Gu Xue announced on the loudspeaker that a school would be opened in Daling Village after the Chinese New Year.

Children in the village can study for free in the village school.

Of course, this school is a welfare for the villagers and also for literacy.

Learning is naturally for literacy, understanding, and learning some arithmetic.

Not for the imperial examination.

If you are really good at studying, after studying in the village school, you can go to the county to further study specifically for the imperial examination.

The villagers were discussing this matter among themselves.

"This is the first time that children can go to school for free. The children in Daling Village are lucky."

"Great, I'll go to his grandma's house to pick up the child."

"Didn't you hear the village chief say that it won't start until after the New Year? Besides, there's no school yet. Are you so happy that you're stupid? What are you doing picking up your children at this time?"

"I don't care, then I'll go tell the child and his mother the good news. They are both living at his grandma's house."

"You're just going to show off, other villages don't have such good things."

The second room of the Gu family.

Liu Juaner hurried back home from the courtyard gate and saw Gu Jianghe busy in the courtyard.

He quickly said: "Dad, did you hear me?"

Gu Jianghe saw her excited face: "What did you hear? What's wrong with you?"

Liu Juaner vomited and said, "Just now the village chief announced that children in the village will study for free."

Gu Jianghe said helplessly: "Of course I heard it. With that thing called a trumpet, the whole village must have heard it."

Liu Juaner rolled her eyes at him and danced about her plan.

"I'm just happy for my child. Dafa is still working as a waiter, just to make money and study in Daqing."

"It's fine now. After the New Year, we can let Daqing study in the village."

"When Dafa turns 15, he should be able to go to school. Once he learns to calculate accounts and learn to read, he won't need to work as a waiter."

"I am also capable of selling food. I can settle the accounts. If I set up a stall, my son's dream will be fulfilled."

"Also, once the dividend money from the cannery in the village is paid, if he wants to continue tinkering with food in the future, rent him a restaurant and let him work hard."

Gu Jianghe nodded. Seeing that she was happy, he said: "Then go find your son. At this time, Daqing should be having fun in the fields. Dafa is also resting today and should be back soon. Our family will have a good meal."

"Hey, I'll go right away." Liu Juaner ran away like the wind as if she had taken a stimulant.

The Gu family has four rooms.

"Sisi is 6 years old and Dayong is 5 years old. They can go to the village school for enlightenment." Gu Jiangliu smiled softly.

Gu Dayong imitated his words and walked around in circles: "Go to school and learn how to read!"

Gu Sisi looked at her brother amusedly: "Look how happy you are."

Gu Dayong stuck out his tongue.

Myolie Li said softly: "Don't make trouble, you two. Do you want to go to school or not?"

The two siblings nodded in agreement.

"Then you should thank Cousin Xue in the future. If she hadn't become the village chief, it would be impossible for the village to study for free."

Myolie Li warned the two children.

Gu Dayong said seriously: "When I grow up, I will earn money and give it to Cousin Xue."

Gu Sisi also replied: "I also want to feed Cousin Xue delicious food and help her with work."

Gu Jiangliu touched the heads of the two children: "Let's go play."

As if they knew that when the reading started, they would not be able to play casually. The two children ran away after hearing this.

Village Chief Fu is also discussing this matter with Mrs. Fang.

"I never expected that our village would have such a day."

Village Chief Fu nodded and said nothing.

He knew that the gap between other villages and Daling Village would become wider and wider in the future.

This was impossible when he was in power.

That girl's successive drastic reforms were all for the sake of the village.

It's going to change!

The New Year is extremely close.

Gu Chun went to the military camp and never came back.

Starting from the [-]th day of the Dai Viet Calendar, the villagers take a vacation.

The cannery is on holiday.

Previously, we had ramped up production and produced all the goods for the New Year.

It's a holiday, and the villagers spend these days cleaning their houses, making meat and steamed buns to eat, and cutting window grilles and pasting Spring Festival couplets.

The Spring Festival couplets were written with the help of Shi Xiucai.

The same is true in Xin'an Village. The cement factory is on holiday.

Now all the roads in Xin'an Village have become cement roads, which are smooth and clean.

Similarly, they clean up the yard and cook all kinds of delicious food. Although most of them are from Yuanzhou and Suzhou, the customs in each of their hometowns are slightly different.

The twenty-ninth day of the twelfth lunar month.

Gu Xue first gathered the villagers in the square of Daling Village.

"Today, I will give you the dividends from the cannery and holiday gifts. Come up and claim the names."

The square was filled with villagers.

"I wonder how much my family can get?" A man looked excited.

The person next to me laughed and said, "I sell so many cans to Fucheng and the county every day, so I guess I have 10 taels."

"I'll be very happy if I can get 5 taels. Our cannery has only been open for a long time."

"My family has invested more money than yours. I estimate that my family will have about the same amount of 15 taels."

This is what they dare not think about. Two taels of silver is enough for many ordinary villagers to spend for a year.

So 10 taels and 15 taels are the astronomical numbers they can think of.

Until Gu Xue started to announce.

"Wang Ming, 50 taels of dividends." After saying that, he looked at the crowd.

Just now, the man who guessed that his family could only receive 5 taels of dividends was stunned: "50 taels, village chief, is that right? My family's dividends are 50 taels?"

He was kind of unbelievable.

5 taels to 50 taels, which is 10 times what he guessed.

"No problem, your family pays 50 taels. Why, your family doesn't want it anymore?" Gu Xue said deliberately.

"No, no, I'm just a little excited." Wang Ming took the 50 taels handed over by Gu Xue.

Five silver ingots were held in two hands.

"Don't forget the gifts, 10 jins of polished rice, 10 jins of white flour, 10 jins of corn, 5 jins of meat, 5 jins of salt, 5 jins of sugar, and 3 pieces of cloth."

Gu Jiangxing and Cheng Ru were standing in front of a table, helping to distribute gifts.

Wang Ming stuffed all the money into his pocket and smiled like a fool: "Thank you, village chief."

Then he shouted, and his family members rushed over to help take away the gifts.

The villagers were dumbfounded when they heard that Wang Ming's family had divided 50 taels.

Especially Li Hu who just chatted with Wang Ming.

He guessed that Wang Ming had 10 taels and his family had 15 taels. Since Wang Ming had 50 taels, wouldn't his family have more.

"Li Hu, 80 taels." After Gu Xue shouted, she looked at the crowd again.

When Li Hu heard 80 taels, his face turned into a chrysanthemum smile: "Hey, I'm here, village chief, I'm here."

He stepped forward and took four silver ingots, each worth 4 taels. He quickly turned around and shouted: "My dear, hurry up and help me get the things. Thank you, village chief."

Li Hu bowed to Gu Xue, and he and his wife took the things and stepped aside.

The villagers were shocked when they saw that one family received 50 taels and the other received 80 taels.

I had never dared to think of so much money before, let alone the rice, noodles, cloth, meat and sugar that were given out.

An old man burst into tears. Before he could reach him, he was already crying.

There is an old woman next to him, who is his wife.

When Gu Xue asked for investment, the old couple took out their coffin book and invested everything in it.

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