The soft and rolling clouds dispersed, and the sea breeze crushed up the gold and spread it on the sea. The place where the water and the sky met sparkled, and the bright waves reflected on Lin Wanwan's eyelids, reminding her that the east is white.
Lin Wanwan's eyelashes trembled a few times and slowly opened. At this moment, the Golden Crow suddenly jumped out of the sea, and the sun, moon, heaven and earth were in the same line.
"It's so beautiful." Lin Wanwan saw such a grand scene as soon as she woke up. She was stunned for a moment. Unknowingly, the spiritual platform became clear, as if she had entered a transcendental state where she was neither happy nor sad.
It wasn't until a long, frightening hawk chirped in the sky that broke the tranquility that Lin Wanwan realized that she was still leaning against Xiao Chong. She stood up quickly, smoothed the strands of hair around her ears, and her cheeks were slightly red.
In the village, chickens and dogs heard each other, smoke was everywhere, and the sound of people gradually became louder.
Lin Wanwan jumped off the stone, dusted off the dust on her gray dress, and smiled sweetly: "Let's go, cousin, after watching the sunrise, go home and have breakfast."
Xiao Chong stood up and said softly: "Okay."
Along the way back, we met not many tribesmen. We all played around all night, and now that the east was white, many people got into bed and took a nap.
In the past, on the first day of the new year, cousins who were close to each other would gather together to have a feast.
Times are getting better this year. The clan leader has said that he will hold a clan banquet. The expenses will be paid from the clan's public accounts, and each household will provide two laborers to prepare the dishes.
Some of the banquets were placed on the open space in front of the ancestral hall, some were placed in the yard in front of the workshop, and some were placed on the playground of the school.
The clan members had just cleaned these open spaces a few days ago, and the masonry floor in front of the ancestral hall had been renovated with money, and some broken masonry had been replaced. Now it looks brand new.
Linjiazhuang is full of vitality this year. Smoke from the kitchens is curling up early in the morning, and people are talking and laughing. Everyone is wearing new clothes and has a smile on their face. The first words they say when meeting are auspicious words of blessing.
I'm sure the guests will come to visit tomorrow and they will be surprised when they see this scene.
In the past, Linjiazhuang was dirty, poor, and chaotic. Even on the first day of the new year, due to lack of food and clothing, except for the children who had some smiles on their faces, everyone else was indifferent. Wear new clothes or a new house? Don't even think about it.
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But this year, almost every household has renovated their houses.
The families who were lucky enough to catch up with Lin Wanwan's large-scale construction work and acquired demolished houses lived in houses with blue bricks and black tiles, neatly arranged on both sides of the village road. It was obvious at a glance that these houses were from the same family.
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Those who were not demolished had also received a lot of money through the cotton workshop. It would be too luxurious to replace the whole house with blue bricks and black tiles, but it would still be okay to just repair the roof and lay the top layer of black tiles.
These black tiles were made in the clan's workshop. When the houses were demolished, Wangdu Materials made a list and went to the brick and tile kiln to purchase them together. In the end, there were unused ones left over (in fact, it was Lin Wanwan who specifically ordered Wangdu Materials to buy more).
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Later, Lin Wanwan took the initiative and internally dealt with it to the clan members at an extremely low price. Even those who were most reluctant to spend money would definitely squeeze out money to buy such a good thing.
If you miss this village, there will be no store like this. You must know that in the Tang Dynasty, if ordinary people want to buy things, it is not just about having money. For ordinary people, whose food, clothing, housing and transportation are all stipulated, many goods are not available even if you can get the money.
You must be qualified to buy it, and Deva is one of them.
But now that their clan has a fifth-grade Le'an Xiangjun, everything is different. As a clan member of the Xiangjun, they are qualified to use Daiwa that exceeds the civilian standards - as long as they can afford it.
The world is so unfair. Noble families have shops all over the place, and are involved in mines, horse farms, and salt farms. They control the actual economic lifeline of the region, but they are not businessmen.
From the law to social cognition, aristocrats can be openly superior to others in everything.
Only the nouveau riche with no aristocratic background and families with no official figures will be classified as merchants and have a lowly status. They cannot ride in carriages, wear silks and satins, cannot pass the imperial examination, and cannot join the army.
Of course, the prosperity of life and the improvement of status bring not only rights and benefits, but also responsibilities.
In the early Tang Dynasty, the imperial court divided the peasants into nine grades based on their property status and the gap between rich and poor. Peasants above the sixth grade had to be selected as government soldiers every third grade and were exempted from rent, but weapons and military uniforms, horses, food, etc.
Be prepared.
He starts serving at the age of twenty and is exempted from service at the age of sixty.
During the Zhenguan Dynasty of Li Shimin, there were 634 Zhechong mansions throughout the Tang Dynasty, which were led by the Twelve Guards and the Sixth Leader of the East Palace. The highest officer of each mansion was the Zhechong Commandery.
Except for going out on expeditions and taking turns to guard, the soldiers of the government spend the rest of their time at home farming. They work at home during busy farming periods, and gather together for military training during slack periods. Zhechong Prefecture teaches offensive and defensive tactics.
Originally, the people in Linjiazhuang made a living by fishing, and there were only a few pieces of land, less than two acres for each household. They were all low-class people and did not have to bear the responsibility of government soldiers.
But last year, based on the per capita income of Linjiazhuang, they had already exceeded the sixth grade. If the harvest is still as good this year, their rating will naturally rise next year, and they will start to serve in the military.
When you perform military service, you may go to the battlefield and have to leave your hometown. This is also a heavy burden for the Lin clan members who have been peaceful for more than 20 years.
But compared to starving and freezing, these are not unacceptable.
When Lin and Xiao walked into the house, Huanong had already prepared the first sumptuous breakfast of the New Year, including beef vermicelli soup, bird's nest and white fungus porridge, fat steamed cakes stuffed with beef filling, etc.
Dugu Di and Xiao Ce, who were drunk last night, also walked over from the school. They looked at Lin and Xiao with strange eyes. After paying homage to each other, they walked to the flower hall together.
Xiao Ce fell behind Xiao Ce and whispered to Dugu Di: "The two of them?"
Dugu Di said calmly: "It's just what Brother Shiheng thought."
"The identities of these two people..." Xiao Ce shook his head and said, "It's difficult to handle."
Dugu Di didn't care and said: "Zifang has always had his plans, I guess he has his own arrangements, so we don't need to worry."
Xiao Ce touched the mustache on his lips and whispered to himself: "That should be the case."
Having said that, his face was still quite heavy.
He followed Xiao Chong, and if Xiao Chong was good, he would be able to make progress. If Xiao Chong had a conflict with his family, then the subordinates and staff who followed him would be the first batch of cannon fodder.
In fact, he should have noticed a long time ago that Xiao Chong's various connivances towards Mr. Le'an went beyond the scope of normal cousins and were not just gratitude for saving his life.
Just because Xiao Chong has always been polite to women since he was a child, not to mention princesses and princesses. He even refused the marriage of Qinghe Cui's daughter, so Xiao Ce never thought that the other party would be able to understand the relationship between men and women.
After all, the daughter of the Cui family was the marriage partner that all men in the Tang Dynasty dreamed of marrying. If a family had a daughter, thousands of families would want her.