As a local civilian artist in Shuzhou, Li Baiqing has a mass base in Shuzhou that is difficult for outsiders to imagine.
As soon as he opened his mouth, the surroundings immediately became quiet.
"Dear fellow countrymen, dear college students, those who know me and those who don't, please introduce yourself again..."
"Those who are familiar with me know that I used to ride a tricycle in Jincheng, but some people may not know that I actually had three choices at the time: one was to be a truck driver, one was to be a cook, and one was to pull a tricycle. I finally chose to pull a tricycle. Why? Because I think this job allows me to receive cash at any time, and my wallet is bulging with bills, which is great! Now that I think about it, it's called carrying your mother's back (I really don't know how to explain this accurately, I'll ask a big boss)!"
Everyone below burst into laughter.
"Now it's funny to talk about it, but at that time I suffered from this lack of vision. Life was hard when I was riding a tricycle. I met a fat woman at that time. She ran over and got on my tricycle, which made my front end tilt. She said, 'Master, let's go to the Grain Trade Building.' I looked back at her figure and then at my own skinny body. I was about to refuse, but the fat woman said, 'I'll give you five dollars.' I said, 'I'll take it.'"
There was another burst of laughter.
"When I got there and got the five dollars, I was half dead. I was angry and tired, so I grabbed a cigarette and sat there to smoke. After I finished, I threw away the cigarette butt and was ready to find a shady place to wait for business. But an old woman wearing a red headband rushed up to me and stopped me. She said that there was a sanitation campaign and throwing away cigarette butts was not allowed. If you were caught, you would be fined five dollars. I still suspect that the fat woman and the old woman were in cahoots."
Amid the laughter, some villagers recalled some stories they had experienced and their expressions became complicated.
"That being said, it is wrong to throw cigarette butts around, but the problem is that I didn't know it at the time..."
Then, this famous local comedian from Bashu began to combine his own path to wealth and told everyone the story of how to change ideas, how to accept urban culture, how to learn technology, and how to start a business and get rich.
When the speech touched people's hearts, some farmers in the audience even wiped away tears as their memories were evoked.
Huo Qianli listened quietly at the side. He didn't realize it when he was listening to the radio before, but now it seems that Teacher Li's Sanda also has the charm of prose, which is scattered in form but not in spirit. In the seemingly chaotic laughter, there is still a hidden purpose guiding them.
"I am just being honest. I will be 60 soon. To be honest, I have been a hard worker for most of my life and I am not short of money, but I am still willing to come to this village to step on the ridges of the fields. Because I am also a descendant of farmers and I have real feelings for farmers."
"Life is but a hundred years long. During our time in this world, we should give society six practical things."
"I used to want to be a cook, but I didn't. The fat kid next door did. He couldn't be a cook anymore, so he became a chef. I even ate a few dishes at his restaurant. I asked him, how much do you make? He gave me an eight, which really shocked me. I said, are chefs' salaries this high?"
"He said that he could get such a high salary because his cooking tasted really good and because he looked like he had several diplomas. Fellow villagers, look, your village cadres made such a big fuss this time and invited these outstanding college students here in the hope that everyone can learn one or two skills. Skills are not only valuable, but can also make money."
"Everyone should take advantage of this good opportunity to learn more knowledge and skills and change their uncivilized living habits, okay?"
"That's great!" the villagers below shouted loudly in a cheerful atmosphere.
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As expected of a famous comedian in Sichuan and Bashu, Li Baiqing's random remarks made the atmosphere in the venue much more harmonious.
Then, Huo Qianli did not waste any time and, together with the leading teachers, staff, and village committee members, assigned the college students and paired families according to the list that had been discussed many times in advance.
Then, everyone went back home.
I didn't even have a meal.
The main reason is that I don’t have the ability to cook so much.
The daily tasks of the college students had been notified and distributed in advance, including writing a diary every day, doing a good deed for the villagers every day, taking a photo with the paired farmers, leading the farmers to do radio gymnastics, helping the farmers clean the yard, etc.
The days ahead will not be easy for them.
After the students left, it was easy to solve the meal problem for the staff and the teachers. They could just eat in the small canteen of the village committee.
As for their accommodation, the empty house originally owned by the crew could have been used, but it was currently occupied by Teacher Li. After Teacher Li left in a while, the house would naturally be occupied by Master Liu Xiaoyu and his gang who had arrived unexpectedly.
So Huo Qianli could only clear out the large meeting room of the village committee, then put together a few beds with tables and accommodated five people.
The remaining few people had no choice but to follow him to Gu's house, where they huddled together and slept on the floor.
On the other side, college students followed the villagers back to their homes in pairs.
At this moment, they had recovered a lot from the fatigue of the previous walking trek. Looking at the red flowers on their chests, in their hearts, the beginning of coming to Hushan Village was novel and interesting, and even the mountains and rivers became lovely.
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