HPDBC Chapter 1319 Documentary: Life in the Forest: The Li Family
Chapter 1319 Documentary: Life in the Forest: The Li Family
Chapter 1319 Documentary: Life in the Forest: The Li Family
"Stop!" As soon as Wang Meilan said that, the three people in the video crew looked at her in astonishment. Su Xianglian and Liu Guihai didn't react, so Hou Jinglin shouted "stop" again.
Through the contact over the past two days, the three members of the video recording team knew that Wang Meilan was a good person, and these families were also good people.
But the chatter is not like this, and it is full of swords and guns. Your son is Emperor Taizu of Song? Do you think you are going to conquer the country?
"Huh?" Wang Meilan was stunned. She was talking so excitedly, why did he stop?
"Auntie, you can't say that." Su Xianglian said, "If you say that, it's easy for people to misunderstand."
"Not at all!" Liu Guihai said with a smile, "Sister-in-law, you sound like a beard. If you don't know, you might think your son is robbing people."
"That's not true!" Wang Meilan was unhappy and said, "My son makes money by hunting. He sells a black bear gallbladder for about a thousand yuan..."
Hearing Wang Meilan's bad tone, Liu Guihai was about to apologize, but he heard Wang Meilan say: "Isn't this more money than Hu Zi? I know about the Hu Zi in the past. They were very poor and grew tobacco in the valley. If it weren't for my father helping them..."
"Mom! Mom!" Zhou Jianjun quickly stopped Wang Meilan, and then explained to the video crew: "Our great grandfather helped the Anti-Japanese United Army in the past."
"Ah..." Su Xianglian thought for a moment and said to Wang Meilan, "Auntie, let's start the camera again. Then I'll ask you again. Just tell me about the money my little brother Zhao Jun earned from hunting."
After Su Xianglian's correction, Wang Meilan corrected her inappropriate wording and re-summarized her family's main source of income.
Continuing the conversation, Su Xianglian talked about Wang Meilan's son, the Zhao family's good life today, the Zhao family's five large tiled houses and a lot of household appliances.
As Su Xianglian said she wanted to visit the Zhao family’s new house, the filming of the Zhao family’s old house came to a temporary halt.
Liu Guihai turned off his phone, and Wang Meilan took her daughter, son-in-law, and grandson to their new house to wait. However, the video crew went to the next door first and filmed the Li family nearby.
"Excuse me, is anyone home?" The camera follows Su Xianglian as she enters the house, and sees Jin Xiaomei sitting in front of the stove picking wood ears.
"Oh!" Jin Xiaomei pretended to be surprised and stood up and asked, "Who are you?"
"Hello, auntie." Su Xianglian said politely, "We are from Shanhe TV. We came to Yong'an Forest District today to record an episode about the new life of the people in the forest district."
"Ah? From the TV station?" Jin Xiaomei looked surprised and happy, and said, "Please come in, please come in."
As she spoke, Jin Xiaomei raised her hand and invited the person into the house.
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 lying on the table, writing calligraphy with a brush.
Li Ruhai stood on the ground, with her hands behind her back, watching her sister write.
At this time, Jin Xiaomei smiled beside Su Xianglian and said, "Our house is not cleaned up either, don't complain."
"Haha." Su Xianglian laughed dryly. The furniture arrangement in the Li family's house was even more stylish than that in the Zhao family's old house next door.
This is because the Zhao family is moving to a new house next year, so the old house has not been cleaned up and the furniture is old.
But the Li family is different. Next year, Li Baoyu will separate and live on his own, but Li Dayong and his family of four will have to continue living in this family.
So while cleaning up the house for Li Baoyu, the Li family also did a simple cleanup. Although the furniture in the house was not remade, it was all coated with beeswax.
And in the fall, the window frames, door frames and door panels were given a new coat of paint.
But the house is not important, the key is the Li brother and sister. Li Xiaoqiao kneeled on the cotton mat, writing calligraphy in a serious manner.
Li Ruhai wore a marmot hat, military shoes, and a Zhongshan suit. He had his hands behind his back and a fountain pen in his collar pocket. Su Xianglian felt that even the director of her own unit was not as impressive as him.
Hearing Jin Xiaomei inviting the guests into the house, Li Ruhai turned his head slightly, Li Xiaoqiao looked up, and the brother and sister nodded to the camera almost at the same time.
Then, Li Xiaoqiao continued to write with her head down, while Li Ruhai turned around and smiled at the camera.
Su Xianglian squinted her eyes and felt strange, but she couldn't find any big mistakes, so she had to continue acting.
"Aunt, what's your last name?" Su Xianglian asked Jin Xiaomei. Jin Xiaomei smiled and said, "No need to bother, my last name is Jin. My name is Jin Xiaomei."
"Are these two your son and daughter?" Su Xianglian asked again. Jin Xiaomei nodded and said, "Yes, this one is my youngest son..."
As she spoke, Jin Xiaomei gestured towards Li Ruhai, who immediately took over the conversation, smiled and bowed to Su Xianglian, saying, "Suddenly a distinguished guest has come to visit. I am Yong'an Li Ruhai!"
Su Xianglian was startled, and then Li Xiaoqiao, who was writing, looked up and said, "Ding is Ding and Mao is Mao. My daughter's name is Li Xiaoqiao."
Su Xianglian, Liu Guihai, Hou Jinglin: "..."
Jin Xiaomei looked at her son and daughter, feeling very unhappy. Why didn't these unfilial children say anything for them?
"Haha." Su Xianglian smiled awkwardly, looked at the only relatively normal person in the room, and said, "Auntie, your children are all quite educated!"
"Ah..." Just as Jin Xiaomei was about to speak, she heard Li Ruhai say, "A rich family doesn't need to buy good farmland, they only need knowledgeable young men."
"Hmm?" Su Xianglian was startled, and then she heard Li Xiaoqiao say, "Who says women are inferior to men? Four generations of scholars have passed down their reputation."
Su Xianglian, Liu Guihai, Hou Jinglin: "..."
The three members of the video crew were all confused. They would film the Zhao family first and then the Li family. This was all agreed upon in advance.
However, the Li brothers and sisters had not discussed these lines with the video crew 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, "Four generations of scholarly reputation," Su Xianglian had an idea. She thought about leading the topic to reading and progress, which would be considered positive energy if broadcasted.
Thinking of this, Su Xianglian smiled and said to Jin Xiaomei: "Aunt, your two children are both very outstanding."
Jin Xiaomei grinned, and as the camera swept over, Li Ruhai and Li Xiaoqiao also smiled and nodded.
But as Jin Xiaomei invited Su Xianglian to sit down, Liu Guihai controlled the camera to scan forward and saw the calligraphy written by Li Xiaoqiao.
The camera paused and quickly moved past.
Liu Guihai wanted to curse, but Li Xiaoqiao was a little girl, so Liu Guihai finally held back and only complained in his heart: "The handwriting is like the crawling of an old cockroach!"
"Lao Chengpa" is the 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.
When cockroaches crawl around on paper, they will rub the ink on their bodies onto the paper, leaving irregular ink marks, which is used to describe the clumsy handwriting of characters.
Liu Guihai glanced through the camera and saw the fair-skinned little girl Li Xiaoqiao, writing with her head down, looking very serious, which added a bit of tranquility to the atmosphere in the room.
But when he thought of the words 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 asked, "Comrade Li, what kind of books do you like to read?"
"Uh..." Li Ruhai rolled his eyes and said, "I read a lot of different books, but I like to read the works of various philosophers the most."
"Ah?" Su Xianglian was shocked. The various schools of thought are profound knowledge.
She did not doubt the truthfulness of Li Ruhai's words, because as long as a fourteen-year-old boy from the forest area could mention the fourteen words "hundreds of philosophers", in Su Xianglian's opinion, he really understood it!
Su Xianglian's education level is indeed quite high. Facing the camera, she said 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 sweep across the elegant Li Ruhai, the quiet girl practicing calligraphy Li Xiaoqiao, the slightly antique cabinets in the Li family, and...
When the camera swept across a pile of picture books, it paused, then quickly turned back to Su Xianglian.
Seeing Liu Guihai winking at her, Su Xianglian knew that Uncle Liu wanted 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 not bad."
"Oh." Jin Xiaomei smiled and said, "It's OK. Our lives have really improved in the past two years."
There was indeed something wrong with what she said, and life at home had indeed been good for just two years.
But in Su Xianglian's opinion, Jin Xiaomei's words just now were very relevant to the topic, so she said to Jin Xiaomei: "Aunt, I see that our family has also bought a color TV, and it is also 21 inches."
At this time, the camera swept across the Li family's large color TV.
"Haha..." Jin Xiaomei smiled proudly, pointed outside the door and said, "There's another one in that room."
Su Xianglian, Liu Guihai, Hou Jinglin: "..."
"Aunt, why did your family buy two TVs?" Su Xianglian asked in confusion. Jin Xiaomei did not say that her eldest son wanted to split the family, but only said, "What should we do? These children always quarrel over watching TV. He wants to watch this, and he wants to watch that."
"Just because of this...you bought two TVs?" Su Xianglian blinked her eyes and then smiled, "But from this we can see that my aunt's family is indeed well off."
"Hehe..." Jin Xiaomei laughed happily.
Su Xianglian twitched her lips slightly, then asked, "Aunt, how many people are there in your family?"
"Five people." Jin Xiaomei said, "There is also the child's father and my eldest son."
"So they are at work, right?" Su Xianglian asked knowingly. Jin Xiaomei raised her hand vaguely and said, "Yeah, they are very busy at work all day."
"Then what do they do for a living?" Su Xianglian continued to ask, but compared to when she was at Zhao's house, Su Xianglian changed the way she asked.
"My child's father is Li Dayong, and he works in the forest farm." Jin Xiaomei did not forget to promote her man, saying, "My eldest son is Li Baoyu, and he works as a driver in the forest farm's fleet."
"Aunt, can I ask you something?" Su Xianglian asked, "How much are their salaries?"
"It's not inconvenient at all." Jin Xiaomei said, "My child's father earns 121.4 yuan a month, and my eldest son's salary plus subsidies is 42.85 yuan."
This person is genuine and his answers are very detailed.
"This..." Su Xianglian's eyes swept around the room and finally stopped on the 21-inch 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 do they maintain their current life?"
"Well..." Jin Xiaomei was about to answer, but Li Ruhai pulled her secretly. Jin Xiaomei understood what he meant, so she said, "My youngest son has also started working."
"Ah?" Su Xianglian was startled. She looked at Li Ruhai and was stunned. She said, "How old is Comrade Li? He has already started working?"
When she asked this, Li Ruhai raised his neck proudly.
"Yeah." Jin Xiaomei said, "My son Ruhai is fourteen years old. He started working in November last year."
"Fourteen? Where do you work?" Su Xianglian asked. Jin Xiaomei said, "In the forest farm."
"Forest farm?" Su Xianglian frowned and asked, "Can you do manual labor at the age of fourteen?"
"It's not a physical job." Jin Xiaomei shook her head and said, "My son is a door..."
"I'm the security officer." Li Ruhai quickly interrupted, and his answer stunned Su Xianglian.
Security officer? You're fourteen years old. What can you protect? You can't even protect yourself.
But then, Li Ruhai added: "He will also be the union secretary and the propaganda secretary."
After hearing what Li Ruhai said, Su Xianglian blinked in astonishment, wondering if Yongan Forest Farm was going to go bankrupt.
But she did not forget her interview center, so she asked Li Ruhai: "Comrade Li, would you mind telling me about your salary?"
"I..." Li Ruhai was stumped by the question. He said hesitantly, "My salary is low, only about ten yuan."
"Ten dollars or so?" Su Xianglian wanted to ask again, this plus your father and brother's salary is not enough to maintain your current life.
But at this time, Li Ruhai said: "But I have a lot of extra income. Last month, I made 500 to 600 yuan without doing anything."
"What?" Su Xianglian, Liu Guihai and Hou Jinglin were shocked. Jin Xiaomei also looked at Li Ruhai in surprise.
After confiscating Li Ruhai's income, Jin Xiaomei took Li Ruhai's account book to check. In the end, the amount of money left by Li Ruhai plus the money he had lent out was about 250 yuan.
How come it became five or six hundred today?
Li Ruhai did not lie. The five or six hundred he said was mostly bonuses and rewards given to him by Zhao Jun and Zhao Weipeng.
Li Ruhai hid the money and never exposed it. But today, on such a big stage, Li Ruhai decided not to hide it anymore and show his face.
"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 stared at Li Ruhai. After a day of contact, they felt that these families were not bad people, 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, shook his head, then smiled at the camera and said, "This is a long story."
"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, and I have done a little business."
"Comrade Xiao Li, what kind of business are you doing?" Su Xianglian asked hurriedly, "How much is the capital?"
"Capital?" Li Ruhai smiled faintly and said, "All my business is free of capital."
Su Xianglian, Liu Guihai, Hou Jinglin: "..."
(End of this chapter)