Xu Zhenniang was quick-witted and soon a pot of hot noodle soup was cooked, but it was Yangchun noodles.

The clear soup and white noodles are accompanied by soy sauce, sesame oil, green onions, and seasonal vegetable cabbage. It is immediately fragrant and the clear soup is tempting.

I also bought some bacon, sausages and fish during the Chinese New Year this year.

The bacon was fried with celery, which was transparent and shiny, and bright in color.

The sausage is fried like a shiny and red, with a strong aroma.

There is also a large bowl of fish cooked, steaming.

After stir-frying a few more bowls of vegetables, Xu Zhenniang showed a satisfied smile on her face as she looked at the hot meals on the table.

Just last year, I still ate mixed grains during the Chinese New Year, and then I spent a few fish, some pickled vegetables, and vegetables I grew myself away.

I don’t even dare to eat white flour because I have to keep seeds, but this year I will be fine.

However, after Yang Xianggong arrived in Xin'anzhuang, she started to pick up nucleus trafficks with men, and then took over the sewing work of Xin'anzhuang. The man followed the army to fight copper bandits and found four taels of silver. This New Year holiday was good.

After eating white noodles and meat, the family of three sewed new clothes, which was something I didn't dare to think about before.

Xu Zhenniang is even more looking forward to life. She heard from "Sister Luo" that there are too many tasks in Xin'an Village. In addition to winter clothes, she starts to have summer clothes.

Then as there are more people in the village, there will only be more work in winter clothes and summer clothes. I am afraid that there will be work to do all year round and there will be wages to get.

Xu Zhenniang only hopes that God will bless her and let her husband Yang be well, so that she can work and get money safely.

She thought, as she was placing the bowls and chopsticks, the excitement sounded, but it was her man Cao Zigui and his son Cao Jingxing who came back.

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"Wow, there is white noodles, fish and meat..."

"Wow, mom, I tell you, that supervisor Zhang is so dark, just like it comes out of a coal mine, and his hands are so thick, thicker than dad's..."

"Does mom know? Mr. Liu is going to be recruited to do a bookstore and teaches children in the village to provide food and accommodation every month, and one or two taels of silver. Now the village is said to be open..."

"Mom, I'll tell you..."

"mother……"

Cao Jingxing ate noodles in a slight whisper, drinking soup in big mouthfuls. The hot and fragrant and mellow noodles made him salivate. He was talking nonsense, telling his own experiences to his mother.

His mother gave birth to him at the age of fifteen, so Cao Jingxing is also seventeen years old this year. He wore a new blue cotton dress and a lazy scarf, which had a bit of refreshing smell.

He inherited the genes of his father and mother, and had a slender figure, but his personality was the same as his father, and he was a little careless and a bit gossipy.

Cao Zigui smiled and sat eating noodles, wearing a red dress, and also wearing a lazy scarf. He also said, "Indeed, that supervisor Zhang is too dark and doesn't look like a scholar at all... Master Liu is also in the process of running the game. After taking the exam for scholars eight times, he is still a child. He is usually a hard worker, and he can't hold his shoulders and hold his hands, and he can't get any meat and fish in the end all year round... Now the beam sauna has one tael of silver every month, and he can move to Xin'anzhuang to live. It's really a gift."

Xu Zhenniang looked at her husband. She married Cao Zigui at the age of fifteen. Like thousands of women at this time, she was relieved when she saw her husband's appearance on the wedding day.

The husband is tall and gentle and optimistic. Xu Zhenniang is not dissatisfied with marrying such a husband.

Then marry a chicken and follow the chicken, marry a dog and follow the dog, serve your parents-in-law, and be kind to your husband. Year by year, you will support each other with such support.

She is gentle on the outside and strong on the inside, and is quite independent. Many people will follow her ideas. Xu Zhenniang feels that these ten years are worth it.

In the past, my life was still hard, but I ate braised vegetables for more than half a year. Now my life is getting better, and Xu Zhenniang is even more satisfied.

At this moment, looking at her husband and son, Xu Zhenniang angrily said, "Look at your two, how come you are like a wife, you are talking about parents and family weaknesses. Manager Zhang is a person with status, you can't neglect it. Besides, what's the point of men's black spots? The important thing is to have talent and learning... And Mr. Liu, after all, he is a scholar, and Yang Xianggong is a scholar with fame. It is common for scholars to value scholars."

Cao Zigui smiled and said, "My wife said yes."

However, Xu Zhenniang was still curious about what happened today, especially envious of Mr. Liu's envy of being recruited into Xin'anzhuang.

Speaking of this, Cao Zigui also talked endlessly.

"It's spread all over Xin'anzhuang, first recruiting scholars and craftsmen. The north bank is preferred. There are not enough craftsmen, and then recruiting them from all over the south bank and Pizhou... The heads of each village were summoned by Xin'anzhuang and said that they would cooperate with Manager Zhang to count the people in each village, and what door signs should be made first..."

Xu Zhenniang said curiously: "Door sign?"

Cao Zigui said: "Yes, each village must have a door sign, and then the waist sign will be issued according to the door sign. Whether men and women are thirteen years old, they will have to hang waist signs in the future. Otherwise, the archers of inspector Deng will arrest people, saying that they are to prevent thieves... The head of each village came back and said that the thieves had already reached Kaifeng. There were many hair-shearing thieves in their camp, and they were just kids. The older ones were 14 or 15 years old, and the younger ones were only 13 or 14 years old. Therefore, in order to prevent hair-shearing thieves from making fine work, children should hang waist signs at thirteen years old. Yang Xianggong said that if each village did not cooperate, they would be treated as a gangster."

Xu Zhenniang was surprised to hear that, and occasionally heard about the thief, she felt very far away from her. When this door-to-door label came, it seemed that the thief was just a short distance away.

Cao Zigui said: "After the Xin'anzhuang Book Office recruited the entire recruitment, it will start to plow and build roads. I heard that the plowing team and the road work team will recruit 1,000 people. There is also the inspection department, which will also recruit 100 people."

He said happily: "I didn't recruit the village heroes last time. This time, a thousand people of farmers and workers will definitely be selected."

Xu Zhenniang was also happy. If her husband could enter Xin'anzhuang, it would be what she dreamed of.

But she then hesitated and said, "But if you recruit in, what should I do if you have more than ten acres of land in my family?"

Cao Zigui was also hesitant, and he said, "If the eldest brother knows how to plant, he will rent it for the eldest brother to plant. If the eldest brother doesn't plant, he will throw it away. He will not be able to eat enough for a year, and it will be useless to dig food from the soil."

The second brother of Cao Zigui also had a eldest brother above him. He separated after he got married, but he also lived in Luoshan Villa. He had parents in the early years, but they all passed away early. At this time, people did not live long.

After the separation, he had more than ten acres of land and planted some winter wheat and grains. It was fine when the world was not very chaotic in his early years, so he could barely survive. However, the more bandits in recent years, the heavier the burden on the public expenses of the village.

The repair of the village, the maintenance of the village wall, the addition of equipment, the defense of the village, and the construction of any civil engineering requires money and people.

If you encounter bandits who "borrow grain", you will have to be in public.

There are also floods and droughts. There is a river in the northeast of Luoshan Villa, but everyone’s fields dare not be too close to the river, otherwise they will be flooded unless they are built with ponds or walls.

But each household has only a dozen acres or dozens of acres of land, how can it build such water conservancy?

It all depends on the weather, and the harvest is hard to say.

Also because it is close to the Yellow River, there are often flood discharges, and the fields are often flooded in spring and summer.

The flood even rushed from the direction of Xuzhou. One year, the fields in the village were flooded, and many people starved to death that year.

There have been fewer floods in the past two years, but there have been more bandits, especially with large gangs, such as Jiao Shan bandits.

If it weren't for Xianggong Yang's entry into Xin'anzhuang, it would be hard to say whether the family of three could survive this year.

Even if the bandits are gone now, they still rely on the weather for their lives. After working hard for a year, they are hungry and cold, Cao Zigui is not nostalgic of more than acres of land in his family.

Of course, Xu Zhenniang knew about this situation. The year was good, and the harvest was only a few buckets per acre of land. She barely survived the day. The year was not good, so it would be good if she didn't starve to death. Eating braised vegetables was just a leisurely thing.

However, she pondered for a while, but said, "If you can't rent it, you don't have to abandon it all. The more people there are in Xin'an Village, the more vegetables you need, the harder it will be for me. Plant some vegetables, raise more chickens and ducks, and you can also subsidize your family."

She also remembered something: "Gold Yang wants to build a bluestone road, where does the stone come from? Is Xin'an Zhuangzi going to mine a quarry?"

Cao Zigui was eating noodles comfortably, as scattering as his son. He said vaguely: "I heard that external materials are needed. Manager Zhang came to the village today and said that the road Yang would have to repair is long, and most of the stones will be needed in the future."

Xu Zhenniang's eyes lit up: "My husband, haven't you worked in the Xuzhou quarry before?"

Cao Zigui's eyes were also lit: "If we could sell stones to Xin'an Village all year round, it would be better than entering the village to work."

Then the couple's eyes faded again. The capital needed was so great. Now that the family had just had a full meal, where did the money come from to make a banknote?

Xu Zhenniang was a little unwilling to accept it. "Sister Luo" is a talkative person. Every time she came back from Xin'an Village, she always had endless things to say. Her experiences and experiences in the village also made Xu Zhenniang gain a lot of knowledge. It seemed that all kinds of strange paintings and the novel world of the deputy and the deputy opened in front of her.

Especially Zhao Zhongju of Xin'an Village, Sun Zhaodi is a legend among the women in each village. Women can also be the supervisor. She is in charge of a large number of people, which makes her very envious.

However, Xu Zhenniang is also really human. She knows that the supervisor is too far away from her. It is two worlds, but she also has her own little thoughts and ambitions.

It would be better if you become a foreman like "Sister Luo" in the future if you can build a sewing workshop and specifically go to Xin'anzhuang's military uniforms and winter clothes.

According to her inner judgment, Xin'an Village will grow bigger and bigger in the future. How much does it take for each person to wear winter clothes, summer clothes, felt blankets and bedding?

A small workshop with a stable order every year is enough to allow the family to live a superior life.

There is also my husband. If he could build a quarry, the foundation of the Cao family would be built.

Xu Zhenniang slowly drank the noodle soup, and finally she discussed with her husband that she didn't know how to repair the road in Xin'anzhuang, and the stone needed, and the style of the stones can also be used as a road worker team to work and make a decision after familiarizing with the internal market.

On the eighth day of the first lunar month, the couple agreed on major events at home, and the future prospect planning orders and two words of planning were heard from "Sister Luo".

Finally, his son Cao Jingxing was eating noodles, and finally put down the bowl with satisfaction, touched his stomach, muttering: "I want to study, like Mr. Liu, I have at least one or two taels of work and food every month."

He remembered that after Master Liu was sure to be recruited at noon, his originally hunched back was immediately straightened, and a momentum surged out of his body, which was the momentum of a scholar, which was completely different from that of a blind man, which made him very envious of him.

At the same time, he also remembered the situation when the army went out to suppress the bronze bandits that day. The strong man stepped on the road in an orderly manner, with flags flying, horse hooves rumbling, and snare drums responding, which made the young man's heart surge and made him now conflicted.

He was very careful and wanted to join the army, but he wanted to study and get a high salary. What should he do?

Should I study first or find an opportunity to join the army first?

The boy was in conflict, but his parents looked at each other, and his eyes were full of solemnity.

Yes, we must let Xing'er read and let him read and read.

In particular, Xu Zhenniang felt firm in her heart that she and her husband were blind and had suffered for a lifetime, so she could not let Xing'er follow in the footsteps.

She had heard that even if she was an apprentice in Xin'an Village, those who could write their own names were completely different from those who could not write their own names. Obviously, Xianggong Yang attached great importance to education.

Let Xing'er read and read, and in the future, he will also go to Xin'anzhuang to do books and provide food and accommodation, and he will have one or two taels of silver every month.

After lunch, the husband and son went out to watch the fun again. It seemed that there was a flower on the supervisor's face, but Xu Zhenniang was still staying in the house and cleaning up the dishes.

Suddenly she saw a noodle hanging on her son's legs. She must have eaten it in a hurry and fell down.

"This kid."

Xu Zhenniang smiled and shook her head, picked up the hanging noodles, rinsed them in clean water, and then stuffed them into her mouth to eat.

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The rise of Xin'anzhuang radiates around, stirring up different life pictures.

Perhaps, the fate of many people will be changed.
To be continued...