Yang Qianfeng and Chen Laixiang also have their own home in Baiguo Village, but they rarely come back to live.

Their house was connected to their parents' house, and there was originally one room (that is, the room where Ouyang Lamei first came to live with Yang Qianfeng). Later, when Chen Laixiang renovated her parents' house, it was expanded on the side of this room to form a separate house. Although the area of the house is not very large after the expansion, although the sparrow is small, she divides the whole house into two bedrooms, one living room, one bathroom and one kitchen.

Chen Laixiang made this house for two purposes at that time: one was to have their own activity space for the family to come back; The second is to avoid adding trouble to parents. The year after she renovated her parents' house, she also renovated the house and added everything she felt she should need.

On Saturday morning, Chen Laixiang urged Yang Qianfeng to go to Baiguo Village, and they left after eating early.

Chen Laixiang actually didn't live in Baiguo Village, at most she just came to see her parents, visit relatives, and only stayed for one or two nights every time she came, but deep down in her heart, she always regarded this place as her roots, plus many of her own ideas, so she decided to die and bury her here.

Although Chen Laixiang is very nostalgic for this world, her Ah Feng, Xiangyi and all her relatives, she already knows that she is powerless, and she already looks at death very lightly, and she just wants to live happily one day at a time. But she knew that Yang Qianfeng's heart was more sad than her, so she took the initiative to find some topics to talk to Yang Qianfeng along the way, talking about the people in the village, talking about the things in the village, and talking about the changes in the village.

Indeed, Baiguo Village has undergone great changes in the past ten years, and Yang Qianfeng is no longer as bumpy and dusty as before, and the asphalt road from the city to his hometown is already flat.

Since the opening of this road, some villagers have built houses on both sides of the road that crosses the village, especially after the road was poured with asphalt, many new houses have been added on both sides of the road, and the old mud-walled and straw houses in the village have basically disappeared.

In addition to the great changes in the traffic environment and living environment in the village, the most important thing is that the villagers' ideological concepts have also undergone fundamental changes, especially the young people, most of them are no longer willing to guard their own fields like their parents to make a living, more than half of them are doing business and working outside, so the village is left with old people and children, and there are very few young and middle-aged people.

In addition to the reason that the family planning policy requires fewer births and better births and the natural attrition of birth, old age, sickness and death, there are also the following two main reasons: First, in the past 10 years, some people in the village have been admitted to universities every year, and they have been assigned to work after graduating from school, so the hukou has naturally moved away. Second, there are more people who make money doing business. After earning money, they bought a house in the city or in other places, and they moved the family's household registration so that their children could go to school. The total number of people who have been displaced and those who have died of natural causes exceeds the sum of the number of newborn children and the number of newcomers who have married into the village, and the total population of the village is declining year by year. Therefore, except for the Chinese New Year, the village is usually not as lively as Yang Qianfeng when he was a child.

In fact, Yang Qianfeng's house is a prime example. His family used to be a big family in the village, but now there are fewer and fewer people in his hometown.

Needless to say, Yang Qianfeng and Lan Mei, the fourth Yang Jinfeng, with the help of Yang Qianfeng and Yang Lanmei, has been doing very stable business, and after getting married, he sold a house in Jinshui County the year before last, and later under the advice of Chen Laixiang and Lan Mei, their husband and wife made a clothing brand agent in the city, and the benefits were not bad, so the old house in the village has been empty there.

After graduating from high school, Yang Quanfeng, the sixth child, was admitted to HF University of Technology, a provincial key university, and after graduation, he was assigned to work in the Municipal Machinery Bureau, divided the welfare house, and was married and had children.

Yang Chunmei, the seventh child, was admitted to AH Normal University, and after graduation, she was assigned to work as a teacher in Jinshui County No. 1 Middle School. was also assigned to a welfare house, and with the help of Chen Laixiang, it was also renovated, and he also talked about a boyfriend.

Therefore, except for the New Year's holiday, everyone basically does not go back to Baiguo Village in normal times.

Especially after the parents were taken to live in the city by Yang Qianfeng and Chen Laixiang, except for the parents who had to go home for the New Year, all the brothers and sisters went back to get together, and now it is difficult for the family to get together.

In addition, Yang Xiaozhen, the eldest daughter of the eldest brother Yang Yongfeng, worked at Xiangmei Supermarket after graduating from high school and was responsible for the financial work of the supermarket. With the help and support of Chen Laixiang and Lan Mei, she rented a counter in the supermarket, hired a salesperson, and started a children's toy business. And her thinking was very advanced, and she took out a loan to buy a house in the city. At the same time, he is also studying for exams on his own and preparing to get a college diploma. The eldest brother's youngest daughter, Yang Xiaofeng, is a good child who loves to study, and was later admitted to WN Medical University, and is still studying. Therefore, in addition to the eldest brother and sister-in-law who still live in Baiguo Village, their two daughters are basically not at home.

The second brother also has two children, the eldest is a son, who was conscripted into the army the year before last, and he is preparing to enter the military academy; The youngest is a daughter, who is in high school. There are only two brothers and two sisters-in-law in the family.

Therefore, it can be seen from Yang Qianfeng's family that the people of Baiguo Village are gradually moving to the city or a larger city.

Thinking of these changes in the village, Yang Qianfeng smiled happily. Because he suddenly thought of some words that were circulating in the village.

Yes, the changes in the village are undoubtedly brought about by the policy of reform and opening up, and adapting to and keeping up with the development of the reform and opening up situation always requires some leaders. Because Yang Qianfeng was the first person in the village to become a national cadre, and Yang Lanmei was the first person in the village to go to the city to do business, their brothers and sisters became the leaders in the village.

Therefore, there was once a saying in Baiguo Village: If you want to be a striker, learn to be a forward; If you want to get rich, learn from Lanmei. It means that Yang Qianfeng has studied hard and become a national cadre and has eaten public meals; Learn from Yang Lanmei, dare to dare to work, go out empty-handed and fight a piece of her own world and get rich. The power of role models is endless, and positive energy can indeed play an immeasurable role, starting from the second year after Yang Qianfeng changed jobs, people in the village are really admitted to university every year, and from the second year when Lan Mei entered the city to open a store, the young people in the village have gone out to break through.

Until now, parents in Baiguo Village often say these two sentences when educating their children.

Chen Laixiang didn't know what Yang Qianfeng was laughing at, so she pouted and said, "I thought of something funny, is there any joke again, tell me about it." ”

Yang Qianfeng smiled at her affectionately, and replied to the question: "Filial piety must be learned from Sister Xiang." ”

When Chen Laixiang heard this, she happily raised her jade fist and gently slapped him and said, "Ah Feng laughs at me!" What do I have to learn? ”

Yang Qianfeng said seriously: "What you have done is really good, not only do they have to learn, but I also have to learn from you." ”

Chen Laixiang said affectionately: "You still laugh at me." Then I still have to learn from you and Lan Mei! ”

In fact, Chen Laixiang has known this sentence for a long time, because the people in the village have been 'thinking about it and learning from the forwards) two years after they got married; If you want to get rich, learn from Lanmei', a sentence was added: 'Filial piety must be learned from Sister Xiang. ’

Of course, the villagers said this, not to say that the rest of Yang Qianfeng's family were not filial, but to say it to the daughter-in-law, because Chen Laixiang was the first in the village to advocate that the house for his parents be decorated like a house in the city (at that time, basically no one in the countryside did this, at least not in Baiguo Village); The first one made the two old people fall in love with the big color TV (the only color TV in Baiguo Village at that time); The first to let the old mother use the washing machine............

What's even more commendable is that she can sell clothes for the elderly every year according to the season, and she is responsible for almost all the daily necessities that her father-in-law and mother-in-law need, and insists on going back to Baiguo Village every month to visit them, especially after having a car.

Of course, there are also those who are not convinced, saying that Chen Laixiang did this mainly because she has the financial ability, but this was later silenced by Chen Laixiang's actions, because Chen Laixiang is not only filial to her parents-in-law, but also willing to help the people in the village, especially the elderly. (After the county women's federation learned that Chen Laixiang was rated as a 'good police wife' in the province by the provincial public security department, it immediately attracted great attention and conducted an in-depth investigation of Chen Laixiang's deeds, and found that in addition to the deeds mentioned in the deeds of the public security department, she also found that she was filial to her parents and helped the people in the village, especially the advanced deeds of helping the elderly in the village to get rich, so the county women's federation enriched the content on the basis of the material of the provincial public security department, and wrote this matter into Chen Laixiang's deeds materials.) It was decided to award her the county-level '38 Red Flag Bearer' and reported this material to the Municipal Women's Federation, which has decided to award her the city-level '38 Red Flag Bearer' based on Chen Laixiang's deeds and special circumstances.

Because Chen Laixiang used to go home and found that many people in the village have crafts, such as: some can make brooms, some can make all kinds of bamboo baskets, and some even weave handicrafts, etc., and the raw materials for making these things are available in the mountains of the village, but they don't know how to use this craft to make money, especially some older people, who can't do heavy work anymore, let alone go out to work, and their children are not living a very good life, so they can only live a hard life at home. Seeing this situation, Chen Laixiang had an idea for a long time, but the conditions did not allow it at that time, and after opening the supermarket, she took the initiative to contact these people and asked them to make these finished products at home, and after they were done, she put them in the supermarket to help sell.

In the past few years, she has sold all the handmade products made by the villagers, and has maximized the benefits of these craftsmen. In this way, it is equivalent to finding a good way for these old people and people who do not go out to work to earn money and get rich, so that their lives will be better. Therefore, the people in the village said that 'filial piety should be learned to come to Sister Xiang' at first it was just a simple filial piety to her parents, but later it was not so simple, but said that she could try her best to help the old people in the village, and thought that this was also a kind of filial piety. Naturally, this action of hers silenced those who were not convinced. In this regard, even Lan Mei threw herself to the ground for the five bodies she admired.

Chen Laixiang recalled: "Actually, it is my duty to honor my parents, and helping the villagers, especially the elderly, is just a win-win situation." ”

As he spoke, the car arrived at their doorstep. Fupin Chinese