Feast of Flowers

When the plane arrived at Xuguo City, it was about 1 pm. The airport in Xugou City is very small, but after Huajin got off the plane, she noticed that not only people came to deliver flowers, but also TV reporters who followed the film.

With a smile, Hua Jin said thank you.

Several well-dressed middle-aged men came forward to shake hands with Pei Yan politely and without losing enthusiasm, and whispered to him about the economic development, education construction, etc. of Xuzhi City in recent years. Unexpectedly, things would develop like this, Hua Jin walked a few steps slowly, and whispered to an assistant of Pei Yan: "What's the matter?"

"In the past few years, Mr. Pei learned that Xugu City's economic development level was lagging behind, and he also heard about the deeds of local officials dedicated to the people, so he did something helpful to the local economic development. Because local officials have always been very grateful to Mr. Pei, this When I heard that he was coming to inspect the work, he specially arranged a reception." The assistant replied in a low voice, "We did not expect that there would be such an arrangement locally, so we did not communicate with you in advance. This is our negligence."

"It's okay, it's a good thing that someone picks up the plane." Hua Jin looked at these officials with a trance. Just now she saw on the plane that there were many high-rise buildings in the city, and the traffic was flowing on the viaduct. It was the same as eight years ago. Compared with that, the change is too great.

"Thank you all, come to receive me in your busy schedule." Pei Yan exchanged a few words with the reception staff, looked around and found that Hua Jin was actually a few steps away from him, so he waved to her. , "I came to your place this time not for public affairs, but for some private affairs."

Several receptionists were a little surprised. This Mr. Pei, who helped a lot in order to construct the city, could he have any personal matters to come to a small place like them?

"This is my partner Huajin," Pei Yan saw that Huajin hadn't walked to her side, so she turned around and walked in front of her, holding her hand, "She was born in your place, and the Mid-Autumn Festival is coming. I came to accompany her back home to pay homage to her ancestors."

The reception staff had paid attention to Huajin for a long time, but they didn't expect the two to have such a relationship. They were surprised first, then overjoyed. Mr. Pei’s partner is the person who organized the city. In the future, they want to attract investment and increase jobs for the local people. Wouldn’t it be another layer of help?

At lunch, Hua Jin saw that the reception staff wanted to win the relationship between the two sides, but did not dare to speak at will, so she kept asking them to eat local specialties in Xugu City.

In order to promote the agricultural products of Xugu City, the reception staff also worked hard. The dishes on the table were grown by local people, the fruits were picked from the local orchard, and the meat ingredients were from the local farms, and even the soil wares were given to them. , Are all processed agricultural products made locally.

Compared with those merchants who are exhausted and exhausted in order to attract investment, the reception staff of Xuzhi City seems simple and awkward, but Pei Yan did not show the slightest dissatisfaction from start to finish. Later, I talked about some cooperation issues, which made the reception staff happy.

In the afternoon, the reception staff arranged some visits. Perhaps considering the identity of Huajin, they also specially arranged two female receptionists who were similar in age to Huajin.

During the visit, a receptionist in his fifties heard that Huajin was a Shu embroiderer, and said with emotion: "We used to be here with a few cities built along the river. Many people have to raise silkworms. With the development, a large number of young and middle-aged people go out to work, and fewer and fewer families are raising silkworms."

"The place is small and the level of economic development is limited. It is not easy to retain talents." The receptionist sighed, "If a city does not have enough young adults and talents, how can it retain its vitality?"

Hua Jin looked at the wide and clean street outside the car window: "The city of Xugu has changed a lot, I can hardly recognize it."

The receptionist expressed a few words of modesty, but in his words, he was still proud of the development of his hometown.

After listening to these, Hua Jin found that the Anonymous County in her memory was dark and the train station in Xugou City was crowded and terrible. But when she came back eight years later, the sun here was brilliant, the streets were wide, and people It is passionate, and even the green trees on both sides of the street are full of life.

She thought, maybe she grew up and became stronger. Or in other words, the past is no longer important to her, so she has such a peaceful and happy state of mind.

Pei Yan and Hua Jin stayed in Xugou City for one day, and set off for Anonymous County early the next morning. Xugu City is worried that what trouble they will encounter will affect their impression of the local area, so two staff members are specially arranged to accompany them.

"There is already a direct highway connecting the city to the county town. It originally took an hour and a half to drive, but now it can be reached in 40 minutes, which greatly shortens the transportation time." The districts and counties are all good places with convenient transportation, beautiful scenery and outstanding people. If Mr. Pei and Ms. Hua have plenty of time, we warmly welcome the two of you to take a look around."

Hua Jin smiled and said, "I will definitely go if I have a chance."

"Anonymous county has changed a lot in the past few years. Ms. Hua hasn't been back to her hometown for many years. I am afraid that she is not familiar with her hometown." The **** said, "Can you take the liberty to ask, where is Ms. Hua's hometown?"

"My hometown is in the village of Anonymous County. When I was in high school, my parents and brother died in an accident, so I lived with my uncle's family for nearly half a year. Later, because I didn't have the opportunity to take the college entrance examination, I went to other places to make a living." Hua Jin added like a joke In one sentence, "In the third year of high school, I was still the first in grade, which is a pity."

The **** was a little embarrassed when he heard this, but when Hua Jin didn't seem to care too much, he said: "It's a pity."

When the elders in the family passed away, but they didn't have the chance to take the college entrance examination with their relatives. Needless to say, everyone can guess the tricks inside.

Thinking of this, the staff in Xugou City are a little worried. Ms. Hua has experienced these things before. Will this have a bad impression on Xugou City and affect Mr. Pei’s investment in Xugou City?

Pei Yan shook Huajin's hand and whispered in her ear: "Don't worry, I'll help you out."

Hua Jin twisted his waist gently but fiercely.

Pei Yan: "..." Okay, why are you twisting his waist again?

"I'm sorry, I remembered the sentence you once said that hitting a dog depends on the owner." Hua Jin raised his finger, "Hands it doesn't do anything."

Pei Yan: "..."

Before dawn, the village party secretary of Jiu Village, Xiashu Township, Anonymous County, got up from the bed. Last night, he received a notice that investors from big cities were coming to visit them, so that the workers in their village were ready to receive work.

In the past few years, the life in the village has been pretty good. There are often businessmen who come and say that they want to invest, but unfortunately, it has not been implemented in the end. Of course, he wants to make the village better. It’s just that there was an incident in the village recently. If investors come over, they happen to encounter this...

Thinking of this, he was so sad that he squatted on the edge of the ridge and took a couple of cigarettes, staring in a daze at the field where the grain had been cut and only grain piles were left.

"Secretary Flower, what are you doing squatting here, hey guys." A villager who was about to enter the county seat to do earthwork was shocked. He stood there and looked at him for a while before he recognized him, "Early morning. Yes, are you not sleeping in bed?"

"What do you sleep doze? I'm so worried that my brain hurts." Secretary Hua distributed a cigarette to the villager. "Today, leaders from above brought investors to visit us. I am afraid that Hua Chengzhong will follow Hua when they come. The two families from Chengguo came to me to make trouble again. When this trouble comes out, where will the investor chamber look at us?"

The villagers put the cigarette on the cigarette and squatted down like the secretary of the flower. "If you want me to say, the homestead and the land left by Hua's third child shouldn’t be taken by Hua Chengzhong and Hua Chengguo. There is also a girl, these are supposed to belong to other family's house-head children, what does it have to do with their elder brother and two? The shameless one is Hua Chengzhong, the girl's grades were so good back then, they didn't let it When she was studying, she wanted her to marry a thirty-year-old bachelor, and forced her female doll to leave the country. I don’t know what it has become after these years. Do you say that there is no lack of virtue?"

They are all people from Huajiagou in Nine Villages. Strictly speaking, as long as the village surnamed Hua, the ancestors of several generations must be related by blood. Even Secretary Hua, and Hua Chengzhong's family, for several generations, were all descended from the same ancestor, and counted as the prostitution.

Speaking of Hua's third family, Secretary Hua sighed. When the Hualao family was alive, although the patriarch was patriarchal, at least he was willing to let the girls in the family go to school. Later, when an accident happened when the Hua family took their son out of the house, there was only one female doll left in the family, and she was treated harshly by her uncle. Who wouldn’t say a few words behind Hua Cheng’s loyalty and lack of great virtue?

"You're busy, I'll stay here for a while." Secretary Hua threw the cigarette **** on the ground and stepped on it vigorously. "You are right, the things in Hua's third house, even if they are rotten, belong to other people's babies."

It’s just that when the Hua’s girl ran away, she was less than eighteen years old. Now seven or eight years have passed and she doesn’t even have a contact information. Where can they find someone?

Back then, Hua Chengzhong was in the village, saying that the daughter of the Hua family was disobedient and stole the money from the family and ran away secretly. They helped Hua Chengzhong find his family together. He and a fellow villager had actually seen the baby girl squatting in the cornfield, but seeing her trembling with fright and her face full of tears, the two elders of them felt softhearted. .

The villagers know that Hua Chengzhong wants to marry his niece to the old bachelor. Everyone thinks that he is wicked in doing things, and it is normal for the Hua's daughter to be unwilling. It's just that outsiders like them are not very good at managing other people's family affairs. Sometimes they have no other choice but to persuade Hua Chengzhong.

I don’t know whether it was right or wrong to pretend not to see the daughter of the Hua family, in case she encounters any accident outside...

The more I thought about it, the more I felt panic. Secretary Hua went home and changed into clean clothes. Seeing that it was getting late, he went to the village office.

Not long after sitting in the office, the two brothers of the Hua family came. One said that the homestead left by the third brother should be divided equally between the two brothers. The other said that he helped the third brother raise the baby left behind. It should belong to his family.

"How shameless is to be able to say this?" Hua Chengguo spit on the ground, "You were the one who raised Jinjin back then, who doesn't the village head know? Keep people Jinjin in the house. You don’t want to let her go to the college entrance examination, and you want her to marry an old bachelor. You don’t feel embarrassed to do these things. I feel burnt when I speak."

"You want a face, then why didn't you raise her back then?" Hua Chengzhong replied, "She is a female doll who wants to marry sooner or later, so what's the use of reading so many books, can she still get the champion?"

"You can't say it that way. If you asked Jinwazi to take the exam, maybe our village would really have a champion." A village woman watching the lively yin and yang put in a weird mouth, "The second child of the flower It didn’t hurt her if she didn’t raise a golden baby."

"My house's business is about your ass." Hua Chengzhong glared at the interrupting woman, "Unpleasant."

"Hua Chengzhong, you are a short-lived turtle, do you dare to scold Laozi and the mother-in-law?" The village woman's husband stood up and put the **** in his hand on the ground with a hairpin, "Believe it or not I've got you."

"Don't make any noise." Secretary Hua walked out of the office, looked at the crowds outside, and stared at the two brothers of the Hua family: "You two have been arguing here for a few days, don't you care about the farm work at home?"

"It's not that we are arguing, it's just that this thing should be which..." Hua Chengzhong said with a stubborn neck, "We can't let others take advantage."

"Since which one is the one, what else do you two brothers have to argue about?" Secretary Hua put his hand behind him, "Everything should be spent on the third daughter's, what does it have to do with you?"

"Jin Jin Du hasn't come back in seven or eight years, who knows what she did." Hua Cheng Zhong said, "It's better to share the homestead and fill with me, it won't be wasted."

"Nonsense, if you say everything to your lips, what kind of law do you need?" Secretary Hua said with a sullen face, "Don't make any more trouble, anyway, things are expensive, don't bother you two brothers. Don't argue about it today. The leader is coming, so don’t make trouble here, it will cause a big disturbance and it will affect our entire village."

"It’s good to have a leader. I’m going to let the leader say to see which one should be." Hua Chengzhong’s wife said sharply, "Hua Jinjin’s short-lived baby girl, who hasn’t come back for so many years, may be long ago. Ran with the wild man, and didn't even remember which way the door of the house was opened. You still want to leave the homestead to her, what an international joke."

During the slack season, when the villagers have nothing to do, they like to watch the excitement. When Hua Chengzhong’s wife said so, the villagers watching the excitement next to him began to talk about it. Some people said that Hua Jinjin was abducted by traffickers. Some people said that Hua Jinjin must have been married outside. Anyway, no matter how we discussed it, everyone knew in their hearts. , She will never go back to this village.

"It's okay to go back and watch TV. Don't walk around here." Secretary Hua saw a few cars driving towards the village office on the highway. He was a little nervous. Investors and leaders came here so early?

The other staff of the village office also surrounded them. Seeing that the villagers were reluctant to go away, they whispered to them not to talk nonsense. This is an investor from a big city. If they are lucky, they can let them Investing in this village will give them a lot more income each year.

Although the villagers like to watch the excitement, they also know the stakes. They all took a few steps back, ready to applaud and welcome.

For Huajin, the whole village is strange. She remembered leaving this village to go to the county seat and had to climb two high mountains, but now the mountains are gone. There are only spacious roads and neat terraces. She was sitting in the car and didn’t even know where she had lived. Village for more than ten years.

"Leaders, the front is the village branch of Huajiagou." The driver whispered, "The road to the village branch has not been completely repaired, so the car will be a little bumpy, please be careful."

As the car got closer and closer to the two-story small white building, Hua Jin's heart...no waves.

The car stopped outside Xiaobailou, and the **** helped her open the car door. She heard warm applause.

"Welcome leaders to come and inspect."

"A warm welcome."

"Please go inside for a cup of hot tea, you have worked so hard to come all the way."

"Come on, I'll accompany you to get off the car." Pei Yan got out of the car, bending over and reaching out to Hua Jin.

Hua Jin turned his head and smiled at him, put his hand on Pei Yan's palm, and walked out of the car. Looking around, she saw everyone smiling and applauding enthusiastically.

The author has something to say: Huahua: When you see me, are you feeling happy, are you moved, or are you surprised?