Chapter 40 1980 Return
In the afternoon, as Fang Wanshan expected, after throwing out the two plans with the National University yesterday, Chu Province invited the Fang family and his son to a banquet in the evening, and this time Fang Wanshan went along.
In the evening, the governor of the province attended the banquet, during which he learned about the committee trainee plan from Fang Wanshan in detail, and Fang Wanshan also talked about the reason for the plan in detail, and began to speak generously.
"Now that the world's enterprises have begun to enter the computer field, I believe that the 21st century is the era of computers, and being able to use and be proficient in computers is a necessary skill for everyone. ”
"The development of computers will bring earth-shaking changes to the world, and the achievements are no less than the industrial revolution, which is an excellent opportunity for China to catch up with the United States. ”
"Chu Province is our Fang family's hometown, is our roots, the Fang family's plan this time is to cultivate more hometown talents, and at the same time better develop the hometown. ”
"The Fang family also made a promise here, and in the future, the Fang family will sponsor a part of Chudi's college students to go abroad for further study every year, and this part is free of charge. ”
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Fang Wanshan described the bright prospects and some temptations to the leaders of Chu Province, but unfortunately these two plans are not in the ordinary sense, according to the current ideology, it can be said that they are digging the foot of the wall, they are all masters in this regard, if Fang Wanshan is not an investor from Xiangjiang, it may be a big problem.
In the end, everyone still excused themselves, Fang Wanshan was unconsciously fooled by these old foxes, and promised to donate 1 million Hong Kong dollars to all universities in Chu Province every year to promise a certain scholarship, and nothing else.
However, the Fang family got the naming rights of these scholarships on the publicity of the newspaper, and after the banquet was dispersed, Fang's father Fang Yuansheng didn't say anything, and the second brother Fang Qiang felt a little bit of a loss, and kept complaining about Fang Wanshan, why didn't he accept other compensation investments proposed by the leader, it was a state-owned enterprise, but Fang Wanshan could only smile helplessly, sometimes it was a blessing to suffer a loss.
The Fang family has been staying in the three towns for four days, on March 16, Fang Wanshan's family took the four cars provided by Chu Province and began to set off to eastern Hubei Province, the three towns to Huangzhou map to see the straight line is only more than 70 kilometers, but the low mountains and hills, a bit like Fang Wanshan's hometown Osmanthus City that remote area, mountainous.
There are more than 150 kilometers of road in the whole journey, and it took Fang Wanshan and his party a morning to arrive in Huangzhou City, because the itinerary is just going to have lunch here in Huangzhou and continue to set off, but Huangzhou City is still accompanied by an administrative director, Fang Wanshan still knows a little bit, in this era, prefecture-level cities are still regions, and the director is relative to the mayor in the future.
The ancestral home of the Fang family is in Huang'an, which is a relatively remote county under Huangzhou, Fang Wanshan has always thought that this side to Huang'an should be about the same as in the morning, but unfortunately he still has a wrong estimate of the size of Huaxia, and it was not until more than 9 o'clock in the evening that the Fang family arrived in Huang'an County.
In fact, the road for so long is completely a mistake in the arrangement, because Huang'an is actually about the same distance from the three towns as to Huangzhou, and the Fang family basically walked a triangle this time and walked twice as much, but the above wants Huangzhou to also share some benefits, plus the road from Huangzhou to Huang'an is easier to walk, so it has become such an arrangement. It's a pity that poor Fang Wanshan doesn't know.
Such a long drive for the younger generation of the Fang family, have never been experienced, in the past, the farthest place in Xiangjiang was basically reached within 1 hour, and when they arrived in Guangdong Province, it was almost only about three hours each time, which was acceptable to them, after all, it was still between regions, not too unacceptable, although the map could see the size of Huaxia, but it should be similar to the feeling.
However, this time I will go to my hometown, just a Huangzhou will be tossed for a day, Huangzhou on the map is actually relatively not big, and it will impact their three views at once, and the second sister also sighed a little and said:
"If you want to travel all over China in the future, won't it take a few years. A small area is so big. ”
Zhong Chuhong also followed Fang Wanshan to open his eyes this time, the scenery and customs of the region have changed too much, Guangdong Province is better, from the three towns to Huangzhou on the way, but people's language, dress, and houses can be seen differently, not to mention the surrounding trees and hills. It has greatly impacted their worldview.
Fang Wanshan just smiled and didn't explain anything to them, after all, Chu is connected from the south to the north, connecting the east and west, and the three towns are the most important, this side can be said to be influenced by the whole of China, basically all places can find a little bit of regional influence here, not to mention the difference between the hilly area of Huangzhou and the plain of the three towns, that is, Osmanthus City and Huangzhou are also adjacent, both are at the junction of the three provinces, but there is basically little integration, Huangzhou is more like the north, and Osmanthus City is a little south.
Xiushui County, Fang Wanshan's hometown, is even more unique, it is really ten miles of different sounds, I remember that in the past, sometimes some words were a little too incomprehensible between Fang Wanshan's house and the outside house, and the two families were less than three miles away.
In 1980, the county seat of Huang'an was a simple small market town, there were no decent guest houses, the wind was a little strong on the spring evening, and the potholed yellow mud avenue was full of sand and dust.
The humble guest house makes several girls a little uncomfortable, the four little ancestors of the family have begun to play a little temper, originally they came here for fun, although the conditions in the previous places are average, but the others have gone, not cold, but there is nothing here, and it is just cold again, they all began to shout to go home.
Uncle Lu Gaohan is basically an adult, that is, the second cousin, very calm, Fang's father looked at Fang's mother and sister-in-law who coaxed the child this time, and the second sister who complained a little in her mouth, this time Fang's father began to get angry, this fire is not ordinarily big, and directly scolded Fang's mother, reprimanded the eldest sister and second sister, and left the four little ancestors to let them cry by themselves, but it was a little bitter Huang An's staff.
The next morning, Fang Wanshan got up early and secretly stuffed some money for the staff, thanking them for their hard work at night, in fact, he didn't want to leave the warm quilt at all, it was too cold.
The county staff came very early, and the father and son of the Fang family could only get up to receive them, but the women basically didn't get up until noon, and grandma couldn't wait to go to her hometown to see.
There are too many celebrities in Huang An, and the government personnel are full of experience in this regard, and they have long inquired about the former site of the Fang family, Xinghua Village, a very poetic place name, this is the home of Grandpa Fang, and it is also the root of the Fang family, but unfortunately in addition to Fang's father and eldest brother who are a little excited, people including Fang Wanshan are just curious.
After more than half an hour, the Fang family finally came to this remote village, of course, this is a good place for the other party's family and for the locals. Living by the stream, and organic farming roads, it is also close to the county seat.
The arrival of the Fang family made this peaceful small village start to be lively, and now for Chu when it is still a farming slack, it is the nature of all Chinese people to gossip and see the excitement, especially the calm and stagnant place in the countryside.
For the villagers of Xinghua Village, most of the surnames in this place are Han, Wu, Li, and the surname Fang is only one family on the other side of Qiaotou, who is a person with a foreign surname and migrated from the land reform.
Fang Laishun is 56 years old today, and the family has actually settled in Xinghua Village for almost a hundred years, but unfortunately the people have not been prosperous, and they have been excluded and bullied here, just like his father has one son in his generation, and he has a son and a daughter under him, and his grandchildren now have only one little granddaughter, and the Fang family is basically going to die.
Today is a very important day for Fang Laishun, the township informed Fang Laishun that the uncle's widow came from Xiangjiang to recognize relatives, and it will arrive today, and now the neighbors in the township have come to help.
Under the introduction of the staff, the family who had never met before did not have too many affection when they met young, and it was more of a greeting and mechanical title, but these may be Fang Wanshan, these young people, anyway, grandma and Fang's father are really relatives who have not seen each other for many years.
After grandma took the family to incense the ancestral card, the Fang family's flowing water banquet officially began, and the neighbors on the side began to come over to say a few words, but unfortunately Fang Wanshan couldn't understand it, so he could only smile and smoke vigorously.
After eating, the group went to the cemetery of the grandfather on the mountain under the leadership of Fang Laishun, although there is a small road on the road, but it can be seen that there are relatively few people who usually walk around on the road, after more than 20 minutes of walking on the mountain road, they finally arrived at a grave overgrown with grass, Fang Laishun began to direct his son to spread out the sacrifices and firecrackers, Fang Wanshan knew that it had arrived.
Under the leadership of my grandmother, I began to pray at the grave, and the Fang family began to officially and seriously recognize their ancestors and return to their ancestors, and the group was busy until the evening before they began to descend the mountain, and the two families began to discuss some matters in the evening.
Grandpa used to be the second eldest of the Fang family, but he went out to study at a very young age, and grandma also came once after his grandfather got married, and met the elders once, and never came again at other times, so this time she wanted to do her filial piety, and planned to do a big ceremony and set up a stone monument.
The next day was the second day of the second month of the lunar calendar, the dragon raised its head, this time the Fang family was not ready, did not bring a feng shui master in Xiangjiang, had to wait for Fang Laishun to help invite the best feng shui master around.
At noon, my grandmother invited the cadres of the village and donated 100,000 Hong Kong dollars to build a cement road from the village to the township, so that it was convenient for the villagers to go to the county seat, and was also ready to donate money to build a small bridge to facilitate the villagers to cross the road.
However, these are not things that can be done if you want to do them, the village can still make decisions about the bridge, the road is built because it has to pass through other villages, a lot of land needs to be coordinated, these can only be led by the township, and the primary school is not as free as a few years later because of the title problem, and many need to be reported.
The Fang family stayed in Xinghua Village for almost 10 days, everything was almost done, and after leaving 100,000 yuan and Xiangjiang's contact information for Fang Laishun's family, the group returned to the three towns.
The leaders of Chu Province brought very good news this time, the above basically agreed with Fang Wanshan's plan, and the basic Fang Wanshan in the back were handed over to Deng Qiang to deal with, Li Jin was Fang Wanshan as the first batch of commission trainees to enter the national university to study, originally Fang Wanshan also wanted to go to Xiushui to see, and secretly look at his parents in the depths of his memory, but unfortunately his grandmother suddenly fell ill, and the Fang family could only end this Huaxia trip in a hurry.
On March 28, 1980, Fang Wanshan returned to Changde Airport in Xiangjiang, and he began to can't wait to return home for his family.