The Birth of Shanghai's First Conglomerate

Erpiya lit two large mosquito coils and, holding a phone, prepared to start a live stream in her room.

After thinking about it, since she couldn't show her face, she simply pointed the camera at her sister's fat buttocks.

Um... it's just a big picture.

Erpiya felt wronged; life in the mountains was just too boring.

She's supposed to be the second princess, yet she's here chopping wood and going up and down the mountain every day.

Fortunately, she still has live streams, but unfortunately, other people can't chat with her; she can only talk to the other end of the stream.

The live stream quickly gained popularity, with viewership soaring from three or five thousand to over ten thousand.

Erpiya took it outside to chase the old hen.

She had to get revenge on those two "clucking" birds.

When people in the live stream saw her surroundings, they thought, "Wait a minute, shouldn't our second princess be in a villa in Shanghai?"
Why are you even here experiencing rural life?
Erpiya couldn't explain to anyone that she had suffered a lot in order to keep this account.

And let me tell you, the old hens in the countryside are no match for her at all.

They were chased away in no time.

Chen An'an was different from her; she had already taken Jiang Yilan on visits everywhere.

I also wanted to learn about life in these mountains, what it's really like.

Jiang Yilan's hometown is in Sichuan, a beautiful place with beautiful mountains and rivers and lovely people.

Their village has a total of just over 100 households, with more than 20 left-behind children.

The oldest is eleven or twelve, and the youngest is three or four.

They all had to go to very far places to study, but she was lucky enough to get into Shanghai.

She was the only one in the entire village who got into a big city university.

The village was bustling with activity back then. Every household came to visit her, bringing eggs and old hens as gifts.

Some people simply brought money, and the village chief even called on everyone to pool their resources.

Send her to university in Shanghai.

This is also the main reason why Jiang Yilan has always wanted to give back to her hometown.

I had assumed that these mountainous rural areas were simply backward and had a poor economy.

It wasn't until the chubby boy fell ill that Chen An'an truly realized how backward the people in the mountains were.

The chubby boy accidentally fell into the water while trying to catch fish in the paddy field, and then didn't go home in time to change his clothes.

He ended up getting seriously ill.

His grandparents were a bit superstitious, so they set up a brazier for him at home and burned some talismans.

They wouldn't even take him to the hospital.

One day, two days, three days passed, and the little chubby boy did not recover from his minor illness in three days as he usually did.

This time it's actually gotten worse.

Despite this, his grandparents still didn't take him to the hospital, but instead went to the village to ask the Taoist priest who performed the ritual.

He claims to be a Taoist priest, but he's actually just an unemployed bum.

He just talks nonsense all the time, and many people actually believe him.

After inviting the Taoist priest home, the priest said that his situation was due to a ghost knocking on the door on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month.

They've been entangled by something unclean from the underworld.

In this situation, one should first pay respects to the spirits and deities.

After all that commotion, the chubby boy was in excruciating pain, vomiting and gagging.

If this continues, their lives will likely be in danger.

Chen An'an immediately called Jiang Yilan over and asked her to notify the villagers to take the chubby boy to the hospital in time.

Let's not let feudal superstition lead to someone's death.

Jiang Yilan called the village chief over, and then used Chen Pingsheng's car to take the chubby boy to the hospital.

Meanwhile, his grandparents were still blaming Jiang Yilan for meddling in their business.

If you offend the gods and spirits, you'll likely never have peace again.

Forget about the future, if we don't get through this hurdle now, there might not be a future at all.

Erpiya was also quite frightened; the chubby little boy who was lively and energetic just two days ago had suddenly become like this.

If he had been taken to the hospital sooner, he would probably be fine by now.

The backwardness of this small mountain village is not only in its economy, but also in its feudal superstitions.

And those traditional ideas. Chen An'an donated and built a children's library here, and also built a computer library for them to study in.

She also hopes that the left-behind children in this mountainous area can see the outside world through these two places.

Time flies, and it's already the end of June.

After returning from the hospital, the chubby boy became lively and energetic again, and he still liked to play with Erpiya as usual.

Because Erpiya always talks about things he doesn't know, which makes the chubby boy particularly interested.

The twenty-odd left-behind children in the village often come to play here.

Because Erpiya was very generous, she would often treat them to the good things she brought in from outside.

From initial resistance to current acceptance, we've gradually come to enjoy each other's company.

This process took Erpiya a full half month.

Her older sister, Chen An'an, is like a little adult and rarely plays with them anymore.

She mostly went on visits.

When a child in the village has parents who come back from working away from home, the child will be overjoyed for days.

Then he watched his parents once again as they boarded the train to their distant destination.

It's like a cycle, happening every year, and each time it's something to be reluctant to let go of.

Then wait for your parents to come back next time.

In contrast, Erpiya felt that she was very lucky.

Because she doesn't have to separate from her parents, and she doesn't have to stay in such a small mountain village forever.

During the summer vacation, some parents will take their children to live in the city for a period of time.

I squeezed into a tiny rented room with them, leaving early and returning late for three meals a day.

This is probably how left-behind children grow up.

I wait for my parents to come home every day, but they won't stay for more than a few days before they have to leave again.

Jiang Yilan came over and asked Chen Pingsheng if there was any way to keep these parents in the countryside.
Chen Pingsheng found it difficult to answer her question because Tengnong Aquaculture was engaged in this very business.

With his abilities, helping a village like this escape poverty and become prosperous would be an absolute breeze.

But what happens after you help?

There are so many villages like this across the country that he can't even count them all.

Therefore, I can only advise these people in the village that it's better to stay in this remote and isolated place than to stubbornly cling to it.

Why not move to live elsewhere?

To get rich, build roads first; roads in mountainous areas are the most difficult to build.

His suggestion was to set a small goal and buy more than 100 houses directly for these 100-plus households in the county.

Moving there is far more worthwhile than developing such a backward mountain village.

This is his suggestion, which may not be understood by everyone, but it is the best solution.

The population in this area is so small that even the local government thinks that spending hundreds of millions to build the highway is not worthwhile.

Not to mention him.

Jiang Yilan considered it carefully, and then went to discuss it with the village chief.

The village chief was shocked and summoned most of the villagers.

They ultimately agreed to move away from this backward little mountain village, whether for the sake of their children or for their sons who went out to work.

Moving to a more densely populated county town is the best option.

I can come back to this small mountain village for the Chinese New Year.

We couldn't move before, but now that we can, how can we not move?

The village chief even came over to thank Chen Pingsheng, but in reality, it was all Chen An'an's idea.

She walked around alone, and the final answer she got was that the whole group should move out.

We left this impoverished mountainous area, which lacked both educational and medical resources.

And their family will have to return to Shanghai because of this.

The remaining matters no longer required Chen Pingsheng's attention.

He will not give his own money to any external charitable foundation, but will spend it penny by penny on those who are truly in need.

(End of this chapter)