Before you know it, it's the middle of May, and the weather in the south is already relatively hot at this time.

Especially in the City of Heroes, it has been able to reach more than 30 degrees.

On this morning, Gao Zhiyi drove to the office building of the Alinka Provincial Department of Culture.

As soon as I entered the office, I found a group of colleagues gathered around and talking about something in a low voice.

"What are you doing?"

Gao Zhiyi was in a good mood, so he quietly walked over and suddenly asked.

The colleagues were taken aback, reacted, and immediately explained the reason.

It turned out that Fenghua sent the tourism promotional video made by Li Shengyao.

"It's finally delivered, quick, let's take a look at the broadcast."

"Pay attention to discipline, before the promotional film is broadcast on the TV station, everyone is not allowed to shoot, record, or leak relevant information."

Colleagues immediately made the rules clear.

So I used the office computer, inserted the CD, and played this travel promotional video.

"Rural Alinka."

There is another name for this promotional video.

"Did you say you went to Lushan or Longhu Mountain?"

"There must be Lushan Mountain, Longhu Mountain, and Jinggang Mountain, these three places are indispensable."

"I think there is Tengwang Pavilion and Poyang Lake."

"It should be about the same, anyway, there must be places of interest in Allinka."

These colleagues are of low grade, and they don't know what Lee Shengyao is shooting.

However, Gao Zhiyi knew that he heard the discussion of his colleagues, and he couldn't help but be a little worried, would such an unusual tourism promotional video attract the disgust of the audience?

After all, innovative ideas are good, but the audience may not be fully receptive.

At this time, the promotional video began to play, and I saw a beautiful village in the shot in a burst of soft music.

Between the green mountains and green waters, there is a narrow bridge.

On one side of the bridge, a large number of houses were built, and the houses here were built next to each other.

The vast majority are two- or three-story red brick houses, some with whitewashed facades and some unpainted.

A few are old houses, and the old houses are all tiled houses.

Facing the rising sun, this small village seems to be hidden in the mountains and forests, which is particularly beautiful.

The photographer is supposed to be sitting in the car, and the camera travels all the way, from the head of the village to the end of the village, haunting an atmosphere called happiness.

At this moment, the camera moves to the face of a man in his fifties who looks like a farmer.

He smiled and made an introduction, it turned out to be a teacher in this village.

"Our village is too remote, there are many mountains, and young people have gone out to work."

"The primary school in the village is now only in the third grade, and students above the fourth grade have to go to the primary school in the next village."

"Sometimes it's dangerous for children to go to school, and in May and June, it rains heavily and the water rises."

"I hope that life will be better, and that it would be better to have a car to pick up and drop off the children who go to school in the next village."

Others didn't feel anything, and Gao Zhiyi was a local.

He is well aware that many primary schools in Alinka province are disappearing, not only because the population is getting smaller and smaller, but also because many people are sending their children to school in the county seat of the town.

There are many elementary schools where there are seven or eight students left in one grade.

Just now, the teacher said that the fourth grade and above went to school in the next village.

That's because the students below the fourth grade are too young to take a long walk to the next village, so they are not fully merged.

Regarding this problem, Zhengfu can't help it, I really hope that the economy is better and there is a special car to pick you up.

The next videos are shot in a village, showing this beautiful village in front of the camera, and then locking on a person.

"The ancestral hall is on fire, it is the ancestral shrine of our surname Wang, and the surrounding people with the surname Wang are all divided from here."

"Two days ago, on the birthday of the ancestors, many people went to burn incense, but it caught fire at night."

"Can't be saved, it's a big night, it's too late, everyone is sleeping."

This is an old man with red eyes and a camera telling about what happened recently.

This is a significant feature of the Hakka area in southern Gansu, where there are more single-surname villages, and the common people are relatively traditional.

I attach great importance to some inheritances.

As the old man said this, his voice lowered a little, as if something important was missing.

……

"I graduated with a bachelor's degree and worked in Shencheng for three years, and I want to buy a house in Shencheng in the future and go back to my hometown for a blind date."

"My wife is a local, from the next township, the bride price is 80,000, as well as hardware, and the red envelope for the first time spent almost 120,000 yuan."

"My father-in-law's family returned two big quilts."

"It's like this here, and the return gift is a quilt, or a washbasin."

"I'm going to make money, and I don't have time to fall in love."

"Marrying local girls, they are more filial, I don't have high requirements for her, just be filial to my parents."

This is a young man who has just been married, and he looks like an ordinary worker, and he is a person who hopes to put down roots in the city.

Compared to their siblings elsewhere, young people in Alinka are more conservative and traditional.

A lot of people want to escape from this place, but they recognize some of the customs of this place.

……

"In the past, I planted sugarcane at home, planted a lot, and planted sugarcane to make more money, and planted more, I could have three or four thousand a year, which was much more cost-effective than planting peanuts."

"Later, the sugar mill in our city was not wanted, saying that it was closed."

"I've been farming at home, I haven't gone out to work, and I can't speak Mandarin well, so I changed to planting oranges."

"But my oranges are not sweet, I didn't sell a pound last year, it's not sweet......"

"I have hope for the future, and I hope that life can be better for everyone."

This is what an uncle in his forties said in front of the camera.

His tone was calm and his face was calm, but his words were full of bitterness.

Few of the colleagues in the office listened, and most of them were lamenting that the village in front of them was well photographed.

Most of these people are city children who don't know what's going on in the village.

Gao Zhiyi looked at it but was very uncomfortable, this tourism promotional video, two minutes in one village, a total of ten villages, although the front was very beautiful, but the words in the back, listening to people panicked.

At present, the economy is developing rapidly and the standard of living is developing rapidly, whether it is in the city or in the countryside, it is a small change every five years and a major change in ten years.

But there are still people and things that can't be taken care of.

Soon after, everyone watched the tourism promotional video.

"I think what the people in the villages behind me say, you can cut it out and just use the beautiful scenery in front."

"It's better to keep it, I think it's more fun to keep it."

"It's not something that can't be said, and I think it's better to keep it."

Colleagues are talking.

Gao Zhiyi was a little bored, and was about to pick up the disc and leave.

"Director, there is also a CD here, which records one hundred and nine villages, all of which are very beautiful places, Director Li is reluctant to delete it and give it to us as a souvenir."

One hundred and nine villages, that is, one hundred and nine stories.

Gao Zhiyan held it in his hand and felt that this disc was extremely heavy.

……

The sun was setting and falling westward.

In an urban village in Tianhe District, Yangcheng, a young man in a white shirt and black trousers walked slowly forward carrying a box of Yanjing roast duck.

His name is Lin Zhiyuan, he is from Alinka, and he has been working in Yangcheng for several years.

After work today, I bought half a Yanjing roast duck for my girlfriend by the way.

His girlfriend's name is Liu Xiaoqing, a native of southern Hunan, sweet in appearance, gentle and housekeeping, and he likes it very much.

The family has prepared 200,000 yuan for him, plus the money he has earned in the past few years, he plans to get on the bus in Yangcheng and become an authentic Yangcheng person.

Soon after, he came to the rental room, opened the door, and saw the food on the small table.

Liu Xiaoqing got off work early today and prepared dinner for him.

"Wife, where are you?"

"Do the laundry."

The rental house is very small, with a living room, a bedroom and a bathroom, and the boiler for stir-frying is placed in the living room.

There is no washing machine at home, and Liu Xiaoqing is washing clothes in the bathroom.

Lin Zhiyuan put down the Yanjing roast duck and gently opened the door of the bathroom.

Liu Xiaoqing straightened his hair and was squatting on the ground to wash his shoes.

Lin Zhiyuan's heart was warm, "Put it there, I'll wash it." ”

"No, soon."

At this time, the sunset fell through the small window and into the bathroom.

Liu Xiaoqing's face was flushed.

She grabbed the shoe brush and brushed her shoes hard, they were Lin Zhiyuan's sneakers, which were watery when it rained a few days ago, and they were a little smelly.

Even now, there is still a smell of shoes in the air.

"Brush, brush!"

The brush makes a grinding sound against the shoe.

Lin Zhiyuan was moved in his heart, he turned the electric fan over and blew it at Liu Xiaoqing.

For Liu Xiaoqing, he really likes it,

At the same time, there is some guilt in my heart.

The bride price in Alinka Province is too high, he discussed this issue with Liu Xiaoqing, when two people get married, give the bride price according to the rules of Alinka, or give the bride price according to the customs of Shonan Province?

Liu Xiaoqing said that it would be okay to give it according to the customs of Xiangnan Province.

This can help Lin Zhiyuan's family save a lot of money.

But for Liu Xiaoqing's family, it is not necessarily a good thing.

Many people know the high bride price in the province of Alinka, and when it comes to it, relatives and neighbors will ask, and if they give less, they will say that they have suffered a loss.

Lin Zhiyuan really wants to give a bride price according to the rules of his hometown, but he wants to buy a house and give a bride price, and his family really can't afford it.

This incident made him very embarrassed, and when he usually went to work, some people often ridiculed Alinka for his high dowry, saying that he was looking for Liu Xiaoqing to save money.

He felt a little disgusted with the province of Arinka.

He wanted to escape from that place and cut himself off from his hometown.

After a while, Liu Xiao cleaned his shoes and then put them in the anti-theft window to dry.

"Let's eat, put on a TV series."

Both were young people, they didn't buy a TV, but they bought a cheap assembled computer.

Both of them are used to watching TV dramas while eating.

This is a rare break after a busy day's work.

Liu Xiaoqing moved the mouse after turning on the phone, clicked on the Fenghua video, and soon saw a title on the homepage.

"Rural Alinka."

She didn't think much of it and clicked in.

has been in love with Lin Zhiyuan for three years, and she has already met Lin Zhiyuan's parents, but she has not been to Alinka.

Lin Zhiyuan gave Liu Xiaoqing a bowl of rice, and when he saw this, he couldn't help but say: "It's just a broken countryside, what's there to see." ”

"Let's see."

When Lin Zhiyuan sat down, the video titled "Alinka's Countryside" officially began.

It was early in the morning, the sun was rising, and the camera was on a village.

It is a very beautiful, quiet and peaceful village.

Lin Zhiyuan grew up in such a village since he was a child, and later returned to his hometown every Chinese New Year, and he could see at a glance that this was the style of his hometown village.

Seeing the beautiful village on the screen, he couldn't help but be stunned, why hadn't he found it so beautiful before?

He then came back to his senses and pouted, "Another bit of false propaganda." ”

The camera goes very fast, from the head of the village to the end of the village, this small village is indeed beautiful.

Just when Lin Zhiyuan thought that he would go to a wealthy family and shoot some modern household appliances or luxury furniture.

The camera comes to the face of a village teacher in his fifties.

The rest of the videos are all like that, beautiful villages, and then all kinds of people.

There were teachers, old people, farmers, housewives, newlywed men, and veterans of the Long March.

A total of 20 minutes, 10 villages, 10 people, 10 paragraphs.

They tell their own stories, and several of them are non-standard in Mandarin.

When Lin Zhiyuan heard the words of his hometown, his nose was sour inexplicably, and then he lowered his head, suppressed his tears, and did not let the tears fall.

As Arrinka people, only locals know how difficult this place is.

The inexhaustible collapse/official, the endless mountain road, and the old and closed inheritance accumulated for thousands of years.

Young people who don't want to leave?

Who wants their offspring to continue their own living environment?

But after all, it is a place to give birth and raise himself, and Lin Zhiyuan still felt uncomfortable when he heard others mocking Alinka.

The place is beautiful, with beautiful mountains and clear waters, and the sky is blue.

The people here are hardworking, low-key and hardworking.

He didn't think Arrinka should be such a comment.

"What a beautiful village, are all the villages over there like this?"

"Pretty much."

Liu Xiaoqing nodded, "In July, I'll go to your house with you to have a look, I want to see the village over there." ”

"It's similar to Shonan, it's nothing to see."

"I want to go and see where you stayed when you were a kid."

Liu Xiaoqing then clicked on the comment, "Look, many people here say that Alinka is very beautiful, why don't you let me go." ”

When Lin Zhiyuan heard this, he hurriedly swept his eyes.

He suddenly thought of the reason for this video, "What is this video?"

"It's a tourism promotional video for Arlinka, I think it's very good, the village just now is very beautiful."

Lin Zhiyuan was stunned when he heard this, he didn't expect Alinka to let such a tourism promotional video circulate, although it was filmed beautifully, but those words were basically not good words.

But it seems that outsiders don't care, they pay more attention to the beautiful scenery.

He thought about it for a while, and felt that this was the propaganda of Alinca's top management to him, and the spur, to accept that this was a beautiful, but also flawed place.

This is a deeper understanding.

Lin Zhiyuan inexplicably felt much more relaxed, and he realized that he should have such an awareness.

Alinka does have many flaws, such as the difficulty of the college entrance examination, high bride price, traditional conservatism, and preference for sons, all of which are practical problems.

But this place is also very beautiful, with many mountains, water, good air, and the people are kind and diligent.

There is no need to avoid these problems, there is no need to feel inferior.

He should face his hometown squarely without humility or arrogance.

"Okay, I'll take you to see where I grew up."

(End of chapter)