Grandpa's great writer

Chapter 855 An Interesting Thing (Two in One)

On October [-]st, Zhang Zhong's family went to Yanjing.

This time, they didn't stay in a hotel, because Zhang Zhong bought a small house in Xishan.

The reason why I bought it in Xishan is because it is closer to Wu Ziyun's house.

The villa that Zhang Chong bought was not outstanding, it was relatively small in size, and the total price was more than 3000 million.

Now that house prices are getting more and more expensive, in a place like Yanjing, it seems that even 5000 million yuan is not worth mentioning.

The main reason was that Zhang Chong felt that they didn't need to spend too much money on housing, and the house in Yanjing could only be regarded as a separate garden, and they couldn't live there for too long a year, so it wasn't necessary to make it too good.

The villa was fully furnished, and Zhang Zhong and the others didn't make much decoration, but first they got a big studio for Peng Peng, and then Peng Peng studied painting in Yanjing, and he would have his own place to put his works.

If Pengpeng goes to school in Central America in the future, this villa can also start to work, and she can live here in the future.

Originally, Zhang Zhong was going to take Pengpeng to Yangmei with Wu Ziyun today, but He Ruchu found out about the house, and He Ruchu dragged Liang Xiao and Xu Hai to give Zhang Zhong a new residence.

Wu Zhuang is a custom in Jiangyang, and Zhang Zhong doesn't know how it came about, but the formal Wu Zhuang is for overnight stays, and He Ruchu's intention is to come to celebrate the housewarming.

Of course, according to the old customs, a formal housewarming also requires a set of procedures, including the choice of a date, and it is impossible to come here casually.

But this is not Zhang Zhong's housewarming, He Ruchu and the others just made a joke, they just wanted to come and see Zhang Zhong's new house.

Now that He Ruchu and the others mentioned it, Zhang Zhong simply nodded in agreement, and even called Zhuang Yu, Wang Yi, Liu Yuan, Yu Dongyu, Wang Kewang, and Fang Ya to come over.

He had been here many times before, but every time he was treated by these old buddies. Now that he has settled down, it is only natural to invite them home for a meal.

There is a club in the new community, which has hotel services, and Zhang Zhong originally wanted to get a box there.But when she heard that there were guests coming, Hu Huifang waved her hand, she didn't have any sincerity to go to any restaurant, just eat at home.

Moreover, calling a group of guests over for a meal in the new house can also add to the fireworks.

Although you don't live much, you should always live comfortably.

If the family prime minister moves his mouth, the whole family will have to run away.

Jiang Yang and the others have been here many times, but when it comes to where to buy vegetables, they are all in the dark and can't figure out the direction.

In the end, I couldn't find an authentic vegetable market, so I had to go to a large supermarket and buy a bunch of them.

Hu Huifang was quite dissatisfied with the food in the supermarket, and she was still thinking about the food after it was brought to the kitchen, "Although I don't come here often, I still need to be prepared to make a fire and live here. I think we will have to find some time nearby and have a good time." Wandering around, the vegetables in the supermarket are made beautiful for you, just to sell them to you at a high price, and the materials are still not good. Take these crucian carp as an example. I can’t see the wild crucian carp written on the sign. It looks wild. How can there be a wild crucian carp with such a short tail and such a fat body? Besides, this chicken..."

Zhang Zhong is not very proficient in these things, so he can only turn into a nodding machine beside him.

"Well, yes, that's right, that's it, for sure."

This is a set of empirical speech skills that Zhang Zhong has summed up for a long time. If you can learn and use these words flexibly, you can become a qualified nodding machine, or to put it nicely, a listener.

Of course, not everyone is willing to be a nod, Zhang Xingjun is singing the opposite tune, "You can be content, it is good to be able to buy these dishes, this is not Jiangyang, we are not familiar with the place where we are born. My son said that he wants to work in the community. The purpose of setting up a table in the clubhouse is to make you relax, and you make yourself suffer..."

Before the anti-tune was finished, Hu Huifang said with a look of disgust, "Go, go, don't get in the way here."

Zhang Xingjun shrugged his shoulders, put down the dishes in his hands, walked to the living room and sat down with his hands behind his back.

Looking at his father's back, Zhang Zhong couldn't help feeling that the old man didn't want to be a nodding machine, he just didn't want to choose vegetables with them here.

After four o'clock in the afternoon, the guests came one after another.

Zhang Zhong had repeatedly emphasized that today was just a casual meal, but they still brought gifts one by one.

Especially Wang Kewang, the others either brought wine, or tea, and some small gadgets, and he brought the most things, a lot of tobacco, wine, tea and fruits.

When Wang Kewang opened the door, he looked at the things he was carrying in both hands. Zhang Zhong curled his lips and said, "You are the last thing you should bring. What did I bring to the old man before?"

"When we go to the old man, everyone doesn't bring anything. This is the rule set by the old man. You haven't reached the time to make this rule. Besides, these things are not brought to you, but to your parents and Peng Peng Yes." Wang Kewang put the thing in Zhang Zhong's hand, "If I don't catch it, my arm hurts."

Zhang Zhong had no choice but to accept the gift, and then took the fruit Wang Kewang brought to the kitchen to wash.

It doesn't matter if things like tobacco, wine and tea can be put away, but fruits can't.After a few days they left, and the fruits were all thrown away.

A small pavilion was built on the side of the villa, and there was a landscape pool next to it. Zhang Zhong invited the guests under the pavilion.

Looking at Zhang Zhong's villa, Yu Dongyu said with a smile, "Now I can finally feel that you are a local tyrant."

"This house is not expensive, who of you can't afford it?" Zhang Zhong said.

"I can't afford it." Xu Hai raised his hand.

"I can't afford it either." Liang Xiao also raised his hand.

"Don't cry about being poor, if you sell more calligraphy and paintings, won't you have this house?" Yu Dongyu teased.

Xu Hai took a sip of his pipe and said, "Brother Cang'er, although we all rely on pens for food, we are different from you. As long as the quality is guaranteed, the more works you have, the better. But we can't. No matter how good it is, once there are more works, the value will drop. Besides, you can buy tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of people with a book, but our works can only be sold to one person, which is inefficient."

At the top of the industry, painters do not earn as much as writers, not only because of what Xu Hai said, but most importantly, no matter how highly hyped things like calligraphy and painting are, most of the profits will eventually be taken by collectors up.

And there is another point that everyone is reluctant to say, that is, as long as the painter is alive, the painting cannot be sold at a high price.

Of course, this "dead wins" phenomenon exists in all walks of life, but it is most serious in the art world.And most monstrously, the artist dies as early as possible, preferably young.

It is better to die than to be terminally ill, and it is better to kill oneself than to be terminally ill.

For artists like Xu Hai and Liang Xiao who are living well and have no special gossip, it is naturally difficult for their works to sell for too high a price.

It's not good for a group of cultural people to talk about money all the time, so He Ruchu changed the subject and asked Zhang Zhong, "I read in the news that Liang Yanqiu went to teach at your middle school?"

"Well, there is such a thing." Zhang nodded his head.

Fang Ya sighed, "Before our school specially invited him to teach at Yanjing Normal University, but he didn't agree. I didn't expect that less than two years later, you could actually invite him to Shizhong College."

Liu Yuan said harshly, "What do you mean, is Shizhong College not as good as your Yenching Normal University?"

"I didn't say that." Fang Ya rolled his eyes, "It's just that Yenching Normal University is his alma mater, after all, he has feelings there. And he's returning to teach when he returns."

"He may also have left some not-so-good memories at Yenching Normal University, and he is afraid that he will be hurt when he goes back."

"I won't tell you, my mouth is full of reason." Fang Ya waved his hand.

"Hahaha." Liu Yuan laughed three times, "Mr. Wan, the fact is that Liang Yanqiu rejected Yanjing Normal University and accepted the invitation of Shizhong College."

Fang Ya said he would not tell Liu Yuan, so he would not tell Liu Yuan. He folded his arms and ignored him with his head held high.

Although I know they like to bicker together, Zhang Zhong, as the host, still speaks out, "I also took advantage of the loopholes. Mr. Liang probably happened to have the desire to teach in the past two years, so I met him. I am always lucky. Very good, otherwise I wouldn’t have made friends like you.”

But I didn't expect that Zhang Zhong's fight didn't reach the point, but a new controversy was brought up instead.

Fang Ya crossed his arms and said, "You don't always have good luck, and sometimes you have bad luck."

In the words, his eyes turned to Liu Yuan, the meaning is self-evident, it is not good luck for Zhang Zhong to know Liu Yuan, it is considered unkind.

Liu Yuan naturally didn't want to suffer, and retorted, "Teacher Wan is somewhat self-aware."

Zhuang Yu couldn't stand it anymore, and said to the two of them, "Why are you two acting like children, making people laugh."

Wang Yi also smiled and changed the subject, "Why don't I tell you an interesting story."

Hearing that Wang Yi had something interesting to say, several other people, including Fang Ya and Liu Yuan, turned their attention to Wang Yi.

"What fun?"

"I've also heard about this. There is a county in Bashu, my hometown, called Lingluo County. Have you heard of it?"

Some people shook their heads, some people nodded, Zhang Chong asked with a smile, "But that Lingluo County where there is no food?"

"Exactly." Wang Yi nodded.

When Zhang Zhong asked, several other people who were unfamiliar with the name of Lingluo County also remembered it.

In ancient times, there were many people who raised silkworms in this place, and they were rich for a period of time. However, due to various reasons, there was a shortage of food in the local area, and silk satins could not be sold. stages of historical phenomena.

"What's interesting about this place?" Zhuang Yu asked.

Wang Yi said: "I don't know which cadre had a brainstorm before, and organized a campaign to send books to the countryside. The campaign was huge. Lingluo County was the pilot county, and every village under its jurisdiction sent books to the countryside. A large number of books. It is said that the average number of books distributed to each villager is six."

Liu Yuan frowned, "I don't want to say whether the original intention is good or bad, but it will definitely end without a problem in the end."

"Well, that's right. As you can imagine, the books in the villagers' hands were quickly taken away by second-hand booksellers. Later, some netizens saw a large number of books with the seal of the cultural center on the second-hand book trading platform. This matter was picked up. Later, it was heard that a group of cadres were affected, and several village chiefs and secretaries were removed." Wang Yi said.

Liu Yuan snorted and said, "What is the purpose of removing the village chief secretary? If you want to remove it, you should be the one who made the decision. It is really wrong to waste public funds for such a dead person who is a vegetarian."

Zhang nodded emphatically, agreeing with Liu Yuan's point of view.

This kind of activity of sending books to the countryside, anyone here can imagine what the result will be.

Nowadays, most of the people left in the villages are not well-educated and older people. In a slightly remote place, the entire village may be illiterate.

Sending books to such places is like sending candles to the blind, and it is a waste of work.

People here can think of it, but the person who made the decision with his brain can't think of it?

But people still made this decision.

For what?
For the sake of face.

It's nice to say it, send books to the countryside, popularize cultural knowledge, and consolidate education at the bottom.

"It's not an interesting thing." Zhuang Yu shook his head. "To eradicate illiteracy and popularize education is a very important thing, but it doesn't sound interesting to be used by some caring people as a fuss and a face project."

Fang Ya also nodded in agreement, "Yes, I have been to the grassroots and worked as a volunteer teacher, so I need to know more about the situation. Even though the country is getting stronger and the education system is getting better, there is still a shortage of books in rural primary and secondary schools. .Many school libraries are just decorations. In addition, the students have no one to guide them, so their extracurricular reading is pitiful. If this so-called sending books to the countryside can be delivered to these students who need books, I think Things are much better."

"Aside from these things, even if you want the villagers to read more books, you should consider the actual situation. Many villagers don't even know a few words, so it's useless to throw them a bunch of famous books at home and abroad. I really want to spread the fragrance of books everywhere, Systematic literacy must be carried out first." Liu Yuan said.

"It's still a luxury to make the countryside full of books. I think, don't do anything to send books to the countryside, let the people in the city read the books first. The people in the city think that the people in the country are uneducated and want to study, but now the city There are very few books read by the local people. The situation has improved a lot in the past two years, but it is still not the time to relax. The young people who were originally the main force of reading need more attention." Wang Kewang said.

He Ruchu looked at Zhang Zhong with a smile, "Here, you have the most right to speak. Didn't you donate a lot of schools in the past two years? It should be quite effective, right?"

Zhang Chong shook his head in embarrassment, "I'm a little embarrassed to talk about it, I only want to donate money, but I have never visited it, I don't know the specific situation, maybe there will be the same situation as you just mentioned Appear."

"Being able to donate money is already a great kindness, and you don't have to be too hard on yourself." Zhuang Yu smiled and comforted.

Zhang Zhong shook his head with a smile. After chatting with them for a while, he really came up with the idea of ​​going to those schools.

(End of this chapter)