Poverty has long left my hometown
Text/Wang Youjin
In recent years, I have returned to my hometown and back to the countryside. I feel that people living in the countryside are also very happy. Not to mention that food, clothing, housing and transportation are no different from those in the city. Their free and leisure is something that the city people do not have, and poverty has long left my hometown.
Remember Before the reform and opening up , especially during the production team period, in those years when the land contract system first began, although the lives of farmers improved, they had heavy physical labor, constant leisure time, and the labor and hard work to improve their lives, the fields, housework, family feeding and small business transactions made to fight for money, and the leisure travel was always more than those of the city people, and they worked more, and the working time was also longer, but their income was far less than that of urban people. It was an era where the urban and rural differences were big.
Now when I returned to my hometown, I heard that it was really different from what I saw. A few days ago, I went back to my hometown to attend a funeral of my sister-in-law in the courtyard. On the day of the funeral, I saw the women in the village dressed very beautifully, cleanly up and down, and dared to wear fashionable and high-end clothes, which surprised me. When they shook hands with me, they also felt that their hands were soft and tender, without the rough calluses from the production team.
Because he is Guo Yanqing's wife Wang Shuzhi, the modern clothing bought by his daughter, is like a beautiful clothing showman. They chat and laugh, and their words are happy, reflecting a full sense of happiness.
A few days ago, I delivered a book to the old artist Guo Zhiming in the village because he was the health doctor when he wrote Guo Chengqing when he wrote Dadao , and he was also the protector of Guo Chengqing's former residence. I respect him very much, and he also likes the works I wrote.
He was born in 1942 and was old and loved to write and paint. He was eager to see the newly published book "The Seal of the Countryside" in Ningjin . Because the book included more than 70 rural memories of me, I rushed back to my hometown to deliver books to him. At noon, I saw that his living standards did have major changes.
His family life was also very difficult in his early years, and he had difficulty eating meat all year round. The eggs laid by the chicken had to be exchanged for oil, salt, sauce and vinegar. Guo Chengqing, who was tired of creating a big knife, couldn't afford to buy some nutritional supplements, and he always felt a little embarrassed.
Today, in his kitchen, meat and eggs are stored in the refrigerator, and the small vegetable gardens in the courtyard are also green, with oil, salt, sauce and vinegar. The government has endless gas to use, which is really no different from the lives of the people in the city. Those women are wandering around the pot and leaving the firewood and grass, which is already far away.
I talked to me about my grandmother Zhou Zhongfen, the sixth grandmother in the east of the village, sat there and talked endlessly about the poor days of my early years, and told me about the good years and good life now.
Praise her children, wife, and her husband’s love and care for her. Praise her cooperative medical care and makes her sick and spend less money and recover quickly. Praise her retired military personnel The husband can still receive a few hundred yuan in living subsidies every month. I haven’t finished talking, but I stared at her and listened to her, but I couldn’t hear enough.
Every thing is said fresh, every sentence is spoken from the heart, and I can’t finish it with happiness. I just praise you for your good years now.
Gas is commonly used in rural areas, used for cooking and winter heating. The family is also electrified and farming and harvesting are all mechanized.
Young people can earn more than 100 yuan a day when they go to the city to work, and some even 200 to 300 yuan. Housewives in their sixties and seventies can earn more than 70 to 80 yuan a day after working and doing other miscellaneous work, and they can also eat for free at noon.
Young people often go back and forth to and from work, and their clothes are no different from those in the city.
There are four bachelor five-guarantee households over 60 years old in the village, including Guo Lianchun, Guo Shuzhi and Guo Yujin, who can receive more than 1,000 yuan in living security funds every month, and are even more envied by the villagers. Guo Yaozhong, who has no worries about food, clothing, and housing, and is difficult to take care of himself, was taken to a nursing home and lived a life where people were in charge of food, drink and food.
When I returned to Dezhou , I passed by Yangxichuan Village, a neighboring village, and saw that in the beautiful square in the east of the village, medical staff were wearing uniform white epidemic prevention suits and were installing simple sheds. I said that in the afternoon, I would do nucleic acid test for the whole village of to ensure the safety of the villagers, which moved me.
The people living in China, regardless of urban or rural areas, are extremely happy. Only the Communist Party of China can achieve this level.
Because the Communist Party of China is a big party that has been trained for a hundred years, a big party that has withstood the test of strong storms, a big party that has never forgotten its original aspiration and serves the people wholeheartedly, and a party that seeks happiness for all Chinese people.
(written on July 1, 2022)
