Now, as long as the shops along the river, that is, the new commercial street, are built, then Chenjiacun can be said to have basically completed the transformation before the emperor's private visit. And if Chenjia Village is described in this way, then Qingzhu Village and Nanmu Village have also undergone earth-shaking changes.

It can be said that although the development of the two villages is not as good as that of Chenjia Village, the changes in their development speed have surprised Qingshan County and even the neighboring prefecture and county. How poor and dilapidated it used to be, how shocking it is now.

Let's talk about Qingzhu Village first.

Home to all the important workshops in Chenjia Village, this previously unknown mountain village is now gradually becoming known to the world. Take those villas hidden in the bamboo forest as an example, Li Liangfu was afraid that he would not be able to sell them after they were built, and he wasted his money in vain.

Who knows, it is these expensive villas, and the people in the village alone have bought nearly 50 sets. And the remaining 60 or so sets, in Li Liangfu's stunned, were only bought out in two or three months.

According to statistics, these people who bought villas are people from other places, as well as people from Nanmu Village next door.

Seeing more and more inquiries, Li Liangfu's mind became lively. After clarifying the policy, collecting the deposit and preliminarily reaching a purchase agreement, he had already asked Ye Feng to start building the second phase, and the number was preliminarily set at one hundred and fifty sets.

As for the location, according to Ye Feng's suggestion, it was chosen at the junction of Qingzhu Village and Nanmu Village, which made it more convenient for people in Nanmu Village to buy villas.

So much so that now, the daily life of the villagers in Qingzhu Village is like this. Because there are too many people, we still take the poorest Li Erhei family as an example.

In the morning, as soon as it was dawn, Li Erhei got up from his comfortable and warm bed. Since the family was assigned a villa, he and Li Huaihua chose a room on the second floor to live in.

Because of their savings, the Zhu family has always loved children, so they are very willing to spend money to decorate their houses, including beds and quilts.

Pushing open the window, breathing in the fresh air from the bamboo forest for a while, and looking into the distance, Li Erhei hurriedly went to the public bathroom on the second floor to wash.

Sister Li Huaihua got up early, washed up, and helped Zhu make breakfast in the kitchen downstairs. Since there was still chicken soup left over from yesterday's boiling, Zhu got up and made noodles and prepared to make chicken soup noodles for the family to eat.

In a few moments, the smell of the kitchen woke the family from their dreams. After washing, Li Erhei jumped downstairs, grabbed the kitchen door and said, "Mother, sister, what are we going to eat this morning?" ”

Hearing this, Zhu smiled and said, "You kid, are you only waking up now?" Don't you smell it, naturally eat chicken soup noodles. By the way, did you wash up? I'll have to go to work in a while, but don't be late. ”

"I've already washed up, I know, I won't be late." Li Erhei is most annoyed by Zhu's this, and he is always afraid that he will be late and deduct his wages. However, Zhu is not talking nonsense, if he is late, he will indeed have to deduct his wages, but he can't make it up.

"Okay, mother, don't talk about it, you go and tell your grandparents to get up, wash up and go to the hall to sit, and the noodles will be fine later."

Zhu knew that his son hated him and always talked about him, so he stopped talking about it. This kid, the older he gets, the more annoying he gets, and I don't know if all men are like this. If you want to say that she used to be like this, how can she not be annoyed by him.

Since the second elder of the Li family moved into the villa, because the family has a fixed income, saves silver, and does not have to work, and the food is much better, so the physical condition is much better. In addition, the mental pressure has become less, and the old couple can now sleep until dawn.

Considering that it was inconvenient for the elderly to go up and down the stairs, they lived in the downstairs room. And their house, naturally, has a place to go to the toilet.

Considering the cost, there are a total of eight rooms on two floors in this batch of villas in Qingzhu Village, but there are only two rooms with bathrooms.

Therefore, if Zhu and Li Liangtian wash, they still have to go to the second floor, or when the old couple is not sleeping. Like most parents, they dare not let the elderly suffer, and they are reluctant to rob their children.

In the end, you can only grieve yourself.

When Li Erhei knocked on the door, the old couple had already gotten up, Mrs. Li opened the door, and when she saw her own grandson standing outside the door, her mood suddenly improved.

Due to the improvement of living conditions, Li Erhei has now undergone big changes. First of all, he has grown taller, perhaps it is chicken soup and other nutrients that have completely awakened his short man who was once caused by malnutrition, and now, he is taller than Li Liangtian.

This speed is like a bamboo in a bamboo forest, pumping up after the rain.

Moreover, since he worked in the workshop every day, he no longer had to carry the sun over the mountains, and his skin began to turn white. In addition, he began to pay attention to dressing, and Zhu was able to buy him suitable materials again, and now he looks like a different person.

Even if it is said that it is a city person, there are people who believe it.

As for the plum acacia flower, the change is even greater. It is said that the eighteen changes of the female university, and this sentence is very suitable for Li Huaihua. Now, she works in the workshop every day, attracting the attention of many older unmarried young men.

However, she didn't want to get married, at least she didn't want to marry so early, and she wanted to help her family earn more money.

As for the Zhu family and Li Liangtian, they felt that they had treated their daughter badly before, and now that the family conditions are better, they have to stay for a few more years.

In fact, there are not a few people who have the same idea as the Zhu family, so marrying a daughter-in-law can marry immediately, but everyone is not in a hurry to marry a daughter.

This is bitter for those who have already made a marriage. According to the date set before, it is clear that he has already married someone home. However, people just don't agree, and there is nothing the other party can do.

After all, it's not that they regret not marrying their daughter, it's just that they are reluctant to stay for two more years. Wherever the law goes, it does not say that it is not permissible. Even if it is to make trouble with the government, I am afraid that it will be difficult for the Qing officials to decide the family affairs.

After the family of four had breakfast, it was too late to wash the dishes, and the family hurried to the workshop.

Xu has eaten a lot of meat lately, and he always feels like he can't wake up. Take this morning as an example, Zhu almost missed the time to get up.

Fortunately, a few people trotted all the way over, and when they arrived at the courtyard outside the workshop, they had just entered for a while when a steward closed the gate. In other words, those outside who have not yet come in are late and have to knock on the door to get in.

After changing into the special clothes and hats made in the workshop, everyone began to work familiarly. It's been more than two months, and everyone's speed is getting faster and faster. Naturally, these crafts are no longer unfamiliar.

Fortunately, Ye Feng signed a ten-year agreement with them in advance.

Ten years later, if they wanted to use the skills they had learned here to do it alone, Ye Feng would not stop them. Anyway, ten years later, he will invent something new, and no one will want to do it.

And just like that, a busy day began. Some people are responsible for making tofu, some are responsible for making somen noodles, some are responsible for making bean sprouts, and some are responsible for making vermicelli......

In short, everyone has their own position, just like the assembly line now. Not only does it improve work efficiency, but it also makes workers less tired.

"Huaihua, do you think the noodles made in our workshop are delicious, or the noodles made at home are delicious?" A thirteen or fourteen-year-old girl asked.

This girl is the next-door neighbor of Huaihua's family, called Peach Blossom. Since the family is financially savvy, they bought a villa next to their house before. Because of the proximity, the two families often play together.

"I like to eat this somen noodles, it's thin and smooth. I heard from my mother that a lot of eggs and duck eggs were added to the noodles. ”

"I'm just like you, and so am I, I think this noodle is amazing. Obviously, it was just flour at first, but as soon as the noodles were reconciled and cut, they hung there to dry. When I first saw it, I always wondered if it would break. ”

"Yes, this noodle is convenient, buy a handful and put it at home, boil the water when you are hungry, throw it in and cook it for a while to eat, it is very convenient."

"Yes, although the noodles are delicious, they are too time-consuming, so you need to get up early in the morning to start mixing the noodles, and then cut them and throw them into the pot. If you're in a hurry, you don't dare to do this. ”

"It's good, it's a pity it's too expensive. You don't know, my aunt's house came to my house for two nights a few days ago, and when she saw this, she thought it was something made of paper. When we heard that it was noodles, we made her a bowl. You don't know, she was eating ...... at the time."

This dried noodle is a new product recently launched by Ye Feng, and because it is convenient to store and extremely convenient, it is said that it has been sold to the capital through merchants. And there are so many people in Qingzhu Village, and now they can come to work as long as they are willing.

But Rao is like this, and the noodles produced are still in short supply.

Because whether it is dough mixing, cutting, or drying dough, it takes time, and there is no machine to help, it is all manual operation, which is naturally expensive.

Ye Feng had already considered recruiting people from other villages. However, people from other villages are far away and have no place to live here, which is really difficult to solve.

"Sophora flowers, peach blossoms, what are you talking about?" Just when the two were about to continue chatting, a question came from behind them, which frightened the two of them not to speak anymore and concentrate on their work.

In fact, the two of them didn't do anything just now because they were chatting, but this Granny Ding is notoriously strict, and she is responsible for work discipline in their area. If anyone fails to wear a mask in accordance with the regulations, or arrives late and leaves early, Granny Ding will strictly enforce discipline.

That's deducting wages, it's just terrible.

Granny Ding walked over and saw that the work in the hands of the two had not been pulled down, and saw that the two were wearing masks, so she slowly walked to other places.

It wasn't until Granny Ding walked away that Huaihua looked around uneasily, and then said to Peach Blossom: "I'm scared to death, fortunately, we all wore masks." ”

Peach Blossom said, "Not really." You don't know yet, Aunt Qiao didn't wear a mask yesterday, and she was directly deducted five cents. Moreover, there is no room for dismissal. ”

"Really? Then she must have died of sadness. ”

It is said that she has been married to Qingzhu Village for 20 years, and no one in the village has ever eaten anything from her.

was deducted five cents, so he was naturally distressed to death.

"Eh, Huaihua, I suddenly remembered one thing, do you know, it is said that the chrysanthemum ......" Speaking of this, Peach Blossom wants to say goodbye, after all, it involves the reputation of the daughter's family, which can be big or small. If Huaihua didn't know, Peach Blossom was ready to talk about other topics and bypass.

Hearing this, Huaihua was stunned for a moment, and then said: "She is also a pitiful, it's really hard to say who is right and who is wrong in this matter." ”

Listening to Huaihua say this, Peach Blossom knows everything about Huaihua. Also, this village is not big in the first place, and if something happens to the family, people will know in less than half a day, where are there any secrets.

Since Huaihua also knows, then talking about this matter is not to say right behind people's backs, but to exchange the views of the two people on this matter.

However, Peach Blossom's ears were pointed, and she heard Granny Ding's footsteps as she spoke, and hurriedly made a gesture not to speak. The two looked at each other for a moment, smiled secretly, and then continued to work, deciding to talk about it after work.

When he got off work, Li Liangfu's eldest son stood at the door, watching the villagers put their work clothes one by one, and there was no obvious stealing of workshop things, so he let them out.

On the other hand, his mother-in-law, Chen, registered each of the things they had in their hands, and put the money they received in a wooden box.

It turned out that the food produced in the workshop could be purchased by those who worked here. However, the quantity of each item cannot exceed three in a month.

Ye Feng said that this is also to prevent the villagers from selling the things in the workshop at a low price and selling them at a high price, opportunistically and disrupting the market order.

Take dried noodles as an example, the current market price of a pound of dried noodles is 700 yuan, but the villagers of Qingzhu Village only need 400 yuan to buy it, and after removing the labor cost and cost fee, it is simply the lowest price.

If you buy food here at a low price, and then take it out and sell it at a high price, over time, the workshop will really lose money.

You must know that the wages of the villagers in Qingzhu Village have risen from 35 wen a day before to 50 wen now. In other words, even if a family sends only one person to work, it will have an income of one or two halves of silver a month.

What's more, almost every household now has five or six people coming to work at the same time.

This is also the biggest reason why the villagers have the money to buy villas.

This is not counting their income from weaving bamboo weaving, bamboo mats, bamboo chairs, making bamboo carvings, picking up bamboo shoots, and cutting bamboo shoots.

In addition, gradually, after those foreign tourists went to Chenjia Village to play, they were introduced here by Ye Feng to see the beautiful scenery and eat bamboo stewed chicken or something. Therefore, now there are inns and homestays in Qingzhu Village.

"Yo, auntie, did you buy somen noodles? I also bought a few catties of tofu and bean sprouts, and I was going to take them back and fry them with meat at noon. ”

"Hey, you don't know, our family only eats this somen once or twice a month, it's too expensive. Just this small handful is worth my salary for several days alone. It's just because my sister-in-law said that this noodles look festive, and it just so happened that she married a daughter-in-law at home, and said that she wanted me to buy a few to go back to support the scene. ”

"When you say that, our two families are pretty much the same. My mother has been thinking about this noodles since she came to me once. No, I buy two handfuls a month for her old man to bring back. ”

Since women have been married, no matter how long they have been married, whether it is a year or decades, they have always thought of their mother's family in their hearts. After all, it is their roots, with their thoughts.

And when I used to live a hard life, I basically didn't dare to go back to my parents' home. First, I didn't have any money, so I had to go back empty-handed. Second, the mother's family feels sorry for them, no matter how poor they are, they have to bring them back with a big bag and a small bag.

In this way, it doesn't look like going back to my parents' house, but like going to fight Qiufeng.

Therefore, when their lives are better now, they want to subsidize their mother's family and make up for the guilt of the past years.

In fact, in addition to buying daily food and drink, people in the village almost always take rare things like noodles back to their parents' homes after buying. After all, whoever has nothing to do at home will eat this. If you don't say it, it's not necessary.

Anyway, the amount of a month is limited, so I can only focus on my mother's family and guests first. In this way, somen noodles have become a great gift.

The workshop doesn't care about lunch, and the work starts in time, so every family will rush back to make lunch. Of course, many people actually have elderly people or big girls at home, and they can eat hot meals when they go back.

After lunch, Huaihua and Peach Blossom carried a basket and went up the mountain to collect grass. Because life is better, now every family has pigs, cattle and sheep and so on. During the Chinese New Year, it is good to sell or kill.

As I walked, I actually ran into a person, Li Chunju.

The two looked at each other, but neither of them said a word. I thought that Li Chunju would be on her own immediately, but she didn't expect her to take the initiative to come up and greet the two with a smile.

"Acacia flowers, peach blossoms, you also come to beat grass!"

"yes, yes, what a coincidence." Both were a little embarrassed. If she hadn't come, they would have already started discussing this person by now. Now, it's hard to say, we can only talk together.

It turned out that this Li Chunju was the eldest daughter of Li Liangshui's family, and there was a younger brother and two younger sisters below. In other words, there is only one brother in the family.

Her family, like most families in Qingzhu Village, had a hard time at first. To say that other villages are better, at least you can rent the landlord's land to plant, but it is a little hard and tiring, but after all, it is a little hopeful.

However, what is most lacking here in Qingzhu Village is land, and the villagers have no other financial resources, so they are not doing well.

And the four children of the Li family, just a male baby, are naturally very precious, and the family is clinging to this child no matter what.

Just two months before Ye Feng decided to cooperate with Qingzhu Village, the Li family was really hungry and had no choice, so they agreed to the marriage of the maiden family of the Fan family, the mother of Chunju, who was dozens of miles away from here, and accepted ten taels of silver from the family.

Although it's just that Chunju doesn't like that kid, Li Liangshui and Fan feel that women always want to marry, and whoever they marry is the same, and they also gave ten taels of silver to the fixed family, which can be regarded as benevolence and righteousness.

The other party came to ask for a kiss several times, but Chunju refused.

And this time, her father and mother couldn't get by, and her brother was too thin, so her father and mother agreed to this family business.

And Li Chunju didn't care if she was reluctant in her heart, but seeing that since her family had this money and bought food, the family could live again, so she had no choice but to put her dissatisfaction in her heart, which was regarded as a tacit acquiescence. Fan always told her that women should learn to accept their fate. Now, it seems, that's what it means.

Two months later, the cooperation between Chenjia Village and Qingzhu Village became a reality, and the living conditions in the village were getting better day by day. Li Chunju's family is no exception.

During the day, she took her younger siblings into the bamboo forest to pick up bamboo shoots, cut bamboo shoots, and beat indigo, and at night, she began to clean bamboo shoots, dye strips, and try to help the bamboo baskets.

In two months, the family actually saved eleven taels of silver.

Later, when the workshop was completed, the family changed from one to three, and they could earn 150 yuan a day. It can be said that the life of this family has become rich at a speed that is visible to the naked eye.

Just last month, with a deposit of twenty taels of silver, their family also bought a villa. And since she has the silver and the family is doing well, Li Chunju has only one thing on her mind, and that is to withdraw from the marriage.

She really didn't like that guy.

However, she just wanted to do it, and did not dare to take a substantive step. And just a few nights ago, after she went to Chenjia Village to participate in a literacy class, she bought a ticket with fifty yuan and went to Changyin Pavilion to listen to a play.

This play is naturally a classic repertoire of Changyin Pavilion, Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai.

After listening to this play, the mind of retiring from the marriage became even more determined. As soon as she returned, she discussed this matter with her father.

When the Li family and his wife heard this, they felt very embarrassed.

On the one hand, they felt sorry for Chunju in their hearts, after all, Chunju had always disliked that kid, and they knew it. And the reason why I agreed at the beginning was because I really couldn't live.

Now, the family is rich, they don't have to worry about food and clothing, and they live in such a beautiful house, it's like a fairy. However, the daughter is about to get married.

Who in the village is not like this, they are reluctant to marry their daughters at all, in order to make up for the pain and regret caused by the hard days in the past. However, they also discussed with the family whether they could postpone the date of marriage for another year.

Who knows, the other party just didn't let go, and insisted on getting married according to the date set before. and threatened that if the Li family did not obey, they would go to the county government in the city to sue them.

On the other hand, if you really withdraw from the marriage, and don't say that the other party will not tell you, even if the reputation of Chunju is completely ruined, I am afraid that it will not be good for the family.

So, thinking about it, they don't know what to do.

Who knows, Chunju, this girl has an idea. From beginning to end, she never liked that person. Therefore, seeing that the Fan couple were embarrassed, they did not see any action. If we delay like this, that day will only get closer.

She made up her mind to quit her family.

Hiding from the Li family and his wife, he took the matchmaker to the location of Fan's maiden house, took out twelve taels of silver, and successfully withdrew the marriage.

The man's family thinks that such a daughter-in-law cannot marry into the door, otherwise even if she marries into the family, it will be a troublemaker. After living for most of their lives, they have never seen the eldest girl come to the door with a matchmaker to withdraw from her relatives in person.

In addition, the girl knew that she was wrong, so she apologized and took out two taels of silver as compensation. The man felt that this was enough, and he accepted it when he saw it.

So, that's it. Anyway, they have twelve taels of silver, what kind of daughter-in-law can't be found.

It's just that the kid just looked at the girl's color, so he was fascinated. And women, where will they not grow old!