As they walked, they saw in front of them the meeting hall for the council guests. There were girls holding the curtains, and Mai Huang and others were waiting on them. Gu Wenxuan felt somewhat at ease.
After Zhou Banxia took his seat and asked Mai Huang to take an eye on the second young lady, Gu Wenxuan had to leave to attend to his own affairs and go to the entrance of the village.
The workshop at the entrance of the village, including the stone tablet with the word "Elm Garden" engraved in front of the workshop, was all set up in the past two days in accordance with the requirements of Taoist Master Qingfeng.
Now, just waiting for the tofu shop and the oil pressing shop to move there, the preliminary plan has been realized, and the entrance to the village of Gujiazhuang has become the first checkpoint.
Asking Jiaxing to bring the roster of recently transferred personnel, Gu Wenxuan did not go out in a carriage, but met up with Gu Dahua and others and walked directly to the entrance of the village.
The road can accommodate two carriages running parallel, and the ground made of lime mixed with river sand and gravel is still very good, just as Zhou Changgen said, it is flat and hard.
Of course, the river outside was frozen at this time, so it was impossible to be solid, but after clearing away the snow, it could still be seen with the naked eye that the ground was indeed flat.
I can chat with my wife when I get home, but if I want to go out for a walk, I might as well forget it. Don’t even think about walking to the entrance of the village for at least these two months.
The second rain this winter was heavier than expected. When I passed by the wheat fields a few days ago, I could still see inch-high wheat seedlings, but today it is completely white.
On the way to the village entrance, Gu Wenxuan paid special attention. Very good, his father-in-law was not here, which meant that the snow was not strong enough to hurt the wheat seedlings.
With his father-in-law's temperament, even if there is a slight risk, there is already a Zhuangtou here, and his father-in-law will not trust the Zhuangtou, and he will not give up unless he keeps an eye on it personally.
At this time, there were a few tenant farmers walking around in the fields. It seemed that the village head was acting cautiously and took action when he saw that the Ma family sent people to patrol and check.
Gu Wenxuan did not ask the Zhuangtou who came to salute him if this was the case, so as to verify his speculation that the internal competition was getting stronger, and there were more servants helping him and his wife keep an eye on the Zhuangtou.
As long as there is no internal strife, the reason why he and his wife acquiesce to the existence of healthy internal strife is to have more available manpower. If the banker is not good enough, there will be a deputy who can take over immediately.
Gu Wenxuan, who was very good at winning people's hearts, looked like a humble gentleman, and even praised Zhuang Tou verbally without losing the favor of his wife.
Under the grateful gaze of the other party, he continued to lead a group of people towards the entrance of the village. Of course, he would never admit that he was hypocritical.
After all, there are only a few households in Daliang, not to mention Qingyang County, who have such a good boss like him and his wife, who allows his servants to eat well and drink well, but is still afraid that the servants will freeze.
No, at the entrance of Gujiazhuang Village, there are rows of bungalows on the left and right of the avenue. Although they are not blue brick houses, they are still very good adobe, stone and tile houses.
This year, the income of every household in Qinghe Village has improved. They cannot afford to build brick houses, so they have more or less repaired their houses and replaced them with thatched roofs.
Otherwise, the rows of adobe, stone and tile houses at the entrance of Gujiazhuang Village are much more impressive than more than 70% of the houses in the village.
When he approached the entrance of the village, Gu Wenxuan was not in a hurry to enter any of the courtyards. He walked along the avenue and passed the gate.
I glanced at the direction of the Guandao Market outside the village entrance, and then walked from the east to the west along the perimeter of the row of workshops and bungalows at the entrance of the village. In my memory, there used to be an earthen wall as high as one person around the ancient village, which was like enclosing the land to show that this place was a private village and no one could enter.
Perhaps the family's financial situation has become worse and worse, or perhaps because part of the property was bought by the Ma family before, they no longer want to repair and take care of these earthen walls.
Therefore, everything collapsed, especially since the Ma family had no intention of paying anyone to repair the earthen walls. These earthen walls were not as good as every year during Wang Xiaoer's New Year.
When it was his couple's turn to buy it last year, even the earthen wall at the entrance of the village was basically just a trace of the old earthen wall.
Now that the entrance to the village is so clean, all traces of the original have been completely removed. Gu Wenxuan was still very satisfied after walking around the perimeter.
Of course, it is not without regrets. As the first pass into the manor, the west to Qinghe Village is the territory of his couple, but the east?
Even though they exchanged land with the Ma family before, the Ma family still occupies the easternmost entrance and exit, but there is really no way around this, and the Ma family cannot be denied access.
It can only be said that it was not considered well at the time. The entire Gujiazhuang should be eaten. Then the initiative would be completely taken over, and the Majia Breeding Farm would have to face north to clear the way.
Nowadays, the Ma family is richer than expected. It is impossible to sell off this property within three generations at least. If they want to integrate it, they can only wait for their great-grandson.
By the time of the great-grandson's generation, the relationship between the two families has weakened, and perhaps one day even Dongkou Village will be integrated by his great-grandson Gu Wenxuan and completely named Gu.
Zhou Banxia didn't know that Gu Wenxuan, who didn't even know where her son was, actually thought about her great-grandson. Her first child here was already big-headed even before she was born.
In the council meeting room in the front yard, the table was piled with account books and rosters, lists of private treasury in various warehouses, as well as gift lists and invitations received recently.
There are still several wooden boxes on the ground that have just been brought in. The banknotes in the boxes need to be summarized, the total amount of cash needs to be checked, and they must be divided into one, two and three.
Among them are the income from the dowry left to her by her master in the past year, the income from the workshop in the past two months, and items donated by others.
Like this time, even though her uncle and aunt didn't come, they still treated her as a family member without saying a word and prepared a generous housewarming gift for her.
It was obviously impossible not to know that she now had not only the income from the dowry, but also good profits from the workshop, and a large box full of gold ingots was also sent to her.
The lifelike twelve zodiac signs made of gold were given to her to play with, which was fine, but the handfuls of golden peanuts and golden melon seeds included were given to her to play with too?
Zhou Banxia touched her belly and looked at her Aunt Lan eagerly, which made Zhou Molan laugh. "Just keep it for you, are you afraid that the young lady has other ideas?
If you can ask Madam to bring them from the capital, Madam will definitely prepare a copy for Young Madam. There is no shortage of these things in the house, so just take them and play with them.
Furthermore, the eldest lady also mentioned to me in private at this time the year before last that she would take you back to your home if you can one day clear your grievances.
I really didn't mean to coax you, otherwise how would I know that you, young lady, only wanted the eldest lady to leave Gaofu with you, and even inquired about Zhuangzi in Fucheng City several times.
When the eldest lady mentioned these things, she was very happy. She said, Xiaolan, I have no regrets in this life. I am only worried that this child will be too thoughtful and Huiji will be hurt. "(End of Chapter)