In the golden autumn of October, Liu Jin got up before dawn.
Today is the day set by the Hua family for the autumn harvest. There is a seed field here, and he has to go and help with some work.
As soon as I went out, I ran into my old friends and we chatted as we walked.
This piece of land is just on the edge of the village, not far away. You can just walk there. Don't drive your tricycle to occupy the land.
If each family drives one car, the road will be jammed.
It’s been agreed that no one in the village will drive a car to make room for the Hua family’s vehicle.
When they arrived at the field, all the young village cadres were in place.
These old guys just wait for the young people to work outside. They pick up food from the fields and don't want to waste any food.
This piece of land is specially designated as a seed field for their village. There are special people responsible for harvesting the seeds, so they come here to help.
The young people in the village saw them and shook their heads helplessly.
Liu Jincai ignored them. They were in good health, except that their hair had turned white.
He is only in his early seventies, and there are many old men and women in their eighties and nineties in the village.
The area around here is a Feng Shui treasure land, and people from the city have no place to live even if they want to.
There are also reporters who come to interview the old men and women here and ask what the secret to their longevity is.
There is no secret. It's just that I still work in the fields even at my old age, I eat well, my children are filial, and I don't have any troubles.
Life is going well and I am in a good mood.
Since Liu Jin called the children back, he has completely retreated to the second line and is living a very carefree life.
I would tidy up the vegetable garden at home, drive my tricycle to Hua's house to buy some buns, and when I felt like it, I would go to my own shop in the city, or go to the city to collect rent.
It’s good to do some work. Your appetite will increase and you can even eat one more bun.
After a while, the old man of the Hua family also came over. You see, they all can't sit still.
Old village chief Liu Neng also came, and all the old friends gathered together.
Liuzhuangzi Village, as the representative village second only to Shili Village, has developed closely behind Shili Village.
He learned by example and took the initiative to gather villagers to learn without any call.
The development of rural areas is beyond comparison with that of cities. There are mountains, rivers and a good environment.
They haven't developed tourism.
Many people came here to visit, and the village even arranged for people to wear armbands to supervise.
I’m afraid that these people have poor quality, litter and damage the environment.
I wanted to stay here for a night, but there was no place to stay, no hotels or B&Bs.
The villagers don't earn this money.
This is the consensus reached by the surrounding villages.
There are also those city dwellers who have money and free time and want to come here to retire, but there are no houses to rent to them.
Every inch of land in the village is worth a lot of money.
In this entire village, only Shili Village still retains the tradition of renting out houses to military wives.
We reached a friendly consensus with the army. It is not easy to be a soldier, as you cannot go home once a year. Although conditions are better now, it is difficult to be separated for a long time.
Villagers who have extra houses would rent them to military wives in the hope of establishing good relationships with them.
The rent is only a few hundred yuan, and no one is short of that money.
The Hua family gives priority to hiring veterans, military dependents and their wives, and offers discounts on food for the military.
No one in the village went to the city and rented out their house.
Those who left that year have long since returned.
In the words of the children, this place is a paradise on earth.
The villagers also have houses in the city and have lived in apartment buildings.
They can't get used to living here and feel suffocated. Young people can get used to living here, but old people can't.
How nice it is to live in the village. There are bunches of old neighbors on the street, chatting and talking with them.
There is one big difference between the rural areas here and most rural areas: young people return to the village to farm.
Unlike many places, young people stay outside to develop after getting into university, and over the years, only the elderly are left in the village.
That's not the case here.
Even though the children have all gone to college, there is no shame in them coming back to farm.
The classmates who knew the situation were extremely envious.
When working outside, even with a high salary you still have to pay for mortgage or rent, and various daily living expenses.
I don’t know who started this trend, but if young people don’t come back, their families won’t support them, so let them fight for their own future outside…
The biggest concern when young people start to return is their children’s education.
The larger social environment is a volume.
From the village primary school to the township junior high school and then to the high school, all problems have been solved.
One-stop service.
In terms of teaching staff, we hire retired teachers with outstanding talents and graduates from normal colleges. The high school is a branch school directly run in cooperation with famous old schools in the city.
The most important point is that everything is free. There is no tuition, no miscellaneous fees, no meal fees, no water fees... and you don’t have to pay for school uniforms!
The children don't have to pay a penny to go to school.
The school offers all kinds of extracurricular training, and the teachers are experienced and have strong teaching staff.
In addition to bringing convenience to its own village, it also attracted students from the surrounding areas.
Each village has a special education fund.
Where does the money for the village come from?
The Hua family leased wasteland and the planting results have always been very good.
All the surrounding villages have developed the barren mountains and wastelands.
Every inch of land in the village is worth a lot of money, and this is not an empty promise.
Especially with the mechanization of agriculture, farming is no longer so strenuous.
These lands are not leased out at a low price. Outsiders are not allowed to lease them. They are all leased to the villagers.
The Hua family is an exception.
After the land is divided among family members, if there are some leftovers, they belong to the village collective.
There is another reason why there are no houses in the village to rent to outsiders.
The girls in the village don't get married when they grow up. Instead, they settle down in the village with men, but they don't marry into the family.
The village gave the man a household registration, allocated residential land, and distributed land.
But the man cannot bring his whole family with him, as there is not enough space for them.
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