Chapter 60 Chapter 60 It was all an accident, and had nothing to do with him...
After finishing the wedding banquet, Shen Miao almost flew back home.
Regarding the demolition, the aunt just mentioned it casually. Shen Miao was not particularly familiar with her, so she didn’t dare to ask directly. She had to ask indirectly before she heard her say that not only Qinghe Village, but also several villages on the east side of the city would be demolished.
Besides her, several other aunts and uncles also said the same thing, but when asked in detail, they couldn't clearly explain where they heard it from. Further asking also got no clue, so it would be better to ask my father directly.
He is the chief of Qinghe Village. If the village is to be demolished, he will definitely know about it.
"Dad! Is our family going to get rich?!"
Shen Miao's words when she entered the room directly confused Shen Wanshan.
Perhaps realizing that he had skipped too much information, Shen Miao changed the topic and said, “Dad, is our village going to be demolished?”
Shen Wanshan still couldn't help it, and almost spit out the saliva in his mouth, "You, who told you that?"
He did not deny it outright, but asked a rhetorical question.
So, is this really the case?!
Sitting close to Shen Wanshan, Shen Miao lowered her voice and asked quietly: "Really? Is our village really going to be demolished?"
"Don't talk nonsense. It's nonsense."
Shen Miao didn’t believe it.
It is said that a daughter is a father's little cotton-padded jacket, but Shen Miao is different. She is the piece of protective flesh on Shen Shansheng's chest.
She knew exactly how his heart beat and how it beat. In this family, besides his mother Wang Dongmei, Shen Miao was the one who knew Shen Wanshan's mind best.
If it was really nothing, he would definitely not react like this.
Seeing that he couldn't hide it from her eyes, Shen Shansheng had to confess to her honestly, "I really don't need you. It's not decided yet whether to demolish it or not. I just took a look at it."
Two months ago, a meeting was held in Yu City, and all the village heads from both the urban villages and the villages on the outskirts of the city attended.
The main content of the meeting was still around the development of each village. Which villages need to work harder, which villages are the leaders in promoting modernization, and which villages need help from the city are all the key points they want to discuss.
The meeting lasted for three days in total, and it was not until the third day that the issue that each village was most concerned about was discussed: demolition and reconstruction.
The first batch of villages to be renovated have been basically finalized. They are several urban villages with large areas and relatively good geographical locations: Limiao, Chenzhai, Nanguan Village, Mojiazhuang...
The renovation is not wholly funded by the government, but is carried out in cooperation with more powerful groups or companies, and finally the renovation is carried out jointly according to the plan, so the compensation for the villagers will be divided into three parts: compensation, transition fee, and resettlement housing.
The compensation and relocation housing are paid by the group or company, and the specific amount and area need to be measured and negotiated; the transition fee is paid by the government, which is basically calculated based on the population of each household, which is relatively convenient.
The reason why the renovation plan has been discussed for several years is mainly because no real estate group with sufficient funds has been found. Now, taking advantage of Hong Kong's return, this opportunity has been noticed by some real estate groups with joint ventures between the two places.
The day when the transformation was discussed was the most infuriating. There were more than 300 urban villages and villages on the outskirts of the city in Henan City, but only ten of them were accepted for transformation in the first batch.
Listening to the representatives from the collective standing on the stage and talking about future construction plans with the villages that are to be demolished, isn't it bound to make those who are not to be demolished jealous?
After the meeting was over, the person in charge of organizing the drawings seemed to have lost one, so several people from the Planning Bureau stayed in the conference room and opened the drawings one by one to look for it.
Chen Shansheng and several other village chiefs left late. When passing by them, he accidentally glanced at the map of Yu City and found that many villages near the east and several villages in the southeast were marked with many green crosses.
When discussing demolition and reconstruction, they saw similar annotations on the projection:
The blue marks represent the group's land, the residential buildings are blue squares, the commercial areas are blue triangles, and there are blue crosses that represent areas waiting to be further refined.
Green represents government land, such as the construction sites of some government agencies.
So the green cross means that the government will plan to use this land in the future, but the specific use has not yet been planned.
Rounding off, this means that these villages will be demolished, and the land will be used by the government after the demolition...
Because it was only a quick glimpse and it was not shown on the projector during the meeting, the village heads who saw it were not sure whether it was true or not.
After discussion, they decided to pretend to be ignorant so as not to create a false hope for the villagers. If by then every household only wanted to be a demolished household, eat and wait for death, wouldn't it be their fault?
Chen Shansheng did it, and he kept his mouth shut so tightly that he didn't even tell his own family members. But someone's mouth was looser than his belt, and he actually let the secret out.
Although this matter has not spread widely and most people regard it as a groundless rumor, there are always people who believe it unwaveringly and then dream of giving out money and houses.
Qinghe Village was fine. The villagers all believed in Chen Shansheng's character. As long as he didn't mention it himself, it didn't happen. Occasionally, when there were rumors that the village was going to be demolished, everyone treated it as a joke. Even when they asked him about it, he would say it was a rumor.
The village chiefs of several nearby villages were on good terms with Shen Shansheng, and the villages were closely connected, so they did not make the matter public.
The news happened to be spread most widely in a few villages with less favorable conditions, so everyone had a rough idea of who was not keeping their mouth shut.
Alas, what a pity!
If Shen Miao hadn’t heard this rumor and hadn’t sniffed out something, Shen Shansheng felt that he could have kept it a secret from her for a few more months.
"Don't go out and talk nonsense."
After explaining the whole story to Shen Miao, Shen Shansheng repeatedly told her, “Several urban villages haven’t made any moves yet. I estimate that even if we want to demolish our village, we’ll have to wait at least four or five years until it’s our turn. It’s better to delay it by one day. Do you hear me?”
How does that sentence go?
Things are accomplished through secrecy, and are ruined through disclosure.
Even if Qinghe Village is really going to be demolished, it is best not to tell everyone about it before it is completely confirmed. Who knows if there will be any unexpected changes?
For example, there were originally twelve villages on the first batch of renovation list this time. However, two villages were removed from the list because their area was relatively small and the renovation was not cost-effective.
Therefore, before the words "Qinghe Village" were officially written on the renovation list, everything was unknown...
I don’t know if it’s Shen Miao’s psychological effect, but ever since I heard Shen Shansheng talk about the demolition, I always feel that there are many more people and things related to the demolition around me.
So-and-so is from the first batch of villages to be reformed, and he is very arrogant.
So-and-so is getting a divorce recently, and says that they should be given a few more square meters since they have two households registered.
So-and-so's family had a fight over a piece of land. Even the brothers were bleeding!
Shen Miao did not dare to respond after hearing these words. It was the first time that she was able to keep her mouth shut so tightly. The feeling of knowing the truth but not being able to speak it almost suffocated her to death.
Thump thump thump.
After dinner that night, Shen Miao heard someone knocking on the door, so she got up and opened it.
Seeing that the person who came was the village chief of Qingping Village, Lv Guosheng, Shen Miao suddenly thought of the matter of demolition.
He was also the one who had seen the blueprint, and Qingping Village was one of the villages marked with a green cross. In addition, he rarely came to see Shen Shansheng, so Shen Miao almost couldn't help but ask him "Is there any news about the demolition?"
"Lao Lu, why are you here at this time? Have you eaten?"
"I've eaten. I'm thinking about the party class tomorrow, so I came to borrow your notes in advance."
"Then come in and talk. We haven't seen each other for a long time. Let's have a drink."
“Yes.”
Tomorrow they will go to the city together to attend party classes. Lu Guosheng came to find Chen Shansheng to give him extra lessons.
It is an honor to be a Party member, but not every village chief has joined the Party.
Chen Shansheng had joined the party a long time ago, and going to the city was a compulsory course for party members, but Lu Guosheng was different. He was still a probationary party member, and this time he went to the city to take an exam.
Chen Shansheng has always been an outstanding Party member. In order to successfully become a full member, Lu Guosheng wanted to come to him for a review before the exam and ask him to work harder.
It was almost nine o'clock when someone suddenly knocked on the door again.
Thump, thump, thump…
It sounded quite anxious, Shen Miao thought someone was unwell, but when she ran to open the door, she saw a strange face.
"Who are you looking for?"
The man wiped the sweat from his head, and the smile on his face was a little uncomfortable. "I went to Village Chief Lu's house to look for him. His family said he was here?"
"Well, I'm studying with my dad in the room. Come in first."
Bringing the man into the house, Wang Dongmei, who was watching TV, turned her head and looked at him. A hint of imperceptible disgust flashed in her eyes.
“Here I come.”
Wang Dongmei's tone was indifferent, unlike the way she usually greeted others.
"Well," the man seemed to realize that he was unwelcome, so he lowered his head slightly, "I came to talk to Lao Lu about something."
Out of politeness, Wang Dongmei did not embarrass him on the spot: "The two brothers are reading and drinking upstairs, you go over."
"middle."
Taking him to the room upstairs, when they saw the man, Lu Guosheng and Shen Shansheng both had embarrassed expressions, but the drooping corners of Lu Guosheng's mouth showed more disgust than Shen Shansheng's.
Hmm? Why does it feel a little off?
"How did you find yourself here?"
"Yeah, it's the same thing as last time."
"Let's talk about it when I get back. It's so late, I can't do it."
"No hurry, I'm just worried that you'll be leaving too early tomorrow and won't be able to make it, so I wanted to give it to you first."
The elders were talking, so Shen Miao couldn’t stay here any longer, so she closed the door and went downstairs.
"Mom, mom!"
Quickly running to Wang Dongmei, Shen Miao, who smelled the melon, asked excitedly and curiously: “Who is this person?”
Since the man was not around, Wang Dongmei didn't have to keep a good face anymore, so she threw the melon seed shells into the trash can and said unhappily, "Who else could it be? That Wei Dongqiang."
Wei Dongqiang?
When hearing this name, Shen Miao’s expression also darkened.
No wonder, no wonder Wang Dongmei was so cold when she saw him, and Chen Shansheng and Lu Guoqiang also looked at him with contempt. It turned out that he was Wei Dongqiang, the Wei Dongqiang who abandoned his wife and daughter and wanted to eat up the whole family.
When Shen Miao was a child, she would hear the aunts and uncles in the village mention this name from time to time. Although she had never seen it in person, she heard it as an old acquaintance.
Wei Dongqiang is simply the modern-day Chen Shimei!
Wei Dongqiang is not from Yu City, but from a small place in the southwest of Henan Province. He "married into" Qingping Village.
At first, he just went to Qingping Village to teach and earn some money to support himself, but he was noticed by Lu Chunhua, the daughter of the village secretary at that time.
Lu Chunhua is not particularly pretty and has a carefree personality. In addition, she is divorced and has a daughter. Even if her family is well-off, no man is willing to be her stepfather.
But Wei Dongqiang is an exception.
He was very good to Lu Chunhua. He would go to the city to buy her favorite food, help her with farm work, and take her daughter to catch fireflies at night... Perhaps it was because of this concern that Lu Chunhua insisted on marrying him. Even though the old man was so angry that he fainted several times, she refused to change her mind.
The stalemate lasted for several months. Finally, Wei Dongqiang knelt at the door of the Lu family for three days and two nights to beg the old man for a favor. He almost lost his life. Only then did Old Man Lu soften his heart and choose to back down.
He was reluctant to let his daughter suffer in that poor village, so he wanted Wei Dongqiang to marry into his family's family, and the first son would be given the surname Lu, so that the subsequent children could continue to have the surname Wei.
Wei Dongqiang agreed.
After marrying into the Lu family, Wei Dongqiang treated Lu Chunhua and her daughter even better. Everyone said that Lu Chunhua was lucky to have met a man who loved her.
But this happiness did not last...
In the third year after their marriage, the old couple of the Lu family died of illness one after another, leaving only their daughter, Lu Chunhua.
There was no male heir in their lineage. Even Lu Chunhua was born when the old couple were in their thirties. So they just hoped that she would be able to bear a son as soon as possible to carry on the family line.
After Mr. Lu passed away, the position of village chief was taken over by other members of the Lu family, but the old couple did not leave nothing for Lu Chunhua and her daughter.
Four acres and three points of land, a two-story building, and more than 2,000 yuan in savings in the passbook...all were inherited by Lu Chunhua alone.
With so much property, they can live well even without the position of village chief.
Just half a year after Mr. Lu passed away, Lu Chunhua became pregnant. At that time, Shen Wanshan was specially invited to diagnose her pulse, and after feeling it several times, he said it was a boy.
But when she was eight months pregnant, she accidentally fell down the stairs. When she was sent to the clinic, both the child and the adult could not be saved.
Why did you fall from the building?
Later I found out that I didn't see clearly when I went downstairs and stepped on my daughter's toy.
Lu Yan was only six years old at the time, and losing her mother was already painful. How could anyone bear to blame her for the mistake? They did not pursue the matter further, and only hoped that Wei Dongqiang could take good care of the only blood of their family.
As if it weren’t bad enough, half a year later, the Lu family’s only child, Lu Yan, was also abducted by human traffickers…
It was the busy farming season, and all able-bodied people in every household were working in the fields, leaving only children and the elderly in the village.
I heard that a man selling daily necessities came to the village that day and went door to door to sell his products. A few children saw him standing at the door of the Lu family and playing with little Lu Yan for a long time. He even gave her a piece of malt candy to eat. Later, Lu Yan disappeared.
The old couple died of serious illness due to poor health;
The death of Lu Chunhua and two others was an accident caused by her daughter;
Lu Yan was abducted by human traffickers because she met a black-hearted and evil man.
None of these things had anything to do with Wei Dongqiang, but these accidents did happen after he married into the Lu family.
The Lu family was considered to be "extinct", and all the Lu family's houses, land and savings went into Wei Dongqiang's pocket.
If he had not acted like a demon and continued to live an honest life, the people in Qingping Village would not have said anything. However, less than three months after Lu Yan was abducted, he married a woman from another place with a child.
It is also in the southwest of Henan Province, only a few dozen miles away from his hometown village. How could such a coincidence happen?
And that five or six-year-old boy actually looked very similar to Wei Dongqiang...
It was after seeing this child that the villagers of Qingping Village realized that the Lu family had let a wolf into their home.
But what else could they do? It was too late to drive him away. There was no evidence. The relatives of the Lu family could only watch this outsider and another outsider living happily in the Lu family's house.
Twenty years passed in a flash, and no accidents happened in their family again.
After years of careful management, Wei Dongqiang made a lot of money and transformed the original two-story building into a four- or five-story stand-alone building. His adopted son also worked hard and was admitted to a university in the city. After graduating last year, he was assigned a good job. I heard that he has a girlfriend and will get married in the next two years... However, only the older generation remember that all his achievements were gained with the Lu family's fortune.
Because of what happened to the Lu family, no one in the nearby villages liked Wei Dongqiang and his family. Even if they had never met him, they would feel that his name was unlucky.
It was because Shen Shansheng was a village official and had to save face, otherwise if he came to look for someone, Wang Dongmei would not allow Shen Miao to prescribe for him.
"Mom, you said they are from the same village, why don't they come to our house during the day? Why do they have to come to our place in the middle of the night to look for someone?"
Wang Dongmei patted the dust off her clothes and said, "Whatever. It's none of our business anyway. If we don't ask, then we don't have to help."
Shen Miao watched TV with Wang Dongmei, and paid attention to the movements upstairs. After about ten minutes, she heard their voices getting higher and higher and their tone getting more and more urgent.
"You #￥%! Have you got it? #￥%"
"Heaven and earth #￥%...you #￥%...me!"
"If you don't do @#￥% you will be punished￥#%..."
“#@￥%…Why?￥%%￥@Why bother?!”
Separated by a floor and a door, Shen Miao couldn't hear clearly what they were arguing about. A few minutes later, Wei Dongqiang came down from upstairs angrily, without saying hello, and left with the documents in his hand.
Wang Dongmei was too lazy to pay attention to him, and waited for a long time after he left before letting Shen Miao go out and close the courtyard door.
Thinking that they had been drinking upstairs for quite some time, after Shen Wanshan came out of the room, he asked Shen Miao to make some sobering medicinal tea.
As soon as Shen Miao put the medicinal materials such as red beans, hay and tangerine peel into the casserole, Shen Shansheng and Lu Guosheng came down from the stairs with red faces.
The two of them drank about one pound of wine in total, so they weren't drunk. The reason they were red in the face was because they were pissed off by that bastard Wei Dongqiang.
"Want to add your household registration? Impossible! Just dream on!" Even though Wei Dongqiang had been gone for a long time, Lu Guosheng still called him a coward.
"Sue me? Go ahead! Why would I be afraid of him?!"
Patting him on the back, Shen Shansheng didn't know how to persuade him to calm down, so he could only follow his words and say: "The rules are there, it's useless to sue, we have our own rules, he can't break them even if we go to court."
Wang Dongmei poured them a cup of tea and asked them to sit down and calm down before the hangover medicine was ready.
"You want to move your household registration here again?"
"Well," Lu Guosheng exhaled heavily, "This time he used some kind of evidence from some bureau to pressure me. Would I be afraid of him? Even if I nodded, so many people in my village would not agree."
Change household registration?
This time, Shen Miao didn’t need to ask. Just by hearing the purpose of Wei Dongqiang’s coming, she understood what was going on:
He must have known that Qingping Village was also on the list of villages to be demolished, so he wanted to write the names of his current wife and children into Qingping Village.
In addition to compensation based on the land and area, demolition also involves compensation based on the number of people. The more people in a family, the more compensation and area they will receive.
He didn't mention moving the household registration earlier or later, but just recently. Anyone can guess what he is planning.
Fortunately, changing your household registration is not something that can be done just by saying a few words.
The country has its own laws, the family has its own rules, and the village has its own rules.
The rules in the villages near Yu City are the same: newborns are automatically added to the collective household registration every year, and you can also apply to move your household registration out, but if you want to add any name, you have to wait until the village counts the changes in personnel in each household.
Unlike the national census, the interval for village statistics is thirty years.
The village was considered a collective, and every villager had a "share", and rice, flour, oil or money would be distributed to the villagers during festivals every year. There were thousands of people in each village, and it was too troublesome to increase or decrease a few people every now and then, so the time was set at 30 years.
It is precisely because of this rule that it is often the case that even after an elderly person in the family has passed away for several years, their children can continue to receive dividends. Only when the statistics are counted again will the name of the deceased be crossed out.
The last statistics was in 1970, and there are still three years before the next statistics.
The reason why Wei Dongqiang was so anxious was that his household registration had not been moved to Qingping Village that year. The money and things he received every year in recent years were all from the old couple of the Lu family and Lu Chunhua's mother and daughter. If the house was really demolished and distributed, in addition to his existing property, he could only get space for four more people.
If I could add my name, my wife and son's name now, then it would be an area for seven people; but if I wait until the next census, the names of the four members of the Lu family would be erased. Even if my family meets the conditions for relocation, in the end we can only get an area for three people.
So after careful consideration, it is the most profitable to add my name now.
Lu Guosheng: "He still has the nerve to bring up his marriage certificate with Chunhua? If he really wanted to spend his whole life with her, why didn't he just slit his throat and die!"
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