Chapter 511: Bad news, the sky is falling!

In a blink of an eye, it was the 28th day of the twelfth lunar month.

This is the last clan meeting of the Naye Deng family this year. Today's meeting is the same as in previous years. First, financial aid will be given to outstanding students in the clan, and secondly, the much-anticipated group dividends will be distributed.

The clan meeting held at the end of each year is considered the most important clan meeting of the Naye Deng clan.

Only clan members come to participate in the clan meetings held on ordinary days, but for the dividend distribution clan meeting at the end of the year, 99% of the aunts will return to their parents' homes to participate. It can be said that this is the time when the most people come throughout the year.

Moreover, the annual clan meeting of the Naye Deng family has been held for many years and has long been famous throughout the town. Not only those who live far away, but also those who live nearby will rush over to join in the fun and watch the Naye Deng family distribute dividends when they have nothing to do.

Although they were greatly stimulated every time they watched it, every time the Naye Deng family's year-end clan meeting started, they couldn't help but come and watch.

At this time, at the gate of the Naye Deng Ancestral Hall, in addition to the Naye Deng clan members and my aunt, there were at least two to three thousand people rushing to watch. The scene was crowded and very lively.

In the crowd, Deng Yunzhu was talking to her second sister-in-law. Knowing that her second sister-in-law would also stay in her hometown to celebrate the New Year this year, Deng Yunzhu brought her husband and children to her parents' home to celebrate the New Year.

Deng Yunzhen was also talking to her eldest sister-in-law. When her parents-in-law were still alive, they would naturally return to their hometown in Songwang Town to celebrate the New Year. But since her parents-in-law passed away, the couple rarely returned to Songwang Town to celebrate the New Year, and always returned to her mother's home to celebrate the New Year.

Feng Yingying was talking to her fourth sister-in-law who was holding a child. She had just married into the Deng family, and this was her first clan meeting.

The third generation including Xiaodong'er, Dongzi, Zhu Shiba, Xiaoshitou and Amao are also here.

When the scholarships were being distributed, Xiao Dong'er went on stage amid the envious gazes of his younger brothers and received the highest award together with several tribesmen.

Seeing this scene, Feng Yingying couldn't help but ask: "Fourth sister-in-law, has our clan always attached so much importance to education?"

Fan Yuemei nodded and said, "Since my father became the head of the clan, he has taken the lead in organizing this scholarship award. It has been more than ten years now. I heard that many clan members who received scholarship awards in the early years have been admitted to middle school, college and university, and many talents have emerged!"

Feng Yingying said with emotion: "Education is the foundation of a long-term plan. Dad has fully understood this truth. With a leader like Dad, it will be hard for the Ye Deng Group not to prosper!"

While the two sisters-in-law were talking in a low voice, all the scholarships on the stage had been distributed.

Next, the clan meeting entered the second topic and began to distribute dividends to the sisters.

This year, each aunt still received a dividend of 3,600 yuan.

This amount of money is really not small.

Nowadays, the salary of a waiter in a restaurant in a rural area is only about 150 yuan a month, while the average salary of my aunts is 300 yuan a month, which is enough to pay for two waiters.

Such an income is enough to support a family in the countryside.

Of course, it is impossible to get rich with this income.

Deng Shirong understood the principle that it is better to teach a man to fish than to give him a fish. When he proposed to distribute dividends to the aunts, his original intention was to give them a guaranteed income. This would greatly improve the status of the young aunts in their husband's family and allow the elderly aunts to have no worries about food and clothing and enjoy their old age.

If they want to get rich, they have to rely on their own efforts.

The sisters were very happy when they received the dividends and were sincerely grateful for the care given to them by the clan.

There may be ungrateful people who think their tribe gives them too little in return in other places, but this rarely happens in Bobai County.

Because the rural areas in Bobai County have always believed in a saying, that is, "A married daughter is like spilled water", and marrying a daughter is also called selling a daughter. Not to mention that these girls have already married, even the girls who have not yet married have understood one thing early on, that is, their parents' property is left to their older brothers or younger brothers, and has nothing to do with them.

Similarly, supporting parents is the son’s responsibility and has nothing to do with married daughters.

It is precisely because of this kind of custom in the rural areas of Bobai County that boys are valued more than girls. No matter now or in the future, they must give birth to sons. If they cannot, they will keep giving birth and will not stop until they have a son.

In this atmosphere, the clan can give them dividends for free, so the sisters are naturally grateful. How could they complain that the clan gives them too little? After distributing dividends to the sisters, the next step is to distribute dividends to the clan members.

Although she had been mentally prepared, Feng Yingying was still shocked when she saw the clan members coming up on stage one by one to receive their dividends, and the amount of dividends was getting higher and higher. There were actually quite a few clan members who received dividends of tens of millions or even hundreds of millions. The wealth of the Ye Deng family was really beyond her imagination.

In the end, the one who got the most out of it was the father-in-law, who received a dividend of 40 million yuan, which Feng Yingying thought was reasonable.

This clan meeting opened Feng Yingying's eyes.

After the clan meeting ended and Feng Yingying returned home, she couldn't help but call her cousin.

After the call was connected and they greeted each other, Feng Yingying told her cousin about today's Naye Deng clan meeting. At the end, she said, "Sister, the Naye Deng clan is really amazing. You might as well marry into their clan. There are many unmarried young men in the clan. Do you want me to help you find one?"

Feng Xuelin was speechless and said, "You are acting as a matchmaker for me. I know that Old Deng has a very high seniority in the clan. If I also marry into the Deng family, I will be either a nephew or a grandson. Do you want to be my elder?"

Feng Yingying laughed and said, "How can that be possible? Sister, even if you marry me, we can still talk about our own affairs."

Feng Xuelin refused, "Come on, I won't give you the chance to be my elder. It's okay if you want to introduce me to someone, but find someone else who's suitable. I will definitely not marry Ye Deng."

Feng Yingying smiled and said, "Okay then, I'll keep an eye out for you later to see if there's a suitable candidate."

Feng Xuelin said, "You decide for yourself. Anyway, I'm still studying and in no hurry to get married. When are you going to start your bubble tea shop?"

Feng Yingying said: "We'll start after the Chinese New Year and when we get back to Guangzhou."

Feng Xuelin said enviously, "Your business sounds promising. Your in-laws have already fed you. If you still can't run it, don't say you are a top student who graduated from Xi'an Jiaotong University. That would be too embarrassing."

Feng Yingying smiled confidently and said, "Don't worry, sister. I will definitely be able to run this milk tea chain store well."

Feng Xuelin encouraged her, "Work hard. When I don't want to be a doctor anymore, I'll come to you for help."

Feng Yingying smiled and said, "I couldn't ask for more..."

The two sisters had originally had a very good relationship, and now that Feng Yingying was able to marry into the Deng family, thanks to Feng Xuelin's matchmaking, their relationship has become even better. The two chatted for nearly twenty minutes before hanging up the phone with a feeling of unfulfilled desire.

At the end of every year, making rice dumplings and offering sacrifices to various gods are essential parts of the festival. Tribe members who work away from home also rush back to celebrate the New Year, making the festival much more lively than usual.

The main reason is that people of this generation are very obsessed with going home for the New Year, unlike people in later generations who bought houses outside and are not very willing to go back to their hometown for the New Year.

Especially those born in the 2000s and even 2010s, many of them grew up outside and have no experience of living in their hometowns in the countryside. Their sense of belonging to their hometowns is getting weaker and weaker. Now that their elders are around, they will follow their parents back to their hometowns to celebrate the New Year.

Once the elders are gone, it is estimated that their connection with their hometown will be cut off.

As the Spring Festival approaches, the most popular places in each village are the stalls.

The so-called stall is a place for gambling.

Although gambling was banned in this era, the intensity of the ban was nothing compared to that of later generations.

Especially during the Spring Festival, each village would openly openly gamble in the most popular places, and the police station would not arrest them. If people dared to do this in the future, they would definitely not be able to have the New Year's Eve dinner this Spring Festival, and would only be able to eat jail food.

In the previous life, the Naye Deng family naturally had no shortage of stalls, but in this life, since Deng Shirong issued a ban on gambling for the entire family, stalls have never appeared again in the area where the Naye Deng family is located.

Because even small gambling for pleasure is banned, the Naye Deng clan has indeed lost a lot of entertainment activities. Over the years, they have basically spent the Spring Festival eating and drinking. The only activity is playing Upgrade (Tractor), which is the most popular poker game of the Naye Deng clan, and men, women, young and old all participate.

Deng Shirong's daughter and daughter-in-law are also fans of upgrading.

On New Year's Eve, after offering sacrifices to the great-grandfather and having a reunion dinner, Zhang Xiuping, the eldest sister-in-law, began to make arrangements and teamed up with her aunts and sisters-in-law to play the upgrade game.

Deng Shirong drank and chatted with his eldest brother and his sons and nephews. During this time, Deng Yungui, Deng Yunqiang, Deng Yunfeng and others, who had almost finished eating and drinking with their families at home, also rushed over to have a drink with Uncle Jiu. This is also a regular program every year.

Seeing his daughter and daughter-in-law start to level up, Deng Shirong thought that the tribesmen now have too few ways to entertain themselves, so he said to Deng Yungui and others, "There are not many ways to entertain people in the village now. I want to add some entertainment for everyone. Do you have any interest in investing in it?"

Deng Yungui asked: "Uncle Jiu, what kind of entertainment can we add?"

Deng Shirong took a sip of tea and said, "First of all, the cinema. Although there is a cinema in Shuangwangxu, it is already very backward. I want to build a luxurious cinema in the village so that the tribesmen can watch movies when they are free. This is also a very good way of entertainment.

If you are interested in investing, then you can do it. If you are not interested in investing, then let the group invest directly. Anyway, my goal is to provide more entertainment projects for the tribesmen and enrich their lives. "

Deng Yunqiang's heart moved, and he asked, "Uncle Jiu, do you think this cinema is worth doing?"

Deng Shirong smiled and said, “Back then, if the production team invited a projection team to come to the village to show movies, basically everyone who got the news would rush over to watch it. You have all experienced that scene, so I don’t need to explain it in detail.

Most people like watching movies.

Of course, that’s because it’s free, so many people come to watch the movie. If it were charged, there wouldn’t be so many people watching.

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If we build a luxury cinema in the village, the movie tickets may be sold at a higher price. Apart from our tribesmen who can afford to watch the movies, I am afraid that not many people in other villages will be willing to spend so much money to watch a movie.

So I can’t say for sure whether this cinema can make money.”

Deng Yunqiang shook his head when he heard this and said, "Forget it. Even Uncle Jiu doesn't dare to say that this cinema can make money, so I won't do it."

Deng Yungui said with a smile: "Uncle Jiu, we definitely don't dare to do a business that you are not sure of, so let the group invest directly!"

Deng Shirong nodded and said, "Okay, then let the group invest later."

Deng Yungui asked: "Uncle Jiu, besides this cinema, what other projects do you have?"

Deng Shirong said, "Nightclubs outside are booming right now. Are you interested in opening a nightclub in the village?"

Deng Yungui had also traveled far and had some experience. Hearing this, he was a little surprised and said, "Uncle Jiu, this nightclub doesn't seem to have a good reputation outside. Wouldn't it be inappropriate to run this in the village?"

Deng Shirong said: "Nightclubs outside have a bad reputation because the positioning of nightclubs is related to the guests. Those nightclubs with bad reputations are full of prostitution and gambling. Most of the people who go to such nightclubs are these three types of people, so naturally they make the nightclubs smoky and chaotic.

But in our village, when we open a nightclub, prostitution, gambling and drugs are definitely prohibited. It is just a place for drinking, singing, dancing and watching performances. Most of the customers are members of our Ye Deng clan, so naturally there won’t be any filthy things happening.”

Deng Yungui nodded and said, "Uncle Jiu's words make sense, but I don't know if it can make money."

Deng Shirong smiled and said, "It shouldn't be a problem for this nightclub to make money, but it's definitely not as profitable as those nightclubs outside."

Deng Yunfeng said: "Every household in our Naye Deng family has money now, and many people in administrative villages such as Zhouwang, Naqing, and Zengcun have also made money because of the establishment of Naye Film and Television City. In addition, the medical staff in the hospital also have a high income, so there should be quite a few customers."

Deng Shirong added: "Yunfeng, you forgot to take into account the crews that come to our film and television city to shoot movies and TV series. Those big stars and directors are not short of money. They will definitely be the main consumers of nightclubs in the future."

Deng Yungui said with some excitement: "In that case, this nightclub is really worth opening."

Deng Yunqiang asked, "Uncle Jiu, the investment in this nightclub should cost a lot of money, right?"

Deng Shirong nodded and said, "The investment in this nightclub is indeed not a small amount, and it is not easy to run it well. Anyway, you guys can do it. If you are interested, you can run it in partnership. If you think it is troublesome, let the group invest directly."

"Well, let's discuss it later and find someone to estimate how much investment is needed to open a nightclub."

"Even if I participate in the investment, I can only invest a few hundred thousand at most. I dare not invest more than that."

"Let someone who knows the business come back and give us an estimate first!"

“…”

A few people discussed things while eating and drinking, and did not leave until around three in the afternoon.

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Eight o'clock in the evening.

Deng Shirong and his sons, daughters and daughters-in-law sat in front of the TV to watch the Spring Festival Gala. Since the inception of the Spring Festival Gala, their family has never missed a single one, and it has long become a regular program for their family on New Year's Eve.

This year, the advertisements for the hourly time announcements during the Spring Festival Gala are no longer from brands under the Deng Group, but from other brands.

The brand under Deng Group won the CCTV bid for two consecutive times. However, for the third time, Deng Shirong did not personally participate in the bidding. Instead, he sent other people from the group to participate as representatives, and the bid price could not exceed 250 million yuan. This actually meant that he gave up the third CCTV bid.

Because the advertising price of the third CCTV bidding winner in the previous life soared to more than 300 million yuan, this price was really too outrageous, so Deng Shirong had no intention of getting involved.

This year is 1997, and the Spring Festival Gala naturally includes programs related to Hong Kong's return. Dong Wenhua sang "Spring Story". The whole country is looking forward to the moment of Hong Kong's return, including the old man who led Hong Kong's return.

However, when listening to the song "Spring Story", Deng Shirong felt a little uncomfortable.

At this time, he was probably the only one in the country who knew that the old man who was deeply loved by the people of the whole country was about to leave this beautiful world. He did not even live to see the Lantern Festival, nor could he see Hong Kong return to the embrace of the motherland with his own eyes. This was probably the biggest regret of his life.

After all, he really spent a lot of effort for the return of Hong Kong.

Moreover, Deng Shirong has benefited greatly from the reform and opening up advocated by him, both in his past life and this life.

Even all those who have become rich after the reform and opening up should thank Mr. Deng the most. If Mr. Deng had not presided over the reform and opening up, they would either receive a guaranteed salary from the unit or work diligently in the countryside to earn work points. How could they have achieved what they have today?

Even though people have not become rich, their lives have been getting better and better after the reform and opening up. It is no longer like before when they could only eat meat a few times a year and they could not even afford to eat rice. Every meal consisted of porridge and coarse grains. The contrast between the living standards before and after is really too obvious.

Watch the Spring Festival Gala, set off fireworks at midnight, and then offer sacrifices to Grandpa.

After completing these procedures, Deng Shirong, who had something on his mind, went back to sleep.

Next, when Deng Shirong and his children and daughters-in-law were celebrating the New Year, they kept following CCTV News. He hoped that his rebirth in this life would create a butterfly effect and have a little impact on Mr. Deng. Then perhaps a miracle would happen.

Of course, Deng Shirong knew in his heart that the possibility of this happening was extremely small, and he was just holding on to a tiny bit of hope in his heart.

Time soon came to the thirteenth day of the first lunar month, but naturally no miracle happened and the sky still collapsed!

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