Chapter 41: Ancestor Worship
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Last year, the fourth brother came back to worship his ancestors, Li Jiaming and they worshiped their ancestors during the New Year, and this year they became three brothers and sisters who came to open the ancestral hall to pay their respects to their ancestors in advance. The third sister studied English literature in Oxford, and she didn't have four quarters a year like her brother and cousin, but it was also three quarters a year, and she couldn't spend the New Year at home in the next year.
The younger brothers and sisters who were studying abroad couldn't rush back, but the brothers and sisters all rushed back, and they all followed behind the fourth brother with the highest education, kneeling in front of the ancestral tablet and kowtowing and praying, just like Li Jiaming in his previous life. The only difference is that Li Jiaming and the third sister kneel only half a step behind the fourth brother, to show that they are also the most outstanding descendants of the Li family, but they have not been able to study for a doctorate because of their age.
In the new century, the people in the mountains have begun to change from admiring scholars to envying wealth, but Chongxiang, a township in the mountains, is still the same, and they still regard reading as bigger than the sky. This is also Li Jiaming's too dazzling, so that the villagers still believe that 'everything is inferior, only reading is high'.
If you don't believe it, the Li family in Huangniping, without that group of scholars, can just rely on a few brothers from their generation to create such a big family business? Let's not talk about Li Jiaming and Li Jiade, but Li Jiaren and Li Jiayi, who became big officials, and Deng Hao and Li Jiafu, who made a fortune, which one didn't read it?
As for You Xiaohong, who has just been promoted to the secretary of Chengguan Town, the villagers don't think they have the ability, and they are not as capable as her father-in-law's right to study abroad. Xuequan can be the deputy county magistrate and enter the Standing Committee team, that is the real ability, relying on Gaoqiao to do practical things as an official, Xiaohong has the ability in the house, she has the light of several uncles in the house.
After worshipping their ancestors in their own homes, and then going to the ancestral tomb to sweep the tomb, the three siblings followed their respective mothers and uncles to their grandmother's house to continue worshiping their ancestors. This is also the tradition of the mountain people, 'the family has 10,000 years, and there are no three generations' is true, but the nephew (female) has a future, and it is also blessed by the ancestors in the grandmother's house, of course, you have to go to the grandmother's house to worship.
Li Jiaming didn't know how the fourth brother and the third sister were, anyway, when he arrived at Yinzitan, he honestly went to his grandmother's house to buy pigs, and then sealed a red envelope and asked his maternal uncle to kill the pig, and knelt down in the You ancestral hall. He really had to pay for it, and he had to pay it at the market price, because he came to thank the ancestors of his mother clan for blessing, and he even had to bring his own offerings. When he was a child, he could eat, drink, and live at his grandmother's house for a long time, and the whole family ate shredded potatoes, and he ate white rice alone, but the ancestors of the You family had to come according to etiquette, and even incense, candles, and firecrackers had to be brought.
After sacrificing to the ancestors, this is the You clan to entertain distinguished guests, and set up a banquet in the ancestral hall to entertain Li Jiaming's father and son, in addition to vegetables and the like picked from his uncle's vegetable garden, the dishes and drinks used are also brought by themselves. Of course, as a guest, he will definitely be able to sit as the chief, and Li Chuanlin, who is full of red face, enjoys the highest treatment of sons-in-law in the mountains, and is arranged to sit on the left side of the patriarch Xueli Ah Gong, in order to reward him for teaching his son well, and win glory for both families.
Li Jiaming?
I'm sorry, a nephew dog is a nephew dog, even if he becomes the emperor, he will be a nephew dog when he returns to his grandmother's house. Therefore, Li Jiaming had no seat at the banquet, and this hero, who earned face for everyone, had to stand aside and respectfully pour wine for the grandfather, grandfather, and maternal uncle.
In fact, this is also tossing Li Jiaming, who made him too promising, tossing him a few more times can make everyone's face brighter. With Grandma's **, this is to educate him not to forget his roots, to remember that no matter how good he is, or her nephew puppy cub, he beat and scolded when he was a child, and he can still beat and scold now.
"Grandma, are you willing?"
"You're so obedient, why am I beating you?"
Obedient? Li Jiaming, who was squatting in the group of grandmothers beating her legs, was an authentic leather boy before the age of eleven, and in addition to her grandmother, even her grandfather had a headache. If it weren't for Grandma's protection, I don't know how many times I would have been beaten by my grandfather and maternal uncle. My own short-term problem was inherited from my grandmother.
"Old man, are you not convinced, what I said before was right? Only naughty people have a chance, if Ming Yan is not naughty, now he has such a big chance? ”
Grandma's proud cowhide talk made everyone happy, and after drinking tea, they still sat here and chatted. It's not easy for Jiaming to come back, and it's also fun to listen to him talk about the United States. Li Jiaming also likes to chat with his grandfather and maternal uncles, blowing all over the world. When he finished blowing, his aunts and uncles talked about the house again, but there was a problem with this talk.
In recent years, the county's economy has been good, and the life of the peasants has been better, especially the tunnel of the Sun Ridge has been repaired, and the people in the mountains also want the rich government to build the Huashan Tunnel. But those dog/officials, who have the money, would rather build an office building than build a tunnel.
"Xuequan, I'm not talking about you, I'm talking about Secretary Luo in the county. If you sit on the crown of more than 300,000 yuan, you can't think of building roads? There is no money to build tunnels, and it is okay to repair roads, the county has a good road out of the county, a good road in the county, and which is a good road? ”
"That is, the current group of officials in the county are more greedy than the other! If you want me to tell me, the city leaders are blind and help such corrupt officials. If Secretary Zeng and County Magistrate Zhong hadn't left, the tunnel would have been built long ago. ”
The speaker is unintentional, the listener is absolutely intentional, Li Jiaming remembered the events of his previous life, and it was the thing he was most proud of - building a tunnel. said that he didn't believe in gods and ghosts, but Li Jiaming still respected gods and ghosts, and he was able to suddenly return to 'decades ago', perhaps he really responded to that sentence --- accumulated yin virtue.
In the first two years, the money was not enough, so it had to be used on the blade, but now that the hand is loose, we have to repair the tunnel in Huashan, and then repair the road in the township, and also repair the middle school and primary school.
"yes, why don't I pay for the tunnel in Huashan?"
"Huh?"
Li Chuanlin, who was drinking tea, was startled, but the grandfather and uncle next to him took this as a joke.
"Jiaming, don't mess around, it will cost hundreds of millions to build tunnels!"
Among his relatives, Li Jiaming didn't have the habit of only talking three points when he met people, and said proudly: "Xueli Grandpa, you really don't provoke me, what is hundreds of millions?" When I came back this time, I just wanted to build roads and bridges, and then repair the primary and secondary schools. Making money is just for use, isn't it just a pile of fire paper? ”
When Li Jiaming was a child, he had a nickname called 'Starling', which means chatter, and the meaning of cowhide. That is, after he is sensible, he doesn't like to brag, but the grandfather and maternal uncle who watched him grow up still remember that this kid blew when he was in the first grade, and he wanted to build a big hydropower station in the river at the door, so as to save his grandmother from lighting a kerosene lamp.
"Jiaming, don't brag? The hydropower station in the river at the door has not been repaired yet! ”
"Cut, I want to fix it, will you? As soon as the power station is repaired at the door, the gang of leather boys still have it? ”
Instead, the port has built a reservoir, and every year a handful of people drown.
"Yes, if you are an official, you don't have the ability, then you can fix it. The money is not enough, we raise funds in four towns and two forest farms! ”
The jokes of the fathers were taken seriously by Li Jiaming, and he had already seen through money in two lives, money is just a tool, and if you don't use it to do things, it's a pile of waste paper.
"Okay, then I'll fix it."
Building bridges and paving roads is a good thing, and it is also a good thing to accumulate yin virtue, but Li Jiaming's generosity still scared a group of grandfathers, aunts, and his father.
Building a library, a stadium, and a playground for the school is nothing, and the teachers taught it well back then. Now that I have money, donating money and materials to the school is a thankful newspaper, and the people who are stained are all students and girls in my hometown, but there is something wrong with this tunnel repair?
Really repaired?
A few years ago, the whole county gathered the strength of the whole county to build the tunnel in the Sun Ridge, this guy really wants to build the tunnel of Huashan and the road of the whole township by himself?
Alas, this kid is not bragging, but serious. Knowing that a son is better than a father, as soon as Li Chuanlin heard his son's tone and plan, he knew that this guy was serious.
Li Chuanlin, who is accustomed to his son taking care of himself, is not easy to persuade, and since his father-in-law and uncle came forward because of the family property that year, he no longer cares about his son's money and spending. He also wanted to open it, it is a face-saving and glorious thing to be better than the blue, anyway, no matter how promising his son is, he is not his own cub? But this matter can't be done like this, Li Chuanlin, who has no choice, has no choice but to look at his father-in-law, and wants this father-in-law who is an official to persuade him.
Knowing that the son is not as good as the father, Li Jiaming really hit this idea, Ah Gong and Grandma are authentic mountain farmers, worship the ancestors, worship the Bodhisattva, this kind of accumulation of yin and virtue has never been opposed. As long as they know that they have a lot of money, and spending this little money will not affect them at all, they will be happy to see it.
It's just that this matter has to talk about technology, if you tell them that your family has tens of billions of dollars, and it is to take 8.45 US dollars, Li Jiaming is really afraid that her grandmother with bad cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases will be frightened, so she can only selectively tell her how rich she is.
"Grandma, the newspapers say that the eldest brother-in-law is the richest man, but in fact, his shares are mine, and he needs that reputation if he wants to do business in China. I have a lot of money, and this money is my annual income. ”
Grandpa and grandma have already guessed this, and the grandson-in-law has the ability, but how can he have such a big ability? But both of them looked at Li Chuanlin, it was not tens of thousands of yuan, but tens of thousands of ten thousand yuan! What's more, Li Jiaming didn't take into account the thoughts of the mountain people, it doesn't matter if he helps the village build roads and bridges, it doesn't matter if he helps the village, it doesn't matter if he helps the villagers, relatives and friends, how can there be a reason for private people to help the government build tunnels?
"Chuanlin, this matter can't be messed up by Ming!"
Alas, the son is not up to his mother, nor is he (father), and Li Chuanlin is also embarrassed. How rich his son is, of course he knows it when he is Lao Tzu, but can this be done? Where will the local government be left in this way? The rafters rotted first, so he looked at his father-in-law who was the deputy county magistrate of the Standing Committee.
It really can't be done like this, the atmosphere of the times has not yet advanced to the point that private people do projects for the government, and the study tour right, who has been promoted because of his outstanding political performance, said with a wry smile: "Jiaming, if you want to do this, you will offend a large number of people." ”
Li Jiaming, who didn't turn the corner, was stunned, and You Xuequan had to explain: "This seems to be a political achievement, but it is actually a smear to the government." The previous government repaired the tunnel of Sun Ridge, and all the leaders benefited, if you privately pay for the tunnel of Huashan, how to write in the report of this government? ”
This? Li Jiaming, who wanted to do good deeds, was speechless, the last government's financial revenue was so low, it could gnaw down the tunnel of Sun Ridge; The financial revenue of this government has exceeded 100 million yuan, and it has to rely on private donations to build the Huashan Tunnel, which can only be incompetent in the eyes of the bosses.
can mention the performance of this government, and the team members' right to study is speechless. The fiscal revenue is rising steadily, and more and more office buildings are being built in various units, and they are also preparing to spend 50 million yuan to build new government office buildings, claiming that they will not fall behind for 20 years.
Alas, the great era has passed, and it is about to enter the era of glitz. In the future, there will be no more Secretary Cai and County Magistrate Guo, and there will be no more Secretary Zeng and County Magistrate Zhong, Liu, and County Magistrate Liu. Li Jiaming, who was used to being strong, sighed secretly and said politely: "Grandpa Xuequan, say hello to the main leaders of the county, the Huashan Tunnel will definitely be repaired, and I will repair it privately if the county has no money." ”
"Jiaming?"
You have to be polite in the grandmother's house, but people are not strong and unrespectable, Li Jiaming smiled and said: "Grandpa Xuequan, my second brother is enjoying the right treatment, and there will definitely be no problem in the next promotion to the deputy hall." At the age of thirty-four, the deputy department level of real power is also considered young in the country? ”
"Mingya!"
Now is different from the past, I don't need to look at the faces of a group of small county officials, let alone be considerate of them, Li Jiaming said with a smile: "yes, if the second brother listens to me, he entered Beijing two years ago, and he can be promoted to the deputy hall this year." As for the counselors in our previous class, this year they were all promoted to the deputy department, and they are still from the State Planning Commission. Rest assured, I know what to expect. ”
After speaking, Li Jiaming said vaguely: "Grandpa Xuequan, how many days will I go back to the United States and send me to the provincial capital?" ”
What this nephew wants, the right to study and fame is very happy.
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