The second house is still a shaky and dilapidated house, but it has two more rooms than the first house.
The third house was better than the first two, but there was also a hole in the roof. When the door was pushed, it fell down, and the dust was so choking that people couldn't open their eyes for a long time.
The fourth and fifth houses in the back... were not much better either.
The most outrageous thing is the eighth house, which collapsed to the point where only one wall is left. Calling it a house is a shame.
The farther back he walked, the colder Old Man Shu's heart became, as if a hole in the ice had fallen out of him, and it shattered when he touched it.
What about the promised blue brick house with large tiles and a mansion with a courtyard?
Why did it become a dilapidated thatched house?
If you lie to people like this, won’t their consciences hurt?
Old Shu was so sad that he couldn't help but ask the woman: "Where did your village get so many broken houses?"
The woman explained enthusiastically: "The houses were built by the villagers themselves in the past. They thought Xingfu Village was too remote. After it became developed, they moved away, and these houses became empty."
While they were talking, an old man poked his head out of the courtyard and said hello to the woman.
This is already the sixth old man to greet the woman.
On the way to look at the house, they also met several families of local villagers. These families were either gray-haired old men and women, or young children crawling all over the floor. There were not many young and middle-aged people in sight.
The village chief felt something was wrong, so he asked the woman about it.
The woman did not hide anything and told the whole story about the situation in the village: "Our village is a little poor... Those who are capable have either moved to the dock to do business, or gone directly to Qizhou.
The remaining people cannot leave, like the uncle, who is too old and unable to move, so he can only stay;
And a man like me, who is dead and has three ignorant children at home, where can he go?"
The village chief didn't expect that she was such a miserable person, so he apologized awkwardly.
The woman smiled and waved her hands, "What's wrong with that? After so many years, I've long been used to it."
After viewing more than a dozen houses, everyone also had a basic understanding of the situation in this village.
How to evaluate it?
Happy Village, this name is wrong.
It is more appropriate to call it Pity Village.
In a village of ten families, three families have lost their men, leaving only orphans and widows, and three families have only two old men and women with hunchbacks. The remaining four families are completely poor.
As the new mayor of Xingfu Village, Shu Pingtai couldn't laugh at all. He wanted to cry and beat someone up.
Handing him such a mess, wouldn't it be a deception?
Others couldn't be happy either. The mansion they received was gone, and not crying was their last strength.
Seeing that everyone was wilted and unable to cheer up, the woman took the initiative and suggested: "Are you hungry? It's just noon. If you don't want to sit down at my house, I will cook fish soup for you."
After drinking the soup, I called all the people in the village to get to know each other. From now on, we are all fellow villagers in the same village and we need to take care of each other."
"How can that work? It's not easy for you as a woman to raise three children. How can we eat from your family?"
Mrs. Shu flatly rejected her suggestion, "How about this? Just call all the people in the village over, and we'll cook two pots of rice and treat everyone to a meal."
"No, you have come all the way to escape the famine. How can you have any extra food? You should go to my house. I just collected a net of fish in the morning and haven't had time to sell it yet. I will add some dried fish and it will be enough to eat."
Everyone had more or less something in their hands, and everyone was smiling and very kind.
Seeing this scene, everyone in Yaoshui Village was completely relieved. It didn't matter whether this place was poor or not, at least the people were good and they just didn't make trouble.