After Tian Xiaoding and the four returned to Tianyao Village, it was almost the end of the year.
In order to celebrate the New Year without affecting the mood of other people in the village, Xiao Ding decided to pay homage to Erniu, Su Lanlan and Tang Yunzhi a few days earlier this year.
For a total of three days from the morning of the 27th to the evening of the 29th, Xiaoding paid homage to Erniu, Su Lanlan, and Tang Yunzhi in an empty room in Tianyao Village.
Of course, during these three days, Xiao Ding inevitably felt sad again when he thought about the past.
Three days later, Xiaoding once again took Erniu's coffin and the tablets of Su Lanlan and Tang Yunzhi back into the jade pendant space.
This person has passed away. During the New Year and festivals, paying homage and remembering him is just to express the sorrow of the living people.
This is also a traditional custom passed down by the Chinese nation for thousands of years.
This custom was brought to Tiankun Planet by the Chinese people on earth, so this custom also existed on Tiankun Planet.
The next day it was New Year's Eve, and Tianyao Village was bustling with activity.
Senior sister Cheng Yaowei, Li Tianliang, Deng Feng, Shan Ting and others were instructing the people in the village and busy decorating the houses in the village.
The whole village was filled with a festive atmosphere.
Xiao Ding deliberately took out some previously stored meat and gave it to the cottage canteen, and asked Li Tianliang and the other three deputy village owners in charge of logistics, saying: "In the past few days from New Year's Eve to the third day of the Lunar New Year, the people in the cottage will eat every meal." You can get half a catty of meat and one catty of dumplings for free. For the New Year's Eve dinner, we need to prepare more dishes and prepare more wine, so that everyone in the village can enjoy it. "
Li Tianliang, Deng Feng and Shan Tong were all outer disciples in Tianyang Sect, and Kaiyang Peak's outer disciples happened to be responsible for logistics. The three of them were already well versed in these daily chores.
However, the difference is that these three people used to do the work themselves. Nowadays, the three of them mainly direct others to do it.
Since the three of them had low cultivation levels and could not fly with swords, they bought a few ox carts for the village in order to make it easier for them to purchase supplies.
The advantage of buying an ox cart is that during busy farming seasons, the oxen can also be used to plow the fields.
With Li Tianliang and others taking the lead, on New Year's Eve, the village was decorated with lanterns and colorful lights and was filled with joy.
This is the first New Year that Tianyao Village has celebrated since its establishment. Therefore, the people in the village spare no effort to decorate the village as better as possible.
They stretched red silk everywhere in the village, hung up red lanterns, posted Spring Festival couplets, blessing characters, etc., and decorated the entire Tianyao village in a prosperous manner.
This New Year is the third New Year that Xiao Ding has celebrated since he came to Tiankun Star.
He spent the first New Year in Tianyang Sect, and it was very lively at that time. He spent the second New Year on the way out of Soul Burying Mountain. Not long after Tang Yunzhi's death, he was alone on the way out of Soul Burying Mountain. He was in a very low mood and had no intention of celebrating the New Year.
This New Year is the third one, which means it has been three years since he came to Tiankun Planet.
Now, he finally no longer has to wander around and be on the run.
With the base of Tianyao Village, he has a place to live. Although it is just a team composed of bandits, he believes that as long as he leads well, the pheasant will turn into a phoenix in the future.
How to turn a pheasant into a phoenix naturally depends on improving the overall strength of the people in the village.
The first thing Xiao Ding plans to do in the next year is to solve the food and clothing problem of the people in the village.
Xiao Ding basically paid for all the expenses in the cottage in the past few months out of his own pocket. If things continue like this, no matter how rich Xiao Ding is, he will eventually run out of money.
Therefore, if he wants Shanzhai to get on the right track, he still needs to guide Shanzhai to a self-sufficient lifestyle. After he had enough food and clothing, he would find a way to let the people in the village create more labor value, and then earn spiritual stones in exchange for cultivation resources.
Only when the cultivation resources are abundant enough can the overall strength of everyone be improved quickly, and only then can the long-term plan of turning a pheasant into a phoenix be realized.
So, at the beginning of the New Year's feast, Xiao Ding, as the leader of Tianyao Village, also gave a speech to all members. He not only stated his future plans, but also drew a big cake for everyone. Everyone immediately felt that they were full of infinite reverie and hope for the future.
Of course, this is also because the people in the village basically lived a precarious life before. The previous village owner only knew how to let everyone go out to rob. This was all based on luck. If you robbed an opponent who was easy to bully, then you could Have a full meal. If you can't rob anything, you will be hungry for several days. If you meet a powerful opponent, you may lose your life.
The days of licking blood on the blade are not easy.
Therefore, when Xiao Ding came to become the leader of the village, his daily life completely changed. Not only can I fill my stomach, but I don’t have to go out to work.
For ordinary people, who doesn't want to live a life without worries about food and clothing, without risking their lives.
Therefore, even though Xiao Ding is a new village leader from outside, after these few months of running in, the people in the village have already recognized and accepted this new village master.
The lively atmosphere of the New Year lasts until the third day of the first lunar month. During these four days, everyone had a feast and toasted to celebrate every day.
However, such a luxurious behavior requires enough money to support it. Although Xiao Ding has a lot of spiritual stones, he is not so prodigal as to spend them carelessly.
There will be a few days of excitement during the New Year, and it’s enough to just think about it. If according to the ancient custom, there would be a big feast every day for a month after the New Year, and there would be dozens of people in the village, Xiao Ding could not afford such a long time.
However, the three meals a day during the New Year are definitely better than usual, at least there will be meat in every meal. Although the number of dishes is a little smaller, it is already very good for bandits who are used to living a hard life.
After the feast and gatherings during the New Year, Tian Xiao'e and Ou Muyun, who were new to the village, gradually became familiar with everyone.
Since Ou Muyun knew how to refine weapons, Xiao Ding asked the couple to take charge of the weapon refining aspects of the village in the future, and also became one of the deputy village leaders.
Now, the deputy village owners in the village are all friends and confidants of Xiao Ding. Among the people in the original village, the highest-ranking people were the two stupid thieves Li Dazhong and Zhang Erfeng whom Xiao Ding met at the beginning.
In fact, the cultivation level of these two people has reached the seventh level of Qi training, which is even higher than the cultivation level of several friends around Xiao Ding. However, although these two people are naturally gifted in cultivation, their IQs are not very high.
One of their nicknames is Li Dama Bang, and the other is Zhang Er Lengzi. Looking at their nicknames, you can tell that they are not very smart.
Xiao Ding arranged for the two of them to become team captains. There were about fifty bandits in the original village. Xiao Ding divided them into two teams, so he made Li Dazhong and Zhang Erfeng the captains of the two teams, and asked them to lead their respective teams and carry out Xiao Ding's specific tasks. Assigned tasks.
The reason why Xiao Ding was divided into two teams was to facilitate internal competition. For example, when working, if the same tasks are assigned to both teams, and the two teams compete to do it first, labor efficiency will be improved.
If there is no competition and everyone is just dawdling, it will affect the results of labor.
Similarly, it is the same when practicing. Everyone starts from the same starting point. If one day someone is surpassed by someone around him, then he will secretly work hard to catch up with those around him.
If the team is divided into two teams for comparison, it can further stimulate the competitive enthusiasm of the two teams and promote their active cultivation.
Before we were divided into two teams, there were some people who fished in troubled waters, and some people who tried their best to make things worse. They relied on supervision for everything and had no personal initiative or enthusiasm.
Nowadays, even during the Spring Festival banquet, people from the two teams have to compete for the top.
Just a few days after the New Year, suddenly one day, all those people who had left the village came back.
They met Xiao Ding and said that they wanted to return to the village and become a member of the village.
These five or six people, when Xiaoding killed the original village owner and took over the village, several of them expressed that they were tired of being bandits and wanted to put down their butcher knives and go down the mountain to become ordinary people.
But he didn't expect that after a few months, none of them would come back without landing, claiming that they wanted to join the cottage.
When Xiao Ding asked them the reason, they didn't hide it. It is said that after they left the village, they returned to a nearby village. However, the villagers heard that they were bandits, and some even saw them robbing them in person. Therefore, everyone in the village actively distanced themselves from them.
They originally wanted to do some farming and become ordinary villagers.
However, no one in the village is willing to sell their land to them. If they want to farm in the village, they have to open up wasteland themselves.
Just when they were in a difficult situation, when they were buying new year's goods at the market two years ago, they encountered several bandits led by Li Tianliang who went to the market to purchase.
When several of them learned that the current owner of the new village did not ask the bandits to go down the mountain to rob, but was preparing to open up wasteland for farming in the valley, they were also moved.
Looking at the oxcart driven by Li Tianliang and others, it was filled with all kinds of new year's goods. They felt uncomfortable with this.
I also heard that in the cottage now, three meals a day are free, and they can take care of themselves. Several of them regretted leaving the cottage.
Therefore, they had the idea of returning to the cottage.
However, Xiao Ding looked at them for a long time and was thinking, should he take them in?
