On the way to escape famine, my parents divorced

Chapter 209 I said do it this way, so let’s do it!

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Li Shiyue sat at the top and waited for a while, leaving time for everyone to discuss the windmill.

She had extraordinary five senses, and although she was a little far away from Li Youfu, she could still hear clearly what he and his eighth uncle were whispering.

".She is indeed a capable person."

"Humph! So what?
When she gets married in the future, won’t Li belong to Shiyang?
By then, don’t even mention the windmill or the stone mill, even the paper mill will be ours!"

Li Shiyue was speechless at what the two people said, but she just shook her head in her heart.

Feeling that the time was about right, Li Shiyue clapped her hands and started talking about the second thing to everyone who was looking at her.

"If you want to do your work well, you must first sharpen your tools. If we want to do a good job in autumn harvest, then we must prepare all the tools needed for the work.

I ordered some new farm tools in Qingsong Town in advance. I asked for fifty sickles from the blacksmith shop. When the time comes, they will be distributed based on the number of people. Whoever has more men in his family will get more.

But this thing is expensive. I pay for it first, and whoever uses it has to pay me the rental price. If anyone wants to buy it later, I will charge them more money.

But don't worry, I ordered a lot, so if you buy one individually, it will be cheaper than if you go to town to buy it.

I also ordered winnowing baskets, baskets and stone mills, including a special large stone mill, which will be placed in the drying yard. Anyone in our village can use it.

This and the windmill are my personal contribution to the village. I won’t ask anyone for money.

Later, discuss with each other and find a few people to go to the town to bring all these back."

Although everyone heard that they had to pay to use the sickle, they felt that it was reasonable. After all, it was made of iron and they should be charged for it.

Later, they heard Li Shiyue say that the windmill and millstone would not cost anyone money and would be placed in the drying yard so that everyone could use them. Someone in the crowd started talking about it.

"Oh my god, October, this is really a big deal!

They use those two tools for spring ploughing. The last time I went to the county seat, I heard that the general had summoned all the carpenters in the town and the county to make these two tools.”

"Does the general also use those two?"

"Isn't it!
There is also a lot of land at the garrison!"

Some people pay attention to windmills, while others pay attention to stone mills.

"Shiyue asked how big the millstone was?
Looking at the picture, I don't understand it. If the drying yard in our village is big, then the windmill and the stone mill must be big too, right?"

Erdan's mother was sitting next to this woman holding Erdan. The woman who was talking was actually Wang Xiangxing, the eldest daughter-in-law of her eighth uncle's family.

Logically speaking, the people sitting in the ancestral hall were vaguely divided into three factions. One faction was naturally Li Shiyue's people, led by Li Wangshui, Mazi, and Mole;

The other faction was the other Li clan members, led by Li Youfu and his eighth uncle, who were dissatisfied with Li Shiyue.

The middle-of-the-roaders can only be the Wang family and Liu's family of three.

Therefore, at this moment, the three factions were almost clearly divided and sat in the left, middle and right places of the ancestral hall respectively.

But at this moment Wang Xiangxing sat next to Erdan's mother.

It wasn't Erdan's mother who pulled Wang Xiangxing over to sit with her, but Wang Xiangxing had deliberately tried to build a relationship with Erdan's mother over these days.

In fact, Erdan's mother was of course bothered by Wang Xiangxing, after all, Wang Xiangxing's father-in-law was her eighth great-uncle.

Not to mention that Li Shiyue and Li Youfu's eighth uncle have shaken hands and made peace now, but that is only on the surface. Others may have truly reconciled, but with the hatred of the eighth uncle's severed finger still there, how could he truly reconcile with Li Shiyue?
However, Wang Xiangxing is really a stickler. If you agree to one thing she says, she will say three more things to you.

That was not all. Wang Xiangxing also let her son Huzi play with Erdan in the school. When the children played together, the adults would not separate them or tell them about the feud between the two families. As a result, Erdan's mother gradually became able to talk to Wang Xiangxing properly. Later, she would wait for Wang Xiangxing to go to the river to wash clothes together.

So, at this moment Wang Xiangxing sat together with Erdan's mother.

"It must be quite a big thing. Didn't you hear October say that we need to get someone to drive a cart to bring it back?

If it was a smaller one, who could she have told to bring him back?"

At this moment, Li Shiyue, who was sitting at the head of the table, felt that the discussion below was almost over, so he clapped his hands again and started talking about the third thing.

"The last thing I want to do is to use the same method we used during the spring ploughing. I will gather the manpower, animal power, and tools and divide them into 20 teams.

There are ten teams of men, and they will mainly work in the fields;
There were ten teams of women, and they were at the drying yard.

Both sides should work together and try to harvest all the grain in the village as quickly as possible.

After paying the autumn tax, we can prepare for the trade, so that we can have a prosperous new year! "

After Li Shiyue finished speaking, he did not give anyone time to react and directly signaled Li Qiutian and Li Xiatian to send the list to the heads of each family.

Li Shiyue also stood up at this time: "I have already arranged the teams on the list, you can all take a look, if anyone is not happy, quickly find someone to replace them.

During the autumn harvest, the paper mill and the school stopped working and reopened after the autumn harvest."

Li Shiyue saw that several men on Eighth Uncle's side were unwilling, so she glared at them and said, "I'm not asking for your consent, I'm notifying you!

Anyone who disagrees with working together for the autumn harvest, just shut up!
I said so, so do it! "

Those men looked at each other. Facing Li Shiyue's frown, none of them wanted to speak out, and no one dared to stand up and oppose Li Shiyue's words.

In this way, the autumn harvest in Liujiatun was settled.

Jiang Huai sat upstairs and watched Li Shiyue standing there discussing the autumn harvest with Li Wangshui and others. He then looked up at Li Youfu, who had a gloomy face.

When most people in the ancestral hall had left, Jiang Huai stood up. He asked Li Xiatian for a blueprint of the windmill and walked out of the ancestral hall.

Li Shiyue specifically told him that during the autumn harvest in the village, Jiang Huai would be given a few days off and someone would send him back to the provincial capital to have a look.

Jiang Huai naturally listened to Li Shiyue's words, and when he left, he only carried a small bag on his back.

Inside the bundle were the four letters he had written earlier.

Li Wangshui accepted the job of sending Jiang Huai to the provincial capital. He was driving the cart, and Jiang Huai was sitting on the other side of the shaft.

There were also a lot of things piled on the cart at the back, including wooden boxes used in the paper mill, which contained some fine paper specially given to Jiang Huai for use when visiting relatives and friends, and two pheasants with beautiful tail feathers, which Li Xiatian had shot with a bow and arrow on the Dahei Mountain and gave especially to Jiang Huai who was returning to his clan.

Li Wangshui wore a straw hat and pulled the reins as he drove the mule out of Liujiatun. He was not a talkative person, but he could not resist the aura of Jiang Huai, a scholar, and Dazhuang and Xiaozhuang were studying under him.

So Jiang Huai asked, "How did you come to settle in Andong?"

Li Wangshui didn't stutter at all and started talking directly about how the people of Lijia Village escaped famine.

".Who knows who those refugees are?"

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