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Chang Yin felt a chill run down his spine when he saw the way Tang Yue was staring at him. This little girl probably wasn't planning anything good.

After handing in a few problems to Tang Yue, Chang Yin hurriedly walked out. Tang Yue found Chang Yin's pace amusing, but the problem-solving approach Chang Yin had given her today had also given her a new perspective. It seemed that complete self-study wasn't necessarily a good path.

It would be better to ask Chang Yin to teach her more things when you have time.

These past few days, Old Li has been mixing mud and drying a lot of mud bricks in his spare time. The weather is nice, and the mud bricks are slowly drying. Old Li plans to finish building the adjacent house if he doesn't work in the next few days.

Li Qingyang and Miao Yujiao arrived in the courtyard right after breakfast. Lin Cuicui greeted them warmly.

"Brother and sister-in-law, come inside quickly."

Sister Miao laughed heartily, "Aren't we too early? Have you had breakfast yet?"

"Yes, I've already eaten. Let's go inside and cook."

"No, no, we can just sit in the yard for a while. Um, where's Yueyue?"

Tang Yue came out of the house upon hearing the sound. Li Qingyang and Miao Yujiao were already sitting at the table where they usually ate.

"Did Aunt Miao want to see me about something?"

"Hey! Yueyue is such a hero to us now, even I can't reach her anymore. Well, your uncle has some things he wants to ask you about."

Tang Yue smiled. This Aunt Miao was quite eloquent. She turned her gaze to Li Qingyang.

Li Qingyang scratched the back of his head somewhat embarrassedly, "Yueyue, yesterday Battalion Commander Chang brought some people over to talk about the army building a factory in our village."

I understand from Battalion Commander Chang's point that most of the work should be handled by our village.

There's a lot going on right now, and I'm a bit unsure where to begin.

Tang Yue raised an eyebrow; it seemed Li Qingyang already had his own ideas.

"What does Uncle Li think?"

“It’s certainly a good thing that they’re building a factory in our village. The land has already been secured with the military.”

However, we hadn't yet clearly explained to Battalion Commander Chang the costs of building the facility, what medicinal herbs we would be responsible for processing, how to process them, how many workers we would need, and where to sell them.

Tang Yue nodded. "Uncle Li, to be honest, Battalion Commander Chang also told me about this yesterday."

The military wants to boost production and development in our village, so they want to give our village most of the initiative.

"That means you'll have a lot more to do, Uncle Li."

Li Qingyang nodded hurriedly, "Yes. It's about this matter that I don't know how much money it will cost, and I want to ask the villagers for their opinions."

"Uncle Li, if the villagers aren't willing, are you going to shut down this medicinal herb factory?"

Li Qingyang waved his hands repeatedly, "No, no, how could that be? It will definitely be opened, but I think if the villagers are unwilling to contribute money, then the profits of the medicinal herb factory will naturally have little to do with them."

Tang Yue looked at Li Qingyang but didn't speak. Li Qingyang continued, "The brigade leaders of Daonan Village and Yangjiazhuang Village also came to see me a few days ago. They are more informed than our village and knew about this matter in advance. I think the two brigade leaders are quite concerned about it."

If, I mean, the people in our village really lack foresight, then we still have to take on this task. Not for any other reason than to provide jobs for everyone in the village later.

Tang Yue felt that Li Qingyang was right to be the team leader. "Uncle Li, it's just a matter of building a few factory buildings and constructing a courtyard wall. It shouldn't cost much money, right?"

Moreover, since everyone is not busy now, each family can contribute some labor to get things done.

The initial scale doesn't need to be too large; expansion can be done later once we've actually made money.

Aunt Miao slapped her thigh and exclaimed, "That's right! Yueyue is right. What I mean is that we don't need to build too big a house first. That way, we won't have to invest much money in the early stages, and the villagers won't have too many objections."

When we make money in the future, we can build as big as we want.

Besides, Daonan Village and Yangjiazhuang aren't from our village, so they can't possibly be completely on our side. If Daobei Village can do things on its own, will we still be at the bottom of those other villages in the future?

Li Qingyang naturally understood this principle, but he thought it best to build the factory and such from the beginning to save himself the trouble of dealing with it later.

Tang Yue realized that the two of them already had their own ideas, so she didn't say anything more.

"Uncle Li, do as you see fit. If you need any help from Battalion Commander Chang, then we'll talk about it."

Around noon, Ding Lingzi came to Tang Yue's house carrying a basket. As soon as she entered the yard, she called out, "Is Cui Cui home?"

Lin Cuicui quickly came out of the house, "Sister-in-law is here, please come in and sit down."

Tang Bei was tending the fire by the stove when Ding Lingzi, without entering the house, carried a basket to the stove and placed it on it.

"Oh, I won't go inside. It's almost lunchtime, and I just steamed some buns. They turned out pretty good today, so I brought a few over for you to try."

"Oh dear, sister-in-law, everyone's having a tough time these days. You should take it back with you. We steamed some yesterday too, and we still have some at home."

"Aren't you being polite with me again? I've already brought it here, and you still want me to take it back?"

Lin Cuicui didn't say anything more. Just then, there was still more than half a pound of salted meat left from the piece Tang Bei had cut. Lin Cuicui quickly took it, picked out the steamed buns from the basket, put the piece of salted meat in, and handed the basket to Ding Lingzi.

"Sister-in-law, there's not much good food at home. Take this piece of meat back and stir-fry it for the children. Rinse it a couple more times, I added a bit too much salt."

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