Chapter 475 Interesting Fengxi Village
Village Chief Li hesitated and said, "Well, it's not a big problem."
"Not a big deal? What is the problem then?"
"That's right. Some people in the village saw that the workshop was made of blue bricks and tiled roofs and insisted on moving in. I couldn't stop them."
Wen Zhenyi felt a headache coming on: "Take me to see it."
Village Chief Li hesitated and looked at Ma Yuruo: "Captain Ma, will they be arrested?"
"It depends on what the situation is."
Village chief Li sighed and said, "I'll take you there." As he said that, he put his hands behind his back and led them towards the workshop.
The villagers of Fengxi Village followed them curiously. They had never seen a carriage before, nor had they seen the things on the carriage.
Ma Yuruo whispered to Shen Hanxing, "This village was isolated before, with little contact with the outside world. It was only after the road was built and Lord Lei sent clothes that they gradually accepted it."
"Did you have to work hard to convince them to grow corn?"
"The effort is nothing. They just can't eat or drink. Finally, they heard that there is money to be made and they are willing to grow corn. Before you came back, the corn was not processed. They even went to the government office many times to make trouble for this matter."
"It's impossible to reason with them."
"It's not just that you can't explain it, you're just being a troublemaker. You'll have trouble if you set up a workshop here."
Wen Zhenyi naturally heard what they said, but she was not too worried. She thought these people were like this because they were afraid of being poor.
They were not far from the workshop, and by the time these words were spoken, they had already arrived.
Village chief Li stood here somewhat awkwardly. The lock on the workshop door had been broken by someone, and he could hear the noisy sounds inside before he even entered.
"This is my home, why should I give you my place?"
"What do you mean your house? It's obvious that I was here first."
"Bullshit, this place belongs to everyone, what's your home and my home?"
“…”
Wen Zhenyi asked the two children to stay with Old Lady Wen and the others. She walked in and saw people fighting in the yard.
He picked up a large earthenware jar nearby and threw it at their feet.
"Bang." The sound of the earthenware jar breaking made the workshop quiet in an instant.
The people who had just been fighting with each other also separated and looked at the uninvited guest standing at the gate: "Who are you and what are you doing?"
"You are in my workshop, who do you say I am?"
"What do you mean your workshop? There's obviously no one here."
"How dare you." Ma Yuruo scolded directly.
When the villagers saw Ma Yuruo in his official uniform and the sword on his waist, they all shrank their necks and dared not speak.
Wen Zhenyi looked at the group of people in the yard and said, "What are you calling this? Shouldn't you be sent to the government and locked up in jail for a few days?"
"Madam, we just wanted to come and see the workshop that's been built. We've never seen such a large house before."
"Yes, yes, we are just curious, curious."
"That's not what you just said."
"You, you heard wrong."
"Yeah?"
“Really, really.”
Wen Zhenyi looked at the mess they had made in the workshop and felt a little angry. "If that's the case, clean up the workshop for me, or you will inevitably end up in jail."
"We'll clean it up right away, right away." No one in the workshop dared to speak. They packed up the things they brought and took them home.
Then he took a broom and a rag and started cleaning the workshop inside and out.
"Clean it up, otherwise..."
The people in the yard originally wanted to clean it casually, but now that they were threatened, they didn't dare to clean it carelessly and started to clean it seriously.
There was a reason why they were so afraid of Ma Yuruo. When this village had done something wrong before, Ma Yuruo and the yamen runners had thrown them all into the yamen jail and kept them there for quite a while.
It took them ten days to go back and forth, and they stayed in prison for another fifteen days. This nearly one month of tossing and turning left a shadow in their hearts.
Wen Zhenyi turned to look at Village Chief Li and said, "Take me to see the corn you planted." Then he looked at Xiong Lu and said, "Uncle Xiong Lu, please install the things in the workshop."
"I'll have it installed right away."
Village chief Li took her to their granary. The granaries here were all adobe houses. In order to prevent rats, they were round adobe houses without windows.
They had to use ladders to load the food from top to bottom.
Wen Zhenyi climbed up the ladder, opened a door on the roof and took a look. Even so, there were still some rats, but relatively few.
The corns were piled up in the granary. She picked up a bag of corn and checked it. They had all been dried. The quality was naturally not as good as modern ones, but it was still pretty good.
Village chief Li was holding the ladder for her from below, not knowing what the situation was.
Wen Zhenyi came down from the ladder and said, "The corn is well preserved. I'll install and debug the equipment in a few days and then you can break the corn into kernels and send them to the workshop."
"Just, can it be sold?"
"Yes, the workshop will also recruit employees in the village, but I have made a promise: if this workshop is well managed, you can buy cloth to make clothes and live in a big house made of blue bricks and tiles."
"Really?"
"Of course it's true, but the prerequisite is that you treat the workshop like your own home. Only with it can you avoid poverty, eat meat, and live a good life. If anyone destroys it wantonly, I will no longer care about you."
"I, I must have watched it carefully."
Wen Zhenyi looked at him and said, "You can't even look after the villagers. I doubt your ability."
Village chief Li opened his mouth but didn't say a word of rebuttal.
Wen Zhenyi had no intention of handing over the workshop to him. Such a person would not be able to manage the workshop well. The best manager was to subdue the troublemakers in the village and let them manage it.
This way no one would dare to have any bad thoughts.
Village chief Li and his several old men can only recognize a few words, and these words are passed down from their fathers from generation to generation. He himself has never been to school seriously.
The village chief has always been hereditary in their family and has never been replaced. Although he has the title of village chief, he is no different from ordinary villagers.
Fengxi Village is quite interesting. Although the villagers are said to be troublemakers, there are really no criminals in their village.
At most, they would quarrel or fight over some trivial matters, but after that they would go on with their lives.
If outsiders come to bully them, they will put aside their grudges and join forces to resist.
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