After all, people cannot completely detach themselves from the material foundation, and Pu Tongren is only blinded by temporary success, and lacks a correct understanding of his own situation.

The same is true of Pu Dajun on the other side, he feels that he has worked hard enough. But I've been doing odd jobs, I don't have a stable income, and I didn't make much money at the end of the year.

Everyone else is having a lively New Year, and he plans to return the money to his children, but he hasn't been able to earn 30,000 yuan this year, plugging the hole he owes.

Those who work outside the home, when they return home, have the habit of saving in the countryside. The older generation has experienced the era of lack of food and clothing, and knows that it is necessary to store some grain in the harvest season and take it out for emergency when food is scarce.

Pu Dajun feels that his body has been terrible lately, and many times he feels powerless. He just forced himself to work, after all, he was already in his forties and fifties, no younger than before.

Soon he fell ill, and felt that his body was getting heavier and heavier, as if it had been filled with lead, and he no longer had the agility and strength he had used to have.

He felt his soul become exhausted, as if his body was about to collapse. After resting for many more days, he seemed to have recovered somewhat, and the doctor told him not to do too much physical labor.

At this time, the daughter of the third uncle's family in the same village of Pu Dajun suddenly came back with a lot of money, saying that she wanted to build a shop in the town to sell some maternal and child products.

On the day she returned, she invited many people from the village to eat and brought them a lot of gifts.

Pu Dajun and the third uncle's family are related, although they are distant relatives, but they are also closer than ordinary people, and the third uncle's daughter gave them something, which was brought from abroad.

My mother had never seen these things before, and when she saw them, she thought they were very new. couldn't help but smack his tongue and said, "These things must be very valuable, I have never used such good things in my life." ”

There are many rumors that the third uncle's daughter is the second daughter of someone outside, and she can only open a store by giving money from the owner, otherwise how can a rural woman earn so much money.

A woman who has no education and no resources, why does she earn a lot of money in the city, the farmer in the village has worked hard for most of his life, and he is only eight hundred a year, and he only has some coolies to work outside, and the money for opening a shop is almost impossible for the farmer to earn for a lifetime.

In an agrarian society that depends on the sky for food, the culture of the peasants has a strong characteristic of relying on the sky for food, everything depends on the attributes of nature, and many things cannot be done by one's own ability, and in the bureaucratic autocratic dynasty, the prayer for a better era in the culture of the bottom can also be expected.

From this point of view, the so-called weak culture in the rural areas is not the root cause of backwardness, but the result of backwardness.

That is, from the perspective of poverty alleviation, the vast majority of people after the reform and opening up do not rely on any savior, but on the lifting of various shackles, so that they can freely enter the market and pursue their own happiness by their own struggle.

Obviously, this process is not caused by a change in cultural attributes, but in reverse, this process leads to a change in cultural attributes.

Of course, from a microscopic point of view, we will not be naïve to think that this whole process is completely spontaneous, endogenous and without external interference. On the one hand, there is always external intervention, either in this direction or in that direction; on the other hand, only in the deep communication with the outside world, rapid learning, can produce great changes in a short period of time.

But these interventions are by no means messians. Or, in other words, from a macro point of view, all saviors seem small and insignificant.

In this era, relying on personal struggle, there is no longer any support. This relatively backward culture has been somewhat unable to keep up with the times, and has been swept away by the trend of modernization, and has been fragmented and can no longer be cohesive.

The third uncle's daughter planned to open a mother and baby products store in the town, and after choosing a suitable store, she naturally needed to decorate it, so Pu Dajun simply volunteered to take over these jobs.

Anyway, it's a part-time job, where to do it is not a job, and besides, the health is not good, and you can still get some care when you work at a relative's house. If you are working outside, if you are lazy and are discovered, you will inevitably have some cold words, and you will deduct your wages if you encounter a stingy person.

The third uncle naturally promised Pu Dajun to help, and promised to take care of him three meals a day, and the salary was given according to the market price.

The decoration style is done in accordance with the requirements of the third uncle's daughter, he is doing the procurement and work, and the third uncle's daughter often sends him some meals when he is working, his physical injury seems to be a little better, as the body recovers, he also works harder, and the final decoration effect is very good.

On the day the decoration was done, the third uncle's family also came to see and appreciated Pu Dajun's craftsmanship, and on that day Pu Dajun also saw the third uncle's daughter's gold owner, the man looked pot-bellied and poopy, and he was not worthy of the third uncle's daughter at all.

Of course, Pu Dajun also knew that this kind of thing was not what he should say, so he was just silent.

The third uncle's daughter introduced on the side, and when she arrived at Pu Dajun, she told the gold lord Pu Dajun was a relative of her family, and he was responsible for the decoration, but the gold lord just hummed from his nose, and he didn't pay attention to these countrymen at all.

Pu Dajun was a little indignant in his heart, isn't he from the city, if I were also born in the city, I would be worse than you.

When I officially moved here, according to the practice of the village, I invited the villagers to come and celebrate, and set up a few tables in the restaurant in the town, and there were many people on the table, and there were many people with red eyes.

"It's worth it to sell yourself to live in a house in the town, I don't know if you can sell me once. Sanbao, a second-rate son in the village, drank a few more glasses, and when he saw that the third uncle's daughter was good-looking, he couldn't help but make a fuss.

When Pu Dajun heard this, he was angry, and immediately went over and punched him, knocking him to the ground at once.

The third uncle's daughter hurriedly came over to stop him, "What are you doing? She grabbed Pu Dajun and asked puzzled.

"He said some dirty words to insult you, we are family members anyway, how can I let him insult you. Pu Dajun explained.

After speaking, he stepped on Sanbao a few more times, "You are not allowed to say these foul words in the future, and I will beat you once I hear it." Pu Dajun warned him.

The third uncle's daughter was very grateful for his righteousness, and often found reasons to ask him out, but Pu Dajun knew the identity of the third uncle's daughter and had always been very restrained, and the third uncle's daughter asked him out again on this day.

Pu Dajun excused himself and refused, but the third uncle's daughter was unwilling, so he had to ask if he looked down on her.

Pu Dajun naturally refused to say yes, so the third uncle's daughter invited him again, and he couldn't refuse to follow, but he didn't expect the third uncle's daughter to take him to a wilderness and say to him by the river: "Would you like to be with me?"

"Everyone else thinks I'm unbearable, only you are willing to care about me, it's better for us to be together, and don't pay attention to other people's gossip. The third uncle's daughter said to him.