The residents of Shibei Village are simply divided into two categories, landlords and tenants.

The landlords are the elderly and children among the Aboriginal people. Most of the young people have moved into new neighborhoods, either in land acquisition planning houses or demolition compensation houses. If the whole family moves out, the entire building is contracted to one person, and the contractor is the second landlord. Almost every Aboriginal family has one or more buildings for rent.

The tenants are either migrant workers in the surrounding shopping malls, or couples who set up roadside stalls in the streets and alleys nearby, or tenants of shops with their families.

Collecting rent is the main source of income for local villagers. Many villagers in the new village community have been allocated multiple sets of relocated houses, and their assets have exceeded one million overnight. Like Lan Xinyan, who owns a building, it is only a medium level in Shibei Village, and the best can have ten buildings. Relying on these houses for rent, it is difficult to get rich if you don't want to. If you add the subsidy for demolition, the whole village, even if they don't go out to work, will not starve to death.

It is ridiculed that if you meet a local person in an urban village in Guangzhou, you will marry someone who should marry you, and you will marry someone who should marry! The per capita dividend in the village will have a monthly income of several thousand, which will kill the income of many white-collar workers in seconds! As long as you get a certificate, move your household registration in, and have another child, relying on collective dividends alone is no worse than being a civil servant! Think about it again, the monthly rent collected will easily exceed 10,000 yuan, and think about it again, once it is demolished and relocated in the future, one floor will be worth tens of millions, and Lan Xinyan's nine-story building does not know how many generations of children and grandchildren can be raised.

Blue Mother only does two things every day, playing cards during the day and buying yards at night.

At that time, there was no special chess and card room, and the card tables were in the back hall of the street store. Most of the card venues, why should they be placed in the store? In order to use local materials, save time, and have an atmosphere and excitement enough. At the beginning, it belonged to pure entertainment among card players, and with more and more participants, there were more and more mahjong tables, and there were "table fees", "pumps", "tips", "errand fees", and "food expenses".

Sitting on the mahjong table were old men, old women, and able-bodied women. Gathered around the card table are a group of middle-aged men and women, or young people who dare to place bets. Around 9 o'clock in the morning, they will come to the place where they often gather, and consciously sit in different positions according to the usual bet size. At the beginning, he laughed and made loud noises, but slowly became serious and silent. When it comes to gambling, sometimes day and night, gambling in the dark, and not knowing the taste of food, until the money in your pocket is lost and there is nowhere to borrow. If you're hungry, take a break to make instant noodles or nibble on a few cookies.

During the holidays, it is the heyday of the card game, relatives and friends are coming, there are more outsiders who go to the door, and the entertainment items are also increasing, bullfighting, A flower, and pai gow are all on the battlefield. Poker friends gather together, a showdown, sometimes a year's hard-earned money, lose all the money overnight, but also forced a smile, saying "just for entertainment". Some people are really happy, some people are sad, the winners are full of laughter, and the losers are depressed. After going back, husbands and wives turned against each other, quarreled, and even got into a fight, which abounded. The boss who relies on collecting "Taiwan fees" has an income of several hundred yuan or even thousands of yuan a day. At this time, they are even more awesome than their sons who were admitted to prestigious universities: "Hundreds of thousands of miles will be released this year, all of which will be three or five cents of interest, and I won't be able to eat up the interest I will receive next year!"

Buy code, called "Mark Six" in Hong Kong, Hong Kong is legal, the mainland is prohibited. The "Mark Six" lottery is usually held two to three times a week, which is very tempting because of the high odds of winning. 20 years ago in the village, there were people who sat in the black village and opened the black code, and the villagers who bought the code were countless. After getting the code report, he looked like an associate professor, the older wore glasses, and the younger ones followed suit, discussing and studying with each other, hoping to come up with an effective answer. However, they are wary of each other, and each has reservations, for fear that the other party will pick up the cheap. On the day of the turn to open the code, it was lively everywhere, and someone shouted loudly on the phone: "Well, buy a roar in the duck today?" I see that there will be a monkey, this year is the Year of the Monkey, this is the first period." Laughter came from the other party's mobile phone: "I want to buy snakes in this issue, I had a dream in the duck yesterday, I dreamed of snakes, and my dreams have always been quite accurate." In fact, he is deceiving people, he didn't dream at all last night, maybe he dreamed of a pig, he was deliberately misleading, where will pie fall from the sky? Then keep looking at the time, waiting for the moment of 9:30, because this is the moment of the yard, waiting for the 1-to-40 high jackpot to make a windfall.

Finally out of the code, the soap bubble burst instantly, and the screams and screams rose and fell with each other: "Yes, you just don't believe it, I said to buy a monkey, you want to buy a pig." "Alas, I didn't hit it, I am optimistic about the next period, and I bet big." "My family's Ah Hao cut off his brain, and today the duck lost eight hundred."

Two or three days later, the same scene will be repeated.

Adults turn day and night upside down, sleep when they are tired of playing, and play again when they wake up, wantonly and indulge, so that life is in a vicious circle of boredom. As for the children, as long as they don't get hungry or cold, they don't care about the rest. Over the years, Murakami has been admitted to prestigious universities, and there are few who have been admitted to ordinary universities, but more and more people have dropped out before completing their studies. Looking at the childish little faces, either wandering on the streets, playing billiards, playing a few games, who loses to buy sugar water, or running to the Internet café every day to surf the Internet, soaking in games, the teachers are dripping blood in their hearts.

The homeland is still the same, but the tradition of husband and son no longer exists. No matter what the children's personality and understanding are, as long as they are still studying, they will never ask what the children have learned. They believe that there are so many college students now, and the state does not allocate them, so they have to find a job by themselves after graduation, so it is better to come out early to work, get some money and start a family early, get married and have children, and complete the journey of a lifetime.

In their eyes, good and bad, right and wrong, are the yardstick and frame of reference, and they compare a few relatively wealthy villagers, believing that if they have money, they have ability, and if they have money, they have everything, and when they are hungry, they eat a big meal, they are tired, they sleep well, they are in a bad mood, they are in a bad mood, they are so happy! As everyone knows, this group of smart people, who may have become rich overnight, are people who rely on courage, unscrupulous means, and reckless consequences, and dare to challenge the bottom line of morality and law. But most people at the bottom often worship these people to the extreme, and if they have money, they will be sought after by everyone and take them as role models for their children. In the thinking of such villagers, the traditional authority of the clan has long been broken, and only those who have a bulging wallet can only have weight and convince the public when they speak, and whether the words spoken are right or wrong, and there is no need to care about the age or seniority of the speaker.

This logic is extremely simple: the rich, even if they are successful, must be the most correct. When I met a poorer person, I dripped: "Meningitis one." "What's the reason? It's because of this poor man. A junior who has not yet started a family can not only insult his uncle, but even the guy and smash it at his parents.

Tenants from other villages look down on unfaithful men. The old tenant quietly revealed the details to Yuan Qiuhua, and finally said: Lan Shao is a very thick-skinned person, and if he says something ugly, he is shameless. The bright moonlight in front of the bed and two pairs of shoes on the ground are things that we can see. Rich young master, he has that kind of wanton and willful capital. The lice in the bald head, the obvious truth, if I say it wrong, you gouge out my eyes as a bubble!

The fellow also said: Mother and son are the most intimate, they stretch out their hands to ask for money all day long, can they get money if they are not intimate? Damn it, gambling, buying, and lying! Stealing money from the family! Borrowing money, he will pay it back! Giving away things at home, and still bragging outside! Paying off on credit, he will pay it back! Scolding, he will make amends! Fighting, he will lose money! His mother is impolite, ignorant, and unreasonable, all of which are his habitual faults, and they are all harmful! Damn it, she is a real tigress, the kind that eats people!

Yuan Qiuhua personally thinks that Lan Xinyan is based on hype, and his reputation is hyped, and he has no actual masterpieces. He has a melancholy temperament, and hard work, growing up in loneliness, breaking through alone, no one cares about his suffering, more people are watching jokes, gossiping, it is indeed pitiful, of course she also saw his careful thoughts, in the face of this gentleman-like return of good, also had a good feeling, but she despises men who are not single-minded, what they want is pure feelings, the pursuit of the quality of life, if he is more serious about feelings, will not mess around, you can consider accepting. She is full of elegance in her bones and proud in her heart, how can she compromise emotionally? She will never be with anyone because of money, and she will never leave anyone because of money! Otherwise, she can only let her family be embarrassed with her. Money is very important, only when we are financially free, we can not worry about it at all, there is no helplessness to grovel to the old and the young, and the sadness of tea, rice, oil, and salt cannot solve the problems of parents' medical care, taking care of parents, raising children, and family expenses, and we will fall into the quagmire of life. But you don't have to rely on men, you can rely on your own earning ability to solve these problems! You can choose your career, choose your partner, choose whether to get married, have children, and choose your lifestyle. All of these things are connected to the life you have chosen.

The neighbors, when they met Lan Xinyan, said: Xiaoxin, how old are you, and if you are not married, the children of your elementary school classmates will play soy sauce?

He replied: If you care so much, it's better to introduce a reliable person to me.

They showed favor and introduced him to the object, but they couldn't look down on it.

When I met Yuan Qiuhua, I asked: Why don't you find a partner, if you don't get married, you won't even be able to have children!

She smiled.

They sighed: This girl has a big spectrum and a big temper. Oh, what can I do in the future?

The shopkeeper ridiculed: What does it matter to you whether people marry or not? People will not marry into your family.

The two walked together, and when they saw it, their eyes aimed at Yuan Qiuhua's belly, guessing whether she was pregnant.

They knocked on the side again: Whether it is marrying a wife or marrying a man, don't choose the children of the Lan family, if there is a mother, there must be children, look at what kind of person her mother is, how good can the children be? If the mother is not educated, will the children be educated? When the time comes, it will be strange not to make the small family fly and the dogs jump!

The shopkeeper also agreed: Last year's blind date, I finally met a person who could make do, but the first time the woman came to his house, she met his mother with a kitchen knife and chased his father all over the street. Naturally, when the woman saw this situation, she ran faster than his father!

Yuan Qiuhua heard it in his ears, can he not weigh how many catties and taels he has?

Lan Xinyan said: There is no shortage of misunderstandings in life, don't guess. In your eyes, you can't have these worldly prejudices, you must have a correct view of the three things, and be sensible.