Chapter 187: The Legend of the Tree Monument
Yin Xianren's statement obviously cannot be established, his idea is just subjective conjecture, the purpose is to show his cleverness, and it is the result of domineering leakage. Yin Xianren is the eldest in the family, there are younger brothers and sisters below, his parents are old, and the affairs of the family are all cut by him and his wife. Some people say that there are many old roots in trees, and there are many old words in people. At his age, he is not old, and when he talks a lot, he looks old. It can be seen from the folds on the face that it looks like a person with a story. When speaking, don't tell stories, only human feelings.
Otherwise, the mouth will be pouted, sulking, or tantrums. He is excited to guess the mind of the person in charge, and annoyed by guessing wrong, anyway, he always hides his inner inferiority complex and pain with superficial happiness. Around the person in charge, there is a lot of mind to move, and there are also a lot of ideas that pop up, and at the right opportunity, they will be revealed to the person in charge, and it seems that he is smarter than others. This is his nature, which cannot be changed or taken away. Without comparison, nothing can be seen. With comparison, it is particularly glaring, and the words are particularly harsh.
For this situation, Conan gradually became clear in his heart, but it is not easy to refute, the future matters, it is useless to argue, and it is uncomfortable, in order to maintain a good relationship with Yin Xianren, there is no need to fight for the future. The heart of the person in charge, like the depth of the sea, cannot be guessed, even if Yin Xianren is Zhuge Kongming, if he meets Adou, there is nothing he can do, even if Adou pretends to be stupid, he is actually very smart. The current person in charge, just like this situation, wants to develop in a good direction, but when he meets a confused person in charge, he naturally can't get better, no matter how smart and capable, he is also on the frontier, and he is punished for his assassination, and he has the ambition to go to the sky and the moon, and he is also a bamboo basket to draw water, and he is so angry that he can't live. Why bother?
The general trend of the Hupo Village project has gone, and Director Li's new plan later, about the project of repairing the old pool, Conan did not consider it at all, Togo and Yin Xianren came to the village many times, and when they heard about this project, they held the attitude that more is better than less, so they simply ignored it and let Conan struggle by himself. In this case, the farther away you are, the better. The so-called team workers are also opponents. When a person is in trouble, it has nothing to do with himself, hang high, more things are better than less things, why bother yourself? It's just that Ji Conan is not as ruthless as them, Togo promised at the beginning that he represents the unit, and later he didn't fulfill it, people couldn't see the unit, only Ji Conan, of course, they had to give the responsibility to Ji Conan. Ji Conan is finishing up for Togo, Togo doesn't care, and he has to take away the project money, and it is difficult for the daughter-in-law to cook without rice, even if Ji Conan has great ability, he can't solve the financial problem for Hupo Village. You know, it's hard to do anything without money. It was this mess that was thrown to Ji Conan, and then, Togo went to the new project site and took away enough project funds.
At first, Ji Conan didn't understand, but later he figured out that this was all Yin Xianren's idea behind it.
One day, Conan received a call from Miss Liu, asking for a monument to be erected. Why do you want to be famous for doing good deeds? Didn't the left hand do good deeds and not let the right hand know? Isn't this deliberately ostentatious?
Conan was puzzled, but had to be carried out. And it can't be slow, otherwise, it's not good to write anything in the report.
Conan thought again, always feeling very awkward, isn't this unit a charity? Do good deeds without leaving a name, why do you want to set up a monument in the village? People go to tea and cool, besides, not everyone is satisfied, and there are villagers who don't take care of it, these villagers have opinions, won't they smash the monument? I heard that a peasant singer became famous, made money, and built a road for the village, but the road was repaired and a monument was erected, but it was smashed by the villagers, saying that the road was not repaired, and the monument was erected, which was extremely shameless. The villagers did not understand, so they smashed the stone monument. After the peasant singer became famous and made money, he did not forget his father and fellow villagers and helped the villagers build roads, but he got this treatment, which is incredible. Now the organization is doing this, and it must also have impure motives and sell its reputation.
Doubts are questions, and the monument still has to be erected, otherwise, in the acceptance process, there will be a missing link. Those acceptance teams did not take pictures in front of the stele and did not take them back to the donors, how do they think that the villagers have benefited, and the village has built drinking water pools and laid water pipes? The pond is half buried in the soil, and there is some exposed outside, and the surface of the pool is covered with mud and pumpkins are planted, so it is not easy to tell that it is a pool. In addition, the water pipes were laid in the ditch and buried in the soil, and the grass grew on the outside, so that it was impossible to see that there were water pipes inside.
And so on, are not enough to prove that the project has benefited the villagers, erect a monument, by looking at the inscription, you can understand the general situation, it seems, the power of words is indeed great. Among the foreign donors, many of them understand Chinese, and it seems that they are from the Chinese district, where many Chinese donate to support public welfare undertakings in the mainland and benefit more people in remote rural areas.
Yin Xianren decided to talk to Jia Mingzhu first.
Conan knew that Jia Mingzhu was not good, seeing that Yin Xianren was very determined, and it was not easy to object, so he tried it first, perhaps, Jia Mingzhu felt respected, although he had no right to decide, and he could not make a stone stele, at least, he would not destroy it, he would not smash the stele, maybe he would supervise the stele, so that the stele would insist on being erected until after acceptance. After acceptance, it no longer matters what the fate of the stele is. It's funny to think about, I want to do it differently from **, in the end, it's still the same, I can't escape the strange circle of operation, and I can't avoid the entangled of vanity.
The two walked to Jia Mingzhu's house, Jia Mingzhu was eating, he quickly gave up his seat and asked, "Have you eaten?" ”
Conan said, "Eat." ”
Jia Mingzhu's family said, "Eat more." ”
Yoon Hyun-in said, "No thanks! ”
When people are full, if they eat again, it is a waste and they have no appetite.
The Chinese people were hungry and scared, so they greeted each other and asked, "Have you eaten?" "I've asked for thousands of years, and it's still the same. Anytime, anywhere, this greeting is like meeting and saying "Hello!" In the same way, most people will answer "Well, what about you?" ”
In fact, those who haven't eaten will answer in the same way. It's just a greeting that doesn't mean anything and doesn't have to be taken seriously. If it was serious, he replied, "I didn't eat it." When asked, he quickly said, "I haven't eaten, so I'll go to the house to eat some, remember to come!" ”
When the guests actually went, they didn't prepare anything, and asked stupidly, "Is the meal ready?" "People will be quite embarrassed, I didn't expect a greeting, when I meet a serious person, I will take it seriously, and I will come to eat at home seriously. In fact, this casual invitation is a polite word for most people. Politeness is a kind of trap. People who don't know what to do will fall into this trap, and people who are very sober will not believe this sentence, but they can guess that eight or nine are not far from ten, probably about the same.
In the morning, Conan and Yin Xianren did eat, and when they came here, they had to prepare themselves to eat well three times a day, and when they visited, many people ate at home irregularly, sometimes early, sometimes late, if they didn't eat well and went to visit, they would definitely be hungry, or support their stomachs. Hunger and fullness are very bad for the body.
Yin Xianren and Conan sat down, took the tea handed over, and said their intentions while drinking, Yin Xianren's Mandarin had a strong local accent, and Jia Mingzhu asked him rhetorically in the middle, Conan hurriedly helped translate, and after Jia Mingzhu figured it out, he immediately said: "This matter is beyond his ability, let's go to Secretary Li." ”
Jia Mingzhu knows very well who is the boss here, who is the most powerful, and who can solve practical problems. If you don't see this, how can you do your job? It takes a lot of insight, it takes a very smart mind, and it takes a lot of wisdom to decide that you are on your own and that you don't depend on anyone in the outside world for anything. He has already seen that Yin Xianren's comers are not good, and those who are good will not come, and if Yin Xianren cooperates with his work, he will not be like this. The key point that Jia Mingzhu hated Yin Xianren was that after Yin Xianren came, the remaining project funds were transferred. This is equivalent to drawing wages from the bottom of the kettle, crossing the river and demolishing the bridge.
Yin Xianren touched his nose, unwilling, and said: "You are the director of the management committee, and you should be responsible for this matter!" ”
Jia Mingzhu was a little annoyed and said: "I'm in charge of my own business, if there is a problem with the pool and water pipe, I'm responsible, as for these fancy things like tree monuments, I'm not interested in the fictitious things." ”
Yoon Hyun-in was speechless.
After sitting for a while, Jia Mingzhu didn't pay attention to it, it was boring to sit dry, Conan reminded Yin Xianren, forget it, Yin Xianren was bored, so he had to stand up and leave. I'm going to go to Officer Li.
Conan said: "The villagers are very real, in the past, the village cadres deceived them, and also deceived the World Bank, deceived at both ends, the people contributed, the World Bank contributed money, their village cadres filled their own pockets, and they all made a fortune, and the people were so angry that they did not fulfill their promises." These nameless fires, nowhere to vent, today we hit the muzzle. Unlucky! ”
Yin Xianren said: "It is I who did not notice the history of Hupo Village. I've heard you say it before, but I didn't expect that I was too eager to ignore this sensitive issue. It's not your problem, it's me who rushed it. You didn't hit the muzzle, I did. ”
He does self-examination, it may not be the first time, nor is it the last, Conan knows that his level of education is not high, but in front of all his colleagues, he is not bad, at least he has read "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", has read classical novels, and knows some basic knowledge of writing. He's no exception, and at his most glorious times, he's writing scripts, his wife acting, and getting some slips of the tongue or something. Because of his talent, his wife's specialty, the local township chief was very happy to see it, so he appointed him as the team leader of the village group. He went to work in the organization, and the team leader's business was handed over to his wife.
Finding Officer Li, who was cleaning up sweet potatoes, Conan explained his intentions, and Secretary Li said, "There is no money in the village to do this." ”
Yin Xianren said: "If we don't let the village pay, we will pay." You need the support of the village officer, the introduction of good craftsmen, and the location of the monument. ”
Officer Li said: "This is no problem. ”
Conan showed the inscription to Officer Li, Conan knew that he was the whole material, and he was still sensitive to words, Secretary Li took the inscription, read it carefully, and felt that the name of the village committee was not bad, so he said: "Okay, this inscription is well written, I don't know whose hand it is?" ”
Conan said: "It was written by the general manager of the former county branch. ”
Director Li said: "No wonder, it's well written! I heard that he graduated from high school, came from the forestry department, and his parents were forestry workers, and he was very good at writing. ”
Conan said: "Yes, very serious, whenever you encounter a meeting, you must first write the materials and speak at the meeting, which is very in place." ”
Director Li said: "There is a farmer who makes stone tablets nearby, and there are stones and tools, so you can go to him, and after they are done, the tablets will be installed in front of his house, and I will take the time to coordinate them." I'm going to get sweet potatoes today, I'll go another day. Go talk to him first. ”
Yin Xianren wanted to say something, Conan gave him a look, Yin Xianren understood, and no longer asked. As Officer Li said, they came to the stonemason's house.
In front of the mason's house, there are a lot of stones, in the mountains, there are many stones, but if you want to have a relatively neat big stone, you must cut, once cut, the stone will appreciate, these stones are the necessary materials for making tombstones and supporting facilities.
The Tujia family implements burial, the mountain is sparsely populated, there are many hillsides, no matter how many people are buried, there is no place to worry, like the pine forest behind the house of Li Guan's house, it is a cemetery, basically the people of the Li family are buried here after death.
To bury the dead, you must make tombstones, and you have never worried about having no customers in the business of tombstones. As long as there are people, there are stonemasons, and the role of stonemasons is basically to make monuments for the dead. The richer the descendants, the more willing they are to spend money to decorate the tombs, and as a result, to see whether the living are mixed well or not, as long as you look at the monuments of the dead, it will be clear. Of course, some living people are picky, and even if they have money, they are not willing to invest in the dead, and it is impossible to tell whether they have money or no money.
Under normal circumstances, there is the technology to make a monument, in Hupo Village or other places, you can mix a round belly, and you don't have to worry about livelihood problems, but the stonemasons are very hard, dealing with hard things, morning and evening are gray, you can't wear clean clothes, in addition, you have to deal with dust for a long time, and most of your lung function is not good.
Conan and Yin Xianren found the stonemason, surnamed Jia Mingshan. Jia Shan is very willing to do this business, not much money, not much effort, can do a good job of a merit monument, it is completely part-time to get extra money, the advantage of this business is that the time is short, the effect is fast, there is no need to press the funds, timely cash, do not worry about the work can not get money.
Jia Shan said: "You have been in the village for almost a year. My family also eats the water in the village, so I really want to thank you! May you have many children and be blessed and live longer! ”
Jia Shan's blessing, the first one, that is, "many sons and many blessings", may not come true, and he violates relevant laws and regulations, and he does not dare to defy the law. The latter "longevity" is also unreliable, who knows what will happen in the next moment. Who knows what will happen in a year, 10 years, or 100 years? Or, the closest is tomorrow, and what will happen, no one knows.
Conan gave the inscription to Jia Shan, who read it and said, "I don't know how to write this yet!" ”