Chapter 167 What to do next?
"What should we do then?"
"You can't just ignore Wang Fugui and his men because you're afraid they'll send more powerful people in the future, right?"
"Yes, even if they dare to come, we are not afraid!"
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Mr. Jiang was not annoyed, but praised: "Very good."
Shen Qing then explained: "But we are not afraid, but there is no need. Most of them are disaster victims. Now we only know that the woman is powerful. Why should we confront her head-on in someone else's territory?
Win or lose, it won't be good, what we want is to get out of this unscathed."
Master Jiang nodded in approval.
Even Jiang Xiangdong and Jiang Xiangnan, who were the most angry, understood what their mother said.
Mother is right! And their own family is definitely not enough, they still have to rely on the villagers to unite and fight the enemy, but other people's lives are also lives, they have to consider and be responsible for others!
Danger and harm must be minimized!
They looked at their mother and asked, "Mom, what are you going to do?"
Shen Qing looked at Mr. Jiang Er, poured out the silver and other items he had found from his backpack, and told his plan: "These are all obtained from those people. The silver in the biggest purse is the money to buy Ah Bing's life;
The remaining miscellaneous money is estimated to be around seven or eight taels, for a total of one hundred and seven or eight taels. My idea is to distribute the silver to every household. We shouldn't waste time waiting here to receive disaster relief food, let's go directly to Jincheng!"
The crowds of people surrounding the place opened their mouths in surprise as they looked at the hundreds of taels of silver lying on the open space in the middle.
Shen Qing just took out over a hundred taels of silver and divided it up like that?
Every household must earn no more than ten taels of rice. How much food can they buy? Especially since most of the disaster relief food is bran, how much more can they buy?
"When we get to Jincheng, we will choose a place that is easy to defend and difficult to attack as our new home. It's far away and it's our territory, so we don't have to be afraid no matter how many of them come!" Shen Qing continued.
"Alright, even if it's not about Huo Bing, we still have to choose a place that's easy to defend and hard to attack. The world might fall into chaos at any time, so we should choose a good place for the sake of our children and grandchildren, right?"
"I absolutely agree! The mountains are high and the emperor is far away. If they dare to come, everyone in our village will make sure they never return!"
"Right, right. If we can't kill him, I don't believe she can send a steady stream of people."
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Jiang Xiangdong bowed to the villagers with gratitude.
He now truly understands the practical benefits of his mother building good relationships with everyone and leading everyone to earn money together!
When the world is stable, the family can survive on their own, but once the world is bad, everyone needs to help each other to overcome the difficulties, especially in a case like Ah Bing, where hundreds of people are united against the enemy, he was much less panicked than before.
Shen Qing added, "This amount of silver is neither too little nor too much. The reason why I can't receive the disaster relief grain is because of my family's affairs, so my family will not participate in the distribution."
She has a lot of silver, and the mall also sells cheap food, so she doesn't need this little silver. But other people will feel at ease only if they have silver to buy more food.
Carpenter Guan quickly squeezed next to his daughter and said a few words.
Guan Li hurriedly pulled Shen Qing's sleeve and whispered, "Aunt, my family is small, there is enough food and money, and there is no need to divide it."
Daddy has carpentry skills, so she and Xiaoshan can support themselves. The most important thing is that other families have more than ten or twenty people, but hers has only three people, and Xiaoshan can't help with the work. It was like taking advantage of her to divide the donkeys before.
Dad is right, we need to be self-aware. We really can’t divide it this time, so they need to take the initiative to propose it themselves.
Shen Qing patted Guan Li's hand with his backhand, and whispered that it was not necessary. Then he raised his voice and said: "This silver is used to buy food rations. The number of people in each household is different, and the difference between more and less is too big, so we divide it according to the number of people;
The old and the young, male and female, all have the same number, what do you think?"
Mr. Jiang smiled and nodded.
Others laughed and said, "With money to share, I'm almost laughing in my dreams, what else do you have to say?"
"So much money, it's like you picked it up for free, and it's yours, so just make the decision!"
"We all have a large number of people, so of course it's good. Uncle Guan and his men have suddenly lost a lot of their numbers, so we need to ask Uncle Guan."
Carpenter Guan stepped forward nervously and quickly stated, "We have no objection, not at all. According to the number of people, it is the fairest and most just!"
Shen Qing asked Jiang Xiangzhong to do the math and distribute silver to each family.
One hundred and seven taels of silver, after deducting the number of people in your family, each person can still get seven cents!
The family with a large number of people, nearly twenty in number, young and old, received more than thirteen taels of rice.
Even the Guan family, which had the least, received more than two taels of silver.
More than two taels of silver can buy more than 500 kilograms of the cheapest corn flour. If you eat it frugally, it is almost enough for three people to have food for a year!
The same is true for other families.
Holding the "huge" amount of money, everyone felt that this was not just enough to make up for the disaster relief grain for Wen'an City. It was actually more than the amount of Wen'an City and Jincheng combined!
After all, the court's relief to each disaster victim could not be as high as seven cents of silver.
"I'm not dreaming, am I? Our family suddenly has eleven taels of silver?" Granny Qin always felt that her legs stepping on the ground were unreal, as if she was stepping on a pile of cotton.
Previously, he earned more than one or two taels of silver by polishing pen holders for Shen Qing. On the way to escape famine, the whole family helped to make brushes and earned four or five taels of silver. Later, he got a donkey, and now he has directly received eleven taels of silver!
This is eleven taels of silver. You should know that the Qin family's silver reserves in the past few decades were only twenty-seven taels. In just a few months of following Shen Qing, their family's silver reserves have increased by more than half.
Including the price of the donkey, it had already exceeded the family’s savings.
Isn't it the same for other families?
Especially the Zhou family.
What kind of luck they have! Ever since they came to Qili Village, they have been enjoying a good life all the way, earning money and sharing donkeys, and now they can even get money for free.
Even if you encounter evil people with ulterior motives, you can successfully avoid danger.
They couldn't imagine what life would be like if they were still in Shili Village...
After dividing the silver, Master Jiang said, "The stoves and firewood are ready. Each household should cook some food and have a good meal. Take some for the journey and leave immediately!"
"Oh, good!" Suddenly the sound was deafening and the morale was high.
The women lit the fire and heated the pot, and were quite generous in pouring in the food, so the pancakes they baked were thick and chewy.
The men began to pack up their belongings, tied up the straw mats and bedding on the cart, and fed the donkey well.
No one dared to waste time, even though they knew that Wang Fugui and others would not return to report so quickly, and could not immediately send people to commit the crime, but it was always better to be cautious.
After eating, the team counted the number of people and confirmed that everyone was there, then quickly moved towards Jincheng.
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