Villas for the poor are empty, as they quarreled over such a generous gift from a fellow countryman

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

China, Guangdong province, Guanhu village. Chen Sheng, the founder and wise leader of Tiandi No 1 Beverage Inc., was born and raised here. In his old age, a wealthy Chinese man decided to do a great good deed and built a new, most luxurious one next to his old native village. And, most importantly, it was supposed to be a gift to his fellow villagers, but because of eternal human vices, they ruined everything.

Imagine you are a Chinese peasant. You live in an adobe hut from your grandfather, cultivate the field almost by hand, dream that your grandchildren will be able to study to be an accountant and leave for the regional center. And then a former neighbor, incredibly rich, builds a whole new village from scratch.

Each house is 280 sq.m. area, three floors, five bedrooms, two garages and even a warm toilet with an autonomous septic tank! No need to run in the middle of a fierce winter to a booth on the corner of a vegetable garden with a stinking hole in the floor! There is a garden attached to the house, a stream flows, there are beautiful and convenient driveways, and a sports ground is equipped for every few houses. And everything is absolutely free, a gift from Chen Shen.

Were the villagers happy? Well, yes, but only as long as the developer has not adjusted the plans. Not wanting to spoil the nature, the construction was carried out slowly and carefully, from 2013 to 2017. At the same time, the benefactor initially proceeded from the data on the population census from 2013, according to which 190 families lived in the village.

And each was supposed to have a separate house, but during the construction process, more residents came to the place that became famous, and then the generous Chen Sheng ordered the completion of 68 more villas so that everyone would have enough. And thus he released the demons of discord - the locals began to dog among themselves, who deserves a place to live, and who does not.

Since the new home was not supposed to be a specific person, but a family, some were quick to declare that they were going to have many children and they needed a second property. Or, I'll marry my daughter that year - where will the young live? Come on to a separate house, comrade millionaire!

Other villagers who left earlier began to return and claim their rights, because what a freebie! In response, the rest unfolded new disputes and everything almost escalated into civil strife. More precisely, as soon as Chen Sheng appeared in the village, everyone rushed to demand from him to solve the case "justly", because of which he was frankly angry with the villagers who had become slaves of greed. And for two years now he has not come to Guanhu, and the new village is empty - according to the documents, the houses have no owners.

There is no limit to the rich man's disappointment. After all, he wanted to do something right, reasonable and kind in his old age. To build a large pig farm near the village, whose products would be guaranteed to be bought by his companies and the peasants could work carelessly, but at the same time receive a generous salary - up to $ 32,000 a year, money unthinkable for Chinese villagers. Children would receive an education, grandchildren never knew what it was like to heat a stove with dung and scoop out manure. But no, all plans went to pieces because of the greed, stupidity and arrogance of the locals. They could not even agree among themselves in two years how to share the gift! Eh …

Nowadays, luxurious houses are empty and are gradually decaying. In many cases, the hooligans have already broken glass and damaged the decoration of the walls. It is impossible to settle here without completing the construction procedure, the peasants could not agree among themselves. Chen Shen waved his hand and said goodbye to the dream.