I couldn't take it anymore; when I went home for Chinese New Year, the family genealogy book ha

In the village committee compound, Li Qiang, who was in charge of the main switch, suddenly pulled down the huge power switch.

"Whoosh—!"

After a slight electrical hum.

The entire Jiangjia Village was lit up in an instant!

A thousand brand-new red lanterns lit up almost simultaneously!

They resemble red fire dragons, winding along the village roads and perched in front of and under the eaves of every household.

The red light illuminated the originally dark night sky as if it were daytime!

The tens of thousands of colorful lights wrapped around the trees along the village road also started to twinkle at this moment.

Like the Milky Way falling to earth, the twinkling stars and shimmering light transformed the entire Jiangjia Village into a dreamlike fairyland!

"My God...this...this is so bright!"

"Wow, this is amazing! It's even more exciting than the day my family slaughtered the pig for Chinese New Year!"

"I've lived my whole life and never seen a village as beautiful as ours! It's practically a place where gods live!"

After the initial shock came an explosive cheer!

The children were the first to react; they cheered, screamed, and ran under the lights, chasing their own shadows.

The elderly people were so moved by the lively and festive scene that tears welled up in their eyes.

They helped each other out of their house and stood in their yard, looking up at the festive red lanterns overhead, their faces beaming with smiles they had never seen before.

"Honey, look! Our village is lit up!"

"Yes...it's lit up..."

The light in their eyes was brighter than the stars in the sky.

The light is so bright!

It even pierced through the thin night fog and shone directly into the neighboring Wangjiagou.

At this moment, the annual Lantern Festival opera is being performed in front of the ancestral hall in Wangjiagou.

On the stage, the actors were singing enthusiastically, while the villagers below were eating melon seeds and drinking tea, watching with great interest.

suddenly!

A few villagers sitting in the back turned around unintentionally.

Their gazes, passing through the village's boundaries, were stunned by what they saw!

"Hey, hey, hey! Look! Isn't Jiangjia Village next door on fire?!"

A villager pointed in the direction of Jiangjia Village and shouted loudly.

Everyone turned around sharply to look.

In the direction of Jiangjia Village, flames soared into the sky, turning everything a fiery red, as if the entire village had been engulfed in flames!

"Fire?!"

"Oh my god! We need to put out the fire!"

The villagers of Wangjiagou were terrified. They stopped watching the show and eating their melon seeds, and jumped up from their seats.

They rushed to the village entrance, preparing to go to the neighboring Jiangjia Village to help fight the fire.

As a result, when they ran to the village entrance, they took a closer look.

What is on fire?

Those were clearly huge red lanterns and twinkling colored lights covering the mountains and fields!

The red lights illuminated the entire Jiangjia Village as bright as day, many times brighter than the few dim streetlights in their Wangjiagou!

The villagers of Wangjiagou were instantly dumbfounded.

They looked at the impressive light shows of other people, and then at the few lonely, dilapidated streetlights in their own village.

Suddenly, the sunflower seeds in my hand didn't smell good at all.

"My goodness... Jiangjia Village has struck it rich! How much electricity must they be paying?!"

"Jiang Chen has really gone mad! He's lit up the entire village!"

"I heard Jiang Chen paid for it all! He gave lanterns to every household, and even covered the electricity bill!"

The villagers of Wangjiagou were talking amongst themselves, their voices filled with envy and jealousy.

The village chief of Wangjiagou's face was as black as the bottom of a pot.

He originally wanted to use the Lantern Festival opera to outshine Jiangjia Village and show the villagers the "grandeur" of Wangjiagou.

Unexpectedly, a "light show" in Jiangjia Village completely overshadowed them!

This isn't watching a grand show; it's clearly watching someone else's "city that never sleeps"!

He felt that the Lantern Festival he had painstakingly planned was a joke in the face of Jiangjia Village.

Jiang Jianjun and Wang Xiuying are standing at the entrance of their village.

Seeing the shocked and envious looks from the villagers of Wangjiagou next door, they felt incredibly happy.

Jiang Jianjun stood ramrod straight, his face radiating undisguised pride.

He forgot to smoke the cigarette in his hand, just leaving it between his fingers, letting the ash accumulate longer and longer.

This is a huge boost to my reputation!

Wang Xiuying was overjoyed, and she smiled broadly at the old ladies from the neighboring village.

"Oh, Aunt Chen, Aunt Li, what brings you here?"

"Come see how lively our village is? Feel free to look around!"

Her tone was full of boastfulness, yet it sounded so matter-of-fact.

That night, Jiangjia Village became the focus of attention in the surrounding area.

Countless people took out their phones and kept taking pictures and recording videos of the brightly lit Jiangjia Village.

Their social media feeds are filled with various updates about Jiangjia Village.

Location: Jiangjiacun Never Sleeps City.

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"Jiangjia Village has truly come to life."