Chapter Four Jiangcun
Standing at the spacious front desk, An Songyu maintained her standard smile and greeted the head waiter for the day while there were no other customers.
The supervisor, Sister Xia, is in her thirties and is a very principled person.
Although An Songyu arrived at work right on time, she was not late.
So she didn't say anything more.
After exchanging greetings, An Songyu sat down in front of the two computers.
She remembers both this hotel and the hotels she worked at for the next ten or twenty years.
Her job at the front desk involved handling check-in and check-out procedures for customers.
This is an advantage she has as a genuine hotel management student.
But it's precisely because I studied hotel management...
Soon, as it drew closer to three o'clock in the afternoon, An Songyu was too busy to think about anything else.
At this moment, An Jianping, who had already arrived in Jiangcun, knocked on his younger brother's door.
Jiangcun is not considered a large village.
The entire village has only twenty-four households.
However, it was divided into three different surnames.
Among them, Jiang and An are the most common surnames in the village.
The only remaining family with the surname Zhu is the Zhu family, and there is only one such family.
Strictly speaking, he was just a son-in-law who had married into the Jiang family and was given his original surname by his father-in-law's permission.
Today, they have developed into a family with four generations living under one roof.
But until the demolition, their family had never separated.
However, in terms of population, the Jiang family, who settled in Jiangcun earlier, actually had a larger population.
However, the An family separated early, and their family already occupied four households, naturally becoming the surname with the most households in the entire Jiang Village.
An Jianmin, An Xiaoshu, is now one of the most capable people in the village.
An Jianping knocked on the door for a while, but heard no response, only the barking of a dog.
They guessed that the couple might not be home.
After thinking for a moment, An Jianping went to the small shop next door:
"Sixth Uncle, where are my younger brothers?"
An Shunkang, who was watching TV and minding the shop at the same time, squinted at the person in front of him when he heard this, and it took him a while to see the person in front of him clearly.
He exclaimed as if suddenly realizing something, "It's Jianping! You're looking for Jianmin? He should be at the village secretary's!"
As he spoke, he couldn't help but step out of the convenience store and ask:
"Jianping, I heard from Jianmin that he's planning to build a house near the fishpond. He also wants to renovate your parents' old house. What about you?"
"Of your two plots of land, the house on one of them doesn't even have a roof anymore."
"In another two years, that mud wall will probably collapse."
"The other plot is just used to grow grass, so why did you specifically allocate that plot of land for building a house in the first place?"
An Jianping smiled somewhat awkwardly.
Before he could say anything, An Shunkang suddenly lowered his voice and asked:
"Jianping, your older brother said this morning that you seem to be considering giving up your homestead in the village?"
"Jianping, you mustn't make a mistake!"
"Your household registration was moved out a long time ago, and your homestead was allocated a long time ago, so let's not talk about that."
"The plot of land for your eldest son's house was only allocated to your family because you had influence at the silk factory, which ensured that the village's silkworm cocoons had a place to go every year."
“Otherwise, logically speaking, since your eldest son’s household registration has never been in the village for a single day, he is not qualified to be allocated a homestead at all.”
“Look around the village now, every family has built a small two-story house.”
"Your old house is even more dilapidated than your parents' house."
"In this day and age, where can you still find mud walls in a village as close to the city as ours?"
An Shunkang's words were not an exaggeration at all.
Shuncheng not only has obvious geographical advantages, but it is also only half an hour away from the capital city of the southern province.
Shuncheng itself, and every street under its jurisdiction is developing very well.
Otherwise, it wouldn't be directly under the jurisdiction of a county or city in the southern province.
Although Jiangcun is not located in the central area of Shuncheng.
However, it is one of the best-developed streets in Shuncheng, apart from the central street.
It is separated from the city center by only a wide river.
Jiangcun is only half an hour away from Rongdi Street.
After the reform and opening up, the people of Jiangcun went from mulberry-dike-fishpond systems to growing vegetables and flowers.
The practice has evolved into what is now known as farm-based fruit picking, and it's all thriving.
In the village, not every family has built a new house, but even the oldest and shortest houses are at least two stories high.
Like An Jianping's family, not only are there vacant plots of land, but there are also plots where only a few mud walls remain...
The fact that he didn't directly express his disdain for him, as some of the Jiang family members in the village had suggested, was already a sign of his politeness.
An Jianping understood the old man's good intentions and didn't say anything more.
After chatting casually with the old man for a few minutes, and seeing that there was still no sound from An Jianmin's house, he prepared to go directly to the village secretary's house.
As An Jianping walked through the village, he observed things with unusual care, something he rarely did.
Overall, Jiangcun's development is quite good.
Entering from the village entrance, there are about a dozen scattered households on both sides of the road, almost forming a street in Jiangcun.
Most daily necessities can be obtained without leaving the village.
At the end of the street, which is the small shop that Uncle Liu had just visited, lies the end of the street.
The house next to his was that of An Jianmin.
However, despite being neighbors, the two companies are not close to each other.
An Jianping's main business is a fruit shop, but he also owns a large orchard in Jiangcun.
The entrance to the orchard is on the other side of his house.
Therefore, apart from Uncle Liu who lives closest to An Jianmin's house, the other houses are not far away.
An Jianping continued walking into the village, and not far away was one of his two plots of land for building houses.
One of the pieces happened to be next to his parents and siblings.
His house is the closest to the village entrance, and from his current perspective, the houses appear to be arranged from low to high.
Of course, only a few earthen walls of his house remained, hidden among bushes and weeds taller than a person.
Next to his house was his parents' old-fashioned brick and tile courtyard.
Although it's only one layer, you can easily see the passage of time it has gone through.
But compared to the size of his house, it didn't seem so shabby.
Next up is the house that the eldest son's family built in their early years.
The earliest two-story building in the entire Jiangcun village.
Behind that is the fourth brother's new house, which he built only a few years ago.
It is one of the tallest buildings in the entire Jiangcun village, a five-story building, mainly to provide accommodation for the eldest son's family's agritainment business.
Behind their row of houses, there was a large orchard, vegetable garden, and fishpond.
This is the wealth that their family has painstakingly built up over the years.
After passing their houses, we were not far from the village secretary's house.
As a village named after the Jiang family, for a long time, the village officials did not have any dealings with the An family.
However, in recent years, the An surname has developed significantly better than the Jiang surname.
The first college graduate to serve as a village party secretary was from the An family.
Before An Jianping could even reach the village secretary's house, he saw two familiar figures not far away.
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