"It's sold!"
"The Jiang family has returned to the village!"
"The oxcart is all empty!"
......
The shouts of the elderly women at the village entrance successfully attracted the attention of the villagers who were still at home.
At the village chief's house, several old men also heard the commotion and were quite excited, but seeing that the old man didn't move, they managed to suppress their urge to go out and find out what was going on.
Under the watchful eyes of the villagers, Jiang Yue stood outside the village chief's house and called out—
Is Uncle Village Chief home?
Behind her were layers upon layers of people.
Many villagers who came after hearing the news watched and listened eagerly to what would happen next.
"You're back?"
The village chief and others came out of the house. The very observant villagers brought out benches and stools from their neighbors, gesturing for the village chief and the respected elders to sit down first. Then, they also prepared a bench for the Jiang family.
The others surrounded them, forming a circle.
"I have successfully completed my mission."
Jiang Yue bowed slightly, then took out a purse from her bosom, revealing the silver inside, and said loudly:
Three months ago, thanks to the trust of the village chief and the clan elders, I rented three acres of fertile land in the clan to grow Pinellia ternata, which produced more than 600 catties of medicinal plants. After processing, a total of 504 catties of medicinal materials were obtained.
Today, Huichuntang sold medicinal herbs, purchasing them at 66 copper coins per catty, for a total of 33,264 copper coins, which is equivalent to 33 taels and 264 copper coins.
According to the agreement between myself and the village chief, half of the proceeds will be given to the clan.......
Boom!
Jiang's words were like a thunderclap in summer, deafening everyone present!
Most people know the cause and effect, and some even secretly recorded the number when the medicinal plants were harvested.
They match, they all match!
To their astonishment, Huichuntang was paying a staggering sixty-six copper coins per pound for medicinal herbs!
Of the thirty-three taels and two hundred and sixty-four copper coins, half of that, sixteen taels and six hundred and thirty copper coins, were handed over to the clan!
The remaining half was earned by the Chiang family in just three months!
If it were a year...
My God, everyone's eyes turned red!
regret!
Why didn't they all start planting medicinal herbs when the Jiang family mentioned it?!
Jiang Yue glanced around and noticed a mixture of regret, envy, and fervor in the villagers' eyes...
Having achieved her goal, she handed over the rest to the village chief. She counted out half of the silver and solemnly handed it to him.
It would be a lie to say the village chief wasn't excited when he felt the weight of the silver!
God knows how much pressure he faced to support Chiang Kai-shek!
Now, he feels that in all his decades as village chief, he has never been as glorious as he is today!
Haha~
"Well, I'll accept the money on behalf of the clan. It's getting late, so you and your daughter should go home and rest. I'll take care of things here."
The village chief feigned composure, holding the silver ingots, broken silver, and heavy copper coins, feeling elated but showing no concern for the Jiang mother and daughter.
"Okay, Uncle Village Chief, then I'll trouble you to handle the follow-up matters. I'll take Yao Yao home to cook first."
Jiang Yue nodded, touched her half-empty purse, and felt satisfied.
The remaining dozen or so taels of silver are truly hers!
After the Jiang mother and daughter left, the villagers went from barely daring to breathe to erupting into a frenzy of chatter...
The village chief was prepared. After collecting the money, he asked each household to send one person to the ancestral hall to discuss important matters.
Wujia Village is about to undergo a major change!
The village chief is ready to make a big splash and lead the whole village to cooperate with the Jiang family to grow medicinal herbs, so as to reverse the poor situation that Wu Family Village has been farming for generations!
He didn't want to lose face again at the annual village assembly that the government would summon him to attend every year!
After Jiang Yue got home, she immediately cooked two bowls of sweet egg soup.
After the mother and daughter had eaten and drunk their fill, they each went back to their rooms for a short nap.
After closing the doors and windows, Jiang Yue was wide awake.
Taking advantage of a rare moment of free time, she opened the system page and began to take stock of her assets.
Well, she still has 308 points left, enough for her to squander for a while.
The original owner left behind some silver, including two silver ingots, which she planned to use for Qingsong's future marriage betrothal.
During this period, Qingshan Qingsong entrusted her with the money he earned from selling liangpi (cold skin noodles). It was mostly in copper coins. After counting for a long time, there were 3,256 copper coins. He checked them against the ledger again and put a checkmark on them.
The money was put into a money bag, and then the money from selling kudzu root powder was counted again. It was six taels and two hundred copper coins. Two hundred copper coins were set aside for daily expenses.
The money earned from the first pot of honeysuckle had already been mostly spent on building the house. The last remaining amount was sixteen taels and six hundred and thirty copper coins from selling medicinal herbs. The whole amount was kept, and the change was used for daily expenses.
Now, all things considered, she has twenty taels left by the original owner for Qingsong's betrothal, twenty-two taels of personal savings, over eight hundred copper coins for daily expenses, and three taels and two hundred and fifty-six copper coins kept for her sons, half of which will eventually go to the public treasury.
Although it hasn't taken off yet, she believes that by the end of the year, her savings will have multiplied several times over!
Jiang Yue held the silver for a while, admiring it, and then stored it all in the system space.
He carefully placed the purse containing only his daily expenses in the wardrobe, closed it, yawned, and contentedly drifted off to sleep...
Little did they know that the ancestral hall in Wujia Village was now bustling with noise, with each household arguing fiercely over how she had earned more than thirty taels of silver from the clan's land in just three months.
Don't misunderstand, the villagers are now filled with regret and want to follow suit. They want the village chief to help them reconcile, so they can plant medicinal herbs after the Jiang family!
In just three months, the Jiang family earned what an ordinary family could live on for four or five years—the difference was too obvious!
A golden nugget, no, Chiang Kai-shek is a golden phoenix!
When someone is admired by everyone, jealousy doesn't arise; instead, there is admiration and respect!
As the representative of his family, Old Master Wu naturally also came to the ancestral hall.
He swore that this was the first time in his fifty years, from birth to the present, that he had ever sat in the front seat!
Furthermore, everyone, young and old, looked at him with envy, which greatly satisfied his vanity!
"Yongfu, you really have good taste. You and your third son's wife planted medicinal herbs. When will your herbs ripen?"
"That's right, Yongfu's family is going to get rich too! I used to laugh at you for planting medicinal herbs, but now it seems I was just blind!"
"Yongfu, you are so lucky!"
"Come over to my house for a drink sometime, and tell me how you grow your medicinal plants. Is it difficult?"
"Alright, alright, another day. Yongfu, come to my house, and I'll have my wife make us some cured pork rice!"
"Uncle Yongfu, come to my house today!"
"Uncle Yongfu, come to my house!"
“Yongfu........”
Haha~
It's unbelievable that someone with one foot in the grave would be praised to the skies like this!
He didn't go to any other people's houses for dinner; he went back to his own home and asked his eldest son's wife to cook a good meal for the whole family!
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