"Yue girl, Mingyu, Minghao..."

The village chief sat on the ox cart, shouting and waving his hands.

When the village chief called for the first time, Li Mengyue heard it and turned around to look.

Not far away, the village chief was waving his hand and calling them.

"Grandpa Village Chief, Grandpa Village Chief." Minghao also saw the village chief and ran towards him.

"Hey, Minghao, why are you here?"

"Grandpa, the village chief, my sister brought my brother and me here to sell locusts."

When the village chief heard about the locusts being sold, he asked anxiously, "How are they? Are they easy to sell?"

Before Minghao could answer, the village chief continued, "It doesn't matter if they don't sell them. I'll go back and tell the villagers not to catch locusts anymore. It's a pity that the village has lost such a good source of income."

Minghao was very anxious when he saw that the village chief didn't wait for him to speak and just made random guesses.

There is nothing that has not been sold. There are a lot of people buying it, and there are still people who want to buy it but haven’t bought it yet.

So Village Chief Li finished talking to himself, immersed in the bad mood of not being able to sell the locusts. Minghao's voice broke the village chief's bad mood.

"Grandpa Village Chief, all the locusts my sister brought have been sold. They are selling very well and will be gone soon."

"What? They're sold. They're really sold. Hahaha. I knew that Miss Yue is a capable person. Selling locusts is easy for her. It's not a big deal at all."

"That's good. The villagers can work hard to catch locusts and make some money from Yue. This winter will probably be much better, and not so many people will starve to death or freeze to death."

When the village chief heard Minghao say that it was sold, he suddenly became excited.

If the village chief was a wilted seedling before, now he is a seedling that has just been irrigated by rain, has drunk enough water, and is full of energy.

Minghao watched as the village chief got off the carriage swiftly and prepared to walk towards his sister.

When Li Mengyue saw the village chief, she knew that the land purchase had probably been completed, so she went back and tried to find a way to get the ducklings out.

"Grandpa Village Chief, is everything going well?"

The village chief knew what Li Mengyue was talking about, and said arrogantly: "Needless to say, you don't even look at who you are looking for to do it, there will be no surprises."

At this time, the village chief forgot the injustice he suffered from Zhang Zhubo. If it weren't for the silver, he would have almost failed.

But he didn't want Li Mengyue to know this, as long as the deed was clear.

So when Li Mengyue brought a group of children to Village Chief Li.

Village Chief Li did not ask about the child, but directly took out the land deed that he had kept safely and handed it to Li Mengyue.

"Girl Yue, the village chief didn't let you down. He did it successfully."

Li Mengyue knew what the village chief was talking about and naturally took the deed.

But when she saw the extra 500 acres of land on the title deed, she became confused.

"Grandpa Village Chief, how come there are five hundred more acres?"

"What! Let me see." The village chief exclaimed, took the land deed from Li Mengyue, and saw that there were indeed 500 more acres, but he didn't know what happened.

In fact, he took the land deed from Zhang Zhubo without looking at it carefully.

Because he didn't believe that the county government would make a mistake, but he didn't expect that it actually did.

But it was stamped with the county magistrate's official seal, and it was a deed that the county magistrate had personally seen. Could it be wrong? Obviously not.

In this case, there is only one possibility, that is, the county magistrate deliberately added 500 acres of land.

No matter what County Magistrate Yang's purpose was, Li Mengyue had decided to take the 500 acres of land, and it had already been written on the land deed.

She would not be stupid enough to take the money to the county government to change it. So Li Mengyue originally wanted to buy 1300 acres of land, but ended up getting 500 acres more.

Today, Li Mengyue owns 1,800 acres of land and is a veritable landlord.

It’s just that these lands seem to be a lot, but it is not known whether they can be used to grow crops.

You should know that the imperial court encouraged land reclamation. No matter how much land was reclaimed, no taxes had to be paid in the first three years.

There are 200 acres of wasteland at the foot of the mountain, and no one in the village has reclaimed it, which shows how poor the soil fertility is.

But this is not a problem for Li Mengyue.

First of all, she didn't intend to grow crops. The purpose of buying the land was to raise ducks.

Secondly, even if the land is not good, she still has a magic water bag that can use spiritual spring water to improve the soil. No matter what she plants, she believes there will be a good harvest.

"Thank you, Grandpa Village Chief."

"Oh, why are you being so polite to the village chief? I should thank you. If it weren't for you, there would be no way for the village to make money now."

As soon as Village Chief Li finished speaking, the old man driving the cart took over the conversation.

"There are people in your village who are actually collecting locusts. What a joke! Isn't it known that locusts cannot be eaten?"

Seeing that the old man was interested, Village Chief Li glanced at Li Mengyue and became excited. He told her without reservation about collecting and selling fried locusts in their village.

Li Mengyue stood by and had no intention of stopping him.

The truth is that the area covered by this locust plague is too large, and the entire Qingshan Prefecture will fall. Once the locust plague breaks out, no matter how much preparation their village makes, it will not be of much use and will still be affected.

She didn't dare to imagine what would happen when the fields were barren and every household had no food stored.

I have only seen cannibalism in books before, but I guess it will become a reality.

Even if she wanted to save people, a person's power is limited, so how could she take care of so many people?

After seeing the village chief and the old man talking, the other party opened his mouth in shock, thinking that letting more people know about the locust plague might not be a bad thing.

It may also arouse people's vigilance, enable them to detect locust plagues earlier and make preparations in advance.

"Really? There are people in your village who buy locusts for one penny per pound."

"Of course, why would I lie to you? If you don't believe me, you can go to our village and take a look."

The village chief felt a little upset when he saw the old man's look of disbelief.

"My name is Ma Wei. I live in Lianhua Village, Xinghua Village, right? Can I go visit you today? Don't worry, I'll take you to the village for free."

"Lotus Village, we are all from Qingshan Town, of course we can go and see it, let's go now."

As he spoke, Village Chief Li got on the ox cart and called Li Mengyue and Mingyu to get on and go back to the village.

But Li Mengyue did not get in the car. Instead, she carried Mingyu into the car, then carried another boy into the car, and then carried more than a dozen children.

When Village Chief Li saw this scene, he was dumbfounded.

He had already seen a dozen children standing behind Yue Yatou. He thought these children were playing, but he didn't expect that they were all following Yue Yatou.

"Wait, Yue girl, where did you get so many children from?" Village chief Li saw that Li Mengyue was still holding the children and hurriedly stopped her.

Li Mengyue thought the village chief would not ask, but she didn't expect that his focus was not on this. Only when he saw her holding so many children did he remember to ask.

So Li Mengyue briefly told the story of her two younger brothers being kidnapped.

"what!"

The village chief let out a loud noise, which scared Li Mengyue.

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