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Chapter 1686 Behind the Prosperity

The marriage of brothers Liu Feng and Liu Jun has long been a concern for Liu Qingbin and Liu Zong'e.This time, Zhao Jianhui was given an ultimatum, no matter what, the two brothers must be forced to get married on May [-]st.

In fact, Liu Jun was afraid that time would be short and wronged his wife Meng Siying. In fact, how did he know that when Zhao Jianhui was talking to him, Liu Meiqi and Long Lingyun in the capital had already brought people to work for him in the new house.

This time, the Liu family brothers' wedding was much lower-key than Zhao Jianhui's wedding. After all, Meng Xingguo and Liu Qingbin's identities are there now, and people will gossip if they are too extravagant.

But even if it is streamlined and streamlined, the number of people coming to this wedding is not too small.The relationship between Liu Qingbin of the older generation, Meng Xingguo, Liu Zongchang and others was arranged in the banquet hall of the Great Hall of the People. The big figures who were rarely seen at ordinary times made the waiters who claimed to be used to big scenes stare eyes.

Friends of Liu Feng and Yan Xiaorui, Liu Jun and Meng Siying, and some of Zhao Jianhui's connections, were all arranged in the Yurun Xinghui Hotel.This is the best time for Zhao Jianhui's wives to show themselves as family members. How could Ye Qiuyu, Dongfang Wenjing and others not be present?There are three tables for these women with their children alone.

On the fourth day of their wedding, Zhao Jianhui dragged Liu Jun back to Nanyue.In the mountain village that Liu Jun mentioned, looking at the houses built with broken stones in front of him, Zhao Jianhui's heart was greatly shaken.

In front of a house foundation covered by weeds and dead leaves, an old woman who looks about 80 or [-] years old is holding a thin bamboo pole in her hand, staring at her home with cloudy eyes full of helplessness. eager.

"Has the old man lived a long life?" Zhao Jianhui walked over to chat with the old man, only to realize that the old man's ears are not deaf at all, and he can speak clearly: "Me? I'm 91 this year, and I don't have a few years to live..."

"Is this your home? The foundation of this house has already been laid, why don't you continue to build the house?" The old man's dialect is very strong, but Zhao Jianhui can barely understand it.

"I bought the bricks a long time ago. Aren't they all stored there? Who doesn't want to live in a new house? But my family has no money... Before I die, I will be satisfied to live in the new house." The old man said As he said that, he stretched out his finger and pointed, and there were several piles of mossy bricks near the foundation.It looks like it's been there for a few years.

"Old man, have you bought this brick for many years?"

"Yeah, it's been six or seven years, and I can't remember clearly..." Every wrinkle on the old man's weather-carved face seemed to express helplessness, which made people worry about it.

"Zhao Shu. Ji, the head of this family is Zhao Xin, the son of an old man, and he is 70 or 2006 years old this year. As early as 22, the thatched cottage where the Zhao family lived for decades was dilapidated. The rain flooded the house. After a heavy rain, the thatched hut suffered a catastrophe and most of it collapsed. In the same year, Zhao Xin’s [-]-year-old son graduated from junior high school and was introduced by a friend to work in Shenzhen. They don’t know anything about the world, but it doesn’t affect the family’s optimism at all. They think that if the eldest brother went to a big city to make a living, they will have something to rely on for life, so Zhao Xin discussed with his wife and decided to borrow money to build a house first!”

In front of people, Liu Jun still had to address Zhao Jianhui as Zhao Shu.ji.Seeing that he was very concerned about the life of the elderly, he hurriedly introduced to the side: "The 2 yuan borrowed from relatives to build a house was quickly spent, but my son in Shenzhen couldn't even eat enough. Because he heard I don't know Mandarin, let alone technology, so I had to follow my fellow villager to pick up junk in Shenzhen. Hearing that his son couldn't make money back, the Zhao family's dream of building a house was interrupted, and the original thatched house no longer existed. In desperation, They moved into the woods behind the village and built two 'wooden tents' with branches. The small one was for the old mother who was only ninety years old, and Zhao Xin and his wife lived in the big tent. Every day, the over-year-old Elderly people in their [-]s will use crutches to visit this half-finished 'new house'. When I was researching here, I met her several times... The biggest dream of the old man is to live in a new house in this life .Even if you only live for one day and swallow this breath, the old man said that you can let go of this worry in this life..."

"If we still ignore the existence of this status quo, then the dream of the Zhao family can only continue in this way. Even today, the monthly salary of the grandson of the old man who works outside is only 800 yuan. Once he came home and ran into me, saying that it was too harsh outside and he wanted to go home and farm. The middle-aged people in the village, like the boss of the Zhao family, once left this mountain village to work in the Pearl River Delta or the provincial capital when they were young. , but at most one or two years before returning, as many people go out, as many people come back, the people in this village can’t stay outside at all. When they go outside, they are dumb! Some people are even called by the boss like They rushed back like a plague god. The people of Longshan Village spent all their youth and sweat outside. As time passed, they finally returned home in poverty, with nothing..."

Listening to Liu Jun's words, Zhao Jianhui's face became more and more gloomy.The faces of the cadres standing behind him also changed color.

"Why is this? Why is it like this?" Liu Juan asked without losing the opportunity.

"Education lags behind." Liu Jun glanced at Zhao Jianhui's face that could almost be squeezed out of the water, completely ignoring the gloomy face of Zhang Jianxiang, secretary of the district party committee, and replied in a somewhat passionate voice: "Because of the low level of education, this People in the village can only be workers at the lowest level when they go out. The boss of the Zhao family said that he had assembled the parts for a year, but he had never seen the final product once, and he was often stared at by the boss. With a huge debt, he has already gone home to farm."

Cao Zhenqing, who was standing a little further away, said, "Looking at the situation in the village, maybe the farming is not doing well?"

Villagers who "don't even know the words" are still "bullyed" by the land, and they don't even have the qualifications to be "lazy"

Liu Jun smiled bitterly and said, "Who says it's not? At the beginning, I also thought that as long as people are diligent, they won't be hungry, right? However, this village is really strange, and they can eat a full meal if they talk at both ends. There are very few people..."

The villagers of Longshan Village who returned home had no choice but to pick up the farmland in front of their house again.In recent years, the national grain purchase price has been rising steadily, and the minimum purchase price of rice in Nanyue is approaching 1 yuan per catty.But all of this seems to have nothing to do with the people of Longshan Village. In good years, the food grown is only enough to fill their stomachs.

The land in Longshan Village is barren and severely desertified.During the rainy season, the sea breeze blows in, bringing abundant precipitation, and the accumulated water in the fields cannot be completely drained for half a year; but there will be no rain for several months in a row, and the villagers can only watch the seedlings dry out.

The villagers of Longshan, who depend on the fields for food, still rely on the sky for their food just like in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China.Even in the best years, the yield per mu is at most about 500 catties.In other areas, relying on mechanical science to plant, it is not uncommon to produce a thousand catties per mu.

When it comes to scientific farming, many villagers in the village who have only attended elementary school have "never heard of it".In Longshan Village, there is almost no mechanized planting. Tractors and fertilizers, the "magic weapons" to increase production, are superfluous in the eyes of most villagers. "With that money, it's better to buy food directly..."

Some village cadres laughed at themselves: This is the Sahara in Fofeng City, the villagers are not well-educated, and they are "bullied" by the land.

The villagers themselves said that the fields in Longshan were specially designed by the heavens for lazy people.However, many villagers who "don't even know the words" are not even qualified to be "lazy".

The land is scarce, and some villagers can only use one land for two purposes. After harvesting rice, they immediately plant sweet potatoes.A technician once told the villagers how to plant seeds scientifically to increase yields, but the villagers here can't remember how, let alone learn.

Many people in the village have nothing but four walls, no calendar, no clock, not to mention extravagant accessories such as computers and TV sets.Some villagers said that they forgot when was the last time they saw a hundred-yuan bill.

It is such a one-acre three-point field, where the villagers of Longshan Village spend all their energy and time, including their enthusiasm for life.Because here, the whole family can have a meal, and even in a good year, they can even have a full meal.Unfortunately, almost no family can "catch" surplus food that can be cashed out from the rations.Someone once tried to grow peanuts and peppers, but they all had "only enthusiasm and no technology", and even lost money after a year of busy work.

Every year when there is a shortage, the women in the village will return to their natal homes.Relying on them to take back dozens of catties of rice from their mother's house with the cheek to fill the child's belly.But because they couldn't afford the travel expenses, even if they used this reason to go back to their parents' home, the women in the village only went back to their natal family once a year at most.Longshan people, who were originally full of expectations for the outside world, seem to have finally realized that it is almost more difficult to earn money by working part-time than reaching the sky.No matter how wonderful the outside world is, it does not belong to them. "Even if there is gold on the ground, we cannot see it without culture."This is the understanding of Longshan people, the real life of Longshan people...

Listening to what Liu Jun said, many cadres bowed their heads.It's really like what Liu Jun said to Zhao Jianhui, there are still such a group of people in the corners that have been forgotten by the prosperity of the city.If they didn't see it with their own eyes today, how many of these people standing behind Zhao Jianhui would believe it?

When they followed the grandmother to their home in the woods at the foot of the mountain at the back of the village, Le Jing, Liu Juan and others shed tears.

What age is this? There are still people living in shacks made of sticks and reed mats?

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