Every year on the summer solstice, Wang Leyi, the "vegetable king" of Shouguang, always gets up early in the morning, personally picks a few cucumbers with thorns in the greenhouse, washes them and serves them to the table.
Then he personally fried a few good dishes, turned over a bottle of good wine and placed it on the table.
Doing this well, Wang Leyi hurriedly rode his bicycle to the village entrance to pick up people.
It was too late, and the man had to be invited away by the other villagers.
Sure enough, as soon as Wang Leyi arrived at the entrance of the village, he found that the familiar car was surrounded by villagers, all of whom had passed the age of ancient rarity, but they were still as noisy as when they were young, scrambling to invite the man to the house for dinner.
Wang Leyi hurried over and coughed.
As soon as the villagers saw that it was him, they automatically gave way to a small road, and Wang Leyi hurriedly "rescued the people back to the camp."
This kind of scene is staged once a year in Shouguang, but the person they "scramble" is not a celebrity, but their county party secretary twenty years ago - Wang Boxiang.
Although Wang Boxiang only served as the secretary of the county party committee for 5 years, he transformed Shouguang from a "poor county" in Weifang City into a "rich county" that everyone envied, and made Shouguang a "vegetable town" in the country and even the world.
The older generation of Shouguang people remember Wang Boxiang's goodness, and every time they visit their relatives, the villagers will welcome him and affectionately call him "our Secretary Boxiang".
But the bitterness behind the fame is probably only known to Wang Boxiang himself.
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In February 1943, Wang Boxiang was born in Chaixi Village, Shouguang North, Shandong, and the Wang family's ancestors were farmers for generations, relying on farming to earn food.
But in the years of war, living on the ground is a luxury.
From the moment Wang Boxiang could walk, he followed his grandparents around digging wild vegetables and cutting tree roots.
The coarse wild vegetable balls stuck in the delicate throat of the young child, choking his eyes; the starch juice cooked from the roots of the tree, sour and astringent, wandered around in the stomach and intestines, and there was nothing left.
Hunger is the only memory of Wang Boxiang's childhood.
A few years passed, the wolf smoke finally stopped, Shandong was liberated, and New China was founded.
At the call of the times, Wang Boxiang also put on his school bag and walked into the primary school at the mouth of the village.
Since then, Wang Boxiang has lived a student life with the characteristics of that era.
In the morning, he got up from bed, used the cold well water to wake up his sleepy brain, and took a sickle to cut a cage of pig grass.
After feeding the livestock, he went into the kitchen, found two wild vegetable black-faced steamed buns from the earth stove, nibbled one and walked to school, and the remaining one was used as lunch.
After a good class at school, he had to trot all the way back home, finish his homework at dawn, and help his mother prepare the family's dinner.
In Shouguang, the days are heavy and tedious, and although people are not hungry, they still eat chaff and wear rags.
Most of the children who went to school together dropped out of school and went home to do farm work, only Wang Boxiang went from primary school to high school and finally to college because of his good grades.
It was not easy to get out of a college student in that year, Wang Boxiang became the "Wenqu Star" in the eyes of the whole village, and it was a tacit fact that he wanted to leave the countryside and live a good life in the city.
Unexpectedly, Wang Boxiang returned home after graduating from college and quietly became a rural teacher, which surprised many people.
The silent father puffed and puffed a few pipes of shisha and asked, "Is it that I can't stay in the city anymore?" ”
Wang Boxiang replied without changing his face: "The city is very good, but I want Shouguang to be as good as it is!" ”
The father looked at him in amazement, as if for the first time realizing that his son had grown up—with a sense of responsibility in his heart.
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In the 1960s, there were not many college students who could stay in the countryside, and Wang Boxiang was vigorously cultivated by the school.
As the "façade of the school", Wang Boxiang will always be sent to participate in various forms of exchange meetings.
The meeting has been attended a lot, and everyone knows that there is a college student named "Wang Boxiang" who has come to the countryside to teach.
This can be regarded as a new thing, for a time, Wang Boxiang became the talk of the whole county.
At a teachers' meeting, Wang Boxiang took notes with a serious look on one side, while the teachers whispered on the other side:
"That's Wang Boxiang?"
"I heard that I am still a college student!" How to dress in rags. ”
Many female teachers also looked at him curiously, including his future wife Hou Aiying.
At this time, Hou Aiying did not have a good impression of Wang Boxiang and thought that he was a "poor ghost".
And secretly thought in his heart: college students can also mix so "miserable", and they don't know if they can marry a daughter-in-law.
But only a few months later, Hou Aiying was ready to be his daughter-in-law.
Because under the introduction of neighbors, Hou Aiying and Wang Boxiang kissed once.
Hou Aiying's mother, an old party member, admired Wang Boxiang, a responsible young man, and she persuaded her daughter to agree to marry him.
Hou Aiying looked at Wang Boxiang, who was like a green pine, and lowered his head shyly.
In 1969, Wang Boxiang was transferred to the Shouguang County Party Committee.
In the same year, Wang Boxiang and Hou Aiying married in the countryside of Shouguang.
The life after marriage was not as bad as Hou Aiying imagined, because Wang Boxiang was not poor, he was just focused on work and had no time to take care of things outside his body.
But life after marriage is not sweet, because Wang Boxiang is a "saw-billed gourd", busy during the day and snoring like thunder when he returns home at night.
Hou Aiying is alone with children, but also has to take care of work and housework, and it is inevitable that resentment will breed in her heart.
In 1983, Hou Aiying's resentment that had accumulated for many years broke out, and after a fight with Wang Boxiang, he took the child back to her mother's house.
At that time, Hou Aiying handled the "transformation of agriculture from agriculture to non-agriculture" and lost the job of "temporary teacher". She wanted her husband, who was already the deputy secretary of the county, to give her a better job that was easier.
Wang Boxiang refused without even thinking about it, he was the deputy secretary of Shouguang, and many villagers were looking at him, and he could not and was not willing to favor favoritism.
Hou Aiying knew her husband's "virtue", but in the end she still did not die and tried a little, and after she returned, she could not wipe her face and returned to her mother's house with a tantrum.
Wang Boxiang came home from work and saw the empty stove room and sighed helplessly.
Then skillfully turned to the retail outlet to buy a box of good cigarettes and rode his bicycle to the door of his mother-in-law.
Since Wang Boxiang stepped into the gate, the "mother" in his mouth has not been broken, not only personally lighting a cigarette and bending down to send it to the old lady's mouth, but also sitting next to him, lovingly caring: "Smoke slowly." ”
Seeing her husband and mother enjoying themselves, Hou Aiying could only roll her eyes to pack up her things.
Anyway, it wouldn't be long before Wang Boxiang coaxed his mother-in-law to be happy and he was able to take his daughter-in-law and children home.
Sure enough, Hou Aiying learned a lesson from her mother and was taken away by Wang Boxiang on a bicycle.
On the way back, Wang Boxiang finally opened his mouth to explain to his aggrieved wife: "Ai Ying, you know, I am the deputy secretary, I can lead by example." ”
Hou Aiying understood in her heart, she put her hand around Wang Boxiang, who was riding a bicycle, and gently leaned on her husband's back, indicating her attitude with movements.
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In the Spring Festival of 1986, Wang Boxiang, who was still patrolling the village, received a call from the municipal party committee and asked him to report on his work.
Wang Boxiang did not have time to change the torn cotton jacket and hurried on the road, he entered the office, and stepped on the floor one after another solid mud marks.
The leader asked, "What are your plans for the future of Shouguang?" ”
Wang Boxiang waved Fang On the map with his frozen red fingers, he spoke passionately about his plan:
"The transformation of Shouguang is divided into three steps, vegetable industrialization, development of Shoubei, construction of industry."
The leaders of the municipal party committee could not stop nodding their heads, and the appreciation in their eyes was about to come out.
In April 1986, Wang Boxiang was appointed secretary of the Shouguang County Party Committee and officially began the plan to "transform Shouguang".
The fertile soil of the southern part of Shouguang has been growing vegetables since ancient times, and Shouguang vegetables were tributes to the imperial court during the Ming and Qing dynasties.
The Northern Wei agronomist Jia Sixun is a Shouguang person, and his book "Qi Min Zhi Shu" records more than 30 kinds of Shouguang vegetable cultivation methods.
However, Shouguang traffic is blocked, and once the sky is not beautiful, the vegetables cannot be transported out, and the farmers have no return.
If you want to get rich, build the road first! Wang Boxiang's first fire in the new official's post was thus burned.
In July 1986, a spacious road from Shouguang to Beijing gradually took shape, and truckloads of fresh Shouguang vegetables were transported to Beijing.
"In the vegetable garden of Shouguang at night, enter the vegetable basket of Beijingers in the morning, and put on the dishes of Beijingers at noon."
There was not a single cargo driver of the year who could not sing this sentence.
There are many kinds of vegetables in the spring and summer seasons, so you don't have to worry about selling. But in the winter, if you want to grow vegetables, you have to burn briquettes, which is too expensive to lose.
The barren winter of Shouguang became a heart disease of Wang Boxiang.
In 1988, Wang Boxiang visited Sanyuan Zhu Village in Shouguang County.
Wang Leyi, the secretary of the village party committee, revealed a message to Wang Boxiang: There is a Han Yongshan in the northeast who can grow vegetables produced in the summer without spending a coal and a furnace in winter.
Wang Boxiang immediately asked Wang Leyi to go to the northeast for field investigation, and if it was true, he would invite people to help.
But Mastering the "Unique Secret Method" Han Yongshan did not say please, he once vowed not to teach anyone the winter greenhouse planting technology.
Wang Boxiang had no choice but to personally go to the northeast to invite people.
Wang Boxiang, a county party secretary, followed people every day and called him brother and brother, and he broke Han Yongshan's heart and turned people from the northeast to Shandong.
In order to let Han Yongshan do things with peace of mind in Shouguang, Wang Boxiang did not consult with anyone, gave Han Yongshan the unit building that his wife had waited for more than ten years, and arranged a job for his family in Shandong, so that Han Yongshan completely "settled" in Shandong.
The spacious house that has been waiting for half a lifetime has been handed over by the husband without a word, and I believe that no wife will not be angry.
Hou Aiying took a large fried spoon and waved a roar at Wang Boxiang, who looked at his wife's tears of grievance and was overwhelmed in his heart.
But at that time, there was no time for the couple to make trouble, and there were too many places where Shouguang needed Wang Boxiang.
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Han Yongshan let Wang Boxiang be completely chained to Shandong, but the sanyuan zhu villagers did not cooperate and made a quarrelsome disturbance.
"What greenhouse?" Never heard of it! ”
"What if I lose?"
"Corn is being whipped up in the field, where is the land to build a shed, do you want me to cut down all the crops?"
Wang Leyi couldn't resist and hurriedly ran to find Wang Boxiang, who promised him: "You are bold, the money you earn is your three-yuan Zhu Village, and if you lose, you are in the county!" ”
With Wang Boxiang's assurance, Wang Leyi put his mind at ease and designated 17 party members to take the lead in cutting corn and building greenhouses.
In August 1989, 17 winter warm greenhouses in Shouguang Sanyuan Zhu Village were built, and Han Yongshan personally did this, unreservedly passing on all his "absolute learning" to the villagers who built the shed.
In the month of The same year, firecrackers came from Sanyuan Zhu Village, and the villagers gathered outside the vegetable shed, watching in amazement as basket after basket of cucumbers was transported out of it.
As soon as these tender cucumbers were delivered to the Shouguang Market, they were robbed and sold out, and the price jumped from five to a dozen like a monkey.
The 17 shantytowns were transformed into "ten thousand yuan households" with a million yuan, which made those who opposed it sigh one after another.
The following year, winter warm greenhouses were fully promoted in Shouguang County, and 6,000 greenhouses were erected.
With the success of Shoubei vegetables, Wang Boxiang was doubly confident and led his own personnel team to develop The Shoubei Saline-alkali Land.
The county party committee set up a development planning team and invited more than 300 experts and technicians in water conservancy, agriculture, aquaculture, and salting to conduct field research.
After 8 months of hard work, Shoubei's problems such as how to transform, how many evaporation ponds to build, how many ditches to dig, and how many roads to build have all been determined. Just wait for Wang Boxiang's order, and all the construction can be started.
In October 1987, Wang Boxiang walked into the Shoubei construction site with his luggage and stayed with many migrant brothers in a temporary guest house, which was 45 days.
On weekdays, Secretary Wang Boxiang personally went to the construction site to supervise and work with migrant workers, and he was muddy and did not look like a cadre.
Under his own efforts, in just one and a half months, the saline land in Shoubei has undergone earth-shaking changes.
The mudflats that were originally covered with white alkali have become neat salt pans, and there are more than 300 ditches, roads and canals crisscrossing each other.
Shoubei can only rely on the annual income of salt pans to exceed 100 million, not to mention other large incomes such as shrimp ponds and Taitian.
Shoubei had a way to make money, and Wang Boxiang kept leading people south to inspect the factory.
Through his hands, he brought 150 million yuan of investment to the county, and 77 projects were launched, and the lifeless industry of Shouguang gradually came to life.
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From 1986 to 1991, Wang Boxiang served in Shouguang County.
In five years, he fulfilled the oath he had made in the municipal party committee, and he asked the whole Shouguang to tear off the coat of the "poor county" and wrap it in the cotton jacket of "wealth".
"Do more things that are good for the people." This is a sentence that Wang Boxiang often hangs on his lips.
Every time he encountered difficulties, he always thought of taking responsibility: "Boldly try, the sky is falling, I am on top." ”
There is not a single one in the whole Shouguang who does not thank Wang Boxiang, and small shops such as "Boxiang Hotel" and "Boxiang Restaurant" have sprung up in Shoubei Street.
Later, Wang Boxiang left Shouguang, and the villagers from the eight townships of Ten Miles rushed from home to send him, and their eyes were full of tears.
After Wang Boxiang shook hands one by one, he took an empty duffel bag and stepped out of the land of Shouguang step by step.
In September 2019, Wang Boxiang was awarded the title of "The Most Beautiful Strivers".
A reporter asked Wang Boxiang: "Do you think it is difficult to become an official?" ”
Wang Boxiang smiled: "When I say that it is difficult to become an official, I want to 'balance public and private'. ”
He is not a god, there is only the world in his heart, he is also an ordinary person, and his heart is full of seven emotions and six desires.
After so many years, wang Boxiang knew exactly how much he owed to his family.
But the reality is just like what General Cai Yi said to Xiao Fengxian: The body of seven feet has been Xu Guo, and it is difficult to Xu Qing.
In that difficult era, no one could take care of both career and family, and Wang Boxiang carried the full life light on his body, and could only let the small family be hidden in his heart.
In 2008, at the age of 67, Wang Boxiang retired at home, spending the rest of his time making up for his wife and spending time with his family.
Wang Boxiang is known as the designer of Shouguang and the umbrella of the people, but in his ultimate life, all he seeks is to let everyone in Shouguang have a plain and warm home.
Watching "The Age of Awakening", the most touching sentence is: their sequel is our good life today.
We grew up under the red flag, grew up in the spring wind, the eyes are all Huaxia, and the five stars shine for the people.
Born in the prosperous world, people feel that everything at present is at their fingertips.
Now that we have the capital of the proud world, we must not forget the blood of our predecessors.
They exchanged their lives for a peaceful and prosperous life, and future generations must defend their lives with faith.
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