Time Travel: Volume 1! Starting from a Small Mountain Village

"Slap! Slap! Slap!"

Hearing the thunderous applause, Long Lifan felt as if she were being roasted over a fire, and she was truly caught in a dilemma.

Especially the applause from those around her, led by Lin Yue, seemed to resonate deep within her soul. What Long Lifan didn't know was that after the brigade leader and the others clapped, Qi Fangfang, Zhou Yuping, and a group of other children joined in.

Long Lifan had no idea when she became so popular with the members.

With no other choice, she had to bite the bullet and proceed. Amidst the applause, she slowly walked step by step onto the platform, each step fraught with difficulty.

The applause gradually subsided and eventually disappeared as she walked onto the platform. After pausing to catch her breath, she said, "Thank you all for your support, and thank you to the village committee for their trust."

"To be honest, I was at a loss when I learned that I would be appointed as the women's director. I haven't been here long and I don't think I have anything particularly outstanding about me."

"However, since the village committee has decided to appoint me to this position, I must do it well. Only in this way can I live up to the trust placed in me by all the members of Dongwan Brigade."

"At the same time, I also hope that everyone will support and cooperate with my work during my tenure. Now I will briefly talk about my tasks and responsibilities."

"First, implement the resolutions of the higher-level women's federation and the women's congress at the same level. Second, guide the rural women's congresses under its jurisdiction in carrying out women's work."

"At the same time, we will publicize and implement the Party and government's guidelines and policies in rural areas. We will educate and guide rural women to carry forward the spirit of self-respect, self-confidence, self-reliance, and self-improvement, and improve their ideological and moral qualities, scientific and cultural qualities, and health qualities, so that they can become new women of the times with ideals, morality, culture, and discipline."

"Represent and safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of rural women and children, reflect women's opinions, suggestions and demands, represent women in village affairs decision-making, give full play to the role of democratic participation, democratic management and democratic supervision, and promote the construction of grassroots democracy in rural areas."

"Promote and popularize laws and regulations concerning women and children, resist feudal superstitions and outdated customs, and prevent and stop domestic violence."

Long Lifan went on and on, explaining that she had found relevant information about the women's director through the system. Not only were the commune members present confused, but even the cadres were completely bewildered by what she was saying.

"Well said!" It doesn't matter if you don't understand, just clap your hands. Lin Guodong shouted and his hands unconsciously started clapping, and the audience burst into enthusiastic applause again.

"Congratulations, Long Zhiqing!" As soon as she stepped off the platform, familiar faces greeted her warmly, especially the older educated youth who crowded around her, constantly offering words of congratulations and envy.

Behind the crowd, a figure stared intently at Long Lifan, who was surrounded by admirers, his eyes seemingly spitting fire. Since Chen Hongjie separated from the female educated youth in cooking, the living standards of the male educated youth had plummeted.

Although they didn't eat very well before, they could at least have a ready-made meal after work every day. Now, not only is it not readily available, but some of them often find their food undercooked. In just a few days, he felt he had lost a lot of weight.

Because Chen Wei was the reason the female educated youth split up, the male educated youth blamed him for their anger, and they were also affected. Although he is still nominally the person in charge of the educated youth settlement, it seems that no one is willing to listen to him now.

Utterly dejected, he slowly withdrew from the crowd, feeling utterly lost. As the head of the educated youth settlement, when had he ever received such adoration? Although these people seemed to be flattering him, he had never experienced such treatment.

As soon as Long Lifan got home, she locked the door from the inside. After listening to compliments all the way home, she felt dizzy and lightheaded. Although some of these people were simply congratulating her, she still couldn't stand many of them.

"call"

Hearing the people outside leave one after another, Long Lifan finally breathed a sigh of relief. But the thought of how she had inexplicably become the women's director of the Dongwan Brigade made her anger rise again.

"Tongzi, give me a family bucket!"

Never mind, I have to eat something good to calm my temper. Thinking about my four-figure balance, I ordered a 99 yuan set meal with a bit of gusto.

"Okay, host!" the trading system replied repeatedly, and as soon as it finished speaking, a steaming hot family bucket appeared in front of Long Lifan.

The system's tone was filled with excitement. "Great! The dog host has finally decided to spend money. There's always a second time after the first. My KPL has taken another step forward."

Eating hamburgers and drinking cola, is this what my life of leisure is all about? But then again, this meal cost me nearly a hundred yuan.

"Forget it, forget it! I can't afford it, I simply can't afford it." Although she had enjoyed the meal just now, she couldn't feel happy at all after spending a hundred yuan.

"I acted impulsively!"

Long Lifan silently cursed herself for her stupid decision. And so, her anger shifted from the women's director matter to her own sullen frustration.

Night falls quickly in the countryside; by seven or eight o'clock, all sounds were gone. Long Lifan, who never liked to go to bed early, tossed and turned in bed, unable to fall asleep.

I don't know if it's because I was elected as the women's director, or because I thought about how I spent two months' worth of money on a single meal. So, I mentally asked the system to find some books to read to pass the time. The system was reluctant at first, but when it thought about how its host had spent a hundred yuan on food that day, it readily agreed.

The next day when she went to work, she was not in a good mental state because she had stayed up too late the night before, and she didn't even know how she got up the mountain.

What she didn't know was that soon after she went up the mountain, a bicycle team entered the village.

There were four people, each riding a bicycle. They were all wearing uniforms, clearly police officers. The villagers were startled by this sight, and many went to call the brigade leader and his men.

"Comrade, is Long Lifan, the educated youth, one of your people?" one of the police officers asked the burly man who was watching the commotion.

"Yes, yes!" The burly man was startled when he saw that a policeman was questioning him, and he had no choice but to answer honestly.

"Comrades, you are..." Just then, several village cadres who had received the news arrived. They were surprised to see several people in uniform.

But as cadres, they couldn't evade the issue, so they had no choice but to step forward and inquire.

“I’m from the Hongxing Commune Police Station, my surname is Huang. These are comrades from the county, here to find Long Lifan, the educated youth.”

"Hello, hello!" Lin Guodong quickly extended his hand and greeted them, "I am Lin Guodong, the captain of Dongwan Brigade. This is Secretary Miao and Secretary Zhou." He didn't forget to introduce the two people next to him as he spoke.

"Hello, Comrade Lin!" The group exchanged a few pleasantries.

"Please wait a moment, comrades. Long Zhiqing is at work, and I've already sent someone to inform her. Why don't we go to the brigade headquarters to rest for a bit?" Lin Guodong invited the group.

"That's fine, but it will be troublesome for Comrade Lin!" the middle-aged man in the lead said politely.

"There, there, please!" Lin Guodong said, gesturing for them to proceed, before leading the group toward the brigade headquarters.

"What do you think the police officers wanted with Long Zhiqing? Did she do something wrong?" As soon as Lin Guodong and the others left, the people who had been gathered there started to discuss it.

These days, villagers have a natural fear of the police, always feeling that being looked for by the police is not a good thing.

“I don’t think so. Long Zhiqing doesn’t seem like the kind of person who would cause trouble!” someone disagreed with the previous person and retorted.

"Who knows? You can know a person's face but not their heart." An older woman couldn't help but scoff. She was resentful that a young educated youth had become the women's director, so she didn't have anything nice to say at the moment.

Seeing the excitement, everyone stopped working and ran to the brigade headquarters, abandoning their tools. Soon, the headquarters was packed with people, even more lively than the day before.

"Long Zhiqing, something bad has happened! The police are here!"

Long Lifan and the others were telling stories to the children when a young man ran up the mountain, panting and shouting.

As he called out, he ran up to Long Lifan and said, "Long, the police are here specifically to see you. The captain sent me to inform you."

"Hmm," Long Lifan frowned. Why did the police come to find her? Hu Lili and Jiang Nian'an, who were standing beside her, were also a little worried. They wanted to say something but didn't know how to start.

"I understand, I'll be right down!" Long Lifan replied, without the slightest fear in her voice. She had acted uprightly and hadn't done anything illegal, so what was there to be afraid of?

Hu Lili and Jiang Nian'an were a little worried, so they followed her down the mountain. Long Lifan saw this but didn't say anything, instead taking the lead and walking ahead.

But the children had no one to tell them stories, so they all followed behind.