Chapter Seventy-Seven: It's All Money to Blame (Revised Draft)
The morning in the mountains came in the crowing of the rooster, the sky was slightly bright, but the morning fog still did not dissipate, among the mountains and forests, on the treetops, the clouds were steaming, and everywhere was rippling with hazy milky white, and the whole mountain was like a fairyland on earth.
Liu Guangquan went out slowly with a pair of shoes, still holding a dry tobacco bag in his hand, chirping and smoking, the flickering dry head, particularly eye-catching in the morning fog, although the people in the mountains are generally used to getting up early, but at this time, the street is still deserted, almost no one else can be seen, Liu Guangquan just walked slowly, walked around the small street in Guantang, and when he walked to the door of the township government, he knocked the cigarette pot towards his shoes, and then walked in with his head held high, looking at the posture, It was like a king inspecting his own territory, full of affection and a sense of accomplishment.
This is a habit he has developed over the years, he goes to the township government very early every day, as long as he doesn't go out for meetings and business trips, even if it's a public holiday, Uncle Qin in the porter has long known his habits, and he will get up early every morning to open the door on time, and Liu Guangquan sometimes drinks two sips of wine with Uncle Qin in the gatehouse and kills a few games of chess.
As soon as he walked in, he saw that the lights in Lin Chendui's office were actually on, Liu Guangquan couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, and then a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, turned around and walked over.
It is said that people are in good spirits on happy occasions, this sentence is just a true portrayal of Liu Guangquan at this time, Lin Chendui called back and said that he had official business to go to the capital on a business trip, although Liu Guangquan did not say it, in fact, he was very disapproving, went to the capital on a business trip, who do you think you are, what do you need a small township chief to do, Guantang This acre of three points of land is not enough for you to be busy, not under the guise of official business, but I didn't expect that it was less than a week, and the news that Guantang was going to build a high-speed came out, If it weren't for the uproar in the county, and many people called to congratulate him and ask him about the reason for the incident, he really couldn't believe it, it was true.
It is not the people in the mountains who are troubled by traffic, it is difficult to understand their longing mood, this problem is not solved, the development of Guantang is far away, no matter how good the plan and program, it can only be a pavilion in the air, it looks very beautiful, but it can not be realized at all, which is also the most fundamental reason why Guantang has been trapped in the depths of the mountains for so many years, and the people live in poverty.
Lin Chenwan said that he would try his best to solve the problem of building roads, but Liu Guangquan didn't take it too seriously, what did he think, where did the money come from, it was really so easy, then even if he had an old face, he would have repaired the road a long time ago, and he could wait until now, but he never dreamed that at this time, such exciting good news would come.
Of course, in Liu Guangquan's view, Lin Chenwan was just lucky, and he happened to encounter this kind of good thing that all previous officials and cadres in Guantang dreamed of, not how capable he was, but no matter what, Guantang was able to build a highway, which was a great thing, even if there was no exact thing out yet, but it had already made him feel very happy and excited, even if he went to the county to receive poverty alleviation funds yesterday, he was also proud of his eyebrows, and he had some rickety dragon clocks' back, which was very straight, The wrinkled face was smiling all day long, and even the eldest sister who sold vegetables on the street could see that Secretary Liu was in a good mood, and he must have encountered some happy event.
In comparison, the poverty alleviation funds that have been bumping and bumping and bumping and annoying him have been successfully distributed, and it is still a lot, but it seems nothing.
"Township Chief Lin, you came back from outside just now, why didn't you take a few days off before coming back to work," Liu Guangquan's face was wrinkled like a blooming mountain chrysanthemum, and his voice was also kind, but when he pushed open the office door just now, he couldn't help but be taken aback, the room was full of smoke, and the ground was full of scattered cigarette butts, and Lin Chendu Muran sat at the desk, smoking a big cigarette, looking preoccupied, and the flickering cigarette butts seemed to confirm his troubled thoughts at the moment.
The sound of pushing the door seemed to wake Lin Chenwan up, and he hurriedly threw the unfinished half of the cigarette on the ground, got up and said, "Secretary Liu......"
Liu Guangquan saw that his face was yellow, his eyes were bloodshot, and the whole person looked very haggard, so he asked in surprise: "You...... Didn't sleep all night,"
It stands to reason that Lin Chen's return with a reputation should be full of spring breeze and excitement at this moment, but at this time, his appearance is not like this at all, but as if he has encountered some thorny problem, anxious and helpless, which makes Liu Guangquan's heart suddenly envelop a thick layer of clouds.
Lin Chenwan grinned at Liu Guangquan, then rubbed his cheeks with both hands, and said, "Secretary Liu, you came just in time, I have some important matters to discuss with you," his face was a little ugly.
"Your first job now is to go back to sleep quickly," Liu Guang said with a straight face, in fact, his heart was both moved and distressed.
He came from the era of the Great Leap Forward, although the Great Leap Forward blindly sought speed, one-sidedly pursued the high speed of industrial and agricultural production and construction, and indeed violated the objective law, seriously damaged the social productive forces, disrupted the normal production order, and caused the national economy to suffer serious setbacks, but it is undeniable that the people of that era were optimistic and enterprising, active and willing to work, hard-working, especially party members and cadres, who were fighting on the front line of production all the time, and were far from being comparable to the current party members and cadres. He had a good impression of Lin Chendui, a young man who forgot to sleep and eat for work, and couldn't help but recall that he was the captain of the production team and led the whole team to work together for half a month to repair the canal, and he was very touched.
"It's okay, just wash your face," Lin Chendui smiled, ran to the water faucet outside, and wiped the water on his face a few times with his hands, the temperature in the morning in the mountains was low, and the water was cold and cold, even a little chilly, but Lin Chendu's originally somewhat groggy mind suddenly sobered up a lot.
Liu Guangquan looked at this, and couldn't help but smile and shook his head, the people in the mountains are not very particular, the more rough and uninhibited Lin Chendui behaves, the easier it is to mingle with them, if he is always as coy as in the city all day long, he will naturally separate and oppose himself from others, it is obvious that Lin Chendui's performance has completely won his favor.
Liu Guangquan lifted the thermos that was placed aside, but found that it was empty, and hurriedly asked Uncle Qin to change a pot of water, and after a while, Uncle Qin put on his coat, yawned and walked over with a thermos, and seemed to be muttering something in his mouth, and when he got closer, he muttered that this night, he had already changed the thermos for Township Chief Lin twice, which made him still a little dizzy now, Liu Guangquan glared at him, but he secretly felt funny in his heart.
"Thank you," taking the cup of strong tea handed over by Liu Guangquan, Lin Chenwan said with a smile, the teacup was hot in the hand, but it also warmed his cold body a lot.
Liu Guangquan waved his hand, moved the chair to Lin Chendui's side, sat down, and then said to him: "Tell me, what happened to keep you awake all night, is it a matter of the highway," when he spoke, although he kept a smile on his face, there was a trace of uneasiness in his eyes.
To tell the truth, what he is most afraid of now is that something will go wrong on the highway, and the rumors are clear-eyed, but after all, he has never communicated face-to-face with Lin Chendui, and he has always had no bottom in his heart, especially when he first saw Lin Chendui, he is this "respect", which really can't help but make him a little worried.
"That's not it," Lin Chenwan didn't care about boiling water, picked up the teacup, blew away a few tea leaves floating on the surface, and then took a few sips, and said with a somewhat solemn face: "What I want to say is about the school,"
"School," Liu Guangquan breathed a sigh of relief when he heard that it had nothing to do with the highway, but then he doubted: "What's wrong with the school, which school has an accident, why don't I know,"
In order to express his gratitude, Liu Guangquan invited Director Niu of the County Finance Bureau and relevant handling personnel to eat in the afternoon, and drank a few more glasses happily, and when he returned to Guantang, it was already very late, but even so, if something really happened, the people below would notify him as soon as possible.
"It's not that something happened, but if you don't deal with it in time, it's very likely that something big will happen," Lin Chenwan sighed lightly and told him about the incident that Principal Li came to the door yesterday, and he still clearly remembered that when he and Lu Xiangyu drove to Dawan Village and saw the low and dilapidated school building with their own eyes, everyone including the driver and the guards were shocked.
It is said that it is a school building, in fact, it is a dilapidated house, located in a col not far from the village, behind the school is a gloomy forest, I don't know what age it was built, the wall made of loess mixed with dry straw has been somewhat cracked, like a monster's open blood basin mouth, the window is pasted with plastic sheeting, the four walls are leaking, damp and cold, looking at the dilapidated doors and windows, a sense of desolation arises spontaneously.
Listening to the sound of the children reading loudly in the school building, Lin Chendui felt very uncomfortable, to be honest, when he heard Principal Li talk about it, he already felt that it was very serious, but when he saw it with his own eyes, he felt that the real situation was more serious than what Principal Li said, he couldn't believe that these innocent and lovely children were actually studying in this school building that might collapse at any time.
The situation was serious, Lin Chendui didn't care about affecting the children's learning, and immediately asked the teacher to stop classes immediately and evacuate the students.
And Lin Chendui even blushed his face at the village party secretary and village chief of Dawan Village, asking them to immediately find a new place in the village as a place for students to hold classes for the time being, until the new school building is built, the village party secretary and the village chief also immediately said that they would arrange for students to temporarily attend classes in the ancestral hall of the village, but they said that they could not do anything about rebuilding the school building, because the village was financially tight, and there was really no extra money, all they could do was to try their best to repair the damaged school building.
And from Dawan Village, Lin Chenwan learned that almost all the primary schools in Guantang have all kinds of similar problems, which makes Lin Chenwan worried, if it is not repaired, the school building is indeed very dangerous, and there are potential safety hazards at any time, just like the sword of Damocles hanging over his head, it is not clear when the problem will arise, but if it is repaired, it is not a small amount, Guantang's finances are already tight, and it is not easy to have some spare money to do something, but there are always so many places that need to be spent, made him feel even more overstretched.
Lin Chenwan never took money too seriously, but at this time, he couldn't wait to break a penny in half and spend it.
After rushing back from Dawan Village overnight, settling Lu Xiangyu and their party, Lin Chenwan couldn't sleep after tossing and turning, so he simply got up and went to the office, thinking hard, hoping to find a solution to the problem, but there was only so much money, and if he really had to spend it on improving the school building, then his development plan for Guantang would have to lag indefinitely.
For a moment, he was in a dilemma.
After listening to Lin Chendui's speech, Liu Guangquan glanced at him, frowned and said: "It shouldn't be so serious, I have been to Dawan Village, and the conditions are a little more difficult, but the school in the mountains is indeed not as good as the city, besides, Feng De and they are often reinforcing and repairing the school, this old Li, I like to be alarmist the most,"
It can be seen that Liu Guangquan is not ignorant of the situation reported by President Li, but he has not paid attention to it.
"Alarmist," Lin Chenwan felt a little uncomfortable when he heard this, but he said patiently: "Secretary Liu, a century-old plan, education-oriented, the child is the future of our Guantang, and there must be no negligence, if nothing happens, it will be too late,"
"Yes, it's not that I don't understand this, but it's hard for a good woman to cook without rice, and I can't do anything without money,"
"Isn't there such a fee in the county," Lin Chenwan frowned.
Liu Guangquan shook his head, "The report is being fought every year, but the county just says one word, there is no money, let us solve it ourselves,"
Lin Chendui pondered for a moment, then sighed and said, "I'm thinking of a way, if it really doesn't work, I only have the idea of fighting the 300,000,000,"
"But the 300,000, didn't you promise Mayor Tang that it would be used for infrastructure construction," Liu Guangquan frowned and said, obviously not agreeing with Lin Chendu's actions.
"I also know, but there is no way to do it, besides, the school can barely be regarded as infrastructure," Lin Chendui laughed at himself, when he said this, his heart couldn't help but drip blood, this money must be spent, and where will the money for the bridge repair come from.
Now as long as the matter of money is mentioned, Lin Chenwan has a headache, he never imagined that he would worry about money one day.
Liu Guangquan said helplessly: "We'll discuss it again at the meeting later, and listen to everyone's opinions,"
Lin Chenwan nodded,