""Cousin and nephew's wedding banquet observes the most respected people in my hometown village"."
In recent years, I have settled in the county seat, and I rarely participate in the celebrations and joys and sorrows in the village, and even my son does most of the activities in the family. Because I feel that I am already a sixty-year-old man, and I have quit drinking and smoking for physical reasons, and I am not very suitable for this kind of lively occasion. However, the son went out on business, and the cousin's wedding banquet the day before yesterday had to be attended in person.
On such occasions, as a member of the clan, regardless of status, the host must first warm up the guests who come from afar, and then sit down to enjoy the feast. Nowadays, most wedding banquets are held in hotels, and professional waiters take care of them, so they no longer need too much hard work from their families.
This time, the presiding officer was the village elder, who told me to enter the private room according to the list, and I humbly excused myself, emphasizing that I was only a member of the family and was not qualified to enter the private room. However, the elder deacon said while pushing: "Those of you who have a certain status all sit in the private room, and everyone is more harmonious together and has a common language. ”
I said self-deprecatingly: "I just run a small plastic factory in the county, and the business is mediocre, what kind of identity can I be?" As he spoke, he pushed me into the private room. All of them were from the same village of the same age, and after greeting each other, they began to talk intimately, waiting for the food to be served.
As I looked around the table, I was surprised to find that at least half of the people who had once gained notoriety in the village and had amassed wealth through various means were now honored and respected by the people. I couldn't help but feel a burst of emotion in my heart: society has developed to the point where "rich is an uncle". 
Today I met Chief Liu Heng, who was the leader of the town's civil affairs department more than ten years ago. At that time, he handled a lot of low-income households for a leader in the village in violation of regulations, and in exchange, he contracted more than 100 acres of tidal flats on both sides of the Wen River in the village at a low price in the name of his father.
The method used by Liu Heng was to notify the villagers through loudspeakers at night, and the next day they immediately implemented an open tender. The successful bidder was required to make the payment on the spot and immediately sign a contract for a period of twenty years. With time being tight, who can prepare a large sum of money overnight? As a result, Liu Heng already knew the inside story and instructed his father to win the bid with a price as low as 200,000 yuan.
Subsequently, the sale of river sand alone made him millions of dollars. At that time, the river sand resources had been strictly controlled, and only people with superb means like Liu Heng had the ability to obtain this huge amount of money.
Once the river sand is sold out, the 100 acres of tidal flats become fertile river silt land, suitable for planting fast-growing poplar trees, which can be cut down once in seven or eight years, and it is very profitable.
However, Liu Heng was so greedy that he was unable to be satisfied, and he got involved in some improper affairs during his tenure, which led to the East Window Incident and was sentenced to six years in prison.
After his release from prison, although he lost all his retirement benefits, he learned that this fast-growing forest was about to enter the logging season, and he earned another 500,000 yuan at a time. He then quickly planted tens of thousands of saplings, waiting for another handsome return in six or seven years.
During his imprisonment, he was also suppressed by the village forces, who launched an investigation into him, but it was eventually discovered that the contractor of the forest land was his father and had been obtained through a due bidding process. The conclusion is that this is compliant and legal and cannot be questioned.
Today's Liu Heng, except for driving a luxury car to the city to visit his son, lives a luxurious life most of the time, and enjoys fine clothes and food in a two-story building in the village.
Initially, the residents of the village were indignant at his kindness in taking care of the disadvantaged in the name of **, because it was money used to help the old, weak, sick and disabled. However, now he has to admit his ability, and they have praised the old saying "dogs eat poop all over the world, and tigers eat meat all over the world", and their admiration for Liu Heng is overflowing.
Sitting on Liu Heng's left side is Wang Jingfu, a person who has been lazy and lazy since childhood, tricky and eccentric, and flamboyant. After dividing the land and working alone, most of the villagers worked hard to cultivate the land, but he did not think so. He has always believed that you can never get rich by farming the land, and that in the history of mankind, there are almost no people who have lived a prosperous life by farming.
So, Wang Jingfu finally came up with a way to get rich. Faced with the strict implementation of the family planning policy at that time, as well as people's pursuit of having a son, he started a promotion program called "Changing Pills" to give birth to boys.
At first, many people didn't believe it, so he used his eloquent mouth to claim that he was an ancestral court physician, a tried-and-true cure. He also solemnly promised that if he could not give birth to a boy, he would not charge a penny, but if a boy was born, everyone could give it voluntarily according to their conscience.
At the same time, he also elaborated on the best time to take the drug and the many contraindications he made up for taking the drug. This can't help but make families who want to have an early baby boy flock to it.
Soon, he spread the word about his "magic pill" in countless villages. After the pregnant women who had used his medicine gave birth, he went to harvest the "leeks". He first went to the village where he distributed medicine, asked some old women about which family had a male baby, and then went door to door to ask for "funds".
Even he himself did not expect such a rich return. Grateful people put it one after another.
Five. Ten or one hundred bills were sent to his pocket. Of course, you know that this money is now in the tens of thousands.
Most of these people believe that it was through his medicine that he succeeded in giving birth to a boy, avoiding the catastrophe of violating the family planning policy. However, they ignore the common sense that the probability of having a boy or a girl is basically balanced.
King Fook has also met families who have used other drugs but have not given birth to male babies, but these people usually stop arguing on the grounds that the timing of the drug is inaccurate or that it violates the contraindications of the medication. If he encounters a village that uses his medicine, and basically all pregnant women give birth to boys, then he naturally becomes a miracle doctor in everyone's mind, and the residents of this village become his free advertising promoters. As a result, Gyeongbokg's fame spread rapidly in a short period of time, and what he didn't expect was that it had become very easy to make a fortune.
In the first decade of the last century, 10,000 households in rural areas were already considered rich, and he had already surpassed several times, dozens of times, or even hundreds of times. To name such a number, people may be in disbelief. Until ten years ago, and even now, there were some stupid people** who bought his "miracle medicine", although Jing Fu had already made a lot of money, he just laughed it off and ignored it.
He was an outspoken man, and he occasionally told the villagers stories about things that ordinary people thought were unsightly. After speaking, he concluded by telling everyone: "This is an era of daring adventures, a society in which rich people are heroes and poor people are bears. ”
Of course, this person still has many stories of making money by using unspoken rules and legal edges, so I will not repeat them here. Today, in our village of four or five thousand people, he runs a sizable supermarket, attracting people from more than a dozen surrounding villages to shop, and the business is extremely hot.
During the New Year's Festival, people in the village can get rich gifts when shopping. He has transformed from a speculative villain to a successful man in the village.
People's impression of him has also changed from a villain who has been abducted and deceived to a capable person with economic acumen, and even a good person. If he hadn't felt that there was no profit in the village and resolutely refused, I am afraid that he would have become the number one in the village long ago.
The one sitting on the right side of the guest of honor also started by selling fake fertilizers back then, and although he suffered a huge fine, he earned more than the fine. Now a fairly large agricultural materials wholesale supermarket has been opened in the town, and the annual agricultural material throughput amount has reached tens of millions of yuan. In short, there are almost no good people in this private room, and their first pot of gold carries original sin.
This strange era has made them, but this group of vested interests is not grateful.
In a burst of wine glasses, everyone spoke freely, and Liu Heng was even more unscrupulous to discuss national affairs and say some groundless and ridiculous conspiracy theories. Others chimed in, followed by a fierce game on the mahjong table, and finally indulgent talks about women and sex.
I could no longer stand the dreary atmosphere in the private room, and the ugly faces of the group. I walked out of the room and took a deep breath, feeling a little better.
The original simple folk customs of advocating virtue and hard work and doing good deeds in the village have long since ceased to exist. From old to young, from men to women, people are convinced that rich is an uncle, rich is a hero, and even a good person, worthy of respect. If these wealthy people become local village sages or even leaders in the future, the future of the countryside can be imagined. 