Chapter 731 The Unlucky Sun Family
At the beginning, she would let these villagers plant some common medicinal herbs, which could be considered as a test.
But it’s still early. She will wait until she travels around the entire Tianling Kingdom and then come back to stock up enough medicinal materials before these clinics open.
It will take another four or five years for her apprentices to become masters.
Hang them for another two years and they will be ready for planting.
"I have my own plans. Pour me a cup of tea. I'm a little thirsty." Jiang Fubao didn't explain much. Pan Erya knew that she knew what was going on, so she stopped trying to persuade her.
Soon, the carriage disappeared from the villagers' sight.
Once Jiang Fubao left, Sun Mugen's family was in trouble.
Their entire family was dragged back to the village by the villagers of Sunjia Village. The whole village surrounded his house and demanded an explanation from them. If the Jiang family did not give them the medicinal seeds, they would lose their crops.
In the end, the old couple begged for a long time, and finally with the help of the village chief, they managed to solve the problem with silver.
Sun Mugen's family compensated the entire village, a total of three taels of silver.
Every household can get a little, although it is not much, but it is better than nothing.
These three taels of silver were all the money my grandson's family had. They had originally intended to use it to help their youngest grandson get married.
Without money, he naturally couldn’t find a wife.
In a fit of anger, Sun Mugen's grandson ran away to another place to become the son of a carpenter. The carpenter had no children and was worried that there would be no one to take care of him when he got old.
I was so happy to have a son for free.
The Sun family lost a strong laborer, so there was more work to do in the fields.
Because the youngest son ran away, Sun Mugen's son and daughter-in-law were angry with them and wanted to divide the family property.
The Sun family was in chaos all the time and became a laughing stock in the village. They had offended the entire village. Usually, the villagers treated them as invisible people, glaring at them and not saying a word to them. Those with bad tempers would even curse at them.
As a result, the Sun family members did not dare to hang around in the village. They would go home early after finishing their work and chopping firewood. As they stayed at home for a long time, they naturally had more quarrels.
Finally, in early December, the Sun family split up.
The old couple seemed to have aged ten years and looked lifeless.
During this period, they made a special trip to the town to talk to their daughter Sun Pingmei and ask her to help them find Jiang Fubao for the medicinal seeds.
But Sun Pingmei refused to even see them.
They originally wanted to cause a scene at the door of Jiang's snack shop, but the police came instead.
The two men ran so fast that they didn't even dare to look back, for fear of being caught and locked up.
Jiang Fubao told her what he had done and what he planned to do.
Sun Pingmei felt so relieved after hearing this.
It is said that a father is kind and his son is filial, but her parents did not treat her as a human being. When she was at her mother's house, even the animals lived better than her. At least they could eat their fill, but she was almost starving to death.
She is able to live to this day and lead a good life thanks to herself.
From the day she got married, she swore that she would not run away unless her husband beat her to death.
Who would have thought that the lower your expectations, the better the person you marry.
Her husband had never beaten her. He even shared his food with her when the family was at its poorest. He was afraid that she would hurt herself and shorten her life, so he didn't let her have more children. If she hadn't begged him, Tongtu would probably not have been able to have a child.
Her mother-in-law was nice to her. She had a mean mouth but a soft heart.
Sisters-in-law get along even more harmoniously.
Sun Pingmei has long regarded her parents-in-law as her own parents.
The Jiang family is her home.
As for those outside the shop, in her eyes they were not even as good as the regular customers of the shop.
The matter just passed like this, and Sun Mugen and his wife knew that their daughter, who was married off, was raised in vain.
The two of them cursed each other every day at home, calling each other ungrateful, beastly, damned little girl, and similar insults.
But Sun Pingmei in the town couldn't hear it at all, and even if she heard it she wouldn't care. She was living a very comfortable life now.
At that time, in Lianshan Town, the People's Hall outside the city had just opened. The news spread to outside the county, outside the prefecture and even outside the province, and many poor people from all over the country flocked to it.
After they learned about the Common People's Hall, they all held on to their last glimmer of hope and wanted to seek protection from the Common People's Hall.
Because they just can't survive.
Especially this year, the harvest was poor, and the areas near the north have been suffering from drought for a year, so many people have sold their young daughters in order to keep the family alive.
These poor girls were transferred to many places and were finally bought by Jiang Huanyu, who helped them to escape from slavery and let them work in the Common People Hall. She asked the steward to save their monthly wages and give them all when they grew up.
When Yue Zhongjiang and Tongtu got married, the Common People's Hall was already crowded with people and many people had no place to live.
A penny house can no longer accommodate even six people.
Jiang Huanyu had no choice but to rent two more houses before he could accommodate them all.
So that they won’t be left without a place to live in the winter.
The Common People's Hall officially began to operate, and after getting married, Jiang Tongtu seemed to have transformed from a child into an adult overnight.
He has matured a lot. Together with his brothers Jiang Tonghuo and Jiang Huanyue, he manages Baixing Hall very well. People who have no home now have a home.
I also have a job that can earn money.
Everyone thinks that as long as they work hard, they can save money, leave the common people's hall, buy land and build a house, and start a new life.
In fact, this is indeed the case.
The following spring, a heavy rain broke the riverbank. Jiang Huanyu and his two sisters found Meng Bujiu and suggested that the People's Hall send people to repair the riverbank. Meng Bujiu, who had already been informed by Jiang Fubao, cooperated very well.
This matter has no disadvantages for him.
The people were relieved of the suffering of corvee labor, and the county government also saved money.
For the three siblings, there were more benefits. Under the pretext of repairing the river embankment, they raised a lot of donations from Ruling Prefecture.
This money was used to pay the workers to repair the river embankment. It paid more than corvée labor and was not as hard. One could quit if he wanted to and there was always someone to take over, and there were even a few hundred taels of silver left over.
There was never a shortage of money in the account of the Common People's Hall. After only half a year, it no longer needed subsidies from the Jiang family.
Zhang Jinlan was very pleased.
The names and portraits of the wealthy merchants who donated money were posted at the gate of the Common People's Hall. A board was installed there, which looked like a modern blackboard. This was an idea given by Jiang Fubao.
The names and portraits were posted so that one could see them at a glance even if passing by in a carriage.
Very conspicuous.
These old men and ladies who donated money were simply too satisfied. Some even felt that they had donated too little and it would not look good if the donations were displayed, so they planned to donate more in the future.
Some people even started to compete with each other, thinking that they must surpass each other next time and strive to have their portraits and names on the top.
With their portraits, these people are remembered by the people in the city and are respected wherever they go.
It has never existed before.
The three siblings even planned to open a clinic in Yingnan Prefecture next year, and then follow the example of the Ren'ai Clinic and open clinics all over Tianling Kingdom.
Jiang Fubao gave them his support and gave them the shop in Yingnan Prefecture that Meng Bujiu had given them.
It's very large, with two floors and a large yard.