Chapter 263



Previously, these people were attracted by the free porridge and shelter, but now they are told that they can only stay for free for three days, and if they want to eat after that, they have to work. For a while, many people could not accept this gap.

But before the hooligans could start to provoke everyone, Xinggui calmly picked up another scroll and read out the various tasks that could be exchanged for food or money.

After reading the whole article, I found that the treatment is several times better than that of other companies!

Now even the most cunning and stubborn person shut up.

After all, whether or not to provide porridge depends entirely on the mood of the family. Although they can eat such delicious food today, whether they can eat it in a few days is another matter.

This huge farm needs people to work on it. Doesn't it mean that as long as everyone is willing to work hard, they can get several times more money than other places? !

The former means that you can only have a few full meals, while the latter means that you may be able to live a stable life in the future. Most people can still distinguish between the two.

Of course, only those who still have some sense would think so much. Many refugees came to Nanyang County with their families. Not only were they skinny from hunger, but they also had frostbite and festering wounds all over their bodies. Some even had legs so frozen that they couldn't even walk a few steps.

At the moment of death, all they wanted was to be willing to do any hard or tiring work as long as someone gave them some meat porridge.

This family required easy work and generous pay, so one after another they rushed to register for the job.

Look at the speed, it is even faster than the previous time when we got the porridge!

With the gradual completion of the second and third shelters in Nanyang County, most of the refugees in and outside the city were properly resettled.

Many refugees near the county town heard about the mysterious businessman's heroic deeds and privately praised Nanyang County as the last hope for the refugees.

Even though they were frozen unconscious, they encouraged each other's morale and were determined to go to Nanyang County to join the wealthy businessman with a sense of justice.

There are more and more refugees in Nanyang County, and Xiao Xier has ordered the greenhouse planting plan and the mass production of cotton clothes to be carried out in full swing.

This traditionally remote small county town has also ushered in an unprecedented bustling scene.

In the past few days, the most talked about thing in restaurants and teahouses is the mysterious organization called "Qingyun Pavilion" that suddenly appeared.

"It is said that the owner of Qingyun Pavilion is a mysterious businessman who has traveled to the West. The method of making a house warm as spring in the winter and the method of building a special greenhouse for the fields so that they can grow crops regardless of the season... all of these were learned from Westerners."

"Oh! You don't know that this is not the only thing that this businessman is capable of!"

In a tavern in Nanyang County, the storyteller slapped the wooden stick in his hand on the table and continued with a beaming smile:

"There are several cotton-padded clothing stores in the city recently. Have you seen them all? The clothes they sell are thick and warm, and the prices are very cheap. According to reliable sources, the cloud-patterned totems under the plaques on the doors of those stores are the emblem of Qingyun Pavilion."

"It is said that the owner of Qingyun Pavilion has newly set up cotton clothing workshops in several shelters. If you pick out one of them, it can produce more than a thousand pieces a day. That's more than a thousand pieces!"

The storyteller first exaggerated and gestured with his two hands, repeatedly emphasizing it.

"The size of the cotton-padded clothes shop of the Xiao family in the south of the city is comparable to that of the others. In terms of production, it used to be the best among the nearby counties. Normally, its daily output is less than 10% of that of Qingyun Pavilion. With such bad habits, it is completely incomparable to others!"

"There are also several newly opened grocery stores and groceries in the city with the 'Qingyun Pavilion' emblem on their door plaques. I think everyone knows that the things they sell are not good. They are all useful and affordable. They are not like other stores that raise prices whenever there is a disaster!"

"It's no exaggeration to say that I've been a narrator for most of my life. What heroic deeds have I not seen?! People say that businessmen are cunning, but for a businessman like the owner of Qingyun Pavilion who has a sense of justice, I am worthy of the word role model!"

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It was already the second month of the lunar calendar, but the weather had not improved at all. Even if one sat in the restaurant with the doors and windows tightly closed, one could still hear the howling of the wind outside.

Most of the people who had time to listen to stories in the restaurant were well-off. Although they were wrapped in thick cloaks, they could not help curling up and holding the boiling teacup to keep warm.

The storyteller first talked about the recent celebrities in the county, and everyone was attracted by it.

Everyone had only heard some rumors about Qingyun Pavilion, but after listening to the old man's detailed account of what the other party had done, they realized that the man had done so many things in a short period of time, and their eyes were filled with shock.

But at this moment, a discordant voice came from the corner:

"Oh! You've already said that merchants always value profit. How could you possibly know what they're doing behind the scenes? When the political situation is unstable and disasters are rampant, why would such a powerful business emerge at this time?"

"Not only did they buy lots of land to build houses and open shops, they also used the pretext of taking in refugees to recruit a large number of strong laborers for their own use. In just over a month, Qingyun Pavilion rose rapidly thanks to the disaster, and its strength far surpassed many century-old brands."

"Floor heating, greenhouses, snow-melting agents... If they are as useful as you say, how could the Western countries tolerate such techniques being leaked? It is said that something strange must be going on. I think that even if Qingyun Pavilion is not a spy sent by the Westerners, it must be hiding some unspeakable conspiracy!"


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