

After another count and statistics, there were no deaths, and the whole village was safe and sound.

At around eleven o'clock in the morning, the grain delivery ship from the county arrived.

Five thousand catties of rice, three hundred catties of oil, two hundred catties of sugar, and one hundred catties of salt.

Chen Yang asked Cai Xiaohui and Chen Yuhua to organize personnel to distribute the supplies.

Together with Tong Xiaolong, Cai Guoping led the commandos and militiamen and continued to collect useful things from various households.

At 12:30 noon, the two motor boats returned.

On this trip, I bought 3000 catties of rice, more than 1000 catties of pork and more than 2000 catties of fresh vegetables.

The most bought is firewood, a total of more than 1 catties.

I also bought a lot of other materials.

It's just that the prices are really expensive. The accountant Tong Yumei and the cashier Chen Dongfu told Chen Yang that the prices of various materials are generally 50.00% more expensive than usual.

There is no way, no matter how expensive it is, I have to buy it, and I have to buy it tomorrow.

In the afternoon, the village held a meeting of the two committees.

On one issue, village cadres donated money.

Chen Yang took [-] again, [-] belonged to himself, and the other [-] belonged to his second brother.

Chen Yang's second brother is not a cadre, so he didn't need to donate money, but he asked his elder brother to tell him that he must donate.

As a special case, Chen Bing received 1 yuan from the village.

Other villagers who are not village cadres will not accept their donations for the time being.

Party secretary Chen Shengmei donated [-]. Everyone knows that this is his limit.

Cai Yuesong and Cai Fuman each donated [-] yuan.

Tong Laogui, Chen Yuhua, Cai Guoping, Cai Xiaohui and Tong Xiaolong each donated [-] yuan.

Including Chen Yang's earliest donation of 4 yuan, a total of [-] yuan was raised.

It was agreed that this money should be used mainly for post-disaster reconstruction, apart from being urgently needed now.

There are not many supplies allocated by the superiors, and the focus of disaster relief is still on self-help.

During this period of time, Chen Sanpao's commando team worked the hardest and made the most contributions.

More than 120 pigs, more than 300 chickens, more than 500 ducks, and more than [-] dogs were all captured by the commando.

The commandos also went door-to-door into houses, rummaged through boxes and cabinets without leaving any corners, and obtained more than 3 catties of rice, more than 710 jars of pickles, and more than 700 catties of cured meat.

Chen Yang also organized carpenters in the village and villagers who knew carpentry to install temporary doors and windows on the second floor of all new houses in the village.

More than 100 households in the village have new houses, a total of [-].

The villagers also basically lived in the second floor of the new house.

The water level is slowly dropping and the weather has improved, so everyone breathes a sigh of relief.

Chen Yang hadn't returned home for two days. Seeing that everything was in order, he took the time to go home.

Now I don't need to swim anymore, I can go home in a small wooden boat.

The small wooden boat that Chen Yang was in was his own small fishing boat.

There are five or six holes in the small fishing boat, which are all blocked by mud, and from time to time, a wooden scoop is used to scoop water out.

Little Button was rowing the oars.

Chen Yang fell asleep leaning on the side of the boat.

The small wooden boat rowed into the yard of Chen Yang's house and leaned directly on the window sill of his mother's room.

With the help of the villagers, the waste bricks and rocks that collapsed on the third floor have been basically cleaned up.

Seeing that Chen Yang was sleeping soundly, no one in the family dared to disturb him, so Chen Bing brought a piece of clothing to cover his elder brother.

Shunzi carried the little button into the room, and handed him two rice balls.

Little Button devoured it voraciously, making him look ugly.

Grandma smiled Mimi, and told Shunzi to take two more rice balls.

The little button still ate fast and ate everything.

Shunzi said happily, "Little button, can I still eat it?"

Little Button patted his stomach and said, "It's okay to have ten more."

Chen Bing scolded with a smile: "You little foodie, according to the way you eat, you'll kill yourself before the flood recedes."

Little Button smiled and said, "Your rice balls are delicious. Theirs are just rice balls, but your rice balls are sweet."

That's true, Chen Yang's family has saccharin.The sweetness of saccharin is higher than that of white sugar and brown sugar. When making rice balls with saccharin, the rice balls are of course sweet.

Chen Yang woke up.

Shunzi quickly handed over two rice balls.

Chen Yang asked while eating, "Little Button, have you eaten yet?"

"Hey, I ate four."

Chen Yang scolded the little button, a rice ball is two taels, if you eat too much, you will be stretched.

Little Button didn't talk back, just kept giggling.

After eating, Chen Yang said to his second younger brother: "What I am most worried about now is our fourth child. The road is closed, and she can't report to school on time."

"Brother, this problem is no longer a problem."

(End of this chapter)