Chapter 435: new life

In the autumn morning, there was a hint of coolness.
The door of Room 6 in Building 141, Lane 15, Xincunfang City, outside Nancheng Gate opened, and Wang Jiangen walked out of the house.
Qiu Liang got into his body from the collar and cuffs.
As soon as he got up from the warm bed and opened the door, the heat on his body was quickly taken away by the slightest coolness.
He shivered, walked to door number five and knocked on the window lightly.
Room 5 was divided into two rooms inside and outside, separated by wooden boards.
Wang Jiangen's two younger brothers slept outside, while his mother Wang Lian and his sister slept inside.
The family finally lived in a new, sturdy and bright house, and they were not afraid of flooding and leaking in the summer and cold wind in the winter.
Wang Jiangen's family has moved into the new house for almost two months, and every time he stands at the door waiting for Ergen to get up and go to pick water with him, he can't help grinning, too proud.
With his own hands, he allows his family to live and work in peace and contentment and live in a new house.
He is a capable man.
Not to mention that in room six, his lady was sleeping soundly.
Last month, Wang Jiangen got married.
My mother-in-law did what he said, he bought a house here, and agreed to the marriage there.
The door of Room No. 6 still has a bright red happy character.
Ergen got up, wiped his eyes, did not wake up.
"Follow me to pick up the water, you will have to line up when you are late."
One well in ten houses is much more convenient than one well in the past for hundreds of households.
But still have to line up.
In the morning, there is a peak of water consumption, and every household must pick water to wash their faces, cook, and wash clothes. When I come back from work at night, I have to boil water for washing.
Fortunately, every house has two bathrooms for men and women, as well as toilets for men and women, which is convenient for everyone.
The door of the first room in the main house opened.
"Old Uncle Li, get up so early!"
Lao Li said, "Not as good as your young people, I feel shallow. Your brothers get up so early again, go to pick water?"
"Yes! Before you start work, you have to fill the water tank."
"Hurry up, you are going to be late, I'm afraid you will have to line up again."
Lao Li is a mason, with an ancestral craft, earns more than Wang Jiangen, and saves his life without any hard work.
That's why Lao Li was able to buy three main houses in one go, allowing a family of seven or eight people to live and work in peace.
After a while, Lao Li's two sons also got up.
Seeing his father squatting under the eaves and smoking a dry cigarette, the two brothers hadn't washed their faces, so he quickly picked up the bucket and hurried out.
The two brothers Wang Jiangen came to the yard carrying water. Sure enough, there were people earlier than them. Fortunately, there were fewer people. Soon it was their two brothers' turn.
The two brothers went back and forth twice, finally filling the water tank at the foot of the kitchen wall.
At this meeting, the Wang family all got up.
Jiangen's wife is boiling water, preparing to boil hot water to wash everyone's faces.
Wang Lianshi put the Wowotou he brought back last night in a steamer to steam.
After thinking about it, I scooped a bowl of thick noodles and prepared to add green vegetable leaves to cook a pot of noodle soup.
"Mother, take one more bowl." Jiangen's wife said.
Wang Lian frowned and wanted to say that Jiangen's wife would not be the head of the house. But she was a weak-tempered person and couldn't behave like a wicked mother-in-law.
She opened her mouth to say that food should be saved. The family has finally saved some food, but it can't show up in poverty.
But before she could speak, Jiangen's wife had already said: "Jiangen has been doing physical work all morning. If she doesn't eat enough in the morning, she hurts her body."
Wang Lianshi didn't hesitate when he heard the hurt, and scooped another bowl of thick noodles.
Jiangen's wife laughed.
Four members of the Wang family are now working to make money.
In addition to the Jiangen brothers, both Jiangen's wife and Wang Lian's found work in the textile workshop, and they have income every day.
At the beginning, the owner promised to give priority to recruiting members of the family who bought the house.
There are six people in a family, and four of them work to earn money.
This day is looking to get better.
It should be better to eat better every day.
Ding ding dong dong.
The whole Xincunfang City is ringing with pots and pans.
There is a smell of fireworks everywhere.
There are quarrels, contradictions, comparisons, and conflicts.
Several families live under one roof, and conflicts are inevitable.
In addition to these, there are also fragrant Wowotou and hot gnocchi soup.
At this time last year, they were a group of refugees who might die under the roots of the city wall at any time.
The world regards them as the plague, and the government only has a meal of gruel to help them hang their lives.
This year, they have been living in a new house, three meals a day, and meat.
Life did not abandon them.
The earth-shaking changes are like dreams, not real enough, but real enough.
The house I live in is not fake, nor is the hot soup that I eat in my stomach.
The day is facing the sun and is striding forward.
It will get better and better in the future.
"I'm stuffed."
Ergen wiped his mouth, and quickly followed his eldest brother Wang Jiangen, and went out to work.
Wang Lian's wife Jiangen also quickly put down the dishes and prepared to go out.
Although the work time of the textile workshop is later than that of Wang Jiangen, the work place is far away, in the industrial zone. It takes a long way to get out of Fangshi.
The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law cleaned up and went out with cloth pockets.
Cleaning the dishes, kitchen, washing and cooking, these chores are left to the younger three and four girls.
The Wang family went out, and the Li family who lived in the main house also went out.
The other three followed suit.
In a blink of an eye, the huge house quieted down. Only the old, weak, sick and disabled who can't go out to work are left.
Wang Sangen and Wang Siniu finished their housework, locked all the cupboard doors, and then went out to collect firewood with their backs on their backs.
It was in the middle of the morning, Xincunfang City was very quiet.
The siblings walked out of the city through the west gate and headed up the mountain.
From a distance, I saw several carriages approaching.
The two brothers and sisters stood on the side of the road consciously.
"Wow, what a tall carriage."
"It must be a nobleman inside."
"Maybe to buy a house."
"Should we live with the nobleman in the future?"
"Nobles live in the city. It may be passing by."
Gu Jiu raised the curtains of the car and looked at the brother and sister on the side of the road.
The little girl has bright eyes and she looks like a smart girl. As for the brother next to him, he looked silly.
Gu Jiu smiled at the brother and sister.
"The Goddess of Mercy."
"She smiled at us, hehehe."
"The Goddess of Mercy is so beautiful."
The little Wang Si Niu's eyes widened, for fear of missing a picture. The little girl had an intuitive feeling of beauty and ugliness for the first time.
"These children are all going up the mountain to collect firewood?" Gu Jiu asked.
There are many children like Wang's brothers and sisters on the roadside, and they all walk up the mountain with their backs on their backs.
Ma Xiaoliu waited on Gu Jiu's side, and he nodded in response, "It's all going to collect firewood. Children from poor families are early in their homes. Such a small child can't go to work in the construction site, but can't be idle."
Gu Jiu looked up the mountain and said, "These hills will be developed next year. There will be no firewood for them to pick up at that time. The coal plant must increase its efforts to promote coal stoves and briquettes as soon as possible. Briquettes are cheaper to sell. It doesn’t matter, the key is to change everyone’s living habits."
Ma Xiaoliu took a small notebook and wrote them down one by one, all of which were to be handed over to Duke Deng, who was responsible for the overall planning.
Gu Jiu added: "As for coal stove production, there are many craftsmen among the refugees. We can take the initiative to open up the technology and encourage more democratic movements to be incorporated into commercial activities.
In fact, even if the technology is not open, a simple coal stove will soon be imitated once it is put on the market.
Rather than let those businesses make money, it is better to make money with refugees who are skilled and willing to endure hardships. Local people in the capital, anyone with a skill can also participate. By the way, the opening of the first batch of housing units for the second phase at the end of the year has attracted some popularity. "
Ma Xiaoliu recorded all the points raised by Gu Jiu.
After finishing the recording, he asked: "Do you have any other requests, Madam?"
Gu Jiu smiled, "Let's go to Xincunfang City to take a look. This is the first time I have been here."
The carriage circled around the wall, and finally entered Xincunfang City from the South Gate.
There is a concierge at the entrance of the gate.
Recruit men over the age of fifty from the refugees, form a security team, and work as a porter to ensure safety in the city.
In the future, when the second phase of the project is completed, similarly, men over the age of 50 will be recruited from the second phase owners to form a security team.
The home of the members of the security team is in Xincunfang City, and they are naturally concerned about the safety of Fang City.
If it wasn't for Ma Xiaoliu to brush his face, the porter almost stopped the carriage from entering.
Just kidding, when recruiting and training, Guan Shi repeatedly emphasized that for strangers, they must be identified before they can be included.
Who dares to neglect his duty, beware of losing his job.
For the sake of their jobs, these formerly old refugees, but now the villagers in Xincun are very serious when they are on duty.
Old man Hu put the carriage in and chatted with the people around him, "Guess the person in the carriage is the owner?"
"Why does the boss come to us?"
"This is the owner's property. Is it weird for the owner to come here?"
"Maybe it's not the owner, but the big customer. I heard my son say that the project has a few more shares..."
"shareholder!"
"Yes, it is the shareholder. The name is very strange."
"You tell me, what the are shareholders?"
"It's doing business in partnership, and everyone pays the money. The owner who pays more will make the decision, and the shareholder who pays less will pay dividends regardless of the situation."
"When you say this, I understand. Are there many shareholders on our side?"
"Of course! I heard my eldest nephew say that the people in the palace are struggling to become shareholders."
"Oh, the relationship with the owner is really tough enough that even the maiden in the palace can only be a shareholder."
"That is! Otherwise, the owner can settle tens of thousands of us at one go, and we will settle down."
"Now we are also from Beijing."
"Hey, we are also from Beijing."
Is it good to be a capitalist? Perhaps in the past, these refugees could not tell whether they were good or not.
But now when I ask them, they will all say in unison that it is good to be a capitalist.
At the feet of the emperor, it is different from home. The biggest advantage is that there is no exploitation.
Even if some people have trouble leaving their hometowns, they can only abandon their hometowns for their livelihood and for the whole family to feed themselves and take root in the capital with more opportunities.
Moreover, the children at home do not miss the disaster-stricken hometown.
In the children's impression, the hometown is gray and will never have enough to eat.
The hometown in the poor and remote areas is nowhere comparable to the prosperous and alluring capital.
The adaptability of children is always better than that of adults.
The adults have not changed their identities and cannot forget the local consciousness engraved in the flesh and blood.
The children have consciously brought me into my identity as a citizen of Beijing, and have long forgotten the dusty hometown in my memory.
Gu Jiu got off the carriage.
She is wearing plain clothes today.
But with her identity, even if she is dressed in the simplest way, walking in Xincunfang City is the most eye-catching existence.
The old people and children watched her from a distance, and did not dare to approach her.
They all knew Ma Xiaoliu, and all the guards were familiar. On weekdays I do not deal less.
The steward Ma, who was always aloof, is now respectfully serving by a beautiful little woman.
Could this be the owner? Or another noble person?
Gu Jiu walked in the city and even visited a house.
Not bad!
The houses are made according to the design drawings.
The project quality is very good, the design is reasonable, but the density is too high.
This is also impossible.
The high cost and low price can only increase the density.
Gu Jiu asked Ma Xiaoliu, "How many people have moved to a new house? How many people are left in the shack?"
Ma Xiaoliu hurriedly said: "Half of the houses left in Fangshi have not been sold. Those refugees are really poor, with a large population in their families, so there is really no money left to buy a house. Some people are thinking about returning to their hometown. He refused to buy property in the capital. The shack area has already been demolished in half."
Gu Jiu nodded.
The progress of the demolition of the shack area is not bad.
But she is not satisfied with the housing sales.
Why don't you buy such a good house?
Do these refugees have water in their heads?
Believe it or not, she is now opening up these houses for sale, and they will be sold out in minutes.
At the beginning, Cheng En Bo Zhu Ci was very optimistic about the house here and bought it on a large scale, planning to become a charterer.
"Did Old Deng take no measures?"
"Gonggong Deng said that it will be winter soon, and the weather will be severely cold. Follow-up demolition opportunities will not be done until the beginning of spring."
Gu Jiu nodded, "Old Deng's worries are reasonable. After watching here, go to the market. Arrange someone to call Deng Gonggong, and I have something to tell him."
Gu Jiu got on the carriage, left Xincunfang City, and walked towards the market along the half-built stone road.
The newly built bazaar was like a benchmark outside the South City Gate, so it was named Nancheng Gate New Bazaar.
After several months of rushing to work, a long bazaar has been completed.
Various shops have also been opened one after another.
At the market, people come and go, and they are very popular.
The most prosperous is always the meat and vegetable shop of Sihai Commercial Bank, which takes the low-price and high-quality route and occupies the best position in the market.
More and more people come here to snap up meat dishes every day.
Not only the housewives in the capital, but also the farmers in Ten Miles and Eight Townships, there are even Erdao, Sandao, and Sidao dealers of agricultural products coming from all over.
They seem to regard the meat and vegetable shops of the four seas trading houses as their own upstream wholesalers, and they pull goods from the meat and vegetable shops in carts and carts.
These traffickers, in a short time, have become the most annoying people of housewives, not one of them.
"What a squeeze! The price of vegetables in the capital is so high, it is caused by you people."
"Rolling, all the vendors are rolling."
"Big men and women are huddled in a pile, do you want a face? Beware of the old lady newspaper officer catching you."
These are scenes that happen every morning.
The vendors and the housewives compete for meat and vegetables, and it has become the first time the market opens in a day.
The traffickers also realized that this is not the way to go.
I huddled with hundreds of housewives to buy meat and vegetables, not to mention the inefficiency, and they were not welcome.
So the traffickers simply thought of a trick. They drove over the night before and spent some money to stay in the newly opened inn at the market.
When the butcher shop opened to receive the goods from the villagers in the early hours of the morning, these vendors got up one after another.
Before the Tianming housewives arrived, they first bought the meat and vegetables they needed from the meat and vegetables shop of the Sihai Commercial Bank, and pulled them to the capital, the county, and everywhere.
Of course, during this period, there are indispensable traffickers who are clever-minded and want to borrow chickens to lay eggs.
These people want to stay at the door of the meat and vegetables shop of the Sihai Commercial Bank and purchase cheaper meat and vegetables directly from the delivery farmers.
As mentioned earlier, in order to gain the trust of these peasants, Er Zhuang has been in the countryside with people for months, walking village by village.
The Second Zhuang and the others have suffered a lot before they have achieved the popularity and reputation of Sihai Commercial Meat and Vegetable Shop.
These traders think that they can gain the trust and cooperation of the farmers by staying at the door of the meat and vegetable shop of the Sihai Commercial Bank. This is undoubtedly a dream. It is also denying the efforts of the second strong and theirs.
The village farmers are as vigilant and guarded against strangers as always.
However, there are also some active peasants who approach these traders to do business.
It was fine at first, but then something went wrong.
Either the price was squeezed, or the money received was of insufficient quality, or even privately minted coins were received.
What's more, one of the fresh meat dishes in the house, if one didn't pay attention, was directly turned into rotten meat and rotten dishes.
So, in a certain early morning, at the door of the meat and vegetable shop of the Sihai Commercial Bank, the village peasants besieged the agricultural products dealers.