Take Arada back to the past

Chapter 504, We are serving the people!

"Click, click!"

Everyone was there testing the guns in their hands.

Most of them don’t use it.

Shot a target.

It doesn't mean you can play with guns.

What Yang Xiaole got was a Type 56 semi-automatic rifle.

The gun body is badly worn, but overall it has been well maintained. The previous owner took good care of it and even applied butter.

This butter needs to be cleaned up later.

Everyone was busy organizing their guns.

Everyone looked very surprised.

"Hey, Captain Xie, we are all here at the commune, and there are still two hours before the meeting! We are just sitting here doing nothing, so let's go to the commune to buy some things and call home, ok?"

Someone asked.

Others also watched expectantly.

Xie Hongbing shook his head: "No, during the mission, no one is allowed to leave the team. Besides, the meeting is scheduled for three o'clock. What if an emergency suddenly comes?"

After hearing this, everyone stopped talking in dismay.

"Alas, in ancient times, when Dayu was controlling floods, he passed by his home three times without entering. Today, educated youth have passed by the commune three times without staying."

Zhang Mingyuan sighed and said this.

When everyone thought about it, it seemed that this was indeed the case.

The first time was when the educated youth came and stayed in the warehouse.

The second time was a training march. We arrived, received our stuff, and then left.

This is the third time.

Looks like it's not working again.

The meeting starts at three o'clock, and I don't know what time it is when it's over. Besides, there are so many people here this time, so unless you don't want to go home, you have to go back quickly after the meeting.

Xie Hongbing naturally wouldn't care about this.

After all, it's a special situation and we can't be as lazy as usual.

Everyone was chatting there.

Yang Xiaole looked at the chaos at the scene and knew that something big would probably happen in March.

At that time, the militia will be expanded.

I can’t go to the commune, so I can only wait here.

Not only them, but others were in the same situation and were not allowed to leave.

Sure enough, something happened in the middle.

Xie Hongbing came over and gave everyone a red flower to wear on the chest, which was made of red cloth.

Everyone put it on themselves happily.

"Hey, Xiaole, this is for you!"

Xie Hongbing took out a big one and handed it to him: "You six educated youth company commanders will all go on stage at that time, wear this."

These words made everyone look over.

Yang Xiaole took it and looked at it. The style was the same as others, just one size bigger.

He took it, grasped the pin on the back and put it on his chest.

After everyone had put on their masks, Xie Hongbing called them together and said, "There are only more than 20 of us in total. The list of company commanders and platoon leaders has been finalized. The educated youth company will be assigned to the production brigade militia company.

Yang Xiaole is the deputy company commander and also the platoon leader of the third platoon. Zhao Weibing, Song Liang, and Liu Jinlian, the three of you are squad leaders.

As for future expansion, it will depend on performance.

Understand? "

Hearing this, everyone nodded.

What's not clear about this.

There were two platoons before, and the new one they formed is naturally the third platoon. Now it can barely be considered a simplified version of the militia company.

The platoon leader, Zhang Liang, is from Team 3 where Gao Yifeng is.

The second platoon leader, Ma Shiyou, is from Team 4 where Ma Sanquan is.

Then everyone waited there quietly.

After a while, everyone was called to another courtyard and started moving benches.

As for the podium, it has already been set up.

Actually there aren't many people.

There were six brigades, each with about 10 to 20 people. Even if we included the militiamen from various production teams who came to send people off, there were only a little over 100 people.

The person attending this meeting is naturally Director Chen from last time.

But this time there were two more people, not the senior director of the commune, but someone from higher up.

One is an officer of the county’s armed forces department, and the other is an officer of the county’s office for resettling urban youth in rural areas.

Let me first talk about the current situation, and then talk about the heavy responsibility on your shoulders.

Say some more words of encouragement.

Naturally, the six newly elected deputy company commanders came on stage next.

There wasn't much content, most of it was just speeches on the stage, but it was already past five o'clock when the meeting ended.

It was almost dark.

Fortunately, the people in the commune arranged food for each person, three steamed buns and a bowl of hot soup.

During the meal, Director Chen and two other leaders were there to comfort the educated youth.

The main thing is to ask if there are any difficulties or something.

After a while, they arrived at Yang Xiaole's team.

Director Chen nodded slightly at him as a greeting.

Yang Xiaole naturally responded silently.

Two county officials were there, smiling and asking about the situation.

Naturally everyone said it was great!
Yang Xiaole was eating when he suddenly said, "I feel like there are people in our commune who want to disrupt production, disrupt..."

As soon as these words were spoken, everyone fell silent.

Officer Lin from the Youth Office asked in confusion: "Young comrade, why do you say that?"

Xie Hongbing pulled him.

Yang Xiaole naturally didn't care.

He casually said, "Comrade, I want to ask, the reason why we educated youth went to the countryside is to roll in the mud and cultivate our loyalty, so as to produce more food to support national construction, right?"

"Yes, that's right! The highest instruction is to dig deep holes and store up food..."

Seeing this, Yang Xiaole asked in confusion, "Do you think it's better for the production team to have more livestock, or is it better not to have more livestock?"

"That would certainly be good if there were more! We can't do the work of animals!"

"That's right. If our production team doesn't give us money and we can't buy livestock, does that count as sabotaging production?"

"This……"

The other party hesitated.

"What do you mean?"

Yang Xiaole said it directly.

Then he said: "Not only can we not buy livestock, but also raise pigs. It has always been a combination of collective and individual pig raising to supply more pork to the country, so that our troops can win the war!

Think about it, if the people don't have enough to eat, they won't have the strength to carry a gun if a war really breaks out. Don't you think so?

There are also sales outlets in the brigade, which are not set up in the brigade. How can this be for the benefit of the people? "

As soon as his words came out, everyone was shocked.

Yang Xiaole looked at the two people's serious expressions and said, "If this isn't sabotage, then what is it?"

"That's right!"

"Why don't you allow people to raise pigs? It's not like we're going to eat them all."

"Yeah! It's not convenient at all to buy things every time."

……

They were all people who were feared back then.

After coming here, I naturally understand this situation.

But few people dare to say it.

Now that someone has taken the lead, everyone naturally follows suit, but they all hide behind and hide away after they finish speaking.

Lest people remember it.

After hearing this, the other party thought about it and it seemed to be true!
Then he asked, "What's your name, young comrade? I see you're wearing a big red flower, so you should be the deputy company commander!"

"Yes, from Fenghuang Village, Yang Xiaole."

He gave his name without caring.

There is nothing wrong with his remarks, and they certainly won't give anyone any evidence to use against him. At most, they will just make some people unhappy.

What does it have to do with him whether he is happy or not?

Others are afraid of suppressing him or making things difficult for him to return to the city, but he doesn't care.

At worst, just go back!

After the busy farming season, some people secretly ran back home, and then the commune and the production corps went to look for them.

After hearing this, the other party nodded.

"Well, what this young comrade said makes sense. I will report this matter as soon as possible. We must not let this kind of..."

After saying that, he went somewhere else.

After everyone left, Xie Hongbing pulled him aside and said, "You are so brave? Aren't you afraid of offending others?"

Although everyone in the production team knew the situation.

But no one dared to say it.

Even people like Xie Laosi had to deal with others, and no one dared to break up with them.

Yang Xiaole drank the soup without caring, put the bowl down, and said with a smile: "How can I be considered as offending anyone? I am doing this to benefit the people, don't you think so?"

"that is!"

"Yes!"

Other educated youth, including those from other teams, also echoed the sentiments.

They don't dare to confront them directly.

But it’s okay to give some moral support.

Xie Hongbing shook his head speechlessly: "Alright, let's eat quickly. We have to set off soon. It's getting dark now."

"Okay, we're done eating, let's go!"

Everyone drank the hot soup and hurriedly took the remaining steamed buns.

It has been a few days since the beginning of spring.

The temperature is not as low as before.

But that's during the day. The temperature is only about minus ten degrees Celsius during the day, but it's still more than minus twenty degrees Celsius at night.

It won't be a very comfortable journey tonight.

However, after the beginning of spring, there is only more than a month left until April, and the temperature will rise quickly during this period.

Everyone went out and came to the other side where the carriage was parked.

Count the people, count the guns and ammunition.

After making sure everything was alright, he boarded the carriage back home.

……

In the office building, a slightly plump man heard someone talking like this and threw the cup of water in his hand away in anger.

On the falling enamel pot, it was written: Serve the People.

"He's a rebellious man! Go, arrest him!"

Hearing this, the people below hurriedly agreed and were about to go out.

But not long after he left, he called out again: "Wait a minute!"

"Director Gao! What's wrong?"

Gao Zhongliang thought about it, pondered there and then said: "You go out first, and wait for my notice on how to do it specifically."

After hearing this, the other party went out carefully.

After the people left, he thought for a moment and finally picked up the phone on the table and made a call.

After a while, the call was connected.

"Hey, Director Wang, it's Xiao Gao!"

"Oh, Gao Zhongliang, what's wrong?"

"It's like this, I have something to report to you..."

Gao Zhongliang bent over and told the story.

Then he waited there quietly.

After a long while, the other party finally said, "Okay, that was because it was necessary before, but it is no longer necessary now. Other places have been liberalized, but your commune is still like this. I have told you so many times, but you don't listen."

"But...but before we used this matter..."

This was something I was in charge of before, but now I have overturned it. Isn't this a slap in my face?

"That was in the past... What is our mission now? Produce more food to support national construction. Look at what you have done..."

The other party said for a while, then said: "Have you forgotten where they came from? What will you do if you write a letter to Sijiucheng? Okay, I'm busy, I'll hang up first."

Then he hung up the phone.

After hearing what the other party said, Gao Zhongliang's eyes lit up.

Yup!

It’s different now!
This doesn't count as a slap in his own face!

He felt very happy when he thought of this, as he had a headache before!

Because many people have reported this matter to him, especially some large teams, who have come to him for this matter many times.

Not necessary now!

Thinking of this, he called out softly to the outside: "Xiao Song!"

After a while, the door was opened.

Looking at the people coming in, he said, "Well, have someone send out a notice. In order to support... ordinary people can raise pigs. Of course, except for the collective ones, they can all raise boars. Also, let the brigade's sales agency buy in!"

"So...what about the money for the timber from Fenghuangtun?"

Gao Zhongliang thought for a moment and said, "We won't notify them about this. If they want to claim it, we'll give it to them. If not, forget it."

"Okay, I'll go and notify them right away. Is it a broadcast announcement?"

"Yes, broadcast the announcement!"

"it is good!"

After saying that, he was about to leave home.

"Hey, wait a minute, what about the guy you just mentioned called Yang something?"

"Yang Xiaole"

"Yes, Yang Xiaole, it just so happens that our commune has a patrol mission, so let him lead the team over to Xifengling."

"Ah! Let them go! It's right next to the boundary river!"

"Yes! Let them go, but don't be so anxious about it."

Hearing this, Xiao Song thought about it and nodded.

About to leave.

Then he stopped her again: "By the way, go tell the team something..."

Explain it there.

……

"Hey, if only a wolf could come, no, a pack of wolves could come, then we can kill them and have wolf skins to wear and meat to eat."

Zhang Mingyuan was holding an empty gun and gesticulating there.

I'm wearing a mask, so I can't hear clearly.

In the darkness, only the lantern hanging on the cart could provide a little light.

Xie Hongbing exhaled hot air and said, "Just shut up! Do you think wolves are so easy to kill? It's okay during the day, but if it's at night, do you know how fast the wolf is? Before you can even shoot, the wolf will bite you."

Zhang Mingyuan smiled bitterly: "Is it true?"

"That's not the case!"

Yang Xiaole also smiled.

In the past, he also felt that he could just take a gun and shoot when a wolf came.

But the reality is different.

For these people who have hardly touched a gun, even if they were real soldiers encountering a pack of wolves, they would be sweating.

Especially at night.

You can't shoot randomly at close range to avoid hurting your own people.

Once the wolf gets close, it is really hard to say who will live and who will die.

"Of course it's true!"

Xie Hongbing was explaining the situation there.

It was the same as what Yang Xiaole thought. He also said that in the past, there was a troop that was surrounded by wolves when it was delivering food.

There are three people, but there are six wolves.

Moreover, the troops were holding semi-automatic rifles.

Two wolves were killed, but a man was also bitten to death.

If torches had not been used to disperse the crowd in the end, the outcome would have been even more unpredictable.

After listening to this, Zhang Mingyuan swallowed his saliva, his excitement was gone, and he thought that the wolf might not really come.

Fortunately, I finally got home safely.

It was already nine o'clock in the evening when we got home.

The guns were not allowed to be taken back and were placed in the militia’s special warehouse at the brigade headquarters.

Only Xie Hongbing and the team leader have the key.

In the end, everyone had no choice but to put down their guns reluctantly and go back to sleep.

Come back tomorrow morning.

(End of this chapter)