My village can't be like this

Chapter 90

Today, Zhang Jianwen also wanted to take advantage of the presence of everyone in the village to talk about this matter.

The village leaders in the back of the province went door-to-door to negotiate. The big guys speak in different ways, and some people may misunderstand and complain.

"Everyone, let's make a statement now. Regarding the opinion that we have to go out to work and straighten out this half of the road, the villagers who disagree can stand up and express their views."

The old village head looked at everyone. At this time, it depends on how many people agree. If there are not many people, then think of a way.

As a result, after watching it for a long time, none of the big guys stood up and said they disagreed.

Now things like this often happen in the village. If you agree, you agree, and if you don't agree, you don't agree.

It is not like the later generations who timidly have to consider what other people in the village think of themselves, and dare not say what they think.

Not now, you can say what you support, and everyone will not do anything later.

Of course, if there are many people who oppose an unreasonable proposal, it will prove that the proposal is not in everyone's interest.

If everyone agrees, there are only one or two who disagree, it depends on the specific situation, some people are because their own interests are involved, and some people are because they have conflicts with the person who made the opinion, so they don’t want to support it at all. he.

But now we need everyone to take care of the road in front of our own house. It doesn't cost money, we just need everyone to work together, so there is no hesitation.

Who doesn't have children and doesn't walk on the road.

Now that the crops have been planted, and there is not much work in the field, it is good for everyone to take two or three days to come out and do a little work on it.

So after the old village chief finished speaking, he didn't see a single person standing up.

"Uncle, what do you agree with or disagree with? The big guys don't have much to live on now. If you don't use this strength on your body, it will be gone tomorrow. It doesn't take much effort for everyone to do it together."

"Yeah, everyone who has nothing to do should come and contribute together, and those who have other important things at home should go to work on their own. Isn't it just pulling some stones back to pave the road and doing more things."

"Uncle, there's no need to think about this matter. When you say start construction, we will go there. My family has a carriage, and I will pull the stone."

"Village head, there is still half a pile of lime in my house, which can be pulled out to build a road and chopped. Every time it rains, the children in the family have to wear wet shoes for a whole day to study. We also feel distressed."

The people in the village expressed their opinions in a few words, they all said that their family had a horse-drawn carriage and a horse-drawn carriage, and that they had the strength to give their strength.

Among them, one family stood up amid everyone's statements.

"Village chief, I'm really sorry. I stood up not because I disagreed with paving the road, but because my old mother-in-law may be dying in the next two days. The mother of the baby has been serving her for several days. I may not be able to help."

The person who spoke was Wu Zhongyou, whom Zhang An didn't know very well. He was a villager from Xiazhai, but he just went to register and came back. I still have an impression of him. He is a middle-aged man in his 40s.

"Loyal friend, this is a big matter. My family's important affairs must be thoughtful, otherwise I will be scolded by others. It's not like I can't do things in the village without you. You can go to your family's affairs with peace of mind."

Going to the funeral is a matter of great filial piety, everyone can understand, and they have spoken out to comfort Wu Zhongyou.

If there is no accident in the end, it will be settled like this.

"The people in your village are really united, they look like people from one village."

Sitting on the drying yard, Li Hongbin felt something touched in his heart when he saw the people in Changqing Village like this.

"Everyone in the village is actually good-hearted, as long as someone needs to enlighten them and lead them to do something, and the old man has spent decades in this regard, it was not like this before."

"In the village of my hometown, if you want them to contribute to the collective work, no one is pushy."

Li Hongbin smiled self-deprecatingly.

The thing is like this, Li Hongbin told him before.

Li Hongbin is considered to be the first person in his village to make a fortune. In this era, if you do engineering, you can get rich if you do it.

If possible, he would like to do something for the village. A few years ago, Li Hongbin donated some money to the village, saying it was used to repair the road at the entrance of their village.

It's similar to Chang Qing's situation.

But the outrageousness is outrageous. When the village chief of their village gathered everyone, because the money was only enough to buy materials, everyone had to work by themselves.

Unexpectedly, many people said that since Li Hongbin became rich and became a big boss, he should give more money for donations, and even give labor wages together, or wouldn’t it be good for him to bring an engineering team to repair roads?What the hell are you asking them to do? Tell Li Hongbin to do good deeds to the end.

These words made Li Hongbin very angry. At that time, Li Hongbin had just started his business. If it were changed to now, what money would he donate? ah.

As a result, people thought that you gave too little money, and asked you to give more to carry out the good deeds to the end.

Their village chief didn't feel very well-known in the village, and many people didn't give him face.

In the end, even the money was distributed to every household in the village, and the roads were not repaired.

When Li Hongbin came back, the village head brought the old people in the village to thank him for his help to everyone in the village.

When he was told that the village had decided not to build the road after a collective discussion, and that the money he gave would be distributed to everyone to improve their lives, he was completely dumbfounded.

Originally, he gave money to build roads, one is to help his hometown, and the other is to make it easier to drive every time he goes back to see his parents.

Who knew that when he did a good deed, not only did others not understand it, but he even caused a commotion. In the end, the deed was not done and the money was gone.

From then on, Li Hongbin didn't bother to deal with the people in this village. In his eyes, this group of people could live like this at most.

This happened a lot in later generations, so I won’t say much else.

In the impoverished mountainous area in the neighboring province, because the national leaders felt that their lives were very difficult after a visit, they introduced poverty alleviation policies and set up a poverty alleviation working group to help them.

And the poverty alleviation working group has also done it, repairing roads, electrifying them, installing running water, and then bringing piglets, chickens, ducks, geese, etc. to those people in the mountains.

As a result, the little piglet was slaughtered by those people for meat just a few days after it was sent there.

I also want to invite people from the poverty alleviation working group to have dinner.

This made those who went to help them speechless, and there was a feeling that the mud could not support the wall.

There are especially many such people in the mountainous areas, because the village has its own ideas, and those who dare to fight have already gone out, and most of the rest are lazy people.

Today, the performance of this group of people in Changqing Village obviously touched Li Hongbin's heart, because the incident in their village had always been a knot in his heart.

After seeing the old village chief finished speaking, he took out a wad of money from his bag and counted them.

Then he walked to the old uncle and handed the money in his hand to the old uncle.

"Baby, what are you doing?"

The old village head had a good impression of Li Hongbin, a young man with a lot of money, but he always smiled when he saw everyone.

Li Hongbin's behavior has already frightened him. He is very good. Why did he hand me so much money? It seems that there are several thousand yuan more, not a lot at all.

"Uncle, I just saw that you organized everyone to contribute to the collective, and everyone in the village is also actively united, responding to you without hesitation, let me see something different in everyone, let me feel that the people of Changqing Village They are all very good, so I decided to donate 5000 yuan to our Changqing Village to buy materials for road repairs, which should be regarded as good deeds."

In this day and age, many self-made people will do some good deeds, and they should do good deeds for themselves, and Li Hongbin is no exception.

The mountain road at the entrance of Changqing Village is about two miles long. If someone were to repair it all, the money would definitely not be enough.

But he had calculated with Zhang An before that stone materials can be bought without spending money, basically just buying some cement and sand, the money is enough to save.

5000 yuan is not a small amount of money now. When he said this, there was an uproar in the drying field.

Everyone in the village knew that Li Hongbin was an engineering boss and a friend of Zhang An, but they didn't expect that Li Hongbin would give their village so much money to build roads.

You must know that the old village head ran to the town every day, and he ran for several months without getting a penny.

"Boy, what nonsense are you talking about? You haven't had a drink yet. I think you're joking. If you have such a heart, uncle and everyone in the village will take it."

The old village chief hurriedly rounded up the words for him. The kid in front of him was a good kid, and the money was quite a lot, so he had to help someone reject it quickly.

"Uncle, I think clearly. 5000 yuan is a lot, but it is within my ability. I am willing to help Changqing. You don't have to persuade me. If the old man feels worried, you can Just promise me one condition."

"I like our Changqing place very much. It is much better than my hometown. If you agree, I would like to move my parents to Changqing, so that it will be more convenient for me to come and visit them. Besides, Zhang An and I It's better to be in-laws."

When the old village chief heard Li Hongbin's words, he was a little dazed. At first he thought that Li Hongbin would ask for something.

I didn't expect it to be this, even if he doesn't give the money, he just needs to move over and say it. Now it's very simple to change the registered permanent residence.

Because Li Hongbin donated money to the village to build roads, he no longer wants to deal with the people in that village.

But those people all know that he has started a family, and they always go to the town every three days to ask him for help.

Originally, he didn't have a good impression of this group of people, and he didn't have a good face for those who came to him to take advantage of them.

After a long time, there was a gap between the village and his family, and his parents were always run on in the village.

Li Hongbin originally wanted to take his parents to live in the town, but his parents were not used to living in the town, so they still wanted to go back to the village.

No, he felt that Zhang An's village was very close to the town, and it was convenient for them to go back and forth, and the human touch in this village was much more important than other places.

This old uncle is also a good village head who thinks about the people. He just wanted to move his parents here, so he took this opportunity to mention it to the old village head today.

As for the money, it was really nothing to their family, but he believed that after paying the money, the people in Changqing Village, where his parents moved over, would treat them much better.

If you move here for no reason, to be honest, it will take you a long time to integrate into this group.

The old village chief also wanted the child in front of him to think about it. Although he is a big boss, we still have to have a clear conscience. After all, there is so much money, so we finally asked Zhang An to persuade him.

But Zhang An saw Li Hongbin's appearance and knew what he meant.

"Uncle, there's no need to persuade him. This guy is a rich man. Let's treat him like a landlord and eat for two days."

Zhang An said to the old uncle with a smile.

"Since Boss Li has already made a big head, I will also contribute 2000 yuan to the village, because I don't have much money to build a house recently, so don't feel too little. Since you think it needs to be repaired, let's fix it. In the future, when everyone’s conditions are good, every family buys a car, and it won’t work if it’s crushed after driving on this road for two days.”

After Zhang An finished speaking, he also took a stack of money from his pocket and handed it to Uncle Jianwen.

Now the people in the village are also making a noise, now five thousand plus two thousand is already 7000 yuan.

"Tuigui, this is already 7000 yuan. If it is given to someone, it will be a household of [-] yuan."

"Zhang An is a generous young man. This is 2000 yuan. You can take it as you please, and you don't feel bad at all."

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At this time, Wang Fang felt that her son was cutting her own flesh. For 2000 yuan, she would have to grow crops for a whole year without eating or drinking.

But who told her son to say it, she can't say anything now.

It's not that Zhang An doesn't want to donate more, although he grows so many things in the space, there are many ginseng plants.

Rather, the family's financial power is in the hands of his mother, and all the money in the family passes through Wang Fang's hands.

It's not that he can give as much as he wants, besides, Zhang An already felt that if he gave this 2000 yuan, he would definitely be nagged by his mother at night.

And some villagers in the village have been shocked by Li Hongbin and Zhang An's actions, and now they are a little passionate.

"Hongbin, you are Zhang An's friend. My old man entrusts you to be his younger generation. You two children are the best. After the road is repaired, I will definitely erect a monument of merit at the entrance of the village to honor you. Write it down both of you, so that everyone will remember your help to the entire Changqing Village."

The old village head had a lot of money in his hands. He ran around the town begging his grandpa to sue his grandma for several months, but he didn't get a penny.

I didn't expect to call everyone to have a meal on June [-]th today, and eat out the money.

However, if someone has done such a great good deed, the village should also do something so that everyone will always remember it.

It's okay not to say these words, but when it is said that the name of the stele of meritorious deeds will be recorded, other people in the village can't sit still.

Many people are already ready to move now, and they can't bear themselves anymore.

For them, there is no such thing as leaving a name in history, but being able to leave a name in the village is already a great thing.

No, just after the old village chief finished speaking, many people in the village had already walked over.

"Uncle, I think what Zhang An said is right. Since we want to build roads, let's fix it. Since the higher-ups don't care about us, then we can contribute money and work hard. Our family's conditions are like that. The 200 Yuan Qian is our family’s wish.”

Zhang Xinmin was the first person who couldn't stand it anymore. In terms of conditions, because of the revenue from the canteen, his family is considered relatively good in the village.

Under the leadership of Zhang Xinmin, everyone who was waiting to eat, now came up to line up to donate money to the village to build roads.

Looking at the scene, Zhang An thought to himself that the old village chief had hit the right spot, and unknowingly, he resorted to a tactic of "recording merits with stones".

If everyone is normally called to collect money to build roads, no one is willing, and everyone will cry poorly.

But the old village head didn't think about asking everyone to contribute money from the beginning, he just expected them to contribute their efforts.

Originally, it was just to let everyone remember the help Li Hongbin and Zhang An had given to the village, but unexpectedly it aroused the people in the village.

There are a lot of people coming up to give money at this moment, and the old village chief can't accept it.

"Uncle, find something to memorize, so as not to make mistakes."

Zhang An knew everyone's thoughts, so he gave the old uncle an opinion.

That's the reason the old uncle heard, otherwise there will be a problem with the number and it will be difficult to explain.

Then I took out my small book and started to register everyone's names and amounts one by one.

Some people have better conditions and gave one hundred, but most people gave fifty or twenty.

Anyway, no one was rejected, and the old village chief registered them one by one.

There are also many elderly people in the village who came to donate money, ten or five yuan.

They feel that after they die, they will erect a monument on their grave so that their family members will come to see you. This will give them some money to go to the merit monument at the entrance of the village, which is much more important than their own tombstone, so why not do it.

Even if you have done good deeds when you go up to the monument of merit and virtue, then you will have a good place to go down there when the time comes.

And when the old village chief saw these elderly men and women come and make noise, he kindly advised them to take it back.

"Jianwen, this is a major event in the village. We can't help with old bones, and we can't give more. You should accept the few dollars."

The old man and the old lady are afraid of everyone when they are stubborn, and they will be trained if they don't agree. Who makes the old village head a junior.

The registration was completed soon, and the accountant next to him clicked, and the sum given by Zhang An and Li Hongbin was more than 1.

He used to have no money, but now he has become rich all of a sudden. Neither the village head nor the village accountant know how to work anymore.

It was agreed before that it would be enough for everyone to pull some stones and lay them together.

Now that we have enough money, we must build a good cement road. As for the details, we will have to hold a meeting with the representatives of the villagers' organizations to decide.

Afterwards, these road construction matters were settled in this way, and we will wait until the village discusses it again, and now we have to eat first.

The task of the old village chief was now completed, and everyone began to serve the dishes, eating happily.

As for Li Hongbin and Zhang An, this meeting has already been surrounded by everyone in the village. He has received so much money and received goodwill from everyone in the village. When the meeting is eating, everyone will take turns to toast him.

Li Hongbin was born in the mountains, and he usually needs to socialize. Naturally, his drinking capacity is not small, and he can drink more than half a catty.

But I can't bear the fact that there are so many people in Changqing Village. If one person comes up to pay respects once, even if he is only allowed to drink a sip, it is already a quantitative change and a qualitative change.

In the end, he was about to die, but fortunately, the old village chief stopped him.

Everyone just left, this is the enthusiasm of the mountain people, and ordinary people really can't bear it.

In the mountains, everyone thinks you are an honored guest, just like Li Hongbin today, so everyone must treat you well, eat and drink to your heart's content, otherwise it is not doing well.

By the time everyone finished eating, it was almost dark.

Zhang An stayed behind with the old uncle and his group to pack things. Since everyone brought their own dishes and chopsticks, it greatly reduced everyone's workload.

They kept tidying up until evening, and Zhang An didn't go home until everyone finished.

With Li Hongbin's appearance, he probably won't be able to go back tonight.

In the evening, the old village head came to Li Hongbin to discuss the settlement of his family.

But seeing Li Hongbin drunk and unconscious, it can only be another day.

Although Zhang An helped him block most of the alcohol, he still drank a lot.

After helping him to lie down in the guest room at the back of his house, Zhang An was going to make a call to Zhou Lan.

Zhang An's house has always had four rooms, but the back two rooms are often used to store food.

It's just that I sold the corn some time ago, and when one came out, Wang Fang took care of it and made a bed, so that there would be no place for people to rest when someone came.

Of course, more people are definitely not enough.

"Hi, Sister Lan, I'm Zhang An."

After Zhou Lan on the other end of the phone answered the phone, Zhang An took the initiative to speak.

"What's the matter, Ann."

Zhang An could still hear Li Yao calling his godfather beside him.

"Sister Lan is like this. Today our village collectively eats on June [-]th. Brother Li drank too much, so he will stay at our house tonight and won't go back. I'll call you and tell you, lest you worry."

"Okay, I'm sorry to trouble you Zhang An, this man also drinks and doesn't know how to drink less."

"Sister, I really don't blame him for this matter. It's because the people in the village are too enthusiastic. Everyone toasted him, and he can't do without drinking. Isn't that why he drank too much?"

After finishing the phone call with Zhou Lan, Wang Fang had already cooked a pot of hangover soup. Just now, she saw her son and Li Hongbin both drank a lot.

"Xiao An, you drank so much wine at night, come and drink this soup."

Seeing his mother bring over a large bowl of hangover soup, Zhang An didn't want to drink it.

"Mom, I seem to have drunk too much. I don't have any reaction now, so I don't need to drink."

Wang Fang looked at her son, and she really didn't look like someone who drank too much. She knew her son's drinking capacity. Although he could drink, he would get drunk if he drank too much.

What Wang Fang didn't know was that it was the old Zhang An, and most of the wine that Zhang An drank tonight was taken into the space by him.

Zhang An drank so much today that nothing happened, he didn't look like a drunk person at all.

But the hangover soup can't be wasted, Zhang An got up and went to the guest room, helped Li Hongbin up, and poured the hangover soup for him.

Otherwise, he will definitely suffer when he wakes up tomorrow.

Then Zhang An washed his feet in the main room, and was about to be criticized by Wang Fang.

"You child, why don't you discuss with us about so much money first."

She still feels sorry for the 2000 yuan, so she must talk about Zhang An when she comes back.

"Mom, it's not a big deal, just treat it as our family dug up old ginseng sticks before, and do some good deeds to accumulate virtue."

How can this be discussed? This guy Li Hongbin ran up to give the money without saying a word.

Everyone in the village knew about their family, so they didn't give some at this time, and everyone had something to say behind their backs.

Wang Fang thought about it, and felt that her son was right.

If the family is lucky, it's time to do some good deeds to accumulate virtue by digging up old ginseng sticks worth tens of thousands of dollars.

But she still feels distressed, 2000 yuan is a lot after all.

"Then you don't need to give that much. You see, Zhang Xinmin gave 200 yuan the most in the village except you. No one will say anything if you give 1000 yuan."

"Mom, it's only 2000 yuan. Compared with repairing the road, it is a good thing for our family. Think about it, when the road is repaired in the village, more people will come to our village. It will be a matter of time before we earn it back. "

After listening to her son's words, although Wang Fang felt sorry for the money, she had already given the money anyway, and she still couldn't bear that embarrassment if she wanted to come back.

She just wanted to use this matter to talk to Zhang An well, so that he could save money in the future and not be so extravagant.

(End of this chapter)