By the time Ye Feng's second shop was renovated, the weather was getting colder and colder. However, this did not affect the enthusiasm of the villagers of Chenjia Village, who began to prepare rich food for the Chinese New Year.

Before the change, this season is the time when many people are most worried, because the family's money has almost been spent, and the debts owed must also be repaid, and many creditors do not like to extend the debts until the next year.

The year is sad, that's the reason.

This year, however, is very different, and the villagers of Chenjia Village are gradually getting richer. Whether it is the dividends of the village's various incomes, or the distribution of longevity fruits in the autumn, every household now has no worries about eating and drinking.

As for those who bought the shops, they were even richer, because the shops had gradually begun to have income. Everyone renovated the shop, and spontaneously dug a well in the street to improve all kinds of facilities. Some people were even more powerful, and went to the city several times to see what was lacking in the shopping street, and they did so.

Later, a special sweeping organization was set up, and some volunteers or something, just waiting for outsiders to come and play.

At this point, the owners are surprisingly consistent, never cheating and cheating, in order to build the commercial street well and beautifully.

However, the village chief said that in February and March, a special group of people will come, and that is the wives of the Liqun Society, which is now known to the people of the whole country.

It is said that Chen Qianfan and Chen Juren would also bring their classmates to watch the scenery that day, inscribe poems and plaques for various places, and put forward perfect suggestions.

Based on these recommendations, they will then refine the entire village again in preparation for the National Family Tracing Conference in September.

There is also news that makes everyone very excited, because some people envy those who have bought a shop and make progress every day, but their own family is sitting on empty food and feeling uncomfortable, so Ye Feng made a good suggestion.

It is said that when there are many tourists, the Chenjiacun Grand Inn cannot live. When the time comes, tourists will naturally look for places to stay. They can tidy up their house in advance, get it clean, stay for one night and charge as they see fit, and at the same time provide their own specialties.

And all of this costs money.

As soon as this suggestion came out, the people stopped complaining, but were busy renovating their houses, thinking that they must make the tourists pay for the money willingly.

Not to mention, some villagers are very smart, and quietly went to see the layout of the Chenjia Village Inn, and roughly arranged it according to that pattern. Although it is impossible to achieve a ten-point likeness, there are five or six points of likeness, which is really suitable for living.

And the price is also more advantageous. They all thought about it, if a night in the big inn was 500 yuan, then they would be 200 yuan here. In this way, I think there are people who want to.

It is said that some people also moved the pigsty out of the house because of the smell in the house, and also drove the chickens and ducks out, and built a pigsty and a chicken and duck pen next to the latrine. Not to mention, in this way, most of the houses in the village are no longer so smelly, and the sanitary conditions have been greatly improved.

As for this year, it was naturally very good.

Not only pork, but also chickens, ducks, geese, and fish, and even some foods that are called luxury, such as fresh vegetables that are sold in the county from other places, will also be bought to enrich the table.

As for the relatives, the New Year's gifts are also very generous, almost a few catties of meat, two or three live chickens. Those who are a little more affluent give even more variety, even pastries and vegetables.

made the relatives envious and envious, and they couldn't wait to move their family to Chenjia Village. Unfortunately, this is unrealistic. Now, everyone knows that if you want to enter Chenjia Village, either the eldest girl will marry her, or the kid will be a son-in-law.

Take the Zhao family as an example, they bought a lot of New Year's goods in advance, and asked their son and daughter-in-law to drive the carriage to Zhang's house with their eldest grandson to give gifts. When the Zhang family looked at the car full of all kinds of food, they smiled happily and deliberately made a big move to make the neighbors envious.

Many people used to laugh at Zhang Xiu'er for marrying a farmer, but now they want them to see that there is a difference between this farmer and a farmer.

Zhang Xiucai was also very happy, because in addition to these foods, Zhao also brought him a bag of sun-dried dendrobium, which is a good thing, it is simply fairy grass.

He is now working as a gentleman in the school in Chenjia Village, the task is not heavy, the environment is good, and the life is very comfortable. If it weren't for the fear of gossip in the clan, he really wanted to move to Chenjia Village with his wife.

Without him, he would have been accustomed to getting along with polite villagers, and even more so to take a walk or take a look at the scenic spots on the mountain when he had nothing to do. But if you go back home, where is there all this?

Instead, I don't know which daughter-in-law is arguing and scolding, saying some ugly things, or chicken feces and duck feces and dirty things all over the ground, and I can't get off my feet on a rainy day.

The last time Bai Zhixian and his entourage came to inspect the village, when they walked to the school, he praised the school built well, saying that Chenjia Village was willing to invest in education, and praised him even more, saying that he played a huge role in the education of the villagers.

This is the magistrate, he is just a little talent, when has he been treated like this.

But in more than a year, he has completely fallen in love with Chenjiacun.

This is not to blame Zhang Xiucai, others are even more exaggerated.

Take Huang's sister-in-law's family as an example, on the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, they brought a family to Huang's house, either praising the family's new bed for being strong or praising the new quilt, and you can smell the smell of cotton when you cover it.

Otherwise, it is the rice of the Huang family.

Huang naturally heard this, but he didn't plan to answer. After all, it's her mother's family, and it's not easy to be scared. And Chen Jiwang thought that Huang's eating appearance was ugly enough, but when he saw Huang's niece eating with braised pork, he immediately thought of the word "combat effectiveness".

In this way, from the fifth day of the junior high school to the eighth day of the junior high school, the family has no intention of leaving, which can make the faces of Huang and Chen Jiwang darker and darker. However, people pretended not to see it, and begged Huang to go to the city to buy vegetables, meat, and pastries every day.

That's fine, you can help with the cooking. But the people are good, walking around the village with their hands behind their backs every day, walking here and looking there, but they live more chic than Huang and Chen Jiwang.

In the end, by the tenth day of the first month, Huang directly issued an eviction order.

It's okay for adults, but Huang's niece even pulled Huang's eldest son Chen Qianqi and didn't let go, saying that she wanted to stay and live with her cousin......

If you have to change something else, Huang can still bear it. However, this matter is unbearable. Huang listened, went directly to the neighbor's house to borrow an ox cart, and coaxed the niece into the car with silver and pastries, Chen Jiwang saw this and immediately drove away.

Huang felt annoyed for a while, and blamed her sister-in-law for not knowing how to teach her children, such a big girl, she was eleven years old, and she was still ashamed, where could she hold her son's hand like this. Her eldest son is the treasure of the family, and such a vulgar woman can cling to it?

No matter how bad it is, she will marry a girl from a big family.

It's just that the Huang family forgot that although her son is doing well now, it is also because Chenjia Village has become rich and has become the first village that all girls want to marry, not because of how good he is.

A few years ago, she desperately wanted to match her son and this niece.

Although the other relatives in the family did not look like this, they were also completely fascinated by the grandeur of Chenjia Village, and they all wanted their relatives to help them.

Some people are more civilized and tactful, just trying to buy some seeds on credit, saying that they will return them when they have income, while others are less self-aware and busy selling their children.

However, Chen Jitang's family had a great event, Li Sanjin gave birth to a white fat boy in October, who weighed eight catties, so his nickname was eight catties. Li Sanjin was greedy during pregnancy, and he suffered a lot when he gave birth to this child, but fortunately, everything went smoothly and he was born in half a day.

As soon as Chen Jitang, who had his son, was happy, he held a banquet in the village. The people in the Yaya Township Kitchen remembered that he was a father for the first time, and there were no old people in the family, so they did not accept his money.

Of course, he still bought the ingredients at his own expense.

However, Li Cripple and Chen came over early to help, and devoted themselves to their son-in-law and daughter. Now Li Cripple's family has become a big celebrity in Lijia Village, and many people come to him to inquire about things.

Or listen to the anecdotes of Chenjia Village, such as the transparent windows. Or listen to the pomp and circumstance of the day when the magistrate came. Of course, some people asked him to help marry his daughter to Chenjia Village.

Li Cripple knew that he didn't have this ability, so he told the truth. Everyone is clear in their hearts, so they are not annoyed. The girls in Chenjia Village are not enough, and the future generations are the most sought-after.

After all, as soon as your daughter marries, you can participate in dividends, and you can also get silver as soon as the child you give birth to. Even if you don't do things, you still have income from playing at home every day, where in the world is there anything better than this?

However, when Li Cripple proposed to buy sour radish and pickled celery, everyone did not refuse, and sold everything they couldn't eat. In just half a month, Li Cripple and Chen bought a lot, and filled thirty jars.

The villagers naturally knew about Li Cripple and his son-in-law opening a shop together, but some people didn't understand how those big officials and outsiders liked to eat these poor and sour things as if they had never seen the world.

In this regard, Li Cripple just smiled, but did not reply. Speaking of which, the family still has to rely on this poor sour thing to do business.

The days are spent in such a short period of time, winter is gone, and the pace of spring is slowly approaching. When the wind on the face is no longer biting, when the ice in the river and lake has melted, spring has come.

Especially the apricot trees on both sides of the road, almost all of them are budding at the moment. Just wait for the spring breeze to blow overnight, or a spring rain as expensive as oil, and it will all bloom.

Seeing this, Chen Qianfan took advantage of the fact that there was nothing to do in the academy this day, so he returned to the yamen and said to Bai Zhixian: "My lord, my father came to report, the apricot blossoms in Chenjia Village will bloom in four or five days, I wonder if you have time to go over and have a look?" ”

He said last year that he wanted to come to watch the apricot blossoms, but who knows if he said it casually at the right time, but it was not true.

Bai Zhi County has been busy in the past six months, and it seems that he has found the joy of work, and it seems that he has been opened up, in short, he has been rewarded by the imperial court many times.

Now the whole country has begun to learn from the methods of Qingshan County and vigorously carry out activities to help and rescue abducted babies. Not to mention, the effect is really visible. In just half a year, it has helped many abducted children find homes.

Some families are grateful for the government's help and have written a lot of thank-you letters to the government to thank the government for its help and support.

Those officials were naturally good at sycophancy, and even knew this well, so they sealed the letter of praise intact, and attached a letter written by themselves praising the emperor and praising the imperial court.

The emperor saw that the people were really simple, on the surface they were praising the government, but between the lines were words praising the court. Coupled with the deliberate welcome of these officials, the emperor was simply a dragon-faced delight.

Naturally, Bai Zhixian didn't have to do anything, so he was commended by the imperial court, and it can be said that he has been proud of the spring breeze recently.

Hearing Chen Qianfan say that the apricot blossoms were about to bloom, remembering the beautiful scenery he said last year, Bai Zhixian said with fascination: "This official is naturally going to go." Prepare yourselves, and in five days I will take all of you to see it. By the way, don't make such a big battle for the first time, it's not a good thing to disturb the people. ”

I don't know if he realized it himself, or if Master Gu taught it.

Chen Qianfan saw that Bai Zhixian agreed, and he was overjoyed, and said in his heart that his task was completed.

However, he then thought of the wishes of his classmates, thought about it and said, "My lord, the student still has something to report. When my classmates heard about the beautiful scenery of apricot blossoms, they all wanted to go and see it, but I wonder if the adults will allow it? I think so, there are a lot of exquisite poems and inscriptions in the village, it is better to take advantage of this trip to have a good inscription, and it is also convenient for outsiders to enjoy it. It's just that we are afraid of colliding with the adults and sparing the adults. ”

Nazhi Bai Zhixian said: "What is this, just go together, but there are not so many carriages, you need to take the car yourself." This official is not so pedantic, if you want to go, let them prepare and prepare. By the way, what you said is very important, just say that the official said it, let them prepare well, and if they don't have good poems at that time, they will be punished. ”

Chen Qianfan hurriedly responded, so he retreated and hurried to the academy to tell everyone the good news. As for good poems, hehe, they started preparing half a year ago, and almost everyone has a few poems about apricot blossoms.

As for whether it is good or not, it is purely a subjective feeling of the individual, Bai Zhixian has always had an encouraging attitude, and he has never seen anyone he punished.

When the students of the academy heard this, they were naturally very happy, accompanied by inexplicable excitement. In the past six months, they have long inquired about the situation of the members of the Liqun Club, whose daughters are beautiful, whose families are the most charming and gorgeous, whose families are full of poems and books, their hearts are clear, and they also have the object of their own admiration.

Of course, this is without seeing a real person.

Now that I have the letter of approval, and the approval of the magistrate, and with the task, I naturally began to prepare, and I feel that my previous efforts were not in vain.

Instead, one of the boys asked, "Liqun didn't say that she would definitely go, otherwise why would there be no news until now?" I've even made new clothes, don't let people go again, who will I wear them to? ”

"yes, I'm still waiting for a chance encounter."

Hearing this, Chen Qianfan said funny: "Who said that new clothes must be worn for others to see, if no one looks at them, then wear them for yourself......"

"That's what I said, but ......"

There is only a beautiful view, no beauty, but it is also a pity.

Hearing this, Chen Qianfan couldn't help laughing in the end, and said seriously: "Don't worry, this matter is already a sure thing." Just yesterday, our village has officially sent out an invitation to the Liqun Society, and they have ......"

The little man hurriedly said, "What's wrong?" ”

Seeing Chen Qianfan smiling and silent, he was even more anxious. Unexpectedly, the classmate next to him couldn't stand it, and scolded with a smile: "You are such a small person, who knew that you were in such a hurry." Brother Chen's words still don't understand, the other party naturally agrees. It's just that you're so anxious, and you don't know if it's growing there......"

As he spoke, he ran out of the school, causing everyone to laugh, and the little man chased him out and started a fight.

However, Chen Qianfan's words did not have any moisture, because Ye Feng did come to the yamen in person yesterday, found Gu Xixi, and sent a formal invitation to their Liqun Society.

Moreover, in order to completely impress these noble ladies and move to Chenjia Village to enjoy the flowers, Ye Feng also worked hard.

First of all, I found the best art gallery in the city, Ruyi Painting, and specially painted a tree of apricot blossoms in a way similar to gongbi painting. Then, he wrote the words "In the shadow of apricot blossoms, invite you to meet the most beautiful time in this spring" and so on.

To say that this painter's skills are good, the apricot blossom painting is extremely beautiful and expressive, and it is used to gild paper, plus words such as "food", this invitation alone is enough to make people like it.

Even Gu Xixi, who had a big belly, said: "No matter what I say this time, I will have to go", not to mention the ladies who received this beautiful post.

Since returning from the capital, their identity and status have risen, and they hold their own identities, and they easily do not see outsiders. After all, they are also people who have been received by the Empress and His Majesty the Emperor.

The consequence of this is that the high places are too cold and too lonely and boring. In addition, Gu Xixi has a big belly and is unwilling to hold too many gatherings, so that they have at most one time a month to go out to play.

The invitation of Chenjia Village is exactly what they want, the key is that they have not been to it before, according to their own minister, it is very novel, not only there are attractions but also to pray for blessings, the key is that there are many delicacies.

So, as soon as I received the invitation, I responded one after another.

Thinking that the women there were just village women, they didn't even bother to prepare their battle clothes, and they didn't have any pressure at all, so they waited for five days to let themselves go and eat and drink. To say that such an activity is good, how comfortable how to come. It's not like other activities, sometimes you have to think about what to wear and what jewelry to wear.

Since joining the Liqun Club and going to the capital, they often get together to eat, drink and have fun. Although they regret not preparing for the event, they can still visit each other's doors.

It's okay not to see others, but to see your own people.

They have now figured out that instead of competing for favor with those charming and vulgar concubines in the small world at home, and arguing with their husbands and hurting their harmony, it is better for them to go and live their own lives, they should eat, drink, and play, and no one can hinder anyone.

I don't know that they want to open it, but their husband is even more sticky to themselves, saying that they are more interesting than before. This made everyone a little proud, and they felt that they couldn't laugh or cry.

No wonder some people say that this man is cheap.

Seeing that Gu Xixi was also very interested, Ye Feng began to say his request. When Gu Xixi saw the thief he laughed at, he knew that it must have something to do with silver.

Since getting married, she learned from Master Gu that what this child loves most is to do business and make money, and she thought that this child was full of poetry and books.

Thinking of this, Gu Xixi smiled and said: "Say it, but I know in my heart that what you want me to do must be related to silver." ”

Ye Feng was a little embarrassed when he was seen through it, so he had to confess: "I can't hide anything from my stepmother." That's the case, let's Liqun will go, although there is no shortage of silver, but after all, the number of people is limited. I would like to ask my stepmother to spread the news of the cherry blossom viewing, and many of your followers will follow me. I'm not thinking about myself alone, there are so many shops in the village, this is the first time to receive so many guests, first, I can help them earn some silver, and second, it can be regarded as a test to see how our reception ability is. ”

Seeing that Ye Feng said frankly and seriously, Gu Xixi smiled and said: "Look at what you said, earning silver is earning silver, and it has to be related to the task." You, I see that you are losing money and can't extricate yourself. ”

"Why! I'm serious too. In September, we need to host more people, so this time it was really a good experience. As for me, I'm just making some money by the way. ”

Hearing this, Gu Xixi laughed for a long time, and then said: "Okay, don't worry, I'll find someone to release the news immediately." In fact, there is no need to deliberately put the news, these ladies are very well-informed. Where we go, they naturally have the ability to find out. ”

Ye Feng thought about it, and it was also the truth.

Now, the Liqun Club represents the preferences of the ladies of Qingshan County and even the whole country, and their every move is naturally extremely concerned. Many of the wives who did not join the Liqun Club were not unprofessional, but simply because of the limited number of places in the Liqun Club.

Now, if they heard that the members of the Liqun Club were going to Chenjia Village to enjoy the flowers, they would naturally follow along. You must know that although the five places will not be released until the second half of the year, they have now begun to fight openly and secretly.

It's only five places, and if you miss it, you'll have to wait another year.

And now it is naturally useful to build a good relationship.

Here, Gu Xixi revealed the news that Liqun would go to Chenjia Village to enjoy the apricot blossoms in five days, and on which side, I don't know who released the news that the students of Qingshan Academy were going to Chenjia Village to enjoy the flowers and inscribe poems.

In short, these several pieces of news are intertwined with each other and satisfy everyone's curiosity. Whether it is to express one's talents on the day, or to meet beautiful women, or to see the handsome daughters of talented people, everyone is very excited and has begun to look forward to the cherry blossom viewing meeting in five days.