Chapter 508: Planning in vain
When Ran Qingxuan heard this, his eyes lit up. He hadn't done this kind of thing for a long time, and he felt excited just thinking about it.
Gu Yanchen noticed her expression, smiled knowingly, walked to her side and whispered.
"I think you are suitable for robbing the rich and helping the poor, and being a wanton and cool female knight."
Hearing his teasing, Ran Qingxuan deliberately said: "Your suggestion is quite good. It seems that I have to consider whether I should stay here for the rest of my life..."
Gu Yanchen's heart suddenly tightened and his tone softened instantly.
"I...I'm just joking. You're not suitable."
"It's not suitable. Then it seems that you can't go with me to rob the rich and give to the poor."
When he heard that there was also a share for him, Gu Yanchen couldn't suppress the smile.
Shan Qi and others saw that he was smiling with a worthless look on his face and wondered if this was still the Gu Yanchen they knew?
The gold, silver and jewelry brought back by Shan Qi and others filled two large boxes. They seemed to be carried to the carriage and hidden, but in fact they were all collected by Ran Qingxuan into the space.
When they went to Luocheng again to look for carpenters and craftsmen, they were turned down just as they had expected.
The two men didn't believe it and went to the dock they visited yesterday again. Unexpectedly, when the people waiting for work at the dock heard that they were going to Yongfeng Village to build houses, they all avoided them.
Seeing this, Gu Yanchen's face darkened. "I didn't expect that County Magistrate Tang is so powerful. Not only could we not buy building materials yesterday, but today we couldn't even find workers."
"If we can't find workers, we'll probably have to stay out here."
It doesn't matter for the young and middle-aged people, but there are also old people and children in the team, and the parents of Shan Qi and others have also come. The Chinese New Year is only half a month away, and I'm afraid it will be even colder by then.
The harder it was to find workers, the more Ran Qingxuan wanted to beat up County Magistrate Tang to vent his anger.
After a walk outside and going back, everything we discussed last night came to nothing.
If we can’t find the people who are building the houses, there is little point in supervising them.
The families who had been expecting them to bring people back knew what had happened when they saw the two men coming back without saying a word.
"Can't find anyone?" Gu Yanzong asked.
Ran Qingxuan shook his head and said bitterly, "We have searched all over the county town and Luocheng, and even went to the dock we went to yesterday, but in the end, no one was willing to come to Yongfeng Village after asking around."
"Could it be because the New Year is coming soon?"
Gu Yanchen shook his head: "Obviously not. Before the New Year, everyone wants to make some money to buy New Year's goods. For such a large project, even the deposit is a considerable amount of money."
"It is very likely that the Qian family notified Qian Ming. After all, we didn't even buy any building materials yesterday."
The three families sat together in silence. Ran Qingxuan saw this and comforted them:
"Everyone, don't worry. Yesterday we bought houses from two tribes. If it doesn't work out, we can ask the tribe leaders on both sides if we can rent a few houses temporarily so that we can celebrate the New Year first."
"I think so."
"The sooner the better, the sooner. Let's go ask now."
Both Chen Chengping and Xiao Hongyi's parents are old, and with children at home, it is not very convenient for them to live together for a long time.
After comforting their family members, Ran Qingxuan and Gu Yanchen took Chen Chengping and Xiao Hongyi and walked towards the village.
The large area in the middle is equivalent to the dividing line, and the three families in Yongfeng Village each have their own camp.
After what happened in the past two days, the Qian family didn't even want to go, and the Guo family and the Lin family were both located in the northwest, so it was very convenient to go there.
They had already bought houses from both ethnic groups yesterday, so they thought it shouldn't be a problem to rent a house today.
Go down from the Guo family ancestral home and walk forward for two minutes to reach the fork in the road.
Xiao Hongyi glanced at the Lin family and the Guo family and asked, "Niece-in-law, which family should we go to first?"
To the north is the Lin family, and to the west is the Guo family. Logically, the Guo family should be relatively safer, after all, they are some distance away from Maoling Mountain. If the Yigui people suddenly visit, they will have time to react.
But they had just bought the building materials and didn't expect that they couldn't start construction immediately, so they couldn't live too far away.
"Go to the Lin family and ask first."
After walking towards the Lin family for a while, they met a couple holding a child.
Ran Qingxuan took a few steps forward and greeted politely.
"Big brother and sister-in-law, where is Patriarch Lin's home?"
When the young woman saw that it was them, she turned around and left with her child in her arms.
They didn't meet anyone along the way just now, and thought everyone was at home making lunch.
They finally met, and Ran Qingxuan was surprised but didn't want her to leave.
Hurrying up, Ran Qingxuan said quickly: "Sister-in-law, I just want to ask where your clan leader's home is?"
The young woman was about to leave the village, but when questioned, she hurried back without stopping.
"I don't know, ask someone else."
Ran Qingxuan's face looked a little strange. The news that they bought houses from two families yesterday should have spread. Why were they avoiding them today?
Ran Qingxuan wanted to find out what was going on, so he caught up with him and took out a bunch of copper coins from the cloth bag, which he estimated to be worth about a hundred coins.
Taking advantage of the cover of his wide sleeves, Ran Qingxuan stuffed the copper coin directly into the young woman's arms.
The young woman stopped subconsciously when she saw the copper coins on the mattress.
As soon as the man saw the money, a conflicted look flashed across his face. He was obviously unable to resist the temptation of money, but was afraid of being seen negotiating with others.
Just as they hesitated, the child in the young woman's arms began coughing violently.
The mattress was lifted up and the child sneezed violently several times, with snot bubbles hanging on his face.
And the child's breathing sounded heavy, which was obviously caused by illness.
"Sister-in-law, I just saved the daughter of the Guo family yesterday. If you can trust me, how about I take a look at this child?"
The couple were delighted and nodded in agreement without hesitation.
Ran Qingxuan didn't know that the two were worried about their child's illness, and that they had spent all the money they had saved on their child's medical treatment.
The string of copper coins given by Ran Qingxuan was enough to make them stop. The key point was that Guo Cuirong was in a very dangerous situation yesterday, but was rescued by the young woman in front of them.
Her medical skills were known to all, and the two of them were willing to take risks for the sake of their child.
To avoid being seen, Ran Qingxuan signaled them to go under the eaves. After checking, he confirmed that the child was almost coughing up pneumonia.
"Your child's lungs are already inflamed. If he doesn't get treatment, it could be dangerous."
"Could it be... that he has developed tuberculosis from coughing?"
The couple was so frightened that they dared not breathe. They also knew that the child had not improved for half a month, and it was very likely as they thought.
Ran Qingxuan shook his head and denied their statement.
“Pneumonia and tuberculosis are different, but both can be cured.”
Ran Qingxuan said it lightly because from the perspective of modern medicine, tuberculosis is just a more serious lung disease.
But ancient people did not understand these things. They only knew that tuberculosis was a highly contagious disease and that if you contracted it, you would die.
Before the couple could react, Ran Qingxuan had already prepared the plaster and applied it to the child.
She couldn't take out the injection in front of the two of them, but fortunately she had a plaster specifically for treating pneumonia in children.
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