Chapter 545 Extra: Things Money Can Get Done Are Minor Matters

When Lin Luoxi and Xie Hanchuan encountered the villagers who were relocating their entire families, they had already taken the children and the white wolf into their spatial dimension.

Now, she and Xie Hanchuan are walking with the villagers.

After walking for a day and a night, we finally returned to town.

As soon as Lin Luoxi and Xie Hanchuan stepped into the town, they clearly felt a shaking under their feet.

The old woman and the third brother's son, who had entered the town, also sensed it, and all four of them showed expressions of relief at surviving a disaster.

Fortunately, they listened to the advice of these two benefactors, otherwise…

Although they didn't want to care about the lives of those people, when the earthquake actually happened, Lin Luoxi and Xie Hanchuan unloaded the people's belongings and hurriedly drove their carriage to the town mayor's mansion.

"Princess, General, you're back!" Zhao Jiye and Magistrate Fan were relieved to see Lin Luoxi and Xie Hanchuan return.

"Mayor Zhao, Magistrate Fan, it seems an earthquake is about to occur in Chuanzhou."

"On our way back, we found a large number of animals fleeing, which means that there must be a natural disaster more serious than the snow disaster."

As soon as Xie Hanchuan saw Mayor Zhao and County Magistrate Fan, he immediately told them what they had seen.

"Yes, Princess General, the reason we rushed back so urgently is because we discovered this unusual thing."

“Hongyuan Town has a unique terrain, and the death toll would be extremely high if an earthquake were to occur.”

"We're small, we can't take care of everything..."

County Magistrate Fan and Zhao Jiye looked at Lin Luoxi and Xie Hanchuan with troubled expressions. Although they really wanted to save the people in the surrounding area, they were short of money. Back in the four months when the mountains were blocked by heavy snow, they had already emptied their pockets.

The imperial court's relief funds have been delayed, so even if they wanted to help, they were powerless to do so!

"You two should send people to rescue them. If any civilians want to seek refuge in town, that's fine too. We'll take care of the money and food..."

Seeing the troubled expressions on their faces, Lin Luoxi knew that they were truly facing difficulties.

Having spent so much money in both the capital and the northern states, and now that a truly major disaster is about to strike, Lin Luoxi cannot simply stand by and watch someone die.

She's wrong about everything now; all she has is food and money.

Things that money can solve are minor issues.

"Alright, Princess is truly righteous. Let's proceed with the arrangements as Princess has suggested."

When Zhao Jiye and County Magistrate Fan heard Lin Luoxi say that she would provide money and grain, and they would only need to contribute their labor, they exchanged delighted glances and quickly went to carry out their tasks.

Lin Luoxi was not one to procrastinate. She pretended to go to the carriage, carried down several bags of grain, and had Steward Zhao send someone to take a large pot to the entrance of the town mayor's residence to set up a porridge stall.

At the same time, they also set up a stall to sell rice nearby.

Of course, if you have extra money at home, you can buy it. The price will remain the same as before the snow disaster. The price will not increase because of the snow disaster, so that ordinary people will not be able to afford rice.

The commotion Lin Luoxi caused brought hot porridge to the villagers who had just moved to the town and had nowhere to go.

The snowstorm struck suddenly, and many people in the town froze to death.

The first group of people who moved into the town, together with Lin Luoxi, carried out the bodies of those who had frozen to death and cremated them. They also paid the rent and provided each family with a room.

Of course, if you have a lot of spare money, you can also pay for a house that used to cost fifty to one hundred taels of silver, but now only costs twenty taels.

When this policy was introduced, the first group of villagers who listened to advice or sensed something was wrong were very grateful to Lin Luoxi for this policy.

Families with many members and sufficient funds gritted their teeth and spent the money to buy their dream house.

Although it might seem like profiteering, if you don't buy now, you won't have the chance to buy later, and the price won't be the same.

As for food and clothing, Lin Luoxi was distributing porridge at the town mayor's door, so they could just go there every day for a bite.

The first group of people who moved to the town bought a house for life with the least amount of money. They ate warm porridge and couldn't help but sigh with gratitude that they were lucky to have moved to the town. Otherwise, they would have stayed in the mountain valley and never left the mountains for generations.

The common people who were forcibly moved to the town for refuge by the two officials, Magistrate Fan and Zhao Jiye, did not receive such good treatment.

To accommodate the refugees who came later, Lin Luoxi also spent money to hire laborers from the town to help build the relief center.

Those families who had just bought houses and had no money at all all came to sign up. They worked until dark every day and could receive their wages. Everyone's face was beaming with smiles.

People who were reluctant to spend money to buy a house and were only willing to spend a few dozen coins to rent one are now filled with regret.

Everyone says there are more opportunities in town, and sure enough, they were able to find work and earn wages not long after they moved to town.

If I had known this would happen, I should have gritted my teeth and used the money to buy a house.

But no matter how much they regretted it, the house had been bought by a brave person, and they could only squeeze several families into one house.

After the harvest season improves, they will leave the town and return to their remote mountain village to continue their difficult, backwater life.

Every day I go to work, I receive my wages, and every day I see others going home instead of returning to their rented rooms. The renter regrets it so much that he wishes he could turn back time.

Since all the houses in town were full, Lin Luoxi could only arrange for people to stay in the newly built relief hall.

With so many people and the situation being so sudden, the relief hall was a large communal room, but it was divided into many cubicles by wooden boards to protect everyone's privacy.

Those who rented rooms finally felt a sense of relief when they saw that the people who moved to the town later could only live in cramped and small cubicles like those in the relief hall.

The twenty children from Cai'ao Village whom Lin Luoxi had helped when she first entered Chuanzhou were placed in a house she bought in the town.

Twenty people, two in each room, not enough room. So the twenty children built two more rooms in the yard, which would be just enough to accommodate them.

They happened to be from the same village and were all acquaintances, so the twenty children got along well and took turns doing chores every day.

Lin Luoxi also specifically instructed that if there was work to be done in town, anyone who was twelve or thirteen years old and whose parents were not around could come and work to earn money, and that wages would be paid according to the amount of labor contributed.

Of these twenty children, sixteen were of working age, while the others did housework at home to earn wages.

The twenty children had arranged themselves very well. Seeing that they were well-organized, Lin Luoxi thought for a moment and took away five of the girls who were not yet of working age.

Living with five girls among so many boys is bound to be inconvenient. It's better for them to stay with her and help her with chores.