After eating the poisonous potato seeds, Lang Ying's "ex-husband" was rescued, but instead of recognizing his mistake, he saw it as a good opportunity to extort money from poverty alleviation officials.
So, the family of three conspired, thinking that the poisoning symptoms were too mild and they probably wouldn't be able to extort much money from the victim, so they went and bought some more pesticide. When the nurse wasn't around, they secretly diluted it with water and drank it...
They thought that since the pesticide was diluted with water and the dosage was small, and they were in the hospital, as long as they received timely treatment, if things escalated, not only would the poverty alleviation cadres be held accountable, but even the company that sold the new potato seed variety would have to pay them a large sum of medical expenses!
Ignorance and greed ultimately killed them.
The reason why potato seeds from seed companies contain a slight toxicity is that during seedling cultivation, in order to improve the germination rate of the seed potatoes, they contain much higher levels of solanine than potatoes sold in the market.
However, eating a small amount will at most cause diarrhea and abdominal pain, but it will not be fatal.
But this family actually bought highly toxic pesticides in order to extort money!
Even if it was diluted with water, it was still like drinking pesticide that could kill a person... In the end, this greedy and vicious family of three suffered two deaths and one serious injury. The only surviving son suffered from multiple organ failure, struggled in pain on his hospital bed for several days, and finally died.
"Serves you right! You still want to extort money from Professor Wang Xian? Bah! Good riddance!"
"That's right! We can't let those three be buried in our Jiang family's ancestral graves. Don't defile our old Jiang family's ancestral graves!"
"And you're not allowed to bury it in the village, it's bad luck!!"
When the villagers saw that Lang Ying's "ex-husband's family" had been poisoned to death by her, they felt both relieved and amazed. They couldn't wait to go out and set off a couple of firecrackers, feeling a strong sense of empathy!
The reason is simple: the story in the movie is also based on reality.
However, it wasn't in their Langshan Village, but in another village. It's said that the family was incredibly lazy, and since it was during a spring famine, the town distributed free potato seeds. While other families would rather go hungry than not plant the potatoes, this family secretly ate the fresh potatoes they received right there!
Of the five members of the family, only the elderly woman, who had a weak stomach and couldn't eat much, survived...
At the end of this chapter of the film, the once poor and backward mountain village has become a well-known potato town because of the large-scale planting of new potato varieties. Cooperatives have been established, tourism festivals have been held, and every household is living a good life.
After Wang Xian's sacrifice, Lang Ying officially took over the cooperative, leading the villagers to develop integrated farming and animal husbandry, continuing to contribute to the cause of rural revitalization...
When I left the movie theater, it was past lunchtime.
However, the villagers seemed to have forgotten their hunger; everyone was enthusiastically discussing the plot of the movie and the feasibility of developing the "integrated mountain farming and animal husbandry" model depicted in the film.
Most importantly—
"I heard that Teacher Wang Xian is buried in our county's Martyrs' Cemetery. Shall we go and pay our respects at his grave?"
The person has passed away, and the most solemn way the simple mountain people can think of to commemorate him is to visit his grave during festivals and offer their sincerest remembrance.
"I know where I can buy wreaths in the county town!"
"Buy two packs of good cigarettes. Teacher Wang never bought himself a pack of good cigarettes when he was alive."
"Oh dear! If I had known we were going to sweep Teacher Wang's grave, I should have killed a chicken at home, cooked it, and brought it with me!"
...
The villagers chimed in, and even the hired bus driver wiped his face, saying, "I'm not taking any more fares today. I'll give you a free ride to the Martyrs' Cemetery! I'm going to light a cigarette for Teacher Wang too!"
Jiang Xiaoman didn't intend to promote the movie. He simply filmed the villagers going to sweep Wang Xian's grave after watching the movie and posted it on his personal homepage.
Unexpectedly, both the official Weibo account of the "Road to Glory" production team and Jiang Yuan himself reposted his article.
As soon as Jiang Yuan made a move, his tens of millions of fans followed suit, all forwarding the post.
Normally, entertainment accounts wouldn't be very interested in this kind of positive content, but why did so many official verified accounts also repost it?
Finally, even the Communist Youth League and the university where Professor Wang Xian worked before his death shared the memorial.
More and more people began flocking to the cinemas, and when they came out, many viewers had red eyes, frantically typing on their phones, and enthusiastically recommending this film that tells the story of rural revitalization on their personal accounts.
This is definitely the strongest word-of-mouth recommendation for this year's Lunar New Year film season. Not only are viewers who have seen it enthusiastically recommending it, but various verified accounts have also joined in.
Although their main purpose in using the film was to help the Chinese people remember the poverty alleviation cadres who sacrificed their lives on the road to rural revitalization, it is undeniable that many more netizens who were persuaded to watch it went to the cinema with curiosity and admiration.
Upon entering: Isn't this just about rural revitalization? Is farming and pig raising really that touching?
Upon exiting: "Wow, the poverty alleviation cadres are so great! my country's rural revitalization is amazing! You're not Chinese if you don't see this!"
Originally just a tribute film to enhance the image of the Chinese entertainment industry, it unexpectedly outperformed several other commercial films released during the same period, achieving a box office victory and becoming the biggest winner of this year's Lunar New Year film season!
What left competitors speechless was that with the end of the Spring Festival holiday, "The Road to Splendor," a game with a tacky theme, was about to flop.
Unexpectedly, government agencies and public institutions across the country have started working at this time, and Party branches and Youth League committees in various departments are going to hold activities. Seeing that "The Road to Glory" is so positive and praises poverty alleviation cadres, what should we watch for team building after the New Year? We've decided on you, "The Road to Glory"!
As a result, after the New Year, the bookings by government agencies and public institutions from all over the country once again pushed the box office of "The Road to Glory" to a new height that left its competitors speechless.
With daily box office exceeding 100 million and 200 million, "The Road to Glory" was no longer competing with other popcorn family-friendly movies during the Lunar New Year season, but with other blockbusters in the top ten of the domestic box office rankings.
The producers and investors were grinning from ear to ear, and seized the opportunity to launch various positive-energy marketing campaigns.
This includes donating money and supplies to the impoverished mountainous areas where the film was shot, establishing scholarship funds, poverty alleviation and agricultural assistance funds, and rural youth returning to their hometowns to start businesses...
What marketing tactic could be more touching than "carrying on the legacy of our martyrs"?
The production team used the money they would have spent on hiring online trolls to publish press releases to establish various rural revitalization funds. Meanwhile, the actors who participated in the production also took the opportunity to announce donations ranging from hundreds of thousands to millions of yuan to these funds.
Suddenly, the first thing celebrities in the entertainment industry asked each other when they met changed from "Have you lost weight?" to "Have you donated?"
What? You haven't contributed any money or effort to the rural revitalization cause yet?
Excuse me, but someone like you who doesn't support the country's development at all, do you really have the nerve to try and get mainstream film and television resources?
The entertainment industry is the most realistic, and also the fastest to follow trends.
No one expected that a single patriotic film could unexpectedly generate a large amount of donations for the previously niche rural revitalization cause, and the subsequent popularity would surpass any amount of official news reports.
After all, a top-tier celebrity like Jiang Yuan can easily get tens of millions of likes and shares with just a single post.
As one of the filming locations for this movie, Langshan Village quickly became a key "village for helping the poor" supported by the local government.
What? Even large trucks can't get through the village roads?
Hurry up and apply for funding to build the road!
What? There are still some families in the village living in dilapidated houses?
The village will conduct a survey, and the township will submit a report to apply for subsidies for the renovation of dilapidated houses, which will then be demolished and rebuilt!
What? A young person returned to their hometown to start a business, but the cooperative they founded doesn't have an office space?
The warehouse is too small and not enough.
Submit the application! Get the land approved!
What? The cooperative doesn't have enough money to build houses?
Are those foundations just for show? Hurry up and apply for one!
...
The newly established foundations are holding large sums of money, waiting to play their due role.
Jiang Xiaoman and Shan Yan took the opportunity to bring out all the infrastructure projects that the two cooperatives needed to do in the next two years, and spent several nights rushing to prepare several project application materials.
They even asked Sun Zheyuan, the "master of writing materials," to personally polish it before submitting it.
All green lights!
Now, whenever I see the words "Langshan Village," I think of the movie "The Road to Splendor" that the branch or the Youth League organized to watch before, and I think of the rural revitalization dream that our comrades who sacrificed their lives did not complete.
What is there to hesitate about?
Anyway, all they need to do is stamp the application; the money comes from various entertainment companies and celebrities.
Jiang Xiaoman used to think that if they worked hard to promote Langshan Village's reputation online, it would be good if villagers could get fast-track loans when starting businesses in the future.
He never dared to dream that a large sum of money could be given to the cooperative for free!
Moreover, there is no interest and no need to repay the principal.
The foundation has only two requirements:
First, they want a detailed plan for the use of funds and will send a working group to audit the use of the support fund. Jiang Xiaoman wasn't afraid of this at all, since their cooperative's accounts have always been transparent.
Secondly, they will assign someone to follow up and supervise the project's progress. That makes things even easier; Jiang Xiaoman is more than happy to have someone play the bad cop and help them urge the construction team on.
Jiang Xiaoman and his team originally planned to expand the service scope of the beekeeping cooperative and tea cooperative to the entire Langshan Town within three to five years. With the strong support of these foundations, they can now launch both projects in a big way this year.
Infrastructure development has always been the best and fastest way to boost a region's economy.
With the approval of the road widening project connecting Langshan Village to the outside world, many young people who had been working outside the village have returned, especially those who worked on construction sites.
Since they're getting the same pay anyway, working away from home costs money for food and lodging, but working near their hometown saves them a lot. They heard the road widening project is two years long, meaning they can work near their homes for the next two years and spend more time with their families.
However, the village road widening project still has to go through a complicated and lengthy bidding process. Therefore, although this project was the first to be officially announced, the projects that started construction the fastest were actually the new factory building of the beekeeping cooperative and the supporting warehouse of the tea cooperative.
This year, almost no one from Langshan Village left their hometown to work elsewhere.
The reason is simple: they can find jobs right at their doorstep, and the wages are about the same as those for working outside. They can also take care of their families. Who would want to leave their hometown to make a living elsewhere?
Moreover, by staying in his hometown to work, he could go into the mountains with his wife and mother to dig bamboo shoots, pick tea leaves, set up beehives, and gather wild vegetables when he had free time. Langshan is rich in produce, but in the past, there was no market for it, so they could only live on meager resources.
But things are different now!
Jiang Xiaoman's cooperative collects local specialties and tea cakes all year round. After the tea factory was built this year, he heard that if people don't have time to make tea cakes at home, they can sell the fresh tea leaves they pick directly to the tea factory. Once the tea is weighed, they can get paid!
The common people didn't understand what the rules and regulations in those policy documents meant. They only knew that with this policy, Jiang Xiaoman and Shan Yan would have the money to build a factory in the village.
With a factory, they might be able to work there in the future, and they won't have to wander from one construction site to another anymore.
With the cooperative, wild vegetables, bamboo shoots, tea, honey, herbs... all from the mountains can be harvested and exchanged for money as long as you are diligent!
For the first time, the villagers of Langshan Village realized that the "rural revitalization" they talked about all the time on TV was actually so close to their lives...
Chapter 208
This Lunar New Year was quite eventful for Langshan Village!
First, the film's subsequent influence not only made Langshan Village famous, but also brought a continuous stream of financial support to the village.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, right after the New Year, three construction teams came to the village all at once!
One is the beekeeping cooperative of Shanyan. They obtained another piece of land from the village to build a larger factory and introduce a new fully automated honey bottling line. I heard they will also be recruiting workers from the village in the future.
One is Jiang Xiaoman's tea cooperative. He had originally built a tea factory, but because it was difficult to get land approved in the village, the warehouse was built to be very small.
Now that the movie is out, not only village officials, but even town officials won't dare to stop the cooperative from building a warehouse.
Isn't this hindering the development of rural revitalization?