The village chief took the list to find Chen Mo. When he arrived at Chen Mo's house, Chen Mo had just finished breakfast and was discussing the land reclamation with Li Yun.
"Brother Chen, Brother Dachuan is here to give you the list." The village chief came to the door and started calling Chen Mo.
"Brother Dachuan, come in quickly." Chen Mo shouted from inside the house.
The village chief came into the main hall and saw Chen Mo and Li Yun there.
"Brother Chen, girl Li, this is the list of people who can start work in our village. I have screened them. They are all people who are quick and hardworking." The village chief handed the screened list to Chen Mo.
"Brother Dachuan, thank you so much. I didn't expect it to be done so quickly." Chen Mo took the list, took a look at it, and found that it was similar to what he knew, so he handed it to the eldest brother.
Li Yun took the list and looked at the names on it. She didn't know many of them. She looked up at Chen Mo and saw him nod. She knew that the people on the list should pass.
"Uncle village chief, since you have already screened them, just start working according to the people on this list." Li Yun confirmed that there were no problems with the people on the list and asked the village chief to call people to start work.
"Okay, I'll go and inform them later. Do you know when we can start work?" The village chief knew the number of people who could start work, so he asked Li Yun the start date.
"Uncle village chief, ask them to go and reclaim wasteland tomorrow, and pay their daily wages on the same day." Li Yun told the village chief her plan.
"Girl Li, wouldn't it be too troublesome to settle the bill on the same day? After all, you need to prepare a lot of copper coins. It would be better to settle it once every ten days." The village chief thought it was too troublesome to settle the bill every day, so he decided to settle it once every ten days or a month.
"Just do as the village chief ordered and settle the accounts every ten days from now on. Tell the villagers so when you go back." Li Yun also agreed to settle the accounts every ten days, which would not be so troublesome.
"Okay, I'll go back and tell them to start work tomorrow." After saying this, the village chief left Chen Mo's house and went to the homes of the villagers on the list to tell them to start work tomorrow.
After the village chief left, Li Yun talked with his father-in-law for a while and then went back to his room.
In Qingshan Village, the news that Chen Mo's family wanted to hire people to open up wasteland caused a huge uproar in Qingshan Village. At this moment, Chen Yan's family was also in a mess.
"Boss, when did your second brother become rich enough to hire so many people from our village to help him open up wasteland?" Jinhua said to his man.
"I don't know either. I just heard from the villagers that it was my second brother's daughter-in-law. She used to be the daughter of a wealthy family. She had an accident and lost her memory. Now she has recovered her memory and retrieved the silver she buried before the accident. Now she has the silver, and she uses it to buy land." Chen Yan told his wife the news he had heard from the villagers in Bagua in the past two days.
"Boss, your second uncle is such an ungrateful person. Now that he has money, he doesn't even help us but gives the money away to the villagers." Jinhua was furious when she thought about how those people who started working didn't include their family. With so much money, wouldn't he give some to them to spend?
"Okay, don't be angry. They are ungrateful people. Why get angry with them? Don't make yourself sick and waste money on medical treatment." Chen Yan comforted his wife. If she got sick, he would be the one who suffered.
"No, we can't let them go like this. Since they won't give us some of the silver, we can do it secretly. We can tell the villagers that the silver was left to our parents by our grandfather, and was secretly dug away by our eldest brother and his family." Jinhua became more and more angry as she thought about it, and came up with a bad idea.
"Mom is right. The villagers will definitely stand on our side then. They will have no choice but to give us the money. Anyway, there is no way to verify these words." said Chen Yan's eldest son Chen Dagou.
"Yes, let's do it this way. When the time comes, our whole family will go to my uncle's house together. It would be best if everyone knows about it." said Jin Yue, Chen Dagou's wife.
"What Dad, Mom, Big Brother, and Big Sister-in-law said is right. Let's do this. Now we will go to Uncle's house and make a big fuss."
The third son Chen Dasheng also agreed.
Only Zhang Cuihua kept her head down and said nothing.
After confirming it, Jinhua brought her entire family to Chen Mo's house.
At Chen Mo's house, Chen Mo and Qin Lanlan were resting in their room, while Li Yun, Dabao, Erbao, and Sanbao were drying herbs. They heard a lot of footsteps outside, and soon the footsteps reached the door. Before they could react, they heard a pig-killing howl.
"His second uncle, come out quickly! You thief, you stole the silver that our grandfather left for my parents. That silver was left to my family by my parents." Jinhua shouted loudly at the door.
Li Yun listened to Jinhua's nonsense and laughed instead of getting angry. It was really interesting. When did the money he earned become his grandfather's money?
He walked towards the door, followed by Dabao and his two siblings.
When they were almost at the door, Chen Mo and Qin Lanlan also arrived.
"Dad, Mom, don't worry about this. I want to see what they want." Li Yun thought Chen Yan's family was truly peculiar. The whole village knew how their grandparents treated them. If they had money, they would have given it to them long ago, and they wouldn't have kept it until now. And everyone knew what life was like when their grandfather was alive. There was money there.
"Old man, my father really has no money. It is impossible for him to hide any money." Chen Mo was afraid that the old man would believe Jinhua's words and suspect that he was a cheapskate.
"Dad, I believe you. They just want to get some benefits and some money because they see that we are living a good life. I won't let them succeed." Li Yun didn't believe what Jinhua said, and opened the door after saying that.
Jinhua heard the door open and saw Li Yun, her second uncle and her second brother's wife standing outside, followed by three children.
"Uncle, you've arrived just in time! Hurry and hand over the silver and land deeds that Dad left us, or we'll go to the county government office and sue you for theft." Seeing her uncle and his family standing outside, Jinhua happily pointed at them, demanding they hand over the silver and land deeds. She had been so afraid of them that she didn't dare come out, and she didn't know how to continue singing.
"Sister-in-law, don't talk nonsense. I didn't take your money." Chen Mo defended himself.
"No, where did you get the money? Everyone knows you are extremely poor." Jinhua said stubbornly.
"Aunt, you said that this silver was left to you by your grandfather. How much silver is there in total? Where is the silver hidden? How much is the land deed?" Li Yun asked three soul-searching questions in a row.
"How do we know how much silver there is? As soon as my parents hid the silver, my second uncle saw it and stole it when my parents were not paying attention." Jinhua said casually.
"At that time, grandpa and grandma favored you and only gave us one acre of good farmland and two acres of wasteland." Li Yun told the truth.
Jinhua lowered her head, feeling a little embarrassed.
"Yes, your grandfather gave you one acre of good farmland and two acres of wasteland, but you didn't have to take care of them. We took care of them all. Isn't that enough? Do you know how much silver they used of us? How could your father-in-law have the nerve to steal the silver your grandfather left for my family." Jinhua complained to Chen Mo indignantly.
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