After dinner, Liu Yuanchao and driver Wang Ge found an excuse to go back to rest, leaving only the Li family behind.

Because there were more villagers in the village at noon, the fourth grandfather and his family came over and didn’t talk much. It was only now that they had time to sit down.

The fourth master, Li Juncai, is already in his early seventies this year. He fell down when he went to the commune to report work the year before last, and his half-life as village chief came to an end.

During the conversation, Li Wen learned that the old man was now responsible for inspecting the handicrafts sent by the members in the village, and the team also received a subsidy of more than ten yuan every month.

The old man has been a village cadre in Sanxing Village all his life, and he is selfless. This job is very suitable for the old man, and it can be regarded as continuing to shine for the village.

The Fourth Master's two sons are now responsible for the management and transportation of handicraft workshops in the brigade. They also earn thirty or forty yuan a month. They can also take care of the family, and their income is no worse than that of urban workers.

Of the five grandsons, two have grown up. One, the old man, used his connections to become a clerk in the commune, and the other, relying on connections from the Li Wen family, became a glorious worker in the city's electric power company.

In addition to taking care of the housework at home, the other two aunts also make some handicrafts with other women in the village and earn a lot of money every year.

Now the old man's family also has a bicycle and a sewing machine. The village received dividends a few days ago, and the brigade also approved a radio ticket for the old man's family. The old man's family is preparing to go to the county to buy them in the next few days.

To be able to own three of the New Four items that were announced in the late 1970s in the early 1970s can be said to be very impressive.

It can be said that the life of Fourth Master Li Wen and his family has been quite prosperous in recent years.

After getting to know each other, Li Wen, as a relative, was very happy that everyone was doing well.

After chatting with the Fourth Master and his family, Li Wen briefly asked about the life and conditions of the villagers.

Li Juncai has been a village cadre in the village all his life and knows the situation of every household in the village. When he heard Li Wen's inquiry, he naturally talked non-stop and looked excited.

"Awen! You don't know that our Samsung Village has become very developed in recent years.

Since the birth of your Kirin son in our Samsung Li family, the lives of our members have undergone earth-shaking changes.

Let’s not talk about other things. It turns out that when farming in the village, people’s oil is really exchanged for food! Every time farming and harvesting are completed, the people in the village are very tired, and many strong laborers die of exhaustion because they don’t have enough to eat.

It’s different now. Our brigade is the only mechanized production brigade in the entire county. Our village has electricity, water pumps for watering the ground, tractors for farming, and handheld harvesters and wheat threshers for harvesting.

Nowadays, our village only needs one week to finish all the farming work every season. It is no longer like in the past, it takes half a month or even a month to plant a field and harvest grain.

Just like this, after working on the land in our village, the tractor driver in the village will take our agricultural machinery to other brigades to earn extra money.

During the slack season, our village still has its own handicraft industry. The brigade has a special cooperative that distributes tasks to village members so that everyone can make money.

Now the members of our village are no longer like before, eating one meal but not finishing another, and being unable to cheer up for anything they do all day long.

Nowadays, villagers dare not say that they can eat a meal of white flour, but if they have enough cornmeal every day, it is still okay to eat a meal of white flour every three to five days.

Moreover, life has been getting better in the past few years. Most of the village members have demolished their mud houses and built brick houses like your uncle's or yours.

Because our village brigade handles foreign exchange orders, the province attaches great importance to it, and bicycle tickets are issued every year after inspections.

Some time ago, I had some time to count with some old guys in the village. Now there are a total of eighteen bicycles in the village.

A few days ago, the village distributed dividends and awarded four more bicycle tickets. By then, our team will have more than 20 bicycles!

In the past few years, grandpa and I have held our heads high every time I went to a commune meeting, and I was no longer afraid of being laughed at by the Wangjiacun people in the commune.

This is the prestige and status of our village among eight villages within a ten-mile radius now." The old man said, proudly giving a thumbs up.

Li Wen knew that letting the villagers have enough to eat and live a good life was the old man's greatest pride during his tenure.

Not only the old man, but also he himself was very happy about such changes in his hometown and sincerely wished his hometown well.

But I am happy, but Li Wen still has to pour cold water on me.

In the past two years, inspired by Sanxing Village, all parts of the country have been vigorously developing handicrafts. In many places, to be honest, they are no worse than Sanxing Village.

Many southern regions represented by Wenzhou are even better than their predecessors. Many of them have surpassed Sanxing Village in terms of craftsmanship, and the prices are lower than Sanxing Village.

On the other hand, here in Sanxing Village! Apart from sticking to the styles given by Li Wen when he left a few years ago, there is no other innovation.

If the purchaser were not Li Wen's own company, and Li Wen had made a request to purchase products from Sanxing Village, the acquisition department would no longer purchase products from Sanxing Village.

So after everyone was happy, Li Wen took the lead in pouring dirty water on everyone and told everyone about the leading position of southern handicrafts in recent years.

"Fourth Master, you can't hold and eat a steamed bun for a lifetime.

If our village continues to cling to the idea of ​​resting on its laurels and continue with this muddled mentality, once the things purchased by my friend cannot be sold, my favor will be used up." Li Wen sighed.

When everyone heard that this business was coming to an end, they immediately panicked.

"Awen, what should we do? Thousands of people in our village depend on this for their livelihood!"

"Yes! Xiaowen, you must help the folks in the village!"

"Xiao Wen, we are uneducated and don't understand this. You are the Qilin son of our Li family! You should think of a solution quickly."

Everyone looked at Li Wen with worried faces. For a while, the only thing in the room was quiet was the burning sound of wood in the stove.

When Li Wen saw that everyone was panicking, he changed his attitude of not knowing how high the sky was and how thick the ground was, and he secretly laughed in his heart.

In fact, Li Wen was just trying to scare the elders.

Those handicrafts such as brooms, mats, baskets, etc., even if the skills are good, the quality is limited.

Whether he accepts it or not is not a matter of Li Wen's word, and it won't mean that he can't sell it, causing Li Wen to lose money. At most, he won't make any money by selling it at a fair price, which will benefit the villagers.

Besides, even if he loses money, it's only one to two million Hong Kong dollars a year, which is a piece of cake for him. One of his Rolls-Royces costs more than this.

Li Wen was well aware of the allusion of friendship and enmity, so he could not support the village endlessly and let them suck blood from him.
Chapter completed!