Chen Chu couldn't help but laugh at Wang Xiaoyan's behavior. One of his legs was still a bit weak, but he was still sweeping the snow with the broom, and he did it very carefully, even kicking it twice after each sweep.
Chen Chu said, "Uncle Wang, let me sweep for you!"
"No need, no need, you go about your business! I'm going to call my son..."
Despite being stingy, Wang Xiaoyan is quite trendy. He pulled out his Motorola 8088 phone and dialed Wang Dasheng's number directly.
He yelled, "Bring a broom and come sweep the main road! Damn it, hurry up..."
...
Wang Xiaoyan and his son Wang Dasheng spent about three hours sweeping, being very thorough and attentive, but apart from pebbles, glass shards, and no gold rings, they found nothing.
At noon, the town mayor's car arrived. Seeing the smooth road and the villagers busily harvesting the autumn crops, he nodded and said, "Zhang Cai is a really good village chief, a real talent...hehe..."
Soon after, Zhang Cai returned to the village and praised Chen Chu, saying, "Chen Chu, you're amazing! I wouldn't be satisfied with anyone else sweeping the main road, but you managed to get Wang Xiaoyan and his son to sweep it, haha... I'm impressed! You're awesome as the deputy village chief!"
Chen Chu, a little carried away, laughed and said, "It's nothing. I told Wang Xiaoyan that Director Liu's gold ring had fallen on the street, and they just swept it up themselves..."
"Hahaha..." Everyone burst into laughter. They were probably too happy, because no one noticed that Wang Xiaoyan walked behind them covered in sweat.
At this moment, Xu Guozhong saw Wang Xiaoyan's furious expression and quickly covered his mouth, but he still couldn't help but chuckle.
When Zhang Cai and Chen Chu turned around and saw Wang Xiaoyan's murderous glare, they stopped smiling.
Zhang Cai said seriously, "Ahem... Um... what was that again? Hehe, that Wang Xiaoyan, oh no, Comrade Wang Dehuai serves the people and should be praised!"
Chen Chu also coughed and said, "Yes, yes, I'll set up the loudspeaker right away and praise Comrade Wang Dehuai."
The village had a loudspeaker, but it had been running for a while and it was hard to tell if it was still working properly. Chen Chu tried to fix it, but it was just a lot of static. Nevertheless, Chen Chu announced over the loudspeaker: "Today, Comrade Wang Dehuai of this village, in order to prepare for the town mayor's inspection, put aside his own autumn harvest work and spent the whole morning carefully cleaning the main roads of the village. This selfless spirit of serving the people deserves... commendation..."
Wang Xiaoyan was furious.
He snorted, threw down the village broom, and angrily led his son home. When they got home, his wife was still complaining: "You don't do any work in the fields, what are you doing sweeping the main road with the son? You think you're so eager? Huh?"
Wang Xiaoyan remained silent, furious, and finally couldn't hold back any longer, cursing Chen Chu as a bastard.
I got so angry during lunch that my stomach hurt.
Wang Xiaoyan lowered her head and ate her meal slowly. When she finished eating, her mother wouldn't let her clear the dishes, saying that girls all get married eventually and will have to do chores in their new families. She should just stay at home and take care of herself as long as she can…
Wang Xiaoyan simply picked up her needle and thread, embroidered for a couple of seconds, then stopped and went straight to find Chen Chu.
There were quite a few people inside the village office, and Xu Guozhong was fiddling with the loudspeaker.
For no other reason than that Chen Chu's speech on the radio that morning sounded quite good, and he felt that this thing was good, so he also wanted to say something on the radio.
Liu Haiyan and Zhang Cai both rolled their eyes at him, thinking to themselves, "Xu Guozhong, you really don't know your own limitations. At least Chen Chu is good at studying and speaks eloquently. Can your skills even compare? You even need to speak into the loudspeaker? What a load of crap you can say!"
Xu Guozhong laughed: "What? If Deputy Village Chief Chen can speak, why can't I? What's wrong with me sharing some information about getting rich? I'll speak right now..."
Xu Guozhong pulled out a book from somewhere and started reading it aloud through the loudspeaker.
The loudspeaker hadn't been used for years, and the speakers were all off-key. Chen Chu's voice was also distorted this morning.
Zhang Caizheng went out to check on the land, and then he heard Xu Guozhong's voice coming from the radio, croaking like a toad, completely off-key: "Um... rural wives and women, listen up, we're about to broadcast some information about pregnancy..."
Zhang Cai scratched his head, thinking, "Xu Guozhong, are you out of your mind? What are you talking about pregnancy instructions for a grown man? This seems to be the job of the women's director, Liu Haiyan! Aren't you just asking for trouble?"
Xu Guozhong continued, "Well... you're pregnant. Breastfeeding is very important after that. Eat more good food; that will help with milk production and is good for the baby. If your family is well-off, you can also eat some eggs..."
Zhang Cai's head was spinning. He thought to himself, "What's going on here? Families with good financial conditions eat eggs? Nowadays, even those with poor financial conditions can afford eggs."
He rushed back to the village office and saw Xu Guozhong still reading. He snatched the book from him and saw that it was from 1953...
It had only been two years since the founding of the People's Republic of China, and even then, getting eggs was a problem. Zhang Cai was so angry he almost laughed, wondering where Xu Guozhong had found that book!
"Old Xu, could you read something else... Director Liu, you're the women's director, so keep an eye on Xu Guozhong and make sure he doesn't embarrass himself..." Zhang Cai didn't know what to say.
As soon as I went outside, I heard Xu Guozhong and Zhang Haiyang's voices coming from the loudspeaker, as if the two were fighting.
"Xu Guozhong, get away from me! Don't come so close!"
"What? Haiyan, I'm studying, just asking you how to pronounce this character, why are you pushing me?"
"Just look at the words, why are you looking at my grandma? Doesn't your wife have that thing?"
...
Zhang Cai wished he could climb a tree and cut the broadcast cable, thinking to himself, "What a terrible father of Xu Guozhong's!" But it was too late to cut it now; the broadcast had already started. Luckily, the two of them hadn't gotten together, or things would have been in complete chaos!
As soon as the loudspeaker broadcast the news, the whole village burst into laughter. Xu Guozhong's wife was working on the ground when someone pulled her away; otherwise, she would have come to the village office with a sickle.
However, Xu Guozhong's commotion actually made the people working in the fields feel less tired and bored. Some stopped to have a smoke and then continued working, finding it quite interesting.
After a bit of commotion, Xu Guozhong managed to grab the microphone, then blew on it a few times and started saying "Hello, hello, hello..."
The villagers who were working laughed again.
Xu Guozhong then opened a chicken farming magazine.
Then he said, "Hey, everyone, listen up! I'm about to share some scientific information..."
Zhang Cai had already reached the edge of the field and saw the villagers harvesting the autumn crops. Truckloads of corn were being loaded and transported home. The main thing was the mung beans; they absolutely couldn't be allowed to freeze. They needed to get them to the threshing ground as soon as possible and finish harvesting them so that the Joyoung Group could come and buy them. The mung beans were the most important thing.
Wang Xiaoyan and his father had been working hard all morning and were exhausted as they went to buy mung beans in the field. His daughter, Wang Xiaoyan, wanted to go to the field to help, but her mother wouldn't let her do any work, and Wang Xiaoyan was also actively against his daughter doing any work.
Despite Wang Xiaoyan's shrewdness, he dotes on his spinster daughter terribly. As a parent, he would rather go hungry or be exhausted himself than let his child suffer from hunger or cold.
Wang Xiaoyan, her face stern, brandished a sickle and yelled at her daughter, Wang Xiaoyan, "You brat, get home! How old are you, trying to work? Go home and stay put, hurry up!"
Wang Xiaoyan pouted and said, "Okay, then I'll go home and peel potatoes and stuff, and I'll cook when you guys get back."
Wang Xiaoyan sternly retorted, "Why would I need you to cook? You should just stay home and do your job. Your mom does the cooking. What's it to you?"
Wang Xiaoyan's mother also said, "Daughter, you just stay at home quietly. You don't have to do anything. Just stay here and wait for Mom to come back and cook for you..."
...
Seeing this, Zhang Cai couldn't help but shake his head and sigh. Although Wang Xiaoyan had many faults, as a father, he was competent and qualified...
...
As Zhang Cai was making his rounds, Xu Guozhong's encouraging voice came over the loudspeaker to Wala.
"Hey, hey, hey, hey, what a piece of junk, it doesn't work! *smack*" Xu Guozhong slapped the broadcast machine, and it worked!
Zhang Cai wore a wry smile, thinking to himself, "That bastard Lao Xu."
At this point, Xu Guozhong continued, "Um... where were we? Right, about raising chicks. A female chick can lay over two hundred eggs a year, while a male chick can't lay any. So raising females is suitable, raising males isn't... females... can be sold for meat, and males can lay eggs, so raising chicks is more suitable than raising pigs or anything like that. Chicks eat less... and they reproduce faster..."
Zhang Cai originally wanted to walk around and inspect the area more, but when he heard the news, his head was spinning, and he ran straight to the village office, making the men and women working there laugh so hard they almost choked.
Everyone shouted, "What kind of get-rich-quick information is this from Xu Guozhong? It's pure pornography, all that filth, like he's some big shot!"
"Haha... How big can Xu Guozhong's dick be? I think the biggest ones are Ma Xiaohe and Chen Chu, their stuff is like a donkey's..."
"Haha... Never heard of that. A female can lay eggs. Males aren't as suitable as females; they eat less and reproduce faster..."
...
The men and women were all chatting away, while the newlywed wives and unmarried girls were all running home shyly.
Especially Wang Xiaoyan, when she heard everyone say that Chen Chu's penis was big, she blushed terribly. Yesterday, she felt Chen Chu's thing pressing against her lower abdomen, burning hot, like a pickaxe handle, about the size of a donkey's penis. She was a country girl, and her family used to raise livestock.
The donkey's thing always droops down, and she can see it intentionally or unintentionally. Yesterday, she felt that Chen Chu's thing was too big, almost like a donkey's.
Listening to Xu Guozhong's rambling on the radio today, how could a girl not blush and have her heart pounding?
But women, deep down they all think, how wonderful it would be if their man's penis were that big... Maybe unmarried women are afraid of men having big penises, but which married woman doesn't like her man's penis to be big?
Just like how no man doesn't like his wife's breasts to be big, who likes the size of a small steamed bun or a small red bean bun, especially the kind of small steamed buns like Want Want Baby...
...
Zhang Cai ran to the village office and saw Xu Guozhong still shaking his head and reciting something. Actually, it was a little chicken, and the "ba" at the end was just a colloquialism, like how Beijingers always like to add an "er" sound when they speak. What's this? What's this? These are all local colloquialisms.
For example: Are you Xiao Zhang? Are you Xiao Liu? Are you Xiao Wang? Xu Guozhong pronounces them as Xiao**, Gong**, Mu**.
But once it's said aloud, it loses its meaning.
Zhang Cai was so angry that his hands were trembling. He quickly turned off the broadcast and said to Chen Chu, "Deputy Village Chief Chen, from now on you are the only one who can use this broadcast. No one else can use it. Say a few words when you need something, and don't say anything if you don't need to. Also, Lao Xu, next time you need something, you must let me know. You absolutely cannot make decisions on your own, understand?"