Village chief He thought this was a good suggestion. In their Changle Village, including the women, there were only about thirty strong laborers who could work. It was not cost-effective to spend more than a dozen people to watch the bandits digging wild vegetables.

But if you are working in the village, it is good because everything is within sight.

He immediately gathered all the villagers together to listen to their opinions.

Finally all passed.

From that day on, a dozen bandits were forced to dig three drainage ditches in the front, middle and back of the village in the drizzle. It's no wonder that the roads in the village have become much easier to walk on.

The drainage ditch was dug like a small river. Drainage ditches on muddy ground are useless during light rains, but indispensable during heavy rains.

Even after the drainage ditch was dug, the rain still continued. The village chief waved his hand and led the bandits to open up wasteland around the village.

"The fields we used to have were abandoned a long time ago. We might as well start a new one. There's no government official to oversee them anyway."

"We've opened up this land around the village. When the rain stops, we'll fence it off and enclose the land inside. That way, we won't have to worry about outsiders coming to steal our food."

Regardless of whether there is any grain or not, we must first turn the land over. At worst, we can plant some wild vegetables in it, so we won't starve to death.

Those bandits are now being kept alive by wild vegetable soup. Apart from becoming thinner due to hunger, no one will die for the time being.

For farmers, not working during the farming season makes them feel upset.

Jiang Yue felt that he was quite resourceful, and the whole village was full of energy, as if they had found hope for survival.

Village Chief He came over and asked, "Madam Jiang, the bandits have cleared half of the land. You can choose a piece first."

"Thank you for your kindness, village chief. We appreciate it, but we don't plan to farm for the time being."

“This…” Where will we get food if we don’t farm?

"We can help with the planting." The village chief thought they were young and couldn't do farm work, but even planting some beans would be fine.

Jiang Yue still shook her head. Seeing that they seemed to have their own plans, the village chief stopped talking.

Jiang Yue returned to the main room and saw Jiang Nian scooping braised pork head from the pot and eating steamed buns as if they were roujiamo, looking very satisfied.

When they were traveling before, they mostly ate vegetarian food to fill their stomachs, partly for convenience and partly to avoid attracting attention.

Over the past ten days, in order to nourish Jiang Nian's body, she stewed old duck soup, big bone soup, fish head soup, and mutton soup. Every meal had meat and vegetables, and his thin cheeks seemed to be slowly getting plumper.

She counted the meat in the space and found 50 chickens, 12 ducks, 5 pigs, 5 geese, half a sheep, a deer, and 20 or so rabbits. The eggs had been consumed much more, leaving only about 600 edible eggs and a little over 100 breeding eggs.

The tiger remained, awaiting exchange. As for the pile of mule meat, Jiang Yue had no desire to eat it. She thought of her own lost mule, which had grown so fat and strong, and was gone just like that...

As for food, there was no shortage of it. With just two people, even if Jiang Nian was a big eater, he wouldn't be able to finish it.

The next day, Jiang Yue and the others went to see the village chief.

Village Chief He was shocked when he opened the cloth bag handed to him by Jiang Yue. He quickly called his son and daughter back into the house and asked his wife to close the door tightly.

His wife didn't understand what was going on until the man took out the contents of the bag, and then she widened her eyes.

"Madam Jiang, this..."

Jiang Yue smiled and said, "These are breeding eggs. I wonder if anyone in the village knows how to hatch them?"

Village Chief He didn't dare to shake his hands. He swallowed hard, his voice trembling, "Is this still a seed egg?"

There are more than ten of them in there!

They haven't seen eggs for a year. They can't even keep the chickens alive, so how can they lay eggs?

"Yes, Village Chief, these are the eggs, but we don't have any hens and we don't know how to hatch them."

The village chief's wife covered her mouth and said, "I, I can hatch!"

The village chief nodded and said, "My wife used to raise hundreds of chickens at home. She is familiar with this."

The village chief handed her the egg carefully.

The village chief's wife checked them twice against the light and confirmed that these dozen or so eggs were all breeding eggs!

She said with a smile, "Madam Jiang, don't worry. I will help you hatch the eggs in a month!"

Look, the rain is almost stopping and the weather is getting warmer. It’s just the right time!

Jiang Yue shook her head, "Village Chief, leave these hatched chicks to the village. We don't want them."

Without waiting for the village chief to refuse, she continued, "Also, I have some grain and vegetable seeds here, which I'll share with you. It's not much, just enough for each of you to plant one or two acres."

The village chief was dumbfounded and held his breath, waiting for her to finish speaking.

"There are only three kinds of vegetables: cabbage, leeks, and radishes. They're easy to grow. Because the weather is so unpredictable, I can give you rice seeds, wheat, sweet potatoes, potatoes, and beans. Some are drought-resistant and some are flood-resistant. The villagers are all experts in farming, so I won't get involved. They know much more than a young man like me."

The village head and his wife were so excited that their eyes were red. So many seeds! How much would it cost to buy them?

His throat tightened. "We'll work for you! And you'll pay us rent when the time comes!"

Just like sharecroppers, as long as there’s something to eat, it’s fine!

Jiang Yue felt that the couple were indeed good people, but she didn't need rent.

"We don't want anything, just two requests. We hope that everyone will not ask about our affairs, and secondly, not come to disturb us."

She added, "Don't get me wrong, Village Chief. My husband and I are rather solitary and don't like to socialize with people, so we hope everyone will refrain from visiting us. If you have any questions, please come to us alone."

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