With a large amount of bamboo as raw material and the joint efforts of the whole village, although the collapsed house was not repaired perfectly, it can at least be lived in.
Later, because the mountains were closed for a long time, the villagers of Huaxi Village could not seek more food outside, so everyone began to spontaneously look for food in the small rivers and mountains in the village. Of course, if each family had food, they would give some to share, and those who did not have so much food had to make or hunt more food for everyone as a "reward" for eating these foods for free.
Of course, during this period, there were people who had evil intentions and wanted to take some food for themselves.
Fortunately, most of the villagers in Huaxi Village are very kind, and even if there are any unexpected problems, they will be quickly "eliminated".
Most importantly, Su Qingluan understood that as long as food was relatively sufficient and everyone was not starving, there would be no uncontrollable riots.
Fortunately, a considerable number of people in the village have worked at "Su Ji" before, and these people are basically young and middle-aged laborers. Therefore, these families do not have to worry about food and clothing because they receive generous wages and various "welfare subsidies".
One of the benefits derived from this incident was that Su Qingluan had unknowingly gained prestige in Huaxi Village through the previous events, so she originally wanted to organize a few familiar "Su Ji" workers to go fishing by the river, but she didn't expect that the whole village was listening to her arrangements unknowingly.
For a moment, Su Qingluan couldn't help but feel as if she had returned to the days when she worked at Su Ji, so she arranged for the women to be responsible for weaving fishing nets and preparing daily meals, while the men went hunting in the mountains or to the river to cast nets and catch fish.
In this way, the whole village cooperated and helped each other and finally got through this difficult winter.
Su Qingluan also learned in the spring that not only in the nearby small villages, but even in the more prosperous towns, many people had starved to death or frozen to death because their houses had collapsed due to heavy snow, or because they could not go out and there was a shortage of food.
Of course, this severe snowstorm caused the higher authorities to issue another edict of repentance, but it was obvious that the effect this time was far less than the first time.
After all, a memorandum of apology would only hold weight if it were issued only once and immediate action was taken. The constant high pressure and heavy taxes after the memorandum of apology reminded Su Qingluan of the lawyer's notice letter from her previous life that had been messed up and ultimately treated as a useless piece of waste paper.
Time flies, and in the blink of an eye, Su Qingluan has been in this world for more than two years. Many things have happened in these two years.
In the second year of their partnership with the Xie family, Su Qingluan had originally planned to open a store in the capital. However, starting in the second year, the situation in the capital became unstable. While it wasn't exactly a chaotic day, there was always some anxiety.
Of course, ordinary vendors don’t have this feeling. It’s the people from the Xie Mansion who are resisting the idea of opening a store. Su Qingluan naturally hopes that the business will be as big as possible, so she naturally asks, but the Xie Mansion just says that the situation is unstable.
Su Qingluan naturally did not think that she could easily find out the secrets of the high-level officials in the capital, but many clues could also indirectly indicate that although the situation in the capital was not as tense as if the enemy was at the gates, it was indeed very tense.
One of the most direct evidences is that Xie Zian, the "dissolute young master", was taken back in the first winter after Su Qingluan traveled through time, but unexpectedly, the young master was seen again in the early spring of the following year.
Then there was Shopkeeper Liang. He had always had a wide circle of friends, interacting with all kinds of people. Naturally, he knew quite a few traveling merchants and scholars from the capital as well.
Although Su Qingluan did not deliberately eavesdrop, she heard several times that the imperial guards were arresting people everywhere in the capital. No one knew who the people were, and everyone was in a panic.
Next was Mu Xingzhi. Although he still looked sick and frail, Su Qingluan knew that there were more "strangers" hanging around him.
Most of these people are taciturn - at least that's how they are when Su Qingluan is present.
And she still maintains her original principles: don't ask too many questions, don't look too much, keep the proper sense of propriety, and don't have too much curiosity.
After all, experience taught her that in any story, curiosity is the first step towards self-destruction.
Since the second year of her time travel, Su Qingluan had almost mastered sketching. After all, this kind of "sketch" was primarily a realistic skill and didn't require any artistic training. So after reaching the level of lifelike figure sketching, Su Qingluan had nothing more to teach.
All that remains is to practice more on your own.
However, if you are not pursuing delicate texture and simply want to express accurate proportions, you don’t even need to spend that much time studying the technology.
During this period, Su Qingluan would still frequently visit Mu Xingzhi, mostly to borrow and return books.
Thanks to these books, Su Qingluan can now read traditional Chinese characters much faster and more accurately than at the beginning.
However, she still couldn't finish reading many obscure classics. Since she didn't need to take the imperial examination anyway, Su Qingluan simply indulged herself in finding "leisure books" such as vernacular novels and travelogues that interested her.
Su Qingluan was already thirteen years old when she first traveled through time. Although she was still in the growth stage, she had finally passed the period of crazy height growth. Now she was only an inch taller than when she first started.
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