"It's so late now, and it's not convenient to go back to the city. If you don't mind, you can stay at my house for one night?"

Qin Yao, who got the money, was completely different from before. She picked up the sword and smiled very kindly.

If Wang Jin could not still feel the lingering chill on his neck, he would have doubted whether there was something wrong with his memory.

"No, it's still not too late to go back now." Wang Jin refused, blew a whistle, called the horse over and prepared to leave.

Qin Yao shrugged and didn't stay. She was just being polite anyway.

Seeing Wang Jin's painful face, Qin Yao said jokingly, "Sir, if you hadn't left me behind and ran away at the beginning, we wouldn't have been in this situation now. One hundred or two hundred taels is enough. After all, the journey is not far."

Wang Jin paused while mounting the horse, turned around and said excitedly, "Then give me back the extra money."

Qin Yao's smile disappeared instantly. "Tell me how you want to die?"

"Just pretend I didn't say anything." Wang Jin had a strong desire to survive. He jumped on his horse and told her to meet him outside Kaiyang County the next morning. He clasped his fists and said, "Goodbye!"

In the blink of an eye, both the man and the horse disappeared from Qin Yao's sight.

"Heh~" Qin Yao shook her head with amusement, picked up her two-meter-long sword, and returned home to sleep contentedly.

Silver is really a good thing. She is not angry at all now~

Qin Yao had a dreamless night and slept soundly. She drove the children to school in high spirits.

Erlang insisted on climbing onto the carriage to go to school. Qin Yao checked the bruises on his neck again and again, and after making sure that there was nothing serious, she let him onto the carriage.

Si Niang stayed at home alone, waiting for Li to have delicious food. After eating and drinking, she called Xiao Lai Fu to go feed the chickens together. She wished she could take a few more days off.

Qin Yao left the Ding clan school but did not return to the village first. After thinking for a while, she went directly to the county town.

Wang Jin said that there have been a lot of spies in the county recently, and Qin Yao felt it as soon as she entered the city.

Some were selling straw sandals on the street, some were selling vegetables at the city gate, and some were selling small items that no one was interested in following the crowd.

It had been a long time since Qin Yao had a meal in a restaurant. She paid extra for the cleaning fee, drove the carriage into the city, stopped at the back door of Manager Fan's restaurant, walked into the lobby, and ordered a few of the restaurant's signature dishes.

"What a rare guest!" Shopkeeper Fan came to greet him as soon as he had time.

Qin Yao stood up and bowed, inviting him to sit down and eat something. Manager Fan waved his hand and pointed at the increasing number of guests in the lobby, "It's almost noon, it's busy now, I came over to talk to you and then I'll leave."

As he spoke, he poured Qin Yao a cup of tea and asked her how she felt about being the village chief.

Qin Yao nodded, "Not bad."

While taking the tea, she whispered a few words in Shopkeeper Fan's ear. Shopkeeper Fan opened his eyes wide, looked at her in surprise, and then nodded hesitantly.

"You wait." Patting Qin Yao's shoulder and motioning her to eat first, Manager Fan turned and went to the back hall, called his trusted waiter and sent him out.

When Qin Yao had almost finished eating, a donkey cart arrived at the back door of the restaurant, piled high with meat and vegetables purchased by the restaurant.

The driver was wearing a straw hat and a linen suit, looking like a farmer.

But if you look carefully, you will find that there is no smell of mud on this farmer's body.

There was a knock on the back door, and the boy opened the door, removed the threshold, and let the donkey cart delivering vegetables in.

The donkey cart loaded only with meat and vegetables seemed a little heavy and slowly drove into the backyard.

There is also Qin Yao's family's carriage parked in the yard. The black and gold luxury carriage that was begged from Wang Mawu that year is very recognizable.

"Just put the dishes by the kitchen door." The lobby was very busy, and after giving the instructions, the waiter trotted away, leaving only the delivery driver in the backyard.

The driver looked at the food in the cart, not knowing where to start.

"Please move the stuff to my car."

Qin Yao's sudden appearance startled the driver. When he saw it was her, he quickly clasped his fists and bowed before starting to move.

The meat and vegetables were quickly unloaded, revealing a large wooden box hidden underneath.

The driver used a lot of strength and it was very difficult to move the things.

Qin Yao couldn't bear to watch it anymore, so she stepped forward to lend a hand, and together they finally managed to put the wooden box into the carriage.

Qin Yao tapped the lock on the wooden box with her fingertips and asked tentatively, "What's in here? It's locked."

What about trust between people?

Wang Jin said: Not at all!

The driver shook his head and said, "I don't know what it is. I'll leave now that the goods have been delivered."

The driver nodded politely to Qin Yao, turned around, got on the donkey cart and left.

Hearing footsteps behind her, Qin Yao had to put aside her curiosity temporarily, locked the car door, and returned to the lobby.

"Have you finished your meal?" asked Shopkeeper Fan with a smile.

Qin Yao nodded, thanked him for his help, and gave him an extra five taels of silver when paying the bill.

Shopkeeper Fan was delighted and accepted it without any hesitation.

"Come over when you have free time next time, and we'll have a couple of drinks and reminisce about the past," said Shopkeeper Fan enthusiastically.

Qin Yao agreed, drove out of the restaurant's back door, drove out of the county town, and returned to the village at noon.

Qin Yao agreed with Wang Jin to set out early the next morning. The round trip might take about ten days. When she got home, she put the heavy wooden box in the bedroom and began to make arrangements.

Luggage and other things are secondary. The main issues are picking up and dropping off children from school, as well as all the major and minor affairs in the village.

Qin Yao first went to find the clan leader and told him that she would be away for a few days.

"Going to the capital again?" The clan leader thought, which village chief loves to travel so far?

Qin Yao came prepared and said seriously: "I went to the capital this time for our village."

The clan leader was a little unconvinced: "For our village?"

"Yes, that's right, for all the villagers in our Liujia Village!" Qin Yao took out the latest fine-crafted ladies' box developed by the special team of the stationery factory.

"I went to the city this time to successfully sell this lady's box and raise funds for the industrial upgrading of our village."

The clan leader was a little confused, "What?"

Qin Yao explained: "It's like this. If I can get the order for the Lady's Box when I go to the capital this time, I will let all the villagers raise funds to invest in the stationery factory and promote the overall upgrading of the entire stationery factory."

"From the original rough to the fine, abandon the low-cost and low-return route, take the high-cost and high-return high-precision route, and create a core economic pillar that belongs exclusively to Liujia Village!"

Qin Yao concluded very seriously and solemnly: "By then, the people in our village will be able to get dividends just by sitting there, and combined with the output from the land, we will be able to achieve a well-off society in less than two years."

The patriarch knows the concept of a well-off society.

Qin Yao once told them that what she meant was that they could have enough food to eat, clothes to wear, and the children could go to school, so they no longer had to worry about the most basic survival.

However, they don’t even dare to eat their fill now. Can they really do that in two years?

But seeing Qin Yao's confident look, the clan leader was willing to be fooled by her. What if his dream came true?

So he slapped his thigh and said, "Don't worry, Village Chief, I'm still here in the village!"