Chen Fuxi: "Dad, this group of people looks unusual. You see, they were so dirty a few days ago, but now those kids who used to run around the village are all clean and tidy. No one would doubt that they are city kids. And what about that tall bamboo? It looks pretty nice."
Chen Dawei: "Who knows what's going on? We've already built four bamboo houses, why are they still building? They don't take my words to heart at all. Look at how many bamboos and trees they've cut down recently. They'll have to pay us a lot of money, right?"
Chen Fuxi: "That's right. I cut down ten trees in the village and cut down a dozen bamboos. That would be thirty taels, right?"
Chen Dawei smiled widely.
He wished that the villagers would cut more trees so that he could collect money.
Chen Fuxi couldn't help himself and said, "Dad, when are we going to do it?"
Chen Dawei: "Don't worry, wait a little longer. They definitely won't be able to build four. I heard they came to our village to recruit workers today. Ha, they do have money."
Chen Dawei was just waiting for the day to finish work to cause trouble for them, just to see Lin Shucheng and the others waste their money.
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During the first two days of building the house, all the people from Linjia Village were building the house together.
Lin Jinyue disliked that they were working too slowly, so she inquired about the labor costs for building houses nearby and found out that they were not high. When she bought crabs in the morning, she asked Fat Chen to ask how many people in the village were willing to come and help.
She thought that most people in the village were xenophobic like Chen Dawei.
However, she didn't expect that after she spread the news, many people from Yunhe Village came and wanted to sign up.
Lin Jinyue never turned anyone away, after all, with more people she could finish the job one day earlier.
Lin Jinyue did not treat them unfairly. She paid them their wages and added meat dishes to every meal.
Fish are common by the sea, but their flesh is quite precious.
It’s not that Lin Jinyue is blindly generous, but if the pickled meat sent by the people of Yunmeng County is not eaten, it will probably become rancid, and this group of people in the village probably won’t be willing to throw it away even if it becomes rancid.
It’s better to finish it early.
As a result, the men in Yunhe Village worked harder, and Lin Jinyue became familiar with them.
Fat Chen didn't even go fishing these two days. Instead, he came here to work and earn some money.
During the lunch break, he was eating and Lin Jinyue came over.
Fat Chen smiled cheerfully, "Little girl, the food in your house tastes good. When the house is built, uncle will send you crabs and small fish."
Seeing that he was in a good mood, Lin Jinyue asked about the business: "Uncle, I just want to ask, is there anyone selling land in the village? I don't know how much it costs per acre, I want to buy some."
Fat Chen immediately put away his smile and started to feel troubled.
After a while, he said:
"Girl, it's not that I'm xenophobic. Most people in our village like you guys. We get money to build houses and meat to eat. It's just that the land is not good enough. Our village is by the sea and there are a lot of wastelands. We can't grow rice. We can only grow vegetables."
Lin Jinyue was surprised, "What do the people in your village eat?"
Fat Chen then talked about the situation in their village.
A few families lived well and were allocated a few acres of good farmland, but most of them went fishing and exchanged the money for buying food in the town.
At this point, Fat Chen sighed, "Ah, I don't know what the situation is like in the north. Three years ago, before the war, a pound of brown rice cost three cents. Now, it costs fifty cents. Life is hard for everyone. Sometimes when we are unlucky, we can only go to the mountains to get some fruits to eat."
"In fact, it is possible to reclaim wasteland, but it takes a lot of effort. Once the land is reclaimed, the court will take it away."
When saying this, Fat Chen's face was full of helplessness.
Lin Jinyue was surprised, "Have you ever thought about moving to another place?"
Fat Chen shook his head: "No, we can still make a living by fishing. If we move to another place, what will we do if a fight breaks out?"
Lin Jinyue thought about it and agreed.
It seems that it is impossible to buy land here.
Now the price of grain has increased more than ten times. If the war breaks out in the future, the price will only be higher. It seems that we should stock up more grain now while the price is not too outrageous.
According to the current grain price, Lin Jinyue took out 1,050 taels of silver to buy grain, which could be exchanged for 3,000 kilograms of brown rice. It seemed like a lot, but there were many people in their village.
It is estimated that it can only last for two months.
Lin Jinyue started thinking about upgrading the farm again.
There are only about seventy of them, and it is definitely not cost-effective to go out to sea to find a piece of land to farm. The boat fare is expensive, and there is no guarantee of people's safety.
Therefore, Lin Jinyue could only pray that the farm would be upgraded quickly so that potatoes or sweet potatoes could be produced quickly.
These two things are not as delicate as rice and can be grown in any piece of land.
But before unlocking the potatoes, they all had to eat.
Lin Jinyue had to find a way to make money, and she had to make money with the villagers.
But they have nothing here, so she planned to go to Shawan County first, make a name for herself, and then let the villagers go to other towns and villages to sell.
Then this thing can’t be sold too expensively, since everyone still needs it.
Lin Jinyue looked at the aunts around her, each of them wearing long-sleeved cotton and linen clothes, with sweat on their foreheads.
Another aunt said, "This Lingnan is good in every way, except that it's too hot. It's the hottest time of the year right now, oh."
It’s no wonder that Lin Jinyue feels a little hot these days when wearing silk and gauze clothes.
She missed the refrigerator and air conditioner from her previous life.
Lin Jinyue immediately decided that she wanted to make cold drinks.
Everything from iced juice, mung bean paste, to ice cream is on the menu. This business is bound to make money in Lingnan.
And most importantly, saltpeter can be reused.
In other words, you can make money just by doing manual labor.
This group of people had nothing but a lot of strength. They were just waiting for her to go to Shawan County to give it a try. If it was feasible, they could all go together after the house was built.
Lin Jinyue tiptoed to the school.
Among all the children in the village, she was the only one who didn't have to go to school.
The main reason is that she has a good memory and she majored in history. She can recite the books she read in her spare time by heart.
Mr. Tan did not make things difficult for her. After all, she was a girl and could not pass the imperial examinations, so he just let her play around.
That is to say, Lin Jinyue did not dare to write in front of Mr. Tan. If it weren't for the missing simplified Chinese characters, Mr. Tan would definitely force her to practice calligraphy.
Just like Lin Xueqing now.
I was caught and forced to write big characters every day together with the other children in the village.
Recently, Lin Jinyue didn’t dare to hang around in front of him, for fear that her brother would become mentally unbalanced and pull her to write big characters together.
Lin Jinyue felt a headache when she saw those traditional Chinese characters. Even though she could recognize them, it was much more troublesome for her to write and remember them one by one than to know nothing at all.
Lin Jinyue thought, why not just promote simplified Chinese characters in the village in the future?
Thinking this way, Lin Jinyue soon arrived at the school.
This was the first house to be built. It only has a few pillars and a roof, with a layer of bamboo underneath. It looks very neat.
In fact, Lin Jinyue also wanted to hang light blue gauze around the room, but she had no money to buy it, so she could only do this for now.
Lin Xueqing sat in the last row and began to write traditional Chinese characters with a charcoal pencil.
Lin Jinyue waved at him: "Brother, I need to go to Shawan County for something important."
Lin Xueqing immediately packed up his things and took the opportunity to ask for three days off.
After graduating, you still have to start from elementary school. Who can stand this?
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