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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 expected that the stage in Wucheng was not big, but the audience was surprisingly large. Looking down from the stage, there were at least tens of thousands of people. Such a large scene and such a large audience, except for the people from the Provincial Song and Dance Troupe, even the teachers of art schools rarely experienced it, not to mention that since the formation of the band, the Cheetah Band has only performed twice in its own school and in bars.

But this group of young people, they are all crazy about people. The more people there are, the more excited they are, and the crazier they sing.

The teachers from the art school in front of us sang in folk songs. Their voices were beautiful and sounded like the sound of nature. The students also performed well. They were all selected as the top ten singers on campus by their respective schools. It was the first time for them to meet so many audiences. They were also very excited. They basically sang "Qinghai-Tibet Plateau", "Mother in Candlelight", "Shy Rose Blooms Quietly" and so on. Such dances and songs are nice to listen to, but there are too many people in the audience, and it is difficult to see clearly from a distance, so it is easy to be distracted. Then it was the turn of the Cheetah Band.

The Cheetah Band sang rock music, which was an original work written by He Qiaosheng, or a song he wrote when he was in No. 4 Middle School. They were full of passion right from the start.

Wucheng residents, who were used to disco dancing in the square every night, now liked this kind of powerful rock music. They sang enthusiastically, and listened to the roar of the main audience above. Tens of thousands of people danced on the big lawn again. He Qiaosheng and his friends sang two songs in a row, and then their little girl sang a popular song "Mei Fei Se Wu", and 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 all of a sudden, and more tourists came, which boosted the local economy, and the people also had more ways to make money.

Producer Li listened to the photographers and reporters he sent over reporting to him on the situation in Wucheng on the phone. Although he did not see such a grand occasion, he knew how successfully Wucheng had developed through the reporters' descriptions. He certainly would 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 was on the CCTV News Channel. Due to producer Li's current connections, the report on the Wucheng International Dragon Boat Cultural Festival alone took up a full thirty seconds. The screen switched between scenes, including the appearance of the county leadership team headed by Secretary Song, the bustling and prosperous scene of Wucheng, the dragon boat race and awards, and the lively scene of thousands of people dancing in unison when the Cheetah Band performed passionately on the stage at night. All of them were recorded. 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 conference was exposed for such a long time on the news channel was, first of all, because of producer Li, and secondly, the news team also knew what kind of news the people above wanted the people below to see on such a holiday. In addition to various national events, various policies, and how difficult the lives of people abroad were, they also wanted to show the people how happy the lives of people in China were, and to show the people peace

and prosperity in the country. What else can better show the spirit of happiness and well-being of the people in China and peace and prosperity in 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, and even a news station in Wan Province broadcast it.

Although it is not CCTV-1, it is still a CCTV channel. CCTV channels had huge traffic and ratings in the early 2000s. Wucheng's prosperity made Wucheng famous overnight, and also made the Cheetah Band, a small band that had been ignored and unknown in the past, so popular overnight.

CCTV News Channel broadcast the Wucheng Dragon Boat Festival. How could the provincial news station not broadcast such a prosperous county in the province?

The provincial news station not only broadcasted the event, but also took longer than CCTV News Station to broadcast it, spending a full minute on the morning and evening "News 60 Minutes" to report the lively scene of the dragon boat race of the Wucheng Dragon Boat Cultural Festival. It also showed Wugong Mountain, the famous scenic spot "The Endless Green Lotus Leaves" in "The Legend of the White Snake", and the excited expressions of tourists when rafting and surfing.

Due to the three-day holiday for the Dragon Boat Festival, all the traffic was attracted to Wucheng. Only on the last day, 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 news reported this, many people with money and free time knew that the Wugong Mountain and the lotus flowers below Wucheng had already budded and could be visited.

So after the three-day Dragon Boat Festival holiday, although many tourists had gone back to work, the bustle of Wucheng did not fade at all. This time, not only Wucheng had traffic, but more tourists went to Wugong Mountain, Linhe Brigade, and Yaoba Town. These three places were all promoted by CCTV and appeared on TV. They are also must-visit places for tourists to Wucheng. If anyone comes to Wucheng to play and does not check in and take photos of the endless lotus flowers on the Linhe Brigade river beach, it is as if they have not come to Wucheng.

On the other side, Jiang Guotai was also in Guangzhou. Invited by Li Ang, he was also watching the dragon boat race in Guangzhou.

The dragon boat race custom in Guangzhou is much earlier 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 race between villages and towns in Guangzhou.

But the people and officials in Guangzhou never thought that the limelight of this dragon boat race would not be in their Guangzhou, but in a small and unknown county in the south. They were a little dissatisfied for a while.

After the dragon boat race ended, after discussion among the local tycoons, they all felt that the name of their own dragon boat race was not big enough and loud enough.

Look at them, they also hold dragon boat races, but they call themselves the "International Dragon Boat Cultural Festival"!

In that small county town, which has never been heard of, there is a Niao International? Is it as international as Guangzhou? Because the Tea Expo is coming in a few days, and now Guangzhou has gathered overseas Chinese and international friends from more than a dozen countries and Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan. This is the International Dragon Boat Cultural Festival!

But there is no point in them getting angry, so they all get together to discuss how to organize the dragon boat race next year.

Jiang Guotai spent a few days and a few meals in the hotel in Guangzhou, and he had already penetrated into the inner circle of this group of tea merchants from all over the country, and 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 people who, like him, have many industries under their names, including real estate. When they heard that Jiang Guotai actually held three large sand factories, they looked at Jiang Guotai in a completely different way. This is nothing in Guangzhou, but in his own place, he is definitely a big local snake.

And it is the source sand factory!

Not to mention, the tea that Jiang Guotai brought this time was actually the "Wugong Tea" that has been very popular recently and was promoted by CCTV. Who among these tea merchants doesn't know the name of "Wugong Tea" now? After all, for these people, they have always been concerned about the movements of the people above, and the wind direction above is extremely important to them.

There are also those who do not engage in real estate, but have channels in this area and want to make money from it. Jiang Guotai simply suggested that they form a chamber of commerce together to gather 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 resources together? Of course they need it!

Moreover, among the businessmen, almost all of them are eloquent and can scare people to death with their big mouths. They are all social bullies.

With Jiang Guotai's suggestion, who would disagree? They all left their phone numbers and added friends. Some people who were like Jiang Guotai and loved to meddle in other people's affairs were particularly active in promoting this matter.

In a few days, Jiang Guotai became so familiar with these people that they were like sworn brothers. They started to call each other brothers when they met.

After making connections here, Li Ang finally found 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 tea belongs to the cultural industry, but dragon boat racing also belongs to the cultural industry. Of course, he had to bring tea merchants and tourists from all over the world to watch the dragon boat race held in Guangzhou.

He also called Jiang Guotai.

Jiang Guotai is one of the few domestic tea merchants around Li Ang who is not a Chinese, overseas Chinese or international friend. In fact, he was creating conditions for Jiang Guotai.

Of course, he just gave Jiang Guotai an opportunity. Whether he could seize this opportunity was not Li Ang's business. He was able to bring Jiang Guotai to his side today because he was helping Jiang Wu.

Jiang Guotai felt that Jiang Wu was really his lucky star.

He originally thought that he was completely in the dark about Guangzhou and didn't know anyone, but he didn't expect Jiang Wu to give him such a big surprise.

That's fine, the key point is that Jiang Wu also sent him a Lou Chengyu.

If Lou Chengyu, a translator who had studied abroad, had not been there, even if Li Ang had brought him along and made friends with foreign tea merchants and Chinese tea merchants, it would have been useless if he did not speak English. Although his daughter Jiang Miao could speak some English, her level was completely different from Lou Chengyu who had spent a few years abroad.

If Jiang Xi had not specially found such a designer from Shanghai to design a house for her, and if he had not seen that Jiang Xi's house was well designed, he would have simply given the design of Jiang Miao and Jiang Yanyan's houses to Lou Chengyu, Lou Chengyu would not have stayed in Jiangjia Village for so long, and he might have returned to Shanghai long ago, and there would have been no trip to Guangzhou, and it would have been impossible for him to seize this opportunity so smoothly.

So Jiang Guotai felt that Jiang Xi was really a lucky star.

The other tea merchants who were also accompanied by Li Ang had never thought of bringing a translator with them, so they watched Jiang Guotai live up to his social gangster nature and feel at home in the crowd with a sincere and simple yet exquisite smile. The tea expo has not officially started yet, but he has already secured several orders for himself, and these people all said that after the dragon boat race is over, they can make an appointment to drink tea alone.

What kind of tea to drink? Of course, the Wugong tea that Jiang Guotai brought.

On the day of the Tea Expo, the design of his booth and the two TVs in the booth repeatedly played "Wugong Tea" on CCTV. This was more intuitive and authoritative than other teas bragging about their own teas. So he signed a lot of orders from China, even the wolfberries in the thermos cups were signed. Jiang

Guotai's purpose of this trip to Guangzhou was basically achieved. Not only did he successfully sign orders with tea merchants from foreign countries and Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan in advance, but most of the problems with the sand factory were also solved.

He originally planned to go to Shenzhen, but now he didn't have to go, and he returned home with a lot of gains.

Before leaving, of course he 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 gifts that were too expensive, so he gave him "local specialties", wild Adenophora, southern ginseng, tea, etc.

Li Ang actually didn't lack these things, nor did he lack money. In the 1980s, he made tens of millions of dollars in the financial accounts of "Martial Arts" magazine, not to mention that the money earned by "Martial Arts" magazine now exceeds 1 billion.

But he was still happy that Jiang Guotai was polite, at least this person didn't take his help for granted.

Before Jiang Guotai left Guangzhou, he called Jiang Xi and told Jiang Xi about his gains from this trip and the help that Li Chu gave him in Guangzhou.

Jiang Guotai hung up the phone, and Jiang Xi called Li Ang right after. It was Li's personal phone. During the call, Jiang Xi called him "uncle" and asked Li when he would come to Beijing. She asked Li to give her a chance to treat him to a meal.

Jiang Xi didn't say anything on the phone. She didn't say that she had a master, and she didn't say that she would do something for Li Ang. She just expressed her gratitude.

But Li Ang could feel the sincerity in this little girl's attitude.

More importantly, Li Ang also saw that Wu Cheng was on CCTV again during the Dragon Boat Festival Dragon Boat Race.

If CCTV had not gone to the countryside to promote Wugong Mountain Wugong Tea, he might have thought that this was done by the leaders of Wucheng County themselves. But with the promotion of Wugong Tea, plus Jiang Wu herself was in Beijing, Li Ang knew that this matter was inseparable from Jiang Wu, but he didn't know what the relationship behind her was.

But this is not important, Li Chu just needs to know that she has such a relationship in Beijing.

For Li Ang, it is also easy to guess. Although he has never seen Jiang Wu in person, he has an ID photo. Even if the ID photos of this era are severely distorted and blurred, the neat and pretty girl in the photo can be seen to have an absolutely good appearance.

He has heard Wang Yong say this more than once. After all, he once thought of creating a "beautiful writer" persona for Jiang Wu.

Jiang Wu, a girl from a remote mountain village in the south, was admitted to a university in Beijing with many talented people. Li Ang thought that Jiang Wu had found a partner with a strong background.

This was not wrong. On the contrary, if Jiang Wu could marry into a family in Beijing's red circle and gain a firm foothold, Li Ang would only admire her. This is not something that ordinary people can do.

For many young people, the essence of marriage is the combination of love, but for Li Ang, who is old and in the system and has seen many situations, sometimes the essence of marriage is an exchange of interests. It depends on whether you are an idealist or a realist.

There are many Cinderella stories in novels about marrying into wealthy families, but Li Ang knows better than anyone how difficult it is for girls to cross the class barrier through marriage in reality. Even if girls are lucky and meet a love-minded silly boy, you are not strong enough and the other party's family is not love-minded.

However, Li Ang did not think too much about this matter. He would help Jiang Wu, but more importantly, it was Jiang Wu herself and her influence and help on "Wu Xia" over the years. He has devoted half of his life to founding "Wu Xia" magazine. When he is about to retire, he can be promoted to the city. He will be satisfied to 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, more than the boys in the village. Among this generation of young girls, there are no longer those who go to work in factories after graduating from primary 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 the business is naturally very good. Not to mention making 100,000 or 80,000 yuan, it should be no problem for each household to have an average income of 20,000 yuan, especially for the families 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 make at least 50,000 to 100,000 yuan a year.

This year's tea trees, in addition to the newly planted tea trees in the first and fourth rooms, have grown more tea leaves from the tea trees that have been planted for more than two years.

In addition to the first year's pre-Qingming tea, most of which 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 mountain and Jiang Wu and Jiang Guoding's own tea fields, and no one else in the village was used. Therefore, just from this year's pre-Qingming tea, every household has an income of at least 10,000 or 20,000 yuan, not to mention the tea leaves after Qingming that are still being picked.

Originally, the sales volume of local tea was only enough to cover the tea leaves of the tea farmers who had already planted tea leaves, and Jiang Guotai's two hills in Wugong Mountain were not included. However, at a tea expo, Jiang Guotai not only signed out all the tea leaves from his tea mountain this year, but also started to pre-order the tea leaves after Qingming.

There are also wolfberries. Last year, the two mu of wolfberries planted by Aunt Jiang did not produce many fruits, and the income from one mu was only two to three thousand yuan. This year, because Jiang Guotai directly signed all the wolfberry orders for them, and the number of wolfberries increased, the income from wolfberries doubled. The income from the two mu of tea fields of Aunt Jiang and Uncle Jiang alone reached 50,000 yuan. In addition to the wolfberries, the three fat pigs they raised, and the income from the inn and B&B all go to the three daughters-in-law, but the income from the restaurant is hers. This year alone, the annual income of Uncle Jiang and his wife has reached nearly 100,000 yuan.

Uncle Jiang was so happy that he decided to build a house by the end of this year instead of waiting for two years. "We'll build a four-story building like Liu Liu's! We'll live on the first floor, and the second, third, and fourth floors will be used as a hotel. We'll just sit at home and collect money."

What do people fear the most? Not making any money when they are old, having no money in hand, and having to live by the moods of their sons and daughters-in-law.

It's okay if they meet filial people, but if they meet unfilial people, they will suffer for the rest of their lives.

Now it's good, Uncle Jiang no longer has to worry about not making any money in his old age.

Aunt Jiang's wife was also wiping the table with a rag with a smile on her face.

They haven't even left their hometown yet, but they can make so much money. This is something that Jiang's uncle and aunt would never have dared to think of in the past.

Jiang's father and mother worked hard in Shenzhen from dawn to dusk all year round, and their annual income was only about 100,000 yuan.

This year, the annual income of Jiangjia Village residents has been rising. Except for some families in the eldest house who wanted to seize the tea land and homestead of their sisters, the families who did not sign the contract were all happy to receive the tea land.

Jiang Xi originally did not plan to come back during the summer vacation, but Jiang Gangqin got married during the summer vacation and called her to ask her to come back as a member of her family to support her.

In fact, why did Jiang Gangqin need Jiang Xi 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 Xi grew up with her and is her best friend. If Jiang Xi doesn't come to her wedding, how embarrassed will she be?

Jiang Guotai also called and said that her house was built, and asked her to come back during the summer vacation to see if there is anything that needs to be changed.

Jiang Xi 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 at all, so Jiang Xi and Song Peifeng went back together, supporting Grandpa Jiang.

The changes in his hometown were so great that Grandpa Jiang could hardly recognize that this was the Linhe Brigade where he was born and raised, and it had never changed for decades.

The fragrance of pink lotus flowers wafted for ten miles. The embankment was completely paved with cement roads, and there were two cobblestone paths below.

The paths were full of people, some taking a walk, some picking lotus buds, some sitting under the green willow trees fishing, and some riding bicycles leisurely across the embankment.

Even without Jiang Xing's support, Grandpa Jiang could walk on this road by himself, without 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, but walked through Jiang's father's house, Jiang Jun's house, and walked all the way to the barren mountain.

He hunched over, his hands behind his back, looking up at the barren hills on the other side of the ditch, where several elegant and luxurious villas stood, with a satisfied smile in his eyes.

One of the villas was his eldest granddaughter's house.

He slowly crossed the beautifully shaped stone bridge built on the ditch, walked to Jiang Liu's house, and stretched out his hand to open the gate of the house.