Jiang Qinyu quickly got up, answered the door and hurried out to open it, "Yes, Uncle Village Chief."
"Hey, are you still eating? I'll come back later." Village Chief Li quickly took a step back.
Jiang Qinyu smiled and said, "We've finished eating. Uncle Village Chief, please come in and sit down."
Her courtyard wasn't big, and she didn't prepare a special room for entertaining guests. Jiang Qinyu had previously gotten a stone table and stone benches from Old Man Lu, just so that there would be a place for people to sit when they came.
The courtyard gate opened, and Village Chief Li and Jiang Qinyu sat at the stone table in the courtyard.
“My dear niece, Lu Yancai and his wife just came to see me…” Village Chief Li explained the situation briefly, then said, “Although we didn’t give them anything, it is indeed a problem. What do you think about this?”
Jiang Qinyu pondered for a moment and said, "The village's situation was indeed not good before. We have a batch of things in hand now, but everyone doesn't have many work points, so it's not suitable to distribute them all."
She paused for a moment and continued, "How about this, we originally planned to distribute supplies three months later, but in order to help those who are really in need, we can adopt a work point estimation system."
"Work points estimate?" Village Chief Li was a little confused.
Jiang Qinyu nodded, "It means calculating the total work points for the whole village three months from now based on the current work points of each person, then estimating the value of our collective materials, adding the cash on hand, and calculating how much silver each work point is worth. This way, those families in difficulty can use the work points they have earned to exchange for some materials to get through their difficulties."
"Oh! Your idea is brilliant!" Village Chief Li stood up excitedly. "I'll go talk to Grandpa Jiang and the others right away. If they agree, we'll do it this way from now on!"
Jiang Qinyu also stood up, "Okay, thank you for your hard work, Uncle Village Chief."
"What's the trouble for me? You came up with all the ideas, and you're the one who did the hard work. I just ran errands." Village Chief Li waved his hand and walked out. "You should also pack up and rest. We'll have a meeting at the ancestral hall tomorrow to take stock of what you brought back."
Jiang Qinyu smiled and said, "Then let's call everyone as soon as possible. They're all part of the village, and they have the right to know what we have right now."
"That's right, I'll go and inform everyone in a bit." Village Chief Li waved his hand and quickly walked away.
Jiang Qinyu turned around and saw Shufan and Pan'er coming out of the kitchen, standing obediently at the door of the room looking at her.
"Did you two go wash the dishes?" Jiang Qinyu asked with a complicated expression when she saw the soot on the two of them.
Shufan said nonchalantly, "I've washed it. Auntie, would you like to go check if it's clean?"
They used to help with chores in the Lu family, so they already knew how to do simple things like washing dishes.
However, they are young and need to stand on stools to do it.
Jiang Qinyu also recalled the original owner's memories. Indeed, the two children were already capable of doing many household chores at a young age. For example, during the days she was away, they were the ones who cleaned the yard and house.
Jiang Qinyu walked over and hugged the two of them. "Shufan and Pan'er are great, but no matter what you do in the future, you must be careful not to get hurt, okay?"
In the original owner's memories, when Shufan and Pan'er were first scolded by Madam Ma to wash the dishes, they broke a bowl, cut their hands, and were also beaten and scolded by Madam Ma.
"Okay!" The two nodded obediently.
...
The next day, as soon as the sun peeked out, the people of Dingshui Village had already gathered in the ancestral hall.
Wang Pozi's family, along with members of the Ma and Deng families, were also watching the spectacle outside the ancestral hall.
"Tch, just this little bit of stuff, and you even called everyone over? What's there to brag about?" Granny Wang muttered dismissively.
Wang Bo immediately tugged at her sleeve, "Mom, say less."
"Brother Wang," a light and melodious voice sounded behind Wang Bo and his mother, "What are the villagers doing?"
Wang Bo turned around with a smile on his face, "Miss Liu, why didn't you sleep a little longer? It's nothing much, I heard it's just an inventory of the village's shared supplies."
Liu Ruyi smiled faintly and said, "I didn't see you when I got up, so I came over to check."
"Then stand here, you can see clearly from here." Wang Bo stepped aside to let her move to the front.
Liu Ruyi did not refuse, and stood quietly looking ahead.
"Hello, hello..." A crackling sound came from the air, and everyone in the village heard Village Chief Li's voice.
Village Chief Li was startled by his own voice and turned to look at Jiang Qinyu. "Niece, isn't this thing incredibly loud?"
“That way everyone can hear clearly,” Jiang Qinyu said calmly.
This is a megaphone she took out of the supermarket. She doesn't know who put it on the sample bed in the daily necessities section. It's a rechargeable model, and you can charge it in the supermarket.
Village Chief Li looked at the megaphone several times, but he still couldn't figure out why it was so loud. They could make a sound from a paper tube that was never this loud!
"Uncle, let's get down to business first," Jiang Qinyu reminded him.
Village Chief Li then abandoned his research and quickly picked up the megaphone to continue, "Is everyone here?"
"arrive!"
"Village chief, what's that thing you're holding? How can it make such a loud noise?"
"Yes, yes, we've never met before!"
Village Chief Li glared at the person who asked the question. "You've seen it now, haven't you? What's the big deal? These were all bought by A-Zheng's wife from outside. They're her own things. What's wrong with me borrowing them for a bit?"
"Oh, so you bought it. Alright, alright, village chief, please continue. What do we have now?"
Village Chief Li held a list in his hand, which was the income and expenditure list of Jiang Qinyu and her group during their trip.
He remembered every single detail, including the silver coins he gave to the gatekeepers of Yukang Prefecture, and the silver he gave to the innkeeper in Tateda County to shake off the One-Eyed King and his gang.
"Let me first read out to everyone what expenses Lao Meng and the others spent on this trip..." Village Chief Li quickly finished reading out Jiang Qinyu and the others' expenses.
Aside from accommodation and food, the only other expense was the money spent on cultivating relationships, which is perfectly reasonable.
After he finished reading, someone below couldn't contain themselves and shouted, "Village chief, just tell us how much stuff we have right now!"
Village Chief Li was speechless, but it was indeed time to speak.
So, when the people of Dingshui Village heard how much silver Jiang Qinyu and her group had earned from selling their prey and how much they had bought with that silver, they were all stunned.
"Xiao Bo, are they still half asleep? How could they sell for over a thousand taels of silver? And where did those eight hundred horses come from?" Granny Wang stared blankly ahead, while Jiang Qinyu was already directing people to set up the goods.
Wang Bo looked at Jiang Qinyu with a complicated expression. From what these people said, he was certain of one thing.
Lu Yanzheng's wife, whom he hasn't even consummated his marriage with, is an extremely formidable woman.
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
