However, they really couldn't build brick houses.

Bricks and tiles are hard to buy and expensive. Even if you can buy them, you have to wait for the brick kiln to make them. There are so many people in them, more than seventy people, ten households. They need to build at least ten brick and tile houses. Moreover, many families have half-grown sons. People get married early in the village. In two years, they will have to get married. If they want to build houses, they have to build them big. Otherwise, they will have to build new houses and plan new places after a while.

And we don't even know if we'll have any money then.

Moreover, Lin Jinyue also plans to install streetlights, which will be a considerable expense regardless of the fuel used.

But it has to be done.

Someone needs to stay on guard at night to prevent Chen Da and his gang from causing trouble, and also to prevent wild beasts from coming down from the mountains.

On the other side, Jiang Yun distributed the bowls, chopsticks, and jars to the villagers, and the vegetables and fruits that Lu Guangyao had bought could be stored there.

However, Jiang Yun told them to pickle them all so they could last longer.

Anyway, they can boil salt themselves now, so they don't have to worry about using too much salt to make pickles.

Those jars came in handy.

Lin Jinyue distributed the bowls and chopsticks according to the number of people. There were more than seventy people in total, so she bought a hundred sets of bowls and chopsticks and more than a hundred plates so that everyone would have bowls to eat.

She also saw people on the road fleeing famine wrapping their food in leaves, which was heartbreaking.

They weren't exactly using leaves, but they were running out of food. Look at Lin Youcai's chipped bowls; they'd brought them all the way here like treasures, and now they were cracked. Who knows how many meals they'd last?

Lin Youcai hurried over and handed Lin Jinyue a bag of silver coins, which contained loose silver pieces and some dirty copper coins.

Lin Jinyue handed the money bag back: "Grandpa, you can keep this money yourselves. There will be many places where you need money in the future, and this money will come from that thousand taels."

The villagers refused to accept the money, so Lin Jinyue simply used it to buy vegetables and a lot of coarse cloth. The coarse grains were taken from the farm's warehouse. They were called coarse grains only in comparison to modern times; in ancient times, they were almost as good as refined rice.

In addition to these, Lin Jinyue also bought some fabric for everyone, some of which she took from her spatial storage. However, there wasn't enough coarse cloth and cotton cloth, so she bought some more.

Those two boxes contained quite a lot of fabric, and their family was used to a good life. Who could stand having to wear long-sleeved cotton clothes in the middle of summer?

It must be made of silk; they still have quite a few silk brocades here.

Lin Jinyue kept only two bolts of fine cotton cloth for making clothes for autumn and winter, and took out three bolts of coarse cloth and two bolts of fine cotton cloth.

The small boat and all its cargo look like a lot, but the actual cost was only two hundred taels, with one hundred and fifty taels being the money for buying the boat.

Lin Jinyue refused to accept Lin Youcai's money no matter what, and said that the remaining three hundred taels could be used to buy grain and rice for the village in the future.

That night, when it was pitch black, village chief Lin Youcai led everyone to a small meeting.

The surroundings were dark, with only moonlight. A group of people, including Li the blacksmith's family, sat around Lin Youcai.

Lin Youcai's eyes reddened: "Sigh, Er Ya and her family really think about everyone."

"Especially you little kids, you must study hard and learn to read in the future to repay your sister Er Ya. I felt sorry for you when I saw that stack of paper that Er Ya bought today. And those fine cotton cloths were also specially prepared by your sister Er Ya for you children!"

Other villagers also said, "That must be a lot of money. I've never seen a five-tael silver ingot before. Er Ya bought so many things for us. I asked Boss Lu, and he said that boat alone cost one hundred and fifty taels!"

Wasn't this ship bought for everyone to use?

The group was extremely grateful to Lin Jinyue and her family, saying that without Lin Jinyue, they would not be where they are today.

Everyone firmly believed that Er Ya was a blessing bestowed upon them by heaven.

They were even more determined to follow Er Ya closely from now on, doing whatever she asked them to do.

Er Ya wanted to rebel from then on, and they fought alongside her!

It's just a head, isn't it?

*

Unaware that the villagers had held a secret meeting behind their backs, Lin Jinyue and her family of four nailed the curtain to the wooden planks of the thatched hut and then entered the space.

The farm is much more prosperous than before.

There was practically nothing inside before, but now the rabbits have had two litters, and the first batch of rabbits have all grown up.

They hadn't been to the farm for a while, and the food they ate in Yunmeng County was provided by Magistrate Ji.

Look, the farm has already accumulated nearly three hundred eggs.

You can choose to hatch the eggs or pick them up directly; both options will grant you experience. Lin Jinyue picked up thirty fresh eggs to eat over the next few days, while hatching the other two hundred-plus.

It looks like a larger chicken farm needs to be built on the farm.

One advantage of farms is that the poultry don't smell too bad. The chickens even defecate in designated areas, and cleaning the coop is as simple as sweeping away dust and feathers.

In this way, no matter how many chickens you raise, the smell won't be too unpleasant.

The incubation period is about 21 days. At five times the flow rate of the farm, they should have about four days to build the chicken coop. They should have enough time.

When the horses were taken into the space, they were all injured and thin. Now, after being raised on the farm by Lin Jinyue for a while, their coats are shiny and they look very energetic.

A horse came over and nuzzled Lin Jinyue with its head.

Lin Jinyue stroked its head: "I'm afraid you'll have to suffer these next few days."

Lin Jinyue glanced at the system panel. Upgrading from level four to level five requires 100,000 experience points, and the progress bar has now reached over 70,000.

Some of the experience came from observing the animals' growth, while another part came from Lin Jinyue following Gu Shao's men to select medicinal herbs. She didn't know if it was a system bug, but everything that passed through her hands was counted as harvesting and collecting.

Because a large quantity of the same medicinal herb was collected, the system also rewarded the user with a considerable number of seeds.

Seeing that she only needed 23,000 experience points to level up, Lin Jinyue decided to develop the acre of land where she used to ride horses.

Jiang Yun is currently processing the rabbit.

There were too many rabbits, and some of them were even pregnant. Jiang Yun was worried that the rabbits would become too numerous, so she culled several of the fully grown rabbits and made them into cold rabbit. They could be kept for several days and could also be taken to eat on the road. Otherwise, she had been doing too much physical work these past few days and hadn't been eating enough meat, so her body couldn't keep up.

Lin Shucheng wasn't idle either. He picked out some vegetables and then brought out the meat that Jiang Yun had bought that afternoon, asking, "Daughter, do you want some barbecue? I'll make it for you."

Lin Jinyue shook her head. "Dad, don't rush to eat. I haven't digested my dinner yet. We're about to level up. Let's go farm."

Lin Shucheng immediately called his son, and the three of them worked hard together to plant the crops.

Lin Jinyue kept muttering "potato, potato, potato," wishing she could level up tonight and see if the unlocked item was a potato.