The people the village chief found for Xin Guoguo were all there by mid-afternoon.
Xin Guoguo didn't need many people.
Just three or four.
Her yard is quite big, but the only part that can be used now is the small piece next to the vegetable garden.
That area was previously filled with various miscellaneous items.
When someone came, Xin Guoguo asked them to collect the debris and put it in the other corner.
It took half an hour to move it back and forth.
The village chief looked here for a while and then left.
Seeing Yao Niang washing vegetables in the yard, he didn't think much about it and just said hello.
After leaving the Song family yard, the village chief heard the two little kids reading in their baby voices again behind him. He couldn't help but look back, his eyes full of envy.
When will the children in their village have the opportunity to read books?
This wish was passed down from his grandfather to his father, and then from his father to him.
He didn't want to pass this wish on to his son.
When he was young, he was also ambitious and wanted to lead the whole village to prosperity.
Now that he is old and about to retire, the lives of the villagers remain the same.
As he walked along, watching the smoke rising from the stoves of each household, the village chief's back bent down little by little.
This wish probably needs to be passed down...
Xin Guoguo had no idea what the village chief was thinking.
She had already moved a recliner over and was sitting there, directing people to work.
They were all from the same village. Seeing her so leisurely, several men wiped the sweat from their heads and couldn't help but tease her:
"Gui Chen, you're being too laid back. If the village chief sees this outside, he'll definitely scold you!"
Xin Guoguo was not afraid of them and was still eating melon seeds with a smile:
"So, when the village chief was here, I was still standing!"
"Hahahaha! We thought you weren't afraid!"
"Hey! Who in our village isn't afraid of the village chief's Lion's Roar? Aren't you afraid?"
Several grown men laughed even more wantonly:
"Scared! Of course I'm not afraid. You women are fine, most of you come from other villages, and the village chief doesn't say much to you girls. But we have been scolded since we were little!"
As soon as these words came out, Xin Guoguo couldn't help laughing: "The village chief uncle seems to have not been so talkative in the past two years."
I don't like to talk much anymore.
The three men paused, and one of them stood up straight with his hand on the hoe, his eyes filled with helplessness:
"Because he found that no matter how much he talked, his life would not change."
The other two also sighed when they heard this.
Xin Guoguo was curious: "What do you mean?"
"You know, the village chief of our village has always been inherited from the village chief's uncle's family. It's different from other villages. What's the reason?"
"Why?"
Xin Guoguo sat up straight now.
She had been curious about this question before.
But no one in the village mentioned it, and she didn't dare to ask, as it would seem like she was coveting that position.
The original owner didn’t have it in his memory either.
"Our village didn't have this tradition a long time ago. Like other villages, it was all assigned by higher-ups. Later, someone in the village chief's branch who could read emerged..."
Having said that, the man sighed.
The other two also sighed.
Xin Guoguo became more and more curious: "What's wrong? Did something happen?"
The other two also stood up straight.
Talking about this, there is regret on his face:
"He was the only scholar our village had produced in the past hundred years, and the village chief's family did their utmost to support him. But we are a poor family, and even if our children are very talented, if they don't have books to read, there is no hope.
"That child did well and passed the exam. But later, for some unknown reason, he disappeared on his way to the provincial capital to take the exam.
"At that time, the village chief uncle's great-grandfather personally sent people to the provincial capital. After returning, he never mentioned the matter again. He only asked the village chief uncle's grandfather to do everything he could to ensure that the children in the village could go to school."
"But our village is remote. It looks like it's not far from the town, but there are actually not many educated people in the town."
Another person added,
"If children in the village want to go to school, they have to cross the river to go to the county. The annual tuition alone costs five taels of silver. This does not include the cost of books, paper, pens and ink."
"We are a poor family, how can we afford it?"
"This matter became a source of worry for the village chief's family. Later, when choosing a village chief, even if the higher authorities appointed someone else, the village would not care and would only acquiesce to the village chief's family. After the higher authorities learned about this matter, they no longer bothered and simply let the village chief's family pass it down."
"When the children in our village can go to school, this position will be reassigned by the county."
The three of them spoke one after another, explaining the whole process clearly.
Xin Guoguo felt a surge of emotion when she heard this.
Working hard for the village, generation after generation, this is the meaning of ancient clans, right?
This is easy to say in person.
Little Song Juhan can come in handy.
But books and ink...
Xin Guoguo's mind was spinning, with all kinds of ideas constantly popping up, but she decisively rejected them.
The interests of the aristocratic families cannot be directly touched.
Their small village could not withstand the power of those people.
If someone just moves his finger casually, all the people in this village will be in danger.
Then we can only look at it from other aspects...
Her eyes fell on the clearing that was now being cleared by three people.
No matter what the future holds, she has no intention of leaving the village.
Since he wanted to be the world's number one merchant, although this novelty could be exclusive to one company, he had to develop it into a characteristic industry for the entire village.
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