Yue Jiuyue bought four storage boxes from the mall. She originally wanted to buy plastic ones, since they were cheaper, but she was afraid that if she took them out to examine the land deeds and house deeds one day, she would be discovered, so she reluctantly spent a lot of money to buy four wooden ones.
There was a wooden box that was used to store land deeds and house deeds, but now only one piece of paper lay inside. She believed that there would definitely be more and more in the future.
The wooden box contained contracts, such as the guarantees signed with the elderly villagers who insisted on coming to lay the foundation, as well as the manager and accountant to be hired for the future business.
There's another one to keep for later, to be used as a contract of indenture. Once the wall is built, she'll start building the little courtyard of her dreams and living the life she envisions. At that time, she'll definitely need to find someone to serve her.
The last one, of course, is for storing money. Her family doesn't have banknotes yet, only silver and copper coins, so they need a super big box, bigger than the previous three combined, so they can store a lot of silver in the future!
Of course, she didn't mind using copper coins; she saved up her money little by little, one or two coins at a time.
Yue Jiuyue looked at the four boxes with a gratified expression, hoping that one day she could fill them all up.
While Yue Jiuyue was envisioning a bright future, the county magistrate, accompanied by his advisor and several guards, was inspecting the sweet potato planting situation throughout his jurisdiction.
Although sweet potatoes are grown throughout the county, the practice gradually spread outwards from their county. If their county's sweet potato production is inferior to that of other counties, his contribution will be halved, and he would never allow such a thing to happen.
He looked around with a heavy heart, only to find that things couldn't get any worse; they could only get the worst.
The weather is getting hotter and hotter, and people are even running out of water. Who has the mood to grow sweet potatoes? You can skip a few meals and not starve, but if you skip a day's water, you're practically one foot in the grave.
Some villagers had already packed up and fled the famine. Magistrate Tang felt that Heaven was going to destroy him, Tang Shishu!
Now he no longer cares about achievements; he only wants to avoid making mistakes and wants to help the villagers get through this ordeal. In the end, he finds that he really has no way to help them.
The drought wasn't limited to their county; water was scarce everywhere, and there were even more severely affected areas. When the capital allocated funds for disaster relief, it naturally prioritized the more severely affected areas. Their Caolu County wasn't even on the list, since they'd heard there was a village that still had water.
He didn't pay much attention because he knew there was still water in the villages below. He was shocked to find that several villages in his county were now empty!
As for the other villages and towns, they can't expect the county magistrate to use his own money to buy water from the south in order to keep his position, and then send it all the way to the county town to irrigate the fields.
worry!
So, Magistrate Tang, who was originally there to check on the sweet potato planting, had to detour to see what the situation was like in the village with water. If it was feasible, the only option would be to dig a canal to bring in water.
If that doesn't work, then he'll really be finished.
Thinking that he might end up returning to the capital in disgrace, Magistrate Tang gritted his teeth, unwilling to admit defeat.
"Master Li, how much longer until we reach that village?"
As Magistrate Tang asked questions, he lifted the curtain of the carriage to see the scene outside, but the more he looked, the more familiar it seemed.
"Is this the road to Linjiagou Village?"
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