Wherever they passed, the villagers came out to greet them. They were surprisingly familiar with Huo Qianli and laughed heartily at their jokes.

Many villagers also took some things from their own houses and stuffed them into Huo Qianli's hands without saying anything, saying things like "don't be disgusted".

The three of them held the things that Huo Qianli couldn't take down, looked at each other, and felt a sense of powerlessness and envy from each other's expressions.

There are lemons on the lemon tree, and you and me under the lemon tree.

So much so that that night, the big drink that they had been looking forward to for several days did not take place. The three of them toasted each other a few glasses of wine at the dinner table out of courtesy, drank a few glasses of wine in return, and ended the dinner hastily.

The night was quiet and the three of them sat silently in their room, all of them speechless for a moment.

As the first batch of college students who responded to the government's call and passed the selection, their personal qualities are definitely good, and they have ambitions and pursuits for life and the future. It is precisely because of this that what they saw today gave them such a great sense of frustration.

What is more painful than humiliation is that others are humiliated without any intention. What is more painful than this is humiliating oneself.

They were worried about Huo Qianli, but it turned out that Huo Qianli was not someone they needed to worry about. Instead, they were the ones who should be worried about.

If it were just this, maybe it would be better, and I would have the right to be angry.

But in fact, deep down in their hearts, they still felt somewhat superior to Huo Qianli. The place they chose was better than Huo Qianli's, and their ranking in the first period was also high. Those worries were instinctively accompanied by some sympathy for the weak. But after arriving at Hushan Village, all these illusions were suddenly destroyed. It turned out that they were the real weak ones.

Xiao Yao recalled what Huo Qianli had said to him. Those words, which seemed like nonsense to him, were actually Huo Qianli's subtle reminders and directions for him.

Knock knock knock.

There was a knock on the door and Huo Qianli walked in holding a box of beer.

Behind him, Gu Haitao moved a folding table.

"Why are you still standing there? Make room!" Huo Qianli smiled, as if he had no idea how they felt at the moment. "It's hard to drink with the teacher, so let's drink alone!"

After setting the table, Gu Haitao brought a few plates of cold dishes and half a bag of salted peanuts. Everyone gathered around the small table, drinking away their worries one sip at a time.

"Actually, I've been wanting to talk to you all for a while."

After drinking for a while, Huo Qianli felt that the atmosphere was right and finally spoke.

He looked at the three people who put down their bottles and looked at him at the same time, "What I said before may not be convincing, but today I have something to say that you may listen to it more, so I will say a few more words. I drank too much at noon, and also drank a little at night and now. My mind is not clear, so I will just say whatever I said, brothers, don't mind it."

"First of all, I still say that up to now, I haven't achieved any remarkable results."

"Bullshit, Old Huo, you're being hypocritical when you say this now!" Xiao Yao was defensive at the first sentence and he started to refute.

Huo Qianli stretched out his hand and pressed it, "Really, at least the only project that has really landed is the road construction. After all, the matter of the medicinal materials cooperative has not yet produced any results."

"This morning, I went to pick you up. I was planning to send the expert away first, then slowly buy some vegetables in town, and then have lunch and wait for you. But I unexpectedly picked up the teacher and his wife, and then we came back. When we got home, we found that there was no vegetable at home. Guess what? The villagers in the village spontaneously sent it. One family brought a bundle of vegetables, another family brought a basket of eggs, one family had half a chicken for the New Year, and another family immediately rushed to get a bowl of bread."

"They are all villagers from a provincial poverty-stricken village! Every family is not rich! The teacher said at the time, "What more can you ask for?" I was moved and it once again confirmed what I was thinking."

Huo Qianli looked at the three people. "Success, progress, climbing, are these important to us? Of course they are important. If anyone says they are not important, I will spit in his face. But we can't just focus on that."

"The greatest satisfaction is that the lives of local people can be changed because of our efforts."

Xiao Yao held the wine bottle and said, "Old Huo, we know what you said. We have never done anything just for our own career."

Huo Qianli smiled and shook his head. "Brother Yao, we have called several times, Lao Zhou and Lao Yang, you also said this when we were drinking in Jincheng last time. You think they are ignorant, unreasonable, cunning and fickle. In essence, you still don't accept them, don't understand them from the root, and still act in an attitude of teaching. It's like a teacher who can't be flexible and adaptable to different students, and puts pressure on students every day to make them work hard, but in the end, he ends up being unpopular."

Xiao Yao and the other two looked at each other, obviously a little unconvinced.

"Don't believe it?"

Huo Qianli smiled and said, "I had to look up some information one weekend, so I went to town and logged into QQ. I saw the group you mentioned, and it was very lively. But did you find a problem?"

"What?"

"It's the group that's talking back and forth. There are only about a dozen of them. We have sixty of us!"

"Isn't this normal? Some people just like diving!"

"That's different. Our group is semi-working, and basically everyone is of the same age. If we have time, we can communicate with each other to enhance our relationship, which will also help our career in the future. If we are online, we should not be silent." Huo Qianli stretched out his bottle and clinked it with everyone, "I thought of a possibility."

"you say."

"Because, like me, they are all down-to-earth in their own villages, taking root, working silently, and have no time or conditions to chat online. They and I are the silent majority."

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