In the blink of an eye, it’s New Year’s Eve again.
On this day, Jintan Village still continued the previous tradition. All the villagers gathered together and had a collective New Year's Eve dinner.
However, compared with last year's New Year's Eve, the number of participants in this year's New Year's Eve party was several times higher.
Just a month ago, the house numbered 230 was completely completed. With the completion of this house, all 230 households in Jintan Village have built their houses.
Of course, nearly fifty of these households borrowed money from the village to build their houses, and as a price, they had to slowly repay the interest-free loan through labor, and all the borrowed funds came from the village's brick factory.
"Um, let me announce that the banquet has officially begun!"
Following Li Jie's order, the atmosphere at the scene suddenly became heated.
As soon as the dinner started, the old branch secretary sitting next to him picked up his wine glass and said to Li Jie.
"Call for water. I'll give you a drink. Thank you for everything you have done for our village."
"Uncle, there is no reason for you to toast me. I should be toasting you." Li Jie shook his head and replied with a smile: "Besides, this is what I should do."
The old party secretary didn't pay attention to what Li Jie said. He directly picked up the wine glass and drank the wine in one gulp.
The words he just said were all from the bottom of his heart, without any falsehood.
Because Jintan Village has changed so much in the past three years or so that he doubted whether everything he saw before him was real.
Three years later, all 230 families in the original Yongquan Village immigrated to Jintan Village.
Although the administrative establishment of Yongquan Village has completely disappeared, the old party secretary does not feel a trace of sadness in his heart. Important people are still there, and Yongquan Village is still there, no matter what the current name of 'Yongquan Village' is.
In everyone’s mind, ‘Jintan Village’ is Yongquan Village.
In addition, more than two hundred families have not only been allocated land and built houses, but their income has also been greatly increased.
Up to now, the income of the villagers in Jintan Village mainly comes from three main sources, one is raising sheep, the other is farming, and the third is working in the brick factory. Among them, raising sheep and farming are the main incomes of the villagers.
Just from farming and raising sheep, the per capita income of each villager can reach about 4,000 yuan. If the income from odd jobs is added, the annual income can be more than 500 yuan.
An income of 4,500 yuan a year was something the villagers had never dared to imagine before.
Up to now, Jintan Village has completely taken off the label of poverty. In the past, Yongquan Village was a famous poverty-stricken village in eight townships. To put it bluntly, if you say you are from Yongquan Village, others will not understand you at all.
Dare to marry me.
But things are different now. No one in the surrounding villages knows the name of Jintan Village, and many families want to marry their girls to Jintan Village.
As for the reason, it is very simple, because Jintan Village is rich, not only in the village, but also in the pockets of the villagers.
Nowadays, in the "marriage market", the signboard of Jintan Village is more effective than anything else. As soon as the matchmaker says that the other party is from Jintan Village, the woman can't wait to marry her daughter to him immediately.
Seeing that the old branch secretary was bored, Li Jie stopped being pretentious and drank up the wine in the bowl, then put down the glass and said with a smile.
"By the way, old party secretary, after a while, it's time to drink your family's wedding wine, right?"
The old party secretary laughed and said, "Your Home Depot is going fast."
Li Jie shook his head and said, "It's still early for Home Depot. What you are talking about is an engagement. It will take a few more years to get married."
Ma Debao has just come of age this year. He and Mai Miao are the same age. Although it is not uncommon to get married at the age of eighteen in the local area, Li Jie is from a later generation.
Is there any reason to let a child get married at the age of 18?
If he really did this, wouldn't he be blatantly challenging the mythical beast?
This kind of approach is unnecessary. On the other hand, Li Dayou doesn't have so many worries. In his eyes, the baby is almost 20 years old, and the family is 'rich', so why not get the child married as soon as possible?
Report to your grandson.
The old party secretary chuckled: "Well, it doesn't matter whether you are engaged or married, anyway, this wedding wine is guaranteed to be drunk!"
"sure!"
Li Jie smiled and nodded, agreeing to the matter.
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At the same time, the villagers at table No. 3 also started drinking. The people at this table were all men, and they were also a group of people with a good capacity for drinking. Before they had even eaten a few bites of the dish, three bottles of Fenjiu per kilogram had already been poured.
Bottomed out.
"Come on, Dayou, let's go one by one!"
"Come on, do it!"
The two of them touched each other lightly, and Erliang's cup was drained in one gulp.
belch!
After drinking this glass, Li Dayou burped unconsciously and drank three large glasses in a row. Even though he had a good capacity for drinking, he was a little overwhelmed and his brain started to get dizzy.
However, the moment he put down his wine glass, Shuan Men next to him raised his wine glass again.
"Come on, Dayou, congratulations on your baby finding a good wife."
Li Dayou subconsciously wanted to refuse. It wasn't that he couldn't drink anymore, he just wanted to slow down, but when the words came to his lips, he couldn't say them out.
After all, it's a bit embarrassing to say this.
After thinking about it carefully, drinking this cup doesn't seem to be a big deal.
So, Li Dayou picked up the wine bottle on the table and slowly filled his glass.
"Okay, do it!"
When the others saw how heroic Li Dayou was today, one or two of them gave a thumbs up.
"atmosphere!"
"It's huge, it's huge!"
"middle!"
"Dayou is very happy today. He made a good marriage proposal to his son. I heard that the daughter-in-law in his family is extremely handsome and virtuous. If he finds such a good daughter-in-law, he won't have to drink two more drinks.
Well."
belch!
After drinking another full glass, Li Dayou felt the smell of alcohol rushing to his forehead. At this moment, he realized that he could not continue to drink like this.
Otherwise, he will have to pour the next glass.
"Come on, Dayou, let's go one by one."
The next cup came as soon as it came. Before Li Dayou could calm down, Lao Wu next to Shuan Men raised his cup towards him again.
Li Dayou secretly complained when he heard this. He really couldn't drink this cup.
However, it is not his style to refuse directly.
‘What to do?’
Li Dayou's mind was racing, and suddenly, out of the corner of his eye, he saw that the wine bottles on the table were all empty.
At this moment, a plan suddenly came to mind, and he picked up the wine bottle on the table as if nothing had happened, and then uttered a question.
"Hey, why is this wine gone?"
"Wait a minute, um, go get it here."
After saying this, without waiting for anyone else's reaction, Li Dayou stood up and walked to the place where the food was prepared without saying a word.
Looking at Li Dayou's slightly staggering back, the soft-hearted Lao Wu said.
"Isn't it a bit bad to drink like this? It seems that Dayou is almost dying."
However, as soon as he finished speaking, he was met with collective opposition from his tablemates.