The cement workshop is still implementing the full welfare system, commonly known as eating a big pot of rice, everyone, except for the villagers who come to work in a few nearby villages, have no wages, just for everyone to eat and live, but in the past six months, the disadvantages of this system have begun to slowly appear, and there have been individual people who do not work steadily.

As the economic situation of the workshop is getting better and better, the corresponding system will be slowly modified, and after Zhao Yuan and several other "shareholders" of the cement workshop have discussed, the wage system will be implemented, and more work will be rewarded, and everyone's enthusiasm will be fully mobilized.

The next day, Zhao Yuan took his family to visit the entire cement workshop, distributed some grain, oil and other things to some poor workshop employees, and took Luoluo to the Zhuang Warrior Temple to give incense to Li Peng, Zhou Xing, and Wang Qin.

"Uncle Li Peng, Brother Zhou Xing, Brother Wang Qin, Uncle said that you have gone to another world, you should be good over there, Brother Zhou Xing, Brother Wang Qin, you will definitely be able to find your family over there. Uncle said that the paper money we burned here is the money you can use over there, and I burned a lot of ...... for you," Luo Luo said softly, just like when he went to worship his father, his eyes were red.

On the roof of the Zhuangmen's Ancestral Hall, the identity badges of the three sergeants were used as a proof that they had joined the Workshop Army, which was blown by the wind, and there was a little sound between them, as if someone was whispering.

Zhao Yuan looked around, everything was in order here, the waves caused by the arrival of the bandit captives and the women and children had subsided in a day, and as time passed, these people would also be assimilated by the life of the workshop, and eventually they would not distinguish each other.

"Brother Yuan, let's go to Lao Zhutian and take a look, there are still villagers in Wang Xiangli who have helped the workshop a lot, since they are here, they should go and walk around, and there are still many children in the workshop who stay there." Meng Ying saw that Zhao Yuan was not very interested, and proposed.

"That's okay, Xiaoying, you go and pretend to be some children's snacks, and we'll go over together." Zhao Yuan nodded in agreement.

Laozhutian Village has become very prosperous because of the cement workshop, and the huge demand for the cement workshop has made the products of Laozhutian Village very popular, from the beginning of selling some vegetables to the cement workshop, to now helping to help sew clothes, build wooden barrels for cement, help the cement workshop dig river sand, all kinds of work, there are the shadows of the villagers of Laozhutian Village.

"Lord Zhao is here, I heard that you are here yesterday, Xiao Lao'er still wants to visit, and I am worried that the adults will have no leisure, and I don't want the adults to come over in person today." Li Zheng said with a smile on his face.

"Uncle Lizheng's taste has changed completely, a bit of a reader." Zhao Yuan said with a smile.

"But no, now there is a teacher in the village who teaches the children, don't I follow along, this is what Lord Zhao said, live to be old, learn to be old." Wang Xiang said with a laugh.

After staying with the children for a long time, Lao Lizheng's personality has become a little like that of a child, Zhao Yuan and Li Zheng are chatting, feeling this vitality, and the mood is inexplicably better.

"Uncle, there are a lot of brothers, sisters, brothers and sisters in the big house here, and my aunt and I sent a lot of people over yesterday, but they didn't play with us." Luoluo said to Zhao Yuan.

"That's because you're not familiar with each other yet, just like Sister Xiaoya, didn't you not be able to play with you at first, but now that you're good friends, can't you just play happily together, isn't it, Xiaoya." Zhao Yuan said with a smile.

"Yes, Uncle Dongjia." Xiaoya took Luoluo's little hand, nodded and said.

"I'm going to be friends with them too, so I'll have the most friends, uncle, auntie, give me the snacks, I'll share them with the children." Luoluo said with a smile.

"Okay, Xiaobao, Xingxing, Xiaoya, you are also together." Zhao Yuan smiled and handed the big bag full of snacks to a few children.

"Lord Zhao, there is freshly brewed rice wine at home, go to Xiao Lao'er's house to drink some." Watching Luoluo's children walk into the house where the children were sheltered with a large bag of snacks, Lao Li Zheng invited.

"Okay, then it's better to be respectful, Xiaoying, if you don't want to go, just take the children here." After Zhao Yuan asked Meng Ying for her intentions, he saw that she didn't want to go to Lao Lizheng's house, and he was not reluctant.

"Okay, Brother Yuan." Meng Ying nodded, and followed the steward of the children's shelter into the house.

Lao Lizheng's home is located in the center of the south of Lao Zhutian Village, near the water, and the wooden house is flanked by several cement bungalows built of concrete, which are used as kitchens and heating houses for winter fires. The wooden house has not been demolished, according to Lao Lizheng, he has lived in it for most of his life, and he does not want to change it when he is old, and the bedroom is still set in the wooden house.

"Daddy, Lord Zhao!" Lao Lizheng's eldest son, Wang Yuan, was chopping wood in front of the house, and when he saw his father and Zhao Yuan coming, he greeted him.

"What about your daughter-in-law, didn't I let her come back first? Let her fry a few side dishes, and then warm up the rice wine just brewed at home, it is rare for a distinguished guest like Lord Zhao to come to the door, and I have to have a good drink with Lord Zhao. Wang Xiang said to his son.

"Okay, Dad, she should go to the vegetable garden, I'll call her, Lord Zhao, a few guards, please come to the house." Wang Yuan greeted.

"Okay, Brother Wang doesn't need to be polite." Zhao Yuan nodded and helped Lao Lizheng into the house.

The layout of the bungalow of Lao Li Zheng's family is basically the same as that of the house built in the cement factory, but there are a lot of miscellaneous items piled up inside, and an earthen stove burns the honeycomb coal unique to the cement workshop, and a large clay pot of water is burning on it, and it is steaming.

Lao Lizheng's wife left a few years ago, and there was no one else in the house at this time, and the woman and the child should be on the other side of the shelter, and the adults helped the shelter take care of the children, while the children played there.

"The house is more chaotic, and there will be a lot of adults." Lao Li swept aside the children's wooden toys on the stool next to the stove, beckoning Zhao Yuan and Shao Meng and Guo Du to sit down.

"Not so particular, Uncle Lizheng has been in good health recently?" After sitting down, Zhao Yuan asked.

"Okay, I can eat two bowls of rice in one meal, and the young people in the village all say that I am blessed with old age, and when I meet a noble person like Lord Zhao who comes to our side, I don't have to worry about not having enough to eat." Lao Li Zheng said with a laugh.

"It's a blessing to be able to eat, and it's also Lao Zhutian who comes here, there is such a big white stone mountain, and Uncle Lizheng helps you take care of it, and everything is going well here when we are here." Zhao Yuan also smiled.

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It is very pleasant to chat with the elderly, Zhao Yuan has always respected the old people in various villages very much, especially the old people who have a certain amount of knowledge like Lao Lizheng, Zhao Yuan from later generations can always learn something from chatting with the old man.

After drinking a few bowls of sweet rice wine at Lao Lizheng's house, Zhao Yuan felt comfortable all over, and on the way back, he fell asleep in the carriage because of the strength of the rice wine.