(A picture of Jiang Zhi can be found in Chapter 179, "The Huo Family Pharmacy"!)
When asked how she got control of the pharmacy, Miss Huo smiled and said without any attempt to hide it, "It's good luck that I was born into this family. I'm only twenty-six years old this year, but I've been dealing with medicine for twenty-seven years."
"Ah! This is a skill we were born with, amazing!"
Jiang Zhi understood. This was the benefit of family tradition; her parents both dealt with medicine, and she had been influenced by her environment since childhood.
However, Miss Huo's ability to control others naturally stems from her own exceptional abilities.
She learned from her father, who was in charge of the pharmacy, from a young age. Her mother was also a pharmacist in the pharmacy. It's no exaggeration to say that she grew up surrounded by the smell of medicine.
Moreover, he was exceptionally intelligent, and at only fifteen years old, he went out to buy medicinal herbs, demonstrating his business acumen.
She married her childhood sweetheart, who is now the owner of a pharmacy in her family.
Jiang Zhi understood perfectly; Miss Huo was trying to win people over.
After chatting and laughing for a while, Jiang Zhi said that she had to return to Xujia Village the next day: "I'm leaving early tomorrow morning. If Miss is free, would you be willing to accompany me to the county government office to say goodbye to Magistrate Zhang?"
Miss Huo nodded: "I would be honored to accept your offer, Madam Jiang, you are too kind!"
The Huo family runs a large pharmacy, and they naturally paid a visit when a new county magistrate took office.
Magistrate Zhang disliked social engagements and came alone, without even his family. He focused solely on the people's livelihood, leaving many merchants in the county unable to find a way to curry favor with him.
Now that we have this opportunity, of course we should make good use of it.
Upon arriving at the county government office, Jiang Zhi mentioned her return to her hometown. Magistrate Zhang naturally offered words of encouragement: "Everything should be based on the people's livelihood. If you encounter any difficulties, you can come to the county government office to find me."
He was very satisfied with Jiang, who always put the villagers first.
This mindset is necessary for any leader, regardless of their position.
He also advised Miss Huo, who accompanied Jiang Zhi, "Only by being wealthy and benevolent can one's family history endure."
Miss Huo was very quick-witted and immediately said that she would donate food to help the disaster victims. Although it would cost a lot of money, she was willing to do so.
When Zhang Zheng took office, merchants in the city donated money and goods, which the county government accepted. However, Zhang Zheng treated everyone equally and did not show any particular favoritism to any family.
Now the Huo family can stand firmly in the eyes of the county magistrate.
On the way here, Zhang Juntou helped us flag down a car, which was a bit of a hassle, but going back will be much easier.
Miss Huo was sending someone to Lihua Town to deliver a message, and "incidentally" sent Jiang Zhi and the others back to Xujia Village, saying that if they had any trouble in the future, they could just go to Lihua Town to find Baicaotang.
When Jiang Zhi returned to the village, she could clearly sense that the atmosphere was different.
Xu Genyou and Xu Gensheng had previously treated him with respect, but now they were filled with awe, while other outsiders were even more obsequious.
Jiang Zhi understood why.
It is said that a person who has never left home is not of high status, but a monk from afar can chant sutras well.
With Li Laoshi's publicity, news spread quickly throughout the shacks of Xujia Village that Jiang Zhi was sitting and talking with the county magistrate in the county government office, that several constables came to visit her, and that she could even hold hands with the young lady who ran the pharmacy in the county town.
Jiang Zhi arranged the farm work to be done and then returned to the mountain.
After returning from the county town, it was wheat harvest season, and all the work began.
Xujia Village doesn't grow wheat, but it should transplant corn, sweet potatoes, and cotton, and also prepare the fields for rice planting.
Therefore, Jiang Zhi stopped the corvée labor and arranged for the whole village to grow crops.
During the busy farming season, everyone who can walk has to go to the fields, and there is no one idle in the shack.
To ensure everyone had enough to eat before they could work, Jiang Zhi once again bought grain for everyone to borrow.
This time, every household became polite, and there was no longer any fighting or scrambling for grain.
They lined up, weighed the grain, kept accounts, and pressed their fingerprints. They didn't care how much grain others borrowed; those with fewer people would save as much as possible and borrow as little as possible.
Because this grain is to be returned, it's not given away for free.
After more than a month, the villagers finally realized what was happening.
Granny Jiang was indeed not one to do good deeds; although she borrowed and repaid in full without interest.
You can borrow old grain to repay new grain, and the price difference will be much greater, so you can make a lot of money.
The more enjoyable you are now, the more painful you will be later. What a loss!
However, after the first time they borrowed grain, some people thought that since they had already eaten it, what could they do to me if they didn't return it? They said that if they ate it themselves and returned it to others, they would say the same thing. This was clearly an attempt to renege on their promise.
But he forgot that borrowing grain required collateral, and the guarantors were the group of eight.
The man thought he was just ripping off Granny Jiang, but in reality he was using his personal strength to fight against the village group.
Jiang Zhi didn't even need to show her face; Xu Gensheng naturally came knocking on her door: "Why won't you pay it back?" "Why shouldn't I pay it back?" "Do you know what the consequences will be if you don't pay it back?"
This set of three soul-searching questions went on and on until midnight, driving people to a frenzy and irritability, as if three thousand flies were swarming around them in a latrine.
The man was forced to swear an oath that he would repay the grain in the fall, and even though he was cursing in his heart, he dared not say anything more.
Seeking personal gain!
Jiang Zhi smiled slightly upon hearing this: What's wrong with seeking personal gain? Why shouldn't one seek personal gain?
I'm not a saint; I'm just investing, using all available resources to improve my own interests, and becoming a leader in wealth creation. This is perfectly normal.
In May, under the blazing sun, Jiang Zhi, as the village chief, did not appear in the village to direct everyone to work. Instead, after harvesting wheat with Chunfeng and the others, she was resting under the cool shade of a tree, feeding the pigs with a smile.
She promised to buy Peppa Pig a twisted dough stick, and of course she did. But she couldn't eat it all at once, so she ate a small piece every day, making the little wild boar drool with envy.
"Peppa, spin around!"
"Hmph"
The wild boar clumsily circled around.
"Peppa Pig, sit down!"
"Hmph"
The wild boar obediently sat down again.
Seeing how obedient the wild boar was, Chunfeng and Qiaoyun couldn't stop laughing.
Chunfeng said, "Auntie, Peiqi hasn't come home these past few days. She's been spending the nights in the woods down there, but she still comes back every day for a meal of pig feed."
The weather is warm now, so it doesn't really affect wild boars spending the night outside, but... this is also the first time Peppa hasn't gone home.
Jiang Zhi touched the wild boar eating in her palm and understood.
With its owner away, the wild boar no longer longs for other people, but since this is its home, it will stay by its side.
Secondly, the wild boar was already quite large and had its own natural life cycle.
Wild boars reach maturity in 10 to 24 months, depending on their physical condition.
Peppa grew up with humans, so her living conditions were naturally better than in the wild. Once she was fully mature, she would return to her tribe to reproduce.
"It's okay, Peppa can go whenever she wants! She can come back whenever she wants!" Jiang Zhi stuffed a broken piece of twisted dough into the pig's mouth.
Peppa is already growing fangs, but they won't stick out until she's one year old, and they'll become sharp, upward-curving blades after she's three.
By then, it would truly become a ferocious beast, its long fangs capable of tearing through human flesh with a single charge.
The wild boar, unaware that it had been categorized as an item to be fled at any moment, was still begging for food in a docile manner.
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