"My lord? You're finally back!" Madam Meng almost cried tears of joy.

Village Chief Li gave her a reassuring look, walked over to her and stood beside her, his eyes filled with a hint of authority as he looked at Granny Wang and her group, "Wang the Cripple, what are you all up to now?"

Wang the Cripple's eyes darted around, and he retreated guiltily, chuckling as he said, "Nothing, nothing, it's just that a few of our families decided to flee the famine and came here to ask for our share..."

"What's supposed to be your share?" Village Chief Li frowned. "What else do you want? You were the only one who went up the mountain this time. No one from the Ma or Deng families went. And were you even there to help with the work? I get angry just thinking about you!"

Village Chief Li wasn't blind. In fact, having served as village chief for so many years, he knew how to judge everyone's contributions, so he saw through Wang the Cripple's little tricks.

Granny Wang objected, "Village chief, you can't just say things like that! My cripple has trouble walking, yet he still came into the mountains with you to help with the hunting, not to mention he ran back ahead to warn us. Doesn't that count as a merit?"

"What? You call this merit?" Village Chief Li was furious. "Ask your husband what he did on the mountain!"

Granny Wang wasn't stupid. As soon as she heard this, she knew that Wang the Cripple was definitely not telling the truth. But she was an unreasonable person by nature, so why would she care about such things? She immediately said, "I don't care. I only know that my husband went into the mountains with you. You said he would get a whole sheep!"

"I meant to give a whole sheep to those who perform outstandingly and make great contributions! Not to someone who's lazy, shirks responsibility, or hides in the back when there's danger and refuses to help!" Village Chief Li rubbed his temples, desperately telling himself not to stoop to the level of someone who was being unreasonable.

Granny Wang tried to sit down on the ground again and start throwing a tantrum, but Wang the Cripple, having experienced firsthand the ruthlessness of Village Chief Li and his gang during his trip into the mountains, quickly pulled her back. "I misunderstood the village chief," he said. "Let's hurry home; we have to go out again tomorrow..."

Ignoring Wang Pozi's struggles and beatings, he dragged the person away.

Seeing that they wouldn't get any benefits, the other two companies also slunk away.

Village Chief Li turned to Meng and said, "Quickly take the kitchen knives and other household items to Old Meng's place. We hunted two wild boars, three wolves, and two hyenas in the mountains this time. If we don't deal with them soon, they'll spoil..."

Upon hearing this, Meng asked in confusion, "Why do we have to go to Old Meng's place to handle this? Shouldn't we call everyone else to come along?"

“No need,” Village Chief Li laughed heartily, “This was obtained by more than a dozen of us, and it will be divided among our seven or eight families.”

This batch of prey doesn't belong to the village, since no one else contributed, so it doesn't need to be shared among the whole village.

"Really?" Madam Meng exclaimed excitedly. "That's wonderful!"

Wolves and hyenas don't weigh much, but wild boar meat is plentiful! If it's divided among only seven or eight families, his family should get at least a hundred pounds, right?

Oh dear, with so much extra meat all of a sudden, I wonder if we have enough salt at home...

While thinking, Meng packed her things and ran to Meng Tianze's house. After asking around at home, Village Chief Li followed her.

Jiang Qinyu came down from the mountain, too tired to do anything, but the prey really needed to be dealt with. She had to force herself to cheer up, go back to check on Shufan and Pan'er, and then immediately bring salt to Meng Tianze's house.

Salt was a strategic resource in this era, and ordinary people couldn't possibly store too much at home. The village had also processed so much game, so there was hardly any salt left in the whole village.

Jiang Qinyu's grain and oil section had no shortage of salt, and since it was late at night, no one was looking at what the salt in her salt jar looked like. When she arrived, she was already processing wild boar meat with the Meng family and the others.

"Ah Zheng's family, your uncle said that we owe a lot to you for this trip into the mountains. How come you're so good at finding things?" Meng Shi said to Jiang Qinyu while deftly rubbing salt onto the wild boar meat.

Jiang Qinyu was also salting the wild boar meat. Hearing this, she smiled and said, "It's not that I know how to find it, it's just that I'm lucky. Besides, if you look carefully, you can still find a lot of useful things in the mountains."

She, who aspires to a life of leisure, wouldn't know any of these things, but with the system as her cheat code, everything she does is naturally more convenient than for others.

“Your uncle said that your family will definitely get a bigger share this time, it’s all what you deserve.” Madam Meng wasn’t jealous at all that the Lu family would get a bigger share of the meat, because her family would definitely get just as much.

Jiang Qinyu smiled and said, "It's all thanks to everyone. Just distribute it fairly."

She wouldn't be foolish enough to turn down a benefit that's offered to her. Besides, she was the one who discovered it and came up with the plan, even though she didn't put in much effort.

Meng liked her for being unpretentious. Her husband had a tough time being the village chief, but over the years, he had always done a good job in all matters related to distribution, satisfying the vast majority of the villagers.

Chen pulled Ma over to help, and when she heard the conversation between Meng and Jiang Qinyu, the corners of her mouth turned up wide.

She knew that she had made the right choice in marrying her eldest son to a woman; all those years of her and her husband's heartfelt devotion to their aunt and nephews had not been in vain.

Ma was not happy to hear this and muttered under her breath, "She just got lucky and found some food. If she's so capable, let her make our village able to farm! If the land doesn't produce anything, how long can we hold out?"

As she spoke, her voice gradually grew louder, and Chen Shi, Meng Shi, Jiang Qinyu, and others all heard her.

Jiang Qinyu looked at Madam Ma, "Second sister-in-law, what if I could really do that? Could you run ten laps around our village and lose all that fat on you?"

"Ah Zheng's family, can you really let us continue farming?" Grandpa Jiang, who was on the other end, heard this and walked over with his eyes shining.

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