Chapter 1494

With a click, the sound of the shutter rang out, framing the furniture factory of Hecuan Commune.

The gate of the furniture factory was in the style of ancient architecture with carved beams and painted rafters, looking antique and having quite a feel. The sign of the furniture factory was also written and carved by Wang Yan himself.

Wang Yan stood at the entrance, and beside him were Secretary Zhang, who had become the county secretary, Old Brother Liu from the Baidian Brigade, who had become the commune secretary, and other people; everyone took a group photo together.

"Oh, it's really fast; who would have thought that in a blink of an eye, it's been more than seven years." Old Brother Liu sighed with emotion.

"Flowers have a day to bloom again, people have no youth again." Wang Yan was also full of sorrow, "I'm twenty-six years old too."

"Who would have thought that you would have done so many things at twenty-six." Secretary Zhang shook his head with a smile, patting Wang Yan's arm, "What unit are you going to? Is it arranged?"

"Going to the Beijing Film Academy." Without waiting for them to ask, Wang Yan continued, "I heard I wanted to make movies, and it just happened to be the reconstruction of the academy, so the leaders asked me to go help out and talk to the students about ideological and political work."

Regarding thought and consciousness, the people of the whole country believed in Wang Yan's reliability. Because if his thought wasn't hard enough, he would have had plenty of opportunities to leave this country, and even more opportunities to seize power, but he was watched by people with magnifying glasses, and nothing happened.

Speaking of theory, he was an accomplished theoretical scholar. After many years, the leadership group changed, and his set of theories in "Thought and Development" was brought up again, and strongly affirmed.

For him to give this lecture to the students of the Film Academy was truly using a cannon to hit a mosquito.

However, it was indeed a professional match; he could talk about theory in any unit, and at the same time, he had a literary foundation and had taken many famous photos over the years, so it was no problem to go to the Film Academy.

In fact, this was because Wang Yan had no intention of pursuing an official career; otherwise, according to his resume, he should have reached the level of a deputy department head by now.

In the past few years, he had been deeply engaged in Lin County. He created furniture and home textile factories, integrated the county's machinery and textile factories, developed new products, researched new materials, achieved technical upgrades, expanded scale, drove the development of the whole county, and earned quite a lot of foreign exchange.

At the same time, Wang Yan advocated building water conservancy, roads, greening, and planting economic fruit trees according to local conditions within Lin County.

Water conservancy increased agricultural output, roads improved the circulation of materials in the county, greening brought a good environment, and planting fruit trees also brought extra sources of wealth.

Although taking care of fruit trees also increased the workload, it was indeed an extra income. After all, there was no source of wealth from fruit trees before; it was the Lin County government that purchased the saplings, and they even gave money for planting fruit trees, and once planted, it was the property of their own brigade.

And as there were more and more fruit trees in Lin County and the output became higher and higher, people in nearby areas also started planting fruit trees; after many years, the result was that in the northern Shaanxi region, various fruits were actually unsalable...

Because transportation was not smooth, and they all hit the market at once, it was naturally difficult to handle. Even if other places lacked fruit to eat, so much fruit was piled up here, and there was no way to transport it out.

So they took advantage of the situation to expand the beverage factory, squeezing the fruit that couldn't be transported out into fruit juice, and by virtue of the brand effect Wang Yan created for Lin County, the masses recognized it, and the produced beverages also had good sales; from top to bottom, everyone earned money.

There was also Wang Yan's advocacy of cooperating with agricultural experts to improve seeds, research fertilizers, and increase grain output.

The implementation of these various things made Lin County's various data grow rapidly, and the lives of the people in Lin County were getting better and better; it was a famous wealthy place. The scale of the county town had expanded quite a bit, and many new buildings had been built.

Besides Lin County, the achievements Wang Yan made in Hong Kong were even greater.

With plenty of money and materials, and the New Territories not being very large, the New Territories Great Development went very smoothly.

After a few years, the New Territories, which originally had various broken village buildings and various private constructions, had changed its appearance completely.

Wide asphalt roads were built one by one, and towering buildings rose one after another; schools, hospitals, sports venues, and other various building facilities were complete, taking care of all aspects of people's lives.

At the same time, in the planned industrial zone, various factories were engaged in production, and counting the various constructions in the New Territories, there were countless jobs. The original people in the New Territories were long ago insufficient, and they reversely absorbed a large number of people from Hong Kong and Kowloon to work here.

And it wasn't just factory work; there were also a large number of white-collar jobs. After all, the New Territories had also set up a CBD, so it needed shiny white-collar workers in suits to be busy coming in and out to show off the style and show the vigorous vitality of the New Territories.

Developing to the present, the New Territories already had quite a bit of the appearance of a big metropolis; this result could be said to be jaw-dropping, and no one expected that this bunch of landlords in the New Territories could actually do such a big thing.

Of course, those who were jaw-dropped were just irrelevant people; relevant people had long been carrying out various sabotage, drawing in, participating, etc. There were public schools, private schools, public hospitals, private hospitals, and other things such as banks, insurance, media, etc. Capitalists had already filled the New Territories of the Great Development very well and started to seek more benefits.

Not only doing business in the New Territories, they also wanted to seize the power of the New Territories, and things were endless.

However, in general, it was still very stable; this bunch of people in the New Territories weren't pushovers, and although troubles were constant, they always passed through, without causing bigger chaos.

The achievements of the New Territories Great Development were partly due to the unity of the big families in the New Territories, who really dared to give up everything to do it, partly due to the support of the mainland, and partly due to Wang Yan.

How to do it, to what extent, were all directed by Wang Yan; that the New Territories had such a situation was brought about by Wang Yan single-handedly. The impact of this matter in all aspects was very significant, but the specific credit was not easy to evaluate.

In addition, the development of the herbal tea factory was getting better and better, successfully entering Southeast Asia; herbal tea, beverages, etc., were relatively popular, which could be considered earning a full pot of money.

The dividends given to Wang Yan every year were also very considerable, distributed twice a year, each time amounting to millions of Hong Kong dollars. It was precisely this continuous money over the years that ensured Lin County's greening project.

This project certainly had to be done all the time, but when it started in poverty, it was not easy to carry out greening and sand control projects without this extra money. After all, every aspect involved in a county required money, and there were always things that seemed more urgent than greening and sand control at the moment.

In short, Wang Yan was a good comrade who didn't covet credit, didn't covet money, had high ideological consciousness, and had a firm will.

After the 1973 Canton Fair went smoothly, he didn't even serve as the factory manager of the furniture factory, and had no other positions; for the convenience of work and management, he was given the position of deputy county magistrate.

Looking at it this way, he was only a deputy department level, but various meetings in the county were generally presided over by him, and various work arrangements were basically arranged by him. Some internal personnel arrangements were also decided by him.

Secretary Zhang was happy to see this and didn't vie for power; he just stood for Wang Yan and signed, which was very harmonious.

So in actual work, Wang Yan was a proper department level.

At the same time, considering Wang Yan's reputation and influence, especially the credit for leading the New Territories Great Development which could not be directly expressed, and considering his age, he was almost a senior deputy bureau level, only half a step away from the bureau level.

And in terms of personal status, he was more respected. After all, he was a cultural celebrity, a theoretical scholar, a people's artist, and a half-think tank who occasionally had to write internal reference materials to be sent up.

After operating for these years, his relationship network was also quite deep; regardless of whether he could handle things or not, at least he could talk to the big shots, and when his name was mentioned, no one didn't know him.

This was his success...

Secretary Zhang let out a long sigh: "The organization wants to promote you, but you insist on not doing it; you should go to a place that needs you more and continue to engage in development. Our northern Shaanxi is poor."

Wang Yan said: "There are many capable people; it's not like the earth won't turn without me. It's not like I'm the only one engaging in development, and other leading cadres are all sitting in their positions and doing nothing, right? Don't exaggerate too much. I have some ability, but I haven't reached that point. It's still you, Uncle Zhang; you are a good cadre, and in a higher position, you can play a greater role."

"What role or not, as long as I can be worthy of the people."

After Wang Yan finished taking the group photo with them, he wandered around the county town for a few more days and took pictures everywhere; the contrast with when he first arrived was quite obvious.

Very few people knew he was leaving, only those few people, and they didn't tell others, so they didn't have to make the masses see him off, as if it were a life-and-death separation.

So after taking pictures for a few more days, on an ordinary day, he took his few pieces of luggage and, under the send-off of Secretary Zhang and others, left Lin County...

After he left, a few days later, the news of Wang Yan leaving Lin County spread, and the masses exploded. Everyone was inquiring why Wang Yan, who was doing a good job as an official, didn't do it anymore and had to go back to the capital to teach and make movies.

After a noisy period, the masses of Lin County accepted this matter. They knew that Wang Yan was returning to the city to live with his wife.

The masses were still very understanding of such a reason; after all, of the three unfilial acts, having no offspring is the worst, and Wang Yan was just living by himself, so he had to serve his wife well and have a few more children...

After nearly eight years, Wang Yan finally returned to the capital.

Carrying his few pieces of luggage, as soon as he reached the exit, he saw Zhou Xiaobai standing on tiptoe and looking over there.

"It's so hot; I told you not to come, but you insisted on coming." Wang Yan used his hand to wipe the sweat from Zhou Xiaobai's forehead.

This was the midsummer of July, and the sun was very strong; it was really hot enough to make people dizzy.

"It's alright." Zhou Xiaobai waved her hand and wiped her face roughly, "Let's go, let's go drink some soda and it'll be fine."

She happily pulled Wang Yan to the newsstand outside the train station to buy iced soda to drink.

"You're not leaving this time, right?" She asked.

Wang Yan shook his head and smiled: "Truth be told, I only left the capital this one time, and as a result, this departure lasted eight years."

"Isn't that something you brought upon yourself?"

"Alright, alright, let's not talk about the rights and wrongs of the past; I certainly think I wasn't wrong. Come, come, I've just returned to the capital, let's take a picture to commemorate it. Development is getting faster and faster these years; I left from this train station back then, but looking at it now, it's as fresh as if I'd never seen it."

"Are you really going to the Film Academy?"

Wang Yan nodded with a smile: "I have to have something to do; once I tidy up and settle down, I plan to write a book. I heard that the manuscript fee is going to be restored; I'll write a book that can earn money and also have a script for making a movie. Later, I'll ponder it and make a movie."

"I support you; anyway, as long as we two can be together and see each other, it's fine. I don't want to be like before, not seeing each other twice a year."

Zhou Xiaobai hugged Wang Yan's arm, not minding the heat, and said, "My mom said, after you come back, let us have children; she said we're not young anymore and can't delay any longer."

"Alright, let's work hard today."

Zhou Xiaobai gave him a glare, but didn't feel too embarrassed; they were an old married couple anyway, and she also wanted to work hard...

The two drank the iced soda, took a picture at the train station, and took the bus back to Nanheng Street.

Strolling to their own alley, Wang Yan smiled and politely greeted the neighbors who were cooling off and wanted to greet him but didn't know what to say.

Wang Mouren now had a high rank, and after a long time, there was a thick barrier between him and the neighbors from before...

Arriving at the courtyard, bypassing the screen wall, and stepping over the second gate, he just saw Li Kuiyong on a lounge chair, with Tian Fang behind him, fiddling with the lounge chair.

"Oh, Master Li, greetings to you."

Hearing Wang Yan's strange words, Li Kuiyong raised his head and hurriedly climbed up: "Oh, Brother Yan, you're back; why didn't you say so in advance so I could go pick you up... Ah, sister-in-law picked you up, then I'll make a few dishes to welcome you."

"Yeah, Brother Yan, I've been thinking about you coming back." Tian Fang also echoed on the side.

Li Kuiyong and Tian Fang were already married; Wang Yan wanted to return, so he brought them back.

"Brother Yan, just in time for lunch; shall we eat a bite here before going to pay respects to your father-in-law?" Seeing Wang Yan nod, Li Kuiyong said to Tian Fang, "Go, buy more meat; drink Erguotou for wine."

Wang Yan smoked and looked around the room; it was still the same as when he left, basically unchanged.

"Brother Yan, this house..."

Before Li Kuiyong could finish, Wang Yan waved his hand to interrupt him, "You two live here; my wife's family is big enough."

"That's true; I'd say your life is the most comfortable."

Zhou Xiaobai curled her lips: "This is finally settling down; what's comfortable about it? Instead, I envy you and Xiaofang for being able to be together all the time."

"Hey, that's not it either; we're tired of looking at each other. Especially recently, with nothing to do, we two stare at each other all day, doing nothing but arguing."

"Is there nothing going on at the Film Academy? Didn't you two go report?"

Wang Yan asked, and seeing Li Kuiyong's embarrassed expression, he understood...

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