Chapter 407 A Different Winter Leisure
In the countryside, as soon as the autumn harvest is over every year, the northwest wind has just blown, and every household begins to be idle. There is a local saying that this situation is called "cat winter".
Because in the northern countryside, when the weather becomes cold in late autumn, after the crops in the fields are harvested, there is nothing to do. Only a very small number of people have fruit trees at home, and they only take a few days to prune the branches of the fruit trees, hoping to hang a few more fruits and buy a few more dollars in the coming year.
Most people had nothing to do, so gambling became common in the villages. Playing cards, playing mahjong, pushing pai gow, and very few shakers.
There is a small fight with a hand that wins and loses for a dime, and there is also a big gamble with a hand that can be thousands of dollars.
There is that one who is good at gambling and has a bright brain, and his family even opened a casino in his own house, of course, it is only the simplest.
Generally, it is to provide gambling establishments, gambling equipment, what playing cards, mahjong, dice, pai gow or something, and then take care of a meal of noodles.
After a winter, people charge by the day, don't say it, it's a lot of money!
This situation has become more and more acute with the improvement of rural economic conditions in recent years. There are quite a few mahjong parlors in various villages that have learned from the city to have automatic mahjong machines.
In a few villages, there are one or two families, and in many villages, there are even a dozen or so families. Of course, these are all wealthy villages, and they are generally the location of townships.
You can watch it all day, as soon as the morning dawns, a large number of people come to breakfast and don't care, so they run to the mahjong hall to occupy a seat first. This wolf has more meat and less meat, and when it's late, you can only watch people play and stare dryly.
Because of the rise of gambling, various contradictions caused by this have also arisen.
In particular, some housewives patronize and play cards, and the elderly in the family do not care, the children do not care, the pigs are not fed, and the chickens and ducks are not raised. The clothes are not washed, and the food is not cooked, so the family members who work outside can still be fine when they hear about it?
Besides, at the poker table, there is no father and son in a casino, lose and lose, and win is win, because of a quarrel, the head is broken and bleeding, and there are many things that do not get along with each other.
Haven't you heard the old saying that the more you drink, the thicker you drink? Playing cards is getting thinner and thinner. When drinking, everyone advises to drink, you drink more, drink, if you don't drink, you look down on people. are willing to let the other party drink more, and it is best to be unconscious if you can drink, so that the owner can feel face. Of course, it is not excluded that there is a bad heart, like watching you get drunk and ugly.
Playing cards is different, everyone has a wide red eye, eager to win alone. Everyone else loses, how can this mentality be good?
The government has also struggled with this, but there has been no good way.
You're going to gamble, right? They are all villagers in the village, and no one goes back to the police station to report where there is a casino. It's all police cars that have entered the village, and it's immediately like dealing with devils, and the whole village will know about it in less than a minute, and you won't be able to get any evidence.
And most of them are small bets. Every time there is a win or loss of dozens of dollars, it is considered a big one, how do you punish it?
What's more, it's all in this place, breaking bones and connecting tendons. The police may have a relationship with someone, and you can't bear to detain someone for half a month just because you played mahjong for a dime and a shot for a while, right?
Later, the government came up with a new method, which was to encourage villagers to enrich their amateur cultural life.
What free movies go to the countryside, hold square dance competitions, twist Yangge and the like, or find some channels for everyone to use their leisure time to increase their income, and encourage farmers to develop various breeding industries.
Slowly, the wind of gambling has really been curbed somewhat. At most, during the Chinese New Year, when the army of migrant workers who had been working for a year came back, they gambled a little harder.
Usually, some old men and old ladies in the village sit together, purely to pass the time, sharpen their hands and claws, and the sky is a handful of dollars, and Ken Ben doesn't win or lose much.
And these elderly people have strong self-control, it's time to cook at noon, and it will be over immediately, regardless of the afternoon, but you can't delay the old and small ones at home.
If you haven't had enough fun in the afternoon, then you can play two laps after dinner, and there is nothing to do in the evening anyway, so it should be a kind of entertainment and leisure activity to pass the time.
This was also the case in the past few years in the middle of the village, when the young people and strong laborers all went out to work, and the rest of the family were old, weak, sick and disabled.
After finishing the farm work in the field, when there is nothing to do, playing a few small mahjong has become the preferred leisure method for many elderly people.
But this year is different! Who in the whole village still has that time to play mahjong?
The two former mahjong parlors in the village, the advanced automatic mahjong machines in them, have now become children's toys. There is that half-old child, who has nothing to do during the holidays, so he wants to call a few close friends to play a few laps.
But before I made a circle, my father and mother who got the news sneaked home to read and study. Although you don't have to do the work at home, but you kid study hard and have the leisure to gamble, isn't that uncomfortable?
Every household in the village is now young people who go to work in village-run enterprises to earn wages, and the old people are busy in the fields with the little land they keep at home.
When it comes to the busiest time, many people have to go to other villages to hire some helpers, otherwise they won't be able to catch up with the solar terms!
Speaking of the planting in the mid-mountain village now, what kind of solar terms are there to talk about? Anything is planted casually throughout the year, and as long as it is planted in the ground, it can be stored for a good harvest.
When real money and a lot of money are placed in front of you, what goes out to work, what plays mahjong, who has that idle effort? If you have that time, why don't you order a variety of dishes and go to the field to remove a few grasses from the vegetable field?
Although as soon as the sun goes down, there are still groups of people who like it in groups of three or five to get together and play a few games, but everyone has already put most of their minds on work and their own vegetable fields, even at the poker table, and these are the things that are the content.
As in previous years, gambling addiction is never seen in Mid-Levels Village.
Although Banshan Village is surrounded by eight villages, and even one of the most wealthy villages in the country, there is really no one who is really addicted to gambling and does not go to the table for a day as if he is addicted to drugs.
For example, this winter, the surrounding villages are still starting to have cat winter. At best, a small number of people go to work in all kinds of small factories to earn pocket money. But most of them are still starting to be idle and have nothing to do.
So much so that even the church of Christ Jesus was built in the countryside, and a group of old ladies who were well fed and seemed to have nothing to do would run to the church to pray and worship decently. Pray that my family will not be sick or sick, and I will make a fortune next year!
Typical people usually don't burn incense, temporarily hug Buddha's feet, and directly hug the stinky feet of foreigners! You said that the Buddhas in our country, the major immortals can make you better than that, isn't it strange?
Banshan Village is different, in addition to the families are busy serving the golden doll-like super vegetables in the field, the village also organizes a series of activities.
It's like organizing young people of enough age to take the driver's license test uniformly.
As a member of the village, if you don't have a driver's license in your pocket, are you embarrassed?
And the exams organized by the village don't have to pay for their own tuition? Usually, I practice directly in the village, and even I use my own car when I practice driving, and I also use my own car when I take the exam.
As for the instructors, they are those non-commissioned officers and automobile soldiers from the adjacent base who have at least several years of driving experience. The level of others is no worse than those cowhide coaxing teachers in driving schools.
In addition to this, relying on the teacher resources of schools that have not yet been built, computer training classes, musical instrument training classes, dance classes, singing classes, and performance classes have been set up in the village.
There's a name for that, too. These people are all village militiamen, and the militia uses the off-season to conduct military training, so no one can say anything. As for why only people in the mid-mountain village can have this treatment, who let your village not have such a powerful person as Wang Yong?
Even the children of the village were gathered. It is supervised by several special people. And every once in a while, these little dolls will be organized to go to the major parks and playgrounds in the city to open their eyes, see the world, and have a good time.
All projects are not spent a penny. All costs are borne by the village council. This kind of good thing, the surrounding villages can only complain about anger and vent it for a while, and it can't be called true. Again, that's the same sentence. Who said that there is no powerful person like Wang Yong in our village who doesn't care about money?
Because of Wang Yong, the whole village has made a fortune. Don't you see that every family has to live in a small western-style house built by the village for free?
Don't you see, every household in the mid-mountain village has a car, and they are all high-end brands and models?
Don't you see that people in the middle of the mountain village are more popular with those small traders and hawkers when they arrive to catch the big market? As long as you say that you are from a mid-mountain village, the happy people can't wait to grin on the back of their heads, and that attitude is called a warm and thoughtful ah!
If you don't accept it, you can't do it, people are cows in the middle of the mountain village!
Therefore, the young men in the mid-mountain villages, especially the young people of the school age, are very popular, as long as you let them out, you don't say that there are ten miles and eight villages around, that is, the girls in the whole county are at the mercy of this young man.
Because of this, the young people in the mid-mountain village were complained and complained about by their former classmates and friends.
Why is the gap between people so big?
This winter, in the middle of the mountain village, there is no idler to be seen, as a few years ago, there are no people who are idle and racing the sun under the wall, and the big guys are busy with their own things.
Several young people in the peak village also bought professional video cameras, digital cameras and professional lenses, but a few people encouraged Wang Yong to spend more than 800,000 yuan to buy this full set of equipment.
The gang used their leisure time to go from house to house, taking pictures and videos of each family. And every year in the future, they will take pictures and videos for everyone from time to time, just to leave a beautiful and happy memory for everyone.
This event was very well received by the whole village, and everyone carried it forward.
There are old people in this family to celebrate their birthdays, shoot! The old man is getting older year by year, and the days when the whole family gets together are a year less than a year, can this not be filmed?
Which family wants to marry a daughter-in-law? Is this even more important? There are new people in the village, how can you not leave some video data? Of course, being able to look at the bride openly and justifiably is the real mind of these bastard boys.
The kids are going to school, so they have to shoot too! If you dare to say a word, these little ancestors will cry and go home to find their grandparents to make their own decisions. If you want not to be scolded loudly by your parents at home, then you should take a good picture of someone!
There is going to college, shoot!
If you have a child, shoot it too!
Which piece of the village is going to break ground or something, shoot it too!
Secretary Wang Da convened a meeting of all villagers, at which he made an important speech on the fight between the grandson of the old Li family and the son of the second tiger in the village.
This one is even more important! If you don't shoot, you can't do it! If you dare not shoot, Secretary Wang will immediately shoot the case and shout:
"Rabbit cub, you're angry! Take it and shoot it yourself! (To be continued......)
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