Siheyuan: Starting from Building a Village

Time flies, and more than two months have passed in the blink of an eye.

During the two months, some trivial things happened. Of course, these trivial things were only for Liu Guozheng. For Zhou Zhaoming and Li Xiangdong, the protagonists of the incident, it was like the sky falling.

According to Liu Guozheng's instructions, the people sent out by the clone actually collected some evidence of Zhou Zhaoming's violations of laws and regulations, especially evidence of accepting bribes and arranging jobs for others, which directly sentenced Zhou Zhaoming to death. In this era, the punishment for accepting bribes is very severe, and the amount is huge. No matter how big your contribution is or how high your position is, as long as you are found out, it is basically a peanut.

Zhou Chaoming was directly exiled to the Great Northern Wilderness of the Xia Kingdom. It was only after the Zhou Dynasty made great efforts and exchanged interests that Zhou Chaoming's life was saved.

After Ji Yunhao's death, Zhou Liyun was arranged by her father to marry a man named Li Huaide, who was said to be a minor cadre in the Dongcheng District Steel Rolling Mill.

Li Xiangdong from Hongqi Police Station eventually resigned.

There was no other way. A person who did not follow orders would not be trusted by his superiors. They did not care whether their orders were right or wrong, as long as their subordinates obeyed them. His colleagues also excluded him, fearing that their superiors would see that they were too close to Li Xiangdong, which would be detrimental to their work. In the end, Li Xiangdong could no longer carry out his work, so he had no choice but to resign.

Li Xiangdong's name became famous in various units in the Jingxi mining area, but it became difficult for him to find a job.

There are quite a few factories in the Jingxi mining area, but no one is willing to accept him.

In any era, it is difficult to support a family without a job.

After hearing about Li Xiangdong's situation, Liu Guozheng went straight to Li Xiangdong and said that he didn't know much about the village militia training and needed an instructor who would provide food and accommodation, but no salary for the time being, at least not now.

Li Xiangdong also knew that Liu Guo was helping him in disguise, so he did not refuse and agreed.

Now Li Xiangdong and his wife Zhao Hongying live in the village.

Of course, the supply of pork from the Hongqi Police Station has also been temporarily stopped. It was originally provided for Li Xiangdong's sake. Now that he no longer works there, of course the supply has to be stopped.

During these two months, the village also successfully completed the planned construction.

There are ten rooms, each of which is 20 square meters. Each room can accommodate four people, and six children can stay.

There are three classrooms, one teacher's office and two teacher's lounges. Li Xiujuan and Wen Xiu are temporary teachers, and teachers from Jingxi Mining District Primary School also come to substitute from time to time.

There are five canteens in the village, one and a half of which are kitchens, and the rest are restaurants. Li Xiangdong's wife Zhao Hongying helps in the canteen. She is also good at steaming buns and making porridge. Everyone has to do the sanitation work in the canteen, including the children. The village does not support idle people, not to mention that the entire village is now supported by Liu Guozheng.

There are three warehouses, two of which are used to store daily necessities, and one is used to store production tools, etc. Grain and meat are stored in a special warehouse for the canteen.

There is a medical room, and Wenxiu is the only one in the village who has medical knowledge, so of course Wenxiu is in charge.

There are also male and female bathhouses and a boiler room, where all adults take turns on duty.

The drainage and sewage system and heating system of the entire village have been completed, especially the heating system, which was put into use a month ago.

I hope the new village is basically on the right track.

For the current population, there are enough houses in the village and they have no plans to build new ones for the time being.

After the beginning of next spring, we will start to reclaim land and plant trees. The trees are of course fruit trees, mainly the common fruit trees in the north, such as apples, peaches and pears.

Hawthorns are grown on the mountain, and in the future they can be used to make canned hawthorns, hawthorn cakes, and fruit jelly.

In the future, Liu Guozheng will build a food factory for the village, focusing on products such as canned fruit, canned beef and mutton, and sausages. All raw materials will come from his own village.

By the beginning of next spring, the basin behind the mountain will also be used to raise cattle and sheep.

The food production line in the second world can start production now, but it still needs a chance, which will not exceed five years. As long as the clone's plan can be completed within five years, by that time, he will also have a car to drive, and this car will not be a rickshaw, but a car.

In the early stage, we could only use traditional methods to produce small batches of canned fruits.

These are just thoughts for now. In the next two to three years, the 300 acres of fish ponds will be the main source of income for Hope New Village.

We grow our own food and vegetables, but not much, just enough to satisfy our village.

Of course, the so-called public grain tax still needs to be paid after three years.

This will need to be discussed with the commune at that time. Since our village does not grow crops, how should the agricultural tax be paid?

The time now is January 1960, 1, New Year's Day.

It is also Erlang’s happy day.

After nearly three months of contact, the two got along very well and both were very satisfied, so marriage naturally became the agenda.

Now that the construction work in the village has been suspended, there is plenty of time, and since we have nothing to do, it is a good time to get married.

Getting married in the 1950s and 1960s was very simple, and most people would not hold a lavish wedding. This was mainly because supplies were in short supply and many items needed to be purchased with tickets. Therefore, when holding a wedding, people had to borrow various tickets from friends and relatives.

Getting married is also very simple. If the conditions are good, you can just set up a table with wine, and have relatives and neighbors get together for a meal, and that's considered a marriage.

At that time, all you needed to get married was a bed, a washbasin, a spittoon, and a thermos, with a total price of less than 15 yuan. The gifts received were basically daily necessities.

People from well-off families would prepare "three turns and one ring", that is, a watch, a bicycle, a sewing machine, and a radio. Such configuration is no less than having a car and a house today.

In the nearby villages, there are many people getting married.

Only Li Xiujuan became the envy of all the villages around, especially Shanghe Village. The girls in the village wanted to tie Li Xiujuan up and marry Erlang in her place.

When people came to see the courtyard, they were all from Shanghe Village.

Erlang’s new house is so magnificent.

There are five main rooms facing north and south, two side rooms on the east and west sides, and a 400-square-meter yard in front where you can plant flowers and grass as you like.

There are various cabinets, stools and chairs in the room.

The brand new three-turn switch blinded many people's eyes.

From then on, the young ladies in Shanghe Village would come to see Li Xiujuan from time to time. They said they were looking for Li Xiujuan, but their eyes were actually on other single young men in the village, like Lao San, Li Dabao, and of course Liu Guozheng.

In the end, unmarried girls from other nearby villages would come to the village from time to time to take a look.

Liu Guozheng was so annoyed that he had to strictly order the doorman not to let anyone in. Only then did he live in peace for a few days.

Erlang is getting married today. Although Li Xiujuan's family will live with Erlang in the future, the necessary procedures still have to be followed.

Early in the morning, the wedding party set out, including Li Dabao, Lao San, Chen Weiguo and Li Xiangdong.

Nan Yi, Master Yuan and Liu Guozheng are in charge of today's banquet.

Others helped out by picking vegetables, boiling water and doing other tasks.

Of course the children played.

Waiting to see the bride and grab the wedding money.

After the bride is taken over, the traditional wedding ceremony begins when the time comes.

This traditional worship was not like the later bowing, it really required kowtow.

The elderly people in the village were treated as relatives. Before the meeting, Liu Guozheng distributed the money to them, five yuan to each elderly person, which was a huge sum of money in the 1950s and 1960s.

A list was prepared in advance, and those whose names were called came forward to present their gifts, and the bride and groom kowtowed to express their gratitude.

After the wedding, we sit at a big table and have a feast.

The feast was quite sumptuous, with large pork elbows, chicken nuggets, fish nuggets, whole chickens, whole fish, and everything else.

Anyway, all the people attending the banquet are from our own village, so we don’t have to worry about being reported.

After finishing the lunch break, I cleaned up and continued to prepare for the evening meal.

According to the rules of Henan Province, there is wedding wine to be drunk and noise in the bridal chamber in the evening.

What was unexpected was that when it was getting dark, around four o'clock and before five o'clock, a projectionist came to the village entrance and wanted to stay overnight.

When he saw the projectionist, Liu Guozheng was stunned.

That long face is so unique.

There are also those two little mustaches, the side-parted hair, and the pair of eyes rolling around.

It's just that his clothes are a little messy and there are slap marks on his face.

Liu Guozheng blurted out: "Xu Damao?"