The Age of Rebirth

Chapter 451 Homecoming
Not to mention that the two were whispering here, Li Weidong's family drove the car around a big circle before they covered the distance of 800 meters in a straight line.

Shen Yueying complained about this: "How nice it is to walk back, I have to take a car, smelling the smell of gasoline, my brain hurts, I might as well walk!"

"Mother, rich people can't walk. In ancient times, they took a sedan chair, but now they have to take a car. My brother is a big shot, and he is destined to sit in a sedan chair. Let's follow suit!" Li Weihong said with a smile while driving.

"Let's drive your car, you're dirty, or you guys can't tell what to do, or you'll be carrying the sedan chair!" Shen Yueying could hear the teasing taste in Li Weihong's mouth.

Li Weihong looked at Shen Yueying who was sitting next to her, and said with a smile: "I don't agree with what my mother said. With my brother, it doesn't affect my carrying the sedan chair!"

"In ancient times, the one who carried the sedan chair was called the bearer, and later the one who pulled the cart was called the coachman. Is the coachman the driver? What am I doing now?" Li Weihong continued, patting the steering wheel.

"Can it be the same? If this is also called carrying a sedan chair, people all over the country will rush to carry the sedan chair!" Shen Yueying said with a smile.

There have been more cars these years, and drivers are not as popular as they used to be, but they are definitely a job with status, especially small car drivers.

After lunch, Li Weidong was dazed for a while, and wanted to call Ding Yuan to the study, but he gave up when he saw a group of children in the study.

Opening the drawer, he took out a bulging file bag, walked out of the room smoking a cigarette, and Ding Yuan, who had just opened the door, hurried over.

"Chairman, are you going out?" Ding Yuan asked while looking at the document bag in Li Weidong's hand. He didn't know that Li Weidong had plans to go out.

The bodyguard on duty just now told him that the boss came out with a file bag. Ding Yuan guessed that Li Weidong might be going out, so he hurried over.

"I was looking for you, here's you!" Li Weidong handed the document bag to Ding Yuan.

"What is it?" Ding Yuan took a look at it, there was no sign on the cover, he didn't dare to open it, and asked curiously.

"The New Year's money for you, one red envelope per person, but not for you and Zhang Hao!" Li Weidong said with a smile.

"Hey, thank you boss, we can't hold back our age, they are still young and I think they can hold back!" Ding Yuan said with a smile.

He knew that Li Weidong must be joking. This is also a common practice. Every year before the New Year, a red envelope will be given out, which is a special bonus.

Depending on the length of service and different positions, there are more or less, thick or thin, and of course no one will compare who has more money and who has less money!

As soon as he touched it, he knew that it was not just a red envelope, there must be other things, Ding Yuan opened the file bag and took a look.

When the two house books came into view, Ding Yuan raised his head and glanced at Li Weidong, knowing what was going on in his heart instantly, with a sincere and terrified expression on his face.

Don't give out red envelopes, change to a house!

"Chairman, this is too expensive, we can't take it, the salary you usually give is enough!" Ding Yuan declined.

Although he hasn't looked at the size of the house yet, even a one-bedroom house is worth a lot of money, not to mention that Li Weidong's selling will not be shabby.

"The certificates are all done. If you say no, then you don't want it. Wouldn't it be embarrassing for me?"

"No, no, chairman, I didn't mean that, I mean, it's too expensive, we didn't do anything, how can we pick up..."

"Fuck it, let's do it, I'll go back to my hometown tomorrow, you can arrange a holiday!" Li Weidong interrupted Ding Yuan's words with a wave of his hand, and ordered.

"I'll take Miao Yu and the others back with you, Zhang Hao and the others will stay to watch the house, and the others will go home for the New Year, what do you think of the arrangement?" Ding Yuan hurriedly said when he heard the business.

Now Li Weidong's total number of security guards is less than [-], half of them are on vacation and half are on duty. It was the same before. Ding Yuan felt that his arrangement was not bad.

"You don't need so many people to go back with me, you and Zhang Hao go back to your hometown to celebrate the New Year, we can't let you old people suffer!" Li Weidong shook his head and said.

"You can't miss people around you!" Ding Yuan insisted. He was responsible for Li Weidong's safety, and sometimes he couldn't follow the boss's request.

"There is an account acceptance certificate opened by the household registration department in the file bag, you go back and handle this matter!" Li Weidong pointed to the file bag and said.

"..." Ding Yuan hurriedly opened the file bag, and found a acceptance certificate with the official seal of the household registration department, and there was an empty form for accompanying persons on it.

"Chairman, I..."

"Your eldest son is going to go to junior high school next year. Let's move the household registration of your wife and children here. The educational resources in the city are better. When the children grow up, they also need to be accompanied by a father, so you won't be able to take care of them!" Li Weidong said.

The current household registration system in big cities has not yet been liberalized, and there are almost no other ways to transfer household registration except for studying and becoming an official.

However, now the pilot program of household registration in small towns has begun, and the urban household registration at the county level and below pays a city expansion fee, as long as there is a legitimate job, they can move.

The current household registration system is seriously not suitable for economic development. There are more and more foreigners like Ding Yuan serving private companies in big cities. Relying on a temporary residence certificate to deal with various problems is already somewhat insufficient!
"Thank you, chairman!" Ding Yuan didn't say anything, the boss has already taken care of the matter for you, so there's no point in refusing.

"Hey, it's only a matter of a year or two. In a few years, the Qizhou household registration will be worthless. Zhang Hao doesn't need it now. He can do it himself in two years!" Li Weidong stubbed out the cigarette in his hand and shook his head to explain. said a word.

The matter looks very simple, he can just move his mouth, and the people below will naturally handle it well, but without the support of policies, he has to risk violating the rules.

The higher the status, the more attention to detail!

Ding Yuan definitely believes what Li Weidong said, even if it is really not worth a penny, it is not the present, it is still difficult to do it now,
Moreover, it is a happy event for him that the family members come to Qizhou to reunite together, and there is no need to travel long distances back to their hometown to find a wife.

Moreover, the eldest of his family is indeed approaching the age of entering junior high school. If he doesn't get the household registration in advance, he can only attend junior high school in his hometown.

The quality of teaching in my hometown is indeed worrying. Most of the teachers are graduates from local teachers’ colleges, and some even graduated from high school. The quality of teachers is far worse than that in big cities.

In order for their children to go to a better school, which parents can't do their best!
In the early morning of the next day, several cars were parked in front of Li Weidong's house. The cars belonged to a few colleagues with sufficient weight and status. Knowing that the boss was going home for the New Year, they had to come and give them blessings out of reason.

Li Weidong's family came out of the yard. Several children ran and jumped into the car one after another. Li Weidong and several others also came out behind.

Li Weidong shook hands one by one and said: "I wish you all a happy new year, happy family, good luck in everything, drink less, eat less meat, and be healthy!"

"Definitely! Definitely, Chairman, Happy New Year!" Several people spoke in unison.

Li Weidong waved his hand and got into the car, the motorcade slowly drove out of the street, the ground pile at the door was raised, and the street was temporarily isolated from the world, at least for a period of time in the future, the ground pile would not fall down.

In this era when there were not many private cars, Li Weidong's motorcade home was very conspicuous, a luxurious Coaster, surrounded by three Mercedes-Benz cars.

The convoy was also equipped with six bodyguards, which were enough to deal with general emergencies. Ding Yuan finally followed him back. He had to send Li Weidong's family back before leaving. Li Weidong agreed.

The speed along the way was very fast without stopping. If you can get on the expressway, you can get on the expressway. If you can’t, you can just take the national highway. After nearly four hours, it was time for lunch and finally arrived at the county.

It took another half an hour to set foot on the road into their village. Both sides of the road were cleaned up very neatly, and a thick layer of ice formed in the small river along the road.

Turning a corner, the road is straight to the entrance of the village. The winter trees have completely fallen leaves, and the village is exposed without any cover.

It's just that there are a lot of people gathered at the entrance of the village, and it looks very lively. Li Weidong is quite puzzled, which family is going to get married for a wedding, but it's not appropriate to welcome the bride at this point, even if it's a second marriage, there is no afternoon worship.

And I never heard his parents mention it. Most of the villagers have the same surname, and they are all from the same ancestor's family. It is not an exaggeration for the whole village to eat such things as weddings and funerals.

It's just that he and Liu Jinhui were sitting in the car, Li Chengwen and Shen Yueying were sitting in Coster with their children, and Li Weidong had no one to ask.

When approaching the entrance of the village, I suddenly saw the white smoke of firecrackers burning from the entrance of the village, and soon heard the sound of crackling firecrackers.

Li Weidong thought badly, this will not really collide with his happy event, he turned his head and saw no wedding car through the rear window!

After a while, the firecrackers hadn't finished, Li Weidong's car arrived at the entrance of the village, the road was blocked, he had to get out of the car and greet the villagers.

Li Weidong asked Ding Yuan to park the car on the side of the road, took two boxes of Huazi, opened the door, and was about to say hello to his parents and fellow villagers.

Unexpectedly, there were a few more sounds of artillery. This sound was familiar to Li Weidong. It was a salute in various ceremonies in the countryside.

A cast iron thing similar to a hand grenade, with gunpowder inside, leaving a powder primer, and the person who fired the gun lit it with a fire stick from a distance.

This kind of salute is generally based on the trumpets of the wind and percussion band at the ceremony. According to different trumpets or the degree of intimacy of the distinguished guests, there are three or four rings.

Li Weidong didn't care about the number of rings. Anyway, there were many rings. He waited for the sound of the cannon to end before going forward with a cigarette.

"Third Master, whose family is having a happy event today?" Li Weidong held two cigarettes and handed them to the village director Li Zongqi.

Li Zongqi also greeted him, took the one inside, and said with a smile: "Of course it's your house, otherwise who are we standing here waiting for?"

"Is no one in my family married?" Li Weidong was confused, but he seemed to understand something when he looked at Li Weimin who was standing beside him winking.

Then he continued to give cigarettes to the villagers, but was stopped by Li Zongqi, who took the cigarette case in Li Weidong's hand and said, "Give them the cigarettes and let them divide them among themselves!"

"Okay, okay!" Li Weidong said with a smile, and then handed another box to Li Weimin and said, "Share everyone!"

At this time Liu Jinhui also got off the car, came over and stood next to Li Weidong, greeted Li Zongqi, and said with a smile: "Hello, third grandpa!"

After parking at the entrance of the village, Li Weidong got out of the car. As the daughter-in-law of the Li family, Liu Jinhui also had to get out of the car to meet the scene. It was not only a matter of politeness, but also to make Li Weidong look good.

Hearing Liu Jinhui's greeting, Li Zongqi hurriedly said with a smile: "My daughter-in-law is back, it's good to be back, stay at home for a few more days!"

As a result, the spoken language of my hometown is not standard anymore, and I always want to rely on Mandarin, mainly because I am worried that people will not understand their local dialect.

The grandson's wife is different from Li Weidong. One grew up and watched her grow up, and her seniority is there. Even if she is a rich man now, he still has this face.

Liu Jinhui is different. He has nothing to do with you. You don't need to give you face as an old man.

Then he smiled and complained: "You said you, and you didn't say anything in advance when you came back. If you didn't meet Wei Min who came back just now, I didn't know you were back today!"

"This occasion is a bit hasty. If I knew it would be a serious ceremony, I would invite a suona team, and all the young and old in the village will come to welcome me!"

"Third Master, it's too much, too much, how can I, how can I trouble the young and old in the village to welcome me!" Li Weidong waved his hands quickly.

Li Zongqi said seriously: "Why can't it work, how many things you have done for the village these years, you didn't let me tell you before, and I also posted these credits on myself against my conscience!"

"But the people in the village are not stupid. I, Li Zongqi, have been a village cadre all my life. No one in the village knows what I can do. When will I have this ability!"

"No, the person surnamed Hu ranked you second on the rich list some time ago, and the villagers immediately knew what was going on, and they all want to thank you!"

"It's good for you. You usually come back during the Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day, but you're not coming back now. I'm afraid to trouble you when I go to Qizhou. I want to thank you but I can't see you!"

"Everyone in the village reckons that you should come back during the Chinese New Year, but no one is sure. This time you are considered to be back. Why don't we come to welcome you back home?"

"It's not worth mentioning, it's not worth mentioning, it shouldn't be like this!" After hearing this, Li Weidong waved his hands quickly and said, this is going to be set on fire.

Li Weidong is most afraid of such troubles, otherwise he would not keep the charity so low-key.

"Why is it not worth mentioning? If you hadn't insisted on keeping it a secret, I would have engraved a monument for you. Today, in front of everyone, I have to talk about it!"

Li Zongqi waved his hands to Li Weidong to prevent Li Weidong from speaking, then turned his head and faced everyone.

"Young and old, I've kept this matter on my mind for many years. Today, in front of Weidong and the big guys, I have to say something!"

"From the beginning of building the road under our feet to the present, Weidong has donated more than several million dollars to our village. I have an account there. If you don't believe me, you can go to my place to check!"

"Repair roads to every household, build schools, free tuition for children, the five-guarantee households in the village, the activity center, the 200-meter-deep well and reservoir in the back mountain, the water pipes and faucets that reach every house, and our village. The production roads, water canals, youth foundation, all these money are donated to the village by Weidong!"

"The big guy said, who in our village has not received these benefits, which family has no children to go to school, which family has not walked this road, and which family has not drank the water from the back mountain!" resonance.

Sure enough, as soon as Li Zongqi spoke, the crowd began to respond.

At this time, an unusually abrupt voice sounded from the crowd, "Third uncle, we must not forget the well digger when we drink water, and the bridge builder when we cross the bridge. Wei Dong has done so many things for our village, we should give Wei Dong Li A stele, don’t let everyone forget it!”

(End of this chapter)