Little wealth

After leaving Anyang Town, the road outside is easier to walk.

The road from Anyang Town to Sihe Village has been expanded several times. The road can accommodate four horse-drawn carriages passing side by side.

A group of carriages went in the direction of Sihe Village. Pedestrians and horses on the road recognized that this line was the Zhao family's carriages, and they would all step aside to let the Zhao family's carriages pass first.

After July, the rice in the fields has been harvested, but after harvesting the rice, these fields have been replanted with crops, and it looks green at first glance.

A lot of houses were built on both sides of the road, and some people came out to open restaurants for business.

After the development of the nearby villages in recent years, some villagers came out and built houses near the roadside, and opened inns, restaurants and teahouses. There are many people coming and going on this road every day, so there are also some businesses. .

A group of carriages passed by on the road, and the sound of horseshoes clattered from near to far, and soon disappeared from the sight of passers-by.

Situ Tai'an, who was sitting in the carriage, raised the curtain of the window and looked out. The wind blowing on his face brought a smell of oil, and he saw a big oil factory not far ahead at a glance. He knew that the smell of oil was the smell of oil. Floats from there.

"Is the oil workshop here newly built?" He remembered that the oil workshop didn't seem to be in this location before, it seemed to be a little further inside.

Erbao knew what his second cousin was asking, so he glanced out of the car window, hummed, and said, "The old oil workshop from before moved here, and this one is newly built. No."

"Going that way is the cake factory. If we come back last month, we can catch up with the cake factory to make mooncakes." There is a small path in front of the gate of the oil workshop, and the cake factory is behind.

The cake factory doesn't work every day. It only starts making moon cakes from July every year until the [-]th day of the Mid-Autumn Festival, which lasts just over a month.After the Mid-Autumn Festival, the cake factory will close, and it will not open again until mid-July next year.

It's just that it's already September when they come back, and the cake factory has already closed, so if they want to eat mooncakes, they have to wait until next year.

"Oh, that's how it is." When he came here in the early years, the place didn't change so much. After a few years, he came here again, and Situ Taian's development of this place has changed so much that he is a little bit concerned. not coming out.

Situ Tai'an knew that his little uncle and his little uncle had opened several workshops in Anyang these years. He had heard his father talk about some of the things his little uncle and his little uncle had done. I sincerely admire his little uncle and his little uncle. The two of them have changed the appearance of a place by themselves. Many places he has been to are not as good as the place in front of him. This place is bustling and lively, there are no beggars on the road, and the people here seem to be living a very good life.

"I heard that my uncle also runs a shipyard? I wonder where the shipyard is?" He had heard his father mention this before, and it was only during this journey that he knew that the ships they were riding on were built by the shipyard in Anyang. big ship.

This time, in a task assigned to him by his father, he was also asked to come over and see how big the shipyards here are.They also have a shipyard in Luoshui, but the shipbuilding technology has been stagnant. They want to cooperate with the shipyard in Anyang to see if they can build bigger and better ships.

"Well, yes, my father also ran a shipyard. The shipyard is not here, but below the river area. If you want to see it, I will take you there tomorrow." Er Bao didn't know about this second cousin. The real purpose of coming to Anyang should not be as simple as chasing after their little Axiu.

But since this second cousin asked about their shipyard, he didn't think there was anything to hide about his shipyard. Just ask anyone in Anyang and he would know where their shipyard is. Why don't he bring it himself? People go and see what happens.

Seeing that the cousin was curious about their village, Er Bao talked about some things about their village by the way, mostly picking up some interesting things.

In recent years, the population of their village has increased. After the number of people in the village increased, the original living space of the village was not enough. The wall of the village was expanded twice to achieve its current scale.In the early years, it was relatively easy for people from other villages to come to their village to buy land and build houses. However, since five years ago, their village has restricted people from other villages from buying land and building houses in their village, and at the same time prohibited people from their own village from selling land. For people from other villages, fewer and fewer people from other villages live in their villages.

Now the development of their village is getting better and better. There are village school and teachers in the village, and all school-age children in the village are sent to the school in the village.Although there are schools in several nearby villages, only the school in their village is free of charge. All school-age children in the village can be sent to the school to study. The school in the village also provides a free lunch a day, which is different in other villages. None.

There is also family land in their village, which is purchased by the villagers with joint funds, and the annual output is used for the children of the village to study.If there are children in the village who are good at studying and their families are in difficulties, the money for this study will be provided by the village.

This is why people from other villages want to enter their village when they come down, but they are now restricting people from other villages from coming. The only way for people from other villages to come to their village is to marry a girl or brother to their village. , so unmarried boys in their village are very sought-after.

They grew up in this village since they were young, but he can still feel that the village he lives in has undergone great changes every year. If he doesn't come back for a few years, there is a great possibility I don't know the surrounding area anymore.So Erbao can also understand that this cousin, who has only been to their village for several years, is unfamiliar with their village. It is true that their place has changed too much.

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"Wang Wang Wang-"

As soon as they heard the sound of their carriage, four dogs ran over from the gate of the oil workshop, wagging their tails and barking at their carriage.

"Scallion pancakes, deep-fried dough sticks and mustard greens, we're back, hurry and go home with us for dinner." Huan Huanxi went out and shouted at the dogs outside.

Scallion Youtiao Panzi mustard is the name of these four dogs.

"Wang Wang Wang..."

I don't know if the four dogs understood their names and chased after the rear of the car.

"That's our dog." Er Bao stretched out his head to take a look outside, and said to his second cousin.

The four dogs were raised in their family and brought to Youfang to see the place. They are very familiar with their own family members. Every time they heard their carriage passing here, they would chase after them and run home.As soon as they heard their voices at this moment, the four dogs chased after their car and refused, and ran after their car.

"Oh, I remember, you have a lot of dogs in your family. Is the white wolf in your family still alive?" If you want to say that Situ Tai'an's biggest impression of their little uncle's family is that they have a lot of dogs. There was a blind white wolf. At the beginning, he wanted to abduct that white wolf, but the white wolf left without even smelling the things he gave him, and he never gave him a chance to abduct it.

"Yes." Er Bao smiled and rolled his eyes, he knew that this second cousin coveted their family Dabai.Their family Dabai is a very smart wolf, who knows how to protect the master and watch the house, and will not eat anything given by outsiders, and it is even more impossible for outsiders to cheat him away.

The distance from the oil mill to the entrance of the village was not too far, the carriage ran fast, and it arrived at the entrance of the village in the blink of an eye.

Their village erected a high wall, leaving only a gate at the entrance of the village for people in the village to enter and exit.The village only allows people from its own village to enter, and people from other villages cannot enter their village unless they are led by people from their own village.

In the early years, their village was not managed, and there were many people from other villages who entered their village. In addition to some incidents of theft, there was also an incident of missing children. Fortunately, the two missing children were found later. up.

But since that incident happened, the people in their village really paid attention to the management of the village.Now the management of the entire village is very strict. Every household in the village must abide by the rules of their own village.

In the past ten years, there were really two families who were expelled from their Sihe Village. One was Lu Xiucai's family who married the eldest lady of the Chen family and joined Chen Yuan's family as son-in-law. The family surnamed Sun conspired to steal the recipe for making mooncakes from their bakery factory, but they caught them, dragged out the two families, and expelled the two families from their village.

However, the Lu family originally only had Lu Xiucai and their widowed mother, and Lu Xiucai had brought the widowed mother to the Chen family long ago, so even if they were expelled from the village, it didn't seem to have any effect on them.There was only another family named Sun. The whole family was expelled from the village for stealing the prescription. They cried and begged a lot at the entrance of the village, but they were still driven away by their village people.

Due to Lu Xiucai's repeated failures in these years, both mother and son in the Chen family have lost their high spirits, not to mention that this Lu Xiucai offended the Zhao family back then, because the Chen family was also implicated. The business of Lu Xiucai was getting worse and worse, and members of Chen were all angry at this son-in-law, so the life of Lu Xiucai, mother and son in Chen's house was not too easy.

However, no one in Sihe Village cared about and talked about the mother and son of the Lu family.

"Tat-tat--"

"Master Zhao and the others are back! Open the door quickly!"

"Okay, okay, let's go!"

There was a high watchtower at the entrance of the village. A group of horse-drawn carriages were coming towards their village. Before they had passed the entrance of the village, the people standing on the watchtower had already seen it.