Chapter 27 Datang New Village (2)
"You don't know what this master said. Our village was originally full of wandering people. They had no food or drink on weekdays. Last winter, an old woman froze to death in the village. This year, three of them have died of illness and death. No one has ever come to take care of us. We have always been helping and taking care of each other by neighbors, and we discuss things together." Mr. Li immediately explained tremblingly.
Through Li Laozhi's mouth, the villagers' autonomy was simplified to neighbors helping and taking care of each other. This is the most fundamental reason why Lin Feng insisted on inviting Li Jing to visit! Villagers' autonomy was a very suitable thing for this village, but it was also a place that was easily criticized. If he could obtain Li Jing's recognition in advance, he would not have to worry about this after he left.
Tao Qian was speechless. Li Jing, Li Jingsui, and Li Hongji's faces also soothed, and only Li Yu ran over and looked at the simple cushion.
After visiting the simple council hall, Old Man Li led the way and led a silent group of people to see the two households who had moved in. To be honest, there is really nothing to see. Apart from a new house with a glamorous look outside, these two households only have the words "little house and four walls" inside.
At this time, Li Jing's face had changed from being unhappy to being a little shocked, and he couldn't help but ask, "Brother-in-law, are all the people in this village so poor?"
Mr. Li glanced at Li Jing carefully, and quickly lowered his head and said, "When I say this master, these two families are relatively good. Each family has one person who can go out for odd jobs occasionally and earn a few cents. There are 97 people in our village, and the other families are either old or small, and even seriously ill people at home, so they can't survive. Before Yaya was taken away by Lord Lin, she had to go to the vegetable market five miles away to pick vegetables and leaves every day to live."
Li Yu was young and soft-hearted. When he heard these eyes were a little wet, he opened his mouth and asked, "What should you do in your future life?"
Mr. Li bowed to Lin Feng and said gratefully: "I have to thank the kind Lord Lin!" He said that since Yaya has followed him, he can't ask for the house anymore. He changed the house that originally belonged to Yaya into a toy workshop, and prepared to leave a way for our village to eat."
"What does the toy workshop do?" Li Yu immediately asked, asking a large number of people's common doubts.
Mr. Li looked at Lin Feng who was following the last respectfully again and said loudly: "Mr. Lin has designed a lot of wooden toys suitable for children. He gave us the patterns, transported the wood, bought paint, and finally paid for us to buy the made toys from us and sold them in the supermarket in the city. This kind of work is possible for the elderly, weak, sick and disabled in our village. Although each family does not make much money, it has a fixed income. Everyone says that Mr. Lin is the great Bodhisattva who saves us from suffering!"
Hearing this, the group looked at Lin Feng. Li Jing stared at Lin Feng and nodded in admiration.
Lin Feng shook his head in his heart. Mr. Li, this is too much, right? This is actually a simple commodity processing, a small matter of mutual benefit!
Lin Feng quickly explained: "Toys are toys designed to develop children's intelligence. The profit is not big, so one set can't give them a few cents."
At this time, a group of people had already walked to the toy workshop. There were elderly people and children inside and outside the workshop. Some adults were sawing wood and painting paint, while children were responsible for measuring and printing and drawing lines on the wood, and tidying up and placing sawed wooden blocks.
Lin Feng took two steps forward, picked up a set of toys that had been made under the porch, and explained: "For example, this set of toys has a wooden round barrel outside, with slightly larger round holes, square holes and triangle holes chiseled on the barrel lid to train the children to reinstall according to the shape of each wooden block."
Lin Feng took off the lid and poured all the wooden blocks in the bucket on the ground. He neatly used wooden blocks of different shapes to build a simple small house, explaining: "These wooden blocks can be combined at will to exercise children's thinking, imagination and hands-on ability."
Li Yu took two steps in front and lifted another bucket next to it. The lid of the bucket was "0-9". When he opened it, he saw that it was different wood numbers. He turned around in surprise and shouted: "Father, these two sets of toys are really fun and interesting. It would be best to buy them back and play with Lao Shi."
The tenth son in Li Yu's mouth is naturally Li Jing's youngest son, and he is only three years old this year.
Li Jing was also very curious about these toys that he had never seen before, and nodded with a smile on his face. Li Jing immediately took the money from the accompanying guard and handed it to Mr. Li.
Mr. Li was startled and waved his hand immediately, "I dare not, this set of toys is only sold for 30 cents. The old man is the leader, so I will give it to a few kind-hearted masters two sets."
Li Jingsui would care about this little money. He grabbed Mr. Li's hand and stuffed the money to Mr. Li. Mr. Li seemed to be holding a ball of fire, not knowing what to do.
Lin Feng hurried forward to smooth things over: "Mr. Li, just take it. This is also the little intention of the masters. You might as well use this little money to add a few more saws for everyone to work, and rule the rules!"
Old Li thanked him so much that he turned around and handed over the money to an old lady at the scene.
"The new village is born and the world is full of kindness, and a house of warmth condenses the world's harmony. This couplet is good." At this time, Li Jing then pointed to the couplet on the gate of the toy workshop and said.
Everyone's eyes immediately focused on the couplet, and Tao Qian casually replied: "That's true, the horizontal draft of 'Long Live the Tang Dynasty' can be regarded as the finishing touch."
Lin Feng almost laughed out loud, and quickly lowered his head to look through the toys. This was a flattery couplet he wrote. I didn't expect these people to care so much.
Mr. Li replied respectfully: "Go to all the masters, this was written by the officials who came to visit us. We all thought that it wrote the thoughts of our villagers and unanimously decided to hang this couplet here." This was what Lin Feng specifically told Mr. Li, and this statement could not be considered intentional deception. After all, Lin Feng was also an official who visited here.
Li Jing didn't say anything, but still nodded with satisfaction.
Seeing Lin Feng's gesture to continue, Mr. Li turned around and led everyone to visit the three wooden signs in front of the toy workshop.
The contents of these three wooden signs are actually very simple: one is the origin of the construction of the new village written by Han Xizai. The beginning of the article specifically points out the names of several bigwigs from the Nantang Old Li family who took the lead in donating. A small thing made the old Han, who was so beautiful that the old Li family were all unparalleled in the world; one part is all the people who participated in the donation, including a minister and all wealthy businessmen in Jinling City.
When Mr. Li talked about the third wooden sign, the eyes of a group of people became brighter. This is the "Village Convention" that everyone had just heard but did not care about. The first sentence of the Convention was: "Every villager in the village loves the Tang Dynasty and loves and supports the current emperor." Below, it points out that the village discusses the joint affairs of the village, jointly maintains public health, and does not sublease and sell houses.
At this time, Mr. Li said with emotion: "Without the current emperor, there would be no prosperous Tang Dynasty, and there would be no today in our village! We were very grateful in our hearts and unanimously decided to love the Tang Dynasty and support the Emperor as the first article of the villagers' convention!"
Lin Feng secretly glanced at Li Jing beside him and found that the corners of his eyes were filled with wrinkles that were laughing. He felt relieved and knew that another small flattery he had arranged in advance had worked.
At this time, Mr. Li knelt down with a "thump", which scared everyone.
Old Man Li crawled on the ground and said loudly: "I think all the masters are either rich or noble, and I dare to ask for a name for our new village and a treasure so that everyone in our village is proud of their own village and their own life in this prosperous era!"
If you want to name a name, it depends on what Li Jing means! A group of people immediately looked at the emperor standing in the middle.
Li Jing pondered for a moment and said, "Then call it Datang New Village."
"Papa", a group of people immediately applauded this extremely vulgar name.
At this time, Mr. Li also led a few children to carry a desk over, prepared a pen, ink, paper and ink, and respectfully asked Li Jing to write.
Li Jing did not refuse, and wrote the four words "Datang New Village" with his pen, and put three small words "Li Jingtong" in the lower left corner, which were the name he used before ascending the throne.
Li Jing then pulled Lin Feng aside and said softly: "Boy, I've let you deceive the emperor again inscription! Is this what you are talking about for the celebration of the new village?"
Lin Feng spread his hands and said with a grievance: "King Qi, don't blame a good person! I have never asked for it for myself. They are all for good deeds and good deeds, and they have also made a name for His Majesty. In addition, there is no small amount of money in the village, so the simpler the celebration is, the better!" Lin Feng had no choice. If he hadn't decided to go west suddenly, he wouldn't be so anxious. He would definitely promote the completion of the new village and make it known to everyone in the world!
Li Jing then punched Lin Feng hard, turned around and returned to the crowd at the desk with a smile.
Chapter completed!