County Magistrate Jiang and his party left the village with great pomp and circumstance.
Along the way, many villagers ran to the village paths to watch the excitement, seeing County Magistrate Jiang and his men riding on tall, stately horses, followed by five mule carts, looking very imposing.
After County Magistrate Jiang and his group left, several families gathered in the courtyard, with Third Grandma taking charge, dividing up the remaining meat from the cattle, sheep, and rabbits, as well as the received congratulatory gifts among the families.
Today, the workshop's opening received quite a number of congratulatory gifts. Just in eggs alone, they received more than three hundred, ten pieces of meat, ten bolts of cotton cloth, ten bolts of gourd cloth, twenty bundles of coarse hemp cloth, along with four baskets of rice, flour, soybeans, sweet potatoes, cabbages, radishes, and newly grown spring vegetables.
