The old Chinese doctor in the courtyard

Chapter 255 Prosperity

When I arrived at Madianji, I heard that Li Shengli was going to stay in the village for two days. The old party secretary Wang Shengting was very attentive.

While the two of them were talking, he was about to arrange for someone to go to the best house in Tengcun, which was the red brick and red tile house that Li Shengli had seen when he first came to Madianji.

When he heard that it was a red brick house, Li Shengli immediately rejected it, saying that he just wanted a yard with blue bricks.

In a large village on the outskirts of Beijing like Madianji, it’s not too easy to find a green brick courtyard.

Unlike Wali Road, where there is only one Wangjia Villa, and unlike the mountain villages where you can escape the summer heat, there are at least dozens of houses in Madianji that can meet the standards of a landlord's courtyard.

In the old days, Madianji was a gateway to the suburbs of Beijing and a checkpoint for commercial exchanges outside the city. There were also many good yards.

When allocating houses and land, some of the courtyards that could be accessed were still somewhat taboo and were not allocated to village members.

A part was divided, a part was demolished, and a part was kept. The remaining ones are the houses at the village headquarters.

There are ready-made vacant houses in the village. Although no one has lived in them for a long time, Li Shengli had said hello before, and Wang Shengting had already started to pack them up.

Like Wali, the best house in Madianji Village was also the courtyard of landlord Wang's house.

Earlier, almost half of the villages from Madianji to the north were tenants of the Wang family. Every village had a yard, which was a sign of the prosperity of the Wang family.

It's just that the career change of the Wang family was not at the right time. From the royal physician Wang family to the landowner Wang family, within a generation, the entire family suddenly collapsed due to the change.

After listening to the old party secretary's introduction, Li Shengli rubbed his stubbled chin. Ever since he exchanged medicine boxes with Mr. Zhao from Wali Village, he had taken advantage of the royal family of doctors.

Being able to meet Wang Zhi's mother-in-law is the reward that Mr. Liu said. In this way, helping the Wang family restore its inheritance will add a mysterious color.

After supporting Wang Zhi and his wife, he continued the inheritance of the Wang family, and his thoughts of taking advantage would fade away.

According to the introduction of Wang Shengting, the old party secretary, there are five vacant landlord courtyards in Madianji Village. There are dozens of idle houses in the village that can be lived in, and dozens that need to be repaired before they can live in. The total number is less than [-] at.

Madianji is a large village on the outskirts of Beijing, with nearly [-] households at its peak.

After land and housing were divided, most of the adobe houses in the village were demolished. Nowadays, most of the unused houses in the village are blue brick houses.

With Li Shengli's previous arrangements, Wang Shengting had already begun arranging for the women in the village who could not contribute much to clean up these idle houses.

Several landlords' courtyards were the first to be cleaned up. The remaining empty houses, even if they could be occupied by most people, still needed to be repaired. This work was arranged after the beginning of spring.

"Shengli, the five courtyards are all on this street, and we wanted to use this place as the village headquarters.

Later, I saw that other villages had built new village headquarters, so this stone street remained.

It's not enough, it's not enough, the screen wall blocking the street entrance is broken, and there are three divided courtyards.

Those three courtyards are so separated that they have to be tidied up if they want to use them. "

After coming out of the village headquarters, Wang Shengting led Li Shengli not far away and arrived at a small street with a gate.

In the suburbs of Beijing or in important commercial areas, it is also traditional for wealthy households and landowners to gather together to build houses. The reason why people are divided into groups is very simple.

Looking at the small street formed by the five landlord courtyards in front of him, Li Shengli thought for a moment before saying:

"Old party secretary, please leave this place to me. People who come to the village cannot be allowed to live here. They can just live in idle houses in the village.

The living conditions in the village are poor, so we have vacated the unused houses for them to replace. If they want a habitable house, we don't want it if it is too good.

I want to hold a traditional Chinese medicine training class here in the future. There will be a lot of furniture and seats, right? "

Madianji is different from the mountains. The courtyards in the mountain villages are designed to escape the summer heat. Living in the courtyards in winter is not very comfortable.

So people in the village don't care who lives in another courtyard, but it's different here in Madianji.

In a large village with more than a thousand households, there are many people and many people in the village. Not to mention the landlord's courtyard, even if the people who come live in a good house are surrounded by water, they will make the villagers jealous.

It is also a common principle to worry not about scarcity but about inequality. If you live in a good house for a long time, it will cause conflicts.

When the landlord's courtyard was used as a school, the villagers couldn't say anything about it, but the people who came later were able to live in good houses without water, but it couldn't be justified.

“Shengli, the furniture in the courtyard has not been touched much, except for the things used for living at home.

Shengli, don't act like an outsider in Madianji, just treat yourself as the branch secretary.

If you can't hold it down, I'll find someone to help you hold it down in the village. Damn it, I think the one who's full dares to explode the thorns. "

Unlike Wali Zhao Mankuixu's second-in-command, Wang Shengting was a ruthless man and agreed to the position of first-in-command.

Li Shengli knew whether Wang Shengting was ruthless or not. His own son said he broke his leg and just ran him over with a carriage. He was not an ordinary ruthless person, and he couldn't do this.

To be able to subdue a large village with more than a thousand households, one must be ruthless. If Wang Shengting really followed what Wang Shengting said, Li Shengli would become the village tyrant.

"Old branch secretary, you have to have the consciousness of being dependent on someone else. This is what I said.

There are lonely families in the village. We might as well let them vacate their houses and let the whole family live together in a good courtyard. If the village cannot afford to support them, I can use my share to support them.

This will free up some houses..."

Wang Shengting promised the position of head of the family, and Li Shengli was not polite. As he spoke, he directly intervened in the internal affairs of Madianji Village.

Li Shengli's words also revealed the plight of the lonely families in the village.

In the production team, once people lose their labor force, or their families have no strong labor force, their lives will plummet.

Wali people can do eight jobs and two, which is not easy to do in a big village like Madianji. It is necessary for people to do seven jobs and three, otherwise they will not be able to suppress the vast majority of people.

Moreover, in a village like Madianji, accounts should be divided according to head, and men, women, old and young should also be distinguished.

Counting the whole labor force, women account for [-] to [-] percent, while children and the elderly sometimes do not even account for half.

In addition to food, firewood in the village is also distributed according to this. If there are not enough people, there will not be enough work points, let alone food, even firewood for cooking is not enough for a year.

Some people only eat one or two meals a day because of various restrictions. "Sheng Li, do you mean to increase the number of pensions for the elderly in the village?"

Wang Shengting understood what Li Shengli said. Provident fund and public welfare fund are not the terms of later generations, but the current terms.

This is a proposal made by the village collective. Provident fund and public welfare fund are the above terms. Ordinary villages will not pay attention to this kind of rhetoric.

If necessary, the village will keep them every year without being asked by others. This involves the production of the second year, and no one takes it lightly.

"That's pretty much what it means. Don't talk about helping. It doesn't mean that one family doesn't want to come to another family.

What I’m talking about is letting women in the village who are unable to remarry come out and make a living doing this.

One person can take care of several orphaned families without having to work throughout the year, and money and food are distributed according to the highest level of able-bodied labor.

This problem has started, and some families have seen the benefits, and the elderly care of the villagers will be solved by then.

Some people can't spare their staff, and some people can spare their staff. After we raise the stakes.

Naturally, someone talked to the village about this matter, so that a lot of labor could be freed up. "

Elderly care will be difficult for rural people in the next few decades. If a family has an old man lying on the kang, the family's work points will be affected.

What Li Shengli proposed was centralized elderly care, with dedicated personnel in charge to relieve members of the community from worries.

In this way, not only will the elderly care environment be improved, but the burden on each family will also be greatly reduced.

Of course, this kind of centralized elderly care is only suitable for villages like Madianji that have opened additional businesses.

A village like a mountain village, where there are only a few able-bodied men except the old, weak, women and children, is definitely not suitable for this model.

In mountain villages, those who have no ability to work have to be forced to work. If they don't work, they really won't be able to eat.

"Sheng Li, if you don't say it, it's still you. Once you say this, this old guy like me will have a charter.

Let's go into the courtyard and have a look. "

Unlike the old brother Zhao Mankui in Wali who occasionally relapses, Wang Shengting, the old party secretary in Madianji, does not have so many restrictions.

He only has one thing in mind, which is to keep the people in the village from going hungry, and it doesn't matter if their work is good or bad.

Madianji is also a village with inheritance. No matter how many surnames are managed in one village, almost all families are related to each other.

Although there are production teams with foreign surnames like the Wali Fourth Team in Madianji, it is true that more than half of them are related to each other.

This kind of village is easy to manage. If you straighten out the key points inside, all the people in the village can be used by you.

But there are also things that are difficult to regulate, which involve the interests of the villagers. In such a big village, let alone explaining the law to you, when it comes to fighting for interests, the truth will not be explained.

If the party secretary or captain says hello, no matter who is on the other side, the villagers will dare to attack.

When arresting people in such a village, the police station and the commune will not arrest people without making an agreement with the old party secretary, unless the troops are mobilized to conduct house-to-house inspections.

Wang Qingping, Wang Shengting's son, could do this when it came to collecting public grain. If he came from the commune and the grain office, the beating would be light.

If it's really broken, that's all. As long as Wang Shengting is unreasonable, the lawsuit will go nowhere.

Entering the yard, I took a rough look and found that it was just like Wang Shengting said, let alone furniture.

As for the paintings in the central hall when you enter the entrance hall, the hat tubes, vases, and Western clocks on the table are all well placed.

These things may not have been touched, or they may have been collected by Wang Shengting. This old party secretary had a strong say in Madianji.

Not to mention that he can control everything from birth, old age, sickness and death to food, drink and diarrhea, but to say something, it is certain that no one dares to refute it.

As far as Wang Shengting dared to protect Wang Zhi back then, the courage of this old party secretary was very upright.

One thing that old landlord courtyards do well is moisture-proofing. Generally, brick and stone courtyards will get damp in most spring and summer. Over time, the house will inevitably have a musty smell.

But there is no such problem in the Wang family's yard. You can still vaguely smell the smell of wood while standing in the house.

The Wang family's yard in Madianji was probably built with materials from somewhere in the city.

The stone slabs paved in the courtyard are all large, one meter wide and two meters long. This can also be seen that the labor force at that time was as worthless as it is now.

“Yes, this is the yard.

Old Party Secretary, can we start a business here? "

Li Shengli, the owner of the courtyard, is very satisfied. He is already the boss of Madianji, so living in a landlord's courtyard is not a big problem.

Whoever dares to explode because of this, without the help of the old party secretary Wang Shengting, the twenty captains and deputy captains who have had meetings with him will yell at them.

Nowadays in the village, the village party secretaries, captains, etc. are all beating people. If they offend them, they will either slap them or kick them.

If the time is right, even if you are beaten with a shovel, you still have to work conscientiously.

"Firewood and other things are all ready, and the chimney is leaked, so you just have to live there.

I have also prepared the bedding in the house for you in advance, and they are all kept at the village headquarters.

Don't move away from home during this period before the year. It's time for us to slaughter the sheep ourselves and eat in the village for a while. We will raise them later. Look how thin you are. "

For Li Shengli, the old party secretary's main focus was the emotional card. He knew very well that this young man could not be kept by force.

Not to mention anything else, the little girl who followed her all the way was very powerful. At the slaughtering place in the village, the little girl took action and shocked even the master of the slaughterhouse, Ma Laosan.

The new butcher knife was ready, and when the little girl cut it, the blade was only as wide as a finger. It was like slipping when playing with a knife.

(End of this chapter)