Chapter 367 Father Gu: I Will Use the Resources I Have on My Son-in-Law

Wuhan.

A certain family home.

In the room, Gu Caiwei was opening a letter sent from Fujian and pulled out three pages of letter paper filled with words from the envelope.

The words on the letter paper were written vigorously and powerfully, showing that the sender had good calligraphy skills.

This era is different from later generations. In later generations, due to the rampant use of various electronic products, people have fewer and fewer opportunities to write with pens, so handwriting is generally not good-looking, even for college students.

But among college students in this era, it may be an exaggeration to say that everyone can write well, but it is an indisputable fact that most college students can write well.

The person who wrote to Gu Caiwei was none other than Deng Yunheng, who was working in Fujian.

Moreover, this is not the first letter Gu Caiwei has received. She received a letter from Deng Yunheng a few years ago, and she replied to him.

This letter is now the second letter sent by Deng Yunheng.

After admiring the other party's calligraphy, Gu Caiwei began to read the content of the letter.

Reading slowly, line by line, sentence by sentence, Gu Caiwei read the content of the three pages of letter paper for more than ten minutes before finishing it.

After reading the letter, Gu Caiwei immediately took out the letter paper and wrote a reply to the other party.

After racking her brains, it took her almost an hour to write the reply. It turned out that she actually wrote four pages. Gu Caiwei couldn't help but show a hint of shyness in her eyes. They only wrote her three pages, and she replied with four pages. Page paper, this seems a bit unreserved!

However, Gu Caiwei soon began to comfort herself. She wrote an extra piece of paper mainly to avoid waste.

After all, writing a three-page paper or a four-page paper requires one envelope and one stamp, so it is definitely more cost-effective to write a four-page paper.

After comforting herself, Gu Caiwei put the written letter into an envelope, then wrote her name and address as well as the recipient's name, address and zip code on the envelope, then sealed the seal with glue, and finally affixed One stamp, done.

After doing all this, I saw that the time was almost up and went to the kitchen to prepare meals.

After learning how to cook from her mother for nearly a month, Gu Caiwei's cooking skills are not too high, but at least she can't make some simple meals, especially green vegetables, tofu and steamed Wuchang fish. She can already make them. It tastes good.

Anyway, her father loves to eat her cooking. Every time she cooks, her father will eat half a bowl of rice more, which gives Gu Caiwei great motivation to cook.

Forty minutes later.

Gu's father and Gu's mother came back together.

After entering the house, Father Gu sniffed, a smile appeared on his serious face, and said, "Weiwei, what delicious food did you make? Why does it taste so good?"

Hearing this, Gu's mother couldn't help but roll her eyes at her husband. She knew from the smell that her daughter had made homemade tofu, and luckily he was able to ask.

Gu Caiwei brought a plate of tofu out from the kitchen and said hello: "Dad, Mom, you are back at the right time, you can start dinner!"

Father Gu laughed and said, "I just wanted to eat tofu today. I didn't expect you to make tofu, Weiwei. It's really good."

Gu Caiwei smiled brightly and said, "Dad, don't blame me for making it delicious."

Father Gu went to wash his hands, came back and sat down and said, "No, I think the tofu made by my Weiwei is the most delicious."

Soon, the family of three started to eat.

There were three dishes, one home-cooked tofu, one stir-fried green vegetables, and one steamed egg. They were all the most ordinary dishes, but Father Gu ate them with gusto and ate half a bowl more rice than usual, using practical actions to support his daughter in cooking. .

After eating, Gu Caiwei made a cup of tea for her father.

Father Gu drank tea leisurely, and the fatigue from a day's work instantly dissipated.

Gu's mother asked: "Lao Gu, my brother has been at this level for several years. Now my father has retired. He is gone and the tea is cold. Even if you want to push him, you can't do anything. You, the brother-in-law, But you have to help keep an eye on him, and if you have a chance, give him a hand."

Father Gu nodded and said: "Okay, I will help keep an eye on it, but some of the resources I have are best used on my son-in-law if possible. It's not that I don't take care of him in Donglai, it's mainly because of his potential. Da, the level of the hall is basically his upper limit, and it will inevitably be a waste to use resources on him. "

When Gu's mother heard this, she also felt that it made sense. As the saying goes, good steel should be used on the edge of the knife. The resources in the husband's hands are not unlimited. The more you use, the less. If your brother has a bright future, then it will not be a loss if you use it on him. But The problem is that my younger brother's career potential is limited. If I really use my husband's resources to push him to a higher position, I'm afraid the effort will be greater than the gain, which is not worth it.

Thinking of this, Mother Gu couldn't help but look at her daughter and asked: "Weiwei, did you hear what your dad said? While your dad has a lot of resources, you must hurry up and find your son-in-law. This way Your father can cultivate him well, so that these resources will not be used by outsiders. "

Gu Caiwei smiled bitterly and said, "Mom, you can't let me, a girl, take the initiative in this kind of thing, right?"

Hearing this, Mother Gu's heart moved and she asked, "Weiwei, tell mom honestly, do you have any thoughts about that Deng Yunheng?"

Father Gu naturally knew about Deng Yunheng. To be honest, after hearing the other party's conditions, he was quite satisfied. It didn't matter if he didn't have any background, as long as he was strong. After becoming his son-in-law, he could use the resources in his hands to cultivate he.

And with the help of his father-in-law, it is probably no problem to get promoted at the division level and office level.

As for going up further, he can't help much, but as long as he can be promoted smoothly in the early stage, then age is his biggest advantage. As long as there are no accidents in the future, he should be able to be promoted smoothly.

After all, graduating from Peking University is a huge advantage.

Gu Caiwei said with shame: "Mom, how do you want me to answer this question? I haven't even met him yet!"

Mother Gu pondered: "Originally, I also thought about letting you write letters and chat slowly, and wait until we get to know each other to see if our personalities are compatible. But the key is that time waits for no one, and your father does not always have the resources at his disposal. , some resources are time-sensitive and will be gone if you miss them.”

Father Gu interjected: "Don't be too anxious. You must understand the character of the other party."

Gu's mother said: "This is for sure. No matter how good a man is, he cannot marry a man with bad character."

Gu Caiwei blinked and continued: "As the saying goes, words are like people, so there should be no problem with the other person's character."

Gu's mother, a calligraphy enthusiast, also believed this sentence and agreed: "Indeed, it can be seen from his calligraphy that his character should not be bad."

Father Gu took a sip of tea and said, "If your character is not bad and you are excellent, then hurry up."

Mother Gu thought for a moment, then looked at her daughter and said, "Weiwei, how about I accompany you to Fujian?"

Gu Caiwei said in surprise: "Mom, you mean, we go directly to Fujian to meet him?"

Mother Gu nodded and said: "Anyway, he is a public official and we all know what position he holds. We can go to his workplace and observe him. If there are no problems with his appearance and good reputation, then we can meet and talk to him directly. , anyway, the two of you were writing to communicate with each other for the sake of the person you were talking to. "

Gu Caiwei was a little moved when she heard this, but she still asked a little embarrassedly: "Mom, is this okay?"

"What's wrong? The ancients said that those who achieve great things don't stick to trivial matters. As long as the result is good, it doesn't matter what the process is."

At this point, Gu's mother looked at her husband and asked, "Lao Gu, what do you think?"

Father Gu pondered: "I don't have any objection, but these times are not peaceful. If you really plan to go to Fujian, I will send two people to protect your safety."

Seeing that her husband had no objection, Gu's mother decided, "Then it's settled."

Gu Caiwei thought of the letter that had not yet been sent and said, "Mom, even if I want to go, I can't do it so soon. After a while, I will write more letters to him and we will be almost familiar with each other. I won't go again." Late."

Gu's mother paused, nodded and said, "Okay, then let's go there in May or June. It happens to be hot at that time, so you don't have to carry so much luggage when you go out, and you can also taste the lychees there."

Gu Caiwei breathed a sigh of relief. With the buffer of two or three months, she and Deng Yunheng could write several letters, and they would not be as strangers to each other as they are now. Even if they met, it would not be too much. Too embarrassing.

Naturally, Gu's father had no objection. His thoughts were very open-minded compared to people of this era.

…

Naye Village.

On the second day of the second lunar month, a cooperative is bound to be held in the village on this day.

In Shuangwang Realm, every place where a company is established will have a head of the company. This so-called head of the company, as the name suggests, is responsible for arranging all matters of the company.

This community leader does not need to have high prestige in the clan like the clan leader. The community leader only needs to be honest, fair, and have the ability to organize and run the community.

The leader of Naye Village is named Deng Yunkun. When Deng Shirong planned to reclaim his family's mountains into an orchard, he selected a few honest villagers in the village to help, including Deng Yunkun and his two sons.

Building a community is not a matter for the whole clan. The Deng family is scattered in more than 20 natural villages, and building a community is also scattered in different natural villages.

For example, the cooperative in Naye Village is carried out jointly with the natural villages of Yangdipo, Hengmenkou, Zhadu, Shanying, Shanggaoxing and Laowu. The tribesmen scattered in other natural villages also work together with Lide Several nearby villages have joined forces to form cooperatives.

At this time, the butcher in the village was killing pigs, and Deng Yunkun was checking accounts with the people below.

After checking the accounts, Deng Yunkun said with emotion: "Thinking about the past when we were working in a cooperative, many families just kept accounts first and then paid back the money they owed to the cooperative slowly. And most of them were two families joining together to start a cooperative. For those who work alone, their family conditions are already very good.

In the past few years of working as a co-operative, no one owes money to the co-operative anymore, and each family is doing one job, and many people are even doing two or three jobs. This change is really fast. "

The tribesman who was responsible for collecting the commune money said with a smile: "Yes, in the past, every household went to collect the commune money, and the money they could collect was very very little. The rice collected to cook commune porridge was not owed. There was no time when the commune money was collected." There is no debt, and some people even owe money to the company for several years.

It's better now. Under the leadership of the clan leader, every family in our family has become rich. It is impossible for us to owe money to the society again in this life. "

As soon as the clan leader was mentioned, all the clan members present started to praise him.

For the people of the Nayedeng clan, the clan leader is as great as the leader.

Especially the clan members whose families were originally extremely poor were extremely grateful to the clan leader.

After all, if there was no clan leader to lead them to make a fortune, how could they live such a magical life with no worries about food and clothing and tens of thousands in savings?

While the villagers were busy building cooperatives, Deng Shirong was accompanying Dean Huang and his party walking down the village river.

At this time, the new village river has been almost dug, but some boulders need to be moved over to lay on both sides of the river, so there is no rush to drill through the reserved river section to let the river water flow to the new river section.

However, this no longer affects Dean Huang's design.

After walking from the beginning to the end of the new village river, the assistants brought by Dean Huang also took photos one by one and made relevant records.

When walking back, Deng Shirong asked: "Dean Huang, how long will it take for this rendering to come out?"

Dean Huang smiled and said: "Just make some minor changes, and the rendering will be available in about half a month."

Deng Shirong said: "Then call me when the rendering comes out."

Dean Huang nodded and said: "There is also this sewage treatment plant. I will set it up at the lowest downstream of the river section. When the treated sewage is discharged directly downstream, what do you think, Boss Deng?"

Deng Shirong smiled and said: "Okay, let's do it."

Although the discharged water is treated and will not cause pollution, it is after all treated from those dirty waters. It is better to discharge it downstream instead of discharging it in the river section of the village.

After the two sides finished talking about business, Dean Huang asked: "Boss Deng, I just heard that your village was slaughtering pigs. Are you holding a wedding?"

Deng Shirong replied: "Today our village is holding a community ceremony. Dean Huang, you should know about this community ceremony, right?"

Dean Huang suddenly realized what he said. As an expert in ancient architectural design, his understanding of Chinese folk culture is not comparable to that of ordinary people. Naturally, he knows what community ceremony is. He smiled and said: "That's really a coincidence. Can I go to see the community ceremony?"

"Of course, there is no taboo about this. It's just right for Dean Huang to taste our community porridge today."

"That's great. I have always been interested in these folk customs."

...

Back in the village, Deng Shirong, who had nothing to do, took Dean Huang to the community ceremony site to let him feel the folk culture of the countryside in Bobai County, Guangxi.

When they came back, large pieces of pork had been put into the big iron pot to cook.

Cook the pork thoroughly, and the water will become broth. Then put rice in to cook porridge. When it is almost cooked, add pig blood and season it.

The porridge cooked in this way tastes really good, especially if you eat it on the spot, it is even more delicious.

Deng Shirong took Dean Huang and others to experience the fun of eating porridge on the spot.

After eating the porridge, they began to divide the meat.

As mentioned earlier, the most fair thing in rural areas is to divide the community, especially the meat. All parts of a pig will be cut into small pieces, and then evenly distributed according to the number of shares made.

Basically, each share of the community will contain pork, pork liver, rice intestines, large intestines, pig lungs, pig hearts, pig ears, ribs, pig feet, pig tails, etc.

Because the division of the community is extremely fair, when mentioning something fair in Bobai countryside, the division of the community will be compared.

Dean Huang and others also witnessed the whole process of the division, which was really meticulous to the point of praise.

After bringing the meat back, Deng Shirong made a large table of dishes to entertain Dean Huang and others.

After eating and drinking, they stayed at Deng Shirong's house for another night. The next day, Dean Huang and others left by car.

…

Qingming Festival ancestor worship does not only refer to the day of Qingming Festival, but also refers to the whole month before and after.

In later generations, whether it is ancestor worship or mountain shoveling, the Deng family usually arranges it after the spring equinox, and then chooses Saturday and Sunday to do it, so that people who participate in work can arrange time to come back to shovel mountains and worship ancestors.

Although there is no double weekend like in later generations, Deng Shirong still sets the time for ancestor worship as the first Saturday and Sunday after the spring equinox. Originally, it should stop after two days and continue until the next Saturday and Sunday.

However, Deng Shirong did not want to waste time like this, so he set a time for ancestor worship for five consecutive days.

Seeing that there were only two days left before the ancestor worship, Deng Shirong called a meeting of the clan members responsible for ancestor worship, who were basically members of the ancestral hall council.

After everyone arrived, Deng Shirong said, "Dear clan members, we will start worshipping our ancestors the day after tomorrow. Tomorrow, clan members and aunts from all over the country will arrive. I wonder how everyone is preparing?"

Deng Yungui said, "Uncle Jiu, we are all ready."

"Last year, when the ancestral hall was enthroned, many clan members from all over the country came to participate."

Deng Shirong picked up the pipe and stuffed tobacco into the pipe mouth while saying, "This year is the first time to worship our ancestors after more than 20 years. After the influence of the ancestral hall's enthronement last year, I believe that the number of clan members from all over the country who come to participate will definitely be much more than last year.

So, everyone should prepare in advance and entertain these clan members well."

Deng Yunqiang smiled and said, "Don't worry, Uncle Jiu, we have already thought about this problem. Even if the number of clan members who come to participate in the ancestral worship this year is twice that of the clan members who came to participate in the ancestral hall last year, we can entertain them well."

Deng Shirong lit the tobacco with a lighter, took a few puffs of the cigarette, and then said, "Since everything is arranged, I feel relieved!"

Next, everyone talked about some details of the ancestral worship.

After finishing the business, they chatted about family matters for a while, and when it was getting late, they left.

…

Xintian Deng family.

Not long ago, the ancestral land had sent brothers to tell them the specific time of the ancestral worship. Seeing that they were going back to the ancestral land tomorrow, the clan leader Deng Changfa gathered the clan members to discuss going back to the ancestral land to participate in the ancestral worship tomorrow.

When everyone arrived, Deng Changfa said: "Dear clan members, the ancestral land of Naye will prepare for the ancestral worship the day after tomorrow. We will go there in advance tomorrow. Anyone who wants to participate can sign up."

"I want to go."

"Clan leader, count me in."

"I want to go. I missed the ancestral hall ceremony in the ancestral land last year. I must not miss it again this year!"

"Count me in, I also want to see the new ancestral hall in the ancestral land. Is it really as beautiful as other brothers say."

"And me, I want to go too."

"..."

As soon as Deng Changfa finished speaking, all the clan members signed up enthusiastically.

Needless to say, the clan members who went to participate in the ancestral hall ceremony last year were treated as honored guests by the brothers in the ancestral land last year. Now that the ancestral land has started the ancestral worship ceremony again after more than 20 years, they will naturally not be absent.

The clan members who did not attend the ancestral hall ceremony last year were boasted about by the brothers who attended. They all regretted not attending. Now that the ancestral land is being worshipped, they naturally don’t want to miss it again.

As a result, the number of applicants has more than doubled compared to last year.

Deng Changfa couldn’t help but smile when he saw this. The more lively the ancestral hall, which is related to the whole clan, the better. The more people participate, the more prosperous the descendants will be, which is a good thing for every clan.

Therefore, Deng Changfa said happily: "Okay, let's count the number of people now, gather at the team at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning, and then set off together."

...

Similar scenes also happened among the clan members in various branches.

After experiencing the ancestral hall ceremony, those clan members who had not been to the Naye ancestral land all developed great curiosity about the ancestral land, and also wanted to see the new Naye Deng clan ancestral hall that was boasted to the sky by other brothers in the clan.

As a result, the number of clan members who signed up in various places began to surge, basically doubling.

As I said before, the least feared thing for ancestor worship is too many people. The more people who participate in the ancestor worship, the better. Therefore, clan members from all over the country have no intention of limiting the number of people.

…

The next day.

Clan members from all over the country squeezed into the trucks arranged by the clan and rushed to the ancestral land of the Deng family in Naye.

These trucks were all flying the Deng family flags, and some clan members even moved gongs and drums onto the trucks and beat gongs and drums all the way, which was very lively.

When passing through some towns, the residents of those towns were talking about it.

"Hey, what are they doing with the gongs and drums and the Deng family flag? Are they having a clan fight?"

"What clan fight? They are obviously going to worship their ancestors."

"Why is worshipping their ancestors such a big fuss?"

"You are still too young, so you don't know much about ancestor worship. These years, everyone just clears the mountains, and few surnames worship their ancestors, but in the past, ancestor worship was common. The Deng family probably resumed ancestor worship, and I don't know when our Zhang family will resume ancestor worship."

"What's the difference between worshiping ancestors and clearing the mountains?"

"There is a big difference. Clearing the mountains is just to repair the graves and take some pork offerings to worship, while worshiping ancestors requires people to 'drink the ceremony', and the tribesmen obey the command to kneel down, and recite the sacrificial text, etc. In short, the ceremony is much more complicated than clearing the mountains."

"It sounds quite Interesting, then why don't we Zhangs worship our ancestors now? "

"It's not just us Zhangs who don't worship our ancestors, but all surnames haven't worshipped their ancestors in recent years. I won't go into details about the reasons. Anyway, if anyone dared to do this in those years, it would probably end badly. Until now, everyone hasn't recovered and is scared."

"Now that people with the surname Deng have started to worship their ancestors, it should be okay, right?"

"Yes, it should be okay now. I'll tell the clan later. It's definitely too late this year. Next year, we Zhangs can also resume worshipping our ancestors."

"..."

Because the Deng clans from all over Naye basically have to take the Bolong Highway when they go to the Naye ancestral land, so every once in a while, there are a few trucks with Deng flags passing through the towns along the Bolong Highway.

This scene makes people with other surnames envious.

It should be said that the contrast between our surname, which is just a simple shoveling of the mountain, and other surnames worshipping their ancestors in a lively manner, is actually very strong.

It's like when it's a festival, your family is just a few people and it's quiet, while your neighbor's family is busy with a few tables, the atmosphere is really different.

With the stimulation of the Deng family's ancestor worship, I believe that more surnames will join the ranks of ancestor worship next year.

...

The entrance of the new Deng's ancestral hall.

At this time, just like the previous ancestral hall, there are 500 tables at the entrance, and various snacks and tea such as candy, biscuits, melon seeds, peanuts, melon strips, and twisted candies are also prepared on the tables.

On the temporary stove next to it, twenty or thirty pots are cooking pork, and the aroma of meat is constantly wafting, making people salivate.

When it comes to noon, clan members and aunts come one after another.

Speaking of this, we have to talk about the rules of shoveling mountains and worshiping ancestors in Shuangwang. The married Deng aunts can come back to participate when the clan is shoveling mountains or worshiping ancestors, but their husbands and children cannot participate.

[The author's grandfather died early, but the author doesn't even know where he is buried, and has never been there to worship him. It's not that he doesn't want to go, but it's the rule in Shuangwang that grandchildren can't go to worship their grandparents]

With the arrival of relatives and aunts from all over the country, the scene began to get lively. The Deng family of Naye had already arranged special personnel to entertain these relatives.

Some of these relatives came for the first time, and they all went to visit the new ancestral hall of the Deng family as soon as possible.

The result is naturally needless to say, one by one, they were all shocked, even if the brothers of the same clan had told them how awesome and beautiful this ancestral hall was, but seeing it with their own eyes was still completely different from seeing it with others.

As for Deng Shirong's family merit stele, it also gave these relatives a little shock, mainly because they had heard the general content from their brothers of the same clan. After being fully prepared, they were not so shocked when they saw the family merit stele again.

After visiting this ancestral hall, these relatives were shocked, and a sense of pride rose in their hearts.

After all, Naye Dengshi is their ancestral land, and the ancestors worshipped in the ancestral hall are also their ancestors.

Naye Dengshi is awesome, so it is normal for them to be proud of it.