roccoschili Chapter 389 Returning to the Village, Blocked at the Village Entrance
Chapter 389 Returning to the Village, Blocked at the Village Entrance
The carriage had just arrived at the door.
The villagers eating outside the canteen looked up and saw the familiar Mengze!
The chopsticks in his hand fell to the ground with a clatter. He stood up abruptly, his neck stiff, and shouted, "Lin Xi and Gao Mengli are back!"
After shouting, I realized that people might not be able to hear me clearly.
He turned and rushed into Zhao Chen's house at the village entrance, snatched the gong from his house, and ran out.
Zhao Chen was checking the accounts when he saw his gong being snatched away by an indistinct figure, and he was shocked!
He dropped the ledger he was holding and chased after her!
"You brat, stop right there! Put down my gong!"
They didn't catch the person, but they saw him running and heard him shouting and banging the gong loudly!
"Lin Xi and Gao Mengli are back! Lin Xi and Gao Mengli are back!"
He ran from the village entrance and the city wall all the way into the village, knocking and shouting as he went!
The village was quiet until the clanging of gongs came from afar.
With that hoarse voice shouting, every door creaked open.
What? The Lin couple are back!
Zhao Chen chased after them, and upon hearing the shout, he turned a corner with delight and ran towards the city wall entrance!
Their village's God of Wealth has returned!
Hearing the shouts, Gao Mengli and Lin Xi lifted the curtain and saw a large group of villagers running towards their carriage!
Gao Mengli quickly shouted, "Folks, don't push! You're going to overturn the car!"
But those words had no effect whatsoever.
Zhao Chen squeezed to the front, his face beaming with joy, "Boss! You're finally back!"
"Yes, yes, you've been gone for over two months, we've missed you so much!"
Gao Mengli stepped out of the carriage and raised her hand to smother the flames. “Everyone, we’ve come back this time to help catch the fish in the rice paddies!”
I've acquired another four-story restaurant in the prefectural city. I'm sure my mother and the others told you about it when they came back last time!
I plan to turn that restaurant into a small eatery, with a partitioned room next door specifically for selling roast duck!
Therefore, villagers who raise ducks can register their numbers with Zhao Chen now, and when you deliver fish to the prefectural city, you can send the ducks along with them!
As soon as these words were spoken, the villagers who had been crowding forward just moments before erupted into a frenzy of excitement.
The ducks they raise are going to be supplied to the restaurants in the prefectural city!
"Oh dear, my silly husband said before that raising two hundred would be enough!"
"This isn't enough! No, I need to go find Old Jiang and order another two hundred ducklings!"
Aunt Li slapped her thigh, feeling extremely annoyed.
The other villagers were also calculating the quantities in their minds, preparing to go to the uncle of the two men, Jiang Yuandao's family, to order more.
The demand for chicks and ducklings in Wangyue Village is increasing day by day.
Jiang Yuandao and Yu Yuan were too busy to handle everything, so they simply set up an incubation workshop and led the whole village to incubate crops and make money together.
Seeing the crowd getting restless, Lin Xi quickly called out, "Hey, hey, wait a minute!"
"But is there anything else to inform you about?"
Lin Xi took two steps forward, reached out to calm everyone down, and said with a smile, "Don't worry, this time the small eatery needs to recruit thirty people. One person from the village will be the manager, and those from the Lotus Sect will be given priority for helpers!"
But they need a recommendation from the villagers to go out and find work!
Given that the villagers have many businesses, they don't have the time or resources to spare.
This time, I'm going to take some well-trained Lotus Cult members out to do business!
The Lotus Sect, along with the bandit den, originally squeezed at the very back, feeling that the good things in the village would never come their way.
They were content with just being able to fire bricks in the village kiln; they never expected that Lin Dongjia would choose them to go out this time!
The Lotus Sect was both shocked and overjoyed!
The bandits cast envious glances at the Lotus Sect.
Zhou Tieniu, the leader of the Lotus Sect, took two steps forward and rubbed his rough hands against the hem of his clothes. "Master Lin, are you telling the truth?"
"Can those of us who made mistakes in the past also go out and start a business?"
Lin Xi nodded, "Sure, but the villagers have to recommend you, otherwise it won't work!"
The villagers' eyes are their measuring stick; living together day and night, they must know who has good intentions.
Zhou Tieniu's eyes instantly reddened.
Before he could say anything more, Gou Dan from the crowd suddenly shouted, "I recommend Zhou Tie Niu! Last time my mother sprained her ankle while working, he saw it and carried her to Doctor Li's without saying a word!"
In his spare time, he even helped the village harvest the sorghum!
Zhou Tieniu thought he was doing good deeds anonymously and keeping his merits hidden, but he never expected that the villagers would remember him.
He really wanted to write to his parents and tell them that their son seemed to be making something of himself!
His face flushed red to his ears, and he didn't know where to put his hands. He scratched his head and chuckled, but his eyes were secretly reddening.
Once the story began, the villagers recited one name after another, moving the Lotus followers to tears.
They buried their faces in their hands and wept bitterly, never imagining that they would one day rise above others.
Gao Mengli quickly pressed her hand down, signaling everyone to be quiet.
After scanning the area, I spotted Zhao Hua on the outermost edge, still trying to squeeze his way in.
"Excuse me, excuse me, excuse me! My master is back, and I, the steward, need to greet him!"
Gao Mengli's gaze fell on Zhao Hua, "You recommend him to Butler Zhao and let him do the statistics!"
Zhao Hua, who had finally managed to squeeze into the middle, was instantly surrounded by villagers in the center.
"Steward Zhao, I want to make a recommendation!"
"Oh dear, let me recommend first. After I finish, I need to go order ducklings!"
Upon hearing this, Zhao Hua stopped pushing, because now it was others pushing him.
"Everyone, don't rush! Let's go in order, one by one, and we'll remember everything!"
Seeing that the crowd's attention had shifted, Gao Mengli breathed a sigh of relief and quickly signaled Mengze to hurry into the village!
The villagers were so enthusiastic that she couldn't handle it!
Along the way, Gao Mengli lifted the carriage curtain and looked outside. The fragrance of rice in the air wafted over her, and the chirping of cicadas could be heard intermittently in the distance.
Along the way, there were many pilgrims coming to the village to burn incense, and some unfamiliar young women were washing clothes by the river with their laundry tubs.
The waterwheel whirred and turned, and the watermill creaked and groaned in response, grinding the softened rice into a fine rice paste, the steam carrying the aroma of rice far and wide.
At the inn in the distance, a queue had formed, and Hei Liu and his companions were busy as bees.
The smoke from the cured meat workshop drifts on the wind, carrying a rich aroma of meat that mingles with the fragrance of rice and paddy fields, creating the unique smoky atmosphere of Wangyue Village.
You can still see Zhuangzhuang in the distance, leading the villagers from his village, transporting pigs over, and even helping to hold the pigs down and slaughter them!
Lin Xi leaned closer and glanced around. She saw two people sitting by the lotus pond in the distance, joking around, and laughed, "Isn't that Qin Shen Shen and Li Dou Dou!"
Dou Weiyi, presumably wanting to keep his feet off the ground while managing river transport, handed over the county government office to Qin Shensheng.
Unexpectedly, Qin Shen Shen became the most idle one among them.
After all, everyone is very busy these days. If there's time to cause trouble, they could be tilling two acres of land!
Ironically, the county government office became the most leisurely government office!