In the morning, Zhou Yiying, director of the Women's Federation of Liujiapu District, Wuhe County, was carrying a new hoe made on the ground. There are many floods in the Huaihe generation, and in such a harsh environment, many women do not bind their feet, and the same is true for Zhou Yiying. She wore straw sandals made in the field, stood firmly in the field, and waved her hoe vigorously. The water receded for a long time, but the ground became very hard because it had not been cultivated for too long, and it took a lot of effort to hoe each hoe, but the effect was not good. Zhou Yiying's experience after trying many times is that if she wants to hoe the ground to a depth of 20 centimeters with her strength, it takes five hoes to reach the same position. Zhou Yiying gritted her teeth slightly, and counted every time she hoeed, "One, two, three, four, five." One, two, three, four, five. One, two, three, four, five. Just for a short while, sweat oozed from Zhou Yiying's forehead. She didn't tear it down, but continued to work hard in the fields.

Women in the countryside generally do not do farm work such as hoeing. It's not that their families don't want to, it's because the girls don't have the tools to use the heavy farm tools. The iron farming tools in these years were already expensive, and the quality was not very good. It is easy to be damaged if it is so useful as Zhou Yiying, it costs a lot of money to repair farm tools, and the number of blacksmiths is also very limited. Therefore, the reason why farmers use heavy wooden farming tools is not that they don't know that iron farming tools are easy to use, but that they have very real economic considerations. However, the wooden farming tools themselves have high physical requirements, and the natural physical fitness of women cannot be used effectively, so women have never been considered in the strong labor.

After the beginning of spring this year, the new iron farming tools issued by the People's Party are extremely easy to use, not only light, but also hardness and sharpness that Zhou Yiying has never seen. Even a woman like Zhou Yiying can use it very well, she has been using it for several days, and the hoe is still as sharp as when she first got it.

After hoeing two ridges of land, Zhou Yiying stopped to wipe his sweat. Based on the experience of cultivating the land in the past few days, her physical strength can only support two ridges at a time. Then you need to rest for about a stick of incense. And he couldn't sit down to rest, Zhou Yiying found that as long as he sat down, it was very difficult to stand up again. It would take a while to fight mentally with herself, so she simply stood and rested with her hoe just like the crops she had ever seen in the fields.

As far as the eye can see, the surrounding land is full of cultivators. After the beginning of spring, the BJP began to organize the masses on a large scale to start farming. First of all, regardless of whose land it is, according to the standard of three acres of land per person, one piece of land, and then begin to call on everyone to start working. In fact, there was no shortage of land after the floods, and the People's Party had enough authority, so there were many people who were dissatisfied, but few dared to oppose it directly. As a result, many people who firmly supported the People's Party began to work on the land they were allocated.

Liujiapu is close to the Huai River, although there are often disasters, but the land itself is moist and fertile, everyone grows wheat in Pingsuli, and it is generally harvested before entering the summer flood season. Since it is only planted once a year, as long as there is a natural disaster, this day will not be able to survive immediately. Last year, when there was a big flood, Zhou Yiying's family was ruined, and only she and her third brother Zhou Yizheng were left to die. If it weren't for the People's Party team that brought the fifth brother Zhou Yisheng to Liujiapu to give everyone food, and the doctor who accompanied the army to treat the sick, Zhou Yiying would definitely be starved to death in his illness. Not only that, but the People's Party team broke the fence, opened a warehouse to release grain, and saved thousands of people near Liujiapu.

Because her third and fifth brothers have joined the People's Party's troops, Zhou Yiying herself is also very cooperative with the work of the People's Party, and she was appointed director of the Women's Federation in Liujiapu. Because the two younger brothers joined the army, Zhou Yiying's family was only allocated three acres of land. Although there is not much land, if you cultivate it well, the food produced is enough for Zhou Yiying to eat for a year.

Every time she recalls the days when she struggled on the death line, Zhou Yiying feels very afraid. If it weren't for the fact that she always had a trace of desire to survive in her heart at that time, she always insisted on wanting to live. Or if the People's Party contingent is even one day late, Zhou Yiying will definitely not survive now.

As soon as she thought of this, Zhou Yiying felt a chill behind her, and then her whole person cheered up. The original exhaustion was banished by fear, and she picked up the hoe and continued to work.

"Director Zhou, Director Zhou." When Zhou Yiying had just done the first half of the farm work in the plan, he heard someone shouting about him. When I stopped the hoe, it was the county correspondent who was shouting. The young man was of medium height, and of great build, because he had walked a long way, his round face was red, and his forehead was covered with sweat. He strode in front of Zhou Yiying, "Director Zhou, Secretary Wu wants you to go to the county now." ”

"What's going on?" Zhou Yiying felt very puzzled.

"I don't know this specific situation, Secretary Wu should tell you when you go to the county." The correspondent was very tight-mouthed and did not disclose the specific situation at all.

Zhou Yiying couldn't see anything, and she didn't ask any more. But she looked at the half-cultivated farmland and couldn't help but show a look of embarrassment.

"Director Zhou, Secretary Wu has already explained before I came, and I will do your farm work if it delays." After speaking, the correspondent took the hoe in Zhou Yiying's hand.

Zhou Yiying hurriedly stopped the correspondent, "It's not appropriate for you to do it, besides, you've been running for so long, but you're tired." ”

The correspondent smiled heartily, "Director Zhou, you see that I run around every day, and I don't see me working, don't you believe me." Our troops have their own land, don't look at me running outside, I have a lot of suspicious work to do when I farm. Besides, Director Zhou, you also learned to do farm work in the army. You can't trust us. ”

Hearing what the correspondent said, Zhou Yiying couldn't say anything more. She herself had no experience in land reclamation, and the skills she learned now were collectively trained during cadre training. How to hold the hoe, how hard to use, how deep to hoe, how to reasonably distribute physical strength, how to fight against your own inertia. As the saying goes, "Killing a pig, killing a head, killing an ass, each has its own way of killing." "It's strange to train farmland like the BJP.

But the cadre in charge of training objected to this idea, and Zhou Yiying still remembers the cadre who looked very young and said: "The so-called each has its own method, and one of the biggest differences is whether or not he is willing to use his full strength." If you don't really want to work at all, there are naturally various theories. If you only think about doing your job well, you don't think about anything else. So these methods that I have taught you have been summarized and refined, and they are the best way. If there is any difference, it is because of the difference in height, weight, physical strength, and the strength and number of exertions caused by these actual differences. That's what makes a difference. But there is nothing wrong with this method that we have taught you. ”

Zhou Yiying didn't believe it at first, but after trying it for a few days, she found that everything was really as the training cadres said, as long as she had other ideas in her head, whether she wanted to be lazy or wanted to do it faster. Anyway, as long as you have any idea in your head other than working completely on a regular basis, the farm work is very tiring. And there are always other problems that disrupt the original plan. When I did exactly what the training cadres said, I didn't think about anything, but just did it step by step. Use as much effort as you want, rest when you need to rest, and this farm work can be completed on time, on point, with quality and quantity. Although the body is tired, the heart is not tired at all. On the contrary, it eats well and sleeps well.

For this reason, Zhou Yiying also specifically asked the training cadres what was going on. The training cadres proudly said: "This is the science that Chairman Chen of our People's Party said. ”

Zhou Yiying still hasn't figured out what "science" is, but she is sure of two things, the first is to follow the People's Party, and the second is to listen to the words of the People's Party and Chairman Chen. So far, as long as she has done these two, she has not suffered a loss.

"Then you can finish the rest of my land." Zhou Yiying said as she led the correspondent to determine the scope of her home.

"Where will I send this hoe when it runs out?" The correspondent asked.

"Send it to the peasant association at the head of the village, my hoe has a number, and after you explain the situation, they will put the hoe away."

After asking the question, the correspondent didn't say much, but simply said, "Okay! Then he picked up his hoe and began to work. Zhou Yiying could see that this young man really worked in full accordance with the methods trained by the People's Party. The movements are neither fast nor slow, and they are completely in line with their own beat. The boy is energetic, Zhou Yiying needs five hoes to reach a depth of 20 centimeters, and the young man only uses three hoes to do it. The correspondent is so attentive to his work, and the natural and energetic movements are all pleasing to look at. Zhou Yiying couldn't take his eyes off the correspondent for a while.

Somehow, looking at the correspondent's posture and posture, Zhou Yiying suddenly felt a fever on his face, and he felt indescribably flustered and nervous in his heart, as if there was a little rabbit jumping in his chest. She held back this feeling and turned around and went in the direction of the county seat.

When Zhou Yiying rushed to the party committee office in the county, he saw that in addition to the secretary of the county party committee and the county magistrate, there were a few other people he didn't know. Whether it is the secretary of the county party committee, the county magistrate, or those people who don't know, they are all wearing military uniforms, especially those who don't know each other, not just four pockets of cadre uniforms. And the waist is not a cloth belt, but a belt, and a pistol is carried on the belt. It's majestic to look at. None of them had any smiles on their faces, and they didn't talk much. When listening to others, the eyes are always cold. Just glanced at these people, Zhou Yiying felt a little chill behind him.

"This is Comrade Zhou Yiying, director of our Women's Federation in Liujiapu District." Wu Liao, secretary of the county party committee, introduced both sides, "Comrade Zhou Yiying, these people are ...... Uh......" Wu Liao, secretary of the county party committee, suddenly paused.

The one who was the leader of the strangers interjected calmly, "We are from the Investigation Section of the People's Internal Affairs Committee, and we have come here to learn about the armed conflict that just happened. I heard that Comrade Zhou Yiying played a great role in it, so we invite you to come and talk about the situation. ”

In the past few months, Zhou Yiying has had a general understanding of the general functional departments of the People's Party and the new government, including the party committee, the military commission, government organs at all levels, as well as public security, procuratorates, courts, and other departments. There are also organizations such as martial arts teams and peasant associations. But I have never heard of such a department as the "People's Internal Affairs Committee". Looking at the slightly embarrassed look of the county party secretary, Zhou Yiying didn't understand who these people were. But up to now, in the initial impression that these people have formed for her, they are by no means easy to match.

"Let's sit down, everybody." The man at the head said. After everyone sat down, he took out a pen and paper and said calmly: "Comrade Zhou Yiying, please tell your name, gender, and age." ”

"Huh?" Zhou Yiying didn't know what he meant by this, and asked his age, which was understandable. But the two sides sat facing each other, and the other called their names, but also asked their names and genders. Can't these people see that they are girls?

The comrade of the People's Internal Affairs Commissar looked at Zhou Yiying's confused demeanor, and was not in a hurry, but said again in a voice that was so calm that it could almost be called indifferent: "Comrade Zhou Yiying, please tell me your name, gender, and age. ”

In the face of such difficulties, Zhou Yiying didn't know how to deal with it. She looked at Wu Liao, secretary of the county party committee, with a pleading gaze. And Wu Liao, secretary of the county party committee, was not as cheerful as before, and he said in a reluctant tone: "Comrade Zhou Yiying, do you answer truthfully?" There's nothing to answer about that. ”

Since Secretary Wu Liao had already said so, Zhou Yiying stubbornly looked at the comrades of the People's Internal Affairs Commissioner, "My name is Zhou Yiying, female, 23 years old this year. After answering these three simple questions, Zhou Yiying felt uncomfortable, especially when she directly admitted her female gender to men, Zhou Yiying felt a little ashamed and self-ashamed.

The comrades of the People's Commissar of Internal Affairs calmly recorded these contents, and then continued to ask: "Tell me about your family situation." ”

Hearing this question, Wu Liao, secretary of the county party committee, suddenly twitched on his face. He stood up, "These comrades, if there is nothing else to do, I will go to the office with the county magistrate first." ”

"Okay, Secretary Wu, you go get busy first." The comrade of the Internal Affairs Committee replied.

"Comrade Zhou Yiying, you have to tell the truth when you ask your questions. Just tell the truth. Wu Liao explained again, and left the conference room with the county magistrate.

Looking at the calm and cautious comrades of the People's Internal Affairs Committee in front of him, and listening to the sound of the collision when the door closed, Zhou Yiying couldn't help but shudder slightly.

Perhaps seeing Zhou Yiying's uneasiness, the look on the face of the comrade opposite relaxed slightly, and for the first time, there was a slightly comforting tone in his voice. "Comrade Zhou Yiying, please don't worry, our investigation is just to find out the ins and outs of the matter, and we don't mean to make things difficult for you, this is the process of our work. We ask for your cooperation. ”

"I see." Zhou Yiying replied that she could only answer like this, because there was no reason to reject this statement at all.

"Then Comrade Zhou Yiying, tell me about your family situation."

And so the inquiry continued.