Chapter 257 [The main text has been completed]
Including the teachers, students and people from the Provincial Song and Dance Troupe who were invited by the Wucheng County Government to sing and perform, none of them had expected that although the stage in Wucheng was not big, the audience was surprisingly large. Looking down from the stage, it was a sea of black, and there were at least tens of thousands of people. Such a grand scene with so many audiences was rarely experienced by people from the Provincial Song and Dance Troupe, even the teachers from art schools, not to mention the Cheetah Band, which had only performed twice in their own school and in bars since the band was founded.
But this group of young people are all crowd-pleasers. The more people there are, the more excited they are and the crazier they sing.
The teachers from the art school in front sang folk songs as soon as they opened their mouths. Their voices were beautiful and sounded like nature's music. The students performed well too. They were all selected as the top ten singers on campus by their respective schools. It was the first time for them to meet such a large audience and they were very excited. They basically sang "Qinghai-Tibet Plateau", "Mother in Candlelight" and "Shy Rose Blooms Quietly". Such dances and songs were nice to listen to, but there were too many people in the audience and it was difficult to see clearly from a distance, so it was easy to get distracted. Then it was the turn of the Cheetah Band.
The song sung by the Cheetah Band was rock and roll, an original work written by He Qiaosheng, a song he wrote when he was in No. 4 Middle School. It was full of passion from the start.
Wucheng residents who were used to square dance disco every night now liked this kind of powerful rock music. They sang lively and listened to the roar of the main audience above. Tens of thousands of people danced again on the big lawn. He Qiaosheng and his friends sang two songs in a row, and then their little girl sang a very popular song "Mei Fei Se Wu" directly. The atmosphere on the scene was very high.
It can be said that the International Dragon Boat Cultural Festival in Wucheng was very successful. Wucheng became popular overnight, more tourists came, the local economy was boosted, and the people had more ways to make money.
Producer Li listened on the phone as the photographers and reporters he had sent reported to him about the situation in Wucheng. Although he had not seen such a grand occasion, he knew how successfully Wucheng had developed through the descriptions of the reporters. He would certainly not suppress such a credit.
The reporters and photographers all flew back. On the third day of the Dragon Boat Festival, news about the first Wucheng International Dragon Boat Cultural Festival appeared on the CCTV News Channel. Due to Producer Li's current relationship, the report on the Wucheng International Dragon Boat Cultural Festival alone was a full thirty seconds long. The screen switching included the appearance of the county party committee leadership team headed by Secretary Song, the bustling and prosperous scene of Wucheng, the dragon boat race and awards, and the lively scene of tens of thousands of people dancing together on the stage at night when the Cheetah Band sang passionately. Among them, the scene of the Cheetah Band singing on the stage and the people dancing below was given a full ten seconds of footage.
This also shows that the photographer really loves the Cheetah band.
The reason why this news was exposed on the news channel for such a long time is, first of all, of course, because of producer Li. Secondly, the people in the news team also know what kind of news the people above want the people below to watch on such a holiday. In addition to various national affairs, policies, and how difficult life is for people abroad, they also want to show the people how happy life is for people at home. They want to show the people that the country is peaceful and the people are prosperous.
Is there anything that can better demonstrate the spirit of the Chinese people's happy and healthy life and the peace and prosperity of the country than the news of the Wucheng Dragon Boat Cultural Festival?
This news was not only broadcast in the morning, but also in the evening. Even a news station in Taiwan Province broadcast it.
Although it is not CCTV-1, it is still a CCTV channel. All the channels of CCTV had huge traffic and ratings in the early 2000s. The prosperity of Wucheng made Wucheng famous all of a sudden, and also made the Cheetah Band, a small and unknown band that had been ignored in the past, become popular overnight.
CCTV News Channel even broadcast the Wucheng Dragon Boat Cultural Festival. How could the provincial news channel not broadcast such an economically prosperous county in the province?
The provincial news station not only broadcast it, but took longer than CCTV News Station, spending a full minute, in the morning and evening "News 60 Minutes", reporting the lively scene of the dragon boat race of the Wucheng Dragon Boat Cultural Festival, and also included Wugong Mountain, the famous attraction "Endless Green Lotus Leaves Connecting the Sky" that appeared in "The Legend of White Snake", and the excited expressions of the tourists while rafting and surfing.
Due to the three-day Dragon Boat Festival holiday, all the traffic was attracted to Wucheng. Only on the last day, the tourists who had played in Wucheng for two days and the dragon boat race had ended went to Yaoba Town, Shuibu Town, Linhe Brigade and Wugong Mountain to play. The main winner of this Dragon Boat Festival was still Wucheng.
But after the provincial TV station reported this, many wealthy and free people learned that the Wugong Mountain and the lotus flowers below Wucheng had already budded and that it was time to go and play.
So after the three-day Dragon Boat Festival holiday, although many tourists have gone back to work, the bustle of Wucheng has not faded at all. This time, not only Wucheng has traffic, but more tourists are rushing to Wugong Mountain, Linhe Brigade, and Yaoba Town. These three places have been highlighted by CCTV and have been on TV. They are also must-visit places for tourists when they come to Wucheng. If anyone who comes to Wucheng does not go to the river beach of Linhe Brigade to check in and take pictures of the endless lotus flowers, it would be like not having come to Wucheng.
On the other side, Jiang Guotai was also in Guangshi, and at the invitation of Li Ang, he was also watching the dragon boat race in Guangshi.
The custom of dragon boat racing in Guangshi is much older than that in Wucheng. It started in 1985 and this is the 15th time. Every year during the Dragon Boat Festival, there will be a dragon boat racing event among the villages and towns in Guangshi.
But the common people and officials in Guangshi never expected that the limelight of the dragon boat race would not belong to their Guangshi, but to an unknown small county in the south. They were a little dissatisfied for a while.
After the dragon boat race ended, the local tycoons discussed and decided that the name of their own dragon boat race was not big enough or loud enough.
Look at them, they also have a dragon boat race, but they named theirs the 'International Dragon Boat Cultural Festival'!
Is there a Bird International in that small county whose name no one has ever heard of? Are their cities as international as theirs? Because the Tea Expo will be held in a few days, Guangzhou is now gathering Chinese and overseas Chinese and international friends from more than a dozen countries as well as Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan. This is the International Dragon Boat Cultural Festival!
But there was no point in them getting angry, so they all gathered together to discuss how to organize next year's dragon boat race.
Jiang Guotai had been hanging around in the hotel in Guangzhou for a few days and had a few meals there before he had infiltrated this group of tea merchants from all over the country. He received many business cards from them and also sent out many business cards.
Some of these tea merchants are pure tea merchants who only do tea business, but there are also a large number of them, like him, with many industries under their names, including real estate. When they heard that Jiang Guotai actually had three large sand factories in his hands, they looked at Jiang Guotai in a completely different way. This was nothing in Guangzhou, but in his own place, he was definitely a big local tyrant.
And it is the source sand factory!
Not to mention, the tea that Jiang Guotai brought this time was actually the "Wugong Tea" which has been very popular recently and was even promoted on CCTV. Who among these tea merchants doesn't know the name of "Wugong Tea"? After all, for these people, they always pay attention to the movements of people above, and the wind direction above is extremely important to them.
There are also people who are not in the real estate business but have channels in this area and would like to make money from it. Jiang Guotai simply proposed that they form a chamber of commerce together to pool and integrate everyone's resources.
So many influential tea merchants and businessmen from all over the country gathered together. This is also a resource for them. Don’t they want to integrate the resources together? Of course it is necessary!
Moreover, among businessmen, almost all of them are good at speaking and can brag so much that it can scare people to death. They are all social bigwigs.
With Jiang Guotai's proposal, who would disagree? They all left their phone numbers and added each other as friends. Some of them had the same personality as Jiang Guotai and loved to take on responsibilities, so they were particularly active in promoting this matter.
Within a few days, Jiang Guotai became so familiar with these people that they were like sworn brothers, and they started to call each other brothers whenever they met.
After making some connections here, Li Ang finally found some time to personally receive Jiang Guotai on the Dragon Boat Festival.
Li Ang was very busy that day. As the head of the Cultural and Creative Office of the Propaganda Department, not only does tea belong to the cultural industry, but dragon boat racing also belongs to the cultural industry. Of course, he had to take tea merchants and tourists from all over the world to watch the dragon boat race held in Guangzhou.
He called Jiang Guotai as well.
Jiang Guotai is one of the rare domestic tea merchants around Li Ang who is not Chinese, overseas Chinese or international friends. In fact, this is creating conditions for Jiang Guotai.
Of course, he was just giving Jiang Guotai an opportunity. Whether he could seize this opportunity was not Li Ang's business. He was already helping Jiang Guotai by bringing Jiang Guotai to his side today for Jiang Ning's sake.
Jiang Guotai felt that Jiang Ning was really his lucky star.
Originally, he thought he was completely clueless in Guangzhou City and didn't know anyone there, but he didn't expect Jiang Ning to give him such a big surprise.
That’s fine, the key point is that Jiang Ning also sent him Lou Chengyu.
If there was no translator Lou Chengyu who had studied abroad, even if he was brought by Li Ang and got to know foreign tea merchants and overseas Chinese tea merchants, it would be useless if he didn't know English. Although his daughter Jiang Miao could speak some English, her level was completely incomparable to Lou Chengyu who had spent several years abroad.
If Jiang Ning had not specially found such a designer from Shanghai to design a house for her, and if he had not thought that Jiang Ning's house was well designed, he would have simply handed over the design of Jiang Miao and Jiang Yanyan's houses to Designer Lou, then Designer Lou would not have stayed in Jiangjia Village for so long and might have returned to Shanghai long ago. He would not have made this trip to Guangzhou and would not have been able to seize this opportunity so smoothly.
So Jiang Guotai felt that Jiang Ning was really a lucky star.
Several other tea merchants who were also brought by Li Ang did not even think of bringing an interpreter with them, so they watched Jiang Guotai throughout the whole process, and he really lived up to his social gangster nature, feeling at ease among the crowd, with a sincere, honest yet exquisite smile. The Tea Expo hasn't even officially started yet, but he has almost secured several orders for himself, and these people all said that after the dragon boat race is over, they can make an appointment to have tea alone.
What tea to drink? Of course, it’s the Wugong tea brought by Jiang Guotai.
On the day of the Tea Expo, he designed his booth and repeatedly played the video of "Wugong Tea" on CCTV on two TVs in the booth. This was more intuitive and authoritative than other teas bragging about their own superiority. As a result, he signed many domestic orders, even for wolfberries soaked in thermos cups.
The purpose of Jiang Guotai's trip to Guangzhou was basically achieved. Not only did he successfully sign contracts with tea merchants from foreign countries and Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan in advance, but the problem of the sand factory was also largely resolved.
He had originally planned to go to Shenzhen, but now he doesn't have to go and returned home with a full load.
Before leaving, he certainly couldn't forget Li Ang and Wang Yong. Because he didn't know Li Ang's preferences, he didn't dare to give Li Ang a gift that was too valuable, so he gave him "local specialties", wild Adenophora radix, southern ginseng, tea, etc.
Li Ang actually has no shortage of these things, nor does he lack money. In the 1980s, he was the one who had tens of millions of funds on the financial books of "Wuxia" magazine, not to mention that the money earned by "Wuxia" magazine now exceeds 10 billion.
But he was still happy that Jiang Guotai was polite, at least this man did not take his help for granted.
Before Jiang Guotai left Guangshi, he called Jiang Ning and told her about his gains from this trip and the help that Director Li had given him in Guangshi.
As soon as Jiang Guotai hung up the phone, Jiang Ning called Li Ang, and it was Li's private number. During the call, Jiang Ning called him uncle and asked when he would come to Beijing, and asked Li to give her a chance to treat him to a meal.
Jiang Ning actually didn't say anything on the phone. She didn't say that she had a master, nor did she say what she would do for Li Ang. She just expressed her gratitude.
But Li Ang could feel the sincerity in the girl's attitude.
More importantly, Wucheng was on CCTV again during the Dragon Boat Festival Dragon Boat Race, and Li Ang also saw it.
If CCTV had not gone to the countryside to promote Wugong Mountain Wugong Tea, he might have thought that this was something the leaders of Wucheng County did themselves. But with the promotion of Wugong Tea, and Jiang Ning herself being in Beijing, Li Ang knew that this matter was inseparable from Jiang Ning. He just didn't know what the relationship behind her was.
But this is not important. Director Li just needs to know that she still has such connections in the capital.
It was easy for Li Ang to guess. Although he had never seen Jiang Ning in person, he had her ID photo. Even though ID photos were severely distorted and blurry in that era, it was still possible to tell from the neat and pretty face of the girl in the photo that she definitely had a good appearance.
He had heard Wang Yong say this more than once. After all, he had once thought of creating a "beautiful writer" persona for Jiang Ning.
Jiang Ning was a little girl from a remote mountain village in the south, and was admitted to Beijing University, which was full of talented people. He thought that Jiang Ning had found a partner for him with a powerful background.
There is nothing wrong with this. On the contrary, if Jiang Ning can marry into a famous family in Beijing and gain a foothold, Li Ang will have nothing but admiration for her. This is not something that ordinary people can do.
For many young people, the essence of marriage is a combination of love. But for someone of Li Ang's age who works in the system and has seen all kinds of situations, sometimes the essence of marriage is an exchange of interests. It all depends on whether you are an idealist or a realist.
There are many stories of Cinderella marrying into wealthy families in novels, but Li Ang knows better than anyone how difficult it is for girls to cross class boundaries through marriage in reality. Even if girls are lucky and meet a love-minded silly boy, if you are not capable enough, the other party's family may not be love-minded.
However, Li Ang did not think too much about this matter. He would help Jiang Ning, but what was more important was Jiang Ning herself and her influence and help on "Wuxia" over the years. He had devoted half of his life to founding the "Wuxia" magazine. When he was about to retire, he could be promoted to the city. He would be satisfied if he could retire in the city in the future.
It's the college entrance examination season again.
This year, Jiang Weiwei from Jiangjia Village finally took the college entrance examination.
Although she was the only girl taking the college entrance examination, there were many girls taking the junior high school entrance examination, even more than the boys in the village. Among this generation of young girls, there are no longer any who go to work in a factory after graduating from elementary school or junior high school.
These girls have their own tea fields. This year, there are so many tourists in the entire Linhe Brigade, so business is naturally very good. Not to mention making 80,000 or 100,000 yuan, it should be no problem for each household to have an average income of 20,000 yuan. This is especially true for those who raise crayfish and crabs in the paddy fields adjacent to the river beach. Starting from May, the income from selling crayfish every day alone can earn them at least 50,000 to 100,000 yuan a year.
This year's tea trees, except for the newly planted tea trees in the first and fourth rooms, have been planted for more than two years, and the tea leaves have grown more this year.
Except for the first year when most of the Mingqian tea was given away by Jiang Guotai as gifts, although a lot of it was given away this year, most of it came from Jiang Guotai's own tea mountains and Jiang Ning and Jiang Guoding's own tea fields, and no one else in the village was used. Therefore, every household has an income of at least 10,000 or 20,000 yuan from this year's Mingqian tea alone, not to mention the post-Qingming tea that is still being picked.
Originally, the sales volume of local tea was only enough to supply the tea that had already been planted by the tea farmers. Jiang Guotai's own two hills in Wugong Mountain were not included. However, at a tea expo, Jiang Guotai not only signed out all the tea from his tea hills this year, but also started taking reservations for the tea for tomorrow and beyond.
There are also wolfberries. Last year, the two acres of wolfberries planted by Aunt Jiang did not produce many fruits, and the income from one acre was only two to three thousand yuan. This year, because Jiang Guotai directly helped them sign all the wolfberry orders, and the number of wolfberries also increased, the income from wolfberries has doubled. The income from Aunt Jiang and Uncle Jiang's two acres of tea fields alone has reached 50,000 yuan. In addition to the wolfberries, the three fat pigs they raised, and the income from the inn and bed and breakfast all go to the three daughters-in-law, but the income from the restaurant is her own. This year alone, Uncle Jiang and his wife's annual income has reached nearly 100,000 yuan.
Uncle Jiang was so happy that he decided immediately that he didn't need to wait for two years and would build a house by the end of this year. "Let's build a four-story building like Ningning's! Then we'll live on the first floor, and the second, third, and fourth floors will be used as a hotel. In the future, won't we just be able to sit at home and collect money?"
What do people fear the most? When you get old, you can’t make any money and you don’t have any money. You have to live your life depending on your son and daughter-in-law’s mood.
It's okay if you meet a filial person, but if you meet an unfilial person, you will suffer for the rest of your life.
Now, Uncle Jiang no longer has to worry about not being able to make money in his old age.
Aunt Jiang was also wiping the table with a rag, smiling.
They can earn so much money without even leaving their hometown. This was something that Aunt Jiang could never have imagined in the past.
Jiang's father and mother work hard in Shenzhen, getting up early and going to bed late all year round, and their annual income is only about 100,000 yuan.
The annual income of the people in Jiangjia Village is increasing this year. Except for some families in the big house who wanted to take away their sisters' tea land and homesteads and did not sign contracts, those families who got the tea land are all happy.
Jiang Ning originally had no plans to come back during the summer vacation, but Jiang Qinqin was getting married during the summer vacation and called her to ask her to come back so that she could support her as her family.
In fact, why does Jiang Qinqin need Jiang Ning to come back to support her? She has a lot of brothers, sisters, and cousins, and she is the youngest one. But wherever she goes, she tells people that Jiang Ning grew up with her and is her best friend. How embarrassed would she be if Jiang Ning didn't come to her wedding?
Jiang Guotai also called and said that her house had been built and asked her to come back during the summer vacation to see if there was anything that needed to be changed.
Jiang Ning was actually very happy about the changes in her hometown, and naturally had no grudges. She called Jiang Bai to ask if he wanted to go back. Jiang Bai was working for his boss during the summer vacation and couldn't leave, so Jiang Ning and Song Peifeng went back with Grandpa Jiang.
His hometown has changed so much that Grandpa Jiang can hardly recognize that this is the Linhe Brigade where he was born and raised, and which has remained unchanged for decades.
The fragrance of pink lotus flowers spreads for miles. The entire embankment has been paved with cement roads, and there are two cobblestone paths underneath.
The path was full of people, some were taking a walk, some were picking lotus pods, some were sitting under the green willow trees fishing, and some were riding bicycles leisurely across the embankment.
Even without Jiang Ning's support, Grandpa Jiang could walk on this road by himself without any fear of falling.
When he arrived at Jiangjia Village, he did not go to his eldest son's house, nor to his youngest son's house. Instead, he walked through Jiang's father's house, Jiang Jun's house, and walked all the way to the barren mountain.
He was hunched over with his hands comfortably behind his back, looking up at the several elegantly shaped and luxurious villas standing on the barren hills on the other side of the ditch, with a satisfied smile in his eyes.
One of them is his eldest granddaughter's house.
He slowly walked across the beautifully shaped stone bridge built over the ditch, came to Jiang Ning's house, and reached out to push open the gate of the house.
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