my return 2002

Chapter 307 The house is a signboard, the land is tired, and saving money is a reminder
After listening to Uncle Wu's introduction to Shen Lang, I realized that these were all village cadres, and they were all somewhat related.

Shen Lang exchanged some awkward greetings, and then a group of people climbed to the top of the mountain.

The cemetery of grandparents is buried together. It used to be a simple small bag of earth, but now it is full of building materials, stone tablets, marbles and the like. Uncle Ju Wu said that these were picked up by the villagers bit by bit. Yes, Shen Lang was greatly shocked.

Standing on the top of the mountain, looking around, there are mountains all around. Shen Lang vaguely remembers that when he was a child, his grandfather took him up the mountain to catch rabbits. Now the forest on the mountain is denser, and it is a scene full of vitality.

"It's almost time, let's break ground." The uncle glanced at the time and swung his hoe first.

Everyone started to get busy, but Shen Lang and Shen Hongbin couldn't intervene for a while, so they could only stand aside and watch with Zhou Chunxiang and the eldest aunt.

Dozens of strong men have been busy until noon, and the cemetery has a basic outline. Compared with the small dirt bag before, it is simply the difference between a rough house and a mansion decoration.

The uncle also teased Shen Liang: "The old man and the old lady have lived in poverty all their lives, so they must never have imagined that they could still live in such a beautiful house."

Shen Lang sighed sadly: "Yes, it's a pity that it's a bit late."

After working all morning, everyone was hungry, so they went to the nearest family in the village to have dinner together. After arriving there, Shen Lang found that the quiet small mountain village in his memory could only be seen at this moment: poverty, two words .

There is no decent furniture in the house except tables, chairs and benches. An old-fashioned TV set looks at least ten years old. The two children are wrapped in thick padded jackets, watching the advertisements on the TV eagerly, without any impatience. There was even cheers when it was the feature film's turn.

More than 40 people participated in the construction of the cemetery. This is because the strong laborers in the nearby mountain villages spend the New Year at home, so there are usually not so many people gathered.

40 people sat at four tables, and even the tables, chairs, and benches were made by several families in the village, as were the bowls and chopsticks.

For today's banquet, the family asked the butcher to kill the family's Nian pig and four old hens in the morning, so that they could gather a table for the banquet.

Everyone on the wine table pushed and changed glasses, and Shen Lang also drank a few glasses with him, so naturally he was praised all the time. Fortunately, Shen Lang has long been used to this kind of occasion, and it is easy to deal with it.

After leaving the table, Shen Lang secretly asked his mother Zhou Chunxiang: "Let's give their family more money for this banquet, it's not easy."

Zhou Chunxiang patted Shen Lang's hand: "Don't worry, your uncle and your father have already made arrangements. Give them 500 yuan for this table, and they won't suffer."

Just as he was talking, Shen Lang saw many villagers coming to weigh pork, but what puzzled Shen Lang was that he didn't seem to see anyone who gave the money.

Uncle Wu seemed to see Shen Lang's doubts, and explained: "That's how it is in the village. Pig slaughter is done at different times, and everyone has no money in their pockets. Today your family will give me three catties of meat for slaughtering pigs. After a while, my family will kill pigs." If it’s a pig, return the three catties of meat.”

"That is to say, my uncle's family does not raise pigs, and meat has always been bought with money, so every household kills pigs and invites them."

The uncle Wu Shu mentioned was naturally Shen Lang's grandfather, and Shen Lang also remembered that this was the case. When he was a child, he still wondered, since his grandfather didn't know how to butcher pigs, why every household invited him to kill pigs.

While talking, there was a sudden noise in the room. Shen Lang approached and took a look. It turned out that some strong men choked up after drinking too much wine, and started to play drunk, and almost got into a fight. It is easy to be pulled apart.

Shen Lang couldn't help shaking his head secretly, whoever said rural people are simple.

In the afternoon, we continued to build the cemetery, and Shen Lang also joined in to help carry the marbles. Not to mention that he hadn't done physical labor for a long time, this stuff made his shoulders burn and hurt.

Uncle Wu also teased: "In a while, I have to kneel on this marble carried by Xiaolang to worship, and I will also have Xiaolang's fortune."

"Haha~~~" Everyone burst into laughter.

Shen Lang secretly rolled his eyes, did he really regard him as the God of Wealth?
After working until the afternoon, the whole cemetery has taken on a new look.

Shen Liang and his uncle also started to pay wages to the villagers who participated in the labor today, and the villagers laughed so hard that they couldn't see their teeth when they got the money.

After the villagers left, the family offered incense and burnt paper to their grandparents and kowtowed. Seeing that it was getting dark, they returned to the pier by boat.

It was too late to go home, and the mountain road was not safe, so I decided to stay at the house of my fourth uncle and fifth uncle for one night before leaving.

The four of them, Shen Lang and Shen Hongbin, stayed at Fifth Uncle's house. Shen Lang and Shen Hongbin slept in the same bed. In the middle of the night, Shen Hongbin said to Shen Lang with some emotion.

"I didn't expect it to be so poor here."

Shen Lang also felt a little panicked in his heart, especially the ignorant eyes of those children. Shen Lang really didn't know how they should face such a society full of cruel competition when they grew up.

A few days later, Shen Lang found Uncle Wu: "Uncle Wu, can we only take a boat from the village to the county? Is there a road that leads directly to the county?"

Uncle Wu smiled bitterly: "Where is the road, there is a small road, which is only enough for one person to walk, and accidentally fell into the river."

"How do the kids go to school?"

"There is an elementary school in the village, and I walked to the school in the town to attend junior high school, but very few children in the village go to junior high school. Generally, after graduating from elementary school, they have to help the family with farm work."

After listening to Uncle Wu, Shen Lang felt even more blocked. He didn't think he was a great man with a heart for the world, but he wasn't a hard-hearted man either. It was fine if he didn't see it. If he saw it, he didn't care. He was really sorry.

"Uncle Wu, why don't you do this? I'll pay to help build a road in the village. What do you think?"

Uncle Wu stared at Shen Lang for a while: "Xiao Lang, are you serious?"

"of course."

Uncle Wu excitedly held Shen Lang's hand, tears were about to fall: "That's great, Xiao Lang, I thank you on behalf of the villagers on both banks."

Knowing that Shen Lang was going to help build roads in the village, his father Shen Liang just said: "Do what you can."

Shen Lang smiled: "Don't worry, it's just a road, I can still afford it, so it's considered charity."

Mother Zhou Chunxiang moved her mouth, but finally swallowed the words back.

Soon Uncle Wu called all the cadres in the village to his home to discuss how to repair the road.

The village party secretary said that he could go to the county to apply for the policy. The money does not need to be paid by Shen Lang alone, only half of it is enough, and labor does not need to be spent. Every household in the village contributes labor, and it can be repaired in about a year pass.

Shen Lang thought for a while and felt that the efficiency was too slow: "Let's leave it to a professional construction team. Since the purpose of road construction is to open up the connection with the village and the outside world, at least it must be a two-way, two-lane road."

"But. In this way, there is no way to apply for subsidies." The village party secretary said with some hesitation.

Shen Lang waved his hand: "I will pay the money. Later, I will ask the design institute to inspect the drawings on the spot, and then find a special construction team to carry out the construction. The most important thing now is that there may be some land expropriation. Communicate well with the villagers so that good things don’t turn into bad things.”

Uncle Wu immediately patted his chest and said: "Xiaolang, you don't have to worry about this. They say that if you want to get rich, you must first build roads. As long as the roads can be repaired, everyone's life will have hope. If anyone dares to do bad things, all of us villagers will not forgive him!"

"That's right, he can't be spared!" All the villagers present also supported him.

He really couldn't bear the eyes of the villagers looking at the savior, so Shen Lang took his family in the car and returned.

Back home, Zhou Chunxiang asked Shen Lang worriedly.

"Wouldn't it cost a lot of money to build roads?"

Shen Lang smiled: "Actually, there are not as many as you imagined. Calculated based on the 4-meter-wide and 20cm-thick cement concrete pavement, the average one kilometer is about 20. If it is repaired from the village to the county, it will cost at most It's 2000 kilometers, even if you have to go around some mountain roads, it's almost [-] kilometers, at most [-] million."

"2000 million is also money." Zhou Chunxiang muttered.

Father Shen Liang is very supportive: "Get rich first and then get rich. You see, our family is not short of anything now. I haven't heard the old saying: The house is a sign and the land is tired. Saving money is a ghost. If you want to be so What more money do you do?"

Shen Lang smiled and patted his mother's hand: "Mom, my dad is right, my son is now considered a public figure, and it's time to do some public welfare undertakings, which will also help improve the corporate image."

Speaking of this, Shen Lang suddenly thought that a catastrophe would happen next year, and it was time to do something.

Shen Lang thought for a while and called Zhang Yong.

Zhang Yong was eating, and when Shen Lang finished speaking, he stood up in surprise.

"Mr. Shen, why did you suddenly think of building a school in Sichuan?"

Shen Lang made up a half-true and half-false reason: "It's not that I went back to my hometown and saw some suffering in the world. I also saw the posts posted by netizens from Sichuan and Shu on the Internet before, and wanted to do something."

For this, Zhang Yong agreed: "Well, our company really needs to do some charitable work to improve the corporate image, how about this, after the new year, I will make a detailed plan for you?"

"Okay, you don't have to worry too much, there is still time after the new year, and you can stay at home and spend time with your family during this time." Shen Lang said and hung up the phone.

But his thoughts had already flown to nowhere, and he even had a dream that night, in which he felt the bed shaking violently.

"I really think about it day by day and dream about it at night." Shen Lang couldn't help but smile wryly.

In the next few days, Shen Lang started to get busy buying new year's goods with his parents. Every time he went to the New Year's supermarket and vegetable market, it would become extremely lively, as if everyone had left their money for the New Year's day to spend.

It wasn't until New Year's Eve that he settled down. Shen Hongbin still often ran to Shen Lang's house and dragged him to play DOTA together. This guy's operation is much better than last year. Shen Lang really couldn't PK him at first.

Later, after getting used to it, I started to continue to hang and beat him. The game of DOTA is often conscious. Follow Shen Lang to double row together.

In the past few days of the new year, the uncle, the aunt, the father and the mother gathered together for another table of mahjong, and played every day in the dark. At this time, the father, Shen Liang, and the uncle expressed regret.

At that time, because they were all public officials, they could not have a second child. Now the family can't even get a table of mahjong, so only two families can make one table.

Mother Zhou Chunxiang glanced at Shen Lang and Shen Hongbin.

"It's not easy for a family to gather together for a table, let these two quickly find a wife, or just join a table."

After hearing Zhou Chunxiang's words, the eldest aunt got excited and scolded her.

"Isn't it? We had 27 or 8 children at that time. The young people nowadays are really outrageous."

Shen Lang and Shen Hongbin never dreamed that they could be urged to marry after playing mahjong, so they rolled their eyes and continued to hide in the room to play games.

On the first day of the Lunar New Year, Shen Lang and Shen Hongbin became errand runners as usual when they had to visit relatives. Who made them lower in seniority and went door to door to send gifts for the New Year.

Of course, the treatment of Shen Lang and Shen Hongbin is different. No matter which house Shen Lang goes to pay New Year's greetings, he is always the focus. They all stare at Shen Lang as if they were looking at alien species, and they are all very curious. Post his bank account for them to see.

Shen Hongbin was completely ignored, which made him very depressed and emotional.

"Sure enough these days, wherever you go with money, you are the uncle!"

Shen Lang scolded with a smile: "Come on, do you think being rich makes you happy?"

"You can't imagine the happiness of being rich."

"roll!"

During the Chinese New Year, Shen Lang also received a lot of calls for New Year's greetings. Apart from some business greetings, Liu Tianxian also called him.

"How about it, is the album finished recording in Japan?" Shen Lang asked softly.

Liu Tianxian hummed: "I'm going back to China after the Chinese New Year, when are you free?"

"What? Missed me?" Shen Lang said with a smirk.

"Tch, who misses you, you are so beautiful."

"I'm probably going back to Shanghai on the sixth day of the Lunar New Year."

"Then I'll book a flight back on the fifth day of the lunar new year."

Just as Liu Tianxian hung up the phone, Liu Shishi also called, which caught Shen Lang a little off guard.

"Happy New Year, are you at home or on set?"

Liu Shishi pursed his lips: "As for the crew, the crew is rushing to work recently, and there is no holiday for the Chinese New Year."

Although the tone was still light, it always sounded like a baby.

Shen Lang comforted: "How about this, when I return to Shanghai, I will visit the crew."

"Well, then I won't bother you anymore, and the filming is going to start here."

"alright, bye!"

Just as Shen Lang hung up the phone, Shen Hongbin appeared out of nowhere and stared at Shen Lang with a gossip.

"The crew? Good boy, you must not be a female celebrity, right?"

Shen Lang said solemnly: "What is nurturing, whether I can talk, I am very serious about dating, okay?"

"Really? That's just right. How can I keep Second Aunt from knowing this kind of good news? I just want to"

Shen Lang grabbed him: "Ahem, help me keep a secret, what price do I have to pay?"

"Hey, chatting with smart people is a pleasure, let me know, I haven't seen a female star yet." Shen Hongbin laughed.

"What if I refuse?"

"Second aunt. Woo~~~"

"Okay, you are amazing, go to Shanghai with me after Chinese New Year!"

"make a deal!"

(End of this chapter)