After chatting with Principal Zhang for more than two hours, Wang Yong and Yuanyuan felt as if they had been baptized by their souls.

Everything here only exists in memory or in TV screens and documentaries. But in this era of shouting how many trillions of US debt and foreign exchange reserves our country has, today we have become the world's second largest economy.

Here, perhaps there are other places, and so many people living in poor counties and their children are silently enduring the torture.

Some of them have seen the dawn of walking out of here, while others have no future at all. Only generations have repeated the stories of having sons, sons grazing sheep, and rebirthing sons.

As noon approached, before Principal Zhang could prepare for dinner, Sister Yao suddenly appeared and pulled Wang Yong and Yuanyuan to invite them to their home for dinner.

Unable to bear the bitter begging of Sister Yao, the two had to drive up Sister Yao to her home, Dapo Village.

After shaking along the bumpy dirt road for more than half an hour, they arrived at Dapo Village, which is only about ten miles away in Lihongtuliang Township.

This is because Wang Yong drove a Land Rover with excellent off-road performance, otherwise ordinary cars would not even think about coming in. A big pit is really a big pit, and there are still pits in the pit!

Not to mention that there are deep pits of more than 30 to 40 cm one after another on the road, just say that the road surface is not as wide as two meters and five meters. Combined with the road surface full of deep pits, ordinary cars will definitely not be able to get in the ditches.

A good car like Wang Yong has absolutely no bad driving skills. He has entered a drainage ditch of half a meter wide and more than 40 cm deep on the roadside three times. With the powerful power and four-wheel drive of Land Rover, it is useless to call people to carry the car.

When we arrived at Dapo Village, a group of idle villagers basking in the sun saw a car that magically drove into the village. Needless to say, his surprise look!

Many children who had never seen a car and ran to Sister Yao's doorstep with the car.

When the villagers saw Sister Yao get out of the car, they all made a sigh of "Wow!" sound. Wang Yong guessed that they were really sighing. How could this car pass through that road full of pits of all sizes?

The villagers now have a very superior sense of superiority for Yao and his wife, who had to leave their hometown and go to the city to work to pay off their debts.

Sister Yao was helpless when she talked about this. In the simple concept of the villagers, as long as the family does not have debts, it is nothing if there is no money.

As for going out to work? Although this place is very close to Jin Province, the birthplace of the famous Shanxi businessmen, it is obvious that the people here do not have the talent to do business. They have always adhered to the ancient saying that no matter how good it is outside, it is not home.

Except for Brother Yao and his wife who were unable to get rid of their debts in the entire village, there was only one family who had been transferred to the army and left the village and never came back.

I greeted the villagers. I said that Wang Yong and Yuanyuan met on the road and drove themselves back to see their son. Everyone in the village knew about the accident about Sister Yao's son, and many people even went to the health center to see it.

Although there were some things in the village that made Wang Yong feel that they were too ignorant, their simplicity made Wang Yong feel the enthusiasm, simplicity and hospitality of the legendary peasants.

Without Sister Yao's words, these people yelled that there were eggs in this house, that there was a pheasant in my house, that our house had a piece of meat, that there was another family, that there was another vegetable in their house.

Then everyone scattered home. After a while, Sister Yao's house was filled with all kinds of food and vegetables sent by the villagers.

Apart from about a dozen eggs, the meat was only one pheasant and a piece of fat meat that was more than two pounds wide.

As for vegetables, there are only leeks. The potatoes and onions that have been left until now last year, small eggplants and beans that look malnourished, and some wild vegetables that cannot be called names. At this time, there are not even cucumbers and tomatoes that are very common in the north.

Because he was really afraid that his wife would not be used to it, Wang Yong took out the ham sausage from the car and several boxes of lunch meat. The fermented black beans, the anchovies and canned fruits, and even if they were opened, they could serve several dishes.

Yuanyuan took out all the candy and chocolate from the car and sent it to the children who kept touching the car.

Seeing the child shyly stretching out his little black hands and falling candy pieces, he couldn't wait to put them in his mouth, and licking them bit by bit, Yuanyuan's eyes turned red, and she burst into tears.

Sister Yao called Wang Yong and Yuanyuan into the house. Because she saw Wang Yong coming in with several bottles of mineral water, she didn't even have to take the water. Even if she got it, the guests probably couldn't get used to the local muddy water, so they simply went straight into the kitchen.

Originally, Wang Yong and the others wanted to go in and help, but Sister Yao pushed them out.

How can I ask customers to help in the kitchen?

Unable to stand the stubborn Sister Yao, Wang Yong and Yuanyuan returned to the house and began to look at Sister Yao's home carefully.

Sister Yao’s family is one of the rare red brick houses in three villages. It’s just that because the child spent all his savings in his family’s study, this house with a very glamorous appearance (at least in the village) has the ground or the land.

The ground was tamped very strongly, and some potholes were filled with fine soil, which looked very flat.

This room should be the bedroom of their family of four. It is very northern style, with a fire pit on one side, and then there are several old wooden wardrobes with more than two or three meters of space.

A TV cabinet with a twenty-one-inch TV is probably the latest trendy thing, but you can tell at a glance that this thing was made by yourself. It looks rough and the shape is very rough! I have to say that the craftsmanship is very bad!

What surprised Wang Yong and Yuanyuan the most was the certificates that were covered with a wall, with at least forty or fifty copies. Judging from the names, they were all Gao Feng and Gao Long. Needless to say, this was the certificates received by Sister Yao’s two children.

This is really spectacular! It’s so pleasing to the eye! No matter who it is, I’m so stunned when I see so many certificates for the first time. Let’s sigh a few words?

Anyway, Wang Yong was shocked, and he had never received a certificate since he was a child.

When I was in elementary school, the school was short of funds and the land was remote, so I would not issue any certificates.

After junior high school, it was because of Wang Yong's naughty and playfulness. The certificate was insulated from him and he had absolutely no share.

So for those who can go home with one or two certificates at the end of the period, Wang Yong is not only envious, but only jealousy and hatred!

How could Wang Yong not be amazed if he hadn't got a single piece of stuff, there was a wall covered here!

It took about two hours to sit in the room before Sister Yao started serving dishes with the bowl.

It is definitely a specialty dish for farmers. Apart from the steamed meat and potato stewed chicken nuggets, the others are obviously clear soup and water-free.

The rural people here save a lot of oil. Although they are not like the stingy landlords in crosstalk, they still have one and a half pounds of oil a year, but they are definitely a saving that people in the city would never have imagined.

The oil that people eat here is made of pork fat, but very few of them can be eaten. Because it costs money to buy it and cannot be made by yourself. Meat oil comes from the New Year pig raised by your own home. When you kill it at the end of the year, almost all the fat meat will be used to make lard.

The whole villager and Wang Yong gathered together a table of dishes, which looked quite sumptuous. Because Sister Yao’s man was not at home, Sister Yao invited the village secretary and village chief, and a brother from the family to come and drink with Wang Yong.

The wine was made by Wang Yong's Erguotou aged wine, which made the three masters applaud and frequently raised their glasses to toast Wang Yong. Before Wang Yong could do anything, the three of them lay down two.

In the end, only the secretary who was probably the test of "alcohol" was left to accompany Wang Yong to drink a sip of wine, and then talked about the hardships of the village and sighed that the villagers' lives were not easy.

According to statistics, the per capita income of their village this year is only more than 500. Almost half of the village last year relied on state relief funds and relief food, otherwise not many of these people would survive.

"Our country is now the second largest economy in the world, and the GDP of that year was a lot of trillions of dollars. Instead of buying this and that country's national debts are cheaper than foreigners, it is better to directly alleviate poverty!"

Wang Yong saw a news last night that said that our country bought US government bonds of up to 1.3 million yuan. So much money has been in vain and Americans have to give it a bluntly, but to put it bluntly, their national strength is not strong and they are threatened by American devils everywhere.

For example, during the financial crisis, almost all Asia except China were robbed by the American guys who were playing financial speculation.

Why can China withstand it? That is because China has a large amount of US dollar foreign exchange reserves and treasury bonds. It can have enough funds to hedge against those guys, and even destroy their opponents.

But because of this, a large amount of funds are spent on this aspect. If the country is truly as powerful as the United States, it will not have to reserve a large amount of foreign exchange, foreign national bonds and other bonds in this way. So it has been more than ten years since the 21st century, and the country still lives in such a poor place.

"Hey! After all, we are not capable! After so many years, it seems that we don't have to eat relief food for a few years. As we eat, these people are addicted to eating. They are idle all day long, and they are just going to work in the fields and wander around the village."

The secretary's words made Wang Yong feel moved. This person is quite knowledgeable and thoughtful! He must have seen some worldly things, otherwise he would not be able to say this.

"It seems you've been outside before?"

"Well, I joined the army in 1980s, and went to southern Xinjiang in 1981. I fought with the Vietnamese Japanese devils. In 2019, I returned to my hometown and became the village chief. Then I became the secretary, and finally became the secretary and the village chief.

"Hey, the more you are in a place like our village, the more you should go out and go out, and see the flower world outside."

Is the world of flowers? The secretary looked up at the window, his eyes deep, as if he had crossed the mountains, rivers and plains, and came to the world of flowers that did not belong to him in his memory. (To be continued...)
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