"Goodness, how many people have come here today?"
Gu Heng's neighbor of several decades, invitation in hand, followed a fellow villager to the village committee courtyard...
Staring at the scene in front of him, he was utterly stunned...
The village committee courtyard used to be a grain station and was refurbished after being abandoned. The playground was massive, and it could easily fit eight or ten thousand people if it were a little crowded...
Such a vast courtyard had been set up with exactly one hundred tables...
And the chairs around the tables were all filled with people...
Following rural tradition for feasts, ten people were seated at each table, so one hundred tables meant one thousand people...
Yet, this thousand was not even half of today's attendees...
At least another one or two thousand people were scattered around the village committee courtyard, chatting in groups...