People dress and pay attention to two heads and a new one in three days. For Lishuping, it is said to be new with each month, a small change in half a year, and a big change in two years.

From just over 200 households at the beginning, to nearly 400 households today, five large and small streets have been formed in two years.

The low adobe houses and thatched huts were torn down and replaced with small brick houses made of bricks fired from earthen kilns, and covered with two layers of small blue tiles. The ground floor facing the street is used as a shop, and the people on the back street and the second floor are inhabited, although it is only a dense tube building, but it allows the poor people to get rid of the crumbling thatched huts and mud houses of the past.

In order to meet the needs of the expansion of factories and mines and school construction, Shusheng Company funded the construction of cement plants, brick kiln factories and tile kiln factories. In particular, the two brick and tile factories that seem to have a particularly low technical content have greatly improved their production efficiency because of the seemingly simple practical technologies such as explosives mining, small machinery-assisted excavation, mechanical stirring, one-time billet production, and converter production.

Under the cheap labor cost and the crazy money-making army working in three shifts, the brick and tile factory did very well, not only supplying Shusheng Company with industrial bricks and tiles, but also selling them to village collectives and individuals at appropriate prices for preliminary adobe and thatched house renovation.

The villagers who had money were ready to build their own houses one by one. Although Zhang Shusheng didn't want to let the villagers show their wealth too early, under the leadership of a very small number of villagers, it was already unstoppable to tear down the crumbling houses and rebuild them.

Go with the flow, Zhang Shusheng not only supported, but also arranged a special person to be responsible.

Teachers from the junior technical school took the students to carry out the surveying and design, and several small streets were finally built in the middle of 1918, and in half a year, the construction of several simple streets was completed just after the end of the year.

As the headquarters of Shusheng Company, Lishuping is also a pilot village for the transformation of workers and peasants, the villagers are generally wealthy, most of the workers who have money are unwilling to continue to live in thatched huts and tiled houses, and the poor and labor-deficient families have village collective subsidies, and then the insufficient part is mortgaged by some street shops to find a loan from Shusheng Company, and Shusheng Company is finally leased to the villagers to operate, and the whole village has moved into the new street very smoothly.

"What a big deal, phew, it's not too crowded to live together."

Jia Laosan is a wealthy family in Lishuping for a long time, and he did not rent land from the landlord Wang Laocai a few years ago, but had his own few acres of land. Jia Laosan sells rock sugar gourds in Huize County, and his family background is relatively solid. Not only was he the first person to repair a tiled house in Lishuping, but he also sent his baby pimple son to the county seat, and endured the pain to pay money to stay at a relative's house to study nearby.

Looking at the location of his home, there are only two or three lonely tiled houses compared to the street in the distance, which are both dilapidated and a lot shorter, and those two or three are people who have not moved into the new street like themselves.

When Shusheng Company recruited people, Jia Laosan was very disdainful and scoffed at it, selling rock sugar gourds in the city alone, and from time to time he also greeted the group of earthen hats who didn't know it. What kind of Western factory does you want to build in the old mountain nest, sooner or later you will have to lose even the crotch.

As a result, in the case that almost every family in Lishuping entered the factory, and every family relied on Shusheng Company to survive, Jia Laosan and a few two or three companies adopted an attitude of neither cooperation nor recognition. If they don't enter the factory and don't work, Shusheng Company occupies a small number of publicly-owned fields and hills in the village, and they don't contribute to it. For those men from the same village who set up stalls in Lishuping to do business and make a living by driving cars, they are even more despised.

In his opinion, he is a person with vision, doing business in a big county, and most of these mud legs have only been to the Xiaoqingshan Town Office at the farthest, so they are only worthy of selling some onions and garlic in the countryside.

But the development of events made him feel dizzy.

First of all, factories that I had never heard of and didn't know what they were doing were sprung up, the construction of hydropower stations cut off the river that had nurtured dozens of generations at the entrance of the village, the construction of mines made the stones that were too difficult to walk on the mountains worthwhile, then schools, then hospitals, and then house renovations......

Jia Laosan couldn't let go of his family's land, and was always afraid that he would be blackmailed away by the people in the village or the scammers of Shusheng Company, so he first let the old woman stare at home, and then saw that something was wrong, and he came back once every half a month, and then he simply stopped selling rock sugar gourds for the time being, and went home to guard it.

However, he found that the original situation of the big pot of rice in the village was gone, and the scene of good and bad things going together was gone. If your own family does not enter the factory, other people's families are willing to enter, and even villages ten miles away rush to enter the factory. If there is no part of their own fields and hills, they will get out of the way for themselves, and even build roads and repair them to a small field of their own, and they will simply go around in a circle......

Everything makes this old fritter who has been in the city for more than ten years unable to understand it, and the world has changed no matter how it is said. In two years, the whole village was poorer than himself, how could it have changed now? At noon and dinner, the smell of cooking in the village made him irritable.

During the street renovation, Jia Laosan changed his face, wooed several families, and proposed that his family should have a large area of house in a good location, and if it had a façade, it could even pay more, and it could not squeeze a floor with people. Otherwise, don't move.

As a result, Jia Laosan's family and the three families he picked up stayed in place like this. I didn't pay a penny, I didn't get a penny, and I still live in the old house. And the so-called collective public income in the village is also because their families have no contribution, and they don't have a penny.

Today, the relatives in the city want to take the children back to play, Jia Laosan walked through the street with a heavy heart, spit a few mouthfuls, and then went to the village to pick up the children.

"Dad, where is our village......

Young Master Jia, who came back from the county seat, couldn't understand it at all when he saw the completely changed Lishuping, and the relatives next to him were even more dumbfounded, when did Lishuping repair the house in the county town was not worse than the county.

Jia Laosan spat fiercely, pulled his son over, and said to his relatives with a red face: "When I repair a broken house with a crotch, and a liar comes to do a foreigner's factory, sooner or later the people in this village will have to be deceived." What's so good about entering the factory? I didn't make as much money selling sugar gourds in the city. Look at this densely packed dilapidated house, it's not too crowded. Go, go back and pack your things, Lao Tzu will go back to the city today, continue to sell rock sugar gourds, and in the future, Lao Tzu will not be your small village in Lishuping**, Lao Tzu will be a city person. Phew, I haven't seen a mountain of soil buns in the world! ”

In the afternoon, many villagers in Lishuping saw Jia Laosan with his bags, women and children, as well as the relative who had just arrived, and rushed back to Huize County to do his big business in the afternoon.

Before leaving, he found the white-haired village chief and dropped a cruel sentence: Who dares to touch Lao Tzu's field and ancestral house, Lao Tzu came back to fight with him.

He left proudly, accompanied by his relatives in the city, and amid the sighs of the villagers, he went to the city to do big business.

Niu Zhishan stood in front of the wooden window, looking at Jia Laosan, who dragged his family all the way, and turned back all the way to scold and scold. I couldn't help but sigh. The two grew up together since childhood, but they didn't expect that when they reached the prime of life, Jia Laosan, who herded cattle together and went to the field together, would never be seen again.

"Jia Laosan is still gone, in his life, he is lost because his mind is too crutched, and he takes the wild road." Feeling the wind rising, I was afraid that the wind would affect the mother-in-law and the two children who were breastfeeding at home, so I closed the window, took out the smoke pot, and prepared to smoke some.

"Oh, two little cubs bite me together." Niu Zhishan's daughter-in-law endured the pain, carefully put the two children in the wooden cradle, looked at the two children with very different appearances, and smiled: "I really hope that the two children can grow up healthy and healthy." Especially Xiaobao, it's too pitiful. ”

Niu Zhishan: "Yes, when I went to the village with my father to work as a stonemason, He An's father also saved us, and the marksmanship was simply amazing, and the two big wild boars were put down by him alone." At that time, He An was only a teenager and still carried a shotgun, he was really a good man. ”

"It's all the bandits of the heavens!" Niu Zhishan's daughter-in-law also sighed. If it weren't for the bandits, maybe the people of Wangchang Village would have been able to enter the factory and earn wages. I and men, one is a garment factory worker, the other is a brick factory worker, the money earned a month can not only be fed and clothed, but also have a small surplus, and now I have a part, borrowed some money and moved into a new house, and I live comfortably.

"Tuk Tuk ......"

There was a knock on the door, it was time to eat and rest before the evening shift, Niu Zhishan said in his heart that He An must have come, went down and opened the door, and really brought He An up.

"the kid, it's Anzi here."

"Sister-in-law." When he arrived at Niu Zhishan's house, He An's face regained some warmth, but he still said little, standing in the corridor shared by several families and not entering, but his eyes were fixed on the child in the cradle.

"Brother He, come in, Niu Zhishan, you too, don't beckon your own brothers to come in and sit. New house, just moved in. Sister-in-law Niu hurriedly got up and greeted, although the house is small, she also wants to let He An in.

"No, I'll just come and see Xiaobao. It's dirty, and it doesn't go in. ”

He An was covered in mud, obviously he had just finished training and asked for leave to see the child before he had time to take a bath, so he took He Xiaobao carefully, and the sister-in-law of the Niu family added new clothes to the child.

"Xiaobao, be obedient at your Uncle Niu's house. Daddy won't be able to come to see you for a long time. Eat a little less milk, don't grab it with your big brother. ”

After reluctantly looking at the child for a long time, He An handed the child to Sister-in-law Niu, reached into his arms, took out a small embroidered purse, put some money in it, and handed it to Niu Zhishan, "Big brother, we will train in a closed position in the past few months, and Xiaobao will take care of you." This money is used as Xiaobao's milk money. ”

He An has a salary of two yuan a month, and there are several yuan in his purse, and when he came out of the barracks, the company commander Chen Jun forced two yuan into him, knowing that his biggest heart disease is the child, and if the child is taken care of, he can play a better role as a backbone.

"Anzi, our two families are lifelong friends, you and I are brothers, we will accept this money, but we will only put it for the child." Niu Zhishan persuaded earnestly: "Also, you are still young, do you want to find another girl's house." Your sister-in-law has a lot of people in the factory, and the yellow flower girl is more handsome than the other......"

"Thank you, big brother, I don't have this idea for the time being." He An shook his head, raised his wrist and looked at the ordinary watch issued by the militia to the main combatants, and said resolutely: "When the time comes, I have to go back." Xiaobao asked the eldest brother and sister-in-law. ”

"Smack!" He An was not wordy, he was already used to living as a soldier, and after saluting, he went downstairs directly, as if this was the only way to express his gratitude to Niu Zhishan's family.

"the kid, put all the money separately. This money can't be missing, and Xiaobao will also use it for reading in the future. If he doesn't fight for luck, saving for more than ten or twenty years is enough for him to marry a daughter-in-law. Why don't you have much of his mouth, I'll give you a little less. ”

"Dangdangdang......" A gong sounded.

Niu Zhishan also heard the sound of gongs in the village, and knew that the evening training time of the escort team had come again, and after the training, they would have to go to the brick kiln factory to work for a few hours, which could be regarded as busy from morning to night, but the day was more fulfilling than before.

"You don't work at night, take care of the children, I'm leaving."

Pushing the door out, many villagers came down and began to spontaneously rush towards the open space where the escort team was training, the lesson of blood in Wangchang Village was in front of them, and it was such a troubled time, everyone was afraid of the murderous massacre that might come from the depths of their souls. The people who were aroused with blood surnames chose to listen to the voices of the vigilante groups, listen to the words of those instructors, take up arms, arm themselves to train themselves, and be ready to fight all those who have bad intentions.