Chapter 128 The village chief and the "Yiyantang" were unanimously elected (please subscribe and vote monthly)
Li Xiang actually got up at about the same time as Jiang Cai'er, and opened the door and started the cannon around three o'clock. There was a large plate of "Two Hundred Thousand Rings" and a box of 88 rounds of fireworks called Lucky and Fortune, but with a larger caliber (2.0-inch straight barrel) than yesterday.
If you want to set off privately at home, you can only set off small-caliber ones, because these come with paper barrels. If you set off big ones, six-inch, eight-inch, or ten-inch ones, they will look like big balls. Special salute guns are used to fire them, and they require professionals to operate them.
Li Xiang naturally also liked Jiang Cai'er's circle of friends. The girl who answers questions at four or five in the morning on New Year's Day is the most beautiful!
There are no other resources in the countryside, so we can only work hard.
In fact, Jiang Caier's classmates should be grateful to her, because in the college entrance examination a year and a half later, many of them achieved unprecedentedly good results, which is inseparable from the fact that Jiang Caier took them to take the exam.
They are competing with students across the country, not just with Jiang Caier. But because of Jiang Cai'er's leading role, everyone's results were better than in their "previous life".
After dawn, Li Xiang took some red envelopes, a few packs of cigarettes, and a bag of chocolate candies, and went to the whole village to pay New Year greetings from door to door, handing out cigarettes to the men, and chocolate candies to the women and children, wishing each other the New Year. And each underage child also gets an extra red envelope.
It doesn’t contain much, it’s only 18 yuan each, just for good luck.
In fact, for the children in the village, this amount is already very large, and they are very happy. No matter how big it is, it's not good. If it's 50 or 100 yuan, it will be taken away by the parents if it changes hands. And for 18 yuan, hey, children can use it by themselves to buy snacks in the store, or buy small fireworks or throw cannons for fun.
When they arrived at Jiang Cai'er's house, Jiang Cai'er naturally took part in it. Li Xiang specially prepared a large one for her, worth 666 yuan, and gave it to her quietly, asking her not to tell her parents.
She can't bring her mobile phone to school, so it's best to give her cash so she can buy some needed things at school. Although Jiang Jianguo will give her pocket money, it won't be much.
"Brother, there's something I wanted to ask you at our dinner party this afternoon. Now that you're here, please help me answer it." Jiang Caier quietly explained her situation.
"Let me take a look." Li Xiang held her hand. Jiang Caier was a little shy and nervous, but did not break away.
Li Xiang's spiritual power slowly penetrated into Jiang Cai'er's body, wandering around in her meridians, and he had a clear understanding of her cultivation status.
Jiang Cai'er's heartbeat quickened, this feeling was so amazing.
The breathing method she practices actually comes from the same source as Li Xiang, but this breathing method is very strange. According to everyone's understanding and physique, the spiritual power is similar. The most important thing is that no one knows what the awakened power is. According to Li Xiang's understanding might be random, or there might be an inherent mysterious pattern, but he didn't figure it out.
"It's okay. Come to my house tomorrow or the day after tomorrow, and I'll give you something good to eat." Li Xiang knew immediately that this was because there were no extraordinary particles in the air, so Jiang Caier's practice stopped. Get her some elixir to eat, and spend some time refining it, and she should be able to break through.
"Yeah." Jiang Cai'er nodded obediently. She knew that her brother had a lot of things to hide from her, but since it would definitely be inconvenient not to tell her now, she wouldn't ask. When the time comes, my brother will definitely tell him.
"This is a secret between us, don't tell anyone else." Li Xiang warned.
"I'm not that stupid!" Jiang Cai'er smiled and pouted her red lips.
For lunch on the first day of the Lunar New Year, the villagers basically ate the leftovers from last night, but it was different in the afternoon.
At almost one o'clock in the afternoon, many people gathered at the entrance of the ancestral hall at the east end of the village. Li Jinyu led people to bring in many ingredients, and some people helped build the stove and light the fire to cook. This year’s “Drinking of Dingjiu” was held on the afternoon of the first day of the Lunar New Year.
This is because everyone has to visit relatives in the second, third, and fourth grade of junior high school, and in the fifth grade of junior high school, many young people have to go out to work and have already started to return.
This ancestral hall is dilapidated, but there is an open space in front of the ancestral hall, which is very open. The annual "Drinking of Dingjiu" is held here. At the same time, sacrificial activities are also held in the ancestral hall to worship the ancestors of Lijia Village.
Jiang Cai'er's family also came. Although they did not participate in the sacrifice, they were still qualified to "drink Dingjiu" in a village.
In the past, "drinking Dingjiu" was a gathering of adult men over 16 years old in the village. Later, with the evolution of the times, it was not limited to this. Everyone, men, women, old and young, could come to participate, and everyone had a meal together to enhance their relationship. .
In the words of the "Preface to the Lanting Collection", it is "all the virtuous people have come together, and the young ones have gathered together."
What we prepared today is the standard "Nine Dou Bowl", which is mainly steamed vegetables, such as steamed meat, steamed turtle, steamed chicken, steamed duck, steamed rabbit, etc. Because of the flowing mat and large quantity, steamed vegetables are easy to make.
"Dou" means "big" in the Sichuan dialect. For example, "bold" means "bold" and "bold as big as a bold one".
As mentioned before, in many places, there are eight big bowls (fafafa) and ten big bowls (10 perfect bowls). Generally, even numbers are used, which are considered auspicious. However, in some places in Sichuan Province, "eight big bowls" and "ten big bowls" are taboo. .
Because when the running water mat is set up, beggars often come to beg for food. They don't beg for nothing, and they also show off their talents, such as singing "Lotus Falls". In ancient times, if you didn't have any talent, why would you beg for food? Catch someone else's banquet? Allegro and fish drum were common instruments used by beggars in the past. It is also a kind of folk art.
For such "beggars", the host will naturally not drive them away, but will warmly entertain them. However, what they eat is different from ordinary banquets. The host will prepare an Eight Immortals table and set out eight bowls of rice bowls as a treat for them. Reception.
Therefore, this table with eight large bowls is also called the "beggar's table".
As for the ten big bowls, "十" and "石" have the same pronunciation. The troughs used by farmers in Sichuan Province to feed pigs are often made of stone, so the ten big bowls are also unlucky.
Therefore, the nine-dou bowl is the standard feature of flowing water banquets in Sichuan Province. The poorer people will also put seven bowls, and the rich people will put eleven bowls.
For example, Lijia Village had Dingjiu for several years. Because they were too poor, each table only had seven bowls of food. Now that conditions are good, there are only nine bowls.
In the past, women and children were not allowed to participate, probably because they were too poor. Now that conditions are better, everyone comes to eat and have fun.
But even so, today's dishes are far inferior to the New Year's Eve dinner in many people's homes. After all, this "Dingjiu" is funded by the village committee and the budget is limited, so it cannot be done well.
In some places, everyone raises funds, or each household contributes as much food as they want, but that's boring. The happiest thing is eating for free.
After the ancestor worship was completed and before the banquet started, Lijia Village held a village chief election meeting every five years. Naturally, the final result was that Li Xiang was unanimously elected!
In fact, China's village chief election is the most formal "universal election" in the world and a true democracy. The mayor of each village is truly elected by all men, women, old and young.
An election like America's is said to be a popular election, but in fact it is not. It can only determine the outcome of each state's election and which party wins. Moreover, the candidates have been predetermined, and only two or three are competing. After each state election, there will be a process of "electors" voting. There are only more than 500 electors, and the votes of these more than 500 people are the votes that truly determine who will take office in the end.
The votes of ordinary people are a joke, especially in those states where the vote base has been fixed. No matter how you vote, it will not affect the final result. Otherwise, how can we call it a fixed ticket warehouse? Only swing states have that little effect. Yes, there is, but not much.
The results of the village chief election have come out. As for the village party secretary, Li Jinyu has already mentioned it to his superiors and recommended Li Xiang.
It is unlikely that people from other places will be parachuted into such remote rural areas, and most of the rural areas (according to statistics, about 95%) are "one shoulder to shoulder", that is, the village director and the village party secretary are served by the same person, so basically it is It’s a done deal, and after the Chinese New Year, the above documents will probably come out.
"Everyone welcomes you with applause. Please give our new village chief a few words!" Li Jinyu shouted loudly. His iron voice and copper lungs when he sang "The Case of the Beauty" were naturally full of energy. Although he is old now, he almost couldn't breathe when he hit the high note that day, but that was because the rhythm of Bao Longtu's "員狠板" was too fast. . The pitch and rhythm are so fast that most people really can't sing it.
But now Li Jinyu can speak normally without difficulty at all. He can shout so that the whole village can hear him without using a microphone.
Everyone cheered loudly and applauded like thunder.
Li Xiang came on stage and put down his hands, and everyone became quiet.
Having been a man for two lives, having experienced the apocalypse, and being an extraordinary person, Li Xiang naturally did not have stage fright at this moment. He looked around at the crowd and cupped his hands: "Let me first give this to all the grandparents, uncles, aunts... and the whole village. Happy New Year to all my children, I wish you all a new year and a better future every year!”
His voice is loud enough, after all, he is an extraordinary person. His voice rumbles far away and everyone can hear it.
Applause rang out like a flood.
Li Xiang didn't come to those empty-headed inaugural speeches like "I Have a Dream". He knew that everyone was waiting for the banquet to start and they would be impatient if he talked too much, so he cut the story short and got straight to the point: "I have something. I want to discuss very important matters with you, which are related to the development of our village. I have mentioned it to Jin Yubo before, and he has no objection, but I still want to listen to everyone’s opinions.”
So, he briefly introduced the tourism company. The village acquired the land and held 10% of the shares. He invested 20 million and held 90% of the shares.
"When we make a profit, we will not make nine bowls of Dingjiu next year, but eleven bowls! If there is more, the 10% will be used to improve the village's infrastructure, such as building roads, canals, and repairing ancestral halls. ”
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The ancestral hall behind him was dilapidated and old, and the paint was almost peeling off in many places. It was time to repair it, but Li Xiang didn't want to repair it himself, because this was everyone's ancestral hall, not his family's.
If the travel company makes a profit, then the 10% has sufficient funds that can be used to do this.
"Then, we also have many other benefits, such as organizing everyone to travel every year, and distributing holiday gifts to every household during the holidays. We rural people can also enjoy the treatment of city residents! Do you guys agree?"
The villagers naturally cheered loudly. Maybe a few people thought that Li Xiang was trying to draw a cake, but in fact, most people really believed it, because with Li Xiang's great earning power, there is a high probability that it can really be realized.
Even if it can't be realized, it doesn't cost them money to try it. Li Xiang does it on his own, and the village is left with useless empty land and mountainous land that cannot grow food.
Even if it is fertile land, not many people are willing to plant it now. Everyone's source of income basically comes from working outside the home. Farming at home not only makes little money, but also often results in losses.
Seeds, pesticides, fertilizers... you don't have to spend money on any of them, and things are expensive now.
Anyway, if you don't do it, there will be no chance at all. If you let Li Xiang toss it around, there is no guarantee that there will be an 80-90% chance of it?
"Brother Xiang, we support you, go ahead and do it boldly!"
"Raise your hands if you agree!" someone shouted.
As a result, many people raised their hands, and some even raised their hands in approval.
"Then it's settled, let's start serving the food. Let's all eat and drink well!"
Following the new village chief's order, the women carried the plates and served the dishes one after another. They were all steamed vegetables. They had been steamed long ago, so they were very fast.
Li Xiang carried the wine bottle and glass and toasted from table to table. He would stay at each table for three to five minutes and chat with everyone. The village chief must understand the situation of each household and have a good relationship with everyone.
When he came back, no one at his table was using their chopsticks much, but there were still a lot of dishes left.
Li Xiang was with his grandma, third wife, Jiang Cai'er, Jiang Jianguo, and Aunt Jiang. Since the table was small and round, there were only six people seated.
Li Xiang went to other tables to drink and eat. Their table was equivalent to nine large bowls for five people, and each bowl was quite large.
"I'm actually full, third wife, how about I pack these dishes for you to take back?" Li Xiang asked.
"Okay, okay."
The third wife took out a few crumpled plastic bags from her pocket. It was obvious that she had been prepared. Naturally, everyone had no objection, and no one would laugh at her. After all, the third wife was alone, and she could still eat these leftovers for a long time.
Yesterday, her little daughter took her over to celebrate the New Year, but she only had a New Year's Eve dinner and sent her back in the evening.
Aunt Jiang, Jiang Cai'er and Li Xiang helped the third wife to pack. Jiang Cai'er saw other tables that had finished eating and everyone had left, but there were still some dishes that were not touched, so she also ran over and brought them to the third wife. superior.
In the end, the plastic bags prepared by the third wife were not enough.
"I'll go find you some big bowls and bring them back together with the big bowls," Li Xiang said.
The third wife quickly stopped and said: "No, no, it's too much and I don't have a refrigerator. It will break if kept for a long time."
Li Xiang thought about it and let it go.
Then, Li Xiang followed Li Jinyu to the village committee's office. Li Jinyu handed over the specific situation, called several people from the village committee over, and discussed with Li Xiang how much land he wanted.
Everyone sat together, and Li Xiang drew a schematic diagram for everyone on the small blackboard, including which lands and mountains they wanted.
He was a new official and he was the "big financial backer" in the village. Naturally, everyone would not refute his reputation. The discussions at the meeting were just a formality. Basically, Li Xiang took whatever he said.
"Don't be like this, it seems like I've lost my words." Li Xiang joked.
Li Jinyu laughed: "What you say means what you say. In our small village, we don't need too many opinions. If you can do it, just do it. Anyway, if you need our help, just ask!"
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