"Old man, it's getting very late today. The folks in the mountain village have all finished their dinner early and rested! If we go there now, let alone food, we probably won't even have a place to live!"
The fact was just as Zhang Wen and Guo Shaoming expected. When Mr. Guo rushed to Nancheng, it was getting dark, but he still hoped to rush to Kaoshan Village. The Guo family immediately persuaded him. After traveling a long distance, even the younger ones are quite tired, let alone Mr. Guo, who is in his eighties.
The people standing in front of Guo Shaoming to persuade him were all the elders of the family. Guo Shaoming couldn't even speak in front of so many people. He could only hide behind and couldn't speak. He simply sat there and said nothing. If these elders all persuaded If you don't move, even if you take action on your own, it is unlikely to succeed.
"Shaoming, where's Shaoming's kid? Ask him to come over. I have something to ask him!"
But just as Guo Shaoming was still thinking that he had nothing to do here, the old man called him, and everyone's eyes suddenly focused on Guo Shaoming. Guo Shaoming's face felt hot when he looked at it. He didn't know how many years this had happened.
"Grandpa, I'm here!"
However, Guo Shaoming responded to the old man¡¯s call honestly and stood respectfully in front of the old man, lowering his head as if he had made some mistake. In fact, he couldn¡¯t stand the looks of other elders.
"You kid, after more than a year of hard work, the edges and corners of your body have been smoothed. Not bad! You don't have the philistineness of your uncles. I feel very comfortable looking at you!" The old man said with a smile on his face! With a smile, he looked at Guo Shaoming carefully and praised like this.
"Guo Shaoming was a little stupid at the time. The old man hadn't praised these juniors for many years, but Guo Shaoming was the first time in decades. The only reason was that Guo Shaoming lacked the philistine spirit of his uncles.
The Guo family is a business family, and almost all family members are engaged in business. If businessmen are not philistine enough, then what else can they be called businessmen? Everyone expressed their disapproval in their hearts, but they did not dare to show it.
"You think I don't know what you think, old man? Do businessmen have to be philistines? Profiteers are profiteers. The word profiteers is so misunderstood because businessmen are too philistine."
"In ancient times, there was a saying - scholars, farmers, industry and merchants, why would businessmen be ranked last, even the farmers and workers who are looked down upon by you are ranked first? Maybe you will say that times have changed, but that is because Businessmen are too philistine. When considering anything, they always calculate their own gains and losses. Even when the country is in crisis, they are still calculating whether they can make money from the national crisis"
"A hundred years ago, our Guo family was also a well-known and wealthy family in mainland China. But why did we end up living abroad? It was because many people in the family felt that when the war broke out, there would be no way to preserve our family's property. So my family moved to Nanyang"
"But, what happened! In the end, it was not all in vain. We encountered pirates on the way, robbed all our property, and even wanted to kill our whole family. If a warship hadn't passed by, our whole family would have turned into the sea. The floating corpses among the corpses How could you still be the same as you are now?"
"My father, your grandfather, and grandpa Zeng have been doing business all their lives, and they are even called Confucian businessmen. Some people say he is a profiteer, and some people say he is a philistine? Look at you again, look at Yourselveshum!"
"Do you know why I haven't walked out of the house for so many years? It's not that I'm old and can't walk anymore! It's that I don't have the shame to go out and walk. I'm afraid of people poking my spinecough cough cough!"
The old man became more and more excited as he spoke. By the end of the sentence, everyone in the Guo family was so ashamed that he said that the old man would not leave the house for many years. It was because of this that no one in the big family could understand, but quite a few People come to complain that the old man never praises anyone.
"I've said so much, that's enough! I don't care what happens to you in the future. I'm here just to see the kid Shaoming and the little guy Zhang Wen"
After coughing a few times, the old man seemed to have coughed out the stuffy air that had accumulated in his chest for many years. He felt much better and his face became much rosier. The doctor checked to make sure that nothing was wrong. Only then did people feel relieved.
"Grandpa, it's so late, so you always rest in Nancheng for the night. Zhang Wen already knows that you are coming, but you see so many of us going there, if we don't prepare in advance, we really don't even have a place to stay. and,p; The former thatched houses have now been transformed into tile-roofed houses, and many people have built two-story buildings on the original tile-roofed houses. Some of the more motivated and less afraid of hardships are already saving money. The money is ready to build a small villa like Zhang Wen's house.
Even those idle young people like Wang Xiaoma in the past have a lot of rules. They are not taking care of the vegetable greenhouse at home with their families, growing space vegetables, or learning to run sales and do business. Yes, in short, he is no longer the kind of little gangster that everyone hates and looks down upon.
I have even said before that no one¡¯s daughter would marry him even if she married a pig or a dog. Now she is slowly getting richer and has a wife, and all of this is only in less than two years. changes that have occurred.
Two years ago, Kaoshan Village was the poorest village in Qinghe. Almost no girl from any family was willing to marry here. It was difficult for young men in Kaoshan Village to find a wife. But today, Kaoshan Village is indeed the richest village in Qinghe. The girls from other villages are eager to marry in the backing village, and the young men from the backing village are also starting to pick and choose their wives.