Chapter 134 Cuilin Village
Finally, after everyone got their new household registration, they finally saw the village they were assigned to. The name of the village was Cuilin Village. Well, this name sounds good. It is much better than that Huangshan Village!
At least they still have forests, and they are green forests at that. You can feel the vitality just by hearing them. But the desolate mountain village sounds desolate.
After leaving the yamen, people from another village were still waiting outside, and then two constables came over to lead the way.
Everyone followed him out of the town gate. After walking for about a quarter of an hour, another constable waved his hand to signal them to stop.
Then he pointed at the villagers from another village and said, "Follow me."
After walking a short distance, the old lady turned around and looked at Xu Zhiyi and his group who had not caught up, and couldn't help but ask: "Sir, why didn't they catch up? Weren't they assigned to Huangshan Village with us?"
Upon hearing this, the uncle constable snorted coldly: "They have their own arrangements. Don't ask questions that you shouldn't ask. Hurry up and follow them, otherwise you will have to spend the night on the road."
People in the team looked back from time to time, and when they saw another constable leading Xu Zhiyi and others to another intersection, they immediately started talking.
"Hey, they take the main road, why do we take the small road?"
"Maybe they changed the village where they settled?"
"How is that possible? They had already divided the city at the gate of Nanzhou City. I heard it with absolute certainty."
"That's weird. We were all assigned to the same village, so why did they go their separate ways from us?"
Xu Zhiyi and his companions followed slowly in their mule carts. Looking at the flat road, they could tell that it was often repaired. Could it be that good luck had really come? Were they assigned to a good village?
After walking for about a quarter of an hour, they saw the entrance to a village, and the constable signaled everyone to get off the mule cart.
After getting off the mule cart, we saw a big stone standing beside the road with Cuilin Village engraved on it. We were all shocked! We looked at each other with disbelief in our eyes.
The constable pointed at the village and said, "This is Cuilin Village. It's the closest village to the town. It takes about two quarters of an hour to walk from the village to the town gate!"
Xu Zhiyi couldn't help but get excited when he heard this. Two quarters of an hour, or thirty minutes, would mean it would only take thirty minutes to walk to the town gate. This was not much different from having a city hukou.
Except for Shen Changan who was on the mule cart, everyone else got off and followed him into the village. They saw that a small half of the village was made up of blue brick and tile houses, most were mud houses, and only a small part were thatched houses. Judging from this situation, most of the villagers in the village should be living a decent life.
As soon as you enter the village, you will see many villagers sitting under a big banyan tree, basking in the sun and chatting.
The villagers of Cuilin Village were also very surprised to see the constable suddenly bringing Xu Zhiyi and several other families into the village.
"Hey, what's going on with them?"
"Could they be refugees from famine? These past few days I've heard in town that many villages have arranged for refugees from famine to settle down."
"How is this possible? Our village has never accepted refugees from famine, because the first reaction of the government to those who do is to send them to a remote, poor, and sparsely populated area to open up wasteland on their own."
"That's right. The government is very smart. On the one hand, they have dealt with the imperial court and made arrangements for the people who have fled famine. On the other hand, they have sent them to reclaim wasteland. Maybe they can reclaim a lot of land. When they collect taxes, they can make some breakthroughs and get rewards from the imperial court."
"But if he wasn't here to escape famine, why did the constable bring him in personally?"
"Hey, look, they might be heading to the village chief's house. Maybe they really want the village chief to provide shelter for the refugees."
"Let's go and see what's going on."
Xu Zhiyi watched as the constable took them to a blue brick house and stopped.
A grandfather in his sixties came out and bowed to the constable, saying, "Sir, what are you doing?"
As he spoke, he looked at Xu Zhiyi and the others.
The constable asked: "Are you the chief of Cuilin Village?"
Village Chief: "Sir, I am"
"These families are fleeing famine from other places. The county magistrate personally arranged for them to settle in Cuilin Village. Now it's up to you to take care of them." The constable emphasized the words "personally arranged by the county magistrate."
Village chief: "Yes, thank you for your hard work, sir!"
The constable said: "No need, I'll leave the man to you. I'll leave first!"
Then he looked at Xu Zhiyi and the others and said, "You will live in this village in the future. As for the fields, the village chief will tell you where the fields you are allocated are."
Upon hearing this, Xu Zhiyi hurriedly thanked him: "Thank you, sir!" Then he planned to secretly give the constable some hard work fee. This was all discussed privately by everyone.
Unexpectedly, when the constable saw the silver that Xu Zhiyi was about to stuff over, he was so scared that he quickly stepped back and waved his hand: "The government office has other matters to attend to. Goodbye."
Xu Zhiyi looked at the silver in his hand that he couldn't give away. What was going on? The last yamen runner led everyone on a seven-day journey, but he refused to accept the silver. Were officials in ancient times so selfless? They didn't dare to be greedy for even a small amount of silver?
No, no, no, this is totally wrong. After the so-called inspector caught up with the runner and whispered something to him, the runner's attitude suddenly changed!
He could have gone directly to the town government office, so why did the runner go to the county government office?
Also, the attitude of the county magistrate just now was also wrong. They were just refugees of humble status, but thinking back carefully, the county magistrate's tone was wrong.
When talking to his subordinates, he spoke with authority, but not to them, and seemed to be afraid of saying the wrong thing? But how could they make a county magistrate act like this?
Then he recalled what had gone wrong along the way, and suddenly an idea flashed in his mind, and he thought of Miss Fuqi, especially what she whispered to him when she said goodbye.
So that’s it, it’s her!!!
Oh, that's not right. They were supposed to be assigned to Huangshan Village at first? Oh no! Forget it. Who cares? Anyway, we don't have to go to Shankala. That's good luck!
The village chief said: "Come with me, I will take you to see the homestead first!"
Upon hearing this, the village head bowed and said, "Thank you, village chief!"
Village chief: "No trouble, no trouble. The government arranged for you to be in Cuilin Village, so these are my responsibilities."
The villagers gathered outside were also surprised when they heard that they were really fleeing from famine.
"Hey, you really are here to escape famine!"
"No, the conditions for escaping famine are so good now. Look, they have three mule carts. Although the living conditions in our village are much better than those in other villages, there are only three families in the whole village that have cows!"
"Yes, I have seen other refugees in this town before. They looked so miserable and ragged, and they stunk when they passed by you. But these few families look good!"
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