? Over the land of Huishuiwan, a high-speed overpass will be built this year. Two expressways from Sichuan and Hubei to Hunan will be tied here, and then they will be separated and headed for Zhangjiajie and Yueyang respectively. This hill with only trees and grass will suddenly produce a huge cement pier, firmly nailing the light highway to the land of Huishui Bay. The task of Huishuiwan people is to make room for the pier to take root and let the traffic on the expressway pass quickly and safely.
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? All the young people in Huishuiwan went to work outside, so Fang Hongwu had to be tough and look after the house for them. I have been a village head for half my life, but now I am old and have no energy. I can't lose it if I want to. My son works outside the home and has repeatedly advised him to rest at home for the aged. Sometimes he really wants to take his grandson and wife to the town and enjoy a life without mud after retirement, but he can hide in the city for the elderly. Who will take care of all the things in the bay, the big ones, the small ones and the old ones? At least he still hangs the post of village head, and everyone still believes him. Those things that are uploaded and handed down can only rely on him.
? This is the third time to go to his city's land and resources bureau, and finally I have some ideas about overpass and land acquisition. This time he really saw it on the plan. The high-speed interchange flies over the backwater, like an eight-claw Okumo lying on the backwater. This expressway connects Yichang, Wuhan, Yueyang, Zhangjiajie and other cities, as well as further Guangzhou and Shanghai, forming a city circle of one and a half hours. A young man in the planning department drew an invisible circle on the drawing with his finger. Fang Hongwu's home is an ancient village under the shadow of a spider. There is still green water in the old weir, the sun shines all over the tea garden, the wind blows through the pine forest and sends out a tsunami-like roar, the citrus trees are covered with fruits, and the fields are deserted. In the past, it was full of rape, rice and alfalfa with pink flowers, but now the thatch has grown to the middle of the road. These are two completely different worlds. The expressway has nothing to do with Huishui Bay. It just brings distant modernization to the eyes of the elderly, so that they can have a look. This look makes the old man feel that the world is farther away from him, but the child calls to say that he is closer to home. The old man looks at the mobile phone in his hand-less than a tile tablet.
? Fang Hongwu went out of the city and didn't go home directly to the town. Instead, he took a yellow minibus and walked all the way outside the village. Then he got off the bus and took a four-or five-mile path to the village. He deliberately bypassed the cement roads in each village and set foot on the path leading to the supply and marketing cooperatives many years ago. Several cows were lying in the middle of the road. He doesn't yell at cows as he did when he was young. How many cows will lie in the middle of the road? As soon as the expressway started, the engineering vehicles of the last eight rounds came in one after another, and everyone didn't know where they were squeezed, let alone cattle.
? It is dusk now, and the afterglow of the sun still shines over Huishui Bay. The village is as quiet as before, and occasionally there are chickens flying and dogs barking in one or two yards. Fang Hongwu quickened his pace. He wants to go back to his old house. These days, he is either running in the city or in the town, and he lives in his son's house in the town at night. He hasn't returned to his hometown for almost a week. He is used to getting up in the morning, drinking a pot of green tea at noon and smoking a cigarette in the yard at night to watch the stars. He can't stand the noise and depressing air of the city.
? When Fang Hongwu entered the room, Fang Hongliang was putting the orange fruit spread on his rice field into the laundry list, which was said to be bought to make cough medicine. Fang Hongwu walked into the room with a dignified look, and hurriedly put down his work and came along. He knew that Tian Fang Hongwu was busy occupying the high-speed interchange. Standing at the door, he coughed in a low voice: "Hongwu, come back."
? Fang Hongwu should have a cry and moved a chair to the gate. Fang Hongliang didn't sit down. He went home and brewed a large porcelain jar of green tea with boiling water, and brought two teacups.
? Fang Hongwu and Fang Hongliang are cousins without five clothes. The two families have lived next door for decades. When they were young, their wives always blushed for trivial things, such as your crops crossing my field. However, there has never been much contradiction between the two families. Up to now, the girls have gone out of town and left their old ones at home, but they take care of each other.
? Fang Hongliang asked Fang Hongwu if he went to the city again for the overpass on the expressway. When Fang Hongwu said yes, Fang Hongliang said, "I don't understand. There are many ways to go home. Why do you have to build another expressway? There are only two repairs. I heard that you can spend money. "
? Fang Hongwu said: "Brother, I tell you, these projects are all carried out abroad. Look at that little Japan. Viaducts are flying all over the sky. Look, my son and daughter-in-law, your virtuous Ai Tong Xia Lian and grandson, they are like swallows under the eaves. They only come back once a year or even two years. We don't have a highway here, so it takes several hours to get home if we want to get down and take the ordinary highway hundreds of miles away. Now that this highway passes over our heads, your grandson can see you standing on the gate and watching him from a distance. In a few minutes, you will leave the highway and arrive at the bay. You said it was fast. Going to Shenzhen to see your grandson, as long as you get on this expressway, it's like getting on a zip line, swishing to Hunan and swishing to Shenzhen. You don't need to go through Wuhan. This place is like a steamer in summer and an ice cave in winter. "
? Fang Hongliang listened to Fang Hongwu's endless arguments. He doesn't want to go to Shenzhen. He just wondered if he could hurry up when his mistress came back.
Fang Hongwu said, "Of course, why not? A bay of young people can come back soon, let alone you are virtuous. "
? After chatting for a while, Fang Hongliang stood up and said, "Take a rest first. I used to fry two side dishes. Let's have two drinks. " Fang Hongwu came back from the town and walked four or five miles into the village. He is too tired to leave early. He didn't mention it, but agreed.
Fang Hongwu has been living alone since his wife went to town to send her grandson to school. At first, he was not used to it. He thinks he has worked hard for most of his life. When he was young, he had to work in the fields, but he had to make a living. Now he has to wash clothes and cook by himself. Of course, his dissatisfaction soon vanished: "I really asked for it!" " "
? The next day, Fang Hongwu got up early, swept the front and back of the house, cooked the noodles and went out. He is going to town to find the mayor today. Comrades from the Bureau of Land and Resources said that the town must come forward to coordinate the construction of high-speed interchanges in their village.
"Why are you here again?" When the mayor spoke, Fang Hongwu just opened the door of the mayor's office.
Fang Hongwu understood that the mayor didn't like him. He took out the soft Chinese prepared in his pocket and handed it to the mayor. The mayor gave him a hand, and he sat down at the nearby mayor's desk. It would be hard to talk about it if he was far away. This is his experience as a village cadre for decades.
"Mayor, the compensation standard for land acquisition of high-speed interchange has not been decided yet, right?"
"You are not the only village. You're talking about standards. Will it be solved temporarily? Snails have three laps. " The mayor said.
"Then the ancient tree in our village was not taken seriously, and the square garden was planted for hundreds of miles."
"Just fool me, ancient tree. The pig farm in Zhouyang Village is more valuable than it. The village chief only said a rough price. "
"How can ancient trees compare with pig farms? Are ancient trees ecological protection plants, pig farms or pollution sources? "
"The village chief, the last time you said that an engineering vehicle hit your village, the road was crushed, and if it is a loss, it will be compensated. Today, there is an old tree. I know you are thinking of the villagers in your village, but you should also take care of the overall situation. You can't talk to me for three days to find a reason to ask for money. " The mayor is dissatisfied with Hong Wu's diligence, calculation, age and anger.
"The mayor, you don't worry. You see, all the young people in our village go out to work, and only come back once every year or so on holidays. When they came back, they found that the happiness canal was blocked, the old trees were gone and the cement road was cracked. What am I supposed to tell them? How much is better than selling cabbage in the assembly area! "
"But it gave so much compensation, supply your village. What about other villages? Village head Fang, you are embarrassed, and I am even more embarrassed? " The mayor tapped the official paper with a pen and said.
"Mayor, you reflect what I said to the higher authorities and strive for as much compensation as possible. People have planted land all their lives, and now there are no trees. If they don't have more money, can they live a stable life? " Fang Hongwu lit a cigarette and took two sips. "Besides, if you don't put your work first now, the project will officially start, and the villagers will not be hard for you and me." The mayor looked at him and said nothing.
"The mayor, you give it a few more projects, in your here is money, every household can count on it. I only heard that children who cry eat more milk, but I didn't hear that children who cry are beaten more! " Fang Hongwu accidentally exposed his glib nature.
The mayor couldn't help laughing: "Village Chief Fang, is this why people often praise your grassroots work experience?"
"No, I'm just saying, I haven't seen this poor family for several years. Please ask the mayor to guide the work more. " Fang Hongwu withdrew, not forgetting to bring the door of the mayor's office.
The mayor looked at the slowly narrowing crack in the door, lowered his voice and said to himself, "This old prick doesn't live in the village. He is really worried about eating carrots! "
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Coming out of the mayor's office, Fang Hongwu went straight to the medicinal materials purchasing station in the town. He is still thinking that Meng Po's Ophiopogon japonicus has not been sold. On the way in the morning, I met Meng's wife limping and holding more than ten kilograms of Ophiopogon japonicus to the town's purchasing station. He moved with compassion and told the old woman to go home. He is responsible for taking Ophiopogon japonicus to the purchasing station for sale.
"Don't worry, I'll bring you back every catty." He knows what kind of family the Meng family is, and only another village head is willing to help the Meng family.
The purchasing station is very busy in the morning. Afraid of delaying business for a long time, he greeted the purchasing master at the station and put Ophiopogon japonicus here. He will come to get the money when he is finished.
The master of the acquisition station saw Fang Hongwu rush in and quickly took out a few dollars of Ophiopogon japonicus to Fang Hongwu. Fang Hongwu took the money, counted it and handed it back. "Please help me write a note, indicating how many kilograms and how much money. Together with this money, I will give someone an answer. "
"Uncle, are you afraid of being confused with Meng Popo?" A girl's gentle laughter came from behind. Fang Hongwu just came in in a hurry and didn't notice any acquaintances here. Looking back, Li Changde girl Li Qiongzhi is looking at him and laughing.
"Joan cheese, why are you here? Shouldn't you be learning from the master at the moment? It's not sneaking out to play, is it? " Fang Hongwu said with a smile that he knew the girl was not a lazy girl.
"I went back to help my family bring some fruit to sell yesterday." Joan cheese low breath a sigh of relief, "I'll go back to the teacher. Goodbye, Uncle Wu Hong. "
"Slow down, slow down and be careful." Fang Hongwu looked at the thin figure of the girl and said.
Aunt Shu Xian works in a factory in Jordan chan. I just got a call from my wife Fang Hongliang this morning, telling her that her family's land is going to be expropriated, just in the southeast corner of their weir pond, and there are five acres of orange orchards next to it, as well as Zhang Shunhua's home next to it. She suddenly felt relieved. Her partner, Hong Liang, said, "Ask for as much money as possible to see if I can pay a down payment for my son. I heard that house prices are not rising so fast now. My grandson is now going to kindergarten with his parents in the city, and he still has to go back to his hometown when he goes to elementary school. " Fang Hongliang said: "It doesn't matter. Now the fields are covered with grass. Seeing my fear, I planted a generation of crops, and the grass in the garden grew taller and taller. Sorry. " Aunt Shu Xian said, "Yes, those oranges are very scarce, but unfortunately they can't sell for a few dollars. They are still working hard." Fang Hongliang thought, people in their fifties are still working outside and have no home, so let their relatives speak. Aunt Hyun-sook went on to say, "Don't be too tired. Go into town to buy something to eat. " Now my wife is left at home to take care of those trees and fields. After a busy day in the field, I came home only to see a cold pot and a cold stove, and I was uneasy.
All the laborers in the village have gone out to work to earn money. The old, the weak, the sick and the disabled all stay at home and have no worries about food and clothing. They also have some pocket money in their pockets. But they are used to the days of scrimping and saving, working hard and making money. Seeing that the rapeseed is ripe, the rice is yellow, and the bright and clean fruits are covered with branches, they should get up early and be greedy for the dark, shoulder to shoulder, and strengthen their labor. However, time waits for no one. At night, the bones after a hard day's work will hurt like a rack. They turned over the bed and made up their minds to take a day off tomorrow, so they fell asleep. But the next day, before dawn, they groped for the rope to get up and go down to the ground. When the fire-like sun rises, two baskets of early-maturing oranges have been hunched back by them and carried into their rice fields. In the afternoon, white double-row seats enter the village to collect oranges. When the baskets of bent oranges are replaced by three or five hundred yuan, they feel that this life is not so sweet, but there is still an expectation.
Fang Hongwu didn't lose his legs and feet. He climbed over half a hill in half an hour and came to Zhang Shunhua's house. Zhang Shunhua moved a chair to sit him down and handed him a cigarette. He didn't answer, took out a soft Chinese and handed it to Zhang Shunhua. "Try this, I'll ask people to prepare for worship. Most of them don't smoke. Those old smokers are retired, so I just enjoy it myself. "
Zhang Shunhua said: "The expressway really has to pass through the roof of my house this time, and the demolition team has been here several times."
"Not from your roof, I want you to move the house and hit the ground." Fang Hongwu corrected him.
"The house moved down, not basket valley. Don't move. " Zhang Shunhua's wife is a head-on sentence.
"Sister in law, did you have peas? Say a word so simply. I don't want you to move for nothing. " Fang Hongwu gherardini looked at her.
"I heard that the above sent a task to you. We moved two months ago, and you benefited, so we followed around. Besides, where do you want me to move? This place has lived for four generations, and Mr. Feng Shui said it was too crowded to move. " Zhang Shunhua said.
"Know that hair, you not only hair and rich? The little advantage you mentioned is, to put it bluntly, a little running money, which is not enough for me to buy a pair of shoes. Look at my new shoes. My son sent them back last week. What about 200 yuan? Is it enough to run like this? " Fang Hongwu stretched out his left foot, waved it before Zhang Shunhua, and stretched out his right foot. "Get a rag. There is a lot of ash on this road, which scares people to death. One foot goes down and overflows the shoe mouth, which is embarrassing. "
"Move to where?" Zhang Shunhua doesn't wear leather shoes and doesn't have summer planting. It's no use getting some ash and water and then leaving.
"This is a ripe field near your weir pond."
"I spent a lot of time for the whole cooked field. In winter, the weir and pond are frozen, and I am still moving stones. Last year, I planted 100 seedlings of Magnolia grandiflora, and it took two years to sell them, at least worth tens of thousands of dollars. Isn't it a waste to build a house in such a good land? " Zhang Shunhua slapped the white dog around him hard, and the dog got a fright and jumped out.
Fang Hongwu stood up, walked to the door of the rice field and glanced at the magnolia forest. The green leaves are tall and straight, the branches are handsome and tall, dense and square, which is quite different from the surrounding dark green and black citrus.
"Good tree, good tree." Fang Hongwu praised again and again, but changed the subject and said, "This place is good and has supported several generations. But as long as the relocation expenses given above are reasonable, you still have a little surplus after starting your new house. What is not worth it? With your experience, it is not difficult to build another nursery. "
"I am busy in this land every day. Do I have to levy it?"
"This was originally a collective land, and you just contracted it." Fang Hongwei explained this.
Zhang Shun Huazai looked closely at Fang Hongwu, then at Yulanlin and said nothing.