When they first arrived in Northeast China and saw their new residence, these new immigrants immediately fell in love with it.
After all, it's a brand new brick house with a big yard. Even the wealthy families in their impression rarely reach this level.
The next step is to divide the rooms.
Chen Laowu's family of five was assigned a courtyard in the center of the village.
After opening the door and walking in, before the couple could do anything, the three children screamed in surprise.
The yard is very large and completely surrounded by red brick walls. It is a world that belongs exclusively to their family.
From the courtyard gate to the house, it is more than thirty meters away. There is a trail in the middle, with virgin land on both sides that has not been treated in any way.
Chen Laowu, who has been a farmer all his life, immediately thought that when the weather gets warm, planting some vegetables and fruits in the fields on both sides would be enough for the family to eat for a year.
What made him even more surprised was that there was actually a warehouse next to the west courtyard wall.
It’s empty now, but it will hold lots of tools in it in the future.
Houses in the Northeast are naturally different from those in Henan in terms of keeping cold and warm.
Zhao Zhihe led the family through the door and began to explain to them.
"The stove and stove are right at the door. You don't have to worry about getting the inside dirty when you carry firewood and coal back and forth. The stove and stove are connected to the kang inside. In winter, as long as you light a fire, the whole The house will be warm, so you don’t have to worry about freezing.”
Chen Laowu and his mother-in-law listened very carefully, and looked at the big pot with a diameter of one and a half feet, and they were even more happy.
In their hometown, they couldn't even think about buying such a big iron pot, and they simply couldn't afford it.
But here, it is standard.
The house is divided into three rooms.
Entering from the door is the kitchen, where the pots, stoves, cabinets, tables, chairs, benches, etc. are all placed. There is also a small room at the back that can be used to store things.
The two rooms inside are used as living quarters.
Not only is it spacious and bright, a Tukang has been built next to the south window. There is a straw mat on top, and there is a wooden cabinet on one side of the earthen kang, where bedding and other things can be stored.
After just one glance, Chen Laowu knew how to allocate the rooms.
In the outer room, he and his mother-in-law slept. The room inside is reserved for the three children. From now on, the whole family can sleep peacefully.
Zhao Zhihe specifically explained the window.
"After cutting down the trees in two days, get some sawdust and fill it between the two windows. Then use paper to dip the window cracks. The cold wind will not blow in in the winter and it will ensure warmth."
Looking at the large glass windows, the family was overjoyed and quickly recorded the method taught by Zhao Zhihe.
The whole morning was spent in room allocation, and every family was very satisfied.
Near noon, a long carriage drove into the village.
Zhao Zhihe took a big horn and walked from the east end of the village to the west end to greet people.
"Every household is coming out to receive food."
The sky is huge, the belly is the biggest.
After working all morning, people were already hungry. But the tanks in every household are empty, and they are worried about where to find food.
When they heard about receiving food, they all ran out.
"Don't fight or rob. Each household has a certain number according to its population. If you call someone's house, come and get it."
People quickly quieted down, eagerly waiting for the rations to arrive.
"Chen Laowu!"
"Here, here, here."
Chen Laowu didn't expect that he would be the first one, so he quickly ran forward with his wife and children.
Zhao Zhihe looked at the list and began to count.
"Chen Laowu's family consists of two adults, three children, and five people, and one hundred catties of white flour."
This was so big that all the villagers were shocked.
Seeing the staff on the carriage carrying out two bags of white noodles, Chen Laowu began to tremble.
"Village chief, are you really giving us white noodles?"
That’s white noodles!
Chen Laowu has never eaten it in his life. He only heard people say it is delicious.
But those are things that the landlord's wife can only eat during the New Year and festivals.
It's so precious, should you really give it to him?
Zhao Zhihe didn't understand his mood.
"Didn't I make it clear enough? A hundred pounds of white flour. Why are you still standing there? Move out quickly!"
The children didn't have much impression. When they heard that they were really pale, they hurriedly ran forward. The older one carried one bag, and the two younger ones worked together to carry one bag, and went home happily.
Before the calculation was over, Zhao Zhihe added: "One hundred catties of sorghum, one hundred catties of millet, two hundred catties of corn, two hundred catties of potatoes, two hundred catties of cabbage, and fifty catties of oil."
Chen Laowu felt dizzy after reading this long series of numbers.
"Why do you give so much? When can you finish it?"
Zhao Zhihe solemnly ordered: "These are the grains for you to survive the winter. You will have to eat them until next spring. It looks like a lot, but there are still several months. We still have to save, you know?"
Only then did Chen Laowu wake up. He quickly took his family back and forth several times, and finally moved all the precious rations back home.
Seeing that the small room that was empty just now was now filled with all kinds of food, I didn't know why, but I felt a sense of satisfaction.
Chen Laowu is uneducated and doesn’t know all this...
In fact, it is called happiness.
Like his family, all villagers received adequate food rations.
This is also one of the government's methods to attract immigrants.
Only good houses and sufficient food rations can attract people who value their homeland to come thousands of miles away.
Although it seems expensive, all of the expenditures are actually produced locally in Northeast China, and there is no need for additional expenditures from the central government.
In other words, as immigration and development deepen, the cost of central investment becomes smaller and smaller.
After receiving the food, soon every household in the village was filled with smoke.
A meal to settle down heralds the beginning of a new life.
After lunch, Zhao Zhihe called all the families together again.
"You guys have come all the way here just hoping to settle down. There will be fields and food to eat. I know what you are thinking about, so I will take you with me to divide the land now."
The villagers could not find any dissatisfaction with the proper arrangement, and they immediately happily followed Zhao Zhihe out of the village and plunged into the wilderness.
"Chen Laowu, have you seen it? From here to that tree over there, it's all your property. Mark it quickly, don't make a mistake."
Finally own land!
Chen Laowu was not only happy, but also a little dumbfounded.
"Village chief, is this all my family's land?"
Zhao Zhihe didn't know why.
"Of course it's all your family's land. What's wrong?"
Chen Laowu opened his mouth wide and suddenly howled.
"How can we plant so much land? I'm exhausted and can't finish it."
He is an experienced farmer, and it can be seen at a glance that there is too much land and too little land.
But even so, when 500 acres of land was actually in front of him, he truly realized that it was a tragedy to not be able to plant all the land.
