Chapter 4 Jiangcun
Standing at the spacious front desk, An Songyu maintained her standard smile and, while there were no customers, greeted today's supervisor.
The foreman, Sister Xia, is in her thirties and is a very principled person.
Although An Songyu came to work on time, he was not late.
So she didn't say much.
After saying hello, An Songyu sat down in front of two computers.
She remembered it, whether it was in this hotel or in the hotel where she worked for ten or twenty years later.
Her job at the front desk is to help customers check in, check out, etc.
This is her advantage as a genuine hotel management student.
But it is precisely because I studied hotel management...
Soon, as it got closer to three o'clock in the afternoon, An Songyu was already too busy to have time to think much.
At this time, An Jianping, who had already arrived in Jiangcun, knocked on the door of his younger brother.
Jiangcun is not a big village.
There are only twenty-four households in the entire village.
But it was divided into three complete surnames.
Among them, Jiang and An are both big surnames in the village.
The only family left is the Zhu family.
Strictly speaking, he was just a son-in-law of the Jiang family. With the permission of his father-in-law, he gave his original surname to the youngest son.
Today, four generations live under one roof.
But until the demolition, their family had never separated.
However, if we count the number of people, the Jiang family, who settled in Jiang Village earlier, actually has a larger population.
However, the An family split up early, and their family already occupied four households, so naturally they became the surname with the largest number of households in the entire Jiang Village.
Uncle An Jianmin is now a well-known capable man in the village.
An Jianping knocked for a long time but heard no response, only the sound of a dog barking, so he guessed that the couple might not be at home.
After thinking about it, An Jianping went to the small shop next door:
"Sixth Uncle, where are my younger brothers?"
An Shunkang, who was watching TV and watching the store at the same time, squinted his eyes and looked over when he heard this. It took him a while to see the person in front of him clearly.
He suddenly realized something and said, "It's Jianping? Are you looking for Jianmin? He should be at the village party secretary's place!"
As he said this, he couldn't help but walked out of the store and asked:
"Jianping, I heard from Jianmin that he is planning to renovate the old house for his family and your parents' house. What about you?"
"The house on one of your two residential plots doesn't even have a roof anymore."
"In two years, the mud wall will probably collapse."
"The other piece is purely for growing grass, so why did you divide that piece of land in the first place?"
An Jianping smiled somewhat awkwardly.
Before he could say anything, An Shunkang suddenly lowered his voice and asked:
"Jianping, I heard from your eldest brother this morning that you seem to be planning to give up the homestead in the village?"
"Jianping, you can't be confused!"
"Your household registration has been moved out a long time ago, and your piece of residential land has been divided for a long time."
"The land that your eldest son has is allocated to you because you can have a say in the silk weaving factory, so that the village has a place to sell the silk cocoons every year."
"Otherwise, according to reason, your eldest son has never been to the village for a day, so he is not eligible for a housing plot."
"Look at the village nowadays, every family has built a small two-story house."
"Your old house is even more dilapidated than your parents' house."
"In this day and age, where can you still see mud walls in a village like ours, so close to the city?"
What An Shunkang said was not an exaggeration at all.
Shuncheng not only has obvious geographical advantages, but is also only half an hour's drive away from the provincial capital of Southern Province.
As for Shuncheng itself, the development of every street under its jurisdiction is very good.
Otherwise, it would not be a county or city district directly under the jurisdiction of the Southern Province.
Although Jiangcun is located not around the central street of Shuncheng.
However, it is one of the best developed streets in Shuncheng besides the central street.
It is even separated from the central urban area by only a wide river.
Jiangcun is only half an hour away from Rongdi Street.
After the reform and opening up, the people of Jiangcun started from growing vegetables and flowers, and later moved on to mulberry-based fish ponds.
It has developed into the current practice of picking fruits at farmers’ homes and is now very successful.
Not every family in the village built a new house, but the oldest and shortest building was at least two stories high.
Like An Jianping's family, not only is the homestead empty, but there is also a piece of homestead with only a few earth walls left...
The old man did not directly say what those people surnamed Jiang in the village said, saying that it was very polite to despise him for being shameful.
An Jianping knew the old man's good intentions and didn't say much.
After chatting with the old man for a few words, he saw that there was no sound from An Jianmin's house, so he prepared to go directly to the village party secretary's house.
Walking through the village, An Jianping observed things with rare care.
In general, the development of Jiangcun is still exceptionally good.
Coming into the village, there are a dozen or so households scattered on both sides of the road, almost forming a street in Jiangcun.
Most of the daily necessities can be met without leaving the village.
At the end of the street is the small shop where Uncle Liu was just now.
The family next to him is An Jianmin's family.
However, although the two families seem to be neighbors, they are not close to each other.
An Jianping's main business is a fruit shop, but he also has a large orchard in Jiangcun.
The entrance to the orchard was on the other side of his house.
So near An Jianmin's house, apart from his sixth uncle who lives closest to him, the other houses are not far away.
An Jianping continued walking towards the village, and not far away he came to one of his family’s two residential plots.
One of the pieces happens to be adjacent to the parents and brothers.
His house was the closest to the village entrance. From his current perspective, the houses seemed to be arranged from low to high.
Of his house, all that was left were a few earthen walls hidden among bushes and weeds taller than a person.
Next to his house is his parents' old brick courtyard.
Although there is only one layer, one can even easily see the passage of time.
But compared with his family’s residential land, it doesn’t seem so shabby?
Next is the house built by the old family in the early years.
The earliest two-story building in the entire Jiang Village.
Behind it is the new house built only a few years ago by the fourth family.
It is one of the few tall buildings in the entire Jiang Village. It has five floors and is mainly used to serve his farm stay.
Behind his house, there is a large orchard, vegetable garden and fish pond.
This is the wealth that their family has developed with great difficulty over the years.
After passing a few of their houses, we were not far from the village party secretary's house.
As a village named after the Jiang family, for a long time, there was no mention of the surname An among village cadres.
But over the years, the An surname has developed significantly better than the Jiang surname.
The first college student party branch secretary was born among the Ans.
Before An Jianping could even reach the village party secretary's house, he saw two familiar figures not far away.
(End of this chapter)
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