"Let's make this clear in advance: no matter whose herbs we take later, we'll split the money equally. We've agreed that each family will get 59 coins. If someone doesn't get any of the herbs they dug, and someone else takes almost all of them, and you still have objections to the money split, then I won't take them with me to any more of these lucrative opportunities in the village!"
This issue needs to be addressed beforehand. If anyone dares to cause trouble, his father and the clan elders certainly won't let it go easily, so as to avoid making it difficult to manage the village in the future.
"Clan chief, elders, village head, rest assured, we will absolutely not have any objections!"
"Yes, yes, yes! We have no objections!"
The attendees all loudly pledged their support.
"Then hurry home and gather the medicinal herbs, and call back all those who went up the mountain to dig for herbs."
The village chief waved for everyone to leave, then he and a few of his cousins, each supporting their own family's mascot, walked home.
As he walked, the village chief muttered to himself:
“Father, I know you are the clan chief and you are wholeheartedly for the good of our Lin family, but you can’t forget about me, your son. I am still the village chief of Linjiagou, can’t you discuss things with me? Don’t make it so that I’m always the last to know about everything, okay?”
He only heard about going up the mountain to dig for medicinal herbs last night from his wife. During the day, he was busy looking for water and springs in the mountains.
Because he went up the mountain every day, he would go straight to sleep after dinner when he got home. So he only found out about Yue Jiuyue taking Lin Chaonan home last night and the solution for the medicinal herbs from his father when he was stopped by his wife this morning.
That's how the impromptu village meeting just now came about.
How should I put it? The village chief feels like he's just a mouthpiece. He doesn't have to worry about anything in the village. He's only asked to say something when there's a decision to be made. Otherwise, he's practically irrelevant.
"Oh? You can't blame your father for this! To avoid delaying everyone's efforts to dig for medicinal herbs at night, I had the boys go door to door to spread the word; and to discuss selling the herbs later that night, you can't blame your father either, it's all because you were up so early."
After saying this, the clan chief no longer needed the village chief's help and stepped into his house with his hands behind his back.
village head:……
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Only 500 catties of medicinal herbs were collected. The people who went up the mountain to dig for medicinal herbs gradually returned home. Then they picked out the herbs that hadn't been dug up and damaged, cleaned them up, and arranged them neatly before taking them to the clan chief's house. They selected 100 catties of the best-quality herbs from each category, and then two people pulled them on a wooden cart, with the village chief leading the way, and headed to the town.
Doctor Li was also surprised that the medicinal herbs would be delivered so quickly, and he was even more surprised that Lin Chaonan's family would tell the whole village about it. You see, he had found out about Lin Chaonan's family situation in the past two days. His widowed mother had worked hard to raise the four brothers, and the family was so poor that they had never had a meal.
Even so, they still told the whole village about this rare opportunity to make money. Doctor Li didn't know whether to admire the family's righteousness or call them foolish.
However, regardless of whether Lin Chaonan's family is foolish or righteous, their children are still reassuring, at least they won't do anything like betraying their teachers or ancestors, or being ungrateful.
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