Chapter 117 Really Stingy

In the morning, the village chief beat the gong to convene a village-wide meeting, and those who went out to work during the day heard about it from family members when they returned at night.

There would be work in their own village; they wouldn't need to walk so far to the county or other villages, which would save them effort and perhaps they'd even earn more money.

They thought they had heard wrong—how could their village have such good fortune?

Upon further inquiry, they learned that the richest family in the county, the Tang Family, intended to buy land and build a factory in their village, in collaboration with a local, Hongji—naturally, the factory would deal with the lumber business.

The construction craftsmen, hearing that their village might build houses, were certain there would be work for them.