Guo Tong took two steps away from her. "What conspiracy? I just couldn't bear to see the villagers disappointed."
Kang Yueran muttered softly, "I don't trust you, you old man are so evil!"
"What? What did you say, Boss?"
"I say, Lord Guo is truly a truly excellent official who is wholeheartedly dedicated to the people!"
Guo Tong knew that this was definitely not what Kang Yueran was talking about. He didn't bother to argue and just stroked his beard and smiled.
Jiang Lizheng's house was also dilapidated, but the yard was very large.
After bringing Kang Yueran and the others to the main hall and sitting them down, he went to the courtyard and said to his wife, Mrs. Wu, "Kill the chickens and treat the adults and the host to lunch at noon."
He looked at the three skinny little chickens in the yard and said, "Kill them all."
Wu felt a pang of heartache, but she still agreed. "I'll go right away!"
The head of the nearby village came over quickly, bringing with him several village elders and young people.
Jiang Liuzhu asked his youngest son to bring in a few stools for everyone to sit down.
Mo Lizheng from Guangxi Village asked, "Master, when will you start building the house? I can send someone to notify the young men looking for work outside to return to the village quickly."
"You can let me know when you get back. I'll send someone to look at the place tomorrow. We need to build a brick kiln here first, and then build the house after we have the bricks."
Kang Yueran glanced at Xu Jiushi after he finished speaking, and Xu Jiushi continued, "We only need people between the ages of 20 and 40 to build the house. When you return to the village, count how many people each village can provide. We need a total of 30 women to cook and wash dishes."
The village heads looked at each other, and Jiang Liuzhu said, "Manager Xu, the situation in our villages is similar. There aren't many able-bodied men between the ages of twenty and forty."
Xu Jiushi pondered for a moment and said, "Then relax it to fifteen to forty years old."
Everyone was still not satisfied, and Mori was asking, "Can you relax it a little more?"
Guo Tong was afraid that Kang Yueran would be angry, so he quickly replied, "How can we relax the restrictions further? Are we going to include newly weaned babies and elderly people who are about to be buried?"
Mo Lizheng was sweating and whispered, "That's not what I meant. There are really too few people and the burden on each family is too heavy. There's nothing we can do."
Another village head asked, "Can those who are not of the right age be assigned to other jobs? Aren't there women in Kaoshan Village making clothes? Or the elderly and children can cook, too; they can do it."
Did this group of people want to take advantage of her? Kang Yueran asked, "If we let people from your village go, what will happen to the people who originally did those jobs?"
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