257 The banquet of the Li family
Yandu-Yuping Town-Nanshan Village, one of the many mountainous and impoverished villages in Yandu, has inconvenient transportation, the economy basically depends on agriculture and forestry, and there are few fruits. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
Rice, wheat, corn, livestock, poultry, and timber are all sources of income, and if you want to make money, you can only go out to work, and the population of the village has plummeted.
Before 2005, there were 550 people in the village, but later a large number of villagers went out to work, buy houses, and settle down, resulting in the permanent population of the village now only 17 households and more than 40 people.
There are quite a lot of them in the Yandu countryside!
It is said that the least number of households remained, and many village groups were merged to simplify the administrative structure, which is widely seen in the mountain villages of Yunnan, Guichuan, and southwest China.
Nanshan Village, which has been built for hundreds of years, was built during the period when Huguang filled Sichuan, but due to many social reasons, it did not leave traces of history.
The once lively village has declined, many earthen houses are dilapidated, and there are only a few newly renovated buildings, standing between the green mountains and green waters, and the environment is very good.
The Li family at the east end of the village is a row of brick courtyards, the wall is not painted with cement, and there are no tiles, it is built with red square bricks, and the dam in the iron gate is 400 square meters.
Other things in the countryside may be valuable, but the land on which the peasants rely for their livelihood is the least valuable; the Li family's small courtyard is not particularly new or old, it is so-so~
Of course, it's not worth much in the country.
However, for Li Cheng and his wife, it doesn't matter whether their yard is worth anything or not, because it is a sheltered home and has nothing to do with money.
In the past, the conditions of the Li family were not good, and the eldest son worked in Rongcheng after being discharged from the army as a soldier;
Li Cheng and Zhang Xueling are good people, they don't make much money when they go out to work, they rely on their eldest son to support them, and their family's economic situation is average, and they are poor in the village.
After all, now everyone goes out to work, although the work is a little harder, but the salary is okay, in those factories in Shanghai and Guangzhou, the monthly salary is usually three or four thousand!
There are also many young people who go to Rongcheng, Qinghai, and Tibetan areas to build subways, tunnels, hydropower stations, and highways, and these jobs obviously pay more money, two or three hundred yuan a day, which is much better than farming, and belongs to the high-income group.
Li Wei's parents are farming at home, planting more than 10 acres of land and paddy fields, the corn is almost ripe, and the rice has already been hung with ears of rice; there are four pigs, 20 or 30 chickens, ducks, geese, and other poultry at home, and their annual income is less than 20,000 yuan.
Of course, that was all in the past, and the villagers of Quannanshan Village have recently heard that the Li family has made a fortune! Even people from other surrounding villages know that it is said that Li Wei went abroad to make a lot of money, and it has become a hot topic of conversation.
The reason is that Li Cheng and Zhang Xueling went abroad, and no one in Nanshan Village has ever gone abroad, so they were surprised, and when the couple came back, they brought a lot of things.
Those foreign cigarettes, red wine, watches, beef and mutton consigned by air, imported Adidas, Nike, leather shoes...
More than a dozen households in Nanshan Village, each family received foreign cigarettes, candy, deer antler velvet, brand-name clothes and shoes from Li Cheng and his wife, some more and some less.
There must be more close neighbors, and there are slightly fewer people who are slightly estranged, and there are close and distant people, this thing will always exist objectively, and Li Cheng and his wife know it in their hearts.
Anyone who has seen the world knows that the gifts given by the Li family are not cheap! There are thousands of pairs of sneakers, several hundred yuan per set of casual clothes, and more than 2,000 cigarettes per set!
The gifts for each family are worth thousands, and the gifts alone will be given out for hundreds of thousands, how many local tyrants are this? Li Cheng and his wife are not stingy to search, and there are still many at home~
Dozens of cigarettes, dozens of bottles of red wine, more than a dozen high-end watches, iPad tablets, deer antler whips, etc., a large number of valuable things, which were checked back by air.
Sending so many things, the effect is obvious, now that the people in the village see Li Cheng and Zhang Xueling, they will definitely take the initiative to come forward to say hello, go to the door if there is anything to do, and even go to the streets of the township, and some people know each other.
Early this morning, Li Cheng and Zhang Xueling got up early and started to be busy, and asked someone to help kill pigs.
However, today the Li family wants to entertain distinguished guests, two beautiful daughters-in-law, father-in-law, mother-in-law, as well as Li Wei and Li Jieran, Yu Hao, and Luo Hontian. The two husbands and wives planned to entertain them lively, and arranged a very sumptuous lunch to welcome them by killing pigs, chickens, and ducks.
Although there are only two large tables of people, Zhang Xueling prepares all good things, and the countryside is delicious---
Pork belly chicken, pork ribs and chicken soup, crispy meat, cold vegetables, braised fat sausages, sweet braised white, salty braised white, tamales, beer duck, mutton soup, braised beef, braised vegetables...
Obviously, the two of them couldn't finish it, so they asked Aunt Li Wei, sister-in-law, uncle, and uncle to help prepare these big dishes and exhaust all their skills!
In addition to poultry meat, I also bought fresh river carp, white slivers, and yellow eels that had just been caught, as well as chicken mushrooms, shiitake mushrooms, and fungus picked from the mountains.
The daughter-in-law and her in-laws came back for the first time, and according to the customs and habits of the Yandu countryside, this was a big deal! The relatives of the family had to come over to accompany each other and get to know each other.
The banquet was also sloppy, originally I wanted to wait for my villa to be repaired and then invite my in-laws and family to come, but I didn't expect that they would come back just a few days ago, and Li Wei would come back.
Hearing that the eldest son of the Li family was coming back, the villagers were curious about whether Li Wei had really made a fortune, so they ran to the small road at the entrance of the village to chat and wait, and waited for the first time.
Li Cheng originally wanted to go to greet him, but when he saw so many people helping to guard the entrance of the village, he was not in a hurry, and he received a call at noon, his son, they were almost there!
Li Wei and his entourage, driving two cars, entered the country road from the town, but it was bumpy, and a small road in the village was even more potholed, and it was muddy when it rained.
"I'll go, this road is really bad, it's even more bumpy than the Gobi in our territory!" Yu Hao shook his head and complained, feeling heartache that he had just bought a brand new Audi A6 for a few days.
"Hmm~ It's really bad, it's time to fix it!"
Ling Yao's sister also nodded in agreement, it wasn't that the off-road vehicle was running on this section of the road, it was really very bumpy, Li Wei promised to pay for the repair of the six-meter-wide cement road.
The length of 1.5 kilometers is about 1 million!
Although investing 1 million yuan is a lot, it is purely trivial for Li Wei, and it is convenient for himself! After a few minutes of bumpy driving, the two cars finally arrived at the entrance of the village.
"Damn! What kind of battle is this?"
More than 20 villagers sat on the dirt slopes, big stone bags, and soil stalks at the entrance of the village, smoking and chatting.
The old village chief, the old-timers, the old neighbors, and everyone who knew each other with relatives and acquaintances all came to say hello, warmly pulled Li Wei to chat politely, and asked for warmth.
Li Wei coped with them one by one, greeted them one by one, introduced them to his father-in-law, mother-in-law, girlfriend, and friends, and finally got out and walked home, and slipped away quickly.
I'm not used to being enthusiastic~