Liu Ji jumped away as if he had springs on his feet, and spread the news throughout the yard that he also had some pocket money.
Qin Yao curled her lips, what a shameful thing.
He lowered his head and continued to check the accounts.
Having recently completed the order for the magical bookcases from Fulong Trading Company, Song Yu went to the provincial capital to settle the subsequent accounts. After deducting various costs and taxes, Qin Yao personally received 650 taels of silver.
This time, Song Yu failed to bring in more orders. The demand from Fulon Trading Company was greatly reduced. They only ordered two thousand pieces, to be delivered within half a year.
On average, the stationery factory will only receive orders of around 60 taels per month in the first half of next year.
If it weren't for the new product, the Lady's Box, Qin Yao would have taken a deep breath.
He immediately instructed Song Yuyunniang and others to continue developing new products and not to slack off.
However, with this 650 taels of money coming in, the 170 taels needed for the New Year gift doesn't seem so painful.
There have been increases and decreases, and after counting the original amount, Qin Yao now has 2,736 taels of silver in cash and a full warehouse of grain.
In addition, one hundred mother-of-pearl ladies' boxes will be delivered at the end of this month. If all goes well, we will receive another huge sum of money before New Year's Eve.
After calculating the accounts, Qin Yao felt better again.
The silver and food in her hands now gave her a great sense of security. If she could continue to cooperate with the new county magistrate, her life as a landlord would be extremely happy.
Song Zhang's family will leave after the New Year. So the new county magistrate will be in place within two months after the New Year. By then, Liu Ji will prepare a small gift and take it to try out the new county magistrate's ideas.
However, for this kind of thing, it depends on "you want me to have it". Nowadays, the people in Kaiyang County have become very good, and there is only Wang Mawu, who is a coward and cannot cause any trouble.
On the contrary, Qin Yao, the "evil ghost lady", has a more vicious reputation in the underworld. Don't let the new official take office and burn her.
Thinking of this, Qin Yao felt that she should not be too optimistic. Even if the new county magistrate and Song Zhang were both Jinshi graduates of the same year and were gentlemen, people would change.
Forget it, let’s talk about it later. There’s no point in thinking about it now.
After closing the account book, Qin Yao stood up and stretched, picked up the small charcoal urn that she could hug, and went out to inspect the village.
It was about to snow, so she had to notify every household to be prepared. She should also check on the widows and the elderly in the village, pay attention to temperature changes, and prepare enough warm supplies.
The villagers have become a little richer this year, and 90% of the villagers have sufficient supplies for the winter, so Qin Yao no longer needs to worry.
The remaining 10% are lonely elderly people who have lost their ability to work, a total of three.
There were originally five of them, but two of them froze to death a few years ago, and now there are only three.
Because they are unable to work and two of them have chronic diseases, in the past they would have basically been waiting to die.
But after Qin Yao became the village chief, he allocated a portion of the clan's public funds to provide free food and vegetables to the three elderly people every month, ensuring their basic living needs.
In this way, the three old people who thought they would not survive the spring lived well until the winter.
Thick clothes were needed for winter, and they were still provided by the public. Qin Yao also asked Liu Yang and other young people in the village to help repair the house of the three people, so that it would no longer be drafty. As long as there was enough charcoal, spring would come again.
Many villagers had opinions about what Qin Yao did, but Qin Yao said, "In the future, all the villagers in Liujia Village will be treated like this when they are old and weak."
The villagers no longer had any complaints, and instead felt at peace with themselves because they had someone to rely on in their old age.
Qin Yao also plans to set aside a portion of the dividends given to the villagers as their pension, and encourage other villagers who have not participated in the investment to hand over a portion of the clan's money every year for retirement security.
When the money in this unified account reaches a certain amount, she plans to hand it over to young people in the village who are good at business and let them make money from it.
The old village chief and clan leader are very supportive of this plan and are helping to lobby the villagers. If things go well, it can be implemented in the early spring of next year.
Qin Yao has been busy these days. With Liu Ji taking care of Song Zhang's family, she doesn't need to worry about interpersonal relationships. She takes this opportunity to set up a leadership team for the Liujia Village Assistant in the village.
While maintaining the original organizational structure of the village chief and clan leader, the village is seriously short of management personnel due to the increasing problems and contradictions brought about by the growing number of migrant workers in Liujia Village.
Therefore, the unofficial position of village assistant was specially created to assist the village chief and the clan leader in handling all matters big and small in the village.
As soon as this request was made, it received strong support from all the villagers in Liujia Village.
After all, this is a legitimate position, which is completely different from the feeling of the village chief or clan leader just calling anyone at random in previous years.
After all the villagers voted, Liu Dafu, Liu Yang, Liu Qi and Liu Zhong were finally elected as village assistants.
Qin Yao inspected the village and called all the four people she could to come and asked them to find someone to trim the branches that extended from the roadside to prevent the weather from getting colder and freezing, and to prevent icicles from falling and accidentally injuring passers-by.
"As for the three old people in the village, when it snows, we will arrange for them to spend the winter in one house. They can take care of each other, and the charcoal in the village can be saved, making it easier to take care of them."
The only ones who could come were Liu Dafu and Liu Yang. The old and the young carefully took note of the village chief's instructions.
"Oh, right!" Qin Yao remembered an important matter and said to Liu Yang, "You arrange two idle people from the village to go over to the foot of the mountain and take a look around to prevent wild animals from coming down the mountain and hurting people and animals."
Liu Yang: “Okay.”
After the two of them left, Qin Yao went to the school again.
Classes had started for several days, and Zhen Yubai basically did not go to the Lotus Courtyard during the day. Qin Yao secretly observed him at night and only caught him once.
As expected, he was once again driven away by Gong Liangliao's ruthless shout of "Get lost".
Qin Yao guessed that someone in the capital might want to call Gong Liangliao back.
However, the old man obviously did not want to get involved in the disputes in the court anymore, and he didn't even want to hear Zhen Yubai mention the person behind him.
Put yourself in her shoes. If she were disturbed like this, she would probably want to stab that person.
But even though there are many suspicious points about Zhen Yubai, it cannot be denied that his teaching quality is excellent and he is very patient with his students.
Because the children at home always praised the teacher for being so good, the villagers were also very enthusiastic about him, and all the good children at home were sent to the school.
Zhen Yubai couldn't cook, so after he recovered from his illness, he asked a village lady to prepare two meals a day for him and help with cleaning and washing clothes.
Qin Yao also asked this lady indirectly and found that Zhen Yubai was normal except that he liked to visit the lotus courtyard at night. He was just a teacher who truly loved children.
"village head?"
Zhen Yubai walked out from behind the school, carrying a bamboo basket in one hand and a small hoe in the other, as if he was digging wild vegetables.
Seeing Qin Yao standing outside the classroom door was a bit surprising. (End of this chapter)
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