"Miss Li, what do you think we should do so that the village can have a steady source of income?"

Li Mengyue looked at everyone's eager eyes and did not keep them in suspense, but expressed her thoughts.

After saying this, the seven village chiefs did not prepare to work hard with full confidence as Li Mengyue had expected, but were all dejected.

"Village leaders, why is my suggestion not good?"

"Miss Li, it's great, but can we afford to do business here?"

"Yes, to be honest, our villages are all very poor, so it's impossible to do business there."

Apart from the six village chiefs who had little confidence, even Village Chief Li was hesitant to speak.

"Grandpa Village Chief, what do you think?"

Village chief Li had vowed to listen to Li Mengyue just a moment ago, but now he was really unsure.

However, Li Mengyue still admired one advantage of him, that is, even if the village chief thought what she said was unreliable, he would not object.

"Girl Yue, the village chief believes in you. If you say you can do it, then there will be no problem."

"Old Li, this is no small matter, you should think it through carefully."

"Village Chief Ma, Village Chief Wang, Village Chief Ji, Village Chief Sun, Village Chief Zheng, Village Chief Zhou, think about it, although Yue girl is from Xinghua Village, what Yue girl did did not benefit several villages. Not to mention how much money each village made from selling locusts, even after the locust plague came, if it weren't for Yue girl, you can think about what everyone is doing now."

What to do? Of course I feel like crying but have no tears, and have lost hope in life.

Their life is already difficult, and it will be even more difficult in the future.

As for how they knew, they went to other counties to help kill locusts and saw too many despairing things.

They helped seven counties to eliminate locusts, and although they gained something along the way, they realized more importantly how good their lives were.

Because compared with the people in other counties, their food was not eaten by locusts, and they also made a lot of money by selling locusts.

Village Chief Li saw that the six village heads seemed to be deep in thought, and the expressions on their faces changed from hesitant to determined. He understood that Yue Yatou's proposal would definitely be implemented.

Regardless of whether what Yue Yatou asks you to do succeeds or fails, the seven villages will undergo great changes as a result.

"Miss Li, we will listen to you and go back to prepare. The stones for building the reservoir will be provided by Lianhua Village."

"Taohua Village is responsible for felling the trees."

"Stone Village will definitely make the road smooth."

"There won't be any problems with cutting down timber in Meihua Village."

"Osmanthus Village will never lag behind in transporting timber."

"Zhoujia Village will continue to dig the river channel."

Li Mengyue saw that the seven village heads had found their positions and were full of energy. She would not let anyone down. It wouldn't be long before Wuning County would become prosperous, and the village would then enter a well-off life.

"Village heads, the money for building the reservoir is equivalent to what the seven villages borrowed from me. No matter how much money is spent, I will bear 20% of it in my personal name."

"Row."

This time, none of the seven village heads refused. Anyway, their village had no money and they were all borrowing from Li Mengyue.

When the market makes money in the future, we will divide it equally among the seven villages and then return the money to Li Mengyue.

Now even if they don’t want to borrow, they don’t have the confidence to say no.

However, they believed that when everything Li Mengyue said came true, each village would have enough money to return to Li Mengyue.

For now, they will not be so pretentious and just do the distribution work and wait for the market to develop slowly.

After deciding on the reservoir construction with the seven village heads, Li Mengyue prepared to leave.

But before she walked out the door, the village head's wife called her.

"Girl Yue, didn't we agree to have dinner at Grandma Li's house today? Why are you leaving?"

At this moment, Li Mengyue suddenly remembered that this was indeed the case, but they had been discussing the matter for a long time and she was thinking about other things, so she forgot about it.

"Grandma Li, I'm not leaving. I'll be right there."

Village Chief Li also invited the other six village chiefs to stay for dinner. In the past, they would have said they would not stay no matter what.

After all, no one's food comes from the wind. Although they are all village chiefs, their family conditions are not that good, just a little better than those of ordinary villagers.

But now, thanks to Li Mengyue, every household has surplus food, so it's really no big deal to stay at Village Chief Li's house for a meal.

When Zhou Juan saw that the six village heads were all there, she prepared a lot of food, definitely enough for more than a dozen people.

After having dinner at the village chief's house, Li Mengyue left, but the six village chiefs did not leave.

"Old Ji, you won't let us go, do you have something to say?"

Village Chief Ji looked embarrassed. As a grown man, he really didn't know how to start the conversation, so he just said something to Village Chief Li.

"Old Li, Miss Li is not only from Xinghua Village, she is also the benefactor of our other six villages. If Xinghua Village doesn't treat Miss Li well, don't blame us for stealing her."

When Village Chief Li heard this, he could no longer bear it and immediately questioned.

"Old Ji, what do you mean by this?"

"Yes, Village Chief Ji, this is too unkind of you. How can you say half of what you want to say and leave the other half?"

"That's right. If you don't explain it clearly, how will Lao Li know what it is?"

Faced with the "attack" from other village chiefs, Village Chief Ji still withstood the pressure and did not speak out, but turned the topic to the construction of the reservoir.

"I have received a task from Miss Li. Our village needs to smooth the road. I don't have time to chat with you guys here. I'm leaving now."

"Oh, you old Ji, you said something that didn't make any sense, left us guessing, and then you just left like that."

When the other village chiefs saw Village Chief Ji leaving, they didn't want to stay any longer and wanted to leave.

After all, they have eaten and received the mission, so they can't just talk about it, they have to take practical action.

Anyway, their Miss Li said that the money for building the reservoir can be borrowed from her first.

As for how much they can borrow in the end, they don't know. Anyway, Miss Li has already given one thousand taels of silver to Village Chief Wang, and Old Wang is in full charge of the money and will do the accounting job.

And Miss Li said that Village Chief Wang needs to spend a lot of time and energy to manage money, and he can get a salary of one or two taels of silver every month.

This made these old guys very envious, because they had not read much.

You have to know that among all the village heads, Village Chief Wang is relatively young and has a better brain.

Of course, being young is not enough. Village Chief Wang’s knowledge convinced everyone of them.

Since Village Chief Wang’s father is a scholar, the villagers of Taohua Village even call their village Scholar Village.

However, after Village Chief Wang’s father passed the imperial examination and took the exam for many years, he was never able to make any further progress and ended up becoming a teacher in a college.

Now that I’m old, I’ve returned to the village to retire.

Village chief Wang grew up under the influence of his scholar father. He not only read a lot of books, but was also proficient in mathematics.

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