Traveling to Daliang Kingdom starts from falling into the water

As they walked, they saw the meeting room for the board of directors in front of them. There were maids opening the curtains, and Mai Huang and others were serving them personally. Gu Wenxuan felt more at ease.

After Zhou Banxia took her seat and asked Mai Huang to look after the Second Young Madam, Gu Wenxuan had to leave to take care of his own business and go to the village entrance.

The workshop at the entrance of the village, including the stone tablet with the words "Yuyuan" engraved in front of the workshop, had been set up in accordance with Taoist Qingfeng's requirements two days ago.

Now all that’s left is for the tofu shop and the oil press to move there. The initial plan has been realized, and the entrance to Gujiazhuang village has become the first checkpoint.

Gu Wenxuan asked Jiaxing to take the list of personnel who had been transferred recently. He did not go out in a carriage. He met up with Gu Dahua and others and walked directly to the village entrance.

The road is wide enough for two carriages to run side by side. The surface of the road, which is made of lime mixed with river sand and gravel, is still in very good condition. It is flat and hard, just as Zhou Changgen said.

Of course, the rivers outside were frozen at this time, so it was impossible for it to be not solid, but after clearing the snow, you could still see with the naked eye that the ground was indeed flat.

I can talk about this with my wife when I get home, but forget about going out for a walk. At least don’t think about walking to the village entrance in these two months.

The second rain this winter is heavier than expected. When I passed by a few days ago, I could still see wheat seedlings about an inch high in the wheat fields, but today it’s all white.

On the way to the village entrance, Gu Wenxuan paid special attention. Fortunately, his father-in-law was not here, which meant that the snow would not harm the wheat seedlings.

Given his father-in-law's temperament, even if there is a slight risk, since there is already a village head here, his father-in-law will not hand it over to the village head without worrying about it. He will not give up unless he keeps an eye on it personally.

At this time, there were a few tenant farmers walking around in the fields. It seemed that the village head was acting cautiously, and when he saw the Ma family sent people to patrol and check, he also took action.

Gu Wenxuan did not ask the village head who came to pay his respects whether this was true, in order to verify his guess. The internal competition was fierce, and there were many servants helping him and his wife to keep an eye on the village head.

As long as there is no internal friction, the reason why he and his wife condone the existence of healthy internal fighting is to provide more available manpower. If the head of the village is not good enough, there will be a deputy who can take over immediately.

Gu Wenxuan, who was very good at winning people's hearts, looked like a modest gentleman. He even did not leave out the favor of his wife and verbally praised the village head.

As the other party looked on with gratitude, he continued to lead his group towards the village entrance. Of course, he would never admit that he was being hypocritical.

After all, there are not many employers as good as him and his wife, who let their servants eat and drink well and are even worried that their servants will be cold. Not only in Qingyang County, but also in the whole Daliang, there are not many such employers.

Look, at the entrance of Gujiazhuang village, there are rows of bungalows on both sides of the avenue. Although they are not blue brick and tile houses, they are also very nice earthen brick and stone tile houses.

This year, the income of each household in Qinghe Village has improved. Even though they can no longer afford to build houses made of blue bricks and tiles, they have renovated their houses to some extent and removed the thatched roofs.

Otherwise, the rows of earthen brick, stone and tile houses at the entrance of Gujiazhuang village are much more magnificent than more than 70% of the houses in the village.

When he approached the village entrance, Gu Wenxuan was not in a hurry to enter any of the courtyards. He walked along the avenue and passed the gate.

I looked at the direction of the official road market outside the village entrance, and then walked from the east to the west along the periphery of my own row of workshops and bungalows at the entrance of the village. As far as I can remember, Gujiazhuang was originally surrounded by a one-meter-high earthen wall, similar to a fence, to indicate that this place is a private manor and no one is allowed to enter.

Perhaps it was because the family's financial situation was getting worse day by day, or perhaps because part of the land was bought by the Ma family before, they didn't want to repair and maintain these earthen walls anymore.

As a result, some collapsed, some collapsed, and especially since the Ma family had no intention of spending manpower or money to repair the walls, these walls became worse and worse every year.

When it was his and his wife's turn to buy the house last year, even the earthen wall at the entrance of the village was basically just a trace of the old wall.

Now that the entrance of the village has been renovated, all the original traces have been completely removed. After taking a walk around the periphery, Gu Wenxuan was still very satisfied.

Of course, there are regrets. As the first checkpoint to enter the manor, the village to the west is his and his wife’s territory, but the east?

Even though they had exchanged land with the Ma family before, the Ma family still occupied the easternmost entrance and exit. But there was really nothing they could do about it. They couldn't prevent the Ma family from entering and exiting.

It can only be said that they did not think carefully at the time. They should have taken over the entire Gujiazhuang, which would have completely taken the initiative, and the Ma family farm would have had to face north.

Today, the Ma family has more assets than imagined. It is impossible for them to sell off the property within three generations at least. If they want to integrate it together, they can only wait for their great-grandchildren.

By the time of his great-grandson's generation, the relationship between the two families will have faded, and perhaps one day even Dongkou Village will be integrated into the village by Gu Wenxuan's great-grandson and will have the complete surname of Gu.

Zhou Banxia didn't know that Gu Wenxuan, who didn't even know where his son was, was actually thinking about his great-grandson. She was already worried because her first child hadn't even been born yet.

In the meeting room of the front yard directors, the table was piled with account books, lists of warehouses and private storages, as well as lists of gifts and invitations received recently.

There were several wooden boxes on the ground that had just been brought in. The silver bills in the boxes had to be tallied up, the total amount of cash had to be checked, and then separated into one, two, and three.

Among these were the income from the dowry left to her by her master over the past year, the income from the workshop over the past two months, and items donated by other people.

For example, when she moved this time, although her uncle and aunt didn't come, they still treated her like her mother's family and prepared a generous housewarming gift for her.

It was impossible for her not to know that she not only had the income from the dowry, but also had a good profit from the workshop, and even sent her a big box full of gold ingots.

It's understandable that the lifelike twelve zodiac animals made of gold are given to her to play with, but the handfuls of golden peanuts and melon seeds among them, are they also given to her to play with?
Zhou Banxia touched her belly and looked at her Aunt Lan eagerly, which made Zhou Molan laugh, "Just keep it if I give it to you. Are you afraid that the young lady will have some thoughts?
Since Madam was able to bring some from the capital, she must have prepared some for the young mistress as well. There is no shortage of these things in the mansion, so just take them and play with them.

Besides, the eldest lady had mentioned to me privately around this time two years ago that she would take you back home when the adults cleared the old adults’ grievances one day.

I'm really not kidding you, otherwise how would I know that you, the young lady, wanted the young lady to leave the Gao Mansion with you, and even inquired about several manors in the city.

When the eldest lady mentioned these things, she was very pleased. She said, "Xiaolan, I have no regrets in this life. I am only worried that this child is too thoughtful and will be hurt by his wisdom." (End of this chapter)