The end of the freezing rain and the approach of the Spring Festival made the young people who went out to work in Liangcun begin to return to their hometowns one after another, and suddenly Liangcun, which was originally a little deserted, became a lot more popular.

In Liang Village, the peasants have always had relatively few sources of income, and their annual income is only enough to cover all kinds of expenses for their families. In desperation, many young and middle-aged people had no choice but to go out to work and go to the Pearl River Delta to sell their coolies.

Most of the villagers who went out to work only went to primary and junior high school, very few of them went to high school, and some were even semi-literate. Because of the low level of education, after the villagers arrived in the Pearl River Delta, most of them were engaged in the hardest manual labor, either entering the factory to work as assemblers on the assembly line or sweating on the construction site.

Even so, the villagers are still happy to work outside, although it is a little harder, but at the end of the month, they can always see the white flowers. After saving money for a year, you can save three or five thousand, which is much better than farming at home.

For a long time, going to Guangdong has become the only choice for many young and middle-aged people, so that many elderly and children who stay at home are asked to 'go to Guangdong'.

A large number of young and middle-aged laborers went to Guangdong to work, which led to the abandonment of many fields in Liangcun.

Whenever the Spring Festival approaches, the villagers who go out to work return to Liang Village like migratory birds, and then go to the Pearl River Delta to continue their working careers after the Spring Festival at home.

The concentration of villagers to and from the transportation sector has caused great pressure on the transportation sector, and it is also the main force of the so-called 'Spring Festival'.

Qingshan County is currently not connected by train, and the villagers' main means of transportation to and from the Pearl River Delta is still long-distance buses, which are easily affected by weather conditions. No, in previous years, many migrant workers returned to the village before the twenty-third day of the lunar month, but this year, due to the impact of freezing rain, it was not until after the twenty-third day that the villagers arrived in Liang Village one after another.

The Spring Festival has a very special meaning for the Chinese, and these villagers who go out to work would rather spend half a month's salary to buy expensive tickets and go home for the Spring Festival.

Returning to their hometown after a year's absence, many villagers were attracted by the changes in the village.

When I was at Qingyun Wharf, everyone was already taken aback by the increase in berths and the well-equipped ferry terminal. After all, most of the villagers have been accustomed to the original simple pier made of bluestone and sand for decades, and they are still a little surprised at first glance when they see the new pier made of concrete.

However, the villagers' greater surprise was yet to come, as a straight and wide asphalt road from Qingyun Town to Liang Village replaced the old dilapidated machine plow road.

In just one year, a series of changes have taken place in the village, which almost dazzled the villagers who went out to work.

In addition to the changes that can be seen with the naked eye, the villagers can still feel that the spirit and motivation of the village are much better than usual, and they don't know where these changes started.

Every day, after the sun rises, under the big banyan tree in the middle of Liangcun village, there are always many villagers sitting there chatting and basking in the sun. However, the villagers who returned from their part-time jobs were surprised to find that their companions and men who had stayed at home had become busy one by one, and they ran to the sand by the lake before dawn.

In desperation, these villagers can only talk about their working life in the Pearl River Delta, the prosperity of the city and the hardships of migrant workers.

In the eyes of many people, the city is beautiful, with high-rise buildings, busy traffic, and bright lights.

However, in the eyes of migrant workers, going out to work is actually a life like herding cattle, and the prosperity of the city will never be the main color of their lives.

Most of the migrant workers work in factories on the outskirts of big cities, with a three-point line between workshops, canteens and dormitories, and there is no time, energy or money to travel more than a dozen kilometers to the city center. The prosperity of the city only exists in the TV picture, and the impression of the Pearl River Delta is that many villagers have the impression of busy factories, chaotic houses and farmland in the distance.

Even if there is occasional break, everyone is so tired that they just want to sleep in the dormitory, and by the way, they can save money. Some villagers have even gone to Guangzhou and Shenzhen to work for several years, but have never been to the city center at all.

For most villagers, the city is just a place to work and earn money, not their home. Even some young people still have a little longing in their hearts, hoping to stay in the city and become a real city person.

However, time and reality will tell these young people that this is nothing more than a luxury!

Just as everyone was chatting under the banyan tree, Wang Shaozhang passed by on a motorcycle and was stopped by his peers.

"Shaozhang, why haven't you come over to drink with us in the past two days?" It was his childhood playmate Yang Zhan who stopped Wang Shaozhang, and he usually had a good relationship with Wang Shaozhang.

Last year, Wang Shaozhang told him that after the Spring Festival this year, he went to Guangdong to work in the factory. However, now that Wang Shaozhang has already found the direction of entrepreneurship, he will naturally not go to Guangdong again.

"Am I not busy making wine, delivering wine, and feeding pigs?" Wang Shaozhang pointed to the two barrels of rice wine on the frame of the motorcycle and said with a wry smile.

"Shaozhang, have you really decided to raise pigs in the countryside?" Seeing Wang Shaozhang's posture, Yang Zhan asked a little puzzled.

"There's no way, the old man has bought me all my belongings, if I go to work, who will I throw these things to?" Wang Shaozhang replied with a helpless expression on his face.

"Then you are busy, remember to drink at home in the evening, and our brothers will get together!" Seeing that Wang Shaozhang didn't mean to stop the engine at all, Yang Zhan could only wave his hand a little depressedly and let him go.

"Okay, I'll bring some rice wine brewed at home and eat at your place in the evening!" Wang Shaozhang happily agreed, hung up and left.

Wang Shaozhang's motorcycle disappeared around the corner in a blink of an eye, leaving only a puff of green smoke and the somewhat puzzled eyes of his companions.

"Radish, do you think Shaozhang can make money by making wine at home?" Sitting on the stone pier a little depressed, Yang Zhan asked a partner sitting next to him.

"It should be possible?!" Luo Bo, nicknamed 'Radish', replied with some hesitation: "I heard my father say that his business was prosperous during this time, and rice wine was in short supply. ”

"What is Shaozhang? Now the most powerful person in the village is Liu Rui! Another companion next to him interjected: "The Liu family's winery can produce thousands of catties of rice wine every day, and all of them are sold to the county seat, otherwise he would not have transferred the original equipment and customers to Wang Shaozhang!" ”

"So powerful?!" Hearing this, Yang Zhan was taken aback, and asked the general: "Isn't the Liu family going to get rich?" ”

"What do you want to get rich?" At this time, another person next to him continued: "The Liu family is now rich, don't look at their house is still a brick house, but sooner or later one day it will surpass Qian Dabiao!" ”

"Wouldn't it? Qian Dabiao's sand boats are all said to be in the gold, who in our village can compare? Yang Zhan didn't think it was reliable, shook his head and said.

"The two acres of small tomatoes planted by Liu Rui, if it weren't for the freezing rain, would have at least 100,000 yuan of income, it seems that Liu Rui is really doing well in the village!" Luo Bo thought about it and told some of the news he had heard.

After Liu Rui's tomato field was destroyed by freezing rain, the heavy losses had already spread throughout Liang Cun and the surrounding villages. After all, 100,000 yuan is not a small amount, it is a huge amount that ordinary villagers crave and cannot reach, which is enough to make the villagers hotly discuss for a while.

"In addition to these, Liu Rui has also invested in pig farms and grain stations by the lake, and he may already have a net worth of hundreds of thousands!" The partners next to him told all the news they heard after returning home, and there were some teasing emotions in their words.

It is no wonder that when this group of young people came home from work, their parents respected Liu Rui a lot in their words, and naturally they had more expectations for their own children. As everyone knows, the most annoying thing for young people is that their parents compare themselves with others at every turn, so they even have a little dissatisfaction with Liu Rui.

After listening to the words of his partners, Yang Zhan began to feel a wave in his heart, and became more interested in Liu Rui.

When Liu Jiahong was injured in a car accident, it was not yet the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, and Yang Zhan had not returned to work in the factory. But the Liu family was in turmoil for a while, and then Liu Rui felt that he would no longer drop out of school in the second semester of his third year of high school last year and go home to support his family's livelihood.

When Yang Zhan left Liangcun and went to the Pearl River Delta to continue his part-time career, the Liu family was still in turmoil. At that time, Yang Zhan was still guessing in his heart that Liu Rui might go to Guangdong to work after supporting himself at home for a year and a half. After all, Yang Zhan really couldn't think of what the village could do to make a living, which could make up for Liu Jiahong's huge medical expenses.

However, when Yang Zhan returned to Liangcun for the Spring Festival, a lot of things happened in Liangcun in one year, and the Liu family actually turned from the verge of collapse to the most promising family in Liangcun. With such a huge change, how can Yang Zhan not feel embarrassed.

At the beginning, Yang Zhan also felt that many things were exaggerated, and under false rumors, Liu Rui became the leader of Liangcun and the right-hand man of the old branch secretary Wang Huaguo. No matter how capable Liu Rui is, he is just a young man who has not finished high school, how can he earn hundreds of thousands of family property in less than a year?

However, as more information and facts were placed in front of Yang Zhan, Yang Zhan had to begin to believe that Liangcun had really changed, and it was no longer the lifeless small farm.

Perhaps, staying in the village is also a good option?

In the middle of the year, Wang Jun, who had been working outside and became a foreman, actually gave up his salary of more than 2,000 yuan in Guangdong and returned to Liangcun to set up a so-called bamboo art company.

At the beginning, the villagers looked at him with the eyes of Wang Jun's failed mushroom farming experience, and felt that Wang Jun's return to Liang Village could only end in failure. So, at the beginning, Wang Huaguo begged his grandfather to tell his grandmother in the hope that he could share the shares of the bamboo art company, but he hit countless soft nails.

Later, Wang Huaguo, Wang Jun, Liu Rui, Zhang Zhenguang and several hard-nosed village cadres invested in the establishment of a bamboo art company and began to develop the bamboo resources of Zhulinao in an orderly manner. What happened later made countless villagers regret it, and the continuous orders of Hailan Trade made the bamboo art company start construction at full speed, and the income was rolling in.

After deducting the resource fees, workers' wages, water and electricity and other expenses paid to the village, the bamboo art company realized the first dividend not long ago, which is very envious of many villagers.

The success of the bamboo art company opened up new ideas for the villagers of Liang Village, and the villagers began to discover that in fact, there are still many resources for making a fortune in the village, but they have not found out.

Immediately afterwards, the large-scale acquisition of restaurants in Liang Village touched the chord in the hearts of the villagers, and the active surnames of many villagers were mobilized. By planting vegetables, selling mountain goods, etc., the villagers finally found some ways to increase their income, and they will no longer live a poor life in Baoshan.

The discovery of the leper turtle, the stationing of the research institute, the actions of the scientific expedition team and the establishment of the Xiaoqingshan Nature Reserve, in just a few months, Liangcun was like a drama with ups and downs.

It is also the establishment of the nature reserve that has made Liangcun an investment hotspot, and capital from other places has begun to pour into Liangcun to find investment opportunities. The fierce competition for grain stations is a clear example of this, and the grain stations, which were originally regarded as chicken ribs by the villagers, have become fragrant and sweet overnight.

The propaganda of the political axe has made the villagers understand the future development prospects of the reserve, which is why the villagers of Liang Village have actively cooperated with the village committee to vigorously transform the sanitary environment of Liang Village in order to create a good environment for tourists in the future.

In the past, the villagers of Liang Village were desperate and went out to work, and selling their coolies became the only way. China's peasants are the group that is most attached to the countryside, and there is no way to do it, who would want to leave their homeland?

But now, when the villagers see that they can still earn money at their doorstep, can support their families, and even have the hope of making a fortune, no matter who they are, they don't want to be drifters anymore.

Now you can grow vegetables in the sand by the lake at home, raise fruit farm chickens in your own orchard, and you can engage in breeding and sell them to customers in the county town to increase your income. The reduction or even abolition of various agricultural taxes, pooling, and retention has all led to an increase in peasants' incomes.

Now, the Xiaoqingshan Nature Reserve has been established, and the highway through Qingyun is also about to open to traffic, and the future development of Liangcun is unlimited. These truths can be seen even by the most uninformed villagers, which makes many villagers firm in their thoughts of developing in the village.

Of course, it can be seen that the future development prospects of Liang Village are promising, which does not mean that all villagers can find their own way to get rich. The villagers also have to find suitable projects according to their actual situation, so as to take advantage of the development trend of Liang Village and get rich quickly.

In this case, Liu Rui's sudden rise naturally attracted the attention of many villagers, and everyone was attracted by Liu Rui's dazzling movements and steaming industries.

Liu Rui actively introduced new varieties such as small tomatoes, but the first harvest has already earned back the cost. Although the expected income of nearly 100,000 yuan has come to naught because of the freezing rain, in the eyes of the villagers of Liang Village, Liu Rui has been considered a success.

It was also under the leadership of Liu Rui that many villagers decided to participate in the planting plan of small tomatoes, hoping to make a fortune as soon as possible through the planting of small tomatoes.

Liu Rui opened up the rice wine market in the county and sold the rice wine from the Liujia Distillery to the dining table in the county, which laid a good foundation for him to expand the production of the distillery. In addition, the eliminated brewing equipment was transferred to Wang Shaozhang at a low price, which also made Wang Shaozhang find the feeling of entrepreneurship, so that he no longer had the idea of going out to work.

In addition, Liu Rui also participated in the investment of large-scale pig farms and leisure farms, and changed from an ordinary young man to the most eye-catching leader in the entire Liang Village.

The villagers didn't know that the reason why Liu Rui invested so boldly was entirely because of the support of Shennong Space, and he was not afraid of failure at all. Liu Rui's investment enthusiasm infected the villagers, aroused their competitive spirit, and made the villagers focus more on how to develop their own industries, rather than thinking about going to Guangdong to work and walk away.

When Yang Zhan synthesized all kinds of information, after graduating from junior high school, he had been working outside for seven or eight years, and his heart was full of turmoil.

Yang Zhan thought that if he put himself in Liu Rui's position, at most he would be able to barely hold on and not let the whole family fall. But Liu Rui not only supported the family, but also made all the industries in the family develop by leaps and bounds, from the verge of collapse to an enviable situation.

While admiring Liu Rui, Yang Zhan also has more confidence in the future development of Liangcun.

Shouldn't I stay in the village and start my own business?

Once such a thought appeared in Yang Zhan's mind, it grew like a weed, making him a little unable to sit still.

Looking back on my part-time job in the past, it was up to 12 hours of high-intensity labor every day, and the whole person almost collapsed. Although you can save five or six thousand yuan a year, it is not a long-term solution.

Now that I am still young, I can naturally withstand high-intensity labor, but what about once I am old and weak?

Now that Liangcun is at a critical stage of rapid development, wouldn't it be better if he could return to his hometown to start a business? Since Liu Rui and Wang Shaozhang are already determined to stay in the village to start a business, it shows that there are considerable profits in them, and it is worth giving it a try.

However, as for what industry to start your business in? Yang Zhan couldn't make up his mind yet, after all, he still lacked enough understanding of the current Liang Village.

It seems that when Wang Shaozhang comes to drink in the evening, it is better to ask him in detail, and it is best for him to call Liu Rui again, so that he can learn more about the situation.

Soon, Yang Zhan had already made a corresponding decision in his heart.

There are not a few villagers who have similar thoughts to Yang Zhan, and after returning from Guangdong, these villagers have experienced considerable shock, and it is reasonable that their thinking has changed.

(To be continued)