Chapter 340 I heard that I am the best (27)
Mu Yunchao discussed the specific content of work-for-relief with Zhou Shichu in detail, and then never showed up again.
The government soon issued a notice to recruit the refugees to work. The work included building refugee shelters, repairing canals and dams, and reclaiming wasteland. The notice said that the government would be responsible for their food during the work, and they would also receive a small amount of work wages.
"Does the notice really say that people like us who have fled here can work for the government and earn money?" A ragged woman holding a child looked eagerly at the people around her and asked nervously.
"Really, really! This notice was posted by someone from the government office, how could it be fake? It's stamped with the official seal!" Another young man with a pale face and thin body but a straight back answered excitedly.
"Great! I'm going to sign up!" The other people who heard the notice immediately became excited and their faces turned red, and they ran to the government office to sign up.
"I'm going too!"
"And me!"
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The homeless refugees on the street soon learned the news and ran to the government office, all with tears in their eyes. They had thought that even if they successfully escaped here, they were penniless and would find it difficult to survive. But they did not expect that General Mu, the ruler of Cuicheng, would be so kind and willing to hire them to work at this time. How could they not be grateful and shed tears?
As a result, Mu Yunchao's reputation among the refugees quickly improved greatly and he won the hearts of the people. This was an unexpected surprise. After Mu Yunchao learned from his subordinates that the refugees praised him highly, he remained silent.
In addition to fighting for territory, what is more important in fighting for the world? It is to win the hearts of the people! Isn't the famous saying "People can carry a boat, but they can also overturn it" exactly this truth? Mu Yunchao didn't expect that he would experience the feeling of being loved and respected by the people before he became a king. This fascinated him and made him pay much more attention to the work-for-relief program.
However, Liu Yan did not expect that her husband actually adopted Zhou Shichu's suggestion to carry out work-for-relief. As a result, her importance in disaster relief was suddenly reduced, and her influence was even smaller. Apart from her great efforts in the early fundraising, she could not participate more in the other processes because Mu Yunchao sent his staff to do it.
When Liu's staff learned that Mu Yunchao was using the method of "work-for-relief" to deal with the increasing number of refugee problems, they were simply astonished. They thought that he had put forward an unprecedented great suggestion, and they were so excited that they kept praising him for being a wise leader.
Fortunately, Mu Yunchao was a relatively upright person. He did not take all the credit for Zhou Shichu's work and directly told Liu Muliao that he got this method from Zhou Shichu.
After Liu Muliao found out, he highly praised Zhou Shichu as a heroine and said he would definitely look for this "folk heroine" to communicate with her in the future - after all, he was busy with disaster relief work and had no time to get to know Zhou Shichu, whom he unilaterally believed to be a folk master.
If Zhou Shichu knew that she had inexplicably become a master, she would definitely roll her eyes and think that those scholars were just overthinking. She didn't want to be a close friend with others whom she had never met...
After all the refugees who had fled were properly arranged, Cuicheng returned to peace, and Zhou Shichu returned to her lazy nature. Liu Yan asked her for five hundred taels of silver, so the matter of buying a farm became a distant prospect again, and she had to save money again.
Zhou Shiwan was watering the vegetables, fruits and melons in the backyard. She was seven or eight years old now. Because of adequate nutrition, she had grown a lot taller, and her face was rosy and her skin was fair. She no longer looked like a little refugee as when Zhou Shichu first came, but had become a little beauty.
She is much more diligent than her sister. She weeds, waters, replants and picks the vegetables without being urged. Although she is young, she is very efficient at her work and even more proactive than Zhou Shichu.
Seeing that Zhou Shiwan was really hardworking, Zhou Shichu didn't want to exploit her too much, so he hired a maid to do chores at home. However, Zhou Shiwan was still busy. Seeing that she was willing to do it, Zhou Shichu gave her a salary.
When Zhou Shiwan received his first salary, he was so happy that he ran around the vegetable garden several times.
"Sister! I have money!" She held up her small purse and shook it for her companions, her eyes shining brightly.
Zhou Shichu was lying on the beauty couch in the corridor and nodded perfunctorily: "Great! Save it to buy candy."
"I'm not buying candy!" Zhou Shiwan shook his head vigorously and said, "I want to save it and buy a farm for my sister."
When Zhou Shichu heard her words, he looked at her in surprise and asked, "Why did you think of buying a farm for me?"
"Didn't my sister say that the money from buying the farm would be donated to disaster relief? We have to buy the farm later, so I will help my sister save money." Zhou Shiwan said as a matter of course, as if it was natural for her, a child, to save money to help her family buy a farm.
Zhou Shichu looked at this adopted sister and felt quite gratified. It was not easy for her to actually think about sharing her sister's worries. But her filial little head never realized that all this money came from her sister. She wanted to save it to buy a farm for her sister. In that case, wouldn't the money just be transferred from the left hand to the right hand?
But in order not to discourage the child's good intentions, Zhou Shichu said softly: "You don't need to save money, kid, just spend your pocket money happily. I will earn the money to buy the village. Be good and go buy a beautiful hair flower and the snacks you want to eat."
It was with great difficulty that Zhou Shiwan gave up his plan to save money for her.
Originally, Zhou Shichu thought that it would take some time for her to buy the farm, but unexpectedly, Mu Yunchao took the initiative to give her a farm covering an area of more than 100 acres, saying that it was a reward for her proposing the creative disaster relief method of "work instead of relief".
Zhou Shichu never expected that she would get such a pleasant surprise just by casually making a suggestion to Mu Yunchao. It was true that flowers may not bloom if you try hard, but willows may grow into shade if you plant them by accident. So she donated the money to buy the farm, and Mu Yunchao gave her a farm as a gift.
Of course, she would not think that Mu Yunchao's gift of the manor was a coincidence. As a hero who wanted to fight for the world, he naturally had channels to know that Zhou Shichu was obsessed with buying the manor, so Mu Yunchao was just trying to please him.
But this was a good and clever offer. This reward went straight to Zhou Shichu's heart, so she accepted it generously. She would not think she was too noble to refuse it. This was her reward.
Moreover, Mu Yunchao's thank-you gift was like buying a horse with a huge sum of money. He rewarded an ordinary divorced woman who made useful suggestions with huge benefits, which was to tell those knowledgeable people who were watching the situation and had not made a choice: Come to me quickly! I will definitely be the one who appreciates your talent...
(End of this chapter)
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