Niu Dayan became the manager of the Heshun Company, in charge of all the workers. Kang Yueran handed over his original job of delivering goods to the city to a young man named Du Xiang.
After Mao Jian sent away these more than 600 people, another group of people came to the cafeteria to eat. They were between 40 and 50 years old and came to continue building the house.
The staff turnover was smooth, and Mao Jian, seeing nothing to do, went to look for his younger brother, Mao Qiang. Mao Jian had learned wharf construction, and tomorrow he would go to Heshun Wharf to work with several other experienced wharf builders.
Mao Qiang became the manager of Kaoshan Village. Mao Qiang had always been helping Mao Jian, so the two of them completed the handover quickly.
Mao Qiang was quite capable, but unfortunately, he had bad luck. The first thing he had to deal with after taking office was the destruction of the sweet potato fields.
Knowing that Kang Yueran attached great importance to the sweet potato field, Mao Qiang sent someone to the mountain to invite Kang Yueran, and then took a few people to the 400-acre sweet potato field.
Many villagers gathered around the sweet potato field, which covered about seven or eight mu (approximately 1.5 acres) of land. The leaves on the vines had been removed, and the young potatoes that hadn't grown in the field had been dug out.
Kang Yueran felt distressed and asked, "Who did it?"
Wang Xiaoqi, a disaster victim from Kaoshan Village who was patrolling here, covered his broken head and complained to Kang Yueran, "It was the villagers from the nearby Liujia Village who stole it!
We patrol every day, and today they've already stolen two or three acres. I told them it was the owner's crops, not abandoned crops, but they wouldn't listen.
We stepped forward to stop them, and they beat us. I quickly asked Xiao Wuzi to go back and call for help, but they continued to rob us even after they beat us."
Kang Yueran took out a bottle of hemostatic powder from his sleeve and handed it to the person next to him, "Stop the bleeding for them first, and then go to the county town to see the wounds."
Most of the people in Liujia Village have the surname Liu, and their families are large and relatively united.
Seeing that Kang Yueran and Mao Qiang brought few people with them, he wanted to use his power to the end.
A woman shouted, "This land belongs to my Liujia Village. You are planting crops on our land. Have you informed us?"
Kang Yueran took two steps forward. "Where's the land in your village? Where's the deed? If you can't produce the deed, I'll demand double the compensation."
"A little girl like you think you can read the land deed? If I say it's our land, then it's our land."
This is just outrageous. Mao Qiang said, "Our boss bought these 400 acres of land from the Hucao Yamen. The deed is in our hands. How did it become yours? Could it be that the officials made a mistake?"
A burly man with a face full of flesh pointed at Mao Qiang and cursed, "You're talking nonsense! This is all the land of my Liujia Village. You'd better not cause trouble, otherwise, I will bring people to pull out all the crops tomorrow."
Xiao Wuzi was only sixteen years old. He was so angry that he jumped in front of the big man and said, "Bah! You dare to try to pull one out again? Do you really think we are easy to bully?"
The big man laughed, "Come on, boy, let me see why you are so hard to bully!" Then he reached out to grab Xiao Wuzi.
Kang Yueran walked over, pulled Xiao Wuzi away, and kicked the big man two or three meters away. He said contemptuously: "If I kicked you with all my strength, you would be dead by now."
It was the first time that Xiao Wuzi saw Kang Yueran take action. Looking at Kang Yueran, his eyes were full of stars. No wonder the managers said that the boss was powerful, it turned out that he was really powerful!
The big man stood up shakily and dared not speak again.
This kick shocked the villagers of Liujia Village. Although they were dissatisfied, no one dared to step forward and offend Kang Yueran.
Kang Yueran glanced at the crowd and said to Mao Qiang, "This place is under the jurisdiction of Changming County. Bring the head of Liujia Village with you and let's report to the authorities."
Hearing the words "report to the police," Liu Lizheng, who was in the crowd, also panicked. His family had also been robbed. "I, I won't go to the police. At worst, we can just return the things to you."
Kang Yueran said angrily, "How can you return it? Can you restore the fields to their original state?"
She said to the villagers, "Those who have destroyed my fields, go home and prepare food. If you don't have food, give me silver. If you don't have silver, use your houses as collateral. I want you to pay me double!"
Mao Qiang left three people to watch the sweet potato field, walked up to Liu Lizheng and asked, "Liu Lizheng, do you want to go by yourself? Or do you want me to carry you?" After saying that, he looked at the injured man demonstratively.
Liu Lizheng also glanced at the big man and waved his hands in fear, "No, no, no, I, I will walk by myself."
When they arrived at the county town, Kang Yueran gave Wang Xiao seventy taels of silver and asked him to take the other two injured people to a clinic for treatment. Then he went to the yamen with Mao Qiang and others.
County Magistrate Cheng opened the court, and Xiao Wuzi recounted what had happened. Although he was small, he spoke very fluently.
Kang Yueran handed over the deed for 400 acres of land to prove that the land was hers.
Mao Qiang concluded, "Master Cheng, the crop grown in that field is called sweet potato, and it can yield up to 2,000 kilograms per mu. Our eldest master planted so much, firstly to help the victims, and secondly because we promised His Royal Highness Prince Ping that we would set aside seedlings for the people of Anzhou to cultivate next year."
"Two thousand catties per mu? Is that true? Did you agree with His Royal Highness the Prince of Peace?"
Kang Yueran replied, "We missed the best time to plant sweet potatoes this year, and the heavy rains damaged the fields, but the yield per mu will not be less than 1,000 kilograms. The sweet potatoes will be fully grown in about a month, and you can come and see them then."
County Magistrate Cheng was very interested and said, "Then I really have to go and take a look."
Mao Qiang asked, "Sir, Liujia Village destroyed seven or eight mu of sweet potato fields for no reason. This is at least 10,000 kilograms of grain. How many lives can 10,000 kilograms of grain save?"
Sir, we demand that Liujia Village pay us double the grain compensation. Please punish Liujia Village severely."
Kang Yueran added, "We will use all the food compensation from Liujia Village as food for the victims."
County Magistrate Cheng had heard that the people of Liujia Village were arrogant and rude, and it was time to teach them a lesson. "Okay! Let Liujia Village double the compensation for your grain."
Liu Lizheng looked at County Magistrate Cheng in horror and kowtowed frantically, "Sir, please have mercy on me. The entire Liujia Village doesn't even have 20,000 kilograms of grain."
Kang Yueran said, "There are more than 60 households in Liujia Village, and on average each household only has more than 300 kilograms of grain. My Lord, please take a look at the clothes of Liu Lizheng. There is not a single patch on them. Their village is not as poor as Liu Lizheng said."
County Magistrate Cheng slammed the gavel and said, "Liu Lizheng, taking things without asking is a crime of theft. I am showing mercy by not sentencing any of you villagers to theft.
I sentence your village to repay Miss Kang twenty thousand catties of grain, to be paid in full within three days. Anyone who denies this or passes inferior grain off as good grain will be beaten with a stick."
Kang Yueran smiled and said, "Thank you, sir, for your help! I want to divide the grain into two parts. Ten thousand catties will be given to the victims in Kaoshan Village, and ten thousand catties will be distributed to the victims in Changming County by you, sir."
County Magistrate Cheng asked, "The victims from Kaoshan Village? Didn't they take refuge in Qingping Mountain?" Could it be...
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