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In a blink of an eye, time has come to the 28th day of the twelfth lunar month.

This is the last day of the clan meeting of the Naye Deng family this year. Today's clan meeting is the same as in previous years. First, the outstanding students in the clan will be awarded scholarships, and then the much-anticipated group dividends will be distributed.

The clan meeting held at the end of each year is the most grand clan meeting of the Naye Deng family.

In the clan meetings held at other times, only the clan members come to participate, and at the end of the year, 99% of the aunts will return to their parents' home to participate in the dividend clan meeting. It can be said that this is the time with the most people in the whole year.

Moreover, the Naye Deng family's year-end clan meeting has been held for many years and has long been famous throughout the town. Those who are far away will forget it, but those who are closer will rush over to join in the fun and see the scene of the Naye Deng family's dividend distribution.

Although they are always greatly stimulated after watching it, every time the Naye Deng family's year-end clan meeting begins, they can't help but come to watch.

At this time, in addition to the members of the Naye Deng clan and the aunt, there were at least two or three thousand people rushing to watch at the entrance of the Naye Deng Clan Ancestral Hall. The scene was crowded and very lively.

In the crowd, Deng Yunzhu was talking to her second sister-in-law. Knowing that her second sister-in-law would also stay in her hometown for the New Year this year, Deng Yunzhu brought her husband and children to her mother's home for the New Year.

Deng Yunzhen was also talking to her eldest sister-in-law. When her parents-in-law were still alive, they naturally had to go back to Songwang Town for the New Year. But since her parents-in-law left, the couple rarely went back to Songwang Town for the New Year. They all went back to their mother's home for the New Year.

Feng Yingying was talking to her fourth sister-in-law holding her child. She had just married into the Deng family, and this was her first clan meeting.

Xiao Dong'er, Dongzi, Zhu Shiba, Xiao Shitou, A Mao and other third generations were also there.

When the scholarship awards were distributed, Xiao Dong'er took the stage under the envious gaze of her younger brothers and received the highest award with several clan members.

Seeing this scene, Feng Yingying couldn't help but ask: "Fourth sister-in-law, has our clan always attached so much importance to education?"

Fan Yuemei nodded and said: "Since my father became the head of the clan, he has taken the lead in organizing this scholarship award. It has been more than ten years. I heard that many clan members who received scholarship awards in the early years have been admitted to the middle school entrance examination, junior college and university, and many talents have emerged!"

Feng Yingying said with emotion: "Education is the foundation of a century-long plan. My father has understood this truth. It is difficult for the Deng family not to develop with a leader like my father!"

While the two sisters-in-law were talking in a low voice, all the scholarship awards on the stage were distributed.

Next, the clan meeting entered the second theme and began to distribute dividends to the aunts.

This year, each aunt received a dividend of 3,600 yuan.

This money is really not a small amount.

In this era, the monthly salary of waiters in rural restaurants is only about 150 yuan, while the average monthly salary of the aunts is 300 yuan, which is equivalent to the salary of two waiters.

Such an income is enough to support a family in the countryside.

Of course, it is impossible to get rich with this income.

Deng Shirong still understands the principle that it is better to teach a man to fish than to give him a fish. He originally proposed to distribute dividends to the aunts. The original intention was to give the aunts a guaranteed income, so that the status of the young aunts in their husband's family could be greatly improved, and the elderly aunts could enjoy their old age without worries about food and clothing.

If they want to get rich, they have to rely on their own efforts.

The aunts were very happy when they received the dividends, and they were also sincerely grateful for the care given to them by the clan.

The kind of ungrateful people who dislike the clan for giving too little may exist in other places, but this situation rarely happens in Bobai County.

Because the rural areas of Bobai County have always believed in a saying, that is, "a daughter who is married is like water that has been poured out", and marrying a daughter is also called selling a daughter. Not to mention that these aunts have already married, even the girls who have not married yet have understood a truth early on, that is, the property of their parents is left to their brothers or younger brothers, and has nothing to do with them.

Similarly, supporting parents is also the son's business, and has nothing to do with married daughters.

It is precisely because of this atmosphere in the rural areas of Bobai County that they value sons more than daughters. Whether it is now or in the future, they must give birth to sons. If they cannot give birth, they will keep giving birth and will never give up until they give birth to sons.

In this atmosphere, the clan can give them dividends for free, and the aunts are naturally grateful. How could they dislike the clan for giving too little!

After distributing dividends to the aunts, the next highlight is to distribute dividends to the clan members.

Although she had been prepared, Feng Yingying was still shocked to see the clan members coming on stage to receive dividends one by one, and the amount of dividends was getting higher and higher. There were actually quite a few clan members who received dividends of tens of millions. The wealth of the Naye Deng clan really exceeded her imagination.

In the end, the granddaughter was the one who received a full 40 million in dividends, which Feng Yingying thought was reasonable.

This clan meeting opened Feng Yingying's eyes.

After the clan meeting ended and she returned home, Feng Yingying couldn't help but call her cousin.

After the call was connected and they greeted each other, Feng Yingying told her cousin about the situation of the Naye Deng clan meeting today, and finally said: "Sister, the Naye Deng clan is really amazing. You might as well marry here. There are many unmarried young men in the clan. Do you want me to help you find one?"

Feng Xuelin said speechlessly: "You are acting as a matchmaker for me. I know that Old Deng has a very high seniority in the clan. If I marry into the Deng family, I will be either a nephew or a grandson. Do you want to be my elder?"

Feng Yingying laughed and said: "How can that be possible? Sister, even if you marry into the family, we can still discuss our own affairs."

Feng Xuelin refused: "Come on, I won't give you the opportunity to be an elder. It's not impossible for you to introduce me to a partner. Just find someone else who is suitable. I will definitely not marry the Deng family."

Feng Yingying smiled and said: "Okay, I will help you keep an eye out later to see if there is a suitable candidate."

Feng Xuelin said: "You can do it yourself. Anyway, I am still studying and not in a hurry to get married. When are you going to start your bubble tea shop?"

Feng Yingying said: "After the Chinese New Year, I will start it when I return to Guangzhou."

Feng Xuelin said enviously: "Your business sounds promising. Your in-laws have already fed you. If you still can't run it, don't say that you are a top student who graduated from Xi'an Jiaotong University. That would be too embarrassing."

Feng Yingying smiled confidently: "Don't worry, sister, I will definitely run this milk tea chain store well."

Feng Xuelin encouraged: "Work hard, and when I don't want to be a doctor, I will go to you."

Feng Yingying smiled and said: "I couldn't ask for more..."

The two sisters had a good relationship to begin with. Now that Feng Yingying can marry into the Deng family, it was Feng Xuelin who made the connection, and the relationship is even better. The two chatted for nearly 20 minutes before hanging up the phone with a sense of unsatisfaction.

At the end of each year, making jackals and offering sacrifices to various gods are indispensable links, and the clansmen who work outside also rush back to celebrate the New Year at the end of the year, which is much more lively than usual.

The main reason is that people of this generation are very persistent in going home for the Spring Festival, unlike those who bought houses outside in later generations, who are not very willing to go back to their hometown for the Spring Festival.

Especially those born in the 2000s and even the 2010s, many of them grew up outside and have no experience of living in their hometowns in the countryside. Their sense of belonging to their hometowns is getting weaker and weaker. Now that their elders are still there, they will follow their parents back to their hometowns for the Spring Festival.

Once the elders are gone, it is estimated that their connection with their hometowns will be cut off.

As the Spring Festival approaches, the most popular place in each village is the stall.

The so-called stall is a place for gambling.

Although gambling was also banned in this era, the intensity of the ban on gambling was really a small witch compared to that of later generations.

Especially during the Spring Festival, each village would openly open gambling in the most popular places, and the police station would not catch them. If later generations dared to do this, they would definitely not be able to eat New Year's Eve dinner this Spring Festival, and could only eat prison food.

In the previous life, the Naye Deng family naturally had no shortage of stalls, but in this life, because Deng Shirong issued a ban on gambling for the entire clan, stalls never appeared in the area where the Naye Deng family was located.

Because small gambling for pleasure was banned, the Naye Deng family did lose a lot of entertainment activities. For so many years, they basically spent the Spring Festival eating and drinking. The only activity was to play a game of upgrade (tractor), which was the most popular poker game in the Naye Deng family. Men, women, and children would participate.

Deng Shirong's daughter and daughter-in-law were also fans of playing upgrade.

On New Year's Eve, after offering sacrifices to the grandfather and eating a reunion dinner, Zhang Xiuping, the eldest sister-in-law, started to make arrangements and teamed up with her sisters-in-law to play upgrade.

Deng Shirong drank and chatted with his eldest brother and his sons and nephews. During this period, Deng Yungui, Deng Yunqiang, Deng Yunfeng and others had almost finished eating and drinking with their families at home, and they all rushed over to drink with Uncle Jiu. This is also a reserved program every year.

Seeing his daughter and daughter-in-law start to level up, Deng Shirong thought that the tribesmen now have fewer ways to entertain themselves, so he said to Deng Yungui and others: "There are fewer ways to entertain people in the village now. I want to add some entertainment for everyone. Do you have any interest in investing in it?"

Deng Yungui asked: "Uncle Jiu, what kind of entertainment should I add?"

Deng Shirong took a sip of tea and said: "First of all, it is a movie theater. Although Shuangwangxu also has a movie theater, it is already very backward. I want to build a luxurious movie theater in the village so that the tribesmen can watch movies when they are free. This is also a very good way to entertain themselves.

If you are interested in investing, then let you do it. If you are not interested in investing, then let the group invest directly. Anyway, my goal is to provide more entertainment projects for the tribesmen and enrich their lives."

Deng Yunqiang's heart moved , asked: "Uncle Jiu, do you think this cinema is worth doing?"

Deng Shirong smiled and said: "Thinking back then, if the production team invited the projection team to come to the village to show movies, basically everyone who got the news would come to watch. You have all experienced that scene, so I don't need to say more.

Most people like watching movies.

Of course, that's because it's free, so so many people come to watch movies. If it's charged, there won't be so many people watching.

And if we build a luxury cinema in the village, the movie tickets may be more expensive. Then, except for our clansmen who have the conditions to watch, I'm afraid that not many people in other villages will be willing to spend so much money to watch movies.

So I can't say whether this cinema can make money now."

Deng Yunqiang shook his head and said: "Forget it, even Uncle Jiu doesn't dare to say that this cinema can make money, so I won't do it."

Deng Yungui smiled and said: "Uncle Jiu, we will definitely not dare to do a business that you are not sure about, so let the group invest directly!"

Deng Shirong nodded and said: "Okay, then let the group invest later."

Deng Yungui asked: "Uncle Jiu, besides this cinema, what other projects are there?"

Deng Shirong said: "The nightclub business outside is very booming now. I wonder if you are interested in opening a nightclub in the village?"

Deng Yungui was also a person who had traveled far and had some experience. He was a little surprised when he heard this and said: "Uncle Jiu, this nightclub doesn't seem to have a good reputation outside. Wouldn't it be inappropriate to do this in the village? "

Deng Shirong said: "The reason why nightclubs outside have a bad reputation is that the positioning of nightclubs is related to the guests. Those nightclubs with a bad reputation are all prohibited from pornography and gambling. Most of the people who go to such nightclubs are these three types of people. Naturally, the nightclub will be ruined. It's so smoky.

However, when we open a nightclub in our village, pornography, gambling and drugs must be banned. It is just a place for drinking, singing, dancing and watching performances. And most of the guests are from our Nayedeng clan, so naturally they will not show up. Those messy things. "

Deng Yungui nodded and said: "Uncle Jiu is right, but I don't know if I can make money?"

Deng Shirong smiled and said: "Making money in this nightclub shouldn't be a problem, but it's definitely not as profitable as other nightclubs outside."

Deng Yunfeng said: "Every household in our Naye Deng family has money, and many people in administrative villages such as Zhouwang, Naqing, and Zengcun have made money because of the establishment of Naye Film and Television City, plus the medical staff in the hospital The income is not low, and there should be a lot of customers.”

Deng Shirong added: "Yunfeng, you also missed the crews who come to our film and television city to shoot movies and TV series. Those big stars and directors are not short of money, and they will definitely be the main consumers of nightclubs in the future."

Deng Yungui said excitedly: "In this way, this nightclub is really worth doing."

Deng Yunqiang asked: "Uncle Jiu, the investment in this nightclub should cost a lot of money, right?"

Deng Shirong nodded and said: "The investment in this nightclub is indeed not a small amount, and it is not easy to run it well. Anyway, it's up to you. If you are interested, you can run it as a partnership. If you find it troublesome, let the group invest directly. ”

"Well, let's discuss it later and find someone to estimate how much investment it will take to open a nightclub."

"Even if I participate in investment, I can only invest a million or several hundred thousand at most. I won't dare to invest any more."

"Let's make a knowledgeable estimate later!"

"..."

Several people discussed things and ate and drank until about three o'clock in the afternoon.

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8pm.

Deng Shirong and his daughter-in-law sat in front of the TV to watch the Spring Festival Gala. Since the birth of the Spring Festival Gala, their family has never failed to watch it, and it has long become their family's New Year's Eve repertoire.

This year's Spring Festival Gala hourly time announcement is no longer a brand owned by Deng's Group, but other brands.

This CCTV bidding king, a brand under the Deng Group, has won two consecutive awards. However, in the third term, Deng Shirong no longer rushed to participate in the bidding in person. Instead, he sent other people from the group to participate as representatives, and the bidding price could not be exceeded. More than 250 million, this is actually giving up the third CCTV bid.

Because the advertising price for the third CCTV bid in the previous life soared to over 300 million, which was really outrageous, so Deng Shirong had no intention of getting involved.

This year is 1997, and the Spring Festival Gala naturally has programs related to the return of Hong Kong. Dong Wenhua sang "The Story of Spring". The whole country is looking forward to the moment of Hong Kong's return, including the old man who led the return of Hong Kong.

However, while listening to the song "Spring Story", Deng Shirong felt a little uncomfortable.

At this time, I am afraid he is the only one in the country who knows that the old man who is loved by the people all over the country is about to leave this beautiful world. He did not even make it to the Lantern Festival or see Hong Kong return to the embrace of the motherland. , This is probably the biggest regret in his life.

After all, he really spent a lot of effort on Hong Kong's return.

Moreover, Deng Shirong has benefited a lot from the reform and opening up advocated by him, both in his previous life and in this life.

Even for all those who became rich after the reform and opening up, the person who should be most grateful is Deng Gong. If Deng Gong had not presided over the reform and opening up, they would have either received a salary guaranteed by drought or flood in the workplace, or worked diligently in the countryside to earn work points. , how could it be possible to have the achievements we have today!

Even if we have not become rich, everyone's life has been getting better and better after the reform and opening up. Unlike before, we could not eat meat only a few times a year, and we were even reluctant to eat rice. All meals were just gruel and grains. The comparison of living standards before and after is really amazing. It's too obvious.

Watch the Spring Festival Gala, set off fireworks at midnight, and then offer sacrifices to Grandpa.

After completing these procedures, Deng Shirong, who had something on his mind, went back to sleep.

Next, when Deng Shirong celebrated the Chinese New Year with his son, daughter-in-law, he kept paying attention to the CCTV news. He hoped that his rebirth in this life would create a butterfly effect, and then have a little impact on Mr. Deng, and maybe there would be a miracle. happened.

Of course, Deng Shirong also knew in his heart that this possibility was slim. He just held a little hope in his heart.

Time soon came to the thirteenth day of the first lunar month, but naturally no miracle happened, the sky still collapsed!

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