When it comes to the current Qingshan Village, Lu Wei has only one opinion in his mind, that is, it is really rich.
The village not only has electricity, but also telephones. Walking in, you will see rows of newly built brick and tile houses, neat and imposing. The old look has been replaced by a new one, and compared to the past, it is like heaven and earth.
Lu Wei once again realized what he had missed.
Wang Youtian first arranged for Lu Wei to live in the courtyard of the two elderly couples in the city. Now the dilapidated old houses in the village have been demolished, and the vacant land is planned to be built as a warehouse, so there is no place for Lu Wei to live.
"Since you are back, you should work hard in the future. The village will lend you food and other things." Wang Youtian left after saying this. He still had a lot of things to do!
Lu Wei wanted to say something, but seeing Wang Youtian's anxious look, she kept her mouth shut. In fact, she just wanted to ask if she could use the village phone to report her safety to her family.
She hadn't contacted her parents for many years. She had just passed by the village office and saw the telephone on the table, and Lu Wei came up with this idea.
"This room is for you to live in. You can clean it up yourself."
Lu Wei's thoughts were interrupted. She turned around to look at the person who came. She didn't recognize him, but she knew that this was a group of unemployed people who were driven from the city to settle in the countryside in 1962. Qingshan Village took in seven of them, including two elderly couples who had been living in the same yard.
"Thank you, Auntie. I'm sorry to bother you." Lu Wei lowered her eyelids and started to clean up the small firewood room. The room was not big, but it was quite clean.
Tang Qiuyan actually still remembered Lu Wei. She left a very deep impression on people. She was arrogant and domineering, and even reported the village. She was almost torn to pieces by the villagers of Qingshan Village. Judging from her current appearance, she must have learned her lesson.
"Well, that's our house. If you have any problems, come to me." Tang Qiuyan pointed to the backyard and said, "Don't go there if you have nothing to do. There are Chinese medicinal herbs planted there. Don't step on them."
Tang Qiuyan, her husband, and another couple are too old to farm, so the village lets them grow herbs themselves. They can also follow everyone to the back mountain to collect herbs. If they have the energy, they can come to the winery to do odd jobs and be paid by the hour.
Lu Wei nodded. On the way here, the Youth League Office told him about the situation of Qingshan Village in recent years. They opened a winery, set up a Chinese herbal medicine planting base, built bridges and roads, dug canals to divert water, and became a major grain payer every year. Qingshan Village can now be said to be the richest village in the country. It ranks among the top in tax payments every year, and has also led the surrounding villages to work together. Now it is like a big brother in the entire province.
The people in the Youth League Office said that Lü Wei deserved it, for not staying in such a good village and causing a lot of trouble. But they also said that she was lucky, saying that it was because Chen Zhifang and Wang Youtian did not ask Lü Wei to move her household registration, so she had a chance to stay after serving her sentence.
Lu Wei also felt that she was lucky. She made the bed and cleaned the room neatly. She was completely different from the young lady who had never done housework before.
When Tian Tian came in, she saw Lu Wei kneeling on the ground wiping the floor. She was stunned and almost didn't recognize her. She had just heard Li Jiawei say that Lu Wei was back, so she thought she had to come over to say hello, but she didn't expect that Lu Wei would have such a great impact on her.
Is this still the Lu Wei she knows?
"Let me help you," Tian Tian rolled up her sleeves and rinsed a rag in the basin. "How long are you going to clean by yourself?"
Lu Wei didn't expect Tian Tian to help her, and was a little at a loss for a moment: "It's okay, I can do it myself, don't do it, or you will get your clothes dirty again."
It would be a shame to get such a white shirt dirty.
Tian Tian has become much more cheerful in recent years. Hearing this, she smiled heartily: "Don't be polite. We've known each other for a while. Besides, let's finish this early and eat early. After dinner, we still have to go to Uncle Fu's house to watch TV!"
"What? TV?" Lu Wei knew what a TV was, but did Qingshan Village actually have one?
Tian Tian smiled even more happily, "Bao'er bought it in the city. I heard that he waited in line for a long time but couldn't get a number. It was Director Gu from Qicheng who helped him!"
Lu Wei was still very surprised. A TV set would cost at least four hundred yuan. Although many people in Qingshan Village could afford it with its current strength, the only one who could afford it was probably Fu Baoer's family.
"Baoer's family still has a radio. When it was first bought, we all gathered together to listen to it. Now that they have replaced it with a TV, everyone has started to dislike the radio again!" The biggest change in Tian Tian in the past two years is that she talks more. When talking about things in the village, she talks endlessly.
Lu Wei listened attentively and interjected a few words from time to time. Tian Tian couldn't tell what she felt. On the one hand, she felt that it was quite miserable that Lu Wei had become like this. On the other hand, she felt that it was good that she could change her bad temper, but the price she paid was a bit too high.
"How...how is your family? Is your aunt in good health?" Lu Wei felt a little embarrassed when she mentioned this. After all, when Tian Tian's mother was sick and borrowed money, she treated others with that attitude.
Tian Tian smiled cheerfully. The incident was in the past, so she certainly wouldn't be angry about it anymore. "My mom is much better now. Thanks to the help from our village over the past few years, with surgeries and rehabilitation, she can now walk slowly with support and doesn't need to go to the hospital all the time."
"That's good. As long as you're healthy, everything will be fine."
When Lu Wei thought of her parents, she suddenly felt a little sad. She didn't know how they were doing, as well as her uncle and aunt. She hadn't even said sorry to her family.
Tian Tian has always been considerate and could guess the reason for Lu Wei's depression. "Lu Wei, if you're worried about your family, you can talk to the secretary, write a letter, or borrow his phone. Our captain and secretary are really good people and will definitely help you."
Lu Wei almost burst into tears. "Can I? I don't dare call home. I'm afraid they'll scold me."
Over the years, her family had never written a letter or sent anything to the farm where she was serving her sentence, as if they had forgotten her.
Tian Tian didn't know how to comfort her, so she had to change the subject. The two of them cleaned the house together. Tian Tian took Lu Wei to their dormitory. Li Jiawei had already prepared dinner. It was obvious that she had agreed to have dinner with Lu Wei a long time ago.
Lu Wei was very moved, her eyes were filled with tears. After a while, the four male educated youth also arrived, and everyone seemed to have returned to the time when the seven of them first arrived in Qingshan Village.
No one mentioned the past, and no one asked about Lu Wei's life in recent years. Everyone just chatted enthusiastically, as if nothing had happened.
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