Chapter 77. Documentary Life in the Forest: The Li Family, a Scholarly Family
"Stop!" As soon as Wang Meilan said this, the three people in the video team looked at her in shock. Su Xianglian and Liu Guihai didn't react, but it was Hou Jinglin who shouted stop.
Through these two days of contact, the three people in the video team knew that Wang Meilan was a good person, and these families were also good people.
But Naochi is not so nagging, and he still shoots him with swords and guns. Is your son Taizu of the Song Dynasty? Are you going to conquer the country?
"Huh?" Wang Meilan was startled. She was talking vigorously, so why did she stop?
"Auntie, you can't say things like that." Su Xianglian said, "It's easy for people to misunderstand you if you say things like that."
"That's not good!" Liu Guihai said with a smile: "Sister-in-law, you are talking like a beard. If you don't know, you think your son is robbing the house."
"That's not true!" Wang Meilan was unhappy and said: "My son makes money from hunting. My son kills a blind man and sells it for a thousand yuan..."
Hearing Wang Meilan's bad tone, Liu Guihai was about to apologize, but Wang Meilan said: "Isn't this more profitable than a beard? It's not like I didn't know that beard in the past, all the poor people were planting cigarette gourds in the valley
,If my father hadn’t helped them..."
"Mom! Mom!" Zhou Jianjun quickly stopped Wang Meilan, and then explained to the video team: "Our eldest grandpa helped the Anti-Japanese Alliance in the past."
"Ah..." Su Xianglian thought for a while and said to Wang Meilan: "Auntie, let's turn on the phone again soon, and then I'll ask you again, tell me how much money your family, my little brother Zhao Jun, earns from hunting."
After Su Xianglian's correction, Wang Meilan corrected her inappropriate choice of words and re-summarized her family's main source of income.
Following the conversation, Su Xianglian talked about Wang Meilan's son, the Zhao family's good life now, and the Zhao family's five large tile-roofed houses and Yishui's household appliances.
As Su Xianglian said she was going to visit the Zhao family's new house, the filming of the Zhao family's old house came to an end for the time being.
Liu Guihai's side turned off the phone, and Wang Meilan took her girl, uncle, and grandson to her new house to wait. However, the video team went next door first to shoot footage of the Li family.
"Is there anyone at home?" The camera followed Su Xianglian into the door and saw Jin Xiaomei sitting in front of the pot picking fungus.
"Oops!" Jin Xiaomei pretended to be surprised, stood up and asked, "Who are you?"
"Hello, aunt." Su Xianglian said politely: "We are from Shanhe TV Station. We came to our Yong'an Forest District today to record an episode of the new life of the people in the forest area."
"Ah? From the TV station?" Jin Xiaomei looked full of surprise and said, "Please come in quickly, please come in quickly."
With that said, Jin Xiaomei raised her hand to invite people into the room.
Su Xianglian walked into the east room of the Li family with a smile on her face. The moment she entered the door, she was stunned.
In the east room of the Li family, there was a kang table on the kang. Li Xiaoqiao was leaning on the kang table, writing calligraphy in calligraphy.
Li Ruhai stood on the ground, hands behind her back, watching her sister write.
At this time, Jin Xiaomei smiled beside Su Xianglian and said, "We haven't tidied up the house yet, don't worry about it."
"Haha." Su Xianglian laughed dryly. The furniture and furnishings in the Li family's house were more elegant than the Zhao family's old house next door.
This is because the Zhao family will move to a new house next year, so the old house has not been tidied up much and the furniture is also old.
But the Li family is different. Next year Li Baoyu will separate and live alone, and Li Dayong and his family of four will have to continue living in this family.
So while I was cleaning up the house for Li Baoyu, the Li family also did some simple tidying up. Although the furniture in the house was not redone, it was all covered with beeswax.
And in the fall, the window frames, door frames, and door panels were freshly painted.
But the house is not important, the key is the Li brothers and sisters. Li Xiaoqiao knelt down on the cotton mat and wrote calligraphy in a decent manner.
Li Ruhai wore a marmot hat, army hook shoes, and a Chinese tunic suit. He had his hands behind his back and a pen in his collar pocket. Su Xianglian felt that none of the station directors in her unit were so impressive.
Hearing Jin Xiaomei greet the guests into the room, Li Ruhai turned his head slightly, Li Xiaoqiao raised his head, and the brother and sister nodded to the camera almost at the same time.
Then, Li Xiaoqiao continued to write with her head down. Li Ruhai turned around and smiled at the camera.
Su Xianglian squinted her eyes, feeling strange in her heart, but she didn't find any big mistakes, so she had no choice but to continue acting.
"Auntie, what's your surname?" Su Xianglian asked Jin Xiaomei. Jin Xiaomei smiled and said, "My surname is Jin. My name is Jin Xiaomei."
"Are these two your son and daughter?" Su Xianglian asked again, and Jin Xiaomei nodded: "Yes, this is my youngest son..."
While speaking, Jin Xiaomei gestured to Li Ruhai with her hand. Li Ruhai immediately took over the conversation, smiled and cupped her hands to Su Xianglian, saying: "Suddenly, a distinguished guest came to the door. I'll be with you, Li Ruhai!"
Su Xianglian was startled, then Li Xiaoqiao, who was writing, looked up and said: "Ding is Ding, Lai Mao is Mao, and the little girl's name is Li Xiaoqiao."
Su Xianglian, Liu Guihai, Hou Jinglin: "..."
Jin Xiaomei looked at her son and daughter, and felt very unhappy. Why didn't these two unfilial children make arrangements for me?
"Haha." Su Xianglian smiled slightly awkwardly, looked at the only relatively normal person in the room, and said, "Auntie, your children are quite educated!"
"Ah..." Jin Xiaomei was about to speak when she heard Li Ruhai say: "A rich family doesn't need to buy fertile land. A good young man is knowledgeable."
"Huh?" Su Xianglian was startled, and then Li Xiaoqiao said: "Who said women are inferior to men? The reputation of being a scholar has been passed down for four generations."
Su Xianglian, Liu Guihai, Hou Jinglin: "..."
The three people in the video team were all confused. They filmed the Zhao family first, and then the Li family. This was all agreed upon in advance.
But these lines of the Li brothers and sisters were not discussed with the video team in advance.
But thinking of what Li Ruhai said, "You don't need to buy good land to be rich", and what Li Xiaoqiao said about "four generations of scholarly reputation", Su Xianglian's heart moved, and she thought about bringing the topic to the aspect of studying and improving, and broadcasting it would be considered a positive energy
.
Thinking of this, Su Xianglian smiled and said to Jin Xiaomei: "Auntie, these two children in your family are very good."
Jin Xiaomei grinned, the camera swept over, Li Ruhai and Li Xiaoqiao also smiled and nodded.
But as Jin Xiaomei asked Su Xianglian to sit down, Liu Guihai controlled the camera and swept forward, scanning the calligraphy written by Li Xiaoqiao.
The camera paused and moved quickly.
Liu Guihai wanted to curse, but Li Xiaoqiao was a little girl. Liu Guihai finally held back and complained in his heart: "The broken characters are like old cockroaches crawling!"
The old cockroach crawling is a local dialect, which means throwing the cockroach into the ink bottle, and then taking out the cockroach covered in ink and throwing it on the paper.
Cockroaches crawl around on the paper and rub their own ink on the paper, leaving irregular ink marks to describe the awkwardness of herringbone writing.
Liu Guihai glanced through the camera and saw Li Xiaoqiao, a fair and fair girl, lowering her head to write with a serious look on her face, which added a bit of tranquility to the atmosphere in the room.
But when he thought of the handwriting on the paper, the beautiful moment in front of Liu Guihai disappeared.
Unlike Liu Guihai, Su Xianglian's attention was mainly on Li Ruhai. She handed the microphone to Li Ruhai and proactively asked: "Comrade Xiao Li, what kind of books do you usually like to read?"
"Uh..." Li Ruhai rolled his eyes and said, "My reading is relatively complex, but I like to read hundreds of schools of thought the most."
"Ah?" Su Xianglian was shocked. It was a university question among various schools of thought.
She did not doubt the authenticity of Li Ruhai's words, because as long as a fourteen-year-old forest boy could mention the words "a hundred schools of thought", in Su Xianglian's opinion, he really understood!
Su Xianglian's cultural level is indeed not low. She faced the camera and talked eloquently: "From the moment we entered this home, we could feel the strong cultural atmosphere, which was rarely seen in the forest area before...
…”
When Su Xianglian said these words, Liu Guihai controlled the camera to scan the elegant Li Ruhai, the quiet calligraphy girl Li Xiaoqiao, the slightly antique cabinet of the Li family, and...
When the camera scanned a large pile of little human books, it paused and then quickly turned back to Su Xianglian.
Seeing Liu Guihai wink at her, Su Xianglian knew that Uncle Liu asked her to proceed quickly.
Although Su Xianglian didn't know what happened, she believed Liu Guihai.
"Auntie." Su Xianglian asked Jin Xiaomei with a smile, "I can see that your family's living standard is pretty good."
"Oh." Jin Xiaomei smiled and said, "It's not bad, our life has really gotten better in the past two years."
There is nothing wrong with what she said. Life at home has indeed been just over two years.
But in Su Xianglian's view, what Jin Xiaomei just said was very relevant to the theme, so she said to Jin Xiaomei: "Auntie, I see that our family has also bought a color TV, and it is also 21 inches."
At this time, the camera scanned the Li family's large color TV.
"Haha..." Jin Xiaomei smiled proudly, pointed to the door and said, "There is another one in that room."
Su Xianglian, Liu Guihai, Hou Jinglin: "..."
"Auntie, why did your family buy two TVs?" Su Xianglian asked in confusion. Jin Xiaomei didn't say that her eldest son was going to separate the family, she just said: "How about that? These children always watch TV and quarrel.
He wants to see this, he wants to see that.”
"Just because of this...buy two TVs?" Su Xianglian clicked her eyes, then smiled and said: "But from this we can see that the conditions of my aunt's family are indeed good."
"Haha..." Jin Xiaomei smiled happily.
Su Xianglian twitched the corner of her mouth slightly, and then asked: "Auntie, how many people are there in your family?"
"Five people." Jin Xiaomei said: "There are also children, his father and my eldest son."
"Then they are at work?" Su Xianglian asked knowingly, and Jin Xiaomei raised her hand vaguely and said, "Yeah, they have been very busy at work all day."
"Then what do they do?" Su Xianglian continued to ask, but compared to when she was at Zhao's house, Su Xianglian asked in a different way.
"My child's father's name is Li Dayong, and he works as a dispatcher in a forest farm." Jin Xiaomei did not forget to promote her man, saying: "My eldest son's name is Li Baoyu, and he works as a driver in a forest farm team."
"Auntie, may I ask?" Su Xianglian said, "How much are their salaries?"
"It's not inconvenient." Jin Xiaomei said: "My child's father can earn 121.4 yuan a month. My eldest son's salary plus subsidy is 42.85 cents."
This person is real and his answers are really detailed.
"This..." Su Xianglian's eyes scanned around the room and finally stopped at the 21-inch large color TV.
"Aunt, there are five people in your family?" When Su Xianglian said this, Jin Xiaomei nodded repeatedly, but then Su Xianglian asked: "Two people work, and their salary is less than 170 yuan, how can we maintain the current situation?"
What about life?"
"This..." Jin Xiaomei was about to answer, but Li Ruhai pulled her secretly. Jin Xiaomei understood what he was talking about, so she said, "My youngest son has also joined the work."
"Ah?" Su Xianglian was startled, then looked at Li Ruhai and said, "How old is Comrade Li before he starts working?"
When she asked this question, Li Ruhai raised his neck proudly.
"Yeah." Jin Xiaomei said from the side: "My family is like Ruhai, who is fourteen years old. I started class in November last year."
"Fourteen? Where do you go to class?" Su Xianglian asked, and Jin Xiaomei said: "At the forest farm."
"Forest farm?" Su Xianglian frowned and asked, "Can I do physical work at the age of fourteen?"
"It's not manual labor." Jin Xiaomei shook her head and said, "My son is a sect..."
"I'm the security officer." Li Ruhai quickly took over the topic, and Su Xianglian was stunned by his answer.
Security officer? You are fourteen years old, what can you protect? You can't even protect yourself.
But then, Li Ruhai said again: "He is also a trade union officer, and then he is also a propaganda officer."
After listening to Li Ruhai's words, Su Xianglian blinked in shock, wondering if Yong'an Forestry Farm was going to be pornographic?
But she did not forget the center of her interview, so she asked Li Ruhai: "Comrade Xiao Li, is it convenient for you to reveal your salary?"
"I..." Li Ruhai stopped asking, and he said with a slight hesitation: "My salary is small, only about ten yuan."
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! "Ten dollars?" Su Xianglian wanted to ask again, these plus your father's and brother's wages are not enough to maintain your current life.
But at this time, Li Ruhai said again: "But I have a lot of extra income. Last month, I even made five or six hundred yuan even though I had no job."
"What?" Su Xianglian, Liu Guihai, and Hou Jinglin were shocked, and Jin Xiaomei also looked at Li Ruhai in surprise.
After confiscating Li Ruhai's income, Jin Xiaomei checked it with Li Ruhai's account book. In the end, what Li Ruhai had left plus the loaned money was about 250 yuan.
Why did it become five or six hundred today?
Li Ruhai didn't lie. The five or six hundred he said were mostly from Zhao Jun and the bonuses and rewards given to him by Zhao Weipeng.
This money was hidden by Li Ruhai and has never been exposed. But today on TV, on such a big stage, Li Ruhai decided not to hide it anymore and show his face properly.
"Comrade Xiao Li!" Su Xianglian turned around solemnly, handed the microphone to Li Ruhai, and asked, "How did you earn these five or six hundred?"
Liu Guihai and Hou Jinglin also looked at Li Ruhai intently. After a day of contact, they felt that there were no bad people in these families, so they believed that Li Ruhai's income was legal.
In this case, the three of them wanted to learn from Li Ruhai.
"Oh!" Li Ruhai sighed softly, shook his head, then smiled at the camera and said, "This is a long story to say."
"Then let's talk slowly." Su Xianglian raised the microphone in front of Li Ruhai.
"Ahem." Li Ruhai cleared his throat and said, "In recent years, individuals have been allowed to do business. As for me, I have only done a small business."
"Comrade Xiao Li, what kind of business are you doing?" Upon hearing this, which is closely related to the central idea of today's interview, Su Xianglian asked quickly: "How is the cost?"
"Capital?" Li Ruhai smiled faintly and said, "What I do is all business without capital."
