Jiang Qinyu nodded with a smile, "I just went in and checked. Everything in the cellar is fine. They probably didn't notice it earlier."
No matter how unreasonable it may seem, as long as the supplies are still there, the villagers have no reason to doubt it.
"That's great!" Village Chief Li clapped his hands. "No, I have to go and see for myself before I can feel at ease."
He ran quickly into the ancestral hall, and the others followed.
Soon after, the sound of people weeping with joy could be heard from inside the ancestral hall.
"Thank our ancestors for protecting us! Our food is safe!"
"Hahaha... As expected, heaven has eyes! Our cellar was right here, and they didn't even notice!"
"That's right. Don't they know what's going on in our village's ancestral hall? So many ancestors from different families are here. How could we let those bastards take their things away?"
"That's right..."
Hearing them all attribute the credit to their ancestors, Jiang Qinyu smiled, shook her head, and went home.
It was only 9 AM, just the right time for her to take her little hoe and go check on the fields. She heard that her family's land had already been plowed and tilled.
Jiang Qinyu armed herself from head to toe, wearing a straw hat, draping a towel around her neck, tightening her cuffs, and putting on leg wraps.
After taking care of the two children, the three of them, aunt and niece, headed towards the field.
Not long after they went out, they saw Li Dachui and Liu Yazi return and were talking to Liu Erleng and Village Chief Li.
Village Chief Li, with his sharp eyes, spotted Jiang Qinyu immediately and waved to her, calling out, "Niece, come here for a moment."
"What's wrong, Uncle Village Chief?" Jiang Qinyu went over and greeted Liu Erleng, Li Dachui, and the others.
Village Chief Li said, "We just discussed it. In case of any unforeseen circumstances, our village not only needs to strengthen its defenses, but we also need to quickly move the supplies from the ancestral hall to the mountains."
"Go to the mountains?" Jiang Qinyu blinked. "Wouldn't that be even more unsafe?"
There are animals in the mountains, so it's not safe even with guards. What if a big one comes? They can't possibly send a lot of people to guard it, can they?
Village Chief Li said with a worried look, "If we don't move, what if those officials come again?"
This time we were blessed by our ancestors, but we might not be so lucky next time!
Jiang Qinyu chuckled, "Uncle, I think it's best if we don't do anything right now."
"Why?" Village Chief Li looked at her, puzzled.
Jiang Qinyu looked towards the village entrance. "The officials haven't found any grain in our village, and they might not give up anytime soon. If we rush to move our supplies to the mountains now, what if they run into us..."
There's no need to finish the sentence; everyone understands the point.
“What you said makes sense, but what if they come again?” Liu Erleng looked at Jiang Qinyu with worry.
Jiang Qinyu smiled and said, "If they come again, we'll beat them back!"
"Huh? Fight the government officials?" Li Dachui's eyes nearly popped out of their sockets when he heard this.
Village Chief Li and Liu Erleng stared blankly at Jiang Qinyu, unable to react for a moment.
Jiang Qinyu looked at them seriously and said, "We've already let them search the village once, and even the ancestral hall. If they come back again in a short time, it would be disrespectful to all our ancestors. As their descendants, it's only natural for us to protect our ancestors. They have no right to complain!"
“That’s right!” Village Chief Li’s eyes lit up upon hearing this. “My niece is right. We’ve already been wronged once. If they come again before the next harvest, we’re not afraid of them. If they dare to search the ancestral hall again, we’ll beat them back!”
"Yes! If they come again, we'll beat them back!" Liu Erleng shouted, his blood boiling with fervor, waving his hand.
Seeing that they understood, Jiang Qinyu said to Village Chief Li, "Uncle, I'll go check the fields and we'll talk about it later."
"Alright, alright, you go ahead and get busy. Your land is all ready. See when you're going to plant the seeds, and I'll get some villagers to help," Village Chief Li said to her with a smile.
Jiang Qinyu quickly thanked them, "Thank you very much, Uncle Village Chief. Then I won't stand on ceremony with everyone."
"Don't mention it. We're a team now, and these things should be done together," Village Chief Li said, waving his hand.
Jiang Qinyu said no more and walked away with the two children.
Upon arriving at the field, before Jiang Qinyu could even assess its condition, Shufan pulled her aside and asked, "Auntie, can we really work as government officials?"
Upon hearing this, Jiang Qinyu looked at him in surprise, "Why do you ask that?"
Is a six-year-old child already thinking about these kinds of questions? Isn't that too precocious?
"I've heard the villagers say that the common people shouldn't fight against the officials. If you beat up the officials, won't the consequences be severe?" Shu Fan looked at her seriously.
Jiang Qinyu thought for a moment, and instead of just brushing him off because of his young age, she said seriously, "Many times it is wrong for us to hit people, but there is still the concept of 'reason' in this world. As long as we are in the right, even if we hit someone, we will not be held too accountable."
Shufan nodded as if he understood, his small face full of thought.
Jiang Qinyu patted his head, "You'll know how to tell when you grow up. Now, let's see what we can grow on our land!"
Both children perked up when this was mentioned.
Pan'er clapped her hands and said, "As long as there is food in the fields, we won't go hungry!"
"Don't worry, your aunt will definitely not let you go hungry again." Jiang Qinyu looked at them with a smile.
The high-yield grain varieties purchased from the system came with instructions. Taking wheat as an example, the yield of this high-yield wheat was between 800 and 1,000 kilograms per mu, which was even higher than the data she had seen in modern times.
In such a dry year, it is clearly not suitable to grow rice, so Jiang Qinyu plans to plant wheat first.
She walked around the field and found that the villagers must have put a lot of effort into turning and plowing the land, as the land was already ready to be divided into ridges and ditches.
The Lu family owned a total of twenty mu of land. Old Man Lu and Madam Chen divided the land into three parts, giving Jiang Qinyu seven mu of land: three mu of superior land and four mu of medium-quality land.
Lu Yancai's family also has seven mu of land, but they only have two mu of high-quality land and two mu of low-quality land.
Old Man Lu and Madam Chen have only top-grade land.
The division of assets caused a stir among Madam Ma at the time, but since almost everything the Lu family had was earned by Lu Yanzheng back then, her protests were futile.
Jiang Qinyu wasn't dissatisfied with this at all. After all, she wasn't the original owner of this body, and strictly speaking, the original owner and Lu Yanzheng hadn't actually been husband and wife. Being able to get a share of his family property was already quite good, and she had no choice at all.
She currently only has one pound of high-yield wheat seeds, not even enough to plant one acre of land, so she needs to buy some more from the system's store.
Moreover, it's not enough for just her family to grow high-yield grains; everyone else in the village has to do it too, otherwise things will get complicated later.
With that in mind, Jiang Qinyu bought ninety-nine high-yield grain seed gift packs from the system shop.
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Jiang Qinyu looked puzzled. This is allowed?
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