Chapter 262: Popularity [6000 words]

After talking about the clan leader’s affairs, Deng Shirong and Deng Shian went to the wooden shed to watch TV with the villagers.

The position was reserved long ago. In the words of later generations, it was the best C position.

At eight o'clock, the first Spring Festival Gala officially began.

In that year in his previous life, the entire Bangjie Brigade didn't have a television, and Deng Shirong had never watched the first Spring Festival Gala. Although there were resources about the first Spring Festival Gala on the Internet in later lives, the Spring Festival Gala was no longer as attractive to him at that time for various reasons.

So, from beginning to end, Deng Shirong never watched the first Spring Festival Gala.

Now that he has been reborn and has the opportunity to watch the first Spring Festival Gala, Deng Shirong is also quite interested.

First, the host delivered an opening speech, then introduced the guests, followed by a speech by crosstalk master Hou Baolin, and finally the host extended New Year greetings to the people of the country on behalf of his industry.

At this point, the show officially began.

The first program was a New Year's greeting song sung by Li Dalao, a singer from the Central Orchestra.

This big shot created a record that will never be broken in the history of the Spring Festival Gala. She sang a total of nine songs in the first Spring Festival Gala. In addition to the New Year's greeting song at the beginning, she sang eight songs in a row at the end. It is truly unprecedented and unmatched.

Among them, she sang the six songs "Song of Spring", "Hello, Motherland", "A Bamboo Pole", "Young Friends", "Confidant" and "Homesickness" solo, followed by the duet of "Liu Sanjie" and the Peking Opera duet of "Niu Gao's Marriage Recruitment", which she sang with others.

In the future, no matter how big a singer is, it is impossible for him to sing more than three songs in a row on the stage of the Spring Festival Gala, let alone singing eight songs in a row after the opening song. This is a miracle that will never happen again.

In addition to singing, the first Spring Festival Gala was also a hodgepodge of various elements.

For example, riddles, crosstalk, sketches, poetry recitation, pantomime, Peking opera, dance, magic, acrobatics, martial arts, etc.

They even played behind-the-scenes footage from the video film "The Burning of the Old Summer Palace", as well as clips from the video films "The Behind-the-Curtain" and "Wulin Zhi". In particular, the entire film "Wulin Zhi" was still being filmed, but a clip was played during the Spring Festival Gala.

This kind of Spring Festival Gala was an eye-opener for both Deng Shirong, who had experienced the Gala in later generations, and the villagers, who were seeing it for the first time.

The villagers had never had the chance to watch such a wonderful evening party before. Once they watched it, they immediately forgot the time until the New Year’s bell rang on TV and firecrackers were heard in the village. The villagers present were suddenly awakened. It turned out to be midnight and they had to go home to set off firecrackers.

The show was still going on. Although many villagers were reluctant to leave, they still felt it was inappropriate to set off firecrackers outside of home at 12 o'clock, so they could only hurriedly run home with their benches.

However, there are still some young people who don’t care about this. Anyway, their elders are at home, so it doesn’t matter whether they go back home or not. So they simply don’t go back and stay to continue watching the show.

Deng Shirong asked his eldest son to set off a string of firecrackers and then continued watching the show.

The villagers who stayed behind watched the Spring Festival Gala until the end, and then they took their benches and went home reluctantly.

Although it is very late now, staying up all night to celebrate the New Year is a custom all over the country. Even if you don't stay up all night, it is normal to go to bed a little later.

Therefore, Deng Shirong and his family were not in a hurry to go to bed. Everyone was hungry so late at night, so they had to have a midnight snack. After eating, they needed time to digest, so it was natural for them to continue chatting by the fire.

…

The second day of the Lunar New Year is the time to visit relatives, and the wives in the village will bring their husbands and children back to their parents' home.

After breakfast, Deng Yuntai, Deng Changyuan and Deng Changdong each rode their bicycles and took their wives and children to Poxin Village.

The bicycle that Deng Changdong rides is borrowed from Deng Yuntai's home, but the bicycle that Deng Changyuan rides is the one he bought himself last year. After all, he is a master vat master in a tile factory. As long as he performs normally, he can easily earn more than 200 yuan a month. Naturally, buying a bicycle is not a big pressure for him.

The gifts they brought were tied to the tripod in the front, their wives sat in the back seat, and their children were carried in slings.

We chatted along the way and when we arrived at Poxin Village, it was already around 11 o'clock in the morning.

After arriving at the village, they split into three groups.

When Deng Yuntai arrived at his father-in-law's house with his wife and children, Zhang Shoushan, who was sitting at the door playing with a slingshot, shouted happily into the house: "Dad, Mom, my sister and brother-in-law are here!"

Deng Yuntai had just parked his bike when he saw his father-in-law and mother-in-law coming out of the house. He quickly greeted them, "Dad, Mom, Happy New Year!"

"Happy New Year!"

"Sister, brother-in-law, Happy New Year!"

The two sides greeted each other, and Zhang Xiuping said as she untied the baby's sling, "Xiao Dong'er, hurry up and call grandpa and grandma!"

Because he had been taught a lot at home, Xiao Donger shouted in a baby voice, "Grandpa, Grandma!"

"Hey, Xiaodong'er is so good, come and let grandma hug you!"

"Xiao Dong'er, I'm your uncle, do you remember me?"

"Uncle!"

“So good!”

“…”

A few minutes later.

Deng Yuntai sat by the fire and chatted with his father-in-law and two brothers-in-law.

As for the mother-in-law, she went to the kitchen to make tea and boil rice dumplings. Zhang Xiuping carried Xiao Dong'er in to talk to her mother.

Deng Yuntai asked, "Dad, have my eldest and second brothers accompanied my sister-in-law back to her parents' home?"

Zhang Zhenfa nodded and said, "Yes, they all accompanied their wives back to their parents' home to visit relatives. However, they knew you would come today, so they probably won't stay there overnight and should be back in the afternoon."

Deng Yuntai smiled and said, "There's no need to rush. We're not leaving so soon anyway. We'll definitely have to stay for two or three days."

Zhang Zhenfa said, "You are now managing such a large restaurant in the county. They are afraid that you don't have time, so they want you to go and come back on the same day."

In fact, Zhang Zhenfa and his wife have never seen the restaurant owned by their son-in-law.

When Zhang's mother accompanied her daughter to the county town to give birth, the restaurant had not yet started construction. After that, Zhang's mother never went to the county town again, so naturally she had no chance to see her son-in-law's restaurant.

But when Ou Guohua's mother accompanied her daughter to the county town to give birth, the hotel was under construction and the general framework had been built. She knew how big the hotel was. After she came back and told Zhang's mother, the Zhang family naturally knew about it.

Knowing that their son-in-law's family opened such a big restaurant, the Zhang family was extremely curious. If they were not busy with business, they would have gone to the county town to take a look.

Deng Yuntai said, "We have time. The restaurant business is definitely not going to be very good at the beginning of the year, so we discussed it and decided to open the restaurant after the 15th. This way, we can spend the New Year at home without having to rush."

Zhang Shoujun asked curiously, "Brother-in-law, I heard from Sister Hua's mother that your restaurant is dozens of times larger than the state-owned restaurant in Longtan, and it has three floors. Is this true?"

Deng Yuntai smiled and said, "My family's restaurant is indeed not small. It covers an area of ​​more than 1,000 square meters. It is more than ten times larger than the largest state-owned restaurant in the county. The building does have three floors, but the restaurant only occupies the first floor. The second and third floors are still empty. My father didn't tell me what they will be used for in the future, so I don't know."

Although they had heard about it a long time ago, when they heard Deng Yuntai's confirmation, Zhang's father and son couldn't help but gasp.

Zhang Zhenfa couldn't help but ask, "Yuntai, how much money did your father invest in such a big restaurant?"

Deng Yuntai did not hide it and answered directly: "I heard from my father that a total of more than 300,000 yuan was invested."

"hiss……"

The Zhang father and son once again provided a little insignificant help for the warming weather. The number was really too scary. Even though the value of a ten thousand yuan household has declined now and is not as high as it was two or three years ago, more than three hundred thousand is still an unimaginable fortune for the Zhang father and son.

It's outrageous to invest so much money in opening a restaurant.

You know, just two years ago, their family hesitated for a long time about investing a few hundred dollars to open a store. In the end, it was his daughter's persuasion that gave Zhang Zhenfa the final say, and he finally made up his mind to do this business.

Compared with his relative, the courage of both parties is completely not on the same level.

"Yuntai, did your father take out a loan to open a restaurant?" Although there was a question in his words, Zhang Zhenfa was 100% sure that what he said was right. After all, no matter how rich his relative was, it was impossible for him to be rich enough to come up with more than 300,000 yuan to open a restaurant.

Under the influence of his father, Deng Yuntai did not think it was shameful to go to the bank for a loan, so he nodded and said, "Yes, my dad borrowed the money from a credit union."

"The restaurant has been open for a while, right? How's business?"

“We operated for seven months last year and business was pretty good.”

The father-in-law and the son-in-law asked and answered each other, and the two brothers-in-law sat beside them and listened obediently. They were almost shocked by the news revealed by their brother-in-law. Their family only spent a few hundred dollars to open a small shop in Longtan Street, which was already very prosperous in the village.

But compared with my brother-in-law's family, it's really nothing.

In the kitchen, the mother and daughter had a similar conversation. Zhang's mother was also frightened and she almost couldn't fry the dumplings.

When the fried dumplings were served, Zhang's mother couldn't suppress her curiosity and said, "Old man, how about we go to the county town together after the fifteenth day of the lunar month?"

Knowing that his daughter and son-in-law run such a big restaurant, Zhang Zhenfa felt uncomfortable if he didn't go to see it in person. When he heard the old woman's suggestion, he immediately agreed: "Okay, then let's go to the county town to take a look after the fifteenth day of the lunar month."

Zhang Xiuping smiled and said, "Dad, Mom, then bring big brother, big sister-in-law, second brother, second sister-in-law, Xiaojun, Xiaoshan, and the children, and go up and take a look together!"

Deng Yuntai quickly stated, "I'll arrange accommodation."

Zhang Shoujun and Zhang Shoushan's eyes lit up when they heard this and they wanted to agree immediately, but they couldn't make the decision themselves and could only look at their parents.

Zhang Zhenfa and his wife looked at each other and were both moved.

Zhang's mother had lived in the county before, and she said with some concern: "Yuntai, if so many of us go up there, how can that two-story building accommodate us?"

Deng Yuntai smiled and said, "My cousin also bought a house in the county last year. The house is now empty and no one lives there. He has three rooms and several old beds. All we need to do is buy some mats and quilts and we can live here as long as we want."

Mother Zhang was relieved now and nodded, "Okay, we'll discuss it then. If it's appropriate, we'll take some time to stay there for a few days."

After talking about her son-in-law's restaurant, Zhang's mother then told her daughter and son-in-law about the family's preparations for a new house.

Zhang Xiuping agreed with both hands when she heard this. She didn't mind the food and accommodation at her mother's house. After all, she grew up here and was used to it. What she wasn't used to was the defecation and urination. Any normal person would reject the smelly shit pool after using a clean and odorless toilet.

In order to avoid smelling that odor on her husband, she even took her husband to the open-air toilet every time she returned to her parents' home.

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Although this is indeed more exciting, she doesn't want this kind of excitement.

If my parents' home has built a new house and installed a new bathroom, then next time I go back there, I won't have to go out to seek excitement.

At noon, Zhang's mother killed chickens and ducks and prepared a large table of delicious food to entertain her daughter and son-in-law.

In the afternoon, the eldest brother and his wife, as well as the second brother and his wife, also came back one after another, and it was bound to be another lively occasion.

…

Just when the villagers in Bobai County were busy visiting relatives, the movie "Shaolin Temple" came out of nowhere. Once it was screened, it caused a huge sensation in the entire Bobai County. The streets were deserted, people spread the word, and flocked to the cinemas in the county and major communes.

In fact, this movie was released as early as last year and caused a huge sensation across the country. However, due to various reasons, Bobai County was not able to successfully obtain the film until the end of last year.

Only if you have experienced this era personally can you understand how great the influence of this movie is.

It is said that before the movie "Shaolin Temple" was broadcast, the real Shaolin Temple was desolate. According to the crew's recollections, when they first came to Shaolin Temple, the weeds on the mountain were more than one meter high, and there was no road at all.

There were only a few old monks in the temple, and the body of the clay Buddha had collapsed in half.

After "Shaolin Temple" became a nationwide hit, this thousand-year-old temple with overgrown weeds, collapsed mud statues and few monks suddenly became a holy place in the hearts of many people.

There are too many children like Baoqiang who go to Songshan to learn Shaolin Kungfu with or without their parents' permission, to uphold justice, punish evil and promote good. The Shaolin Temple is so crowded with tourists that even in the 1980s and 1990s, it received hundreds of thousands of tourists every day.

Even for the purpose of diversion and development, Dengfeng County where Shaolin Temple is located was upgraded to a city. The city's tourism economy ranks among the best in the whole of Henan. It is a typical example of how a movie can bring about earth-shaking changes in a place.

At the same time, it also made the leading actor famous all over the country and laid a solid foundation for the title of Kung Fu Emperor.

In short, this movie has set too many incredible records, and it is estimated that no other movie will have such a big impact.

…

Shuangwang Cinema was packed with people and could no longer satisfy their enthusiasm for watching movies. Seeing this, the major projection teams actively copied films and contacted various production teams. They would go to whichever production team was willing to pay to show the films.

Under such circumstances, the Naye Production Team naturally could not fall behind, and on the evening of the sixth day of the Lunar New Year, they paid for the projection team to come and show the movie "Shaolin Temple".

Wow, the whole village, young and old, men, women, and children were all excited by this.

By the tenth day of the first lunar month, all the production teams under the Bangjie Brigade had watched "Shaolin Temple", and the craze gradually subsided.

…

The twelfth day of the first lunar month, afternoon.

The Naye Deng clan held a clan meeting at the Bangjie Brigade.

This was notified a few days in advance. Although not every household sent someone to participate, each village sent a large number of representatives.

The entire Bangjie Brigade is dominated by the surname Deng, so there are many villages with the surname Deng, including Guanchong, Meitian, Shejiao, Macun, Yutang, Jimaoling, Dalingjiao, Daozhang, Hepingpai, Poding, Yangdipo, Zhadu, Naye, Shanggaoxing, Laowu, Xinwu, Shanying, Longjing, Tangtan, Bangba, etc.

These are all villages with the surname Deng. Each village has 20 to 30 representatives, which makes a total of 400 to 500 people.

When most people had arrived, clan leader Deng Shian came to the stage and said, "Dear brothers and nephews of the clan, I have called you all here for a clan meeting today. The main purpose is to discuss with you the successor to the clan leader."

As soon as I heard the beginning, the audience went wild.

"Secretary, what do you mean by that? Aren't you going to be the head of our clan?"

"Secretary, aren't you doing a good job as the clan leader? Why are you suddenly holding a clan meeting to discuss the successor?"

"Secretary, has something happened?"

"secretary……"

Deng Shian stretched out his hand and pressed it lightly. When everyone quieted down, he smiled and said, "Don't get excited. Nothing happened. I'm just getting old and my health is getting worse. I want to choose a new head of our Naye Deng family while I still have energy. This way, even if I'm gone one day, I can live up to my ancestors."

After these words were spoken, the tribesmen were speechless.

After all, in this era, there are not many people in the village who can live over 60 years old. The clan leader is already over 60 years old, so it is normal for him to choose to abdicate and let others take over.

"Our Deng family's ancestor, Deng Mangong, was named Deyang and was from Nanyang, Henan."

At such an important moment of the handover of the clan leader, Deng Shian naturally had to briefly talk about the history of the Naye Deng clan: "Deng Man's original surname was Man. During the Shang Dynasty, he assisted his nephew King Wu Ding in governing the country and was granted the title of Marquis of the Deng State (known in Chinese history as the Man surname Deng State). It has a history of more than 3,300 years."

After hearing the clan leader introduce the history of the Naye Deng clan, all the clan members, including Deng Shirong, listened quietly.

"Deng State existed from the Shang Dynasty to the Zhou Dynasty, and experienced 22 emperors. After more than 670 years, it was destroyed by the Chu State. The descendants of Duke Man took the country as their surname, which is the origin of our surname Deng."

As the head of the Naye Deng clan, Deng Shian naturally had to spend some time researching this, so he could talk about the clan's history fluently: "During the reign of Emperor Wu of the Jin Dynasty, due to wars or official transfers, the 57th ancestor You Gong, whose courtesy name was Bodao, moved to Ge Teng'ao, Shibizhai, Ninghua County, Tingzhou, Fujian. The 91st ancestor Yu Gong was a Jinshi and served in the Ministry of Personnel. He moved to Fuzhou and settled in Zhuji Lane, Putian County.

In the third year of Yuanyou in the Song Dynasty (1088), the 93rd ancestor, Mr. Diao, moved from Fujian to Shangjing Dengyinpo, Lianjiang, Guangdong to start a business.

The 94th ancestor Kang Huo knew that Youfangdong in Lianjiang was a place with "beautiful mountains and clear waters, and perfect five elements", so he moved from Shangjing to Youfang to live.

The 96th generation ancestor Zhiyuan, whose courtesy name was Faxian, had four sons with his grandmother Lan. He was the founding ancestor of our Naye Deng family. In the middle of the Ming Dynasty (around 1500 AD), he moved with his wife and children from Youfangdong to Nabili Bishi. Later, because the house was too small, they moved to Naye Luoye to settle down.

The 97th generation Duke Wenming is the first generation ancestor of the Deng family in Naye. I think everyone knows what happened next, so I won’t say more. ”

Only a few members present knew the history of the clan. Most of them only knew that the Deng family of Naye moved from Shangjing and Youfang, but they had no idea about the history before that. Now after hearing what the clan leader said, they realized that the ancestor of the Deng family was actually from Henan, which was really strange.

Deng Shian briefly talked about the history of the Naye Deng family, and briefly mentioned the development of the Deng family in the Bangjie Brigade. Then he invited Deng Shirong to the stage and said, "Now, I recommend the ninth brother Deng Shirong to be the head of our Naye Deng family. I believe that under his leadership, the development of our Naye Deng family will get better and better. What do you think?"

If he wanted to recommend another member of the tribe to be the tribe leader, Deng Shian would definitely not use such a simple and crude method with his skills, because if not many people agree, or if some tribe members oppose it on the spot, it would be a big blow to his prestige.

Therefore, the best way is to inform everyone privately first, and then recommend it after gaining the support of the majority of the tribesmen.

But the person recommended by Deng Shian was the ninth brother, Deng Shirong, so there was no need to communicate with anyone privately, because with the ninth brother's prestige in the clan, he would definitely be the popular choice to be the clan leader, and no one would have any objection.

And it turned out that Deng Shian's idea was correct.

"So Jiugong is the clan leader. I agree with this."

"If Uncle Jiu becomes the clan leader, I will be 100% convinced."

"Indeed, there is no one more suitable than Jiu Gong to be the head of our Naye Deng clan."

“…”

Hundreds of clan members in the audience knew that the new clan leader was Deng Shirong, and every one of them expressed their approval.

Deng Shian had long anticipated that letting Lao Jiu be the clan leader would be very smooth, but when he saw the reactions of the clan members, he still felt emotional in his heart. This prestige was really unparalleled. If he did not have the identity of a brigade secretary, his prestige in the clan would probably not be as high as Lao Jiu's.

"Okay, since everyone has no objection, I declare that from now on, the head of our Ye Deng clan is Lao Jiu. Please allow our new clan head to speak."

Upon hearing this, applause and cheers broke out instantly.

Deng Shirong stretched out his hand and pressed it lightly. When everyone was quiet, he said, "Thank you for the recommendation of the old clan leader, and thank you for the trust of all the clan members. Since you are willing to let me be the clan leader, I will definitely do my best to lead everyone out of poverty and into prosperity."

(End of this chapter)