The wealth of rebirth is deep in the mountains

Chapter 205

"Okay, I'll go to the brick kiln and ask the green brick!"

"I'm going to find stone materials!"

Almost in the blink of an eye, the work was assigned by everyone.Everyone naturally liked dividends, but what excited them the most was the construction of the ancestral hall and school dormitories.The ancestral hall worships the ancestors, and the school houses are related to the adulthood of future generations.They are all honoring ancestors and involving a century-old event in Laoxiongling.

Old Master Feng's beard was trembling, he got up and stood upright, raised his head and chest, glanced at every villager, and finally said loudly, "The good days of Old Xiongling are here, and the construction will start after the spring. No outsiders are needed, just our old man The old and young masters of Xiongling built the ancestral hall and school buildings with their own hands, brick by brick, plant and tree, and after a hundred years, the descendants will be grateful for everything we have done!"

"Yes, Old Master Feng!"

"If you have any strength, use your strength, for your children and grandchildren!"

The entire Lu family compound was almost overwhelmed by the roars of the villagers.Xiaomi was secretly surprised. This kind of brainstorming and teamwork is probably the same as when the Red Army liberated the suffering people.

Father Lu nodded again and again. After all, the villagers are united and value righteousness over profit, which is really the blessing of the whole Laoxiongling.

"Xiaomi, set up a banquet and invite the folks to drink at noon."

"Don't worry, Dad, it's already ready. Uncles are busy, and come back in an hour to eat meat and drink."

Xiaomi gave orders in the morning, and now Aunt Han brought blue flowers and green jade, Aunt Jiang, Hongmei, and even Feng Niang were busy in the kitchen.

There are eighteen families in Laoxiongling. According to the old rules, there is one person from each family for such a banquet for discussing important matters. In this way, two seats are arranged.It's not necessary for the women in the village to follow Zhang Luo, the Lu family can be rectified by itself.

Old Master Feng stroked his beard with a smile, nodded and said, "Succeed, it's not like us thick-skinned people who are always greedy for the food and drinks of the Lu family. It's really the mother-in-law at home who made it, but it's not as delicious as the one made by Xiaomi."

Xiaomi hurriedly laughed, "Master Feng, we don't want to be so partial. I'm so greedy, it's a good thing for you to talk about."

"Of course it's an advantage," Old Master Feng glared playfully, and shouted, "You don't want to clean up the food, how can there be a happy restaurant, and every household in the village can't get a cornucopia."

Everyone laughed, "That's right, whoever said something bad about Xiaomi, you are guilty. Xiaomi, everything is good."

After a few jokes like this, everyone dispersed. Taking advantage of the good weather, the greenhouse had to open the grass curtains to bask in the sun, add firewood to the stove, sweep the snow in the yard, and there was a lot of miscellaneous work. .

To live a life, if someone rushes to his head, he will have endless energy and endless work.

On the contrary, Old Master Feng and a few brothers of the same generation still served as the main house of the Lu family, drank tea, caught a naughty boy to be the secretary, and usually counted the mouthfuls of every family with their fingers, and finally Note down the bonus that should be distributed back.

After the food and wine were put on the table, Xiaomi also helped to exchange the banknotes for a large basket of silver taels.A total of 1000 taels, including large ingots of silver coins, scattered silver coins, and strings of copper coins, made the villagers gasp a bit.

Although the family brought in more than a dozen or 20 taels in almost three to five days, the impact of carrying such a large pile of silver up in baskets was still too great.

Old Master Feng read the account book aloud, and people from every family came forward to pay Lingyin, and finally pressed their fingerprints on the account book, looking very solemn and rigorous.

Needless to say, strong and labor-intensive families, such as the Feng family, or capable families, such as the Liu family, received more money.The older and weaker the family, the smaller the share.

But this few words is also a relative comparison.After all, 50 taels, such a sum, in the homes of ordinary people, is almost three years of income.

In Laoxiongling, it is just an extra bonus in addition to wages.And the kids in the family don’t spend money to study, and if they get good grades, they will be rewarded with silver. The women earn wages by sewing, and they earn wages by cooking at the foot of the mountain...

Most of the time, if you are not afraid to think too much, you are afraid to compare.

It was so lively on the mountain, and everyone down the mountain had heard about such important events as the distribution of money.

A dozen prairie people are enough, they will go back to the prairie in the beginning of spring, and the three masters and servants of the Tie family don't take it seriously.

On the contrary, the young and old of the Zhao family, as well as those surviving Zhao family villagers, were all eagerly waiting for the news to come down.

After hearing that every household has distributed a hundred and ten taels of silver, and even after the beginning of spring, they will spend 1000 taels of silver to build ancestral halls and school houses. They can't wait to go to the family's grandparents decades ago and make sure they move here early. Old Xiongling is the best.

It's a pity that time always runs backwards, how can we turn back.

Fortunately, they got a blessing in disguise, and now they are also in Laoxiongling.

Some people who were originally moved by the hundreds of taels of silver donated, saw this and quickly put aside those selfish thoughts.

Even if each of them distributed a dozen or so taels of silver and went out to roam about, they were just working for others, regardless of whether they could get their wages, if they were unlucky and met bad guys, they might lose their lives.

But staying in Laoxiongling, building a new house next spring, working with Laoxiongling, eating, drinking, and wages, the most important thing is to guard the tombs of parents and family members, live a little bit of life, and continue the incense. It couldn't be better.

Aunt Liu is in charge of the big stove at the foot of the mountain, and she has already received orders from Xiaomi, that is, today’s meal is very rich, with sauerkraut stewed with vermicelli and frozen tofu, and large slices of pork belly are also spread all over the mouth of the pot. Scoop a bowl and order some red ones Chili oil, just big steamed buns with white flour, everyone who ate was sweating profusely.

There are women with children who are not engaged, and those who are big-hearted, want to climb some high branches, some feel sorry for their daughters marrying away, or want to find a worry-free Yue family for their sons, so they put their ideas on the heads of these people in Zhaojia Village.

Therefore, everyone gets along very well, just waiting for the beginning of spring, to do the work together, to understand a little bit carefully, and then they can "start".

But there are tens of thousands of people in the world, and there are really not many people as kind as the old Xiongling folks.

He said that because of proposing marriage to Xiaomi, he promised Mrs. Wang, the young master Zhengda in the west of Chengxi, but he was very angry.

She didn't want to be fooled by the money, and she wanted to send her good girl to the Zheng family to suffer, but she blamed the Lu family for not being flattering.

After entering the city, someone asked, but she spared no effort to discredit the Lu family.

Even the sentence that Aunt Liu said in a hurry, she also picked it up and arranged it endlessly.

"You don't know, the Lu family is not as good as before. If you think you have someone to support you, your eyes will grow to the top of your head. I am kind. I thought that their daughter would enter the Zheng family to enjoy the blessings, but I didn't expect people to say that only Only the royal family is worthy of their daughters. Listen, the native chickens in the small valley still want to fly to the sky!"

It's cold in winter, and the idlers in the city don't have much work, and the seams of idle shoulders hurt.

Hearing such gossip, and it was related to the most popular Laoxiongling Lu family, it was like a drop of water dropped into a hot oil pan, and it exploded in an instant.

Everyone in Laoxiongling finished shopping for the new year's goods early, and didn't go to the city at all. Instead, they were beaming. Because of the settlement at the end of the year, the business was booming, and everyone was too busy to touch the ground. Naturally, they didn't have the heart to pay attention to these gossips.

So when the wind was heard, it was almost Nian Gen'er.

Speaking of which, it was a clever little shopkeeper who brought the news.

Business is not easy in the city, and there are too many people in the same business. This kid always heard people say that Laoxiongling is rich, so he had an idea, borrowed a neighbor's donkey, and pulled a sledge full of groceries to the gate of Laoxiongling.

The old Xiongling folks are very repulsive to outsiders because of the previous incidents.But that was only aimed at the threatening brigades, the small shopkeepers who came here single-handedly to earn some money, the men of all families admired them very much.

Therefore, the gate of the wooden fence was rarely opened, and the small shopkeeper was welcomed into the gatehouse.

Every household soon heard the news, and the naughty boy took all the copper coins and ran down the mountain almost immediately.Old and young women also meet together, smiling and going down the mountain to watch the excitement.

Old Xiongling had a good life this year, and every household had enough food and drink, but the nature of women was to buy, buy, buy, and the shopkeeper had a good eye. Although the goods he bought were not expensive, they were also novel and exquisite.

Copper-plated silver butterfly hairpins, hollowed-out and carved silver rings, exquisitely embroidered purses, brightly colored embroidery threads, well-polished embroidery needles, embroidery brochures of various colors, and gold-plated thimbles.

Perhaps because Xiaomi is also a daughter, the villagers treat women at home more and more seriously. Of course, they have made a lot of money by working this year, and each of them has a lot of private houses.It's the time of the Chinese New Year again, and it's not short of such a little copper coin, so I can cheer myself up.

So, you buy two handfuls of embroidery thread, I buy a hairpin, and she buys a piece of soft cotton cloth to make a coat.In less than an hour, most of the little peddler's things were bought.

Aunt Liu was enthusiastic by nature, and when she saw that he was about the same age as Xiaodao, she felt pity for him. She filled the leftover stew from the stove in the morning, heated up two steamed buns, and served him as a pad for his stomach.

The little peddler traveled all over the world and suffered countless stares and hard work, but it was the first time he was treated so favorably. While being grateful, he thought of the raging rumors in the city and couldn't help but complain for Lao Xiongling.

"Ma'am, you folks are really good people, not as bad as those idlers in the city say."

Aunt Liu didn't take it seriously at the beginning, she just smiled and said, "Why, what gossips are being spread about us by those rambunctious people in the city? They don't always say that we are all wolves and tigers and leopards here, who bite people twice?"

Everyone laughed, and the little peddler also said with a smile, "My old lady is blind, but her heart is not blind. I was told from a young age not to listen to other people's gossip, and to see is to believe. Otherwise, I would not dare to come here by myself. It sells things here! Outsiders say that people here beat people at every turn, which is unreasonable. They also say that there is a girl here who is too high-minded, and Master Zheng looks down on her. She must marry a royal nobleman. And..."

"what?"

The little peddler was halfway through his speech when he was interrupted by Aunt Liu loudly, "Who do you think is going to marry a royal nobleman?"

(End of this chapter)