Chapter 96: Ten cents for a pound of chestnuts, Village Chief Li's family goes to work



The village chief remembers Yun Ruoxi’s favor!

Lunch was cooked food that Yun Ruoxi took out from the space. After everyone finished eating, they returned to the tent and took a nap.

Village chief Li and his family may want to take this opportunity to earn more money, otherwise they will be left with nothing after the flood is over.

If you want to buy some household items, you must have enough money.

Now the only silver that Village Chief Li's family has is the ten taels of silver that Yun Ruoxi gave them before.

There is not even a penny left.

Yun Ruoxi understood what Village Chief Li was thinking, and did not try to stop them, but let them do it.

Yun Ruoxi, on the contrary, felt that what Village Chief Li did was right, as he lived his life for himself.

The opportunity has been given to Village Chief Li's family. If they don't seize it, it proves that Village Chief Li's family is not worthy of Yun Ruoxi's help.

But now it seems that Village Chief Li's family is doing very well. At least they are not taking it for granted to enjoy all this because of the help of the Xiao family.

After a morning, Village Chief Li, his wife, Li Dazhu and Li Dasao each picked 120 kilograms.

Even the two little grandsons picked more than 30 kilograms in total.

There were 150 jin in the morning, and Yun Ruoxi gave them ten cents per jin, which is 1,500 cents.

When they heard that there was so much money, Village Chief Li and his family were stunned, and they became even more motivated in the afternoon.

This day's income may be equal to their usual annual income in the village.

Yun Ruoxi said with a smile, "It seems that the village chief's family are all good at work. They pick chestnuts very quickly."

Yun Ruoxi first weighed the chestnuts for Village Chief Li's family, and then Village Chief Li and his family continued to pick chestnuts with a smile on their faces.

Next came the nine brothers. On average, each of them picked about 120 kilograms.

Yun Ruoxi did not withhold money from the nine brothers just because they were now in a master-servant relationship with Xiao Jingrui.

The silver that was due was still paid out. In order to record how many kilograms each person picked per day, Yun Ruoxi also took out a small notebook from the space to keep accounts.

After a while, the five brothers from the Duke of England came back, but when they came back, they were holding a processed goat in their hands.

Yun Ruoxi said in surprise: "Brother, have you found a water source?"

Yun Ruoyang smiled and nodded, "Yes, I happened to find a herd of goats when I went hunting, and then I followed the commercial swimming group to find the water source."

Yun Ruoyang turned around and saw that everyone had already pitched their tents. "Everyone is really quick and efficient. The tents were pitched so quickly. But it doesn't matter. We're not far from the water source. It only takes a quarter of an hour to walk there."

Yun Ruoxi felt relieved when she heard that there was a water source. After all, with Village Chief Li's family around, they couldn't use the space ring openly.

There is a limit to how much water a person has in their body. If the water is never used up, it will definitely arouse suspicion.

Now that we have found the water source, we can pretend to go and get some water every day.

In this way, by the time of dinner, Village Chief Li and his family had picked 300 kilograms.

Yun Ruoxi directly took out three taels of silver and gave it to Village Chief Li. Seeing how Village Chief Li and his family cherished the three taels of silver, she couldn't help feeling a little sad.

As expected, it is hard for working people to make money, and they will cherish the money they earn through their labor more.

Not only Village Chief Li's family, but also the nine brothers, Yun Ruoxi settled the silver for each of them.

One tael of silver per person, one tael of silver per day, already made the nine brothers very happy.

Some brothers were under the contract of Xiao Jingrui. As for the monthly salary of the nine brothers, it must be Xiao Jingrui who paid it. Yun Ruoxi did not interfere.

After everyone finished dinner, Village Chief Li and his family continued to engage in the business of picking chestnuts.

Although the moonlight was bright at night in ancient times and the earth was clearly illuminated, it was night after all, so the vision was definitely obstructed.

Yun Ruoxi simply gave each member of Village Chief Li's family a headlamp, and asked them to wear the lights on their heads. This way, they could illuminate the area around the chestnut tree and avoid injuries.

Moreover, it was getting late, and in order to prevent the sudden appearance of wild animals, Village Chief Li and his family had to limit their chestnut picking to the area near the tent.

At night, only four of the nine brothers stayed to keep watch, and the rest returned to the tent to rest.

Of course, I can’t just sit there doing nothing. I can’t sleep anyway, so I might as well pick some chestnuts and make some extra money.

In fact, the nine brothers also came from poor families, so doing farm work was naturally no problem for them.

Now that there is an opportunity to make clean money, they would rather pick chestnuts to make money.

Yun Ruoxi didn't stop them. Since each of them had these devices, Yun Ruoxi didn't send them out individually.

In the afternoon, Xiao Jingrui saw that Village Chief Li's family had not yet set up a tent, so he found some materials available at that time and some clean tarpaulin and built a simple tent for them.

When the weather is hot, the tent is only used to block the view and does not keep you warm.

Even so, Village Chief Li and his family were very moved.

Originally, they had decided that they would just sleep against the tree trunk at night as before.

I carry an insect repellent herbal bag with me, so I don’t have to worry about being bitten by mosquitoes.

I rested like this every night during my escape, so I didn’t think anything of it.

But now with this tent, men can sleep outside at night, and women and children can sleep inside the tent.

After Yun Ruoxi and Mu Ruxue returned to the tent, they lay on the air mattress, closed their eyes and tried to fall asleep, but they kept holding the spirit stones in their palms, and spiritual energy continued to enter their body meridians.

Seeing that her two daughters-in-law had rested, Zhao lay down next to Old Madam Xiao and fell asleep.

A dreamless night...

When she woke up the next day, Yun Ruoxi saw that there were more than 20 sacks placed under the chestnut tree closest to the tent.

Mu Ruxue walked out of the tent sleepily and was stunned to see so many sacks.

"Oh my god, has everyone been up all night?"

After saying that, he looked around and saw more than 20 sacks placed under another tree.

At this time, Village Chief Li and his family also came out of the tent and pointed to a pile of sacks that they saw for the first time.

"We picked this last night. The ones under that tree are the Wei brothers. They picked it last night."

Yun Ruoxi nodded, and together with Mu Ruxue, they helped weigh everyone.

For large sacks like this, a professional scale is used, but the sack still needs to be carried onto the scale.

But the thing is, who picked the chestnuts? Who will move them? The two best friends can't move them.

Sure enough, everyone picked 200 kilograms in one night, which was two taels of silver.

If you count the three taels of silver earned during the day, you can earn five taels of silver from morning to night.

But such time is short and such opportunities are rare.

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