Wonderful Life After Exchanging Fate - Chapter 74

Oh, Qin Yao still wants to buy those barren hills.

Those barren hills don’t have iron ore, they don’t produce anything, and they’re useless at all.

As for letting the victims do some work within their ability, that would be even better, so that they would not wander around and cause trouble when they are full.

Mengzhi felt that this was a great thing, and he almost danced, “Miss Qin, when will you start helping the victims?”

“Tomorrow.” Qin Yao said, sooner rather than later.

“Okay, then it’s settled.”

“By the way, magistrate, what about the barren mountain?” Qin Yao asked again.

“Bring the map of this county.” Mengzhi County called out immediately.

Someone brought the map of Wuling County, that is, the map, “These gray parts are all unowned places. Where do you want Miss Qin to buy? They can be cheaper for you.” Meng County pointed to the map.

Qin Zhen and Jiang Yunzhu had already researched in the store, where to buy barren hills, how many acres of mulberry forests to plant, and where to build a place for silkworm raising and spinning, so Qin Yao hesitated for a while, and marked two large areas with his hands .

These two places are in the north of Wuling County, that is, the direction close to Changfeng Mansion. Then one is on the top and the other is on the bottom. They are horns of each other, which just divides the victims into two groups, which is convenient for disaster relief, and of course it is convenient for planting trees and building houses.

“Miss Qin has a heart.” Meng Zhixian admired, and then sold the two barren hills and the surrounding wasteland to Qin Yao at a 10% discount.

Qin Yao paid the silver, a total of six hundred taels. Although the barren mountains and wasteland were cheap, she couldn’t afford to buy too much, so she still spent a fortune. Of course, this little money is nothing in the eyes of the Qin family.

Qin Yao took the title deed and left.

Some people gave relief to the victims, and they returned an extra six hundred taels. Meng Zhixian felt that he could finally sleep well tonight.

Back at Qishanju, Qin Zhen was overjoyed when he saw the land deed, and the plan had begun.

Let the butler stay to assist Qin Yao, and he immediately rushed back to Luzhou to arrange everything.

On the same day, the victims got the news that tomorrow morning, Beidahe and Sizhifeng would open porridge sheds. The victims were dubious, but hope is better than no hope. Everyone used their last strength to go to these two places.

The next day, the victims got up early in the morning and looked around, wanting to see where someone gave away porridge. They really couldn’t hold it anymore!

In the morning light, a group of people came, and the leader turned out to be a girl. The girl was about fifteen or sixteen years old, wearing an apricot dress, with lively eyes and kind eyes.

Is this the person who wants to give up porridge? The victims all looked at Qin Yao, their eyes full of hope and pleading.

Qin Yao also saw the tragic situation of the victims. The five or six-year-old children had arms as thin as firewood, and the old man could barely stand up.

“Hurry up, set up a porridge shed and make porridge.” Qin Yao said immediately.

Butler Qin said, “Miss, if you do this, I’m afraid you won’t be able to explain to the master.” This is a scene that has been arranged long ago, to let everyone know that Qin Yao is helping them under pressure, so don’t bite her back then.

But Qin Yao hurriedly said, “Let’s boil the porridge first before we talk about this.” She was not acting at all, but the effect was surprisingly good, which is why Jiang Yunzhu asked her to come forward.

“It’s been agreed a long time ago, to…” Butler Qin muttered.

“I’ll talk about that later,” Qin Yao said.

Qin Butler waved his hand reluctantly, and the people behind immediately moved into action, setting up a porridge shed and cooking porridge. They had already prepared, so they set up more than a dozen porridge sheds in an instant.

Generations of white rice and sorghum rice are poured into the pot, and after a while, there is a fragrant porridge smell wafting out.

All the victims stared at the cauldrons, swallowing from time to time.

On the west side, there was a child who couldn’t help crying. He was so hungry and wanted to eat porridge.

“Wait, just wait for the porridge.” His mother comforted him in a low voice.

The child is too young to understand these things and just cry.

Mother has nothing to do but coax her.

At this time, someone handed over a cake, “Let’s give it to the child first.” It was Qin Yao. Seeing the child crying, she couldn’t help but gave him a cake.

The woman immediately choked up, “Thank you, miss, thank you.” She saluted Qin Yao again and again to thank her.

“Get up, you’re welcome.” Qin Yao waved his hand.

Then the woman took the bread and fed it to the child.

“Girl, please give me a cake too, my mother is really dying.” A thin man came over, fell to his knees, and begged Qin Yao.

Not far from him, an old woman lay there, breathing weakly.

Qin Yao quickly gave him a cake.

The man didn’t bother to thank him, so he hurried back with the cake and fed it to the old woman.

More and more people asked Qin Yao for cakes, and Qin Yao only hated herself for not bringing more dry food.

At this time, the porridge was ready, and Butler Qin led the people to throw away the porridge.

While giving up the porridge, he muttered, “Everyone can only get one bowl of porridge a day. If you want to get more, you can plant trees next to it. If you plant five trees, you can get another bowl of porridge. If you plant ten trees, you can get two bowls of porridge.” Bowls can also be converted into silver coins.”

Someone listened to his muttering, and immediately came to his spirits, and asked him what happened to this kind of tree?

Butler Qin explained that he could dig a hole and plant trees on the nearby mountain. After the planting was completed, someone would get a note and come here to receive the porridge after someone checked and accepted it. It can also be converted into silver money, planting five trees for two pennies, the more you work, the more you get.

It is not so easy to plant trees on barren hills. Try to dig a relatively large hole so that the ground is not too hard and the saplings will not grow well in the future.

But this job, no one forces you, you can grind it slowly, unlike going to the mine, you have to keep moving the ore weighing more than one hundred catties, and you are not a strong young man, you can’t do it at all.

So immediately many people decided to plant trees.

At this time, everyone also received porridge. The rice used in Qin Yaoshe’s porridge is sorghum rice plus rice. There is a fragrance.

On some cold spring mornings, after drinking such a bowl of hot porridge, I just feel warm on my body and seem to have strength all of a sudden.

After drinking the porridge, someone immediately went to plant trees. Didn’t you hear the housekeeper said that you can get more porridge if you have more porridge?

The most important thing for a person is to have hope. With hope, you can persevere.

The mountain was full of excitement.

Seeing this, Meng Zhixian smiled gratifiedly. Of course, he also has something to do, and the 1,200 taels of charity money still needs to be used on the victims of the disaster. For those who can’t even grow trees, the government is responsible for the porridge.

With the two-pronged approach, although there are many victims in Wuling County, few died of starvation, which was almost unimaginable in the past.

Drinking two or three meals of porridge a day, the health of these victims gradually improved, and some people went everywhere to find a way out.

Planting trees can provide food, but after all, it is not a long-term solution. You still need to find a suitable job to do it.

This is what Jiang Yunzhu meant. Planting trees is just to give these victims a buffer time so that they can slowly adapt to this place.

What most of the victims actually lack is this buffering opportunity. At least they don’t have to worry about starving to death by riding donkeys to find horses.

And from the beginning to the end, the disaster victims worked and ate like normal people, so they would not have the feeling of being separated and abandoned, and it would be much easier for them to reintegrate into society.

Unlike those people who were rescued by the government in the past, they gradually gave up on themselves, and just waited to receive that bowl of porridge every day, life was like death.

This was something Mengzhi County didn’t expect at the beginning. After he found out, he admired Qin Yao a lot. He wondered why Qin Yao asked these victims to plant trees. It turned out to be like this!

These days, more and more porridge is being given away at any time, and Qin Yao’s reputation is getting bigger and bigger. The disaster victims all knew her as a girl with a bodhisattva heart, and they were all very grateful to her. Many people who survived because of her set up longevity tablets for her and prayed for her sooner or later.

During this time, Steward Qin will also choose some people who are smart or hardworking to stay. First, to manage the people, and second, after the victims of the disaster leave, someone will stay here to take care of the mulberry trees, and then raise silkworms and spin silk.

There are still many people left behind, so everyone sees hope more and more.

Everything is in order, some people leave from the barren hills, and new victims join. Beidahe and Sizhifeng are like two temporary resettlement sites for victims, welcoming and sending them away, while the barren hills and wasteland next to them slowly start to turn green.

The chaos of selling people and fighting in the county suddenly decreased a lot, and the days seemed to be calm again. The people of Wuling County did not reject these victims so much, and everything seemed to be moving in a good direction.

Mengzhi County can now sleep well every day.

However, the magistrates of other counties couldn’t sit still, and the problem of the victims could not be solved, and there was a big mess in the county.

The county magistrate of Huayang County first found Qin Yao, hoping that she could also go to Huayang County to sell porridge. He Huayang County also has a lot of barren mountains and wasteland. If Qin Yao needs it, he can also sell it to her with a 20% discount, no, a 30% discount.

At this time, Qin Zhen had already contacted everything. Originally, he also wanted to develop in other counties. This is why someone gave pillows to sleepy people.

Immediately, he decided to plant porridge in Huayang County.

This required Qin Yao to come forward, and at this time, it was already the end of March, Xie Chen and other students in the county had to pack their things and prepare to go to Beijing.

It’s amazing, Qin Yao used to think about Xie Chen’s leaving every day, but since she started hosting the porridge, maybe it’s because she’s too busy, maybe it’s the feeling of being needed, she actually likes this job very much, There is also a lot less sadness about parting.

She used to be very afraid that Xie Chen would not pass the exam, then she really would have no chance with him.

But now, she felt, no matter what his test results were, they could work hard together.

This may be growth, from a girl in a boudoir to the young owner of Changyuan Liangxing, she has become more cheerful, more confident, and more capable.

Seeing this, Qin Zhen also saw Qin Yao often sticking together with Jiang Yunzhu, and later realized why Jiang Yunzhu had to ask Qin Yao to come forward to do this. She was all for her own good, otherwise, it would be the same to choose someone else of.

He couldn’t laugh or cry, he was calculated, now that Qin Yao has become a living Bodhisattva in the hearts of the victims, he can no longer force her to marry. But it also feels good. He only has Qin Yao and Qin Lu. Qin Lu is still young, and he plans to let him take the imperial examination. If Qin Yao can really achieve something, he will be happy to see it.

I’m afraid his silly girl doesn’t know how lucky she is to meet Jiang Yunzhu.

Just for this, he decided to give Jiang Yunzhu a gift in a few days.

Jiang Yunzhu didn’t know Qin Zhen’s thoughts, but this day, she received an invitation card from Xu Qingshan. It turned out that he was going to get married in two days and invited her and everyone in the Jiang family to his wedding banquet.