Chapter 244

This night was destined to be a sleepless night. After drawing their own tea lot, many girls in Jiangjia Village who got the news went to talk about this with their sisters. It didn't matter if they didn't understand. There were always smart girls who would tell them what this meant to them.

In fact, the unmarried girls didn't feel deeply about the fact that they would have no home when they grew up, but all the married women understood what it meant to them for girls to have a homestead.

Moreover, Jiang Xi, Jiang Guoding, Jiang Guotai and others solved the safety and rumors that they were most concerned about.

Jiang Xi is a college student. She has five brothers and her aunt loves her very much. She has made such a great contribution to the construction of her hometown. She returned to her hometown to provide disaster relief in the 1998 flood and rescued the victims of the disaster. As long as she stays in the barren mountain for a day, anyone who dares to touch her hair will have no place to live in the surrounding area, and countless people will want to kill her.

There are also the daughters of Jiang Guotai and Jiang Guoding.

As Yaoba Town competed with Shuibu Town for people last year, the tourism economy of the entire town has developed, driving the development of the entire surrounding commercial economy and industrial chain. In less than three years, Jiang Guoding will definitely be promoted. His daughter has also built a house and settled in the barren mountain. Who dares to go to the barren mountain to make trouble?

The first two are fine. If you really commit a crime and want to get you, they may use legal means, and at most you will be sentenced to a dozen or twenty years in prison. If you encounter a severe crackdown like in 1996 or 1997, it will be just a peanut.

But Jiang Guotai.

Don’t be fooled by the fact that Jiang Guotai looks quite kind to Jiang Xi and his future daughter-in-law Wang Xiyue in Jiangjia Village. In fact, in this era, being able to grab a highway construction project is not just about arranging relationships with the upper level, but also fighting with the lower level.

In the severe crackdown in the past two years, Jiang Guotai, reminded by Jiang Xi, looked more and more amiable. Even with his mortal enemy, he was smiling and smiling. But he is the real tough guy. Dare to make trouble on his territory and see?

His daughter has built a house and settled down in the barren mountain. Anyone who dares to go there to plot against her will not die, but he will lose his legs.

Moreover, with these three people around, if anyone dares to use rumors to strangle the girls from Jiangjia Village who live in the barren mountain, Jiang Guotai and Jiang Guoding will kill them first without Jiang Xi stepping in.

This time when the tea land was divided, all the people from the four branches signed the contract. Only those from the big branch who were close to the electrician's family, those who lived with the third branch, and the families around Jiang Shujun's father and his brothers also signed the contract. The rest of the people who lived near Xiaojiangjia Village and in the outermost circle of the village all wanted the sisters' tea land and homestead, but none of them signed.

After watching the division of tea land in Jiangjia Village and the distribution of private plots to the girls in the village, the people from Xiaojiangjia Village also went back in the wind and snow.

The snow fell heavier at night. In the morning of the next day, the ground was covered with a thick layer of white snow. However, the entire Linhe Brigade, and even the brigade next door, did not become quiet because of the heavy snow. Instead, it was very lively. Whether it was because of the continuous sound of firecrackers for today's ancestor worship or the news last night that Jiangjia Village would allocate residential land to girls, this was a major event that shocked everyone in the area.

However, many people did not know the news clearly. They only heard it vaguely and could not explain it clearly over the phone.

Many people who returned to the village to worship their ancestors on this day gathered on the mountain. There were continuous firecrackers everywhere on the mountain.

Because of the heavy snow, it was easier to bury the fire. Uncle Jiang and Aunt Jiang did not have to worry too much about the forest fire. They were more relaxed and listened to their son talk about the meeting last night.

The people of Xiaojiangjia Village and Dajiangjia Village worship the same ancestor, so even if they split into two independent villages, the tombs of the latter are still buried on the hill of Xiaojiangjia Village. However, after worshipping on their hill every year, the people of Xiaojiangjia Village would go to Dajiangjia Village to worship their common ancestors. The tombs of many ancestors have been lost over time. They would put paper money, fish, meat, and wine on the hill, circle out a piece of land, and shout loudly: "Our ancestors are here to collect money!" They shouted

three times in a row.

The hill was full of people from all villages.

In previous years, people from Xujia Village did not come to Jiangjia Village, but today, after worshipping their ancestors, many people headed for the hilltop of Jiangjia Village. Before they got close, they shouted loudly: "I heard that your Jiangjia Village was quite lively last night? It was said that residential land was allocated to girls. Is that true?"

Xujia Village is a large village in the area, as famous as Jiangjia Village. The area of ​​the village is actually larger than Jiangjia Village. Jiangjia Village was divided into clans after there were not enough people to live in it, but Xujia Village did not.

People from Xiaojiangjia Village were also asking people from Dajiangjia Village for more information.

Because the girls who have been confirmed to have their own plots are actually only Jiang Guoping's daughter Jiang Xi, Jiang Guotai's daughter Jiang Miao, Jiang Guoding's daughter Jiang Yanyan, Jiang Shujun's cousin Jiang Gangqin, Jiang Guoqi's daughter Jiang Weiwei and sister Jiang Guoge.

So even if this matter is settled, only these people will actually implement it.

For others, there are very few who can make up their minds to live in the village and find a son-in-law, because this does not conform to the family and love values ​​they have been taught since childhood.

How can girls not get married?

Girls must get married!

Many people are still waiting and watching. They just know that they have a plan in mind. Even if they can't make a living after getting married or don't want to get married, they have a way out. This makes them more confident. When they see people from Xiaojiangjia Village and Xujia Village, they all hold their heads high and puff their chests out, like a proud rooster, and are particularly proud.

Didn't Uncle Guotai say that when they grow up, the income from the tea field can build a house for them, even if it's just a small house?

Because of the limited living conditions at home, the girls who still don't have their own room and have to share a bed with their sisters and sisters, and will never have their own room in the future, are very excited about having their own house.

"Is this really the case? Why do you still give residential land to girls in your village? Don't girls have to get married? There is only this little land left, and boys don't even have enough to share. Why do you agree to give land to girls?"

Many people in Dajiangjia Village don't understand it themselves, but they are very united to the outside world, especially with the neighboring Xujia Village. If they were not close to the river, they wouldn't have to fight for water. Otherwise, it would probably be the same as what is shown on TV, fighting every day.

When Jiang Song was a child, didn't he take his friends from Jiangjia Village to fight with the boys from Xujia Village every day?

Although the people in Dajiangjia Village did not understand why Jiang Guotai and Jiang Guoding had to give the girl a homestead, they understood once they thought about the fact that Jiang Guoding had only one daughter. They said with a smile, "We are responding to national policies. What era is it now? It's the 21st century! Do you understand that men and women are equal? ​​The slogan on the wall of the brigade headquarters at the entrance of the village still says it! 'It doesn't matter whether you have a boy or a girl. A girl can also pass on the family line'!"

The one who spoke was the eldest son of the old brigade secretary. He said the same thing as his father, and he seemed very enlightened. In fact, his first two children were both daughters. He kept giving birth to his third baby, a son. He treated his daughter as a treasure at home. His eldest daughter was brainwashed into a brother-supporting demon in the eyes of others, and the second daughter was a poor little girl in the middle.

But his second daughter was like Jiang Xi. When she was a child, she looked ordinary and was bullied by her elder sister and brother. Unexpectedly, she became more and more beautiful as she grew up. She has inherited all the advantages of her parents. Now she is only sixteen or seventeen years old, but she has grown into a beautiful and graceful girl.

Unfortunately, her elder sister went to high school, and she went to work in the factory after graduating from elementary school, and only came back during the Chinese New Year.

But those who don't know his family's situation will think that his family attaches great importance to daughters, because his eldest daughter is named Jiang Jinzhu, the second daughter is Jiang Yinzhu, and the youngest son is Jiang Yuqi.

The two girls are like the apple of his eye. Now only the youngest son is still in school, and the two older daughters are working outside.

The people of Xujia Village were quite polite to him because he was the eldest son of the old secretary. They took out a pack of cigarettes from their pockets, handed it to him, and asked with a smile: "I know that people in your Jiangjia Village are advanced in thinking. Aren't you a little surprised to hear this news suddenly? We are all from the same brigade. We have also seen how lively your Jiangjia Village is this year. You see, the hills of our two families are connected..."

He looked at the hills of Jiangjia Village with envy. They used to have the same hill as theirs, but now it has become a neatly planted tea mountain. He looked at the eldest son of the old secretary and said: "Our two villages have been related for many years. We are in the same brigade. You two are also from the same village. It's a pity that we are so close to each other. What's the difference between you and me?" The roads in the village are so well built now, everyone in the surrounding area would praise them. Is this your son? He is so tall, so handsome and well-mannered, and you can tell at a glance that he is a handsome guy that many girls like. You and your wife are both good-looking, and your children are all very good-looking. "

This is true. Jiang Aidan's father was once an old secretary. Old secretaries in that era had great power. His mother was bright and beautiful when she was young. He and his two sisters were also good-looking and were famous for being pretty when they were young. His elder sister married in Xujia Village, and the current brigade secretary is his elder brother-in-law. His younger sister married in the town, and they lived a very happy life.

There are only two younger brothers. The second brother is okay. He looks gentle and bookish. However, he did not get into college after graduating from high school. He is arrogant and looks down on rural women who have not received two books. He wants to marry an educated girl from the town or the city. He is over 30 years old and still single. He has become a negative example that all men in the village should not become.

His youngest brother is like a mutated one. Not only is he short like his father, but he also inherited their grandfather's ugliness from the previous generation. He was born very ordinary. When he was 15 or 16 years old, he peeped at someone taking a bath and was beaten. Now this leg is lame, so he is also single and has no children. There are three brothers in his family, and the third generation has only one precious grandson, Yuqi. Isn't that a treasure?

If they don't give birth to Jiang Yuqi, their family will be extinct! When

the people of Xujia Village praised Jiang Yuqi, it really touched the itch of Jiang's party. The smiles on their faces suddenly became bigger, and their voices unconsciously became louder. They praised: "Speaking of my son, I'm not bragging. In the whole village, except for Uncle Guoping's family, my Yuqi is the best-looking. Look at him!" He reached out to touch his son's head, "He really looks exactly like me when I was young. , even more handsome than I was when I was young!"

He really looked at his son, and thought he was good no matter how he looked at him. The most important thing was that he had a good temper. He was not like those boys in the eldest house who fought, made trouble, gambled, or acted naughty all day long. He had never done that. He had been playing obediently in his own yard since he was a child, playing with his two sisters. He was not willing to go out to play with other boys and come back covered in mud. He was also serious about his studies.

Seeing Jiang Aidan's happiness at being praised, the people of Xujia Village casually said, "Your father is the old secretary of our Linhe Brigade, he is highly respected, and the current brigade secretary is your brother-in-law. Can you talk to the old secretary and bring us Xujia Village people to work on the tea mountain together?"

Jiangjia Village is so lively this year. As the closest village to Jiangjia Village, Xujia Village has really seen a lot of it, and has heard about the money that the tea tree growers in Jiangjia Village made this year.

Xujia Village is a big village like Jiangjia Village, and it has never been worse than Jiangjia Village. The only clinic in the area is in Xujia Village. The address of the old primary school where Jiang Xi and her friends studied when they were young is also in Xujia Village. There are also rice cake processing factories, pork shops, tofu shops, etc., all of which are from Xujia Village.

But Xujia Village has never had a leader like Jiang Guotai who can lead the whole village to get rich.

In fact, Xujia Village is not without rich people.

There are some!

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the fights were particularly fierce. The most brutal and cruel person in their village went to an important town near Shanghai and took half of the young people in Xujia Village to occupy the town.

The local residents of that town lived a comfortable life because it was close to Shanghai. The residents were also gentle. Where had they seen people as wild and domineering as Xujia Village? In addition, they were numerous and powerful, and they really dared to fight, kill and fight. Soon they became the local bully and opened a casino. They really made a lot of money in these years. They were very arrogant.

However, his glory did not benefit the village at all. Instead, he brought all the young people in the village to the town over there to become his thugs. All year round, they were either fighting or gambling.

In fact, many young people from the big houses in Jiangjia Village also followed Xujia Village to go there and hang out there all day.

Not to mention the naughty boys, even the good kids, after entering such a place, would be trained to be gamblers after a long time.

Not only young boys, but also many young girls were taken there, settled there and married. Because it was close to Shanghai, there were many factories there, and girls and women worked in the factories. Xujia Village itself was a large village with a large population. After most of them went to that town, the town is now half local residents and half Shijian Township and Shuibu Town people who were taken there by people from Xujia Village. The local language has changed from the original Wunong soft language to the Shuibu Town dialect.

However, during the crackdown in 1996 and 1997, many people were arrested, but the boss of Xujia Village who opened the casino was not arrested. It is said that he fled abroad, and no one knows whether it is true or not.

Jiang Aidan also felt that his family was very prestigious in the village. Since he was a child, the villagers were very polite to him because his father was the brigade secretary. Although he was also from the third branch, he lived with the second branch in the center of the village. His family opened a small store in the center of the village. During the holidays, people who wanted to watch movies would come to his house to buy things.

Although the old store at the entrance of the village had been open for a long time and was the first small store in the village, it was far away and inconvenient. It was also located at the bottom of the village near the entrance. People from the first, second, and fourth branches had to run from the upper part to the lower part and from the back to the front to buy things. It was too far.

He was flattered and smiled, saying, "I can help you with this matter. My brother-in-law is from Xujia Village, isn't he? You can talk to my brother-in-law yourself, right? You also said that we are from the same brigade!"

Jiang Aidang was actually very proud, because now the entire Jiangjia Village has completely suppressed Xujia Village.

The people of Xujia Village asked Jiang Aidang about Jiang Guotai and Jiang Guoding, their preferences, and who was in their family.

Jiang Guoding and Jiang Guotai did not live in the village for many years. Although they were also famous figures when they were young, everyone in Xujia Village knew them, but they did not know their family situation later. It was not

until they heard that Jiang Zhenzhang's family had only one daughter that they suddenly realized.

So this is the reason, he only has one daughter!

Although the family planning policy has been in place for nearly 20 years, there are almost no single-child families in their generation of Jiang Liu. They all have many children secretly, but civil servants like Jiang Guoding must only have one child.

After finding out about Jiang Guoding's family situation, they also asked about Jiang Guotai. Knowing that Jiang Guotai had a pair of sons and daughters, they tacitly assumed that Jiang Guotai's family business would definitely be handed over to his son in the future, so they gave his daughter tea land and homesteads to build houses in their hometown.

The people of Xujia Village consciously understood the situation of Jiang Guoding and Jiang Guotai, so they prepared to go back and make an appointment with those who had the most say in the village to go to the home of the brigade secretary Xu Changjiang to talk to Xu Changjiang about letting the people of Jiangjia Village take them to get rich together. The people

in their village were used to doing things in a forceful and barbaric way, and they didn't know how to ask for good words. They planned to force Jiangjia Village to take them to get rich together, under the pretext that all the young people in the village would return for the New Year.

Jiang Guotai was a person with strong action and efficiency.

On the night of the 29th of the 11th month, I talked about allocating residential land to the girls. On the morning of the 30th of the 11th month, I asked my son and Jiang Bai to drive to the neighboring Shijian Township to invite the old blind man who was said to be very accurate in fortune-telling and the Taoist priests in the Taoist temple on Wugong Mountain to come and check the Feng Shui.

The several temples on Wugong Mountain are actually Taoist temples, and the people inside are all Taoist priests, but the locals are used to saying "going to the temple to burn incense". Over time, they are used to calling it "temple" instead of Taoist temple.

But the people inside are all real Taoist priests.

Jiangjia Village is not close to Wugong Mountain. Even after the cement road was built, it was still more than ten kilometers away. It took at least half an hour to drive to Wugong Mountain. After reaching Wugong Mountain, they had to climb the mountain for a long time to reach the Taoist temple on the top. After picking up the Taoist priests and the old blind fortune teller in the Taoist temple, they drove back quickly.

When they came back, Jiang Guotai and his family had just finished worshipping their ancestors. They returned to the village at 9:30 in the morning and called the second and third branches and the first branch centered on Jiang Shujun's family, and went to the barren mountain with saws, axes, shovels, and iron pickaxes.

Jiang Hongjun, Jiang Hongbing and Jiang Jun were the most enthusiastic. They held shovels and axes, pointed to the sunny spot in front, adjacent to Jiang Hongbing's home, and drew a rough boundary: "This... this piece is... the homestead of Luo Luo, right? These trees can be cut down to serve as beams for Luo Luo's house. We don't have to find another place to cut them!"

Jiang Guotai directed his men: "Don't worry about the trees for now. Cut down these thorns and weeds first. There are so many trees on this barren mountain. No one has come here for years, and the weeds have grown so deep!"

Actually, it's not that no one has come in, but no one has come in from the sunny side of the barren mountain. Instead, there is a path deeper in the mountain. Today is the day of sacrifice. The small graves inside, or on the flat ground, are surrounded by stones to form a circle. Paper money is burned inside, and the people buried in the barren mountain go to collect the money. There is still the smell of smoke, as well as some wine glasses, drinks, small bowls of fish and meat.

In addition to the people who died in vain during the ten years of chaos, there are also the bodies of baby girls, women who died and could not be buried in the ancestral tomb, and children who drowned every year for various reasons because they lived close to the Shahe River. Their bodies are also buried in the barren mountain.

Jiang Xin and his friends drove a Santana and came back very quickly. They not only brought the old blind man and the Taoist priest, but also all the equipment for performing rituals. They only needed to provide a table to perform rituals on the spot, to save the souls of the dead and to collect the bones.

Because there were many people gathered outside the barren mountain, even the people from Xujia Village and many people living at the entrance of the village below came to watch the excitement, including people from several houses in Jiangjia Village. For a while, the cement road at the entrance of the barren mountain was full of people.

Many people from Xujia Village who didn't understand the situation asked what they were doing. After knowing that Jiangjia Village was actually going to develop the barren mountain and give it to the girls in the village as private plots, they were shocked and watched the excitement.

But no one objected to Jiang Guotai's finding someone to collect the corpses, especially since Jiang Guotai was going to build a tombstone deep in the barren mountain, and gather all the collected corpses under the tombstone, so that people living in the barren mountain could worship them together. Those who originally wanted to object also gave up the idea.

Because of this, some people who wanted to worship would not have to do so secretly. Friends, daughters, and children could worship openly in the future, so that the dead could enjoy the incense.

After Jiang Hongjun and his men cut down the trees, the weeds and dead branches at the entrance of the barren mountain were finally cleared, leaving a large open space.

Jiang Hongbing had already moved the table over and asked the Taoist priest to perform a ritual.

After the ritual, he asked the old blind man and the Taoist priest to calculate the feng shui and the date, so that they could start the construction and collect the tombs.

The old blind man and the old Taoist priest said that today was not a good day. Tonight was the day for offering sacrifices and collecting money from the dead souls. It was not appropriate to disturb them. However, they could start the construction. They cut down the trees that were drowned by the flood at the entrance first, and did not need to move the trees inside.

Because the corpses were all in the inner part of the barren mountain, there were actually no corpses outside the barren mountain.

After performing the ritual and being told by the fortune teller that they could start the construction, Jiang Guotai led a group of people from Jiangjia Village to start cutting down trees and tidying up the barren mountain homestead.

After the trees were cut down, they were tied together with hemp ropes to form a simple wooden bridge one meter wide, which was built on the ditch between the barren mountain and the cement road. In this way,

people could go directly from the cement road to the barren mountain through the ditch instead of passing through the ridges and Jiangjiagou. Jiang Guotai stood at the edge of the barren mountain and watched people working. Zhuomei and Jiang Guoding said, "This is still a bit far from the village. Water is a problem!"

The girls could go to Jiangjiagou below the barren mountain to wash clothes and vegetables, but they had to go to the old well at the entrance of the village to fetch water for drinking.

The old well at the entrance of the village is not far from Jiang Ba's home and Jiang Jun's home, but that is for men with physical strength, carrying some water is nothing, but for the girls living in the barren mountains, such a long distance, just the problem of carrying water is enough to be troublesome.

Jiang Guotai's first thought was not to dig a well for them in the barren mountains, but to solve the problem of tap water for the girls living in the barren mountains.

He moved to Shuibu Town with his family early, and later settled in a neighboring city. It can be said that he was the first person in the village to use tap water, except Jiang Guoding. He was already accustomed to tap water, and he could not accept that his daughter would have to go to the well to fetch water in the future. From his point of view, it was too late to install tap water in the whole village. So why not solve the problem of tap water instead of digging a well? Wouldn't it be necessary to install tap water after digging a well? Why not do it all at once?

So he discussed with Jiang Guoding to install tap water for the whole village.

The water that people in Shuibu Town drink is the water from Shahe River, which is then filtered by the water plant.

But in their place, there are mountain streams and a natural reservoir, and water flows all year round.

In the 1970s and 1980s, people in their village had already dug two dams on the mountain. The upper one was called the big dam and the lower one was called the small dam. The two dams were very deep and the water was very clear, forming a deep blue color, like two dazzling gems inlaid in the mountain pass. Even the boys in the village who were best at swimming only dared to swim in the bustling Shahe River, and did not dare to swim in the deep dams.

Jiang Guotai decided that if they wanted to get tap water in Jiangjia Village, they did not need to get water from the Shahe River. They could use the two dams at the mountain pass to directly get mountain spring water for the girls in the barren mountain.