There were many people in the village at this time.
Almost every family has a dozen or even twenty or thirty members.
Walking along the village path, you see people gathered at the door of every house, holding small stools and chatting animatedly.
The men mostly chatted about whose yard was beautifully built and whose land was well-cultivated. In the darkness, the embers from their pipes flickered, sometimes red, sometimes black, like the tiny eyes of a small animal in the night.
The women, meanwhile, gathered together to sew shoe soles.
Most of them have developed excellent skills, and can make shoe soles very well even without looking, just by touching the ground.
The things women talk about are completely different from what men talk about.
They talk about whose daughter-in-law is lazy, whose mother-in-law has a bad temper, whose child is still unmarried, whose daughter is earning money outside and how much money she sends home each year, and so on.
When the topic turned to positive things, everyone expressed their envy and admiration.
When faced with unpleasant rumors and gossip, honest women would say nothing and quietly get to work.
Those with sharp tongues immediately appear shocked, standing on their moral high ground to belittle others into nothingness.
Only when the other person's family gets involved will they change the subject, as if nothing had ever been said before.
They always chat with people who aren't actually there.
The air was filled with the chirping of cicadas and the croaking of frogs, while crickets chirped excitedly in the grass.
Because of the burning wormwood, mosquitoes didn't dare get too close to the people chatting, and the children running around playing with paper airplanes didn't care at all about the many bites they got.
Perhaps at night, you might scratch incessantly in the dark because it's so itchy, but when you're playing, you won't even notice.
Children's world is that simple.
When you're happy, you don't notice anything else; it's genuine happiness.
When you're sad, you cry your heart out; that's true sadness.
Unlike adults, who tend to be humble and low-key when happy to avoid appearing smug to others.
When you're sad, you try to hide it because you don't want others to see how down you are.
That's why children cry so loudly.
As for the adults... they all covered their faces and wept.
Wang Tianxiao and Wang Dabao walked along the village path. The summer breeze caressed his face, and he smelled the familiar fragrance of locust blossoms in the air. He felt very at ease.
This is the rural life he wanted.
In a big city, this is nothing more than what an elderly person dreams of countless times.
The two went from house to house along the village road, asking people if they were willing to sign up, and then they would register them.
In fact, Wang Dabao and Wang Tianxiao knew which people in the village were good at working and which people liked to dabble or take advantage of others.
Therefore, they were asking those who were capable of getting things done.
These people were originally worried about how to kill time when they suddenly had such a good opportunity. Who wouldn't want it?
Only forty-odd households visited, and more than eighty people signed up.
Many families would like to send the whole family out.
However, Wang Tianxiao still limited the number of people in each household to a maximum of two.
If a family goes out together too often, they might stick together and become difficult to manage. If something unpleasant happens, there won't be any room for reconciliation.
Moreover, Wang Tianxiao wanted to give everyone a chance.
This kind of money-making opportunity is a rare and precious thing for everyone in the team. If they only choose a few families, the other families will definitely be unhappy and feel that their relationship with them has become distant.
That's how people in the village are; nothing is a secret, and things spread easily. They also think very simply, often seeing things in black and white.
If you offend them, all the connections you've built up will be completely lost.
Therefore, no matter how strongly the other families expressed their willingness to send more people, Wang Tianxiao politely declined.
Only a maximum of two people are allowed.
Unexpectedly, by the time the families with young members had all visited, more than 280 people had already been recorded.
Except for some families where only elderly people remain and it's truly impossible to keep them, most young people's families have already provided for others.
To thank Wang Dabao, he took out a pack of cigarettes he always carried from the motorcycle's trunk and gave it to him.
Hongtashan.
For Wang Dabao, this was already considered a very good cigarette.
Wang Tianxiao was not stingy with such things at all. This team leader was not only his cousin, but also a warm-hearted person. If he wanted to develop in this village in the future, or to realize more of his ambitions, Wang Dabao would definitely be his original supporter.
Maintaining good relationships is essential.
Now that they had recruited enough workers, Wang Tianxiao, Wu Wenhua, and Li Guanping went back that night and roughly calculated the tasks, deciding to allocate a portion of them first.
It's estimated that large-scale visits will have to wait another week.
The original plan was for 100 people to work for two or three weeks, but now the number of people has almost tripled, so the work speed can be increased by at least two times.
It should be done in about ten days.
After making the arrangements, Wang Tianxiao selected some people and notified them to come and start working the next day.
More than thirty people.
Wu Wenhua, Wu Qiancai, and Mi Xiaohong will each lead ten people, while Li Guanping and Mi Xiaoqing will simply observe the surroundings.
There are still few people, so we can use people from the station to lead the teams. The first batch of thirty-odd people he selected are all people he feels have a sense of responsibility or organizational ability. He also wants to find some of these people who can serve as squad leaders or group leaders so that they can lead the teams when a large number of people arrive.
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